MAB

Did exosuit put energy back into classic space? Lego had so many left over, it might have killed any ideas for a comeback completely. The same could happen to anything castle. Kids are moving on fast these days. It's the adults that want more of the same.

As noted above, the delay in some locations may be due to the football ones in Europe needing to be squeezed in over summer although this presumably would have a knock on effect on the spring release too and also doesn't explain other countries such as Singapore getting them on time.

Although £250 may be a lot for some, it is not that big a deal to quite a few people. Some collectors can buy it all (if they want it). Lego don't expect everyone to buy it and in fact did a lot a favour by putting the main cast into cheap sets (here CMF).

^ we've had proper bricks / plates in a bag - Smithers, Holiday elf, Team GB gymnast, etc.

Getting sharks to put on eBay, no doubt!

Nothing is pretty clear when it comes to Lego plans.

Not really, just different sales strategies for different parts of the world. They are released already. The initial release date was 1 Jan (Europe). This is why people need to put locations when they post info from S@H or Lego stores.

Probably distribution issues, or marketing strategy holding back to try to clear other items while people have gift cards to use. Different release dates for sets are not uncommon. Similarly end dates too.

UK brand stores are selling them.

They haven't pushed the release date back. They are available in store in UK Lego stores.

And like Panini stickers they will include some players that won't play and leave out others that will. I wonder if they managed to get agreement with the English FA to use the England badge and kit design. Something Panini has not been able to do for quite a while now.

And also if Lego decided to do a follow up to a first set that they designed, I cannot see them paying a third party for the idea. If you want to make money off this, sell the instructions. If you want others to be able to make them, give them away for free.

It was available for at least 10 days, along with tons of other SW and SH pieces. They screwed up again although not quite as bad as when they did Ghostbusters torsos for free.

It would be a great way to make money. If they did a series of generic collectable minidolls I reckon it would sell just as well as a regular set of minifigs. If they did Disney minidolls series, it would sell as well as Disney CMFs. Minidolls are popular with kids, especially girls. Just because older mainly purist adult collectors don't like them, it doesn't mean they wouldn't sell.

No prize for me this year :-( Congrats to everyone that got one.

Yeah, angry birds is the future of history.

Squeaky bum time.

The pics of the farmer - his gaze and the direction of the pitch fork. Does he really look after them or do something else to them?

You can do much better than that... Go to online PAB and order a 6p brick with your bricks and pieces order. It comes separately, so you get the brick and a bubble wrap envelope to re-use. :-)

Remember they are complementary not complimentary. Yes, they are opposite each other on the colour wheel. That means that together they are high contrast, or could alternatively be described as vibrant or jarring. They clash. Analogous colours (ones next to each other on the wheel) create much more harmonic / comfortable designs.

In many of the original stories he was just described as being part bull, part man. Not the head of the bull and the rest normal man. Remember these myths were coming about 2000BC but weren't written down until 1000 years later. Many Greek statues and images of ~1000BC depict him as head of bull, with a man's body but also tail of bull. Although there are some depicting him as more bull like than this (larger chest, sometimes cloven feet). But these were images made many years after the original stories were being formed. There is no right and wrong here. The Minotaur is a fictional character that is not scientifically possible.

When the 17th day winners are announced, we would have had about 50:50 chance of being picked as a winner.

That looks like the Hungarian version of Futuron. Flip it round to green white red and you have the Italian one :-)

Yes, the new since June parts have been missing until about 10 days ago. At least, that is when I placed some orders for new parts. It's been a very narrow window this time before they closed it again for the Christmas complaints.

It's Lego red and Lego green, so there is something about Lego in there. I don't like the colour combination but do like dark red and dark green. But then I don't really like Lego red or Lego green on their own either.PS I thought green and red were used a lot at Christmas due to them being available in nature and hence used as decoration. So leaves and berries.