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I don’t think Technic went studless to differentiate itself from system. I think it went that way as the smooth studless beams and panels look better than studded bars and plates.

Is 95th a big anniversary, bigger (in importance) than 90th? No doubt the 100th anniversary in 6/7 years time will bring plenty of a nod to history sets but if they stick a 95th anniversary badge it looks a bit desperate to me. Especially with the 50th anniversary of the minifigure coming, that seems a bigger deal than 95th of the company and I expect we'll get remakes of minifigures. The question is, do they (re-)release just the minifigures or also some building sets for them to go in?

Given the timescales for production, I doubt they compete for sales! "Hey, look I'm really positive about BDP. How about giving me the sets to review?"

Bricklink are kicking out a number of countries from the marketplace. Not necessarily big LEGO buying populations in each case, but this will affect a few tens of thousands of users in total from these countries: https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1531488 Indonesia Turkey South Africa Taiwan Ukraine Brazil Serbia United Arab Emirates Kazakhstan Peru Israel India Morocco Chile Vietnam Georgia Lebanon Saudi Arabia Qatar Oman El Salvador Bahrain Azerbaijan Armenia Pakistan Egypt Moldova Ecuador Argentina Costa Rica Colombia Bosnia and Herzegovina Turkmenistan Greenland

At least you are fairly quick to remove once reported. The same level of spamming at bricklink can take many hours to remove.

It is also worth remembering that collectors of the original series were used to getting 48 different generic / unlicensed characters per year, whereas now it is more like 12. Those were the days when if I didn't like a character, there would be new ones along very soon. I'd get them anyway to be complete, especially as they were cheap, and there would soon be something else to look forward to. For each one, I'd build a little 8x8 vignette, it was a regular 30 min build every week. It was also when swaping and trading figures was quite popular so there was a community aspect to it. Whereas now, I reckon for every one CMF I get hold of, I buy at least 25 on PAB. I'm no longer CMF complete so I didn't mind getting rid of my older early figures that I don't like, and good for me the late to the party collectors pay silly money for them. I find now that I have very little anticipation for a new series, I'll buy a couple of any I like but that is it. There is barely any community swapping, people buy boxes to get complete series rather than individual packs. Very different times.

Try ikea. They sell many types of white shelving and you can buy optional acrylic doors for many ranges.

I like the new Paris set, but I agree it isn't really what I'd expect in Architecture. It is more Art than Architecture.

It is not necessarily my job either but I always flag obvious spam. I think it is the job of users to report anything like that, then the mods can clean up.

I think LEGO are still very dedicated to non-licensed themes, but not necessarily the classic ones that people used to play with 30+ years ago. And for the people that did play back then, they know nostalgia sells well and so I reckon we will continue to see single expensive sets every so often but not full themes composed of small, medium and large sets. Classic may equal non-licensed, but non-licensed doesn't equal classic (at least, not yet, but give it time and no doubt we will see the terms Classic Ninjago and Classic Friends.)

Makes sense. One of the admins was pretty quick to remove them. Hopefully the spammers see it disappear quickly and give up.

It looks like the spammers are back, this time temu. This is obviously not working. I have just reported 20+ posts from I think four different new accounts, accounts are all less than 30 minutes old yet posting multiple copies of the same spam a minute or so apart.

I guess it depends why you want a bigger one as that will affect what changes to make. Maybe measure your display area or decide how big you want it, then convert that to studs so you have an idea about what changes you will need to make to get the size you want.

Although the others are not minifigure scale, I find the plants are fine. It is not like things are to scale in LEGO anyway. Not that I'd buy the sets for the plants.

I imagine the architecture, but then the existing fountain garden feels a bit medieval like if you remove the fountain.

I think a small smooth dome is harder to remove than Egghead's dome and similarly when there is molded hair. I've got some third party parts that are like that and if you put them on a head they can be problematic to remove. Maybe that is why they don't do it.

Yeah it looks like it could well be the same line. I find those sets a little boring though, the plants in them are rather simple.

Probably ebay. With lots of clear photos so that the buyer can decide whether they are genuine or not.

I didn't say they couldn't have both. I was responding to the "big enough LOTR fans" comment that they would have the books. These are sets based on the movies and plenty of people have enjoyed the movies without reading the books, and consider themselves big fans.

I imagine that there are loads of LOTR fans that have bought the LEGO sets but have never read the books. I read them once 30+ years ago yet I have never owned a copy of the books. But I do own the BRs. Serious LEGO fans have LEGO shelves rather than bookshelves.

Yes they have been doing animal costume character minifigs for CNY but they have been doing them elsewhere too so they are not that distinctive. The pig was a rehashed CMF except for the tail. Doing something like a brick-built animal of say 400-500 parts in front of a small piece of architecture in similar colours to the animal with one obvious repeated "collectable" part that ties the entire series together would have hooked me. What they have done, I have two CNY sets and reuse them year after year like I reuse Christmas sets. I don't care for the costume minifigures so skipping sets is not a big deal.

It is so funny that they made a mistake with the show's catchphrase.

So if you want to combat this, then buy the set on day 1 yourself and keep the bits you want and sell the rest for what you consider a fair price.

No doubt there will be plenty of resellers buying then selling the GWP, the minifigures and the ship individually. Or you could buy the set and sell on the ship if you only want the figures.

Yes, if on PAB, then I'll get a few for generic dwarves. Although I already have a load of Gimli and Dain's torsos, as well as the CMF ones too.