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I wonder if we use a buwizz buggy motor + the large vinyl pieces from that technic race yaught (42174 ) but as helicopter blades, if it will fly?

I think it's come up in designer interviews as a "consumer expectation," or something along those lines. But I could also be misremembering.

I was looking at inflation-adjusted prices the other day, and the 6929 Starfleet Voyager and 924 Space Cruiser both have higher inflation-adjusted RRPs than the much-maligned Ahsoka's Jedi Interceptor, for a much lower weight of plastic and a lower minifig count. The price for Ahsoka's Jedi Interceptor is still awfully high, but I think probably Lego reached a low for inflation-adjusted price per part and price per gram in the mid-2010s and now prices are rising back to previous norms.

Did TLG ever "use" the ppp as some sort of figure of merit? I don't think so. Isn't it that TLG (naturally and aggressively) just asks for whatever they believe is most profitable for them? We have long departed from a company that “cares”. It feels, just that, it feels as if there was such a notion, in a galaxy, far, far away. I believe the quote should read "LEGO fans should forget ...", or am I mistaken? Best Thorsten

I'll say this once again, but this is yet another example of the downsizing stuff with part counts that seem okay on the surface, but are overengineered with tiny pieces (IMO, just for the sake of boosting the piece count) and somehow ending up with a smaller piece count. What the heck is LEGO's aversion to using, like, actually decent sized pieces these days? Looking at Jango's ship here, it looks like it's about 8 bricks tall at the top of the cockpit and slopes up another 2-3. Compare that to the model from 2006, almost 20 years old, which had about 200 fewer pieces and looks to be either 13 or 14 bricks tall all the way across, while also being wider. That one cost $50, which, accounting for inflation, is $81. So we've got a price difference, in theory, of $11, yet the actual size is significantly smaller than that. I truly think that this is mostly a Star Wars problem - there's a number of sets out right now that seem to have completely reasonable pricing (most of Dreamzzz's prices seem fine, the recent Indiana Jones stuff was priced well, City seems to be okay, HP and Marvel don't seem too bad, and some of the Disney stuff is well priced, like the Up house). The only other series that seem to have consistently terrible pricing is DC/Batman. I just don't get it. Where is the value?

Really the sheep is in a city set on the shelves now that's weird

This be an impressive display of Imperial might on land! As others have mentioned, the gun ports have some NPU. I also appreciate the rockwork with foliage, it looks the right amount of natural in LEGO form. Good job on yer first land based MOC!

CTT should've been a UT-AT and the 327th build should've been a swamp speeder or homing spider droid imo.

All Millenium Falcon magazin gift polybags have the "limited edition" slogan printed on it. It's just marketing. Generally, most of the magazine minibuilds have the "limited edition" slogan printed on the bag. It is really nothing special.

When can we expect death star news?

Here you go @zephyr1934! This version shows what it would look like with 1x2 tiles between the double jumper plates, with the double jumper plates appearing on every other tie. This would likely be cheaper than using double jumper plates on every tie, but would require brick-built ballast: That does look really good. I think this is the exact same tie design used by @FGMatt on his ties with cheese slopes here:

Am I understanding correctly that you have a polybag set with the set already built in the package? Did you buy the original magazine and polybag firsthand through LEGO.com or an original LEGO distributor or secondhand from someone else who purchased it? ...or did you buy the magazine and polybag from a retail store where customers would have access to the polybag before purchase? I don't know enough to answer for sure to the worth of your item, but I do know it is common for LEGO enthusiasts to add a fun challenge of building polybags inside the bag, so this may be what happened here. If you bought the magazine firsthand, it would be strange if a factory employee built the set, but probably still not worth more than the unbuilt polybag. Maybe someone likes to collect pre-built in-package polybags and will pay extra, but I would guess not. If there was any likely point of public contact for the polybag, I think it most likely that someone randomly built the set in the polybag for fun. As far as I know, there are no machines that assemble parts (aside from minifigure arms/hands or such like) in the factories, so it seems an impossibility that the set "accidentally got built in manufacture" since the machines would not even have this capability. It likely had to be a person that built the set by manipulating the pieces while still in the bag, again a common challenge for LEGO enthusiasts.

Been thinking about it now seeing as the MTT and the BP are linked to Felucia. I just wished that instead of the CTT Lego had done and AT-OT for the 327th and made the big BP for the galactic marines. of these 2 legions I’d rather build up more marines than the 327th, to me all I need is B2 in orange and green in the same style as the 501st etc and we’ve got a bloody rainbow of clones. But yeah the marines are unique look and design whereas if I went colour blind tomorrow I wouldn’t be able to tell which legion is which for all the others. But I know I’m on my own with this little moan this wave could have been the greatest in a long time but it’s been let down by Lego greed these rrp prices are not inflationary. Maybe the designers are trying to bankrupt the clone bros so that they can be free to make other sets again :D

My thoughts exactly. The original list was already missing two characters, so it‘s not a stretch to assume a third one was missing too Those 10 would just be perfect! Jack‘s compass as some have suggested would make for a great GWP set, so I hope it‘s that!

I prefer the latter, your attempt is great. I think 6949 just has more potential to look cool than 6889 without a major redesign.

I assume you are talking about the one from 2022 as the best verison of raptor (Beta and Atricoratpor)? Articraptor mold is easy to be used as a Velocraitpor.

Thanks a lot! I spent an awful lot of time on small details, sometimes wondering if it was really worth it. I'm glad some of that effort shows Thank you so much; means a lot to me Yes exactly. I made a quick render of the steering gearbox (viewed from below): Red is the left motor Blue is the right motor LBG is the steering Thank you very much for the kind comment! The suspension system I implemented is of course a simplified version of the actual thing. It should rely on a compact torsion spring which is unavailable to us, so instead, I'm using the back suspension spring to tension the tracks. The geometry and thus the ideal length of the tracks change with suspension action, so this back tension spring has an active part in the suspension stiffness. It wasn't easy to balance this while still looking like an actual snowmobile suspension setup but the result is fair enough for a Lego model I guess. Yes indeed; only simple, small models of snowmobiles so far from TLG. But having built one now, I may have a few hints as to why. We mentioned the track suspension system; implementing a realistic solution most likely would require new parts. The front suspension too is hard to build the way Ski-Doo work; Technic ball joints have sensible slack; I tried to work around this by putting each pair as far as I could vertically, but those are much lower on the real thing. Also, in order to carry motors, a battery box and receiver, the model has to be quite big but with very few features; I'm not sure how they would integrate this to their lineup. Anyway, this is the model I took inspiration from:

PS. Or they could go a more ambitious route, recreating 6949 Robo Guardian - of course, without the magnets. Here's my own attempt:

That is insane! What a first post after the introduction one. Crazy! I have yet to pick my jaw up from the floor. And yes i have subbed to your YouTube Channel IMEDIATELY!

I think it has already started. Pieces got smaller while the ppp ratio remained roughly the same but at some stage that has to break as the average part size cannot keep decreasing. You need some larger parts to hold all the 1x1 parts together. Brickset has just reviewed one of the new JP sets and recorded the price per part as 25.1c and mentioned $50 is absurd for 199 pieces. Yet it contains a very large dinosaur and the pricing is not that out of line compared to similar Playmobil sets. LEGO and fans should forget about using the ppp, it is meaningless when you don't consider what the parts are and t doesn't really contain information about value since not all sets have the same type of distribution of parts.

Well, the beta mould is definitely the most accurate one, size wise - all others are way oversized (though actually the baby version would even be more accurate in that matter). Aside from that the original one easily wins, just because it has way more ways to pose it, while newer versions can just open and close the jaw.

Yeah at this point B1s are no more special than any 5 random normal pieces. Nothing's printed, and everything except the head has been used in non-SW sets as regular building pieces (and all of them have been in production for decades). So, including their blasters and the 2x2 round plates to go on the rack, that's a grand total of 14 pieces which would do wonders for the set's image in people's minds.

Alternate build of 76922 set - Porsche 963 and 918

Yes I do believe they are stickers also. Too bad. The first picture I saw I also thought they were printed tiles but can now see the edges of the stickers.

Looks more like stickers to me.