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  1. Venkefedo
    Try them on other figures' heads, too, outside of this series (outside of CMFs at all, even!); it's not necessarily the hats that are to blame! My Hun's helmet fits nice & snug on others.
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    Castle 2013 has a lot of fun faces, and while I'm not crazy about the blue & red I do enjoy the designs of (most of) the minifigure prints. The dragon's great, too, and there are some nice pieces... also, a fantastic army-builder set in the Forest Ambush! Another bonus is gloved hands galore. MMV is beautiful. I loved MVR, too, but yeah it doesn't really belong 'in' the city... MMV may be called "village" but it's a pretty bustling, affluent one, probably the village nearest the castle, while MVR is on the outskirts of a country village, far from the seat of royal power, and that might be why it's being raided by the Green Dragons--easy pickings, or so they thought. Also, goats!
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    There are 10 old-style stormies and 7 'full' newer-style stormies, leg printing & all, with an 8th torso as well. Impressive, but nothing to have a meltdown over just yet (had the other 10 been ISD stormies, too, then heads might explode!) Luke's clone was probably grown in another part of the facility... can't have the grunts knowing that Thrawn's crazy wizard is making another crazy wizard that can wipe them out in no time!
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    Okay, so Oberhausen (and others like Glendale) just have few or zero parts reported... that's all.
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    Parts showed up without clicking on them, or having an account, for some stores for me; could be the store you checked hadn't been updated on that site. Did you try the Oberhausen store? When I tried it, nothing showed up, just empty fields, same as trying my local store. Other stores had parts appear, but not those two.
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    Not every store has been inventoried for that site, it seems; my closest store in Glendale, CA shows up blank. Another nearby one only had some pieces visible, with dates on those pieces of sometime in 2013, while the one Lego Store in Oregon (which I got to visit in August) was fully updated just last week!
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    Realizing flick-fires are kinda long, I quickly tried a build as in the Ghost & AT-DP sets with two more saber hilts attached to the blaster barrels, and jewels in those... still felt super long. So I tried the shorter pistols instead, still long. Thinking more about it after leaving my Lego behind for work, the challenge is having a grip near the middle, but also at least one pistol grip for rifle-mode... for 'bo' mode, a saber hilt with 2 flick-fires on either end might work just fine, tho perhaps too close to a Magnaguard staff. If the long rifle had a bar-end rather than the stock like the smaller blasters, it might work; another option is the nozzle piece, like Jango's blasters, in black with saber hilts on either end; it's got a pistol grip, but no scope to prevent a minifig gripping the barrel. Not perfect by any means, and the pistol grip is more centered than I think the actual bo-rifle grip(s) should be, but it's an option...
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    I found two figures buried in bins of $5-and-under toys near the back end of a Target's toy section... swashbuckler & wizard. I scanned 'em, they have more in the back but have no floor location for them since they dismantled the endcap they were on w/ the Witch King Battle set a week or so ago. If I didn't have to get to work, I would've asked for them to bring out the new case!
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    It changes sizes so drastically... For the extended version I think flick-fires with jewels on the ends might work... For the body it'd need saber hilts or telescopes for the missiles to plug into
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    Good question... maybe Lego didn't want to run heads & arms in tan or dark tan for her (tho Chima should've provided enough heads and arms in either color), due to cost or a decision that her skin tone wasn't distinct enough to warrant it?
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    Nope, he meant Saesee Tiin's... the design of the build, not the color pattern of the fighter.
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    I think your excellent watermill actually belongs here, Cesbrick!
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    Stunning! So much detail...and so many pieces! And that roof...really terrific. Great job!
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    I'm not sure it's just the headgear at fault... I tried the Hun helmet on another minifig head, it took more effort to pull it off, while a different headgear piece on the Hun head was still a bit (barely) looser than average, so the heads themselves might have a greater variance in the studs on top. Kinda like popping hands or arms out, they may not fit tight on some torsos/arms, but on others they're snug as can be!
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    Yay, I feel old now! I got that set at Christmas, in my stocking... when I was 17.
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    With the advent of these "tall dwarves", it'll probably help to be clear about who's a dwarf and who isn't, if someone is building without short legs! Of course, there is sort of a 'medium' option with the BrickFortress articulated short legs, as they're slightly taller than Lego's short legs.
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    Great build! I like the little conveyor-bits for the armor, helmets, weapons... the techs & their little 'cherry picker'... the squad assembly area, the door... the cloning cylinders... all that's missing is a Thrawn to check in on the progress, and a whole mess of ysalamiri!
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    Even if a Lego rep were on hand, grilling them over LOTR wouldn't accomplish any more than emailing Customer Service about LOTR would. It might let them know there's still interest, and they might pass that info along, but it's not like the one doing the grilling would get any new information or a clear answer. The reps at these things often don't have access to that info, or the authority to pass it along even if they did know--and in many cases, they know even less than the fans!
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    Only two bits stick out as odd: the Phase I helmet, and the droids seemingly aiding the clones. During Order 66, the clones & droids didn't 'team up'. The droids were still fighting the war until Vader sent the signal from Mustafar, and the clones still fighting against them. Otherwise, a nice scene & good posing!
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    I think the sizes mentioned for A & B are maximum only. I think Haarits kinda has to side with the Dwarves...
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    Nice vignette! Great depiction of quicksand! Rodents of unusual size? I don't think they exist.
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    Figuratively a Hasbro figure head stuck on a Lego torso... If it were literally that, we'd see a Hasbro logo on the box, too.
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    I prefer the prints, tho, it makes the figures more enjoyable... I always am a little disappointed when a figure has a plain torso just because they've got armor or a beard covering it (Castle wizards, CMF Conquistador, etc). I only wish TLG had designed an element to allow Chima birds to wear wings without the bulky armor (like a 2-stud bracket), allowing their torsos to be visible.
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    Probably just wishful thinking. Bionicle was Lego's big deal at this con, but everyone hopes to see something more, from this or Marvel...
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    They'd have to have been pretty naive to think Peter Jackson's Hobbit films would be anywhere near as light as the book. The book may be a prequel to LOTR, but tonally it's an incredibly different beast; Tolkien wanted to write a new version to better match LOTR, but the publisher talked him out of it ("It wouldn't be The Hobbit"... ignoring/dismissing the possibility of releasing it under a different title or something to mark it as just an alternate take on The Hobbit). Had Jackson--or anyone, really--filmed a faithful version of The Hobbit, tonally it'd be as different from Jackson's LOTR films as the cartoon "Ewoks" was from The Empire Strikes Back.
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