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Someone else said they would like to see a recycling centre as a set, so I showed how LEGO has done one in the past. And although the set is called recycling truck, it is actually a centre. The bins are in place and there is a forklift truck at the centre too. I never said anything about them not making another one or have tried to kill your dreams, just showing another user what a recycling centre is likely to look like. Same with a portaloo on a plumbers truck. Any new one is likely to look like the existing portaloo on a construction truck. I don't understand what you mean by it wasn't a standalone truck. It was - set 60073.

A recycling centre already was a set. Mind you, 8 years ago now. Not a plumber, but easy enough to sticker a plumber or blue overalls guy in it.

Have a guess what the F stands for in MUFC. I wouldn't have known what / who they are without the names below. They could at least have given them a pair of legs with shorts printed on them.

It's better to charge when items are posted, rather than charge upfront. They could always add people to a waiting list and let you know nearer the time if demand really is that high.

Whatever LEGO come up with, there will be a way to cheat the packaging.

Where is the rudeness? A retail set full stadium at minifigure scale is impossible. Old Trafford holds about 76000 people. If they did even 1/10th of that number, that is 7600 seats. The pitch would be too large to fit on even a large coffee table or similar display area.

That definition covers every child that looks at sets on a supermarket shelf and talks to a friend about LEGO. So I'd put it at probably of the order of 100 million worldwide. Complete guess of course.

I don't think it is possible to define what the LEGO community is, let alone determine its size.

I don't think the playmobil movie did so well for merchandising. A store near me that rarely discounts toys has playmobil movie stuff at 50% off.

I prefer to see buildable figures from system lego parts. To me, they are more LEGO-like than constraction sets, and also more customisable as you can easily change the design of heads and limbs with small parts.

Yeah, although I regularly add them to bricklink orders if the seller has them cheap whether I need them or not. If under 5p each, they are not worth trying to resharpen.

Especially if you build mosaics with plates or tiles. Getting 1x1 tiles off a plate / baseplate can be a real pain even with the pointy end of a separator and they soon get blunt enough to not work as well. At least with 1x1 plates you can lever them with the other stud removal end.

I doubt there are that many fans of UK football, or even English football, or even Premier League football. Most people here support a team, not a league. And most people would not buy a model of a rival club's stadium. A significant proportion of football fans in Manchester wouldn't buy this. I imagine this is made to cater for the worldwide "fans" of Manchester United, the ones that buy shirts and watch on TV and have followed the club since the glory days of Alex Ferguson when they had a decent team. Although there are loads of much cheaper 3D buildable models of Old Trafford available and this has even been done at a similar scale in building blocks before by Character Building. I don't really understand the appeal of doing a single club like this, but no doubt LEGO have their reasons pairing with one of the richest / highest valued football clubs. To me it is more speculation than rumour. Although as you say, speculation with some background thought, so slightly better than my mate's mate's dad who works at a LEGO store said that ...

I have probably about 25-30 that I use as brick separators. They are handy to keep around a building area as if you keep only two then chances are you will not be able to find them when you need them. As for my other few hundred, they are LEGO parts so use them in MOCs. Look at these MOCs from others... And on here:

There were green ones of the modern version in Palace Cinema and Horizon Express. Plus dark grey and green were available in the old style of separator.

Even then, what would you rather display if you were an author and not into LEGO? A typewriter that you need to build and doesn't work or a real old one that does work (and probably costs a lot less)?

It depends what you call a set really. Some of the Bricklink AFOL programme sets were quite large and were packaged with a box and instructions like a normal set, and as there were largish production runs they can be found for sale (although heavily marked up by now). Most MOC designers/sellers will just sell the instructions though, as sourcing the parts in bulk is costly if the sets do not sell very fast.

I very rarely get logged out. Do you block cookies?

I like Star Wars because it is Star Wars. I like some in-house space themes. But yes, if LEGO do another in-house space theme there will be loads of complaints that LEGO did it wrong and that what they should have done is re-do all the old classic space sets and that they have wasted a slot on pandering to modern kids' views of space and not a 1980s view of space. They have done it before - look at AC and GS. Both were in-house space themes. At the time they were both criticized. What about the kid that wants a key ship like the Millenium Falcon? Should s/he have to wait five years as one was already made? In my view, there should probably be an X-wing and a MF on the shelves at all times.

I don't think they were, at least compared to SW and Super Heroes. Star Wars is very different to LOTR in that kids like it, and so it overlaps with LEGO's main demographic. True, and even that seemed to attract lots of complaints and it wasn't until AFOLs saw how bad the second wave was that the first wave was seen as a decent wave. I recall complaints about the Mines of Moria being just walls, that Weathertop was too small, that the Uruk-Hai set was just a bit of wall and the only set really praised was Helm's Deep.

I think all those parts have been available for months. I bought some of the tiles back in June.

Wasn't Great Uncle Bulgaria dressed in a green tartan in the 1970s? The blue seems to date from the 1990s. Once told what they are I can sort of see the resemblance, but the noses look wrong. Maybe a larger 2x2 cone would have been better.

Star Wars. Because any in-house Space theme will be criticised for not being Classic Space and will probably sell badly, along with complaints that it is all about war and not exploration.

Where do the terms differentiate between molded and 3D printed parts? I cannot see it anywhere in the seller terms. All I see concerning this is (1.2.1 of seller terms): LEGO Brand Only: All items listed for sale must be LEGO brand products unless they fall into either of the two categories listed below – 1.2.5 (Custom Sets) or 1.2.6 (Non LEGO Items). Other brands of building toys are not permitted. https://www.bricklink.com/v3/terms_of_service_seller.page To me, that outlaws both 3D printed and custom molded parts.

That is what is found when a journalist google searches for lego problems.