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I for one am thankful we are still getting generic pirates in some capacity despite Lego One Piece being out in full force
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I am already forgotten
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I have no space for Legos so I made this to play with them in my spare time.

The little man you see in this picture is what I would do when I was a kid and didn't have a lego man to spare.
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>>11764650
>releases May 1
No, I'm just waiting.
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>>11764685
but what's the point? how are you gonna play with a single character?
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>>11764689
Its a minifig, you don't play with them anyway, you just pose them in cars or mechs
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>>11764689
He can fight Ninjago characters or whatever else, all good. Show Kai who the real master of fire is. Or if one wants to use him as a cosplayer, he can go walk around a city or halloween party.

I know lots of Bionicle fans have Tahu fatigue, but he's my favorite as my first Bionicle. I'm selfishly happy that if/when we get only one Bionicle item we're getting Tahu. I would of course like other Toa, Matoran, whatever else, but if it can only be one, I'm not complaining.
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Remind me, weren't there rumors for an upcoming haunted house part of some sort of "halloween series"? Did I just imagine it?
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>>11764681
I don't get it. You do know lego digital designer is a thing?
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>>11764699
There does seem to be a haunted house coming, but I don't think we really know much of anything about it yet.
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>>11764650
You were NOTHING! A novelty at best. To be seen and forgotten just as quickly. You will adorn shelves for a few months then be shuffled off to bins, cupboards, and drawers once something new comes along. Soon enough you will be sold to second hand stores and stand among others who shined and were forgotten as you pose for hillbillies at flea markets.
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>>11764642
>Pirate ship
Looks very cool. The only set here that I'll definitely buy
>Minas Tirith
Not sure how I feel about the weird scale but it looks good. I'm sure it'll have a ridiculous price tag though.
>Shrek
Why does lego keep making these awful looking brick-built figures? Who is buying these?
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>>11764689
I put minifigures on my lego sets (cut my life into pieces). I like to swap them out every now and again (suffocation no breathing don't give a FUCK if I cut my arm bleeding).
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>>11764729
>Who is buying these?
they're trying to prove they can sell buildable figures without resorting to a dedicated constraction line. If they were smart and still wanted it to be licensed, they'd make Transformer figs in the 20-40 dollar range
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Le GASP! The pug piece is coming in the beach trolly car too!
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Hopperbros... /ourguy/ is back!
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>>11764729
>buildable figures
Yeah it’s weird because by and large what people actually want from licenses are minifigures. There is of course a market for shelf warmer statues. But the purchasers of those things aren’t actually asking for that, they just see it and impulse buy it. When people were clamoring for a shrek license, they were clamoring for shrek minifigures. Yeah in the swamp with the house but that’s just fluff.
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best set eva
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>>11764642
Apparently we get like 3 minifigure sets (atleast 2 vehicles and new avengers tower done in mini modular style) for Doomsday this year with a Doom bust and Herbie brickbuilt figure too. So that's 5 Doomsday sets for 2026. Next year we are getting Doom's castle from Latveria.

One cool thing is that in Secret Wars, Battleworld will have a more medieval look so we might get some badass sets.
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>>11764742
that squirrel is dropping nuts
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>here's your new pirates theme bro
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where do u store spare parts?
i only have kitchen plastic bag
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New Joker minifig exclusive to a new Lego Batman book, coming soon.
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>harry slop
Why does it sell
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>>11764647
Looks nice but at what price? Also I cannot understand how there are 1k pieces in this set. Is it all just tiny lil bits?

I was contemplating joting this one down if its for 40e or something but I'll have to wait a long while before having the kid play with it.
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>>11764784
Why lego does new ver of same set, even if it isnt shit ip
>because it sells
But old set would sell to? How many of you will buy this if you already bought the previous version? Why they dont do another 3in1 set that is different, even a fucking imperial fleet would be more intresting. Meanwhile we get 3in1 castle and 3in1 pirateship every 3 years.
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>>11764791
Beloved children's property (once Lego's target demographic)
Good source of Castle type builds
Long-established license with a good number of invested long term fans
Less sloppy than Slop Wars
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>>11764798
It is simultaneously because they know they usually always want a certain thing on the shelf, but know that the "newness" has worn off, so they retire a set and put an ever-so-slightly-marginally-different version of the same thing out. Its exactly the same reason why they always have an X-Wing, or a Millennium Falcon, etc. out. It is the same damn thing, and people will still buy it anyway. And people are starving for Pirates and Castle, so they'll get whatever crumbs they can.
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>all shillspam
So tiresome
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How much is Minas Tirith going to cost bros? I'm scared...
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holy fuck, that's awful
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>>11764813
didn't the leak already say it's 8k pieces for $650
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>>11764813
$650-$700 price range according to leakers

Not that bad, better than the death star price
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>>11764817
Cumgoblin dobby
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>>11764817
He looks like an assorted collection of dildos.
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>>11764647
The dual little boat alt built is almost like an army builder set for pirates, kinda neat

>>11764724
Nah, bonklefags will seethe about him for years to come
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>>11764823
>master has given dobby a cock!
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>>11764817
Just buy it.
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>>11764839
I...actually might do once it hits the bargain bin.
That ghastly thing looks like as if it might have some meme-potential with the face prints and the flesh-colored parts.
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>>11764843
If you buy two you could combine them into something really disturbing.
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why is creator 3in1 becoming little girl displayslop? We used to get all sorts of neat smaller minifigure scale sets in this theme. Now it seems like the formula for each wave is:
>one or two large minifigure scale sets harkening back to the good old days £100~
>several brick built animals that are overpriced £60~
>at least 3 cheap display sets for little girls £20~ (picrel)

Where are the £20 submarines and swamp boats and shit we used to get? Where are the minifigure scale houses and buildings?
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>>11764859
because you niggers keep buying it
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>>11764873
I don't understand who is buying these sets? I always see them discounted and I'm still not tempted by them. I don't think thing but lego even sells that well. Are there just no straight male lego set designers that want to make cool shit for boys anymore?
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>>11764875
their designers are probably filled with trannies, women, and raging homos. The flower builds aren't bad, but who gives a shit about it after 50 sets of the same bland stuff. Afol cucks love display items. Having a small simple house would force them to connect it to a different setup or god forbid make a moc out of it.
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>>11764875
I'd sooner wager that they're trying to get more girls into legos with the idea of "increasing sales by 50%" but yeah I don't think girls will ever be as into lego as boys.
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>>11764878
lego was going into the right direction with those fuckable dragons from the elves line. Why don't they do those anymore, did girls not like that series
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>>11764877
Hell, their lead designer is a giant flaming homo who pushed the Queer Eye set and probably inserted himself into Friends with that one faggy blond minidoll.
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>>11764879
Please seek help
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>>11764883
weak blood. Somehow the faggots at lego made a good looking dragon, which blows all the modern stiff ninjago ones out of the water and made it very kissable too. You're ngmi
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>>11764889
Oh, I had this one, she was cute. Friends is a pretty good theme, but man do I wish we had Elves instead
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>>11764883
Go back to your homo camp
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Set i ordered from bricklink arrived
but 3-4 of small parts missed and sticker on propeller feels like baby chewd on it
really unsatisfying
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>>11764896
but actual reason this set was
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>>11764898
why do people pretend to like horizon
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>>11764901
PS5 has no games moment
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>>11764875
the flower shit supposedly sells really well. I know someone that has a whole shelf of them.
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>>11764642
>those trains
wow what a disappointment! so we're pretty much stuck with the gimmicky Arctic and Police trains for the next few years before we can even see a new express train.
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>>11764821
>$650-$700
>Not that bad
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It seems I asked at the end of the last thread's life, so I'll ask again here.

I am slowly getting the parts together to make a Conan the Barbarian MOC of the Tower of the Elephant. I'm trying to pick between these two versions of the evil sorcerer Yara I made. Do you guys have preferences?

The one with legs feels a little plain, his beard covers up most of his torso details. the one with skirt piece for robe looks more elaborate, but not as posable. I'm on the fence and figured I'd let my homies here make the choice.

I dig the Queen/Flash reference from last thread, but thats a different dude in a robe haha. I buy/read the Flash Gordon comics published by Madcave right now and those are super fun, it gets a high recommendation.
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>IT'S UP
IT'S UP
>IT'S UP
IT'S UP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIsuQwiK_7E
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>>11764922
I still like the first one… for to hear the lamentations of their women.
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>>11764922
The first one for sure. The dress legpiece gives a figure a lot more volume and presence. It suits him way better, even disregarding the added print detail.
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>>11764896
main build
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This summer's Minecraft wave seems underwhelming.
>A literal rehash of a set, but worse
Why?
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>Just fucking pillars and plates
This gotta be one of the worst caves in Lego minecraft.
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>>11764642
WHY DOES EVERY MODERN CITY SET NEED TO BE FUCKING TEAL
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https://www.aol.com/articles/irvine-pasta-bandit-accused-swapping-123000026.html
what the hell is wrong with starwars fags?
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>>11764642
Hi guys. I’m making a medieval village and am struggling to find a good priest minifigure for my guys. Is there anything you know of and could suggest to me?
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>>11764966
I use the Fright Knights fleur de lis torso and grey legs. If you're going for historical accuracy, maybe one of the Sith robe torsos like Darth Maul would resemble a frock?
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>>11764948
>a man has stolen Star Wars minifigures in Lego City
>deploy the police car
>HEY!
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>>11764817
Blobby
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>>11764793
>Is it all just tiny lil bits?
Modern lego's all like this. I swear when I buy a 500+ pieces set at least 100 of them are 1x1 and 1x2 plates and tiles
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>>11764642
Why are Lego allergic to including actual tracks in their train sets now? Even the powered one.
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>>11764642
i hate how lego refuses to make regular LotR play sets like before. why does it all have to be huge 350-500$ sets?
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>>11764991
Because no one under 25 cares about lotr
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>>11764941
the dragon looks neat
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Picked this up for $35 today.
Fun challenge: find the hidden classic smiley.
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>>11764791
It sells, because not everyone is a tranny and it fills a gap between fantasy and castle that lego refuses to make a theme for. Get out of your discord bubble.
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>>11764998
The set in the box is the soccer field.
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>>11765000

baseplates = soul
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>>11764817
it’s so ugly that it circles back around to being funny
I want to get one and hide it around the house to scare my girlfriend
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>>11764817
The best/worst part is how the curved slopes form a mouth in the thumbnail which makes him look even more retarded.
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>>11764817
why does lego even make sets like this that are clearly going to just sit on shelves and be discounted 50% eventually? Do they still make money even when they get heavily discounted too?
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>>11764998
>>11765000
lucky bastard
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>>11764642
Explain it like I am a filthy casual....how can that pirate ship leak if it's already out? I'm positive I saw it on Amazon.
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Are any of you autistic? I am a tourist, but I am wondering if any of you know of an early 90's or very late 80's lego set that Robin Hood/Medieval themed. Otherwise is there an archive that lets you search releases by year?
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>>11765035
I’m autistic as fuck.
Probably this. 6077.
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>>11765035
>>11765043
Or this 6071.
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>>11765035
Could be any Forestmen set really
https://www.bricklink.com/catalogList.asp?catType=S&catString=9.288
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>>11764944
I just want a keychain of those little dried/happy ghasts, theyre cute
>>11765000
I brought this shark sub to school when I was a kid and some bitch stole it I will never be not mad
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>>11765052
Take the streetsharkanon pill.
Buy two. Go to the reunion. Smash one over her fucking head.
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>>11765033
it retired at the end of 2025
guess it sold alright so now they're doing a worse version with less pieces
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>>11765082
Its cheaper, r-right? I have the old one
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>>11764786
I bought some of those bins for nuts n bolts back when they were like $20 each. They skyrocket during covid to $80. Pain.
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splurged on displayslop
[spoiler]the bonsai is shit despite being the most sold set or whatever i got baited by the piece count being inflated by 200 "dirt" pieces and 100 fucking pink frogs[/spoiler]
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>>11765088
Probably not, but these 3 in 1 sets often go on a huge discount.
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>>11765082
>>11765088
>>11765104
200 less pieces and I guarantee at least £10 - £20 more expensive.
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>>11765101
back to led dit please, people like you are the reason lego is turning to shit for the real fans.
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>>11765082
>New set
>Half the minifigures are female
I'm so tired.
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>>11765046
>2499
why? What is so special about these sets? I had a few of the forestmen sets as a kid just never the biggest one that had a baseplate.
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>>11765113
it's sealed and collector autism drive up the prices
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who asked for this? If it was a yellow naboo N-1 I'd be interested, no one wants this mandalorian shit

At least the new cockpit piece can be used to make a yellow N-1 I guess but fuck paying $240 for that shit.
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forgot my image damn, my point stands
Ugly as hell blob of grey bullshit.
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>>11765043
>Otherwise is there an archive that lets you search releases by year?

I like Brickset for this since the pictures are better quality than Bricklink. Just go to sets > browse > theme: castle > subtheme: forestmen and you'll likely find what you're looking for.
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>>11765116
>>11765119
it's $250 even
honestly i like the look but 1800 pieces for that price is insane, there's even stickers
price was 100% set with the darksaber gwp in mind
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>>11765112
It’s so your can add your old pirates and have some good old fashioned historically accurate rapes.
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>>11765116
banking on the movie, too bad nobody told them normalfags have moved on
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>>11765123
I'd love to MOC an N-1 hope that windscreen isn't going to cost too much on bricklink
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>>11765119
they blew the opportunity for the mechanic lady to say something fun and cute like "it's an N-1 fighter from Naboo, but I guess in your case we could call it the M-1 for Mando, right? [chuckles]..." and then this ship would be forever known as the M-1.
nope. why can't ships get cool names anymore?

Peli Motto already has the line "Grogu? That's a terrible name, no way I'm calling you that."
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>>11765101
Loved the Great Wave of Kanagawa set. But I say this as a huge weeb who also collects ukiyo-e, so your mileage may vary.
Enjoy your peak displayslop!
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>>11765119
>>11765116
>that fake chrome shit instead of real chrome
Genuinely awful jesus christ, I see that Exo Force spike thing at the back thats somehow still alive and you could peel off the stupid sticker from the cockpit and use that tall half bubble shape for something else less ugly but still jesus christ
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>>11765119
>everyone kind of sour on Star Wars
>let some guy who doesn’t have outright contempt for Star Wars make one live action series
>people think it’s an okay 6/10 when it releases
>milk the ever loving shit out of it to the point where everyone stops caring
>THEN release a movie
Disney provides a lot of unintentional meta entertainment for me
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Hey disturbing the piece I know you fuckers 1000% lurk here talk about the duplo castle from Trhauma 1980 for 1 minute straight in your next video you cretins
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>>11765156
we never knew how good we had it
Real chrome pieces, and we had real gold pieces too back in the day, remember the classic coins that came with all the pirate sets back in the day?
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>>11765156
>>11765165
I'm a huge classic enthusiast and I despise real chrome. It doesn't matter how good it looks when it chips and wears the way it does. Playability > aesthetics
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>>11765166
Don't chew on your pieces then
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>>11765082
Im buying two of this set for sure. I love all three modes and it looks fun to MOC
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>>11765165
Wait what they dont do gold coins anymore!? Man I'm glad my chest survived.
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>>11765166
I played the shit out of my oxygen crystals back in the day and I have plenty that look great
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>>11765116
i fully agree, even the playset was wack and a shelfwarmer and then they release this junk. a yellow naboo starfighter would have sold way more.
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>>11765166
I never had any problems with the chrome coins and the wear on the chrome swords added to the charm imo. Turning them into rare or legendary swords when i played with them as a kid.
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>>11765225
Mainly because it’s yellow, and not bley as a very starting point
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>>11765107
I do miss those days. I'm a huge dork for vehicles at minifig scale. It took some effort a while back but I managed to get the Blue Power Jet. Manuals were in bad condition and the box was worse, but the pieces were all there. I even found some nice parts to make a pair of flight uniforms for it. This is the torso I used.
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>>11765119
Taking a shining and loud spaceship and turning it into a dulled stripped down one is the perfect visual metaphor for disney and lego
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>>11765232
And these were the legs. I don't know where they came from. I asked here ages ago and someone thought they must have been a BAM piece.
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>>11765107
I really liked the single person vehicles these sets put out too, the smaller ones. Like the helicopter drone and the cyber drone. The helicopter was designed to seat a minifig. And the cyber drone I kept in it's second configuration. The main one was nice but it couldn't hold a minifig with a helmet or hair. So this one suited me better. I think growing up with He-Man and Thundercats made me like those single person flying machines much more.
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>>11764997
That will look nice next to the buildable creeper I have
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>>11765107
200 fewer pieces, you mean
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>>11765107
I'm old enough to remember when Creator didn't even have minifigures in their sets
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>>11765259
ok zoomzoom
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Pretty satisfied with how the bridge came out, Next up it’s the tower and gate house,
And build more support beams
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>castle/space/pirates moc
>uses fleshies
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>>11765205
chrome coins got phased out over a decade ago
not sure when exactly, i know pirates 2 still had them but they were gone by the time potc came out
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>>11765259
me too, but your example is still a minifigure scale set.
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>>11765283
Funny story with PotC actually, 4181 Isla De Muerta depicted chrome gold bars in promotional material, including the box, but came with pearl gold ones. Apparently some people complained about this to Lego and actually had chrome gold ones mailed to them.
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>>11765119
>all those stickers
absolutely disgusting
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>>11765290
It's only a $250 set anon, can't expect them to feature all prints in a paultry set like this.

I really do wonder what kind of threshold a set needs to meet to justify prints only.
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>>11765291
Jazz Club was <$250 and all printed
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they still use chrome for lotr ring
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>>11765259
>tfw this entire log cabin build was only 30$ 15 years ago
>meanwhile the cheapest house build nowadays is twice the price despite being the same size
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>>11765259
>>11765259

Creator used to look like that1!?!?
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>>11765290
maybe it's stickers because they knew the yellow looks like garbage so you can just not use them even though it's like that in the show
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>>11765296
They know LotR fans have some standards, unlike SW piggies.
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>>11765298
Name a single house that’s double the price and the same size. The closest analogue I could find on store shelves today is the Unicorn Castle 3-in-1, which is roughly the same price (accounting for inflation), has 10% more pieces, and has three horse figures.
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>>11765399
>They know LotR fans have some standards
LOL. LMAO even
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>>11765414
I mean, outside of the books it's a normalfag series now but like Lucas Jackson had his own dogshit prequel trilogy that was unanimously seen as dogshit. And unlike the prequel trilogy there are no nostalgiafags to pretend it was good even. LotR really has had no major impact on pop culture since the original trilogy of films, none of their attempts at milking it has been syccessful unlike Star Wars.
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>>11765408
Just look on fucking Amazon, this is literally the cheapest house
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>>11765455
>Paying Amazon prices

There's your problem.
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>>11765455
>”same size”
>2.5x the piece count
>an extra pound of bricks
For like 12 bucks more, this isn’t bad at all. Why is it that, any time we do some sort of concrete set-by-set comparison, the inescapable conclusion is that Lego is more affordable today than in any prior decade?
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>>11765480
Two more minifigures as well
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>>11765419
The literal only good thing about the hobbit movies is the lego lineup for it, funny shit
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>>11765455
Amazon is a last resort for me, too many people fuck with shit then return it and it goes right back in circulation
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>>11765455
I mentioned amazon because most of the time the prices are MSRP, plus (as it turns out) that House set is out of stock on the lego site.
>2.5x the piece count
a piece count artificially inflated by the bajillion of tiny pieces that are only there to justify the price
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>>11765107
>>11765238
I think they were going toward something akin to those smaller sets with these two in Dreamzzz, down to the accompanying minifig
Also, inb4 "10 instructions online only", think of it as a return to the older Make and Create which came with instructionless inspiration builds.
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>>11765499
>tiny piece inflation
It’s also 30% more massive. That’s why I specifically included the weight comparison you dumb motherfucker. So you get an extra pound of bricks (about 500 additional pieces), for about $15 more. This isn’t an unfavourable comparison however you look at it.
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>>11765505
That Z-Blob set is amazing. Love the main lil robot.
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>still no knight with the classic cross spider as their insignia
It’s so simple and good of an idea but yet Lego refuses, but why?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr_Trlnskhc
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>Lego is cheaper if you use inflation!
>Lego gives you more pieces!!
>Its just much better than it used to be!!!

Sorry buds but you can't do shit with 100 1x1 elements. You can't build shit with. You can't make a building or a car. No, it's a ton of filler that would only be used for decorating or adding texture to a larger build. I hate that almost all new sets have 30 extra steps to make a shape that should only need 4 or 5 pieces. Sometimes it feels like it's for build stability, but sometimes it doesn't make the build strong at all. Not to mention a lot of new elements have come out that are super specific like vehicle parts. More worsterser than the worst is that the plastic is thinner/lighter/less solid than it used to be.
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>>11765576
>cheaper if you use inflation
Can you give me a single reason we ought not adjust for inflation or are you just looking for any means of clinging to this completely untenable, “only six figure yuppie gigachads can afford lego now!” talking point?
Everything else is totally subjective. I personally like the intricate details and finer forms of more modern sets, but I understand there’s a lot of charm to the older, blockier builds. I’m not interested in fighting you on matters of opinion. But it remains a matter of fact that Lego is not “twice as expensive for the same thing,” today, at least not looking at the examples you yourself provided.
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>>11765589
Back then less was more. We are getting charged the same price for worse sets. You want an example? The Batman Batmobile old set vs new set. Old one comes with a villain, new one doesn't. Sure, the new one visually looks more intricate and detailed, yet it doesn't come with any big blue fire pieces. There are tons of pieces under the build exterior that serve no prupose. This isn't new tho, it's been getting worse and worse, as someone who back into Lego like 12 years ago. That's twelve years of improvement for you but 12 years regression for me. And it's not just the builds. The packaging is getting worse. Even the paper bags feel half assed AND something that should have been done 20 years ago. The company is getting bigger. They are producing more and more sets in manufacturing, meaning they have to rush this shit out now to meet demand. They raised the prices the same year they reported their highest revenue/profit ever, and this was without covid or an oil shortage or inflation to fuck with supply and demand. I still buy Lego and enjoy building sets and moccing but I'm not going to pretend that the current state of Lego is perfect. Like, if they refuse to make smaller more affordable, less intricate, more imaginative sets for kids, then all they will have is us older customers. If kids only want TikTok and Minecraft, how will Lego survive? Especially since they're so comfortable abandoning their original themes. And I mean REAL original themes, not shit tied to cartoon media that needs to be outsourced by some other company. If licenses fully replace original themes then that puts the company in jeopardy that they are subservient to Disney/Warner/Universal/Nintendo instead of Lego doing whatever they want to do in terms of sets. And in all honesty it feels like they cannot do what they want anymore. People used to complain about it in the past but now I see how licensed sets are a drag on the toy.
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>>11765629
tl;dr but I spiritually intuit that he's right
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caring about minifigs is so cringe
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>>11765414
>the Rohan toon movie flopped
>rings of power flopped
>Hobbit trilogy largely despised, no Sonic Cycle "ackshully it was good" apologism
LotR fans have far, far higher standards than Slop Wars piggies, objectively. Their biggest sin is consooming the MtG set with Niggagorn- admittedly a black mark but not nearly the humiliation ritual Luke has been through.
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>>11765639
>Says this yet will only buy yellow fig sets and replaces all the new heads with classic smileys
Curious?
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Not seen many custom podracer mocs, or good weird vehicles
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>>11765656
Mousecucks don't MOC, they armybuild
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>>11765663
>He doesn't army build micro MOCs of star ships and swoosh them and destroy them
Lol. LMAO.
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>>11765589
I actually think the reasoning behind people talking about Lego being more expensive these days are more abstract than literal comparison of similarly priced sets with regards to inflation, and things like piece count.

For starters, Lego has such an overwhelming number of IPs now, and far more sets within those IPs than they ever used to, and they tend to even release more sets in every "wave" throughout the year.

Even if you hate Star Wars, in the early years, there were some years where they'd only release maybe 10 sets. Now, they practically release 10 sets at a time, like a half a dozen times a year (or more.)

But I think one of the biggest things that no one really accounts for is this: Regardless of inflation, Lego just almost never released sets more than $100 in the 80s and 90s. Outside of maybe some of the big monorails and stuff with sounds and electronics, it just feels like it never happened. Even the biggest "flagship" set of any given theme was in the $80-$100 range. The biggest pirate ship. The biggest Castle. The biggest Star ship or space base. They were all within that range. It also felt like Lego really focused on many very small sets. like most themes legitimately felt like half the sets were sub $15 or so.

Now it feels like the entry level to many themes is $100. Star Wars on its own has like 5 sets on shelves right now that are in the $500-$1000 range, and probably as many more that are in the $250-$500 range.
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I think what puts me off from buying a dreamzzz set are the minifigs
They're too schizo and adhd and just don't fit in with legos desu
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>>11765116
>>11765119
Supposedly lego secretly hates the prequel era.
Also it's literally an N1 but in grey with PC mods, I don't give a single shit about modern disney wars nor mando shit but I won't mindlessly hate on a cool ship especially if it's literally just a color-swap of an older beloved prequel ship.
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>>11765127
>they blew the opportunity for the mechanic lady to say something fun and cute like "it's an N-1 fighter from Naboo, but I guess in your case we could call it the M-1 for Mando, right? [chuckles]..." and then this ship would be forever known as the M-1
You're already a better writer than the entire current star wars team combined. They have no creativity whatsoever, it's the exact reason why the mando N-1 even exists to begin with, if the shameless tatooine "podracing" scene didn't already tip you off.
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>>11765676
I just don't care for oversized ucs. They could have just made it slightly smaller and have it be a perfect minifig scale. Like why does it need to be this specific size? It's just arbitary shit lego decided on
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>>11765259
For me, nothing will ever top pic-related.
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>>11765678
>Like why does it need to be this specific size?
I imaging making it smaller would make it lose out on some of the shaping and details. I agree though, would have preferred a smaller one. The playset exists but it looks so horrendously bad I legit did not even realize it was supposed to be an N1 at first.
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>>11765676
>I don't give a single shit about modern disney wars nor mando shit but I will happily slurp the slop! i-it's BASED when i fund the ongoing rape of the franchise as long as it's le heckin kino OT PT!
cuck
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>>11765119
>>11765290
They seriously want 240 bucks for this crap? Can't believe I actually considered maybe getting this before it got revealed.
It's the year 2026 and they STILL cannot fucking color-match stickers. TLG can suck a new one.
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>>11765683
I never said any of that, you're just putting words in my mouth so you can lash out against your own strawman.
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>>11765678
>They could have just made it slightly smaller and have it be a perfect minifig scale
If it was minifig scale it would have been smaller than the playscale one, lmao.
I hate the minifig scale meme. It's not a real thing and shouldn't be.
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>>11765686
I didn't even realize the cockpit bit was a sticker too
Oof
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>>11765696
i don't even know what smart bricks are supposed to be or do
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>>11765723
attend a demo session at your local LEGO® store to find out!
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>>11765723
they're supposed to be a multimedia effects player that can provide a variety of functions based solely on the data able to be transmitted by an rfid tag
the problem is that rfid tags can't transmit very much data so the multimedia features are extremely limited and of disappointingly poor quality
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>>11765723
They don't make STAR WARS™ official licensed sounds so mousecucks hate them
They still buy them though
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>>11765727
>at your local Lego store
You mean the women’s department of your local Walmart?
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>>11765743
They do play star wars music but don't play the iconic pew pew sounds
I wonder why though - would there be a licensing agreement where some other toy manufacturer already has the exclusive rights to use those sounds in their products? Surely the sound effects aren't prohibitively expensive to license if they can get the music
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>>11765747
This is the target audience.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVsFmWzjSiH/
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>>11765750
>I might not get these smart play sets but I'll get ones later
not even the consoomer shill wants the current smart play sets
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>>11765747
I believe it's a technical issue in that the sound library either lacks the fidelity or capacity to play those sound effects
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>>11765753
That's bullshit, the smart brick has a synthesizer and can play multi-layer MIDI audio (eg the cantina theme with bass and melody).
It can definitely replicate the star wars pew pew sounds, they're no more complicated than what the brick is already demonstrated to be capable of
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>>11765727
>at your local Ollie's
ftfy
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>>11765166
the only chrome parts I had that chipped were the big swords from the castle line, and that's because they bent stretching the paint and causing it to break off. Solid parts that don't bend held up excellent, all the coins from pirates I have, all the spears from the aquazone sets and those crystals too, the chrome parts from aquanauts, the chestplates from the spanish pirates, etc.
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>order cmf
>comes
>print on right leg is fucked, was printed too far to the right so now there's a yellow streak between the middle of the hips center and leg
Is this a serious problem with cmfs? I remember buying some series 1 and 2 figures and thinking they felt like cheap dogshit. More modern series feel a lot better but ordering a minifig and having to gamble on the print is offputting.

Pic related, this a common issue on specific minifigs or something?
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>LEGO discontinues the DOTS theme in 2023
>In 2024 Creator starts to focus on real life objects and display sets as opposed to minifig scale sets like in previous years
You guys are overreacting as usual. Rather than creating a successor to DOTS, LEGO got really clever and used Creator to pander to girls and women. It's that simple.
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>>11765794
I have several "red underwear printed on yellow legs" pieces with this same print misalignment issue
I don't think lego is generally very good at edge-to-edge printing, and CMFs seem to be worse than normal factory parts
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>>11765794
It’s ubiquitous. Both these wolverines are fucked up. One was a CMF and the other came with the X-Jet.
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>>11765127
I just realised, how come they use Latin letters for ships, droids, etc in Star Wars when their alphabet is Aurabesh in-universe? Especially ships like X-wing and Y-wing where the letter comes from the shape of the ship, so it's clearly the Latin character and not the phonetic equivalent in Aurabesh.
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>$40
what the fuck how
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>>11765803
because they know they can get away with it
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>>11765802
I figured it was an out-of-universe translation. Like the characters and names aren’t actually in English, but that’s how it’s presented so viewers can understand it.
So an N-1 would actually be a “Nern 1”, but nobody would know what that means, so it’s “translated” to N-1 for the audience.
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>>11765802
the in-universe explanation is that our "regular alphabet" is some kind of galactic ancient letters, so those are sometimes used as prestige markings

similar to the way we use Roman Numerals for numbers like "Superbowl LIX" doesn't make sense either
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>>11765796
>I have several "red underwear printed on yellow legs" pieces with this same print misalignment issue
Is there like some kind of issue with getting dark red to print on minifigs? I grabbed a few orcs, four in total, and fucking three of them have this issue, seen here on this one. I try not to let it bother me but on a minifig I otherwise love it pisses me off.
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>>11765747
>>11765755
I'm pretty sure the limiting factor is the size of the RFID chips (~1kB) and they can only fit the midi format. The better solution would be to have the sounds stored on the bricks in mp3 or something and you can update them using bluetooth and a phone app so they aren't including the Star Wars sounds in non-licenced sets. That would also allow creativity and kids writing their own basic functions (eg when a green piece touches the side of the brick, play rocket sound effect and create red light).
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>>11765804
i liked the four gentlemen botanicals because they're usually priced at $20 in stores but those lilies are a scam
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>>11765505
Both look creative. But one thing I always wondered. Why didn't they put out a purple piece like this for the stuffed rabbit piece?
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>>11765629
I don’t disagree with a lot of what you’ve laid out (especially the ascension of IP product), but I was reckoning purely with the example given and purely with the notion that we’re “paying double for the same product,” which doesn’t appear to be the case.
>>11765668
Yeah, the average price of sets has something like doubled in the last decade and a half, and a lot of the flagship IP icons sets start around $300. Lego’s absolutely leaning into adult lifestyle marketing and positioning itself as a “luxury” product, but (as cringe as all that is) this isn’t really happening to the exclusion of smaller, cheaper sets which exist in higher numbers today than ever before (even if the make up a smaller proportion of Lego’s output now).
A lot of people also seem to be talking out of both sides of their mouths. They feel left out of, say, The 40,000 piece, $3600 enterprise made almost entirely of cheese slops and greebling pieces, but they claim to only like 200 piece sets with nothing more complicated than a 2x2 inclined brick.
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>botanicals
What's with normies' fascination with this stuff. Plastic flowers are already a thing better looking and far cheaper? I must admit the new mushroom set looks cool but
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So what do you think? Do we get Roadrunner sets soon™?
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>>11765856
>What's with normies' fascination with this stuff.
Adult LEGO fans get to experience the same fun of putting something together that they enjoyed as a kid, and it results in something you can display as a normie without the same shame as something extremely nerdy like a castle. I don't think it's terrible surprising at all that they're popular. They also tend to be smaller sets that somehow retail for like $50, so it seems like they have a pretty healthy profit margin.
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>>11765860
So much hype! Can’t wait for these kino kits! This will be so based and sovl! New thread when?
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>>11765856
As far as the normalfag themes go I am honestly okay with botanicals, I think the art and architecture lines have done way more harm in presenting boring, uninspired builds as being socially acceptable.
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>>11765856
not a fan of the lazy overpriced bouquets and branches but the potted plants were fun to build and look great too
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>>11765289
i hate pearl gold for coins and bars, fucking ugly.
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>>11765556
stop spamming your gay ass woke youtube channel here, please.
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There's already a new challenge up on Lego Ideas. This time, it's the Batmobile.
>What makes Batman an iconic superhero? Is it his fighting skills and growling voice? The Bat Family of crime-fighting allies at his side, protecting Gotham City against an ultimate rogue gallery?
The legacy of the Dark Knight is built on all of these... and more! Because in Gotham City, Batman's identity isn't just tied to his cloak and drive for justice. His legacy is also written in the engine roar of the Batmobile.
>Your Mission Objective
In our newest LEGO Ideas challenge, we invite you to build upon that legacy. Design Batman’s next ride. A simple task with one minor caveat: your build must celebrate what you find special by the 80-year heritage of Batman lore and arguably the most iconic fantasy vehicle ever.
>A Celebration of the Batmobile
This challenge is held as a celebration of the upcoming LEGO® Batman™: Legacy of the Dark Knight video game and in honor of the 20th anniversary of LEGO DC Batman. The LEGO Batmobile comes in almost all shapes and sizes. And like the new video game which pays homage to all the coolest Batmobiles throughout history, your design should capture what makes a true Batmobile: power, presence, and pure-crimefighting capability.
>Rules of engagement
The Batmobile is fast. It sparks fear in every villain. And it most definitely comes in black – although other color schemes are allowed as long as Batman would approve! Grab your bricks, get inspired by the evolution of Gotham City’s most iconic machinery, and build the quintessential Batmobile. Load it with gadgets. Shine it up to turn heads. Or make it so intimidating, the bad guys check themselves into Arkham Asylum.

It’s your choice. Your build. Your Batmobile.
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>>11765882
>batmobile
Again? How lame is that. You'd think Batman and Gothem City is big enough to draw inspriation from. But nope it's another batmobile.
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>>11765875
Ugliest color in lego's current lineup, lime green is a close second. I pray for the day they adopt metalic gold for all gold elements.
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>>11765892
why did they get rid of the chrome metal colors anyways? the chrome silver also looked much cooler than the dull silver stuff we get now.
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>>11765895
Chrome was beautiful but it chipped so easily. I have so many chrome pieces from my childhood and the only ones that don’t have chips are the ones I didn’t actually play with
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So if I'm buying this new Lego pirate ship with a bunch of slutty female pirates...I should be able to buy some old Lego heads and just swap them? Or do they have molded tits now?
>yes I'm a casual
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>>11765901
You’re good.
For molded hips and tits you gotta go friends minidolls.
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Why the fuck did Going Merry not come with these for the bottom?
Not only does it feel like shit to push the ship around without it i straight up broke through the floor trying to put a minifig in the kitchen. Try and defend this. I fucking dare you!
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>>11765905
Thanks a lot.
I get why Lego wants to have female minifigs but they are overdoing it a bit. My son got a race car and a fire truck...both were females and he wants me to switch those heads to.
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>>11765909
You're not supposed to play with Lego.
You build it once and then put it on the shelf or keep it sealed in the box and hope that you can resell it in 15 years for twenty bucks more.
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Um, where are Sonic and Animal Crossing?
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so i send message about there was 3 missing parts in bricklink order
now dutch boomer doesn't even read message
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>>11765909
I said it in the previous thread. >>11763822 LA One Piece is aimed at adults, and by normalfag logic adults do not play with toys. So it goes on the shelf.
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>>11765910
My issue is what to do with these lumps of shit after I swap them out. I know Lego loves shit but I don’t need my minifigs skintone to be shit too.
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>>11765923
100% I agree that Lego should be yellow and look like Lego. That's what makes it timeless.

But in the modern era of DEI, I could accept a black pirate because I'm sure those existed. But a female pirate seems like she just would have been raped to death in the first week at sea.
>probably by the black pirate
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>>11764817
Oh, it’s just occurred to me this is supposed to be that old busted house elf
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I've been using Stud.io for around 4 years now. One thing that still gives me a headache are hinge pieces. When I build something with actual pieces it either fits or it doesn't. But when I try to emulate it digtally I quickly get hung up on it calculating angles just to find out it doesn't work. Is there a trick to it?
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>>11765910
I find the female figures annoying for the city vehicles, most have hair pieces that make it impossible for them to sit in the driver/passenger seat without turning their head sideways. just give them a hat with no ponytail and no long hair, they can still be empowered womans but you should be able to place the figures in the vehicles with their accessories. or maybe this is just peak autism
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>>11765955
No its not autism when forcing your virtue signaling gets in the way of function.
The race care driver came with a helmet and a hair piece. My daughter was annoyed she has to switch them when she's playing.
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>>11765882
>>11765885
The winner won't even get the design made into a real set, the 5 winners will have their batmobiles as bilboards in the game, not even as batmobiles you can drive
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>>11765878
then start taking proper action against youtubers then fag
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>>11765683
Singapore.
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>>11765686
It can't be that bad, i am sure these anons are o.. OH MY GOD
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>>11765926
There are a few female pirates in history, and evidence indicates that they were frequently full of seamen.
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Is this peak lego marvel?
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>>11764650
>>11764685
they're already selling it pre-release for $15
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>>11765803
Shit like this is given as gifts. You feel your gift has more weight when know you paid a lot for it. See many grandparent giftbait 4/5+ set prices.
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>>11766001
I hope to see all 6 toa mata in this style from chinese bootleggers
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>>11765999
>96pc/$20
>206pc/$50
why are the 4+ sets the most overpriced ones??
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>>11766005
Big molds and all prints
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When will you guys admit Friends is kino?
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>>11766009
Playset slop
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racingbrick has fallen...
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>>11766009
They have been trying to make "girl" legos happen for like 40 years, did this shit EVER take off or do they just release these to be inclusive?
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>>11766009
I've never had a problem with Friends because it's City adjacent in theme and scale but none have ever enticed me enough to get one. I don't like the minifigs and the colors clash with what I have already. Just not for me.
>>11766010
>Playset slop
>children's toy
A daring synthesis
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>>11765999
all I see is boobs and ass
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>>11766009
Friends will never be Bellville Shilly.
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>>11765696
>Only the most expensive sets actually have the smart brick
Absolutely Jewish practices
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>>11766009
even friends is getting hit with that baseplate build up piece count tax. autumn cabin could be like 2/3 the piece count and price without the dumb mound build up.
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>>11766009
bring back elves
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>>11766009
I really liked the arboretum. however I'm afraid Elves is the superior minidoll theme.
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Can this make a pretty good city? I have miles vs spot and galactus already
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So just what the fuck is going on with the shart brick? Lego is still in full force shill mode for it but even after we've had numerous leaks not one thing seen as shown anything from them.

>>11766060
What would Galactus add to a city setting?
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>>11766060
Fag
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So what are you guys building? Sets? MOCs?
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>>11766066
The summer Pokémon wave was supposed to be a bunch of smart play sets, so those have either been delayed or just haven’t leaked yet.
Would be funny if smart play did so shit they canned the entire concept and are having to completely rework their plans with the Pokémon license.
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>>11766081
I'm planing on finishing my taxi depot moc this year.
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>>11766060
Die
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>>11766081
I haven't touched lego in weeks
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>>11766081
Been going through my childhood collection and piecing licensed minifigs from theme like the initial batman line and late 2000s starwars/early clone wars to sell. After my dark ages I became a castlefag so licensed stuff has lost it's appeal to me beside using the occasional piece for a custom minifig, crazy how much some of these minifigs go for since these themes seemed so popular back in the day. I have several of the batman villains from the first wave and all of them go for like $75+ even if damaged.
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>>11766087
You die
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Today was my day off
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>>11766222
Is your mom hot?
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>>11766081
Lightly modified this shitty mech I got a walmart a few weeks back, chestplate looks fugly and it's weird to me lego did this when they used the complementary cockpit piece in other sets
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>>11765399
Standards for movies or sets? Because the Shire set was dog shit.
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>>11765885
batmobile is the lego dc's landspeeder
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>>11766009
Paradisa can't return because of Friends, therefore Friends SUCKS ASS
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what's the largest plate(not baseplate, normal lego plastic and not the thick tall ones) lego made?
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>>11766222
where does all of that go when it's not on the floor?
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>>11766222
Damn bitch you live like this?
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Anyone bought these BDP sets before? How much do the castle size sets get priced at usually?
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>>11766360
Usually around $200 to $400 is the standard depending on the size. The only one that had ever stuck out to me personally is the Transylvania castle but I missed out on the initial preorder and am not willing to pay the scalper tax. It's a bit frustrating as unlike standard sets where you can wait, see reviews, then form a opinion you either have to preorder dead set on it or wait and likely pay for it at a 50 to 100% price increase. Over the years I have seen mixed things from people, because these sets are made by various designers different design philosophies exist across them so while some try to find that happy medium between display and play others will be entirely dedicated to being display pieces. The other thing is that a set's final design that is sold for retail can sometimes alter significant aspects of the build which can be frustrating.
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>>11766370
Thanks anon - that's all very good info.
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>>11766360
>>11766384
The thing he didn't mention is that popular sets can and have sold out in minutes. If you're interested, be ready. There's just as many if not more scalpers and lego spectators in on this stuff at this point, and they know these sets double in value instantly. If you want it, be ready to pull the trigger minute one. This set in particular seems to be getting a lot of hype, this will be the only set in all 10 series that I myself am going to attempt to buy.
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>>11766384
As a castlefag myself I'm kind of too deep into it to really stop at this point but if you're someone just getting interested in the theme I feel it's at least looking into the lumibricks castle line. For a long time I saw alternate brick brands as heresay, just cheap garbage not worth considering, but over the years lego's own offerings for the theme have become slimer and slimer and other brands have started to bring more to the table. I do not own any lumi sets myself so I can't speak on them but reviews I've seen seem to be pretty happy with them, you get a lot and at a way cheaper price compared to even the lower end modern castles, all of their current sets are below $200. The only gripe I usually see about them are the minifigs but the lumi system is compatible with lego so you can use their minifigs if you want. If you want lego get lego obviously but unfortunately it's kind of hard for me to suggest castle to new people, stuff like pab helps with army build but with no proper theme since 2014 you kind of have to work with what scrapes lego gives you or pay big money for older sets.
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>>11766360
This one will probably be over $300 and under $400. Close to $380.

>>11766390
This is untrue as of series 5.
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I found this random red demon minifigure and turned him into a Hell Beastmaster named Steve. His dragon is named Drake. He works with the Fright Knights training their beasts of war.
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>>11766413
Son of a bitch.
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>>11765656
Only one is sort of a podracer, but have some themed swoop bikes I made a while ago
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>>11766384
nta but I caved and got a knock off set from aliexpress a while ago and it's hard to tell the difference between it and real Lego parts aside from there being no LEGO logos. I used to be a purist.
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>>11766438
nta but I wish my autism would be appeased with alexipress sets, I would rather buy alternate brick brands because I at least know it its own proper thing. The rise of bootlegs has been pretty astounding though, awhile back I posted abouty experience going to a major convention and seeing more bootleg lego then real lego. It's insane how minifigs have more or less eclipsed funkos as the "approved" toy to collect.
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>>11765656
Podracers are kino. Yeah there should be more Mocs about them
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>>11765999
The smiling Iron Man and Iron Hulk helmets are fucking creepy.
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>>11766066
>What would Galactus add to a city setting?

https://youtu.be/KZQcUZOnz6E?si=nIq0m8bwEVO-hVK_&t=11
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>>11766001
Good, I just want the minifig, not the whole set.
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>>11766523
Are you retarded? He's a cmf, there is no set.
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>>11766533
I think he means he just wants Tahu and doesn't want to go through blindbags to get him, which is fair, he's also the only one I want
>>11766523
use the scanner app
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>>11766392
Off-brand "not Lego" has improved drastically over the years. I too never even considered them, and thought it was a joke to even think about them, but considering how Lego's own quality has dipped, and their prices have run away to absurd levels, off brand stuff is pennies compared to Lego. They still aren't 100% up to snuff, but I'd say they're pretty close. I've only bought one off brand set so far, essentially one of the modular-esque buildings from a company called Insoon, and I was pretty impressed.

Many of these off brands are doing a lot of Castle and Pirate sets, some of them are fucking huge, and still cost way less than Lego stuff. I would suggest a company called Reobrix if you're looking for Castle and/or Pirates stuff. There is one pirate ship I want to get that they've done that is like 3 and a half feet long, twice the piece count of Lego's Black Pearl and costs half as much, and many other ships that have similar piece counts as the Black Pearl, yet cost less than 1/3 the price.
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I'm taking the dreamzzz pill
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>>11766427
I like the yellow one.
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>>11766584
just in time for the theme to be killed off
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>>11766278
Wise words from the wise man
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>>11766595
Tumblr avatars are unsettling
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>>11766592
Lego is so based for killing Dreamz.
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>>11766595
displayslop situation is crazy
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I designed a star wars ship with spare parts with the concept of something lego could manufacture and sell for 20 dollars or less. Surely lego could release this piece of shit for that price tag right?
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>>11766651
add a set only minifigure and a stand to display it and you can pump that sucker to $50
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>>11764650
That's bionicle for ya! Once a failure always a failure.
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>>11766605
I think that if you make a lego video and you need an avatar you are required to make it a minifigure
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>>11766564
>but considering how Lego's own quality has dipped, and their prices have run away to absurd levels, off brand stuff is pennies compared to Lego. They still aren't 100% up to snuff, but I'd say they're pretty close.
I still prefer to just buy old Lego, but I have bootlegs for stuff like animals, minifig accessories, anything that's stupidly expensive to get genuine.
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>>11766015
>did this shit EVER take off or do they just release these to be inclusive?
Friends is extremely successful, it was Lego's first real success at capturing the girl market (after homemaker, paradisa, belville, scala). The "inclusivity" ideology is actually against stuff like Friends because it "reinforces gender stereotypes" (ie acknowledges that males and females are fundamentally different).
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>>11766595
It's always such extremes with you people.
>Lego is dead
>Its over
>we are so back, baby!
>Woke now, I hate it
>(insert word)slop
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>>11766714
I think the shill here deserves the rack, and so do you rat.
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>>11766651
I really like this. I'm the guy always gushing on about how much I like single person vehicles. Got instructions or a piece sheet?
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>>11766715
Fuck off retard
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Mandalorian Shuttle by grohl
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>>11766724
Nobody likes you Shill.
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>>11766725
currently have 14sets at home 12 of sets are technic. Spend over 730 USD for 6 month
most expensive one is 8455 which cost 270 USD include shipping

with this speed, i don't have enough space in 1year
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>>11766726
I’m not the “shill” and I’m not even the guy you initially replied to. I just don’t understand what, to you, is objectionable about the guy’s observation that people’s reactions are hyper-polarized, either all or nothing. I don’t even see what that has to do with “shilling,” it’s just a description of how online discourse works.
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>>11766731
Nobody likes you either, the ride never ends.
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>>11766731
All insults seem to lose meaning here. Everyone is a "shill" who doesn't agree with whatever contrarian anon doesn't like. Like I pointed out as well, "slop" is now tagged onto pretty much anything anymore to the point it has no meaning. Friendslop, technicslop, bionicleslop, ect. ect. at infinitum. Some people just seem to think instigating is the point or just like doing it. It's just trolling. Remember, don't feed the trolls.
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>>11766744
I don't know how much time you spend elsewhere on 4chan but this is a pretty good rundown of how basically any commodity (film, tv, video game, food etc) is discussed at this point.
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>troll
Speaking of trolls, what makes them the defacto best castle faction of all time?
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>>11766767
>poopdickschizo
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>>11766826
I wish these were just orcs. or maybe they are orcs and the factions are just trolls who use actual trolls as the big guys? regardless I hope we get fantasy stuff again for castle
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>>11766849
The orc CMF kind of confirms they are just orcs. It’s the same symbol and everything. It’s probably just the Danes not really understanding the difference. Most everyone refers to them as orcs anyway. The big guys are trolls though
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>>11766849
I don't care if you wanna call them orcs, goblins, trolls or hobgoblins. I want more weird monster dudes. And zombies to come back.
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>>11766849
I think they were trying to avoid direct comparison to lotr based on when those first came out. They didn't release their first licensed lotr sets until 4 years later.
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>>11766849
"orc" is not classic fantasy/folklore, it's a made up tolkien invention that's less than 100 years old. properties that want minimize the direct lifting of tolkien will refer to the generic faction of brutish savage baddies as goblins or trolls(seldom ogres)
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>>11766866
zombies are so hard to army build. Lego needs to do another monster line
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>>11767022
I think the zombie driver from the monster fighters line isn't too bad, the halloween cmf line also gave us three new zombie face prints but they're all a little more cartoonish then some people may care for. I got the graveyard set from monster fighters myself, I think the groom isn't too band only like $15 but the bride goes for something pretty high like $60 or $70 I believe now.
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>>11766557
Scanner app?
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nice displayslop, shame i couldn't find the two sets that started my egypt autism 5958 & 5978 except for the baseplate, i remember the printed pieces being really nice
the obelisk would maybe even fit
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>>11767065
Omgbricks.
It works.
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>>11767022
the only good thing about that night trooper battlepack is that you get 4 zombie heads. but there's nothing fitting on PAB to mix and match for them, too bad.
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>>11764941
Lego Minecraft is lazy as fuck. Hurr durr here's some 2x2 bricks on a baseplate, $60 plz
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>>11766767
I used to spend time on some other threads in /co/ and /vg/ but mainly this is the only thread I bother with anymore. But yeah, at least here that is all I see. Anything can be labeled as "slop" because someone doesn't like it. And "shill" is tossed around to anyone who might try and say, "Hey, maybe it's not as bad as you think." I mean is it common on other threads for everyone to get butt-hurt because whatever brand they like doesn't seem to cater to them as an exclusive costumer base? I definitely see that here. Lego makes plenty of bad decisions but so many here seem to act like some choice in minifig or print design is a cataclysmic blunder because they don't like and TLG isn't giving them precisely what they want.
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feel like pure shit just want em back
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>>11766595
Rantsona with sonic in the background prepared me for major autism but despite that he's honestly right about it. I had never really thought about it until he mentioned but the architecture line really does feel like the springboard for the displayslop, the black baseplates, muted color choices, and normalfag approved subject matter really felt like it opened the floodgates to the format. Did any architecture sets go above like $30? I remember most at least being only $15-20 but barely looked into the line much.
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>>11767305
DND would probably be the only licensed stuff I would buy, no idea why they stopped at a single set and a cmf wave
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>>11767305
As a castlefag I can't help but feel disappointed in their existence they're probably why we will never get a proper castle cmf line. I pray I'm wrong, on their own merits it's a great set even as someone who hates licensed shit, but still leaves me bitter about it.
>>11767312
Okay but look at the bright side, insteas of cool dnd sets you can get smart bricks.
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>>11767315
Man I'd be all over an unlicensed DND-ish theme if we got playable dwarves, elves, orcs and skeletons
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>>11767317
Fantasy era castle is probably the best we'll ever get. With modern lego having a generic theme is seen as less worthhwhile when you can get an ip that does the ssme thing. It's either LotR/DnD or nothing.
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>>11766651
Show backside plis.
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when will it get a sizeable discount? One would think with it being 3in1 and how overpriced the release was it would be massively discounted by now
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>>11767330
I buy basically any horror themed set and just can't justify this one. Main build is terribly mediocre and the alt builds are abysmal. Might just buy the vampire woman at some point, ever since I got the new cmf monster hunter with a poster of her I've wanted to do a moc with them.
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>>11767330
If I saw this at half I'd probably buy it. I really don't care for the theme but I quite like sand green bricks and the miscalleanous building parts.
>>11767337
I think it's a great parts pack and the builds are quite charming if very small. The ship is great. Seems like one of those sets where you can build a proper thing after buying a second one, lol.
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>>11767286
I just want the guy who floods there biweekly with shitty “leaks” gone for spamming the catalog and preventing us from ever returning back to slightly less awful times
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>>11767330
>>11767337
>>11767340
Generally, I'm not thrown off by the size of a set much, but I cannot believe how tiny this looks compared to the $90 they're asking for it. I do want it, but I wouldn't pay over $50 for it...
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Is there a lego builder app like stud.io?
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>>11767343
Build is mediocre but even as a parts pack like >>11767340 said the price is the actual worst aspect of it. I expect this shit out if IP themes, creator is suppose to be more accessible. The castle and pirate ship aren't unreasonably priced so no idea why this one is.
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>>11767329
This is a blue board Anon
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Got a bunch of pistons and stuff, need to figure out how to assemble it and put it into something like bionicle or something
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PAB order arrived and Lego tried to gaslight me into thinking that I forgot to order Griffon Knight torsos by not displaying them on the invoice and including all the other parts I bought but them. Turns out they are just being shipped separately for no reason.
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>>11767305
I bought a stupid amount of these for making custom medieval figs and I still regret not getting more. I only got one of the purple/orange lady (teethling? I don't know DnD at all.) and now I feel like her torso and legs would complement the Snake Knights nicely. At least she hasn't gained much value, I was mostly buying up that Dragonborn Paladin figure. Hopefully we see a proper castle CMF line soon.
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>>11767329
Admittedly not as cool from the back as the front.
>>11766716
I just built it so I have no instructions. The best I could do is disassemble and give you a part list
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>>11767450
Of course I forget the image.
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so how bad will the aftermarket be for those galactic marines when they retire that juggernaut abomination later this year?
I have a feeling we may not ever see them in another set
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>>11767458
I still have trust in the euro lego magazines. Some time during this year they will add the galactic marine fig. They added both the new clone pilots, they should add the galactic marine too. Only bacara will be exclusive to that set until some retard at lego re-releases the juggernaut set as something slightly better and 5x more overpriced
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>>11767458
They'll probably be big on the secondary market 10 years down the line. No one bought it because of the retarded price and build but people will still be wanting the minifigs. I wouldn't be surprised if they reach $50 per fig by 2032.
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>>11767462
>this guy thinks there’s gonna be a 2032
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>>11765107
I miss stuff like the Island Adventures set. I only learned about it after it was off the market but just looking at the box art I got an idea for a whole narrative to play out through the builds.
Plane and pilot crash on a tropical island no one visits. Guy takes the wreckage of his plane and builds the shelter. In the meantime, he befriends a parrot on the island that seems to know how to talk. One day while exploring the island, he stumbles on to a rusted box with what looks like a map on it. While thinking out loud and looking at it the parrot starts repeating phrases. Our hero figures out this parrot is the descendent of the parrot that a well-known pirate had way back when and who also was rumored to have hidden his treasure in the area. Between what the parrot says, having learned the phrases from his parent, and the map, he realizes he can find this lost treasure. So he takes down the shelter and uses it and some more parts that have washed up since he arrived and builds a boat to go out, find the treasure, and get it back to civilization.
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>>11767451
Okay. It doesn't look too complicated. Maybe taking off the wings and the top of the back should help show what you did. And a full layout of the parts should help me put it together in my head. It would be greatly appreciated. It is a nice little ship, and I like the design language you used for it.
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>>11764931
I have diagnosed autism and I understand that my perception of reality and my interests can be somewhat obsessive and unusual and aren't the norm. But objectively speaking, having a 43 minute discussion about a lego piece means there's really something wrong with you.
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>>11765238
>I really liked the single person vehicles
Same.
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>>11765298
>>11765679
>>11765259
Something seems really off about this.
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>>11767551
You just know it’s at least one of the assholes that post here too.
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>>11767557
Ok
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>>11767554
I remember hating this theme even as a kid, such an obvious "what pieces do we have leftover that we can slap together?" unpolished shit
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>>11767557
One fully admits to have been a lurker but he says up to 2022, conveniently before the frenchman wars, and seems to mostly have just fond memories, I think he saw the shill get here and noped out, strange
Also for on topic I wonder what this could be used for besides shart bricks, paddles aren’t too common
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>>11767554
I fucking hated TimeCruisers.
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>>11767593
Ok
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>>11767556
well they didn't really have interiors for one
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Whats the best way, price-wise, to get a lot of special bricks, snot bricks and the like?
Buy specific 2nd hand deals or order the specific bricks from lego?
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>>11767611
I got locked out of my account somehow and when i try to enter bricklink it only forwards me to the sign up page where it says my username is already in use. It's jank and fucked
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>>11767554
that looks like poop
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>>11767604
Bricklink. Find one of those retards that buys sets to part them out so you can get like 50 types of one piece. Just figure out what piece you're needing and look it up and filter by region/price.
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>>11767551
>But objectively speaking, having a 43 minute discussion about a lego piece means there's really something wrong with you.
You are on a mongolian basket weaving forum in a thread about danish plastic blocks where people have flamewars about guy they created in their head to get angry about, two guys fucking about while talking about a lego piece is nothing.
>>11767579
It's not that deep bro, really.
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>>11767654
I’m just saying something happened in 2022 for him, wonder if it was the HaloAnon saga and if he was involved
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>>11767604
I generally look for the item on bricklink and then sort by sellers in my country and and highest quantity. I then look for the seller with the quantity I need at the lowest price per piece. About to order 1500 2x2 bricks.
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>>11767663
I managed to find two old red bricks in the wild last week
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>>11767663
its pretty easy to find the right parts on bricklink, but damn some stores are too tismal for me.
>NO you can't buy 1 of these generic unprinted red, 1x6s I need you to buy at least 9 of them, and then in multiples of 9 if you need 10
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>>11767554
I feel like if this had more colors or any sort of real color scheme this would look multiple times better.
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>>11767669
I like to look through flea markets for various things. Found some bags of lego a few weeks ago and bought a couple at $5 a bag. One had a forestman torso and some other pieces I liked, another had a white burp piece that was worth $5 alone if you go by bricklink prices.
>>11767670
Yeah, some are retarded. Hurr if all of your lots done even out to at least 50 cents per lot there will be an additional charge. Fuck off.
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>>11767554
The way the tires spin the propellers is neat.
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>>11767659
I find the timing suspicious as well. Why pick that specific timeframe to be like “oh uh I stopped going there”?
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>>11767659
>>11767721
>timing suspicious
As was said above, not too deep. He probably got fed up of the kind of posting here. Like the constant spam of "leaks", or the premature creation of new threads, that's likely to get someone tired of this place. (Besides if he's a liberal leftir, he's likely to have found it rough here)
>HaloAnon saga
Jesus Fucking Christ, go to kiwifarms or something if you want to look at what goes here as some lolcow drama with interconnected characters and plot twists. Are you losing your mind over that violin case picture?
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>>11767330
Man I hate the new skeleton arms so much
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>>11767754
they're really awful, can't even have them convincingly hold weapons in a way that doesn't feel awkward and robotic
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>>11767754
>>11767757
cringe take. classic chad here and these arms are infinitely superior to the floppy mess(and the frail droidshit from the fantasy era)
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>>11767760
Sorry you can't accept that other people have different opinions than you.
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>>11767760
there are problems with both but I like the old ones better, the floppy arms works for an undead creature I think
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You will buy it, and you will be happy.
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>>11767784
I won't buy it and I will still be happy
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>>11767784
This, doby and galactus are my geniune first time seeing the massive dip in quality standards. Now if I'm honest I only recently started paying attention after maybe 2 decades but damn are they bad. I cannot believe someone would want any of them for the build itself.
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>>11767784
I like the puss minifig but the scaling is batshit compared to that shrek and donkey
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>>11767784
was there no better solution for the poster then printing it over 2 parts? this one from brickheads (that hopefully comes again in CMFs or other Shrek sets) mogs it
>>11767802
clearly a bait before the CMF comes out, like the slinky the dog mold in that book nook.
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>>11767798
i mean the pikachu is also an absolute trainwreck
not only is the head design a travesty, it's also way overpriced at $200 with its stand and pretty much only MADE for the stand since you can't move the head position
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Grond is a gift with purchase so you better buy minas tirith day one or you will miss out on it forever!
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>>11767819
Guess I gotta save my NEETbux until June
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>>11767819
I hope one of the figs is that deformed white orc
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>>11767677
Got all this today, plus a bit of heads and stuff, haven’t been to this place in a while but it was a good surprise of stuff, also got a lot of bootleg stuff I sorted out for free, will update in a bit but gotta show off the spoils
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>>11767842
And here’s the notable stuff from the shitbin, a very nice color orange bootlego brick (reminds me of this one violet shade from seemingly the same guys), and a broken Medium green arm, second MG piece I’ve gotten from here, next off I’ll show the random stuff
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>>11767844
And finally the bag of random stuff which cost 7 bucks, one bootleg piece but stil a very interesting one, two flippers in light yellow (I think), two snowfeet things in reddish brown, and some misc, finding a Frog that’s red is nearly impossible in the wild
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>>11767847
Fuck, forgot to attach image was too preoccupied
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>>11767742
I just remember HaloAnon and having fun posting on here, it’s not that deep bro
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why does the world keep getting worse? this is not how things should go
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>>11767862
A bunch of billionaire pedos bro… everyone knows this.
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>>11767784
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>>11767784
No seriously, what is the point of the puss in boots minifig? It doesn't scale with the other two remotely and will probably be featured in the cmf line anyway.
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So are they just done with these heads?
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>>11767554
Only real OGs love Time Cruisers. Fake niggas get filtered.
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>>11767819
>buy it day one
you mean buy it within the first 15 seconds of it going up
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>>11767886
No, just expect them to be exclusive to $200+ sets.
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>>11767784
>ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY DOLLARS
Are they out of their fucking mind?
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People are waking up.
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>>11767862
honestly the backgrounds hard carry these images
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>>11767957
>honestly the main aspect of the image hard carry these images
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>>11767961
So you enjoy fraudulent images?
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>>11767964
No, I hate ai slop. What dpes it have to do with old lego photography?
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>>11767968
nostalgiaslop
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>>11767969
>he hasn't taken the vintage pill
ngmi
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>>11767803
I mean the concept is the break between the panels is the break between the slats of wood.

>>11767784
I have zero desire to own this.
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>>11767813
Something that's bothering me more and more about the Charizard/Blastoise/Venusaur set: The scale seems wrong. Venusaur seems like... 1.5 times the size of the other two. Hell, Charizard seems even smaller than Blastoise. I don't know what they did to fuck up the scaling but it is bothering me.
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>>11767971
didn't they rerelease this set as displayslop targeted at nostalgiaboomers
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>>11767985
The lion knight castle was stupid expensive but not displayslop. Sadly tbis is how space/castle/pirates will live on, through creator sets and $200+ adult oriented sets.
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>>11767971
>vintageslop
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>>11767957
no
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>>11767992
baseplate hard carries this build
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>>11767992
Man, I was unlucky as a kid. I have several cannons, but none of them were the kind that fired.
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>>11767994
keep coping
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>>11767997
It was based on region. There was three versions, one that fired, one that was conpletely static, and a weird inbetween one that lets you pull the back part but only slightly so it can't fire anything.
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>>11767999
I live in burger land, so obviously we couldn't be trusted with projectiles. Not outside of school anyway.
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>>11767971
>vintagekino

>>11768001
Burger land got some of the projectile kind, my friend had some. It seems like they were changed out after a certain point. The non firing ones were incredibly lame and probably led to me not being as big of a pirate fag as I might have been. Literally had to tip them forward to get the cannonball out.
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Got awfully quiet around here.
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>>11768121
The people have gotten sick of the shill
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>>11767784
This is going to get purchased by some well-meaning parent and give a kid nightmares.
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>>11767890
Based
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>>11767952
It's crazy because to me the old playset style Lego sets work as display pieces just as well as the modern displayslop does. Lego itself is an artform, it doesn't need to be bastardized.
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remember when lego made toys that you could play with?
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>>11768252
you cant play with your smartbricks bro?
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>>11768258
>Used to make Swoosh noises myself
>Now Lego has taken that away from me and is making me buy it.
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>>11768261
you control the sounds you make
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>>11768124
literally who?
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>>11768288
Pedo.
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how long before lego publicly admits shart bricks flopped and pulls them from stores?
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>>11768323
10 months
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>>11768288
>come on now
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>>11768323
boy would it be a thing if Lego doesn't even release the City sets, or Pokemon sets, or other themes that were planning on having Smart Bricks.

they yanked Vidiyo off the shelves before the 2nd wave was planned to come out, and Smart Bricks seems like the exact same situation:
--new [tech] thing! it will be amazing we spent so much work on it!
--sets release, cost twice as much
--DOA. nobody buys double-priced sets. at all.
--yoink! whoopsie!
--never speak of it again
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>>11768323
I doubt they’ll ever admit it, they’ll just stop releasing the sets and pretend it never happened.
The radio silence on ANY new smart brick stuff makes it seem like they’re already leaning that way.
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>>11768124
>shill
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>>11768356
I don't know, I've been to my local lego store a handful of times since it released and they still seem to be in full shill mode with several displays dedicated to it and actual employees with setups to advertise it to any unfortunate parent who comes by them.
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>>11768353
>boy would it be a thing if Lego doesn't even release the City sets, or Pokemon sets, or other themes that were planning on having Smart Bricks.
I guarantee that if shart bricks had debuted with some shit that nobody cares about like modern City then the feedback would not have been nearly as negative
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>>11768121
Every small board is dying (by design)

Once 4chan got attention of the government's and megacorps in 2016 it was over.
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>>11768372
Pedo
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>>11768423
>I guarantee that if shart bricks had debuted with some shit that nobody cares about like modern City then the feedback would not have been nearly as negative
what a tough call for Lego
they desperately needed the sets to sell, so they picked Star Wars as the launch, assuming sloppity-slop-slurpers would buy them (and extras to put in storage for selling later!)

but it turns out even those people have standards, and laughed at the embarrassing performance of the brick (c'mon... accurate voice clips in toys was do-able 30 years ago! at least the pew-pew laser blast noises? no?) and now the whole thing is just sad
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>>11768423
>>11768441
Had it released with one of Lego’s original IPs it definitely would’ve been received better. One of the biggest complaints is that Star Wars has such iconic sound effects that the smart bricks don’t just use. If they were making generic construction or driving noises it wouldn’t be a problem.
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i recently got back into lego, do you guys ever buy directly from lego?
seems like an awful waste of money even with the insider stuff, third party is almost always 20-30% cheaper
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>>11767986
God I want to buy it, but even at release at 400e it was too expensive for my standard. Now the number is just growing and I am tormented by this set.
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>>11768460
I did a PAB order once. Never again.
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>>11768460
depending how old the set is, i usually buy from Lego directly. Insider points add up pretty fast
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Found some Brittle Blue, anybody have some that isn’t broken like this?
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nice haul
>inb4 not lego
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>>11768540
Any idea of what you’re gonna use them to build
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>>11768432
You are disorderedly compulsive
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Is ordering from PAB really as bad as people day? Wsnted to order some mi ifig parts to make a few of the creator castle snake knights but always hear horror stories about them.
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>>11768540
The two toa combiner models, and I may have enough pieces to build the cow and fikou
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>>11768460
I buy pick a brick from them. I like new parts and castle/science fiction adjacent parts. If you don’t mind the month (sometimes longer) long wait it’s honestly my favorite way to stock up on Lego. Be autistic about your invoice though. They can and do make mistakes. Sometimes in your favor. Sometimes not.
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>>11768577
agreed.
it's nice getting that one torso or hat from that $X00 set for a couple bucks. it's secretly the work-around to the ridiculous expensive set nonsense.

i've done that a couple times. just be careful you'll be like OH! That piece! 3 of those! oh! that is a cool torso, maybe I can do a couple guards... 4 of those. and before you know it, you've got random bits costing $150. but if you count the $4000+ you would have had to spend to get them all by buying sets, the $150 all of a sudden seems like an amazing deal. (Lego still wins though... argh)
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>>11768569
It’s frustrating ordering an item that’s in high demand for the first 3-5 months of its release. Like if you wanted any of the four new knight legs or torsos when they first released on PaB, it’s an incredibly frustrating experience because they go in and out of stock daily. But torsos legs helmets and shields arent in stock at the same time. The solution is to either
>get a bot that tells you when restock happens and wait for stars to align
>wait 5(?) months for the initial rabid army builders and resellers to lose interest.
The worst time I had with PAB was trying to get Wolfpack torsos. I managed to get an order in semi early and lego confirmed it but IIRC it took 3 months to actually arrive.
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>>11768423
I wonder if lego was thinking that the whole smart bricks interacting with each other would be a big selling point and that's why the 2 first lines for it were ones that feature battling? Like they did market research that people buying city sets would only buy one smart brick containing set, but people buying star wars and pokemon sets would buy multiple so they could recreate fights.
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>>11768460
I buy direct from their website when it's something big I want to get when it releases, then use the points from that to buy something small in the stores.
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>>11768583
>2 dollars for a fucking shield
That's just evil
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>>11768649
You haven't seen shit, that's generous. Old castle accessories go for shitloads. Old shields are like $6-10, generic soldiers are like $8-12, and horse bardings are like $30-40. Lego refuses to do a modern castle theme so you're either left with collector's sets or old stuff.
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>>11768575
i love those weird combiner models that you could make with the og bionicle sets
really helped make the world feel alive, which was something that was sorely lacking in the last couple years before cancellation
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>>11768540
build those fuckin toa anon
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>>11768668
there

>>11768662
true, rahi combiners are fun but I prefer the titan combiners
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>>11768719
Make some stuff out of the bulk extra you got
Anyways check out how gross this plate is I have, and this is after washing it a bit mind you
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>>11768719
Anyone have any good bionicle mocs for the original Toa? I’d love to add some posability while still keeping true to the basic proportions. Everything I see calls for bootleg parts or parts modifications, though
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>>11768649
how about a $30 tail?
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>>11768787
The FurTax
Also what is this piece’s name
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>>11768787
Jesus christ, do any of those animal suit minifigs have an adequate substitute?
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This shit pisses me off.
This little nigga is from the pirate playground gwp and like three years old and barely played with.
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>>11768817
I think that tail is like on a zillion Rocket Raccoons from Marvel, too
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holy stickerslop
do carfags not have any standards anymore
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>>11768882
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Can anyone here with the Eevee speak on its poseability? I kinda want to pick it up, and saw it’s going for 2x points right now, but if it’s basically a statue I’m not as keen on it.
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>>11768905
You can adjust its ears, tail and head quite a bit to give it some personality. Even the legs and feet, but the big problem with it is that the head makes it so front-heavy that you can't make total use of the articulation, so you mostly just get minor adjustments out of it, outside of the tail and ears.

That said, I am not even a big pokemon person, but I don't regret it.
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Let’s say you had ~$300 to spend before being hit by a train, what Lego sets would you buy?
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>>11768961
None I would get out of the way, idiot shill
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>>11768798
Probably from the ARC fighter, that's a droid trifighter.
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>>11767998
This build is just carried by the parts, colours, and design.
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>>11767997
The non-firing ones do look better though
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>>11768966
It happens in about a month and you have to get hit. Also you can recommend old sets
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>>11768463
If it makes you feel better, the interior is not great. The space in the large building is mostly taken up by the gate, so there isn't much room to put anything else and it turns out most of the content is in the smaller building. You could build your own out of loose parts and it would be more fun.
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>>11768817
It was a price error, they fixed it.
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>>11768976
Nah, off topic
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>>11768969
I laughed out loud

Can we get married Fren?
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I spent several hours making this incredibly complex meme

Do you think the execs at Lego will be able to understand it?
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>>11768978
Thats what im doin atm, i tried to do it like 2y ago, but i didnt have parts to finish the build. I rebuilded orginal with my own changes (higher walls/different towers) but I still wasnt happy with it. Orginal build really is lacking when it comes to interiors. Theres just one room with bed, the dining/visiting hall (throne room) is to small, some towers arent climable, overall it just itching my autismo.
Now im building totaly new moc that is a castle taken over by evil force. I was close to running out of place with some sets and my mocs, so i just used medieval smith, part of the dnd set and new medieval marketplace.
The only bad thing is that this build is so large for my standards, that ive already spent like couple weeks on it. I plan to build few structures for my fantasy village with leftover parts when im done with the main build, since I already got a part of the village moc in a form of an inn and alchemy shop.
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>>11769036
Lego barely makes any video games these days
you're 15 years too late to be complaining about TT formulaic slop
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Some more progress on my castle moc,
Going to work on the gate house next, and I want to put in a working drawbridge and portcullis
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>>11769085
Looks great.
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>>11769036
I think he’s complaining about shart bricks
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>>11768967
Seems like it, only two in one set period
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>>11768497
Where is the break? I've had broken blue pins.
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>>11768460
Yeah it's worth it for BIG sets, especially during 2x or 4x points sales. Otherwise Amazon usually has the 20% off after a while.

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