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  1. koalayummies
    Predicting Richard to win best CMF! ...The 1x3 medium stone grey brick with a face on it.
  2. koalayummies
    Wow, what an amazing first post and fantastic MOC! This is probably the best brickhead ever. The hair and outfit are perfect, the face is most excellent and the scene is stunning. Great work!!
  3. koalayummies
    As always, fantastic and very helpful review of the latest CMF. Not a huge Lego Batman fan but they are wonderfully and attractively designed figures; Black Canary and Harley Quinn are especially great. Always love your photography and reviews of the CMF, most excellent work!
  4. koalayummies
    I agree with a lot of the suggestions here and as always the desire for completing the current lineup in all the (realistic) colors. Is this hair on the male reporter a real piece or made up for the movie (from the ninjago movie)? Could easily be some variations on that by utilizing different prints. And the grandpa hair in a different color would work pretty well for a receding hairline creepy clown.
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    Yeah it was a sarcastic comment of a sarcastic mod in a sarcastic post , all of those changes no matter how minor were immediately reversed and the set returned to normal. It was just messing around with what amount to really insignificant complaints and demonstrating how they can be solved with a handful of extra pieces. And yes Diner Waitress is perfect for this set but I don't have that figure.
  6. koalayummies
    Addressing solutions for two of the nitpick-y complaints (not my complaints) with this set. First up "there's no studs on the stools and counter so everything slides around". Hardest mod ever. Counter, also check out how much better it looks with studded seating Next complaint addressed "if only so-and-so had designed it it would be so much more full of detail." Why is there so much freaking food here!?!?! Perhaps we should wait until we have customers before we start preparing food!? And then some fun with the CMF: POW, right in the kisser! Who wants to be the one to tell him that's not how you use this? Elvis arrived late again so they're producing the mariachi album first.
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    I totally thought this thread was going to be about recent Lego financial data success and hoping maybe they could hire all those people back, but no, its the tape thing. Might want to have the rubber tested for lead content. Is that the clearance price at $4.50, because they should give you $4.50 in store credit just for looking at it.
  8. koalayummies
    Get Parisian first. For those just getting into Modulars its usually recommended to get the oldest one that they want first. Assembly Square is only a year old, Parisian is 5 years old. Parisian is also (IMO) the best overall modular, gorgeous exterior, interesting and fun build techniques, elegant and timeless detailed interior, the whole building is classy. Assembly square is a bit boring of a build, predominantly brick on top of brick and not very interesting, a hodgepodge of styles and half-buildings and is more than a hundred dollars more expensive.
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    Because this is the train forum. Honestly very glad you're excited about the super hero stuff but the train fans have to wait ~4-5 years for new offerings. Edit: just want to reiterate, four to five years, years, for new stuff.
  10. koalayummies
    I didn't say that they should be or are counted towards CMF. I said some of the free-with-purchase characters are often very close to figures in the CMF line (bunny suit guy, caveman/woman, chicken suit guy) and that those free minifigures are just a nice bonus to the current distribution of actual CMF sets per year. Summary: 3 CMF series per year is good. Fans of minifigures sometimes also get lucky with the occasional free-with-purchase figures throughout a year.
  11. koalayummies
    Unikitty ran the meeting in which this series was approved. It went like this: Business business business, numbers... Is this working? Yesss. Yaaaay!
  12. koalayummies
    The crazy unhinged Lego fan part of me says there could never be enough CMF!!! But then the rational and realistic thinking side says thats crazy-talk and its at a good balance where it is now, 3 or 4 per year (see the crazy side put that '4' in there). Plus sometimes we get lucky and get a free minifigure pack (with purchase of 'x') like the excellent cave-people pack or seasonal promotions that are basically a previous CMF with a slight change.
  13. koalayummies
    Every time, you wow us every time. The tooth fairy is beautiful and finally makes me like the wing piece, jouster would surely be feverishly snatched up by all the army builders, terra-cotta warrior is an instant classic and cartoon girl is brilliant. And yes the Pirate Queen is stunning. I love this thread and of your excellent designs.
  14. koalayummies
    Yep, the announcement of which will take place, as many a modular re-release rumor has, on first day of April.
  15. koalayummies
    Itaria, you run a great show and thank you for all your work putting this together and offering us all a good time.
  16. koalayummies
    Highly recommended to fully read each post and read them in context (i.e. if the person you're responding to is quoting someone its a good idea to read the quote as well). If you do that then silly things won't happen like responding to someone in disagreement while in the same post essentially repeating everything that the person you're responding to agreed with.
  17. koalayummies
    I agree. While one can copy some of a set design from photos there is usually some guesswork involved with the areas not shown. To copy them so perfectly as they do requires a bit more than a few images snapped at a convention and its well established how nonexistent the copyright and intellectual property laws are over there which stifles innovation and fosters the theft. In addition to the fact that bulk of the never ending daily new product leaks that are shared and discussed all over the internet don't look like they're taken at conventions, they look like they're so hastily snapped that autofocus didn't even have a chance or ripped out of product catalogs and stuffed down pants.
  18. koalayummies
    Yeah that is a nice looking set @Digger of Bricks, it certainly has the detail we've come to expect of the modulars. With a simple elimination of the dollhouse style opening it would probably look pretty good amongst the others.
  19. koalayummies
    This seems like something you could just do yourself. Plates like the one you're talking about cost around $0.06-0.10 a piece on Pick A Brick Shop@Home or B&P, you could get a big pile of them for just a few dollars and do it to all of your modulars for less than a dollar and one minute per modular. However you are getting your wish with the new Downtown Diner which has plate 2x2 w 1 knob all over the sidewalks and its likely they'll continue the trend with all the future sets in that series. It might help in communication of your suggestions and future reference that the pieces sometimes referred to as 'jumper plates' are: plate 1x2 w 1 knob, plate 2x2 w 1 knob, plate 1x3 w 2 knobs, plate 1x4 w 2 knobs and the official colors for the pieces that make up the modular series sidewalks are medium stone grey for the curb and dark stone grey for the bulk of the sidewalk.
  20. koalayummies
    This has been mentioned a couple times about it but its not just the tilt. The walls of the submission bottle are 10 studs between the rounded edge pieces, official set is 4 studs between the rounded edges. So the original submission bottle is 150% larger and utilized the tilt. The original probably looked a bit like a ship in a gallon milk carton in person. They went with a more realistically sized and scaled bottle and thus overall display piece over a bottle that had to be made out of scale in order to accommodate a ship of certain size and detail. I'm confident it looks just fine in person.
  21. koalayummies
    My vote for Space Shuttle in Saturn V scale is in the desire for it to be made and not necessarily in the belief that it will be approved because I don't understand the decision process. My vote for the pop up book on the other hand is in the belief that it is a very nice and original idea and the most likely of that batch to get approved if any do. Plus pop up books were always pretty sweet as a kid.
  22. koalayummies
    By new bottle do you mean tilted bottle because the one in the drawing (fantastic sketches btw) still has the same dimensions as the official set understanding full well that tilting it will certainly yield some extra space inside. What I was saying was that if one wanted to put a ship as close to the submission's ship inside then the bottle would need to be 2.5 times larger than the one in the official set in addition to needing to be tilted for it to work.
  23. koalayummies
    The bottle in the submission is also 6 studs wider on all 4 sides (wider as in if the bottle is placed vertically it like on a bar shelf it is more voluminous by 6 studs on all sides). The submission uses 6x6 transparent wall pieces along with the 4-wide wall pieces while the final only uses 4-wide wall pieces before the curved pieces. That makes the submission bottle significantly larger (4 studs vs 10 studs before the rounded edge) along with the tilt (which would require a creative securing method for the ship to the bottle or stand if desired). Also worth mentioning there are what appear to be a couple of out of system connections for the original ship not to mention the unorthodox rigging attachment methods.
  24. koalayummies
    Another member digitally mocked it up next to DO quite a while ago. From @ukblock on Nov 29th:
  25. koalayummies
    Yeah some of them do appear to be renders. The old fishing store set images on the box all looked like renders, everything was a bit too perfect. Even the set images on the website look like renders (images 8-11 especially so), a few are just too obvious or have been excessively post-processed. While the destiny's bounty set images look like real bricks. Most of the 1x1 round plates down the side of the ship are (painstakingly) oriented so that the "Lego" are all lined up but a few are just a tad off so not absolute perfection.
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