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  1. MAB
    So long as you say you are using the extra parts that come with a set, there is no problem with that.
  2. MAB
    Golden bananas and shield tiles are out of stock again. And owls no longer for sale.
  3. MAB
    I notice you removed the claw from the fly. I have a similar number but for mine, some have two claws, some have none, some have one right one, some have one left one. It makes them look a bit more mutant.
  4. MAB
    Probably old stock that wasn't sold and has recently been found. That Sebulba set and the Winnie the Pooh one were on significant discount here back in the day. Sebulba still isn't worth very much but Winnie the Pooh is.
  5. MAB
    That looks great, same with 2nd place.
  6. MAB
    And also look at the licenses: Marvel and SW - huge franchises with lots of adult fans. The Beatles - one of the biggest bands ever, and popular with adults (with money). Warhol - very well known pop art, that converts reasonably well to low resolution pixelated pictures, and LEGO can now say this is "art". Doctor Who is nothing compared to these, same with many smaller licenses. Plus which Doctor? Or all of them possible in one set. I cannot really see lots of people buying enough sets to make all of them at the price. Lord of the Rings is similar - too many important characters to do, and just a few won't work so well. Now these new parts are made, people are free to do their own in the same style. It is not really anything new just the backplates.
  7. MAB
    I cannot quite make out how the switches work, do they just pull a gear out of being engaged?
  8. MAB
    Is trains a specific sub-theme anyway? Is splitting generic City sets into such sub-themes really necessary, when they contain the City branding? I always thought that one of the good things about sets like 60052 was that you do not need to have farm theme to get elements of farming into a set like the cargo train. The downside of a specific sub-theme is that there is no reason to include a farming wagon, for example, if there is no farm theme.
  9. MAB
    What is the advantage of this over, say, a row of gears sandwiched between two technic beams? They can also be turned on and off by pulling axles and all have the same rotation speed.
  10. MAB
    Is this one standing on an air-vet, Marilyn Monroe style?
  11. MAB
    It is also the 40th anniversary of Indiana Jones, which of course used to be a LEGO theme too. Then outside of old themes, there are some other movies with anniversaries that would make for great parts or minifigures: 1981 - Excalibur, Clash of the Titans, An American Werewolf in London, 1991: Addams Family, Hook, Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, 2001: Tomb Raider, Planet of the Apes. Given that LEGO doesn't celebrate big anniversaries of internal themes that well (if at all), I'm not holding out much hope for the 20th anniversary of FOTR.
  12. MAB
    It's funny how different people view things in different ways. I found the Home Alone set very unoriginal. It's a close resemblance to the one in the movie, so to me not an actual original creation. Very good, but not original.
  13. MAB
    Lots of people use IKEA's RIBBA frames for displaying thin MOCs and minifigures, take a look here: https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/search/&q=ribba
  14. MAB
    Yes, I've only ever done it on single cells. So with requiring disassembly, this probably is a last resort before giving up.
  15. MAB
    Like other series, I doubt we ever will. One store here (Argos) has had them at 50% off for a few weeks, although their stocks seem to be almost gone now - none for delivery, and stock only in some stores. I bought ten at 50% off but stopped once I got the ones I wanted, and sold off the ones I didn't.
  16. MAB
    The same could be said for just about any license. Given the price, especially for multiple purchases, they will need to appeal to a license with a lot of (rich) adult collectors.
  17. MAB
    With paypal they can also change the amount. LEGO pre-authorises with one charge, then charges again for the order at the time of dispatch, then refunds the original pre-authorisation. So if you place an order for £50, you have to make sure you have £100 (or some other form of payment) as otherwise the second charge can fail before they refund the pre-authorisation. As to the gold parts, same here. I got 10 of the bananas as they might be useful for decorative items on the ridges of a roof. Whereas the tiles, I got 200 as I have a specific use for them now.
  18. MAB
    It is possible to recover over-discharged batteries by first charging them with a low current if they have not been left too long, see here: PS. do it outside! I've never done it on LEGO ones, as I've never bought them (way overpriced).
  19. MAB
    You won't be allowed to buy 201 of them. Maximum is 200.
  20. MAB
    Yes, they do. Will people buy one Beatles one and continuously rebuild it to make all four Beatles, or will they go for 4x sets and display all four. Displaying one Beatle at a time looks a bit crap to me, but maybe people will. My point was to do with the ease of removal. Removing four plates at a time is going to be significantly quicker than using an ice-scraper type implement to remove six tiles.
  21. MAB
    I wouldn't mail one flat. If the outer box is flat, there is a good chance it will get folded or creased. As above, use a regular LEGO shipping box for the outer protection.
  22. MAB
    Funny enough, I did The Starry Night earlier, this is 48 pixels wide (31 high) but before changing to LEGO colour palette. I think most people would recognize it as van Gogh, but would anyone want it on their wall? I'd prefer a much cheaper poster than this.
  23. MAB
    I doubt they would pass a modular, as they already sell modulars under their own range. They have their own designers and don't need other people to design sets for their own modulars range. However, they have shown they will accept modular-style but stand-alone, one-off sets.
  24. MAB
    It is because the SW and Marvel ones have alternate building instructions so you can build the three designs, then repurpose them into the combination display. Whereas The Beatles and Warhol ones don't have an alternative combined build so have no reason to be taken apart again.
  25. MAB
    Are they compilation albums? As The Beatles split in 1970. Maybe they should do a special collectors edition White Album cover to go with these. A set of about 2300 white round tiles plus a plate with the name on it. I'm not sure they would. Digitize a van Gogh painting to 48x48 pixels, then use only LEGO's palette and see if you like it. It works fine for bold paintings with blocks of colour but so much detail is lost when going to a low resolution. Mondrian style would look good.
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