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As much as I don't like the Aston Martin, it's bringing us this part in LBG (not listed yet)!

You should put the clown-thing on the lower-left on Lego Ideas, for the lolz if it passes through.

Hi, I saw/replied to your question on Flickr, but whoever else wanna build the mounted gun, the parts were normally: a 60849 "gun", a minifig hand, a 23443, a 15210 sign (the long-clip version), a 48729 bar+clip, and a 41677 to attach both bar+clip & gun. But Perhaps nowadays there are better ways to do this. Like the 1x2 rounded plate which has more clutch power than the 41677, and has just popped up in DBG. Or more simply a 93609 which now exists in DBG as well (I didn't want to use black up there).

canopy parts are generally a better buy on BL though, for at least 2 reasons: -for Lego a large part is always considered expensive, on Bricklink it can be pretty cheap either because it's considered a "cheat piece" and no one wants it, or there are just too many on the market, like it's the case for canopy parts from Nexo sets -most importantly, BL sellers will generally protect transparent parts separately. Lego just doesn't care. And it showed again in the "ship in a bottle" set that I just bought.. scratched & stained. Of course, BL sellers got their transparent parts from sets in the first place, but it also depends on how they got the set. Yeah Bricklink is a mixed bag of odd sellers & good ones, but there are plenty of good ones. Of course don't buy used transparent parts, ever.

Oh come on, Bricklink is filled with parts that "Lego have chosen not to release". We will soon know whether that unprinted cat really comes from Bricks&Pieces or not, but wherever it comes from, it has most likely been produced for that game. That Youtube video showing the game has a too poor quality to check, but most likely that cat can be seen there. Trans orange what? Plenty of trans orange & trans neon orange (they aren't that different) on Bricklink, generally for dirt cheap because no one wants Nexo sets & they all end up on BL.

Right, so it's better to let no one know where parts come from.. But ok, that means it's incomplete by design, then. BL is full of "unreleased" parts, so it's weird that it has rules against "unreleased" sets. Anyway, with the manual being fully written, with the set having been filmed in toy shows, it's nearly sure that it "exists" in some form, & just hasn't left Lego.. yet.This being said, Bricklink is also a place for used sets, and if all of the parts exist and it's perfectly doable to recreate the set as "used without box", then why not? Only the rulebook doesn't seem to exist for this one, though.

Not having been released isn't exactly a good reason not to list it, though. Especially on BrickLink that's all about parts. Clearly the part has been produced and is visible on many pictures. Even Lego still provides the "instructions" for that set actually, so perhaps it did get a brief release somewhere (but I guess not, or we'd find at least a couple on ebay). In any case, there are hundreds of that cat on Bricklink, and some sellers have them in large quantities, that can only mean that there are plenty to buy on Bricks&Pieces.

Always check Bricker & Brickset, not all databases are exact. It's in this one That's the most obscure part Lego would make available. Who'd even buy that?

Yes, that wasn't a real question, it's to spare money and/or to make things easier/quicker for kids in junior sets. But also, the 1x4 looks better as it shows no gap, and it's sad that they didn't go for that part in the statue of liberty.

I have more problems with the too long arms than unarticulated short legs. While I have no problem with normal torsos because they can pass for long T-shirts, it's awkward to see kids with long arms IMHO. Lego has molded all kinds of alternate arms & legs, and can't produce a pair of shorter ones for the many kids they have released? They have produced very long arms for the quite limited basketball minifigs..

The thing is that it worked for the parts that didn't have too much sharp bits, for those the liquid dropped nicely, for the others it stacked in places and hardened there. For those angular parts, there was no angle I could hang them at that would have let the liquid pour out everywhere. And even where it worked, it wasn't that amazing. I had old classic space canopies from my childhood, they went from nearly opaque to semi-transparent, which is ok - I wasn't expecting miracles anyway.

Has anyone in europe successfully added parts by phone today? Just placed an order, their french-speaking phone support is closed (11 AM) for no apparent reason. I wonder if it's the same in other countries. (oh, and this cool piece, 37494) EDIT: Couldn't order much of what I listed above, but for those who are looking for the DBG upwards 1x1 brackets from City Docks, they have it with a price (13 cents), 6248078.

You haven't said which part(s) it was, though. Surely if you bother they're rare parts?

I don't know, but I know I'm not gonna pay 0.7eur for what's not nearly as useful as a bar 2L would be, and doesn't cost 5 cents because it's dual-molded for no useful reason here. Had a mini-discussion with a MOCer about bar 2L recently: I was saying that cutting 3mm tubes 2L was cheating, and he pointed me to set 21003 which totally requires cutting 3mm tubes, which made me reconsider making myself some bar 2Ls. I knew cutting 4mm cables was a thing with Lego, never knew about 3mm ones.

So the upwards 1x1 bracket is there (36840) in black, brown and a useless color (cool yellow), but not in LBG as in City Docks (quite a mistery why). Also 1x1x2 bracket brick in black & white (32952), candle (37762) which looks quite generic & will become a pretty useful part, new 1x1 double slope (35464), new window thing (38320), sand green stick (18745), this one now in brown (32828) Quite interestingly, the first time I saw this part (that would really have been a perfect fit as rings in Dimension's Sonic), it never occured to me that they were those very old tires (2815) (& nothing of this "in stock" of course).

They are bloody expensive for what they are, though. Btw there's a black one too now. I also got my order with the 1x3 underplates with hole, they're a pretty nice solution to have a bar under a plate, when you stick a T-bar to them.

Yeah but he's a collector, and maybe wanna resell later, so what matters to him is the perception out there, rather than a label. Battle on Hoth isn't an "UCS" for anyone but Lego, & thus does it matter? Also Ultimate means or implies final (which is something that *would* matter to a collector), and it's quite obvious that Lego is gonna remake most of them over & over, so.. And that is where I laugh at those who owned an "UCS" Millenium Falcon that was "worth" several thousands, for the only reason that it was the only way for anyone to buy a large MF. Today, their only hope is to resell it to other collectors, who will in turn expect its price to keep rising. A pure speculative bubble that will result in a couple of collectors holding the bags. So don't trust "ultimate" because it's not, and the next release of it will look so much better than no one will wanna buy yours anymore, except a dozen of collectors around the world, vs the whole lot who stocked the latest UCS MF because they saw on TV that the previous one had gained 1000% in value.

Exactly, I've too asked sellers if their LBG part was really LBG, since it's only supposed to exist in old grey. They insist that yes, and of course it never is, so I don't even bother anymore. Similar thing with "DBG 4mm tubes", which I now believe don't even exist, despite half of sellers "having" them, it's always old black tubes which had a slight blue tint. Yeah but for parts like that roof, it may be a temporary inflation. It's quite a specific part, it's possible that a MOCer needed a lot of them and made the prices rise, but there seems to be too many of them on BL for that price to stick, for such a special part. Although I'm not a collector, I've tried to stock some parts that I used a lot, when they were cheap. Like this one that is slowly getting rarer & expensive, even though it's still in production in other colors, and I hope one day Lego will make them in DBG again: And this one which is now overexpensive. I have a dozen of them, no one wanted them, despite it already being rare. But here I believe I'm partly responsible for their inflation, after having used 2 of them in a shared MOC. It only takes 20 people to buy 2 of a rare part at the same time for prices to skyrocket. Prices range from 5 to 30eur now. I've bought some for exactly 15 cents too in 2015. The most silly is that the only set it came in, even though it's rare on BL as well, is sold for less than the part itself. Old 1x1 tiles+clip are starting to get out of control as well. Already from 3 cents to 10 cents in many places, probably because the new clips are ugly & have mold marks.

About trans part yellowing, though: I've only seen bad cases of yellowing on these old parts in trans clear, so far: But they are still in production & cost absolutely nothing, so if someone ever gets a yellowed one, it makes no sense to bother with it. Bricks are also (obviously) very old, but same thing here. Old canopies that have become very rare are trans-yellow ones, and well, they're already yellow, so.. And the major problem with old canopies is scratches, anyway. The only yellowed trans-clear parts I ever got were . But the OP said they were Star Wars sets, so they couldn't be that old. So I suppose that parts don't have to be that old to yellow. I can understand it's a problem for SW's printed canopies.

Yes the Harry Potter/Disney/Ghostbusters Brickheadz & the Harry Potter sets. The Brickheadz should mean all of the new 1x1 upwards brackets, the DBG one being still not listed in the City Docks set.

It also appears with a flames pattern in the Lego movie 2 trailer btw. I really like that Mad Max vibe in those recent Ninjago sets, and I hope the movie 2 sets will be as good. We should be seeing quite some sets appear on B&P tomorrow or in 2 days, I suspect the full sets are always there way ahead of time, with some automatic "public visibility" date.

well they go together you can find animators straight out of their school who will have no problem fitting in the Lego series. Animating the Lego movies however, that requires quite some creativity to compensate for the lack of articulation. And it really is easier, you can see in those series that a lof of the animation is heavily keyframed and uses a lot of stock/recycled poses. To me it's just cheap but hey, it's TV, I've seen worse. In fact, when you don't wanna put enough money in it, better do 3D than 2D anyway. well I only like CGI when it doesn't look like CGI anyway. But what I was saying is that CGI Lego is awkward. The Lego Friends series, I find it CGI-ugly, but it's not bad because it doesn't try to make characters look like minidolls at all. The way those minifigs bend their limbs is just weird, and the way only the minifigs look blocky but not the rest is even worse. The opposite would have been more understandable - characters with normal limbs in a blocky world.

Pretty sure that several are just seller mistakes, though. When a part is sold by just 1 seller and it's under 20 cents, it's most likely a mistake, or a bait. So there's probably no "trans medium blue", "aqua", "dark flesh", "dark turquoise", "flat silver" or "light green" one. And these colors are easily mistaken for others, so, most likely all mistakes.

And quite ironically, these days many parts use side notches instead of tubes/pins, which not only works as well but also gives more freedom (like, old vs new jumpers). I don't think the "journalist" was mislead, it was either a lazy "I'll rephrase what's in this marketing pamphlet & call it an article", or it was simply sponsored (most likely the case, because a "journalist" would at least have made the basic investigation that googling is).

Thanks. You'll see the next release is much better btw (I'm still trying to get parts printed for it). Perhaps you had a balance issue because you put both snowspeeders on the side with the legs together, here I have no problem on the side with the legs apart. I've only put them on the same side for my diorama, though.