Etzel

According to an earlier post at The Ugly Duckling blog the torso is glued to the legs and the legs to the magnet, but the rest is loose: So there are some parts you can still get with magnet sets, but I don't think it will be worth it

It's unfortunately true, here is a quote from The Ugly Duckling blog: This has also been discussed in the Pharaoh's Quest topic over in the Actions theme forum. Since LEGO aren't allowed to sell SW minifigs separately because of some deal with Hasbro they now have to stop with the magnet sets too (I guess they used them as a loop hole until now). The sad thing is that the rest of the themes have to be affected too, since TLG wants to have a consistent consumer experience over the magnet sets. I can understand their decision but I can't help but feeling a bit disappointed that a theme that I don't care about affects others in such negative way. Boo for SW!

Thanks, the torso is Mrs. Weasley's from 4840 The Burrows.

Nice job! I've been thinking a bit myself about how to make good Arab people in LEGO and this is great. I had to try this technique myself right away but I added a rubber band too to make the head scarf tighter around the head. I tried fiddling around with the Vampire cape but I couldn't make it work like I wanted and the nagged edge on it doesn't fit very well IMHO.

This is my entry for the Expand the Winter Village Contest. I've made a Soup Café as a main building and a small market stand and a skier as some small additions. It has a light-up brick just like the official sets. The inside. The mother has a café at the ground floor and the teenage daughter hangs out with her boyfriend in her room upstairs. The small market stand outside. This gentleman is selling mulled wine/Glühwien/Glögg to an enjoying customer. This lady is out skiing in the woods, but once she's finished she will go to the café and get a cup of nice and warming soup. For more pictures, please visit my flickr. Thanks for watching! /Etzel

Nice work! The reindeer is a little blocky but I really like the minifigs and the use of the icy rock pieces. It reminds me about the famous ice-hotel in northern Sweden.

I guess this is a set similar to the Kingdoms battle packs (link 1, link 2). Some people have reported that the quality of those sets wasn't up to their standards. I got one myself recently which was just fine, but people have different attitudes to them.

It's a matter of personal opinion. I just got one of the new HP magnet sets and those figs are just fine according to me. Excellent printing and matching colours. I think it's really sad that the upcoming magnet sets are glued, they were a great way to get rare minifigs for a cheap price. But TLG is a company that wants to make money so I'm not surprised that they try to make us buy the big sets instead of just a magnet set.

Great to see some nice pictures and read your thought about this set, Hinckley! Thanks a lot! The Anubis minifig is really nice and I really hope that we sometime in the future get a black minifig head that would fit with the torso. Then we could make some great Nubian guards! I like the new sword, the khopesh, but I'm not so excited about the scarab shield, at least not as a shield. But it might be useful for other stuff of course. There are really a great number of useful parts in this set, and the colours are great. I'm not a fan of the scorpion monster and the adventurers' vehicle doesn't interest me much either. Sure it's nice with dark red but it's not very useful parts for me. I like the adventurers though, very nice minifigs Obelisk. Minarets are found next to Mosques.

Yes, you should build it in similar size to the already existing Winter Village sets. Those have 815 and 687 pieces each which can serve as a guidance. I have one entry coming up which at the moment has about 730 pieces (might add a few more) and that fits fine. I don't see why we would need stricter rules, just use common sense and think before you build.

Thanks for the link! Nice to see some close-ups of some of the minifigs. Great head for the gorilla suit guy indeed! I hadn't noticed before (or maybe it has changed) that the indian chief's spear is in brown, I like that. And I don't know if I'm right but is that the rapper's underwear showing at his hip-piece? Great realistic touch in that case

15½ The perfectionist in me needs to point out that the barmaid had the standard woman head (like the princesses and peasant woman) in her first appearance (10193 MMV). In the Kingdoms calender however she has the head you choose.

Thanks for the confirmation, Rick! It seemed to good to be true and it's better to expect higher prices then to get dissappointed when the real prices becomes known. But even with a 20% higher price I could see myself getting that temple

The Euro prices that we have seen so far in the threads seems very cheap. I wouldn't be surprised if they turn out to be somewhat higher. I don't know where the prices were found but if it was on the online-shop that the pictures appeared at, I believe it could be that that shop has prices under the normal price. 16€ for this would be really cheap...

Is there a picture of this piece? I hadn't heard of it before, but then I rarely visit the LDD section

I guess this Viking too will have a stupid horned helmet, but I really hope he don't. This list seems quite reliable. Great find legokuate! I really like what I'm reading, a lot of these fig are most welcome to join my minifig ranks. Especially the sailor, kimono girl (geisha?) and musketeer (probably the army builder of this series). Good humour with the garden gnome too

Yeah, and these are not the final versions either (no gold printing on the Anubis figs, wrong heads etc.) But since the sets already is starting to appear we will have real picture very soon.

There have been some reports of metallic printing wearing off in a very rapid and unusual way before. For example, the gold printings on Russian Soldiers from Indiana Jones, gold printing on Redcoats from Pirate, bronze and silver printing on the Troll Shaman from 7097 (that I've got my own proof of). I don't remember exactly where I read about these problems so unless you search yourself you'll have to take my word for it. This is however the first time I've heard of the problem regarding a helmet, but I strongly believes it is the same. From what I've learned it has nothing to do with factors like sunlight, touching the minifigs, temperature or such-like. It's obviously some problem related to the printing colour, and from what I know only the metallic ones. It got nothing to do with the so-called "cheap plastic" or "chinese minifigs" since this problem can be reported from themes and minifigs that has nothing to do with those phenomena. It might be so that this problem has been found amongst those too but that's nothing I've heard of or experienced myself. The problem doesn't seem to be very common, but it has been reported from various areas and sources. My suggestion for you is to contact LEGO's customer service and ask for a new helmet. I think you will get one, and LEGO will be notified once more about the problem.

There are three that I really like in this series, the Samurai, the Elf and the Fisherman. I finally decided to vote for the Samurai even though I can't see the printing on his torso, but I expect it to be great . I like minifigs from a historical theme, and even more if they are from a more uncommon era than the usual Caribbean Pirate or Western Europe Medieval Castle. The elf looks nice too, lovely detailed printing on torso and legs. Though I wonder of the ears will spoil the good head or the good hairpiece (no, I don't like ears on my minifigs) And the fisherman got a really great beard. Lets hope the Series gets out before Christmas Series 3 seems to be a good one, maybe not quite up to Series 2 standard according to me, but still really good. The big let-down is of course the loss of bar codes, I guess I'll buy a whole box to tackle that problem.

Thanks guys! I really happy you like this MOC of mine, I too think it's one of my best. Fabuland, eh? Well, I guess I could give it a shot . I never owned any Fabuland sets as a kid, I'm a little too young I think and knew nothing of the theme until I came here to Eurobricks and saw yours and other FBG's MOCs. But it seems like a fun concept It sure is! part x1870 on Bricklink. I found it while looking for dark brown pieces and it has featured in another of my MOCs too. Happy you liked that, I thought it could be a fun idea. I haven't done it after this MOC because I always forgets to take photos, but I will try and do it next time. Thanks again for all your nice comments!

Ahh, nice

I don't have room for any more tags But I really like the skull shield tag (#6) so if not the RA teachers gets sad I would like that instead of my bronze badge

This seems to be a very unnecessary topic. How you spend your free time is none of my business but I can't imagine anyone would be interested in knowing how many topics you have read here on the forum and it certainly doesn't need an own topic. Consider this closed.

It's only the new McGonagall dress I miss from the this year. But I'm still 1½ short of the previous ones (Prof. Trelawney and the slope for the statue). I really like Bellatrix's dress, first one for a licensed theme too