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I figured it was something like this. Stupid scammers! Now some poor Bricklink employee has to see my ugly mug.

Awesome, thanks dude. I'll continue with the setup and see how it goes.

So I decided to open a bricklink store just to get rid of my backlog, sets that I must admit I will never have time to build, or maybe used sets later that I just don't have room for. Setting up a store is really weird. I need to submit identification. Like a picture of my ID. I've never had to do that for eBay, but maybe it's normal. And give them my home address. Not a PO box. And then they want A PICTURE OF ME STANDING IN FRONT OF THE INVENTORY I WANT TO SELL. This is really weird and makes me nervous. Just give bricklink my HOME address and picture of all my stuff? It's not like they're going to maintain any good security over these files. I really don't want randos and internet hackers stealing my personal info and pictures of what they can steal. I dunno. Is this weird? Is this normal? It seems like a huge invasion of privacy. I just want to sell stuff.

Explain to me how it makes sense that a smaller company with less money and fewer factories has an easier time making more prints?

🤥 Speaking of AI, you can google "does XXX lego set have stickers" and it's usually right. I don't know if that works for super new sets.

Lego could lower prices across the board, replace all prints with stickers, and still make absurd profits.

I would love to know, immediately, from reading the box, how many stickers a set has. The bricklink page for each BDP design says how many stickers it has. I like that. I would say the info is very difficult to find. The only way to find out for brand new sets is to download the instructions from Lego and go through the whole thing page by page. For sets that have been out a while, the Bricklink inventory will show the sticker sheets at the top. No sticker sheet means no stickers. Watching a video review is possible, but those can be twenty minutes long, and it's impossible to know where to jump to in the video to get that information. Maybe Ctl+F on a text review is fastest, if they mention it. Stickers are extremely unpopular. Sticker use is always one of the top complaints in any Lego community survey.

These things are NEVER determined simply by vote count though. I'm guessing a bunch of entries get similar enough vote counts, and other factors determine who what gets made among all the top entries.

I'm pleasantly surprised we finally have a Classic Space themed winner in BDP, but also surprised this particular entry won. It's a very nice design, don't get me wrong. It's just funny how many people have said that they didn't vote for it. I don't remember voting for it. I remember seeing it, and thinking that it spent a lot of parts on a giant chonky train that has no track to go anywhere. Like others, I preferred the smaller space ship builds. I wonder what this means for a potential Monorail remake? If this set won a vote, that's sending a message that people want Space monorail sets. And Lego just brought back monorail track. I guess the counter argument is "everyone who wants a Space monorail already bought the BDP set" and therefore wouldn't buy an Icons monorail. But I doubt that, especially since the new monorail track is functional.

Reading the comments on the Brickset article is cathartic and vindicating. https://brickset.com/article/132548/lego-11374-arcade-pinball-machine-revealed-with-new-classic-space-minifigures! Basically a lot of people saying what I'm saying. It's boring, not enough pinball features, not actually Space themed (Classic or otherwise), and the stickers suck.

I would argue that "busy and cluttered" are good things in pinball. Seriously, go look at actual pinball games. They have so much going on! Basically, this pinball set has two spinners, one bash target, and one ramp. Where are the bumpers though? And the standard slingshots above the flippers? I realize this is Lego, but you can't leave out the basics! The fake Star Wars spaceships in the Guly set are better than nothing. The Lego set should have at least a couple small spaceship builds, or what is even the point? Stuff like that is standard in pinball games. See this Terminator pinball machine with Terminator head and vehicle. You gotta have things to look at! Also the Guly set has brick built arrows too. And they light up! I don't know about this style over substance talk when the Lego set has almost no style or substance. The ramp and the "score" count gimmick are cool but not enough. I think bumpers, some space ship "clutter", and large prints (not stickers) of something from the past 40 years of Lego Space lore (even some theme I don't like as much like Alien Conquest) would have saved this set.

Honestly, I'm almost angry at how bad at is, even ignoring the lack of tie-in to Lego Space. For an idea of what this could have been, with about the same number of pieces...LOOK HOW GOOD THIS IS: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZaus6zO6ff/

I think @TeddytheSpoon is saying Ben comes out looking the least scummy. And @Darth_Bane13 interpreted "comes out the best" as "getting the most benefit" and pointed out that Ben didn't seem to benefit at all.

And now the video I've been waiting for.

The point is that the entire set has nothing to do with Lego Space, other than the inclusion of the minifigs. Not the set design or the prints, or the basic knowledge the the air tanks are air tanks. Whimsy is fine. I wish there was even a hint of whimsy in the set. Instead it's boring AF.