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Name one film where most of the audience had interest in buying LEGO sets. I don't believe the LR sets or the PoP sets sold any worse than sets like Indiana Jones or the HP sets that were released around 2010 or LOTR. So did you go to see Crimes of Grindelwald, or do you base your opinions on what you have read elsewhere? You have made your anti-licensed stance very clear in this and all the other threads you have started. Licensed sets are here to stay. LEGO makes a lot of money off the back of them.

No. Plus I disagree with your $10 statement. There are plenty of licensed minifigures that appear in one set only (so are not very common in production) that cost under $10.

They also do not seem to be using long legs for Woody in the new TS4 sets.

Do you have any links to the company? If so, Witch King of Angmar! Then Sauron. I'd buy the figures just to use the custom helmet.

If you are not comfortable with it, then you can put one out there where there is a diverse ethnic mix. Or go further with all reddish brown, or all dark flesh, or whatever race you want to depict. No. Although there are more CMF parts now, it used to be a lot of generic stuff in there. When these first started it was uncommon to get CMF parts.

They can already do 8 colours on heads (including orientations) - see Sally above. Unfortunately, they have fallen behind cloners / fakers in terms of printing. A number of the Chinese cloners assemble the torso and legs then print, which means that the print is consistent across the whole figure. There are no unsightly breaks in the print by the waist of the torso where it joins the legs. There are no discontinuities where the alignment wasn't quite right and the legs print is shifted slightly compared to the torso. I guess the problem for AFOLS wanting quality is that for most kids, this type of thing is not that big a deal so there is no reason for LEGO to care about improving it.

For me, the buildings aren't modulars, so not really that interesting. Some of the minifig scale vehicles are OK if you want that particular vehicle but I tend to stick with the City ones. They are good sets for kids, as there is a lot of build value in them. The forest animals set was a lot of fun, as is the pooping parrot . With a bit of head and beak modification, this one is useful for LOTR. If they did a (classic) space 3-in-1, then even though it is not licensed, it is somewhat dictating the builds you can do with the set. But then, that is already fairly common across the range anyway. For example, if a kid has this set: it would not surprise me if they made the three sea creature builds and not much else and possibly play with the fish swimming them around. Is that any better / worse than a kid having a Star Wars set and using their imagination to act out a storyline? For the creator set, there is more build experience but I think less play and display possibility, whereas for a 1-build licensed set, there is less build experience but more play and display value. So I guess it depends what you want out of a set.

Brick Yellow or Tan on bricklink.

This isn't true. Licensed parts do show up occasionally in the minifigure stands. However, even if they never appeared, it makes sense that the majority of heads / torsos are yellow skinned ones as that is the majority of LEGO's output. It doesn't bother me. Similarly, it wouldn't bother me if someone made a MOC where all the minifigures had reddish brown heads. The reddish brown ones are quite uncommon, especially if you want fairly generic heads, and so tend to be more expensive. Cyborg, Winston (from Ghostbusters) and Finn have been sources for fairly plain reddish brown heads.

People said the same in the 1980s - that the new home video games would kill off traditional toys.

Then just do single sided heads. Often the alternative expression doesn't add much anyway, and means the head cannot be used with some headgear. And if you look at the Sally a few posts above, the head has dual-sided printing in what appears to be a grey, black, red and white.

It is not just skin, it happens on many light on dark prints. For example, take this Luke Skywalker: The print of his robes on his legs is dreadful. It is not dense enough so appears cream rather than white giving an abrupt colour change from the top to the bottom of what is meant to be the same piece of material. The print also doesn't extend to the edges of the part, so there are tan lines showing through. They'd need to do a second pass of white to get the colour density up but presumably this costs them a colour slot on the print run.

Yes, compare that to these official 'location' type sets: $40 Malibu Mansion $240 Batcave It looks more like the Batcave than the Malibu Mansion, and probably even more parts intensive when you consider the simplicity of the elevated chute part compared to the rockwork in that Ideas idea. It is also not clear to me, is it display or play? Would one location have worked better than all of them (I'm not familiar with the source material)? Would having one small but reasonable build (like Malibu Mansion) work, while keeping the price down.

^^ They are in the new Spike Prime robotics sets. They are also available to purchase at B+P already.

You can actually do that in a purist way, if you don't mind using the rather large sound recorder from this Duplo set. Although is recording a non-LEGO sound still purist ...?

I'm not really sure I see the point of submissions that are essentially reworkings of sets LEGO has already done. The stagecoach is a slightly crappier version of this set from 2013 The same with the Castle style sets above, they are essentially rehashes of existing sets. LEGO has data about how well they sold. If there was a business case to release another substantial stagecoach set, no doubt they would do it. Although outside of a western theme or a licensed theme where it was in some context, I cannot see such a set working.

Shayd DeGrai's got about halfway some years back, but was at an even bigger scale. https://ideas.lego.com/projects/30766256-e115-4762-96a9-4a878d63d5db I like the bodies but I'm not keen on the heads. I think they would need some improvement, especially the necks.

Yes, I wouldn't buy it with VAT added on, but then I wouldn't buy it if it was $200 all in. I think there is better value in official LEGO sets.

There are sound bricks with pre-defined sounds though. LEGO have produced many different sound bricks over the years, from castle to revving motors to klaxxonsto space sounds. There is even a door bell with dog bark ... https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=55206c06&name=Electric, Sound Brick 2 x 4 x 2 with Light Bluish Gray Top and Doorbell then Dog Bark Sound (Set 5771)&category=[Electric, Light & Sound]#T=S&O={"rpp":"500","iconly":0}

I don't think that is new ... This one is in the 2016 Rescue from Ra's al Ghul.

1. I agree, although I imagine many AFOLs (the ones wanting traditional castle to come back) do know about Bricklink, or have some knowledge about the BL sets through other websites. 2. It is the same with an official set. Personally, I wouldn't pay $200 for the one on BL. 3. (and 4.) I agree it is probably the best of a crap bunch, along with the western saloon. Not that I think it is a crap MOC for the given palette of parts, but just a crap set. But which themes popularity? Castle? Architecture? This is billed as a historically accurate castle, so it is close to Architecture too. But the build in the Clovershire Castle is just as close to traditional sets from Classic Castle as this one is (aside from the description). So that also gives the impression of Castle not being so popular. Personally, I don't think LEGO will take any notice of how well (or not) these designs do, at least in the sense of changing their own product line based on the orders at BL.

The layout of colour looks a lot like the one worn by Neil Armstrong and co.

Yeah there are some great details in there (I love the partially carved statue) and some close ups would be great.

It might go the other way though. BL had to limit the numbers to 2500 per set, and so far the Castle even though the most popular has just reached about half that (currently 1478 sets sold, but 1244 backers). From the language being used, it seems BL thought these would sell out quickly. There was an initial rush, but it seems to have died down now. "It depends. If a set sells out completely during crowdfunding, it would not be available during the sales period (April 15 through June)." "Yes. A maximum of 2500 copies of each set will be sold. We anticipate several designs will sell out before the end of the sales period or even the pre-order phase, so we encourage potential customers to place their orders sooner than later." BL has a very large AFOL userbase, and unless the rate of orders really picks up, it is sending mixed messages. In particular, it is sending the message that AFOLs do now want smaller castle style sets like these: However, even the big castle has not yet sold it's allocation of 2500 sets. If it remains that way, the message is bad for Castle.

I do, 7c is on the cheap side. Bricklink prices are usually a very good reflection of the value of a piece as it measures what people have paid for it and the average price for a new medium dark flesh 1x4 tile is about 10c. LEGO's most loyal customers are 5-12 year olds. The group membership is not static, as one leaves another joins, but as a group they are very loyal to LEGO.