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https://aera-ip.com/news/lego-wins-design-case-at-the-eu-court I totally understand that Lego can protect their minifig design, or many parts like animals & tools, but that something as dumb as any combination of tile+studs can be protected (whether it's patent or design) is silly. As silly as when Lego tried to design-protect 1x5 plates.

It just officialized something we already all knew, anyway. I wish Studio had an "LDD workflow" option, because IMHO it's a great tool, critical for at least renders & manual, but it just can't beat the speed of the LDD as long as the things we spend the most time on, take a lot more time than in the LDD. And it's mainly about moving around your model, which the LDD does a lot better because right-click re-centers. Some stuff, like rotating parts that goes backwards, the very different sorting of parts, the different part snapping, the tube bending even more broken than it is in the LDD, one may argue that it's not bad, just different & annoying for LDD users. Anyway, LDD forever for me. Something that bugs me about Studio btw, and it's the same think with Bricklink, Lego now owns both, and yet it's still the community that maintains models & part inventories. Lego owns high-res models of every part, but can't bother making them available in their own tools?

It used not to but yes it does now. Also B&P only half-counts as for free shipping. Even if you're above the threshold it weirdly requires a little shop item (& thus another package sent) in order to count, at least here in Europe. Anyone has noticed how you can not paste into the Bricks&Pieces part # anymore, in FireFox? I can still paste in the set ID in FireFox, and paste in the part # in Chrome. Weird.

There are also very noticeably more BL shops in the dutch part of Belgium than in the french one. Yet Lego is very popular everywhere here. I would also consider that the dutch part, probably like the Nederlands, has more entrepreneurs in general. It's just not in the mentality here to open a BL shop. A lot of shops in the Nederlands, shame that their shipping rates are so high. It's cheaper to get stuff from like Portugal than from my neighbor country.

Bricklink has been so unresponsive (down to totally broken) for the last day, it feels like Lego's website on a special offer date, what the hell is happening? At first I thought it was linked to the designer program, but the orders are supposed to only start tomorrow(?) edit: seems fine now

I can't imagine Lego letting you know.

You've got to cut the parts from outside the submodel, enter the submodel, & paste them. Kinda sucks, yeah, in that aspect I prefer the LDD grouping. But submodels also have their pro's. You'd expect being able to move parts around in the model browser, from a parent to a submodel, but I don't think you can do that.

Speed Champions 76905

The closest thing to the part I've been waiting for for so long.. not in stock of course.

Am I the only one suddenly getting the old version (XP one works) blocked by my antivirus (AVG)? "URL:Blacklisted". Strange that it happens right now. I just had to switch back to XP in order to confirm an order received, and wanted to check what new stuff the same seller had. There was just NO link to the seller, while its name was written everywhere. Really Lego, you can't turn a label into a URL? I had to google the seller's name in order to find his BL store.

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.