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AFOLs have been clamouring for more Mark Hamill and TLG have responded in kind Another TLG masterstroke is that they can use the same torso for the Code Breaker, Temple of Doom and James Bond in one easy swoop

Red 5X7 frames have been for sale for quite a long time

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Gary Istok knows

Ever since the first Modular Building arrived there have been critique ("it's too big!", "No interior!" , "Does not fit with City" etc .. and the next one .. oh boy, that wasn't even a TLG set, but a fan-made one!) This is the way Even though that was a decade and a half ago, a fan-build Modular Building might be approved again, who knows? Comparing this to the sets we'we been offered in the last few years, I do find this lacking a lot! The theme is allright (but serving from clear bottles into clear glasses is just lame) I don't see any fancy techniques, the front of the club is boring. The entrance is nice, but so easy to do with modern parts. The roof of the club is a mess, imho The pizza building really looks like a Creator 3:1/Friends set Fancy techniques are what we want and what we pay for What I've seen of the intterior looks, very CITY style. The stairs better be incredible! I'm REALLY tired of seeing slapping a tile on a headlight brick to create texture, That was cool +10 years ago. Come on, TLG, make some new parts! A bunch of standard chairs? Lame too. Both Harry Potter and Friends are beyond this The pizza shop has no pizza sign? No brick build signs at all? I've always loved building intricate roof parts , , but this time we got two ... plates? Since there's no room on the boardwalk for a tree, the club better be deep with lots of nice stuff going on inside Cheers, Ole Edit : If this set had sand-red it would sell like hotcakes! We have sand-blue. There are now a LOT of different blue colours, ditch one (Mærsk is out anyway) and give us sand-red instead Edit2 : It's nice that ithe Jazz Club is "Kind of Blue", but that phase of Miles Davis is also very much tied up in heroin If I was the Creator/ICON or wtf TLG calls it now designer, I'd most probably stay clear TOTALLY of anything controversial like that and just do generic EU/US buildings with NO story at all. Loads of nice historical inspired buildings with NO story or background Afterall, who really swoosh around with their Modular Buildings?

Blame TLG The Mixel joints are such a difficult specialized item that one of the leading manufacturer of plastic parts cannot do them in other colours (aka TLG do not feel the need to pony up the money for what we want) Dark grey is really absent in CS/FT/BT1 ... I can only remember the shovel in 6929 Red, yellow, trans-clear and chrome pops up much more frequently than dark grey Too bad, it's a nice colour and was used to good effect in the unreleased Grey-tron proto set (and years later with Insectoids, but that's not CS)

There are light grey parts used in the Futuron sets (baseplates, axle pins, monorail parts etc)

Questions : 1 : "20 to 40 studes" .. so as long as it's at least 20 studs but no more than 40 studs on any given dimension, it's okay? 2 : "The secondary vehicle", must that be manned? Could it be a rocket or a satellite (or a rocket with a satellite)? Very common in that era 3 : "Never before posted anywhere online". I use Flickr, that means technically my MOCs are posted online (seconds, minuttes, or a few hours) before I post them on EB. As EB is not a hosting service this is impossible to conform to 4 : Can I use original LEGO electrical components? Most of my spaceships use 9V light, sound, opticals and motors 5 : What about original LEGO non-production parts? And standard LEGO parts in non-production colours? Cheers, Ole

Have you even done a modicum of searching? Edit : I've done it for you .. Chineese motors : https://www.aliexpress.com/i/4000894592155.html The plugs (which TLG cannot "protect" as it's not their design at all): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_jack_and_plug Rotation sensors : Just search for Hall sensors on ebay, aliexpress etc Very old and cheap technology : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall_effect_sensor

LEGO is quite often used as a loss leader here in the big supermarket chains

Playmobil is not a construction toy. Meccano is We allready had an interesting discussion here btw : Sorry, I meant "construction" not "building" That is simply not my experience at all, Both amongst AFOLs and kids

I speak german, I get it. But no "LEGO" is not the Kleenex of building toys https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericized_trademarks No "LEGO" here

That does not fly. The plugs TLG uses for the new electrical system are decades old, very standardized and available for pennies from very reputable mfgs You can buy everything from China. A motor can cost a penny, but it's made by a three year old communist child working 28/hours a day or it can cost a dollar and come with every certification needed made by highly educated people in a top-notch factory. China have_everything_ Lol! "Rotation sensors", that is also decade old technology that also do not cost anything really It is? Please show me all the webshops that sell knock-offs and advertise it as "LEGO" (No links to chineese shops as you can buy eveything as knock-offs over there, including complete Apple shops and Tesla cars) Luckily we have very little of that crap here, so children are not exposed to that. I do know Germany has somewhat of a beef going on with TLG at the moment

LEGO electrical parts have always (even going back to the 60's) been very expensive for what they actually are. The motors are cheap mass-produced stuff but often housed in a studded enclosure. In my former job I've imported/sold thousands of similar motors and they often cost less than one euro when buying a decent amount Same thing with controllers and lights. Very cheap electronics. The development costs for TLG have been minescule Then who do you think is the Mercedes of construction toys then? You can use whatever you like, but you cannot call CADA "LEGO" And to be strict TLG was not the first in the business anyway

Yes, because it's also on PC!

This fixation on part numbers is weird. i don't recall buying sets as a kid based on that. In fact, the part number was never stated on the box! I believe this is an american thing only No-one is buying a swing or a playhouse for their kids going "Honey, this has 279 more screws than that other one which is 100EUR cheaper. Let's get the one with the most screws!" Another hobby of mine is Tamiya RC cars (re-res and vintage) and NO-ONE in that hobby is buying those cars for the part count LEGO IS the Mercedes of construction toys. Also, PLEASE do not use the word "LEGO" for generic off-brand/clone/straight up ripoff stuff. "LEGO" is not the Kleenex of construction toys just yet and I think TLG have enough lawyers around to deal with that

It's not about the amount of parts but WHAT parts. A thousand pins is worthless to just about everyone (and totally worthless if if you have a BL shop) A better metric is weight-to-price ratio. Or electric/pneumatic-to-price ratio. And certainly also function-to-price ratio The dozer does not deliver. Only cool thing is the new threads Pretty sure no-one is buying this set for the app controlled ladder Edit : I'm also looking forward to the crying game in plus ten years when none of the apps are working on our inplanted 7G smart hubs and the 8275 is 3KEUR on the secondhand market Right now PF is a better investment than gold Cheers, Ole

It's a toy company that makes dolls based on a kiddy space opera show but somehow SW fan(atics) tend to forget that. Like. Every. Single. Time

It's not always the actual designers that decide what sets are going to be made, so it's rather unfair to blame them In fact I'm quite certain that it's other deparments within TLG that decides what is going to made. Changing designers will not change that Also, OT toys just sells way better than PT and DT

It's quite rare that printed parts do not also come unprinted in the same colour eventually. And if not, you can wipe printed parts, but you can't print yourself

You forgot blue, black, dark and light grey Never seen any in bley myself

I think it has something to do with driving a car Adventures introduced the pre-fab two-seat car piece Johnny had an alter-ego in Australia Does that add up? Edit : That's my head canon anyway (he's an aussie to me) but we all know it's just TLG being lazy and not giving af

I grew up with knobs as parents which then turned me into a crank. I guess that's TECHNICally correct then

But couldn't you design that truck with normal coloured LAs? I once owned pneumatic cylinders in colours never found in any sets. i never made a good MOC with them. i'm back to the yellow ones and MOC'ing