Medzomorak

I've been browsing Lego forums for the last 13 years and have never met this acronym. But maybe I've just missed it. Now, I'm not saying you should not use it as well because some random dude is calling it vauge. Still, nice part usage is too general and subjective to say "wow NPU", instead of just writing it down. It should really mean someting more strict, IMHO... <- like this. So with this direciton any expression could be made into an acronym. But that's just me thinking out loud about the matter, don't take it as an attack. Anyway, I'm very off topic, forgive me. So I just say that I agree with you all the same, some nice part usage was done there for sure ;)

That sounds a bit vauge.

Maybe I've not read all the arguments carefully enough , but we AFOLs just buy any old set we want used or even as MISB for a lot of money already. So why would Lego waste time and capital with recreating old things when we're also buying the new interesting things all the same?

I agree with you, making it more compact, practical and well...cheaper is a good direction. Easier to sell and promote later castle themes. This may well be a great homage to the classic Blacksmith Shop, which was also a SEC back in the days if I'm correct. Any size between this and the idea version would be very well welcomed by me.

If you collect all those 90s stuff it might. But honestly at first glance I think you may find better deals out there. You can sell them as parts separately, even for twice the price, I'm sure of it. Only it's gonna be a long and big hassle. The sail piece worth the most, ~15 EUR just on its own.

I think the blacksmith is an amazing build, only afraid it may block the Foresmen Tower's approval as of the same theme (after it gets 10k of course as it surely will considering it's the fastest growing idea at the moment)

Thank you for the effort, this is interesting. I'm not sure how are they planning to charge fees if you sell any instruction on other platforms.

But is this a good way to actually measure your market? I imagine myself as a 8 years old and my parents just bought me the new creator Pirate ship. Will they buy me another one next year when a pirate theme comes out because of good sales with the creator one?

Haha, I feel you. Maybe you did not get imprinted with the oldschool vibe enough. It has to happen in your youth to be very fundamental. For me for example playing Lego Racers in the early 2000s with the old catalogs was the basis for everything. This game just made me having bloodlust for any 90s set so getting an oldschool Lego pirate ship with oldschool figures was an old dream coming true. But still it was not the same I'd have felt right at that moment as a kid.

The alternative sloop is actually a very fine build as well, but I agree. I myself consider the Schooner the best Lego set ever released. I have a single set at the moment and don't plan to ever disassemble it, not taking the risk to lose any part. One lucky kid you was indeed

This background installation is amazingly right on. Also very high quality photos, this is just a next level for written reviews.

Not sure if the question is still actual, but stud.io has a great instructions export feature. But you have to build the thing first if I'm not mistaken.

This is certainly not going to happen considering Pirate Bay is pushing any chance away for pirate things, but this set is still amazing. This is how I exactly would imagine a new mid-sized set for a classic Pirates reboot. So many potential.

You mean the tannish licensed arabian guys like in Indiana Jones sets or just simple yellow dudes with ancient/modern egyptian wares? What I had really liked about Adventurers was the early post-WWI period it has been set. I fear we're only going to see that timeline again with a new Indiana Jones movie.

Haha, does not really matter, the Pirate section is just waiting for real pictures like mad

I've always thought TLG did not serve LOTR sets right, half of the potential scenes, characters and beasts were absent, while half of the existing ones were too sporadic, too lackluster.

Actually I like it so far. Pity that I couldn't get out any detail of the brickbuilt hull, from this leak it's still kinda look like a molded hull piece. Or it is just truly very authentic.

Yes, especially if the hull is going ot be well curved and sophisticated in techniques, not just bricks piled on each other like with the oldschool USS Constellation:

I'm not sure if this list is well weighted by excluding a lot of very small sets like polybags and so on. Even the catalog doesn't list them all so while I think it is an interesting aspect which should be noted for sure it is not a great issue that would stop Lego in diorama creation. Again, with dioramas the point is not to present all the buyable sets as dioramas - by their own nature - are a mess. They are to showcase the vast options of certain themes and generally the Lego system. This is why Lego has always been saying 'Each set sold separately' in ads where everything was mixed together. I don't know about the average IQ of the buyers today, but realizing that dioramas are not full sets was not that hard back in the days, not even for 5 years old kids. Maybe the whole diorama thing gave too much of an expert and expensive model kit feeling (which I've always loved personally) and some parents were discouraged to buy them for their kids by that. But that's just mere speculation.

Yes! I'd love to see these things made of existing mini sets in catalogs.

SES had 4 cannons just like the Barracuda. Or if you meant the actual space for cannons it is really the same for all classic Big Three which is 8 for sure. I highly doubt we are going to get molded useable cannons for a completely brickbuilt ship, I wouldn't prefer it myself too even if I still love those cannons.

So that's like a Trojan ninja horse full of high fantasy sets inside?

Well, considering the information we have it'll be nothing like the good old trading vessel. I myself expect the pirates to be the same we've seen in the past years. Similar to classic figures but in a more junioralized way.

Noooooo. I know we are living first world problems while dying out of global epidemics, but that's the saddest thing I read today so far. Thx for the contribution, every bit of snapshot is welcomed :) Also yeah, those Atlantis sets must look like vintage stuff for youngsters already, yikes. I know Some whistleblower must have leaked photos from Heaven. Short and consise. Couldn't have said any better good sir Oh man, those times must have been great for a kid. Going to see Alien movies and check out Lego stores after.

Ah, I understand you know. So you say it may be well generic, considering it's a 3-in-1 set, but still very refined as a ship-model. Well, I can only say at this point that I hope you're right.