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  1. MAB
    Not at all. In retail stores, sure it is dead. But the theme will live on forever.
  2. MAB
    A number of reasons - local tax, local market (if priced significantly above similar toys then they will not sell), costs of doing business in a particular country.
  3. MAB
    I'm also perfectly happy with The Simpsons as CMF. I don't mind exclusive prints for characters if they are in a large, expensive set, so long as an alternate print is in the CMF.
  4. MAB
    It is an error. They will get pulled eventually, but not until quite a lot are sold. Something similar happened with Ghostbusters figures.
  5. MAB
    UK preferred but also EU. Mainly interested in trades, but can also sell. I am after Simpsons Series 2, new minifigs (opened packet is fine) including all accessories. ** Please PM offers. ** I am after: Homer Bartman Marge Lisa Maggie Milhouse / Fallout Boy Comic Book Guy Martin Prince Frink Moleman Selma Patty Willie Edna Smithers Hibbert Also after: Series 13 Egyptian Warrior x any number Series 12 Hun x any number Battle Goddess x any number Pig Man x2 Spooky Girl x1 I have for trade: Everything is new, unbuilt and genuine LEGO. Smaug smaug01 Azog lor109 Bard lor092 Dain lor107 Orc lor110 (x2) Legolas lor035 Thorin lor106 Balin lor094 Bilbo lor093 Dwalin lor095 Fili lor097 Kili lor096 5x 3x pairs of black wings number 51342 (six wings in total) from the UCS Batmobile / Ender Dragon. I know some people want these for fell beast MOCs. Green Lantern sh145 Thor sh018 Luke sw176 Gree sw380 Geonosian Warrior sw381 x2 Geonosian Zombie sw382 x2 Dooku sw472 Stormtrooper sw366 x8 Stormtrooper sw188 x3 Obi-Wan sw535 Asajj Ventress sw615 x3
  6. MAB
    There is the possibility that they will also use the pumpkin head mold from Scooby Doo for this series too. I see army builders ... zombie business man, zombie cheerleader, flytrap, tiger, skeleton suit. Sure, for some they would not be army builders, but look back at past series ... lizard man, gorilla suit, unicorn, bumblebee, rabbit, hot dog guy, ... none were necessarily as obvious army builders as the spartan, roman and elf and yet they have been collected as armies. There are even armies of the trend setter, librarian and spooky girl out there.
  7. MAB
    What are you missing for Gondorian architecture? You have the bricks, so build.
  8. MAB
    Or 30 Rohan, 20 Gondor, 15 Dead, 100 Orcs. Or 15 Rohan, 10 Gondor, 8 Dead and 50 Orcs. It would still look like a battle, and none of them would be anywhere near the scale of the movie.
  9. MAB
    I don't think anyone would have been able to follow the movie in terms of numbers when it comes to army building, even if there were battle packs. 6000 Rohan, 10000 ordcs, etc?
  10. MAB
    Maybe showing this in a video would help with votes.
  11. 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.
  12. MAB
    Do the wings flap?
  13. MAB
    All boxes are the same.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
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