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Have I somehow missed Fangy’s review? I can’t seem to find it. A minifigure series ain’t a minifigure series until @WhiteFang has reviewed it.

@Kim-Kwang-Seok I totally agree that LEGO should do longer legs. In fairness to them, they have: Woody's legs from Toy Story (below) and the Minecraft skeleton legs (below that) are both tall. But they haven't done tall legs like Woody's in useful colours like black for Vader which is a shame. I doubt that LEGO will ever produce tall legs for Vader and the like. It would make those minifigures incompatible with vehicles, mounts etc that fit standard minifigures. Also, kids - LEGO's primary demographic - don't care much about scale. Some bootleg brands have made long legs, e.g. for Mr Fantastic of the Fantastic Four, but I won't be posting pictures here. It would be cool if a third party accessories maker such as BrickFortress made them. BrickFortress produced high quality articulated short legs years before LEGO did for the HP CMFs. So we can live in hope... Thank you for saying you thought my Sauron was as good as it gets without sculpting/painting. I'm sure someone will do/has done better, but I am OK with how he looks and have added him to my LotR/Hobbit LEGO display collection.

@SteampunkDoc Thank you for your kind words. Appreciated. I try not to over use the 1x1-plate-under-each-foot technique to keep it special. I did it for Darth Vader and a few others, but not many.

@GreisISniiice I’m not a mod but I suspect this thread should be in the Buy, Sell & Trade forum, specifically the Bazaar. If you really want to be completist, you will want issues 0-50, not 1-50. There was a pilot issue.

I have wanted to create a Sauron minifigure for years but there was no suitable helmet until Reinhardt's from Overwatch. Now that I have one, let me introduce you to Sauron, Lord of the Rings:

@Exetrius I had the same idea of using Reinhardt's helmet for Sauron, but my execution is a bit different:

Indeed. If you’re going to ruin a minifigure head with rifling marks, you should use a fleshy. Fleshy parts deserve to be destroyed in cruel and unusual ways.

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts! Great creation. The shaping of the horse is really well done and the parts usage very clever. ?

Classic Space + greebling = really cool creation! ?

Thanks @Clone OPatra!

Apologies if this has been asked and answered already, but do we have a confirmed US release date for TLM2 sets, specifically Benny's Space Squad (70841) and Emmet & Benny's Workshop (70821)? I know the UK release date is 26 December, but is it the same in North America?

My sig fig agrees. The lack of Star Trek in LEGO is illogical. @SteampunkDoc, Nice design. Looking forwards to seeing it built out of LEGO.

As someone who had most of the Classic Space sets of the 1970s and early 1980s when they came out, I was thrilled to find out LEGO would be releasing a couple of Classic Space inspired sets as part of the forthcoming TLM 2 range (pictured below). Judging by posts online, lots of other AFOLs of a certain vintage seem to agree. But do kids these days like Classic Space? Will the sets below be hits with AFOLs only or will kids like them too? Or are they too blocky and retro to appeal to LEGO's main demographic?

I mostly don't use stickers. On the rare occasions when I do use them, I apply them using a trick recommended by LEGO: wet the pieces with a bit of window cleaning solution, place and adjust the sticker, and press out any air bubbles and excess liquid. And Bob's your uncle! I also get extras of any stickers I use. They are generally pretty cheap on BrickLink.

Comic book legend Stan Lee has died at the age of 95. Lee (co-)created many of the world's most popular superhero characters including Spider-Man, Hulk, Iron Man, Fantastic Four, X-men, Thor (Marvel's version) and Ant-Man among others. Of all the characters that Lee (co-)created, which is your favourite in LEGO? Here's mine:

What a brilliant castle! Some of my favourites creations are inspired by sets of the '70s. And you have goat - cool

I like the texturing of the roof. Very cool Here's Baba Yaga, the music by Mussorgsky orchestrated by Ravel to go with the LEGO creation

More than a bit OT, but of course I remember MOC D&D minifigures. They're still in my display collection! By red wizard's hat, do you mean the one on the left in this picture also from my display collection? Back on topic (sort of): in addition to tsundokuing sets, I also get spare parts I never wind up using. I literally have hundreds, possibly thousands. I have a spare of the red wizard's hat above for example. I completely empathise. While I haven't sold any of my tsundokued sets, I have been tempted. Some have surged in value and I feel badly knowing I could make a mint out of them but would feel even worse if I got rid of those sets. Ahhh, first world problems!

Not so much a sale as a find, I got Party Banana Juice Bar (5005250) at Sainsbury's today for £4. Glad I nabbed this one as I wasn't able to get it when it was a promotional item at LEGO stores earlier this summer. Seems particularly appropriate to get a minifigure on the official birthday of the minifigure!

@BenderBrau, I'm not sure what the HB storage boxes are like, but have you tried Really Useful brand boxes? That's what I mostly use. They come in a variety of sizes, are stackable and robust.

What, if anything, is the gift-with-purchase at UK LEGO stores in August 2018? Does the promotion start on the 1st of the month, i.e. Wednesday? What minimum spend is required to qualify? I searched online but could only find information for the US. I tried calling LEGO UK Customer Service and they didn't know the answers! Update: I just found out from a LEGO store that the August promotion does start this Wednesday (1 August). It's 40320 Plants from Plants. It's 'free' with purchases of £35+.

Strictly speaking, tsundoku is the acquisition of books that pile up without being read. It's starting to be used for other things like movies and games that pile up without being watched/played. So why not LEGO sets? I have several sets I have tsundokued including 79018 Lonely Mountain, 850936 Halloween Set and 6599 Shark Attack. I bought them when they were still being sold in stores or soon after but just haven't gotten round to opening them. NB that tsundokuing is not the same thing as buying sets but not opening them because they are an investment and you intend to sell them. A tsundokued set is one you intended to build or at least planned to use for parts, but never even opened. What sets have you tsundokued?

When I modding a set a few years ago (see picture), I was going to use some dark red cheese slopes. Almost all of them split just by being put on a stud! In the end, I came up with a better design that didn't use any cheese slopes. But I wasn't particularly impressed with LEGO's quality on that occasion. I haven't had that problem with cheese slopes in any other colour.

Here is your philosophy final exam question: What is LEGO purity? Is it a binary category, i.e. something is purist or not, or is it a scale, i.e. degrees of purity? Is purity a Wittgensteinian 'family resemblance'? Or is it what mathematicians call a 'fuzzy set'? Discuss by means of a Hegelian dialectic and supported by examples.

Indeed. There are also sets such as Easter Bunny Hut (5005249), Iconic Cave (5004936) and Banana Guy Beach Hut in which part of the box is designed for play/display. I believe there have been LEGO sets in which, according to the instructions, you were supposed to cut the string/tubing to size. If the instructions direct you to cut a part, it raises the question of whether the part and anything made from it is still purist. The problems of LEGO ontology! In relation to the boxes-as-part-of-the-set, cutting string/tubing and in the general case, shouldn't 'purist' be defined as anything TLG does in or intends for a set? If so, does that only apply to particular parts such as the box-cave from Iconic Cave or for any LEGO box? If LEGO's boxes are purist, are its (branded) shipping cartons purist too? It seems we need to consider LEGO's intention and whether it matters or not.