Itaria No Shintaku

I am not allowed to tell, but, let's say I'm no regular average online AFOL. That, I believe, may answer. Plus, what does you make believe I'm not into one (or more) large registered LUGs ? Or that I'm not LCP?

This You are again partially wrong. There are ways, but you seem totally unaware of them, to get parts expessedly produced for you. This means that if you didn't ask for them, LEGO would have not produced them. This means that if I ask for them and pay for them, I'm just augmenting the supply, not fishing out of it, thus I do nothing "wrong" (assuming to your worldview) to anybody. But let's stick this apart and steer back to "you take 1, you remove 1" for the rest, like collectible minifigures where my objection cannot rule. I would invite you to reason on three points again. POINT A) I'm not the one limiting the supply, LEGO is. So, blame TLG for making less than you would like to. Not me. I'm just buying stuff. It's TLG deciding how many minifigures of a certain kind get produced. Perhaps since they control the aftermarket via bricklink, they LIKE this. So, they're creating good shortages in first place. POINT B) I have no means in knowing who will get my spared minifigures. Suppose I decide to buy 3 minifigures less than I would have liked to, to allow some people more have it. It can be a kid who really wants that minifigure. So I did a good deed. It can be a bricklink seller who pays $5 for it retail price and then sells it for $10 on bricklink and gets it sold the same day. So I did a mistake. Since I do not know who's getting the next minifigure, and since I want it, I just buy it. The person before me would have done the very same. First come first served. That's life, there's no point in complaining. POINT C) Afterall, there actually nothing ethically wrong, they're not food or medicines. Basically, it would be being "less greedy" to allow someone else to be "more greedy"? That doesn't make any sense to me. If that was food, or medicines, or houses (primary needs) I would perhaps have had a different opinion on that. But it's a luxury item. If you wanna play, you gotta pay. Comparing luxury items with primary needs items sounds pretty misleading to me. My 2 cents.

Sir, I had to read your message at least three times befor replying, and believe me, the first answer I would have given you... you don't really want to read that. Then, since I'm here since ages, and you're pretty new around, I think I must be less cocky and arrogant, and more welcoming. I don't know you, don't know who you are, why you're so angry and negative, but I can guess the reason: money. Well, first of all I would like you to understand that there is no such thing as a fair share of stock . I mean, who would set this share? You? Based on what? I repeat, I don't know who you are, but your exaggerate selfconfidence/conceit (because it's both) it's super fascinating to me. I would never in my life feel so full of myself to believe and confirm that army builders are merely greedy people, that they should not buy minifigures because YOU should. Now I will give you some hints, and use real numbers, to let you understand how strongly wrong you are. I will be very factual. Point A: There is not only money. There is a triangle and its vertices are : TIME - MONEY - KNOWLEDGE 1 - If you are plenty of time, even with few money and scarce knowledge, browsing eBay you can stumble upon a large lot for a low price in which you will find what you need. 2 - If you are plenty of money, even if you have no time and scarce knowledge, you go straight on bricklink and buy whatever you want. This, in fact, is what you think army builders do. This is what I am calling you shortsighted. But, no problem, I'm here to help. Point B: I'm poor but I am an army builder To disprove the fact that you think that army builders are just rich people with money to spend on bricklink I will show you briefly that's totally wrong. My job earnings have never surpassed $1500 per month. Do you know how many minifigures I own? Over 15k. Corrrect. In my home, I have more than 15.000 minifigures. But that's not the minifigures there are in my home. That's the minifigure I have. Plus there are my girlfriend's. Who earns less than me and together we easily surpass the 25k minifigures. So, you will think, how the heck did I do that? You'll firstly think that I'm lieing or that I steal money. But that's not it. (if you want me to produce evidence, I'll serve) The triangle has THREE vertices. KNOWLEDGE 3 - If you know where to buy minifigures, even with scarce time and few money, you can get very good resuts! I have 800 Black Falcon. The new ones. The ones you find in the 3in1 castle, the blacksmith and the new castle. Oh, I have two 10305 also. And I paid the sum of them as much as a normal people pays one. How did I? Well, I'm here since 14 years. Perhaps after 14 years you will get to have your hooks. I have mine. And, no, I don't share them. Point C: Passion isn't equal in everybody Believe me, I'm here in LEGO since 14 years. I have bought several things, then they got out of stock and I decided to exchange for other stuff. This way, I was able to get a lot of stuff. I exchanged or sold minifigures that reached 50€ for 10x minifigures that costed 5€. I have all the collectible minifigures out there BUT Mr. Gold. I have all the Pirates sets that were ever produced. I have all the Castle sets produced until Fright Knights, BUT 6079, I don't have that one. I have all the LOTR sets. Many in multiple copies. Do you like, for example fantasy era minifigures? Me too. I have over 1k of them. How did I do that? Spending money of course. Through the years. Through 14 years. If you spend time and money after a passion, you reach my position. If you don't that's fine either, but you cannot complain if other people do. Passion isn't equal in everybody. Some have more, some have less. This is a fact, the sooner you accept this, the better you will live. Oh and I am not bragging. There are many people I know that have also the same sets I have, BUT TWO COPIES ONE OF WHICH SEALED. My collection is very poor compared to theirs, in fact. You don't like to spend as much money as I do (or they do) on LEGO? Fine. Because, and that's the entire point you missed nobody should tell other people how to spend their money (while they use it legally of course). This includes you. So you called that super tone or disrespectful because you assumed that I was super rich. Actually, if you read again your words, you may find that you were disrespectful imposing your view and letting us know that you strongly enforce the concept that people should spend the money they earned with their sweat according to your criteria. So, if at the end of the day I decide to have an old car, I don't have a 4k TV in my living room, I write you from a broken computer, my smartphone is not the last one and I don't change it until it doesn't work anymore, BUT I like to have $150 of my monthly earnings in minifigures, you should find it fine as much fine I find you not spending that sums in LEGO and spending for whatever you want to. That's respecting each other. Accepting that we are different and not spending our life feeling envy because people spend their money in a different way than ours. I hope you unerstand now. Ps: No, I don't usually just put my minifigures on gray baseplates, I do at least 5 exhibitions per year. It's a lot of sweat and work to move them, but I do it for entertaining the children. Still, even if someone just wants to burn them and dance around the fire, that's their stuff and when it's their stuff, they do whatever they want with that.

I see that everyone has their point. My point, supported by the fact that even in this thread it was said "I don't like army builders because they get the minifigures I would like to have" or "I don't like 40 tournament knights because I couldn't get them" ( both opinions are literally jealousy ) is that minifigures are way more expensive than parts. And animals too. And this is why most people do not have tons of them. Not because they don't want, but because they cannot afford them and they just play pretend they don't like armies. So if you do a giant landscape with 3 or 4 minifigures in it, it's as wrong as a baseplate with no landscape but just lined minifigures. In media stat virtus. The most impressive things, and I do LEGO fairs since 12 years so I guess I know it a little, are usually large scenarios with lots of minifigures in it. Not just lined up, but fighting, or doing something (not all minifigures are battling. A town is very nice, but it's quite nothing if you don't put animals and minifigures in it). And BDPs (brutal displays of pieces) are just as much as cocky as an army of minifigures. The very same way I read people not liking "too many minifigures" I'd expect them to also criticize giant dioramas, or a very very tall build. I'd call hypocritical complaining for an heavy number of minifigures but at the same time clapping hands for an heavy number of other-LEGO-parts. Minifigures (and also animals) are just LEGO parts. Just more expensive, because, you guess, they're most wanted. Because people like them.

I have personally the belief that 90% of the people criticizing army building isn't at all caring for the realism or the actual impact. I simply feel there's much jealousy behind their words. Of course, there are also people genuinely not impressed or interested, but their thoughts are not seconded by the awe of people and mostly kids standing hours looking at the battle scenarios I usually make.

It strongly depends. Armies ARE identical people, since they wear uniforms to avoid being mistaken from other people during a war. If you have dwarves instead of human You can use very different inspiration because they can easily recognize themselves.

Are you saying that this isn't good? :D

So basically, LEGO pushed us to buy a lot of castleish related stuff which is not castle itself, because they don't make it anymore. Even the Lord of the Rings would work a lot this way for me, but a single $500 set? Pfff...

Hello folks, I decided to share this with you because I felt to. I had no "dark age" but I re-started buying LEGO in mass in 2009. 13 years ago. Considering that, from 1978, you had always a "castle theme" (if it wasn't castle, it was vikings or ninja, so something similar) and that in 2009 we were in Fantasy Era, and that the medieval market village was on shelves, it would have been impossible for me to think that in 4 years everything was going away for God only knows how long. In 2009->2014 I wasn't that LEGO buyer. I didn't even buy all the castle sets from Kingdoms and the 2013 series. I didn't like them much and I wasn't back in LEGO that much to understand what was happening. I bought a LOT of chessboards, that was sure, but after that I was just interested in having minifigures and on bricklink you could have them for very affordable prices. In fact, the sets weren't that good. Only some of them, like the mill village raid, or the kingdoms joust. I got them. And now? I am in 2022. I have already 2 Lion Castles. Do you know why? Because having NO castle sets since 5 6 years, when my LEGO passion has grown and I would want to spend more money on LEGO, is telling me "well, buy the most close thing to castle you can, you never know when LEGO is stopping doing that." I bought 2x medieval blacksmith and 4x castle 3in1 from creator. If LEGO released a new castle theme for 2023, I would definitively empty the shelves in no time. So what did actually change? I believe that I was simply USED to see castle sets, so I didn't care for them. I just said myself "well, they're there, when I want them I buy them". When I came back from the dark age, I didn't expect LEGO sets to last THIS shortly on the shelves. When I was a little kid, time flowed differently. Sets stayed on the shelves for much longer, and time flowed really slow. So, the same 2013 castle I didn't buy because I didn't like it much, if it was 2023, I'd buy 3 or 4 of that stuff. The mini set, €10 for 4 minifigures and a dog, I remember that, I would buy EVERY single set I could find, just to army build. This has changed A LOT for me. I wanted to share this to check with you if you have the same feelings I have.

I really miss the old good times in which someone had a list and wanted to share it. We even had a lot of fake lists, but there was more "movement". Nowadays, people seem more ossessed with Marvel and Star Wars.

Oh yeah. You asked for it, you get it. So here's how it basically works: you put out 12 minifigures that you think may happen in series 24, scheduled Jan 2023. These are not minifigures you actually want, but minifigures you think that can happen. Gender doesn't count. If you write a policeman and in series 24 we have a policewoman you however get 1 point. If you write a police person you do better. If your guess is nearly right I will however give you 0,5 points. Like if you say "An hockey player, without mask" and in Series 24 you get a masked hockey goalkeeper, 0,5 points are yours. Try to be specific. Please no "some sort of person with some sort of animal": that will give you 0 points. This time it will be hard, because we don't know if they are going to theme it or not. So I welcome everybody to play to a non themed series and here's mine. 1. A mushroom hunter with a dog and mushroom 2. A basketball player with basket ball 3. A medieval farmer with Calf 4. An orc-like warchief with shield and curved sword 5. 70s space heroin, with shield and space gun 6. Taco suit guy/girl 7. Horse suit guy/girl 8. Space themed Planet Explorer, with small alien companion 9. 1700's Fleet Admiral, with telescope and a new hat 10. Truck driver with a new hat+hair combo 11. Hotel Usher with two suitcases (the new ones) 12. Statue with bird I'm not very inspired because I really can't guess what LEGO will do. Let's hope they're good! Now your turn!

Thanks!

Hello. As you may know (or not know), my project the Old West Train Station has been deleted for reasons we won't be discussing here. We had to restart from zero. It's so sad, the project was really performing well. It was in the homepage of the most popular, which gives you a big boost in terms of votes. I cannot express by words the frustration I had. So, here it is again, without the problems that led to the deletion. Please help us to achieve our dream again. https://ideas.lego.com/projects/10833417-eb48-4cfa-97a9-56dfc323888a Thanks from the bottom of my heart.

Yesterday Koalayummies wrote that. Today the project is removed. 1+1 = 2. I will restart from zero because I'm resilient by nature. But I do not forget, and I am harmed. What makes me sad is that this is an error I acknowledged and was already corrected (I can attach proof if needed) but both LEGO and Koalayummies just didn't care. I can understand TLG. They need to protect themselves. But Koalayummies? Why did they need to report my project if they know I am not a racist person and I explained? I can also attach the conversation I held with Barbara Tum*** to prove my point if needed, in which I tell her "Hey! You are a minifigure in a LEGO Ideas project now". I can give all proofs required to show I'm no racist. But even if I do, I need to restart from zero. I ask the mods to close this topic and allow me to post the new one as soon as LEGO approves it.

Koalayummies reported the project and it was cancelled. 1650 votes wasted. I need to restart from zero. THANKS KOALAYUMMIES It does not take 5 minutes to get 1650 votes on a project on LEGO Ideas. It takes a lot of time, effort, passion, and all why? Because there was a translation error that was already fixed, an edit was already sent... Being evil is fine if you are a dictator or something. If you are a member on eurobricks this is unacceptable. Now you understand why I left the forum years ago. If members like him are allowed to do evil things to other people, well what's the point in contributing to the community? When I left the forum, many people wrote me that they were a toxic person and I needed just to block them. I wish I heard them before. I will restart from zero, but from today on I will live my LEGO passion with a little bit of sadness.

The two characters represent a couple of AFOLs we know. They are Alfonso and Barbara. So they were Sitting Alf (for Alfonso, mimic for Sitting Bull) and Tum Tum Barb which became, for an error Tum Tum Barbarian (since her surname begins for Tum and we liked the sound of it). We already removed those minifigures from the project. Alf will become a train driver, and Barb will become a child to pair the male one. Our main goal was inclusion. This is why we chose on purpose a female sheriff and we said that the two native americans were "respected musicians". But that's ok. We don't know, from Italy, how it is perceived in the US, we will stick with something less "dangerous". Thanks for understanding our goal, though.

I didn't read koalayummies because I blocked them, but they are really offensive. I will remove the native americans because of people like them. I have to wait 22 days, this is the time it really needs to apply the edit. Too bad. I was trying to be inclusive. I'll stick with the "ok only white characters". At least nobody complained for the female sheriff. I was fearing this also. Plus what I love about that guy it's that they speak without knowing. On LEGO Ideas you can edit your project once per month so if you make a mistake, like I did, I still have to wait a month. Now 22 days remaining. But that's Koalayummies for you. If there's someone speaking without knowing the subject, they are.

I can't either, but that's it. Thanks for your kind words.

Her real name is Barbara. Barbara in italian means Barbarian in english. When it was translated, there was also an error in translation and "Barbara" was translated into "Barbarian". These things may happen, an edit has already been done but it takes 22 days because you can do only 1 per month and we pushed the project 9 days ago. So I did not chose anything. Seems that years pass but you still seem able to speak without knowing the facts. Yes but this guy keeps on following me because they love to attack me. I did something I really needed to do years ago. I blocked them.

Yes, I studied some history before publishing the project. And yes, my intentions were the best. Thanks for your support, thanks for sharing your background, they both mean a lot to me.

Yes, but not only on ideas. Alas, on reddit and Facebook where it was poste, though they liked the build, they disliked the native americans representation. :(

Hello, I came back on LEGO Ideas with our new project. I am presenting it here and hope that you can bring us some votes. Thank you as usual. Really. They may seem empty words, but they actually mean much to me. LINK FOR VOTING! https://ideas.lego.com/projects/ebb5051c-2dd5-49d2-a4a5-39f1a6b1a554 PS: We are experiencing problems with the two native americans minifigures. Though we put them here to represent inclusivity, people isn't reacting the way we expected. So we will remove them in a future update. I hope people will be pleased by that.

That is correct in my view also. Like King Leo is descendant of the Royal Knights

Hello everyone. this will be a long post, I'm trying to summarize the LEGO castle lore, alliances and enemies, because I'm planning to make a videogame out of it and it will use a lot of castle lore. So, with a basical rule in mind LEGO not always thought about a lore behind the sets, they simply published them without giving too much importance to the story, and that I will too make a lot of personal assumptions, let's dive in. Lego castle pre 1984. These seems like HOUSES beneath a single kingdom. They must be somewhat related to the LION Knights because they are present in 10305. So I will assume that they are friendly with faction A. The first and the second are seen jousting. If they are jousting, I doubt they are this much enemies. I will assume they are again all houses from the same kingdom. FACTION A: All old classic castle, as different houses. GOLDEN AGE Lion Knights, Forestmen, and Black Falcons, Dragon Knights, Black Knights, Wolfpack, Royal Knights, Fright Knights Lion Knights seem the good guys to me. I always thought them this way. And they are in Faction A, as we saw in 10305. Black Falcons are seen just in ONE SET fighting against Lion Knights. But they seem to be related to the same realm/kingdom. And in 10305 they said their rivalry is over. I've always seen them as frenemies with Lion Knights. In the guarded inn, a lion Knight defends it, but a Black Falcon shield is in it. So I will put them in Faction A. Forestmen are always against everyone. They think to do good deeds. But they will steal from anyone. So I will put them in NEUTRAL. Dragon Knights are surely enemies of the Black Knights and they are seen fighting against Royal Knights. In will put them in a new faction: faction B Black Knights are seen fighting against Dragon Knights and Lion Knights (as a strong replacement for Black Falcons). They may be in peace with the latest because in one set the two figures are together and they don't seem to be enemies. Take this with a grain of salt, but I will put them in faction A again and I'll explain why, but I'm ready to stand corrected. I think the Black Knights live in the same kingdom as the all of the other ones and they don't like the ROYAL Knights much (see later). Perhaps, the old King was from the black Knights (The Black Monarch ) and now it's someone from the "Lion" Knights and they don't like this. But, it seems they have not the power to overcome the actual King, so they stay under his kingdom, not too happy to. Royal Knights to me are the knights of the King. Lion Knights (it's a Lion afterall) must be somewhat allied or something like that. They are against DRAGON Knights and FRIGHT Knights. So I will put them again in faction A. Wolfpack are neutral renegades, like forestmen, but they don't care to do any good. Fright Knights are in faction C. A new faction. They are surely against the Dragon Knights, but they're not good guys. They're clearly evil and I will create a new faction for them. FACTION A All old classic castle, as different houses, Black Falcons and Lion Knights, Black Knights and Royal Knights. FACTION B Dragon Knights. FACTION C Fright Knights NEUTRAL Forestmen, Wolfpack DARK AGE: Knights Kingdom 1 & 2 King Leo is surely a descendant of the ROYAL Knights. So again, faction A. Cedric the Bull, to me, is from some sort of different Kingdom. So I will put them in Faction D All the KK2 good faction, since there is again a crowned Lion, are to me in faction A. Vladek and his merry friends may be both allied with the Fright Knights or with Cedric the Bull. There is actually no actual point of contact. I'm forced to put them in faction E, but if you have some sort of relevant connection, please tell me. FACTION A All old classic castle, as different houses, Black Falcons and Lion Knights, Black Knights and Royal Knights, King Leo and King Matias. FACTION B Dragon Knights. FACTION C Fright Knights FACTION D Cedric the Bull FACTION E Lord Vladek NEUTRAL Forestmen, Wolfpack SILVER AGE: Fantasy Era, Kingdoms, Castle (2013) In my opionion the undead are there only because of the evil sorcerer. Since the Crown Knights are fighting both them and the troll warriors, maybe they are allied? Faction F Both them and the undead want to get rid of the crown Knights. So, to me it's FACTION F These are clearly the good guys. But I see no relevant connection to the Royal Knights. I will put them in faction G. To me this story revolves somewhere else, not in the realm we knew. Clearly the dwarves are allied with the Crown Knights. Faction G. Ok, in my opinion, these are Lion Knights again. They are even seen jousting with someone that is clearly a revived Black Falcon in the 10223 Kingdom Joust. So Faction A. Instead these are not Dragon Knights. There is no magician, no dragon, they look a lot like the old BLACK Knights instead. Here, btw, I think that TLG did not bother to create a true story. So faction H for me. These guys from 2013 are clearly Royal Knights to me. So again faction A. These guys, instead, remember a lot the enemies from fantasy era. They have an evil wizard too. If I could say anything, it's like as if the old Dragon Knights became bad guys. But I won't go on, to me it's faction I. FACTION A All old classic castle, as different houses, Black Falcons and Lion Knights, Black Knights and Royal Knights, King Leo and King Matias, 2011 Lion Knights, 2013 Royal Knights FACTION B Dragon Knights. FACTION C Fright Knights FACTION D Cedric the Bull FACTION E Lord Vladek FACTION F Undead and Troll Warriors FACTION G Crown Knights FACTION H 2011 Dragon Knights FACTION I 2013 Dragon Knights FACTION NEUTRAL Forestmen, Wolfpack SOME MORE These are the insignia of the Evil Knight and Frightening Knight. Now, there is no doubt that the Frightening Knight should somehow join the FRIGHT KNIGHTS, but the colors are totally not related, they look more like the colors of the 2011 Dragon Knights. So I can't really say. This instead is the tournament knight. This is some house insignia of some sort. Since I want to do a possibily accurate work, I am welcome and open to any change or suggestion to the above. Thanks for reading.

These are some guesses for the set. Please note: they are not rumours or leaks. Just guesses. 1) The Dark Orange horse from the city set will appear in this set. 2) We will have both Lion Knights AND Black Falcon here. Like the Black Falcon being the enemies or something like that. 3) Some more cameo may be expected. Perhaps a forestman or a wolfpack? 4) I expect around 20 minifigures to be in. 5) I do not expect any dragon to be in.