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  1. RichardGoring
    I'm with you on both of those points. Definitely won't be getting the X mansion, but I think the botanical garden just looks so good, I will likely get it. The architectural styles are similar though between it and the Friends one that they could very easily be two building as part of the same site.
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    The botanical garden looks great! I like that it also seems easy to get into as well.
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    It's super close between Downtown Diner, which got me into modulars, Boutique Hotel, which I think is prettiest and was amazing to build, Brick Bank, because my children love to play with it, and Parisian Restaurant and Detective's Office, because they fulfill so many of the great modular qualities.
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    Oh yes, I completely agree, it would perform poorly at $800. But in a thread about modulars, it doesn't fit with them. For a Marvel set it's great. It has the characters, the play features, the action, and it scales reasonably with with the other Marvel buildings. It is a little plain, but you can't do as much at that scale. Mostly, I just don't rate it as a modular, which a lot of people were initially excited about.
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    As expected. The X Mansion is comically small, as shown by Moliosis on Reddit! Is it strange to anybody else that a middle class townhouse is taller than a mansion? : r/lego (reddit.com)
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    Have you seen the Malfoy Mansion upcoming set? It looks like it's only four studs deep, let alone struggling to fit four figures. The Despicable Me 4 set is also very shallow. Let's se...
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    I often use Rebrickable to build lists of parts I need, as I like the UI and graphics. Or I get a MOC parts list from Rebrickable. Then I can export the XML parts list and put it into PAB. Although I've been using the BrickHunter browser extension recently that does this anyway, so it's already been solved for me.
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    The list upload feature on PAB has gone live today in the US! Pick a Brick: new upload feature now live in US | New Elementary: LEGO® parts, sets and techniques
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    That's very interesting. Series 4 is my least favourite, and I wonder if that's why. I tried, very loosely, to rank them. Series 5 is my favourite so far, then 3, 2, 1, and finally 4. All very subjective of course.
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    It's in the yellow box, suggesting it will sell out within an hour because they haven't produced nearly enough.
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    I think all of the Marvel buildings are a different scale to the modulars. That's fine. They have to replicate 'real' buildings, so they can't play the same scaling games that the standard modulars do. And if they were to the same scale, they'd be even more crazily expensive. They all have the impression of lots of floors on the outside, but a smaller number on the inside. Daily Bugle is only four floors on the inside, but the outside suggests probably 20? The Daily Bugle's floors also have a really small footprint, which seems disproportionate to the nature of the building on the outside. Plus, skyscrapers are very repetitive structures - by design - but that doesn't make for a great building experience, I suspect. I've not built any of them, but they don't appeal to me. The Marvel buildings, especially the skyscrapers, seem to use minifigures as the big draw (which I personally don't care about), while the standard modulars tend to use the build as the main draw (which is far more important to me), so that may also skew my view of them.
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    I considered that when the Sanctum Santorum came out, which is very nice, but also undersized. Just as they released it, Target did the 'original' price of $200, rather than the standard price of $250, so I bought two in the hopes of MOCing it together to create a fully modular scale four floor building. They're still in boxes, but it will happen one day. For the X Mansion, it's just too similar to the Natural History Museum, for me, so unless it goes on heavy discount somehow (can't see it happening), it doesn't seem to make sense to pay a lot more for something that will end up close to the NHM. But equally if we didn't have the NHM, I'd probably be a lot more excited about the X Mansion! LEGO designers can't win...
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    I think the X mansion will look comically small next to the modulars, to be honest. It's like someone took the Natural History Museum, scaled it to 80% and put a colour filter on it. It's also disappointingly plain. It's definitely not for me.
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    Absolutely. There's a lot more freedom to adapt 'real-world' settings than things based on a very narrow collection of former LEGO sets, where people are either fixed into a small range of options based on those sets, or have let their imaginations run free over 20-40 years that will then differ from someone else's perspective. I don't think it helped that the Invader was a GWP, where they are more limited by size. I still liked it though. Majisto's Workshop definitely felt like it was to compromised by the past. Eldorado's Fortress, being bigger, suffered less in this respect, but had to spend a load of budget on replicating the base plate, which used to be simple, but is now a somewhat tedious and expensive part of the overall set. It's definitely a hard balance to strike. But they can also get it wrong, in my opinion, with things that aren't constrained by nostalgia. The 1031 Pharrell Williams Over the Moon space ship looks great from the top, with it's modern pieces and building techniques. The bottom is horribly plain and flat. It's a technique and style that I loved in my 6368 jet airliner - simple, easy to put together, worked well, elegant - that just falls flat on a modern set.
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    Completely agree. To be honest, I don't have much nostalgia for any of the space themes. Much more into pirates and forestmen. I had a small amount of M:Tron, but I didn't buy the CMF update. If they did a full set from a classic line that was updated in the same way, then it might be interesting. But there is an elegance and sense of fun that comes from Classic Space. I loved the Galaxy Explorer update, and the rationale of making it 1.5x larger, because you are now 1.5x larger than when you played with it as a kid was fun. I'd definitely be up for more in a similar vein.
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    Ransom Fern would still probably rebrick them into something that looked like a movie prop!
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    It's a neat little set and looks great for a polybag.
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    Standard PAB orders are currently contributing towards the GWP threshold, which is interesting, as I think previously they didn't. The T&Cs generally always say that they don't. Anyway, it was useful to get me over the threshold for the Bakery GWP. Shame that quite a few parts are out of stock, but I got enough. Including two right gorilla arms. Just need the rest of it to come back into stock!
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    Hence 'pretty' reliable. Yes, there have been errors in the past. And, especially with LEGO exclusives, they can change things if they want to.
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    Nothing is confirmed until it happens, but Brickclicker has reported it, and he's usually pretty reliable.
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    LEGO Designers: What type of style and detail level do you want for classic sets? LEGO Classic Space Fans: Yes
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    The botanical garden has leaked. Looks like it's 64x32, two baseplates. But no modular connection points. Very modular compatible though. It looks lovely, but if like to see it next to the other buildings, as I suspect it will look a little too large next to them? Release date is supposed to be November 1.
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    It's on a Reddit sub called Legoleak, which generally takes leaks from various sources, but also seems to be decent at corroborating things before being posted, so it's usually accurate. And if not, posts about anything being wrong, and generally that they won't trust the 'leaker' in the future. Nothing mentioned other than 'Blacktron is coming in 2025'.
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    I was kind of disappointed when I saw it was a B&B rather than an apartment building. It just feels too similar to Cafe Corner and Boutique Hotel. I'm sure it will be great though. It does make me think that making a mansions apartment or streamline moderne complex would be a neat thing to do, with a small courtyard/garden.
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    Yes, I'm definitely going to just get the ATV set with the red panda. I was hoping to get it on sale, but as it retires at the end of the year, it may not be around long enough to get discounted. Hmmm... the quandaries taken over saving a dollar, and yet it gnaws away at me.
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