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Here’s a post from my son that might just make you smile!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31922927

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/456729

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I'm in Denmark with my family, we visited Lego House and I have to admit it helped with my love for Lego in a time where my anti-consumerism is much stronger than ever. The activities are exciting, different and crazy fun. The absence of external IP sets helped a lot (if we don't consider the shop).

But above all the attention to disabilities and neurodivergent needs. It's wholesome, expecially given how Lego is important in the lives of many people with disability. In the pictures some of the devices at your disposal for sensory accessibility (headphones, fidget toys, mood tables), braille explainations and video in two different sign languages, danish and international.

Edit: I forgot to talk about free tampons and pads in the bathroom. I see so few of them in Italy, I was nearly in tears.

Instructions: https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-220890/zachpieces/breaking-the-fourth-wall/#details

Free instructions for generic ball cap: https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-220914/zachpieces/ball-cap/#details

Free instructions for golden deagle: https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-220910/zachpieces/golden-desert-eagle-handgun/#details

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/372778

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I've been tinkering with this one for a while, it all started because I thought the two red canopy pieces would flow well together, which they did. Instantly screamed "the Bentley of flying cars/space shuttles," then it devolved into a conversion job - refitted with much larger thrusters and a positronic core to aid with ship systems and manoeuverability, oversized nacelles to house proprietary power generators for each thruster (the rest of the ship runs on the stock power source, haven't made one up yet), interior pretty much pulled out and replaced with increased storage options, a workbench, a full-on tac and field research center, and generally repurposed for infiltration and overall stealth shenanigans.

Not that happy about the main ingress, I built it so that it could dock with a much larger ship (still WIP) based on those half-stud rails visible on its sides, under the nacelles, and I had envisioned a sort of emergency hatch in the mothership's main corridor through which the crew could drop right into the shuttle. Might reconsider that as I build the engineering bay on the other ship.

And, of course, it's parking friendly!

Gotta say I’m really disappointed with all of the specialty large molded parts. It feels like Nintendo doesn’t understand what makes LEGO special compared to competitor brands and is trying to push them toward the Megablox or COBI direction. These specialty pieces is part of what almost killed LEGO as a company in the early 2000s.

Special thanks to Duane Collicott & co. as well as Skyline High School for putting on a great show for everyone!

Users should be within their rights to use trademarked/copyrighted terms in the names of their MOCs with free instructions. It sounds like Rebrickable is being bullied by an unjust copyright holder. According to an admin, this copyright holder also “most definitely went through and visually identified a lot of MOCs too” — this may mean in the future you cannot have builds which are too well-made in resembling their source material.

I’ve yet to receive takedown notices for any of my MOCs, but it sounds like this situation is developing so we’ll see if existing names can remain going forward.

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It took me about ten hours from start to finish to model this in Studio, edit positioning in Mecabricks, and then add the lighting and non-Lego elements in Blender. It's my second time using blender, so I'm super happy with how it turned out!

This is a mechanical perpetual calendar, so you can flip the date forward and it will shift a new date into view, as well shift the day forward.

Instructions will come soonish.

Old symbol:

Somebody on a Lego-based Discord server was trying to include this symbol in their MOC instructions, but Stud.io for some reason doesn’t have that as a feature. Image search results were limited as well, so I acquired the best resolution images of the new and old symbols that I could find and LukeSkydragon on the Discord whipped up these clean transparent png versions. To add these symbols to your MOC instructions on Stud.io, save the images from this post to your computer, open up Instruction Maker Mode, go to Page Design, click the button that says +Insert, click on Image, and select the images.

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