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Very nice alt-build of the two kits! The shape reminds me of the old Milton Bradley Starbird toy.

Yep, 14w.

For @danth, Space is windscreens in unusual transparent colors, and windscreens in unusual transparent colors are Space.* * Slightly exaggerated.

Sigh. Yes. I'm certainly not going to get the bigger set. It just bugs me that the ever so slightly better version of the Batmobile is paywalled behind it. The wheel hubs are different - easy fix. The side intakes are different - a little harder, but still probably an easy fix. The bat fins are built studs up instead of being tilted for a more accurate angle - this could potentially be hard to retrofit to the car in the small set, but then again it could be easy. At least the one in the small set still has the flip up guns, according to Promobricks.

Why did they have to make the Batmobile in the small set different than the Batmobile in the big set? Why, why, why? My completionist side is freaking out right now :(

I was wondering where the 300 extra parts compared to the 2020 plane would go. Looks like they went into the V tail, better wing fairings, taller landing gear, bigger engines, and the driverless people mover. The tall landing gear and the big engines look good, but the V tail ruins it. Of course I could buy the set and mod it to have a standard tail configuration. But, you know, I'd rather it came that way out of the box.

The Swamp Speeder is a pretty meh build, but it's a good way to get some 332nd troopers. I might get this one on discount. The Yoda starfighter is as expected, at first glance I don't see any difference between it and the 2017 model. The Yavin base looks ok as a build, but it really shines in the figure selection. The midi-size Y-wing looks really good, I might have to try and get that separately from the rest of the set.

That's the way it's been with City for several years now: Europe in June, North America in August. No surprise there.

https://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemIn.asp?M=sw0566&in=B

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Well said.

To avoid the complaints with the Hulkbuster that you had to buy an add on fifty buck set for your five hundred buck exclusive.

Of course, we all know that after Adventurers the best action-adventure theme of all time is Time Cruisers! (The reveal of the Ninjago City Markets this morning got me thinking how amazing a 32x64 modular-adjacent set in the 4000-6000 part class with a tiled water base would be, if it was the MYSTIC MOUNTAIN TIME LAB!)

I recently bought the Cobi version, but I'm sure the Lego version will be far superior. I probably can't afford to buy it this fall though. Maybe in a couple of years when it's about to retire.

https://bouwsteentjes.info/lego-harry-potter-zomer-2023-sets/ Here are the full pictures.

Yeah, these are all pretty expensive. They're good set designs but not my cup of tea.

Oh boy, that Hogwarts Express is a must buy if I can persuade the wife ... ... I haven't had to persuade the wife before, this is new to me ....

Because sometimes they aren't in stock for 2-3 days. Sometimes they're out of stock within a couple hours of release and they're not restocked for months. Also, if it's a really nice GWP it'll most likely be out of stock really quick.

Right-side up. https://brickset.com/sets/60262-1

It's the 2020 plane.

For something built in only five days with only parts on hand, that is stupendous. It's a great model anyway, but especially given those constraints. Thanks for posting.

I think it's interesting that this looks like the first Hogwarts Express with two passenger carriages instead of one.

I'm going to take this rumor with a very large grain of salt. So much salt it's going to give me high blood pressure. If the coming of the Toa represents the Great Spirit Robot taking its meds, what would represent the Great Spirit Robot taking a lot of salt on its food? What would represent the Great Spirit Robot having high blood pressure?

Rats. I was really looking forward to a modern Keaton Batmobile at a good price. I hope they can rework the set to release it as a Batman Returns set, but I doubt that'll happen :(

@Mandalorianknight I'm just putting my two cents down here again because you so conveniently wrote out all the colors, and I haven't updated my list since the brown and purple versions came out. Because I'm lazy, I copied your post and am basically changing some words here and there, filling in the blanks. White: Scientist. Just a generic scientist. Common color, classic astronaut color in real life - scientist. Most NASA astronauts are scientists in one way or another. Red: Pilot. Just a generic pilot. Mostly flies transport and courier roles. Takes the scientists where they need to go, also does basic patrols. Another common color for another common occupation needed for spacemen. Blue: Combat pilot. The kid playing in the basement in TLM tells Will Ferrell that Benny's spaceship is a battlecruiser. Its big role in the movie is to knock little Octan fighters out of the sky. Since I don't have a clear role for true Classic-era blues, Benny's role defines the color for me. Yellow: Engineer. Another common color for a common occupation. Hi-vis yellow suits for working on heavy equipment. Black: Spy. This one doesn't really make a lot of sense, but whatever. I think there were some early comic books or ads that showed the black suits as spies or bad guys, a year or two before Blacktron. The pilot of the Gamma V Laser Craft, aka Intergalactic Freighter Dark Star, has a black suit. This one means trouble. Orange: Test pilot. This one isn't a very clearly defined role, but I pin it to Buzz Lightyear's orange flight suit in the (disappointing) feature film, as he takes out one spaceship after another to get to lightspeed. Also the XL-15 spaceship set is basically a neo-Classic Space set. So, you put that together and you get a test pilot role for the orange suits. In another version, the orange suits could launch on an NCS-styled Space Shuttle. Green: Mining. The green suits appeared in the Ideas Exo-Suit, and that looks like heavy equipment, maybe for mining or something. Granted, there aren't any green suits in the more mining-oriented classic sets like the lunar dozer, but whatever. Pink: Medical. Every uniformed service needs field medics. Pink stands out as high-visibility and non-combat, in the rare instances that our peaceful Classics get into a fight. Light bluish gray: Cadets. In Star Trek: The Next Generation, cadet Wesley Crusher wears a sweater that is generally colorless except for three different-colored stripes across the front, to show that he hasn't chosen his track yet. Similarly, the colorless gray of the cadet suit shows that the young spacer hasn't chosen a track yet. The LBG torso appeared in a CMF of a kid wearing a rocket suit, so that leads me to assign it to young cadets. Purple: Ambassadors/diplomats. The purple torso only appears on a CMF alien with an unusual head and wings and stuff. That's weird stuff, way out of the usual Classic wheelhouse. Maybe they finally found aliens they could talk to. Maybe the purple spacer was once a regular minifig who put their head in a particle accelerator and got turned into a bug-headed fly alien and couldn't get changed back. Maybe something else is going on. We don't really know. Brown: Instructor/caretaker. On larger outposts and colonies, where children are present, brown signifies the spacemen guiding the new generation. Maybe they should be a more commonly needed role on space stations due to them now being the cheapest astronaut, but I'd prefer to keep those as the classic 5 colors. Plus, they come with the baby astronaut, so the role was obvious. (Copy-pasted directly from above.)