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You just need to avoid the modern phenomenon of illegitimate parts (mainly minifig parts) made in non production colours for sale to collectors. They get removed from bricklink.

LEGOLAND builders were able to obtain parts in non production colours and unneeded extras used to get sold off.

Why not say it is for you if it is? It is an 18+ collectable display object, not a toy. As for the others, buy multiple at once. That way you look like a reseller instead - although for some that may be worse.

I imagine it is just like their customer service - totally random depending on who deals with it. And yes, if they wanted to enforce it, their online system should be able to block further promotions from appearing. But their online system is quite poor, they also cancel orders if you break purchase limits but they cannot tell you how many you have purchased in the past as that information is stored elsewhere. I've had orders cancelled in the past where I have bought a set in the past then that set goes on sale a year later and I've ordered five (purchase limit), they cancel the whole order. Cancelling orders of a set they are having difficulty selling and need to discount seems ridiculous but they do it. But they only do it 15-20 minutes after you have ordered, when their online system has communicated with their order system.

I've placed more than one order in a day quire a few times before and never have they been combined. I've received multiple GWPs before. But then I've also had them removed on two occasions. When that happens, I just returned the order at LEGO's expense as they didn't supply what was in the shopping cart, order confirmation, order email and dispatch note.

What is weird? They print exclusive parts for the BAM these days. It just shows they still have the design files for the CMF and that they think these will be popular if reprinted. They have done other existing torsos in the past, sometimes with or without changes, changing colours or prints or parts, or doing only one sided instead of two, and so on.

If you used DBG legs, the print would look fine. Stick on a cloak and the back print also disappears.

Do you not get the wikipedia entry saying what a rabona kick is? For me, the betting sites are lower down the list. I guess it might be location based since if I enter Coral then the top sites are betting links although that doesn't stop LEGO producing sets, parts or colours with coral in their name.

I reckon some Native Americans will like it, and some won't. Which ones views should count?

In the terms and conditions LEGO also indicates Bricks and Pieces orders don't count towards the threshold, even though Bricks and Pieces no longer actually exists as a service. They need to stop cutting and pasting old terms!

Replacement parts have always had priority over purchases.

I'm guessing by fantasy you mean medieval fantasy. Nexo Knights was a bit of a crossover with sci-fi but Elves was very much more traditional woodland type fantasy.

I must have missed something here. With an unlimited budget, then yes you can just buy what you want when you want. And in that case, buy it when you see it rather than waiting to ensure you don't miss out.

Yes, it is a competitor, but not an integrated one on BL. When I buy for a MOC I tend to use just BL, at least if I want to build it in the next month or so. Maybe, if you wear a tin foil hat! A more likely reason is capacity and servicing missing parts complaints. It does mean MOC builders (and bricklink sellers) cannot buy 100s of items and eliminate stocks like they did with Black Falcon parts.

I doubt they will re-release it. They do new Disney sets of popular movies continually as (mainly) little girls grow up, get over Disney and get replaced in the market by new little girls wanting their favourite princess stuff. Whereas The Upside Down seems to be a bit more of a one off. They might do another Stranger Things set (in addition to the brickheadz) in future but they are not likely to duplicate it. The older kids and adults into Stranger Things are likely to be the same people as that already bought it. I advise buying as soon as possible, it will only go up from here.

If your budget is limited, then you should do. If there are a few sets that you are interested in buying, then you should prioritise buying the ones likely to retire first. Otherwise, if you buy one that has just be released instead of one about to retire then, in a year's time, the retired one will probably cost you significantly more whereas the one you bought will still be available for the same price.

I found PAB to be quite useful for certain parts. There were some on there that were cheap compared to both B+P and BL. Plain minifigure legs in brown and tan for example were a good price. Trans clear glass for 1x4x6 doors was also a very good price on PAB (6p), so much that one order I bought 300 of them to hit a threshold, then sold them all on BL for more than double what I paid. As to them starting a BL store, they said that they would not interfere with the market when they bought BL. If LEGO became a direct competitor to sellers on BL, then third party sellers might move away to a site where LEGO does not control the market. They would also need to up their game when it comes to turn around time. LEGO are slow compared to BL sellers. It would be rather embarrassing for them if they got negative feedback for being a less than average service. They would also not be able to control order limits like now without changing the way BL works. For example, they cannot impose a limit of a maximum of 200 of one part type in an order unless they manually or automatically have 200 of every part listed and update it to 200 after every order is placed. Page 171.

Then they are likely to be genuine. Especially if you bought them from a seller on bricklink or brickowl or similar site that has a decent amount of feedback for selling LEGO.

If you don't want to overspend, then check sold prices for old sets on bricklink before buying. Then have a look to see if there is anything new and similar and compare the prices. There is no point overpaying for an old set if there is a modern equivalent that fits in with your collecting goals. Whereas if the old set is cheap compared to the modern one, then go for the older one if it still meets your goals. If you are after expensive minifigures, do you have to have the official one or would anything that looks just as good and still made of LEGO fit? Some minifigures have one part that is very expensive, but more reasonable prices for the rest of the parts. If you have a slightly different expression on the face, for example, does it matter? This strategy depends on when you are buying. If you are going to be buying them close to retirement but cannot buy everything you want, it is often better to buy the big set at retail and the smaller sets after retirement from a reseller. Especially if the big set is an exclusive to one store. The reason is smaller sets tend to be available from multiple sources and so may have discounts during their retail life, and will also tend to be bought by more resellers so there is likely to be more competition on the secondary market. Whereas bigger, exclusive sets tend to be bought for investment at or near RRP with less of them on the secondary market and so the reseller wants a decent return on those ones.

Yes, LEGO produced many older parts without a LEGO logo. You need to compare the shapes and colours with contemporary parts, although bear in mind some parts have small variations especially those that have been made for 50 years.

If everything with a pin, pinhole, axle or axle hole got labelled as technic, the name technic becomes almost useless as so many things would have it in the name. It becomes a redundant search term. It is the same with the categories, some of them become overly large and almost impossible to browse effectively. Some have had to be split in the past due to this. If it is a brick with a pin on the side, then I'd expect the name to include brick and pin but not technic. As to the category, is it a (modified) brick with a pin or a (technic) pin with a brick. What would help here is if there was a flowchart to show how to determine the category, and this has been discussed at bricklink. The downsides are that it would probably mean long existing parts get changed which can mess up some sellers' Inventories and also that it is very difficult to come up with consistent rules that apply to all known and future unknown parts. A much better route would be tags and allow filtering based on multiple tags. Apparently BL is working on this but how it will look is still unknown.

You can do an advanced search by date on bricklink.

For Caesar, you could use 1x1 quarter tiles in green (witha grey 1x4 instead of 2x4 for the hair) to make a laurel wreath around the sides and back of his head like the hair at the front.

It is a popular opinion isn't it? If others agree that LEGO are scalping on their top end adult sets, the opinion is popular. If the opinion is that LEGO are doing the right thing by targetting increased prices on adult sets, it would be unpopular.

Presumably because there is far wider creative freedom for brick built than molded large creatures. If they are going to do a few different dragons in a theme they can vary them in style or size by using existing parts rather than having each one the same but varying the colour only. Also in Ninjago (and Elves) dragon sets, the dragon tends to be the set. LEGO is a building toy so it makes sense that the major item in the set is brick built.