Joubarc

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Former LEGO ambassador and LEGO zealot as a whole. If I could give negative rep for people writing "Legos", I would. It's going to be very hard not to suspend any offender though.

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Oct 31	comment	What are some storage options? What, a closet with no temperature-control whatsoever?
Oct 31	comment	What are proven methods to sort/categorize a large number of parts? I wish I knew :-) The only designer workshop I've visited is the one in LEGOland Windsor. There they have huge drawers in their main office with one of each part in the drawer glue on a small baseplate on the front. I didn't see one open, but I suspect they are sorted by element AND color. In their stockroom, about every part is sorted similarly by element AND color; with huge boxes for common parts like bricks or plates while for smaller ones they have a gridlike arrangement of small open hobby boxes. Horizontal is shape, vertical is color (or the opposite, I don't remember for sure).
Oct 31	comment	How to minimise or remove sun-stains/fading from blocks? I was about to answer that's it's usually hopeless, so it's good to see there's a solution, even if it's partial.
Oct 30	comment	Under what conditions are the Lego boardgame dice unfair, and by how much? Actually, BrickLink will give you the weights for tiles too. A 2x2 is 0.48g and a 1x1 is 0.16g so the difference between one 2x2 and 4 1x1 is 0.16g. Which is not the highest unfairness you could have; as I said you can have empty sides, so the highest unfairness is empty side against 4 1x1 tiles, or a difference of 0.64g, or 8% of the total weight, which is bound to make a difference. Although usually when an empty side comes up you may add stuff on it so the situation is unlikely to happen.
Oct 30	comment	Where can I find LEGO technic pieces? My mistake, I was under the impression you wanted to buy more parts. So yes, for spare parts, oezi's answer is better. I maintain that LEGO education could be interesting (but in Europe you'd have to find a resller first and it'd usually be too expensive), and eBay may have good surprises, but Bricklink is the way to go when you know what you're after. One last thing on motors: LEGO also sells them individually in the Power Functions section instead of the pick-a-brick one.
Oct 30	comment	What is the basis of purism in LEGO building? There's no badge for that, unfortunately.
Oct 29	comment	What is the basis of purism in LEGO building? By the way, being a zealot doesn't usually involve reason.
Oct 29	comment	Under what conditions are the Lego boardgame dice unfair, and by how much? I don't expect much unfairness if all sides are covered by 2x2 tiles. From what? The paint? The LEGO dice is probably much more balanced than a regular Monopoly engraved dice. As for games where sides are built during the game, a lot of them do, and I think Lava Dragon is a good example: when you roll the dice, if there's room on the upper side, you may add a 1x1 tile of your color, then you can make as many moves as there are tiles of your color on that face (or something like that).
Oct 29	comment	Under what conditions are the Lego boardgame dice unfair, and by how much? If you want to be torough, your assumption about all studs being covered has de be rescinded. Indeed, some of the games make heavy use of the "build your dice" feature, and add or remove tiles during the game itself. This adds a whole new dimension to the dice mechanics as event probabilities change over time, even if you ignore the unfairness introduced by the weight difference. Minimizing the unfairness can be of course by using only 2x2 tiles, but where's the fun in that?
Oct 29	comment	What is the basis of purism in LEGO building? @jfyelle I thought I heavily impied I was against glue, actually. But that's also something LEGOland park designers themselves use (and not any glue, they use methyl-ethyl-cetone (orthograph not guaranteed) which literally fuses bricks together). So, to each his own.
Oct 29	comment	How would you make a good pivot-arm suspension? Yes, another design might be better anyway, I was mentionning this just in case.
Oct 29	comment	How would you make a good pivot-arm suspension? Some versions of the Technic turntable have more friction than others. If yours doesn't rotate freely, chances are that it needs some surgery. Unfortunately I'm not sure what exactly you need to trim, but I know you'll need to open if first.
Oct 28	comment	How has the basic brick changed over the years? The brick as it stands now hasn't seen structural changes since 1958, which is why LEGO celebrated the 50 years of the brick in 2008. The brick before 1958 didn't have the bottom tubes, which were part of the patent you mention.
Oct 28	comment	How can I create synthetic imagery (rendering) of LEGO models? I'd tend to replace the first requirement by "a LDraw file, created either with your favorite LDraw editor, or exported straight from LDD". Pov-Ray works too.
Oct 28	comment	What is the bley (blay) color? It supposedly fits better with the other colors. Which may just be legolese for "it's more shiny, so kids like it better"
Oct 28	comment	How many different colours of LEGO bricks are there? Weird. I wouldn't be surprised if they couldn't tell for sure themselves, though. And maybe the 7 missing ones are reserved colours (there's no Maersk blue in the chart, for example), or maybe they reintroduced some between the chart and the company profile.
Oct 28	comment	How many spaceman minifigure variations exist? I hadn't thought about the town ones - good catch.
Oct 28	comment	Which BIONICLE set did this mask came from? Feel free to keep custody of the tag all by yourself :-)
Oct 28	comment	Has anyone made LEGO fly? What about hopping? I'm sure a hopping Technic model is doable, and that does generate some lift (ok, not much).
Oct 28	comment	Has anyone made LEGO fly? @Erik flying is just falling and missing the ground anyway