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  1. MAB
    Yeah, even at the cheaper 30 Eur and £25, I just cannot see how they get that price. Sure it has two molded animals, but even so. I just cannot see that set selling very well at the RRP. Even £15 seems expensive for what you get and that would be 40% off. But no doubt lots of little girls will like the movie and will want some toys from it. I haven't looked into prices for other Frozen 2 toys yet. I'm hoping to get my 8yo daughter through Christmas without too much interest in it.
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    Yes, the play value of the two Arendelle sets seems to be very similar, but their pricing has changed significantly. 2016: 477 parts / £55 / $60 2019: 521 parts / £75 / $80
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    If they ever did a pregnant woman, I imagine it would be an attachable belly via a neck bracket so like a rucksack but put on backwards. It is quite rare for them to introduce other style torsos (like Maggie's, some of Garmadon's, etc). I wonder if the machinery for inserting the arms is the same for the modified torsos. But then, we have had fat characters such as Homer and the Comic Book Guy, depicted with a normal torso and printed belly lines. There is also the way they did it via a hair piece for Bombur. Plus there have been other national stereotypes over the years. That is one of the good points of the CMFs.
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    I'm not really an HP fan, but some of them are useful for fleshie parts. Especially if the series sells badly and the figures are sold off cheaply.
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    I imagine it would look very similar to the recent pizza van. What would they sell though? Probably turkey / chicken legs: as the existing hot dog seller has sausages covered:
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    When I think back to being a kid in the target age range for many LEGO sets , so 7-14, how many of my toys did I actually save up for and buy? I reckon under 5%. I'm fairly sure almost all of my toys were bought for me. Of course I would have had some input in them, but for the most part I was not saving up to buy them.
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    Yep, I should have know that as my son has that one! I imagine LEGO has dropped their output of trains as trains do not sell so well these days. Whether they were powered by 9V, PF, PF2, something else. Kids seem not to be that interested in model trains. When I was a kid (late 70s/80s) model trains were incredibly popular with kids, Hornby in the UK was massive. With my brothers, we used to spend hours making scenery for our train set - some of it from LEGO. Whereas, for the past few years, Hornby has been in financial difficulties. I cannot remember the last time I saw a kid playing with a 00 gauge train set. It is a hobby for old men these days. It is an interesting point, but that is one of the reasons a lot of train folk give for not buying into LEGO trains. If you cannot buying individual rolling stock, and have to keep buying an engine every time you want another car, it gets very expensive.
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    I have been in the lego community long enough to know both terms are used interchangeably, and also that neither has an exact definition.
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    I'm hoping to see some massive discounts on Hidden Side sets. Rumours are that it is not selling at all well. I imagine a lot of this is down to the augmented reality side of it, and the limited number of devices that it works on. How many parents are going to buy their kids sets where one of the key selling points is an app, when the app doesn't run on anything but a very modern device. And how many parents will buy an expensive device so their 7+ kids can play a specific app? It is all very well LEGO saying you don't need the app to enjoy the sets, but as a buyer it feels like you are missing out on something you have paid in the set price for if you cannot use the app.
  10. MAB
    To be able to define a difference between system scale and minifigure scale, both scales need to be defined. Neither are. I cannot recall seeing the words "system scale" in LEGO instructions or boxes, or LEGO defining what is meant be system scale. They use many different sizes for cars, buildings and so on in their sets. Which of them is system scale? The reason it is difficult to understand what people mean by system scale and minifigure scale is because neither are unambiguously defined.
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    They last logged in nearly a decade ago. You probably ought to start checking post dates.
  12. MAB
    I prefer Monster Fighters as a theme and the builds in the sets. However, I think the building in HS are great for converting back to City style builds. I have no interest in the ghost side of the theme.
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    I thought the Lone Ranger sets sold reasonably well at the time, despite the movie not doing so well at the box office. The train and stage coach were great sets, and the cavalry builder has been selling very well recently on the secondary market. Movies can do well at the box office, but have relatively poor LEGO sales, but also they can do poorly at the box office but still appear to have reasonable LEGO sales. Of course, since none of us know the actual sales data we can only go off gut feelings about how long the sets remain on shelves at heavily discounted prices.
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    This is already done in many official sets and MOCs. Sets that are open backed or hinged often have an implied play area significantly larger than the actual build. So for example, the play area of this set is far bigger than the size of the wall and door frame would otherwise suggest.
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    There is no industry standard. LEGO uses a range of different scales. What is important is that minifigures can fit through doors, fit in care, see through windows, etc.
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    Aren't most of them City or used in City? Which new ones did we get from 3in1s?
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    The coconut head from Moana works really well in that totem stump.
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    In the past, some torsos were supplied at 0.05 - I paid £10 for 200 Homer torsos and £10 for 200 Krusty torsos. All four of the original Ghostbusters torsos were supplied at 0.05 as well. They have also put things in at 0.00, and supplied them at that price in the past - I have a load of architecture name tiles that were free. But they have really cracked down on the free parts in the past few years. It used to be worth a speculative punt to see what you would be charged, but I don't think any listed at 0.05 in the past two years have gone through at 0.05.
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    We did, but then CMF parts are handled in a different way to regular sets. So unless they are brought into the same production line, then it is unlikely.
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    I guess the problem here is that figures, when they do appear in Creator sets, tend to be fairly generic and made from parts from figures from other themes (mainly City or other larger Creator sets). To have such unique parts for the historical type figures, they would either need to be produced for that one set, or appear elsewhere in the LEGO range.
  21. MAB
    For me, it is because the type of thing I build has people typically standing, and height (rather than width or depth) is the dominant dimension for a figure. Also height is what distinguishes adults from children in LEGO world, their widths and depths are the same. For toys (played with by kids), scale doesn't actually matter too much. For model displays, scale is more important. LEGO is somewhere between the two, exactly where between the two depending on the viewpoint of the user.
  22. MAB
    It is not legitimate LEGO, although they say "5098 PCS LEGO Quality Bricks" in the description, they also put this in the details: Size： L : 50 cm W : 40 cm H :60 cm,easy-to-follow, instruction diagrams with brick by brick guide–sent electronically via email. Introduction: This a High quality set at an affordable price. All our MOC brick sets are made from high quality 100% ABS plastic. Please note: This is stand not a Lego branded item, but is 100% compatible with LEGO and can be easily modified or expanded to make your imaginations a reality. So not LEGO, and you are going to be building from a PDF not printed instructions.
  23. MAB
    I agree LEGO is conservative, but they may well be reacting to who buys SW sets. I buy them for me, and for my kids. I tend to gravitate towards the movie sets only (and just the original trilogy for me). I haven't a clue about storylines or characters in Clone Wars, TOR, Rebels and Resistance, aside from that they exist. I imagine a lot of people (parents) go for the mainstream movie related stuff, but not so much with the extended universe.
  24. MAB
    Yeah, the Scandi countries and The Netherlands have higher averages than UK, Germany, France, Spain etc. But 5cm in ~175cm or so is not going to make much difference to any scale, especially when given the extreme proportional ratios of minifigures.
  25. MAB
    There are similar comments on this thread from 2011. System and minifig scale are and have been used interchangeably as they are both somewhat ill-defined and often overlap.
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