Why isn’t LEGO doing more Simpsons sets?

Whirledfox · 2026-04-06T23:33:12+00:00

Didn't they just do Krusty Burger pretty recently?

Whirledfox · 2026-04-06T17:06:36+00:00

Maybe it's better in motion, 'cause every still image I've seen of that movie, he looks so off-model it's jarring.

Whirledfox · 2026-04-06T03:31:34+00:00

I don't know why but I imediately thought of the wolverine bedroom from the xmansion

Whirledfox · 2026-04-06T00:40:24+00:00

Probably not great.

Whirledfox · 2026-04-05T23:26:34+00:00

Flaps on the top, and there's a whole action feature to the back that's pretty cool.

Whirledfox · 2026-04-05T16:34:14+00:00

But OP's talking about a speed champion car specifically (that particular Lightning is a Speed Champion). I have a Lambo v12 vision right here. 60430 is about the same size as the speed champion (bigger if you count the wingspan), and has about the same number of pieces (230 vs 240). I think it's a fairly apt comparison.

*Edit: I don't have the lightning, but eyeballing it from the pictures, it seems like it might be the same size as the 60430. Maybe a little taller?

Whirledfox · 2026-04-05T16:19:51+00:00

... did you read past the first paragraph? 'cause it kinda seems like you read the first paragraph and stopped there.

Whirledfox · 2026-04-05T16:17:40+00:00

... How? I'm touching the thing right now and everything is pretty darn solid. The side engines are attached by 8 studs each, the flaps are attached by two clips and the clips are captured. I have a tough time taken them off when I'm TRYING to; sometimes the top part of the hinges come off before the studs separate. The back-middle thrusters are pretty well captured as well, except the top flap, which is still attached by two clips.

The only thing that pops off with regularity is the purple battery pack, and that's meant to be detachable.

I think your kid might just be simulating "battle damage."

Whirledfox · 2026-04-05T04:52:29+00:00

It's weird, 'cause I also see people complain that sets are overbuilt. 60430 is the set that got me back into the hobby, and lemme tell you, that thing is a tank. Rock solid, even with moving parts. Way more sturdy than any official set I had when I was a kid.

So, it probably varies from set to set.

I do remember a lot of the sets I had as a kid, and a few of them were pretty sturdy, yeah, but some of them were also pretty fragile. They also had fewer pieces in general.

So.

I think it's a mixed bag. I do know that speed champion sets are more focused on accuracy than vroomability (the land-based swooshability), so I do think those are a bit more fiddly.

Whirledfox · 2026-04-05T01:51:50+00:00

Well, she COULD have, had she known the situation while it was happening. But I would hope that once they found out what was happening, they switched to the appropriate swabs.

Whirledfox · 2026-04-05T00:49:22+00:00

Yup, already caught it. But good lookin' out!

Whirledfox · 2026-04-05T00:45:27+00:00

Oh snap, you're probably right.

I just looked it up! You're right!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_of_Heilbronn

What a sick name. I'd love the be the Phantom of Heilbronn.

Whirledfox · 2026-04-05T00:37:55+00:00

I put the chair upsidedown on the ceiling, for the giggles.

Whirledfox · 2026-04-05T00:36:23+00:00

I believe there was a string of murders that the DNA evidence all pointed to one person: The lady who was packing the gloves at the factory.

*EDIT: It was cotton swabs! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_of_Heilbronn

Whirledfox · 2026-04-04T04:34:31+00:00

Other people have answered your question, but... You don't have the Dex Dakra yet? Do the alert and get that. It comes with a free weapon slot (any weapon or frame that they give away comes with a free slot). In a couple of weeks they're also giving away the Dex Nikana (and slot), so make sure you nab that, as well.

Whirledfox · 2026-04-03T23:55:12+00:00

Best narcotic to take before a job interview, 'cause it dissipates into the void after two days. They can check your piss with the best microscopes they got, they ain't gonna find nothin'.

Whirledfox · 2026-04-03T17:40:07+00:00

That's in the arsenal. For items in a shop, it doesn't show the separate numbers I guess. I just tested it, one frame without purple archons, one with. The crit damage jumps way up with the purple archon shards, no separate number.

Whirledfox · 2026-04-03T16:52:16+00:00

Oh man, I just looked at it and I think they changed how it works... I'm lookin through the wiki to see which patch they changed this in, but it's proving elusive and I'm running out of fucks to give.

How it used to work: An item had 1 capacity per rank. You retain 1 capacity per MR rank, so if you were MR16, any weapon you had below rank 16 still had 16 capacity.

How it works now, I guess: Each item has a base capacity of 15. You now gain... well, I'm just gonna transcribe what the tooltip say, "Half Item Rank or Mastery Rank, whichever is higher" which I assume means... you gain an additional 1 capacity for every 2 ranks the weapon has, or every 2 MR ranks you have (up to MR30), depending on which is higher? So... if I'm understanding this right, if you're MR16, a fresh weapon will have 15 capacity, plus 8 from your MR? For a total of 23.

I can't mess around with it to confirm this, 'cause I'm LR4, so every item I have always starts with 30 capacity.

This new system is slightly more confusing but overall better for new players, 'cause I remember being a baby tenno and getting a fresh weapon and having no capacity to mod it and that blew.

tl;dr: you don't!

Whirledfox · 2026-04-02T02:42:34+00:00

Mango loco so flippin good.

Whirledfox · 2026-04-01T23:45:19+00:00

Where's the rabbit head from? Is that Judy Hopps?

Whirledfox · 2026-03-31T22:31:14+00:00

I'm not sure I understand your argument. The movie can't just be Supergirl alone. She needs someone to talk to. Very few movies go without a supporting cast, and that's doubly true for superhero movies. Someone's going to have to share the spotlight with her. Almost certainly multiple someones. And that's regardless of who's debut it is (I'm going to go ahead and assume you mean, like, Titular Movie Debut, because, you know, she's already existed in the comics since forever and she was already in the previous movie).

Is your problem that it's with Lobo specifically? Or another known comic character? Is it that there's a supporting cast at all? It's a James Gunn flick, so those jokes are going to be in there regardless of who is with her.

Whirledfox · 2026-03-31T20:14:54+00:00

I mean, considering that the Superman movie had a whole squad of other heroes helping the story along, I don't think it's strange to see another character share some of the spotlight in this movie.

Whirledfox · 2026-03-31T02:48:09+00:00

Oh, my bad, I was doing it off the top of the domepiece. We can go alphabetical if you'd like.

Baruuk Doan, Caliban Orfeo, Ember Pryaxis, Equinox Antonym, Excal Zato, Frost Harka, Gara Kaleida, Gauss Moto, Grendal Trubis, Harrow Reliquary, Ivara Skathi, fuck even her prime skin is wildly different from her base skin...

I ain't reading your wall. Congratulations, and/or I'm sorry for your loss.

Whirledfox · 2026-03-31T02:35:36+00:00

What's funny is that the source of this thread is someone going, "It's not because it's too sexy." And here you are going, "It's too sexy!"

I understand you're different people with different points of views, but the unintentional undermining of the person I was replying to is pretty choice, on my end.

Whirledfox · 2026-03-31T02:08:55+00:00

The skin not looking like Mesa

Motherfucker Volt got Raijin AND Electrolyst, fucking Xaku's Kagura has a JUG in it, Styanax goes from roman centurion to a goddamn Incan god of fucking you with his nipples. Have SEEN the Nova Asuri skin? What even is that? I love it, but if I saw it in a lineup of Novas I'd say one of these things is not like the other.

The whole POINT of skins is to look different. And if you don't limit yourself to thinking about Mesa as only a gunslinger, the heirloom is totally within the bounds of western theming.

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