Collecting certain parts only

Recce · May 2016

Here's my helmet collection :-)

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Recce · May 2016

And I've just gotten hold of the trans helmet :)

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Fauch · May 2016

that droid was amazing. was it the first fig with printed legs? and maybe also with non-yellow head?

workshybum · May 2016

DeMontes said:

I collect HEADS....but not in a macabre way.

This is great, I might start collecting heads too! For some reason the closed stud on the yellow head aggravates my OCD though...

DeMontes · May 2016

@workshybum yes, I have rectified that and filled the gaps :-)

I'll line them up for take 2 !

workshybum · May 2016

DeMontes said:

@workshybum yes, I have rectified that and filled the gaps :-)

I'll line them up for take 2 !

Haha, nice. I love anything minifigure and this seems like it might keep me occupied for a while! I also like the monochrome figure idea, but I just wouldn't know where to start. Curse this thread, giving me ideas!

Are all of these plain heads as standard and is there a different part number for the solid colours vs the transparents? Brickset only shows me the transparent colours.

I can see this consuming me for quite some time. Royal Mail are going to love me with all my bricklink orders coming their way.

Recce · May 2016

workshybum said:

Are all of these plain heads as standard and is there a different part number for the solid colours vs the transparents? Brickset only shows me the transparent colours.

You can export the Brickset database to rebrickable and work from there.

It allows you to see the different prints and also different molds (where applicable).

Recce · May 2016

Fauch said:

that droid was amazing. was it the first fig with printed legs? and maybe also with non-yellow head?

It was released in 1994 under the Space Spyrius theme and indeed looks to be the first with printed legs.

AllBrick · June 2016

Finally gathered up some of my "accidental" collections that have now become "on purpose".

Edit: apologies for terrible lighting.

Got a great boost to this collection thanks to #41128 .

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Flags, the yellow one has an opposite wave to all the others.

SprinkleOtter · June 2016

^ Why is that?

JudgeChuck · June 2016

^^ That is odd... Is it all flags in that shade of yellow, or just some?

Edited to add:

The design information doesn't seem to imply that there's anything different with this colour:

http://brickset.com/parts/design-4495

Having said that, there are two entries for Bright Yellow, 449524 and 4593753.

mpfirnhaber · June 2016

I collect 2x4 bricks. Most of these are old style bricks without the cross support underneath, which were only officially released in red, white, blue, yellow, black, trans-clear, light gray, and Maersk blue. The rest are mostly test bricks made for trying out new colors and plastics.

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MattsWhat · June 2016

@JudgeChuck @SprinkleOtter @AllBrick
It looks like the yellow flag is just older than all the others. Bright yellow flags have only appeared in two sets since 2010 - hogwarts castle game #3862 being the obvious one to see this - and these flags are the same as all the other in the line-up above. Earlier yellow flags go the other way, and it appears all flags from pre 2010 go the other way, look at this picture for example, the red and yellow flags are the same way (the reverse of the now standard direction):

Odd then that only the bright yellow and bright blue get two part numbers (there might be others but...).

Image: http://images.brickset.com/sets/images/6319-1.jpg

Both these sets contain 449521, although the parts are quite clearly different.

MattsWhat · June 2016

In other news, Bricklink say:
This flag comes in two different ripple configurations which have never been distinguished by the LEGO Group. The alternate image illustrates the two types. The version on the right side of the large alternate image is the original configuration. The version on the left side was first mentioned in the BrickLink forums about the time the Knights Kingdom II sets were released.

Image: http://img.bricklink.com/ItemImage/EXTN/2638.png

(And bricklink also acknowledges the existance of white)

Knights Kindom II would date the change back to 2005 maybe.

JudgeChuck · June 2016

Interesting, thanks @MattsWhat... It does beg the question, "why?!" ;-)

brumey · June 2016

nice trivia!

Rebelego · June 2016

MattsWhat said:

In other news, Bricklink say:
This flag comes in two different ripple configurations which have never been distinguished by the LEGO Group. The alternate image illustrates the two types. The version on the right side of the large alternate image is the original configuration. The version on the left side was first mentioned in the BrickLink forums about the time the Knights Kingdom II sets were released.

(And bricklink also acknowledges the existance of white)

Knights Kindom II would date the change back to 2005 maybe.

Ha! Now @AllBrick has to collect all colors in both L and R wave!

AllBrick · June 2016

Can of worms, open.

Pocket, worried.

mpfirnhaber · June 2016

More!

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catwrangler · June 2016

Wow, that flag thing's going to mess with my head now...

SprinkleOtter · June 2016

I'm just glad Bricklink doesn't differentiate the flags. My poor brain has a hard enough time keeping browns straight, remembering head studs, tile grooves, slope textures...

VorpalRyu · June 2016

@mpfirnhaber, our youngest would love those translucent duplo flowers, where did you get them, can't find them in Brickset.

mpfirnhaber · June 2016

VorpalRyu said:

@mpfirnhaber, our youngest would love those translucent duplo flowers, where did you get them, can't find them in Brickset.

Trans-light blue, trans-orange, trans-light green, and trans-dark pink were released in Princess sets that came out between 2005 and 2007.

The trans-green and trans-clear are q-elements, never released in sets.

All are currently available on BrickLink. The BL catalog also lists trans-purple, but that's an error, the set actually contains trans-dark pink.

TigerMoth · June 2016

MattsWhat said:

In other news, Bricklink say:
This flag comes in two different ripple configurations which have never been distinguished by the LEGO Group.

I think you'll find that BrickLink are overstating their case, and we simply don't know whether TLG did, and if so, how.

Both these sets contain 449521, although the parts are quite clearly different.

That's not necessarily true. All we know is the part you'd be sent (or might've been sent in the past) if you broke one and sought a replacement - which is a functional match, not necessarily the original piece.

For quite a while, this part was around, but nobody knew its number and various private numbers were invented. I suspect that older parts were of one type, newer ones another, and by the time the actual number was discovered the transition had been made but that number used for all.

AllBrick · June 2016

Our measly Duplo flower collection.

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Printed 2x1 Duplo bricks.

AllBrick · June 2016

Jewels

AllBrick · June 2016

Ahem...

mpfirnhaber · June 2016

Nice display! I'll have to borrow your idea and do something similar with some of my collections :)

AllBrick · June 2016

Not my idea, I'm inspired by the other pics in this thread.

VorpalRyu · June 2016

@Allbrick, one of two other collections I'm working on, just hoping TLG releases something with that gem in trans-black some time soon, I suspect @xiahna would kill me if I bought the one that is on BL currently...

tallblocktoo · June 2016

^She doesn't like gems!

SprinkleOtter · June 2016

VorpalRyu said:

@Allbrick, one of two other collections I'm working on, just hoping TLG releases something with that gem in trans-black some time soon, I suspect @xiahna would kill me if I bought the one that is on BL currently...

Have it put in a ring- that would probably be your best bet at getting it.

xwingpilot · June 2016

I don't collect certain parts as such, but I do have a bit of a thing for Original Trilogy imperial helmet variants...

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xwingpilot · June 2016

^ And now I want a Sandtrooper...

brumey · June 2016

cool

i have a thing for printed round tiles

pizza
vinyl from the dj cmf and #10228 geisterhaus
the black garmadon tiles with the red skull
sushi
cookies
candy
lock tile
all of them ninjago snake wand tiles (only missing 1 i think, if there a 4 in sum)

also
sausages, carrots and hot dogs (still accumulating)

and scurriers (each one 2x + all of them in "misb-form") BL-order incoming

AllBrick · June 2016

Pics @brumey , pics. Please?

DeMontes · July 2016

My Trashcan collection in all its...errr....splendour?!?!?

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luckyruss · July 2016

Parrots (unless the gators get them)

AllBrick · July 2016

@DeMontes @luckyruss . Why would you both show me these things? I'm going to be in trouble and it'll be both of yours fault........ @mpfirnhaber - just spotted one of those blue Pterosaur on BL, a tad pricey if I do say. Fingers crossed that I find one somewhere, somehow...... "Fingers crossed Freddy".

Brick_Obsession · July 2016

DeMontes said:

Um....LEGO bread? does that count as a 'complete' set :-)

Where is the magic blue pill?

Brick_Obsession · July 2016

On a serious note, take a bow guys, you guys have done a great job thinking outside the box.

These ideas are both inspirational and awesome.

Bumblepants · July 2016

@luckyruss I see you showing off all those cypress trees! That is ~$100 worth!

77ncaachamps · July 2016

Bumblepants said:

@luckyruss I see you showing off all those cypress trees! That is ~$100 worth!

Where are they in the Brickset inventory?
http://brickset.com/parts?query=tree

Bumblepants · July 2016

77ncaachamps said:

Bumblepants said:

@luckyruss I see you showing off all those cypress trees! That is ~$100 worth!

Where are they in the Brickset inventory?
http://brickset.com/parts?query=tree

I am guessing they are too old to be in the Brickset inventory. Bricklink has them listed here: http://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=3778&idColor=6#T=C&C=6

VorpalRyu · July 2016

The sets in Brickset with the Cyprus tree reference the Rebrickable parts lists, so yeah, it's old.
Exhibit A: http://brickset.com/sets/6374-1/Holiday-Home

AllBrick · July 2016

That set, #6374 , here for £22 +P&P complete........ http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/322180848302?_trksid=p2141725.m3641.l6368

KingAlanI · July 2016

To clarify, 3001 is the part number for the 2x4 brick.
I loved 2x2 corners as a KFOL, plates and bricks, decided against accumulating them as an AFOL.
Saving one of each color for 1x1,1x2 and 2x4 bricks, 24 of each for 2x3s (arranged as a 8x8x3 square ring).

DeMontes said:

Telephone handsets and lifesaver rings/toilet seats! Need a black and bright orange telephone handset still...

Not sure of the telephone handset part number, but life preserver is 30340. #41093 Heartlake Hair Salon has 2 in black for the handles of the scissors on the sign.

gmonkey76 said:

Here's my unintentional LEGO collection.

I put new brick separators on BL for a few cents.

Recce said:

Someone asked for minidolls? Photo shoot from a few of the Friends sets that my daughter had opened up. I posted this in another thread previously :)

I have some Friends sets, mainly Pop Star, and use some minidolls from sets I part out to help populate scenes in my layout.

mpfirnhaber · July 2016

AllBrick I saw the blue pteranodon on BL too, but I "only" paid 60 euro for mine from a different BL seller last year. Hopefully more show up one day - for a more reasonable price!

Here are all colors of modern 3001 brick (except for transparent colors). I framed a piece of sheet metal and put magnets inside each brick. It's fun to re-arrange the bricks by different color groupings.