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That might be as hands are made from a different plastic to make them more flexible so they don't break when accessories are clipped in. So maybe the bootleggers have to mix their own blend and didn't get it quite right.

It is similar with accessories in CMFs. These often tend to have just one or two points of connection such as a bar or antistud so as long as that part of the mould is accurate enough, the rest doesn't have to be such high quality. And they appear in low value sets sold in huge numbers. I imagine this is why some CMF parts don't get reused in normal boxed sets. Some people may remember the CMF princess headgear. That appeared to have a flaw in that most of them were very loose compared to other headgear.

Can you purchase on lego.com in Poland? The only rare CMF is Mr Gold.

They are cheap and common at the time they are on shelves.

There is also plenty of imaginative play in City, Friends and Ninjago. In the case of City and Friends, it is very easily accessible imagination based play, the themes being based on real life. Whereas Ninjago covers more fantasy based play, whether kids use the media or not. I also believe kids can play imaginatively with licensed themes. They make up stories based on the characters just like they make up stories based on what they know about pirates or soldiers. And while there are more licensed themes than unlicensed, that is because those themes tend to be small compared to the large number of sets in the unlicensed themes.

The instructions search on lego.com is one of the better things that works pretty well - just the set number or part of the name works fine.

I guess it depends if they want to kill off bricklink as a secondary marketplace. And if doing torsos then why not heads and legs too? They could wipe out the secondary market on old CMF and classic figures if the price is right. Whether that would be a good thing is another matter.

Why was it greed, and not just trying a new way of expanding into a new market. After all, everything they do is down to making sales, which you can then equate to greed. A modular every year, making Star Wars sets, nostalgic sets for adults, this is all done out of 'greed'. Indeed. It was pretty much everything they were doing, not just experimenting in new areas.

Wear brick built badges. Either use letter tiles or write on bricks with a sharpie. Include info like: Name, username/pseudo/handle, LUG.

I've had over 100 orders from them, dating back to when you had to phone them to place an order. I don't think I've had missing parts or extra parts in any order. However, now the service is very commonly known about, I guess they are more rushed and with more orders, mistakes are likely. I had one order not show up but that was likely lost in post rather than their error. So long as they replace parts when missing, it is fine.

I don’t think it was experimentation as much as too many single use and expensive parts across all themes, including those that were established or incremental. They will always and should try to tap into new markets. LEGO is great for those that already like LEGO, but LEGO want to grow their share of the toy market even more by doing something for the people not buying LEGO. Many people do need licences to like LEGO, and without them and with the big Disney and Warner Bros licences in the hands of other manufacturers, other brick building companies would be big rivals for LEGO. Their experiments tend to be rather small scale these days, so even if they fail, like Life of George and Vidiyo, it doesn't impact their overall sales. If every theme suddenly became app based, I'd worry. But I cannot see that happening.

I think they do understand secondary market prices in most cases. They know there is an adult community willing to pay high prices for nostalgia and one way to extract money is by selling large 18+ sets. And that seems to work well. However people paying $100s on the seconday market for a small fairly basic set are rare. I doubt they are buying out of nostalgia but out of collecting the originals. If they reintroduce the same or similar set, it is not the same thing. Other adults might buy it, but would that make them as much money as a large 18+ set or as much as a small set aimed at kids. They sort of dud this with Benny's Space Squad. When that came out, it flew off the shelves to the point of being hard to find and the secondary market prices for the figures was high. But within a month or so, when more and more stock hit shelves, it sat around and those initial SM prices bombed. Here, it got heavily discounted to shift. This was probably over production rather than lack of demand, as the minifig prices have slowly climbed a bit now. It is also interesting to see what happened with the Taj Mahal. That was one of the sets often mentioned in investment articles. From what I understand the re-release didn't do that well. It killed the secondary market price, but didn't actually create that many sales for new product. That one was not nostalgia of course. It seems people wanted it because it was hard to find and so a good investment rather than wanting the set. In that case, it seems it was more of a Dutch tulip bubble type investment than the classic sets. We don't know what LEGO's intentions were, but it certainly broke the investment cycle for that set. Whether that would happen for other sets like Emerald Night or Imperial Flagship or Cafe Corner, who knows. But in each case, I imagine a modern remake rather than direct copy would be better received overall.

There have been a few such appearances in the CMF. It is a good way to revive some insignia but keep to modern standards. The balancing out also applies to their new weird products that are often described as "nobody asked for this". They are continually looking for a new big thing, a step change rather than incremental change. We often laugh at Life of George, Vidiyo, etc but if one of those types of toys actually took off it could bring in many bew buyers compared to a slightly different theme. If they can tap into a new market - kids playing with apps that don't really play with lego much - then they have a huge new market. Experiments have worked in the past. If they hadn't experimented with minifigs, or technic, or mindstorms, LEGO would be very different today (probably not around any more).

No. That is different. These are comics / magazines aimed at kids and usually based on single themes - they have done Star Wars, City, Friends, Ninjago, Jurassic World, etc. They are all expensive for a comic but come with a 'free' small bagged set (and sometimes a proper polybag) on the cover. Every so often they come with two 'free' bags but the price is higher when that happens. I don't think I have ever bought one on impulse but have bought them as a way to get minifigs from expensive sets. Cloud City Luke is probably the best example of that.

If they are doing historical I would not want to see Atlantis in it. It is fine for a mythological fantasy theme but not if they are doing other sets based on history. If doing something like Atlantis, they might as well do mythological Greek or Roman, Egyptian, Norse, Chinese, and so on. Explore their mythology rather than history.

Of course it is, as they have done it on a number of occasions before. There were the Legends sets you mentioned a few of, they also more recently reintroduced the Taj Mahal and Saturn V. So, yes, if they think there is a business case to do so, they will reintroduce old sets. You can check whether specific moulds are still used by looking at the parts on bricklink or other similar databases to see if the parts have recently appeared in sets. However, I'd expect if they wanted to make very close copies, they would often just use a close modern part. If an arch is no longer produced, but there is a modern version that is slightly different, then they'd use that. The palm tree, for example, hasn't been made for about 25 years with those exact parts, or about 20 years with very similar ones. But I imagine they would do a modern version with modern trunk parts or by using the dinosaur tail or something similar like they did in a Friends set a couple of years ago. It really depends on how much is minimal changes. They do actually make such changes in the online inventories at PAB. If an old part is no longer made, they suggest a current replacement if one exists. It is why their online inventories are not definitive when it comes to part types and bricklink is far better at recording what came in a set. Just as important is the why would they want to make an (almost) exact copy. Many of the 1980s sets are not very detailed compared with modern standards. To some this means they look poor, to others this means they look great. To me, the Lagoon Lock-Up looks boring. I doubt if modern children would find it very interesting to build compared to a set designed of the same size (size, not part count) using today's standards. Who would remakes be for? As the number of people wanting exact copies is probably too small to warrant exact remakes compared to the number that would want it modernized. And those that want to build one using vintage parts can do so quite easily by buying vintage parts. Whereas collectors wanting the exact old set won't want an exact modern copy because it is a copy and not the original thing. I have quite a few genuine vintage old sets. They are cool because they are old and the parts have survived for so long. The builds are rather basic but the sets are original and have nostalgia on their side. Whereas a newly made version of a vintage set isn't the same thing. The build might be the same but it loses the provenance that makes the old one special today.

I do. The statement I responded to was "Lego does not allow drugs or drug use in their products." There was no mention of street or illegal in that statement. They do depict drugs in certain circumstances, just like they depict alcohol and modern guns when it suits them.

I don't think LEGO would be where it is today if they had retained classic smileys in yellow and not used detailed figure prints and semi-realistic skin tones.

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I got a match when my phone was pointing at the floor with my feet in shot. I don't know which brick I thought it saw.

I agree they probably invented the story that yellow was chosen to be race independent, and of course it all went wrong when they needed to represent Lando. At the time minifigs were invented, the vast majority of LEGO consumers would have been white. Interesting though that the first duplo minifigs from the late 70s were actually white, not yellow as for minifigs and the earlier maxifigs (aside from the bright red 'red indians'). But then a more realistic flesh tone came in for duplo in the early 80s. Tan would also have been a possibility at the time, and this was used later for Caucasian characters in Brickheadz. I find classic smileys are fine for contemporary printed torsos with little detail. But for the detailed bodies that minifigs get today, having the same smiley on all of them looks terrible.

So why is it OK to use stereotypical prints to represent race but not more accurate skin colour? The downside of having stereotypical prints based on race is that if a head does not have that print, it is assumed not to represent that race. So if certain shapes are used to represent the eyes of Asians, then if the eyes on another head are round, it cannot be Asian. It is the same with male and female: no lipstick and eye lashes, it is assumed to be male. There are people that don't believe yellow represents them, and that they are excluded from LEGO roleplay because of it. Flesh tones help there. Adventurers doesn't have to be European characters. If someone believed they were Americans, or from east Russia or Chinese, it makes no difference. They were never given homelands and the different names in different locations suggests there is flexibility in back stories. It is only inclusive if you believe it represents you. Otherwise it is exclusive as you believe it represents others and not you. For a number of years, some of my best selling parts on bricklink were reddish brown heads and hands, always selling fast when i had them. That suggests to me the people buying them don't feel yellow represents people of colour.

So what is in the syringe?

Rather than remaking an old theme, I'd prefer they did something similar but more modern. Also I prefer them to revamp figures / factions through the CMF. The Fright Knight CMF was a good modern re-imagining of the old insignia. Similarly Wolfpack was re-imagined as the Rogue.

You might need to try a different browser. I found it worked with chrome but not with brave.