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Confirmed, but nothing new. Not much of a teaser, just plain white minifigs.

They have removed them in the past. For example, the ghostbusters torsos were free for a while, then they realised and changed them to 58p or something, then eventually pulled them (even though they were still available for replacement parts). Green lantern was available for a long time, but got pulled before the bricks and pieces site went down. Remember that they are not meant to be selling licensed parts through bricks and pieces at all. Some but not all get through and they pull them when they realise. They just take a while to realise sometimes.

Take a photo of the collection, then phone customer services and explain you have a big collection. It is good they are reviewing this, as there are a number of websites saying how to get free parts (including some on here that have done it) without buying the sets, by abusing the service.

There are normally less parts available, after all by now they will have realised how many 1000s of Nick Fury bodies, and Sabine helmets they have sold and shouldn't have.

The initials AT appearing in preliminary space holders in set names.

I doubt you'll see them at the London one. As it is quite early, they reveal very little. Even a lot of what they do show is mock-ups rather than the real thing. And of course, no photos allowed. The German and NY ones are more likely to have something interesting but even then I doubt they'll show all the Disney figures at the German one.

Yes, of course she can. But I have multiple mitches already.

No, it is independent of ideas. As for Wizard of Oz, if there are no sets, the witch is pointless to me. Without Dorothy and the other key characters, having the wicked witch is pointless. If they do the others in a set, the they are likely to redo the witch too. So for me, she is redundant.

They =Shayd.I didn't realise it was already submitted. Talking about it on a lego forum is promoting it, just as much as talking about it anywhere else.

Well, in the original review, Whitefang got 2 Fishermen. In this thread, http://www.eurobrick...showtopic=53391, people mentioning finding at least three per box (although it is not clear if they opened the boxes themselves). I bought a sealed box in Jan 2011 and got four. It is also discussed here, for example, http://brickset.com/...rent-to-the-usa, where it was thought that European boxes were being packed with a different distribution to USA ones. But distributions of four fishermen were also found in the USA. It seems that the early boxes (and Whitefang's would have been an early one) had only 2 fishermen, whereas later runs had 4 fishermen. Not surprisingly, it was also reflected in the availability and secondary market price of fishermen. They were hard to get and expensive on BL, then became rather common and cheap at a faster rate than the others in the series. (I know they all start off with smaller numbers and more expensive at the start, then gradually drop as the set is more widely available and still in stores.)

Maybe they are now going to wait to list it, so that it truly has no promotion. Although even then if people are looking for it, it is a false test. As if they say that they are putting up a project and are not going to promote it, they have already promoted it as noted above. To really test whether projects get anywhere without any promotion, they'll have to post something under an anonymous name and not say that they have done it until the test is done.

No, they haven't. Series 3 had boxes with two different distributions.

They seem to rely more on renders and artistic impressions these days, rather than photographic images.

This is good practice. Put LDD in the title, so they are easy to avoid if you only like looking at real Lego mocs.

You need some bottles too.

I've done a 4000 part order before, although most were regular parts not licensed. About 60 different parts.

You cannot buy them at the moment. At the moment you can only get replacement parts, which are capped at the number in the set. Limit is 200 per part, and 100 parts.

It looks like there are four holes. Start cutting out paper and determine the shape from that.

It sounds like someone has switched the figures to me.

If they were going through all the contracts to sell such sets in specific locations, it wouldn't surprise me if they did it outside if Lego ideas. Those sets would have little interest outside of the US, and would do better sold over a long period of time in a specific location, rather than the shirt 3-6 months (even 12) that non-licensed ideas sets seem to get. They could also the negotiate with the parks which they think would sell and at what price points. But it is too late for the anniversary. If they were to have such a partnership, it would have been negotiated a couple of years ago to be in time.

There are many current projects doing the same thing. Uploaded then essentially left to make their own way (to nowhere). I guess the problem here is the definition of rewarded. To me, it is getting to 10000 and getting selected. An alternative is gettnig to 10000 and getting some recognition (but maybe not getting accepted). Another still is just the vote count. To me, getting to 5000 is just as useless as getting to 50. Ultimately both are a fail, even though one is clearly better supported than the other.

They wouldn't. But if a minifig is worth say £25 if unique or £5 if it's a variant of an existing cheap one, then the set is devalued.

It is currently closed.

Really? This is on the how it works page. Gather Support—10,000 supporters qualifies your project for review. Tell everyone you know (and even those you don’t know) to support your project. 10,000 is a big number, but it’s doable if you have a great project and some old-fashioned persistence. The best results come from knowing how to ask for support from the right fan sites, blogs, and online communities. It is fairly obvious that they want YOU to get the support. Just uploading an idea is not enough.

It is not their business model to put exclsuive minifigures in retired sets. They don't make retired sets. And they don't make new figures to put into sets that have retired. They make current sets, that sell and then eventually retire. They don't re-release some figures as a healthy secondary market for less mainstream characters actually helps fuels the primary market. They regularly re-release some past sets again - for example, X-wings and landspeeders in SW. The collectors market doesn't always greet these so well but the younger fanbase does, so they sell well. They could re-release sets contain more obscure characters again, but those characters don't drive sales to kids. Characters like Batman do. Not Alfred. AFOLs and collectors can afford the larger sets, so it makes sense to include the obscurer characters in those. Some convention goers use the exclusives they get given / win (not only lego) to try to recoup some of the costs of attending. This can help offset the costs of, for example, someone from the Netherlands to fly to the US and attend a convention. Alfred is coming in the new bat cave set. If he had been in a small juniors set in the past two years, that would have affected his secondary market price. But it would also affect the sales of the new large set. Less interest from people who were buying it for the minifigs and less interest from speculators. That is not good for lego.