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Yeah, when you got your Amazon order that's the original Lego box with just a large postage sticker on it, you can easily understand how a box can "go bad". Even the sticker alone will reduce the price btw.

Not very ecological, though, as they're gonna send that 6p part separately. But yeah, I've too done it with a couple of extra blind bags.

Yeah postage is pretty cheap (compared to Bricklink). Either they have a deal because they send a lot, or postage is also baked in part prices maybe. Here I just got my last order, with plenty of that have just appeared. Also

IMHO "mutual support" is a bit lame. You support a project if you like it, not because the guy is your friend or to get votes back. And yeah, I'm 100% aware that nearly all projects reach 10k votes because of medias, but still. Plus a thread here isn't gonna bring you hundreds of votes anyway. Also, not to bash your project, but yours isn't the best (nor the worst) of the (many!) Up projects, so if these 2 "only" reached 1k, well.. https://ideas.lego.com/projects/039e1bed-fea5-4af9-a997-d31996a49291 https://ideas.lego.com/projects/8d3513e9-3a75-4226-9ac3-277138ecef09 Presentation is also key, IMHO if you can't make better pictures, you should try a (Stud.io) 3D render.

I don't know where you live, but "this is cheaper but works almost as well" is competition, allowed/encouraged nearly everywhere & is the fundation of capitalism. Again, if you don't see it much in ads or packagings, it's because you may have to prove that "it works as well", which is a little too vague to be proven. Whereas they could totally brag about being made of 100% the same material, because that is a fact that can be proven in court. And if it just works "nearly as well", it's probably not something you want everyone to know, anyway. https://www.smartuplegal.com/learn-center/can-i-use-a-competitors-name-in-advertising/ I'd assume that Lego has its own lawyers who have to justify their salaries/utility & do shit like this all the time. It's a lotery ticket for them, because even if Lego has only a slim chance to win, if they do (for whatever reason, there are lawyers who know the law, and lawyers who know the judge), the case will be used against every other competitor and will be a massive win for Lego. Afterall Lego isn't doing anything special here, it's common lawyers assholeness. Kellogg's sues everyone who uses a toucan in their logo, especially little companies who can't fight back.

Well, Lego has all the reasons to be scared by clone brands taking over, since it's what they did themselves afterall. I'd be Lego I'd be scared by non-chinese clone brands that can spread everywhere (like Mega Bloks did) that won't be afraid to cover ALL the pop culture, as well as military stuff. Lego is limiting themselves & leaving a market ready to be taken. I don't think it is, at least not everywhere. I believe the reason you don't see it all the time, just like you don't see comparative advertising that often (against which Lego also fights), is that it's risky & easy to avoid. But I don't believe it's less legal than a third-party smartphone case listing the models it's compatible with. Eventually it's probably another of those cases where it's allowed when it's "informative & helping the consumer", vs "benefitting from using the Lego brand", and eventually up to a judge to decide. About those being ugly, sure, but conpared to these?

What this video isn't showing is the nasty injection mark at the top of the helmets. I can live with the helmets not being "genuine" (even the original ones have several moulds), but they could have spared us the mark..

So they make a Mini Cooper that's adorable, the best possibly built, AND with cool new parts & recolors... but they have to ruin it putting it in an overpriced set with a car that no one asked for and crap that no one wants. But it's not like it could realistically be made

Post on strike in Canada too? It was the same here in Belgium. I got a Bricklink order litterally 45 days later. And the reason being that after the strike, mail goes back to normal and all the one that was stacked doesn't get any priority. (which isn't the end of the world, but think of the a**holes who smuggle poor exotic animals using normal mail, a lot of which already arrive dead when the mail works normally..)

Yeah that's when people take the "Ideas" name too litterally. But while it's true that Lego generally (& SADLY for half of them) redesigns the sets, sometimes they don't, and you end up with a set like Adventure Time. I haven't read any good comment on that one. I bought it because I love Adventure Time, and let's face it, that's the only reason people voted it, and the only reason Lego produced it. I thought I'd appreciate it in hands, but no, the only thing interesting in that set, is Adventure Time. I wonder how many voted it and bought it btw. It's also quite possible that people voted it in hope that Lego would start an Adventure Time theme, and weren't insterested in the set in the first place. And in a way, it worked since it brought Adventure Time in Dimensions. Overexpensive, but at least good.

Well here's why we can't agree then. To me it totally is. Well maybe not totally, because "play features" play a role as well. The "maze" project didn't have to be beautiful (but it still was), it had other merits. Other than that, why would you want a set that is ugly & has no play features? "For the minifigs" isn't even a valid answer, as Ideas projects cannot really be battlepacks. Do you find it ok to vote for that project to "support Peru"? A democratic place for MOCs is Flickr. All skills are allowed, no one will complain about skills there. I'd say he would have been unknown if he didn't have a strange face

It's also quite infuriating that she gets away with rough penis drawings passing as art, while the exact same thing on your neighbor's piece of paper at school, got you in troubles when you were a kid :)

Just checked it, I think it's crap. (I mean really? This is not crap for you?) And I haven't written that being trained made you a good artist. I wrote that a good artist is trained. Oh and yes, there are also good, trained artists who have chosen to do crap for whatever reason (because there's a fanbase for this crap? Who knows). Obviously one who can do the best, can easily achieve the worst. hum what? They're both quite obviously good craftsmen. I don't see what's your point here but there are many like him, and I consider them all artists. I truly hate this Disney style but I love those like Luis Royo, Boris Valejo or Sorayama, who have done eroic/erotic fantasy stuff that I like, and are excellent craftsmen who are sometimes not considered artists. but he is an artist. Another one I don't like at all, but still an artist who deserves respect. Oh don't get me started in music because there's a lot of imposture there too. Music is very mathematic & logical, & what Mozart wrote as a child, a AI can generate it. Lots of things in classical music people wouldn't dare to critisize, while it's often pretty basic. I don't think a 5 year old could have written something as complex & interesting as Dvořák's new world symphony. (plus, being a child doesn't mean you haven't been trained)

There's nothing subjective here. Anyone, or anyone's child can paint a Pollock (& I maintain that Wonders of Peru looks like the work of a child). To paint something like Mona Lisa, you have to be trained. Real artists aren't just feeling things, they also studied and understood things. Really that may be the difference between craftsmanship & art, or how people supporting abstract art are defending it. But in my book, "art" is craftsmanship, and what's generally called art is an imposture or mockery. Would it be such a bad rule? Only call it art when a child couldn't have done it? Or only if it doesn't look like someone took some child's craft, and gave it a fake background or story? I don't like it, but I can certainly acknowledge good craftsmanship in there. Here's one I like Even Amazon had home decoration that's not corny & kinda cute

It doesn't matter, because it's not its only value. That painting isn't troll art, it's a portrait, and I admire the technique. I really don't care about the rest of its story, and yeah, its current monetary value is a joke. Glorifying Mona Lisa is a joke, but that doesn't change that it's originally a good painting (among millions of others). Nope, it's only recent that art is created purely for that reason. Before that, value was given to art (or even not art) that was created for other reasons. Can you really imagine a Pollock passing as "art" before the 18th century? Everyone would have laughed. Well you assumed wrong. All of my examples were folklore, but only St Nicolas still applies to belgian people, everyone that is. Do peruvians decorate their house with those horrible things? I don't know, do you? Judging by what I can find, it doesn't seem to be the case. Ok, then it's similar to our horrible nativity scenes? Then I'm not that wrong comparing them to grandma's kitch statuettes. Still, we had these under the christmas tree when I grew up. But my mother already knew it's ugly. It's just that it was the tradition, it was festive, maybe she was just doing it for the kids I don't know. But it doesn't change that it's equally ugly (well not even equally, because even the worst plastic one I found, still looked less childish than those peruvian things). And I wouldn't find it insulting to hear "nativity scenes are ugly". Yes it's a cultural thing & not a tourists thing, yes they still exist, but yes they're ugly. It's just old corny festive stuff. Hell, there even exist passable modern versions of these.

Simply because we have similar things here. And I've never said that it was for tourists 500 years ago. But hey, I was just guessing. So now let me fact-check it: https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g294314-i3023-k4552965-Buying_a_retablos-Cusco_Cusco_Region.html -"I will be in Peru next week and interested in buying a nativity scene retablos. Are they found in the markets?" -"You will see them in gift shops and tourist markets. If you look at one in the Lima airport gift shops or at Larcomar Mall, it will be 2 or 3 times what you might pay in the Indian Markets. There are probably more places in Lima but you should see some at the big tourist markets in Aguas Calientes or Pisac." There, fact-checked. Looks pretty common, it's just basic tourism like you'd find in countries like Tunisia, where some are trying to make you buy stuff of poor quality purely made for tourists, & sometimes actually made in China. And then many tourists get back home and think that they have visited Tunisia, met tunisians, and bought tunisian stuff, while they were on rails in a tourism circuit, never visited anything outside the boundaries, and were forced to buy crap in shops purely designed for them. Same in the US btw. I've been an on-rail tourist in Florida, and how boy the rails were so smooth... should I really conclude that there's aligator crap in every home in Florida? I doubt it. And if you go to Paris, you come back with a plastic Eiffel tower made in China, perhaps you bought a beret, and visited le Moulin Rouge. Parisians don't give a shit about these toys, no one in France wears a beret, and le Moulin Rouge doesn't represent anything of the french's contemporary life. It reminds me of those episodes of the Simpsons that are around a foreign country, they don't look like that country at all, but like tourists see them. Here's some street art in Peru, from Google image. Does that make it look like Peru is really about crap naive art? No, this is modern, Peru isn't the indian reserve you think it is, it's the modern world like everywhere (except north korea where access to the outside world is restricted).

I think that what counts as art nowadays (well, for over a century actually, and sadly) is the story behind, or the motivation, or message, or the artist himself, while the piece of art itself has just become an accessory. The last popular one was Banksy's "girl with balloon" auction. The "painting" isn't that bad, it's not ugly, it's just kinda generic. The specific painting that was auctioned is even more generic since it's just one representation of it. The self-shredding event, that was the art. And I must admit it was interesting enough, but it makes the "painting" itself just a small accessory in this "artistic event". And owning it isn't any different than owning some dust from the moon, the object itself has no intrinsic value, it's the story behind that has. And back to the thing of Peru, I would have understood it better (but still wouldn't have agreed with it) if it had been this form of "art". Abusing Lego Ideas, THAT would pass as modern or contemporary art. Would still be a joke, tho. But I prefer to call art the one we see every day in movies, videogames or "toys". If you haven't already, check the several "modern art or children's drawings" online quizzes, it's funny.

wait what? I dare to hope that art in Peru's isn't limited to those abominations. In fact, if I google-image for "peruvian art", I have to scroll down some pages before seeing one of this crap, the rest is pretty nice, there's even a nice piece of street art at the top (edit: not actually peruvian). They both are, where have I said the opposite? I have no evidence, which is why I wrote "I wouldn't be surprised". And the fact it's an old tradition, is a hint that it's for tourists. But if the people working on these also have them in their house, well then I stand corrected. that at least makes you weird. But I also believe you wouldn't put one in your house, and that it's more about political correctness.

Yeah looks like 1x2 rounded in LBG are showing in stock now. 6223495 (yellow car roof [new model]) was orderable by phone too btw.

Ah, please report it, it may really be that it's impossible to order now. I've sent them my list and they've prepared my order, that was the only way for me (except it ALSO went wrong when the operator entered my credit card #).

No one before it got 10k, but plenty once it made the news about the ones Lego had to pick from. There's no technical merit to demonstrate to anyone who's at least an average MOCer. It's quite possible that it was built in a naive way on purpose, but that still doesn't make it a good build. Artistical merits, I can't even argue because it's so subjective & one would find artistical merits in trash. So is this why you like it, because you're afraid to hurt a country? Or, like in the "art" industry, because you assume that people in that country are less advanced & thus that naive form of art moves you? Again, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that peruvians find these ugly as well, and only make them for tourists. Belgium, like any country, has its own folkloric crap. NO BELGIAN knows about it, and yet, there are tourists who come here, see a couple of people dancing in weird disguises from another century (that, again, no belgian knows about), and they come back to their country thinking that "they have seen belgian folklore". Let me google-image "belgian folklore" for a laugh. What is this? I don't know. Looks like crap to me, and I wouldn't feel insulted if someone said it was crap. I don't think it's made for belgian, or if it is, it's a pretty local thing. Now, there is something VERY typical to Belgium (& Holland, Germany perhaps?), that truely is folklore, which happened yesterday, and probably like every year made the news all over the world. But I won't say why, I will just point to this MOC (which DOES have technical merits, btw) I saw 2 days ago. This is one that Lego would NEVER dare to do. My point? Sometimes there's folkloric stuff that you just can't defend. It just makes me laugh that there's this thing purely made for kids in a small part of the world, that would not even pass Lego Idea's submission filter. I just saw it. It's another horrible bottom-up brick build that could have been made so much better. But here it's different, the people who vote for it, are voting for their team, just like people who vote for a crap build around a license, are actually voting for the license (& perhaps rightfully so, considering Lego generally redesigns the project anyway). Anyway, for me there are only 2 explanations: trolls or peruvians. It may simply have made TV news in Peru and there, easy 10k, out of 32 millions peruvians. There are many examples of Ideas projects that made 10k overnight because they made the news somewhere.

It's those barometer-like statues that are supposed to change color according to weather. I believe that one is a dog on the body of a spider. This other one does something to a cat. https://www.avenue-de-la-plage.com/164-statuette-barometre But yeah there's something very similar that's actually food (well, all sugar), as corny but STILL a thing every year in every family for christmas here:

Can't even tell if serious.

Before your post, I didn't know anyone who actually wasn't laughing at that project. Granted I haven't read the project's own comments, which are worthless because Lego censors them. But I've read about it in other places, and yeah it was the general consensus that it's fugly. The best comment about it was (translated) "I don't know why you all laugh at Wonders of Peru, it would look wonderful in-between my taxidermy cat and my seashells-made Eiffel Tower". That's only the simplest explanation when the project has merits. When it does not, the simplest explanation is: trolls. It happens a lot. Fat ugly man voted in an online beauty contest. Boaty McBoatface. Silly names in product naming contests... When Hasbro polls about french cities for their next edition of Monopoly, and the #1 voted is "Montcuq", which pretty much translates to "Myass", the simplest explanation is trolls. (Monopoly really released it, though. But as a limited edition, because yeah, they know that only a fraction of the trolls would be interested). (Edit: as MAB pretty much wrote too) They totally are, but they're still only a tiny fraction of the population. Which wouldn't make 10k votes impossible at all, only you'd have to promote it a lot on gnome-lovers forums (which I am sure do exist). Still, a lot (like myself) would also vote it for the joke.

Funny that Brickheadz is so dividing. For me, it's one of Lego's best themes, ever. Only problem, it doesn't suit Lego. Brickheadz was Lego's answer to Funko Pop, but Funko Pop covers the whole pop culture, whereas Lego & its kids-friendly censorship will limit it to pretty much Disney. So yeah, for me Brickheadz is Lego's best theme mainly thanks to MOCers. In a way MOCers have also done better than Lego by not relying so much on printed parts. I also like Brickheadz because I find small sets kinda therapeutic. Large sets annoy me because I don't have enough patience to wait, and I don't enjoy building for hours. Brickheadz, you open the box, it's done in 5min, the result doesn't take too much room, sometimes the build is rather interesting (Boba Fett), they just feel good for me. As for the worst sets, those in the lists above are just disappointing sets, which Lego had overhyped, making people expect a lot more. But they're in no way worse than, say the most obscure Duplo set, which no one will have in his list because no one even cares about it.