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  1. MAB
    Yeah, it was annoying to get Fallout Boy but not Radioactive Man. It's like getting Robin but no Batman!
  2. MAB
    I totally depends on how many parts you want made, what quality you want (which influences the way it is made), whether something is licensed, whether you give them the rights to sell the part to others, and so on.
  3. MAB
    If we are getting more licensed series I prefer them to be non-superhero ones, as the parts tend to be more multipurpose than the parts in SH CMF series. I find SH ones are rarely useful for anything but SH, whereas normally some to many of the parts (in the HP ones, for example) can be used for other themes.
  4. MAB
    The downside to a Comic Book Store would be that we already got Comic Book guy in the CMF, and also Bart and Milhouse and their Superhero alter egos. I'm not sure what else they could have given us that was novel in that setting, aside from a few more printed comic book tiles.
  5. MAB
    I doubt they will do an advent calendar for 2019. While it would be popular, I don't think they would do four advent calendars and I cannot see them cutting SW, City or Friends.
  6. MAB
    Yes, adults also play with lego sets in many ways. But then kids play with lego in a huge variety of ways too. Personally, I think it is far from being one of the best ever lego sets.
  7. MAB
    There is the problem then, you cannot see other people's views. Microscale is a great way of doing a large building for people that like displaying architecture rather than play sets. For that to work, you really need the whole building / location to be accurate so you can view it from all sides. This set has tried to be both a play set at the same time as taking in some aspects of being a microscale / architectural type set. For some people that will work, for others it won't. Some people may see it as both a play and display set. For others it fails to be a play set and fails to be a display set.
  8. MAB
    Or because they think it is below average. If it is closed, then not only don't you need the interior detail parts but often you can remove interior walls and floors unless needed for support.
  9. MAB
    There have been (unconfirmed) rumours elsewhere that Smyths will have them.
  10. MAB
    I also share some of the sentiments about the set, but I don't think it is the opinions of the set that was the problem here. It was what he called the designer, which has now been deleted, and calling for the designer to lose his job ("which he only got due to a TV show") due to the design.
  11. MAB
    Misprints and similar parts are also an interesting case. I have a number of unprinted LEGO parts that are only officially available as printed parts. Are they purist? If I wiped the print they wouldn't be, but these were never printed. An even bigger dilemma, what happens if you draw on a lego part with one of these (5005147) ... If you can use an official lego sticker on a different part than lego intended, then why not official lego ink?
  12. MAB
    There are not enough options in the poll. I use them, it is always handy to have 5-6 about on a desk so they are quick and easy to find. I also build with them occassionally. Plus I buy them on BL if cheap and put them in kids' party bags when my kids have parties. Occassionally I will drill them too, and add a keyring. I only wish they came in more colours. If they did other colours then they would instantly be collectable, with people wanting to collect them in every colour and display them. Two work better than one when it comes to separating plates.
  13. MAB
    If you buy the minifigure scale sets (and future ones) and stick them together you will have something like the Cloud City set.
  14. MAB
    Not if you display it on (or in) a table like possible with the UCS MF. It is nice to be able to look at a set from all around, not just one particular angle.
  15. MAB
    It doesn't though. The DS is spherical from any angle. Whereas this has a landing platform as a "room" inside the body of cloud city, then two rooms have floors. The freezing chamber has no floor and has the gantry next to it, in the same "room". Plus the overall shape is really just the top section, the underside appears missing and there is no stalk. I'm not sure how they could do the stalk and keep it stable, but the upper section could have been better as two levels (as already noted by others).
  16. MAB
    More pieces may not be necessary to have a closed back, since if it is closed then you don't need interiors. Despite there being close to 100 stickers in the set to make the interior look good, there are still a lot of small parts necessary for the interior that would not be needed if it was more of a closed architecture set.
  17. MAB
    An ugnaught was in the recent cheap carbon freezing chamber set, and there are currently over 3500 of them on BL, many really quite cheap (<$3 US) so I'm quite glad they didn't put another in. As to the set, it is OK as a series of vignettes but the overall shape is awful and doesn't really look like Cloud City if the vehicles and minifigures are removed. Some nice details in there. I like the Vader vs Luke section best. But so many parts seem to be floor and walls. The spherical shape worked well for the Death Star, but this one doesn't work so well.
  18. MAB
    It isn't a UCS set!
  19. MAB
    I didn't think there would be much interior in the microscale Hogwarts based on what had gone before and I was wrong and there is a lot of interior. But that is the reason I won't be buying it. It is not really a play set due to the lack of minifigures and it is a bit big (and pricey) for that. But then it isn't that good an architectural display set either, as it only really looks good from one angle. Some people may think it a win-win as it is both. For me, it is a lose-lose as it is neither.
  20. MAB
    I'm not. Given what they didn't do last time, I don't think they would do him, unfortunately (same as Barney and Moe).
  21. MAB
    Baggy Pants and the Nitwits. There are some cool HB series that never really made it - Devlin, The Roman Holidays, Funky Phantom, Herculoids, Magilla Gorilla, ... they pumped them out in the late 1960s / early 70s.
  22. MAB
    The downside being that the only new characters are likely to be Skinner and possibly Chalmers. We already have Edna and Willie and many of the pupils. But it has been too long since the original sets, anything they do now would probably be a reboot so they would probably redo the Simpsons family again.
  23. MAB
    I'd like a Mr Plow plus minifigure too, plus various other Homer incarnations and more importantly the missing figures of Lenny and Carl, Barney, Moe, Skinner, then maybe Otto, Kent Brockmann, Rev. Lovejoy, Chalmers, Sideshow Bob and Mel, and Troy Maclure. But sadly it has passed.
  24. MAB
    I don't mind the microscale too much, if it was a display set. But they have made this part display, part play, with the open sides / backs. As a play set, the nanofigs / trophy-figs don't really work. As a display set of the location, it looks good from one angle but not from others as the buildings are cut open. So to me, it is neither a play set or a display set but some strange combination.
  25. MAB
    I cannot see the M&Ms making it, partly due to the safety issue of little kids accidentally eating a piece of lego, but also as the lego itself is not declared as food safe. If food is going to be stored in the container, then for some countries it is likely that all the parts will need to be declared food safe.
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