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This is just the right kind of crazy.

Ah yes, the four seasons of Lego. Butterfly, goat, duck, & candy cane Just kidding, looks great.

"From Merchant to Pirate" by Yatkuu/Gregory Coquelz

I have two full sets on order, plus picked up an extra couple of the ones I want repeats of (elf ears in yellow & the Aarakocra torso). I've never bought so many CMF before - I don't think I've even one full set of any other. In my local (Dublin) store, the staff have divided out the types so you can just ask for this or that one. Staff mentioned the Paladin is the most in-demand. I have to say I'm very glad this series is as popular as it is. I'd like to see them do another (or a few more) series, and the good sales will feed into that. Failing a new series, I hope Lego at least learn lessons here - the pair of doubled-expression heads in most, the keeping of flesh tones away from the torsos/legs. They really seem to have gone the extra mile in terms of interchangeability, which should really be one of Lego's core tenets.

A forum I'm a member of does a banner change every month. A small (unprized) competition for bragging rights.

Day #412 of checking back in this thread for news of the X-Mansion.

How disappointed would the average AFOL be if they started releasing repeats? By which I mean, not a brick-for-brick replica, but if this year's modular turned out to be another fire station with different design, or another town hall? Seems to be inevitable if the line continues on an annual basis (although it could still be years away yet). Sure there'd be some annoyance from the people who've collected the old versions - but they are quite old now, difficult to get on the aftermarket for any kind of reasonable price. Building techniques and pieces have stepped up over the past decade too. I wouldn't hate it.

I picked this up this week and have begun the build - it's a gorgeous model. My only complaints so far 1) The stickers, and in particular the ones for the doors. I'm usually fine with stickers in sets, but something about these little ones for the curved doors has me misplacing every other one. Time to pop out the hot tea (patent: RH) 2) I seriously underestimated the length of the thing (1.16m), and now have nowhere to display it.

While you've laid out conditions for such a transition, you haven't actually mentioned any benefit to such a move? I see this as only downsides for us as customers/fans, and for the current ownership. I don't understand why this would be a good idea for anyone except future shareholders.

Over a series of Christmas & birthdays as a child I had (and still have) this, Gold City Junction and the Sheriff Lock-up sets. Still patiently waiting for a Fort Legorado.. maybe one day.

Wow, this is very definitely the best full set so far imho. All five are excellent. No way I can buy all five though, not even two. I think for me, and I'll have to somehow decide between Tortuga and Transylvania.

I came to a similar solution. This also will depend on how it's allowed look from the rear, and also uses the quarter plate property of the hinge brick, but the other half of it. The issue here is that by centering the single width tooth brick in the middle of a 2 brick section, you create an quarter-plate offset. (1.25 on each side really), and quarter plates are tricky to fill smoothly. The top of a hinge brick is a quarter plate deep so can do the trick. The thin side of a panel could also work. Really, the best fix would be to avoid this altogether. I'm not sure of the context of the larger build but if it's simple decoration, something like this could be just as nice and much easier:

Small Category: "From Merchant to Pirate" by Yatkuu/Gregory Coquelz "Steve's Island Holiday" by YellowFrog "Steve's Boat" by MyFirstMOC-Hun "Infamous Steve and the Fountain of Fortune" by Juhlhaus "Infant Steve Recruited As Royal Spy" by LOTR * * * editing (as requested) to add the large entries to a single post. Large Category: "Captain Steve of the Revenant" by Sebeus and Legostone "Steve's Double-crossing" by YellowFrog "Steve's Treasure Hunt" by Kolonial Beamter de Martinez "Tapu Island" by Marooned Marin "Steves Challenge" by Christophh

Which pieces are you trying to keep by the end? Just the centred tooth? Or are you wanting to keep the diagonal slats too?

Dayum Wally, the banana piece is so good here. Well done, extremely clever work.

The same guy has a YouTube video about a slightly different iteration of that rebrickeable link. He's kinda cobbled the Brick Bank interior into part of it. It's an interesting mishmash, though the layout is still what really steals the show. So if you liked the still images on the link, you may enjoy seeing how it all works together, the build from different angles, and with some interiors added.

Like this on a corner could be one type of circular layout. https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-181009/Brick Artisan/birch-commercial-bldg-facade-only/#details

I have issues with in firefox sometimes, particularly if I've multiple PAB pages open, or multiple images. If it's not an issue on my end, it could be that they are just optimised for Chrome.

I low-key love the inconsistency. Looks perfectly weathered.

This is really coming together. Seriously impressive.

I'm in an apartment at the moment, so the same issue. (House by Christmas though, woot). I've settled on fitting 2.5 modulars on the top of a Ikea Kallax unit. You could fit three, but it'd be edge to edge. The other thought I'd have would be to have very high shelves. E.G. running right around the top of the wall two foot shy of the ceiling. Might be a bit cluttered up there though.

Unfortunately due to the basic laws of physics, you can't have them all out - they'll need space as they do occupy space Best I can suggest is you set aside a shelf that's big enough for say, three modulars, and every so often you retire one of the three to storage and rebuild one in it's place.

I recently built the 'Flatiron' MOC from Brick Active, and it feels like the right way to do a 'skyscraper'. In modular terms it is four floors tall (three and a half & a roof really). It is far from towering over the other modulars, but it does feel & look distinctly taller. Not without it's flaws, but a rather clever build for many reasons. ( https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-185075/BrickAtive/flatiron/#details )

Would you go so far as to say they need a bigger one?

I work in a related field. Not specifically AI, but automation of (parts of) people's jobs. e.g. if you spend an hour a day copy/pasting info from this spreadsheet into some system, then I'm the guy who writes a program that will do it for you. I think the OP (beep boop) is speaking specifically about generative AI - which is exciting of course, but it's also at the peak of a hype cycle. There are a lot of marketing promises of it's potential to do ~everything~, whereas in reality a lot of these things are very difficult. @evank's advice to consider this kind of AI as a tool or an assistant is the way to go here. I will not be fully trusting any task completely to AI any time soon. Can it make suggestions for a Lego designer to noodle upon? Certainly. Hell I'll use it myself for MOCs. "Hey ChatGPT, give me a list of buildings you'll find in a medieval village", oh nice, I hadn't thought about a candle-maker, I can build from that.. Generative-AI is not the only kind though - that's just hot right now as an emergent technology - your ChatGPTs, or your Midjourneys (and all the big companies versions of the same). You can also think about applications of the far more mature types of AI, which also have a much higher confidence rating. 1) Classification-AI: So think things that need binary answers or classification. Is this a brick red or blue? Think of the image tool app that scans your pile of bricks and suggest MOCs that contain a lot of them. 2) Predictive analysis AI, or pattern recognition: This has been in use for at least a decade in housing, stock markets etc. I'd be surprised if this isn't already in use at Lego. You throw all the Sales data of the last year into this kind of model and see if some unexpected results come back. Example, if they found that sets with new animal molds sell triple than those without set without - they might decide the price of a new mold in this case is worth more than a new mold for a one-off minifig accesory, and start cranking those numbers up. Let it crunch the numbers on whatever data is available instead of manually trawling through that data yourself. 3) Conversion-AI is the other type I know a bit about, but I'm struggling to think of a use-case. This covers translation services and that kind of thing. It could be used in the Customer Services department to for example, scan incoming emails & phonecalls for tone & level of discontent to more quickly route these to the relevant department.