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According to the LegoLeaks subreddit, there will be a City Interstellar Space Shuttle set in Jan 2027. I wonder if it'll be sci-fi? $25, so won't be too big.

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.

What is really interesting about this video is that he calls out the Lego youtube community as a bunch of cowards. Both this guy, and Bryan Mansell, got no help from Lego youtubers since so many of them were afraid to piss off BAM. So I don't want to hear another word disparaging Reckless Ben unless we first address all the youtubers who were too chickensh*t to help.

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.

But I bet you say Pigs and Cows. 😁

I'm saying that nobody is an angel, and it doesn't matter if he's imperfect. Using questionable tactics doesn't reflect at all on his morality.

I love this because "he's no angel" is literally a meme that pokes fun about how bad people will go through a good person's entire life history to find any imperfections in order to assassinate their character. Like when cops shoot a kid, and then find out the kid got detention once in school, and release that to the media. I think of Restless Ben as "chaotic good" -- his heart is in the right place but he uses any means necessary to fight. I kinda wish more good guys were like this actually... And of course, part of why he does this stuff is to make a name for himself, and get clicks. Everyone has to pay the bills somehow.

It's fascinating to see how, as more and more youtubers & media outlets finally get around to covering this, the more they have to "one up" everyone else and present a unique take, because otherwise they have nothing new to offer. Techdirt's "angle" was "Everyone should have talked to a lawyer", even though they go on to explain that Bryan did talk to lawyers and it's not really worth it to hire lawyers to sue over this amount of money. Legal Eagle's angle was "Everyone is wrong about this story" even though their video didn't really make a convincing or coherent argument to that effect. And now Coffeezilla's angle was "I found the missing Lego" even though he totally didn't, and he actually raised more questions than answers. He even ends the video with a clip of Reckless Ben saying "you solved it!" but like, no he didn't, where are the Legos?

I'm sure kids stuck minifigs up their noses too, but I don't want that ret-conned into official lore! 😱

So the Uhaul thing seems like the biggest bombshell. Am I misunderstanding, or is there an allegation here that BAM took the missing SW Legos to the Eugene store? I mean obviously BAM got caught red handed lying about the Uhaul.

Honestly, it looks boring. Here's what comes up in Google if you search for Lego Space pinball: This knockoff set looks more exciting in every way, and is roughly the same price. As a Lego Space fan, the leaked set does nothing for me, other than including minifigs. It looks like it was designed by someone that knows nothing about history of Lego Space. For instance, the prints(?) seem to show the minifig flying through space using his air tanks as a jetpack, which is weird. I would have expected some sort of reference to old themes or sets or something.

There is a Techdirt article on this that explains how, in US civil law, there is a "dead zone" when you're suing for around $200,000. It's too much money to sue in small claims court, but not enough to make it worth hiring lawyers. https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/02/everyone-in-this-lego-dispute-should-have-spoken-to-a-lawyer-earlier-than-they-did/