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  1. RichardGoring
    Nice!
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    The silver ink ones are the drum lacqured pieces and so much shinier than normal (but not as shiny as chrome pieces). If it helps, they're often quite a bit more expensive than the part in any other colour, so you can check the price if the naming is confusing as you're scanning through things. New Elementary has a load of stuff on it half way down their Aston Martin DB5 review - LEGO® 10262 James Bond Aston Martin DB5 | New Elementary: LEGO® parts, sets and techniques
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    Completely agree. For example, the Black Panther bust is currently for sale from Walmart, on their website (so easily accessible by all) for $150. That's 58% off RRP. The price per piece is staggeringly low. But I won't buy it because the build doesn't interest me and the parts aren't things that I would use. On the other hand, I bought a 4+ City set which has a terrible price per piece, because I did it with my daughter and we had a fabulous time together. She couldn't have done anything more complex than that, and anything larger would take too long to keep her interested.
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    It's his second YouTube channel. I've sent you a link to the video. Have to say that the set looks great. Really impressed. I wonder what the GWP is going to do, and whether it will be worth getting this day 1 for it, or waiting for someone better to come along.
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    Grainy leak pictures normally don't do a set any justice at all, but the outline alone of this looks fabulous. How on earth they've managed to get the middle seemingly so thin is incredible, and it really adds to the drama of it. A year or two ago there was a great MOC of Gringotts posted on Reddit that was similar to this, and at the time I thought it was a brilliant concept, but LEGO wouldn't be able to do it in an official set. I'm thrilled to be proven wrong, and they've made it even more elegant than the MOC, from the looks of it. I'm really looking forward to the full reveal. Finally done with my Lego rendition of Gringotts Bank : lego (reddit.com)
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    I'm not so sure. The modulars are wonderful, but they're generally blocky, conforming to a baseplate. Not to mention likely more than doubling the cost. Feels like it would stick out too much, and there are enough interesting things they can do at the current size/price to ensure that it's cohesive with past sets and display space requirements.
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    I think I'm getting towards your stage now. At some point I'd like to have a sorting system for parts and build MOCs, but there hasn't been much time for it over the last few years with a house renovation and move.
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    I have so much in the backlog, when I was driving back from Walmart last night, having looked for, and found, some good clearance deals, I did think it was actually pretty stupid to add more to the backlog.
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    This is the way to do it!
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    I went to a Walmart last night and managed to get a chunk of very good clearance stuff, that was excellent. But the highlight was finding a single Disney CMF polybag that had fallen to the back of the shelf and it was Stitch. The only one I was missing. Very pleased!
  11. RichardGoring
    Ooh. It's not going to be brick-built. It's not going to be Friends. It's going to be a village for Fauns... We'll get goat minifigure legs.
  12. RichardGoring
    Just watch them turn it into a Creator 3 in 1 set, and so there is a brick-built goat...
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    It was on Amazon during their Prime Day in the US yesterday. Thanks for the hints. I appreciated the video he made about compromises to set expectations too. I may work through the instructions first and see what I might need to add so that I have everything on-hand.
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    Yes, baby seals are going to sell more than goats. By a long, long way. That said, you could also claim that it's irrelevant. LEGO hasn't made a new goat mould and are not interested enough to make one. Any logic they may or may not use doesn't change that they haven't made one. They may in the future. They also may finally do a proper, modern parrot or crab. But I can only hope. So far, they haven't. We are out of luck. Oh I think we can keep it up for a few more pages yet... Correct!
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    They have said that one of the concepts included a village and they built it. They could well have realized that it was perfect to split into two sets and moved the animals around accordingly.
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    Yes, it won't break their profits, but it will reduce them. They've clearly done the calculation that, in their opinion/data analysis, they've got the best balance between the need for new elements to optimize their sales, and the cost of new elements (moulds, design resource, production capacity, storage, logistics etc.). I'm not trying to justify it. It's very likely a commercial decision they've made. It could be a laziness thing, but I doubt it.
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    Correct. In the last few years they haven't wanted to do it enough. It would eat into their profits too much, it would take too long, it would draw resources away from other things they deemed to be more important, or something else. They didn't want to do it enough, so they didn't do it. Their motivation may change in the future. And something like a Medieval Village set might provide sufficient motivation (in whatever form) to do it.
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    Well, I succumbed to the commercial gods earlier and bought the Hulkbuster 76210. At 45% off it was tempting enough, but even then, only because I'd seen Ransom_Fern's alt build, which looks pretty amazing. LEGO MOC 76210 Iron Man Mark 44 Hulkbuster - Alternate Build by Ransom_Fern | Rebrickable - Build with LEGO Looking forward to giving it a go.
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    Nice connection of two sets on Reddit - (1) I don’t make poor financial decisions, I make financial decisions that make me poor! : lego (reddit.com)
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    Awesome, thank you! It was $20 earlier when I checked, but I've now ordered a Jazz Club. How do you get the keychain?
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    You weren't a VIP before?! What site gave $45 cashback on the jazz club? I still need to get it, but that's all a very good deal.
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    It was grey, but I suspect it's a 3D printed prototype/stand-in, before they get proper tooling to do it in production. (IF they get proper tooling to do it in production. It's still a concept and may be changed before finalization).
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    Possibly an unpopular opinion here, but I only have pirate sets from my childhood in the 80s/90s, and none of my Imperials have printed shakos. So I'm sort of glad that they don't come printed, to maintain the style. Has LEGO does this for consistency with the source material era, or just to cut costs? Maybe one is used to justify the other. That said, I prefer the modern torso and face prints. It's also a somewhat minor point compared to other things that have been raised.
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    I got a second one from Best Buy, for the MOC potential. Hoping others will produce something cool, but if not, it will be fun to try and figure out.
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    That Roy MOC is good. I'm hoping the piranha plant will be decent for the price to piece ratio they have. Bowser is an amazing set - build, functions, looks - so I hope they can keep that up, although at 'only' $65 it won't have the same presence. Will that make it better, because it's more elegant, or worse, because it's too small?
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