Yoggington

Fantastic work. Love the sorcerer's apprentice getting swept away. Fantasia vibes.

Love your work. The swirly gold dish is the obvious highlight, but I'm a big fan of the bare outward facing studs for detail too. Does it have an interior?

Here's the original submission: https://ideas.lego.com/projects/a8055a23-30d5-45a4-b046-7f5988722a3f I gotta say it's pretty great, and the one I am looking forward to the most of the current 'under construction' batch.

You'll be glad to hear there is a lighthouse in the works via Ideas. However, based on the original submission, it is unlikely to be minifig-scale. Perhaps it could work in the distance.

I'm a big fan of the airship, but it seems to have been re-entered with zero modifications. If it didn't pass the first time through, why would it now?

Set 269 - Kitchen. Back when a minifig was the baby :o https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?M=pln108s#T=S&O={"iconly":0} https://brickset.com/sets/269-1/Kitchen

From the new train. Is this an existing piece, or something new?

I can still see that message on the Irish site (Lego.ie). It's on the screen where you start selecting bricks: https://i.imgur.com/629YMnZ I wouldn't waste time worrying about all of this. They are clearly having some handover issues between their old system and new. Give it a few months, this is a massive operation and a logistical nightmare. I'd like to hope they are automating the 'picking' parts of the service in this downtime, but outside their communications (which will never be 100% factual), it's all speculation on our parts. In the meantime, there's always Bricklink.

1476 nougat 2x2s.

I'm pretty certain one of the limitations to design here is that all part must currently be in production in regular store sets. No new prints or revivals or anything like that. A few of the designers are on here, maybe one can confirm.

Dang, I much preferred the previous mechanism with the studs bouncing about. I guess he couldn't keep them from flying around the room. Suppose I'll just have to figure it out on my own. On the plus side, my wallet is thanking me for not being too sold on any of the others.

I had read something about this too, but now that I search, I cannot find it. Best I've got is this article; https://www.pnltc.org/thats-why-lego-ditched-its-classic-baseplates-in-the-2021-city-sets/ which cites the design team talking about needing to fit sets into smaller boxes being one of the reasons for the overhaul. Which is a far step from changing the plastic, but does have some environmental links.

I would assume sales could nearly make the call after the first month. What was the demand at launch? How quickly did the second batch onto shelves sell out? If these sales figures were below expectations/projections at all, then the only way they'd move to full development of a 'phase 2' would be if the following months unexpectedly reversed the initial lack for some reason.

First stop would be just to ring Lego Customer service. I have heard of people purchasing single bags from sets previously (e.g. all the parts for the middle floor in a modular). As this set is still in print, they may do that for you. I'd be curious too, if you try this to hear the result. Any time I heard, it's been 'friend of a friend', so I don't know for sure if they will and would like to know. Unfortunately, I don't believe such a function exists in BrickLink. The way to approach would be to download the instructions, and work through the steps for the first bag - constructing yourself a wishlist from the steps (in combination with the 'part out' page of the set). You could then use this wishlist to shop with from one seller or multiples.

I'm a fan of screenshat for the past tense.

Took me a few takes to realise you didn't mean Garfield the cat.

Nothing apart from "2022". https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/introducing.page is where to check.

To be sure. I'm well used to keeping the expectation dampened, we'll see it when we see it. So long as we know before the 100th anniversary I'll be a happy camper.

I don't think anyone's mentioned this yet, but the Grand Prize for the latest competition over on Lego Ideas includes the 90th Anniversary set as one part of it. I'm not saying the silhouette here is to scale, but it is important to highlight that this set will be the difference between the runner-up prizes (the other three sets), and the Grand Prize (those three plus the 90th set) For comparison, the sets in that slot for the last few comps (i.e. the difference between Grand & runner-up): Guitar contest: A real life fender Stratocaster guitar & the Ideas Grand Piano set Most recent Lego House comp: Brick Moulding machine set & Winnie the Pooh set. A lot of their comps don't have equivalent sets between the Grand & Runners-up so it's hard to pick out a pattern, but this does look much bigger than just a GWP set. I'd guesstimate in the €100-€200 range. An outside chance of it being a big €350 set, but keep those expectations low. Winner announcement for that comp is May 5th, so hopefully some better news on what this set will include by that stage.

I don't really understand what you mean - could you draw a diagram? Better yet, check out that software and just drag/drop a layout together.

Getta outta here with your logic, you're holding up the whole mob!

This is a stunning capture. Well done. I'll be following your Flckr for sure.

The more I think on it, if you had both sets on the same orientation, you could place one at a height - and link them one hill into the next. All the way down one, then the same on the other, into climbing both hills again.

I think the approach would be to have a link just before the hill climb. For example, if you had two of the current model, you could rotate one 180degrees, remove the section between start point and hill, and have them run into each other there. Like it'll climb the hill on one, come all the way down, into climbing the hill on the second half. It would be interesting to try, but not an experiment I can afford!

Is it too much to ask that the old and new models have an easy connection point that results in a working coaster with few extra pieces required?