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The dome can wait! I do need to get a start on a tower body. Get the bulk out of the way so I can get lost in the details later. I've landed on a circle width, about as in-system as I could have hoped for. Starting with a smaller 'banana' gear, Ive wrapped another ring of the glorious rounded 1x2s around it, and found they link up nicely once wrapped (not true for many other sizes I tried). Something I didn't know, is that the quadrants of this gear are each exactly eight studs apart (or close enough that I can't tell without going digital). I'm sure there is good reason for that, but the math of circles always throws me for a loop Note the green studs below. With a defined centre lining up to the edges, this means I can secure it to a baseplate with relative ease, and if I go with modular sections, can stack them later too. It also leaves the option open to have a rotating dome in the future. I've then gone with the expected technique, but there are two advantages to using this exact diameter. Firstly, by double-stacking the plates on the inside of the tower, they all very neatly just about close up all the gaps. Secondly on the outside, you can see that is 4/2/4/2 configuration with slopes included, means you get a very neat brickwork pattern that again, practically closes the gaps. I am pretty sure I've seen this before, maybe on a pot in the botanical range, and I've probably gone a very long way around to the same end-result, but I feel the achievement of discovering it myself at least. A few future thoughts: Obviously we'll go taller then eight studs (unless it's just poking out of the clouds?), but importantly this design is very scalable. I think my next step is to decide just how tall this will eventually be, and look into doors and windows placements based on that. I've a few ideas there already.

Interesting, must have been an error. They were certainly there at one stage! A bit steeper than I was hoping for. As much as I thought this might be a multi-purchase round, maybe I'll be just getting the balloon.

Bricklink had the prices up for Series 8 earlier today. I can't see them any more, is it just me? For the record, US prices were as below, but it's Euro prices I'm looking for

I'm clearly doing something wrong so

Seagull with the wings tucked. So the flocks of seagulls people make aren't all identi-posed.

I'm afraid I have no idea what my item count is near, so I can't translate that to how many cabinets, sorry.

I feel like these are contradictory points. The first point boiling down to "being back Space / Pirate / Castle / other sets from my youth that I'm nostalgic for". The second boiling down to "why does Lego cater to adults more than to kids?" I don't buy that kids would care too much about a classic theme revival. Some adults would go nuts for it of course. If Lego did roll back the themes, then they are even worse for catering to adults over kids. If they reduce catering to adults then fat chance you'll see the themes you pine for.

Yep, that's how I'd go about it. Maybe not down to the level of every single part and colour of part needs to be separate, as different volumes dictate different tactics. For me I've some drawers mixed like; 1) Very low volume of a part - doesn't matter the colour, all in one drawer 2) Medium volume of a part - Split to one drawer with monochrome (Black, white, greys) and another drawer with all other colours. 3) High volume of part - each drawer contains a colour or range of colours (like I've a drawer full of grey 1x2 bricks, and another that has all the different greens of 1x2s) 4) Rarely/occasionally - I'll mix a part similarly where each variant is super low count. All "food" type utensils for example, go in the one drawer in the utensils box. A carrot is as good as a pie here for functionality & finding.

I saw these when you posted them elsewhere. I'm very impressed with the cyclops head on the Hulk body, I'd never have thought that up.

Another guy who posts quality over quantity: https://www.youtube.com/@kaizoideas/videos His videos come months apart, but every second one is a fully built-in-the-brick concept for an ideas project (and then every other vid is something smaller like a vehicle for the biggie, or a brief tutorial). His builds tend to fit in the City line, sometimes veering futuristic - but these are City builds with AFOL leanings for detail and technique. No talking heads or algorithm hacks, just stop motion building of fully realised MOCs. Super stuff.

I use three of the Bror. Its garden shed/garage shelving, so it can look quite industrial in a house (less so in sage green). But in return you get very deep shelves, and open sides.

This is an excellent idea. Allows for a unifying theme but can also be as varied as you like within that. Spaceman with a futuristic instrument, jester with an old timey something or other and so on. I'll see if I can think up a good full series.

That's why I'm just hoping :D

I'm delighted to find the only one I'm really considering is the smallest of them. My one that got away is the Training Ground. Hopefully the designer posts the instructions elsewhere.

We are literally talking about it right now.

This is true and I agree. I for one would certainly like to see a lot more Castle stuff for example. I think the irritation comes when people make sweeping statements about how there are way more licensed sets than unlicensed - because this simply isn't true. Phrased the way you've put it now, I can get behind that.

See that's the thing, if you go ahead and do that count you'll find it's pretty close to a 50:50 split. It can be quite surprising to find there are so many City sets, Friends sets, Ninjago sets (e.g. respectively for 2025, 50, 42 & 48). Meanwhile in the licensed side, only really Star Wars has comparable numbers (2025: 54). After that you're looking at Marvel (38) and Minecraft (34). Following those, numbers get distinctly small. Even ones that 'feel' like big hitters are not. Like Harry Potter (20) is smaller than you'd have the impression of. There were more Botanicals released (13) than DC sets (12). And so many 'themes' have less ten. Like in no way is the One Piece theme (6) comparable to the Duplo range (27). But thinking back through the marketing for the year it seems to feel like it is. Most in house themes don't get a whole ton of marketing or hype - because they don't need it.

Of course you're allowed. But when you post something like the below - which has no such restrictions. Then get called out on it and react by clarifying in a way that suits your argument, you should be able to see why people react strongly. Like, it is not "just licensed stuff nowadays", and there are absolutely many more than "only two non-licensed themes left!". It's a hyperbolic argument, and it seems very dishonest to say that actually you meant if you only count this limited number then I'm right. Hopefully you at least know it is far fro an unpopular opinion. It's been rehashed in the thread at least a half dozen times.

Why would you even count themes rather than sets? I've had a brief scour over Brickset just to check some numbers. Numbers in this post are very loose, I've just quickly tallied in five minutes. Using the categories you provided (which have big holes in the first place), there were 127 unlicensed sets versus 250 licensed. So closer to 1:2 than counting by theme. If you include themes like the icons sets that are unlicensed, or Dreamzz (rumours of it's death aside, it was going strong in 2025), that number climbs to 149:250. If you include minidolls, because you already are with Wicked & Wednesday etc., then you gotta count Friends too. The ratio is up to 191:259. If you include all the technic, botanicals, architecture, duplo, etc etc that you've overruled, then the ratio stars to tip in the unlicensed favour (although there are arguments about whether a set is or isn't that could tip it either way)

You know, if we're going to move the goalposts that much, you could just count the licensed sets alone. And then we can say that Lego doesn't produce a single non-licensed set!! The absolute gits!!

Oh wow, four years ago already. I'm glad to see someone making use of this! Looks good.

Couple of new animals in the leaked images for the next CMF. I count five, though some are recolours of previous.

Crowdfunding for Series 7 starts in 20~ish hours. A few pre-reviews are popping up. I'm quite happy to skip them all this time, and wait for the jam-packed Series 8.

If you like Ancient Rome, this guy should be in your rotation: https://www.youtube.com/@RoccoButtliere His project seems too ambitious to be truly realised, but he's showing no signs of slowing down.

Took a few nights to get through it all, and indeed this was the only 'love it' I gave to something new to the program. I believe we've seen versions of the others previously, but just to highlight here: https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/series-10/3766/The-Amazing-Brick-Circus https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/series-10/3789/Polar-Observatory https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/series-10/4229/The-Scarlet-Bastion-(Castle) https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/series-10/4313/The-Northern-City-Gates Even with those, I'm not sure I'd be emptying my wallet for any bar the Training Ground.