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To be fair, it's not exactly the project that was wrong, it's what it was trying to replicate. Does this really look GOOD outside Peru? I get it that it's a cultural thing, but... It's part of these things I don't get. Like, this

That looks kinda bulky. Take a look at Aliexpress, there's a lot of lighting stuff made for bricks there. Strips & studs, all USB-powered (to link to a hub). I believe that's what everyone uses.

(not that I care about the debate, but) Lego mostly charges by what people are ready to pay, the production costs of any Lego set must be very, very low

But it's not a jumper, and it's not where it's used. It's used for the base of the pump, and even more weirdly, only on one side. The other side has a normal, old-style turntable. Why not on both sides? And why is a turntable even needed here? I get it that it's more secure, but eventually it's still just 4 studs holding it on 2 places. *surely* this new part was created for another set.

Ah, pretty weird. Surely it hasn't been made for this specific set, because it doesn't look like it's needed here. The bracket is great, though. I thought it was yet another compound of classic brackets, but it has more to do with the very old L-shaped brackets, with full plate underside - very useful!

A couple of nice recolors/new parts. Anyone understands the white thing with the open stud, next to the new bracket? Perhaps it's the 1x1 bracket shown from front? Or if it's at scale, a 2x2 tile with a large stud? Weird. I'm not seeing it anywhere in the model.

Note that since Rebrick merged with Ideas, there is now another sad motivation behind zero-effort crap entries, in contests (all entries are now merged in the "Discover" database): "A Bonus prize winner will be selected randomly from a Bonus Pool of high-quality contest submissions." ..resulting in this.. https://ideas.lego.com/challenges/642ce72d-0872-48ef-a27b-a6bbeecc9027/application/0f8e7cfc-95ac-4b68-be54-c51ed14149ca https://ideas.lego.com/challenges/642ce72d-0872-48ef-a27b-a6bbeecc9027/application/ecb85324-fd84-4908-a112-fd0d79252190 https://ideas.lego.com/challenges/642ce72d-0872-48ef-a27b-a6bbeecc9027/application/73adcfaa-a97e-4c17-a644-9868b61631de If Lego filtered the crap, out of the 500 entries in that contest, you would only have to view 100 at best. To Lego's defense, they specified "pool of high-quality", probably from the experience with Rebrick.

A couple of recolors have just been added (nothing in stock, so I won't bother with the ID's) This time I can't even place my order, with 5 attempts... I believe people in the US have less problem with B&P, simply because it often occurs that you place a B&P order in the right country, you're already logged in in the shop in the right country, and YET your B&P order ends up in the US version of the shop. From that point, you have no solution. Changing the country just hangs the site, you can only do it if you empty your cart first. When that happens, you can re-open B&P from your cart in another tab (& pray for it to work), then empty your cart, then try to re-place the order. But here I'm in a loop where it only wants to send it to the US :( Edit: 3 of the above orderable by phone: 6228601, 6228601 & 6231765

So what is it, jealousy? Or do you feel like a good little soldier by reporting people?

That seems to affect you a lot. Like, personally. *speechless* Joke aside, I searched #sweetmayhem on Instagram to know what it was all about, only to end up in a gallery of Lego, boobs & cakes.

They also buy the small toys anyway. Which reminds me that there's a french company, Studio 100, that bought some of the forgotten shows of my childhood. Namely Maya the Bee, Heidi (probably in the public domain though) & Vic the Viking, which were only remembered in some part of germany I believe. But it wasn't to air the originals (which have aged pretty badly), nor to reuse scenarios at all, it's just for the characters, which have nothing very interesting (well Vic the Viking is still a nice concept). And they remade them all in 3D. It makes sense, it's also parents (the ones who care) who decide what to put their kids in front of, and when it's stuff from their own youth, they know it's "safe". Or they wanna show their kids the shows they were watching when they were young. Even Super Mario is advertised as inter-generational. For these 2 reasons, I can imagine fathers buying Bennies to their kids.

I didn't know about that game, looks promising

Again, I only know Ninjago from hearing it, not listening to it, so I'm quite certain that you know it (& probably Star Wars as well) much better than I do. However, I googled to check that I wasn't alone seeing so many similarities, and surprise, it got me straight to this very board: He pretty much saw the same as I did, + more. Someone's reply is that all of these are classic tropes, and that's exactly my point: Ninjago is generic, Nexo is generic, that's why I don't like them. But hey, they're designed to sell toys afterall, and Transformers, MASK or GI Joe were a lot dumber.

Physics in game engines isn't that old, they became possible because accelerated by the graphics cards themselves. But we're still far from real, proper physics on an average Technic set. I think Besiege is currently at the top of what's doable today, and I think that if you were to apply what it's doing to a Technic set, you'd get similar motion, your car would roll really weirdly, parts would giggle all over the place. There IS pro software that would really be able to make it work, the kind that engineers use to locate stressing points & stuff, but that doesn't work "realtime". People have made cars that work in Besiege btw, you can check them, keeping in mind that it's still not Technic models with hundreds of pins linking beams. They "work", but.. it's not suitable for what you have in mind.

Here's what I understood from hearing the show in the background: there's that kid (Lloyd Skywalker or something) that's raised by the good guys, especially that old guy (Sensei Yoda or something). Kid doesn't know that the bad guy (Darth Garmadon or something) is his father. But then he learns it, and learns that his father hasn't always been bad, and his father tries to lure it to the dark side. But eventually his father shows that he isn't all that bad, and there's more evil above him, etc etc. Granted, I haven't much understood who Zane-3PO was exactly, or who princess Lenya was the sister of, but that all still reminds me of SOME MOVIE. Wait I'm not saying these things can't be popular. I haven't seen any of the Toy Story, I'm very allergic to Disney, and probably for the same reasons I don't like Lego's shows. But yeah, Disney is big. I don't think Disney would have pulled off the Lego Movie btw. It'd have been very bland. IMHO WB did the best possible for a kids-friendly movie. As an adult, the only thing that'd make me watch a Classic Space show, was if it was a spoof of all the space opera's. Like, Space Quest (the first 3 ones). Or what The Orville should/could have been. Could that even exist for kids, spoofing shows that they probably never saw? If it can't be that, I'd rather not have it at all, so that Classic Space can still have a good place in my memory. Sometimes it works, Samurai Jack got its sequel/ending and it was great. Sometimes it's done by people who didn't get the essense of the original, like for the Powerpuff Girls, which I used to like (& which was a good example of a show loved by little girls AND adults, for different reasons). Oh course the comparison isn't the best, since Classic Space is only a visual theme, there is zero existing story or background. But that means that Lego could make up anything, and if it has to be like Ninjago & Nexo, I don't want it. I also liked the Lego Movie for its metaphysical ending btw. Could that work in a show? Well yes, I've seen it more than once in Teen Titans Go.

Btw, I don't quite know the background of Rob's Nova Team, but there's already a TV show vibe to it. If Lego had a Classic Space show and absolutely had to make it modern, they wouldn't go wrong with the style.

Oh come on, at the end of the day it's still the same trope. I don't like any of Lego's TV shows (I'm kinda allergic to that 2000 style of 3D) or games, but I had Ninjago running in the background for enough time that I know what it's about. & there the "I'm your father" is pretty much a ripoff of SW. The one I can't stand is Nexo Knights (maybe also because I consider it guilty of having killed the Castles theme), so much that I generally switch to something else when it's aired. The only ONE episode I saw, was that Merlin dude telling a guy that some sorcerer was her mother. And he was like "nooo nooo I can't believe it". You may argue it's this time a ripoff of Excalibur, but to me it felt like Ninjago in "Castles on wheels". But hey I'm old & I loved Adventure Time & Regular Show, so these are not for me. I would probably have LOVED Ninjago when I was a kid, but that's because ninja's were everywhere in the 80's. My minifigs were generally ninja's, actually (wearing the first peasant cowl). Oh and in the 80's I definitely loved crap shows, but there was nothing else to watch. These days I really wonder, most likely as a kid I'd totally miss the second degree humor in the great Cartoon Network shows and I'd be watching the crap ones. Thank god those haven't aired here. But Mixels, I quite liked the theme, pretty original & we owe them the very important ball joints. But the show? Makes absolutely no sense.

let's say it will make me buy less of them, or buy one & wait for a significant price cut

I think the problem isn't the look but the fact they have no soul. I mean, they aren't proper characters. They turned Benny into a character, but it looks like the second movie stresses on the fact they're happy clones. Oh perhaps those Xenny's will be like the three stooges, who knows. Or PacMan ghosts - I'm surprised there was no fourth spaceman named Clyde. Kids today most likely want a good & bad side, & different characters. And it's totally doable, but I'd rather see Classic Space continuing to live inside those *good* movies than being adapted into a crap TV show (in which the typical good kid learns that he's the son of one of the bad guys - typical trope of Lego shows, whether it's ripped from SW or Excalibur, it's still the same thing) to support a new theme. I would looooove a typical Star Trek spoof TV show with the aesthetics of the movie, and good writing with proper humor watchable by adults. But Lego can't get that produced. Or maybe they can.. I haven't watched Unikitty yet, but if there really are people from Teen Titans Go behind it, maybe it's good?

Yes but my message was: you/we need/want ONE Benny, while that pack is massable and there is gonna be a lot of Benny leftovers (on Bricklink, I predict under 1 buck). Btw red & blue classic spacemen are still not too expensive on BL, as used with proper gold prints (many many without, but that's worthless). Black & white however, unaffordable. Which is why I wrote I'd have preffered a fourth spaceman, a black one. Or a green or a LBG one, because we only have torsos for these. We have no proper green & LBG helmet, nor a LBG airtank.

Ah, that OTHER controversial thing Lego has made :) I just love it that Lego has produced this. Surely they knew what they were doing.

Nope, it has that cartoonish wide-mouth on both sides (one happy & one sad), a face that hardly fits in Lego's common face design. Do kids even want that set anyway? They won't want it for Benny alone, and he's in 2 other sets, not counting the past & future ones. But I'm not disagreeing that it would look odd, marketing-wise, to have a set with just classic spacemen.

It does. The horde who voted it, does not care about NASA. It's far from the worst thing they've done, though - it's just a fun fact. No it's not. As I pointed out, Ideas rules out political stuff, and her previous attempts were rejected. Lego did not want this, they had no choice. Besides, Ideas projects would ideally be picked for their qualities, by people who would buy the sets. I doubt that many in the horde cared about Lego enough to actually buy it. I make no difference between the horde voting this set, and 4Chan voting "Boaty McBoatface". It used to be. And it's still a good thing in many countries in which women hardly have any right. In our countries, it has just become silly. Women like Anita Sarkeesian, Laci Green, or the most pycho fo them all, Zarna Joshi, have made it a mockery. But it's not just feminists, it's all SJW's in general who are a nuisance to this world, & freedom of speech. Exactly. That's what feminism SHOULD be about. Equality of men & women should mean that both should have equal chances to, say in this case, become an astronaut. It shouldn't mean forcing women/making it easier for women to become astronauts so that each rocket hosts as many women as men. If it happens that less women than men are training to become astronauts, just consider that *maybe*, *maybe* it's because women are less interested in that. Because men & women, while being equal, are different. Yeah yeah it's a conspiracy against women that these were kept unknown, on purpose. Go on the street and ask anyone to name famous names from the NASA. In the best case you'll get: Armstrong & Aldrin. Perhaps also Chris Hadfield these days. And that is ALL. People don't know all those in the shadow, men or women. It's not sexism, it's just that people only remember the ones put into light, which is normal. It's like in Olympics where no one wants a silver medal because people only care for the gold ones. There's not even room for the OTHER men who walked on the moon, that says it all.

yeah I'd agree I don't know, if I think decopunk I think Bioshock, not exactly optimistic. On the same subject, you'll have to come up with a new punk for the upcoming "atomic heart". Soviet punk? Anyway the trailer is a-ma-zing.

Not counting that it'd be extremely difficult to make a Technic project "work virtually" as in real life. There's pro software for that, but in a game?