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    @williejm, Very handy! Thanks for sharing There are a few duplications with some winged creatures listed twice: with and without wings. Also, would be cool if you could select real vs fantastic creatures and cross-select by aesthetic: System, Friends etc. Interesting nonetheless to see the increase in yearly additions from 2 when I became an AFOL to 101 in the first half of this year.
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    Cool! You could create an accurate sig-fig Very handy. Thanks for sharing. I have or am expecting from B&P most of them. The adult elephant is proving elusive though.
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    Sometimes, one just gets lucky with the CS reps. A few years ago when the big cats were new, I tried to order one online through B&P. It said it was in stock and had a price but clicking it didn’t add it to the order. So I called CS and explained the situation. While talking with me on the phone, the agent went to the page and confirmed that there was an error on the site. So she added two of the big cats to my order herself (I was only going to order one) and didn’t charge me for them. Super cool
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    Some BrickLink sellers only sell new bricks that they part out from sets, buy from Bricks & Pieces or get from LEGO store BAMs and PABs. They will often say in their BL store’s blurb that they only sell new. If they have lots of positive feedback with few or no negatives, you can be sure they are legitimate. It would be impossible to pass off fakes to hundreds or even thousands of AFOLs.
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    The mermaid build is very clever. I especially like how her hair is done.
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    Done. If anyone is reticent for privacy reasons, the only demographic questions were country, age band, gender and whether or not you had kids.
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    The new cape is great. I hope that LEGO does it in other colours. The candelabra is already available in the Hogwarts Chamber of Secrets set as well as through Bricks & Pieces.
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    Public companies are ones listed on an exchange such as the NYSE or LSE and in which anyone can buy shares. As well as sharing certain regulatory requirements and accounting standards, public companies have some cultural commonalities, accepted ‘best practices’ and shareholder expectations. One such is to always be innovating as that is seen by markets as key to growth. Replicating old products is usually seen by investors as an admission of failure to innovate - so public companies very rarely do it. LEGO, as a privately owned company, is not bound by the same restrictions and requirements as public companies. But in practice, it’s easier for it to operate like a listed company.
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    I agree. I meant in relation to exact duplicates of sets from long ago.
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    LEGO is a private company but is run like a public one, and public companies very rarely revert to old products. It makes them look like they’re not innovating, that the designers of a bygone era were more capable. Companies can’t be seen to be that way or admit that. As for the sculpt development process, as recently as a few years ago, after some 2D concept art, new elements for CMFs began with hand-made, oversized sculpts. That was the process despite CAD being widely used in later stages. Likely still the case.
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    LOL! Brilliant comment! On a more serious note, B&P's stock continues to be a source of frustration. As usual, I'm having to place orders a few pieces at a time separated by several weeks - paying P&P each time - because everything isn't in stock at once. The croc in green is a good example. I have its head and body but its tail wasn't in stock so is coming in a later order. I should be receiving the elephant's trunk soon but haven't been able to get its head or body. In an earlier order, the snake was in stock so I added it to my cart only for the site to crash. When I immediately started over, the snake had gone out of stock - literally from one minute to the next. Aaaargh!
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    Unpopular opinion? Printing on minifigures is getting too detailed. Minifigures are highly stylised with (usually) C-shaped hands, (mostly) rectangular feet, flat torsos etc and yet printing on them is just getting more and more detailed. The one doesn’t go with the other!
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    There are instructions for a palm tree build on pages 82 and 83 of Blocks Magazine issue 80 (June 2021).
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    @Seaber, Great minifigures! Personally, I go with yellowies rather than fleshies but recognise that not everyone agrees especially for licensed themes. In keeping with the topic of this thread, here is my Sauron minifigure: And while more Hobbit-related than LotR, here is my mounted Thranduil:
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    A great deal of effort and resources have been expended over the last 50 or so years to inculcate the view in western culture that gender preferences are social in origin, but science doesn’t support that hypothesis. In relation to toy preferences in particular, the scientific evidence is overwhelmingly in favour of it being biologically determined. Of course there is some overlap, but nature, not nurture, is the better predictor of toy preference. Not my opinion. Fact.
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    If anyone wants to see the new sheep mould used in a mod, there’s an article on Brickset that has three pictures that include one. The article isn’t specifically about animal moulds; it just happens to have pics of the new sheep.
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    There’s an article on Brickset with some other changes - or improvements, depending on your point of view.
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    @seejay I believe that for all of Europe, LEGO uses UK time. So a set released on a particular day will be available from midnight in the UK but 1am in France. I suspect LEGO does that because its European sites are all managed centrally, likely by an offshore third party, and it is more straightforward to launch everything at once.
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    I don’t know about continental European time, but I ordered a couple of 1 June releases a few minutes after midnight British Summer Time (BST) that day. 12am BST is 1am in France.
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    A charming creation! I especially like the shaping, texturing and colouring of the buildings. I can't put my finger on exactly why, but it feels authentic - as if it represented a real edifice.
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    I had to paint a dragon's tooth that came badly scratched straight out of the box. Used Humbrol satin. The match is so good, I can no longer tell where it was!
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    I am selling the Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck minifigures in their farmers' outfits parted from set 10775. The minifigures are brand new and have never been assembled. The image below is just a stock image. The minifigures have been kept out of sunlight in a clean, pet-free, smoke-free home. Minifigure accessories (pitchfork, fruit, vegetables etc) NOT included. £10 for both plus Royal Mail postage at cost. UK only. Interested? Please PM me. Update: SOLD
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    I’m generally not a fan of brick-built creatures unless they’re quite large. They tend to look blocky, robotic or overly stylised. But your dragon is outstanding! Worlds better than the green dragon in 31120 Creator Medieval Castle.
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    About the Olympians, we’ve had Poseidon and Athena as CMFs even though they weren’t called that, so a Greek mythology range of sets doesn’t seem out of the question. With regards to the sacrifice of Isaac, it would mean a moulded ram to go with the forthcoming sheep (ewe?) which would be great. It would be even better if the ram came with detachable horns that could be held by a minifigure. Of course, as religious subject matter, LEGO won’t do it. But a moulded System ram is a possibility, so it might be possible to MOC it eventually.
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    Blocks Magazine did for certain themes within System: separate ones for Pirates, (CS) Space and Castle. DK has one for the history of minifigures with each major development. I’m not sure anyone has done one for all of LEGO’s history. Depending on the level of detail, it could be a huge undertaking.
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