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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.)

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Even then it's not, the tile-between-studs technique is used to connect some vertical load bearing cells in the Empire State Building.

Tiles have been used like that for years. It's illegal to do that with plates because they're slightly thicker, but it's perfectly legal with tiles

The minifig lineup and price point for set 75364 for Ahsoka reminds me of the minifig lineup and price point for set 75336 for Kenobi. I hope the ship, whatever it is, is as good as the Scythe. That's an amazing set (for a very forgettable ship!)

They're doing the Cannonball Run, of course.

MAY 2023 • 40591: [Death Star GWP] (289 pcs) Yes, with 75355. • 75346: Pirate Snub Fighter (35€, 285 pcs) Probably. It's a very simple set that's not really all that interesting fundamentally, and it's overpriced, but I'm a sucker for a swooshy little spaceship in that size class. • 75348: Mandalorian Fang Fighter vs TIE Interceptor (100€, 957 pcs) Probably not, but I want to. • 75352: Emperor's Throne Room Diorama (100€, 807 pcs) No. • 75355: X-Wing Starfighter (240€, 1949 pcs) Yes, with 40591. • 75356: Executor Super Star Destroyer (70€, 630 pcs) No, but I would if it was an ISD. Tenoo Jedi Temple: No. Endor Speeder Bike diorama: No, but I would if it was a $40 set with the same minifigs, the same speeder bikes, and a small tree. Maybe if I can get just the speeder bikes and figures on Bricklink, or get the whole set at a steep discount later. AUGUST 2023 • 75359: [Republic Swamp Speeder] (27€, 108 pcs) No. • 75360: [Yoda's Jedi Starfighter] (35€, 253 pcs) No. • 75365: [Yavin IV Rebel Base] (160€, 1067 pcs) No. SEPTEMBER 2023 • 75354: [Republic Gunship] (150€, 1083 pcs) Maybe. I want a classic AotC Gunship, not a Coruscant Guard version. I'm not interested in the figures. The price is a lot higher than the last version and the parts count is lower. The only thing this set has going for it is being a Gunship. Plus I'll have to persuade my wife. But I do want a Gunship, so I might end up getting it after all. • 75357: [The Ghost] (170€, 1394 pcs) Maybe. The Ghost isn't one of my favorite starships and I want a Gunship more. But there are so many things wrong with the upcoming Gunship, and this Ghost has enough parts to be much better than the first version. I'd have to persuade my wife. • 75362: [Ahsoka's Shuttle] (70€, 599 pcs) Probably not. I don't like the live action filming model for the T6 shuttle, even though I like the animated version a lot. I'm a sucker for a swooshy spaceship though, so I might get it after all. • 75364: ['Ahsoka'] (100€, 1056 pcs) Not enough information to say. It's got a good ppp. Could be interesting. • Boba Fett mech (15€) Maybe if the figure is a big improvement on the ESB figure from the 2019 Slave 1, or on the RotJ figure from the 2017 Desert Skiff. • Darth Vader mech (15€) Probably. It's the cheapest set to have Vader with arm printing, and I don't find the gray landscape duel or the TIE Bomber very interesting. (Though the Bomber is in every way a much better set than the Duel.) • Stormtrooper mech (15€) No. • Buildable Chewbacca (200€) No. OCTOBER 2023 • 75367: [Venator Star Destroyer UCS] (650€, 5374 pcs) No. I want a $70 midi scaled Venator like the upcoming SSD, not a full UCS model.

Turns out it's easy to fit three figures in the McLaren F1 if you just remove the upholstery!

@danth, this is one of the things where I agree with you 100%.

I would love to get those two speeder bikes, three minifigures, and a side build of a tree. In a set costing no more than $40, preferably $30.

If you go to the Instructions tab on the Brickset page for 7784, you'll see the table below. The first and third links are a bit blurry in spots but generally quite usable. The second link is entirely illegible. Name/Link File size Date modified Date added BUILDING INSTRUCT 7784 1/2 16.8Mb 14 Sep 2012 01 Jan 2010 BUILDING INSTRUCT 7784 IN 2/2 5.8Mb 20 Mar 2006 01 Jan 2010 BUILDING INSTRUCT 7784 NA 2/2 13.7Mb 14 Sep 2012 01 Jan 2010

Since the Keaton Batmobile we're getting is connected to the Flash movie, are we sure that the Keaton Batwing we're getting will be the 1989 version and not the Flash movie version?

Not unless you count the rumored vehicles from Dreams or the red swooshy that's part of the big Monkey Kid mech. They better be!

Actually a B-wing would be quite appropriate for the 40th anniversary of RotJ, but I wouldn't bet on them making one.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that looked an awful lot like a Rahkshi. (Actually, like a Rahkshi crossed with one of the evil robots from the Netflix version of Lost in Space.)

I recently found out that YouTube will auto-translate German to English for closed captions. That really opened up the German language YouTube review community for me when I've been looking at Bluebrixx or Cobi sets.

I was such a big Tintin fan when I was a kid, 20 years ago. I had half the Tintin comics and read them over and over, and I would have killed for a complete line of Tintin Lego. That was twenty years ago, but no adults were pushing Tintin on me. I just found a couple of old Tintin comics in my sister's bedroom, then I found Tintin compilations at the library, then I begged my parents for the Tintin compilations at the bookstore (which were pretty prominently placed on the comics shelves) - But yeah, Tintin is definitely not an A-list IP right now such that Lego would have any interest in picking it up.

Guybrush aka Gareth made tons of UCS models for FBTB back in the day. His UCS Y-wing version 2 was the best UCS Y-wing out there for years. It's great to see you back, and the UCS cloud car is amazing!

For what it's worth, the four OT Indy sets are now listed without images on Brickset.

Yep, boxes in that picture clearly and unmistakably say 77012 and 77015.

The reason is that 40582 was a GWP.

I'm not that interested in the Super Star Destroyer, but if they can make this maybe they can make an Imperial Star Destroyer at the same price point, and that would be a day one buy for me.

Re: the Bad Batch, just give me Omega in a thirty dollar set and I swear* I'll never ask for another Bad Batch set again.... * Not really.

Oh boy, I have a feeling this one is going to go on the list of terrific sets I'll always have to admire from a distance ... Can't wait to see what it turns out to be!