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Do you have a picture of what you mean. Normally a single piece will be stronger than multiple pieces joined together although for that height you are going to need some joins. You could use the spiral staircase support: connected by technic pins.

Without wanting to get political, Brexit is not about leaving Europe, it is about leaving the European Union. Europe is a geographical region. The European Union is an economic and political union. The UK will still be in Europe after Brexit (if / when it happens). And there is no British Empire any more. There is the UK and there are British Overseas Territories. Using such an out of date historical term, especially in a mocking way, is similar to referring to modern day Germany as the Reich.

Why's that? They also have Huey but not the related Dewey and Louie, for example.

I think the eyelashes need to come down by one stud on Daisy, otherwise these are great. Great bow tie on Donald.

Yeah, and so expensive too ...!

If something (market forces / whatever) forces them to sell sets with larger piece counts at the same price as the ones with smaller piece counts, what will happen? The piece counts of all sets will drop and we will end up with small sets comprising of fairly meaningless, simplified builds with few parts and a figure. That jungle set for example would probably end up as the figure and the tree, without the other parts of the set, at a lower price tag. Not that the other bits are particularly good for this set, but at least they add some extra play value to the set.

Isn't that what is great about the way they are doing the sets though - they are providing different build styles within the range. If you prefer larger numbers of minifigures but really simple builds / low part counts then there are sets for you. If you prefer more focus on the builds and parts rather than minifigures, there are sets for you. The concepts of the sets may be similar, but the 40Eur one looks like a significantly better build, whether you are looking at the vehicle or the rockwork / scenery. Within the same theme, LEGO are providing quite different sets at different price points. I don't think the range would be enhanced by not doing the larger set. Similarly, the range would not be enhanced by doing a Eur 40 made from the equivalent of the Eur 10 + two Eur 15 sets, with six minifigures and lots of small simple build vehicles. If people want those, they can buy multiples of the cheaper sets. Isn't the point of the mid-range sets that they are not just a big version of the smaller sets, but provide something a little more in terms of the build.

Plus there would be many complaints that fans had submitted ideas, they weren't winners, but then LEGO stole them and made that figure in a future series. There are very few original ideas. Loads of people would suggest similar figures and if LEGO are deciding on the winners, then they might as well just come up with the selection themselves.

This is the "pile of garbage" set. I agree that appears to be awful pricing for that particular set, but it is not necessarily so. It seems at first sight that they have applied Disney prices to it, when it is not a Disney set. For example, from last year's (2018) sets: This Friends one looks similar, a figure plus some play things, was £9 / $10 but for Disney ... was £13 / $15 (and 17 Euro !) was £13 / $15 / 15 Euro. But it is interesting to look at these three (2019) Friends sets: £8 £13 £9 I'm using UK pricing, EU and US pricing will vary as they are not scaled linearly. They are all one figure plus some play items - should they be priced the same? Which is best value? If you go by minifigures, clearly the one where you get a minifigure plus some playthings for £8 is best value. But if you go on price per part, the £13 one is best value - the prices per pert are 16.0p, 9.7p, 11.1p respectively. The £9 one from 2018 is also bad value at 13.4p. The "pile of garbage" set actually has the best PPP from the small Friends sets here. But how does it compare with City? £8 Here you get two minifigures in a £8 set. Yet price per part is 14.8p. Or compare a set like this, two figures and a vehicle £8 (12.5p per part) with this one, with one figure and a vehicle £10 (11.4p per part) I think pricing is a very difficult thing to do. A minifigure doesn't cost much more to make than a similar number of parts do (although apperently minidolls do), yet sets with larger numbers of minifigures in appear better value if you judge minifigures as having more value than say 12 random bricks/small parts. I imagine LEGO are trying to cater for people that want figures and also people that want more parts. When these are done on at the same / similar price point, what appears to be large discrepancies in value will occur. Price per part is not a great measure of value. Price per figure is not a great measure of value. You have to base value on what you see in a set and what you think you will get out of it.

The same is true for number of parts. What would you rather have, a packet of 10 biscuits or a packet of 20 biscuits? What about a set from 1980 with 100 parts or a set from 2019 with 200 parts? Or I will sell you a MOC with 100 parts, what would you pay?

While the number of big / expensive sets is growing, I think that is just LEGO's realisation that there is some demand for sets like that. However, I don't feel it has an impact on the smaller, cheaper, kid-level sets available or on their build quality.

As ^^, Ninjago and Elves airships are pretty much steampunk for kids. I sold a load of Rodney Rathbones and Ann Lees from Monster Fighters to someone who wanted them for steampunk figures. He also buys a lot of tophats from me!

The legs are from the Batman Baturion figure. I wish they did more fleshie legs with a Roman or Greek style skirt.

If he keeps saying it on multiple sites, people will probably start to believe it even if not true.

I guess the answer is because they don't feel the need to do medieval, steampunk, Classic Space, etc in Creator, when they can often find places for that sort of stuff in other lines. Bricklink has this down as a Creator set ... And this one is Creator and Piratey:

It is quite funny to look at when you think that the old looking bit (the arch/tower) is fairly modern parts and techniques, whereas the new looking bit (the inn) is fairly old parts and techniques.

CMF came first ...

They were definitely working on the CMF versions before the set was chosen...

They have brought (semi realistic) SPACE into the 3-in-1 sets in the past (or presently). For example, the space shuttle is the main model in these sets.0 However, these compete with a whole host of other styles of model in the 3-in-1s, and I think kids are more into cars and planes than they are into space. However, there is this set where (fantasy) space is not the primary model, but the second one clearly caters for kids into spaceships.

This cannot be true, because in the past 20 years since LEGO started doing SW, we have had a number of space themes. There have been some great fun sets that I would imagine are mid range in terms of size and difficulty, such as this from Alien Conquest: or this from Galaxy Squad: And during 2007-2010 there were many Space sets - Space Police, Mars Mission - overlapping with SW. There hasn't really been as much since 2013, outside of the Classic Space in The Lego Movie. But for a long time LEGO were making in-house space sets. One of the problems with them though was reception - people always complain it is not Classic Space. And if people don't buy, then there is no reason to make more. Note there was a break 2001-2007. Just like there has been a break 2013-? It is also worth pointing out that the people likely to go on to build a UCS MF or the Bugatti when older are likely to have played with smaller and mid-sized Star Wars sets and smaller and mid-sized technic and / or automotive sets when younger.

How many AFOLs had a "dark age" / break from LEGO at some point in their life? I reckon a very large majority, whether it was early teens / later teens / early adult. Quite a few AFOLs come into / back into the hobby when they have kids and they get to play with their LEGO. You called 6891 one of these mid-range sets. Personally, I thin kthis was aimed at quite a young age. A fairly basic build. I don't see this as a stepping stone between child and adult aimed sets. There are plenty of sets these days that are aimed at early (12+) and later (16+) teens - these are stepping stone type sets.

Because they are incredibly popular characters and help drive sales. Having only characters that are of interest to boys in the CMF line would be crazy, as girls like to play with and collect minifigures too. It just so happens that some girls also prefer minidolls, which is why they exist - to target the girls that are not drawn in by minifigures.

If they did 22 or 24 characters in this series, there would be loads of complaints, as that would mean only two series per box, and loads of duplicates. It may have been that there were other Mickey and Minnie variants planned for this series but that they were replaced by the vintage ones to allow the use of the new hat moulds in the Ideas set.

Ask again in a couple of days / months time, depending on when / if Brexit happens! It's funny, I never noticed the blue brick and the Euro stars around it until now.

Is there a particular reason you build upside-down? Is there a particular bit of the engine that can only be built that way up?