TeriXeri

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  1. TeriXeri

    2024 Space sets

    21337: Table Football had 44 heads . If it has 2 main figures, to swap something "personal" , I can see a set having many heads included. 2024 also added 2 more skin tones with Sienna and Umber, bringing the current in use from 6 to 8. Heads were also stored in a brick built compartment under the stand , so if this is more like a Frame / Art piece, it could have something similar.
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    Custom Floor Tiles

    Since this is already bumped, LEGO has recently introduced some relevant tiles to this. 2017 27263 2018 35787 2019 49307 2019 32627 2020 66857 2020 67095 2022 65474 2022 1748 2023 3396 2024 3563 2024 5091 5092 2024 5520
  3. I collect pretty much no licensed stuff for the figures or IP, I think my only licensed minifig would be a minecraft steve from a polybag. (and 2 Star Wars figs from 1999 and Zidane from 2000 but those are yellow so not very different from non-licensed) Speed Champions cars could be considered licensed too, I only have 2, from before they switched to 8 wide (detailed but not my thing, especially with the recent price jump to €27, where before you could get a single car for €15, and still can now with the 2023 Land Rover and now this 2024 Harry Potter car, and recent City had 2 Speed Champion sized cars for €20 with the 2024 Police Chase. I think a potential licensed purchase this year would be the Harry Potter Ford Anglia set, but mainly because it's just a nice 6 wide car sold seperately this time.
  4. That's a very nice mini monorail set.
  5. Yeah I did mention specific sets but mainly as examples were rounded doors were used, of course original new designs are often more interesting, but I mainly mentioned those 2 black knight sets as they stand out as one of the few non-raised baseplate castles from that time period, pretty much everything except Wolfpack Tower or Royal Drawbridge were on raised baseplates, after the initial Yellow / King's / Knight's / Falcon's castles) But since those doors are only 4 wide, not 5 or 6, they are probably best used as entrance to a Keep, or Tower, as 6 wide is a little small even for "classic" 80s scale 4 wide + wood wheels won't fit. Many 90s castle sets did have secondary entrances too however, notably the rear ramp at 6086: Black Knight's Castle, and 6090: Royal Knight's Castle even had 3 entrances, 1 drawbridge ramp, 1 small set of doors and then the main ramp + doors + portcullis (but both of those use quite large sections of raised baseplate , so would require considerable parts used on caves/basement if LEGO goes that approach again. I personally rather see a nice ground-level castle next, but I understand a 360 degree wall design with a keep as seperate central structure would take a lot of parts too , depending on scale, but perhaps a middle ground solution would be a 180 degree wall when hinged open. giving illusion of a much wider castle, while the rear would mainly for the Keep's Interior to access / view. Another interesting castle would be something based on a wooden pallisade + central structure, like an adapted Motte and Bailey, mainly featuring the Motte , on a not-so tall hill.
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    Ideas for a New LEGO website

    Brickset has that but their tag system seems a bit weird at times. https://brickset.com/minifigs/tag-Black-Falcons https://brickset.com/minifigs/tag-Black-Falcons/category-Castle Bricklink seems quite good as they have minifig search by themes , but then does not visibly show what year or set, and does not show 2023 Falconer CMF as "Castle" https://www.bricklink.com/catalogTree.asp?itemType=M https://www.bricklink.com/catalogList.asp?catType=M&catString=9.289 Rebrickable search gives even less results https://rebrickable.com/search/?show_printed=on&include_accessory=1&include_gear=1&q=Black+Falcon&search_type=figs Other then that, Brickset and Bricklink both seem to show 28 figures when filtered on the Castle theme. (Brickset has that microfig and a 0 set figure so it's 30 but outside of that both have 28, outside of CMF) Problem with making another database would be the tricky side of info and pictures, especially pictures would need permission to be re-used from other sites, or made for missing entries + keeping it up to date. Even with the best intentions, or seemingly harmless as copying pictures of LEGO parts or figures from an existing database, it's still stealing if done without permission.
  7. Certainly nice doors, wonder how they'd fit on Icons Eldorado as well , original set used 1x3x6 doors , modern set uses 1x4x9 gates (which is very close to those 1x4x10 doors) 6090: Royal Knight's Castle had 2 door types as well, 1x5x11 is larger then this, but the 1x3x6 were smaller. 6081: King's Mountain Fortress (Lion Knights) , and 6059: Knight's Stronghold (Black Knights) had the 1x5x11 doors as well. 6082: Fire Breathing Fortress (Dragon Masters) had even different doors which were 1x4x8 , so same width, less height. Overall, there's potential for this to be reused, like it would be awesome to see LEGO do something like a Black Knights castle throwback combination of 6085: Black Monarch's Castle + 6059: Knight's Stronghold , if they don't want to have yet another raised rock castle, also black knights did not use dragon plumes in those sets yet, and a mainly black castle with grey details would be very different from Lion Knights' or 3-in-1 Castles, and they can always revisit black knights again with 6086: Black Knight's Castle if they get the plumes ready for Dragon Masters sets :)
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    [POLL] Next Pirates GWP

    Cannon Cove, LEGO needs some new redcoats, and set has plenty of room to modernize a bit for a GWP. I think some of those are a bit too big , like lagoon lockup / kahuka throne 5 minifigs, and sails or special moulds like kahuka mask in a GWP seems very unlikely. Sabre Island would be my second choice, very doable with Eldorado parts, except for the small flag. GWP are tricky , I rather see regular sets, as they can reuse torsos of redcoats and pirates multiple times then (and special helmets/masks). At the very most LEGO has shown they can do 1 torso print for a GWP (Majisto's dragon knight guard, and double-sided Blacktron 1 torsos) Redcoat / Bluecoat small flag can be done with stickers if desperate, but obviously would like prints.
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    Wizarding World 2024 - Rumors & Discussion

    City also still gets new stuff, especially recently I think the direction to sell seperate buildings attracted people to that theme (as 3-in-1 buildings kind of declined in frequency, and especially 2024 has a new direction for many detailed Animal builds), there are still many people who collect buildings that are smaller then Modulars . And then there's another group who comes to City for the animals, or another for vehicles. The way things are packaged certainly play a role for deciding purchases for me, for City I usually want buildings ,but a few years ago, City buildings were really lacking and large budgets of the sets went to vehicles, so now with seperate buildings, there's a lot less bloat, so the buildings are quite a lot bigger (2020 City was quite bad in terms of buildings for example, the Town Hall set could be done so much better as it's own set in the new 2023+ City system) Not saying things are cheap, bigger pretty much always means more expensive, goes for City, Harry Potter, and even sets like €400 Castles or €230 Eldorado. I don't have Harry Potter sets currently, but I like the newer direction as well, selling the Ford Anglia as a small set is a good move, as previous options did come with Castle section or Privet Drive, but at 5x the price. Looking forward to a set like the Durmstrang ship.
  10. Town, and LEGO's overall junior era of 1997 really played part of me stopping following LEGO entirely after 2001, Town theme even kinda disappeared, and at the time I thankfully didn't know Jack Stone existed, or even was meant to be it's successor. I think my last sets were Slizers, so I had no interest in Bionicle either, or Star Wars , and I don't think I've known about Harry Potter until many years after the 1st movie. Just happened to have different interests at the time, online video gaming was getting a lot more popular and with internet being past the Dial-up phase, multiplayer gaming came along. Even the 2014 LEGO Movie didn't really get my attention, so it wasn't until late 2015 where I started looking it up again. Wasn't until 2016 where Nexo Knights really triggered me in a good way, perhaps big nostalgia and favor toward neon orange being a big focus of that theme, and yet combined with Castle stuff, I really liked it (keep in mind, my direct comparison would be with year 2000 Castle and stuff like UFO / Insectoids, not comparing it with the many Castle/LOTR stuff lego has done in the 2010s, that's basicly a big gap of not following LEGO's sets at all for a long long time) I only started following City from like 2018, and the most Jack Stone like thing LEGO has done so far since then were those pull cord helicopters, some 4+ sets weren't great, especially the price to value ratio on anything larger then €20, but recently there have been good value 4+ sets as well like the spaceship, or Friends donut shop. If I had to pick a worst year of City between 2018 and 2024, I'd say 2020, and comparing the Police, Bank , or Townhall set from then, to 2022/2023 versions is like huge difference. But 2020 had some nice stuff as well, especially liked the underwater base, and 2022 did have some flaws as well, with sets like the school or stuntz loops. Will be interesting to compare current sets to like 10-15 years from now.
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    Lego City 2024

    I think they will, with the current City blocks of 8x8 and 8x16 for now, they have a system going across sets. Even if there are no current 2024 sets with city blocks, time will tell if there will be more, but there still are things designed around being easily removable on partly tiled surfaces. 2024 Prison island has 8x8 base on the tower, and the 2024 Fire Station has this 6x20 rounded office module on the top, neither are connected with full studs Then there's 60417: Police Speedboat and Crooks' Hideout which has technic pin holes for the dock and teal containers at the sides. and the 6x16 brown container can be easily removed as well. I imagine if there will be more containers at the ship crane set they will probably be 6x12 or 6x16 as well to match the hideout container sizes. While not everything is strictly sized to 8x8 or 8x16, there were already exceptions with something like the Ice Cream shop which is 16x16 , but still has pin holes at one side, and the top floor from 2023 emergency vehicle HQ was also attached by fewer studs. Of course, in LEGO's history, they have changed systems a lot.
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    Lego Licensed Parts available from Bricks & Pieces

    Currently found in sold products / sets : LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Identity and Landscape Kit (2022 , still available at LEGO.com) LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Identity and Landscape Kit (2022 , still available at LEGO.com) Gringotts bank 2023 (dual moulded flame) Recent Retired sets, but still on PAB. Friends Street 2022-2023 Star Wars BD-1 2022 Star Wars Diorama 2023 Friends Arcade 2022-2023 Monkie Kid 2020 sets (80008: Monkie Kid's Cloud Jet just "retired" at end of 2023* ). * 80008: Monkie Kid's Cloud Jet still sold at European LEGO.com but likely the last of stock, it's sold out on USA site, and until recently the other neon orange parts from this set were still on PAB ( small flame and 1x1 round stud, now gone)
  13. TeriXeri

    Lego City 2024

    Combine is just a way the newer City design works, as an incentive to sell more sets, and give a reason to collect more. As for combining jungles of different continents in the real world (Tigers and Gorillas), I don't think it's a big issue for kids, and as shown with the 2023 Ocean wave, combined Turtles and Hammerhead sharks with Colder water Seals and Orcas in different sets. Jungle terrain / plants are more generic then combining something like an ice berg with a coral reef so seeing sets that could connect via pins / clips / tiles make a lot more sense, even if the animals themselves are not geographically correct, but such things happen even in known fictional stuff like Jungle Book where the Orangutan is out of place if you place the animals in India, but one could also imagine it takes place on Sumatra or Borneo instead, and the wolves would be Dholes or Jackals instead. 2017 jungle technically had the correct animals (set descriptions say Leopard, Panther, Tiger all live in asian jungles), but could also be imagined as Jaguar / black Jaguar, with south american styled ruins/temples, so overall, it's not too strict and I personally think those themes with no big backstory are nice to use some imagination on, instead of having everything be real world 100% accurate or 100% pre written.
  14. Black Knights would make a lot more sense to follow, while some Dragon Masters and Black Knights shared 1993 in a few sets limited to North America , and many similarities in appearance like plumes and some shields (1995 and 1996 used Black Knights shield prints for Dragon Masters) , Black Knights still appeared 4 years earlier (Which might not sound like much on paper, but back then, there were no large gaps between releases yet) Lore wise, I imagine Dragon Masters as a split-off from Black Knights, under command of the Wizard. (magic to control dragons seems to play a role many followup castle subthemes, Witch in Fright Knights and Wizards are shown multiple times after, either good or evil, with or against factions that have dragons) , even the Bull Knights from 2000 were later shown in a 2006 set which included a wizard. Also would make sense with the now re-appearance of Wolfpack again, which existed exactly during the Black Knights era 1992-1993 (Black Knights mainly 1989-1992, with the already mentioned exclusive 1993 sets in NA) . I think a bigger focus on Dragon Masters would go better with Royal Knights, Dark Forest and eventually Fright Knights. (Dark Forest was mostly NA Exclusive but a Dark Forest figure shows up in 6087: Witch's Magic Manor) Those new double doors seen in mario could work well for a 6082: Fire Breathing Fortress or 1906: Majisto's Tower however, but also 6090: Royal Knight's Castle. But in the near future, I think a Wolfpack Tower or some Black Knight Castle variant would come before those.
  15. I pretty much did not follow any LEGO at all between 2001 and 2015, so a big gap in time, but even then, I notice LEGO's design direction now, is still very different from sets from when I came back in 2016, which of course by now, is already 7-8 years ago, but there have been many new colors, and easily 100+ new parts since (not counting recolors / prints on older parts)