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Yeah but it has never been reliable anyway. Plus, even when it was reliable, it was still not hinting you the price, while a little part priced at 15eur in a specific color, is pretty much the same as non-existing. Pretty sure many newcomers to the LDD were disgusted when they found out that their cool MOC was using parts that simply didn't exist. Now I always have Bricklink open in order to check what's really available & for how much.

things like the LDD rely a lot on mouse hovering to be efficient, I can't really imagine this on tablets, until hovering technology comes to them (which, I agree, is imminent)

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This is amazing, all the most recent parts are there & more. Sure, only in extended mode, but who cares, since the color list has always been very unreliable anyway. I can't find the Nexo Knights thread rubber grip part, bb704, but maybe it's there, I can't find its official ref #. Another nice surprise: nearly all of the tubes are now bendable.

To me that's not a bad thing at all. I like to do MOCs following the rules that it has to be Lego, but to me a MOC is more a design than a final product, and if there are parts that Lego has officially produced but can't be found anymore, then why not substitute? And really, take black pin/axles or these bushes in black. Many times I've wanted to use them in MOCs, but there's noooo waaaaay I'm gonna pay 3eur for just one of these. ..so if someone ever releases knockoffs for cheap, and the quality is good, I'll certainly buy them. Of course, I'd rather buy them from Lego, but if Lego doesn't wanna produce them anymore - their choice. Sure, it would suck for sellers who may see their parts devaluate, but someone selling a used 2 cents part for 3 eur because it's rare, it's a risk he's taking, and it would too devaluate by 5000% if Lego itself produced them again.

hum.. athletes don't do the Olympics just to win. First, participating the Olympics is itself a prize, you're already winning if you reached that. Second, participating the Olympics is TOO a massive exposure. Research on cure for diseases, that's also a good example of something that no one sane would spend all his own money on. That's something you finance carefully, no lab ends up losing money because they balance everything well. Trust me that if Lego Ideas was a black box, that you were just suggesting ideas to Lego only and only the ones that Lego picked were to be seen, NO ONE would bother. NO ONE is gonna make a great MOC for the sole purpose of showing it to Lego. That would make them.. Lego designers, and it's a paid job. So tell me how a vote is different from a "like" in other galleries? Yeah, 0.1% chances.. how does that sound like any chance? That's my tip to those making Lego Ideas entries, don't do it to get your set released, because it's not gonna happen. And if you're really, really lucky, Lego is gonna redesign it anyway. And even though you won't get picked, it's still useful for Lego to know what people want/don't want. Btw I even hate how some people suggest ideas DESIGNED to get votes. I'm talking about those bloodsuckers who check what's popular/what already got votes, and quickly design similar MOCs. Which are generally worse than the original, because designed too quickly, thus pointless. And again, what's really polluting Lego Ideas is 80% of the entries by 6 year-olds (yeah of course, added by their dad). A kid being naive, you can be sure that he IS expecting his idea to be picked. Thus by your definition of what Lego Ideas is for, all those kids entries are legit, and 5000+ parts MOCs designed by adults are not - I just can't agree with that. Here are 2 examples: This one was (I hope) made by a kid, and that kid really added this entry hoping it's gonna get produced: https://ideas.lego.com/projects/134868 This nice one was most likely designed by an adult, who most likely knows that he has nearly no chance to get 10.000 votes, as it's around some old obscure english show: https://ideas.lego.com/projects/134865 None of these 2 are gonna pass -anyway-, but guess which one I enjoyed looking at?

Yeah, for me, "should I put it on Lego Ideas?" comes once the MOC is done, it's just like putting it on Flickr, MOC-pages or whatever. As much as some seem to hate it, Lego Ideas is one of those places to be seen, and I find it crazy to put something for the sole reason of getting it voted for, because the chances that it will be are very thin, and even thinner are the chances to be selected & produced. I mean, let's assume that Lego Ideas is NOT a gallery, that would mean that 99.999% of the people who have spent time on the entries, did it for NOTHING. That would make no sense, that wouldn't even be fair, it would pretty much sum up as Lego telling people "make us MOCs, we'll select 2 each year, the rest goes to the trash bin". No, people put stuff on Lego Ideas to be seen, being voted for is the same as "likes" in other galleries, and getting the MOC produced (in an altered way) is just an unreachable bonus that no one should sanely be aiming at.

According to who? According to Lego, Lego is all original, no one ever made building blocks before them, everything else is a ripoff :) Hard to believe it's a coincidence, but Lego was named Lego in 1934, for Elgo it seems uncertain, while what's certain is that their blocks appeared before Lego's. Good info here, although it's lacking the precious date: http://www.toyhistory.com/Halsam.html They were pioneers into plastic toys with their Elgo (ELliot+Goss) division. Beginning with bakelite dominos and checkers, they improved their products through the use of plastic-injection molding. In 19__, a small Danish company named Lego came to Chicago to meet with Halsam officials. It seemed that Lego also made plastic building bricks and was set to begin marketing in the United States. Because the products and the company names (Elgo and Lego) were so similar, the Danish officials wanted to avoid and unpleasantness. Sam's son, Bill Goss (the first to speak with Lego officials), remembers the Lego executives as upstanding and forthright. Lego paid Halsam a sum of $25,000 to square itself and clear the way for their arrival in America. The rest, they say, is history.

Yeah but it started as the blocks only, then they expanded it with minifigs. Can't really imagine this for this set, but I do really hope it's gonna make Lego do more with the license, later. I'd like it to be like SpongeBob, the sets were cool.

Grr that's the second time that amazing T-rex fails, wtf Lego? How is this not the best Lego model ever made? I must be missing something, maybe it's built too fragile? The cars are nice (only I imagine them at $100-$150, and I'm pretty sure that Lego is gonna make them a lot worse), and the Adventure Time license would sell me anything, only I would have preffered playsets, rather than buildable characters. But of course, the Lego Idea rules pretty much prevent new parts, which a playset would involve, for the characters. yeah, I already see several aspects of it that will certainly not pass Lego's guidelines. To start with, it relies a lot on tubes bent very abruptly, Lego is gonna change that, and it's not gonna look as nice. A clip on a 4mm cable, never saw that either. Rubber bands, stickers over multiple parts, all this is gonna get ruined. Such MOCs always look great, but I hope people understand that Lego is never gonna do that (unless it was a new kind, released strictly for adults). The T-Rex however, if there's any building flaw, I'm not seeing it. I don't get it, the brown one looks amazing.

27) Series 1 - Spaceman Entry (Build by Qbeat) 35) Series 4 - Artist Entry (Build by Bidea) 43) Series 8 - Cowgirl Entry (Build by Bidea) Quality is much higher than for cat A, hard to pick just 3

18) Farmer Entry (Build by JacloS_UA) 51) Jewel Thief Entry (Build by nwlegoan) 60) Frightening Knight Entry (Build by Graham Gidman)

The icy Hoth one? I don't have the LXF for it available, but it's better that you present it your own way, IMHO. Maybe some Endor base.

the "original" had rubber tires - but Lego wanted to spare 0.2 cents, I guess I like it but it's too bad that the sets go from bland to boring. A classic space theme would have sold it to me.

Have you really used brand new balljoints? I've had 2 of them on their legs for months now, they won't move. Do you know if yours fell because of the foot or neck joints?

I suspect one of the reasons is to make it less different parts in the set. Like if the set already contains a lot of yellow 1x2, and somewhere hidden it needs a 1x2 or even a 1x4, it will use more yellow 1x2's instead of adding another part, which probably has a cost. The other reason is that all Lego designers have to dress like this.

Well the customer service could simply forward the message. I suggested them that the default price shouldn't be 5c but either 0 or 100 bucks, something that stands out as not normal. 5c is a too realistic price, that's the problem. Funny that BrickLink is a more solid & trustful (& less broken technically speaking) place than Lego's own part shop. My latest order had some missing parts - nothing too important, and to be honest this is way more common with many BL sellers. But it's surprising that it's always missing parts, never one too many.

magicbricks would be the most known

I'm no SW fan at all, but that's not what I read. Quoting the IMDB: More scenes of the AT-ST Imperial "chicken walkers" were filmed, but George Lucas decided that the larger AT-ATs were more menacing and impressive. He later realized that the AT-STs would work better in close quarters, which led to using them extensively in the forest battle in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi Besides, you can't name a set "assault on Hoth" and feature nothing that assaults except 2 minifigs.

I don't know, there's junk around it (speeder bike, catapult), I already know that when I'll get it built, I won't know where to put it - and it'll be of the first sets I will steal parts from. Of course we're all partly kids as well, I've bought more play sets than serious, boring Lego stuff.

mmh, but the Death Star & Ewok Village don't have that UCS tag, and I consider them big playsets as well. This set is pretty much the same thing as the Ewok Village IMHO (which I got and haven't built yet, because the end result is not very collector-friendly, with parts all over the place, instead of 1 big solid thing that you can display). The Death Star got its UCS as well (10143), with zero play feature, and that one was in the right spirit. A kid wouldn't want it. To sum up, to me the difference is this: if you have a set for display, an adult who isn't into Lego (& let's be honest, we're not the norm) comes in and thinks that the kid left his toys in the room, it's not an UCS. If the set can pass for an interesting piece of art on a desk, then it is. In that way, I consider the Architecture line an adult line, for collectors - only missing the U in UCS. Personally I could care less about the building challenge - that's more what Technic & Mindstorm is about.

Ah, my bad. Makes no sense to me, it's not even the kind of set that can be UCS in a manageable part count. To me, collector means adult. And an adult doesn't want a playset, he wants something for display, something that isn't exaggerating the structure for solidity, and reducing the detail along with part count. How does a collector need/want play features? Well, a collector isn't a kid, that's for sure. So a toy designed for kids, and bought by collectors, I'm not saying that it doesn't make sense - it does. But collectors collect 2 things: toys that were designed for kids (that they generally keep in box), and detailed, expensive things (statues, props), designed for collectors, that have display value. So in any case Lego got it wrong, releasing a playset designed for kids, but claiming it's for collectors. But it's the theme that's wrong for an UCS anyway. Something for collectors should have the quality of a good MOC, and how would you get a good battle on Hoth display set at a manageable price, when even the toy version of an AT-AT has over 1000 parts...

Where has Lego used the UCS label on this one btw? Isn't it just that people were wrongly expecting a UCS and not a playset?

Isn't it just a compound of the 1x3 slope? I'm not saying it's useless, but there are so many more useful parts that Lego could make.

of course, but just having items for sale is a violation of the license, selling 1x or 100x doesn't make any difference I don't know how Lego deals with that btw, especially with hairpieces that are sometimes designed for a character, but are generic enough & are re-used later.