Artanis I

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    I only disagree with #5, I think for children the 'dollshouse' format for play is very important. Otherwise the building needs to fold out, not just have a removable roof - that's too fiddly for kids. I never found any problem with imagining back or front walls on anything!

     

    17 hours ago, Doddsino said:

    no cohesion with the general previous themes

    This is a characteristic of most Space, Castle & Pirates releases since early/mid 90s, and to their over-all detriment for long-time collectors like myself.

    All of the waves & factions of Castle from 1984 to 1992(93?) or so went together seamlessly. Classic helmets didn't really gel with the visored replacement, so otherwise 1987 to 1993 or 96 Space (depending on one's opinion) was likewise seamless. Pirates was more like 1989 to 1993 or 94. Now, everything just sits in its own sandpit - too bad if your KKII knights, UFO aliens or such don't 'go' with anything else!

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    3 hours ago, Clone OPatra said:

    I hope the larger, useful codes make their way to Australia this time.

    It will be interesting to see if people still find a mix of large and small codes elsewhere as these start to pop up. Our releases down under have been a month later ever since 2020.

    Has this series been demonstrated to have useful codes? Wouldn't surprise me if TLG repeated what they did when they found out we worked out the early series.

     

    The only series 25 boxes I saw were at Coles, and if that code is the large one I'd hate to see how small the small code is. Consequently I didn't try scanning it.

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    4 hours ago, TeufelHund said:

    I recently had my 6 & 7 year old niece and nephew over and they wanted to play with my castle (my kids are pretty much in their dark ages now). Let's just say it took me a fair while afterwards to find all the bits on the floor, fix the drawbridge mechanism and swap back all the minifig components that got swapped around.

    And they wonder why people resort to Kragle

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    Very nice! I agree about the face. Looks like he is saying "StarscreeEEEEAAAMMMMM!!!!"

    You have to compromise somewhere on a G1 Megatron, the original toy looked terrible in robot mode, so if anybody can make a version that transforms and looks good in both robot & pistol mode, they are an absolute genius.

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    He has 13 Grammy awards, the first 2 of which were for doing the vocals on the Daft Punk song "Get Lucky", which you would also be familiar with, as it has been regularly played everywhere for over a decade.

    But at least thanks to your post, I now know that BTS is "popular people" - whereas yesterday I still had no idea what that set was supposed to be, and today still don't know or care what it stands for.

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    4 hours ago, Peppermint_M said:

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    I think that it can be removed from the filter list now.

    It served its purpose - @10-15 years ago. It's not really tiresome anymore. (Hasn't been for years.) If it ever becomes a problem again, you can always bring it back.

    Keeping it in now just confuses new members that don't know the old story.

     

    The best use of the filter was when "April Fools" was replaced by "Disney Party"