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View Thread Re: Something I Just Threw Together - SylvainLS (46)
[...] This question is flawed. You should add things that are clearly not figures, like cars or houses, and things on the line, like Cars (the movie) characters. As [...]
(66 months ago, Nov 26, 2018, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 6591-1 - SylvainLS (46)
[...] As there are two plates on each sprue, the numbers should be halved.
(66 months ago, Nov 26, 2018, to Inventories Requests)
View Thread Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 6393-1 - SylvainLS (46)
[...] 4073 always came by pair on a sprue in the 1980’s. [...] See (URL)
(66 months ago, Nov 26, 2018, to Inventories Requests)
View Thread Inventory Change Request for Set 71043-1 - SylvainLS (46)
Please make changes to the following inventory: (Set 71043-1) * Add 2 Part 60601pb017 Trans-Clear Glass for Window 1 x 2 x 2 with Arched Gold Window Pattern (Extra) * [...]
(66 months ago, Nov 24, 2018, to Inventories Requests)
View Thread Re: What is the difference? - SylvainLS (46)
[...] And… that’s why admins are paid the big bucks and, my not having either of the parts, why I can now go to sleep with a clear conscience ;):P
(67 months ago, Nov 19, 2018, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: What is the difference? - SylvainLS (46)
[...] I looked on Brickset, the images are the same but a bit bigger and placed the same way, so going back and forth from one image to the other is possible and shows the [...]
(67 months ago, Nov 19, 2018, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: What is the difference? - SylvainLS (46)
[...] I looked at the two BL pics (official Lego renders?): I believe there’s a difference around the stud hole (red circles) and, maybe at the top of the fender [...]
(67 months ago, Nov 19, 2018, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: (MARKED FOR DELETION) Why?? - SylvainLS (46)
[...] Sorry too, I put it a bit rudely… maybe should have added a smiley or something :D [...] Anybody can ask whatever but only admins can accept or decline requests. [...]
(67 months ago, Nov 19, 2018, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: (MARKED FOR DELETION) Why?? - SylvainLS (46)
[...] StormChaser IS admin.
(67 months ago, Nov 19, 2018, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: 60592c01 - whos idea was this? - SylvainLS (46)
[...] Not. The hinge brick and the hinge plate always came separated. [...] This assembly can’t be New: you have assembled the parts yourself, that’s the definition of Used.
(67 months ago, Nov 15, 2018, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Fourth Catalog Project Underway - SylvainLS (46)
[...] I prefer one nullable field to twin-fields (boolean field + non-nullable field) but I’m no DB expert, so efficiency rules (speed-wise and size-wise, but also [...]
(67 months ago, Nov 10, 2018, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Fourth Catalog Project Underway - SylvainLS (46)
[...] Well, it could be done with only one field: plain, printed, stickered, moulded… (I.e. allowing “plain” (nil/null/none/empty…) as a type of decoration.) [...]
(67 months ago, Nov 10, 2018, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Baseplates not (easy) to find - SylvainLS (46)
[...] A precision: As Jennifer said, the years for the sets are the years the sets were first released. But the years for the parts are the oldest and newest years of the [...]
(67 months ago, Nov 10, 2018, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Catalog: Strongly disagree 3830c0 deletion - SylvainLS (46)
[...] This one seems more 6 ft under than up in the air. :P
(67 months ago, Nov 8, 2018, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Q about (Other) Minifigures Have Moved! - SylvainLS (46)
[...] Perks of the position ;)
(67 months ago, Nov 8, 2018, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Try that again - SylvainLS (46)
[...] Maybe add a simple line in the picture to show it’s both sides of the same part and not two parts. [...] It would need a pin too ;)
(67 months ago, Nov 8, 2018, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 6445-1 - SylvainLS (46)
[...] Soon, there’ll be deepfakes videos of LEGO sealed sets opening :D
(67 months ago, Nov 5, 2018, to Inventories Requests)
View Thread Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 21309-1 - SylvainLS (46)
[...] The “no related alternate” part of the rule was a bit fuzzy in my mind (half-remembering the 4599 Tap situation) :D [...] Thanks.
(67 months ago, Nov 5, 2018, to Inventories Requests)
View Thread Inventory Change Request for Set 21309-1 - SylvainLS (46)
Please make changes to the following inventory: (Set 21309-1) * Add 8 Part 44302a Dark Bluish Gray Hinge Plate 1 x 2 Locking with 2 Fingers on End with Bottom Groove (match [...]
(67 months ago, Nov 5, 2018, to Inventories Requests)
View Thread Re: Inventories pending approval - SylvainLS (46)
[...] Many thanks again!
(67 months ago, Nov 4, 2018, to Inventories)
View Thread Re: Inventories pending approval - SylvainLS (46)
[...] Many thanks! Is there a way to find it or should I bookmark the page? (Not linked from the Catalog/Inventories page (URL) )
(67 months ago, Nov 4, 2018, to Inventories)
View Thread Inventories pending approval - SylvainLS (46)
Is there a way to see an inventory which is “pending approval” (when you’re not the submitter)? Or at least a way to know why it’s pending? I can’t find either….
(67 months ago, Nov 4, 2018, to Inventories)
View Thread Re: Second Catalog Project Underway - SylvainLS (46)
[...] They are wasp and hornet nests, not bee.
(67 months ago, Nov 4, 2018, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Second Catalog Project Underway - SylvainLS (46)
[...] Look at Wikipedia, they have pictures (esp. on English and French versions, a little less on the “Nederlands” one). Some wasps and hornets make roundish nests [...]
(67 months ago, Nov 4, 2018, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Second Catalog Project Underway - SylvainLS (46)
[...] As WoutR already pointed out, Beehives aren’t made by bees but by minifigs… er humans. Bees live in hollow trunks or such cavities, they don’t build such nests. [...] [...]
(67 months ago, Nov 4, 2018, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Second Catalog Project Underway - SylvainLS (46)
[...] Building Elements would have been my suggestion if it could be understood in a restricted sense. Or Large Building Elements. [...] (BURP is already in use….) [...]
(67 months ago, Nov 3, 2018, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Quattro Leg? - SylvainLS (46)
[...] Yes it could :)
(67 months ago, Nov 2, 2018, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Quattro Leg? - SylvainLS (46)
[...] I don’t know anything about McDonald’s characters, but wouldn’t Quattro be their here-depicted four-legged spiderish characer?
(67 months ago, Nov 2, 2018, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Part 3062old in projects AFOL - SylvainLS (46)
[...] On the part’s page, on the right of the picture, there’s the period the sets in which the part appears. The last time there was a set in which 3062old was included was [...]
(67 months ago, Nov 1, 2018, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Part 3062old in projects AFOL - SylvainLS (46)
[...] jpascual is talking about the Studio contest. And 3062old is not an “active” part allowed in submissions. It’s not been produced for more than 50 years!
(67 months ago, Nov 1, 2018, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Catalog Project Request "Bar" vs. "Weapon" - SylvainLS (46)
[...] Actually, it’s 1.6L long if you don’t count the studs. That is, between two plates attached to the studs, there’s room for 4 plates.
(67 months ago, Nov 1, 2018, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Catalog Project Request "Bar" vs. "Weapon" - SylvainLS (46)
[...] Hmm, that means some of the “(Other)” parts that are being categorized right now might end up being moved again in a few weeks.
(67 months ago, Oct 31, 2018, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Second Catalog Project Underway - SylvainLS (46)
[...] Wrong. It’s used for many things, just look at the pictures of the sets it has been used this year alone: (URL) [...]
(67 months ago, Oct 31, 2018, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Second Catalog Project Underway - SylvainLS (46)
Okay, okay, I can’t refrain myself anymore:   Why is there a project for a second catalogue? The first one isn’t finished yet. There. I feel better. Sorry to unburden here. [...]
(67 months ago, Oct 31, 2018, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Some recessed studs are recessed. - SylvainLS (46)
[...] *facepalm* I see it now: I wrongly understood the stud was deeper, not also lower, so I saw what I wanted to see. Too many lines for my feeble mind :D The last “two-halves” [...]
(67 months ago, Oct 29, 2018, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Some recessed studs are recessed. - SylvainLS (46)
[...] The problem with your photo is it’s just lines you drew. Not easy to see for oneself. Try a close-up of both studs from an angle so we can see how deep they are? If [...]
(67 months ago, Oct 29, 2018, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Where to find new parts for this year? - SylvainLS (46)
[...] Open the Catalogue’s main page ( (URL) ), and scroll down a little to see “What’s New.” For parts: (URL)
(67 months ago, Oct 27, 2018, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: New Catalog Roadmap - SylvainLS (46)
[...] :? I don’t see the “World domination” bullet.
(67 months ago, Oct 26, 2018, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: We have a new Catalog Admin! - SylvainLS (46)
Congrats StormChaser! In Catalog, Rainey writes: [...] October, 23rd 2018, a single player won $1,537,000,000 in the Mega Millions lotery. October, 25th 2018, StormChaser is [...]
(67 months ago, Oct 26, 2018, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 6927-1 - SylvainLS (46)
[...] I don’t know about the LG one but I can vouch for the Yellow one.
(68 months ago, Oct 21, 2018, to Inventories Requests)
View Thread Re: Dimensions vs studs vs CM vs MM - SylvainLS (46)
[...] Something must be lost in translation: You: There are inconsistencies and confusion.   Yorbrick: System studs and Duplo studs differ.     Me: There are other problems [...]
(68 months ago, Oct 15, 2018, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Dimensions vs studs vs CM vs MM - SylvainLS (46)
[...] Your (personal and group) work on the inventories is highly appreciated. You can verify I have already contributed several times when I could but for me to contribute [...]
(68 months ago, Oct 15, 2018, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Dimensions vs studs vs CM vs MM - SylvainLS (46)
[...] My point exactly: WE know that but the website (catalogue, IC info…) is obscure, confusing, and inconsistent.
(68 months ago, Oct 15, 2018, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Dimensions vs studs vs CM vs MM - SylvainLS (46)
[...] There are two other big problems: 1. The dimensions aren’t given in “studs,” there are given in “studs x studs x brick-height.” 2. Dimensions in studs are “width x depth [...]
(68 months ago, Oct 15, 2018, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Block buyers with a different country email p - SylvainLS (46)
[...] People move. Either for years or only months or even weeks. And the Internet has no frontier. Will you force buyers to open a new e-mail account in the country they [...]
(68 months ago, Oct 12, 2018, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Need help to determine gray color - SylvainLS (46)
[...] No, it’s not Very Light Gray, nor Very LBG, because very few parts were made with these colours: (URL) (URL) IMHO, it’s just a light batch of LBG: not enough dye in the [...]
(68 months ago, Oct 12, 2018, to Colors)
View Thread Re: technic pins - SylvainLS (46)
[...] Ah, yes, BL’s catalogue measure them in “pins.” That is, “full” pins are: (Part 2780) (Part 3673) They are 2 studs-long (= 2L). (1L = 1 stud = the width of [...]
(68 months ago, Oct 7, 2018, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Correct yellow for old hands - SylvainLS (46)
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(68 months ago, Oct 7, 2018, to Colors)
View Thread Re: What about meeting the Buyers? - SylvainLS (46)
[...] Nah, it’s only second hand knowledge :D What it shows though is I think “dirty” otherwise I’d have referred to spy stuff, like 1940’s BBC’s “Les Français parlent aux [...]
(68 months ago, Oct 6, 2018, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: What about meeting the Buyers? - SylvainLS (46)
[...] Looks like the “special ads” section in some 1980’s newspaper :D
(68 months ago, Oct 6, 2018, to Suggestions)

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