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The seller is extremely excited listing it for $4,000 thinking 'someday my riches will come!' (muhahah). He is giddy as he thinks: "It was so clever holding on to this for so long, never opening it, never enjoying it or letting a child play with it; I am a genius and my patience will pay off!"Dreaming of all that money, the lust. His conspicuous consumption and hoarding will eventually be worth a fortune! But alas no one buys it, time passes and he slowly grows old. When he finally shuffles off this mortal coil, his unopened children's toys all still unsold, Satan is there to greet him. In disbelief he exclaims: "WHAT!?!? Why am I here? I should be in Heaven! I wanted to meet Ole Kirk Christiansen!" But the Devil replies: "You did not PLAY WELL!!!!!! Now suffer in my domain of fire and damnation for all of eternity!!!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!11" jk

Hopefully all the unopened overpriced discontinued sets never sell. That'd be awesome.

Thats a perfectly fine way to start. I think most builds start off rough and simple and are refined, changed and added to as it progresses. Starting off with a rough build of just baseplate and walls is perfectly normal, you gotta start somewhere. Then along the way you can polish it up, try all sorts of connections and additions. Not every change will be what you want but you don't know unless you try and you'll discover a lot along the way just by trying things out and putting pieces together. Having a vision in your head, an idea of what you want to create is the start. Sit there with your pieces and think of what you can use, what pieces in what combination will achieve your vision.

I think OP is talking about a piece that a minifigure could hold, like the carrot, rather than the large costume piece that goes over the figure. Anyway should have taken a picture! In the meantime enjoy this giant corn guy I found while searching:

Oh man I hope I don't get banned for this

Prefer moldy animals. Wanted: kangaroo, beaver, buffalo, goat.

I think that everything that TLG is doing right now is absolutely perfect. There, most unpopular AFOL opinion. Seriously though I love you Lego Group please let me move to Denmark. Will sweep parking lots for healthcare.

Because nostalgia sells and a number of adults are consumed by it. They could do a whole series of 'back in my day' contraptions: ye olde bellows 'view' camera (digital is better) phonograph (archival non-degrading media is preferable) rotary dial telephone (touchscreen is superior) telegraph (lol) penny farthing

Hopefully the EB resize still works as I do the despicable and quote an image, but this is one of the best orders I've ever seen. Super jelly.

Great so its launching with a defective telescope and we'll need an Endeavour set to fix it three years from now . Brilliant marketing.

Eighty-nine years ago a carpenter named Ole Kirk Christiansen began making wooden toys. That's it, and that's all. Wood. Not plastic. Lego was a lumber-based toy. The plastic bricks of today are causing brain rot; case in point: threads like this. They have strayed too far from what they were. The sky is falling. The end is near. 87 years ago he chose to call it Lego, "derived from the Danish phrase leg godt [lɑjˀ ˈkʌt], which means "play well"." No mention of the medium, material or content. Just play well. Wood, metal, plastic, rubber, video games. Play. Well.

LDD as well.

Good to know (but Modal specifically mentioned the discussing selling with the designers in the question that was replied to). Still some are probably wary of distributing regardless because, as has happened a lot even outside of Ideas, anyone else can take someone else's instructions and in turn sell them themselves which would create a problem for the original designer, their account etc.

Its in the terms of service. Not a lawyer but from my reading they own the rights to all submissions for three years regardless of whether its approved or not, so no one can distribute instructions during that period. There have been builders that have released instructions to non-approved and non-10K builds but only after their designs were released from that Ideas TOS period.

Random 6-year necrobump!

Lol, except they're basically non-existent. I mean I've never seen one before.

Virtually indestructible, sharp no matter the orientation, the Lego caltrop.

If you don't expand vertically then it'll turn out like Los Angeles. Don't become like Los Angeles.

Yeah they're interesting. I participated in some for major beverage companies; decent money for about 30 minutes of tasting stuff. Sometimes they keep the company conducting the test a mystery, other times they'll say a company but whether that's really the case is unknown. Most of the drinks were terrible. So bad. But I don't think they listened to me, all that stuff is on shelves now. I tried to stop it. I really did.

What the heck is that?! Is that supposed to be a kangaroo? This is much better tho: (40130)

Its worth noting that fluorescent bulbs can emit ultraviolet radiation. So even in a blackout curtain room that gets zero sunlight but is lit by CFLs for example can be exposed to UV. Its interesting to see the contrast between the covered and uncovered parts of the bricks varying so significantly.

Yeah I don't see any problem with them releasing a designer from the TOS if their Idea is stolen by a company like this. Its obviously not your fault that it happened and that you've now been stripped of your creaton from the platform. It's definitely not right. They should release you from the TOS agreement and allow you to do what you like with your design now. If I was at TLG I'd also offer some condolences that it happened, encourage you to keep building and coming up with new ideas and send out a gift as a sign of appreciation for your support of the platform and fondness of building. In a way you're part of a select few now, along with and in the same league as TLG, that have been selectively stolen from by these scumbag knockoff companies. It makes you special, even though that probably doesn't make you feel any better about what has transpired.

What would you like TLG toy company to do about another country's lack of legislation or adherence to copyright/intellectual property law that the arms industry, tech industry, automotive industry, aerospace industry and superpower states haven't been able to accomplish? The company in question is under the jurisdiction of a government that itself steals and copies weapons of war while also being one of only five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and stealing from the other four with no repercussions. A toy company is probably not going to be the entity to solve this problem so being mad at them for not being able to do anything is a bit misguided. Technically Lego was also stolen from because they own your design for 3 years as you agreed to when you submitted to the platform. Even if this was outside the Ideas platform and you were selling instructions like you now desire you could still be stolen from as a number of other builders have been over the years. This is not a new thing, here's a Eurobricks member who had their Idea stolen and made as a set after it was released from the 3 year Ideas contract... five years ago. They'd take your instructions, make all the pieces and sell it as a complete product regardless of whether it was in Ideas or not. So Lego is not the bad guy here and neither are the non-involved Chinese people (capitalized and spelled correctly).

Well if what others have said is true and the product is finalized a year out (reading all the replies to the discussion in context helps) then 21 would have been at some stage of production already. Never saw them sorting the packages out (I'll take your word for it) but why were they doing that? Its a non-issue to you but that sounds like someone somewhere at the company had a little concern. - Anyway I'm out and I'll just concede to all the replies that the packaging change definitely wasn't something less sinister, which is all that theory was; a less gloomy, less 'this is the end of the CMF' theory. So now being upset at the thought of the change can be the dominant point of discussion with the focus being speculation that it's greed or getting kids to gamble since that's where the discussion is being steered.