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Nah, they understand completely. Quite a few set designers were active in the AFOL community before they got hired at Lego. Let's not start gatekeeping about who is a "true" or "actual" AFOL and who isn't.

That's another set I would buy without hesitation if it was produced. Unfortunately, TLG has rejected every 10K NASA or SpaceX project since the Saturn V and Women of NASA, so it's unlikely to be accepted. (The ISS doesn't count in that list, since it's a special case.)

What I would buy without hesitation: Thunderbirds, Space Shuttle. What I consider more likely to win: Winnie the Pooh, Anatomini.

Maybe this is a bit off topic, but after the dewback and the bantha I think the most likely form for a boga lizard is as a microfighter.

That's what I meant.

Unfortunately, the 10210 uses several molds that have been retired: the pre-2015 prefab hulls and masts.

^^ This topic hasn't been touched since 2012 and the OP hasn't visited Eurobricks since 2016, so you're not likely to get a reply. You could still try to reverse-engineer the build from the pictures.

You did say something about payment. Perhaps I should not have used the word "demand." That was too dramatic. But you should not have used the word "steal." That was too dramatic.

I disagree. If you're reverse-engineering someone else's build without buying the instructions, you should definitely give credit to the original builder when presenting your own model, but you're not "stealing the design" if you don't pay. In the Lego community, we share and share alike. If everybody started demanding (or thinking they deserved) payment for every time someone else liked their model enough to build it without instructions, the online community where we're happy to post pictures of our builds and see pictures of other people's builds would quickly collapse. Nobody could afford to post MOCs except those who set themselves up as merchants like BrickVault. Nobody could afford to build anything either. It's entirely fair for @Midlife-crisis to build his own Razor Crest reverse-engineered from Jhaelego's model. Goodness knows Midlife-crisis is putting in enough work on his own to make the model his own.

Mars Mission, Space Police 3, Alien Conquest, or Galaxy Squad? I voted for Alien Conquest. Mars Mission has an ugly color scheme and ugly faceless aliens, and there isn't a single really sleek spaceship in the lot. Space Police 3 has a nice color scheme, a fantastically capable flagship that still looks pretty good, and a rogues' gallery of alien villains that has a lot of personality. However, it loses some points with me because the single-seat police cruiser with jail cell doesn't have an opening cockpit. Galaxy Squad has some really neat bug aliens and very well-designed space soldiers: colorful and tough, with just the right amount of detail. The bug vehicles all look stunning and have impressive functions, and the single-seat starfighter for the humans is sleek, swooshable, and packed with functions. The other human vehicles are kind of chaotic, though, and sacrifice more form to function than I prefer - although they're nowhere near as bad in that respect as the Mars Mission vehicles. Alien Conquest similarly has a fun '50s B-movie style with some neat functions in the alien ships (and a Martian tripod!), but what really sets it apart from the others for me is the Vic Viper that comes with the Earth Defense HQ. It's just such a perfect swooshable little spaceship.

Three hundred and fifty dollars for an Ideas set. Five years ago we were surprised when an Ideas set cost seventy dollars!

Hear, hear!

Please stop projecting American racism onto a Lego play theme based on a classic Chinese novel that has nothing to do with American racism. Let's not make this more complicated than it needs to be. Let's not bring the horrible portion of the internet that is American racism into a discussion of an innocent Lego play theme for which we've only seen the logo. Please.

It's not uncommon for clone brands to get product lines to market before Lego. Last year Sluban's Mars exploration line was released before Lego's own version, though its ground base was more of a copy of the Playmobil version than of any Lego set. I was sorely tempted by those but I didn't want to buy from Ali Express.

Didn't a Creator Expert-style Fiat 500 make it to 10K on Ideas a couple years ago? I hope the creator of that project gets a free copy. EDIT: Here's the link. I don't think Lego needs to bend over backwards to avoid releasing, on its own and entirely of its own accord, sets which happen to be the same subject and same scale as projects that made it to 10K on Ideas, nor sets which happen to be the same subject and same scale as impressive MOCs from the AFOL community. That would be too limiting creatively: Bob: "Hey Alice, how about we do this for a D2C next year?" Alice (checks notes): "Nope, Caroline did it on Ideas three years ago and Dan did it on Flickr a year and a half ago, that subject is off-limits." But I do think it would be a nice courtesy in cases where a retail set happens to match a rejected 10K Ideas project for Lego to offer one or two free copies to the Ideas creator; it would be a relatively small increase in their marketing budget given the number of review copies that get sent out to RLFM sites. https://ideas.lego.com/projects/ca5c345e-bdae-4c3c-bc4b-05fb6b522f0f

That's true, but it's irrelevant to the question of whether the cars look good without stickers.

I wouldn't hold that against him. After all, @Raskolnikov is a pretty good guy and a pretty great builder despite his murderous namesake!

Edit - Should have searched Flickr before asking. The stickers for the headlights and hood are easily trimmed, and I might have enough small parts to substitute for the gold mirrors, but I might have to take a sharpie to that windscreen. What's the best method for removing printing from Lego parts? Has anyone built 76899 without stickers? The cars look pretty good, but I can't stand all the gold trim on the stickers and I'd like to know if the model looks decent without them. I wouldn't have to ask if it weren't for the printing on the windshield.

Destiny's Bounty is a flying ship, but from the leaks it looks like this version has a complete hull, unlike the 2012 and 2015 versions. If so, it should be easy to remove the jet engines and have an oceangoing sailing ship for the Creator pirate ship to attack. Two big brick built sailing ships in one summer!

It's not Lego. Sell it on eBay.

Yes, several set designers have mentioned in interviews that they'll sometimes include interior parts in new and unusual or desirable colors just to give fans more parts in those colors. For example, teal is a color that was discontinued in 2008. When it was re-introduced in 2018, to the delight of many people on this forum, the set designers made a point of including a lot of teal parts inside sets like the 2018 X-wing just to get more teal parts out there.

It's a Journey to the West, BTW :) Sanzang, Brother Monkey, Brother Pig, and Friar Sand go west from the court of China to retrieve scriptures from the Western Heaven, which is to say the real life Sanzang went west to India.

I've had recurring dreams like that for years, except the toy store in the dream always has shelves and shelves of 2001 Toa and 1999 Star Wars.

^ Nah, that's not right. That race car is in a $30 class and the GWP dragster would be a $15 set if sold at retail.

If I remember correctly, the 2020 Pirates rumor started because someone on this forum was asking a Lego Store employee about the Pirate Bay and wondering aloud whether there would be any more Pirates sets this year. The employee then said that yes, Pirates was coming back "in a big way," before being shushed by their supervisor. At least, that's the story. This pirate ship must be what that employee saw in whatever pre-release database they may have had access to. It would be easy to see a listing for a $100 pirate ship, or a grainy thumbnail image, or whatever, and jump to the hopeful conclusion that there must be a whole Pirates wave, entirely innocently (by which I mean without any desire to spread false rumors). ... Oh well, no Pirates line this year after all. But the Creator pirate ship is definitely something to look forward to anyway.