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    I was hoping for Space Troopers, but I guess this saves me $200 to spend on the real old-school Classic Space sets, or something. I think Space Troopers would have done a lot better if the renders had shown off the features better. But they were too small, too blurred with simulated camera optical effects, and too statically posed to really show off all the cool features of the set. The description mentioned rotating engines - why didn't the renders show them? Why weren't there any decent close-up renders of the various modules attached and detached, or of the interior of the cockpit? The price-per-part ratio was just fine. The physical size of the set was just fine. It was loaded with play features and it looked kind of goofy, but that's ok. But it was a real hard sell because the pictures were just bad.The Big Four in-house genre themes are Space, Castle, Pirates, and Bionicle. Pirates didn't come up in the Bricklink Designer Program because of Barracuda Bay and the Creator pirate ship in 2020, so Pirates fans were already satisfied. Castle fans came out for Castle in the Forest. But Bionicle and Space fans didn't really back their horses once the starting gun went off. Castle for the win!
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    He has no such information, he's speaking in hypotheticals.
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    Fun with sorting! Hope you can make good use of all the excess parts for the Otana, like you said.
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    Looks good! I look forward to seeing the progress on this ship.
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    Just because it looks cheap on the N-1 cover. Subjective and irrational, I know. But also because it could save a lot on ink compared to dark space backgrounds.
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    Regarding the front cover of the instruction booklet for the Mandalorian's Naboo fighter (75325): The instructions for 41713 Olivia's Space Academy also have the simply posed rendering instead of the full rendering on the front of the box. They also mention that there might be a mix of paper and plastic packaging inside. I wonder if the simplified instruction covers are intended to be excused as an eco-friendly measure (less ink) instead of just the egregious cost-cutting that it looks like.
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    I apologize, this is a bit off topic from the current conversation - Regarding the front cover of the instruction booklet for the Mandalorian's Naboo fighter (75325): The instructions for 41713 Olivia's Space Academy also have the simply posed rendering instead of the full rendering on the front of the box. They also mention that there might be a mix of paper and plastic packaging inside. I wonder if the simplified instruction covers are intended to be excused as an eco-friendly measure (less ink) instead of just the egregious cost-cutting that it looks like.
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    @Peppermint_M - My brother in law Bob looks an awful lot like that. But this little guy will always be Bob to me: https://brickset.com/minifigs/cas010/dark-forest-forestman-4-brown-legs
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    I'm mostly curious what the "small gray spaceship with upturned wings" for the Andor series looks like.
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    I'm still not sure I understand, but I can clearly see from the photos of the physical build how the attachments for the main wing panels are entirely inadequate. I'm not very good at big complex builds myself (my MOCs are mostly pretty simple and only about 30-40 studs long), but maybe an idea or two will occur to me if you post more pictures. Maybe somebody else will have a good idea too. But it sounds like you've already got a few people helping out, so I hope you can get it all figured out soon.
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    A very apt comparison. That's now my headcanon for the 2022 train station: it's a modern spiritual successor to the classic 7824.
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    I posted an early draft of a digital model of a certain made-up alphabet fighter to Flickr in January 2019, but when I actually built it in October or November 2021 it turned out with almost entirely different colors and with an almost entirely different build, although the shape and size remain the same. I haven't posted pictures of the physical build to Flickr. Is it eligible for this contest? I'm sure it won't win; it's very small and simple. But it might be fun to enter it anyway.
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    That is a very nice update of a classic set, and one that looks very reasonable as a modern set! It would probably satisfy a lot more old-school Train fans and it would make the new kids getting their train sets just as happy. Oh well, I guess that's the Train station set they got on Earth-2 this year. Thanks for posting that picture!
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    That must be what the Monkie Kid Underwater Journey polybag GWP was meant to tie in with.
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    ^^ Ok, I apologize. My first post in this thread should have been just two words ("Pics please!") and I should have kept all my other thoughts entirely to myself. You asked for help with your build, and I responded with unasked-for musings about the general culture of building creations and selling instructions. There are several things in your last post that I might like to respond to, but in the interest of discontinuing this tit-for-tat conversation about a topic that is not the main purpose for which you started this thread, I won't. Now about the build, I'll just ask for clarification on one thing for now. One issue with the build that seems to especially bother you, judging by the fact that it was the only detail picture you included in your first post, is the weakness of the pylon. It's too long for the 12M axle to go all the way through, and the two 3M axles inserted at the end obviously don't bind the entire thing together. But that assembly is just the core of the fuselage behind the cockpit. It has studs on the outside of all three pillars of the pylon, which suggests to me that some fairly sturdy assemblies of bricks and plates, finished off by slopes of some kind, go on the outside and join the disconnected parts of the pylon together. This is confirmed by some of the pictures you posted of the physical build. I genuinely can't understand what the problem with that is. It looks perfectly sturdy to me. I understand how some of the other connections are fragile or impossible, now that you've posted more detailed pictures, but can you please help me understand what the problem is with that pylon?
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    Not to unnecessarily prolong this conversation, but how was my post not “asking for pictures upfront”? I posted [words you don’t need to read because they’re in a quote box] followed by TLDR, pics please. How much more upfront about asking for pics can you get? Putting the TLDR pics please ahead of the quote box instead of after it?
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    Ok, thanks. With pictures of real parts, you’ve proved your point. But I assure you that I did read your entire original post, and without pictures of real parts I was not convinced. Now I am. Good luck getting everything figured out. It looks like it’ll be a very impressive model once it’s all finished, and I feel your pain about the build according to the instructions being impossible - now that I know you’ve really tried.
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    Sigh, I shouldn't be posting late at night but I've been composing a reply in my head so I can't sleep. Most of what I've just typed out is in the quote box below because it's just a late-night wall of text, and you know how tedious those are most of the time. TLDR, pics please! (And by pics I mean physical parts, not Studio screenshots.) I don't follow that logic. If the test build works perfectly, then the instructions are good, so how is the seller still stealing? (Setting aside the murky gray area of copyright when the instructions are for intellectual property like Star Wars.)
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    Well, good for you in putting the effort to fix it up, but I think you’re getting a bit angrier at the original builder than is necessary. MOC instructions are kind of the Wild West and I’d guesstimate less than 1% of paid instructions for digital MOCs have been fully vetted and test built with real parts. Caveat emptor. And as for spending two grand on the project, the instructions were only €9 and you could have bought the entire thing as a complete kit with genuine Lego parts for €699 and you’d still have more than a grand left over to fix it with. Best wishes getting everything figured out. https://buildamoc.com/products/star-wars-ucs-imperial-tie-defender https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-82268/MOCOPOLIS/sw-ucs-imperial-tie-defender/#details
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    It’s a heck of a lot more realistic of a train station for the commuter rail in my metro area than a big rococo station would be. It is objectively a lot more like a modern train station that many kids will be familiar with, and thus more likely to identify with when they play with it. You’re just seeing it through your Grand-Central-polarized nostalgia glasses that won’t let any other kind of station through. Seriously though, can we stop slinging this kind of language around? It’s a toy. Gosh.
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    ^ Nope, no different. The orange suits have a true CS logo with a gold moon and the white suits have a modified CS logo with a blue planet.
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    Be still my beating heart, 80039 The Heavenly Realms is perfect, a true must-buy. Of course, I said that about 80024 The Legendary Flower Fruit Mountain, and I still haven't bought that one.
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    Friends has a giraffe! City Stuntz has two sharks in one set.
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    Lots of good Pirates pieces here: two sharks, a skeleton with tricorn hat, six or eight barrels. https://www.jb-spielwaren.de/a-60342/?ReferrerID=15
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    And that one is very much a Spaceship, it's not realistic/"NASA style" at all. And the pilot has a genuine, no-fooling, Classic Space logo on the chest of his orange flight suit. And that's a genuine, no-fooling Classic Space logo on the flag. Hmm ... too bad I find the actual spaceship so uninteresting. Fun set, but not compelling enough for me to get it after having already Spaced myself out with the other four City Space sets, the MK Galactic Explorer, and the Lightyear XL-15 so far this year. Edit: "Build with story, not instructions. Free app required to play." Definitely not for me, I don't want to contribute to the death of paper instructions.
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