Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | SylvainLS  | | Posted: | Mar 21, 2020 17:11 | | Subject: | Re: Wheel plate stuck on car chassis piece | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
|
| In Catalog, randyf writes:
| | In Catalog, crazylegoman writes:
| | Does anyone know if
is meant to be able to be removed from
* |  | 11650c01 Vehicle, Base 5 x 10 x 2 1/2 with Mudguards and 6 x 2 Recessed Center with 3 Holes with (Same Color) Wheels Holders Attached
Parts: Vehicle, Base |
once they are together?
|
The whole vehicle base is one part. Nothing on it is meant to come off.
|
Sure?
LDraw has the part (11650.dat) without the plates with wheel pins and the part
with the plates exist in two versions: 12622.dat in one colour and 12622p01.dat
with LBG plates.
Are those some sort of rivets?
Or do they use a special technique to connect the plates?
| | | | I feel like the axles are going to snap off of the 2X2 plates if I pull any herder
than I already am. Also, I've never seen a post with a tapered part at the
end like the chassis piece has. It seems a bit like those Bionicle brains and
heads.
David
|
|
|
|
| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Mar 19, 2020 21:33 | | Subject: | Re: Just a little something to BRIGHTEN your day | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Colors | |
|
| In Colors, randyf writes:
| | […]
More opinions means more agreement on what is better. 
|
I’d prefer Opalescent but that’s my French brain speaking. Opal can do as a
short form.
Satin is “continuous,” smooth. Opal(escent) is “pailleté” (sequined/spangled)
(and milky).
The parts don’t look smooth as satin.
|
|
| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Mar 19, 2020 21:12 | | Subject: | Re: Just a little something to BRIGHTEN your day | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Colors | |
|
| In Colors, mfav writes:
So am I.
Maybe writing those long messages didn’t help.
| | but it kind of seems like you're willing to cut Russell some
slack for being sloppy, but not extending the same courtesy to me.
|
Yes, because the Russell made a confusing metonymy while you discarded readily
available facts.
It’s a line in the sand but it’s a line nonetheless.
⸮ƨi oʜW
|
|
| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Mar 19, 2020 19:54 | | Subject: | Re: Just a little something to BRIGHTEN your day | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Colors | |
|
| In Colors, mfav writes:
It wasn’t about me, it was about the admins and Russell.
As much as I do poke at them when they do wrong or could do better, or when they
don’t do as I’d like , I think there’s a limit to uncandidness.
| | I typically cut most or all of the quoted post because I figure if folks are
invested enough, they'll read the thread. I hate the posts where they are
187 messages long and the whole thing is quoted and quoted and quoted to the
point you can't find the current content.
|
I agree with that (and do it too) but that’s not what you did: You didn’t remove
the chaff, you removed the facts which, strangely, didn’t go with your story.
(And as you cut all I said, you could have directly answered to Teup’s message
and I would have just pointed you to my answer to Teup.)
| | Not trying to poke you in les yeux or anything like that. Just saying that
satin is a finish, and if anyone's been paying attention, Russell said they
were calling the color satin (for now).
|
But they are not. They are calling them Satin White, Satin Trans-Light Blue
and Satin Trans-Dark Pink.
If you take this fact into account then you understantd that what Russell said
is a slip of the tongue, an abuse of language, or bad metonymy: he thought “finish”
(or even simply “colours”, because there are three) and said “colour”
instead.
| | Satin is not a color. It is a fabric. And from the fabric, adopted a a term for
a finish in papers and other coatings.
|
And that’s exactly how it’s used by BL for colours.
And in the exact same way LEGO doesn’t call these colours “opal” but uses “opal”
as a qualifier for known colours (well, at least for two of them as we don’t
know the name of the white one).
Ditto.
And on a totally different note, the song “Eternally” by Charlie Chaplin/Geoffrey
Parsons is known as “Deux petits chaussons (de satin blanc)”/“Two Little sleepers
(in white satin)” in French (totally different lyrics).
|
|
| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Mar 19, 2020 18:08 | | Subject: | Re: Just a little something to BRIGHTEN your day | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Colors | |
|
| In Colors, mfav writes:
| | […]
Satin is a finish.
[…]
If BrickLink is going to use "silk" as a color, then I'd like to suggest
burlap, corduroy, hemp, twigs, type two, and open O for future colors, because
they're also just as fun and useful. Hey! Everybody knows what color type
two is, right?
|
Most of your remarks on names and descriptions are very well founded, and I get
the comical device of exaggeration, but this, this’s just disingenuous: You
cut my answer where the BL colour names were listed, colour names in which Satin
is clearly used a modificator (“finish”) of other, known and common colours,
White, Trans-Light Blue, and Trans-Dark Pink, and then you go on to imply BL
wants to use Satin as a colour and not a finish.
|
|
| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Mar 19, 2020 15:30 | | Subject: | Re: Just a little something to BRIGHTEN your day | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Colors | |
|
| In Colors, Teup writes:
| | […]
Hmm in my understanding, "satin" refers to the way a colour looks (like matte,
glossy, metallic) and not to any specific actual colour. Not sure if I'm
right, but Opal certainly sounds a lot better to me.
|
Indeed, that’s why the new colours are:
Satin White
Satin Trans-Light Blue
Satin Trans-Dark Pink
for BL while they are, respectively,
(Unnamed)
Tarnsparent Blue Opal
Transparent Medium Reddish Violet Opal
for LEGO.
|
|
| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Mar 19, 2020 13:47 | | Subject: | Re: Just a little something to BRIGHTEN your day | | Viewed: | 55 times | | Topic: | Colors | |
|
| In Colors, Bendix writes:
| | […]
If you buy more than one you`ll recognize they look different - maybe depending
on the thickness of the coating or a slightly different kind of coating? It`s
not caused by the incidence of light.
|
Did you notice the logo orientation / chain attachment correlates with the iridescence?
(That is both bricks with “top” chain are more iridescent than the ones with
“bottom” chain.)
|
|
| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Mar 17, 2020 19:08 | | Subject: | Re: Question about part x168 | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
|
| In Catalog, randyf writes:
| | […]
However, if LDraw
still uses some "x" numbers, it would be wise to retain them.
|
LDraw doesn’t use “x” numbers. They use “u” numbers, and they get rid of them
as soon as the correct ID is known.
So, rid away with the “x”!
As for aliases, they make alias files (their descriptions start with a “=”).
So that takes care of that.
Now, their patterns numbers are not compatible with BL’s. So this would be a
bigger problem, except, now, the BL ID is often put as keywords (inside the file
but searchable in some CADs or simply with a grep).
|
|
| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Mar 16, 2020 12:07 | | Subject: | Re: Question about part x168 | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
|
| In Catalog, edeevo writes:
| | […]
I'm guessing it also has to do with all the dependencies within the site
that would be affected if the numbers were simply changed... […]
|
Nah, items have a fixed, internal ID in the database, that ID doesn’t change.
The part ID is just another description, shorter and unique.
Think about when they add a digit to the numbered minifigs (bla001 becoming bla0001).
|
|
| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Mar 14, 2020 17:55 | | Subject: | Re: Silly to Consider This Sprue a Part? | | Viewed: | 75 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
|
| In Catalog, crazylegoman writes:
| | In Catalog, axaday writes:
| | I apologize for the quick lo-res pic, but I think a lot of people are familiar
with this piece. It's the sprue from [p=19807c01]. And it IS just a sprue.
But I was looking it over today before tossing it in the trash and it is a pretty
neat looking piece AND it was obviously designed with some play value, because
it fits on a stud. It has never been used in a set, I believe, but it is easy
for me to imagine it being useful in MOCs. Would it be silly to add it to the
catalog?
|
I think it would be fine in the catalog, although I'm sure there are others
who would oppose it. Are there other sprue-only entries in the catalog?
|
It would at least limit the number of people not finding it in the catalogue.
|
|
| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Mar 14, 2020 12:29 | | Subject: | Re: Which colors available for each part | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Colors | |
|
| In Colors, hpoort writes:
| | In Colors, Sdoherty76 writes:
| | Hi i have a list of parts which i know need to be the same color for my build.
i would like to build the same item in different colors if the parts are available
in that color.
is there a way of finding out what other colors are available for a list of parts.
i can then determine if they actually exist and can buy a batch in another color.
i know i can look at known colors for each part but this is on each individual
part page and wondered if this could be linked?
sean d
|
Through the wanted list functionality it is possible to get a list of shops and
prices to get an idea of availability ('show shops per item', but it
is not so easy to bulk change the wanted color.
Studio might be more useful. It gives a price indication for each part, highlighting
parts that are not available or more expensive, and it is easy to change the
color on a group of parts.
|
Also, in Studio:
0. check the “Hide unvailable colors” in the colour palette (top right),
1. select all the parts you want of the same colour,
2. look in the palette: TADA! only the colours that are available for all the
parts are shown.
Now, it’s nifty but there’s still the possibility that some of the parts are
rare and expensive or that the database is wrong about the “known” colours.
So double check.
|
|
| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Mar 13, 2020 13:26 | | Subject: | Re: Tweezers in gold color? | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Modulex | |
|
| In Modulex, patpendlego writes:
| | Hi,
found these in a large lot of Modulex, the left one metallic and same as the
images here on bricklink, the right one is gold color and different... is it
Modulex?
|
I’d say “brass,” not “gold.”
Otherwise, nothing to add….
|
|
| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Mar 11, 2020 21:13 | | Subject: | Re: StormChaser: the tale of two tails | | Viewed: | 66 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
|
| In Catalog, mfav writes:
| | This is sort of akin to Number Six on your roadmap. I think.
Is there a standardization scheme in the works for items like these shown, and
similar items, where the length exceeds the footprint of the attachment plate?
If you're going by the scheme used for 6239, then 2430 ought to be a 1x5.
If you're going by the scheme used for 2430, then 6239 ought to be a 2x3.
|
That would be 2340
| | I know this is bound to have implications all over the catalog with many modified
bricks and plates and other things, especially when you get into SNOT pieces,
but there's inconsistency within and across categories now.
One would think the overall x-y-z dimensions of the piece would be considered
every time...
I know this is going to require some quiet contemplation followed by noisy debate,
but some semblance of consistency would be really nice to have.
|
|
|
| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Mar 11, 2020 13:57 | | Subject: | Re: Purist Custom Figures | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, DrDrewBlood writes:
| | I don't get it. The LEGO brand is saturated with a huge variety of outside
IP. LegoIdeas, MOCs, BrickLink Studio. I don't think what I'm proposing
is that different from what currently exists.
|
Ideas: already licenced IPs are now forbidden.
If you use another IP, (and if you’re selected,) TLG will negotiate and licence
the IP.
In the meanwhile, the model is not downloadable from LEGO.
Studio: IP ⇒ display only.
What’s done on other website can’t be done on LEGO’s own websites.
|
|
| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Mar 11, 2020 13:57 | | Subject: | Re: Purist Custom Figures | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, DrDrewBlood writes:
| | I don't think users would need the ability to download digital copies of
the minifigures.
They just need the ability to view the parts list (just like we have with official
figures). And the ability to "add all parts" to their Wanted list. Nobody is
downloading designs or selling figures. Just a place to share combinations of
existing official pieces, and add those pieces to a Wanted list.
|
That’s what you don’t understand: Wanted Lists are worse than digital models!
Studio models are “Display only” not because they don’t want people to share
the digital models but because those can be used to make Wanted Lists and to
BUY things.
LEGO & BL don’t want to profit from IP: https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1181748
|
|
| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Mar 11, 2020 13:26 | | Subject: | Re: Purist Custom Figures | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, DrDrewBlood writes:
| | A search of "Star Wars", "Marvel" and "Harry Potter" bring up designs in Studio
Gallery.
|
And none of them is downloadable. They are all “Display only.”
| | I don't see what why this would be so different.
|
Exactly.
How would your suggestion work without the ability to download the list of parts
(or put it in a WL)?
|
|
| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Mar 11, 2020 13:02 | | Subject: | Re: Purist Custom Figures | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, DrDrewBlood writes:
| | Would it be a violation of IP if it's a preexisting license under LEGO?
|
Yes.
Look at what’s happening (and what’s said) for the Studio Gallery.
| | I'm not a lawyer, but I wouldn't think so.
|
IANAL either but it has already been ruled a violation on the Gallery.
| | But as mentioned bellow, these would
fall under MOCs, which I believe are free use.
|
I believe you have to think again.
|
|
| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Mar 11, 2020 12:34 | | Subject: | Re: Purist Custom Figures | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, starbeanie writes:
| | except those appear to be Harry Potter ghosts which violates IP rights
In Suggestions, DrDrewBlood writes:
| | It would be a completely separate section to avoid confusion, no non-official
pieces, and no selling. It would just be a way for people to share ideas, and
for others to add components to their wishlist. I think this avoids all of the
issues surrounding BrickArms.
|
|
And it would be exactly like any other MOC, just minifig-only MOCs, and for that
there already are the MOC Shop (haha) and the Studio Gallery.
|
|
| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Mar 8, 2020 18:59 | | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Minifig con004 | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
|
| In Inventories Requests, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Inventories Requests, Give.Me.A.Brick writes:
| | Please make changes to the following inventory: [M=con004]
* Delete 1 Part 3840pb01 Yellow Minifigure, Vest with Black Upward Chevron Pattern (Stickers)
* Add 1 Part 3840pb18 Yellow Minifigure, Vest with Black Chevron Pattern
Comments from Submitter:
MIB set from my childhood.
|
Box and instructions say Upward.
|
Oh, and the minifig picture has the wrong vest per current inventory (or vice-versa).
Previous discussions:
https://www.bricklink.com/messageThread.asp?ID=259325&nID=1163344
https://www.bricklink.com/messageThread.asp?ID=233099&nID=1080420
|
|
| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Mar 8, 2020 18:57 | | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Minifig con004 | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
|
| In Inventories Requests, Give.Me.A.Brick writes:
| | Please make changes to the following inventory: [M=con004]
* Delete 1 Part 3840pb01 Yellow Minifigure, Vest with Black Upward Chevron Pattern (Stickers)
* Add 1 Part 3840pb18 Yellow Minifigure, Vest with Black Chevron Pattern
Comments from Submitter:
MIB set from my childhood.
|
Box and instructions say Upward.
|
|
| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Mar 8, 2020 11:15 | | Subject: | Re: Town Hall 10224 heads, twn157 | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
|
| In Inventories, bje writes:
| | In Inventories, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Inventories, monkeynut12 writes:
| | So all the heads in 10224 are 3626cp01, hollow stud, EXCEPT, the bride, twn157
who has a 3626bp01 blocked open stud. Is there a reason for this, or is this
error?
|
Because it wouldn’t be correct to say the bride is hollow-headed?
(Yeah, I know, but the pun works better in French and I _had_ to try.)
|
Hmm, but is it any better to say the poor dear is block-headed?
|
| | (BTW, mine is a hollow stud version)
|
Dang! I’d never have guessed you are a minifig!
|
|
| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Mar 7, 2020 19:05 | | Subject: | Re: Town Hall 10224 heads, twn157 | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
|
| In Inventories, monkeynut12 writes:
| | So all the heads in 10224 are 3626cp01, hollow stud, EXCEPT, the bride, twn157
who has a 3626bp01 blocked open stud. Is there a reason for this, or is this
error?
|
Because it wouldn’t be correct to say the bride is hollow-headed?
(Yeah, I know, but the pun works better in French and I _had_ to try.)
|
|
| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Mar 6, 2020 18:29 | | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 6067-1 | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
|
| In Inventories Requests, WilliamRaine writes:
| | Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Delete 2 Part 3044 Black Slope 45 2 x 1 Double (Undetermined Underside Type)
* Add 2 Part 3044a Black Slope 45 2 x 1 Double - without Inside Bar
Comments from Submitter:
Maybe not a legitimate source, but I have an incomplete used set that appears all original, no signs of anyone changing parts around...similar wear and variation on everything. It contains this variant.
|
FWIW, this request made me check: 1 only have 2 Black 3044 and they can only
come from 6067-1 and they are 3044a.
|
|
| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Mar 3, 2020 07:29 | | Subject: | Re: Color id | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
|
| In Catalog, rick_holl writes:
| | Bought this lot under ´dark grey’ but looks like dark bluish grey
Don’t have it yet, just want to be sure i ordered the DBG one
Thoughts?
|
Not very easy to say without a reference but there’s a plate that looks more
olivey on the upper left, so I’d say most of it is DBG but there’s DG in there
too.
|
|
| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Feb 29, 2020 14:52 | | Subject: | Re: item identification and color | | Viewed: | 23 times | | Topic: | Colors | |
|
| In Colors, daywalker1310 writes:
| | In Colors, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Colors, daywalker1310 writes:
| | […]
Thanks everyone, but wich color is the sunglasses, there are 2 kinds of pink???
|
The 93080l sunglasses only come in Bright Pink, and yours look transparent, so
I guess it’s not them.
Maybe they are Trans-Dark Pink
The air scoop could be Flat Silver or Pearl Dark Gray, as it’s not pearlish on
your picture, I’d go with Flat Silver.
|
Yes the sunglasses are trans, but i want to know for sure that i not ship the
wrong color...i realy dont know...
|
If they really are 18854, they only come in Trans-Dark Pink and Trans-Purple,
and Trans-Purple is way bluer than your pic.
|
|
Next Page: 5 More | 10 More | 25 More | 50 More | 100 More
|
France, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
