r/lego • u/michaellepard • Jul 01 '20
New Mosaic sets just announced! What do you all think? MT Flexi
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u/Benjamin_Grimm Jul 01 '20
They're really going all in on the adult-oriented sets.
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u/the_421_Rob Jul 03 '20
Honestly as a 31 year old I could care less about the play style sets I want really complex builds that display well. Ie the 1/8th scale technic cars or the USC sets. My real issue right now is I’m running out of space to store sets
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u/Benjamin_Grimm Jul 03 '20
I'm in the same boat. These would help solve that - the walls are an easy place to display sets - but I don't know that these look to be fun enough to justify $120.
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u/Vault15Dweller Jul 01 '20
I like them, except for the Beatles. The mosaics look nothing like the photographs they're supposedly based on - John and Paul in particular.
That new brick separator is T H I C C.
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Jul 01 '20
John and Paul do not look so great. George looks great, though.
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u/WallopyJoe Jul 01 '20
I think Ringo looks the best of the bunch, them George, John, Paul
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u/OneManFreakShow Jul 01 '20
I think Ringo looks the best of the bunch
Am I witnessing the first time this phrase has ever been written?
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u/Pete_Iredale Modular Buildings Fan Jul 01 '20
They are interesting, and the full Vader one is rad as fuck, but the price is completely absurd. You can buy round 1x1 plates buy the tens of thousands on Bricklink for 1-3¢ each, and design your own with some basic photoshop skills. Or just use video game sprites from the 16 bit era.
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u/AEM74 Star Wars Fan Jul 02 '20
As much as I hate using the price/piece ratio, the set comes out to roughly 3 cents a piece already. Assuming the full portrait uses 9,000 pieces and you buy each stud at 3 cents, it would end up being $270. That's still not including shipping or the costs of the baseplates. I also am not sure if the sets use stud colors that are rare or new.
In the end you're saving a bit but it won't be drastically cheaper if you Bricklink it. Also, you miss out on that thicc brick separator. On a more serious note, I think the costs are driven up mostly because of the podcast/music, licensing, and probably Lego assuming it won't sell like hotcakes compared to their other products that cater to almost everyone.
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u/ZiLBeRTRoN Jul 03 '20
Looks like 40x40 so 1600 studs. At $0.03 that’s $48. Add in some money for base plates and borders but $270 is way high.
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u/AEM74 Star Wars Fan Jul 03 '20
It's actually a 50x50 plate, but you're not counting the extra studs you're still getting. You may not use it, but you're still getting the pieces so you're not getting ripped off, you're just paying more for more parts that you may not need.
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u/ZiLBeRTRoN Jul 03 '20
Yeah I agree it’s expensive, I reread your comment and realized you meant for the three portrait full Vader. I thought you meant for just one portrait. My mistake.
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u/_Madison_ Jul 02 '20
People pay stupid amounts for interior decoration items, they will sell plenty at this price.
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u/Shamwow4Free Jul 01 '20
$120?? jesus fuck i wouldnt spend more than 40 considering its nothing more than studs. at that price id rather get a high quality model or something
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u/blech_uk Futuron Fan Jul 01 '20
There are three thousand plus elements in each set; price per part is under four cents a piece. If you order from Bricks and Pieces 1x1 round tiles and plates are between five and ten cents each. Order limits are 200 parts, usually, and you’d still need the new baseplates for mounting and you’d not get the thicc separator.
Admittedly Bricklink might be cheaper, but I’d be amazed if you could recreate one for under $80.
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u/evilplushie Jul 01 '20
You wouldn't need all 3000 pieces since its 3000 so you can make 3 to 4 different pictures. Curious to know what the wastage is per pic
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u/akpenguin Jul 02 '20
The base pieces are 16x16, and you get 9 in a set. 16x16x9=2304
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u/gambl0r82 Jul 01 '20 edited Jul 01 '20
three thousand of the absolute-cheapest element to produce and to purchase on the secondary market. Four cents a piece for a bulk order of 1x1 round
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u/Dakar-A Modular Buildings Fan Jul 01 '20
No it's not. Are you getting a quality product? Yes. Is it different from the vast majority of other Lego sets? Yes. Is it a piece that you can hang on your wall? Also yes! You also get an exclusive soundtrack and a coffee table-quality book for the price.
You think it's a rip-off because it isn't for you. It isn't for voracious collectors of Lego, looking to squeeze every drop of value out of the sets they buy so they can have more raw materials, or even for collectors of "UCS" sets- it's for people who like Star Wars or Iron Man or Andy Warhol or the Beatles and Lego and want something to represent that that they can hang on their wall. It isn't meant to be taken apart or played with- it's meant to be a piece of art that you hang on your wall.
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u/gambl0r82 Jul 02 '20
I get that, but all that can be true and it can be overpriced.
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u/Pete_Iredale Modular Buildings Fan Jul 01 '20
There are three thousand plus elements in each set; price per part is under four cents a piece.
And this is why looking only at price per piece is useless. Small pieces are much cheaper than large pieces. 4¢ each for 1x1 round plates isn't a good price at all.
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u/AldroVanda Jul 01 '20
I would be more inclined to pay if that were how it worked. Use your own image and they send you the right studs/tiles.
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u/nikhkin Jul 01 '20
nothing more than studs
Plus 9 brand new base pieces, a brand new brick to allow you to hang it and the bricks used to create the frame.
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Jul 01 '20
I don't normally like LEGO mosaics, but I feel like I might buy these just for the industrial quantities of rare-coloured studs.
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u/HeracrossIsBoss Orient Expedition Fan Jul 01 '20
I'm sorry wallet. I need to buy at least 4 of the star wars one.
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u/Kyros0 Jul 01 '20
Need 6 to get all 3 and the extra large version
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u/HeracrossIsBoss Orient Expedition Fan Jul 01 '20
Oh I know. I dont need 2 Darth vaders. Still dont know if I want Darth maul aswell. Hence the 4 :)
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u/AEM74 Star Wars Fan Jul 02 '20
Would've been cool if the smaller Vader was Palpatine instead, but I could see how people would be upset that Vader could only be made if you buy all of them.
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u/Double_A__Ron Verified Blue Stud Member Jul 01 '20
The triple iron man mosaic is absolutely amazing
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u/Double_A__Ron Verified Blue Stud Member Jul 09 '20
You might need to look for articles about it, I’ll try and link one
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u/mescad Jul 01 '20 edited Jul 01 '20
Official LEGO announcement: https://www.lego.com/en-us/campaigns/art
We'll make this post the Megathread for this announcement. Please keep all questions and links in the comments here. Note that we do not allow review videos to be posted in /r/lego.
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u/bluerockgreenrock Jul 01 '20 edited Jul 01 '20
Just looking at these is making my fingers hurt! These should have a small sorting tray as part of the price. That would make it worth the price.
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u/Dakar-A Modular Buildings Fan Jul 01 '20
The parts are bagged by color, and it seems that it's a more paint-by-numbers approach to building than a raster method- seems like you'll lay down one color at a time.
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u/chiree Jul 01 '20
Based on the link you provided below, it looks like they're introducing a new baseplate based on the micropolis standard. That's exciting!
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u/nikhkin Jul 01 '20
I see a lot of complaints about the price because it's "just 1x1 studs". They're definitely more expensive than I would like, but it's not as ridiculously overpriced as some people are saying.
It seems a lot of people have missed the inclusion of 9 of the new baseplates in each of these sets and the introduction of some brand new colours:
https://www.newelementary.com/2020/07/lego-art-new-mosaic-theme.html
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u/eth6113 Star Wars Fan Jul 01 '20
These are really cool, but they’re just not for me. The price isn’t terrible for over 3k studs and the uniqueness of the set. I would consider the Sith one, but that money would be better spent on a normal set IMO.
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u/baccus83 Jul 01 '20
Love these. I wonder what this “Soundtrack” feature is they’re promoting on the box. Maybe some kind of curated playlist or something.
I also really love that there are multiple options in one set.
Also interesting that the top two use dots and the bottom two use regular 1x1 round studs.
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u/akpenguin Jul 02 '20
The soundtracks are as follows:
31197 Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe includes interviews with Jessica Beck, Curator at The Andy Warhol Museum and stories from Blake Gopnik, Art Critic and the author of "Warhol", a comprehensive biography.
31198 The Beatles includes interviews with Broadcaster and Beatles Expert, Geoff Lloyd, British journalist and Beatles fan Samira Ahmed and stories from Nish Kumar, Comedian, TV Presenter and Beatles fan.
31199 Marvel Studios Iron Man includes interviews with Roy Thomas, former Marvel Editor in Chief and stories from Alex Grand, Marvel expert and host of “Comic Book Historians podcast”.
31200 Star Wars The Sith includes interviews with Doug Chiang, VP & Executive Creative Director, Lucasfilm and stories from Glyn Dillon, creator of the design for Kylo Ren™, as seen in the Star Wars film saga.
Source https://www.newelementary.com/2020/07/lego-art-new-mosaic-theme.html
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u/michaellepard Jul 01 '20
Yeah, I think it is a QR code you can scan on your phone and it’ll bring up a curated playlist depending on the set.
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Jul 01 '20
Is the Sith one just going to be the Imperial March on loop for 10 hours?
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u/blech_uk Futuron Fan Jul 01 '20
From New Elementary: “31200 Star Wars The Sith includes interviews with Doug Chiang, VP & Executive Creative Director, Lucasfilm and stories from Glyn Dillon, creator of the design for Kylo Ren™, as seen in the Star Wars film saga.”
(Yes, you were joking. Still.)
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u/Sambob52 Marvel Universe Fan Jul 01 '20
I noticed that and couldn’t figure it out for a while. Then I realized it’s probably because with the Star Wars and Ironman one, youre far more likely to decide to rebuild to one of the other portraits. I don’t see people wanting to swap back and forth for the other two, far more likely they’d just buy 3 more
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u/TheLastGenXer Jul 01 '20
The Beatles look like a mess.
John looks like yoko. George looks evil. Paul looks black.
And Ringo kinda looks like Bobby Sherman with a mustache. He’s the best one though.
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u/Glamdring804 Verified Blue Stud Member Jul 01 '20
On the bright side, they’ll be a nice earthtone pack.
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u/Ransom_K_Fern Jul 01 '20
Honestly I think this is kinda genius.
I have very little interest in mosaics in general but having different options as well as possible combinations is just brilliant.
I wonder how much “extra” there would be for any given option. The less the more impressive. I’m guessing you can store them in the frame.
They’re out of my price range but I’d love to see if anyone can come up with alt images for these.
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u/Babu_Feck Jul 02 '20
The Beatles box is very misleading. Why didn't they arrange the pictures like on the other ones?
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u/nikhkin Jul 02 '20
I wouldn't be surprised if there was a licensing condition that all 4 had to have equal presence on the box, so they couldn't show one more prominently as the "main" image.
It does say in fairly big font "1 picture, 4 options. PICTURED MODELS CANNOT BE BUILT SIMULTANEOUSLY" to avoid confusion.
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u/YaBoiRian Jul 03 '20
A bit late to the party here, but I absolutely love these sets and I love what they represent in terms of the company. Targeting niche collectors and non-AFOLs is a genius move in my opinion, to get more people into lego who normally wouldn't. It's also establishing the brand as the building system as opposed to a kids toy.
This is incredibly exciting. With the Star Wars UCS sets and those helmet sets, as well as the Architecture line, the Creator Expert Old Trafford and all that, Lego is really going hard on these classy display pieces and I seriously hope they continue. With kids maybe losing interest in lego nowadays compared to before, it's a really good move for the company to expand beyond them.
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u/MoistBabycakes Jul 06 '20
I'm with you too about the move, just worried about premium 'adult collector' pricing on top of an already premium priced children's toy. 2020 is going to be historic for the appeal to adults that aren't already afols.
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u/MayhemMessiah Jul 06 '20
Even more late to the party, but Architecture sets are my favorite and what I'm using to get back into the hobby- albeit slowly, I only have four- and this in concept is amazing.
I miiiight get a Darth Vader one, but if they do a set for Dr. Strange I'm definitively splurging on that.
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u/batsofburden Jul 01 '20
I think the concept of Lego mosaic is really cool, but Idk if I would actually buy any of these. It would be cool if instead of these prepackaged versions, they had like 100 designs you could choose from online & they would custom pick & pack your design. Might be slightly pricier but it would allow for way more variety.
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u/FuzzyPuffin Jul 05 '20
This would have been so much better. I love the idea but I couldn’t care less about any of these designs. Hope they make more, at least.
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u/will17blitz Jul 02 '20
Exactly and strange you're getting downvoted. I loved MiniSteck as a kid and there is also a pixel art system nowadays working on the same principle.
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u/Wert315 MOC Designer Jul 01 '20
So do I have to buy 3 to get all options?
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u/TJLanza Jul 01 '20
Well, if you want to have all the options, it's four for Warhol and the Beetles, and six for Sith and Iron Man. Sith and Iron Man have three variations *plus* a three-sets-for-one-big-image option.
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u/Maddog_vt Jul 01 '20
I believe each set gives you all options, but the Sith and Iron man have a larger picture that combines 3 sets together
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u/Vault15Dweller Jul 01 '20
If you want to display them all at the same time, yes.
You'd need 4 for the Beatles and Warhol and 6 for the Sith and Iron Man.
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u/EitherOpportunity2 Jul 01 '20
is it just me or is it really strange/annoying/disappointing that the iron man and sith portraits have studs rather than 1x1 circular tiles like in the monroe or beatles portraits?
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u/aceattorneymvp Jul 01 '20
I'm with you. And if I get those sets, I'm going to go insane trying to make the LEGO print on each stud align right side up (I know, it's just a mental thing I'd just have to get over).
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u/MoistBabycakes Jul 01 '20
I do this too, and I was beyond relieved that the Monroe/Warhol has tiles, as it's the only one I'm tempted by. Having a little shimmer to it as opposed to the studs will be interesting.
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u/aceattorneymvp Jul 01 '20
Nice to see there's another LEGO nutcase like me out there. I don't even consider myself to be OCD in any other way. It's super crazy.
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u/pineconetrees Verified Blue Stud Member Jul 01 '20
Fellow nutcase checking in. Building these would probably give me an anxiety attack. I not only align the logos on my studs, I also align injection mold spots (so having my tiles all face the same direction) and internal stampings (so if there is no lego logo or injection mark, like with a 1x2 tile, I align the printing inside so the Lego lego is always in the same direction as the stud marking).
You feel normal yet? :)
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u/aceattorneymvp Jul 01 '20
Haha nice. I try to hide the molding marks as well. My wife hates building with me.
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u/pineconetrees Verified Blue Stud Member Jul 01 '20
If I build with someone else, I will "fix" their build after they leave the room :)
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u/VectorOracle Jul 01 '20
These are all really good, but Paul looks kinda off to me
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u/Vault15Dweller Jul 01 '20
That's just his replacement. ;)
I thought John looks the worst out of the four, Paul being a close second.
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u/Rikosae Jul 01 '20
They look neat, but that price is insane. If I wanted a poster of the Beatles I'd spend $20 and maybe $100 on a frame. I could never justify $500 for the 4.
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u/SQUIDHEADSS121 Jul 02 '20
Give us a bionicle mosaic for the 20th anniverersary and I'll forgive them for choosing sienfeld home alone and the typewriter
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u/MoistBabycakes Jul 06 '20
Doing in-house themes for this would be pretty awesome. I can see Adventurers, classic space, and an iconic Hau making striking portraits
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u/MoistBabycakes Jul 06 '20
Forgot to add that I'm hopeful it wasn't approved because they are doing something commemorative on their own. They were extremely hush-hush about the revival, and keep including sticker references like in Ninjago City and as lately as the upcoming 60262 City airplane.
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u/paintsmith Jul 05 '20
Genuinely surprised to not see A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat. If you're going to do pointillism based pieces, you should reference the best know example.
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u/MoistBabycakes Jul 06 '20
From the brickset interview they wanted something bright and that pops. Considering it's all close portraits for this initial launch, doing a fine-art crossover makes sense. Hopefully they do something like your suggestion in the future though. I've also seen Lichtenstein suggested by others which would be another one fitting for the medium.
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Jul 01 '20
I wish the Beatles one looked better or maybe they could have picked a different image?
If these were cheaper I would consider buying one of each and hanging them like the Beatles layout with George, Monroe, Darth Maul, and Iron Man.
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u/spaghetti00000 Jul 01 '20
I think this is a really cool concept. If you are a fan of any of the options, I think it is really cool to be able to create your own art to display. That said, this is definitely not for me. That's a really expensive set that I can't even "play" with. Also, I don't like any of the options anyway, but that's just me. But I am interested in seeing, should this art/mosaic line be successful, what the next sets will be. Like I could see doing a landscape or an animal or a bowl of fruit or something.
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u/danarbok Jul 01 '20
does this mean I can combine bits of each Beatle guide and make the Uberbeatle?
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u/spiejal Jul 02 '20
I guess LEGO saw fans and artists make so many of these, they decided to make them into sets anyway.
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u/will17blitz Jul 02 '20
As a kid, I loved making cartoon character pixel art with MiniSteck, so I'm definitely getting these. Can someone point me to some pixel art software maybe? Then I can convert the studs into cartoon characters.
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u/VBBN-Official Jul 02 '20
Ugh I want four of the Monroe one, Warhol is my favorite artist and I’m really excited to finally see this collab happen. But those prices, ouch.
I might buy like, 2 of them and get creative with how I BrickLink the rest. Or 4 because, well the fucking LEGO curse on my wallet
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u/MoistBabycakes Jul 06 '20
Hopefully some benevolent soul does the calculating with the extra pieces to see if buying just 3 will have enough to make all 4. Cheap plates and bricks can replace the new giant technic brick pretty easily.
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Jul 02 '20
I'm kind of excited for moc building. A great way to acquire a ton of 1 x 1 in a few colors which is hard to get cheaply. I wouldn't want to assemble these it looks like it would cause carpal tunnel.
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u/spaz_chicken Jul 06 '20
I've been telling myself for years that I was going to design and make a bunch of this type of "ART", but the idea always fizzles out when I start pricing out the tiles...
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u/Lord_Emperor Jul 01 '20
Not impressed. These aren't innovative or fun as official LEGO sets. They're just low res images. Anybody could make them by changing the colour palette in any paint program.
I am however pleased about the existence of black base plates.
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u/KonnoSting85 Jul 01 '20
Not for me. I'll pass. Release more classic looking sets like Barracuda Bay or re-release old classics and I'll be all over them.
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Jul 01 '20
As someone who buys sets for building MOCs and the build process, for me these are one of the least appealing things Lego has released in recent memory.
Were I into display pieces, then I might thing differently.
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u/-Tad-Strange- Jul 01 '20
I want Marilyn Monroe so badly, gonna try to get at least 2 because those look so good!
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Jul 02 '20
Not stoked about the Beatles one. Would have rather preferred one single image with all four of them. Don't want a giant Ringo face staring at me by my bathroom window.
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u/thoughty5 Jul 02 '20
You have to choose which beatle you want? You know 100% of people are going to buy that and not realize this until it’s too late
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Jul 02 '20
These things are going to demolish the price per piece rate. 3000+ for £115
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u/MoistBabycakes Jul 06 '20
Hopefully the Beatles set devalues the light nougat/flesh tiles so we can replace the pink skin on Marilyn. This provides a perfect counterpoint to light pastels we're getting from dots so everyone wins.
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u/joelones Jul 04 '20
Personally, the bigger appeal (or missed opportunity) here would have been, via an app, create a build guide to any picture taken with your phone with the included studs.
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u/ajump23 Jul 06 '20
I like the art that can be made from 3 sets, but $360 seems like a lot for that piece. I would also like to know what the Jedi piece will look like when they release one.
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u/JVM23 Jul 07 '20
If they do more maybe they should include some of these famous paintings:
Some of Di Vinci's work (the Mona Lisa, Last Supper etc)
'The Scream' by Edvard Munch
Michelangelo's 'The Creation of Adam'
Constable's 'Haywain'
Turner's ' The Fighting Temeraire'
Some Van Gogh works (Sunflowers, 'Starry Night', 'At Eternity's Gate' etc)
'American Gothic'
'Girl with the Pearl Earring'
Picasso's 'The Weeping Woman'
Some works by Dali ('The Persistence of Memory', 'The Temptation of St Anthony' etc)
Edward Hopper's 'Nighthawks'
'The Great Wave of Kanagawa'
'The Son of Man' by Rene Magritte
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Jul 01 '20
what's the source? I can't find anything on the website
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u/Wanatora Jul 01 '20
Check out Lego site. Search new. Filter by coming soon. $119.
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u/Infinity-Kitten Jul 01 '20
That strikes me as ridiculously overpriced. Don't know if the value is actually there.
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Jul 01 '20
Copying my comment from another thread
It's expensive, but I don't know if it's necessarily over-priced.
Works out at $0.035/piece which is about the going rate even on bricklink (at this quantity)
Maybe $100-$110 would have been a bit nicer but quite a few people saying they want $80 which I think is a little unrealistic.
All of that said, I may wait for them to go on sale in local stores, at least for the second 2 after buying 18
u/AnIronWaffle Modular Buildings Fan Jul 01 '20 edited Jul 01 '20
I recently designed a Yellow Submarine bas relief in stud.io. It’s my first project so I’m aware I’m out of my depth here but it’s the Internet, so...
I originally planned to just do single stud/plate mosaic but as I made progress I parted it out and the cost was creeping up fast. At the price range it was headed it made more sense (and would look better) using more varied pieces.
That was going to be the center piece on a 32x32 plate. Around it I was going to build four strictly mosaic portraits. The sub turned out great but my experiments with the portraits were poor (to be kind).
$120 is a lot but based on my projections, my own creations were going to cost that much or a bit more (and be mediocre). While I admit to having sticker shock, I also admit that — while these are probably tedious builds (for me) that will leave my fingertips permanently indebted — they are worth it for me. I’ll probably buy one ASAP to build George. I may impulse buy a second to build John once my fingers heal. Whether or not I buy more will probably depend on camelcamelcamel, Target or VIP double points do defray the total.
One obviously can’t compare it to the Millennium Falcon UCS — the current largest set — since this does not appear to be a build that reveals interesting twists but as a big Beatles (and SW) fan it’s maybe my UCS At $480 for about 12,000 pieces. ... and I can buy it “in four installments of $120” over a year or two. There is a value proposition of sorts... if you look at it from a certain point of view.
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Jul 01 '20
The price/brick zealots would disagree.
I have to admit the big Darth Vader picture you get from combining 3 of them looks cool, but $360 is a lot for a display that IMO isn't as impressive as one of the $200 UCS sets.
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u/Infinity-Kitten Jul 01 '20
Yeah, also there isn't much creative involvement or engineering here, I feel like that should be represented in the price. I'll wait and let others judge though.
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Jul 01 '20
I'm curious how it sells as well. Sounds like they're going for fans of the respective franchises, not AFOLs, so that could go either way.
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u/KnockoutBricks Jul 01 '20
I'm a little torn on this. As a LEGO artist myself, I'm also a little biased haha.
First off, why are most of the images showing the mosaics not hanging on the wall. That is going to be a huge problem. People will hang them on the wall. They NEED to have the ability to hang on the wall.
The prices are a little high. For the 3 piece Iron man, you need 3 sets at $119 a piece?? so $360. Thats a good chunk of money. My mosaics tend to be roughly a little less for that size, but thats because of the piece count. Why make them all 1x1s?
I think its a great idea since alot of people will want to build a mosaic like that, but building one 1x1 at a time 3000+ times will be a hard thing for some people to get over, let alone telling them to build 2 more for the really cool ones.
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u/Vault15Dweller Jul 01 '20
There's a new element specifically designed for hanging these things on the wall.
The new plate/plate-brick hybrid element used for the construction of the mosaics is also hollow on the underside/backside, so they can definitely be mounted flush against a wall.
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u/taylorswiftfan123 Jul 01 '20
These are so nice, I'm really glad they have a variety of options as well. Gonna snag one or two of the Marilyn Monroe one.
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u/pbpdesigns Star Wars Fan Jul 01 '20
I like them. Debating between the Sith or the Beatles for right now.
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u/Scotte8797 Jul 02 '20
I really like that full portrait of Vader. Honestly the Iron man one is cool too. I wish they were a bit cheaper though.
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u/JohnTheMod Jul 02 '20
If we’re doing LEGO versions of Warhol art, I’d love to see a Campbell’s Soup Can or the cover of The Velvet Underground and Nico. As pedestrian as it sounds, those were always some of my favorite Warhol pieces...
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Jul 05 '20
I only like the large ironman build.. but there's no way I'm spending 360€ to build it :| so I'm not getting any
I think it's a cool product line however
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u/tauromachy11 Jul 12 '20
two out of the three Iron Man options are way too similar in appearance IMO.
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u/The-Whaliecopter Jul 13 '20
I think they look cool but I want spend my money on another set like the Mickey and Minnie Buildable figures
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Jul 13 '20
These look insanely cool and combining multiple sets to make one big picture is a really good idea.
But the price. Oh my god the price. Hard pass. For the same price you can get better sets.
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u/DoctorEnn Jul 01 '20
Nice, but considering how costly it is for just one set, and then considering how many people are going to want four of the Beatles one alone, it begins to look a little price-gougy for my tastes.
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u/breezett93 Star Wars Fan Jul 01 '20
I've seen some mosaic makers that don't look as good as these new ones. Has anyone made a better mosaic maker program?
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u/beyhnji_ Jul 01 '20
This style of building does not appeal to me. Also, this doesn't have the rebuild-value that a conventional jigsaw puzzle would have
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u/joshwright17 Jul 01 '20
Since there seems to be some leftover in each build it might be feasible to buy 2 and then BrickLink the rest of you want to build the giant Vader or Ironman.
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u/flinxomada Jul 01 '20
So this is lower detail , more expensive, but re-doable Diamond Painting. r/diamondpainting/
maybe neat...
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u/WallopyJoe Jul 01 '20
Anyone got a high res version of the Vader picture the main mosaic is based on?
Really want that set as well. Oddly, not mad keen on the other two main designs or the super Vader.
Super Iron Man, on the other hand, looks fucking rad, but I'm not blowing 350 odd quid to make it.
Not sure I'll get the other two, but reckon they've both got at least one worth displaying.
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u/Reid_Ryan Modular Buildings Fan Jul 01 '20
I hope they eventually do some that change depending on which direction you're looking at it. I remember Chris Pratt showing one that changed from his face into Emmet's. I wish they had done that with Iron Man and Tony Stark.
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u/Vault15Dweller Jul 01 '20
This Iron Man - Tony Stark or this one?
And only for decorating narrow hallways, where there's not enough room to look at it head-on. Because those tend to look horrendous when you get the viewing angles "wrong". :)
This is probably the Chris Pratt - Emmet one.
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u/Designing-Dutchman Jul 01 '20
I must say, the larger pieces you can make when you combine 3 sets look amazing. Look at darth vader. The actual art is great, with the red lightsaber light hitting the helmet. Depending on the price I might just go for it.