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Yes, totally looks like it! If the clip is straight under the round tile, then it can only be that part indeed.

If that's true, they could have made it official, for those who were waiting. That said, "as soon as they become available" can mean anything, as they're "available" when they decide. That is, when new parts get a price, which is really random. Btw I saw the new 1x2 curved brick (from the rollercoaster set) in LBG is available. I had already bought them by phone, but now they have a price. Edit: oh and I'd still be totally in for a "Bricks&Pieces subscription box", as long as we'd get a good amount of each new part before/at the same time as their release in sets.

Indeed, the way it rewrites History, it looks more like a "sponsored" article.

Last year I whitened 4 white (well, tan) 6192's because those are bloody expensive. It worked pretty well, they got very white. But interestingly, 3 of them were stored in a room that only see the light a few hours per month (otherwise pitch black), and the fourth one stored in a drawer. A year later, they are all 4 back to full tan. Meaning: it doesn't last, and it doesn't seem to yellow again because of light at all. They got back to tan where they originally where (in the first place because of light exposure), not in their back. Also, peroxide goes off, this second time I tried to use it, zero bubble, all off, no effect. Meaning that I'm now reconsidering if this is really worth it, if you have to constantly bother to whiten the parts, and re-buy peroxide afterwards. This also tells me that it'd be quite wrong for a seller to whitened parts, I hope no one does. That being said, has anyone's experience been different? Perhaps a longer exposure in peroxide makes them stay white for longer?

Probably because of the TIE silencer.

now available: lantern (37776), 1x2 rounded in dark red ( 35480) If someone has one of the new Brickheadz with the upwards 1x1 brackets, I would appreciate the part #. The part # for the DBG one in City Docks is just not listed, & the part # for the LBG downwards one, still in City Docks, is the wrong one (but the real one is listed).

I have no idea what that character is, however it really looks like New Zealand Story's hero

I'm not even interested in the tractor at all, I'd just love to get that nice shoulder pad in LBG for MOCs. Good eye. I'm even wondering why they colored that one that's rather hidden & would have worked as well in DBG. 70654

EDIT: just got phone confirmation that this part just can't be ordered. And with this set on Ebay for 10k usd (no joke), if this part ever appears on Bricklink, I estimate its price around 4 trillions. That exclusive tractor normally has this part in LBG for the seat, maybe someone will have luck ordering it by phone. I doubt it, or the set, is ever gonna appear on B&P. & as a matter of fact, this one has never existed in LBG either, only in old grey: Someone also said the same for the rims, but I'm no expert in rims

I feel like those power blasts have a better value on Bricklink, where you can buy them separately. IMHO they're not all very useful, & for the largest one it's really a missed opportunity, nothing can be attached on the other end, where it could have had a stud, an antistud, or just a bar hole, to be usable as rocket blasts. A nice shoulder pad here, but pretty expensive. There's a saber hilt with a similar dragon, but it's not listed.

I've received numerous parts for free. The thing is that when you phone, you could get parts that don't have a price yet. For some of them, I paid the price when it appeared, while some of them I got for free. I don't want free parts though, I wanna pay for the most recent ones. Sadly the operators have been told not to sell unpriced parts anymore. While I don't fully understand how hard it is to put a price on a part, I'd say if there's no price, at least temporarily until you give it a price, just bill me the same price as the same/a similar part in another color. I also remember having bought like 20 minilegs in grey because they were just 5 cents. That's where I realized that 5 cents was Lego's "default price" in their database, and someone forgot to give it the real price. I ended up being charged 6x more. But hey, the free stuff later more than covered that. Well on one hand it makes sense that some parts are really designed as set or CM exclusives, on the other hand it sucks for the common parts that MOCers use, and that happen to be "exclusives" for Lego. Like, this one in LBG. It's one pretty old & common part, but they added it in LBG as skeleton arms in some Minecraft set. And THUS you can't buy it from Lego. Meanwhile on Bricklink it's treated as the common part that it is, and is cheap.

Minidolls really remind me of these. Around '95 I was chatting on The Palace, where these ugly things were born as avatars. And boy they became popular outside The Palace, unknown in Europe but famous in North America. I've only toyed with my first minidoll for a recent contest, and I found them fine. They could have used more, not less articulation than minifigs, though.

It being a storybook instead of an ideas book, at a time the minifig wasn't the icon it is today, I can easily imagine they filled the holes for them to look pretty. Which is a mistake the Lego TV series make as well!

I doubt it because operators really do know the upcoming sets far ahead. If it wasn't for a LUG, I believe it was planned to be used in a set, either modified or simply ditched. I have no doubt that it's gonna appear later, but how much later? There are really common parts that have appeared in a key color just once and then never again for the next 10 years, which is why I wanted to secure that part. Like this one that has appeared in black again this year. Last time was.. in 2005 ? And here I'm hoping the half-bush will be produced in black again, because on Bricklink they sell for 5eur min.

If you ask me the reason why some clone brands are "more advanced" in parts, I would say: the minifig. Minifigs is where clones differ a lot, and if you check where a lot of "common" Lego parts come from, they started as minifig accessories. Most, if not all of the clips, were robot minifig parts. Then guns & stuff. We might not even have the most basic part that bars are, without Star Wars. Because other brands have very different minifigs, when they do have minifigs, I find their "utility" parts much more interesting, because they have less detail that sticks out and restricts the use of those parts. This is not a gap that Lego is gonna fill, because it's not Lego's philosophy to produce tiny parts that aren't minifig accessories. As for this masonery corner, though, I can well imagine Lego doing it. The question is why did we get the 1x4 masonry part (which is generally more expensive than 2x 1x2's on top of it) before the corner ones.

This one just got a price too (1.14eur) Lego just sent me quite some of those 6225246 (LBG 26047) for free, since no one knew why my order was cancelled, that's nice. And I was confirmed that yes, it can still be ordered by phone, even though there is no trace left of it anywhere. And it's indeed not assigned to a set, so perhaps it was produced as a test, or for a LUG.

One of these can finally be purchased. BUT NOT THE OTHER ONE! Grrr Lego! Also this one, only in white

oh please don't be, this world is already too much self-censored. Nice MOC.

Weird, considering 1. even at room temperature, the UCS MF isn't really a model of "solidity". Talking about pretty much every detail that falls off if you just look at it. (& that's OK, it's not exactly made for kids) 2. the most important, the structure, is quite Technic-based, with pins holding stuff lateraly, how does it even matter that clutch power could be reduced here? But I guess it's procedural for them to test everything.

I've been trying to gets parts printed for a year, so I'll share my experience. I was expecting this to be easy, and to quote a local printing service that prints pretty much on everything (t-shirts, mugs, phone cases): "ah you want to print ON Lego, not 3D-print Lego? Sorry we can't do that". That also says a lot about how mainstream 3D-printing has gone, btw. Anyway: I think I've emailed them all. All the ones that do UV-printing that is, I haven't bothered with the ones that exclusively do pad-printing, and I don't think you're after large batches of thousands either. Here I'm looking for 30 parts out of which only a couple are repeated 4 times. Very few have bother to reply so I'll just list them: -Steindrucker, Germany: many have used his service, he seems to do a good job, but.. I think you really have to speak german (& I don't). I just couldn't communicate with him properly so I gave up. -Minifigs.me, UK: these gave a honest answer. For my project, I value registration/centering more than printing quality, and they said they couldn't do it precisely enough on round tiles. But still an option I suppose. -Minfig Madness, US (I think): answers, seems to know his job, only he was too busy for the next months. But that was months ago, so give it a try, especially if you're in the US. -fab-bricks, UK: he already did a testprint for me and he's the one who will probably do it. None of the others bothered to reply, they're probably not interested by small batches. ..or are you asking for a service that will also do the design for you? Some do, but I don't know which ones.

This part btw, it's strange how it already got 2 different ID's. In the City Docks manual it's listed as 6227012, yet in B&P it's listed as 6248078. Its upwards counter part however isn't listed (in City Docks it's 6225494). Just to say that I've also spotted the upwards version in black, brown & white in the upcoming Brickheadz (Harry Potter & SW). Too bad that these, like the good old 1x2's, are color-coded for kids, so that upwards is DBG and downwards is LBG. It took until this year to finally get a downwards 1x2 in DBG! They can't be ordered but I've played with the ones in City Docks. They suffer from the same "inacurracy problems" as their larger version. Namely:

Ah, I was told this part was coming in DBG, so that was in this set. Nice!

Clones have it..

The sets with the mammoth & sabre tooth have already been released. It's not in any set for which we have pictures, I've inspected all of them carefully. The part in that Powerpuff Girls set is 18649, I recognize it from the mould detail. Unless of course they changed it after the promo pictures. But certainly they will tell me, I didn't ask last time by phone where it comes from because my order was placed, I didn't need to know. Lego's operators well know the sets in which parts are, and the release dates, btw. I had been told months ago that 29119 would come back in LBG in a June set, and so it did. Well, they don't have the info that the part was already in that Brickheadz Comic Con exclusive, though. But yeah, for 9 months I've been trying to get them sell a couple (of 29119 LBG) to me.. and most likely for 9 months the part has been sitting in their warehouses. Supposedly set 41498 was limited to 5000, & does Lego bother to produce parts in batches of 5000? I don't know, but for a generic part & such a common color that LBG is, I doubt it. There's a dude on Bricklink selling 29120's (but he doesn't have 29119's) in LBG, and he has 80 of them - I wonder where HE got them from. Of course he knows what he's sitting on, he sells them for 10 bucks each. Meanwhile Lego supports that black market speculation :( As a MOCer it's really frustrating to get new parts. I fully understand why they're reluctant to sell licensed parts which are generally the main selling points of sets.. even though it's frustrating when useful parts are often minifig accessories, and are exclusive to blind bags (like that paint roller that I'd like to see come back in LBG..). But to me there's a big difference between a mammoth & a generic part, most collectors wanna buy 1 mammoth & that's it, just to have one, while MOCers want/need dozens of a part and aren't gonna buy a dozen of the same set full of parts & minifig that he has no need for, just to get these.

Plus Lego has hardly produced anything in copper, and that was 10 years ago anyway. Of couse, never say never, since teal is back. But I MUCH prefer to see sand green getting mainstream, it's really a nice color, while I never liked the pseudo-metallic colors that just look like cheap plastic. For the first time I'm building a MOC with gold parts, and as much as I love the few plated parts, the "warm gold".. yuk. And they can't even keep it consistent, in the latest sets it's much darker.