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  1. Warbinator
    That looks great! The red color is really quite striking when built in this modern style.
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    All I've seen is speculation and wishful thinking. Not criticizing that. This is the place for speculation and wishful thinking. But those things don't equal "news."
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    I love this! The flying machine is particularly great.
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    I've been rebuilding lots of my old late 80s, early 90s space sets lately and I share your frustration when it comes to missing pieces. My approach though is that I try and put together a complete inventory of a set before I attempt to build it. I create a wishlist on Bricklink with the set inventory and mark down which Items I have and remove them from the list. Then I'm left with a parts lists of what I'm missing, which I can then place an order for. I try and do this with several sets or other projects at once for efficiency.
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    Great design. Definitely one that I would pick up. Any chance of including pictures of the interior?
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    It’s not exactly Classic Space, but it’s adjacent. There’s nothing I want more than remakes and new sets in the Ice Planet 2002 theme. I have dreams about it. Often.
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    Maybe. I do have one more Hideout set, but I was hoping to leave it unopened. I'm not sure the river crossing set is quite as iconic as these three though, and as you said I'm not sure how I would do the rope bridge. If inspiration strikes, I might try and tackle it. But probably not.
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    I guess I took the approach that this is sort of a marsh or swamp area and not a particularly deep river.
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    I might modify the back so that it's not quire as wide. I don't mind that it's plan, since that matches the original, but it does seem wider than it should be. I'm going to have to consider making some changes to make the back more narrow. I kind of felt that the jail cell was always a bit half-baked, with it only being three bricks tall and just open to the air above. I opted not to include it and to focus on making two complete floors with room for a ladder.
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    The Pink astronaut is clearly a spaceman who accidentally laundered his white uniform in the same load as the red astronaut's uniform.
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    If I had the bricks on hand, I definitely would have used the lighter colored dark azure rounded plates to substitute for the baseplate. That would have really helped give it a more modern, up to date look. I wanted to use what I had on hand so that I could build it now rather than waiting on parts from bricklink though, and I had this perfectly good blue baseplate still in the shrink wrap that I finally found a reason to open and use.
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    I created a separate thread to show this off but I wanted to share it here too. I built this using two of the Forest Hideout sets along with a bunch of other bricks from my stockpile. I'm really happy with how it turned out. More pictures are available here: https://imgur.com/a/DfEn1Ji
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    I was fortunate enough to be able to pick up a couple of extras of the Forest Hideout set and I used them to build updated versions of other classic Forestmen sets. My goal was to retain the same design style and palette, use mostly just the included bricks for the tree elements of those sets, and supplement the other castle parts based on currently available parts that were in my existing stockpile. Here is the Forestmen's River Fortress, which I just completed today. I'm particularly proud of the tree roots and the working gate. More images are available here: https://imgur.com/a/DfEn1Ji Here is the Camouflaged Outpost. I was able to keep this one fairly close to the footprint and dimensions of the original, just like with the Forest Hideout set. More images are available here: https://imgur.com/a/Obh3wUs
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    I don't know if there's any significance to the frog. I think it was just a fun thing to include in that space that would otherwise be unused and hidden most of the time. The drum and drumsticks are pictures in one of the promotional images of the set that I've seen before. I'm sure that it's there to allow another figure to accompany the forest man with the lute.
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    That's a question a lot of folks have asked, but I haven't seen any convincing answers. This seems to have a lot of folks scratching their heads.
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    The Millennium Falcon is an $800 Lego spaceship. I’d love to see what a Classic Space capitol ship about half that size would look like. It would definitely be more of a display piece than a play model. No swooshing allowed. But the amount of detail it could have, from crew quarters, an engine room, science lab, a full bridge… it could be great. I could also envision a $400 monorail set that provides transportation around a bustling late 1980s, early 1990s spaceport. You’d have different factions and lots of minifigs just like you do for the Lion Knights Castle. You’d have the Futuron astronauts crewing the Monorail itself. M-Tron would be conducting mining operations in a cave beneath the spaceport. Space Police would have a precinct and a small patrol craft. Blacktron would be lurking in the shadows. Ice Planet researchers would be visiting to exchange technology.
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    Bwahahahaahah! The hot pink horse is a really nice touch. Bravo!
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    Great catch! Perhaps we'll see future sets featuring these factions. For those wondering, these are updated designs of the shields used by the Black Knights, Wolfpack, Fright Knights and Fantasy Era. The instruction booklet highlights the design updates made to the Lion Knight's shield, but it looks like the designs for other shields were also updated.
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    It seemed like a shame to cover up the queens unique torso print, and I also wanted to display her with her crown, so I gave her sword, armor and helmet to another knight. The queen kept her cape and I made her a scepter out of spare parts. I designated two of the female knights to be her queensguard, and the mounted knight is her champion.
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    If the GWP is available at the time you submit your order, it will show up in your cart and will appear on your invoice. If it's not in your cart or on your receipt, you almost certainly won't receive it.
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    I just noticed that the number of engines for each build corresponds directly to the number of astronauts. That's a pretty straightforward but clever way to scale up the ships.
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    The round bricks are used because they have holes for technic pins and a large surface area to affix the plates that get attached above and below. Some of the 3L blue pins are used to span a gap that is 3 bricks wide. There are multiples because it adds strength and prevents the bricks from rotating in place. The white pin/axle doesn't seem to have a particular use that a 3L blue pin wouldn't do, but maybe it's being used to get more of a relatively new piece into production. It still provides the needed strength length-wise even if it doesn't have the clutch power width-wise.
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    I’m confused. Why wouldn’t technic pins be used to hold the technic beams together? This is a style of building that is common, if not universal, in modern Lego set design.
  24. Warbinator
    The frame is built the way it is to accommodate the moving landing gear and ramp, the angled build of the cockpit and windscreens, the cutout for the lower seating area, and the raised part for the radar dish takeoff thrustors on the underside. They also had to provide support all the way to the edges without interfering with the angled pieces that provide attachment points for the angled sections at the very edge. Plus they had to provide connection points for the plates and wedges that cover the top and bottom surfaces. Overall there's a ton of really clever engineering going into it that is unseen once it's all put together.
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    I also picked the dual molded dark grey and black legs. That's what I had seen pictured before and what seemed to pair the best.
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