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Drinks and gold ... nice shot and a great gang. Love the piratish use of set 43223.

That's a very nice line-up!

I quoted the press release because I wasn't aware that one third of TLG's revenues comes from adults. TLG was a toy company but seemingly have changed their portfolio massively. I just didn't know to what extend ...

Yesterday, the annual Toy Fair in Nuremberg/Germany started. See this press release dealing with "toys for kidults": https://www.spielwarenmesse.de/fileadmin/SWM_Dateien/PDF/Presse/Pressemappe/Press_Release_Spielwarenmesse_2026_Toys_for_Kidults_en.pdf Quote (bold by me): So almost one third of the toy market is for (young) adults.

You're right. It's in set 11202 (in tan). I totally missed that. And it's on PaB for 3,07 € ...

Seems we get a new 5w 6w piece (I have to correct myself, I counted wrong) to fit two minifig seats - like the classic Adventurers' cockpit piece. Lets see if we can use it for Adventurers' vehicles.

I share your thoughts. The walls and towers seem to be too small for proper minifig scale.

I'm very lucky now. My PaB order went through. I ordered half a dozen horse and snake knights each (torsos, legs and shields). This is my typical amount of "army" building - one or two knights and four soldiers of a faction. ( I didn't order the horse knight's crown because I think it's too expensive.)

Just regocnized it today: Modern Johnny Thunder from set 60470 and the soapbox racer girl from set 60459 are basically the same minifig as both use the same torso (except of the colour of the hands) and legs:

Some EOL parts have reduced prices now: https://www.stonewars.de/news/end-of-life-lego-pick-a-brick-2025-update/

@King_of_Lomadia I like all of your factions and the lore you gave them. Great job!

(I have posted this MOC earlier but I did some modifications and improvements recently.) This is a paleontological research site set up by Johnny Thunder and his friends to dig for fossils and to examine them in situ. The MOC is intended as an expansion either for the jungle or the dino island subtheme (I prefer it for the jungle subtheme as I not very keen of living dinos). I put the MOC on this green 24x24 brick as a base. And yes, I cut an 8x8 hole in it for the digging site. I'm a LEGO purist but I've no problem with cutting bricks and pieces as I need it. I hope you like it. As always, critics and comments are very welcome.

Thank you as always! Well, I can see myself building 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or even more of those section ... Yes, I will add it. But I'm rebricking it and still missing some parts. One or two more BL orders necessary.

As @Slegengr and @Jack Sassy pointed out - the whole thing needed proper walls. Based on 8x16 base plates in light gray I built two moduls, one with a wall segment and one with the watch tower. The moduls can be attached directly to the Dragon Fortress by a very short wall segment. As both moduls have the same shape on both ends they can be arranged in any way. I plan to build a third modul with a dock for the Emporer's Ship (set 7416) but I need to get the part on BL first. You can expand this system as you like to create a whole landscape. I hope you like it. Critics and comments are very welcome.

Thank you very much. The wall is coming soon ...