jonwil

Biohazard Suit Guy (cant think of a better name but I am talking about the sort of person who works with infectious diseases and other biological hazards) Gender: Male Torso Print: Blue torso with air hoses and black webbing belt with plastic clip buckle (like the straps and clips on a backpack). White hands. Headgear: Hazmat Suit Guy helmet in blue with bio-hazard symbol on the front and trans-clear visor Facial Expression: Breathing mask. Legs: Blue Accessory: 2 x 2 printed tile with a microscope-view of some sort of microbe on it and/or a 1x1 round tile in clear with printing to look like a petri dish full of germs. Electrician Gender: Male Torso Print: Blue shirt, yellow high-vis vest and reflective silver stripes Headgear: Yellow hard hat Facial Expression: Happy Legs: Blue jeans with belt and electrical tools Accessory: Yellow printed tile with multi-meter pattern and Light Cover with Internal Bar in trans-clear (to represent a light bulb) Biker Gender: Male Torso Print: Black leather jacket Headgear: Helmet from the Toy Story army guys but in black. Facial Expression: Black beard and moustache similar to the S15 Astronaut with black sunglasses similar to the ones on the female cop in this years Police Starter Set. Legs: Black leather pants and belt Accessory: Shoulder bag in black Cyberpunk Guy (the sort of guy you see using fancy VR gear to access "Cyberspace" in movies and cartoons and stuff) Gender: Male Torso Print: Black with bright blue circuitry markings. Black gloves. Headgear: That fancy looking white/trans-blue helmet from Ultra Agents but in black/trans-blue Facial Expression: Determined look (like the guy is "in the zone and concentrating really hard") Legs: Continuation of the circuitry markings from the torso Accessory: Trans-clear 2 x 2 tile with blue futuristic cyberspace looking markings School Student Gender: Female Torso Print: School uniform (generic enough to be gender neutral) Headgear: S5 Zookeeper hair in black Facial Expression: Female face with happy expression Legs: Matching the torso Accessory: New school type backpack piece (again gender neutral and not "girly" like most of the Friends type bags are) Synth-Pop Artist Gender: Male Torso Print: Synth-Pop type gear Headgear: Hair of some sort Facial Expression: Suitable very expressive face Legs: Matching the torso Accessory: Keytar (its basically a keyboard that you hold much like a guitar)

None of those parts are new.

I know I have definitely seen patents from TLG in the past that cover parts that didn't get produced.

Its good to see TLG getting on top of this and making sure everyone knows that rockets are still rolling off the production line and will continue to do so for some time yet and that they dont need to succumb to the scalpers and their greed.

Finally picked up Fun at the Beach today (just came out at local retail and at 20% off too which is even better). Really good set with a really good parts selection (so many neat new minifig parts) I hope LEGO continues this line going forward, the 2 we have had so far have been amazing value and awesome parts packs and I want more of the same :)

TLG may not be willing to green light a Space Shuttle project so soon after the Apollo Rocket. That and they did a Space Shuttle set in the Creator line this year (although not very big)

If LEGO did Looney Tunes I would buy the whole lot.

The white nipple is also available in the Series 17 Dance Instructor CMF, the Saturn V Rocket, the NinjaGo City and the Temple of the Ultimate Ultimate Weapon. The Dance Instructor is the easiest/cheapest way to get it. EDIT: Its actually available on Bricks & Pieces right now, element ID 6186681

I am certainly not complaining about the awesome service TLG has given me and all the cool parts I have gotten that would otherwise only be available in expensive sets.

I wish I had that 8x8 plate in trans-clear, I have the perfect use for it...

LEGO have really stepped up their game on B&P shipping times. Order was placed on the 17th of August, got the shipping notification about 8 hours later and the pieces arrived earlier today. Under a week to go from ordered to "arrived at my house in Australia" is amazingly fast :) Just checked my order and they got it 100% right, all the parts I ordered are there. Somehow though I got 3 extra pieces I didn't order, a 1 x 2 plate in brown that I ordered none of, an extra 1 x 1 round plate with handle in trans clear (ordered 4, packing list says 4, got 5) and most bizarrely I got an extra copy of the lifeguard torso from the Fun at the Beach set (ordered 2, packing list says 2, got 3).

Jurassic World is very much an active license (there are leaked photos of the 2018 retailer catalog showing Jurassic World as an active theme, probably to tie into next years Jurassic World 2)

Can someone who owns the new Hospital set (or any of the other Friends medical sets) tell me which of the medical accessories could be used alongside a minifig?

If its more Ferrari, more Porsche and more Ford, I cant see myself buying any 2018 Speed Champions sets (unless they do something totally unexpected and do a Ford Falcon as one of the Ford sets, an Aussie Ford Falcon of some sort would be the only Ford set I would be even remotely interested in :)

I wish they would make some Space sets that are as good as sets like the 6973 Deep Freeze Defender. Too bad TLG is unlikely to make the kind of Space sets people like me want because they would be too similar to (and compete too much with) their overpriced Star Wars sets :(

The accessory set is also available from Shop @ Home (although its currently sold out). For those in Australia, both the playmat and the accessory set are being sold by the Dreamworld LEGO store (I bought my City Accessory Set from there earlier in the week)

Thanks for the tip but its too late now, I just got a notification that my parts have shipped (that was fast :) I will place another order later in the year (or early next year) to get the stuff that isn't yet available (none of which I actually need for the projects I am working on for the October show even if 1 or 2 might potentially have been nice to have). Not that I am unhappy with the parts I did order, some great stuff in there and I got all the parts I actually need for my MOCs like the dark blue mudguards :)

Finally got my Bricks & Pieces order placed (after realizing that if I wait for the tiger and kayak and other stuff to show up, the parts wont arrive in time for me to use them for the October show) A few nice pieces in this one including the Venus Fly Trap, Leopard, Panther, new sunglasses head from Fun at the Beach, kayak paddle, 1 x 2 compass tile from the Jungle sets, white and pink teapots, Penguin umbrella, dentist torso, Fun at the Beach lifeguard torso, mudguards in dark blue and medium blue, some nice hair, the short legs in a few colors I didn't own yet, the Angry Birds egg piece in white, some nice dark purple pieces and more besides. On the "Order Status" page, it doesn't show the leopard and panther, it instead shows that I ordered a "6206370 PROTECTIVE BAG,ANIMAL NO. 1" and a "6206371 PROTECTIVE BAG,ANIMAL NO. 1". Can anyone who has ordered the big cats before confirm if this is what is supposed to happen and can anyone identify which of those part numbers corresponds to which of the big cats? (and if anyone has the matching number/name that goes with the tiger, that would be useful information as well)

Another part I just thought of a cool use for would be the 5-point crystal piece in Titanium Metallic.

Tiger isn't showing as available for me here in Australia.

Judging by all the unsold packets of TLBM CMF I see everywhere I go here in Oz (and the fact that they are now selling TLBM CMF on Shop @ Home on discount, I am surprised that a second series of TLBM CMF would be viable. I am also surprised they aren't doing a second series of Disney CMF given how well the first one sold. Or have TLBM CMF sold better in other countries or something?

I haven't seen it mentioned but I wish they would produce the 1 x 1 round brick in Bright Orange. I could have sworn they did (I swear I have seen one somewhere) but Bricklink and Brickset dont show it as existing. Earth Green would also be nice to see. It would also be great to see the regular minifig legs in more colors from the "purple" color family (as defined by Brickset at https://brickset.com/colours/family-Purple/status-Current). The legs come in Medium Lilac which is great but more of the colors from that family would be great to see.

The very limited number of different parts you can order by phone and the high shipping costs for Bricks & Pieces orders to Australia dont make that a viable option. In any case I dont need the tiger or the other not-yet-available stuff for my October show MOC plans so I will order what I do need now (teapot, dark blue wheel arches etc etc) along with whatever else is available for sale that I could make use of in the future (e.g. the other 2 big cats) to hit the "100 different parts" limit for online Bricks & Pieces orders and justify the $15 shipping cost (or maybe even increase the order to $200 with a Fun at the Beach and some other stuff so I get free shipping)

I have decided not to wait for the rest of the new parts to show up (tiger, new minifig parts etc etc) and to just go ahead and place an order anyway (otherwise I might not have them in time to get them into MOCs for the LEGO show in October)

For those in Brisbane looking for NinjaGo CMF, Mr Toys have them at $4.99 each (best deal out there that I have seen)