RichardGoring

After spending quite a while doing large orders manually, I found a browser extension called BrickHunter that makes it so easy - BrickHunter - Chrome Web Store You can get a parts list from Rebrickable or Bricklink, paste it into BrickHunter, and it will then allow you to create LEGO PAB carts. I've found it to be more reliable than Bricklink's Easy Buy option, although it's worth noting that LEGO PAB has cart limits of no more than 200 unique elements in each of Bestseller or Standard, which has sometimes thrown it. There is a 'Split' function built into BrickHunter to try and resolve this and create two separate orders, but I feel like I've lost parts in the process before as I miss pieces during the build. What I don't know is whether it's the split function, the parts list conversion, or the original inventory that was inaccurate as I've not thoroughly investigated. But in general it's been really good and it's fabulously quick. I started using it before you could upload a parts list to PAB. I've also tried doing that, but find that errors (wrong part number, out of stock, not available) are more troublesome to deal with.

Thanks! I loved the two BDP sets and someone told me about his third (failed) submission bring made as instructions. So I hopped onto it and got the parts. Really fun and whimsical, along with some very clever building.

It's closer to the original Ideas design than the Tuxedo cat, so the cut should definitely be shared with the fan designer!

It very much is. I'm looking forward to use some of them in this (Jonas Kramm's creations).

JANG did a video suggesting adding an additional clear backed sticker, which sounds like a good idea. Shame there isn't a blue Minifigure in the set either.

Agreed. I rather liked the Stranger Things Creel House, but as a house, rather than something from the show (which I haven't seen, but would like to one day). I tried to order it on the evening of January 1, but the set was sold out. Curiously, the GWP was still showing as available, so I hoped that they would restock and I could get it. But then nothing. The sense of frustration has put me off the set completely. LEGO has lost $300 from me. I don't have a LEGO specific budget and buy the things I like, so it's not even going on another set. I suspect it will generate more bad feelings amongst more people if they keep doing this.

And the radio station from Stranger Things.

At this kind of size, you could easily do the outside and then a cut away into the interior. You'd be missing a lot of the path, but you could get to the last stand room and I think it would be very satisfactory to have those two major scenes shown together with just a thin mountainside wall and door between them.

Definitely!

They've pulled it off really well. Taking up most of the inside for a single scene allows it to work extremely well, and then the hidden scenes are a lovely bonus. The exterior looks great. It's pretty deep, so I wonder if there is a way to secure the front walls rather than them sitting loose. If not, display may be a challenge, although one that I look forward to tackling.

Correct. I got these last week and the elephant legs and arms are red, brick suit is coral.

It's very tempting, but getting the torso print in the correct colour will be a pain.

Avatar would be great, and maybe Netflix will be the bridge they needed to do it again.

This is gloriously menacing!

New leaks suggest TMNT and Monsters, Inc. will be getting BrickHeadz. Could those be the IPs for the new sets, alongside K-Pop Demon Hunters?

It looks terrific!

Had a notification that my replacement sticker sheet has been shipped. I wonder if it will be the second (also incorrect) version, or a third iteration that is fully corrected.

I am hoping they do a pink butterfly at some point soon, to use as blossom on a bonsai tree.

I loved that movie, although the book was better Brickset looked back at polls of popular licenses from five years ago and many have since been made into sets - LEGO licensed sets: What is left to do? | Brickset Some good choices for future CMFs in there, several of which have been discussed as possible 'series 30' ones, per the rumour.

Or, to put it another way, leakers used diffusion models to generate leaks before AI used it to generate images. Ahead of their times. I was so fascinated by that leak and thought it would have been great, but for the fact that the boxes had no identification on them. I bought a (cheap) gram scale for that series and it was entirely unreliable. So glad they've got QR codes now.

You mean people on the Internet might... lie to me?!

The problem with Orthanc is that the previous set was really large and fairly well detailed. It's only a little smaller than the more recent Barad-dûr, so I can't imagine a new version being a different size. Which means they'd end up with something pretty similar in all ways to the original set. That really limits the market potential for an Orthanc set, because there are lots of people who already have it. Whereas a UCS set of any other location is not owned by anyone, so a much larger market potential. Then there's the balance with demand, but there are at least half a dozen locations that are in equally high demand (if not more) than Orthanc, so I suspect it either won't happen, or it will be a long way down the list. The real driver of value for Orthanc set is the figures. You can buy the pieces for the tower for about $250. And you could easily place all the figures in other UCS location sets except probably Saruman. Saruman could be in a $100 booknook/diorama wizard's battle set very easily. And I think even those who have Orthanc would buy a new version of that at $100, but may not stretch to a $400 set.

I'm with you on TNG, although Voyager is second on my list. A few months ago I built these NCC 1701 and A variants from Skyfox on Rebrickable - LEGO MOC The Star Trek Original Series Enterprise Bundle by Skyfoxbricks | Rebrickable - Build with LEGO - they're really good and also, by lovely coincidence, scale pretty well with the Enterprise D, as they're about half the length. I wonder if LEGO will go down that route or make it them same size as the Enterprise D.

The unicorn castle felt expensive for what you get, so please to be able to get a small unicorn at a sensible price (less than the cost on PAB), and with an excellent figure.

I can't see them being anything else given the number of them.