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If that is Lego's stance on who this product is for, then they should simply refuse to sell it to anyone that doesn't have a young female with them in store. However, I don't believe that is their view. I also don't think it is aimed exclusively at young females. I have also heard many are going to older females in science.

There is a reason that the set is on sale. It is because it is not selling. People don't want it at the RRP. Plus there is not much point selling the set to fund MOCing. Open it up, and sell the minifigs. That is where the value is. And you have the bricks left for MOCing.

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It lasted over three months at most European S@H sites. It was definitely three months for UK S@H.

My preference is for more gender neutral parts. Not because I don't want female torsos, I do. I want a decent selection of male only torsos, a decent selection of female only torsos and where appropriate a selection of torsos that could be used for either. So for example, a pirate torso for a man with his shirt unbuttoned, will be for a man. A woman in a dress will be a woman. But a train guard or a lab-coat wearing scientist, why not use a neutral torso? Especially where we are likely to only ever get one of a torso, it helps customisers if that torso is gender neutral if at all possible. It also has the bigger effect of helping to increase the number of female characters in sets, without putting off boys by including more / too many female minifigs in sets. If a character can be either sex by a simple change of a head (and possibly hair, depending on headgear), then sets could contain for example: 1 male figure 1 female figure 2 of choice of the user. So the ratios there are as low as 25% female, or as high as 75% female, depending on the choice of the user. It's nothing to do with morals, or not liking big breasted minifigs, it is down to wanting better gender balance in sets without wanting to put off the main target group, and wider choices of generic rather than specific parts. Part of this is down to when I grew up, lego was much less specific than it is now. Fewer specialised parts meant more need for imagination. Minifig printing has followed the same pathway as parts, we have highly specialised parts that can be used for one thing and little else, the same is starting to be true of minifigs too. With increased detail, we loose flexibility. I would still use that as a male torso. The buttons cannot even be seen (although I'd still use it if they were seen) and so the detail is only down to what way the collar overlaps. We give enough leeway to the design due to the minifig shape, that for me, minor details are not so important. It wouldn't bother me if for example, in Lego City, men had clothes that button up either way. After all, due to their body shape, buildings are all the wrong shape (wide and stumpy), cars are often single seated with the driver in the centre, and so on. Older torsos managed it - they had buttons down the middle, without representing the button holes.

You don't have to. You can paint the pupils on the head with tiny spots of paint, then apply the waterslide decal over the top. Depending on the size of the eye around the pupil, you can cover up any dodgy paint job with the decal print. That way, the eyes are nice and punchy, and you get the benefits of the clear waterslide decal for the rest of the face.

What do you mean by technically bigger? For number of parts, yes. But for weight, no. Box size, no. Largest dimension, no. I doubt it would ever be a re-release. A newer version maybe, but that is not a re-release and wouldn't affect the secondary market pricing of the original.

Yes it is. Does a minifigure collector that frames and displays their minifigs enjoy them? Does a polybag collector that displays their unopened polybags enjoy them any less? Does a MISB collector that displays the unopened boxes enjoy them any less? Different people enjoy things in different ways.

I have the problem going both ways. Sometimes I want fleshie and sometime yellow skin. I wish they would do away with the little neck line in yellow / flesh that rules this out for most minifig torsos. Clearly for some they need flesh / yellow printing, but when it is so small it is annoying (like the CMF British Police Constable). I so wanted that torso without the yellow print.

While they have reused some parts / molds, there are plenty that have not been reused. I'm mainly looking at you Roman shield and helmet. Yes, I do. I mentioned it before here http://www.eurobrick...00#entry1945230. A large pirate ship, for me, rules out a large castle set. Whether they bring out another pirate series with POTC coming again is a matter of debate. So it might well be the large pirate ship and more small junior-part castle sets like this year.

It doesn't have to be built to be enjoyed. For example, for polybags I nearly always get two. One to build and display one to keep sealed. I like the fact that I have a product that is exactly as it left the factory. I have my own small version of the lego vault. Plus I don't think lego cares too much about how often the products are played with, they care about how many are sold.

If it doesn't specifically say LEGO in the title and in the auction, then you can safely assume it is fake.

I wouldn't want male versions of every female torso. Ones wearing dresses and so on that are obviously female only are fine. Similarly male torsos that are only male are also fine. But it would be nice to have some official female minifigs that do not have the curves and boobs print. This would make it more acceptable in people's minds that women / girl minifigs do not have to have curves. This would allow lego to use a number of gender neutral torsos (no female curves, but also no male muscles) to represent both sexes. Combine that with a head with a male face on one side and female (i.e. lipstick) on the other and the user can choose the sex of the minifig, and thus whether they can identify them or not. Of course, it could be taken even further in that female minifigs do not need to use lipstick to identify them as female. But that brings us full circle, with the complaints that if it is not recognisably female then it must be male.

There are counter examples, of course. Can I have two Coca-Colas, please? or Can I have two Coca-Cola, please?

The same argument also works for regular minifigs. So someone may say that they prefer to give my money to the original creator, but why pay $20 for a set with one minifig when I can buy a perfectly acceptable fake for $1. If fakes are perfectly acceptable for $500 figures, then with the same logic they should also be perfectly acceptable for $10 ones. The quality is just the same between the fake $500 fig and the fake $10 fig. I'm also glad that the topics have been moved to community rather than in the main themes and interests categories. After all, eurobricks is a lego site, not a fake lego site.

Unless he has been sent the official boxed set, it could be meaningless. He may have a rough pre-production print of the instructions, not the official version with ads in. It may even be that he was send the set just as parts and a pre-print of the instructions before it is finalised. If he doesn't say what he has got, it could be either.

Fine for you, others would disagree. What about the adult who uses their child to convince you the child wants it when it is really the adult. In what capacity would you be there to judge? Why didn't the family purchase it earlier when there were lots available? It is very rare for a set to disappear from a shelf within a day of it being released. Especially the child oriented sets. Parents of children have ample opportunity to buy, just as other adults do. Parents can also clear an aisle of sets if they want to. I don't get why a collector should be called a diddums. This is an AFOL site. We are all here because of toys. Why should a collector not be thrilled that they can buy a MISB edition of a set they really wanted as a kid but were not able to purchase? Why did Child C miss it? If it was just because adult B got there first, then it is his or his families fault. He had plenty of opportunity to buy it when it was on the shelf. Child A on the otherhand did not have the money back then. Why should child A have to reconcile not getting it? Many people buy toys from their childhood for nostalgia. Maybe child A is even child C. He missed it when he was a kid and always regretted it and is grateful of the opportunity to buy it. If Adult B hadn't picked it up, child D might have come along and bought it and the chance would have been lost forever. TLG don't want to re-release sets. If they did, they would. They have enough modern sets to keep them at capacity. Would lego really want to keep molds of old parts for 20 years just in case a set doubled in value, and then make sure they re-release the exact same set, same box, same colours of parts (old greys and browns). The simple answer is no. Lego cares about the secondary market for current sets, not old ones. So what if it is a toy? Adults are allowed to play with toys too. Adults are allowed to collect toys too. They can open and play, or they can keep them MISB. If adults are not allowed to do what they like with toys that they own, then it is the end for eurobricks and all AFOLs.

LEGO or Lego or lego for me. I don't care which. My phone corrects lego to Lego, but leaves LEGO alone. Although LEGO takes longer to write on my phone.

The question is what feature do you like the most - I assumed you were meant to choose one only. I want the stepped design, but the use in sunlight is more important for me, with the longer range second. Although it is possible to select more than one answer for the question, when it should really be limited to one as it is written.

The child or his family had exactly the same opportunity as the reseller to buy them. It is not stealing candy from a baby, it is buying something before someone else does. The AFOL that buys it might well be the child whose parents wouldn't buy him a certain set 10 years before.

Sure - raise the issue, then either buy one, buy a fake, or go without. I'm glad they exist, even if I don't own any. Even then, some lego superheroes fans will still complain as they want them all and not just the cheap widely available ones.

Also if you are using acetone, add it to cold water / dye mix first, then heat.

While that is true about no more risk of backing early, projects that make it always seem to get a rush of money towards the end. I always wonder what were those people waiting for. I found this quite confusing too, as all the images show the stairtop design. But according to the text, that is only coming with the £100K mark.

You can try keeping the water warm ~70 degrees (cover it and stick it in the microwave), or halving the amount of water you use to make up the dye. Another trick if it doesn't work is to use about 10% acetone / nail varnish cleaner. That is not enough to destroy surface of the elements. The print will also remain too. The time could be anywhere between 2 and 30 minutes. It can be a pain if you want consistency of colour.

That has been sealed by the seller. The bag is the type you buy on a long tube, and heat seal them. I've had a few BL orders where parts are sealed like that.