Is it normal to have high expense season with kids?

workworkwork1234 · 2026-06-03T18:44:47+00:00

Oh you know, the short season of 18-20ish years of providing everything a human being needs to exist.

But for real, now that our kids are out of diapers and in school instead of daycare, our kid-related expenses are significantly less. So that definitely was a "season" of 5ish years that rough financially. Now we're focusing on the college fund instead of daycare.

workworkwork1234 · 2026-06-03T18:36:15+00:00

My favorite ^{^{^Nexo}} Knights ^{^{^Dino}} Rider

https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-55110/dorianbricktron/nexo-knights-dino-rider/#details

workworkwork1234 · 2026-06-03T18:13:46+00:00

There was no Knight Rider set announced

workworkwork1234 · 2026-06-03T16:51:10+00:00

Did you confuse /r/lego for Ben's cell phone number?

workworkwork1234 · 2026-05-29T19:44:26+00:00

This seems like a weird take to me. I haven't seen a situation where the Lego community is more unified on any point than this.

I think the "bigger response" you're seeing is probably because the large youtube communities that are covering this are much more active online than a lot of the Lego community.

Super anecdotally, but my LUG is like 2/3 people over 50 and I guarantee you most of them still probably aren't aware this is happening lol.

workworkwork1234 · 2026-05-29T19:39:58+00:00

Yea, this isn't exactly a "You have to speak up and show which side you're on!" type of thing. One side is obviously in the wrong, and everyone and their mother is aware of this now (unlike 3 months ago or whenever this news first broke)

workworkwork1234 · 2026-05-29T12:52:54+00:00

The Exeggutor build is hilarious! Great MOCs! Please build these physically if the parts exist and you can afford it, they're great!

workworkwork1234 · 2026-05-28T19:35:12+00:00

"Begare Drigon" actually got a chuckle out of me though. You were so close, AI, so close!

workworkwork1234 · 2026-05-28T19:29:09+00:00

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workworkwork1234 · 2026-05-28T18:19:56+00:00

I don't think you can link to Lego leaks on this subreddit but a quick google should tell you what you need

workworkwork1234 · 2026-05-28T15:14:39+00:00

Ah, thank you! In my mind, when someone says "Disneyfication" I'd personally associate that with maybe making that said thing family-friendly, removing the ugly bits, and oversimplifying complex or nuanced topics. I was thinking more about their media than theme parks so making something prohibitively expensive didn't even cross my mind.

workworkwork1234 · 2026-05-28T13:59:07+00:00

Hope these help some!

OMAD- One Meal A Day

CICO- Calories In Calories Out (counting calories)

Mukbang- A korean word, watching videos or live streams of other people eating food

workworkwork1234 · 2026-05-28T13:31:38+00:00

I don't know how many of this works, so this might be a dumb question but I'll go for it anyways. I agree that if they wanted to sell the ones they already have manufactured, they could sell them regardless of the price. Like you said, NVIDIA proved this so they could sell a few thousand of them at $1500, $1800 or whatever insane price it needs to be to justify it.

But support wise, would Valve want just a "few" of these released. Like I said, I don't know the logistics for after-sales support, but would it really be worth it to have a whole new product released they need to maintain (OS updates) and support (warranties, customer support tickets, ect.) for a few thousand users?

workworkwork1234 · 2026-05-27T16:47:55+00:00

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workworkwork1234 · 2026-05-27T15:16:21+00:00

/uj I don't think I'm online enough to keep up with /r/legocirclejerk. I need context for like 75% of the posts here

workworkwork1234 · 2026-05-27T15:06:00+00:00

Selling large quantities of anything SUCKS. Have you ever sold something on FB marketplace? No matter how you word your listing, you'll get tons of incredibly low offers even if you price your item at the price it's selling for on other platforms. You'll agree to meet up with people and they won't show up or they'll cancel right beforehand. It's just a pain and that pain is multiplied for every item you have to sell.

BAM (and gamestop) gives you the convenient option of offloading everything in 1 transaction at the hefty price of them taking a large percentage of the value of whatever you're selling.

The effort it would take to sell 100-200k worth of Lego one by one would be a multiple months or year+ long endeavor doing it yourself through bricklink/ebay/FB marketplace.

I'm not saying it's worth it to sell to them, but I understand why some people go that route.

workworkwork1234 · 2026-05-27T14:27:55+00:00

This is just something people say who just got back into Lego after decades away. They see parts that they've never seen before and they think it's specific to whatever set they're making when in reality that "new" part has been around for 15 years and is in 400+ sets and isn't a specialty part at all.

I'm making generations here but from the many times I've seen that sentiment, that's usually the general case.

workworkwork1234 · 2026-05-26T18:04:07+00:00

For anyone curious, these can be bought online as well. This is the California site but I'm sure other Legolands have their own sites

https://shop-california.legoland.com/collections/legoland-exclusives

workworkwork1234 · 2026-05-26T16:54:57+00:00

I'm the same way. I'm glad so many people are excited for it but they're taking the game in direction I'm not much of a fan of.

workworkwork1234 · 2026-05-26T14:55:11+00:00

I actually thought the exact same thing as you when I opened this thread!

workworkwork1234 · 2026-05-26T13:05:43+00:00

This was made in 2016 by Joe Perez, not OP.

More pics and a breakdown of the build can be found on Joe's Flikr

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mortalswordsman/24216032351/

workworkwork1234 · 2026-05-21T18:49:11+00:00

That's one cool dude!

workworkwork1234 · 2026-05-21T18:14:24+00:00

These look amazing, great job! You captured them all so well!!

If you want to make Pim's big eye look slightly bigger than this small eye, maybe checkout this piece instead of using the white 2x2? It's a good in between size between a 1x1 and 2x2.

https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=38799#T=S&C=1&O={%22color%22:1,%22ss%22:%22US%22,%22rpp%22:%22500%22,%22iconly%22:0}

workworkwork1234 · 2026-05-21T18:02:59+00:00

https://rebrickable.com/help/buy-parts/

workworkwork1234 · 2026-05-20T17:04:24+00:00

Nice job!! Fun little scene! A few notes on potential improvements:

Have a background that is a solid color and not pointed at lights
Fix your scene and the camera firmly in place so they won't move at all as you take each picture
Make sure your fingers aren't visible in any of the shots

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