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I had already put in the Rexcelsior so didn't put the Rexplorer and didn't include the Rescue Rocket as some would say it is not space. I almost added the TLM2 bus too (add a couple of wings and it looks like the other space ships) but of course left it off. I did forget the lunar lander and a few CMFs too. I also left off all the space ships in Super Heroes.

It is always possible, but they need to judge worldwide demand and also balance any religious aspect to it. They do the rather secular Easter sets but avoid any Christianity in them, they do Thanksgiving, Halloween, and so on.

Just think what has been available in the last two years. Of course, none of this is really Space and it is Star Wars that is to blame for keeping proper LEGO Space of the shelves and none of the above non-Space sets would compete with proper LEGO Space.

You are probably better off buying a full set and selling the figures off.

I'd be surprised if it was a significant number, but sometimes lots of little things turn into big things and it doesn't take much to tip the balance. Missing a key figure here, not printing that one very well there and duplicating that one from a cheap set might soon turn a buy into a don't buy unless on a discount.

I've had flattened K2 boxes but not full height. They are the same or similar to the boxes you used to be able to buy filled with PAB parts in store.

I find that bricklink's naming scheme is somewhat consistent if you learn the basics. So if you know a part is a 2x3 part just typing that will help filter to a more manageable list. But you still need to learn the language, as well as when a 2x3 is different to a 3x2, for example (a 2x3 slope is different to a 3x2 slope, and so on).

It was first released at the start of August, and more generally throughout August. So it had been on the shelves in most places for about 2 months by Halloween, so plenty of time for anyone wanting to get them for Halloween. So it was sort of tied in to Halloween, much better than if it had been released in January. Similarly, I doubt many people would want a Santa as a January release. Better to release it a little while before the holiday.

Do you mean for the Bob Cratchit minifigure? It looks similar to the 1982 animation version of him.

Because ... the line for our exclusive giveaway lottery is bigger than the line for your exclusive giveaway. ... I had to wait in line for 7 hours just to get this thing is what makes it special.

Everyone that does something with LEGO is a minority at some point. Star Wars fans - minority. City fans - minority. Ninjago fans - minority. Technic fans - minority. Adults - minority. Children - majority, but the girl fans - minority. Boys aged 10-12, minority. LEGO does loads of products targeted at different minorities. Personally I don't have an issue with arm printing or not on Greedo, since I have the original one. But it is a little surprising that LEGO were able to print Greedo's arms 16 years ago but omitted it here (and the last cantina too).

I imagine many people here are MOCers. But I also imagine many are not MOCers but still collect and build SW sets. And some collect them but won't open them. But they are all AFOLs.

What is so important about January any way? The monsters series was a summer release - so would have been out before Halloween, the Leprechaun out before St Patricks day, and so on. But now we get a single unlicensed set per year, the date is largely irrelevant compared to what it contains.

My thoughts? I thought Batman was DC.

We already know there is a slight change, as the set numbers are different.

I don't see them abandoning yellow skin for City, Ninjago, etc. But I hope more of this style sets with fleshies are produced. It may be that adults (ones not into LEGO or more interested in the licensed sets) will be more interested in fleshies and see them as less toy like than the un-licensed kids sets, much like their new 18+ advertising on boxes.

I hope not. Keep the other one about just the Cantina and leave the non-SW Disney Castle stuff here.

It is a little surprising bringing back Saturn V as it has been gone not even a year and was available for more than two years. But I guess that means LEGO's sales data shows that it was a consistent and steady seller throughout and they still imagine demand is there. I'm not surprised if that is the case. The more surprising thing to me was that they retired it in the first place. Maybe discussions during the global lockdown convinced them that retirement for it was an error and that they can sell many many more. I hope they don't do a Death Star on the pricing change though. I can understand the DS price changing so dramatically, given it was first released about 7 years earlier, whereas this time it is just about 3 years. As to the ship in a bottle, I haven't a clue. I guess they must think it will be a good seller (presumably again). I cannot really see them bringing it back again if it wasn't a good seller. Although the secondary market for that one doesn't seem anywhere near as high (secondary price is still roughly RRP). Maybe they know something the secondary market doesn't.

They said it was to be decommissioned in Feb 2015 with a number of "don't miss out" emails sent, but it hung around until at least June that year, and they had to give 30% off in the UK to shift the remaining stock through lego.com. Normally putting a retiring soon badge on most stock is enough to sell it off through lego.com. Although that was all before you got your first LEGO set. The secondary market price is barely above RRP, which is indicative too many went to the aftermarket and demand is too low compared to supply, even now.

The reason I asked about filler is because in a fairly general series, people's favourites are highly subjective and what is filler to one person is a great figure to another. The Drone guy came up a few times, yet I really like him - maybe as I like to fly a drone with my kid. Plus there is a call-back to a past LEGO theme so a nice little Easter Egg there, and a decent accessory. It is also funny to see the Drone guy labelled as all about the accessory - what about the diver. We have had loads of people in wetsuits before, surely she is all about the turtle and not the figure. I find the breakdancer boring. She has a torso from the Monkie Kid theme and the radio accessory has been done many times before. The cap/hair is new but looks somewhat similar to the cap/hair combos of Hidden Side. But then, no doubt a girl into breakdancing would love that one. This is my worry, it really just means less choice of new parts/figures. I typically like maybe 3-4 per series enough to buy them these days. I no longer bother collecting them all. I rarely army build either since the army builders go for crazy prices. If they cut the size of the series all that means is my 3-4 will probably be 2-3 instead. In the heyday we were getting 48 unlicensed CMFs per year. It looks like soon that will be 12.

If Classic Space fans are so much more imaginative than kids today, then why do they need new sets? Their imagination should allow them to design new ones based on today's parts and there have been numerous Classic Space print figures to populate them recently. Liking Star Wars is no more lazy than liking Classic Space.

He only comes here to advertise his youtube channel, so you can't expect to to know there is already a thread about it.

There are many more small and new parts these days, and that allows people to spend a huge amount of time getting even a small part of a MOC to look just right, whereas when there were so few possible parts to choose from you could have just accepted a less good looking model as it was all that was available. The thing is, if you only want to build with the older parts, that is still possible, you just need to bricklink the parts or order them in bulk via lego.com rather than buy new sets. My kids get new sets and they still break them up and build their own creations, just like I used to as a kid.

That may well be that they only have 1 left in stock. I have seen it before and bought the maximum number. Then tried again after placing the order and none were available. Or it might just be purchase limits. Strangely there are 4 in the only set it comes in, so it cannot be that limit wrongly imposed at B+P.

Which suggests that they did not stock enough at the start of the run, but overall produced too many.