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You are free to have this opinion, however I think this is an excellent display set comparable to a UCS Millenium Falcon, but more colourful instead of boring grey and is exactly what an expensive D2C set should be. The minifig scale sets should be regular retail releases so that even kids can get them. That is one gripe I have with the Diagon Alley set: They could have released it as 4 separate sets at a lower price point (with even more buildings coming in the future) .

I actually like it. The buildable chocolate frog card is an object, I thought was likely to be included because that way we could get the remaining golden figures

Not interested and not liking are two different things. The word that was used specifically was "character". At this point in time we only have seen her design. You can dislike the design right now but not her character. The definition of the word "character" encompasses more than just a superficial appearance or design. Characters guide readers and viewers through their stories, helping them to understand plots and ponder themes.

The show is not even out. You do not know her character at this point (same goes for Zombie Hunter Spiderman) because like the rest of the world you have to wait till the What if show starts airing on August 11. If you equate not knowing with not "liking" then sure you might not like them, but it is rather impossible to like or dislike something that you haven't experienced yet.

I know and agree 100%. Sadly the way these hashtags work in insta makes it nearly impossible to avoid this. Maybe it would be wise to use the hashtag "notlegoleaks" in the future for the actual legoleaks and just let the kiddies and trolls post their stuff under "legoleaks"

The design language and printing details of minfigs have never been static since the 90s and were always evolving. Furthermore, there were always some figs, that were more "progressive" and more detailed than all the rest until later that sort of detail became common place. The Boba Fett figure in 2003 had detailed arm printing. Until this year almost none of the normal star wars figures had arm printing on that level, but the Star Wars summer wave has 3 regular figs with arm printing. Till 2008 some figures did not have back printing, now almost every figure does. Dual moulded legs and arms were exclusive to cmfs but are now appearing more and more in regular figs. Compare a fig with a smily yellow face and beard from the Fright Knights theme to figures now. Lego as a company has to advance and adapt certain production techniques, that are technically feasible, to innovate their product line. If Lego continued to only include the yellow smily face from the 80s in every set till 2021 you would have thousands of the same head, if you were collecting sets and the company would have probably gone bankrupt by now. Do you own the Silver Centurion by any chance? Or is that also too detailed for a Lego Marvel fig? No Iron Man except this one ever got leg side printing and printed dual molded arms. It goes for a lot of money on Bricklink right now.

Has anyone bought the Rohan figures from Koruit yet? The helmets, armour parts and shields look nice

How much did you pay on etsy for the elf and dwarf on the right? Because those are mass-produced figs from a chinese company and are sold very cheap on aliexpress and other sites. I assume you got scammed on etsy and paid way too much. I have seen these offers on etsy before. The seller buys the figs on aliexpress and then charges you 10-20 times what they paid. I mean it's a nice margin for them but you could have gotten the same price as them on ali if you looked there. The designs are good but they do have some qualtiy issues. It' much less than $1 since you usually get the pack of 8 (of the same version) for less than $2. If you order multiple packs of different designs like the urukhai or the dwarfs even shipping is included (depending on the seller)

Yes they come in set 43113

So what you are saying is, that the D2C doesn't include a caulron? What other not iconic objects are there? A quill?

A brickbuilt cauldron (from the D2C possibly) is on the top shelf (atop the wooden box on the right) during the HP building contest between Marcos and the other designer. Or it might just be a (non-Lego) black flower pot

That modification is good, but the way pricyplasticproduct did it, has one major disadvantage: It has only a very limited range of articulation and degrees of freedom (technic axles can only be rotated 90 degrees). There is a way to do it which offers much more organic and free articulation and more posable axes. I will upload pics on the weekend once I photographed it. If you substitute the 4L technic axle in the neck build (which he uses in this pic from the original version as well) with a 4L bar, it adds 2 new unlimited points of rotation. I duplicated that assembly along the body and in the tail you can use a 3L bar to add another rotation point. It also makes the coils of the basilisk a bit wider and more stable while posing. The only disadvantage is that one piece has to be dark tan in that assembly because it currently does not come in olive green yet.

@eldiano, you never answered @CaptainSerMig 's question about a clarification on the Apple Pay thing you mentioned 3 pages ago. What did you mean with that? Regarding the shipping issues. I had no shipping delays. in fact my last 2 orders arrived much faster than expected. I was also surprised to see the order status change to shipped after only 7 days but it was in fact really shipped and arrived 3 days later

Can you please quote the exact words of Marcos or any of the other designers, where they are saying, what the sets for next year will be (also a link to the interview would be appreciated, I'm really curious), and where they explicitly said there "won't be much of anything from DH nex year"? Because you said you learned that, I want to "learn" about it, too. Why is it new to you that Lego usually works with 3 year release plans, when there has never been a longer consistent release schedule in any previous theme? Most action or big bang themes (with the exception of Ninjago) have never lasted more than 3 years (and I wouldn't call the waves of Ninjago theme consistent since they are by design all over the place - underwater, robots, desert, dungeons and dragons, biker gang, snakes, steampunk pirates). Even the previous Harry Potter waves were never continous or in the same style and there were many years we didn't get any set in between waves. And when there was a new castle released, it had a completely different style (just compare 2001, 2004, 2007 and 2010) and the roofs colours did also change from sand green (2001) to dark bluish grey (2004) to sand green again. If anything the past of this theme teaches us not to expect the "perfect" castle. Name the press release, in which Lego or the designers promised a 4 year long, consistent release or that the toy line would cover every inch of the castle? If you feel the need to sell $1500 worth of a Lego Harry Potter collection just because one wave or two are not what you expected or really wanted and the previous sets loose this much value over night to you, I suggest that maybe you should reevaluate your spending habits in the first place.

That would be infuriating to me. But a future strategy for something like that might be to order both anyway, no matter what they say. Either you get double the amount or you get one of each. So a win-win situation

Regarding the recent poaching incidents: My order from June 3rd arrived at the beginning of this week and the elephants were all complete (I did order with both separate IDs for body and head though). So it seems that the missing heads and bodies are wholly attributable to only ordering with one of those IDs and thinking it would be both. Other AFOLs I know also received complete elephants when they ordered both IDs regardless of the country. The picture below shows only part of my order, since I've got multiples of some animals but didn't include them. I did get no gifts or things I didn't order. Only received the precise amount of pieces I ordered (which is also nice)

Actually Indiana Jones has lots of remarkable locations because most of the exterior scenes (and a few of the interior scenes) were shot at real places (although the actual location in-movie and real life differ drastically). The most iconic is in my eyes the Al-Khazneh temple in Petra, Jordan. It was the exterior for the "Temple of the sun" which housed the holy grail. They could easily do a system-scale UCS set in the style of the Jurassic Park entrance door, where the main building would be the rock and temple facade and the backside would host traps and scenes from the crail trials. The minifig selection could be Indy, Elsa, Henry Jones Sr., Grail Knight, Brody, Sallah and the villain Ernst Vogel. This set would be perfect for Indiana Jones fans (would give us some new characters and newer renditions of the ones we already have) and it would also attract fans of historic architecture as the front would also make a great display piece. A UCS Batman cave styled Temple of Doom remake or the the peruvian temple at the start of Raiders of the lost Ark, or even the egyptian underground temple of Ra at the dig site can also be adapted into modern large 18+ sets.

I agree with Guyon on this one. Most of the minifig and printed parts from this accessory pack are from very expensive UCS or at least very large and expensive sets: - Wuher head (exclusive to the Mos Eisley Cantina 349,99 €, never available on Bricks and Pieces before) - Vicky Vale torso (exclusive to the 76139 1989 Batmobile 249,99€, never available on Bricks and Pieces before) - completely exclusive printed dark green robe piece - exclusive 2x3 printed tile - brown owl (right now only available through 75968 69,99 € and 75980 99,99€) - Ben Kenobi head (right now on the shelves only available in Mos Eisley Cantina 349,99 €, never available on Bricks and Pieces before (although it came in cheap sets before, it was never this cheap) - Petunia face (right now only available through 75968 69,99 €) - Ollivander torso (in dark red till now exclusive to Diagon Alley 399,99 €) - Gryffindor torso (till now exclusive to Diagon Alley 399,99 €, never available on Bricks and Pieces before) - printed potion and acid pops "heads" (new for 2021, only in 2 other sets, both only come in at least 40 € sets) This is the highest part-out value of a accessory pack ever, if you compare it to the bricklink prices of these pieces and you would have to buy more than triple the 14,99 if you just wanted these pieces.

It's fake. No one would blur a pic that way even if there was a confidential mark on it unless it was to hide a sloppy photoshop job. The pic might as well be an abstract painting

Actually one could argue that the "wholesome" first movie starts out with something much more horrendous than undead zombies, because the way the Dursleys are treating Harry in the movie (in the book descriptions it is even worse) would be classified as child abuse/maltreatment (in the physical and psychological sense). Undead corpses and evil wizards are all fictional and can't hurt any kid in the real world, but the phenomenon of child maltreatment depicted in this movie (and the first three in general) is very real and does in fact hurt some unfortunate kids around the world every day. So I think the argument could be made that the latter films are more "wholesome" and less dark because they have almost none of the real world problems of the first 3 books and the fantastical elements are in the forefront of the movie (4-7/8). Also the last book and movies include alot of heartwarming, positive and everyday scenes like a wedding, camping with friends, a school reunion, geocaching and a bank account withdrawal. The first film has the death scene of Harry's parents in the first 30 minutes of the exposition. There are only four on-screen death scenes in Deathly Hallows part 2 (Snape, Bellatrix, Nagini and Voldemort), all the others die off-screen. None of the good guys death scenes (Fred, Lupin, Tonks, ...) are in the theatrical cut, only the villains are explicitly shown.

You should have realised by now that most people in this thread are most likely more informed about new lego parts and releases than 99% of their customer service reps or store clerks. They are just working in a call center (or rather from home nowadays). The product doesn't really matter. Some are not even directly employed by Lego but rather through temporary employment agencies in different countries.

Did you order just these or other parts as well? The costumer service rep told me on the phone that the elephants would be restocked at the earliest at the end of June, so I got them on back-order. My order doesn't seem cancelled. When did you order them? I called in on June 3rd If you ordered other parts as well and did not specifically mention that you want the whole order on backorder until the elephants arrive, they might have cancelled it because the other parts were ready to be shipped and the elephant parts would have taken over a month till they are restocked? Because the demand seems pretty high and they are only produced in intervalls so restocking seems to take longer for this specific part.

Does the price show as 0 $/€ on your elephant parts or does ist say "cancelled" in the status column? Or has the part disappeared from the order list completely?

It's from a Ninjago Skybound figure pack: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?M=njo230#T=S&O={"iconly":0} https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=853544-1&name=Skybound Battle Pack blister pack&category=[Ninjago][(Other)]#T=S&O={"iconly":0}

[1] I used a great addon for the chrome web browser called Brickhunter, which is ideal if you want to plan or manage your bricks and pieces or pick a brick orders. It has a lot of functionalities. One is to export and print a custom part list as a table. It also checks the current prices and availability of the pieces on the Lego website. Since you are German, you will have no problem reading the tutorial Stonewars posted awhile ago https://www.stonewars.de/anleitungen/brickhunter-browser-erweiterung/ [2] Sensei Wu's from the Ninjago movie https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?id=157328#T=S&O={"iconly":0} (just exchange the tan legs to black ones and add the fur collar from the Star Wars Han Solo set)