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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?

No I don't want a "men of NASA", no one does, it'd be as ridiculous as women of NASA. Some (not me because I don't care - even though I dig the Saturn V set) do want a "first man on the moon" set, not because they're SJW's, but because they're into space exploration, or great achievements. And here "Man" means "human", and it just happens that they're men, because.. History. Anyway, I was just pointing out that Lego, in this case, had no choice but supporting a controversial subject. I'm not kidding when I'm saying it's purely a feminist project, you can check for yourself the background of the one who did the project. First, look at her (Maia Weinstock) other projects: feminist battlepacks. She does not care about NASA, she cares about women and just that. https://ideas.lego.com/profile/20tauri/entries. And check her story, she's an active feminist. And lol, I'm not making this up, straight from her wikipedia: Eventually, this included a submission to the Lego Ideas contest called the "Legal Justice League", which was designed to look like a courtroom built out of Legos, and contained miniature versions of Sandra Day O'Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan.[8]The submission was declined by LEGO as being too political, which led to an increase in publicity for the project So I hope that it's clear that "Women of NASA" isn't about NASA, and that the real reason it got voted is quite obvious. What I did not know btw, is that the Research Institute set might already have been Lego's answer to feminists already attacking the company... https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-28660069 I'm telling you, Lego was forced to make a decision here. So if you want Lego Ideas to accept a church project, you'll have to build a drama around it. I can't imagine it being easy, though. I'm sure you'd have more chances with a "Black handicapped chairwomen of Peru" project. Well, considering that you can't do a "pioneers of NASA" without the true father of rockets, von Braun, who is also known for having developped the V2 for the nazis...... I can't imagine Lego doing it :)

Who wants Benny himself, though? We only need 1 Benny, and we already all have at least one.. so I'm pretty sure that Bricklink will be filled with Benny's in the near future. Benny's head, torso & helmet are so specific that they can't even be recycled.

Dieselpunk doesn't require alternate timelines, it's just based on aesthetics. And it doesn't stop at the war, it goes up to the 50's. Well it's not me defining it, it's wikipedia. Steampunk is victorian, & generally machines are full of rivets (which yes, tanks are as well), shiny, with lots of copper, & visible piping, & is mainly about steam engines obviously. Dieselpunk isn't about prototypes but vehicles (that onces have been) industrially produced, with concealed mechanics, and are often dirty & decaying. And yeah it's WW2-related too. Wiki lists Wolfenstein as well. It also lists Rocketeer, but IMHO the Rocketeer guy is dressed like steampunk, and the story isn't "noir" like dieselpunk generally is. Steampunk is generally in a world where new technology is making the world better, while dieselpunk is dystopian. But yeah, sure dieselpunk can also be very WW2, like Metal Slug.

Yes.. providing Lego lets you buy them.

Totally dieselpunk IMHO. As a rule of the thumb, if it looks like it'd fit in the Fallout series, it's dieselpunk. But by extension, even though it's not the 50's look, Mad Max is Dieselpunk as well. And thus these new sets as well, since they're pretty much Mad Max for kids.

There's a big difference between "not needed" and forbidden. If feminists were really asking for equality, they should have asked for a "people of NASA" pack, featuring 2 men & 2 women. Even that would already be unfairly weighted, because as you said yourself, that wouldn't even represent reality. But no, what feminists ask for, is a pack featuring only women, while being against a pack featuring only men. Of course it wouldn't (unless you'd gather 10k trolls, like from 4Chan), that's because feminists are robots easily assigned to a task, normal people aren't. That makes no sense, it's not like it would have been possible to produce a Beatles set with anyone else than the Beatles, who are men. If Lego were to produce a Spice Girls set, there would be nothing feminist about it. No, because I don't even think it's a good idea. Yes, I believe that things like this only deserve feminism (which USED to be very important in our developped countries, and STILL is important in many places in the world, but not here anymore). Those "women of" pack screams "see? Women can do it too". That makes women look like kids pretending to do jobs, waiting for their parents to tell them that they're good at it. I am/was a programmer. Pretty sure that many here are too, and they would tell you that women are very rare in this domain. A brainwashed feminist would conclude that there is some secret sect restricting access to the programming cast to women, and that they need to tell the world that yes, some women are programmers, and that these rare women need to be assigned key roles because enough is enough. But no, the truth is that women aren't programmers because they have no interest in it. And that programmers are tired of working exclusively with dudes. There was a bit of legitimacy in the women of NASA pack, though, because at least 2 in the pack are old, from a time feminism was very legitimate in our countries. Today's feminists don't care about feminism, they woke up & decided they wanted to fight for the world, they don't care which cause it's for, they just like to fight. (and if you think it's silly, there are documentaries around showing that) That sums up the whole problem here! Do you believe that the dude who suggested the Yellow Submarine idea, thought "mmh, I wanna do something to celebrate male accomplishments. What could I do.. The Beatles maybe?"? No! The dude most likely liked the Beatles, and that's just it. I've mentioned the Spice Girls, I just checked and there's apparently an (expired) project on Ideas already. There is NOTHING related to feminism in the guy's description, and his profile is "I'm a big LEGO fan who collects mainly Castle, Pirate Ships, LOTR/Hobbit, Modular Building and Collectable Minifigures!". Dude likes the Spice Girls, or enjoyed designing a project around them, that's all there is to it. And.. maybe, and sadly that's the reason his project didn't get any vote, he didn't ring the feminism bell to attract the horde to his project. The reason I'm able to claim that the "Women of NASA" project IS a feminist project, is because it is defined as such, and the woman behind it is an open feminist, and every of her actions is related to feminism. That has pretty much been answered already.. Oh and btw, every religion is pretty much patriarchist, & thus against feminism - maybe that's also why Lego doesn't wanna touch anything related, lol.

I don't know if Lego prints some manuals in-house, but they don't print them all, for the US they rely on a printing company (Google says). It makes sense that, manuals being a big part of the weight, they don't wanna ship them. So it's not technically a leak from Lego employees, and it's not something they can easily control. And perhaps they really get some manuals printed in China, if that's the case, well they got what they asked for. Still, I don't think that the leaked pictures we see are from the same sources as leaked manuals. Generally our leaked pictures seem to be from distributors, or remember, sometimes it's just thumnail "unintentionally" left somewhere on Lego's own servers.

Indeed, here my first B&P order is from 2015, but I remember back then it was still kind of a secret part of Lego, many didn't know about it, and Lego was certainly keeping it well hidden. And even today they probably still want you to use the (pointless IMHO) PickABrick page instead. I've never bought a set for a specific part, and I would never do it. I understand that they don't wanna sell the stuff that's very unique to a set, because there are many collectors who only want 1 of the unique part/minifig. But as a MOCer, if I want a part, I want dozens of it, and in no way I'd buy many of the same sets just to get them. And if Lego doesn't want my money, well it'll go to Bricklink, from sellers who bought the sets on sale.

Nope, it's a touchy subject because a "men of NASA" pack would have sent every SJW on the street to protect against Lego. And that's also the reason I believe Lego did release the set, they were scared by the power feminists have today. Releasing the set was less of a risk, because normal people just laugh at things like this, they're not gonna protest. NOT releasing it, you'd have read manipulated articles explaining that Lego is against all women. I mentioned Ai Weiwei's case, it's the same deal here, Lego had to make a choice, they couldn't get away doing nothing. And thus they refused selling him bricks, thinking it was the safest for them. I'm GLAD it backfired, and at least here it was for a very valid cause, one that is even more valid today. Of course it could also have been the case that Lego had already planned to develop in China, and didn't want to have anything to do with government critisism. That would be even worse, not any defendable.

Yeah but also consider my point from the other thread: Flickr can hardly remain a repository of MOCs, with a yearly fee. That is, if a MOCer enters another dark age / finds better things to do.. or simply proves he was a mortal... his stuff is gone. It would have been more interesting to pay for additional pictures, *forever*. Like, you shell 100 bucks to host 1000 more pictures, forever. Of course, there's no forever if Flickr doesn't make money & dies... but generally such large websites don't die, they just get from one hand to another. It does not cost as much as video hosting, and I believe basic ad support is enough to keep it alive. The only way sites like Flickr really die is when all users abandon it, and that's the risk they take if they ask money. Another ok possibility would be that if someone stops paying, his pictures get virtually removed from his gallery, but continue to live in other user's favorites. That way, Flickr can still be a huge repository of pretty much every MOC.

For a mosque I think it would, because islam is still where christianism was a few centuries ago, very active & thus the only sight of a mosque means islam, whereas a church has become part of the scenery, & more a vestige of the past & a tourist attraction. Talking about old stone churches that aren't built anymore, that is. & they still haven't included it in the upcoming Paris skyline set..

Funny that Lego doesn't wanna touch anything religious, and yet they release advent calendars every year. It sucks, considering that a large amount of the best looking buildings in Europe have religious origins. I live 50m away from a cathedral, no one sees it as a religious building, everyone sees it as the city's best looking asset. Sounds like something you'd only see in the US :) Wait, it's even funnier: apparently lots of churches HAD bowling added to them? https://www.worldreligionnews.com/religion-news/did-you-know-your-church-may-have-a-hidden-bowling-alley It indeed has nothing to do with religion, Lego is just like Disney & has no balls. Any touchy subject is forbidden. ..except that "thanks to" social justice warriors, staying away from some touchy subjects is now considered a problem as well. And that's why Lego have released those "women of" SJW battlepacks. I imagine Lego's product managers having a division by zero in their head when they realize that if they release a set for feminists, it's gonna be critisized, but if they don't, it's gonna be even worse for them. That also reminds me of https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/apr/28/lego-sell-bricks-chinese-artist-ai-weiwei-mistake. I just love how it backfired for them. That makes me think, it'd be hilarious if Lego released a Disney set with Winnie the Pooh in it, and Lepin cloned it. That would be a cunning plan, that'd be the definitive end of Lepin (& maybe Lego as well in China).

That is not a good point, that's about another kind of leak than debated here. Lepin steals the manual, the original manual. That can ONLY be from one of the printing companies leaking (maybe for money) to China. Unless you've ever found leaked manuals for unreleased sets online, but I haven't. If Lego gets their manuals printed by third parties, that's a risk they chose to take, they did it because it saves money. Now it's purely an internal problem for them. It's not "the internet" that allowed Lepin to steal sets, it only made it faster/easier (than sending the copy by mail).

Except this has been running for many years, it's safe to assume that it will never work properly. I have too given feedback, 2 years ago, and most likely others have 2 years before me. How on earth would they be able to create anything close to Bricklink anyway? That would require -a proper listing. You're telling about BL being third party, well we do need third party sources, in order to buy on B&P. I have never placed any B&P order without Bricklink assisting me in another tab. -persistent orders. This "don't go back or you lose everything" is just a joke. Timeout is a joke as well. It's like everything on B&P is made to annoy the user. -being able to add to existing orders -a proper visible stock amount Creating/updating a website costs money, and that is exactly why they haven't fixed B&P yet. What else can they do with money? Give a tiny % (it's not like they would be required to give the same as normal BL sellers) to BL, and use their system. You know what else was a broken, horrid website? Rebrick. And that's exactly what Lego did here, it couldn't be fixed, they gave up & merged it with Lego Ideas, which was already working well. B&P was ok for its initial purpose: those who are missing a part. It was not designed for large orders.

So I just placed an order, because we're getting close to that time Lego is gonna close B&P again, and while no new parts are getting added, some (white magic wands) are already disappearing... I'm really fed up with the shop. I took screenshots & all, knowing it'd probably fail, and it did, AGAIN. But this time, in a new way: as I pressed the button to accept my B&P order, AVG dected a "phishing attempt". Of course I guess it was a fake, and I disabled AVG temporarily, but it was already too late. Whole order GONE, over 80 6-digits # to re-type from a screenshot. Goddamnit Lego, just open a proper Bricklink shop. Anyway, I still have no idea which set this is from, but it's (37352) now orderable:

Really it all comes down to the room you have "inside" your model. Even tricky offsets are doable with bars & holes, but it requires room.

Frankly I was happy with the palette, it wasn't THAT restricted. And it didn't really matter that initially minifigs had no working hinges, because the palette only supports plain minifigs that no one would want anyway, so even for sets designed for minifigs (like mine), minifigs were better left out. About the restricted subjects, funny how 3% of the entries are "military".. Was there even a military category in the list, while they reject it?

Yeah, myself included, they couldn't sync their part database correctly. That can't explain it all, though.

Why it's most likely proper yellow, why wouldn't you prefer it in bright light orange? I don't know if they went for one of the 5 genuine classic space helmets, or if it's a reinforced look-alike (most likely). In any case, and because the logo is printed a tad too high, it would be nice to get all colors, for consistency. Especially a black one. I love yellow Benny since it's the first one I ever got, but it's also the most common, while it's hard to get our hands on black ones. And of course, green Benny still needs a proper helmet. So I would have preferred a black one instead of a blue Benny, but hey, we wouldn't have had this without the movie, so that's the price to pay I guess.. Still the best set Lego has ever released. And I like that yellow Benny has a green light attached to his BUTT.

443 entries, that's pretty low. But most likely the crap/good entries ratio has to be lower than in the average Lego contest, so maybe there are hundreds of good builds. I thought the guy in the video had said "we currently have ninety.. hundreds entries so far", and that wouldn't have surprised me, especially when it's open to Asia, and there's money involved. Watching again, he actually said "ninety.. A hundred".

The only way Lepin was able to clone sets, was because of leaks in the printing companies that Lego use to print instructions, it's not remotely the kind of leaks that concerns us online. Knock-offs.. it's pretty easy to guess next year's line-up of Lego's best-sellers: firefighters, ambulances, some cars, and Star-Wars stuff that has many other ways to leak anyway. And if you check Xingbao's offers, you'll see they don't have anything to envy to Lego anymore.

On a related note, I'd still pay for a subscription box filled with new parts/recolors, sent before, or at the same time as the sets they come in. Instead we have to wait until Lego allows us to BUY them. Not even sure if this another tease on purpose, a strategy (most likely), or just lack of care (probably a bit of that too). Can Lego even do anything legally speaking? I mean, the "do not share" fineprints are more contractual terms, between Lego & partners/distributors. There it's normal that a leak could end up in Lego stopping business with a partner (& they don't even need a law for that). ..but an image that you, unrelated to Lego, got your hands on.. what's illegal here? Lego getting The Brick Show (even if it wasn't a great channel) closed was a lame move, and a pretty stupid one as they were one of their best advertisers on Youtube. But most importantly, they did it because Youtube makes it easy, I doubt they could have legally gotten away with it.