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  1. Murdoch17
    That's like, your opinion man.
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    Agreed.
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    Do you know if your electricity you use comes from a solar panel or wind farm? If not, then you are getting it from coal, natural gas, or nuclear. By buying power from these sources, you are helping pollute. Do you drive a car? Pollution! (Even EV's make just about as much by way of use of the power grid to charge.) Do you recycle everything you throw out that could be reused? I think you know what I'm going to say... I'm not saying you're a bad person or something, I'm saying we shouldn't be blind to what are actions can do.
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    Very nice! I love it - especially the partially destroyed sections!
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    ...and things get canceled or changed at the last minute. I'm just saying - don't count your chickens before they hatch. Until LEGO starts teasing it officially, or pictures come out (even then, it's not unheard of for things to change) it's not confirmed. For example: remember the Survey leak? It had Maleficent in dragon form with minifigures, but the set was released with minidolls instead. Just because somebody saw *something* doesn't mean it will happen that way.
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    nice work on the bakery @Ptchnk! I can't wait to see the candy store in real bricks!
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    The first post has been completely redone, with all new pictures and text added for the newly modularized model. Go give it a read!
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    The return of Simpsons is just a rumor - take it with a mountain of salt. Nothing is confirmed yet - and it many never be.
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    Farewell, Typewriter keys - you were most useful for signs and display stands... except the question mark and backspace. I never knew what to do with you two...
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    I could be wrong, but I think I remember reading none of the girls sets made money during this time, and Paradisa is one of those themes. Up until Friends came out, everything 'girly' failed by the LEGO point of view.
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    They'd been bleeding money for a while, it just was 1997 that they posted a deficit in income (no longer in the black, so to speak). This just didn't happen overnight, it was a several year or more process - maybe even a decade due to mismanagement of various items, among other things. (like the theme parks) Also, I guess you don't think Bionicle is a in-house theme. Hollywood may have helped, but Bionicle put the nail in the Mattel offer's coffin, as I said. Maybe you should look into buying the book I stated before, along with 'A Million Little Bricks', as that goes into a ton of detail of the cash crunch too.
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    It had better come with a skeleton head with an eyepatch on it for One-eyed Willy. Because even without the patch, he's still only got one eye!
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    Without the licenses, LEGO would have been bought by Mattel before 2003 - LEGO first posted a loss in 1997, two years before Star wars came out and a year or so before the SW agreement was inked. According to The Secret Life of LEGO Minifigures book (among other official sources) SW and Harry Potter did help right the ship, but without Bionicle it would have been game over. Bionicle was the Ninjago of it's day - movies, videogames, collectibles, and so on. In 2003 it became a multimedia money-printing juggernaut at a time when there was no HP or SW movie to help with financing the company. Also, Galidor was totally an inhouse theme, as was Scala, Xalax, Paradisa, Belville, Spybotics, Znap, Town Jr., City Centre, Explore, Primo, Quatro, Jack Stone, and so on - all of those in-house themes failed miserably and brought the company ever closer to the buyout Mattel was offering. (and was seriously being considered by the owners of LEGO) We're not even getting into the runaway train of one-time parts types and colors from this era, or how every time they sold a fiber optic part in a set, they lost money. In short: The simple fact is licenses helped the company hobble along until Bionicle hit it's stride, then both licenses and Bionicle helped TLG find it's feet again.
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    They just had the M-Tron powerlifter in the the Space CMF, so it's not dead. Where there's a will, there's a way, and Lego just doesn't appear to see the money in actual sets beyond that CMF right now. EDIT: Ninja'd by @Autumn !
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    SPACESHIP!! SPACESHIP!! SPACESHIP!! Sorry, but what I meant is that I've built three of Benny spaceship. (70816) One a heavily modified original set, one in Blacktron I colors, and one for my custom space theme in orange and white. So that's my choice, unless we are not counting non-space space sets. If we are being super strict, then Squidman escape (5969) because Squidman. (no further explanation will be given)
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    It's neat, but the face is gonna haunt my nightmares. The evil attack eyebrows!
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    It's certainly blasphemous to do this, but you're ok because there is no such thing as the LEGO Purist Police. Keep up the good work @Sven J, and congrats on your new title of 'Jack Stone hacker'!
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    real world update! Finding parts for this model has progressed to such an extent that construction can begin on the building itself. (This is about as far as I can go currently) I have only 491 parts left to find until this project is complete. Update: two hours later, I'm down to 353 parts left to go, with over 25 part types less than when I posted!
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    Nice work @FGMatt!
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    I know Walt's not under the Pirates of the Caribbean ride (false lead), and he's not in the facade of Haunted Mansion (too obvious)... he must be in a secret room in 'It's a Small World!' The annoying theme music must be for keeping prying explorers away by driving them insane! OF COURSE! You're gonna hear from Disney's strike team of lawyers soon. The Secrets of Michael Rodent (name obfuscated to prevent them finding me) must remain secure forever! Cool MOC!
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    Bricklink's Bright Green is LEGO Green. Bricklink's Green is LEGO Dark Green. Bricklink's Dark Green is LEGO Earth Green. Examples of these colors are: Current standalone baseplates sold as Green by TLG, but are actually what fans call bright green with misleading packaging. The Emerald Night (set 10194) steam loco is Dark Green / Earth Green. One-piece cypress trees of ye olde times were Green to us fans, but Dark green to LEGO. Confused yet @Stereo? (I think typing this post with the word green so many times made the word green loose all meaning to me.)
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    Once upon a time, for a very short window we did have sand red @Hrafn. Then the great color purge of 2003 took it away from us and we need it back. The color was mostly available in service packs, and my dad actually did build a building from it way back then. (It was built before he discovered Bricklink, so it uses only parts he had or could get from LEGO directly) See spoiler tag if you're interested in how it looks.
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    Great work! As I said on Flickr: I feel so honored to be included in the wedding as a guest. I'd like to thank the academy, and all the other lunatic inmates of the Eurobricks DC-thread Asylum. I just wish I could tag myself in the photo over on Flickr.
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    @Wolfpack Bricks It looks cool, but you really need to upload photos somewhere else, as EB isn't meant to host them. I recommend Flickr or Bricksafe, but you can use any photo hosting site.
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    LEGO avoided making both grey shades of bricks for a long time, due to the fear people would make military models from them. Same story for green being just for plants and baseplates, @idlemarvel.
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