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  1. MAB
    I think you allude to it in the OP. You have too much if you cannot access what you need efficiently. Whether this is down to too much or not good enough storage is debatable. But if you feel I would have used a part I know I have but I cannot find it / be bothered to find it, then you have too much. If the investors didn't have them for sale, where would people get the originals from? They wouldn't have been able to go back in time and purchase them from LEGO.
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    MAB replied to AFOD's topic in Special LEGO Themes

    It doesn't look much like a brickheadz figure. It is just a (duplo) brick built figure.
  3. MAB
    For complete sets, brickset is probably best as you can export to rebrickable if you want to. I haven't really found anything that works well for parts though.
  4. MAB
    Nice build. It looks pretty movie accurate. Maybe do a few alternative poses - with Legolas on the cave troll, etc.
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    Images are now out ...
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    He was also the Necromancer in the Hobbit (set 79014).
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    Bricklink is good if you extract the data yourself over a number of months. The other site that might be useful is brickpicker.
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    It wasn't. Why drag up an old post and reply with factually incorrect information?
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    I don't believe it will be a Simpsons set, I think it is too long since the last one. Although it could be a single D2C set not supported by a CMF series. The CMFs didn't sell too well, whereas the sets did. So it could be that they just produce a D2C set if they want to do another Simpsons set. I don't believe they will, and in fact I hope they don't just do a set. The Simpsons theme was let down by them not producing many important characters - Barney, Moe, Lenny, Carl, Skinner, Otto, Sideshow Bob and Mel, etc. If they are not done, the series will always be lacking. Why they did Edna but not Skinner is completely beyond me.
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    Both Simpsons large d2c sets came with CMF type numbers.
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    I imagine the roller coaster parts will be incredibly expensive too. Train track is occasionally through B&P, and is about twice the price of BL.
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    If they did it, a Team GB sized run would be plenty - 8 to 10. The four in the gang, as done before, one would come with Scooby (he is not a minifigure so cannot be a CMF) and 4-6 monsters. So Creeper, Witch Doctor, Black Knight and Captain Cutler. Maybe another Mummy and Redbeard's Ghost. All useful parts.
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    Great magazine as usual. That Six Bricks article was very interesting.
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    The same can be said of many past themes. LEGO cannot keep every past theme going forever in future. 2017 has given us just one regular CMF series, when it used to be 3 per year in the past.
  15. MAB
    Here are some images of David Beckham, face and neck only, done with BL Mosaick. The highest resolution one is great (~$5000) and they get worse but still acceptable down to 64x64. 48x48 is borderline - it's just about recognizable if you know who it is meant to be (as you would with yourself / family). 32x32 is probably too low resolution. So the lower limit for this shot is probably 48x48. The other trick is to play with the colour pallette (not possible in BL) - and exclude expensive colours. 160x160 112x112 80x80 64x64 48x48 32x32 16x16
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    Mosaics aren't cheap. I'd give up on getting two faces on one mosaic, it cannot be done on a small one and retain detail. 32x32 don't work that well unless you just do the face. 48x48 is much better for a head, hair and neck. But that is 48x48=2304 studs. At 1c a stud, it is $230 even without the baseplate. So if you want to pay only say $100, you are going to need to aim for < 0.5c per stud. Then it really depends on what you are going to use - plates or bricks? Tiles will be too expensive for you. Then do you want just 1x1s? As this is also probably too expensive. For big blocks of colour you can use larger plates and get the price per stud down, but this does make the mosaic look a bit less detailed. Do you need the background? If not, getting rid of it can save a lot, but it does make the edges of a face look a bit unrefined.
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    I wouldn't like it at all. We get enough licensed CMF series as it is. Plus some of the ones you suggest for the "gang" can be made from existing parts. Eg. take a sailor suit and use Shaggy's head. The Monsters CMF line also brought us many parts that can be used for classic style monsters, ideal for Scooby style villains, then there are others in the CMF line like the vintage diving suit. I guess LEGO know the sales figures for the Scooby Doo sets, and whether it is in their interests to make a CMF line too. As the sets are now done, I doubt it would be worth their while as CMFs can be used to either sell or complement current big sets (Simpsons, Disney) or be pocket money toys for their current movies (TLM, TLBM, TLNM, etc). Character Building have also done a blind bag series based on Scooby Doo (in 2013).
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    That's right, you just keep tiling with the same tiles so it is continuous where you see it, and have the gaps under whatever you are using as a border. It looks much nicer that way.
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    I agree. It is a lovely little MOC, but if anything looks more Gondor-like than Rohan, with the guards on duty in their armour.
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    For the technique at the front, it looks much better if you take the tiles all the way under the edges, so you don't get the gaps.
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    Bricklink. But the problem is that Castle style MOCs are popular with AFOLs, meaning that many of the muted colours, greys, tans, browns, etc are more sought after and hence more expensive. The colour pallette also overlaps with Star Wars (tans for landscape, greys for ships) and Space (greys), which doesn't help.
  22. MAB
    The question says "You have been given US $800 to spend on any LEGO sets ever produced". MOCs are not LEGO sets.
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    Depending on what you have, it might also be worth sorting by colour / pallette. Some people (castle builders) will pay a premium for lots that are greys, tans, browns, etc.
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    The Palpatine legs have been available for quite a while. I bought 9 back in Jul 2016, as they look great on Ringwraiths from LOTR. Much better than the plain black.
  25. MAB
    Rather than add more colours, I'd prefer them to fill in gaps with existing colours where some commonly used brick shapes don't exist or are rare. For example, bright light yellow (BL name) is common as a 1x2 and 1x4 brick, appearing in bulk in many classic boxes, Friends sets, etc. Yet odd stud bricks are rare - the 1x1 is missing and the 1x3 is only just appearing in Ninjago City. The distribution of parts in a colour limits their use even when some parts are very common.
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