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@danth, sorry for calling you the "self-appointed president of the sticker haters association" in a post in another thread a few weeks ago. Said president is a different Eurobricks user. Anyway - I don't have hardly any interest in the upscaled minifig itself, but I might have to get a few of that big blue panel with the CS logo print. It'll be perfect for ground bases and so forth. Hopefully it's not too expensive on Bricklink or Pick-a-Brick! I guess maybe I could talk myself into getting the upscaled CS minifig as a companion piece to the GWP red Spacebaby or the Creator 3-in-1 astronaut, but character/creature/mech builds usually aren't my thing. Just fairly rigid swooshies and cars.

I think that piece originated with the Bluey car last year.

Lots of good stuff in that catalog. The only CaDa sets I have are their 1:24 Sauber F1 car and their Space Shuttle designed by Eric Trax, but there's quite a few sets in that catalog that I might like to get. The Speed Racer Mach V, of course, is a must-buy.

I know it's just the January doldrums, but it's still surprising how much the deals have dried up this month. Quite a few sets I was planning on getting at 20% off this month are no longer available on discount. Since you do seem to like Dreamzzz, what did you think of Mr Oz's Space Bus and Space Car? Personally, I thought the Space Bus was pretty fun at the 30% discount I got it for, but I didn't feel like the design or the build were very interesting or creative, despite the stylings of the theme. Likewise, I didn't think much of either version of the Space Car in the instructions. However, there's an excellent alt build on Rebrickable that uses all the Space parts to build a Perseverance Mars rover while preserving the other parts for the yellow sports car, and with that in mind I like the set a lot. I haven't got any of the other Dreamzzz sets, but I kinda wish we'd gotten more of Mr Oz's Space dreams.

71514 Dino Jet with the long necked dinosaur.

Oh very well then, if Google AI Overview says that, then that's that. I was hoping you were going to cite some national literary governing body or something, as that would have been a legitimately interesting cultural exchange. Moving on from this tired topic, I suppose the dinosaur set from the last Dreamzzz wave would make a nice ride for Roboforce 1997.

Pardon me, is your nation the USA? Sometimes the country listed on Eurobricks forums isn't actually the country a user is posting from, which can make it hard to understand some posts. Your understanding of the genre of scifi is different from my understanding of the genre of scifi as a resident of the USA, so I'm probably misunderstanding something in the meaning you're trying to convey with your posts. Maybe if you could clarify this point I could understand you a little better.

Sigh ... I said I didn't want to rehash this whole thing, but here I go again .... "Scifi" is a very broad genre. It can encompass ring-shaped space stations as in City Space 2024, domed Mars bases with opening airlocks as in Friends Space 2024, and xenocidal total war with an alien aggressor as in Galaxy Squad 2013. Ring-shaped space stations are a concept that is frequently repeated in science fiction. Domed Mars bases are a concept that is frequently repeated in science fiction. Xenocidal total war with an alien aggressor is a concept that is frequently repeated in science fiction. They are all fictional concepts that have never been made into real things. Having a university education in a field that is somehow related to science, technology, engineering, or mathematics is neither necessary, nor sufficient, nor even particularly applicable to knowing a genre of fiction, SF/F, pretty well. Seems like you're just describing the nostalgia cycle. Wait ten or fifteen years and call me in the morning.

Respectfully, it's splitting hairs to say that City Space and Friends Space 2024 aren't "Scifi Space". But I don't want to rehash this conversation that's been had many times before in this forum, so I'll bid you good day.

Since you're posting this to explain why, in your view, the 2024 cross-theme Space sets weren't true Space sets, here's my reply: Are scientific exploration and discovery not "solid themes"? Are the only "solid themes" permitted in Lego Space sets to be war and violence? Why are big battle tanks necessary in Lego Space? Lego Space went over 20 years without big battle tanks. Why are huge aliens necessary in Lego Space? Lego space went nearly 20 years without huge aliens. Why are bad guys with cool bad spaceships necessary in Lego Space, particularly as opposing factions? Why are big guns necessary in Lego Space? Why are heavily armed aliens necessary in Lego Space? Why can't we all just ... get along in our little make-believe worlds? Personally, I found the focus on peaceful, conflict-free exploration in the 2024 cross-theme Space sets to be a refreshing contrast to the high-conflict Space subthemes of the late oughts and early teens, and a nice callback to earlier eras of Lego Space.

Looks very good. A simple but effective conversion made perfect by the new windscreens.

I'm no expert, but I think maybe French warships of the Napoleonic Wars had white hulls beneath the waterline?

Well, that's a real mashup of times and themes and places, isn't it? What is this, a hospital ship?

I didn't expect to see a Creator pirate ship in 2026 when the Going Merry from 2025 is still on shelves and another One Piece ship is rumored, but it's still good to hear. It's a couple hundred pieces shy of the 2020 Creator pirate ship, so I wonder how much smaller the build is going to be. Hopefully, it'll be a larger physical build because it uses fewer but larger pieces. The 2020 ship was good, but had too many fiddly little 1x1 plates and other tiny parts for my taste.

Looking forward to these! I've wanted a proper backhoe and front loader for a long time, and with current City build standards they ought to be great. Curious to see how the dump truck will be different than the one that comes with the tow truck. Probably it'll be bigger, since it's the first item in the set name. It was nice to get a small carwash a couple years ago as the first City carwash in several years, but it didn't have enough depth to be completely convincing. Hopefully this carwash will be long enough to hold a complete City car inside.