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  1. MAB
    Maybe showing this in a video would help with votes.
  2. MAB
    Yes, and if you watch kids play battles with toys, you'll notice that often an army is around 5 or 6 characters. Many more than this and all the time is spent setting the army up and not moving them around or fighting (actually playing with them). Having two hands means that two characters are engaged in combat at once. Sure, adults like their big set ups where armies are carefully positioned as a display, but that is different. I also prefer smaller armies (20-30 maybe), and concentrate on the detail of the setting they are in (the lego bit) rather than just amassing a large collection of characters and putting them in a battle formation.
  3. MAB
    Do the wings flap?
  4. MAB
    All boxes are the same.
  5. MAB
    Yes, I wouldn't mix them within a single figure. But I mix up figures in an army - I also use figures with tan and dark tan alongside sand and olive green.
  6. MAB
    I find the set really poor compared to The Year of the Snake. For that, Lego produced the beautiful door piece, on the 8*8 round tile. It is such a shame that they did not continue at that standard.
  7. MAB
    They haven't confirmed anything really. They still have the current license (and they are currently selling Hobbit and LOTR sets), so I doubt they even checked if anyone else does.
  8. MAB
    Yes, and if it was sealed should contain exactly what is in whitefang's review. Lego will say the one you get is random if you just select one from the box, but it is not from a uniform distribution.
  9. MAB
    I don't see why not, he is a bus driver. Sure he smokes dope, but then probably so does the hippie in Series 6 CMF. They decided not to give him anything related to dope, so it's fine. They may even go as far as doing Rev Lovejoy, as it is a character they are doing rather than a generic priest. He could just wear a shirt and tie, that way there are no parts available for making generic priests. Moe, sure, is a bar tender. But they could just put him in regular clothes (or a Pin-Pals top) and have him in some other scene.
  10. MAB
    It is actually saying that they oversold what they have left, and it is not profitable enough for them to make extra sets to sell at a discount, not when they are at capacity anyway. Why make discounted sets when they could make full price sets that are still flying off the shelves? Only the best is good enough ... so long as it makes LEGO the largest profit. What they have done isn't right. Unfortunately many retails make similar errors, not controlling stock effectively. But they get away with it as if you stop buying from them, someone else is in your place ready to buy.
  11. MAB
    They aren't randomly packed though. We know that because if you open a sealed box and do the counting, every box is the same. Whereas if you take packets from an already opened box, then what you get depends on what someone else has already taken. If they chose packets truly at random, then your distribution will not be the same as Whitefang's but probably not massively different. If they cherry picked, then you could find that you have zero probability of finding one particular minifig - if they took all of them. I could go and get an opened box and have completely different statistics, as someone else cherry picked a different minifig. Open boxes do tell you something - what other people have left, not what was there originally. Of course, there is some information in there. You can tell if a particular figure was cherry picked for example, if the percentage of that figure occuring was way below Whitefang's statistics for the complete box.
  12. MAB
    That experience can be factored into the cost per hour. It's what most businesses that charge by the hour do. For basic work that anyone can do, the cost per hour is low. For experience work that only an experienced professional can do, the cost per hour is high.
  13. MAB
    I did wonder about that 5000 pieces, there is no way that is correct. Also think about the weight and volume of the box. It would be a struggle to lift it. In fact, by law it would probably be a two man lift for the whole display due to the weight.
  14. MAB
    Personally, I wouldn't sell. But it has got to be cost of parts (including postage costs if yuo did it through bricklink, etc), plus time spent on it as a minimum.
  15. MAB
    Have you got proof of that? Since virtually every sealed box of 60 that I have ever opened has had exactly the same distribution as reported in Whitefang's reviews. The only difference was for Series 3, where the distribution was changed to increase the number of fishermen.
  16. MAB
    It is probably too minifig heavy for such a small build. Maybe with one knight at the front and one at the back carrying the chest. There is also a bit of a lack of action in it. If you take a look at set #70400, it is essentially the same subject - knights/soldiers transporting treasure. But they are under attack. Attack = action, and in a standalone set. However, it is too similar to an existing theme (and set) for me to vote for it.
  17. MAB
    I don't really know why anyone bothers submitted huge MOCs like that. Sure it is nice, for a MOC site. As an ideas project, useless.
  18. MAB
    For comics / photos you don't need a big army at all. Just set up the shot and camera on a tripod, place your 10 minifigs (or whatever) and take the shot. Then move them, take another shot, repeat and repeat. Then stitch the photos together to create a large army. The size of an army you need for a physical display is really up to you. If you concentrate on a 32x32 part of the battle, then 10 a side is perfectly adequate, for a 16x16 vignette even smaller numbers still look fine. Something small can be spectacular too, if you concentrate on the detail of what you are showing. As you get bigger, detail is often lost and the spectacular part comes from just sheer number of figs (or money spent on them) rather than necessarily what you do with them.
  19. MAB
    Well the set is Blu-ray plus DVD plus Digitial, so it is likely to be expensice - two minifigs for the price of five :-)
  20. MAB
    Concerning te storage problem - another option is to get into microscale builds. Get a collection of about 400 smaller parts, and you can still have fun. I have a small box that I take on the road with me. Ideal if you are staying a hotel or similar and want some building fun while away.
  21. MAB
    You cannot really gain any significant statistical information on packets from already opened boxes, other than what someone else has left. Whitefang's review contains the correct statistics for sealed boxes.
  22. MAB
    The cyclops has only one eye, so it looks a bit silly. There is also "Mutated Dr. O'Neil" which is just about OK, although shame about the pink nose. Some of the SW Neimoidian heads are OK too. Crawley from Chima is not too bad, although a bit too toothy. OK for a bit of variation in the background. And if you don't mind going to sand green, then there are loads of options.
  23. MAB
    Why not use Lego Digitial Designer then? MOC virtually instead of using bricks. For me, it is a second class choice (I much prefer using real bricks) but if the choice is not there at all but the urge to MOC is, then LDD is a good idea.
  24. MAB
    It's two waves worth, at £600.
  25. MAB
    It has happened to hundreds of people. They sold way more than they have. At least you get to keep the flower cart if they already sent it.
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