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  1. danth
    Has anyone bought this set? o It's a pretty nice set with printed parts and a cool space ship design. I bought it just because I really like the space ship on the box. I guess there's an app you're supposed to download for instructions but there's no effing way I'm going to do that. Lego needs to include instructions, period. And stop forcing stupid apps on us. I was able to figure out how to build the spaceship just from the box and through the process of elimination. It's a really nice little ship. But I also wanted to do an alt build. I didn't want to change the design too much, I just wanted to make it so the ship could split into two ships; i.e. implement a "combiner" gimmick. I came up with this: The ship splits into two using the included clips & bar plates. After splitting, a small engine folds out of the smaller ship. When combined, the engine is pointed down and forms the a VTOL rocket and front landing pod. The leftover parts were able to make a rover: It's a pretty cool parts pack. However it's too expensive for it's part count by about $10, especially considering it's lack of printed instructions. If it was cheaper I would potentially buy multiples. Oh and I posted this here because it's unquestionably a sci-fi set. I mean, it's a spaceship. Going to Mars.
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    Also, Bionicle fans kinda got screwed. And I say that as someone who doesn't care about Bionicle at all. Maybe there is a yet to be revealed 90th Anniversary set for them?
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    Not sure if popular or unpopular but: This is the best year for AFOLs in decades. Especially AFOLs my age who grew up in the 80's. We get: A Lamborghini Countach, arguably the most iconic car of the 80's A BttF Delorean, the other most iconic car from the 80's Freaking Optimus Prime An amazing Classic Space set For Space fans, quite a bit of other cool stuff. The City Space sets which are arguably Classic Space adjacent and much more Sci-Fi than before The Lightyear spaceship with new yellow windscreen (which the designer says is a back door Classic Space set) The Monkie Kid Moon Cake Factory which is just a goofier version of the original Alpha-1 Rocket Base The Monkie Kid Galactic Explorer if you're into gold spaceships The new Castle set!!! The new Forestmen set! A whole bunch of new animal molds in the farm set A new Viking set in the Creator line What am I forgetting?
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    Sigh, August needs to get here now!
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    1. Black Falcons. These guys were one of the main factions when I was a kid, and they seemed like upstarts or underdogs compared to the Lion Knights. That made them cooler. They were darker and seemed a litter more badass then the Lions. 2. Forestmen. These were the new cool thing when I was in my prime kid years, and were completely different, and lived in trees like Robin Hood! 3. Tie between Black Knights, Wolfpack, and the original Classic Castle knights. Black Knights had new helmets and shields, Wolf Pack were badass rogues, and the original Classic Castle dudes had "old" helmets and shields which made them interesting. 4. Lion Knights. They were fine, but boring. The status quo. 5. Tie between everything else. Don't care enough to rank them. I don't consider the "new" Black Falcons/Lions as different factions, just continuations of their original factions.
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    Hmmm, if Lego can argue someone is trying to pass off custom figs as official Lego products (i.e. counterfeits), I could imagine more of a real legal footing there. Or do you mean the opposite? Trying to pass off Lego products as their own? If I bought a bunch of cans of Coca Cola, and slapped "Danth Soda" labels on them, and sold them, would Coke sue me? Maybe they could...I have no idea. Alright is anyone in here a real lawyer? Help! 😁
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    If physical Lego minifigs are a "trademark", then Lego could just sue anyone who sells minifigs, at all. So, you buy a CMF, later you want to sell it on ebay, and Lego sues you. Right? Or am I missing something? I think this is a just a request to the community. Like, "please don't do this." But I don't know. Lego has sued people before without any legal basis in reality and lost, so who knows. They can definitely cut you off from special privileges though. If I were a Lego fan website and wanted access to interviews etc, I wouldn't be printing custom minifigs.
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    Or, give out whatever you want, and just don't use the Lego trademark or branding (e.g their actual logos). Which is all Lego can legally ask. And no, Lego minifigs are not a trademark, they are a product. Anyone can buy a product, modify it, and sell it. Lego asking us to not do that is just a ridiculous overreach with no basis in law (in the US at least). Obligatory "I'm not a lawyer".
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    I've bought CMFs blind a few times on a whim, but that is simply not going to happen at $5 a pop. Usually I buy either from local stores where their employees feel them out and label them, or I buy from Bricklink. Generally I buy what I want, and don't really feel like gambling. So, these new boxes, they'll probably contain an inner plastic bag right? So no real reduction in waste.
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    Nice! You have perfectly demonstrated that they don't believe their own argument. I, however, do believe their argument...and demand that all licensed minifigs immediately cease production! 😂 Anyway, I don't know about Europe, but in the US there's probably no way to enforce something like this.
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    If it makes you feel better, the new one actually has all that interior space that you could only imagine in the old one, complete with sleeping quarters, multiple consoles, air lock, seats for 4 minifigs up front and more in the back, and still has the storage compartment for the rover. And the new one is also "2 story", it just achieves it's second story in a sleeker way with a different canopy. Seems like a total win all around, unless you really need your spaceships to be clunky. But I think most people think sleeker ships are sexier, so you might be in a small minority. EDIT: It feels so weird to actually be defending Lego for once.
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    Not a rumor but just me saying I want it: Give me a CMF series of anthropomorphic animals. Something that would work for Fabuland, Animal Crossing, Sylvanians/Calico Critters, or whatever. I'm tired of animal costumes. I want actual animals, like what we had for Chima or Vidiyo. Sadly, Chima heads were too aggressive, and Vidiyo heads are a bit weird. I want something a little more normal.
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    Nice! That design is well suited for the Blacktron livery...I didn't realize how menacing that shape was until now!
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    The inclusion of the droid from 6809 makes me wonder if we're going to get a GWP or something with the rest of that set (the XT-5 with the blue Space man). The black air tank makes me think the GWP might include a vehicle with a black space man too, like a 6882 remake...or even a Blacktron remake!
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    I wish the tile with the vent lines was two separate tiles. Also, is this a hint? That's a black air tank right?
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    Obari af!
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    Thanks for this link! Interesting read. Maybe someone needs to introduce Lego to the concept of "more & smaller boxes". 😁
  18. danth
    Sounds like maybe you didn't want a bigger, sleeker, prettier version of the Galaxy Explorer, but something more like Benny's Spaceship, which is clearly Classic Space (and even has the LL9XX numbering), but has its own unique design & play features.
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    I feel personally attacked...
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    Supported. This would be awesome just for the pieces. But I like the builds too! A little bit like the old Robot Command Center too.
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    I'll take it! I think I meant just the blue/grey/trans yellow period of Classic Space. Definitely didn't mean I don't want any future Blacktron or Space Police sets; I don't consider those Classic Space. A Galaxy Commander set would be great -- it's a white & blue set, and I specifically mentioned that I'd prefer to see something like that now instead of more blue/grey/trans yellow. If we get another blue/grey/trans yellow set soon, I hope it's Creator 3-in-1 like I said before. I want wheels, I want new canopies/windscreens, and I want alt builds. Just another spaceship is going to be boring, unless it's in a different Space color scheme. I want throwbacks to all the old Space themes, from '78 to '99. That's 20 years of goodness, versus just 2 years in the 70's. But I also want new Space themes!
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    @Merlo, I think it's fine if you like other MOCs better, for whatever reason; maybe they're greeblier, or bigger, or some other specific reason. But I don't think it makes sense to declare 10947 as flat out less imaginative, or more boring than the MOCs you gave as examples. I've never seen a MOC with straight, studless wing edges fitted at angles to studded wings quite the way 10947 has done it. That is new and imaginative IMO and looks very cool. Also the vertically tilted fuselage is a super cool trick that allows a subtle incline that you're never going to get with other canopies alone, and it allows use of a printed tile at the front which is more reusable IMO than a printed slope. Then there's the brick built arrows, the brick built triple thrusters, the cockpit that fits all 4 space men, the alt builds...plenty of imagination and flair! Also, this set is going to be rock solid, unlike the MOCs you posted that probably fall apart and have pieces knocked off or out of alignment at the lightest touch (like the tail/spoiler on Peter Reid's MOC). Merlo, please, please do yourself a favor and give yourself permission to like this set. It's phenomenal. No, it's not a MOC with tons of greebles and illegal connections that falls apart when you look at it wrong, but it's amazing for what it is: an affordable, nostalgic, official, masterfully designed update to 497.
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    Nice! I always wonder how to recreate those ribbed panels that were used in this set. There's gotta be some way to brick build them. I've seen some attempts before but nothing that looked that great.
  24. danth
    Yay! Thank you! 💖
  25. danth
    Wow, the balcony that turns into a bridge...that is just nutso levels of awesome.
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