RichardGoring

Video review from Cheesey Studios. And the statement "I genuinely did not enjoy the build process at all on this one, until the last couple of bags..." which is really worrying. The review is mostly focused on the play, which is cool for LEGO, but not great for pinball. It's as I feared based on the table football set. Such a shame. Still like the overall look of it though. The new blue violet colour goes well with black.

I like it as a thing made of LEGO and at first glance it looks good. My initial reaction is that it's very clever to have made a pinball machine out of LEGO. But at $230, you're paying so much more than you would for a similar sized, but still more detailed and complex pinball machine. There are some for just $30 on Amazon. And some for $30 where you construct it out of wooden pieces, so you can even get a build experience from it. That is true of many things though. What I'm not convinced about is whether the build experience will be any good. I got to build the table football set and it was so dense with parts to make it structurally sound, that it didn't have the joy of clever techniques or delightful NPU that you get from many other sets. It was just a very heavy, dense, robust, and therefore expensive, block of LEGO. And it couldn't have been anything else, given what it was required to do. It was probably just a poor choice of subject matter. That's what worries me about this. Maybe reviews will tell me that the build is actually incredible and I will be wrong. But then, you come back to whether it's better to have a thing made of LEGO vs a more detailed and more functional non-LEGO version of the same thing. Edited to add: I do like the brick built arrows in the floor of the ball area, which is really neat.

Still not built mine, but it's next to my desk and will be up next. Need to find the time and clear a space for it first!

I would be shocked if they don't release the space figures on PaB. If they did it for the minifigure vending machine, which was created solely for the figures, then they surely have to for these.

That's exciting. To think that $200 seems inexpensive, but it is relatively speaking.

That a good idea for the X-Mansion. It needs to be twice the size you make it for the other modulars, but obviously wouldn't work at $700.

Excited to see it, but it sounds expensive for a bridge diorama. Hopefully it's better than my imagination and/or comes in on the lower side of pricing.

I've been surprised at the lack of reviews of series 8, but they're all selling well, despite the high cost pretty much across the line. This is an interesting site that tracks progress - BLDP – BrickLink Designer Program tracker Five hours in and Dustmark Keep is at 46% Coconut Cape at 33% Brick Railroad Locomotive at 30% Hot Air Balloon at 26% University of Science at 30%

Terrific, thanks! Order placed already. Ten minutes early. No digital queue, fast loading pages, all done within a minute. Excellent! Just need to wait six months for delivery, but that's all fine.

With them both being reused from Barad-dur, I'd be surprised, but delighted, if they were to show up on PaB.

I'll be putting Minas Tirith and Barad-dur on top of an IKEA Kallax cube shelf, which is deep enough for them. Rivendell currently sits on a custom shelf above the Kallax units, which is only 11.5" deep, but it's fine to have a small amount of the forge hanging over the edge. That's for in my office. I may move them into a room in the basement one day, in which case they will line up next to each other on a 25" deep countertop.

Hurrah! There's some good parts in there. The plaited beard on the top right is always out of stock when I've placed or order. It looks good.

I'd be curious what the build is like. I was wary of the Empire State Building, which looked like a boring and repetitive build, but I actually found it delightful! This looks great as a model, but the build may be so large and repetitive that it drags. I'm glad they've made it, but I won't be getting it. Money, space, time. All three really count against it. But it does look amazing.

It looks like two of the pieces in the set are in black (on Bandit, the dad). The ones on Bluey are dark blue.

My local LEGO stores are all completely sold out of CMF 29, but there is a LEGO Discovery Centre nearby that I went into this evening. Four boxes of CMF 29 with no Ronin and no Bionicle cosplayer. Are people army building these and I didn't realize, are they hoarding them for later resale for some reason, or are they just that insanely popular? I got four of the tuba players for another band in Shopping Street. The rest I will wait for until they come into stock again and there is a GWP.