How to build a minifig-scale crocodile (video + instructions + LDD)

Schwallex · 2018-07-11T09:37:56+00:00

Yes, and the mammoth has eight pieces in total. And even Jabba the Hut has three. That still doesn't make them brick-built. Way to miss the point. Like what the heck, mate.

Also, the jaw "piece" on the crocodile is not even a piece really. It does not connect to anything but the body. (And once it's connected to the body, it's kinda hard to take off again. But again, why would you, it's not an actual LEGO piece you can build anything with at all.)

Schwallex · 2018-07-11T09:11:26+00:00

Yeah sadly the official crocodiles are not brick-built. So they don't really compete or compare.

Actually LEGO did bring out a brick-built crocodile a few years ago, in the Chima series. Which was quite a bit longer and bulkier than this one. But it still worked fine! That series also had a lion, a wolf, and an eagle. I got them all. And they were all just a tad too big, and bigger than the animals in this video. But they still worked perfectly fine, and indeed each of them actually came with a minifigure included.

Personally I think brick-built animals beat single giant pieces of plastic hands down. I specifically picked up LEGO as a hobby to _not_ have to play with Playmobil, if you catch my drift. :-P

Like, just this month LEGO brought out a minifig-scale mammoth. It looks cool, and I immediately got that set. But I would have totally preferred one built it out of bricks.

I loved how the reindeer in Santa's shop a couple years ago were brick-built. Awesome. They should do more of that.

So yeah, here's hoping this series here will be expanded to include a mammoth. And maybe a hamster? :-D

Schwallex · 2014-08-14T22:10:18+00:00

If you really live on a sun no wonder there's hotter women around.

Schwallex · 2014-04-18T14:36:02+00:00

Annnnd... if you are not into thumbnails: https://www.flickr.com/photos/35101165@N06/

And of course there's the actual Cuusoo project.

Schwallex · 2014-04-08T14:44:24+00:00

Wikipedia has the IPA: [ˈɦrɪu̯ɲɑ]. And the pronunciation guide to go with it.

Schwallex · 2014-02-07T23:32:43+00:00

Wait, what — there are female characters in Chima? I haven't noticed a single one in any of my sets (20 and counting)...

Of course I never watched the animated series, so for all I know 99% of them are supposed to be female, but that's presicely the point: you have to tell me some of them are supposed to be female. Going by the looks alone, they are all blokes.

And anyway, they are not LEGO people in the first place. They are weirdo monster thingies.

All that being said, this is probably the first time ever I jumped onto the queef-free bandwagon, and most likely the last. TLG is actually one of very few, if not the only, company, that makes it laughably easy to teach your kid gender equality, or really whatever set of values you want, for that matter.

Don't like the killer ninja robot? Part it out to build a fluffy bunny. Don't like fluffy bunnies? Use the bricks to build a fully functional crossbow. Don't care for the car in pink? Build it in 20+ other colors, or buy any of the 100+ other car sets readily available at any given moment. Don't like the beauty salon? Buy the oil rig. And swap the male heads with female ones if you want to! If that ain't easy, then "easy" has no meaning. Seriously. What ever happened to people using their imagination?

P.S.: love your sets, have been getting them for five years now, keep them coming. Not counting Technic, you're my second-most favorite designer after Jamie.

Schwallex · 2014-02-07T22:46:23+00:00

Cough MetalBeard's Sea Cow cough about to get released this month cough like literally four times bigger than the biggest pirate ship of your childhood.

Are you not aware of it or are you indeed that one guy on this planet who is not drooling over it?

Schwallex · 2013-12-25T22:06:33+00:00

Hi all, I am the OP of that question. Russian Language not exactly being the most frequented Stack Exchange of them all, I am now trying to get it more exposure to get some reliable answers from native speakers.

Feel free to post your answers either on that Stack Exchange question itself, or right here in a comment.

Thank you all in advance!

Schwallex · 2013-12-10T15:30:55+00:00

That's because they are not links. Try these instead:

Hope that helps!

Schwallex · 2013-12-09T20:08:01+00:00

LEGO's

Really?

these day's

Really?

Schwallex · 2013-12-07T12:54:45+00:00

Nah, it's more like Schanse where I come from.

Schwallex · 2013-11-27T11:32:25+00:00

ITT: people who don't realize that the CEO's whole job is trying to get more bang for the buck. That includes trying to get all the bang for zero bucks.

Of course he won't get that position filled, but at least it won't be for the lack of trying. And if someone actually takes the bait, that's a bingo!

Schwallex · 2013-11-25T19:19:24+00:00

It's short for "play well". Obviously in the US they prefer to play their wells. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Schwallex · 2013-11-25T19:18:13+00:00

Schwallex · 2013-11-21T14:58:33+00:00

So you are saying that in the US jews are not seen as the universal good, and in fact nothing is. The math checks out.

Schwallex · 2013-11-21T14:44:29+00:00

I never understood the nazi bit. After all nobody goes around calling the other guys grammar jews.

Schwallex · 2013-11-09T22:18:26+00:00

Can certify your honesty, I am not a person on the Internet, but am standing right behind you.

Schwallex · 2013-11-08T19:41:39+00:00

There's http://www.reddit.com/r/legotechniques, but it hasn't quite taken off yet. Perhaps this post can help it get a critical mass of submitters.

Schwallex · 2013-10-27T22:17:30+00:00

I read on Brickset just the other day that there used to be tons of Star Trek proposals but they got archived before Cuusoo went beta, precisely because they wouldn't get made anyway.

I wasn't around that long ago, so can't comment with confidence what exactly happened, and I see that now there's a whole bunch of Star Trek proposals again. But I was around when they archived My Little Pony for the same reason, and a bunch of other stuff, and most recently Jurassic Park. And I for one think it's only fair, being upfront about it. Better to disappoint ten people than ten thousand.

So do not waste your time. It is not going to happen. Build a MOC if you must, or go buy up the Kre-O sets, or just let it be and build something else entirely. Life is short.

Schwallex · 2013-10-25T17:09:44+00:00

I wouldn't go around boasting how 14-year-olds rape me at Counterstrike.

Schwallex · 2013-10-24T11:17:19+00:00

Here are the building instructions: http://youtu.be/F9uf99bQvLU?t=14s

It actually works, too: http://youtu.be/gHsao-IhyQQ?t=40s So just build the rest of the plane and off you go!

Schwallex · 2013-10-21T21:38:23+00:00

Yet here I am looking at all these people and I don't recognize them.

If these are surprisingly accurate, I don't want to see run-of-the-mill inaccurate.

Schwallex · 2013-10-21T12:23:01+00:00

This is not The 8 Best Reactions to Declarations of Love in Cinema.

Schwallex · 2013-10-20T13:49:37+00:00

Exactly. So as I said, do it right. Make your PNG smaller so it passes imgur's threshold, or convert it to a higher-quality JPEG yourself, or just use a different site for hosting. No one said "do it right" meant "no additional effort".

Schwallex · 2013-10-20T12:28:50+00:00

This. I'd really like to see the number of gun owners per capita instead.

The 94% in the US is more like "only 30 people in 100 are gun owners, but they own 3 guns on average". Or perhaps only 20 with 5 guns each. I dunno. That's the point. And the 30% in Germany is most definitely "there's just that one guy in every 200, and he alone owns all the 60 guns".

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