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There often is no "right" date, it can vary from country to country. Series 1, for example, came out in the UK a few months before it did in the US. Series 6 was out before Xmas in the UK but in new year in the US, 9 and 10 and 11 were similar by 1-2 months. The summer ones are often out in Europe in August but September in the US. I used to post quite a few over to mates in the US when there were delays of a month or more. Although I think most of the licensed ones have had very similar release dates worldwide, it can still vary by a couple of weeks to start appearing. The "Agosto" in the leaked catalogue may refer to a street date but may also refer to a delivery date to the store. So I wouldn't get too hung up over whether it is August or September.

DIfferent countries can have slightly different release dates anyway, especially for CMFs. And even then, some stores will sell before the release date while others won't get them out on the shop floor until a while afterwards.

They may not strictly be knights, but there have been some pretty decent historical style female warrior or warrior-like characters in the CMF

And maybe to actually admit that what he was doing was wrong, and he now understands that he should not take other people's work and sell it. And apologise. The big thing in that interview (at least from the stealing point of view) was that (1) he is not sorry for doing it and (2) it was hateful EB that has made him stop doing it and not the realisation that what he was doing is wrong.

Not at the LEGO store. It is usually only the really bad sellers that get discounted there. Which is why I think it is highly unlikely we will see any more Doctor Who sets in the near future.

05:35 Statement from Brother from Another Brick: "If they don't want it used, they shouldn't put it in the gallery." When the interviewer cannot tell right from wrong either, it was never going to be very demanding.

I did something similar, but tried to glue cut down axles to very similar swivel joints. They were useless and kept breaking at the glue joint. Very nice idea.

I hope not. I think that there are better licenses that are of interest to more people (especially younger kids) to do as CMFs.

LEGO doesn't sell top items at 50% off all the time. It is very rare for them to have to discount items to 50% to get rid of them. Which is a good indicator that Doctor Who was not a good seller and probably a significant reason that LEGO has not done further sets. Combined with the fact (and this is a fact, just look at the multiple times it was listed on HUKD) that this set was usually sold at £32-35, it shows it was overpriced and simply did not sell at the RRP of £50.

Pretty much as I thought it would be - playing the victim over stealing people's ideas and selling them. "Hateful people, a guy who wants to see me go down, over a toy fascination, so hostile, ..." The second half is all about money and not giving out prizes. That doesn't really interest me as I'd never enter under his terms. But CMbricks is totally right to call him out if he runs competitions and doesn't give out prizes. He is abusing people's trust to get them to design items, if this is a way to get their LDDs and then not give out the prizes. Whether the winner cares or not, if they are fake competitions where prizes are not given, people should know this. And he should stop doing competitions if he cannot afford to give out the prizes. Last minute - he is coming back with his own content.

That is fine, if you don't mind people taking what you have worked on and given away for free, just for them to turn it into profit for themselves promoting it as their work. But not all people want that. At one stage I was even told that as I wasn't making money from what I (once) shared, it was OK since I lost nothing. Of course, I lost nothing financially since I was willing to share my creations but I did lose out. Other people were thinking that the person selling them were his ideas, not mine. I was losing out as people didn't know the work was mine. I still share images, but not LDD files. If someone wants to rework something based on a few images, that is fine. They will need to put a lot of work in and there will always be parts they cannot see. Even on flickr, you get comments or messages like "LDD?" and that is it. No comments at all, just a request for the file. Those people get no reply.

A bit of everything. Some sets I buy for parts and sell off the excess I won't use. These don't get built as the set just harvested for parts. Some I build as a set and keep as a set. Some I build then dismantle and use as parts. Sometimes I will buy multiples to sell as selaed sets.

He also said that the Polar Express one was an excellent seller.

This is simply not true. Most stores in the UK sold this for £32-34 for large amounts of time, reduced from the RRP of £50. LEGO stores had to reduce it to £24.99 to get rid of the remaining stock. A snapshot from HUKD showing prices ...

I don't think it is so much the money he makes, but the effect it has on the community that is the bigger issue.

At the expense of another character in that line. I don't think kids care too much what Harry is wearing in a particular scene, I don't think many compare it to the movie and decide they cannot play with it because he is in the wrong clothes for the same scene in the movie. I imagine most wouldn't even be able to tell you what the exact clothes were that he had on if you pick a scene at random, aside from school uniform, quidditch outfit, etc.

Is this still going ahead ...?

It wasn't just at some point, it was for ages. I feel they shouldn't do the Tardis too many times, as it gets a bit boring. And the locations were just so varied, they could be anywhere. I think only a CMF would really work for it. Are you British? I might as well add the late 70's British classic Blake's Seven. There are some great MOCs of the Liberator and LEGO would never do it as good as them.

He did post four videos of trains earlier here, saying he had designed them. Although there was four, they were really only two builds, with two recolours. He also had a lot of tutorials, they may have been his videos, but I had seen a lot of the techniques or ideas before.

It is very hard to sue someone in another country, and this is an international problem. Also the definition of a MOC is tough. If you change a couple of pieces, is it still the original MOC? If you change 5% or 10%? And what if you take inspiration from someone else's MOC or use a technique that someone else has used? Can they then sue you for copying their technique for a key part of your MOC?

I imagine he wouldn't have much left to show and the result would have been very similar. It looks like he is playing the victim to his fans. The sad thing is, nothing will change. Even if everyone here signs up to a code of conduct, others can still steal their work and ignore the code. His channel shows people don't really care where it comes from. That is the real problem, and he was just feeding them. He might disappear but someone else will take his place. I made the conscious decision when I joined not to post my work here (I do publish on flickr under another name) and never to share LDD files, simply because something similar happened to me in the past, where someone took my files and sold them on ebay as their own work. (And what hurt even more was that he was selling them for just £1.99. Was that all I was worth! :-) )

Lego are already doing loads of new prints for the series. The alternative may well be that they could have done another couple of prints for Harry and Ron, but something else would have been removed from one of these sets, or a couple of other characters removed or given existing generic prints.

I'd also like to see more Doctor Who sets (at least one containing my Doctor Who, Tom Baker!), but I think the sets aspect is the problem. There are loads of characters they could do, but sets ... there is the Tardis (done) and ... not much else. In the UK, I don't think they sold anywhere near as well. It was easy to purchase for ages at 1/3rd off, sometimes more off than that, and loads of them got bought to part out on bricklink.

When it comes to exclusive prints, this range is already pretty good anyway. Last time around, the same HP in uniform torso was in just about every set and used for every kid.

I think they will probably sell the new ones separately once they start selling the new sets. Although you might find you can get good deals on the PF(1) gear on bricklink if lots of people decide to go for PF2 instead.