MAB

Eurobricks Grand Dukes
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  1. Or they believe the demographics of people that will buy this is much wider than you think.
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    Ideas for a New LEGO website

    If you haven’t got any novel ideas, it is probably best not to create a new website.
  3. Brilliant. Instantly recognisable.
  4. Gone up compared to when? Most of the Rivendell figures can be had for about £10 each on BL from UK sellers (obviouslywith some variation based on popularity). That is about as cheap as they have been for buyers here. They started off at £15-25 when first released.
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    folding kaleidocycle

    Very smooth action, well done!
  6. For $350 now, I would not expect much more than Orthanc was back then. And that would be a huge disappointment to many.
  7. LEGO's part numbering scheme is rather useless, as it doesn't allow users to identify base parts. BL (and LDraw) use the base part then use their own numbering scheme. That cataloguing is their property. When Brickowl first started, BL objected to Brickowl using the same catalogue numbers as that was BL property. Similarly, LEGO doesn't really care about naming of parts, and BL names are much more user friendly for searching for parts. This has the downside that the description they use is their property, so cannot be used by others unless they have permission.
  8. At bricklink, do you mean 3068bpb2339? Where does the other number come from, as LEGO call this part "FLAT TILE 2X2, NO. 699" with part number 6465626. That part number from the LEGO parts database is used on BL.
  9. Some questions were focused on whether you have bought on the LEGO website. It wouldn't surprise me if they intend to sell some of these online, like they currently do with clothing, bags and household items.
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    Future Castle Sets?

    Some kids have rich relatives and get what they want. I know one family with two boys, each of them had the original UCS Death Star 10188. In a LEGO store once, a grandmother on the phone to presumably the parents of the grandkid. They couldn't decide whether the kid would want Hogwarts 71043 or Cloud City 75222. The grandad looked like he was impatient and bought both. It wouldn't surprise me if there are kids with the LKC and the Blacksmith. It might not be aimed at kids, but kids will still want and have it.
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    Future Castle Sets?

    I think it is possible to go ever further than that. To me, the Blacksmith set was an adults' set for adults whereas the Lion Knights Castle is a kids' play set for adults. The former is highly detailed and mainly display oriented whereas the latter is in the style of a kids' set even though it is for adults (or adult budgets), hence the nostalgic link to kids' toys of the past. The Blacksmith is quite far removed from Castle of days gone by, where LKC is much closer and more recognizable as being from the same line as the originals, just being much larger (and costly). Although the techniques used in LKC are more complex than the originals (although not that dissimilar from kids' sets of today).
  12. Bricklink evolved independent of LEGO, and internal LEGO code names were not public knowledge. Bricklink's language therefore evolved independently. I have used BL for many years and so I tend to use BL's colour names as they are the ones I am used to. To me, they make more sense than LEGO's names but that might be because that I was I have used for so long. There is also the issue that BL recognises some colour variations that LEGO does not, and I think there are some cases the other way around. Most (new) printed parts do have the official part numbers, so you can search for those, even if the base part number is made to fit in with the regular BL numbering scheme.
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    REVIEW: 79016 Attack on Lake-town

    I don't think it is that simple compared with modern sets. Compare it to this 2024 set ... (313 pieces $30 vs 350 pieces $38). They are very similar in standard and style. Obviously both are simple compared to much larger and more expensive sets.
  14. A lot of fan sites are advertising this survey, and many of them get free products for review. I assume LEGO think they reach more people this way and have paid the intermediary sites with free stuff. As to the products, it will all be very expensive and not so different to the household products they already sell.
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    IDEAS - Forest Base

    Personally, I don't like it very much. It is way too busy for me, too much decoration. And too similar to all the other Castle builds. It is another nice MOC if you enjoy the style but I wouldn't buy it at what would probably be $240 or so.