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>>11800547
This set is $170
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>>11800556
Bricktap
>>11800558
Smart brick Charizard looks better lol
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>>11800547
even if i didnt know which one is Lego - it's clearly visible from that thumbnail that the one in the middle is the best version and a Lego one.
>colors are better
>overall structire is better (what the fuck is that "turbo drill" looking tail)
>looks broken and skeletal
Lego looks like an actual eevie
soon mega-dorks on sudoku watch
And the best part?
they will continue making pokemon more and more up to at least first 150 ones i'm pretty sure
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>>11800343
It is a conspiracy. There are two big items responsible for popularizing the “Lego outperforms the stock market” claim.
1) a 2015 Telegraph article written independently by some economics journalist on the basis of publicly available bricklink and brickset data
2) the Russian peer-reviewed study by Dobrynskaya which had no corporate backing
So I’d love if you could demonstrate that “these data points were by a company hired by Lego.”
>lego increases in value but it usually needs like ten years
Yes, in other words, old, sealed lego sets outperform gold and stocks and bonds, which was the original claim.
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>>11800555
>Jigglypuff is $25
88 pieces
Lego did a 79-piece polybag for $5
(Smart Tile + it's-a-Pokemon! + 9 more pieces) = $20
oh yeah, you spent $20 for that one electric brick but um, you need to spend another $70 minimum on this Star Wars, not Pokemon, set, in order for that $20 tile to "do something"
keep in mind that 79-piece polybag makes a brick-built cat which, lets be honest, could easily BE a Pokemon
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>>11800558
and after all this hype and planning it gets mogged by a set like this
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>>11800575
Why wouldn't it be intended for kids?
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>>11800558
would've been interesting as modular sets with one of the 3 starters each that can either be stacked together as trio or as rivals
if i'm gonna spend €650 on lego it better be a centerpiece like the titanic or minas tirith, not that dogshit
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>>11800589
It’s a bit notable (or even just a bit funny) that sitting on a huge pile of children’s building blocks could net you better returns than investing with a decently talented investment advisor.
For my part, had I known my Pokemon cards would outperform my actual investments by (conservatively) 10 percentage points year over year, I’d have probably sunk far more money into them.
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>>11800526
Some of these look pretty cool, but goddamn are they massive. Joltik is quite cute, maybe the most interesting build, but Arceus and Gyarados are also solid. I’d love to swap the pieces out and make a shiny gyarados.
That said, these are all like 12 inches tall, which is ludicrously oversized.
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>>11800598
It isn't that impressive because noone wants to sit on a warehouse full of diversified children's toys just to outperform normal investments. With the knowledge today back in 2000s you could've just invested in bitcoin, apple, amazon and Nvidia and been a billionaire
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>>11800605
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not suggesting anyone should “invest” in Lego (in part because, like you said, you’d need a warehouse or a fuckhueg McMansion or something to store enough to make a decent profit). I was just disputing some of the factual claims the other guy laid out.
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Reposting for visibility from previuos thread.
Hello /lg/, I require your superpower of identifying fake Lego clones.
I have 2-3 different clones I need more information about.
1, First one I have nothing concrete about, only two hunches:
- Manufactory date is likely between 1985 and 1998.
- Country of origin is likely Germany, based on my completely unsubstantiated memories of always believing it's from Germany and reeking of german autism.
The bricks are quite elastic, especially the foundations / floors. The most striking feature are the bulbous studs. The plastic is very good quality and can clamp very strongly and satisfyingly. There are also doors and hinges included, but I forgot to take pictures of them. I possess zero documentation. The set could've been distributed in Eastern Europe.
Does anyone know the manufacturer, name of set or anything that could help me out?
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>>11800610
2, Second one is very likely related to the first set, since the bricks' are compatible with the spiky things. Their intended use was likely roof tiling or fencing, despite being reminiscent of certain insulated construction bricks. There are various converters and connectors, since the grooves don't hold onto the spiky things too well unless multiple spikes are engaged.
I also had this train carriage in the same bag with them. This random piece could be a complete red herring, since while it's compatible, it's thematically different from housing materials. The axle and wheels are compatible on the surface, but the axle is too short to fit under the carriage with the wheels on.
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>>11800612
3, Third one I actually sort of know what is, I just need more information. I have most of its pieces, but I no longer have the box.
Here is what I could piece together:
- The set is very similar to those made by Merkur, which is a czech toy company.
- The set is called "Junior-3" and was released in Hungary.
- Manufacturing date is before 2000, likely before 1998. Likely after 1980.
- The local distributor only returns a single hit, on a site that won't load, with a licence date between 1991.11.18 and 1993.??.?? (wish google cache was still around)
There is next to no information about Merkur and even less about Junior-3. It's entirely possible the set is a hungarian bootleg and / or school supplies. Maybe a czech anon could tell more and find the catalogue of the manufacturer.
Does anyone have any information about the company or the set in question? Like manufacturing date or anything? Has anyone here even heard about Merkur?
If someone really REALLY wants my pieces, I'd be happy to give them away just for the shipping fee.
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>>11800605
Lego investing is a fucking meme and anyone that got into it only recently will be burned. Badly.
It's only a phenomenon currently because there's big influx of people getting back into Lego as adults and creating demand for older sets - sets which no one "stockpiled" back in the day because it's obviously retarded, hence the limited supply. But now every single set gets bought up by such people and everything ends up with storage units upon storage units of supply even after retirement as the demand keeps dwindling. Even Star Wars sets, the theme with the biggest jumps in prices, are already feeling the impact of oversupply. I still see 5+ year old SW sets for below RRP.
In 5-10 years you'll start seeing the current catalogue at 50% off on the aftermarket as these retards desperately try to get rid of their stock that no one wants to buy anymore.
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>>11800616
Yeah, I think it’s unlikely people stockpiling modern sets are going to replicate the success of those people who stockpiled old 80s and 90s sets. But it does seem that desirable sets from the late 2010s are following the same sort of growth trends post-retirement as vintage sets. Could well be a kind of investor/flipper bubble though, hard to say just yet.
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>>11800655
Anyone who buys and trades childrens toys like they're currency should be shot
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>>11800676
>Lego should stop making "modified heads" not feel like "lego", and in many cases they shouldn't even make a head a modified head.
i disagree
i prefer molded heads for non human characters/unique characters - it makes them unique and very lego.
you are probably too young to remember the special feeling of owning that "the only molded hed you have"
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>>11800752
I am not entirealy against molded heads, but I'm saying there is merit in making a figure unique while also keep the "lego" aesthetics.
Like the Grugo head I posted as an example.
It's not just a regular head, its a specific mold with those ears, but still "lego"
Like the Pinocchio head from the disney CMF
They could've molded the head entirely to look like the 2d cartoon model. But instead they turned a regular head into what Pinocchio in the lego "universe" would look like.
I am not that young, I was around 10 when Lego Started making Lego Star Wars and introduced the first modified heads with JarJar and Chewbacca. And I'm not criticizing all the head molds, but as the other anon said, that tusken rider is cursed. And you can't deny that the "baby head, baby yoda" is significantly cuter than the overly detailed wrinkly head
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>>11800676
somebody at Lego "got it"
minifig-head Woody is the newer version
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im nof a political person and dont understand/care about what the fuck is happening on this video (it was recommended me just now).
But... lmao...this is some drama about stolen Lego and owners are Antifa-writers (?) and the guy looks like Satan with horns or some shit like that.
I know this thread is full of /pol/fags and such content is like a goldmine for you. Enjoy:
https://youtu.be/zedmOopRTm0
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>>11800796
there is another video...it seems that it's a huge drama right now.
I'm from england so i dont know what is Bricks and Minifigs and why it's stealing other people lego lol
https://youtu.be/Roo6qpvTdwo
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>>11800796
"It sounds like a threat, and I...[fumbles wording] ...can acknowledge you feeling that, because in a way, it is."
LOL
where is "cancel culture" when you need it? how is Bricks and Minifgs still around with this kind of media story? they should be publicly-shamed into full apology mode by now, this is insane
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I don't really care how many female employees Blizzard raped or how much breast milk they stole from locked fridges because Overwatch sets were kino, especially D.va mech and she is one of the best minifigs ever made
>"um, sweetycakes, she's le fleshy"
Yes, yes she is. Since Blizzard is engoodened enough to be in fortnite i hope we get that cancelled wave 2 and Mei minifig.
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>>11800796
I figured out a "new step" for the Legal-Battle-Dance-Nightmare
this is a total opportunity for someone else to literally steal their business away from them.
somebody else CAN create an exact copy of the store (buying/selling trade-in Lego sets) and open locations right next door to existing BaM stores.
the reason people are still going and supporting the BaM stores, is because they want to still be able to buy Minifigs for less than the full set, or buy an old set, things like that. if they had another option, right the-freak next door, they would stop going to "evil bully" BaM. it could be an instant success for the new guy, and instant out-of-business for BaM (like they deserve)
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>>11800613
I think I had this. Or the Chech version. Got it for christmas during the 80's in Hungary. I hated it. Couldn't build anything from it, the screws randomly got stuck and I had way better construction toys, like lego sets than this one. I kept it in the box and rarely even touched it. Don't know what happened to it, my parents probably threw it out.
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>>11800613
I'm from post soviet hellhole and i had an exact same metal CONSTRUCTOR as they were called.
I wanted to build that plane so much but the box had some pieces stolen/lost so i couldn't...
Thanfully later in the late 90s i was starting to get into lego and metal CONSTRUCTORS were forgotten forever.
I think this thing is one of reasons why i hate Lego Technic - all those bars with holes and "realistic models"
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>>11800711
Never heard of Meccano before, but I'm glad it wasn't just an Eastern Euro thing.
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>>11800878
Yeah, the screws were awful. I couldn't build anything from it either.
To be fair, I approached it with the Lego mindset of trying to build whatever I wanted. I probably would've enjoyed it way more if someone explained to me that I'm supposed to make the plane on the box and not freestyle it with the limited number of parts.
In the end all the screws and some of the bars ended up being used in various maintenance jobs around the house, which they were woefully unfit for. But it's not like there was much choice in the dreadful 90's.
>I wanted to build that plane so much but the box had some pieces stolen/lost so i couldn't...
Damn, that must've been painful.
I do like the general idea behind these sets though, as they do promote genuine engineering skills and can have a huge influence on a child's development & IQ. However all is wasted without proper parental guidance.
KiwiCo is like a lamer version of these constructor sets, but at least they seems to understand the importance of parental involvement.
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>>11800925
>why aren't the figs yellow?
Dapper Dans are "real people" and require fleshies
>>11800925
>How long until they just do fleshies for all sets
the moment they start doing fleshies for all sets is the moment they reveal yellow was "white guy" and appear to have been historically racist the whole time (not actually, but that's how it will appear to go down)
Lego CAN never switch to fleshies (even though they kinda should at this point lol)
I am not brown-skinned so I cannot say from my own personal experience if this yellow figure feels like it represents me as a brown-skinned person
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>>11800616
I have some sets from like 2015 that barely increased in price. I bought them at deep clearance from Walmart and left them under my bed. Over time I only ended up selling a few of them. If anything the huge sets never sold but the little ones did.
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>>11800676
Molded 3PO = kino
Classic Tusken = kino
Baby Sneed = both look good
Also sometimes you just NEED molded heads. Simpsons and Looney Toons being just classic heads with prints would look awful. Plus at least you know they're laying to mold them. A simple print on a cylinder is just lazy as fuck in some cases.
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>>11800778
I was at Qdoba yesterday and when I walked in there was a family and like a 25 year old woman in the wheelchair with short dark bob cut and I gotta say fellas, she was probably the most beautiful woman I've ever seen in my life. Like it looked like she actually took care of her body instead of just giving up.
Also yeah, you can't expect white people in Lego sets like we these anymore + Disneyland is in California and it's mostly Mexicans and Chinese tourists.
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>>11800793
I think is this is because that is not Woody, it's a guy dressed up like Woody to go along with the parade. I really like this set and the RC car build and little army men. I also like how the Buzz display box also can be detached and becomes a spaceship. I would have loved this as a kid.
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>>11800939
>yellow basketabll player is black-coded
Nah, that's just the bizarre artstyle they were going for. figures for white NBA people have the same mishapen lips and eyes
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>>11800895
Why is it so expensive? Also ironically I just bought a tshirt with black suit Spidey yesterday at Kohls for $12 (XL because I'm American, fat, and like my graphic tees extra large for wearing around the house comfy style). Didn't they already release a symbiote Spiderman?
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>>11800939
I am brown. As a kid I always thought Lego Yellow was universal. It was just a way to trademark Lego's figures while GI Joe and HeMan was peach pink or milk chocolate brown characters. I remember getting the Islander set and the Aztec set. Both are brown people, but as yellow figs it looked "right" because Lego people = always yellow. The basketball characters, even as a kid, looked really ugly and almost racist. They don't even have real basketball teams so there was no reason to even try to charicature the likeness of real players. I would have been 100% fine with a yellow Lando Calrissian because I never once thought of Lando as a negroid. African-American Black people don't exist in star wars. Maybe someone has a different colored skin (green, red, pink, fuzzy, scaly) but there are no black people with afros and talking like Atlanta blacks until the Disney sequels. It's like the sequels also having "obviously" Korean characters because they need to push obviously Asian characters with Asian haircuts. You don't even feel like they are alien space people anymore, just feels like obvious woke casting, especially when the actors are genuinely not good looking.
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>>11800964
here is your (you), petty faggot
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>>11800951
>A simple print on a cylinder is just lazy as fuck in some cases.
It's always lazy as fuck.
there is nothing better than seeing lego making cool new molds for unique characters. That anon just being autistic like many in this retarded thread.
>>11800793
they did it because the old one just looked awful - just like when they updated the old Harry Potter goblin heads.
thankfully they not abandoning it completely
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>>11800986
I'm right. Name a single original title from Blizzard.
Diablo? Not developed by them. They simply bought the company who made it. And even then it was just a Gauntlet inspired game.
Warcraft? Literally plagiarized designes from Warhammer. Gameplay is basically Herzog Zwei/Dune.
StarCraft? Plagiarized Warhammer 40k.
World of Warcraft? You can thank Ultima/EverQuest Online.
Overwatch? Obviously Blizzard wishing they had something successful like Team Fortress 2, worst of all is the Overwatch characters being absolutely generic mash ups of popular tropes. Like Genji obviously being Raiden from Metal Gear Solid 2.
Blizzsloppers just live in a bubble where they think their trash is somehow the best. It's odd.
Also MUCH sex with Mercy and obese Mei.
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>>11801000
Lego could (and should be) put a new Padme outfit in each and every set they can. muh-value-increase. it would absolutely SELL sets! and would be crazy easy for Lego to do
CMF would be insane as each one of these outfits could sell in a $X00 set
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>>11801017
>filename
Top right and bottom middle-left.
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>>11800547
HELLO
BRICKS N MINIFIGS ARE GREAT TRUSTED STORES!
PEOPLE GET GREAT AND FAIR VALUE FOR THEIR TRADE INS FROM THE EXPERTS!
DON'T GET PERSUADED BY A HANDFUL OF WILD WEST VIGILANTES CLOUDING THE OVERALL POSITIVE EXPERIENCES OF MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND CUSTOMERS!
HOPE TO SEE YOU SOON IN ONE OF OUR GREAT STORES!
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>>11800823
>>"um, sweetycakes, she's le fleshy"
Are you sure?
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>>11800815
Enter the Redditor. r/antiwork, anti capitalist, etc etc etc it's all silenced and shut down because my favorite toy company pays everyone under the table to keep things this way. This guy may have had this property stolen, but hey we don't know the full story am I right...
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>>11801239
Ah yes, our brave trans dogwalkers, the thin line between Late Stage Capitalism™ and total anarchy, silenced by corpo moneyhats... how could this happen...
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>>11800980
I want to make this guy
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Apparently a DnD theme is coming in 2027! And it might be smart play, Mario too! Now, the guy said DnD and Mario, dunno if they are smart play or not but it is a possibility. There were also leaks of smart play minifigs for minecraft movie 2 sets and pokemon smart play minifigs...
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>The LEGO city room is being emptied completely to make room for a better live streaming space. The goal is to upgrade the viewer experience from something I'm satisfied with to something I'm finally proud of. This will include a significantly smaller, but wildly better diorama-style installation with the working custom LEGO trains & such. It will also provide a dedicated area for plastic model building so I can waste less time on cleanup & conversion between streams, and I'll no longer need to go to a different part of the house to grab paints or use an airbrush.
it's true, Jang is taking down his city...
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>>11800823
toptier anime face. Visually appealing. simplistic in a lego way
>>11801117
dogshit early 2000s anime face from american cartoon or cheap japanese cartoon that was made to advertise stupid shit like Beyblade or other kids gimmicky toys
I remember them having such obnoxious "ANIMEEEAA :D" faces.
it's so fucking ugly holy shit
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>leakgoyslop
>>11801481
>turning any figure people may have wanted into a timebomb
The smart brick shareholders need to be strung up
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>>11801460
>with INT-4
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>>11801377
>D&D theme
Fuck yes
>possibly smart play
Fuck no
What did I do to deserve this?
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>>11801535
Huh, a DnD theme actually makes lots of sense now that this retires. Rivendell also retires this december.
But if they lock DnD under smart play we are cooked, I always wanted DnD PLAYsets not SMART PLAYsets!!!
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>>11801377
>other themes like dnd and super mario
He didn't say those were smart play too, maybe they are normal? I would fucking cry if our first ever Mario minifig is a smart play one...
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>>11801531
he's rare man, I only ever found 3 of him the whole time the wave was going
>>11801537
can't admit that they fucked up by trying to force weird electronic shit that wont sell into sets that are good otherwise
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>>11801572
yeah it's also the only release that interests me this batch
keep in mind it's not a set you can display 360° the back looks pretty shit
https://youtu.be/DUR12d57s9o&t=83
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>>11801594
Don't you get the obscure reference? It was an old Kenner toy which was also in expanded universe lore. It's a reference only seasoned geeks like me would know. Isn't it so cool they put it in the movie? I cheered and clapped when I saw it on screen just to let everyone know how much of a frickin' Star Wars geek I am. It's there for the fans which is so wholesome. Dave Filoni has saved Star Wars.
Game on.
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>>11801544
I'd wait
the Walmart near me had the Shanks set in the clearance section for $25 (which is like, the start of clearance) and plenty of the other sets still on the shelves (not clearance yet)
I'm excited it looks like it's about time for the One Piece sets to hit clearance. this is the time when you gamble on waiting for lower prices vs showing up to see them all GONE.
I usually bite when they get around half-price sometimes Walmart goes just above that (in that ship's case, I'm guessing $80 or $85) and at that point I'd rather pay a little more than the 1/2-price-insta-get, than miss out all together.
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>>11801299
Yeah. Pretty fcuked up that they wont do dual mold on minifigs that actually need it but will for slave leia.
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>>11801653
Them removing the cleavage looks so bad. There are minifigs that really need it like this and the rouge the bat figure which looks terrible. But if you complain about it you get called a "gooner" and dogpiled, its retarded, this weird fake purity culture normies have started needs to die
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>>11801660
>lego made a set based on the scene in which Mando takes the life of a innocent mudhorn child for the sake of his ship
Too much for lego
Mando should've killed the Jawas, total Jawa death
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>>11801655
"Imperial Remnant Warlord"
ouch.
that dude had a name, Commander Barro
they also had playing cards with bag guy targets (like real-world Desert Storm yikes) did Lego think to do a (random heh) One Piece-esque card tile?
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>>11801461
WHERE.
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HUNTER.
PURSUIT.
2.0
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ZAM WESSEL.
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DEXTER?!!?!?
AAAAAAAAIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
WHY AM I BEING TORTURED WITH MANDO SLOP? NO, I DON'T WANT A RECOLOR OF THE SANDCRAWLER. NO, I DON'T WANT ANOTHER AT-AT
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>>11801661
If I really want a specific minfig ill usually just buy alt bricks now. Unless its classic yellow since alt brands dont make that. But I dont really consider fleshies to be real lego and the printing on alt brands is usually better, although plastic quality can vary.
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>>11801660
>said this set looked like shit back when it leaked
>”it’s just a prototype it’ll look better”
>still looks like shit
don’t care about accuracy it’s just an ugly gray mass
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>>11801377
>D&D
>electronic brick
that doesn't match at all
those D&D sets should come with DICE. PAPER. PENCILS.
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>>11801720
These look pretty stupid. You may as well just buy actual figures from companies that make anime coomer girls instead of squat little SD chibi Lego-esque minifigs.
And I'm totally fine with feminine torsos, and hate that Lego seems to push way more for unisex torsos, but this just looks too goofy to me.
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this shit looks like liquid feces aids
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>at least 7 white minifigs in that picture and anon still thinks the toys are genociding him
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I only want it because it looks like it would be a pretty easy conversion into a medieval peasant house MOC.
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Minifig series 29 is the worst they've done to date.
>inb4 tuba redcoat
Went through a ton of them at the lego store today and only found one tuba guy, most of the packs were the witch girl, goalkeeper and steampunk cringe.
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He looked down into her brown eyes
And said "Say a prayer for me"
She threw her arms around him
Whispered "God will keep us free"
They could hear the riders coming
He said "This is my last fight
If they take me back to Texas
They won't take me back alive"
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What was the last cmf with this density of quality inclusions? I guess the dedicated space line or DnD, but ignoring the themes series, what would you say, like series 22?
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Hey friend you have to block their watermark with a circle
They angle it differently depending on who they release it to so they may still identify you
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He did classic sets on Wednesdays.
He called it "old school Wednesdays"
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>>11802091
>found at the thrift store
You lie like a rug.
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>>11802091
Lego peaked 1989-1991
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>>11802093
no lies fren
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sorry im not selling im gonna play with it
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I like the cat witch. I made her a little cottage.
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>>11802132
I agree
a CMF wave would give them "the budget" to mold 12 new animal heads and they can then re-color those for future sets
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Received an email from the Lego stores in my country. It's 50% off and the third time I received an email about this set having a discount. Is the set not selling well? I can't see any other reason to have 3 discounts in the short amount of time since this released.
It's a real store associated with Lego.
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He disappears in Mexico for three years and he is a Sicario now
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>front cockpit window is a sticker
The absolute state.
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Whats this overengineered shit?
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>>11801742
Yeah its weird but i actually feel hornier looking at minifigs than anime figurines. Maybe i've spent too long self inserting as my sigfig or something. I see them as more human. In fact in my mind they are more human and fleshed out than most of the people i know IRL.
>>11801878
Nah this is first world incel shit. Third worlders have goats.
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Maybe we need a dedicated Ninjago thread... Eh, whatever.
So, I've been constantly thinking, back in LEGO Dimensions, we had a non-toy NRG Lloyd in his green outfit. But what if one would imagine a true NRG Lloyd in his gold outfit? Imagine him with an energy dragon in his obi, probably in green to contrast the nice gold colors he would have on the rest of the minifigure. We aren't too sure if he gets to use his oni mask again as an alternate headgear option, but it's still an interesting concept.
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Why did they decide to put a huge veiny cock on the box art?
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Is there such a thing as over designing? This is prototype 3 for my Glup Shitto star Destroyer. The weight is more towards the back but there are little notches on the bottom of the ship that look like they were made for a custom stand.
>>11801399
Yeah but I mean what's exclusive about it? Literally looks like a generic venom torso.
>>11801460
I already have the one form a few years ago with better actual Snowtroopers.
>>11801461
>Mando sandcrawler
We lost.
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>>11802624
Looks more like what I dig up while going out
>>11802630
Advertising is against the rules.
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>>11802624
I made it tall enough for a minifig to go under it and repair the Star Destroyer.
>It wouldn't be to scale if he's repairing it!!
Shut up. So far I checked the weight balance and it's pretty good. It does not tilt or fall off in any direction unless you purposefully put weight on it. Prototype 4 is probably going to be the last one and then I'll order some pieces from Lego. I dunno if I should do it all black or give it some yellow or trans red/blue/yellow parts.
>>11801661
I'm ok with the cleavage gone since princess Leia isn't that busty, but no thigh action? Fuck off. I get that Disney Star Wars is for kids but it's not for babies, c'mon.
>>11801658
Probably not but there will be an uptick in sales when it hits Shitney+
>>11801570
Genuinely one of the few good looking botanicals.
>>11802025
So did he die?
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>>11802634
Yeah, I'm just getting the shape and weight right. I have the Lego studio designer but I need to see and feel it physically because the software doesn't let you know which parts are weak or under stress.
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>to get my favorite version of the winter soldier I need to buy an exclusive minifig from a 400-buck set and a head piece from a 10-year-old minifig
Wish lego would just ship extra minifig heads in cases like these but it is what it is.
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>>11802716
I'll be dead honest.
Seeing them next to each other like that I actually prefer the original less-detailed one because it feels more lego/classic lego. The only thing it really could use is that printed arm though.
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>soon
>>11799619
That brick clicker fag with his queer lispy accent definitely lurks here btw.
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>>11802782
>Do you have autism?
Where do you think we are?
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>>11802686
All you have to say is "No, they never made a black symbiote Spider-Man besides this."
And I would say "lol, that sucks. At least you can just take a Venom or Spider-Woman and erase the mouth for the black head."
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>>11802790
Not a schizo theory. Brickclicker used an image I posted here in a video like an hour later.
Also, I’m not your boyfriend. Not everyone who criticizes the “leaks” and spam is the guy posting “pedo” every five seconds.
>huh?
Cool moc bro!
Extra kino!
Based kits!
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Is 280 pieces too much for a custom stand?
>>11802803
And then I would say "you know what? Maybe just use a Miles head. Nobody wants Miles. Just tape up the eyes and and erase the webs."
And then you would say "le exclusive comic con le figure."
And I would say "yeah exclusive figures are pretty gay and never worth it. Marvel is going to do Secret Wars soon so expect a symbiote Spiderman when the movie comes out."
And you would say "wahh wahhh leee exclusive outdated print!!!"
And I would finally reply with "not my problem."
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>>11802825
Damn wtf I hate Lego now.
>>11802834
>Big fog guy
>Gashapon machine
>Big boat
>Toy story Alien
She cute and based.
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>>11802833
Um yeah? When you are shoving in a bunch of pieces that could have been replaced by with larger cheaper components just to mask how overpriced your set is then yeah it's fucking sinister. What's worse are retards like you defending this shit like it isn't shady corporate shir to make even greate profits at the expense of the consumer.
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Speaking of Ninjago, if Nexo Knights might have been affected by the Merge like Chima was (since NK was one of the Sixteen Realms if Chima was also connected to Ninjago, on top of the former's cameo in NK), I have been thinking that Merlok and either of the Cadet Knights might have been Elemental Masters of Technology before Sora was. Trying to put two and two together just because.
And I want to ask, which are the definitive mechs for each of the main five Knights across all five waves of the theme? Here are my pics, you might have to change them depending on you anons' tastes.
>Clay's Rumble Blade
>Aaron's X-Bow
>Axl's Rolling Arsenal
>Macy's Thunder Mace
>Lance's Twin Jouster
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>>11800796
those people are NOT the owners of the "stolen legos"
those demon looking people owned a store that buys and sells legos. those people took someone's legos to sell. they then lost the store and went to Spain or something.
BAM took the legos and apparently, allegedly never paid for the 200k worth of legos
the Lego owner is a regular guy
his dad owned the legos
his dad is old and sick.
the store flat out took an old man's Lego collection and never paid
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>>11802860
Not gonna justify BAM's actions. Still fucking evil no matter how you slice it. But I find it hard to have too much Empathy for the people who worked with them for a majority of reasons. They originally made the deal with BAM to help pay for the kid's college tuition and I'm sorry but what the fuck were they thinking spending 30 grand in Lego in the first place? That money could have went into a College Prepaid plan or a Roth IRA that would accrue just as much interest as the damn legos. Also in this day and age where Bricklink exists why the hell would you deal with a brick and mortar store? Especially when you are cutting significantly into your profit margin by doing so in the first place? I get they got fucked, I get they didn't deserve this, but hot damn how did they no know better? Seems like these people were bad with money long before this incident.
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>>11802875
Why are you ignoring the fact that the set doesn't need to contain 140 dollars worth of legos?
Have you also considered that 140 dollars worth of legos may be grossly overpriced in the first place?
Why are you being such a fucking shill?
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>>11802880
It would obviously take a lot of time and effort to sell the sets individually, but how much do you suppose they’d lose in commission?
Though I’ve heard bricks and minifigs has substantial markup, so maybe that somewhat offsets the consignment losses.
But yeah, god knows what these people were thinking. Maybe the guy just had an autistic sealed lego collection and it gradually turned into a sort of investment?
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>>11802880
BAM are acting like corrupt assholes,
but I would never hand over my 200k collection of legos to someone without cash up front.
what if someone broke into the store, what if God forbid there was a fire....
it's just too scary.
the lady store owner and her demon looking husband made the deal and technically they are responsible too.
BAM is technically stealing those legos.
but the responsible party for paying the guy was the store lady.
she took his 200k legos and then decided to close her shop and move to Spain? ( I know that BAM removed her from the store by force)
but it was her responsibility to return the legos before contacting BAM
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>>11802880
There's risk with every type of investment. Its been said a million times at this point, but people bought beanie babies back in the 90s, because all they were doing at the time was going to the moon value-wise. People buy pokemon cards for investment. People dumped money into NFTs, and meme crypto coins and did way worse on that stuff.
Most people who do that stuff aren't real investors, they just see shit jumped suddenly and want to buy in, not realizing that there are all sorts of potential downsides. Hell, even pretty reliable methods of investment like the stock market can--and have--crashed at points. Its dumb to rely on Lego sets for some huge return but even if you wanted to most people know to put there money into several different things than to go all-in on ONE investment.
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>I would never hand over my 200k collection of legos to someone without cash up front.
But that is what consignment is. You only get the money after it sells. They probably just put too much misplaced trust into B&M. There probably would have been way better ways to sell the stuff even if they didn't through eBay or Bricklink, or some sort of second-hand resell website. I'm sure there are auction houses, both physical and online avenues they likely could have been though. Could have possibly even gotten more money, considering who knows what B&M's cut would have been after the sets sold.
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>>11802897
I've seen some sets where you ask you to put together three 1x2 pieces multiple times and I'm like... Dude just use a regular 1x2?
Also I'm gonna say it, but Lego Groups' faggy "we love the environment" thing is actually really stupid when you realize that they actually generate trash with every set. Not talking about the packaging, or bags, or manuals, but the fact that every set has left over 1x1 elements. I've filled a small bag with tons of those pieces. They are essentially trash because they are not usable in a normal "big brick" way. Same for the orange brick tool. How many do you have now? Don't they somehow feel like extra trash? Essentially pieces that cannot be used for playing or MOCs on a normal way. Yeah, having a few is nice for building but 30? 40 of them? Lego generates a ton of trash this way. Yes, I am autistic.
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After a whole month of waiting for the final order, I'm pleased to finally have the finished diorama in front of me. The new additions are the two container transports on the left which the imperials are escorting. I also added primitive little brick built asteroids (using gold of all colours) to represent they are in a passage of space too dense for an ISD.
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>>11802928
BAM keeps defending itself in that they don't do consignment. they say is not part of their business.
that's their stance, but the one that fucked everything is that lady store owner by not calling the guy to collect all his lego.
she took his Lego collection knowing she was gonna move soon.
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a month if you're lucky
I had totally forgot I did it once, it was like 3 months. when it arrived I was like "oh yeah! I did that a while ago! neat. thanks past-me."
that was a couple of years ago, I haven't done it recently (I got pic-related viking babes, among other minifig bits)
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I was just reiterating what consignment is. No one gets anything until the item is sold. There are pawn shops, and comic shops, etc. that sell on consignment. I suppose it stands to reason that people might assume B&M would, but if a person had that much stuff to sell, you'd think they'd do the proper research to be certain how it all worked. I wouldn't even just dump all the shit off and hope for the best. You'd think they'd maybe just try and sell little bits at a time. Even if all of this had worked out, what if the shit had just sat around for months or years not moving at the prices you were hoping for? Seems like there are any number of things that could have potentially gone wrong between the sets leaving the seller's hands, and being actually sold.
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finished neuschwanstein and my first speed champions set
those cars are way bigger in person than they look like in pictures/videos
i was expecting like maybe 12cm length but the g wagon is almost 18
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Counterpoint: it will
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>>11803073
Its a neat set when fully built. I like the Ganon build and the minifigures are great, but I actually found the overall build to be kind of blah, since the first 5 bags are building rubble on a base.
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That’s kinda my whole point. I like Zelda and it can’t be worse than the tree.
Got the ducks gwp done. Cute little set.
Moving onto Ganon after dinner.
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First bag: Zelda in with a ton of plates. Already fucking scratched to shit.
>always the best
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>>11803260
The outstanding and prominent colors are what make all of the old 80s and 90s space themes so memorable. Its a shame that Lego rarely takes more than a surface level of consideration when it comes to color in modern sets.
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>>11803385
Dreamzzz probably gets too much hate, but that's more for the neat and unique builds and all sorts of interesting little elements, but the sets themselves are like an explosion of color. I don't really take a look from one set to another and see much of any cohesion between any of them color wise.
Friends, I suppose tends to have a lot more pastels and "girly" colors, so yeah it tends to have more pinks and purples, and maybe even some soft blues and yellows and stuff.
But nothing really did it like the old Space themes did. They generally had 2 or 3 predominant colors, and then one translucent color. You can immediately look at any set from that era and tell what faction it was from instantly.
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Nexoknights was really good at that, you could tell what groups were which even had the same color convention you describe with translucent pieces.
some of the vidyo sets were super underrated since each band had a clear and defined style that the sets adhere to. Like the pirate ship, the candy castle, and the robot car. Would've loved vidyo to just be something seperate from the ar tech.
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Let’s hope they start cranking out some OoT sets and drop some polybags then. Imagine a whole wave of Zelda with as many sets as Mario has. All the temples and dungeons, hyrule castle, death mountain, Lon Lon ranch with my main minge malon.
Mmmmm get me some!
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>>11803427
i really wish lego did more lines where the idea is that everything builds together to be an interchangeable thing, or one big piece. Like the hogwartz castle and the mario sets. That would be cool to see for zelda, could even make an entire set like the minecraft crafting box where its just cool parts and ideas to include into your other sets.
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>>11803385
Nta but I hate Dreamz and Friends being nothing but "girl" colors. Magenta, like green, pink, white, orange yellow, sky blue. All that shit that doesn't fit with regular system sets. Then those shitty colors started spilling over to City sets. Lego just looked much better with the original solid colors. What's that German style called? Red, black, white, yellow, blue. Just really strong colors that made the yellow figs really pop out and stand out.
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They should probably just bag the minifigures in separate little bags now so they don't get damage. They tend to do that now with larger transparent pieces like windows and canopies for ships and stuff so they don't get damaged or scratched.
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>>11803589
So they did go the power ranger route. Maybe you need to watch the show to get invested in the sets. I know people keep saying "you gotta stop buying licensed slop and buy original themes to get more original themes" but I don't like the idea that some new theme is also banking on the success of yet another Lego kids show. I would buy original themes if they appealed to me. Ninjago? Monkey Kid? Dreamz? It just does not appeal to me so I can't spend money on sets that don't look appealing either. Trex and Tiger Shark are cool.
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>>11803616
Yeah but then white people will rip open the boxes and bags and go directly for the little figure packages. I'm honestly surprised they barely wrap or don't wrap windshields in expensive sets. Imagine paying $250 for the landspeeder and theres a giant cut across the windshield for your $250 display piece.
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>>11803682
>Ninjago? Monkey Kid? Dreamz? It just does not appeal to me
I don't give a shit about the shows either (didn't even know there were shows for the latter two) but for me, "rule of cool" still applies. I've bought Ninjago sets, and Dreamz sets just for cool builds, or unique pieces, or neat minifigures. Never gone in on crazy big sets, but I'll get some smaller ones.
I do want that big tiger shark tank, and the big red dinosaur thing from this Dreamz wave, though. I think it is probably the strongest wave they've done.
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People already just rip open the bags for the minifigures. This wouldn't really change anything to stop that, it would just protect them better.
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compared to other hobby/boards this general is fucking dead
come to think of it /toy/ is kinda dead too
what happened?
is reddit unironically better for the discussion of toys?
also you guys are fucking jaded, you remind me more and more of /v/ and this is a fucking /toy/ board
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>>11803913
I don't believe this leak, but it sounds like something Lego would do to sell a $130 set (lookin' at you, Zelda-Ganon battle) if anybody at Lego has even a small amount of intelligence
hilarious that the character design has literally crescent moon red-outline "boob lines" on her black shirt. let's see Lego get around that! haha this has disaster written all over it.
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What if it’s a Deoxys minifigure? 0_0
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>>11804009
It’s a well-documented fact, and it’s been litigated to death even in these threads. Of course there are exceptions, usually massively overpriced IP sets (Zelda, Pokemon, most notably) or Smartbrick gimmick sets, but on the whole, Lego has never been more affordable per-piece and per-gram, save maybe for two or three years ago. Nonetheless, it’s far more affordable now than it was in the 80s, 90s, and 2000s
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>>11801570
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>>11804018
Like >>11804020 suggests, we’re obviously not comparing nominal values.
That said, you should maybe look at price per gram, which is probably more favourable to your position. The 2002 set looks more massive with several large elements. Still, it’s my hunch that the newer set is going to be cheaper.
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>>11803682
>Power Ranger route
I guess? Maybe just the red, black and green sets. With the Crocodile and Shark I don't know if you can call them as a certain color as easily, like would you call both blue and orange? Or you'd go for a more real-life viewpoint and call the Croc yellow?
However I really appreciate how other colors play into it. Like maybe you can say Cooper is red, and Mateo has (trans bright)green, Zoey dark Blue and so on, but the complementary colors make every set assigned to them feel different,
For instance Mateo seemed like he was pigeonholed into white and trans-bright green, including his second mech with some blue splashes you may find awkward (it's even blue and dark azure if we talk about Lego colors, pic related). But then was this car in the cyber wave which dropped all white and added some neon yellow (I think this color has the same problems which >>11803579 describes, yet actually functions well along the the green tones.). Then there's the big truck with red lime and that neon again, which lore-wise I don't know who'd you'd assign it to, but his name is on the set and looks like a spray can adding to his paint motif. Finally the giant wolf was a cool way to give him a green thing while avoiding another Z-Blob construct. And again, it's not like there's anything in the minifig that points at him being "the green one".
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I totally regret not buying more of the monkie kid sets when they were more available. Monkie was around at a time where lego was struggling to make any really big fun play sets for figs. So it was cool to get these actual nice quality set pieces that you could really mess around with. I remember super being into the gimmick of the first few waves where things would transform. Where they're presented as one thing and become another. I remember liking the boat that turned into a mobile command base and the giant spider that turned into a prison.
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>>11804105
probably a new piece color quota. I know when a designer wants something in a certain color or new piece they have to campaign for it by getting other designers to agree to use it in their own sets. might have just been someone who agreed to it.
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>>11804133
hot, crazy, banger soundtrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIn8_Q27WFY
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>>11804160
That's motorized at at, question is, why didn't lego do it again?
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>>11804171
wow
screw the Smart Bricks, how about Lego just makes more MOTOR sets?
also, Lego DOES sell sets that can "use" the motor but not included (like muh-smart-tiles) and those don't cost twice as much, AND Lego sells the motor separately! so why not sell the Smart Brick all by itself?!!!
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>>11803913
Never in a million years I would have though we would get a named character, that it would be zinnia AND that there would be a Rayquaza set. I'm starting to even hope this Rayquaza is a 2in1 with the megaevolution
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>>11804020
Inflation is not real.
>>11804018
>Actual play set made of big bricks vs 200 1x1 elements
Someone post how you could get Star Wars figures with an tiny build for $5. I really saw Lego go to shit around 2014 or 2015 with the Scooby Doo were. If you wanted Velma you could only get her in he most expensive set. Lego knows that customers will want to collect all the figs so they throw in the "exclusive" figure in a big expensive set.
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>>11804160
Nope. Just replace the cockpit window thingy with a red bracket and it's perfect. Also it was weird to me that in the Mandalorian movie the AT-ATs didn't look like AT-ATs. Something just looks really off.
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>>11804240
>Lego knows that customers will want to collect all the figs
Past-Lego put the least-desirable figs in the expensive set (Velma was the dumpy nerd girl, let's be honest. only recently has she moved into hot nerd girl form) so you needed it to complete your collection but Shaggy and Scoob were in the affordable sets multiple times
NOW-Lego puts the most-wanted figures into the $330 sets.
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>>11804240
>Someone post how you could get Star Wars figures with an tiny build for $5.
They know SW is a massive cash-cow and people will spend small fortunes to get every Glup Shitto background alien character that appeared in the Cantina for .5 seconds, or that one Jedi on Geonosis who got thrown off a balcony as soon as he appeared. So they'll put them in whatever sets they can.
You could almost even argue that they've gone the opposite way, since they often put shittier figures in high-dollar UCS sets than in the cheaper playsets, or they're worse than versions of minifigures that came out 10-15 years ago, or like the whole Captain Rex minifigure fiasco, they baited people into buying a $650 UCS ship then put that same figure in a $12 Microfighter less than a year later.
And Lego still does $5 polybags with two minifigures and $10 sets with 3 minifigures like in Ninjago and some Marvel sets sometimes.
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>>11803913
Pedo.
>>11803814
The shill happened.
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They all have alternate yelling faces. That being said, I like the Ganondorf a lot. Probably like a top 10-15 minifigure of all time, for me.
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>>11804293
Lego doesn't do them anymore, thats from a certified 3rd party store, its designed after the lego catalog calendar, dunno why they don't do it again.
Also, I was watching a video about how lego failed monkie kid and apparently the current CEO was chosen because lego wanted to get more into tech because thats the future.
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>>11804317
He posted a pic of zinnia, are you retarded? The guy knows his pokemon, he wouldn't posta pic of her if he didn't know she was coming. Idiot, I will laugh so much at you when the set gets revealed. Done with replying to your bait.
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>>11804261
>lego is affordable lol
It’s statistically about as affordable as it’s ever been. That’s a brute fact. Though the company is making more (and more expensive) high-end “luxury” sets. But if these were made 20, 30, 40 years ago, they’d be far more expensive.
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>>11804240
>Someone post how you could get Star Wars figures with an tiny build for $5
Remember the good old days when you could get one or two minifigures and a nice little side build for just $5?
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Pic unrelated
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>>11804339
You could never get something like this today
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>>11804339
That could easily be Link & Zelda but Lego needs you to buy the $300 tree please you're getting value it's worth it for the bricks you get with it $300 worth of tree bricks Lego cares about you and your budget those bricks are worth $300 yes three---HUNDRED---dollars you have that much right
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>>11804294
Yeah the Ganon one is the only good one. The rest just feel like they didn't try hard enough.
>>11804330
Inflation is not real if wages don't go up. I also hate it when you retards insist that a $70 game today is the same value as a $70 game in 1990. One was state of the art technology. The other is a code in a plastic box.
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>>11804351
At this point, probably half of the SW minifigures they've made probably aren't canon. They've done entire waves off of Clone Wars, Rebels, video game stuff, and even Lego's own made-up SW things like Freemaker adventures, Yoda Chronicles, Rebuild the Galaxy, etc...
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>>11804358
I’m fairly certain it costs far more to develop a “blockbuster” game today than it did in, like, 1994. And yes, games (and most electronics, toys, entertainment broadly) are far cheaper today than they were 30 years ago.
>inflation isn’t real if wages don’t go up
Inflation is still a real phenomenon whether or not wages rise in turn, but maybe I’m being pedantic. In any case, is it your contention that wages haven’t risen since, what, the 1980s or something? I don’t understand what you’re trying to say.
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>>11804378
>I’m fairly certain it costs far more to develop a “blockbuster” game today
Not my problem plus new game budgets are all inflated because of mismanagement.
Yes, wages have not gone up since the 1980s but products keep getting more expensive WHILE companies continue to have record breaking revenue AND profit. Even Lego bragged a few years ago about their biggest year in sales and profit and then they raised the prices on everything. And this wasn't because of oil price Wars or covid or Trump taxes. And this is a PRIVATE company. They are not bowing to investors to keep investor shares happy.
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>>11804401
None of that has anything to do with inflation, though. Inflation is largely due to increase in money supply. This generally has a trickle-down effect in things slowly costing more, due to prices creeping up.
The problem is that the flood gates have opened, because in the last 5-6 years record levels of money have been printed all across the world, and every company, corporation, and business has increased prices because there was more money going around. They also have used every single excuse in the book to justify these price increases.
So, yeah. Inflation is a natural, expected thing, but what is going in the last few years is just good-old fashion greed. And considering every few months is a "once-in-a-decade-crisis" that they use as a scapegoat to increase prices. Though, most people have had enough, and many businesses are actually finally starting to feel the consumer walking away, so the only thing they're going to be able to do soon is lower prices back down.
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Do people not actually know what causes inflation? Like just to educate people inflation isn't something that just "happens" it is the result of more money being pumped into the economy thereby devaluing the currency. That's where the term "inflation" comes from the "inflation" of currency in the market. The items aren't becoming more expensive, the currency is becoming worth less as a government prints more money to make up for governmental expenditures. This occurs with all nations, not just the US because the unfortunate reality is that every nation is in debt to everyone.
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>It's le money being pumped so they raise prices
Did you ignore the part where I said this was before covid/Trump taxes? Oil wars = plastic prices increase. Exporting costs increase because of fuel. Trade lines are clogged because of cargo shippers wanting to get out before prices blow up. Covid = huge dump of cash into the economy. Yet Lego and other Nazi capitalists, OR NIGGERS AS I LIKE TO CALL THEM, increased prices on their products before covid inflation and oil wars. No, I don't think sets today are cheaper with Gayflation comparisons. I was looking at the Slave I, Andor ship, the Revenge of the Sith clone fighter thing. They're all like $80 each, $55 with the usual Amazon 20% discount, which should be in line with what they actually should cost by default. There's also this shitty feeling with toys (including games) that everything is marked up for paypigs and then the sale price ends up being what the normal price should be, meaning there's never actually a real sale price.
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>>11804435
You're just arguing two different things at this point. Inflation is unrelated to greedy corpos price gouging modern-day goods. Inflation is a natural thing that happens over time. You may be too dumb to understand it, since you constantly mock it, but governments printing more fake-ass fiat fun money is exactly what leads to inflation. Its just that it is traditionally a tiny amount, and wages are usually able to keep up with, if not outpace it, which is why people rarely feel it.
You're right that people were noticing prices increasing even before the scamdemic, but it was only in the few years leading up to it, and then it catapulted much higher after Covid and it has just been snowballing since then. Also, no one can accept a "down quarter" anymore. Businesses had downturns from time to time, and you just adjusted expectations going into the next quarter. Nowadays, everything is an asset to be put into a portfolio, and every product exists to shoot the price of that company's stocks to the moon, so a down quarter isn't acceptable, it HAS to go UP only, forEVER and EVER, and we just CAN'T accept a loss, which is why when companies start loosing money, they fire workers, cut corners, produce shittier products with worse materials, and find every possible way to sell an inferior product to maintain artificially bloated profits.
It can't keep going like that forever. And the only way to make a change is for EVERYone to not buy the shit, so they take such a HUGE loss there's nothing left for them to cut, so they actually HAVE to do something to cut prices substantially and make a better product that isn't shit.
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>>11804457
Judging by set pictures, the measurements of the side with holes (from top to botttom in your pic) is eight studs. The rest you can figure out by measuring a nx8 brick or plate from one corner to another and applying rule of three to figure out the rest of the rectangle (keep in mind that your pic may not be an exact rectangle because of the photo angle or the stretch of the fabric). For the holes, I don't know how wide those hole ares, but maybe one milimeter more than a stud diameter, if they are anything like minifig capes
You trying to use paper?
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>>11804539
I was going to stiffened cloth like in this videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvrPeYynsD8. Although testing dimensions with paper first is probably a good idea now that I think about it. I believe studs go through the holes so they should be about about the same as a cape hole.
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>>11804447
>You may be too dumb to
>people were noticing prices increasing even before the scamdemic
>cut corners, produce shittier products with worse materials, and find every possible way to sell an inferior product to maintain artificially bloated profits.
The fact that you call it the scamdemic just means that you're the actual retard. And that's exactly what Lego did, before covid, they started making thinner lighter bricks, they opened the China factories to mass produce visibly worse figures (compare the yellows and quality of Denmark minifigs to the Chinese CMFs), and we now have a new generation of Lego buyers who don't know about brittle brown (and dark blue, and dark red, oh some of the blue technic pins, also white clips, and uhh... But that's ok because we are making bio degradable foliage pieces!!). Inflation is a scam, always has been. Also it's impossible to get people to stop buying Lego, and it's because of scalpers and resellers. Lego had a limit for the Jabbas Sail Barge at 5 per order. Who the fuck is buying 5 Sail Barges at $500 each for personal use? We have faggots like MnR stockpiling hundreds of clone trooper battle packs (and then getting fucked when Lego released a new one the next year lmao).
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>>11804339
Or 5-6 figs for one buck more
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>>11804733
Fuck I miss minifigure sets so much.
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>>11804733
>$6 MSRP in 1999
>But le inflation!!!
>It's still only $12 for a bunch of unique figures and some accessories
Lego would never do this today. I genuinely don't care about some idiot saying inflation is a real thing. A kid could actually buy this back in 1999. This is the kind of set where a parent or grandparent would just pass by the isle and grab because it costs the same as two McDonalds big mac combos. For $12 today you can't get a Lego set like this and or sure as fuck can't get a Big Mac combo.
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>>11804747
Your willful ignorance on economics aside, the only reason Lego won't do anything like this today is because AFOLs place so much collectability and value on minifigures now that Lego knows they can charge $5 for a single minifigure, whereas they used to charge $5 for a box of 5 or 6 minifigures.
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>>11804752
picrel is the closest modern equivalent
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>>11804755
That's an actual fairly-sized build, though, and a bunch of minifigures. Lego still does the SW battle packs, but they've lost the plot considering they now charge $25-$45 for essentially 4 figures and a polybag build. If its on the higher end, you may also get two droids and a second polybag build.
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>>11804758
SW battle packs don't give you the full cast of characters you care about like that RR set, though
My point is more that lego no longer offers a product with the main cast of a theme without a more substantial build to go with it
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i'm too lazy to repost them all but all the shart brick pokemon sets got leaked
full images of 10+ sets, check the usual sources
they're all pretty disappointing
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>>11804874
Just go to legoleak
Also, Mewtwo is fire
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>My man Bossk (He skins Wookies, or Wiggers as he calls them, for sport)
>Dengar
>4-LOM
>IG-88
>Sick speeder that can also be built as cargo crates and equipment
Was the truly the last cool variety pack?
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Kek
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>>11804873
not terrible if there's no stickers (pretty sure the 2x3 beware ogre is from brickheads and printed). I was expecting worse after those buildable figures. looks cleaner than that Hobbiton house that was supposed to be a 'display' piece.
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>>11800951
The Simpsons themselves proved that printed minifigs would've been better than the molded ones
>>11800676
However, nothing will ever beat the classic C-3PO mold. I think some custom heads like Squidward are better than the prints we've had before.
The problem is that the Star Wars ones don't stylize as Lego characters anymore. They go for an ugly caricature style now that looks mismatched