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Post by unreg on Nov 22, 2021 17:08:36 GMT -5
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Post by gumbo on Nov 23, 2021 3:32:01 GMT -5
NUP...they blew it.... ....no football jackplate, it's not a Strat....
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Post by unreg on Nov 23, 2021 14:13:04 GMT -5
I’m under the impression that you could adjust the jackplate however you wanted; it’s built with LEGOs after-all. 🙂 EDIT: gumbo, how did you see the jackplate?! Maybe some 360° web rotation you calmly added to fender’s site?
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Post by newey on Nov 23, 2021 14:44:43 GMT -5
how did you see the jackplate?! Maybe some 360° web rotation you calmly added to fender’s site? The jackplate is on the front. He didn't see it because it isn't there. Although there seems to be some unidentifiable gray thingy hanging from the tremolo, can't tell what that is supposed to be. It also appears to lack buttons for the tuners. And it appears to have 3 mini-humbuckers instead of Strat SCs. But I'm particularly disappointed that the only color choices are red or black. What, no Seafoam Green? No Daphne Blue? No Coral? And, that red color isn't Fiesta Red . . . However, the Princeton Reverb does come with an appropriate two-button footswitch, and some sort of mint-green effects pedal is also apparently included, as is the guitar stand. And you won't have to put an old tube sock on the rubber parts of the stand to keep the Nitro finish from sticking . . .
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Post by unreg on Nov 23, 2021 15:30:07 GMT -5
how did you see the jackplate?! Maybe some 360° web rotation you calmly added to fender’s site? The jackplate is on the front. He didn't see it because it isn't there. Evidently owning only 1 guitar, with the jack plate on its side, is detrimental. 😔🙂 (EDIT: Thank you newey! 😊) Agreed. Maybe they should increase to 1574 pieces… then they sell more to all the collectors who are interested in new lego colors. 😀 Maybe back of box:
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Post by Yogi B on Nov 23, 2021 16:36:57 GMT -5
how did you see the jackplate?! Maybe some 360° web rotation you calmly added to fender’s site? The jackplate is on the front. He didn't see it because it isn't there. Although there seems to be some unidentifiable gray thingy hanging from the tremolo, can't tell what that is supposed to be. That *is* the jackplate, or as you say "is supposed to be". At that scale it would be difficult to represent it better, but I agree the placement is unfortunate. They are present, just hidden behind the headstock — LEGO's choice of viewpoint is sometimes very weird. Below is a closeup of the headstock at a better angle (from a collection of promo shots, lifted from Brickset) where the tuning keys are clearly visible: They're 1×4 tiles, thus have square corners, but do have stickers of single coils applied to them. It would probably look better if the single coils were black, to contrast better with the white scratchplate and 'hide' the square corners — however black pickups isn't part of the "classic Strat" recipe. The original LEGO Ideas concept that this set is based upon used multiple pieces for the pickups thus could have rounded edges, but also meant it could not have the slanted bridge pickup. That brings me to the most disappointing aspect to me: the square neck profile. The Ideas concept managed to have a somewhat rounded neck, although I can't quite see how: the plates that make the fretboard facing with the studs towards the headstock, whereas the neck back would have the studs towards the back of the neck (if it were to have any studs that is). That being said what they've achieved is still impressive — there's a reason the acronym "studs on bottom" is SOB (or more generally, "studs not on top" is SNOT.) That's just an excuse for Fender to bring out a limited edition LEGO-brick-red Strat! That's a tool, a brick separator, not part of the model. EDIT: gumbo, how did you see the jackplate?! Maybe some 360° web rotation you calmly added to fender’s site? There is 360° rotation available on Mecabricks, where someone has built the model (there's a few cheats to compensate for a couple of parts missing from the brick palette, but it's 99% accurate). And you won't have to put an old tube sock on the rubber parts of the stand to keep the Nitro finish from sticking . . . Speaking of tubes, but the other sort — valves — the most impressive details to me are the internals of the amp, most of which will be hidden from view once fully assembled: Also, for the curious, here's a PDF of the assembly instructions.
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Post by cynical1 on Nov 23, 2021 17:50:30 GMT -5
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Post by newey on Nov 23, 2021 19:24:21 GMT -5
Yogi, you are obviously more attuned to the world of Lego™ than I. When I got a set as a kid, I thought it was cool that it had clear blocks for windows . . .
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Post by unreg on Nov 23, 2021 23:41:19 GMT -5
EDIT: gumbo, how did you see the jackplate?! Maybe some 360° web rotation you calmly added to fender’s site? There is 360° rotation available on Mecabricks, where someone has built the model (there's a few cheats to compensate for a couple of parts missing from the brick palette, but it's 99% accurate). Thank you Yogi B! 😀 That 360° web rotation is insane… they must have some program that builds a 3D lego model from photos, I guess. The 3D model was too shiny (no shadows) to be real, IMO. The Fender logo is missing from the amp. Or did that vintage amp actually just come with a white rectangle? —- Maybe Fender created their logo late… ? 🤪 EDIT: Well, it look like this photo has Fender, in black, written on the white rectangle. So, either all of that detail is too much for the 360° rotatable model download OR, my phone is being anti-logo weird… it has 99% accuracy though, so it must be my phone.
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Post by reTrEaD on Nov 24, 2021 17:43:16 GMT -5
Before Thanksgiving? Just ... no!
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Post by unreg on Nov 25, 2021 1:11:13 GMT -5
Before Thanksgiving? Just ... no! lol 😂… that would have been my, silent, reaction too. But, the world customarily refrains from gift giving on Thanksgiving… and my aunt asked for our Christmas list early this year, so Christmas was on my mind…
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Post by unreg on Nov 25, 2021 1:58:29 GMT -5
EDIT: Well, it look like this photo has Fender, in black, written on the white rectangle. So, either all of that detail is too much for the 360° rotatable model download OR, my phone is being anti-logo weird… it has 99% accuracy though, so it must be my phone. I bet that OR statement evaluates to FALSE. Perhaps the small Fender logo is impossible to create with black legos, so they provide a Fender logo sticker; the guy just didn’t apply that sticker to his LEGO Fender amp? 🙂
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Post by newey on Nov 25, 2021 7:11:23 GMT -5
Looks like it would be about equally hard to build the Lego Princeton Reverb as it would be to build a Mojotone kit of a real one. . . .
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Post by unreg on Nov 27, 2021 0:46:42 GMT -5
So, either all of that detail is too much for the 360° rotatable model download OR, my phone is being anti-logo weird… it has 99% accuracy though, so it must be my phone. I bet that OR statement evaluates to FALSE. I made a mistake; you don’t understand that sentence. Explanation follows… (True is 1; False is 0; OR is +) OR statements in Computer Science (CS) always evaluate as follows: 1+1=1 1+0=1 0+1=1 0+0=0 Therefore, if, inside my OR, “All that detail is to much for the … download” is false, and “my phone is being anti-logo weird” is false, then: false OR false would evaluate to false. So, I was just saying, in my quote, that I believe that all my assumptions were false. (That’s a bit wordy to say; I forgot this crowd, for the most part, doesn’t have a CS background; I’m sorry. 😔 Obviously, the CS OR statement logic above does make perfect sense; though, the logic seems invisible, to me at least, until it has been learned.)
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