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Love it! Kill all minifigures and bite his medium stone grey... free beer!?! Fantastic Bender.

That looks great! Your expansion on the Mediterranean/Spanish style in original set looks great in the modular building size. Those rounded 1x1 tiles are going to be really popular for Town/City use.

Well done! Nice color scheme and use of different sized windows.

This is really weird. I read this last night and thought 'dang I've never had a Lego dream' but this morning remembered I have had one and it was almost the same as OP. Finding a lot of great pieces and being like 'YES! these pieces are awesome I can do so much with these new pieces!' and the rest of the dream was about being obsessed with all my new Lego pieces and not losing them. I think its probably my subconscious telling me I have enough pieces and should probably stop.

What a gorgeous scene. I especially love the fort and tower build and its weathered-look. The realistic color palette, detailed foliage and unconventional pirate's ship make for a wonderfully fantastic and very complete looking creation. Great building!

Astounding! What a massive ship! Its so realistic, all the curves and realistic slopes must have taken some time to design and build. Truly inspirational.

Thanks Pantelis! Thank you Mister Phes! Very honored to be on Classic-Pirates! Thank you for sharing it! Thanks Neonic, there's plenty of fun to be had building multi-hulled vessels. Thanks MarvelBoy123! Really glad you like it and humbled to bring some fresh eyes to some pirate builds. Thanks The Neighborhood Merchant! It was a bit of a struggle to come up with a palm tree build with the newer (to me) palm style leaves so I'm glad you like them. Thanks for the love! Thanks Ultimo. Glad you like the sails as I was split between going custom-cut fabric and all brick-built with convincing results so I'm relieved that they're appreciated. Thanks!

I hope I'm not the only one that doesn't really understand this new system. Even after reading the linked Brickset Q&A its hard to see the positives of the change aside from the normalization of values across the globe. All the rest is extra hoops to jump through for in-store redemption discouraging for impulse visits and seems like the whole thing was a bit rushed with a lot of 'we are working on this, looking to update that, in the future...' responses.

...and also piracy!

Some decent parts and alright figures but maybe its time for Lego to make contact with @Robert8 and start contract negotiations.

Now or near future. Has to do with parts, colors, number of possible connections and thus total building potential. Many seem to answer these frequent questions only thinking about official sets and not about the building potential after tossing aside the instructions. For an MOCer, the best time is now.

2 cents per piece, but it is rare. The Chess Set on sale was the best deal (which was on sale for a while, plenty of time, there was a stack of them in the store) and a few other sets that were on sale around 3 cents per piece from the Shop @ Home site.

Primary source is sets: ~$0.06 per piece is a decent to good average price per piece to look for. Lower than that and its almost a must-buy (lowest was the Chess set on sale for around $0.02 per piece). If its higher it has to appeal to me in some other way; have a decent amount of special or new pieces or new recolors for example. Secondary is taking apart built stuff. Take...stuff...apart. "Otherwise it might as well be kragled". Third is Pick a Brick Shop at Home. Fourth is Bricks and Pieces for smaller new stuff, mostly detail pieces.

Fabuland party boat, this is one of the greatest builds ever. Fabulously fun moc!

Gonna go ahead and give the bionicle community the benefit of the doubt and assume that they're not all this defensive, accusatory and dictatorial towards those who don't share the same fondness of the theme. I'm sure most of them are fantastic Lego fans who don't really have any desire to force others to think or feel the same way that they do about something.

Have you ever thought about writing horror? Movies, books, campfire tales; I think you'd be great.

On a related note Brickset has a list of pieces added by year (https://brickset.com/parts/year-2019 and then you pick the year), but its more useful for MOCers looking for specific pieces and new pieces/recolors than for someone building period-correct sets with the type of attention to detail like that the picture MAB posted demonstrates.

I'm posting this here, so that hopefully won't forget... again. Every time, completely forget about this new piece. TILE 1X3, INVERTED, W/ 3.2 HOLE etc

In terms of best era if you're a builder, an MOCer, then there is no better time than now. The most pieces ever. Most colors ever. More possible connections now than in the history of this complex interlocking brick system. Its a designer's utopia. The potential is amazing, and the creations are the best they've ever been. Lego sets are cool but its what you can do with the parts after following the instructions that makes it really great.

Part 6135 in brick yellow, reddish brown or dark brown (previously made in old brown). And then they'd bring back corresponding part 2563. Because in spite of many new ways to make tree trunks I still really like the old palm tree trunk parts.

Haha yes they made those technic-connection hands in that nougat color so why not! A scene in a Futurama episode called "A Clockwork Origin" that spawned a reaction meme.

If you build them on the actual road plate up to the curb then it would look good (example left), most of the ones I've seen incorporating the Lego road plates however are a bit lazy and just place the road plate up against the modular baseplate and are left with a super wide sidewalk (example right), it doesn't look horrible if you tile it up to the curb but many leave the road plate studs exposed like this and it just looks lazy. The best solution however is the use the Moduverse standard or similar, which eliminates the problems with the Lego baseplates. It requires a lot of extra bricks and plates though.

Most excellent. I very much appriciate seeing licensed fleshy figures that can be converted to yellow without the flesh neckline/chest/leg issues. Good stuff!

Speaking of vehicles its missing the AW109, its iconic and the set is incomplete without it. They never would have gotten to or from the island in a cinematic fashion without it and you know the wealthy insane old guy isn't taking no boats like the rest of his employees.

Yeah good tip! Kind of forgotten about that with the 1x6s, I've done that with the 1x2s since grey/black/white are abundant in my collection while all the other colors are together.