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You made an interesting point on your latter reply on increasing production meet current demand. Well, to ramp up demand to feed the supply can be a double edge sword. If the additional supply is being taken up fast by the market and the sets which are on shelves are not moving as fast for the new releases, then there is a possibilitiy of consumers not buying enough to clear the projected supply? I have slowed down my purchases even though regionally there are sales in Singapore and Malaysia. We can assume those are part of promtotional efforts of D2C sets buying 2 of same value and getting the third for free which is effective 33% discount. Or TRU sales in Malaysia having 40% off on average, or departmental stores in Singapore getting rid last year Advent Calendar at 50% off which is about USD$20 per box. This is just my own observation and interpetation, not meant to quantify the true stance of the change of CEO. From a business management perspective, a change of CEO within such a short span of time normally sparks some real underlying intent (not witholding if he had health problems or personal matters) which attest to the change. CEO is normally accountable and in this case, to the board. Just my 1 cent.
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I thought about it and I always stick to my gut. But lately without us able to contribute more reliable convictions in the day, I felt we are like headless chickens. The votes are now doing more actual harm to town. If we had successfully convicted one and end up being Town and 2 more kills come about at night. I am almost certain today will be the very last.
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I noticed global and regional sales seems sluggish and some of the stuff are being imposed with price increase. The product range are growing strong but somehow the stocks are not moving as fast as it was before. At least I noticed some of the older sets are having a hard time clearing off such as those constraction SW figures built for example. This is just an observation but I find it very strange to see a leadership renewal happening so fast within such a short span of time. I don't believe he is there, just to fill in the gap until a new suitable CEO is found? This corporate news is quite out of the norm.
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It is simple. Do we want now need to convict someone for the sake of doing so? I just felt we need more time to form our basis. Normally I would agree a lynch, but there are so many kills among us and so far we had only nabbed Ari. I find it very highly pausible that we are so bad in getting the next one. There are too many quiet players around and I am not comfortable unless we have a strong basis. The town numbers are dwindling.
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I am glad there is a change in CEO within such a short span of time to correct their path and back on track.
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I am just going for the majority now. I pray we might have a good chance to nab it. Vote: Brick Affleck (Actor Builder)
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Now our votes are going sideway again.... Who can I trust to place my vote on... We do need a lynch but somehow I got a feeling that our votes are now being influenced by Burpamounts without getting a major conviction? There is so few people to trust right now.
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To qualify, I believe Legonardo even before his unfortunate death. Even though he didn't share the specifics with me in private of his role. More officially, he doesn't have any actions until someone (else) bad happen to him or her. He's the back up power to someone who is on Town side. It's unfortunate. Damn it. I don't have any other concrete information and our allies are dwindling
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Hello everyone, I am back again to share my fifth LEGO Star Wars Rogue One review with a bit of self promoting in mind. The earlier LEGO Rogue One reviews which I reviewed were the 75152 Imperial Assault Hovertank, 75153 AT-ST Walker, 75154 TIE Striker and 75155 Rebel U-wing Fighter. I had been buying LEGO Rogue One sets from time to time in order to expand and reminisce the battle scenes. This new battle pack was timely in order for me to amass the troopers in larger quantities. Please note this review will not contain major movie spoilers but bound to contain minor spoilers. Without further ado, let me indulge you guys in this simple review. Name: 75165 Imperial Trooper Battle Pack Theme: LEGO System / Licensed / Rogue One Year: 2017 Pieces: 112 Minifigs: 4 minifigures Price: USD 14.99, GBP 11.99, EURO 14.99, SGD 29.90 Resources: Brickset, BrickLink An original box image of the 75165 Imperial Trooper Battle Pack Back view of the original box image of the 75165 Imperial Trooper Battle Pack The Star Wars Battle Pack is a must-have LEGO set to increase your battle efficiency When this battle pack was first released, I knew I would get more of these Star Wars battle packs to increase my troopers count within the battle armies. I would still freshly recall when battle packs were introduced in 2007 and a decade later, we have seen so many varieties of Star Wars battle packs across the universe in different eras. This battle pack were a few of the recent releases which caught my attention, largely because of the newly introduced Imperial Death Troopers which was seen accompanied with Director Orson Krennic, Advanced Weapons Research of the Empire's Imperial Military.. The content of the sealed box The box contains two un-numbered sealed bags and an instruction manual. After building, these are the remaining spare parts. The must-have army building minifigures to form your Imperial Troopers This battle pack contain two Imperial Death Troopers and two Stormtroopers, each equipped with a stud shooter. Looks like I have to replace these stud shooters with my standard short/long blasters from my spare inventories. I am not overly fond of these stud shooters. They work and play well for children but they look quite weird with the shooters when I display them altogether and I don't quite think I will be taking that minifigures moving around and shooting studs. Imagine the nightmare when you forget to keep the 1x1 round stud on the floor. I am sure you would be asking your children to keep those studs well after playing. Those studs are not expensive parts and there are spares, but just visualise yourself stepping onto one if you fail to keep it. The Imperial Death Troopers are my main reasons to buy this battle pack in order to increase my numbers of these new Imperial Death Troopers. These Imperial Death Troopers are pretty remarkably well designed. This minifigure can only be found in this battle pack and another variant of the Imperial Death Trooper with pauldron can be found in the 75156 Krennic's Imperial Shuttle. The Imperial Death Troopers were an elite variant of the Galactic Empire's stormtroopers. They served as protective details and bodyguards for important Imperial officers such as Admiral Tarkin and Director Krennic. They wore black suits of armor, trained in unarmed combat, heavy weapons, and sniping. in order to aid in their commando missions. While the Stormtrooper were released over numerous times with many slight variants across different years, this iconic white minifigure design is the latest one which was made available in eight recent LEGO Star War sets including the recent Advent Calendars in 2015 and 2016. We had seen distinct Star Wars battle packs which focused on Stormtroopers and they are 7667 Imperial Dropship in 2008 and 75078 Imperial Troop Transport in 2015. I like these minifigures which is why I bought a few boxes. Upon removing their helmets, you can see front view of the minifigures with their same generic actual facial expressions. All of the minifigures are featured with back printing. The completed built of the Imperial Walker The completed built of the Imperial Walker is very simple and good-to-have feature to accompany this battle pack. Standing at 10cm high, this is quite a short mobile walker to accompany the soldiers to take on the rebels. I prefer the actual Imperial Walkers such as AT-ST instead of this miniature version. It is a small built which can be piloted by one trooper. The firing arsenal including stud shooters on both arms which would allow it to adjust from an elevated height. This built does not give me a striking impression and I thought it was quite an average built. It is nice for small battle scenes for quick reconnaissance but it's easily dwarfed by other bigger and powerful Imperial vehicles. You can look at a greater details of this completed built from the side view and back view. Let's destroy the Rebel soldiers Director Krennic will be very pleased 3rd Platoon, search and destroy those rebel elements To conclude, this is an above average LEGO Star Wars battle packs and I bought it largely because I want these minifigures. Both troopers' type are equally distributed and there is no need to have a specific section commander. I prefer more troopers to be generic, so I can quickly build up a sizable force. The Imperial Death Trooper is the biggest attraction for me, while the Imperial Walker built was quite average which I do not fancy much. The concern which I have noticed is the increase of Star Wars battle packs for US region of USD$1 which does not quite justify the increase and making these battle packs expensive. Thankfully the battle packs cost the same in Singapore without price increase. I sincerely hope this will not be an increasing trend. Hope to pick more of this set when it is on sales in the later half of the year or next. Summary review Playability: 7/10 (Fun to play with to increase the troopers count for your battle scenes) Design: 7/10 (Good minifigures designs but average looking design for the Imperial Walker.) Price: 7/10 (Get this polybag via promotional means, and re-consider getting it via secondary market.) Overall: 7/10 (Average battle pack design but with great assortment of minifigures to increase the troopers and is best to buy when there is a sales.) I gave it a "3" based on my Review Score Card. What about yours? I hope every one of you enjoyed reading this simple review of mine. Comments and Criticisms are strongly welcomed. Pictures can be found in My Flickr.
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WhiteFang replied to Itaria No Shintaku's topic in Special LEGO Themes
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Lovely review. I am very pleased to see the completed reviews for these 4 sets. Thanks for taking your time to do this review for our Eurobricks community. I had the pleasure of seeing the display in KL earlier.
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Our Eurobricks Reviewers Academy Teacher, kaelthas has successfully reviewed the Malaysia "Cities of Wonder", which was specially commissioned by LEGO in Asia. Countries like Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan had their own cultural features in 4 unique display iconic sets. This review can be made possible with kaelthas collaborating with his local LUG (LOM LUG). Take a moment and enjoy this wonderful special reviewing feature and learn new cultural stuff for those who are unfamiliar with these icons. Check out the pictorial review of Cities of Wonders Gift sets, Malaysia in Eurobricks LEGO Town Forum.
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We lose two of them and really...... simply very painful, for us ABS. I am at loss of words and yesterday we were pushing hard for a lynch for Rosamund, among other candidates. We needed a conviction and among us, our votes were going sideways. We need to properly nail the bloody right person down for today. The numbers are dwindling. We have 11 of us left and I bet there are at least 3 to 4 Burpamounts remaining. At this rate, the odds are no good for us.
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This whole thing is a huge ruse to make Legonardo look scummy and our single attempt to achieve a lynch is now significantly derail. I just took a snooze and we are now at cross roads. Why should we be further dividing among ourselves. I find it very strange and I don't think we will reach a majority within the short time.
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You are right. We need a conviction and here is my revised vote, Unvote: Audrey Hepbrick (Dragonator) Vote Rosamunde Brick (Rider Raider)
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I haven't seen a strong case being built up yet. Well, I don't know if Audrey is absolute vanilla. But the lack of activity by her, is concern. Will you rather the person keep totally quiet and let life goes on and hope she is just a vanilla. Or just merely someone plotting against us while we argue the cow come home. As I said, I am prepared to place my vote in order to secure a lynch and that's where we can start trimming the numbers to discern the remaining population.
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With less than 24 hours to go, I would want to place my vote first. Audrey was totally missing in Day 2 and I don't know why she kept so quiet and today I felt she's flying under radar as usual in Day 3 and my vote is largely based on her lack of activity and even though she is a vanilla townie. I would prefer her to speak up. Vote: Audrey Hepbrick (Dragonator) However, I am willing to change votes to the most probable person for other potential candidates.
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Audury, you are awefully quiet and in case you didn't notice. You have already clocked 2 penalty votes against yourself for not voting. Anything else to add? Because it is unlike you that you are being awefully chatterless.
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Do you want this information to be revealed in public and tell the whole world who is cleared? This is insane especially if this person who is cleared and is also not in danger. I don't get it and why the need to expose? Because I know who's cleared? Well the Burpamounts already knew their teammates in secret and are plotting our deaths. There's no reason to put that cleared citizen in danger. The source already proven to me that the investigation is sane and I will put my life for this very person, no matter the cause.
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As of now, we had no other confirmation of a Burpamount and one of us was cleared last night. That's about it for now. Well, for the record. I don't expect anyone to fully trust me and I am perfectly alright with it. More importantly, I would rather we work together to nap the most highly probable possible Burpamount.
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[REVIEW] 70349 Ruina's Lock & Roller
WhiteFang replied to makoy's topic in LEGO Action and Adventure Themes
Thanks Makoy for delivering this detailed wonderful review. I had finally managed to it this set at a very good discount. I wanted this set largely for the minifigures especially for Queen Halbert and Ruina, similar to Beatrix. -
Finally, the Townie scored a real hit. I am very glad that my risky move and my strong belief for this source paid off. Good riddance to Nougat and touted as one of the formidable scummy foe to begin with. I am still in the midst of gathering my thoughts. Let's keep the good momentum and hoping we can get someone as scummy as it get. I do not have any other privy information yet but I will do what I can. My griefness and sadness to Brickie. She was such a fine lass. We lose a friend in this tussle.