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  1. koalayummies
    This is fantastic, what a great way to incorporate other themes into the modular buildings. I love the brick-built and themed-signage and the distinction between the licensed mannequin displays vs traditional yellow Lego people. The window-ed roof skylight is great as well. Hiker with SLR camera on selfie stick . Awesome MOC and great photography.
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    Incredible. I was browsing Ideas the other day and saw you had a bunch of submissions that I don't recall seeing on here, why are you hiding these?! I supported the Museum of Mystery, and now this (and your train) and probably more. Absolutely fantastic building you've been doing, not only are they beautiful but also massive and thus crazy awesome. Keep it up!
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    It was intended as sardonic/tongue in cheek but I can see how it reads a bit too grim (what was said was not what I believe). I'll leave the sardonicism out in the future and avoid discussing/responding to that topic. Thanks for understanding Peppermint_M, Hart New Bob and Xon67, much respect. Back on topic, very excited Xon67 now building the Dry Gulch/Flatbush Gulch/Old West structures from the movie as well. You are a master building machine.
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    There was no animosity or aggression in my post to suggest that any jets need cooling so I'm not really sure what that is about, if you feel there was then my apologies if you were offended. However where those items originated from doesn't really matter in the context of how they are viewed today, that'd be like saying the swastika has a much bigger basis in the Indian subcontinent despite the vastly different modern usage, view and opinion. Defining any one of those items academically reveals that they are explicitly Christian and the sets are timed specifically for that holiday. So while you might only see a European village in the season of winter with fluffily snow a child raised in Islam or Buddhism might see otherwise. Lego has done other sets with (admittedly small) religious ties to other religions, far more subtle than the blatantly obvious Advent Calendars or Santa Claus, but none as longstanding or recurrent as Christmas: http://godbricks.blogspot.com/2009/05/official-lego-sets-with-religious.html To bring this back to the subject of the thread at hand there are even those on both sides who think The Lego Movie is both pro-religion and anti-regligion: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/12/lego-movie-religious-themes_n_4775830.html https://kevennewsome.com/2014/02/25/the-lego-movie-one-of-the-most-anti-christian-movies-ever/ The opinions in these articles are reading and possibly reaching a bit too far, but for one claiming to not see any connection to a specific religion with the winter sets in discussion is a tad denialist. New Hart Bob made two separate posts prior to mine mentioning how they thought it odd that there was a church that made a small appearance in The Lego Movie. I elaborated further on their point there are many more religious aspects in official Lego sets. Not sure why one is getting more attention than the other, how dare one point out anything. I'm not discussing offensiveness or sensitivity, the reply was addressing the original two posts mention that Lego used to stay away from religion. I couldn't care either way, I never once stated whether Lego should or shouldn't make these sets. It is a discussion and I was just adding to that discussion that Lego already has.
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    ...But not the dozens of Christmas-themed sets released every winter? Santa Claus minifigures, advent calendars (City, Friends and even Star Wars advent calendar for crying out loud), decorated pine tree builds, mistletoe, carolers, nutcrackers. The non-religious stance went out the window a long time ago and Lego clearly favors only one religion. Any children of any other religion, nope your beliefs are fake.
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    Recent take, 1 cup, went full Sand-crazy and always love some Brick Yellow:
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    It wasn't that fun to build, especially the repetitive snot tiles. It doesn't fit with anything else in Town. The further one gets in to it the less awesome the piece selection seems (for those who buy sets for parts). Got this so far, into the city modular conversion, first floor. Kind of wishing I had just kept saving for Ninjago City. Might just scrap this, build it 16-wide and never look at or touch it again. Or sell it.
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    The Department of Fish and Wildlife caught wind of their wild fishing day and now they're looking at huge fines in addition to revocation of their fishing license for that dolphin. Honestly, what the heck? Been assembled for about 12 hours now, time to take it apart and MOD.
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    Seriously! I am convinced this piece has the ability of reproduction, you just touch one of these at the Pick A Brick wall and all of a sudden they're everywhere:
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    Read, its already been discussed and the thread creator says its ok: And to quote further: "PAB has a set number of 11998 on S@H." Not sure why you singled me out with special bolded emphasis and repetition of the question when I clearly read the entire thread, as this was discussed back... on page 1.
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    Parisian Restaurant is frequently discussed as one of the best official modulars but I get what you're saying about it's size in relation to the others. Check out this fantastic MOD by member Superfunk that makes it full 32-stud-width and 4-stories tall: Ghostbusters FIrehouse Headquarters can also be fairly easily modified to fit with the modulars and you'll have some leftover parts to use for something else. I did this one but am still perfecting it:
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    Great MOC. You've done some fantastic and interesting use of parts to create the realistic interior objects and the method for connecting the pieces between the turret windows is great. Its a very warm and inviting building.
  13. koalayummies
    No worries at all, I was probably reading far too deeply into the wording. My apologies for getting hung up on that. It is more technically correct to refer to them as selections despite the overcoming of seemingly insurmountable odds to be selected appearing as quite a victory to both the submitter and supporters. I completely understand that the position that I stated thats being discussed can seem contradictory with regards to all aspects, especially those that have been highlighted; that its not really a competition between submissions, they are making the choice based on a myriad of factors including what is best to sell and appeal to the widest audience and so forth. I agree they should pick the best and if that happens to be the same submitter as a selection before then there's not a strong argument against it. Its just the part of me that never forgets that this is a children's building toy, Ideas allows a wide and young age-range of submissions, so few are ever selected, the benefits of being selected are very respectable and I'd just like to see everyone get a chance, again, even if they're not technically competing and they will approve whatever they see is best. I can see the contradiction, I've never had a position on an issue thats so difficult to explain so I should probably just let it go and have more faith in the process. So for clarification, and apologies if this is getting redundant (and probably been discussed previously), but theoretically if a bunch of projects that have all garnered the required support and are up for review they could conceivably all be so good that they all get approved or is there a limitation on Ideas production?
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    Agreed. I'm glad you feel that way. Anyone can still express their opinion that it may be undesirable. In the meantime a recent Ideas selection, if that's the correct terminology despite multiple others also using the word win and not being condescendingly lectured to about it, has recently had three other submissions all cross the threshold so the odds of this conjectured scenario repeating itself have increased. That is the reason it was brought up. So I hope you're right about Lego choosing the best.
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    "Currently 18 sets have been produced and 21 sets have been announced: Set based on an original idea Set based on an existing theme/license or intellectual property" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Ideas
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    But Ideas submitters don't work for Lego so the cutthroat corporate business board room meeting analogy is a bit unfitting and certainly not what Ideas presents itself as. It is simply my opinion that if a bunch of selections all come from the same person then it is discouraging, draining of confidence and enthusiasm to the concept of Ideas. Obviously Lego is a business that is in it to make money, however Lego Ideas presents itself as and seems a pure, innocent, wholesome way for any Lego builder as young as 13 years old to submit their designs (with their parents permission) and become, for 15 minutes, a real Lego designer themselves. But if one guy is saturating the field then it is dispiriting. That's what I was saying so there's no need to debate or explain the semantics of using the word win versus selection or imply that anyone here is oblivious to the fact that Lego is a for-profit enterprise. Of course if it was purely about original Ideas then there would be no selections with licensed content as that is pretty much the opposite of originality.
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    The two best answers, I too would rather build my own creations than follow instructions for identical sets and collections. But can one really get banned for buying too many bricks?
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    Holy cow this is epic! There is so much, it would take a novel to spell out all the great things you've done so so I'll defer to; everything is awesome. The science class is especially great but... they're not dissecting bunny rabbits are they? Your large-scale builds never cease to completely amaze Carebear!
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    Yeah and even without that apparent time-period restriction (for the argument sake of just saying the buildings themselves are old and not necessarily the scene) a post office is still quite relevant, my local USPS is always bustling with customers. On the flip side of outdated I've never seen a detectives office in my lifetime but that doesn't make it any less fantastic a subject matter or modular building set.
  20. koalayummies
    Agreed, fill in the gaps of the current color part availability. I run into this a lot when designing digitally, I always have Brickset loaded in the background to check that the part I've placed is actually made in the desired color.
  21. koalayummies
    Excellent points, Lego is owed nearly $29 million from TRU while Mattel and Hasbro are owed $135 million and $59 million respectively and also probably need TRU the most. http://www.northjersey.com/story/money/2017/09/19/toy-manufacturers-owed-millions-toys-r-us/681485001/ Another article I was reading stated that TRU supply vendors including Lego will still be keeping their product delivery commitments for the holiday season.
  22. koalayummies
    Looking at Lego sets from the 90's and adjusting for inflation we're actually getting a much better deal now. Compare the prices of these classic large sets from two-decades ago to the prices of sets today. The modular buildings average ~2200 pieces for ~$160. Pretty amazing. Besides billionaires throw away their money on stupid things like pretentious automobiles, gold plated toilets and $6,000 shower curtains, they generally lack the creativity to enjoy something like Lego.
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    One of the unmentionable knockoff brands stole an Ideas submission of a barnes and nobel modular so Lego probably won't touch that unfortunately.
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    One anecdote, when the Ninjago Movie minifigures came out I was at the Lego store and a group of moms and their kids were all feeling the figures out. While we were talking and exchanging the figures we were each looking for one of the kids asked me what I thought of the Ninjago City, he was so incredibly excited about that set and said it was the coolest set he's ever seen. I don't know how old he was but if I had to guess he was maybe half the age recommended on the box. In other words, some kids build way above their age and Lego set recommended ages. I have no doubt he'd put it together perfectly.
  25. koalayummies
    From a technical standpoint Lego classifies Brick Yellow, Reddish Brown and Sand Yellow under the Color Family of Reddish Brown. Aanchir said basically as much that they're just different hues of red. Also since we're talking Official Lego colors.
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