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The Creator Expert cars are the modern Model Team. The Aston Martin and the Mustang have just as much Technic functionality as Model Team ever did.

Color me skeptical about this one. As others have said, it would be highly unusual to release another Ninjago Movie set so long after the last one. That said, I wouldn't be terribly surprised if Lego were to release another great big Ninjago modular that closely resembles the Ninjago City sets without branding it as part of the TLNM line.

Ryan is MandR, and David is ... ? Feels like I ought to know this, but I don't.

Same here.

I'm pretty sure you can already filter it that way. There's not a big button inviting it, but it's one of the filter options.

Could you please post a picture of all three Bounties beside each other? If you have the Land Bounty too, that would be great.

I bet it comes with the tram but no rails.

When I'm sorting the parts of a large set for storage, intending to put it back together in the future, I sort by color. When I'm sorting loose parts for use in creative building, I sort by part type.

My perspective was that I could stick any old minifig in the cockpit but I needed the real deal if I wanted the ship to be more than a tiny misshapen multicolored lump ....

Speak for yourself, I always wanted the ship more than the characters. Shrug, different strokes for different folks.

Here's an interesting read about that: https://kitbashed.com/blog/a-complete-history-of-the-millennium-falcon

The whole reason I bought the Temple of Resurrection in 2018 was because I'd just finished reading the unabridged Journey to the West in translation and the set reminded me not only of Stone Monkey King's cave paradise on the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit but also, really, of all the other demon cave strongholds and hidden monasteries the travelers encounter throughout the 100 chapters. There are so many! I'm not a minifig collector, so I don't feel the need to get any Monkie Kid figures to go with the Monkey temple that is that set. Thanks for posting!

The word you're looking for is dieselpunk.

They would look pretty two-faced for sure, but the German Peace Society would be just fine with it. On their website, they specifically highlight the 2017 Air Race Jet (the Technic F-35 lookalike) as just fine by them, and they specifically say a generic tiltrotor without the license would be just fine too. So going by that there's no reason for the Creator 3-in-1 airplane line to stop. But now I'm talking about Creator, not Technic, in a Technic thread, so I'll stop.

Fair enough, we're just disagreeing on what choice "A" is. You seem to define choice "A" broadly as strictly avoiding anything "violent or military" in any form, while I define choice "A" narrowly as not producing a Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey for the reason that it is an aircraft exclusively used by belligerents in today's combat zones without any realized civilian application whatsoever. I think we can agree to disagree on that (that is, on a broad or narrow interpretation of choice "A").

You misunderstand me. If you have been making wrong choice "B" for several months while thinking about making right choice "A", and after incurring large sunk costs from wrong choice "B" you switch to choice "A" at the last minute, you are to be commended for your integrity in switching to "A" before the choice becomes irrevocable. Your history of making wrong choice "B" is not to be commended. With 42113, Lego has been making choice "B" at least since February before switching to choice "A". I am not commending them for their integrity in making choice "B" for many months. I am commending them for their integrity in switching to choice "A" in the end. Perhaps that nuance did not come across in my previous posts. The sentence "However, it's a commendation for integrity that, were the standards of integrity at the company higher in the first place, would not have to happen (i.e., not pursuing the license in the first place, and going with a fictionalized Coast Guard tiltrotor from the beginning)" was intended to show that I do not "buy their story hook, line, and sinker."

Maybe not "in touch", but "aware of" - i.e., it's not like TLG first heard from the Society in mid-July and then two days later canceled the set. They were aware of the Society's objections months ago.

Some thoughts - 1. If TLG and the German Peace Society have been in touch since February, clearly there have been a lot of questions about the set for months. Perhaps they hoped it would all blow over. Maybe the NGO had threatened to put out a press release opposing it if it wasn't canceled, and the executives at TLG thought they'd call the bluff. When it wasn't a bluff, they decided to pull the set - - - but it certainly wasn't an overnight decision, rather the prompt to back out of a deal they weren't entirely comfortable with anyway. With that in mind, I commend Lego for their integrity in making the last-minute call to cancel the set despite already incurring the losses of production and distribution. However, it's a commendation for integrity that, were the standards of integrity at the company higher in the first place, would not have to happen (i.e., not pursuing the license in the first place, and going with a fictionalized Coast Guard tiltrotor from the beginning). 2. Last year there were wild rumors that because of a breach of confidentiality, the Stranger Things set would be canceled at the last minute. Those were dismissed by those in the know as not only false, but ridiculous. Why would Lego cancel a big licensed set just days before its release, when they'd lose so much money from the already-completed production and distribution? Now that we know it's possible for a large, complex, widely-anticipated set to be canceled after it's already been sent to stores and all the promotional material has been distributed, I wonder how license negotiations will change in the future. Will potential license partners drive a harder bargain now that TLG has shown itself to be willing to not only cancel their sets at the last minute, but renounce them?

From the linked document: According to the organization, this situation could have been prevented. ‘If LEGO had released a fictive, civil tiltrotor aircraft without licenses of defense contractors, we would not have intervened,’ Schulze von Glaßer explains. He adds, ‘Despite the previous bad communication on the part of LEGO, we are all the happier about the company’s admission and the consequence it has drawn from it – we understand that the decision was not easy. We hope that LEGO will hold on to its own good values in the future.’ With respect to the environment, the German Peace Society hopes that sets, which already have been produced, will not be destroyed so that the bricks can be used for future sets. ‘That is the good thing about Legos, you can always create something new with them,’ Schulze von Glaßer concludes. Yup, it's just because of the license. The representative of the NGO seems gracious about the whole thing, so no hard feelings.

Thanks for a very detailed review! Sure wish this set hadn't suddenly become more exclusive than an SDCC Boba Fett Brickhead, it's a real beauty.

Billy and the Boingers Bootleg! Cover it with faux-rock-band stickers and you're good to go....

FYI, showing your haul (ie, what you actually got) is a pretty darn good way of showing what's available (ie what someone else might be able to get if they placed an order too). You're the only one here who thinks haul pictures/descriptions are off-topic.

Another Destiny's Bounty this year wouldn't make any sense unless it was 4+! (That actually sounds pretty good to me ... :)

By far the most volume-efficient way to store Lego is taken apart, inside ziploc bags that are filled loosely enough to retain some flexibility and let you squeeze all the air out. I like to use quart-size bags and gallon-size bags. Then bagged sets are stored inside large plastic bins. When you build a set, you add a lot of air - - - just think how much air is "trapped inside" an enclosed box like a building or a car! Technic sets don't usually have large sealed spaces like that, but their structures and gearboxes are still a lot sparser than the raw parts in a pile. A big bin can hold several times as many parts disassembled and bagged than it could if those same parts were assembled in sets, because the sets don't fill the volume the way bags of loose parts do .... Sounds like @Tazmancrash has the right idea. Depending on the size, 50 sets should fit in two or three 56-quart storage bins. Those won't take up too much space in a closet. I store all my sets that way and rotate out a few every now and then to build and swoosh.

Explosiveness? Surely that's autocorrect on your phone, right? You mean expressiveness?