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It's an interesting debate. I used to believe yellow minifigs are race-neutral but it became difficult to believe that with all the specialized hair molds and colors they produce these days. That said, it does seem like they are mixing up the hair molds and including more black hair recolors in the last year or two, so it does seem like they're thinking about this.

We discussed it a while back in this thread. If you pay with credit card they might silently change your order total when they charge you a few weeks later. d

This looks like one of those scenarios where the price is wrong and they're going to charge significantly more when the order goes through.

Got my hands on a CMF 20 Viking. Combined the helmet with the torso from the CMF 19 Fright Knight. It makes a pretty good Rohan soldier!

I believe PAB didn't need to shut down because those are packed by machines in the factory. B&P is hand-picked by the same people who do customer service shipments, so it makes to limit operations to protect employees. Their customer service has definitely been reduced as well, so it seems like B&P and customer service operations go hand in hand.

This looks great, now I want to give this a shot too! Do you have a Knight of Ren (Ap'lek) Star Wars minifig? I'm curious how the head would look in that helmet.

Build A Mini has been removed from our LEGO stores in IL due to coronavirus. They still had the Pick A Brick wall stocked, but I assume that will be going soon too. The current estimate is that it won't return until at least April, but I suspect it will be much longer.

I think the price increase makes sense, almost every figure in this series has at least one new mold. I’d still prefer if they could keep the price lower and offer more recolors/prints without new molds though.

Just got an order where over half the parts were missing. Do you guys normally count the pieces? I never bothered making sure there were actually the right number when I order 100+ of something, but I probably should now...

I think U.S. customer service has a slightly different inventory than other countries. I often am unable to order things over the phone that others in this thread report. I’m assuming you aren’t ordering in the U.S. when you’re talking about prices in EUR or GBP. The phone reps will usually tell me a part is licensed or not for sale yet when it’s unavailable, so I don’t think it necessarily means it will be that way forever

you guys are debating the price of a theoretical set that we have no reason to believe is coming... As someone who jumps into this "news" thread every few days I feel like this topic has gotten very misleading.

LEGO pushed a small update to their web site design which broke my original script. I edited my original post with a new version of the script a week or two ago.

Ordering large transparent parts is definitely hopeless. I go to Bricklink for those. In my experience the threshold is around 100 for small parts to get their own bag. Again, this does not help with large/transparent pieces. LEGO will still pack everything else together so they all end up scratched.

Which of those Easter theme parts are actually BAM exclusives? I think it’s the bunny ears, head, and torso; butterfly hat, head, and torso; flower hat, torso, and bear? Anything else?

The trick is to buy in quantities of 200, then they put the parts in their own pre-sorted bag lol

Sorted my haul!

Unfortunately you’ll need to check prices one more time when it actually ships. Prices can magically change any time between now and then.

PM me and I will help. Edit: my first version had some code that doesn't work on Internet Explorer/Microsoft Edge. I updated my original post with a new version that works for everyone. You don't have to change anything if you don't use that browser.

PM me if this ever doesn't work for you. No need to discuss bugs/issues in the forum thread. I find the LEGO receipt page for B&P orders really frustrating. They don't show you the pictures of the elements you bought. This make things really difficult if I'm placing a new B&P order before my last one has arrived and I don't remember if I bought a piece already. I wrote a little script that automatically inserts the element ID pictures into the receipt page that I think is worth sharing. If you go into your browser, add a bookmark, then copy/paste this below line as the URL, clicking on the bookmark when you're on a receipt page will automatically insert all the images where it can. javascript:var knownBaseUrls = ["https://www.lego.com/cdn/product-assets/element.img.lod5photo.192x192/"]; var itemPrefix = "Item:"; var elementIdMatch = "^" + itemPrefix + "[1-9][0-9]{4,}$"; function addImage(td, elementId, iteration) { var url = knownBaseUrls[iteration] + elementId + '.jpg'; var image = new Image(50, 50); image.addEventListener("load", function() { td.nextSibling.appendChild(image); }); image.addEventListener("error", function() { if (iteration + 1 >= knownBaseUrls.length) { return; } setTimeout(function(){addImage(td, elementId, iteration + 1);}, 200); }); image.src = url; } function addPictures() { var elementIdRegExp = new RegExp(elementIdMatch); var tableCells = document.getElementsByTagName("td"); Array.from(tableCells).forEach(function(td) { var matches = elementIdRegExp.exec(td.textContent); if (matches) { var match = matches[0]; addImage(td, match.substring(itemPrefix.length), 0); } }); } addPictures(); Example result:

haul from December 28 finally showed up! Can’t wait for the one I just placed, it will dwarf this!

Correct, that example $1.03 part still says $0.07 if I add it to a new order right now. The value changes after you place the order and after your card is authorized for the original amount. Then you get charged the different amount days later when your order ships. I’ve seen it go up by ~20% on the past orders but never hundreds of dollars like this one. Very sketchy

Just placed a huge order too. Can't wait! Secondly, print-screen your receipt at checkout and double check it after your order ships. I usually pay with PayPal which has caught a huge issue in their billing department. My past two order amounts got vastly increased when they charged me on shipping the orders. For example, a $1 piece became a $5 piece when they tried to bill me. There's no proof of what the parts should have cost because I didn't screenshot it, and the LEGO order status has magically changed all the costs/totals. Since I paid with PayPal I actually got protected and they blocked the new charge, but if you pay with your credit card I don't think anyone will confirm the new amount with you. Edit: My order today has already changed from $180 to $400. It looks like this $0.07 piece changed to $1.03 wtf

LEGO customer support told me that new pieces should be listed as out of stock for at least a few weeks. Supposedly it's their policy for new pieces to temporarily hold them back initially.

What about a plain black head and different headgear piece? like a regular helmet with 22401

I was really curious who the exclusive officer minifig is supposed to be in 75252. I couldn't think of a character in a movie that had two red squares and two blue squares like that. I did a bunch of searching and it turns out it's this guy lol