Prometheus|ANJ
May 4th, 2006, 04:16 PM
Woo! It's like a dream come true. It seemed like a such an obvious thing to do and now they have! Apparently you can now design virtual LEGO models and then have a robot in the LEGO factory collect the parts for you. I wonder if they have older and rarer lego parts. Have anyone tried this thing?
Edit: Having surfed around a bit, I've gathered the following insights: They don't actually pick individual parts for you, but little bags of parts, so you might get (have to pay for) extra parts you don't need for the model. However, the price isn't that bad considering it's 'on-demand'. Some 250 parts might cost 20usd (15euro), but the majority of those will be extras. Not all parts are available, just the classic parts and some of the new stuff, no bionicle joints or mini-figs yet.
I hope awesome builders like Zizy and Nakany uses this function so I can buy their wicked mechas!
Edit: This seems to be the main page: http://www.lego.com/eng/factory/default.asp
Link: http://www.lego.com/eng/factory/design/ldd.asp
Link: http://www.lego.com/eng/create/digitaldesigner/
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I didn't know about this until just this very minute. I spent a bit of money buying random kits just to get parts for my TA Kbot. It's still WIP cuz I don't have all the parts I need yet, like dark gray round things instead of the light biege ones. I'm also experimenting with alternative solutions. Articulation works though, I'm using Bionicle ball-joints (there's actually some good simple ones). Small pics cuz it was dark and exposure got really bad and fuzzy.
http://itchstudios.com/psg/ta/lego_thud.jpg
Edit: Having surfed around a bit, I've gathered the following insights: They don't actually pick individual parts for you, but little bags of parts, so you might get (have to pay for) extra parts you don't need for the model. However, the price isn't that bad considering it's 'on-demand'. Some 250 parts might cost 20usd (15euro), but the majority of those will be extras. Not all parts are available, just the classic parts and some of the new stuff, no bionicle joints or mini-figs yet.
I hope awesome builders like Zizy and Nakany uses this function so I can buy their wicked mechas!
Edit: This seems to be the main page: http://www.lego.com/eng/factory/default.asp
Link: http://www.lego.com/eng/factory/design/ldd.asp
Link: http://www.lego.com/eng/create/digitaldesigner/
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I didn't know about this until just this very minute. I spent a bit of money buying random kits just to get parts for my TA Kbot. It's still WIP cuz I don't have all the parts I need yet, like dark gray round things instead of the light biege ones. I'm also experimenting with alternative solutions. Articulation works though, I'm using Bionicle ball-joints (there's actually some good simple ones). Small pics cuz it was dark and exposure got really bad and fuzzy.
http://itchstudios.com/psg/ta/lego_thud.jpg