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Some figures from CMF series 29 leaked and one of them would make a fabulous pirate! Not sure about the hat though. But the hair/hat piece looks great.

This strategy only works if customers let it work and act against what is best for them (purchase a good for the lowest possible price) and for the benefit of a multi-billion dollar company and the billionaires behind it. But it is already too late... The production cost of a small and simple* GWP must be, well, small. So throwing it after day-one buyers who pay the full RRP is like printing Danish krones But I understand I am in the minority. I love the LOTR minifigs but will never get one of them because I'd never buy a $500+ set and I am not interested in displaying sets anyways. Maybe I am lucky and one day in the future another torso shows up at PAB, like Pippin's from Rivendell I plan to binge The Rings of Power in preparation * For example, Fell Beast looked super simple to me. Like, they just took one old random table-scrap a designer built in minutes and made it a set.

When can we expect the official reveal/images of the Creator pirate ship when it is releasing in June?

From my observation there are indeed much more castle fans than pirates fans. Since Camilla's and Will's torsos are up at PAB, they will stay on the cheap end I guess. There's always much more buzz about castle minifigs. EDIT: I don't want to sound too negative of course. I love pirates and I wish the theme would be treated better by Lego!

First I want to say, that I love the variety of bricks, pieces and colors we have today, but it is much harder, more time consuming and more expensive to build a good basic collection of pieces to build your own creations. When I was a kid I used the same bricks to build a castle and an aircraft carrier (that experience stuck with me ). If you buy just a few sets today you end up with many different pieces in many different colors and it can be challenging to build even some basic stuff like a house. Then we have a lot of 1x1 pieces nowadays. I mean A LOT. It is not a set for kids but I always think of Rivendell as an good example for 1x1 pieces. It has like 530 1x1 tiles alone! Then there are all the other 1x1 pieces in that set like plates, round plates and modified plates, flowers, etc. Lego knows people use the ppp as a metric to gauge a set's worth and inflating the piece count with 1x1 pieces is easy. And 1000 1x1 pieces cost basically nothing in production. I guess the weight of all pieces of a set would be a good additional metric but it is rarely every used. Maybe some youtubers mention the weight every now and then but that's about it. But the question is, does LEGO want people to take sets apart and build something new? I don't think so. For LEGO it is more profitable when people buy an expensive collectors item, build it once and then display it aka bury it on a shelf. Then buy a new set and repeat the process. Playing and moccing just disturbs the money-printing machine. Same for children -> see my first point.

Camilla's and Will's torsos from the vending machine set are up at PAB now, as well as tan epaulettes.

The sand green torso, skirt and wings of the figurehead are up at PAB now. There are also Elizabeth's, Will's and Gibbs's hair pieces and Cotton's bandana up for grabs. And there are three large hull pieces also at PAB. The 1x1 printed round tile/coin too. And a compass.

The Hunt for Gollum is scheduled for release in December 2027. Prepare for playsets and battlepacks everyone! I mean, there is hope, right?

Great job once again Love the red hussar. The minfigs you show in your previous post look great too! Especially the barbary pirates

I hope so! Like with PotC, a new movie is my only hope for LotR playsets and battlepacks. It's depressing to see how Lego treats these themes (Lego Star Trek suffers the same fate.)

All the years I really was under the impression that LotR is one of the world's best know IP, famous all around the world, up there with PotC, GoT, HP, Star Trek and others. But whenever small Lego sets are brought up people always talk it down. Maybe I was wrong and LotR is just a small niche thing after all I guess people are right, surely kids would have no idea what to do with a battlepack of orcs /s

Oh wow, never thought we would get a ship this year! From BrickTab on reddit: 31387 Legendary Pirate Ship 1,074 pieces June release

I agree and want to add, that there are much more people into Lego now than there were in the past. Think of how many people joined the hobby during the pandemic. And there's no (such a big) stigma of 'nerdy adults playing with kids plastic toys' anymore.

There are not many kids that can afford to buy sets that cost 270-500 $/€. And most kids won't get too excited about book nooks or helmets either. If there would be smaller sets and battlepacks, kids would buy them imo. And many adults too.

Could this double as a jungle parts pack? Set 40957:

Well, for me it is the exact opposite. All my yellow heads and torsos with yellow neckline reside in my never-use-Lego bin amongst some other useless parts. (At least the larger dark azure plates and wedge plates that I kept in the never-use-Lego bin finally proved to be useful as a base for the white pieces I keep in the open on the balcony to speed up yellowing ) I agree what was said about Ninjago minifigs. I constantly check all the new sets and Ninjago magazines but there is hardly ever a useful minifigure. They are just too colorful and flashy. And if the look useful on first glance they have a logo on the back or something.

The Three Investigators were super popular in Germany and still are. And, like Lego, they are also popular amongst adults who grew up with the books and radio plays. New books and radio plays still get released every year. Both well beyond 200 episodes now. I sometimes listen to one of the old radio plays when building Lego. Yes, there was a tunnel

The live action show I guess. Also the show was renewed for a 3rd season in August this year and expect we'll get more Lego sets in the future if the sets that are on shelves now and next year will sell well.

Six new Once Piece sets from $30 to $170 are rumored for 2026. Amongst them Drum Island Castle, Marine Ship and a buildable Chopper.

The regular price of the magazine is €5.99 at the moment. So it is not that cheap for one minifig. That's why the last magazine I bought was the one with Qui-Gon in January this year. But I'll get the one with the Night Trooper. I skipped the battlepack but one or two Night Troopers will be good for kitbashing/figbarfs And I can simply pick the magazines up when I am grocery shopping in my local LIDL supermarket, so I guess I am more willing to spend the money when it is so easy to spend it Compared to the battlepack which I have to order or have to visit a shop in the next big city to pick it up. The issues with Ahsoka and Maul had a price of €7.99 because one came with an additional tin box and one with a sticker sheet. The sticker sheet was super lame though. I never understood why there are no such magazines in America. Is there really some SW action figure license (held by an other company) that is stopping Lego from selling minifigs as magazine gift? We don't know for sure, right?

Bluebrixx is going to release the ??? (Three Investigators; Drei Fragezeichen) Scrapyard HQ and it looks actually pretty good. It comes with 112 prints. Wait until you see the fence! I must say, I am positively impressed and the set looks much better than expected. What do you think?

We'll get the Night Trooper with the DBG Helmet in LSW magazines next year (releasing 30 January 2026 in Germany).

My pleasure Your workspace looks great! A lot of vertical storage but easy accessible. And enough space on the table too

So many happy little accidents - Bob Ross would be proud of me Just kiddin', I am such a slow moccer, I didn't post too many oversized pictures in recent years But while we are at it I have a question. In the past, when checking a user's profile it was possible to see all? of the users posts. Now it seems to show only the posts of the last 2 or 3 days.

That's one of the exeptions I mentioned. I guess it depends on how the websites are coded but that's just a wild guess. But you can try adding a picture with the auto-generated flickr link when you edit a EB post, if the picture is shown immediately it works. I take all pictures as is. I think all pictures are automatically resized when they are too large when posted at EB. There is maximum width of 1024 or so? I rarely use my mobile to access EB, if ever, so I don't even remember how EB looks on the phone If a picture is too large or would obstruct the writing too much and you want to change the size of the picture in your EB post, you simply can double klick on the picture (while writing the post) and then enter the size you want. That method also works. This is actually the method I have to use in an other forum so the pictures are shown correctly and not distorted Every website has its own little problems Just choose the one method you are comfortable with or that works best in a given situation It worked! I just saw the pictures in the other thread