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You can use bricklink.com or brickowl.com to buy minifigures, or auction sites such as ebay. It is not a good idea to post links to fakes such as Lepin here.

Also remember that while a ship might look grey, you will need a lot of bricks on the inside for structure. These can be any colour. SW sets would have been the way to go if you were doing this five years ago - lots of grey and easy to sell minifigures. But as noted above, these days there is a lot of tans and similar. Although these may also be useful if doing a space outpost.

It may also be problematic for environmental reasons. After all the problems with Shell, I cannot see them doing a chemical plant set. There would be negative press about making a fun toy out of something polluting the world. Even if it was a green chemical plant, people would complain.

I'm only three episodes in and I'm finding it much harder to follow than the previous two series. I had to rewatch the second episode just to work out what I had seen.

Or maybe a space for displaying lots of Lowell spheres!

Also NASA itself is not a true theme, according to their rules. They break this into individual missions. But I guess you are right in a sense that they picked up Saturn V after having done one previously although I think they were branded as Discovery Channel rather than NASA.

So who is this ... or this ... I think he is fairly recognizable by the outfit.

They might need prompting to make Angry Birds sets again if for some reason they became really popular again. LEGO is often a bit behind when it comes to licenses. None of them would get to 10000 votes as they wouldn't be allowed on Ideas in the first place. Personally, I doubt they would ever pick up an old license that they have had before because of an Ideas submission. So why they allow old themes so long as they did not enter through Ideas, I don't know. I cannot see them doing LOTR or The Hobbit, for example, through ideas but officially they can still be entered once they drop off the active list.

Like Captain Hook's nose?

You lost me at the first phrase! I think SW holds a very different place to say, Scooby Doo or Angry Birds. SW has been a major theme for two decades and if for whatever reason they decided to can it, then it is likely that it would stay canned. However, if there is an old theme that had a few sets over a limited timescale suddenly has a resurgence in popular culture and an Ideas submission got to 10000 votes, then I imagine they would be more sympathetic towards it.

It's the noses. I imagine LEGO will get rid of them, like on cartoon characters like Captain Hook, Scooby Doo gang, etc...

It wouldn't surprise me if they cut it back to about 1500 pieces and made it £100 (assuming lots of smaller pieces).

You could also try looking at the various solutions for cylindrical towers, although sturdy is going to be a problem. Does it have to be perfectly cylindrical? As an alternative might be brick build SNOT, like a Lowell sphere. Or just something like this (but cylindrical rather than spherical): Another non-purist solution would be to wrap some LEGO-compatible tape around a non-LEGO tube (drainpipe or whatever) and build off that.

Maybe they have realised that if they advertise the giveaways this early, then fewer orders are placed in October, waiting for the free gifts with November orders.

We did get mermaids, just unofficially. Stick your elves bodies on these - mermaids (and mermen).

Pun of the day.

Use an Arduino. Or a cheap knock-off one. They are very simple to use to program things like that.

You only know best from your point of view. If customer services can decide to overrule a policy because a customer asks them to, then it is not worth having the policy in the first place. They might as well let everyone use PO boxes.

Also google is your friend here. There are examples from this: to this: and everything in between. Personally I think the small build is the better one, lots of detail packed in using LEGO parts to their best.

It looks more like a printing problem (part moving while black was wet) rather than a rubbing problem, as the red and white print has not been affected.

Then there is a difference between a supportive community and one which supports everything. A community that supports everything no matter what (which was my reading of the suggestion) is not necessarily good. Of course, deserved will mean different things to different people, and also different things at different stages. If a MOC doesn't get to 100 in a month after some self-promotion, then I don't think it has any chance at all of ever getting to 10000. So if it gets to 100 through other means, it (i) clogs up the system (which of course is why they implemented it) and (ii) may give the designer hope where in reality there is none. As to yours, is it a nice little MOC? Yes. Would I buy it? No. It looks fairly simple and probably quite easy to build it or something similar from an existing pile of bricks. It is also very small for an ideas. They are both important factors for me. So would I vote for it? No, as I wouldn't buy it.

I was thinking the same. If all the parts exist this might look more consistent.

It is strictly correct that the dark brown torso with dark brown arms and hands is licensed. It only appears in four minifigures, all Wookiees. And the torso itself (without arms) is also just in Wookiees. It is the same with dark tan.

Anything that doesn't get to 100 in time probably doesn't deserve to stay longer.

No, because they are not branded that way. But I don't care if people want to call them that.