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lego·LEGObyTreczoks

Opinion on MOC design

I'm designing a new MOC for my NeoClassic Space Moonbase: A tracked dumper like the ones from https://www.ntdh.co.uk/ which I've seen at the Whitchurch channel breach, but, of course, "spacified" with a blue cabin and engine cabinet.

Now I'm not the LEGO technic guy, and for the tread assembly, I've found the piece 32272 (Technic, Liftarm, Modified Bent Thick 1 x 9 (7 - 3)), which would make a for me perfect spacing to place the outermost gears. Sadly, this piece has axle holes instead of pin holes at the ends. So I could make a plain show piece where the tracks can't move as the axle with the gear can't turn.

So, what is your opinion: Is a static model sitting on a display OK, or should I find ways to make the tread "spin", even though it will never move?

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Lego Unveils ‘The X-Files’ 1,478-Piece Set Featuring Mulder and Scully Minifigures

“The X-Files” Lego set includes a detailed replica of FBI Agent Fox Mulder’s office, along with a forest clearing scene and a hovering UFO. Minifigures include Fox Mulder, Dana Scully, Walter Skinner, Mr. X, Alex Krycek, Carl Busch, The Flukeman and a grey alien.

Gillian Anderson participated in a promo film featuring a nod to Scully as she embarks on an investigation that leads her to the Lego set. Watch below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhHKsgH39XI

Lego Insiders Early Access members will get first crack at purchasing the set (retail price $199.99) starting Aug. 1; the set will then be available to the general public starting Aug. 4. For those who purchase the set between Aug. 1 and Aug. 10, Lego will also include “‘The X-Files’: Scully’s Lab” as a bonus gift while supplies last.

Lego Unveils ‘The X-Files’ 1,478-Piece Set Featuring Mulder and Scully Minifigureshttps://variety.com/2026/tv/news/lego-the-x-files-set-mulder-scully-minifigures-1236816853/Open linkView original on adultswim.fan
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lego·LEGObysqu1ddos

Petunia Prime - The Dreameater

Video: https://imgur.com/a/nJ7LRgK

She has spawned from the depths of the nightmare.
The bloom is the oncoming storm that will consume
She manifests in the ether, towering over helpless victims.
The canopy of serene floral essence starts to sprout horror
A creature peers over and starts capturing the exposed souls.
Petunia Prime slowly inches closer to her prey.
Her offspring have bound the victims to the nightmare
They cannot escape as the bloom starts to envelope them.
The Dreameater feasts and spawns the next affliction for another night.

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lego·LEGObysqu1ddos

The Crimson Reliquary of the Hollow God

Everything, unless stated are all my own idea. I have had a handful of people ask if the build represents anything already existing. I inform them that I post my madness and it all comes from my twisted brain.

Video and more pictures: https://imgur.com/a/nzsVRdf
First version of the build: https://imgur.com/a/YQfp5TT

Before the skies of Rechidna Prime were blackened by industry and war, there existed a being known only as the Hollow God.
Whether it was a deity, an ancient machine, or something far older, none could say. The Gorath discovered its remains buried beneath the planet’s crust.
It was a colossal skeletal entity.
Their heart still pulsed despite the long since decayed body.
Divinity is what the Gorath collective viewed this phenomenon as.
A cathedral was erected, encasing the dormant beating heart.
The build consisted of bone-like alloys and living machinery.
The red crystals distilled synthetic blood and neural essence.
Embedded throughout the structure to pacify the faint pulses echoing the halls.
The Crimson Reliquary of the Hollow God was established.
With the delusional truths and whispers of limitless knowledge, scholars, and priests sought out an audience with this entity.
Some who entered the structure survived and others perished.
The creature was feeding.
The Gorath for centuries were blinded by the awful truth.
Every desperate plea for salvation nourished the remnants of its consciousness. The crimson crystals lining the reliquary were not holy relics, but vessels. Storing fragments of stolen souls siphoned from those who entered its halls.
As the Gorath rebellion consumed their civilization and the machines turned upon their creators, the reliquary endured. The priests perished, the empire crumbled, and entire worlds were forgotten.
Yet the Hollow God remained.
The Hollow God isn’t dreaming of the universe.
The universe is dreaming of the Hollow God.

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lego·LEGObyPipster

My handmade brick separator holster

I hope this isn't against any rules but I have to preface this by saying that this was a little non-lego (but lego-adjacent) project I was working on for a friend's birthday present. He is really, really into lego, and whilst I do enjoy building the odd set, I'm not really into it as a hobby per-se, so something lego related seemed obvious.

I was thinking what to get him and it is no use buying him a set because he either already has it or doesn't want it...

So I decided to use my own hobby and skills to make him something, and then I got an idea in my head that I just couldn't shake - the idea of a proper little leather tool pouch, with a belt loop, for a brick separator just seemed like such a perfectly silly idea...

So I went about taking measurements of the only separator I could find, utilised CAD (cardboard aided design) to make little mockups in paper to work out dimensions then constructed a proof-of-concept piece to check for fit etc. This version (the red one in the below pictures) has no belt loop and only a simple hole punched in the top to work as a keyring.

So when designing the final version I made some changes, I of course added the belt loop with two rivets but also elongated the top "tab" so that I could fold it over to make a channel for a split ring.

And I'm really happy with the result! I gave this to him today and he is incredibly happy with it and plans to bring it and show it off in a con in Denmark in September. Far from being just silly little project he, and some other people I've shown this to during the initial development, have said that actually this might be weirdly practical... Either way, I had a lot of fun making it and I've made somebody happy so just wanted to share my silly little project.

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