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I thought something was off with S21 being 12 figures and putting a smaller Looney Tunes series out makes more sense. Let's hope IT is the 12 and they continue as normal with 16 per series for regular themes.

Indeed. I really don't see the point of all these "is it worth it threads". It is completely subjective. If you enjoy building the set and enjoy displaying the set then it is going to be more valuable than one that is a boring build or an ugly piece or a set that has little play value. The more pieces (big or small), the longer the build process so if you enjoy the build process then that is a good thing. The larger the average piece size, the bigger the final display which may be important. If you like minifigures, then minifigures will be important to you. And that is without thinking about the set design or the subject. 4x Beatles mosaics are going to be better value to a Beatles fan than 4x Andy Warhol ones.

As noted right above, if there are blocking clauses in their agreement with Disney, blocking other Sci-Fi movie themes. Nobody knows.

If LEGO wanted to do Alien sets, they could probably do them. They have done other movie franchises alongside Star Wars in the past. No-one here knows if there are blocking clauses in the agreement. Would it be worth LEGO dropping Star Wars to pick up Alien? I somehow doubt it. You may be sick of Star Wars, but if LEGO drops the license another company will pick it up and create their own brick-building Star Wars sets. Instead of being filled with LEGO SW, the shelves will be filled with MB Star Wars. There will be just as much SW on the shelves, the only difference is that less of it will be LEGO.

It is the other way around, Amazon matching Argos. There are some reasonable deals at Argos, although some of the smaller sets have actually gone up in price as some of them were in the 2 for £15 last week.

What has that got to do with anything here?

I don't really get it. What is the point of so many pictures of packaging boxes.

I only really remember playing with the early classic space sets, I had grown out of Lego by the time that one was released. Maybe because it had become too much fantasy by then, something not being repeated now. Or maybe because home computers were taking off, and they were more interesting to me. There was a lot of science fiction becoming science fact back then. Sci Fi Buck Rogers became real and a few years later everyone was wowed at the LA Olympics. Back then it seemed more likely that we would be flying around with jetpacks whereas personal video communication devices on your wrist were complete fantasy. Strange how things work out.

Although we didn't get them there was often talk of lunar bases and so on on semi-serious science programs back in the 70s and 80s. In the 70s NASA was planning to have a moon base by about 2000. They often showed concept art that was similar to then modern military aircraft for travel between bases. Combined with realism in other ways, it makes a child think it is believable. For example, I'd say this was pretty realistic. Given this had been used a decade or so before. By combining elements that were real at the time with some that are probably more sci-fi but discussed by serious scientists (like NASA's lunar bases were) then it did feel like that some of the ideas were not so far off. They may not have happened, but they felt like they might happen given the rate of change of space discovery back then.

I agree. I was 8/9 when Classic Space started and some of the sets were a little bit Sci-Fi, but a lot of them were fairly believable close to realistic. So this was a bit sci-fi although not too dissimilar to some military aircraft of the time (Lockheed Blackbird and Nighthawk) so not too much of a stretch of the imagination, aside from the colours. but these were reasonably realistic vehicles we were used to seeing from TV at the time Of course, the colours were a bit weird but then we were used to things being weird colours in LEGO. Bright red, yellow and blue houses and cars, and so on. I think also you have to look at what else was available at the time, back in '79-'80 there were a few universal sets, Scala, Fabuland, Town type sets, Classic Space and a bit of technic. Classic Space was essentially an action / adventure theme of its time (although in a sense so was town and even Fabuland). There was very little internal competition within the LEGO brand for Classic Space - for figure based play it was Town with human figures or slightly more fantasy town with Fabuland. That is why I think other non-space themes like Ninjago are just as responsible for keeping sci-fi space off the shelves as Star Wars is. There are many action themes that compete with it. LEGO may not have had the Star Wars license back then, but I remember using Classic Space sets with way out of scale Kenner figures to (badly) recreate SW play, as did other kids. Back then, there were so few themes you used all your toys together. LEGO wasn't that popular back then, with relatively low overall toy market share. It was a shrewd decision to start doing licenses which stopped kids playing with other toys with their LEGO, as licensing meant that LEGO provided the characters. LEGO could of course drop the SW (and super heroes and HP and so on) license, and Mega Construx would probably pick it up (and the others). LEGO unlicensed space would be competing for shelf space and sales with Mega Construx Star Wars.

I didn't mean that they cannot be deaf, but to have a physical earpiece would be strange when ears are implied. Hence the print on the side of the head near where the ear shaped hole in the hair implies an ear is there.

Yes buying a set for one figure then selling off 99% of the set doesn't make sense. However buying a set for 90% of the parts and selling off probably 80+% of the value in the minifigures does.

Indeed, so they have a high worldwide demand. Many western cities also have a Chinatown and so the festivities seem familiar. I don't know what the demand for a Day of the Dead festival would be as it is not as widespread here, I've never seen one (outside of movies and TV).

Already one in City. (Human) Minifigs don't have ears, just holes in the hair where ears go as appropriate so they did it with printing on the head.

But they are arguing that it is Star Wars that is stopping (sci fi) in-house space themes from happening, even though LEGO has other in-house space themes on the shelves. I reckon the City space is more of a competing theme problem than Star Wars is, being a non-licensed theme. Parents or kids that don't want Star Wars would have to choose between two competing in-house space themes. Yet some Classic Space fans deny that and will only blame Star Wars.

And isn't that just the problem there. They made two in-house Space themes relatively recently and Classic Space fans don't like them. There is no pleasing some Classic Space fans unless they re-release Classic Space as it was. And now you have ruled out Neo-Classic Space too, as they are based on fleshies so obviously designed by people that aren't true LEGO fans. I disagree on your use of the word true. People can buy licensed LEGO sets and still be LEGO lovers. Just because someone likes fleshie rather than yellow skin figures doesn't mean they are not true fans.

Same here, I'd stick to using all white eye pupils as without them they don't look right if you mix them. There are literally hundreds that would work well just fire up bricklink using this search and enter the search term pupils. https://www.bricklink.com/catalogList.asp?catID=238&catXrefLevel=0&colorPart=3&catType=P

It will be cheaper to buy two and sell off the figures and dewback and vehicles, than it is to buy one complete plus the parts from the buildings from somebody else.

On the more modern torsos (ones with black outlines between colours) I think they look great. On older ones I find them looking a little off.

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.