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You have some great figures there. I didn't understand a word of the videos but they look like great productions too. Please update on this thread when you post more. The idea of being able to twist makes them much more posable, even if less lego-like. It would be nice to maybe do a how to build / tear-down style video for some of the more complex ones.

The instructions are already made from plants.

It depends on the figure. They reach low prices often about half way through the retail shelf life, when the set has been available at a discount for a while, and many people have parted them out, and they will stay reasonably constant towards the end of the retail life. Once the sets retire the figs will either increase in value if popular or decrease if unpopular. Like anything, it is all about supply and demand.

Why go to the expense of doing them, adding to the cost of sets, if most people do not want them. Especially when fans make them for nothing.

How about he is an alien scientist that uses the crowbar to prize rare crystal specimens off of rocks.

This looks great, the reeds the rocks, the boat. I think I like it all except the water, I'm not a fan of tiled water as it always looks a bit too regular especially when you see the tile edges although the breaking water at the front of the boat really helps improve it. Your base could also do with some flattening, that has really curved upwards at the edges.

Go back in time and buy them when they were cheap, or wait until the future when there are new sets and the minifigures are cheap again. Or pick and choose from current released or not too old figure parts. For example, the CMF series 15 frightening knight is not so expensive right now and quite a good army builder. Just replace the heads and maybe vary the helmets.

The plastic used for hands is different to the plastic used for the rest of the parts. It is still ABS, just a different composition to allow it to be more resilient when flexing, so the hands do not break when attaching accessories. You can tell this if you try to dye yellow hands and other yellow parts. The normal parts take up dye easily, whereas hands barely change colour at all.

Now LEGO do actually offer custom printed torsos in some locations where you can buy single printed figures. They use digitial printing. PAD printing is really only suitable for huge runs. It is faster and cheaper per part for huge runs. However, for smaller runs, digital printing is faster and cheaper as there are no set-up costs or time for the PAD printing cliches.

I'd hate to have to follow a build video instead of paper instructions. Watch 2 seconds, click to stop the video, find the part, look at the video image to see where the part goes, click to start video and repeat. For every part. The instruction booklet is literally a print out of a frame by frame video which you do not have to keep stopping and starting. In fact, at least in paper instructions they do multiple parts per frame.

Get permission from the people whose ideas you are thinking of taking. The story name, the factions and the individual stories and builds have been developed by others over many years. Nothing LEGO would take on could ever be as comprehensive as what has been developed by a community, and so they might not want you submitting their ideas.

The ladybird legs don't look great. Dual molded in black and red, then most of the red covered up with black but not done all the way to the edges, leaving red showing. I think I prefer to see them print red on black legs even though it comes out too dark.

With the distribution he got, I wonder if they are completely random, so the boxes are not necessarily the same this time.

The Art range is 18+.

That looks more like sorting than storing. For storage - bag the parts up and put them back in the box, they will take up less room than what you have there. The containers are likely to spill during storage, or parts lost as they are open.

Try doing bigger pictures, they are a bit hard to see. That's an interesting way to do Hannibal Lecter.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiU_KqygtDtAhXDnFwKHd28BikQFjACegQIBRAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lego.com%2Fcdn%2Fcs%2Flegal%2Fassets%2Fblt4e629c14e0d0841b%2FSmall_Parts-Smal_Balls_Rest_of_World_Jan-Mar_2021.xlsx&usg=AOvVaw3nRN6j6EBqB64gbyEKCqW_ LEGO often release this stuff by putting non-public files on their public server. Follow that link and you get a list of items that require safety warnings due to small parts. I think the product numbers have been messed up but they have set names and dates and so on.

Elves would not have happened with traditional minifigures though. It would have clashed on the shelves with Ninjago and Nexo Knights. And, at the same time, miss the audience of people that prefer minidoll based figures. PS. It is better to call them minidolls rather than girl minifigures as there are plenty of traditional minifigures that are girls. And some boys like minidolls. And if they created more male minidolls, the minidoll based sets might even be more popular with boys.

Lots of people do just ignore it and get away with it if it is a small scale operation. There are many sellers on eBay doing just that for classic space T-shirts for example, even using the LEGO name.

What do you mean? Things like the classic space logo or the black falcons heraldry and so on? They are copyright. Every LEGO image is copyright.

I didn't say it wouldn't be changed, I said I hope it looks like the original submission. Part counts in many MOCs can be cut by a factor of two and still look relatively similar. A small change in size, less small part detail in sections of the model that are not necessarily going to be seen much, and so on. If they change colour scheme or try to make this look like an old school Castle set, it will lose the essence of what people voted for.

I'm neither angry nor offended. I was just asking what point you were trying to make by posting part of an article. If you came across the article, why not just link to it if you feel people should read it. You could have even put it into a thread where the Osprey was already discussed. But you linked to it, then extracted part of the article, choosing to stop the extract at a point to indicate that LEGO had released the Osprey set, without indicating that they quickly pulled it in the few locations where it was released. So it appears as clickbait. Either put just a link, or post the whole thing.

If you mean copying LEGO designs and putting them onto T-shirts, you are not legally allowed to without permission. Whether LEGO do anything about it is another matter though. If you are selling 100 T-shirts, I doubt they would notice. If you plan to sell 10 million worldwide, then they might be more interested.

Sorry, but that looks plain ugly to me. Maybe try doing some SNOT work to get the sides smoother. Although even then, I don't think I'd buy one at that size.

Surely any printing you do on the sides of torsos is going to get scratched very quickly when you move the arms.