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It's a tiny little scratch. Describe it as "slight shelf wear" when you sell the NIB set in ten years and maybe it'll sell for 9.9 times RRP instead of 10.0 times RRP. Don't worry about it!

The Ship Formerly Known As The Razor Crest

I agree. I'm genuinely impressed by how much the kit manages to be just a big boring gray box, even considering the source material. The way the half-arch bricks are integrated into the curve of the engine cylinders is moderately interesting, but the rest of the build is about as basic as you can get short of having stacked bricks for the walls. The landing gear also seems tacked on in a hurry. But it's plenty good enough for a first release of new material. If it's popular enough, we'll get a remake in a few years and that will be more interesting. Edit - that said, I really do appreciate all the open area in the cargo hold, the flip-down sides, and all - they really improve the accessibility and playability of the ship. It's just a boring build, that's all. (Judging from YouTube reviews. I didn't order the Razor Crest and I don't plan to.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lego_Batman_Movie Everything you need to know you can find here. Unless you want to know the average airspeed velocity of an unladen Gotham swallow, then Wikipedia can't help.

I dunno, but the Metal Earth toy has it too.

There were rumors last year that the November D2C, with its total of 3300-something parts, would be two models: a Batmobile and a Batwing, each with 1600-1700 parts or so. It turned out that it was only the one model, a gigantic Batmobile. Maybe there was some truth to the Batwing part of the rumor after all.

The PPP isn't the best? Barracuda Bay has a great PPP, and not only that - the price per gram is lower than for just about any other large set of the past ten years, if you trust the weights listed on Bricklink.

The Treehouse was probably out of stock because it's near end-of-life. When it was still in early-midlife like Barracuda Bay is there would have been plenty in stock. Barracuda Bay had just as much of a day-one out-of-stock/backorder rush as any other big set, though in its case the pandemic made it worse than it otherwise would have been. Go ahead and get Barracuda Bay ... in my opinion, the ship alone is worth the full $200 and the island is a good $60 or so "free".

In its early days, Ideas accepted proposals for entire themes. It promptly got swamped by terrifically detailed, terrifically involved proposals for very expensive themes, so they instituted the rule that you could only propose a single set, not a theme. That's how Ideas became the place for one-offs. This looks like an attempt to bring back the theme proposals that were once a part of Ideas, but in such a way that Lego has more control over how they react to them because there's no vote threshold to reach. This way also looks like it is meant to empower people who put a lot of effort into defining the story, background, and "look" of the theme without being experts at social media promotion or product presentation.

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."