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  1. MAB
    You need to tell them you are not asking for missing parts, but wanting to buy parts. If they say that they are not available to buy, then wait a couple of weeks and try again.
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    MAB replied to Actionfigure's topic in Special LEGO Themes

    That is interesting. On their site they say the designer sets the price.
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    I've never seen one of the retail ones, do these have the LEGO logos on? I can understand LEGO wanting to bring production of everything under their own factory control, if external companies like this were allowing employees to make their own LEGO parts out of hours since it allows non-approved items to reach the market - especially if they have LEGO markings on them but are not approved by LEGO.
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    It was a joke (hence the use of the smiley), given all the complaints about this theme being expensive and the discount text actually appearing in the set.
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    The two downsides of the letters are that they are on quite large tiles and on round tiles. 2x2 letters are large compared to minifigures, so these will be near useless for any lettering except short words or initials. Then the shape, square tiles fit neatly together, round ones leave gaps. While it might look nice to have one sign using these, if MOC makers use them on multiple stores, they won't look so good. Maybe LEGO will shrink the design, especially if they want it to look like a real typewriter, one with a space bar, caps and punctuation keys, and so on. I don't know how the message got typed with all the missing keys! Adding a few of those will make it a very large box, so they might need to reduce the spacing between the keys or shrink them. No-one outside of LEGO has proof of anything though. However, approving three projects from such a small number is reasonably out of the normal behaviour. You can bash on those typewriter keys all you like, they aren't going to do anything! :-)
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    Even some modern parts don't have a lego mark inside. If you've bought them and the rest of the minifigure has genuine parts with correct logos, then chances are all the parts are genuine. Especially if the unmarked parts are relatively cheap compared to say the printed torsos.
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    I believe you can contact BL and show them proof and ask for it to be removed if it is a direct or very similar copy. However, if it is a similar concept but not actually the same, then they might not remove it. You say that it is both "actually identical" but also that they have "used rather a lot of rare and/or non-existent parts". Are these just colour changes or different parts?
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    MAB replied to Actionfigure's topic in Special LEGO Themes

    2 comments: 1. On the MOC: Looks very nice, life-like pose. 2. On MOCHUB: The pricing seems way off. $115 inc postage for 308 parts? That is almost 40c a part.
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    That would be good for the Onslow minifigure. As to the others: Home Improvement - watched it because it was on, but wouldn't now. Full House - never heard of it. Beverly Hillbillies - too old for me (and I'm late 40s).
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    It isn't a kids' show but then, this won't be a kids' set. Surely by now LEGO knows these nostalgia sets are for adults. Or the racist rant of Michael Richards from the Seinfeld set.
  11. MAB
    That one is relatively easy, as it also says it in English! "D.H Shipping Co." The interesting one is "20% off ordering" as that is what it may take for these to sell! :-)
  12. MAB
    Probably the latter. Yes, a very good chance. The UK store it says "temporarily out of stock" and you can sign up for stock alerts.
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    I know they have been out a while. As to shelf warming (as in not selling), I'm not so sure. From talking to a local toystore, they seem to sell quite well but Playmobil replenish stocks consistently. For sure, the number of reviews on amazon (UK) for Playmobil Ghostbusters sets is quite high compared to equivalent LEGO sets. No doubt part of that is due to LEGO's short product life of one year rather the the longer retail lifespan of other companies. Of course, there are other places to buy both, but at least it is an indicative measure that the both sell quite well. Playmobil were quite smart in that they did a Stay Puft man - something that LEGO didn't manage to do, aside from the little one in Dimensions.
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    LOTR didn't stop Castle when it was on sale and it doesn't stop Castle being produced now. There have been many dragons in the past five years, in Creator, Elves, Ninjago, Minecraft.
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    Same with me, but these sets do next to nothing for me. If they had been a bit more traditional I would have bought them but they are too futuristic / modern styled for my tastes. I doubt it, it is probably just anti-Chinese rhetoric. I see no reason why the minifigure quality would be any different to the CMFs for the past ten years, or the bagged minifigure parts that have come out over the same period. What has the LEGO theme Monkie Kid got to do with anything that is happening right now?
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    I imagine they don't want to have similar toys to Playmobil on the shelves at the same time. Given the delay in release of the new movie, there probably won't be any LEGO sets based on it until at least next year now. And I doubt they want cartoon based Real Ghostbusters sets out at the same time as Ghostbusters Afterlife, if they do sets based on the movie.
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    Do you feel the same about printing on the minifigure parts? For example, these two yellow skins. Which allows more creativity, and which style do you prefer? One that limits creativity in that it is clearly a woman in a pink leotard and cannot be used for much else, or the plainer one that could be anything? Personally, I prefer the detail of the printing and I don't feel creativity is limited too much in that there are so many different prints available. Particularly minifigures are limited to what they can be used for, but given enough range, creativity is not limited. I ask as I feel the same way about fleshies vs yellow. I don't think having flesh tones limits creativity at all, so long as there is a decent range of flesh tones and body parts available that are compatible with those flesh tones.
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    I thought the movie was more about Remy and Alfredo than about the building. And Remy is seriously lacking, being a small, already existing rat piece that has been used many times before.
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    And Chima got both the blister style packs and small build "tribe" packs ... If Monkie Kid goes on I imagine there will be many more bulls to come, unless the enemy changes.
  20. MAB
    Search for 2587* on bricklink. That will give you the sets they are in, which you can then use on B+P.
  21. MAB
    Licenses may appeal to a specific target group, but sometimes that target group is very big. And the point of IDEAS is (or at least was) to try to appeal to other people than the ones that regularly buy LEGO. Whereas some universal ideas may have more limited appeal. For example, the typewriter may look nice, but who wants a non-functioning typewriter just because it is made out of LEGO? I thought the same about the piano, but obviously the team at LEGO think it will sell. Maybe there are non-LEGO typewriter fans that will want this because it is a typewriter. I don't really see The Pirate Bay or the Bionicle IDEA as any different to a third party license. They appeal to a group of people that are interested in those themes. I don't really have any interest in LEGO pirates, so I won't be buying TPB. Note that it isn't a good set, I'm just not interested in the theme it is based on. The same with the Friends set, it looks fine for what it is, but the license is not interesting to me. The Treehouse is a bit different as it is not linked to an existing theme.
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    I imagine LEGO knew that purchasers of Benny's Space Squad were not likely to be the same people buying the other TLM2 sets. That small set hit two sets of fans - the TLM2 buyers and the nostalgic classic space buyers.
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    I hate to tell you this, but Palpatine's torso used to be available (about five years ago, though). EDit: scratch that, it was six years ago that I bought them! https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/107233-future-star-wars-sets/&page=190&tab=comments#comment-1849500
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    Isn't that exactly the point though. They could add a few pieces but then it does not fit the budget and so the price needs to be increased. They could add 25-30 pieces, and make it even better, but then it would probably be a $12.99 set rather than a $10 set. They could add 100 pieces and make it even better still but make it a $20 set instead. I'm not sure what a $10 Monkie set would look like. Everything else has a substantial build, except for the polybag that is the Monkie Kid on a motorbike. Why shoe-horn in a small crappy build that doesn't fit in with the rest of the theme just to hit a $10 price. It works for many themes as some of the other larger sets also have a combination of smaller builds into which stand alone small builds will fit. But for Monkie Kid, adding in another Monkie Kid minifigure on another small vehicle probably doesn't really fit well as a retail set.
  25. MAB
    Different reasons: I collect parts because I like to build. I collect some minifigures because I like the licenses they come from. I imagine a lot of it comes from being able to build something from small parts, and that anyone from a small child that can put bricks together upwards can do it.
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