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No I've seen it with a lot of things as well. Even worse is when you factor inflation and how many things are always increasing in cost over time and yet wages for the majority remain stagnant. That thing that you have and rely on that just broke; try to squeeze the replacement in on your meager income.

Lines. Half stocked. Two in the store at a time. Eh, can just wait for Shop@Home to ship and that ChAdOx1 AZD1222. Stick me now!

Easy. Something involving castles, cowboys and pirates with intergalactic boat ships fishing in outer space.

Quote from one of the petition signers. Sad they couldn't even take a moment to verify that before barfing something so incorrect. The only operators are the Japanese Defense Force, USAF, USMC and USN; just military. The list of potential operators is all military as well. 'Engineering marvel' with 12-hull losses and 42 fatalities (only two crashes were combat-zone)[1], "between 2008 and 2011 [alone], the V-22's estimated lifetime cost grew by 61 percent [2]", difficulty in brown outs, can't be escorted by fixed-wing or helicopters, melts aircraft carrier decks and on and on... Engineering blunder of an overpriced lead death brick is more like it.

Well the set is mentioned specifically in the OP and this type of dictatorial comment is a bit mini modding. Please don't turn this into another discussion about color quality. There's a dedicated topic for it. https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/30439-lego-quality-reference/ See, not cool right?

There was discussion about a couple of techniques used in the official modular buildings with some suspecting that the Lego designers "copied" the MOCers (Parisian Restaurant and Downtown Diner). One of the more well known designers actually responded here on EB. The fact is its entirely possible for two people to come up with a connection or technique or idea or concept entirely independent of one another and at different times. It's happened to Jamie, its surely happened to others. I have come up with a connection I hadn't seen done before, held off on it for the right application only to see it show up on a building techniques flickr group a couple of weeks later. Who came up with it first? Does it matter? Is the one that photographically publishes it first the creator or the one who physically snapped the pieces together the first or the one who actually conceptualized the connection first? Should MOCers just spam every possible technique in hopes of compiling the largest library of 'first connection' creative "licenses"? What if neither one of us actually snapped those pieces together in that combination first and it was instead designers at Lego since they designed the pieces and had access to them first? With a full build its pretty straightforward but with a unique connection how does one keep track? And does one cite the original creator in every build that it is implemented? Do we track down the first to do every connection and permalink to the first documented instance?

Yeah regardless of whether they color the nacelles and vertical stabilizers bright orange or wrap the entire thing in rainbows and unicorns it is still operated by exclusively by military. Along with the fact that the real thing is an extremely overpriced, dangerous, limited role, vulnerable, needy, fragile, unreliable piece of crap aircraft that should have been cancelled decades ago. Terrible choice of vehicle to feature even if it was operated by Greenpeace and running on Willie Nelson's biofuel. Lego scrapping this is a good thing, one less V-22 memorabilia.

Ok since I either read the dates wrong by over a month (it is kind of hard to keep track of this year isn't it?) or this order was accidentally shipped via intercontinental ballistic missile I'm going to break from tradition of ripping open the bag and immediately sorting and instead pause for a moment to take a 'loot/haul' shot. I mostly focus on newer, low-set-quantity detail pieces.

Fantastic review. The patience to stop building and photograph and keep note of everything, well done. Amazing set. Wish I could build it but even just enjoying it from the photos its easily one of the most amazing designs for a Lego set ever. Again, fantastic review, photography and descriptions.

Most excellent! The nougat and brown plate built facade is a nice touch. Fantastic creation.

30 days. Ordered mid July and just shipped a few days ago. Though once it gets handed over to the United States Postal Service it's going to take a very long time because of :CENSORED: [THOUGHTCRIME DETECTED-ANTICITIZEN IDENTIFIED-EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION]

Absolutely gorgeous creation Peedeejay! Your SNOT facade designs are without a doubt among the best of the best in Lego buildings. The color combination you've chosen here is fantastic and the whole exterior is a beautifully balanced combination of texture, shape and depth. A very classy construction. And the interior is wonderful, I especially like the science and music classrooms and the associated elements. Excellent photography and presentation as well. Great work, one for the ages!

Taking a picture with camera flash on (point and shoot or SLR flash will generally yield sufficient results) and a solid white, grey or black background or using direct sunlight as the lighting source can help us as these light sources will be close to 5000K color temperature lighting. I have a color calibrated monitor which will help further but you're right unless the photographer takes the necessary steps to ensure color accuracy the results can vary widely.

Ehhh... Gru also kicks street performers trash cans, throws park playing guys Frisbee down a sewer grate, budges in line and steals coffee, destroys pier carnival game, trespasses into the Mexican restaurant, abuses animals...

That is one wild and incredibly unique build. The flowing design is great and the no-holds-barred mashup of various elements, styles and idea is very different and fresh. Very distinctive Carebear style!

Fantastic. Love the worn areas of the grass court, the sag in the net, excellent color choices for the whole arena and the moduverse/mils style modular base. Excellent build!

Lol, precisely.

Yes! A pirate challenge!!! Argh! Get the trowels and buckets and head to the beach!

So what you're saying is the Ideas team showed good judgement in approving a creation that clearly a lot of people like?

You are an absolutely wonderful EB member.

And then the robots start learning on their own, develop feelings and begin building their own things faster and better than us and ponder why they're the ones doing your sorting, inevitable robot revolt and sci-fi dystopia.

No offense taken, no worries and no offense meant as well. Just trying to elaborate on the methods of sorting for anyone just getting started as when I first got into the storage issue I made the mistake of going by color first; which seems logical as humans are visual creatures and its simple enough to pick out all of one color at a time and throw them all together. The thinking at the time was that it would require fewer bins... But then came time to sort further by part type and it was a visual headache going through all of one color but dozens of different parts that look so similar and splitting up the parts as well as sheer number of drawers/containers/bins completely counteracting my initial thought process. Just ended up setting back the sorting completion. When I came here and saw the part-type-first advice it all made sense and has worked a lot faster and required fewer individual containers and space. I know you understand this but I was one of those that made that novice mistake and just wanted to help explain it for anyone in the begging phases of sorting. Yeah I agree. If you have sorted by part and have a lot more of some colors then sorting further by color and having storage for that part and color would help. A Star Wars fan would invariably have a whole lot of the monotone colors and breaking it down further between blacks, dark stones, medium stones, and whites would be beneficial. No offense meant by the big collection deep pocket insinuation, just jelly . Its impressive to see the builders who have wall-to-wall floor-to-ceiling drawers all broken up by part and color. You won't find any disagreement on your hobby choice vs your peers from me.

Not going to debate the semantics or pedantry of word choice. Source for the statement aside from personal experience would be all the very helpful advice given by others in this thread: Storage and Sorting LEGO. You do it differently. That's fine. The consensus observed of most efficient sorting in terms of speed/time, space utilization and number of containers required is to prioritize part type (then maybe color for some or mega huge rich guy Jeff Bezos-sized collections). Most of us can pick out a color from a pile so part type sorting takes less time and requires far fewer separate containers. Most can go to their 1x1 plate drawer and pick out a reddish brown piece from all the other colors. Doing it by part type and color literally multiplies how many separate bins/containers/drawers/whatever one needs. Instead of one 1x1 plate drawer with all the colors that are easy to throw together and to pick out , one now needs dozens of 1x1 plate drawers/containers/bins (its molded in 44 different colors). Instead of one 1x4 brick drawer with multiple colors that are easy to throw together and to pick out later, one now needs dozens of 1x4 bricks drawers/containers/bins (molded in 48 different colors). Part type and color sorting/separating/storing multiplies the time and space required. Part type sorting uses a fraction of time and space, using eyeballs to grab the plate 2x3 Earth Green from the drawer of plate 2x3, instead of potentially 38 drawers for the 38 different colors that part is molded.