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  1. MAB
    I can understand why, in that the various fansites that still get free products to review give them fairly consistent and importantly prominent reviews on their websites. Here reviews tend to be a bit more buried and as you say, not tweeted or facebooked (if that is a word).
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    From that higher res image, it looks like cheese slopes on a plate. It is nice someone still has the magazine!
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    The only other thing I can think of is a bracket rather than the 1x1 bricks but that would leave a gap in height between the blue and yellow.
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    To me it looks like a plate on top of the mudguard (I used a green 1x2 here), 2 1x1 SNOT bricks (not headlight, the stud on side 1x1 brick, could also use a 1x2 with 2 studs), then the plate with hole on that. The bottom of the blue piece matches up perfectly with the yellow mudguard.
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    I guess it is a community liaison / business issue, and LEGO have realised that they do not need to give away full boxes of CMFs to reviewers any longer to help drive sales. I can totally understand that especially if that budget is reallocated to sending out other sets that are new and need reviews to get a buzz about them. There are so many people that buy full boxes of CMFs and review them, both pictorially and by video, so why give them away when people are willing to review paid for products. Plus the product itself is now well embedded, they do not need to keep giving them away to the select few to advertise them as there is always a buzz around new series. For whatever reason, the reviews were getting later and later compared to release dates, presumably LEGO were allowing shorter times between sending review copies and the release date. If other people are able to review them weeks before by buying them, then the reviews became a bit redundant. Didn't they also pull out of sending parts for the traditional Eurobricks Christmas raffle too?
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    The only colour I managed to reliably match to LEGO's colour palette by dying was black! You can get close to some colours, but I found it was best to dye for a minute, remove the part, let it cool and dry it, check it, dye again, and repeat multiple times until a close match was found. It is also strongly dependent on the original colour, of course, so starting from a white part is more likely to give better results unless you want to go to black.
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    They aren't really selling at those prices though. To date, just 39 new golden bananas (in 14 transactions) have been sold worldwide on bricklink. One US store has them at $0.15. I expect to see the price come under 10c during the next six months.
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    Colours after dyeing will vary significantly based on time, temperature, hardness of water, etc. It also depends on the part - minifigure hands, for example, don't take dye anywhere as easily as bricks. I think you'd have to do your own tests for the parts you want to dye.
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    LEGO won't have the instructions as they are not LEGO sets. The certified professionals are responsible. And I doubt they would give away their designs, as it undermines their future products.
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    Yes, plus remember that a lot of BL sellers are builders themselves. I've sold quite a few boat hulls, but nearly always keep the middle sections for myself. AFOLs often don't want the same distribution that LEGO supplies. Then it is down to basic economics - parts many people want are expensive, and excess parts many people don't want are cheap. That is why it is good if you can come up with a novel use for an unwanted part. Also, in the UK, the Ninjago Movie Destiny's Bounty was very cheap for a while last year, so many of them were parted out. That had a reddish brown hull but not middle sections, which is where a lot of current stock would have come from.
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    I'm from York, it looks a lot like the "Red House" antique centre on Duncombe Place, near the minster.
  12. MAB
    Because Police City sets can be used alongside other City sets and fit in perfectly well with them. Police are part of City. They could equally well start branding Fire in a completely different way to Police and City. They could brand any food related ones as something completely different, so restaurants and food trucks get branded that way. Utility vehicles would need their own theme. Buses and taxis could be marketed under Public Transport. Shops could be sold under a Shops theme. Boats would need their own theme. Sets like Donut Shop Opening would be banned, as it contains Police, Food, Public Transport, Shops, etc. so would need multiple theme branding on the box. Selling all real life type sets under a common City banner makes much more sense. They don't need individual theme branding. If I look at a City set and see a police car on it, I know it is a police set. I know it can be used alongside other City sets.
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    Like most written rules, they are the real rules. It is just that rules are interpreted in different ways by different people. Being able to prove that some Ninjago parts have been sold doesn't mean that all should be available, and the same happens with licensed parts. In general, they should not be sold. However, some slip through. Unfortunately, nowhere near as many as used to. If you want to know what the actual rules and policies are, then read them. I've posted you some of the rules above, they aren't able to sell minifigures or speciality bricks from Ninjago. They don't apply the rule very well, but that is the actual rule.
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    6 - 3 points
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    Look down a bit. There is a section called Brick Flicks & Comics - LEGO® Movies and Story-telling.
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    The secondary market may be detrimental in the short term if and only if speculators wipe out all stock of a particular item for its entire retail life, but they are also beneficial to collectors in the longer term. Try buying even a three year old set from LEGO or any other primary retail store, and in the majority of cases you cannot. It is the secondary market that allows collectors access to older products. The same for me. I only ever buy from LEGO if there is a decent promo or I am placing a B+P order.
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    Yeah, I imagine LEGO picked up on the way kids were playing with the bricks. I was a kid growing up in the 1970s, and I played with LEGO by building houses, buildings, spaceships, etc and then used toys from other brands for figures. Toy soldiers, figures from model railways (maybe 1 inch high), Kenner Star Wars figures, Battlestar Galactica figures, Little Big Man (like action an / GI Joe, but about 8" tall). The range of sizes was huge, but all got played with LEGO. Sometimes the scales were way off, but as I kid I never cared.
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    It does depend a bit on who you speak to whether you can get away with ordering what they consider licensed parts. However, the clueless low-level drone you spoke to this time was actually correct ...
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    Haul pictures show what is available, especially if only one of each part is shown.
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    A Lowell sphere is made from common parts, just not ones from that set. As to whether there is a need for instructions for a sphere made from the classic set you have, I don't know. How many people with that set and no other parts want to make a sphere-like object? Probably not many, but go for it if you feel there is.
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    I'm not so sure about that. There was this Iron Man 48x48 mosaic (right hand side of pic below) made as a give-away for a certified store in Singapore a few years ago. https://forum.brickset.com/discussion/28203/iron-man-mosaic-gwp-singapore-only-though Quite a few sold on BL for around the £100-140 price soon after release so not far off this and people were bricklinking them, and also doubling them up as shown above to form the larger symmetric image.
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    The Lowell sphere is not much bigger than that, and is significantly more spherical. http://www.brucelowell.com/lowell-sphere/instructions/ An even smaller alternative is to use a dice piece, with a 2x2 jumper and a 1x1 plate or tile on each face.
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    LEGO partly covered this in the virtual tour of the LEGO House this morning. They discussed moving from the buildable figures of the 1970s to minifigures, and that a driver for this was the scale. That people could not build houses and cars at the right scale to fit their buildable figures in, without being very large and hence requiring so many bricks. Hence they made much smaller figures that were less customizable in terms of height and body shape but more appropriate to interact with things built for them.
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    It might also be that the part has been approved by Lucasfilm / Disney for SW and that there is an agreement that it is a licensed part, and cannot be used in other themes (licensed or not) either temporarily or indefinitely. For example, if SW fans can get hold of licensed parts cheaper in other licensed or in-house sets, there is less reason to buy SW.
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    I don't think the flat silver visors were ever available. I remember checking a number of times when they were a current product.
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