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I found a really cool YouTube channel with Lego-inspired Vaporwave music. https://www.youtube.com/@dreamcastleTM They have Castle, Fabuland, and Bionicle inspired albums/tracks among others.

"I saw something on sale once so it must not have sold well" Really tired of this lazy take. Go look at this sales list. It's all Disney, SW, and other licensed sets. I guess those themes don't sell well. The new Renegade is a terrible set, not worthy of the original design. But that doesn't say anything about the popularity of classic themes.

It's not always possible to predict the effects that any decision might have long term. If Lego didn't produce SW sets for one year, a lot of SW fans might realize they actually like non-SW Lego. Maybe they pick up some City sets (or, heaven forbid, non-licensed Space sets) out of desperation and realize that they like those sets, and like building things, and maybe it doesn't have to always be about Star Wars. It's better for Lego to have Lego fans than just SW fans. Lego wouldn't get rid of SW sets without replacing them with some kind of space sets. So there wouldn't be any less choice.

This is their standard operating procedure. I don't know how Lego manages to suck the charm out of every original submission. The original looks and feels bigger, I see it too. It doesn't matter if it's an optical illusion. It's an art to make things look and feel bigger. Good sets can do that. Not sure what Lego has against real window shutters BTW.

I assume it'll be like 60462.

My moon car arrived in the same package as the helmets & hair which was convenient. I really like the build, especially the craters. No stickers!

This is mind-blowing in so many ways that I don't know where to start. The brick built yellow doors and the earth layers. Wow.

I think it's important to realize that inflation isn't just something you should take for granted across the board. Console video games have cost about $50-$60 since the original NES. A pair of jeans has cost about $50 my whole life. I've been paying $80-$100 for sneakers since the early '90s. And I'm talking the same brands/from the same stores. Companies will always charge what they think people will pay. Buying into the idea that inflation is a given is what allows them to charge more.

This is what I want more than anything. So it won't happen. Personally, I think the Animal Crossing molds are too stylized for general use. The old Chima molds were a little better, but I just want some good, generic animal heads. They would be useful in so many genres. Basically, anything sci-fi or fantasy (TMNT, Red Wall, D&D, etc) can use anthropomorphic animals. And peaceful settings like Fabuland, of course.

Agreed, I liked everything but the price and lack of instructions. At least there were a ton of prints. Ugh, that sucks! There should always be a digital PDF at the very least.

I'm glad you asked. I'm talking about 71427 and 71391. I bought both new from Bricklink about a month ago. I started building 71427, which had no instructions in the box. I looked on Lego's website, and its instruction download is just a small PDF that says to get the app. I haven't opened 71391, but it has the same kind of download on the Lego website so I assumed it also has no physical instructions. I searched for instructions in PDF form but all the sites I tried have the same small PDF that say to get the app. But I just looked on Brickset to find out what year these were, and noticed they have a much bigger PDF for download that happens to be the actual instructions in PDF form. Yay! Why did Google not find those? I prefer physical instructions, but those PDFs are a godsend compared to having to use that darn app, or the youtube version that you have to constantly pause.

Man, I bought a couple Mario sets and forgot they don't have paper instructions. Even worse, they don't have any sort of PDF instruction. You HAVE to use some stupid app to get the instructions. I hate it. The images for the August wave of SW sets show people using the instruction app...I hope this doesn't mean those sets won't have physical instructions.

Nope, just ordered it this morning! Will report back later.

So I ended up getting the Moon Car since I had the points sitting around, and with thanks to @RichardGoring I picked up the good dome helmet pieces at the same time, and some hair pieces. Pick a Brick was incredibly slow. I would have perused it for more parts I wanted, but it's just painful.

I prefer the latter, your attempt is great. I think 6949 just has more potential to look cool than 6889 without a major redesign.

Yeah, I guess we're eating pretty good on trans yellow canopies this year. I just wish I liked the sets better...

Also do we need to talk about part shrinkflation? I don't even know how some of these smallish sets are 500-700 pieces. This thing is 567 pieces: I just don't know where all those pieces are. There must be just a ton of small pieces. Maybe 100 per wing, 200 for the main fuselage, then somehow even more somewhere? How? Compared to just 443 pieces for this: And despite the major part shrinkflation, PPP is going up. And even main logos are stickers instead of prints. It's wild.

Same with the new snowspeeder. I'm sick of Star Wars but, a ridiculously colored snowspeeder with a new trans yellow canopy would be enough to pull me in. If it weren't for the entire thing relying on stickers. Flame printed tiles and fins would be awesome, but I'm just not paying for stickers anymore, at least not for SW sets, and not at these inflated prices.

New yellow windscreen. I'd gladly buy this set if it weren't for the stickers, despite the price being outrageous. So, I'll bricklink or PAB multiples of the canopy instead.

As cynical as I am, and as much as I love to dog SW fans for buying everything, I think these prices are so ridiculous that even SW fans will wait until they go on clearance to buy them, or pass on them. Really. I don't know what's worse: the price, or the fact the build is simply the floor. I don't care if there are turntables. I don't want to build the floor. Can't tell if you're saying the Juggernaut has an awful PPP, or that PPP is an awful metric. Were there any particularly expensive parts you found on PAB for this set?

Luckily this mainly affects sets that I wouldn't buy anyway...but GOOD GOD, Lego set prices are getting out of control. Like 75413 for example -- literally double the normal $.10 PPP ratio without any overly large pieces, no large compliment of minifigs, and cheap stickers instead of prints.

That's good to know for people who want the better helmet option. Thanks. I might even be tempted to go for the set now if I can get those helmets in the same order.

https://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemIn.asp?P=61287&colorID=12&in=A I said still in production, but technically in production as recently as last year, before anyone jumps all over me.

The helmets and bald heads ruin it. They look terrible! The original had the real fish bowl helmets with hair. These pieces are still in production so Lego had no excuse here. They just cheaped out.

My interest in the moon car has dropped to zero. Way to ruin the minifigs with those terrible "helmets" and bald heads. I guess the TLG penny pinching department wins again, and Lego fans lose. Lego never fails to make the official sets worse than the original submissions.