Artanis I

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  1. Frankly I would have simply done a straight orange (not dark orange) recolour of the original 1989 Classic uniform, and similar flag with 3 vertical stripes. (I was never really a fan of anything post 1993, other than the ships, of which I have exactly 0 anyway)

    But the concepts put forward and favoured by everyone else looked really good. I would have been more than happy to see either the orange one in your post, or the more detailed ones I was just looking at released in a wave of sets.


  2. 48 minutes ago, Mister Phes said:

    We started doing that back in 2011 and arrived at three sub themes:

    • Dutch Merchants  - civilian faction
    • The Haven Guard - imperial faction
    • The Smugglers - basically pirates in disguise... looked like merchants, but through clever play features (E.g. glow in the dark and heat sensitive insignias, transformable sections, hidden compartments, etc.), their treachery could be revealed!

    But as it turned out, coordinating an entire sub theme among a group of remote team was quite a difficult undertaking, so it never progressed past the conceptual stage.

    This was shaping up to be very interesting with the orange soldiers as a new faction, but then TLG went and announced a new wave of sets that were 'more of the same' as other reboots (but less interesting than the AFOL ideas and minifig designs) and that was the end of that for most folks


  3. The base expansion set 60439 comes out on Monday, is there any indication that it might be exclusive to Lego? Or should I expect to see it at eg Kmart for a more palatable price? The answer dictates whether I get it with my next S@H order or not. Viking Village is finally in stock (but how long will it last?), and the D&D castle is also calling my name...

     

    And before I forget AGAIN, regarding how 'Space' the City Space sets are: the designs are very 'Space'-patible. If the colours were that of the Friends Space (how cool is 42602?), it would be even more 'Space'. If the jumpsuits were just a bit more colourful (even just the legs being the same colour as the arms & helmet - they wouldn't even all need printing, just plain legs would work fine), they would also be less 'City' and more 'Space'. Calling it "City Space" makes the sub-optimal colouring forgiveable... but the purple, orange & white on these sets would've been amazing - a missed opportunity. :shrug_oh_well:


  4. 1 hour ago, Khargeust said:

    Yeah but not the right leg.

    I never removed an arm from a minifigure before. There is indeed risk to break the torso ?

    For new parts, if you are careful in how you do it, nothing should break. But parts can become brittle over time (especially if they've been sitting in the cold), and the most likely thing to go wrong is that the outer half of the arm snaps off.

    My process is to rotate the arm so its hand is behind its back, firmly grab as much of the arm as possible between thumb & finger, and bend outwards (pushing with the thumb) and the shoulder just pops out.


  5. It's not ideal, but the City Space subtheme this year is a lot better than the previous 10 years of absolutely no Space subtheme. Too close to home for me to ever properly consider "A1 tRUe sPAcE" but much better than nothing, as others have expanded. I picked up most of the sets and am making extra coloured factions, but I left the space station alone, all the other sets could kinda pass as Space-Space if you pretend enough. I took another look at the CMF series and realised it's not that great either - not from a "tRUe sPAcE" point of view anyway. A handful of usable ones in there, for secondary or tertiary Space purposes. And the Icons/Moments/whatever rumour ended up being not what we expected or hoped for.

     

    So now I'm wishlisting... :excited: how cool would it be, if we got a tribute set (over time) for each of the vintage Space subthemes! Obviously we got a large Classic ship, and a medium Blacktron ship. Monorails are off the cards, so how about a roller-coaster-type Futuron transport system? A Space Police 1 capital ship something like the Mission Commander? M-Tron would surely have to be 6989 MCM of course! So many cool possibilities...


  6. Nice. I agree about the 1987-1996 being the peak, but it was fading away towards the end. I do rate the 2010-2013 sets much higher than what happened in the post-Exploriens period.


  7. 6 hours ago, JohnTPT17 said:

    No small sets this time? The smallest part count is 1933 pieces! I was hoping that the Snack Shack and the Mushroom House were a sign of things to come, but I guess not... I would have loved a Viking Ship.

    Same, I was really impressed by the green one. Smaller sets can be under-rated too easily.

     

    I'm glad about the siege weapon set - except for how long it will take for them to release it! The seaside castle thing I didn't vote for, but I might buy that and convert it to a different faction.


  8. I guess it's settled, and so apart from the CMF series, the only "Space" releases this year are the umpteen from themes that are not really Space... (ie City, Friends, Technic etc)

    Seems like we're being trolled by TLG. :snicker: