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It doesn't. As shown in The LEGO Movie and The LEGO Movie 2, yellow skin characters and fleshie characters and minifigs and minidolls, respectively, can inhabit the same LEGO universe.

Yellow castle, brick built horses, very blocky designs, boring heraldry. They didn't state that they will pick one of the three from the first poll. Although they also didn't say that the theme with the highest number of votes in the second round would win. The exact wording was: The second vote will be the top three themes from the first vote. One of the three themes will be the theme the 90th Anniversary Set will be based on. This vote will not be transparrent, so it's still a little bit of a secret. So it is not clear how the winner will be picked, whether it is the fan vote or their choice. No doubt they are purposely vague so that they can override any result they don't like or stick with it if they do.

So what is genuine feedback from fans? A kid saying they should make some weird thing they want is no different to an adult saying they want something. Surely all feedback from their fans is genuine.

I wonder if they will include the usual "Boat does not float" warning on the box. Very apt in this case but could be seen as distasteful. Helicarrier was not minifig scale. The large Hogwarts was not minifig scale. Saturn V was not minifig scale. Yet all had characters. I doubt this needs them, but characters can be done in microscale.

Mine is about once a month, but I tend to place reasonable sized (£30-50) parts orders. Typically similar size every couple of weeks at bricks and pieces. Selling, it is about one every two days when I open my store, but they tend to be smaller at £10-20.

What is a genuine fan? Most sets take a couple of years from design table to retail shelves, so LEGO may well have listened to those fans and acted quite quickly.

I like Forestmen, Wolfpack and Black Falcons but there is no way I'd buy a Classic Castle set.

This is also where hiding the votes in the next round is not going to help perception of what LEGO is doing. If those votes continue, then Bionicle is clearly the favourite in a 1 from 30 contest. But will it be in a 1 from 3 contest, when it is much easier to vote against it. It could well win if only people interested in the three themes vote, but it could well lose in a 1 from 3 if people that don't like for Bionicle vote for their favourite of the two system themes left instead. And LEGO has already told us that they are going to make that contest non-transparent. What will happen? Maybe they will just cancel it and make the 90th anniversary set based on Star Wars instead! After all, it will be the 45th anniversary of Star Wars, half LEGO's age.

Bionicle or s***ing on it? :-)

It was taken from here. https://www.stonewars.net/lego-news/interim-results-of-the-lego-ideas-90th-anniversary-survey/

Given the close votes, Pirates, Trains and Adventurers and possibly even Classic Castle are in the running for third place. It shows what happens when you split the groups up. Classic Castle, Forestmen and Lion Knights total almost 14%, although of course there is a good chance that people voted for more than one of them so the total would be lower if they were grouped together.

While production is automated, the installation of the mould is not automated, it is done manually. So of course LEGO could produce double the number they actually need for sets but that would lead to large numbers needing to be stored even though not needed. To be efficient, they would need to identify what ones they think they are going to sell a lot of outside of the sets process via bricks and pieces. But their primary goal is to sell sets, bricks and pieces is not meant as sales route. What they cannot do is keep going back and producing just another batch of 10000 then another batch of 10000 and so on for bricks and pieces, as that requires one mould to be removed, the next one to be cleaned, installed, tested and got ready for production. That is a lot of time for the moulding machine to be doing nothing. Hence they tend to make the number they need for sets plus some, but that plus some is not an endless supply. If you'd prefer to have fake parts rather than genuine used ones, then buy fake. What is wrong with used LEGO? One of LEGO's selling points is that bricks made 10, 20, 50 years ago can still be used with today's bricks. For them to come out and say that used bricks are unsafe completely undermines that. On BL, a lot of used parts are decent quality. A seller is meant to indicate if it has more than expected wear and damaged parts are not meant to be sold.

Resellers will never be left with reindeer that they cannot sell, unless LEGO produce so many that nobody wants any more, which is unlikely. That would also mean LEGO inevitably get stuck with overproduced stock. Even if LEGO saturate the market with them, then at worse resellers that have bought 100s would have to offload them at cost price or a little lower. Once they are cheaper than LEGO, they will sell. They may lose a little after fees, but they are not stuck with them. Plus there are many LEGO buyers that do not know about bricks and pieces, or do not have access to it or want the parts reasonably quickly. The only other way that resellers would make a loss is for LEGO to dramatically reduce the prices of them. Then serious money is lost to match the price. However, to do that they would need to inflate the prices at the start of offering them before cutting them. If LEGO start to do that, it is the casual LEGO fan that wants new pieces that will also lose out, as they will be overpaying for parts when released if LEGO intends to reduce them later.

Voters only vote for their top three, so nobody can put it as their least favourite choice as number 30. But if you did have to rank them all, then I cannot see what is wrong with doing that, if it was a voter's least favourite of all them. Something has to come last, and if a voter prefers anything system based over constraction, then Bionicle will be very near the bottom of their list. Something has to be last.

Yes, exactly that sort of thing. They look like modern designs (even just doing the black outlining helps here) but keep the original feel. I think the way the Black Falcons have been done looks great. Although I like the rogue, I think that is a step too far for being an updated Wolfpack. Sure, there is a link through that clasp, but it feels like a completely different character. Whereas other updates feel like they are updates of the same characters.

If LEGO allow people to vote for a theme, then people should be allowed to vote for that theme without questioning them. Sure, we still get City sets which are similar to Town, and we get the occasional train set. But then we also get the occasional Pirates, Castle and Space sets too.

I find the outfits of the forestmen a bit boring. I'd prefer more like the S3 elf, the rogue, the forest maiden, the centaur and so on. The new Black Falcon torsos look great. Keep the original heraldry but update the torso style. They could do the same with other factions, but the forestmen don't have heraldry on torsos.

When they purchased BL, LEGO specifically said that they will not use it to identify resellers and ban them from purchasing. If LEGO wanted to restrict the number of items you can buy on a per item basis they can do it. That they choose not to suggests they don't care.

It is the same person resubmitting them.

The Office has already got to 10k four times, what does this add?

Good job. It is interesting to note they were using the "hard to find" marketing back in the 1990s.

I imagine fans of every theme think lego are gerrymandering it against "their" theme. I think it is quite sad lego has done the poll, creating division when the anniversary should have been celebration. I would have preferred they did something not expected or tied to any one theme, so maybe a buildable wooden elephant or something else a bit more historical, rather than favour just one chosen theme at the expense of all others.

OOS for UK again.

They aren't limited to 12. LEGO has chosen to do a series of 12 for the in-house CMF theme. LEGO can choose how many characters can be in any series. They broke the 16 characters in a theme pattern long ago with Team GB then again across multiple licensed themes, going higher than 16 when they wanted to.

I guess every theme's fans think another theme will win. It is a shame that LEGO chooses to split the community like this honouring a single theme only rather than releasing an anniversary item that celebrates the history of the company. PS. Why does Space get to keep its 90th anniversary thread, while other forums have had them merged into the one in the general topics?