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This set is easily the worst in regards to Price to Parts ratio and i dont see the justification in that when other licensed Ideas themes are so cheap in comparison - the only set even remotely close in terms of price per piece ratio is the Hayabusa and that was back when it was Lego Cuusoo. I understand that multiple aspects affect pricing, but a set based on a movie released in 2010 that was not that popular at the time should not have a higher license than all the other active licenses here. I understand Tron is connected to more than just the movie license, but it's not priced well for what it offers. Ideas sets; Tron Legacy - Price per piece; 13.0p / 15.2c / 15.2c Hayabusa - Price per piece; 12.2p / 13.5c / 13.5c Big Bang - Price per piece; 10.3p / 12.4c / 12.4c Beatles - Price per piece; 9.9p / 10.8c / 10.8c Research Institute - Price per piece; 9.7p / 12.1c / 12.1c Caterham Seven - Price per piece; 9.7p / 10.4c / 10.4c Exo-Suit - Price per piece; 9.3p / 10.9c / 10.9c Adventure Time - Price per piece; 9.1p / 10.1c / 10.1c Ghostbusters Car - Price per piece; 8.9p / 9.8c / 9.8c Women of Nasa - Price per piece; 8.7p / 10.8c / 10.8c DeLorean Time Machine - Price per piece; 8.7p / 8.7c / 10.0c Mars Rover - Price per piece; 8.5p / 10.2c / 10.2c Doctor Who - Price per piece; 8.0p / 9.6c / 6.7c Maze - Price per piece; 7.8p / 9.1c / 9.1c Ship in a Bottle - Price per piece; 7.3p / 7.3c / 7.3c Minecraft - Price per piece; 7.3p / 7.3c / 7.3c Birds - Price per piece; 6.9p / 7.8c / 7.8c Fishing Store - Price per piece; 6.8p / 7.3c / 7.3c WALL-E - Price per piece; 5.9p / 8.9c / 7.4c Saturn V - Price per piece; 5.6p / 6.1c / 6.1c I dont think you see the issue, here is the Lego version compared to a Tron Legacy version. The main flaw of the design is that you can easily describe the Lego one as two circular wheels with a rectangle connecting them. It's blocky by design rather than limitations of Lego. The Tron Legacy version you cannot give that description due to the curved middle that raises it and makes the vehicle have a different overall feel. The Lego Tron Legacy version attempts to trick you with a curved inaccurate exterior piece and a random slanted piece on the back of the bike with no attempt being made to even remotely change the middle design from looking flat to being curved. It has been documented for years, the most notable example can be comparing the 2016 AT-ST to the 2017 version in which the piece count dropped by 70 while the price increased. In general it is a 10% increase among Star Wars sets. In 2017 they bumped up prices again and they are planning to do so again in 2018.

I disagree, Ideas is a platform to find out the size of the community interested in purchasing a product. Lego clearly have decided that 10,000 people being interested in a set on Ideas is enough for them to consider making the set, if it's attached to a pre-existing license then that's just more exposure and an increased chance of people getting the set. As such this set is the opposite of niche, it's attached to a popular licensed game/film with a cult following with a minimum potential customer base of 10,000 people. The only downside would be licensing fee's - but other Lego Ideas sets have shown that the license fees normally do not make the set considerably more than they are worth - in this case it's like they have applied the Star Wars level of license fee's. Other Lego Ideas sets have justified the prices they have with specific pieces, figures or amount of pieces total. This set does not, it has three figures and 230 pieces with limited printed pieces and two rather bland looking representations of Tron Light Cycles which look like blocks with wheels stuck on. The only thing you are supporting with your remark is the idea of exploiting the target audience with a higher fee for specific licensed themes regardless of whether they justify it. Why would making a set from "a movie franchise that has never been a blockbuster financial success" result in the same price hike as Star Wars? The license for Tron should not be worth as much - especially if it is a 'niche license'

Carriage set is underwhelming. Thestral looks great, figures look lackluster and not accurate enough. Build itself could have used more pieces (132 pieces for $19.99) Would have preferred the carriage build to be more similar to this user's version from 2008. Not sure it is worth the price currently unless you really want the Thestral. I think if the Suitcase does happen, it would probably draw some level of inspiration from the 'Lego ideas Pop-up Book' Yeah, not a fan of the idea of having some brick-built and some molded. Will probably be tracking down the original Basilisk and Fawkes to go alongside the Thestral.

The Wakanda Transport looks generic, like the Imperial Assault Hovertank from Star Wars, I'd rather it is not the focus of the final set. I doubt that for potentially $50 they would be able to give us a good version of the circular ship from the trailers or the Sanctuary II either - would probably turn out like the ship from 'The Ultimate Battle for Asgard'. This set was $49.99 - which matches the rumored price of the missing set. I expect the build is probably going to look somewhat similar as an expansion of Wakanda - probably a tower with a segment of the wall so that it can be attached to the 'Corvus Glaive Thresher Attack' set. Figures would be a Thanos variant with Drax, Scarlet Witch, Bucky and an Outrider. We wouldn't have seen the set prior because the reveal of Thanos in Wakanda was something that has only been shown recently and they would have likely wanted to keep that secret.

No rumours or anything regarding 76109 - dont think we'd get another D2C set for Infinity War.

Chubbybot2's solution with the wider legs works great with additional posability - though would need some work if we are going for accuracy. Bodies are divided generally into varying stereotypical types; Triangle Shape, Inverted Triangle, Rectangle and Hourglass. By modifying the hips it has made the hips much wider than the Hulkbuster body, giving the Hulkbuster an Hourglass figure. If you want to improve accuracy your best option is to enlarge the body to make the hips and lower torso more seamless, this also gives you a bigger interior and would in theory make the Hulkbuster head seem less overtly large and give even more options for building the shoulder pads and detailing. In general the legs and hips can be worked into the build, though currently it gives the impression of an even longer body. Still an awesome modification, drawing inspiration from his solution for the Lego Ninjago Fire Mech i believe - but I'm more accuracy focused :P

Hulkbuster; Ultron Edition arrived today - noticed just now that the bio on the sticker is incorrect labeling the Hulkbuster as 24ft tall instead of the accurate amount, 11ft. Nowhere has the Hulkbuster ever been reported as 24ft tall - so unsure why that is wrong ¬.¬

*Just a reminder, double points may be here around the middle of the month (16th to 31st) for those planning a mass purchase, might be wise to remember :P Fairly sure they are the same.

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North America will apparently have double VIP points from March 16th to 31st according to a Reddit user claiming to be an employee also another here. Unsure if this will be elsewhere also - but just a heads-up encase it is accurate. That is unfortunate. I've seen a few reviews where the figures have looked slightly off, but not sure if it is due to a misprint. Hopefully this is not a widespread issue.

I do get the vibe that a lot of the Star Wars sets have reached extortionate prices in places like the UK - for some reason Lego saw Brexit and thought they needed to charge more - so in an economy currently concerned with saving money, Lego had the bright idea of charging more to people who could afford less. So of-course sets that are most notably experiencing the price hikes coupled with licensing costs are going to shelf-warm more and sell less, this coupled with a majority not being based on developed characters, but being reliant on the popularity or pieces to sell the sets - the success of licensed sets is normally relative to the license. In January 2017 they rose UK prices by 5% in September 2017 they stated ' In the US and Europe, our sales have declined...' and that revenue had fallen by 5%. It's almost as if raising the prices had a negative effect on sales or something. Regardless, this does mean that the shelf warming of sets in the UK may not be as representative of the sales of the sets in other locations.

Leewan posted this in regards to a potential moving leg solution; (back view) Will be sure to use this thread more when my set arrives and i can actually mod it

The three promotions it showed me were the black & white art print, the coloured art print and the Guardians Spaceship. The black & white art print was limited to the first 13,000 customers, and i expect the system likely automatically removed it as an option after the limit was reached.

Yeah, was trying to find a good shot of it not posed - i think a better photo displaying the issue might be this one from the review posted earlier. It's not massively out of scale, but i do feel it is a brick too tall. The back, legs and feet are probably the best parts of the build and it has a lot of potential - just needs better articulation and possibly altering the proportions of the main body. I can't wait to be able to mod it and give it the articulation it should have had - may make the issue of proportions less obvious if you could bend the knees for example.

-accidental double post-

The negative viewpoints stem mostly from the following; The inaccuracies regarding the colour scheme (A lot of silver/dark grey) Lack of articulation (no knee, no forward/backward leg articulation, only forward/backwards elbow movement) The shoulder pads which people feel could have been better handled Exposed blue pins which easily could have been replaced with black to standout less and fit with the colour scheme more. Exposed technic pieces including holes which could have been covered Allocation of pieces/budget People have other issues with the set also, but those are some of the main. It mostly comes down to it not being good enough to be a display piece and not being able to pose enough for playability. Personally think the legs and feet are great designs - if it had articulation it would be perfect in those aspects. It's just each aspects of the build is unfortunately let down by one aspect or another. The Mark 43 suit is 6 feet 5 inches.The Hulkbuster is 11 feet exactly. As demonstrated via the official image (left) and the most accurate scaled Hot Toys version (middle), this means the legs are a minimum of 6 feet 5 inches tall, meaning the height of the body and head is no taller than 4 feet 5 inches (and that's including the dome of the head). If they were going for similar scaling in terms of proportions then the body should be shorter than what we got in Lego form. The head is also larger and more dome shaped in the Lego version - while it's more flatter and elongated for the official head, though that's somewhat excusable as it would have required Lego to create a new dome piece solely for this set.

https://candidbricks.com/2018/03/02/lego-avengers-universe-event-prepare-infinity-war/ Store only promotion for 'Suntec City East Wing Singapore ' Unfortunately the order number is for Thor's Weapon Quest. They have cancelled a majority of the orders made and are giving people a 10% discount off next order. If you try to get the set in person then they will hand over the Thor's Weapon Quest. It may be possible for you to have a scenario like JaHawk2009 where you get the Thanos Ultimate Battle set, but it's unlikely and up to the store managers discretion. They are aware of the glitch so are in the process of fixing it, so unfortunately chances are your orders will be cancelled.

Here's a sneak-peak of what I'm doing to the UCS Hulkbuster; Is a bit of an old version, probably a week or so - which does not sound like much, but it's under constant redesign. This version was not structurally sound to work as a IRL figure, so had to rework most the chest. Still not fond of the shoulders but the key aspect was adding the articulation along with adding the light blocks to the hands and ensuring that it could function in a skeletal state, something i've finally managed to achieve today. So now i'm focusing on trying to improve the visuals :)

Thanos' Sword confirmed; Groot Polybag is a keychain, it has no UK release date as of yet so we may get it as an exclusive later. At the moment UK only gets the two art prints and the Guardians Ship polybag

Just ordered the Hulkbuster; Ultron Edition. Used VIP points to drop it to £74.99 - still qualified for the three promotions. Looking forward to modifying it :) Will wait for other promotions for the other sets - in no rush :P

UK prices are now out; Outrider Dropship Attack; £11.99 Thor's Weapon Quest; £19.99 The Hulkbuster Smash-up; £29.99 Corvus Glaive Thresher Attack; £34.99 Thanos Ultimate Battle; £69.99 Sanctum Sanctorum Showdown; £89.99 Unsure why Corvus Glaive Thresher Attack is now £4.99 more expensive, but that's enough to relegate the purchase to 'waiting for double VIP' also.

I think the US are getting the other three promotions also - though the other three promotions only last the weekend. I expect a similar scenario to what i mentioned before; We get offers during the weekend and then additional offers throughout the month. The keychain for instance appears to be the 3rd - 15th March. Perhaps other areas of the world will have a different promotion, but i dont think the 'Unite the Universe' is just going to be a weekend only thing.

Keychain Groot appears to be US only for the moment - chances other locations could get it at a later date. I'm leaning towards Hulk. Though expensive set does not necessarily mean a bigfig. We have quite a few figures missing so i could easily see the set being more expensive due to including a lot of figures.

The belief is that everything is out on the 3rd. The only rumor is that we may get a set/sets. We've heard nothing. Welp, disappointment after disappointment xD

As mentioned, you may be best waiting till Monday. Could easily be double VIP points from then, we dont know for sure