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A fair number of sets have been slightly redesigned midway through production (sometimes mailing people a service pack like with WALL-E, sometimes not) or sent out replacements for faulty parts (i.e. Poe's X-wing and the misprinted Flux Capacitor in the Back to the Future set) but they've only done two actual recalls where people were supposed to send anything back to the company, and they're listed on the Customer Service page: a Duplo-adjacent plastic monster truck that barely resembles a LEGO product, and the initial run of the Power Functions speed control train remote.

These all look great, but I am especially excited to use these Mandalorian helmets! That piece and the paint tool have never gotten along at all.

Whether that's real or not, that link lists it as only available for in-store purchase in Hooksett, New Hampshire. :/

Yes that's exactly what I mean, a bar won't go through.

This worked perfectly for me, I had the expanded palette working fine on one computer, but when I recently reinstalled LDD and all the custom stuff on another computer, that's the one thing that didn't carry over and I didn't know why. I only found a couple of collision issues installing the new parts within models. I couldn't pass anything all the way through the hole at the center of 72206, the new Speed Champions wheel, and I can't attach a 2x2 round dish piece inside like it does in two of the sets in which it appears. 67759, the Ecto-1 windshield, appears to have a slightly misaligned collision box; one side can't fit parts right next to it on the outside, the other side can't fit parts right next to it on the inside. Finally, the turntable connection point on the bottom of 65138 interferes with placing the part on some, but not all, studded surfaces.

It's probably going to end up being the case that those other two sets "inspired by" the other films are filler because LEGO wasn't given enough material for the new one. But it would be kind of incredible if they actually are based on the new film, in some kind of multiverse situation, and the "inspired by Homecoming/Far From Home" on the boxes is a straight up lie.

I'm not surprised that the set isn't called Slave I. These are the same marketing people who renamed the Razor Crest set to "The Mandalorian Bounty Hunter Transport" 5 months after the set was revealed and put up for pre-orders. Even if we set aside the fact that they never use the actual names of ships anymore in Star Wars, LEGO is no stranger to awkward set names. Most of this year's Harry Potter sets have "Hogwarts: " preceding a more conventional name, and all of the 2021 Jurassic World sets have the word "dinosaur" following the actual name of the dinosaur in question. In the Superheroes lines we have titles like "Iron Man: Iron Monger Mayhem," "Iron Man Hulkbuster versus A.I.M. Agent," and "Batman vs. The Joker: Batmobile Chase." There's something to be said for European packaging not plastering word salad all over the box.

I found the exact same problem. The three missing bricks appear to be 21987 Large Figure Lightsaber Blade 15M with Axle Hole, 65128 Container Box Vidiyo Window, and 46891 Technic Digger Bucket 10 x 19. EDIT: Going through and trying to add some of these parts to my library of official sets. So far I've found that 21562 Large Figure Armor, Leg Shin Guard with Ball Joint Socket doesn't have proper connectivity. It works with some ball joints but not any of the center ones in limb pieces where it actually connects when it appears in sets.

That looks really bad in the pictures, but I'm pretty sure it'll look even worse in real life, because for the past couple years those canopy glass pieces have been scratched and banged up out of the box.

That's certainly an option, but it's only easy for the end user to do. I can't imagine it's that easy for the company. They would presumably have to turn those salvageable components into an entirely different product, and that (1) requires cancelling the original set and (2) takes some time to do. We saw this a couple years ago with the Las Vegas Architecture skyline set, it was cancelled in January from its planned February release because there was a shooting at one of the buildings depicted, and it took until October for the (only 20% different) redesign to make it to shelves.

Lots of people here and in the Brickset comments section seem to willfully misunderstand the difference between depicting fantasy violence and real-world violence whenever something like this comes up. This set depicts police attacking an explosives factory in a populated area; as cartoony as the style may be, that's pretty undeniably based on real world violence. Especially for a product geared towards 5-year-olds. I don't really care whether or not this set is released, or whether or not quietly cancelling it was the correct choice. If LEGO themselves hadn't inadvertently published a picture I don't think we would be having this conversation, because apart from the ridiculous Osprey thing, they cancel things from time to time and nobody really notices. A few years ago a whole wave of Chima sets got cancelled after they were shown at a toy fair, half of the last wave of Games was cancelled, it happens.

I put down that I would like another space shuttle. 8480 is a bit before my time but it's an incredible and important set, and a modern version could be amazing... I would be seriously impressed if they came out with a set as complicated as that one today, though no modern set would have a fiber-optic system that costs more to produce than the set itself would sell for.

11477 has been available in LDD Extended for at least seven years. It isn't in the "normal" mode of LDD because that hasn't been updated in ages, every official update has just been adding bricks to Extended Mode. LDD was still being regularly updated when that part was launched, and some of its relatives have been added since. What version of LDD are you using?

That actually did happen when LDD was officially supported. I'm sure there are probably others but this and this were added at the beginning of 2016, months before they appeared in any sets.

That gear does not exist as a real LEGO part but it was made digitally for The LEGO Movie, it forms the rear wheel of this bike in the film proper. I can't link the exact post but about 2/3 of the way down page 2 of this thread there's a cutaway view of how it's used:

I just looked up Star Wars Resistance to see how the release corresponded to the couple of LEGO sets that were made for it and not only did a whole season air after those sets were released, which I was completely unaware of, but it was only 12 episodes long and it was scheduled in direct competition with The Mandalorian season 1, The Rise of Skywalker, and The Clone Wars season 7. Can't imagine why the LEGO sets (which were only a couple of overpriced TIE variants anyway) might have sold poorly... I agree that there need to be more Mando sets going forward, and regular system ones at that - I have no use for Brickheadz or a $79.99 scale model of Baby Yoda - but between the crazy amount of Star Wars stuff going on, serious diminishing returns on merchandise from Star Wars TV, an apparent slash to the theme's budget, and a Disney-mandated crackdown on spoilers leading to the Razor Crest not getting to shelves until a year after the show premiered, it's not exactly surprising to me that it's taking a while for LEGO to catch up. I'm certain that a 2008 situation of no movies on the horizon and a brand new TV show getting all but two sets in a whole year is never going to happen again.

Well I don't know where those unfinished parts came from then (there's a couple of other ones I have since found in their proper folders), but deleting the files works for me.

I just downloaded Stephan's newest update and all the new parts and decorations seem to work but I now have this issue. The parts in question are 9062 Pullback Motor 9 x 4 x 2 1/3 With Studs on Front Top Surface and 9063 Pull Back 4 x 9 x 2.333 Axle Bush, which I believe are parts of an assembly that was added to LDD by LEGO themselves, and that some of the files have been misplaced - how do I fix this?

No problems with parts fitting into the inner curve now, at least in the sets it appears in. However, the issue of 1x4 plates still not fitting into the fuselage of 75273 persists - in the screenshot, the 1x1 tile fits in the space, but a 1x1 plate will not. I am not sure why this is. A stud on that plate doesn't come close to touching the curved brick.

Just tried to implement this one on the 2020 sets that use it and the collision behavior is very strange. In 80009 it works perfectly as the white wheelarches but won't fit at all in pink on the pig atop the roof, it appears to be colliding with one of the round pieces in the middle; in 75293 there are no issues fitting it around a very similar set of round pieces; and in 75273 it collides with the black 2x2 macaroni tiles as well as a light grey 1x4 plate on either side of the fuselage.

I have finished building the set in LDD, it took about 3 hours and 20 minutes. I'm using a few custom parts made by the great guys in the LDD Forum, but I don't have everything this set needs - I don't have a good replacement for the angular panels without significantly rearranging things, and I'm using combinations of existing parts to replace the linear clutch, rotor blades, and both the Control+ elements. LXF File Screenshot

As much as I'm annoyed and upset for this happening, as I was actually intending on buying this, if the instructions are actually posted online I'll probably just build it in LDD (there's a small group of people in the LDD Forum here that have figured out how to create and install new parts since LEGO has abandoned it) and move on with my life like I do with the vast majority of Technic sets. I would be very surprised if the black rotor blades, dumb Control+ battery box, and dark grey panels don't turn up in sets in 2021, or Bricks & Pieces later this year. It would honestly be just fine with me if this fiasco made LEGO stop doing licensed Technic sets as they seem to be directly responsible for the trend away from B-models, and most of the time they don't look very much like their source material unless they're huge. I know it's fun to whine about "cancel culture" when things literally get cancelled but given how minimal the outside pressure seems to be, I'm thinking that this was a very contentious product within LEGO and someone had a contingency plan ready to go at the first sign of trouble which we're now seeing take place.

About the TIE Bomber - The original 4479 from 2003 had 230 pieces, or about 1.44 times the number of parts in the regular TIE Fighter sets sold around the same time - about 160. The last regular TIE Fighter was released two years ago for Solo had 519 pieces, so 1.44 times that comes out to approximately 750 pieces to do a TIE Bomber. That would probably be at least $89.99 US, maybe more like $110, because LEGO has priced their starfighters at truly exorbitant levels since 2015, but when they're asking $80 for the Soulless One or the TIE Dagger I don't see much a difference there. Where the designers might be looking instead, though, is the 75188 Resistance Bomber set from 2017 which ran $110 for 778 pieces, which a new TIE Bomber would probably be similar to in that regard... but that ship has like eight different places to put minifigures and some actual interior detail and a very clever bombing mechanism, and you're not going to get that with a TIE Bomber no matter how nice it is.

The short version is, you're not using the right search keywords. Most of the dinosaur parts from 2012-2015 are in there. Search for "Animal No. 2." and the Pteranodon parts come up, No. 3 for the Velociraptor, No. 5 for the T. rex, No. 23 for parts of the Indominus Rex (although none of them work properly) No. 24 for the head of the Dilophosaurus. The Coelophysis is in there too under the name "Stud Insert F.Animal 2.nd Shot." The Triceratops and anything introduced in more recent Jurassic World sets aren't there but it's possible that someone will add them in the future.

Somebody gave me the Death Star Cannon in December and I think the reason it doesn't sell is that it's not good. It's two extremely miniaturized pieces of the death star put together in a way that doesn't make much sense, all you can do is turn the reactor off and fire the cannon at nothing, it doesn't represent a really iconic moment or even look all that good as a display model (it's WAY too small to play with minifigures around, you can't even properly stand Obi-Wan next to the reactor) so I'm at a loss as to what this set is supposed to be and it's probably one of the most boring sets in this theme in recent memory. I think my favorite set of this September wave is easily the Razor Crest. It's expensive, sure, and the interior is sparse, but that's an easy fix - aside from that it looks like a really great representation of the onscreen vehicle, it comes with a decent number of minifigures plus a Baby Yoda (speaking of which, putting him in a $130 set almost a full year after his introduction is a real dick move), there's tons of room inside, it's not a remake or reissue, and it's decently minifigure scaled. They seem to have done a great job with this. Weird that there isn't more of a presence for The Rise of Skywalker in this summer wave. I looked on Brickset at all the sets that have been made for it and while I don't think that movie is very good and there aren't many scenes or locations in it that lend themselves well to LEGO sets, and just making vehicles that have seconds of screentime is probably the best thing to do, it feels like there are gaping holes in the lineup. I think you need a Rey/Kylo Ren lightsaber duel and a Rey/Palpatine final showdown at the very least, but since this breaks the trend of not putting any of the main characters in the same set or in relatively inexpensive sets (Pasaana Speeder Chase, with Rey and BB-8, is the only one that costs less than $70) it wouldn't surprise me if those never got made.