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What are the essential resources for learning the fundamentals of LEGO building?
After years of buying and building LEGO sets, my six-year-old son is tearing through the first level of the Master Builder Academy. He's fascinated by micro-building, and generally seems liberated after learning some of the fundamentals of LEGO…
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How to remove printed decoration
This is probably heresy, but how can I remove the printed decoration on a brick? I managed to buy a large number of bricks with an eye decoration cheap and found that rubbing a long time with isopropanol removed the decoration but also scratched the…
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How could I add fire-like lighting to Rivendell?
I'd love to add lights to the Rivendell set to improve the look of the displayed model in low light.
Ideally, the lights would provide a flame-like effect where appropriate.
What is the best way to do this using official LEGO parts?
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I bought a box of used LEGO and found these 4 bags in it
No pieces stand out. I see just one minifigure with a red body without anything indicating what it is. Any idea what set it belongs to?
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How tall is a Lego train on a track?
I cannot currently access any Lego trains, and the product range offered in the trains category in these years is rather ... disheartening. Nonetheless, I do not rule out the possibility that things might look brighter again in the years to come, in…
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Will Lego repair a bad motor?
I have the Electric Technic Micromotor:
http://www.peeron.com/inv/sets/5119-1
and it simply won't come on. I seem to recall at some point someone telling me a long time ago, that if you sent parts to Lego, they'd repair them. Do they have a warranty…
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How to sort complete sets from box of unsorted LEGO
My son has thousands of pieces of LEGO, but he has them all dumped in a box. Is there any way to figure out what sets they went to if I don't remember the names of them?
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How to overcome a roller coaster track gap of a length of 1 or 2?
I'm creating a roller coaster MOC with a looping based on the Creater Expert set #10261. All track pieces have a length of 8 or 16. However due to my looping I have an offset of 6. To reconnect my track with the starting point I therefore have a gap…
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Does TLG own BrickLink?
At the bottom of Bricklink.com appears the following statement:
LEGO® is a trademark of the LEGO Group of companies which does not sponsor, authorize, or endorse this site.
However, according to this press release from 2019 TLG is in the process…
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Stained glass windows on The Throneroom of Cedrica
Can anyone explain how to make the stained glass windows in builds like The Throneroom of Cedrica?
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Have minifig hands ever appeared "on their own" in an official set?
I am curious whether minifig hands have ever appeared "on their own", i.e., not inserted
into minifig arms, in any official set. Or if they have ever been sold separately by TLG,
e.g. in Pick-a-Brick or as a replacement part.
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What's the best way to link two (or more) LEGO Power Functions (PF) train motors together?
Last Christmas I built an extended Emerald Night train to run around the tree. To get it to work I had to add a second Power Functions motor. I tuned both IR receivers to the same frequency and slowly applied power by keeping the IR remote within…
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How accurate is the ultrasound sensor when moving?
Can I use an ultrasound sensor while the Robot is moving, or will it give bad data?
user41
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Is it possible to buy a bulk of 1000s of basic bricks (mostly 2x4)?
Several years ago I remember being able to walk into toy shops and actually shovel lego bricks into a bag and thus buy them in bulk. Unfortunately I can't seem to find stores anymore that offer this service.
Is it possible to buy the basic blocks…
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Multiple Powered Up trains on 1 Bluetooth controller?
My daughter got a Passenger Train for Christmas and I converted one of my old 9v trains to run using the powered up system. Is it possible to run the 2 trains independently or concurrently (preferably independently) on the one remote?
I’ve tried all…
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