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Legohio has posted a couple of fairly reasonable set descriptions for summer 2024. But of course, it's way too early to get any information for summer 2024, and Legohio is a notorious troll. So they're not to be believed in the slightest.

Still, the parts in the Elephant should have been printed.

Omg, my interest in the ghost rider set just went from zero to ... something well over zero. I could hardly imagine a better exo toa for this Tahu, and it being entirely an alt build of an easily available set rather than a completely bespoke moc makes it a lot more accessible.

I think you should get the AT-AT now if you can afford it. It's by far the best minifig playscale AT-AT they've ever made, and there probably won't be another one for several years. I think we're due for a new Millennium Falcon in the next year or two, but I think you should get it now if you can afford it. It's the best minifig playscale Falcon they've ever made, and the next one will probably be both smaller/simpler/less detailed and more expensive.

Hey, there's a topic just like this on the Brickset forum! (Soon to be gone.) I took the 75301 X-wing from 2021 out of the closet and put it back together the other day. I think it's a brilliant set.

The usual place.

I just saw a leak for a 40582 City forest ambulance GWP with three minifigures, a mountain bike, a stretcher, and a chunky SUV. It said it was going to be a GWP beginning February 10th, so the day after the Bionicle GWP ends. Does anyone know if this GWP will be theme-locked? If it's a City GWP it seems like they would want you to buy City, but I'll have already bought the City sets on my wanted list in order to get the Bionicle GWP ....

I'm really looking forward to the new Destiny's Bounty in the June wave. The Legacy Bounty was amazing, and this has about the same number of parts for only a modest $10 increase in price. The June wave of City is usually released in August in the USA, will the June wave of Ninjago also be released in August?

Some Speed Champions sets have clear-backed stickers. The Apollo Lunar Lander and the Space Shuttle Discovery have reflective stickers. 2019, 2019, 2021.

I don't see how the creator of the project could have made that happen, that sounds like noble but empty talk to me. I almost think it was better to reject that one than to accept it and then have people be disappointed when half of the proceeds from the sale of the set were *not* donated to the AHA. Edit - I actually went to the product page and read it, it's pretty clear the project creators were going to donate half of *their royalties* from the set to the AHA. That would certainly have been well within their power to do, and wouldn't have imposed any constraint on TLG.

Jerac recommends using the stickers meant for the 6w half cylinders of the 75292 Razor Crest’s engines on the 4w half cylinders of his T-65 X-wing’s engines. They work just fine for that, though you do have to cut them down to fit. That’s cutting a large sticker to use it on a smaller part, on a MOC that many people would agree is one of the best, if not the very best, minifig-scale X-wing ever made. Now, would it be nice if there were 4w half cylinders with a very similar print that would be just perfect for a T-65 X-wing? Yes, it would be nice. But in the absence of those, it’s nice to be able to take the stickers from the Razor Crest and cut them down to size and put them on the X-wing.

Look, have you spent any time on Flickr? Many of the amazing MOCs you see on Flickr use stickers in ways they weren't "designed for" all the time. Seriously, go take a good look at Flickr, go take a good look at many of the MOCs in the sci-fi appreciation thread, pay close attention, and you will see semi-custom/off-design use of stickers all the time.

This looks like a pretty nice alt build of 10497. Would you mind posting pictures on Flickr?

He means not being able to apply the design (the sticker) to a brick of a different shape or size than the sticker was designed for. You can’t do that with printed bricks.

Search for Nova Team on Flickr, that’s one of the darker takes on Classic Space.

Try Ralf Steinhorst on Flickr.

^ I'd say the vast majority of Space fans, including myself, treat Classic Space uniform colors like Star Trek uniform colors: as roles staffed by merit and skill, not as castes. But you knew that already.

^ For a complete Shuttle stack all from the same year, try the SLS from 60351 with the Shuttle from 41713. It's smaller than the Shuttle from 31117, and has a more City-like build.

I want a U-55 Load Lifter, which is the potato-shaped shuttle from TLJ. It would be a good addition to the line of $80-$100 shuttle-like sets that includes the Tydirium (2015), the Krennic (2016), the Imperial Landing Craft (2018), the I-TS Transport (2020), the Bad Batch (2021), and the Scythe (2022) … and the Galaxy Explorer (2022) and the Quinjet (2023), but those are different themes. I think that price point has been very good in the past few years with clever, detailed builds that are a great size for swooshing and play, together with a good minifig selection of named characters (or Classic Spacemen). Resistance Shuttle, 969 pieces, $100 USD. Five minifigs: Leia in her TLJ dress, Holdo in hers, Poe on a stretcher, Rose, an unnamed Resistance pilot. Build features lots of interior space, a boarding door with ramp on the side, four fixed landing skids underneath like the Scythe. No side build, all the parts go into the ship. I know it’s not the most memorable or exciting craft, but it’s the sequel trilogy vehicle that hasn’t already been made that I’ve wanted most since the movie came out. I also really want the Imperial cargo shuttle from Rogue One, but that’s not part of the sequel trilogy and it would require a $150-$170 price point.

I'd be fine with that.

^^ That's because this isn't a forum run by and for pizza aficionados, where all we do is talk about pizza! I bet there's all sorts of threads like that on a forum like that ... not that I'm going to take the time to try and find one :)

Crystal Skull is worth it just for the nuking the fridge scene. I can skip the rest of the movie. Likewise, Final Frontier is worth it just for the immortal line, “What does God need with a starship?”. I can skip the rest of the movie. (Sorry, different franchise.)

With two rexes, you need to build an articulated trailer caravan so they can push it over the cliff!

Wow, this is fantastic! I can hardly imagine a better Classic Space version of the U-wing, or a better alternate build of 10497.

^ Nobody tell this one about the Treehouse ….