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The coconut head from Moana works really well in that totem stump.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Yes, I know that. But tell a child he can have either five civilian cars, or one civilian car, one police car, one fire engine, one bulldozer and one dumper truck. You can roll them all around on the floor, but you can play out more adventures with five different 'interesting' vehicles than you can with five similar 'boring' ones.

I don't get this argument at all. There are loads of sets in the City theme with a single vehicle. So here is your single bulldozer equivalent (2019): or a garbage truck for clearing up the mess (2019): Fire trucks, choice of two for younger or older kids (both 2019): You need more police (2019): or some adventure? (2019): Of course, these are not just the vehicle as kids like to have a minifigure to drive the bulldozer or empty the trash or whatever, and there is a tiny piece of scenery to make the set a standalone toy, or an addition to a bigger collection. Plus the way kids get and consume LEGO has changed a lot these days. Magazines are fairly common, with "free" polybags on the front, so for example things like this often get added to kids' collections: It is true that there are not many civilian cars, but then I find my kids don't play with that many at once anyway. A couple of civilian cars, plus a whole fleet of police, fire trucks, etc is unrealistic for real life, but for kids is fairly normal. City civilians must be boring compared to emergency workers based on what LEGO releases - but that is/was also true in other themes like Castle. Unlike in Friends, where there is much more based on regular civilian life.

There is another problem with a zoo subtheme and that is the view of zoos has changed over the years. I wonder if LEGO took this on board, as they haven't released a zoo theme (where the animals are actually caged / fenced in) since 2012 in DUPLO, where they were relatively common in the mid noughties. If they were to do one in LEGO, it wouldn't surprise me if the animals were "free range" or on safari and visitors are in tour buses.

Halo has been a key product line for Megabloks / Mega Construx for a number of years. Take a look here: https://www.megaconstrux.com/en-gb/worlds/halo

They have made similar mistakes in the past. If they are torsos, then beware. They are listed incorrectly and LEGO will substitute them with the same print but different element number at 10x the price. If you order them, check your invoices carefully, as they don't tell you this, they just charge you the higher price.

And Mega Construx currently make Halo sets too.

Me too. If a minifigure fits in it or can interact with it in a sensible way, then it is minifigure scale. Of course, different people may see the same build in different ways. But that is a problem with the question - there is no exact definition of minifigure scale, so there is no correct answer that will please everyone.

Of you are going to use pliers, then put some foam rubber in the jaws, it helps stop scratching.

You already asked this a few months ago in the Town forum.

If someone is willing to pay $1000 for a minifigure, I don't mind them feeling stupid if it is then made widely available for a much cheaper price. They still have the exclusive packaging! Similar things happened with comic con releases of Bard, Azog, Bilbo. After Bilbo, I think people realised these were going to be preview figures and the prices didn't go completely crazy, but still people paid for essentially just the exclusive packaging.

Trans neons, and in fact most plainer trans colours, seem to be a magnet for kids anyway. No, but I think they need to "get it" (as in understand what it is about) quite quickly. Kids these days have so many toys and access to so much media, that if they don't understand something quickly they move on to something else. I may be generalising and I could well have been the same when I was a kid, but back in the 1970s/80s I didn't have anywhere near as many toys as my kids do now, and so I played with each of them more.

Yes, the stubborn ones will probably never get much new!

Not an actual scene, but a boner C-3PO (kids of the 70s will remember this) is unlikely ... Although one bootleg company already went there:

And on bricks and pieces, where it is cheaper to buy the figure and brolly - it's costs about half what they charge for the polybag.

Go to LEGO.com and use the "contact us" button.

I guess the question then is, would these adults display Sesame Street toys? I don't mind displaying things from my teenage years. But from my toddler years, I don't think so. I'd chat with my friends now about plot lines of Star Wars or Ghostbusters, or things like that which were coming out as I was an older kid. I don't think I'd talk to them about what happened in Tom and Jerry or Sesame Street (if I had watched it).