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My entry is the fourth one on page 1. The BUSH was just what I needed! But then, I was using it exactly for its design purpose as a spaceship hull ....

That's a very informative review, thanks for the link. I'm very impressed by the Ferrari. There's another review on the same site for the Jaguar set, which I was mainly interested in because I thought the larger car in that kit had a second row of seats. Turns out it's another two-seater, so I can scratch it off my list. But the Ferrari stays!

Exactly. That's why I didn't say it right out, because it's an exciting rumor but there's no substance to it yet.

Best theme: Hidden Side Best minifigure: CMF Johnny Thunder Best set: UCS Batmobile or The Upside Down Worst theme: Marvel Super Heroes Worst minifigure: Mercy (75975) Worst set: Wooden Minifigure Most anticipated for 2020: the theme that is rumored to be coming back "in a big way"

I can't tell you what sets to buy, but I like to build NCS ships in Bricklink Studio. I've learned a lot of techniques that way. You might try that.

I just downloaded the Studio file, thanks a million for posting it! I really like the way you've handled the retractable rear landing gear on this version. The bay doors look much more robust than they are on the Jerac model.

Thank you for this post and all the helpful pictures. Do you plan to make an LXF or IO file available for this version?

@ks6349, I think you've brought up this exact same worry a few months ago. It wasn't a big problem then, and it's not a big problem now. Walmart and Amazon may be big scary corporations with pretty lax return policies, but the chance that you'll get tampered Lego from them is extremely small. Bricklink may be a mess of many individual sellers with different policies and practices, but Bricklink sellers aren't out to get you. The chance that you'll get tampered Lego from them is extremely small. Don't worry about it.

Can you post pictures? Upload them to Flickr and put links in this thread.

Not just license plates, but also registration numbers and hull numbers on ships and aircraft. This goes all the way back to Classic Space in 1979, where the spaceships in kits 918, 924, 928 had bricks printed with "LL ###".

I think they're mostly retroactive, mostly apocryphal. Just because Jens Knudsen may have had those colors in mind when he designed the sets doesn't mean that they're hard-and-fast canon in the same way that Bionicle colors are firmly fixed: red for fire, white for ice, and so on. After all, the entire Classic Space lore is mostly apocryphal and hearsay and that's why we like it so much - it can be whatever you want it to be. Edit: Post 500! I dub me Sir icm, Knight of the Bricks Euro!

Let's hope not. That would be the end of what was one of the pillars of the early online AFOL community, back when the world was young and FBTB and Brickshelf were brand new and the place to go for online Lego: Star Wars builds. As for building an alternative secondary marketplace (ie making BrickOwl "the new Bricklink") - that's possible, but it would take a lot of time and effort, and there could be a lot of damage done to the hobby in the meantime.

Are! Shiver me timbers, ye salty sea dogs! Those blue coats in yon flagship will strike their colors to us yet, as Davy Jones is my witness!

The thing that really gets me about it is when they say they have no plans to change anything, while in the same breath announcing a change that bans an entire category of wares from the platform. It's that immediate juxtaposition that makes fears of wholesale changes for the worse credible, though not yet necessarily probable. How can I believe them when they say there won't be changes to the way Bricklink operates, when they announce a non-trivial change the moment they announce the purchase? How can I then believe anything else they say in the press release, when one part of it brazenly puts the lie to another part?

Guess I better stop procrastinating and start buying the parts for the digital MOCs in my backlog. I would have welcomed more partnerships between TLG and Bricklink along the lines of the AFOL Designer Program, but not this. This is just monopoly power intruding on an independent marketplace.

I was a kid when Adventurers came out in 1998, and I had several of the sets. By the time Pharoah's Quest came out, I was old enough to have Adventurers nostalgia. For me, as for many others on the forums at that time, one of my dream themes was a revival of Adventurers. When Pharoah's Quest came out, I was thoroughly disappointed that it focused so much on supernatural Egyptian monsters instead of people racing each other for the treasure, and I didn't like the color scheme of dark red, dark blue, and dark tan. To me, Pharoah's Quest wasn't a theme about exploring ancient ruins anymore, it was just another theme about fighting monsters. My memory may be skewed by my own disappointment, but I remember many AFOLs at the time expressing their own displeasure. Of course, AFOLs are a notoriously fickle bunch, so that may not mean a lot, but it certainly seems to me like the overall awareness of Pharoah's Quest among AFOLs today is relatively low. People generally include it in their lists of creative in-house themes to bring back instead of making licensed sets, but they don't talk about it much individually or build many MOCs after its pattern. But obviously that's just my perspective; clearly most people who've bothered to comment on this thread liked it. We'll never have the numbers to gauge its "true" sales success among kids at the time nor its "true" popularity among kids at the time, AFOLs at the time, or AFOLs today, so if you like it that's good enough for you and if I don't that's good enough for me.

I think of them as: Red: pilots Yellow: engineers Green: heavy equipment operators Blue: combat pilots, or command sometimes Black: spies White: scientists Gray: cadets Pink: medical staff Alternatively, in the limited context of 1978-9, the whites are Americans and the reds are Russians.

Wasn't there some rumor about next year's Marvel sets being "game changing"? Surely that must not refer to anything in the January wave.

Excellent, thanks for the pictures! The race car twin pack looks great, the vehicles in the gas station are very good even if the gas station itself leaves much to be desired, and all the vehicles in the tuning shop are amazing. The building itself is really good too. This is the level of building we expect from City! I'm actually quite impressed by how well they translated Speed Champions-type vehicles into City-appropriate builds in 60256.

Sounds to me like these parts came from different sets. If you got them in a bulk lot, it's unlikely they all came from the same set. However, I would venture that the lever on top of the black minifig head corresponds to one of the Sith Infiltrator sets (maybe 7151), and the black engine comes from something completely different.

I respectfully disagree. I like 60204 better. I think it's the best hospital ever made. But I wouldn't assume that everyone else holds the same opinion I do. To keep it on topic, they are making another hospital this year - it's in the Friends line.

The pattern of the print is the same, but the color is white instead of sand blue.

I think the Gear items like that are generally made by other manufacturers under contract, not directly by Lego. The plastic is probably different than the plastic used in the toys and is probably food safe.

I'm disappointed that there's no minifig-scale airplane in the 1H Creator line this year, but that little Cessna makes up for it. I've wanted a little Lego Cessna like that for years; I still have my childhood MOC of one. Ideally, I'd prefer a three seater Cessna with wheels, but this is good enough for now.

Those parts were introduced last year for the Speed Champions 1968 Mustang.