Thank you! I made the whole team and the Fantasti-Car a few years ago

Redditors typically are the smartest person in the room, until their mom enters her basement.

There are a lot of image/gif(?) posts that I haven’t been able to view either on the Memmy (Apple) app or in-browser with either Safari (Apple) or Google Chrome. I imagine it comes down to the file types as well as the lack of native hosting to standardize posts of different media types, but I’m not the techiest person to consult on that. One downside of the fediverse is the lack of standards for file hosting/conversion/displaying to ensure that all media can be accessed regardless of the browser/app (or, alternatively, the lack of an all-encompassing app for all devices [Jerboa sounds like the closest to this to me but it is not available for iOS yet]), as well as the self-funded nature of the instances commonly not having the budget to natively host multimedia content such as videos.

Thank you. I wanted to transform as much as I could of the original build into something completely different, and the archway was chosen to help convey where the “river” of snow flows. SNOT pieces in particular were very scarce in the original set so I had to really pick and choose how to use them for both structure and play features.

I’ve had mine like this for about a year with no consequence. The YouTube link is to a scene from Always Sunny where Dennis literally rips a CEO’s heart out for enshittification.

While some pieces of SpitBrix’s videos are accurate and interesting, he does often embellish for his viewers. The thesis of this video relies on these two points that SpitBrix makes:

1. In Lego’s standard manufacturing process, standard manufacturing marbled scrap [I’m abbreviating this to SMMS from now on] are “error bricks and manufacturing waste” and must be destroyed.

2. Grangemouth bricks were made beyond the permits of standard manufacturing, and they also look similar to SMMS

Ergo, Lego is actively seeking and destroying the Grangemouth bricks and hates them with a passion?

This conclusion seems tenuous and dubious to me. While both points on their own are true, there seems to be a leap in logic that SpitBrix doesn’t back up. He creates a potentially false equivalency between Grangemouth bricks and SMMS. I think this error is best underlined by his line at 4:36 “And if Lego is so keen to keep these particular bricks out of the public’s hands, then where did all of these colorful samples come from?”, with “these particular bricks” referring to SMMS, and “these colorful samples” referring to Grangemouth bricks; SpitBrix contends that SMMS and Grangemouth are categorically the same according to Lego, but he doesn’t explain why that must be. While the pieces themselves may look similar, the differing circumstances of their creations may distinguish them in the eyes of The Lego Company.

SpitBrix provides no examples of Lego expressing a desire or action to specifically destroy the Grangemouth bricks (in contrast to SMMS), nor does he provide any examples of Lego internally or externally expressing ire for the public having the Grangemouth bricks (in contrast to just the misuse of their mold and production rights). In fact, the two examples he gives of Lego expressing thoughts on the bricks themselves were each positive or plausibly positive: @8:30 with Lego possibly approving the release of the Grangemouth bricks into the public, and @10:20 with Lego finding the Grangemouth bricks to be a lighthearted subject to make an April Fool’s Day joke about them.

The information presented in the video seems to mildly suggest the opposite of the thesis itself. While the conclusion could still plausibly be correct, the lack of solid evidence makes it seem spurious. In a pinned comment on the video, SpitBrix says “An extensive amount of time went into researching, scripting, and editing this mini-documentary.” If he could provide any sources that have proof of his claim itself, or if anybody else can find any other source to verify it, that would be immensely helpful.

In my experience, the pieces that use the clip connection can sometimes become weak over time. I had one particular shelf with clips of various sets and ages that for some reason was heavily affected by the clip elements weakening in grip strength or just splitting in two; there was a bathroom with a shower on the other side of the wall, so I speculate that the humidity could have been the cause but I really don’t know. This shelf also didn’t get much sunlight, especially compared to other shelves without as much of a problem. Is there any possible source of humidity by where these clips have been weakening/breaking the most?

Is the Notre-Dame de Paris the first time since 1957 that Lego has made a set with a direct and specific religious basis? Not counting Advent calendars or Indiana Jones [edit: or Thor] sets. As far as I can tell at the moment, 1309 Church was the one and only religion-based set. I don’t think the Taj Mahal sets would qualify since the building seems to just a mausoleum and not a temple per se?

Ok, just verifying that that fallacy wasn’t the crux of your argument

Are you implying that a negative categorically cannot be proven?

Let’s start with clarifying an element of the question:

Which characteristics define a god? Do these characteristics violate the laws of physics and/or internal logic? If these characteristics do not violate the laws of physics, then what aspects distinguish a god from a mundane or natural entity?

Thank you!

The choice to make it out of miscellaneous parts rather than the 1x1 round plates or 1x1 round tiles found in most mosaic sets makes it look like Lego just wanted to get rid of the parts that they had sitting in surplus. Even shaping the details with wedge plates such as in The Rolling Stones (31206) set, or a mix of 1x1 rounds and wedge plates such as in Hokusai – The Great Wave (31208), would look much nicer and less slapdash.

Probably by the degree and type of erosion, I would guess. Sellers and traders of these pieces also likely would have to keep up some level of reputability in order to remain in the market.

To clarify, the octopus mold itself isn’t particularly rare or expensive. The article refers to this individual piece as a “holy grail” because among the parts of the Cornwall flotsam, the “octopuses are considered the most prized finds as only 4,200 were onboard” in the lost cargo. The family in the article has been scavenging for years to collect the various parts, so this is something that is valuable to their subset of collectors but not really valuable to the typical Lego collector or fan.

Where is the Alaskan Bull Worm?

Thank you, I appreciate it. I do wish he wasn’t so smiley about the torture though — it’s a bit off-putting!

Thank you so much! If I had my way, I’d make one set that came with the Lobby, two Cell Doors, a Garbage Chute module, and the Endless Void module; a separate set that came with the Hallway module, the Endless Void module, four Cell doors, and a Garbage Chute module; and a third set with just a Cell. That way, people could easily buy however many they want of each unit to customize their setup without having to order pieces and the redundancy of extra modules is minimized.

Thank you! Such an iconic scene with some great lines, yet it has a negligible presence in official Lego sets.

The tweet itself is from June of 2022. I know from my bot-hunting at the time that it was posted to Reddit within days of being tweeted, and that there were bots reposting it prior to the API changes less than a year ago. If you were browsing Reddit (or Twitter) at the time, then you may have seen it then.

I wouldn’t have minded seeing it shared here if there was not already a pattern of posts being copy+pasted from the top of the Lego subreddit for a given day. If the Lemmy OP had posted this two days ago or if they had posted it a month from today, I wouldn’t have associated the post with the Reddit post from yesterday. It’s that the content is being “farmed” in a way which bothers me. The case of this Lemmy post is made worse by the sourced Reddit post being made by a repost bot, which is exactly what I wanted to escape from by leaving Reddit.