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  1. MAB
    You were meant to: In the rules it says ... You need to send your prize letter and day, plus your real name (or at least part of it), and your country as well for correct addressing I guess it helps copmike to have the info as he has 144 winners to check.
  2. MAB
    If China becomes a country where bootlegs are outlawed (be it LEGO, sunglasses, handbags, etc), then I expect the production of fake goods will just shift elsewhere.
  3. MAB
    I cannot see how this digital content will affect bootleg figures.
  4. MAB
    Maybe a best of each series, followed by a grand final, would work. If you do 16 large games, I think it will get too stale and voting numbers drop like this time, and the 16 final finalists are likely to keep re-appearing as near winners in the 16 games. Alternatives to random drawing with head-to-head battles might also work too and become less the same thing each time. 1) Instead of a football cup-style knockout competition, do a league. If there are 26 best of series winners, then it will need 25 rounds each consisting of 13 head-to-heads. If you can do one per day, then the finals will take about a month. 2) Or give all voters 100 "points", and they have to split those 100 points however they like across all the minifigs (with say a maximum of 20 to any one figure). The figure with the most points wins. 3) Or each person gets to choose 5 top figures (5 points for their best, 4 for second, 3 for third, etc) and the most points wins (Eurovision song contest style).
  5. MAB
    I doubt that you will receive anything if you buy. The company doesn't have permission to use either "Star Wars" or "Lego" as their name, and they use both. Their prices are too good to be true ($230 for a UCS SSD from 2011, used copies go for about three times that on BL). Recently set up. No real contact details or address on the site or in the whois data. Seriously, avoid it.
  6. MAB
    For licensed series, I don't really see the point of doing it each time a new series is released. The licensed ones are nearly always knocked out in the initial rounds. Although if you remove the winner each time (or maybe all 8 quarter finalists), eventually a licensed figure will probably make it to the final. Looking at those 80, the king and queen, the rogue, the frightening knight, Lady Liberty, actor and Shakespeare, Hazmat, retro spaceman, faun, a Roman, Spartan, etc are all likely to get close to the end, depending on the random draw. Maybe a best of the (Lego) Movies game would be better with the introduction of Batman S2, involving TLM, TLNM, TLBM S1, TLBM S2, and possibly Disney if not just Lego movies. At least that way, the new ones stand a chance and it is not a repeat of the previous game minus the winner.
  7. MAB
    Art Deco was 20-30 years earlier than that and over by the 1950s. Trains in Art Deco style came before the diners, the early diners were modelled on train dining cars. The 1950s diners are just based on earlier and by then traditional designs.
  8. MAB
    Check the PM that you sent copmike about winning. That is what I had to do to remember which prize I won. C ... nice. I do mainly historical MOCs, so these will fit in perfectly. (Except Johnny Depp. He never fits in. His costumes are always way too crazy.)
  9. MAB
    The Friends animals series also (like Mixels) came in a box per series, with mixed sets inside the box. I imagine something like that rather than blind bag sets.
  10. MAB
    Then you will probably have to do without anything. A small set got 10000 votes and passed review. It is likely that all they will make from Tron is this small ideas set.
  11. MAB
    Is it the medieval setting or the medieval killing that makes Skyrim popular? Isn't that a 15/18 rated game? The android NK app has 10M-50M installs and 222,000 reviews, nearly all 5 star, so must be doing something right in targetting the 5-11 year old age range that LEGO sets are also aimed at.
  12. MAB
    The downside is that the keyring might shift in the packing box and scratch the product box for the Diner, if this sort of thing is important to you.
  13. MAB
    Couldn't have been closer!
  14. MAB
    They could do that over a three series a year repeating pattern too. Year 1: Licensed/Regular/Licensed Year 2: Regular/Licensed/Regular Goto Year 1.
  15. MAB
    That's probably also true for stores. Otherwise there could well be 5-6 series hanging about on shelves at any one time.
  16. MAB
    It was done with loose white tiles for frozen water (aka snow) in the snowglobe.
  17. MAB
    962 - (over) 280 round plates = 682 parts maximum. The plates are typically 1c parts, they are often gap fillers in a PAB cup. So it is about $67 for 680 parts once the bulk filler is removed, so 10c a part.
  18. MAB
    Polybag set in a bottle. Also a shame they didn't come up with a new taller panel for the flat side, as the joins look horrible. And what is happening at the top-side (as shown) of the bottle? Why so many pieces there and not just two panels like the side? Nice stand though.
  19. MAB
    That has always been my problem with it too. A ship that you build a bottle around is not so interesting for me. It isn't really even a bottle. If you take the "cork" out, it is still sealed as the neck is not open. There are some nice shaped glass pieces though.
  20. MAB
    I like the exterior of the bank, but I don't like the laundromat. But it is fairly simple to extend the bank and remove the laundromat to make the bank the entire corner.
  21. MAB
    Shouldn't most of it be "green screen"? :-)
  22. MAB
    A child. More likely to be a boy than a girl, most likely to be aged 5-10. I don't understand what you mean by reflect in this context. I mainly MOC, so I feel creative.
  23. MAB
    I don't think it is too bad, it needs to be fairly plain in design to fit in with the more general minifigure design (like the legs are). I expect them to be printable, at least on the front. Hopefully the size issue is addressed (it appears to be). Obviously we won't know about the pins until we see the part in isolation, but I hope they have addressed that issue too. It is from the new SW battlepack with Barriss Offee.
  24. MAB
    A new skirt piece is finally coming.
  25. MAB
    They already are.
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