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Plus customer service reps will often tell people what they want to hear, or make it sound like they say what people want to hear without actually saying it.

#10246 has reddish brown (BL name), that is as close as you're likely to get.

^^ / ^^^ Re the samurai, there is slight curvature on the hips but at least no cleavage on the print. So a male head looks OK on it. It would be better without the curves, although you could pretend it is just where the belt is tight round the middle.

I'm waiting for it to go on sale. They look desperate to get rid of it now.

Yeah, I use a heat gun on cool. I don't have a hair dryer, just DIY tools. :-)

Why is there nothing between poor and good? For the time, no doubt it was good. But it looks pretty mediocre compared to today's standards. Yes, I know it is heresy to say that about a classic set, but the bright colours ... I'd go for greys rather than those.

Nice, although I think the scene with Talos is probably more memorable and might do better on ideas.

Yes, even ignoring skin colour, there are many types of people; tall, short, thin, fat, children, ... they all get the same torso. It used to be that the figures were just characters to exist in the builds. Now it seems that everyone has to have a character that they can identify with or they complain about the lack of it.

Yet why are store employees told this so far in advance? They don't need to know, and Lego is normally protective about new themes.

I use the brickforge viking helmet. Not purist. But way better than horns.

It wouldn't need a new mold, just a new print.

They already are.

^ Interesting, thanks.

Will it really be necessary to lock it? Surely just unpinning it is enough, and let it remain accessible if someone wants it. There are still threads on Lone Ranger and so on in the licensed section, that just get less and less active with the occassional comment. If someone wants to come and comment on what could have been done, they could still add a comment to the existing thread, otherwise they will probably just start a new thread if they cannot add to the old. If nobody wants to add to it, it will soon slide down but at least there is the possibility of keeping everything together.

Did you heat gun the helmet to get the wings to bend?

It's funny. That is exactly why I LIKE these ones. You can have the pirate captain change into a zombie pirate, the lumberjack change into a werewolf, etc.

It's for that reason, when I bought my kids loads of castle parts, I also bought about 100 rock panels (47847) in reddish brown and DBG. Quick height for hidden caves / dungeons.

Green torsos and arms have been made for ages. Is adding the hands really that much of an issue? That they wouldn't have made the classic green spaceman if TMNT were not already there, or maybe made them with yellow hands as blanks of that preassembled part already exist? In fact, the classic space torso has the neck print. So doesn't that mean that the part is printed before the arms and hands are added, so the neck print indicates which way round the torso is when the arms are added.

I wouldn't mind a Robin Hood style theme, it doesn't need to be named as Robin Hood. Although I'd prefer the torsos not to have yellow skin printing on them. It should provide lots of nice green torsos, ideal for fleshie heads too.

Another explanation is that they are not buying the more creative lego sets - there are still new ones being produced. In fact, six this year - the creative brick boxes.

In the late 80s / early 90s, megabloks used to do boxes of plain bricks and small sets in larger versions of these, I guess about 2.5 inch x 2.5 inch x 5 inch. They were great as they stack, you can build off them (so can use them as light weight filler to achieve height under a structure such as a hill or mountain) and good for travelling with a small kit.

I don't think it matters if a part was created for a licensed them, so long as it is generic and not tied to that theme. So, for example, http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemIn.asp?P=92746&in=M this hair was created for Luke but later appeared, even in the same colour, in city sets. So long as there is nothing about the part that is not tied to the license, it seems OK. Even the lightsaber hilt (which has a strong link to SW) gets used in many other sets.

Maybe, maybe not. They may have found some more interesting scenes in the extended editions of FOTR and TT to recreate. :-)

Another +1 for the capes. I wish there were official capes like that.

Although for LOTR (and the Hobbit) the films did not map onto the waves. I make it that we got 6 Fellowship, 3 Two Towers, 3 ROTK sets. Or 5:4:3 - it depends how you count some of the sets that could be either. Of the 6 Fellowship ones, 3 are small - Gandalf Arrives, Wizard Battle, Council of Elrond. So there is roughly even distribution over the films, possibly slightly less for ROTK. But it was clearly not Wave 1 - Fellowship, Wave 2 - TT, Wave 3 (missing) - ROTK. Of course for the Hobbit, it made more sense to release them in film order as it is a current series, just that some of them had to be preview sets after the change in movie structure.