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Just like the actual V-22. Just like Bell Boeing! Dang Lego nailed this thing.

No. Sorting by hand costs $0.00. Don't need a machine. Sorting by part type is not more difficult by hand, it is in fact much easier and more efficient in terms of sorting speed and more importantly space utilization. Pick out the colors you need when building. Sorting by color is the more difficult and PITA way to sort. You end up with a pile of medium stone grey plates and now have to pick out the 1x1s, 1x2s, 1x3, 1x4s, 1x6s, 1x8s among a sea of the same color and need an individual drawer or storage for each multiplying how many containers you need. If you just throw all the colors together by part type then you shouldn't have ever sorted by color and you only need a fraction of containers. Tried both. Sort by part type. There's a reason why there's agreement on this.

At first I thought that was a lot until seeing a detail picture and realizing its way bigger than it looks in the photo above. And then of course seeing Bricklink sellers asking $148-247 for an average of $0.26 per piece So a fantastic deal piecing it together like you did.

I'm on board with Futurama. Sets, CMF, poly bags. Everything. Throw in five more seasons of the show as well.

As if they couldn't have also been sitting around, while completely sober, and pondering "just how deep do these star wars fan's pockets go"? "Lets see if they'll drop the same amount as the median worldwide monthly household income... on a plastic toy for their bookcase".

I think Lego Shop at Home has just the one US distribution warehouse in Illinois. That's where everything I've ordered originates from. While Walmart has lots and lots of e-commerce fulfillment centers and regional distribution centers. Lots. The US Lego Shop at Home's outbox might just be really full.

Kind of goes without saying. But this being the "dream" thread I was addressing another aspect to the hurdle of that member's dream (the fan base being very against the owners of the license but loyal to the series creator), separate from the very well known among AFOL no military stance or mature themes. Lego's standards have changed over time. For example TLG also used to have a no death stance and the now well established skeleton minifigure once caused quite a stir inside the company back in the day. The very idea nearly cost the designer their job. Fort Legorado wasn't a gathering of nuns in a convent etc.

"Nowadays anyone with a computer can get combat training. The FPS games that these children love are distributed for free by these companies. Of course its all just virtual training. It's so easy for them to get absorbed by these war games. And before they know it they're in the PMCs holding real guns. These kids end up fighting in proxy wars that have nothing to do with their own lives. They think its cool to fight like this. They think that combat is life. They don't need a reason to fight. After all, for them, its only a game." Metal gear is an awesome [pipe] dream, but even if it were made, in light of the the Kojima and Konami falling out I personally wouldn't get anything Metal Gear related unless Konami makes amends and Kojima is personally involved. And that would never happen.

I think you just turned on the light bulbs that will help three builders get new Subarus. Consider making it a hydro/cosmos theme or tied to a multimedia/entertainment license for good measure.

I'm actually surprised! What are you doing?! I would prob pick up $10 worth of these. So ~40-ish.

Piano: That is one amazing model. Fantastic design, the ingenuity of the mechanics, remarkable. Well deserved approval for Donny Chen. Incredible work. This is what Ideas is about. Bonus points for no minifigures. A++

Phew, thanks! Still, dang it. A plant piece molded in a new color is always desirable.

Oh what the... is that three leaf plant piece in Olive Green?

Woah! Its so abrupt I didn't even know it had ended! Dang, I enjoyed the aesthetic of that theme.

This again goes back to the hairsplitting of the exact type or classification of ship being somewhat irrelevant especially in terms of crew size discussion. One must look to the sail plan and purpose of the vessel. The Black Pearl is a three masted square rigged ship (as opposed to the two masted Barracuda discussed here) and using it as a warship, privateer vessel or for piracy as opposed to a merchant vessel for example would require many more hands to not only handle and maneuver but also engage in combat. Historical examples from the 19th century (which would be quite a bit different than during the 'golden age of piracy'): Merchant Brig: "Dana described the crew of the merchant brig, Pilgrim, as comprising six to eight common sailors, four specialist crew members (the steward, cook, carpenter and sailmaker), and three officers: the captain, the first mate and the second mate. He contrasted the American crew complement with that of other nations on whose similarly sized ships the crew might number as many as 30." Frigate warship: "Melville described the crew complement of the frigate warship, United States, as about 500—including officers, enlisted personnel and 50 Marines. The crew was divided into the starboard and larboard watches." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing_ship#Crew https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing_ship#Ship_handling Could six people sail a three masted square rigged ship? Maybe; but it would be dangerous and more difficult than with a larger crew and engaging in combat and attempting to board other vessels would likely be suicidal. It does however make filming a fictional hollywood pirate movie scene less expensive and more dramatic.

Yes! And a crew this small would have a much easier time sailing the triple masted junk rigged Destiny's Bounty than this double masted square rigged Barracuda. I think I'd just call the Barracuda a brig. If I see these thieving bastards on the horizon just call it out as a brig, fire a shot across their bow and deal with the semantics after she's sinking. Regarding the Brigantine suggestion as the Lego literature mentioned: "The word "brig" has been used in the past as an abbreviation of brigantine (which is the name for a two-masted vessel with foremast fully square rigged and her mainmast rigged with both a fore-and-aft mainsail, square topsails and possibly topgallant sails). The brig actually developed as a variant of the brigantine. Re-rigging a brigantine with two square-rigged masts instead of one gave it greater sailing power. The square-rigged brig's advantage over the fore-and-aft rigged brigantine was "that the sails, being smaller and more numerous, are more easily managed, and require fewer men or 'hands' to work them."[4] The variant was so popular that the term "brig" came to exclusively signify a ship with this type of rigging.[8] By the 17th century the British Royal Navy defined "brig" as having two square rigged masts.[9]" Wikipedia Brig

This is the main thread on EB for storage and sorting: "OK, so recently the 5 millionth topic was opened about storage. Let's keep it all to one sub-forum and one topic. How do you sort your LEGO? How do you store your LEGO? Discuss..."

Yes. Much more so than iron man, star wars, frozen elsa, harry potters or all the other hollyweird entertainment licenses that will likely saturate this theme as they have permeated everything else in the world. TLG has the opportunity here to branch out further into education and art. Not just more :insert movie or tv show: content.

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And also joining EB just for the sole purpose of promoting one's own ideas and nothing else, not participating anywhere else. But there's been so much of it lately. Perplexing how some can join, ask for everyone to support their stuff and then just walk away. Nobody else's creations matter. This wonderful forum full of like minded people who share the same interest. Amazing inspirational builds and informative discussion abound. None of that matters to them. Every member here is just a potential vote to help them get 1% of sales of an idea.

Your reviews were the best, so much better than watching a video. The figures are better handled by detailed photos and scrolling at one's own pace. Always pulling out the previous mold examples and color changed parts or similar themed figures for comparison made your reviews unique. That's a shame, EB probably drives a lot of purchases so this is perplexing.

Yes I'm pretty sure your love for B&P is reflected in TLG's annual revenue reports. Yeah we should just be happy that we can order individual parts this way. Too many novel-length complaints about orcs and capes and TLG could just decide: "You know what? Its closed. It didn't bring us that much in revenue (except for Megbricks ) and it required a lot of human labor to pick out all these crazy orders and to top it off half of them were just being resold by slimeballs on Bricklink for massive profits anyway so it's done, finished".

Even if there aren't any more pirate sets for a few years this one set has given all the fans that missed out on the previous ship the latest and greatest in pirates and building techniques and most of the necessary parts to build their own pirate creations. Thanks to Pablo Sanchez, Milan Madge, Austin William Carlson and everyone who supported the idea to make it happen! One of the greatest Lego sets ever. A beautifully warm tropical pirate island fort and a gorgeous ship all in one set.

That just made my whole day.

Ok. What was being referred to was the designs, as in the three brand new 2020 designs vs those three 2012-2019 designs (recolors).