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This take feels slightly abstracted to absurdity. The Obi-Wan location in-universe is a grey nothing, and as a LEGO set is still a flat grey nothing. The Peridia set in-universe has some design to it and in-LEGO is worthy of display. That doesn't mean it's a great set or value, but at least there's something to it... not to mention 4-5 decent figures of cool characters, unlike the Obi-Wan set.

All that talk and speculation over Enoch for nothing. On the one hand, at least it's not a corner-cut figure. On the other hand, not Enoch. A good scene for what it is. The price always feels high for these larger duel sets.

Well I got some CMF at last (from Kmart but price-matched to Target's $4 AUD). Someone had already been through and taken all the robot nurses... and my Orion came with a spare head in place of his club! I think that's my first ever CMF packing error. Not too salty about it though, because the head is kind of cooler and more useful to me personally than the club.

I've always liked the characterisation either in the RotS novelization or the book set immediately after where Palps is pretty disappointed Vader is now less powerful than he could've been, but at the same time glad because he'd be easier to beat if he tried anything. Makes perfect sense to me that Palps would have other force-using semi padawans around in case Vader did try to make a move, or if he felt like ditching Vader generally because Vader wasn't living up to his potential anymore. I never felt like Luke was portrayed as leaning asexual in the OT. And I've always liked that Luke's New Jedi Order allows for being all around good guys and still having close attachments/relationships. We saw where the no attachments thing got the old Jedi Order.... Personally I'd love if LEGO did a Legends set once in a while. It wouldn't be any weirder or less tied to anything than when they do sets based on their own animated specials. And yeah that droid set.... what were they thinking on a lot of fronts.

Unfortunately going off the photo shared in the BAM thread, it's the same tan one as appeared in sets.

When the topic is so off-topic that "going off-topic" is actually on topic.

I love the super clean presentation of this, and the design which is both sleek and a bit grungy at once. Fun to see that Alpha Team cockpit - haven't thought about that one in a while! The whacky Vidiyo hairpiece really works on the minifigure for this aesthetic too.

I really doubt the random retail employees, or even head management, know enough about the scannable bar codes to hide them. Only LEGO store employees and managers know that sort of thing. It's so odd too because they didn't do it for S25 or Marvel S2, and their system can scan the bar codes that the boxes come with to bring up the price, like they have before and most stores do. Totally unnecessary. And yeah, both S25 and Marvel warmed shelves for quite a while in the larger department stores, and I imagine this box of S26 will given it isn't scannable. Being able to determine what's inside helps these things actually sell.

Let's stick to LEGO as most people have been doing. When you recognise it's off topic, it doesn't belong. Thanks.

Australia rant: I finally found S26 in an actual store besides the LEGO Certified Store (because Kmart's in stock system is always wrong of course)... and Myer had put super adhesive price labels halfway covering every QR code on every individual packet in the box, sufficient to keep them from scanning even on the couple I tried to peel up. They didn't do that for S25, which was never scannable in Aus! Can we just catch a break?

Congratulations to the winners of our Summertime Style Contest: @Ben S and @BardDandelion See all the entries and congratulate the winners here

I've reopened this topic so people can now comment on the builds, and to congratulate our winners @Ben S and @BardDandelion, who have tied in first place! Thank you all for entering!

Please don't. They like to Stay on Target over there

My votes go to: 6. BardDandelion 10. Kritch 14. LordDan

Um... No? I don't think we can put emojis in topic titles. Not because I don't want to, it's just not something I know how to do.

Licensed Summertime Style ContestVoting is open! Help us choose the winner of the Licensed Summertime Style contest! View the entries and vote by 16 June in the voting topic.

Voting now open!

Licensed Summertime Style Contest Voting closes 16 June 2024 Thank you to everyone who entered our contest! This is the topic for you to help pick a winner by voting for your favourite entry. For fairness we have ordered the entries below using a randomiser. Here are the rules for voting: Choosing Winners Every Eurobricks member gets three votes to award to their three favourite entries Simply reply to this topic with the three different numbers and names of your favourite entries from the list below. Your votes must be for three different entries. You must have joined Eurobricks by February 10th 2024 to be eligible to vote Voting will close approximately on Monday 16 June 2024. If this topic is still open, you can still vote. 1. Balerion 2. FullBrickDev 3. Ben S 4. legOtaku_official 5. Mandalorianknight 6. BardDandelion 7. Chachatbricks 8. Kristel 9. Garmadon 10. Kritch 11. CardinalBricks 12. Agent Kallus 13. Radkid 14. LordDan 15. Math Wizard 16. Jubel Good luck!

I very clearly said I wouldn't actually be doing that for the 2025 thread... at least I thought I did.

Is there a reason I wouldn't title it that? Am I stupid? In seriousness though, I don't know how Man would feel about being demoted to the parentheses. He might come after me. (In actual seriousness, here's hoping there are real DC sets in 2025, in which case I'll keep the 2025 topic on topic and I can retitle this topic to Lego Aslume ongoing discussion for all the continuing garbage.)

That's not showing up and your account is private so I can't see it on IG either. Is it intended to be an entry?

Licensed Summertime Style ContestFinal weekend to enter! This is the last weekend to build a MOC and enter our 2024 Licensed Themes 12x12 vignette contest! Get out those bricks and whip up a 12x12 vignette depicting how your chosen Licensed character(s) spend their time in the sunny season - and win a 100 EUR set of your choice. Enter by June 9th. Head to the Rules & Discussion topic in the Licensed Themes forum for all the details.

No, they can create an account and enter it. As stated in the rules, people can join Eurobricks to enter.

Only properties from outside the company. Ah well, maybe you can work that into an entry for the May the 4th contest somehow!

Also McGonagall and Dumbledore's dual moulded hat-hair combo pieces - both done in purely pearl gold for the anniversary figures.