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I hope not, if it means one less CMF theme for something else especially as the heads don't look very useful for other things. It's a bit like the Simpsons, torsos and legs might be useful but the heads are way too specific. Doing it like the Mario bag series rather than a CMF slot would be fine. Same with an advent calendar. If it is an extra one, fine. But not if it takes the place of another. But if they are going to keep it as a theme, then I'd expect them to keep characters back to sell sets with bricks rather than individual figures.

It is more than cut and paste, as it was edited to say "Pick A Brick (Standard)", a service that did not exist before the merge. I think it is the same everywhere. With a standard parts only order, I always get the freebies in a separate delivery. Usually in a nice small box that can be reused for shipping small sets.

Not only that, but Majisto has no link to Classic Space or Pirates.

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I don't know what it is like elsewhere, but in the UK all the promotions have this in the terms and conditions "Pick a Brick (Standard) orders are not valid for this promotion." They are still being added just fine, but hopefully won't be acted on in future. The £45 threshold to get those two VIP poly bags is quite nice, although I typically go for an extra fivers worth to get to £50 for free shipping too.

Is there any evidence for that? It would take a brave reseller to buy 999 at those prices. And why limit to 20? How many people really need 20 of them? Resellers or people wanting more than 20 to use would just place multiple orders. For many of the animals, the prices mean that 20 is almost enough to hit free shipping anyway, so splitting an order will soon get around the limit per order.

The red and white stripy one is very common and can be picked up on bricklink for ~50c (US).

That sounds pretty useless! If you can buy the parts in PAB having them available for online BAM adds nothing. If they included the store BAM parts then it might be more interesting. Online BAM started off OK (I bought 160 figures over 4 orders) with some interesting torsos and accessories but once they were sold they were never replaced.

I guess they are trying to avoid using LOTR in the title even though it is used in the description, along with Elrond.

Is it this one? https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-151016/SkirbBricks/the-last-homely-house/#details There have been quite a few rebuilds based on using only the official set and it is sometimes hard to tell them apart. Although the IP probably still belongs to Warner Bros!

I use 1x2 plates and 1x2 tiles for each colour where possible. That gives a reasonably large surface area while still being quite small and also has studded and flat surfaces.

Possibly the worst of all is this one, she hides in plain sight by pretending to be lovable but is really after extracting your teeth.

I'm not surprised the BF torso is the most popular. There have been about 60000 BF torsos listed on bricklink over the past couple of years, and about 30000 still available. Compared to about 12000 currently available for Lion Knights. Although interesting that in the past six months, 11.5K Lions gave sold compared to 9.1K BF. And that is just BL, huge numbers have been on ebay too. I wonder if resellers will stock up on Lion Knights instead of BF due to imbalance of available numbers but similar sales volumes when the next promos hit the lego store.

There is a pinned thread in the buy / sell / trade forum called Guidelines.

I would imagine maybe £180. The Blacktron set with ~350 pieces was £170 threshold.

There is an issue where headdresses or outfits are spiritual / religious / sacred / belief based. There is no respectful way to turn them into a toy. That is also why they stay away from religious subjects.

Even if they did that, we would probably only get one style. I use a load of random helmets to randomize my orcs. Even if not movie accurate, it gives the impression of a ragtag army rather than all looking the same. I use ones from Castle, the new viking one, but also some from Space Police, and even some sci-fi ones like Ultron sentries work OK. And if you are not purist, Brick Warriors make some nice medieval ones that go quite well too.

Thanks, are you searching by part number or set inventory? I'm finding they don't appear in some Inventories but do with the element number. Anyway, those prices don't seem so bad, nowhere near as bad as I thought so maybe the internal cost is not so high. Compare that with things like the multi-pack capes from the Knight's Castle (when you had to phone, cape packs used to be reasonable value, like pieces 4 for £2) and they are very good value.

I thought they all have the same degrees per mm extension ratio. As shown in the speed section of Sariel's video...

Interesting that none of these packs seem to be on PAB so we can't get a rough idea of how LEGO price them. I'm sure I've seen Friends multipacks on there in the past, the kitchen items and a bugs pack. I think they were quite expensive but I cannot see those any more either.

I've seen a couple of partly filled boxes in supermarkets. None of the set boxes were ripped open and presumably some had sold. It's hard to judge how well they are selling.

With that many large weapons? I don't buy many Ninjago sets these days so haven’t seen them.

I found their reuse as Hunter Orcs to be a bonus. They were a good source for more Isengard Orcs! I'm not even bothered by them being used for the Battle at the Black Gate. Once you stick them in some armour and a helmet, they fit in fine. In fact, LEGO once sold off the tan version of SW Emperor Palpatine heads really cheap. I bought a load of those to use for orc heads where just part of the head shows under a helmet and I save the orc heads for when more of the head is visible.

One of the proposed reasons discussed by fans at the time was based on The Hobbit being split into three movies instead of the planned two parts, that LEGO had planned three waves of LOTR sets interspersed with two waves of The Hobbit. Then late changes meant that they had to rebadge the Barrel Escape as a preview set and use one of the planned LOTR slots for The Hobbit to fit with the three movie releases. Whether a sixth wave didn't appear because they only had a deal for five slots or Warner only really wanted their current movie promoted or it was poor performance of the LEGO sets or the movies not being as popular as LOTR was, who knows. Remember for LOTR they did cover all three movies, just not one movie per wave like The Hobbit. So they might have thought they had done the trilogy in those two waves. The problem for fans being they did the 'wrong' bits especially for ROTK.

Indeed, which points really to large 18+ sets rather than play sets.