Yperio_Bricks

Au contraire! I want to include and keep everyone and hope we* find the best compromise for a forum upgrade that is based on logic and facts rather than on emotion. Everyone is awesome and a valuable member of the community! It is just that the community as I see it is much bigger than the community a Lego purist might accept as theirs. *I say we, but we are just chatting on deck while the admins have the sweat job in the engine room and have to figure out what is best.

Nobody here wants to force you to buy sets from other brands.

20 years ago the world was different with Lego having basically a monopoly. But the world has changed and competition between brands can only be positive for us customers. Even for Lego fans who can not even look or want to read a word about other brands, because hopefully the competition makes all products better, Lego's products included. Sorry, but why do you feel the need to threaten the admins and have them choose between a Lego only forum and a forum where everyone is welcome. With the subtext that the forum will go down the drain if it is opened up for other brands an many Lego fans will leave.

Cheers I had typed some more percentages but then I wanted to keep it short and just wrote "at any rate" Same goes for animals, minifigs accessoires and so on. It just makes no sense to seperate mocs by this metric. And of course mocs that violate the 100% Lego rule are posted all the time. I used flashlights to illuminate mocs. Is that even allowed? Does TLG approve?

I support this option now too. Because: What if I build a moc, can be any theme like Star Wars, Marvel, Castle, Pirates, or an original creation and I plan to illuminate it? In which forum would I post the moc if... I use only Lego bricks and pieces but integrate a Lumibricks lighting system from a Lumibricks set I use only Lego bricks and pieces and a lighting system from a brand that does not produce bricks I use only Lego bricks and pieces and craft the lighting system myself using LEDs, wires, etc. I mix Lego bricks and pieces with bricks and pieces from other companies at any rate Shouldn't all these mocs simply be posted in the same sub-forum? It would spare us a lot of hassle and back and forth arguing which moc belongs into which sub-forum. For more clarity and a more logical approach it would need a reorganization of the whole EB forum though. Have discussion about official sets, parts, minifigs and stuff seperated by brand but have all mocs in the same forums, seperated by theme. I think it would set up EB for the next 20 years!

Sadly we see this in our world every day, not just in Lego forums. Emotions, nostalgia, childhood memories or even trauma, brand love, 'everything was better in the old days', etc. Nothing is taken away from anyone when there is something added to the EB forum!

There were other colors that I had problems identifying, but I throw all instructions into the recycling bin, so I can't take a look at one now

Yep, that's it. Even the paper of the instructions feels cheap and the printing is so bad, that it is often hard to distinguish colors, for example dark brown and black. All my bashing I do because I love the bricks and minifigs and it's sad to see the state of the product. LEGO is more into money than quality and innovation these days.

Wow, this is huge! Love all the details and scenes you added, like the bunk beds or Andor in action right next to the canteen, where Derda is sitting. The shot through the corridor looks great!

I think LEGO kind of forced itself into a corner by the high prices they are asking. E.g. inegrated lighting? That would be much too expensive to have in Lego sets. They take a 5c cheap electronic part, slap a logo on it and suddenly the price increses tenfold. With that situation in mind they lost momentum and are not state of the art anymore.

Nobody knows what LEGO exactly bought in 1981. The current owner of the Kiddicraft TM contacted Hilary Page's daughter but nobody in the family knows what was sold either. They also don't know who LEGO was talking to when they supposedly contacted Kiddicraft (after the death of Hilary Page?) in the late 50s and Kiddicraft supposedly wished LEGO "good luck with the bricks, as they have not enjoyed much success with their product". If there are any historic documents, they are hidden and locked in Lego's vault. LEGO writes on its homepage that they also bought the Kiddicraft TM in 1981 but the TM was sold to Fisher price in 1989 by the previous rights holders, Hestair. There's also no trace to be found of Lego ownership of the Kiddicraft TM in the trade mark registers. The current owner of the Kiddicraft TM and brand made detailed videos about all the legal affairs around Lego, Kiddicraft and other (Chinese) companies, protected parts, production cost (e.g. new molds) etc. on his YT channel. He also shows original Kiddicraft bricks in relation to other bricks. He also talks about why it can be quite a challenge to find out which parts are actually protected. He goes by the YT handle Johnny's World. The videos are in German though. Don't know if the auto translator is any good.

This is not a source. Sources would be the original documents - valid for legal purposes - that support the narrative that is presented on LEGO's own homepage.

I know the timeline very well. But that does not answer my question. You criticize other brands for using the exact same size as Lego bricks. But you do not criticize Lego for using the exact same size as Kiddicraft bricks. Double standards?

Why did Lego decide to utilize the exact same size of Kiddicraft bricks? Even Duplo has the exact same size as Kiddicraft's bigger bricks.

Almost everything you use, cars, drugs, electronics etc. is manufactured by many different companies all around the world because the original patents expired. Why TLG is the exception and gets a free pass until the end of times? I don't get it and so far none of fans of TLG has delivered one reasonable explanation. I mean, since I left my dark ages in 2018/2019 I have only bought Lego because I only care about the parts and minifigs and not the sets itself, but the company is just like any other megacorp and does not get any sympathy from me.