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  1. icm
    A nice little three pack of sets, but I was hoping for a minifig people pack. Shrug.
  2. icm
    It counts as Castle or Castle-adjacent to me, but may not count as Castle or Castle-adjacent to many other people, just as many 2024 sets that count as Space to me don't count as Space to you.
  3. icm
    That's, like, your opinion, man. I don't think it's worth my time to keep debating the point. Cheers.
  4. icm
    It is true that you have to navigate the Shop at Home website as Menu, Shop, Interests, Space instead of Menu, Shop, Sets by Theme, Space. But I think you're letting our benevolent godlike corporate overlords dictate your thinking far too much by the presence or absence of one logo on a box or one link on a menu. That's like arguing relentlessly over the presence or absence of a punctuation mark in a translation of an ancient text. It seems to me that one would have to have strikingly little imagination to let the City or Friends logos on the boxes prevent one from playing with the City or Friends rovers exactly the same way as one would play with a rover from 1980s or 1990s Space. It's what's in the box, not what's on the box, that counts, in my opinion. Besides, no Black Seas Barracuda had a Pirates logo on the box. Not 6285, not 10040, not 21322. Do they not count as Pirates sets? Neither version of Eldorado Fortress has a big beautiful Pirates logo on the box. Are they not really Pirates?
  5. icm
    I'm trying to say that you're being very picky in what you consider to be a Space set. That's all.
  6. icm
    By that logic, no sets for the Space theme were available in 1988, when the last Classic Space sets were retired. Because nothing from a previously existing subtheme was available. It's ok to like new sets and new subthemes too. But this is getting off topic from Castle.
  7. icm
    Well, that's what I mean. I expect that in real life (as opposed to the render on the leaflet), the yellow print on white will be lousy. I would have preferred a regular yellow head.
  8. icm
    I like the legs and feet of the robot chef because I want to use them to build a Lost in Space B-9 Robot, but I don't like the rest of the figure. I like the modern astronaut except for the head, which will probably have a really lousy print. The alien tourist is cute, and the Orion concept is executed pretty well. Most of the others don't appeal to me personally, and I think the execution of the M-Tron, Ice Planet, and Blacktron II figures is pretty bad.
  9. icm
    Some kids do, some kids don't. YMMV. Speed Champions was one such theme. Then the designers came out and said so!
  10. icm
    I'm alluding to the greater risk of shooting your eye out with a great big Technic siege engine than with a little spring shooter or stud shooter.
  11. icm
    I imagine the Technic designers could have a lot of fun making medieval siege engines at a variety of price points, but the Lego lawyers might not let them!
  12. icm
    Might want to change the title to 2025 Castle Theme [wishlist/speculation] so that people don't get confused and think we know anything.
  13. icm
    That's a good way of looking at it - for me the new trans-black seems a lot more sci-fi and a lot less like real everyday auto glass than old trans-black/trans-brown, trans-light blue, or trans-clear, so it seems more Spacey to me than any of those - and using it is a good way to say that CS'24 (that's what I call it) is trying to be its own thing, not a callback to any previous Space or Space-adjacent subtheme.
  14. icm
    Funny you should say that, I think that's true for most of the colored windscreens that are so essential to the Space aesthetic for so many people. I think it's awfully hard to see though trans-dark blue (Classic Space, Futuron, Spyrius, Unitron, Aquanauts, Space Police III, Alpha Team 1, Dreamzz/Space), trans-dark red (Space Police I, Alpha Team/Ogel, Galaxy Squad/alien buggoids, Monkie Kid), trans-dark green (Classic Space, Space Police II, Hydronauts, Town Jr), trans-neon orange (Ice Planet, Aquasharks, sort of Nexo Knights) ... I don't think trans-yellow, trans-light blue, trans-neon green, and trans-brown (old trans-black) are so hard to see through, but new trans-black being hard to see through is pretty much in line with most transparent colored windscreens in old Space and Space-adjacent sets, and therefore feels very Spacey to me. As a kid looking through old sets on Brickset, I actually didn't like a lot of old Space and Space-adjacent stuff because I didn't like how hard it was to see through the colored windscreens. It took a long time for those to grow on me to the point where I like some (but not all) of them as an adult.
  15. icm
    In the US it's available from Target for the same price. I dunno about Australia.
  16. icm
    Which is a long lived 2020 release that does not directly reference any previous Pirate ship or faction made by Lego, and it's in the Creator 3-in-1 line. So if we're being really pedantic about it, that's no more of a proper Pirates ship than this year's space vehicles and bases are proper Space sets.
  17. icm
    The feet of the cook robot are just right for making the B-9 Robot from Lost in Space.
  18. icm
    You can very much expect Lego's core demographic, kids, to want the new stuff. As @danth has so often reminded us, not revisiting a decades old design language is not necessarily bad business, new and fresh design ideas are not necessarily a bad thing. Barracuda Bay in 2020 and Eldorado Fortress in 2023 is not a regular release schedule, and picky Pirates fans were/are every bit as dissatisfied with those as picky Space fans are with this year's cross-theme extravaganza.
  19. icm
    I'm positive there's an existing thread for this. Mods, can we move this to the appropriate existing thread?
  20. icm
    You know how broad-minded I am in my definition of Space, but even I agree that's pretty disappointing. Unless the Pharrell Williams spaceship really knocks my socks off, I would much rather it have been a big Blacktron 1 spaceship. Oh well.
  21. icm
    Dude, there's not a follow up set to the Galaxy Explorer, there's a whole follow up cross theme extravaganza. It's just not directly in the same style is all, but rather doing something new and fresh and different.
  22. icm
    What they really need is a way to make Grogu's pram smaller so they can make a smaller BARC to scale with it. I think a generic round baby carriage would be a worthwhile new mold with applications in City, Friends, and here.
  23. icm
    Yeah, I guess in the past I've been a bit exaggerated in my points about "sci fi zoomies." Wishing the City Space 2024 sets didn't have the City logo on them is valid, since goodness knows they aren't City in any sense of modeling something in the real world.
  24. icm
    Good alt-build. I like this better than the set it came from, but that's mainly just because I'm not much into big robots and mechs.
  25. icm
    They're clearly pretty much the same build, just labeled differently. Like I said, don't think too hard about it. Some Racers builds are Technic builds, some aren't. End of story.
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