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For those who are looking for an unprinted version of this canopy, it's not listed on B&P, but it's available on PAB, as 6287677 (now you'd think that at 2eur a pop they wouldn't put it in the same bag as other parts, but they do)

I see no news about this, perhaps it's no news at all and it's "Bricklink XP" that I was seeing? How did I end up on the phone-like version by mistake? It also still says "beta" at the top-left, but it's from last year. Strange. All good then, if that's not supposed to replace the UI. https://www.bricklink.com/r3/announcement/upgrade.page

I saw it, found it empty/didn't find where stuff was hidden, and immediately switched to the old style. ..but I can understand why it's needed. I remember BL being pretty messy & confusing when I first started using it. Only it's very powerful and for those who are used to it, the new clean empty feels weird. Also it's scary, to see Lego mess with the perfection that BL is, while they've never been able to do a proper website themselves. Imagine if Lego's web team took over at Bricklink, that would be a disaster. Sure BL isn't a beauty, but it works & is reliable, something that Lego has never been able to achieve themselves. It's weird to see Lego change this first (well, second after dumping all third-party parts, even all the custom-chromed ones I found out the other day), while there's better stuff to do. Like to stop relying on the community to guess what changed in every new mould, to unify all color names, and to give Studio proper, precise, in-house 3D models that already exist.

it's more the new arch parts that are "out of system" (for the best), the vast majority of Lego slopes have a half-plate offset, and I think it sucks big time & it's time for Lego to trash the old crap & adapt & catch up with other brands that have more clever, chainable slopes. Lego is stuck with slopes that were pretty much designed as roof tiles, & thus back then it made sense for them to look like roof tiles. All they did over years is to reduce the grain on slope surfaces.

A funny new part I hadn't noticed in the Vader helmet: 78444 (too bad it ends with 2 studs, though):

Interesting how all new sets are immediately listed on B&P now, only with no inventory (until the official release date, in 4 days for several of them I guess)

I like to think that handling is already baked in the prices. Obviously those horses cost pennies to produce. I'd buy a subscription box(/bag) containing a few of the latest parts, providing we'd get them ahead of time. Sadly subscription boxes are a thing of the past now.

Yeah except I counted 35

Got a little extra. Can't complain!

Warning about the cool new 1x1 DOTS eyes available: while parts 73080, 73048, 73034 are listed separately & you get what you see, entry 73095 is actually a "random eye" among the ones that aren't listed separately, for some reason. I should have read NewElementary which makes it clear.

I'm starting to suspect one of mine got lost since it was sent 2 weeks ago and I've received the next one sent around a week ago.

Yeah the 2 new moulds in the shuttle are there too. The 1/4 dome is the third new curvy mould in white this year, good for MOCs. Orange space helmet was back in stock and is already gone. And for some reason the mini AT-AT's printed 1x2 slope head is in stock.

It's not fixed. My ship-in-a-bottle (quite recent) lost one of its sail, inside the bottle & out of nowhere, due to a reddish brown tile+clip. (not only that, but this wouldn't have happened to the old, stronger tile+clip moulds)

I'm talking about "set as origin" (which doesn't even have a shortcut by default btw). How is it that it's the thing I use the most in the LDD (which is why it's assigned to the mouse right button) and you don't see what I'm talking about? It's very buggy, it simply doesn't work as soon as you enter a subassembly. It then centers in the middle of nowhere. The diff must be in the printed parts, because I've had to manually add a lot of parts to Studio so far, both tools are/were lacking (& are now recovering). The GUI is harder to navigate in Studio, though. I've used Bricklink so much that I should know my way through BL categories, yet I always end up searching by name.

Let's say they hold for the camera. I'd put it on a table but not on a high shelf or with pets around. I've made several display stands and they work well, only they're kinda intrusive. I was thinking of buying a metal one like they used for the movies, one heavy & solid enough to hold the thing from further in the back. I don't think that could be done with Lego. Would be cool to hold it in a pose like on my signature. On one leg like that, it definitely can't hold alone that's for sure. The high-friction joints & the first knee joint are solid but they have their limit.

Yes I remember I used to have dev mode on, but ran into troubles with collisions, I seem to remember it would keep deleting parts on reloading projects even with dev mode on (or something?). But yeah now that we have direct access to all part files, it's easy enough to disable collisions, only it requires reloading the LDD. Scaffolding is a bit problematic in the LDD because everything moves in fixed units, it's sometimes a nightmare (but it's sometimes the same problem in Studio). it shouldn't be a key (& we don't need those popup menus), and besides as I wrote, it's very buggy as soon as you start working inside subassemblies (& it has been buggy for so long that I'm wondering if anyone even uses subassemblies in Studio, other than for manuals)

well the community has fixed that now. Good old LDD resurrected. wut? It's intuitive, but (still too) buggy & unpolished. It's visually polished & looks better than the LDD that's for sure, but things like moving around, centering camera, and most importantly part snapping, those are better & faster in the LDD. I know that the thing I do the most (by far!) in the LDD is rotating/moving around, and this requires centering the camera. In the LDD it's just right-click, in Studio it's through a menu, it's annoying, and it has been buggy for years (many bugs if you use groups/subassemblies, including centering the camera). I wish the LDD had a way to switch collision off & move parts around freely, though.

Yeah Studio is still far from replacing the good old LDD. I wouldn't blame Studio's sorting of parts because it does make sense & fits Bricklink - it's just guilty of being different from the one in the LDD but that's all. But from plenty of other angles Studio lacks, is less polished & more buggy. ..but it's still the #1 tool for easy renders & manuals. It's a great companion to the LDD for that reason.

New year, new version: (a bit enhanced by not-so-LEGO tiles)

Falcon shield back in stock. Even though some of the parts I was planning to buy are now already gone, I've placed an order for the shields because those are too gone in 30min I assume.

All the new sets added, parts listed but nothing available. Funny to see this part resurected, but in DBG

These are obviously chinese clones, especially when it's as basic as a Vader minifig. There's no SW minifig that you can't find on Ali, they even expand on it, you'll find tons of baby yoda's in different forms. If a legit one exists (& it's often in red color), and you'll find it with the "HTF" tag on Bricklink, for big bucks.

I think it's not "still nothing" but "already gone". Even 30min after someone reports them, these things are already gone..

Interesting. Talking about that part, I recently got it in LBG as a chinese clone. I don't even like those old elephants, but they were only a fraction of the price of the old grey elephant trunk & ears on BL, and here they're LBG instead - pretty useful! at the same time, the new clear material scratches even more easily - they kinda have to

Mmmh when I first saw the pictures I thought we got a new little connector that was connected to a 11090. Then I thought that it got to be ratchetted because Lego doesn't like Legs that are too fragile. But now looking at the zoom, yeah I see it's worse, it's a L-shaped clip-to-bar hole connector, with a fixed 90deg joint, more or less another new "robot leg". Well it's still good to take, but.. not amazing.