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You need a white (opaque) decal paper, not clear. You'll need to do a few tests to match your printer ink colour to that of the torso.

Sometimes Lego does showpiece sets that are great display pieces to show what can be done, not necessarily available to all budgets. It would be sad if the most expensive set was £50.

Nice idea for the eyes!

If it is a regular production part (they occasionally occur in the cmf range), they will send the right part. Otherwise they send a new random pack.

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I guess it depends where the word Bücherei comes from. If it has hastily been translated from another language, it could mean a library as in the building, but it could also be library as in an encyclopedia (so a book) or a library of functions (as in software or an app).

Aztec Warrior is also up there for me, but not quite the best.

Something will have to give between tattered clothes / wrong coloured skin / remaining purist. Also if you need heads then it's probably best to get them sooner rather than later. I remember their prices increasing last year as Halloween approaches.

I just use regular castle torsos with no yellow skin printing, swapping out the heads and hands for LBG. I prefer to ignore the (lack of) tattered nature of the clothes rather than have anything showing yellow flesh.

I tend not to use them, replacing them with either a different pair of legs or with a slope for a skirt / dress.

I was complete at the end of S12 (including Team GB), except for Mr Gold. I think I have owned every CMF except Mr Gold at some stage (barring S14), although not now. I sold off a lot of mine though over the past couple of years, as: 1) I didn't really think they looked that good displayed when there were so many of them. They started looking a bit messy and you miss the details when there are so many. 2) The price rises meant they were too valuable to just leave in a drawer. I've always been much more of an army builder with the CMF series, rather than a completist. I did have over 100 Roman soldiers, but again sold off a lot of them (as complete sets or as torsos and legs, keeping the helmets and shields for my Roman commanders) when the price rises made sense as I only really ever used about 20-30 at once in MOCs. I was a bit late collecting Spartans, only getting 24 but again that is probably enough for me.

Too many to chose from for me; the elf, the Roman soldier, the Spartan, hazmat guy, conquistador, Musketeer, actor, ...

I'm not so sure about the physics set. That sort of toy already exists for a much lower price. But then the same is true of the marble maze and they approved that.

I also hate skirts, and I'm not a fan of the scimitar. I love fleshies though.

They were official sets in 2012. Heads and other specific parts already exist ...

Another option is that they roll-over the current Golden Girls idea, and then either deny both at the same time or accept to make one, with both creators as the inspiration. There are no hard and fast rules at lego ideas, they do what they like.

One problem is that often they only look good from one angle. Although with the addition of the cape for figs like Batman, some of the bad side can be hidden.

They can do pretty much what they like, they just choose not to do modern politics, since they don't want to be seen as supporting one regime or another. Lincoln in that sense is a historical rather than political figure.

I don't recall that. You only need to look back at the start of this thread, there were many people in favour of them.

I doubt they have gone for good. Maybe it is a plan - make people think they are going to be hard to find by limiting the initial distribution, then when they come in stock some people will buy way more than they would have otherwise done so they can sell them on at a profit based on their perception of the rarity.

With a name like NEXO Knights, I'm wondering how many stores will be putting these on the shelves next to K'nex.

Did they say whether this is a technical restriction or a financial restriction. As in, we cannot do it or we won't do it. There are many older parts where white / light colours have been printed on dark, and they are much better quality than the thin print they seem to use today. While we get more colours and better designs on a torso these days, the quality has definitely gone downhill when it comes to light on dark.

Zombie fitness instructor, zombie skydiver and zombie circus ringmaster would probably be scraping the bottom of the barrel though.

Any light print on a darker colour is pretty awful these days. It happens a lot with printed robes or capes. Dr Wu from Jurassic Park is just plain awful ... His leg printing is not even close to white. Considering how much of the value figures add to sets, they really ought to get this sorted.

I don't see why they'd spend much time considering a modular coming through the ideas route. They already have a modular line, with sets coming out in a steady release plan, and probably have a backlog of designs waiting to be released. I doubt anyone can come up with an idea for a (popular) modular that they have not already thought of. And if they do, lego can release their own design of a similar building as part of the modular line rather than as an ideas set.