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Yep, the only ones that are likely to disappear fast are the CMFs.

I was going off their website. Going to Historical > Weapons brings up five items for me. Three pistols, a rifle and a baseball bat. I'm more into medieval / ancient history, which is why brickforge and brickwarriors get my money! I like my customs to come from as few a places as possible, so they have a consistent look / design. Hence I tend to prefer customs where they do a number of designs of similar weapons / accessories of the right period. I did just take a look at brickmania. The only thing I saw that looked vaguely historical to me was the claymore. And LEGO already do a decent longsword, so I wouldn't need a custom there anyway.

So now you can probably see why the official LEGO sets are "awful". To do something like you want would cost $1000s and such a set is completely unfeasible from a sales perspective. It is better to have an affordable playset than an unaffordable large scale model at the same scale. Plus play value is not so different. The large one may look great as a one piece set, but ask a kid if they would want one large $2000 HP set or ten decent $200 playsets, and I imagine most would chose the ten playsets. Although for many kids that is unrealistic as even one $200 is still quite expensive.

I doubt any of the sets will be hard to find. The initial runs might sell out, but I cannot see LEGO limiting stocks of them. I expect they (the boxed sets) will all be available for at least a year, so anyone wanting to wait for their favourite store to discount them in a regular sale can probably wait without fear. For example, most toy stores in the UK have sales where you can get 20-40% off or 3 for the price of 2, and amazon will often price match with a similar discount. I'm sure sales volume will be high, but I expect production will be too. They wouldn't have brought HP back if they were not expecting decent sales volume.

Yes, he gave it up but did offer the source for anyone wanting to take it up. https://github.com/dwalton76/wallofbricks

It was mentioned a couple of weeks ago, but I don't think anyone really showed much interest at the time... The downside is that Harry's (similar) short legs are printed with his bare feet - showing that they are just as likely to keep printing them for "shoes" (here feet) which doesn't look as good as they don't print the top of the foot (or the inside).

Possibly, possibly not. We will never know. It may just be that they made more plain ones than were needed for printed variations. From the locations of the bulk sellers (Hungary and Poland) it is likely that the unprinted stock come not from B+P but from "factory sources". What we do know for sure is that the game was never released and hence it doesn't exist, so the unprinted ones do not come from that set even if they were made for it.

I find 10/10 for design too high, when you consider that none of the skirted characters have any back printing. All three would have been improved with some back printing. Similarly, Harry's feet are printed on the front, outside and back only and not two colour molded - again a design issue - so don't look anywhere near as good as Dobby's.

WHS is quite famous for it, partly as they never really have very good prices for sets. Part of the reason they sit around for so long is that those prices aren't RRP, but above it. For example, that arctic helicopter had RRP of £24.99 not £29.99.

Is that an issue? Simpsons, Batman - I don't think either was labelled as Series 1 but they both got Series 2. Of course, Disney, Ninjago Movie had the same and didn't get Series 2.

or (3) LEGO didn't produce as many or the stores near you didn't order as many as the regular sets don't sell so well. Plus it is highly regional. In the UK many stores still have stocks and have needed to discount them to get rid of them.

So just replace them with plain legs. Hardly a big deal. It is becoming quite common to have side printing on legs where the source material requires it.

There are a number of techniques using curved slopes that look good for women wearing big skirts sitting down, and these would probably work fine for riding horses too, if the figure is riding side-saddle.

Speculation is not rumour though. There is speculation that Castle will also come back after NK has gone.

They don't come from that game, they cannot come from it, since it was not released. They can come through other channels though. Just because a part doesn't come from a released set or gear doesn't mean it doesn't exist. LEGO has other ways of releasing parts. From what I understand there are two reasons they don't want people adding sets and gear that do not exist to the database. (1) So they don't condone theft of items that LEGO have chosen not to release. (2) Accuracy of the inventories. If something doesn't exist, it cannot be checked as nobody has it in hand.

There are often sellers on amazon and ebay. However, you might end up paying over RRP for them as these ones will be popular. I expect people will also be selling complete sets of HP and FB on ebay too.

I wonder if they would still give the up to $500 reward if they have a lot of similar entries in review or multiple from one person. For example, if the SpaceX fans get behind all those projects and half a dozen similar projects make review at the same time or the fishing store style ones in the last review.

If modern day minifigures are hunting dinosaurs in vehicles, it's "Action". If licensed minifigures are hunting (or being hunted by) licensed dinosaurs in licensed vehicles, it's "Licensed". So I guess that leaves pre-historic dioramas (with or without cavemen style minifigures) for us here!

Believe what you want.

The currency sign in front of the number makes a difference.

I doubt it. On ebay there are quite a few pre-orders for boxes at about £200 (pre-orders are nearly always RRP+). If they were £3.99 each, the pre-order price for a box would be £240+.

Not existing is a perfectly good reason not to have it in the BL database. In fact, they have a rule about it: " Items which you do not possess or have physical proof of - Do not submit items which are rumored to exist or items which are being produced but have not yet been released, even if images are available. This also applies to undecorated versions of parts that are normally only decorated. Submissions made too far in advance of expected or reported release are subject to summary rejection. Things such as LEGO Dealer Catalogs, which provide information to retailers several months before item release, do not necessarily provide admissible evidence of production. Also, do not submit items which have been verified as never released, even if a picture is available. " BL is a marketplace and items that do not exist (such as that game) cannot be sold. There are plenty of that cat and it can be sold. They just don't belong to any particular set or gear.

For aliens, I quite like the Squidman style minifigs: and Alien Conquest gave some other decent ones: The CMF series also provide some good ones (plus purple squidman style one above): The squid from Atlantis also makes a decent alien: But for me, nothing tops the classic alien from CMF S6: I assembled a small army of about 30 of them when they came out, although I switched out the hips and hands for light bluish grey.

Bricklink is not 100% accurate, but it is accurate in this case. Story Mixer was never released, so it is not in the BL database.

Nice, but there is too much detail in the heads to be brickheadz. For example, human brickheadz don't have noses.