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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.

Not quite - remember the Blue Power Jet (Creator 3-in-1, 31309, 2015) and the Air Race Jet (Technic, 2017). This Bell-licensed tiltrotor will probably resemble the V-22 about as closely as those two sets resembled the F-35. A licensed Cessna product would be a dream come true.

This just appeared on Instagram - I don't know if it's legit, but with Toy Fair ongoing it's not impossible: 12 sets including dungeons and dragons and mechs and spinners - and a 1718-part Destiny's Bounty! That last one might be very interesting! Of course, that's what I said about the Land Bounty, and I haven't yet bought that one even though it's a great set .... so we'll see if this earns my dollars any better than that one.

Of people, I have no idea. Of revenue, well, ten percent!

From Zusammengebaut at Toy Fair: Three new LEGO Creator 3-in-1 sets appear: The 31107 Rover for 49.99 euros RRP, the 31108 caravan for 79.99 euros RRP (the car comes in azure blue of the way, the beetle sends its regards!) And one ( Tusch!) New pirate ship with white brick sails (read plates, no fabric or foil): 31109 pirate ship for 99.99 euros RRP. More information will follow! I guess that means there's no pirate revival, then, not if a pirate ship with brick built sails is coming through Creator 3 in 1. We'll see if that one's any good. I wonder if the Rover will be a space car or an off road car; I haven't looked at the original German post so I can't judge the accuracy of the Google translation.

From Zusammengebaut at Toy Fair: Karen Pascha-Gladyshev, Managing Director of LEGO GmbH: “ Every tenth euro is earned by adult LEGO fans! “Finally we have a number!

I've never bought a UCS set and I wouldn't buy any of the three options in UCS anyway, so I won't vote. Here's my opinion: the Gunship is very large and complex, so it couldn't be done at a true UCS level of detail and difference from the minifig versions at the $200 price point. I'd rather just see another minifig release. The medical frigate can't be made to work with minifigures and is very doable with detailed greebling and a sturdy structure at the $200 price point, but it's a very ugly ship that I don't need to see in Lego. The Tie Bomber would work very well as a companion to the three previous UCS Tie Fighters, so I think it's the best candidate despite the relative lack of novelty. I'd rather see a UCS A-wing than any of the above, though.

No. Raised baseplates are expensive, fragile, and difficult to store, and they severely constrain the structures built on top. I wouldn't say no to the return of crater plates, though: those aren't much harder to store than regular flat baseplates, nor much more restrictive in building, and the sense of place they give for a lunar surface is much stronger than the sense of place given by brick built rocks and craters like those in the 2019 lunar lander set. In general, I prefer buildings to use regular 8x16 and 16x16 plates as bases instead of baseplates, because those are easier to store and easier to use for other purposes. It is also easier to locate where to place parts on them when building, and the completed building is more rigid.

I thought a "figbarf" was when you assembled a bunch of custom minifigures from a variety of minifigure parts that aren't necessarily meant to go together, without reference to a specific minifigure count. It's certainly not just a photo with multiple minifigures.

From https://www.lego.com/en-us/themes/city/faq: " Why do LEGO® City have sub-themes and what are they? LEGO® City strives to give children a building experience that exemplifies: “Real Action, Real Fun”. To correspond with the wide array of different experiences, buildings, vehicles, and people children will encounter, the LEGO® City sub-themes add and expand on the traditional LEGO brick-built city. The current LEGO® City Subthemes are as follows: Police (Sky Police, Mountain Police & Classic Police) Fire Brigade Great Vehicles Trains Arctic Expedition Town Mining Experts"

It looks like a pretty decent helicopter for a pretty decent price, but I have to admit that my first thought upon seeing the pictures on Instagram was that it had to be fake, since it seems to be pretty common for Chinese knockoffs to produce City-style helicopters in black and gray as military aircraft.

@lytliew @millenniumf, the OP hasn't visited since 2014 and the thread hasn't been touched since 2015. I don't think you're going to get a reply.