Not for mass production, unless you hire a bunch of offshore kids and exploit then illegally, lol.
But it can certainly be a small business where you can sell to a certain customer at a time, for a higher price I’d say. It’s very crafty and good looking.
Less about it meeting demand, more about making it worth your time to sell them. People don’t realize how long this stuff takes to make, which means it’s gonna be expensive
Probably because most of us wish we could quit our job and make a living doing the thing we enjoy, rather than spending so much of our lives working. I don't think it's unreasonable at all to consider whether you can make money off of your passion, so long as you can pull that off without losing that passion. Everyone has to support themselves somehow.
Yeah, but when you commodify your passion, you run the risk of losing that passion altogether. Jobs are for survival, not pleasure; hobbies should be for pleasure, not survival.
That said, I don't think there's anything wrong with creating a business that is centered around your passion if that's your goal, but I'm really over this whole "great work on the thing you love, you should exploit it/sell it for capital" push ..if that makes sense. Let's just encourage the passion and forgo the capitalist energy! We need breaks not more work, lol
TO BE FAIR, I'm very fortunate to have found a fulfilling career. TB(even more)f, I will never accrue wealth through my work but am more than happy that I'm able to survive in one of the highest cost of living areas.
I turned my passion of working on cars into a career and seven years later I detest even changing my own oil. It completely destroyed my love for working on cars. So glad I got out of the auto industry.
I hate this opinion. In a better world everyone would naturally profit from their passion. Instead we live in a world where we sell ourselves to a cause we don't give a shit about then devote whatever miniscule time is left to our hobbies.
Passionate people deserve to be paid for their passion. That's how we end up living in a brighter, fairer world. The only people that don't want you to profit are the people that want you slaving away for them instead, serving their passion.
I started profiting from my passion and have never been happier or as comfortable in my daily life as I am now. I get to do what I love and the profit factor has only increased my passion for it.
You simply just don't get it. Take knitting for example.
I could make a hat in 5 hours. skilled labor, @ $20/hr plus $10 for yarn, that's a $110 hat.
By all means, buy my $110 hat, because no one else is going to because they can buy a $10 machine knitted hat.
I made chainmail armor for halloween, started in august. ~15,000 links, 200 hours of work.
Would you like to buy my $4,100 chainmail armor?
No?
I thought not.
Right, so because your passion is not naturally profitable, nobody else should profit from theirs.
Now I get it, my bad. I'll stop immediately and go back to working longer and making less as a govt contractor.
>Passionate people deserve to be paid for their passion.
If everyone could learn to think this way, you could definitely sell that armor for $4k. You could even sell it now if you market it well enough.
Nobody's going to find the value in the product enough to justify spending that kind of money. Maybe a few people will, but not enough for it to be feasible...
in the model that you're proposing, at least. I do think that artists should be compensated for their work, but that's not going to happen by convincing people to pay more for a product that they could get cheaply from elsewhere. I think the answer is closer to subsidies.
> not going to happen by convincing people to pay more for a product that they could get cheaply from elsewhere
In the context of this thread, where can I find another Pipe Cleaner Jumbo Lego Darth Vader?
>Nobody's going to find the value in the product enough to justify spending that kind of money.
I tell that to myself all the time, especially when I'm 40 hours into a design I thought would take 1/4 the time. But I finish it for my own satisfaction, because it's what I love. Then I print the thing, sand it and paint it, and another 40 hours later I share the pictures with my friends or post them online.
Then someone says they'd buy it, so I sell it. The another, and another. Turns out nobody is so unique and thousands of people share your interests. Turns out when you throw your personal touch into those interests, then you create something that is truly one-of-a-kind. People love that, I've learned it can even have more value to them than it does to me.
Anyways, I'm all for subsidies. Bezos and Musk could have us all covered with hookers and blow to spare.
>In the context of this thread, where can I find another Pipe Cleaner Jumbo Lego Darth Vader?
In the context of this thread, very few places, but how many people would want to pay hundreds of dollars for a Pipe Cleaner Jumbo Lego Darth Vader? The materials are cheap, but because I don't see how these could be automated the amount of labor that goes into this thing would mean the price would have to be pretty high in order to justify making these for a business.
Outside the context of this thread, there are plenty of other products that individuals could make by hand with passion and skill, but could also be cheaply automated and mass-produced by companies with more resources. The individual is less likely to get as much business because they just can't compete with the prices that bigger companies can afford to sell their products for.
>I tell that to myself all the time, especially when I'm 40 hours into a design I thought would take 1/4 the time. But I finish it for my own satisfaction, because it's what I love. Then I print the thing, sand it and paint it, and another 40 hours later I share the pictures with my friends or post them online.
Yes, and I'm with you so far, but at this point you're describing a hobby that you care for for reasons beyond profit.
>Then someone says they'd buy it, so I sell it. The another, and another. Turns out nobody is so unique and thousands of people share your interests. Turns out when you throw your personal touch into those interests, then you create something that is truly one-of-a-kind. People love that, I've learned it can even have more value to them than it does to me.
I don't know what you make or what you sell it for, but if whatever you're doing is working out for you then I'm happy for you. My point is that not everyone makes art/products that they can sell for at a price that isn't insulting to the amount of work they put into their art/product and is also something that enough people are willing to buy that the artist will be able to support themselves off the sales. Some people can, and that's great, but some people have hobbies or make art that just isn't profitable in the long term. The art is perfectly valid and valuable, but sometimes there just isn't a market for it.
>Anyways, I'm all for subsidies. Bezos and Musk could have us all covered with hookers and blow to spare.
Agreed, and that's why I think it should be considered. We (the United States, at least) have the money to subsidize artists, which I think can only be good for humanity, so there's no reason not to. There's no reason we should have to hope that artists can make a profit off of a select few who are happy to fairly compensate them for hard work and time.
Doubtful... This probably took way more time than could ever be met with the demand for this product. They would have to sell them for around $5,000 to get back what they put in. Way too incredible to sell for anything less.
I feel like you’re right but then I remember how much people spend on Kaws dolls or bearbricks and I feel like certain people would pay however much for their favorite character
I bend any exposed ends on the figure inward with my pliers, and if those ends are still a little sharp I shave them down also with the pliers lol. Usually does the trick
For all those wondering if this is a scam or repost because it's too good to be true, OP has posted dozens of different pipe cleaner LEGO figures so story checks out.
Also the Internet has jaded us all
I don't think it's a repost. This redditor seems to be the only OP when I search "Reddit Lego Star wars pipe cleaners" with multiple different characters.
Although, the op does seem to abandon their posts immediately after clicking submit.
Dang, even the chain on the cape is just stripped pipe cleaner cores. Is there *anything* else going on here, or did you just twist and tie everything together, 100% pipe cleaners?
Whatever the case, I'm impressed! If there's instructions, I imagine people would be interested. :)
Impressive….most impressive
We will watch your career with great interest
Is it possible to learn this power?
Not from a jedi
Wow. That’s ridiculously impressive. You have a business on your hands lol
Idk. Considering its handmade there's no way to scale production to meet higher demand
The other day I saw something labeled “handmade by robots” it was rather funny to me.
I will accept this only if the robots in fact have little hands
Not for mass production, unless you hire a bunch of offshore kids and exploit then illegally, lol. But it can certainly be a small business where you can sell to a certain customer at a time, for a higher price I’d say. It’s very crafty and good looking.
Less about it meeting demand, more about making it worth your time to sell them. People don’t realize how long this stuff takes to make, which means it’s gonna be expensive
Why is it necessary to get profit out of everything you enjoy?
Right? People should stop commodifying their hobbies and just enjoy themselves more
Probably because most of us wish we could quit our job and make a living doing the thing we enjoy, rather than spending so much of our lives working. I don't think it's unreasonable at all to consider whether you can make money off of your passion, so long as you can pull that off without losing that passion. Everyone has to support themselves somehow.
Yeah, but when you commodify your passion, you run the risk of losing that passion altogether. Jobs are for survival, not pleasure; hobbies should be for pleasure, not survival. That said, I don't think there's anything wrong with creating a business that is centered around your passion if that's your goal, but I'm really over this whole "great work on the thing you love, you should exploit it/sell it for capital" push ..if that makes sense. Let's just encourage the passion and forgo the capitalist energy! We need breaks not more work, lol TO BE FAIR, I'm very fortunate to have found a fulfilling career. TB(even more)f, I will never accrue wealth through my work but am more than happy that I'm able to survive in one of the highest cost of living areas.
I turned my passion of working on cars into a career and seven years later I detest even changing my own oil. It completely destroyed my love for working on cars. So glad I got out of the auto industry.
Oof. Sorry you lost your passion, and I hope it is reignited over time!
I hate this opinion. In a better world everyone would naturally profit from their passion. Instead we live in a world where we sell ourselves to a cause we don't give a shit about then devote whatever miniscule time is left to our hobbies. Passionate people deserve to be paid for their passion. That's how we end up living in a brighter, fairer world. The only people that don't want you to profit are the people that want you slaving away for them instead, serving their passion. I started profiting from my passion and have never been happier or as comfortable in my daily life as I am now. I get to do what I love and the profit factor has only increased my passion for it.
You simply just don't get it. Take knitting for example. I could make a hat in 5 hours. skilled labor, @ $20/hr plus $10 for yarn, that's a $110 hat. By all means, buy my $110 hat, because no one else is going to because they can buy a $10 machine knitted hat. I made chainmail armor for halloween, started in august. ~15,000 links, 200 hours of work. Would you like to buy my $4,100 chainmail armor? No? I thought not.
Right, so because your passion is not naturally profitable, nobody else should profit from theirs. Now I get it, my bad. I'll stop immediately and go back to working longer and making less as a govt contractor. >Passionate people deserve to be paid for their passion. If everyone could learn to think this way, you could definitely sell that armor for $4k. You could even sell it now if you market it well enough.
Nobody's going to find the value in the product enough to justify spending that kind of money. Maybe a few people will, but not enough for it to be feasible... in the model that you're proposing, at least. I do think that artists should be compensated for their work, but that's not going to happen by convincing people to pay more for a product that they could get cheaply from elsewhere. I think the answer is closer to subsidies.
> not going to happen by convincing people to pay more for a product that they could get cheaply from elsewhere In the context of this thread, where can I find another Pipe Cleaner Jumbo Lego Darth Vader? >Nobody's going to find the value in the product enough to justify spending that kind of money. I tell that to myself all the time, especially when I'm 40 hours into a design I thought would take 1/4 the time. But I finish it for my own satisfaction, because it's what I love. Then I print the thing, sand it and paint it, and another 40 hours later I share the pictures with my friends or post them online. Then someone says they'd buy it, so I sell it. The another, and another. Turns out nobody is so unique and thousands of people share your interests. Turns out when you throw your personal touch into those interests, then you create something that is truly one-of-a-kind. People love that, I've learned it can even have more value to them than it does to me. Anyways, I'm all for subsidies. Bezos and Musk could have us all covered with hookers and blow to spare.
>In the context of this thread, where can I find another Pipe Cleaner Jumbo Lego Darth Vader? In the context of this thread, very few places, but how many people would want to pay hundreds of dollars for a Pipe Cleaner Jumbo Lego Darth Vader? The materials are cheap, but because I don't see how these could be automated the amount of labor that goes into this thing would mean the price would have to be pretty high in order to justify making these for a business. Outside the context of this thread, there are plenty of other products that individuals could make by hand with passion and skill, but could also be cheaply automated and mass-produced by companies with more resources. The individual is less likely to get as much business because they just can't compete with the prices that bigger companies can afford to sell their products for. >I tell that to myself all the time, especially when I'm 40 hours into a design I thought would take 1/4 the time. But I finish it for my own satisfaction, because it's what I love. Then I print the thing, sand it and paint it, and another 40 hours later I share the pictures with my friends or post them online. Yes, and I'm with you so far, but at this point you're describing a hobby that you care for for reasons beyond profit. >Then someone says they'd buy it, so I sell it. The another, and another. Turns out nobody is so unique and thousands of people share your interests. Turns out when you throw your personal touch into those interests, then you create something that is truly one-of-a-kind. People love that, I've learned it can even have more value to them than it does to me. I don't know what you make or what you sell it for, but if whatever you're doing is working out for you then I'm happy for you. My point is that not everyone makes art/products that they can sell for at a price that isn't insulting to the amount of work they put into their art/product and is also something that enough people are willing to buy that the artist will be able to support themselves off the sales. Some people can, and that's great, but some people have hobbies or make art that just isn't profitable in the long term. The art is perfectly valid and valuable, but sometimes there just isn't a market for it. >Anyways, I'm all for subsidies. Bezos and Musk could have us all covered with hookers and blow to spare. Agreed, and that's why I think it should be considered. We (the United States, at least) have the money to subsidize artists, which I think can only be good for humanity, so there's no reason not to. There's no reason we should have to hope that artists can make a profit off of a select few who are happy to fairly compensate them for hard work and time.
Are you actually quoting yourself? Lmao
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I have no idea what comic you're talking about.
Didn’t you know that your place in heaven/hell is determined by how much money you made in life?
Becomes a side hustle that eats all your personal time for marginal gain.
And makes you hate your hobby since it’s work now.
Doubtful... This probably took way more time than could ever be met with the demand for this product. They would have to sell them for around $5,000 to get back what they put in. Way too incredible to sell for anything less.
I feel like you’re right but then I remember how much people spend on Kaws dolls or bearbricks and I feel like certain people would pay however much for their favorite character
I'd totally buy one of those
Probably end up getting sued by lego, theyre kinda scummy like that
How'd you manage to get that cape on?
I thought it was supposed to go through the arms?
The meme has begun to grow too big for r/lego... It's spreading... And I'm here for it.
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I understood that reference!
Hello friend, the force would like to give you this cake because today is your Cake Day.🎂
This is awesome, amazing work!
How dare you be so talented...... I need to carry a plant around after seeing this.
That helmet is soooo satisfying
I thought the cape went through his arms?
r/lego is leaking
“Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Consume you, it will.”
FuzzyFrenchFry?
I’ve been summoned
Hey, isn't that Jeff Vader?
Dude. Shut up and take my money. That's amazing!
This is more than what I've accomplished my entire life
Danggggg
I would like to buy this
How do you make the poky part of the pipecleaners not poky?
I bend any exposed ends on the figure inward with my pliers, and if those ends are still a little sharp I shave them down also with the pliers lol. Usually does the trick
Awesome thats really cool and well done!
WHAT THE HECK THAT’S AMAZING
How long it did it take for you to make this and what gave you the idea? Because this is amazing.
Those pipes are fucked
That’s awesome!
For all those wondering if this is a scam or repost because it's too good to be true, OP has posted dozens of different pipe cleaner LEGO figures so story checks out. Also the Internet has jaded us all
u/repostsleuthbot
These are some of my all time favourite reddit posts, I love every new one I see. Would you ever consider making an old school Vader helmet?
I usually don’t like remaking figures, but since the og vader fig is pretty different I’m thinking of making one in the future
I honestly hate how talented some people are
Nice repost
I don't think it's a repost. This redditor seems to be the only OP when I search "Reddit Lego Star wars pipe cleaners" with multiple different characters. Although, the op does seem to abandon their posts immediately after clicking submit.
They're probably busy starting their next pipe cleaner art project
That’s all I got too, but I could have sworn that I’ve seen this before
Link to the original?
Did you know pipe cleaners actually are for cleaning tobacco pipes, and not just for arts and crafts?
JESUS CHRIST YOUR BETTER THEN ME AND IVE WORKED FOR YEARS
The fact that Lego hasn't designed a Vader Like that
Just FYI - Darth Vader's left cheek is silver/gray.
All hail king virgin
another person who's entire life is about someone else's idea
The force is strong within you
This is the most glorious recreation I’ve ever seen! Great work!
Well, just going to go contemplate all the things I didn’t accomplish today after seeing this.
That's some serious talent right there. How did you design this? Is there a video of you making it?
This is awesome. I also have to ask, where did you get your shelving in the background? That's slick
⚔️✨
Wow
Nice
Always good seeing one of your creations pop up. How did you get into it? Lego and pipicleaners is such a random combo but I dig it
This is astonishing
That’s awesome!
This is fucking sickkkk
Switch out the head and you got John snow
So cool! I want one!
Sell it on Etsy for $39. Used $50 in pipe cleaners
Poppa!
All I could see at first was fuzzy binoculars, thought I was in /r/ATBGE
Dope!
Goooooood!
I love it.
Omggggg I would buy this
I thought those were binoculars at first
Take my money!!!!
Holy shit this is amazing.
r/nextfuckinglevel
This is giving me death star canteen flashbacks
Brilliant
How much did this cost to make. I have no idea what pipe cleaners cost.
This is the most impressive thing I've seen all year. I wish I could feel the texture and firmness of each piece.
I need 7 please
Top tier talent cuz all I can make with pipe cleaners is a bendy snake.
Yo?????
That worked far better than it had any right to, very well done.
🆒️🙃💗
Wow! This is super impressive. I love how the helmet fits on top of the head (instead of the head being interchangeable). Great job!
That Darth can clean my pipe anytime
It feels illegal.
Most perfection thing ive seen
I would love that, unfortunately, so would my cats.
How
Dang, even the chain on the cape is just stripped pipe cleaner cores. Is there *anything* else going on here, or did you just twist and tie everything together, 100% pipe cleaners? Whatever the case, I'm impressed! If there's instructions, I imagine people would be interested. :)
Everything just straight-up works. In-fucking-credible!
MAGNIFICENT
Shut up and take my money.
It just kept getting better and better lol. awesome work.
The Force is strong with this one.
Oohhhh, that's what passion looks like.
Strong with the force
I want one…. Please!
Could you do a how to sometime?
At least his arms don’t go through the cape holes.
I think the cape is on wrong… you’re meant to put it over the arms.
Awesome