danth

Yep, check it out: https://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemInv.asp?S=60322-1 Nice! You must mean this one: https://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemInv.asp?S=60312-1 It looks cool. Are you nominating it for the Cool Sets with No Stickers list?

I'm tired of smirks too. On Lego faces and on every cartoon character in basically every movie or show.

Updated the Sets with No Stickers list with a bunch of really nice small sets. See my sig for the link.

Well that's certainly an improvement! Nice! This reminds me of when I was a kid and my well-used parts were so grubby, if I had a MOC I particularly liked, I'd bust out an old toothbrush and clean the whole thing with soap and water. Then the parts would look so new! No more scratches filled in with dirt. No idea if the toothbrush was putting micro-scratches all over the parts...but I felt so proud of my newly cleaned MOCs.

Would you like to become a Lego Ambassador™️? It's easy! Show up in every thread where there is any sort of complaint Blame the fan If the fan wants anything, the fan is wrong Say "It's Not Lego's Fault!" Have a little bit too much insider info Post from a corporate perspective, not a fan perspective You guys aren't missing out, don't worry. I seriously doubt the Lego Discovery Centers are going to have much to interest AFOLs.

Thank you! No additional parts required! There are a bunch of leftovers to play with. I made an entire spaceship with the leftovers from the mid-sized build too.

Thanks! 🥹

Apparently it's not too hard to do a brick-built monorail. https://bricknerd.com/home/lego-monorail-bring-it-back-or-build-your-own-7-6-21 Not sure if the design violates Lego's legality or stability rules. Or if building the track would be too boring. Yep, Friends is the best theme, it's pretty unanimous.😁

I like these picks. Everyone loves Rock Raiders. People have made some amazing brick-built windscreen cages for these in recent MOCs. So it's not like those parts would even need bringing back. Ice Planet is a perfect choice. Hopefully trans-neon orange was put on temporary hiatus for some technical reason and will be back soon. If it was supposed to be permanently retired, even better: simply fire the person responsible and bring the color back immediately.

Oh my. That's quite a...something. I see what they were going for. But they could have not gone for it at all, and gone for something you can more easily achieve with Lego. Or used big balloon pieces or technic panels. Hell, a bunch of smaller pieces aligned horizontally would have probably looked really cool. Anything but those cheap vinyl sheets.

Very cool! I really like that bubble canopy.

I was thinking more along the lines of Ninjago dragons or the Avatar flying beasts. For minifigs I would prefer something like the Galaxy Squad bug wings or the CMF fairy wings over flexible vinyl.

I'm more pumped for these sets than any Lego set in a long time: I just see cool clean designs, no stickers (hopefully), neat colored windscreens, fun combiner gimmicks, nice generic racer minifigs. Ugh. So good.

I don't really love fabric sails either! I prefer brick built on a personal level but I can understand why people want fabric -- the original Pirates sets had fabric sails so they will always feel more authentic to Pirate fans. I also prefer plastic minifig capes to cloth or vinyl capes. Hell I don't even like rubber bands in sets. The brick built dragon wings I've seen don't seem particularly thick and generally look cooler anyway IMO. The frames that hold the vinyl wings don't seem particularly thin either. The balls they use to hold on the vinyl wings are an eyesore and increase the thickness too (only in a few spots of course). I get what you're saying but I don't think I've ever seen the vinyl wings achieve a better wing look than brick built. I just want to play with Lego pieces and vinyl wings don't feel like Lego pieces to me. Apologies if vinyl isn't technically the correct material.

Vinyl wings suck. (Or whatever those thin plastic sheets are). Lego sets should be made out of Lego pieces.

Official list updated!

Star Wars looks better in Space colors! Nice. I like the use of the large trans neon green panels.

Wow, that minifig scale Delorean beats the pants off the official one. Plus, what everyone else said. Awesome lighting, nice use of the transparent dome, cool digital clock -- wow!

I think the 10497 Galaxy Explorer set might be one of the best of all time. It's a million times better than the original, it has copious prints (including consoles and the Classic Space logo and the LL928 bricks), an entire new wing design created just for it which ended up being perfect, amazing build techniques (the airlock, brick built arrow, and wing edges for example), etc etc. A total love letter to the original. I just cannot complain, personally. I think the three complaints I see most from others are: It's too sleek. Forms of this complaint might be that it's too fighter-jet like, or it doesn't have the double-decker look of the original. It didn't come with any new windscreens. It didn't come with any sort of base or landing pad. I just don't care about #3 at all. We can get a ground base or landing pad as another set. That'd be great. The ship was most important. I echo everything @TeriXeri said about this. I'm actually glad the set was only $100 -- it makes it feel less bad to buy (unlike the Lion Knight Castle), and more fun to buy in multiple. I am sympathetic to complaint #2. I was kind of hoping for new windscreen parts myself. Anything new in trans yellow. A large trans yellow panel could have been especially nice. But I can't hold it against 10497 for having the trans pieces it does. It's not the fault of that set that I already have all those pieces. And I do get #1. I think what the people complaining about that really wanted is some sort of second floor in the back of the ship. I can see the appeal of something like that. I just think "make it more clunky" is a tough sell. Most people want a sleek ship, not the Homer. I know some people do want the Homer... For me though, the steeper angle of 10497's rear backwards windscreen conveys enough of the original's upper hump, especially from the side view. I still want a CLASSIC. SPACE. THEMED. CREATOR. SET. to provide us more transparent yellow pieces. Maybe a base would be one of the builds.

Ohhh yeah, I totally had some of those!

Thanks for the link, super interesting new parts! The plant pieces looks especially good. I like that the big piece looks kinda leafy, kinda feathery, and kinda fiery. Seems versatile. As intended I'm sure.

DUDE, I didn't know those had no stickers! Both sets were on my radar but were giant "maybes". Now they are both "likely" buys, I will definitely pick them up if I see a deal. Thanks! I've made a new list, sets nominated by others. I think I'll update my signature with a direct link to the post. Yeah apparently it's needed because I didn't know about the sets you nominated! And now I want them. Whoa. Now that's an idea. Double-sided prints on bricks. Obviously they do that on minifig faces, but that is a great idea for regular bricks! And definitely helps with the "too many boxes" problem. Nice! 👍 EDIT: Just realized it might be tricky to "hide" the side you aren't using, whereas minifig heads usually have one side covered. Still, I think the idea has legs.

Danth's list of great sets with no stickers: 10497 Galaxy Explorer (Tons of Classic Space prints!) 40567 Forest Hideout 10305 Lion Knights' Castle (Lots of printed shields) 31120-1 Medieval Castle 76254 Baby Rocket's Ship 31109-1 Pirate Ship 71800 Nya’s Water Dragon EVO 75300-1 Imperial TIE Fighter 40649 Upscaled Lego Minifigure (Cool GIANT face print) 60354-1 Mars Spacecraft Exploration Missions (Lots of Mars Space prints!) 60323-1 Stunt Plane (Cool tail fin print) 60383-1 Electric Sports Car (Lots of prints!) 60393-1 4x4 Fire Truck Rescue 60322-1 Race Car (Multiple printed CURVED SLOPES, and 2 minifigs for $10!!!) 60396 Modified Race Cars (trans green & trans pink windscreens) 60395 Combo Race Pack (awesome clean designs, cool modular gimmick) The above list is not exhaustive, but a list of sets I have recently bought/built, and very much like for multiple reasons, only one of which is the lack of stickers. I've added parenthetical info if there happen to be any prints of note. Sets nominated by others: 75347 TIE Bomber (Johnny1360) 75348 Mandalorian Fang Fighter vs TIE Interceptor (Johnny1360) 10297-1 Boutique Hotel (Lion King) 10278-1 Police Station (Lion King) The sets in the above list will hopefully move to my list if/when I buy the sets!

Yep, same. I lived through it too. The changes from M-Tron to Ice Planet, to Spyrius, to Unitron, to Exploriens, and to RoboForce felt "right". Like, "these are all Space". Even if I didn't like some of them that much. However the jump from RoboForce to UFO was jarring. Like, "Whoa, what is this?" Same with Insectoids which was arguably even weirder. I bought RoboForce and Explorien sets at the time but just couldn't bring myself to like UFO or Insectoids.

Thanks @Mylenium for the feedback. Yeah the AI thing sounds like pure hype. Are there other sites out there that have significantly more sealed vintage Lego sets sold than Bricklink or eBay? I feel like I would know if there were. If not, then the points on the BrickEconomy graphs are definitely based on asking prices.