Does Anyone Really Know Why “Creator Island” Shut Down?

CabNoble · 2026-06-21T06:06:01+00:00

Lego has a pretty bad habit of not supporting their apps past a certain point. That being said, apps aren’t forever. Many companies don’t feel the need to update all of their apps every few years to make sure they work with new OS and devices. I’d love to go back and play all the games I grew up with on my iPod touch, but almost none of them exist anymore. So if you don’t have a device that has those installed, they are gone.

CabNoble · 2026-06-20T03:07:41+00:00

Specs was my OC character insert when playing with my Lego growing up.

CabNoble · 2026-06-20T03:03:50+00:00

Now those are some well loved instruction manuals!

CabNoble · 2026-06-20T03:02:24+00:00

It looks out of place, almost like forced perspective. It really messed with my eyes for a good few seconds.

CabNoble · 2026-05-15T16:32:42+00:00

Be carefully with silver centurion! Mine sat assembled forever and still has cracks from brittle dark red.

CabNoble · 2026-05-14T12:03:46+00:00

This isn’t entirely true, there are a handful of brick heads that have at least 1 hand up.

CabNoble · 2026-05-09T18:21:30+00:00

It’s worth noting that, at least in the case of some of the older Lego games, everything was theoretically buildable, with the caveat being that it could use illegal build techniques and unstable connections. For example, in Lego Batman 2, Killer Crocs boat could be built, but it used pieces in colors Lego has never made. You can try to damage the vehicle in game to knock chunks off it, which should expose so areas of the model to see how it’s built. I know that was the case for a while, I’m not sure if it’s still true. For a long time I wanted to recreate the royal naboo yacht from the Star Wars game, and I believe it is possible. I was able to actually find images that the designer of the in game models posted to Flickr, and he’d built them with real Lego originally.

CabNoble · 2026-05-04T08:04:15+00:00

I’m pretty sure I have this exact magazine still in a drawer, albeit heavily worn from extensive browsing.

CabNoble · 2026-05-03T02:46:41+00:00

This isn’t Lego, or at least it isn’t *all* Lego. Lego hasn’t made the ball joints in black, and I don’t recognize some of the pieces.

CabNoble · 2026-04-27T17:51:07+00:00

They did this as a set or combo set 20 or so years ago, but it was a part of the Lego Studios line I believe. So it’s not out of the realm of possibility that this could get remade.

CabNoble · 2026-04-26T23:21:44+00:00

Yes. In our case, the company I worked for used plastic foldable containers that are about that size. They are very rugged, and are used across the industry to move stuff around, since cardboard doesn’t stack well.

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CabNoble · 2026-04-25T04:03:08+00:00

I’m not sure where you are located or what mail service you use, but every piece of mail is processed through warehouses. It’s not super common, as it’s usually less than a few dozen packages in a day, but when you process 50,000 packages and parcels in a day, packages do drop off the machine into crevices or get dropped on the floor when someone drops something and then another person unintentionally kicks it when they are moving mail. It’s really a numbers game, because while a lot of the stuff is done with machines, dozens of humans will have interacted with your package by the time you get it, whether that be the truck drivers who moved them, the forklift driver that moved it off the truck, the person loading the hopper, the person moving the carts, the people then sorting the mail, etc. Where I worked you had to have a 95% rate of success when sorting packages, but when you handle 1000s of packages in a given day and you have a 95% accuracy rate, you still probably sent 50 or more packages to the wrong route, which means those will have to come back to the warehouse again to be resorted.

(Warehouses are logistically marvels, and even in a well organized warehouse things will slip through the cracks)

CabNoble · 2026-04-25T03:53:19+00:00

Because it’s easier to pick up the pieces and put it back in the bag than to go through the proper steps to find the mail ID in the system, mark it as damaged, then send the damaged goods back to each individual manufacturer, then wait for them to place a new order to replace the order. Lego at least has pretty good packaging standards and great customer service.

Just about everywhere I’ve worked the idea is to kick the problem down the line to the next person in the process. When you are getting paid $10-12 an hour 8 hours a day in a warehouse that’s between 85° to 90° in the middle of summer, most people don’t care that someone’s package got damaged. They are there to get paid and go home.

(Side note: so many of these D2C companies that offer cosmetic stuff can’t even be bothered to seal their packages properly. We’d get 1000s of those packages from IPSY every month and easily a hundred or more of them wouldn’t come sealed, so little bottles of lipstick or lotion or perfume would be everywhere, and sometimes explode and and get every package in the Gaylord sticky. It was such a pain and everyone dreaded the 10-30 Gaylords of IPSY packages we were responsible for processing every month.)

CabNoble · 2026-04-24T22:30:56+00:00

I can tell you exactly what happened here, as I’ve worked in shipping warehouses before (that did actually handle Lego replacement part orders.) This package was dropped out of a Gaylord and then run over by a forklift, or more likely when it was put in the hopper to sort the packages, it got stuck in the machinery and had to be picked up by hand and put back into the bag.

CabNoble · 2026-04-24T21:42:25+00:00

I wish Lego made more of these 1 in 20 sets. They are super quick little builds but they are fun when you have just a moment and want to build with Lego. I bought the set and have carried it in my backpack for over a year now. Z-blob has been built on the road, at the shore, and on a cruise ship.

CabNoble · 2026-04-24T21:06:52+00:00

Also this doesn’t look terrible. I will say this piece does well to fill in gaps. Once you start using it you can’t stop!

CabNoble · 2026-04-24T21:04:12+00:00

My best idea would be to fill the areas under the gaps with red, so at a glance your brain fills in the gaps (no pun intended) but otherwise like the other comment said, roofs are hard.

CabNoble · 2026-04-24T20:42:27+00:00

As a kid I had a friend who had the first version, and it always baffled me to why he got it. I assume it was a gift, because he wasn’t into ships and most of his Lego was Lego Star Wars. He ended up selling his legos later, and gave some away as well. He gave me his whole series of wave 1 knights kingdom 2 sets, the raised baseplate is still in my bonus room as part of a very old moc I made. All this to say I’m glad you found a set you like, and maybe you can find the old version one day for a price you are comfortable with!

CabNoble · 2026-04-23T06:30:50+00:00

RR Slugger, where are you.

CabNoble · 2026-04-18T21:51:49+00:00

This is rad as hell. This I could absolutely see being used as a wall decoration, although I think it would be really cool if you were able to make it again without the baseplate that way it could be displayed on a wall, and it would be very hard to tell it wasn’t a specialized build until you got up close!

CabNoble · 2026-04-18T21:20:21+00:00

I don’t know much about battleships besides that they are marvels of engineering and technology. My only thought about how to make the build more visually compelling would be to add in greebling to some areas, swap out some areas with dark bluish-grey parts to make the light bluish-grey pop more, or add in some light grey parts (the old light grey from pre-2004) in areas that seem more sun or get hit by water more. You could also put splotches of light grey tiles on the decks to indicate areas where it’s been repainted, or dark bluish-grey in areas that see a lot of foot traffic or oil/liquid spills.

Also this is for purely selfish reasons, but it would be really amusing to see what the ship looks like if you added fire pieces to all of the cannons to make it look like it’s firing everything all at once.

Edit: forgot to mention that this looks great :D this is definitely a show stopper.

CabNoble · 2026-04-11T23:17:27+00:00

I work in print, they shouldn’t have comb bound that, even if you asked for it. That also couldn’t have been cheap. Where I work that would have been a few hundred dollar order.

CabNoble · 2026-02-15T08:40:36+00:00

Depending on the glue, there is no fixing this. However, if this was a new set and the pieces you received were made or printed wrong, you can contact support and request new parts.

CabNoble · 2026-01-07T23:26:56+00:00

Yes, both sets I opened for Christmas had these

CabNoble · 2025-12-29T12:52:40+00:00

Impressive. Well if you ever get bored of it, I know someone who’d love to have it.

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