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A coral coloured garbage can is both ridiculous and fabulous

Totally this. as an aside - I’m sure it’s down to proportions, but it’s fascinating to me how all minifig hairpieces seem to work well on minidolls, yet some hairpieces for minidolls don’t translate so well to minifigures.

Let’s be honest, that’s also a problem in this forum, although offenders often take a more ‘polite’ route to get their bigotry across. That used to be the case discussing gender representation in figures and sets, but more recently has been the case with ‘discussion’ around the #EveryoneIsAwesome set and #QueerEye. There are also some very unhelpful and outdated sexist, and ableist tropes trotted out frequently. In my experience this hasn’t always been moderated well, or indeed quickly enough - and I know of several members here who have stepped back from forums in the way you mention. One of the biggest problems in my humble, but absolutely non-apologetic, LGBTQ+ opinion is the silence from many, leaving it to a key few to counter if they have the energy, and the ‘both sidesing’ of issues or deeming things (namely human rights, and, y’know, actual existence and representation) as ‘political’, or just irreconcilable differences of opinion. That just screams privilege, and a deliberate misunderstanding of concerns.

The current ‘big beaked’ parrot mould is available in solid white and solid dark grey, as well as the three marbled options. I agree a hawk / falcon would be good to have, and a sitting eagle. Really wanna see the eagle in a ‘golden eagle’ variant too! We are still relatively-poorly served by birds in Lego form.

It is indeed interesting that a few animals get the ‘printed and not-printed’ variants, and owls seem to get lots of variety. By my reckoning the plain current owl now exists in white, tan, reddish brown and dark grey, as well as the gold flying owl. So many owl statues!

Not really, as it says ‘only’. To be honest, there are bigger issues of people being abusive in this forum and others than this alleged ‘slight’, as have just been raised.

Anyone found these ‘in the wild’ in the U.K. yet?

As I’ve said before, the colour stuff is massively subjective. To me that is a very different colour from the new neon yellow, and is in fact closer to lime green 🤷🏽‍♂️

Couple of random questions… @Robert8 Have you been keeping track of how many of your ideas have shown up in CMFs (or elsewhere) along the way since you started? When you’ve completed the series of series, might you think about putting together group images of the various sub-themes you’ve explored (like Greek/Roman gods, figures based on historical people, costumes, etc)?

I think the existing ‘farmer’ hat could work for him. Have to say I’m not that bothered about Indy getting a hat with hair piece, but it’s a minor point anyway. Exciting that these are happening!

There was a pink one with the N-Pop girl in the NInjago movie CMF https://brickset.com/sets/71019-20/N-POP-Girl

Splendid work as ever, that Mermaid is stupendous.

It’s a costume

I mean, it’s cheap postage, and it’s a pretty labour intensive service for many orders. If it was about making money it would be better known and advertised.

I’m 99.99% purist. Mostly a quality thing for me.

Happy New Year to you @Aurore, thanks for sharing your world of creations. Have fun scouring the new 2022 sets for all the great new parts!

It’s probably to make their lives easier - with less maniac demand as happened with the sheep and horse last time

The answer is a big shrug. We know there’s not always a logic to how it happens. I’d suggest checking if they’ve gone up, but don’t get your hopes up that they definitely will.

Yeah I saw that pic too - pretty potato-camera quality. Couldn’t make out what the reused watermelon / pizza costume was at all. I thought it may be a pie or a sandwich slice 🤷🏽‍♂️

Oooh - those silhouettes look exciting. Merry Christmas to you, and thanks for this present!

That was mentioned yeah. Hasn’t it been the case before that the *only* time we had four series in a year was with the Team GB & DFB series?

I’d be happy with Muppets & Marvel. HP stuff is getting a bit ‘meh’ for me, and Marvel continues to churn out lots of content via its streaming shows & movies I do wonder what a fourth 2022 series could be? I’d like it to be DC, but I also kinda like when they surprise us with something

Beautiful builds. Thank you so much for sharing your amazing work with us @Aurore xx

I’m choosing to interpret this as a happy, live crab, having some fruit and ice cream whilst getting wheeled around for fun. 🦀🍦

I like that each of the individual vignettes features a tiger somehow 🐯