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I can definitely see it reaching review very quickly. Being a licenced property, it is anyone's guess as to whether it would pass or not.

You misread my post entirely. 1 Who said anything about the merit of the Idea? I'm not talking about that at all. Also, if budget is an issue for building your Ideas set, then either the model is too big for Ideas, or you are in the wrong hobby. 2 The submitting designer is the one who learns about the structural integrity of the build by physically making it (something you can't do with a digital only design). If you design something flimsy but think it looks wonderful, it may get votes but will either very possibly be rejected, or the final release won't look as good. (End result, lots of disappointment for many.) You do yourself a service by being more consciencious. Maybe it isn't worth it? Many say "better to be safe than sorry". 3 A benefit of using real bricks is that you don't go using ones that don't exist, thus reducing your chance of failure. Simple. TLG don't go throwing heaps of new parts, prints and colours at everything. And Ideas is near the bottom of the pecking order. 4 Who said it shouldn't be considered? You are reading words that are not there. (I can't make sense of your last sentence with its lack of punctuation.) Anyway, by putting in the extra time, money, space etc required to build your model with real bricks and taking quality photos of it you SHOW that you are not taking the easy way out, you are going right through with it. If you reach the review, the Ideas team will have to build it with real bricks anyway, they can't just slap it up in LDD. You can make a "you-beaut" digital design that is perfect in every way and rendered wonderfully, and there is nothing at all wrong with that. But there is more that you can do, so why not? Too lazy? True or not, that is the impression that many people will get. Again, better safe than sorry.

Yes, I agree. You can only blame yourself when your subordinates are repeatedly incompetent. How did Konstantine even become/stay an admiral? Certain favours for the emperor?

By building with real physical bricks you demonstrate a few things: 1 YOU are willing to spend money on Lego, in order to have some to build with. You expect people to buy your set? But won't buy any yourself? 2 Structural integrity of the build. A good (or bad) looking model is going to break really easily unless you re-design it again and again to make sure it is solid and meets TLGs standards there. You can't tell that if it's just a picture on your computer. 3 The parts are available. Ideas sets don't get new moulds, and if at all, they don't get many existing parts in new colours. By using real physical parts you limit yourself to what is actually available for TLG to use. (Except if you use discontinued parts, of course) 4 You're willing to invest your time & resources into your proposal, and therefore care about it, ie it isn't just throwaway. You may be delayed by months to get all of the parts you want. It requires more of an effort to build something substantial with physical parts than just jumping on LDD for a while. This blog https://worstoflegoideas.tumblr.com/ is chock full of bad LDD submissions with very little time/effort put into them. And it's hard to get a digital submission to look professional, so many don't bother trying, and end up with something that looks substandard. (Yes, that can be true of real brick submissions, but the digital ones seem to offend more) That's all I can think of at the moment, perhaps others would have something else to add. I don't mean to invalidate digital building, just pointing out some reasons why physical submissions send a better message to the Ideas team.

Nice abs!

Very interesting

Prepare to lose all faith.

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Most of these I can't read, the text is too small. You should put a white box behind the text (or sould I say the text in front of a white box...) to make it easier to read. Not sure about a couple of jokes, they may need to be explained, but I get the Ringo Starr Thomas the Tank joke! I always imagine his voice saying: '"Percy, you are a naughty engine" said the fat controller' haha so un-PC. Lucy in the sky with diamonds! Ahhhhhhh...

I thought it looked fine the other day, still fine now. I usually "complain" that it is the wrong* season, but with the option to change it still there I will now just say thanks for all of the new graphics recently. Perhaps I will keep this one up for a while longer before switching to Autumn. The leaves are still quite green at the moment!

I meant that I thought BBT wouldn't pass due to being "inappropriate", but it did. Then I went on to talk about The Office, for which I figure "inappropriate" is no longer such a barrier (if the other show is any kind of precedent). 1 Number of episodes and ratings are irrelevant in this case. UK TV traditionally doesn't work the same way as US. A show gets made, aired, maybe further series are made, maybe not. It's all about what resources are available at the time, not what demand there is for more episodes. Fawlty Towers only had 12 episodes over 2 series, and is one of the best-loved shows of all time. Shows don't get "cancelled". It's not like when American shows are unpopular (ie lower ratings) and are therefore cut short or not renewed. UK series are more like 6 or 8 episodes, very different from the 13 or 26 week US season. Unlike (eg) US Office where you typically watch the whole thing once over a period of however many years the show continues, for UK Office (eg) you watch the whole thing right through multiple times - if it's any good. It is replayed for years and people watch it again and again. Also, a show could be over before many people who would be interested in it find out about it. Australia sometimes has the same sort of thing. How many times did I only catch the last 2 or 3 episodes of something and had to wait until the repeats a few months later to see it all. Some shows here get the US treatment (weeks of high profile promotion before-hand, long series that are renewed according to ratings), but other stuff is on the low-down, short&sweet, gains cult following, and gets replayed again and again years later (due to popularity not measured by ratings, ie demand). It's just done differently, you guys were comparing apples with oranges. For your information (I don't mean that in the rude way) I think both shows are really good, I preferred the original for its more genuine believable feel. Real people actually behave like that, although it is turned up to 11 at times (or 12). The American one (while very enjoyable) is more unrealistic, everyone is very obviously an actor. And most of those characters would have left or be sacked (and sacked hard) well before 9 years. I like my mockumentaries to seem like they could be real. But that is no reason for anyone to discount the show, it's very funny, I really enjoyed it. Yes, the UK one is more abrasive, and would turn many people off, but for many it's like enjoying a more mature flavoured cheese over the more common stuff. 2 If you are American, you would be more familiar with American actors and releases. If you are British, vice versa. (I am neither, BTW.) Ricky was recently in a David Brent movie, and it was hilarious. 3 Just leave him be, those spouts are just from immaturity

When the NK designer designs a set, he likes to throw little references & "easter eggs" to old sets or sub-themes. It is intentional, but not intentional trolling, he is meaning it in an affectionate way. Sadly, in the case of NK, most Castle fans are only disappointed by it. It's like a sudden memory of a lost loved one (without closure). "You'll never see those knights or castles again..."

Great UCS (not perfect but really good), however I don't buy these. But I'm really glad to see this after what was released last year. UCS is all about the Star Wars AFOL having a giant detailed out-of-scale model that just sits on the shelf. Exactly what this Snowspeeder is. That is why the target audience (right here in this forum) is so in favour of it. The Hoth set from last year was a terrible UCS. A good playset, but a really really really bad UCS model. If it was never labelled UCS nor took up a UCS slot there wouldn't be the animosity against it.

Didn't really like that episode, the pacing was like a slow movie and then all of a sudden it ended. Maul goes from years of single-minded "must kill Kenobi" to "forget about that, you defeat the sith" in his dying breath. Ezra deserves an ultra-slap. Again. I actually prefer Ewan McGregor's Obi Wan to Sir Alec Guiness, and it was weird that they would use James Arnold Taylor for the Obi Wan holocron but Stephen Stanton for the man himself. This bothers me: didn't even see Maul get cut. Sure, his lightsabre definitely got cut up, but it didn't really look like he got hit at all. And when being sliced in half in Episode I wasn't enough to kill him, but this was? Weird. Some things like the animation and Chopper were good. And a full stop on the Maul story at last.

I didn't think the big bang theory would pass review, so who knows. This show is less childish than it (aka better and not canned laughter), and although really funny I think I preferred the original UK version (definitely not appropriate - Martin Freeman made it as a minifig elsewise, and no, not through Sherlock!). Not as many nerd/geek references as the big flatulence theory, but the Starcraft Kerrigan halloween costume was hilarious. And plenty of people know Steve Carell by now

Looks like typical Aquazone with a striped tiger shark

Don't you have to check it as editable when you create it? Maybe if you post in forum help or PM a mod they could change it for you

FTFY, haha

Well, that ship needed to explode or the entire Rebel Alliance would be as good as dead. I can't stand AP-5's voice, and not just the monotone. But it was really funny at the end. Wedge is as dense as fog.

Probably in the minority, I got the Scarif set but not the Y-Wing. I just don't like the unfinished look of those ships. It's the only set I didn't get. But since you are considering it, that is probably not useful information to you!

Or an all female Ideas product...

Because the moderator's anonymous reliable source confirmed it. Ask in the SW questions thread

Just to clarify, all it is saying is that physical Lego brand stores (that we don't have here anyway) will carry exclusives too (S@H already does). I couldn't see anywhere that everything would be available to all retailers. TRU exclusives will still not be available at Target etc.

After all the hoo-ha about the "female minifigure set" I bought the Research Institute on the merits of the final TLG product, so if this one is shaped into something of quality and is appropriate I will consider it on those merits too. The project is about a "message" (is the message intended to be divisive? Probably not.) It certainly isn't much about the Lego build. (That message is ultimately supposed to be something like "women are people too", nothing wrong with that message, but has it been presented well? Is that an appropriate thing for TLG to jump on board with, since they disallow politics, religion & social issues?) Put forward a set where the minifigs or people represented aren't all the same gender or nationality or colour (but a fair mix) and that is where you can be sure that your message more clearly says "women are people too". What this project says to me is "women aren't as good as men so we need to give them a special medal any time they reach a level that many men do", and is therefore either condescending, and/or alienates the men from NASA & the people (women & men) from other space programmes who didn't receive as much fanfare for their equivalent (or higher) achievements. The reason it says to me "aren't as good" rather than the more intended "aren't as involved/represented" is because this is supposedly celebrating the achievements of those people, not their involvement/representation. It selectively includes particular real-life people, while also selectively ignoring particular real-life people. I said once before, selective celebration promotes division, by alienating others if nothing else. It seems that most of the objection to this set is either its (apparent or true) lack of build quality (ie the project is only successful due to the message attached to it and that's not what Lego is about), or that there's something wrong with the message or it's portrayal. No one here is "rejecting women's accomplishments", and that comment is bullying. Just because someone sees something different from what you do when they look at something doesn't make them wrong, surely you know that. If you want balance, promote balance. "Anybody can science!" would be a better message to be sending (it even has that modern noun-as-verb thing going for it). You don't have to fit some kind of stereotype. Here are some generic minifigs of all shapes & sizes sciencing.

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