{"id":354,"date":"2009-04-03T13:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/2009\/04\/03\/chrome\/"},"modified":"2019-10-11T21:03:43","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T02:03:43","slug":"chrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/2009\/04\/03\/chrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrome!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1611\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/2009\/04\/03\/chrome\/attachment\/383474\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/383474.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,409\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;14&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D90&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1468776076&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"383474\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/383474-300x192.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/383474.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1611 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/383474-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/383474-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/383474.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>From what I gather, a German AFOL has contracted a company to apply a <a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?sl=auto&amp;tl=en&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.1000steine.de%2F1000steine%2Fforum2%2Fforum_entry.php%3Fid%3D172236\">chrome<\/a> coating to several LEGO pieces. They look beautiful! But I&#8217;m sure the process is not inexpensive to do.<\/p>\n<p>All I can say is, if the cost was more reasonable, I wouldn&#8217;t mind having a few chrome grilled brick.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, it seems that LEGO has nearly doubled to tripled in price of parts in their on-line PaB. Like many other AFOLs, I&#8217;m hoping this a mistake from the increase of parts to the on-line PaB selection. I&#8217;ve seen quotes on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trains-n-town.com\/forum\/viewtopic.php?showtopic=713\">other web-sites<\/a> that a generic train container which normally ran ~$4-5\/container is now up to $13.78.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: The website is no longer active and there seems to be <a href=\"https:\/\/store.bricklink.com\/Chrome_Comrade#\/shop?o={&quot;pg&quot;:1,&quot;itemStatus&quot;:&quot;U&quot;}\">someone on BrickLink<\/a> selling customer chrome bricks.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=brickbuildr\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From what I gather, a German AFOL has contracted a company to apply a chrome coating to several LEGO pieces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,374,227],"tags":[785,786],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lego","category-silly","category-tlg","tag-chrome","tag-price-increase"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/383474.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6YMsl-chrome","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1613,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/1613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}