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Lego strip club coming soon then?

D1-3 is a playmobil ladder and C2 is Playmobil spotlight that would attach to a helicopter.

In theory, so is the Treehouse, Barracuda Bay, and the Modulars. Those are all 16+, but I won't be surprised if TLG makes the next wave of Modulars 18+ just for consistency of the new 18+ model going forward. Looking at Elf Clubhouse, their video online is an adult woman building/playing with it. It definitely can be a playset and kids certainly can build and play and love that set, but I think their market research shows the winter village sets are purchased by adults for themselves more than purchased by kids. They're also seasonal items. Think like the nativity scenes that only come out around Christmas time people put up. If adults are purchasing the sets, they might be rotating the holiday themes in their homes. I agree that Sesame Street should be much more modular like the original submission, but I'm guessing LEGO doesn't want an "unofficial" modular in the line, especially if it's a licensed item, where the average consumer will get confused and wonder why there aren't more licensed modulars and then not purchasing the in-house official ones.

Regarding 123 Sesame Street, how many kids (by kids, I mean the ones who actually use system pieces) actually watch Sesame Street? That's a show for toddlers and such, who generally are going to be using Duplo. The kids aren't going to be into, generally, such a show. If it was a Spongebob set with the 18+ rating and at the building level of 123 Sesame Street, then I'd agree with you. But this current set is much more for adults riding the nostalgia wave who now have their own kids or are wanting to relive their youth.

Because LEGO won't do (for the most part) anything that is human vs human violence when it's set too close to our current time period. The closest time period we have (of classic themes) is Wild West, which can be easily romanticized. Same thing with Pirates and Castle. Castle you can throw in dragons and orcs, and other fantasy creatures. Pirates can have sea monsters. Wild West is a bit more difficult, but you can lean into the idea of an outlaw gang robbing banks and riding off into the sunset. But for modern stuff? You can't romanticize WWI or WWII. You can't romanticize Vietnam or the War on Terror. You can't make tongue in cheek references like that. Sure, old Pirates and Wild West had Islanders and Native Americans, but that was a VERY different time period, both historically and in the understanding of history and LEGO. We got Indiana Jones, but anything Nazi related was sanitized heavily. And they only did that theme because of how good a relationship they already had with Lucasfilm and how popular the movies were. We're not going to get a Call of Duty WWII theme because the sanitization just would destroy it. Regarding Star Wars, having faceless goons like Stormtroopers or robots like battle droids (similar to how Exo-Force used the robots), you can get away with it. And Star Wars is much more science fantasy than real life. Like we could never get full blown theme of The Expanse. It's too real. Star Wars is different. Yes it has a Death Star (or two or three), but the entire idea of Star Wars (movies and shows) is much more whimsical. And that's where the key, I think is. Is it whimsical? Is it able to be tongue in cheek? Agents had loads of references to Bond, and they could get away with it because it was clearly tongue in cheek. Apocalyspeburg works because it is very tongue in cheek. All of those themes work because you can poke fun at the tropes. You can't poke fun at Fallout, because the game itself takes itself seriously. Same thing with CoD. Star Wars takes itself seriously, but it's much more family friendly. The adult one off sets work as one offs because they don't have to worry about losing a ton of retail space. And keep in mind a lot of those shows (BBT, Simpsons, etc) have to keep to the US's broadcast standards. So while they may be more adult themed, it's ok for a kid to turn them on and not be shown a ton of vulgar language, violence, or nudity. We could get a one off set of Game of Thrones or Westworld (probably in dioramas), but never a full blown theme, because of the ratings. Also with video games, you're acting out the charactr. You're the one doing it. You're not watching people perform the actions. You're inputting in the keys. I'd love an apocalpyse theme, but it's not going to be the gritty Mad Max or Fallout.

Great scene! I love how busy it is, and that carriage is lovely.

Thanks! And those look like something out of Warhammer Fantasy! Thanks! Since LDD went on the fritz on my laptop (and I'm away from my desktop currently), I've been trying to learn stud.io, and I'm enjoying the placement abilities of it, somewhat. The front is sparse, but I hwas running out of time, missing my mouse, and if I cut it off to a shorter length, it looked slightly stubby.

Thanks! I can never find a cannon/carriage combo I like, so mine change a bit.

Here's mine. Sorry it's a bit behind. Work has not let up the past month.

"With those trees gone our line of sight is fantastic, sir!" "Good! Make sure nobody gets past the gabionades." The Captain inspected his men. "When given the order, fire. Try not to cause too much damage on the city."

"I'm not a crew membe but I wrote something similar in a book. They were using a handheld signal jammer. Small. The size of a phone. We should look for that."

So I recently opened up LDD 4.3.11 (whatever the good version is) on my laptop (I used it on my desk top only five days ago with no issue), and when it opened, a bunch of green lines went across the screen. I can still use the program (although not really), but the green horizontal lines (like the old TV look) don't go away. I reinstalled the program and rebooted my laptop and still the same thing. Has anyon else experienced this? I'd hate for this to be why I fully switch to stud.io.

"s a writer myself, I understand wanting to leave a little mystery, but this is real life. Whoever sent that damned message without such critical info is a moron."

"That's a fairly silly question if you ask me, 'What happens to be the problem here.'" Jack harrumphs.

Don't do that. Don't give me hope.

They might just have dedicated people to figuring out how a set works, similar to how we as a fandom built alternate builds we saw in instructions back in the day.

You can't pick that! I kid. I agree with you, there are a lot of great elements.

I love that map, too. I have at least one copy in my collection somewhere. I'm gonna go crazy, but one of my favorite parts is the BURP/LURP. Leys it is big and ugly. But you can do a lot with it to dress it up. It gives structure and stability, and all it njeeds is some additions to really help.

Been a few months since my last update, due to work and having to wait for pieces to come in through PaB. I'm still working on the second 48x48 section, as you'll see here. I have now completed a wall setion completely. For the other one, I need to order some corner slopes from bricklink. As you can see from my earlier post, there's been some change. I realized the armory was just too small to supply a castle, so I made it bigger. I then added a small section to store the more dangerous, magical weapons, as you can see by the brown frame. Well then I decided to expand the dungeon so the more dungeony-things have some more room. And then I realized I had no vault for treasure, which a castle desperately needs. So I added that section up at the top. It will have a wooden door to enter, followed by a locked gate. Security, and all. A better picture, seeing where the landing platform and stairs have had more work, as well as mostly leveling off the top layer of bricks, which will then have tiles places on them for easy access. I'll probably do a layer of plates and then tiles. A better view of the expanded armory, minifigure to figure out scale. And the expanded dungeon.

"Ah, yes 'culture'. Culture of a demonic looking alien. That's not culture. Culture is things like good books, such as my own, or fine brandy. Not this whatever it is." Mallory harrumphs. "And why exactly did you put this thing in my medicine cabinet? Fairly rude of staff to be going through paying guests cabins and placing objects in there. Be assured I will be mentionng you by name in my review of this voyage." "Fantastic, don't mind if I do." Mallory takes the stash for himself and pours a drink of vodka.

I walk around the gray floor tiles, seeing if any are loose or moveable. "Is there anything under here? A crawlspace? Could someone or something be hidden underneath?"

Looking great so far! I'm doing a similarly sized project, so I love seeing what other builders are doing. The round tower looks great. I really like your design for the portcullis, but I would suggest black to make it look "Stronger."

"Hmm. It doesn't seem like it' been tampered with or damaged."

"Aliens, perhaps?" I'd like to check the stove to see if it works.

Thanks!