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This isn't true for Standard though. All Standard orders worldwide still come from the same warehouse from my understanding. Only Bestseller ones come from different, regional warehouses. This is just LEGO restricting parts to North America for mysterious reasons, the same way they kept Standard orders open for North America throughout the end of the year when they were closed for the rest of the world.

I have a feeling you're being facetious. No way LEGO packs it better. Of course I have ordered right before double VIP points again, but then again the Queen torso and legs I nabbed are already out of stock, so I don't feel too bad. I still don't understand why just the puppy and cactus arm guy have been added from January (which shouldn't have anything added yet at all), the Foosball heads and bodies are added but not the hairs, and other odd discrepancies. What is going on.

I had that same thought and it would make a lot of sense, though covering the key characters within single big scenes gets more difficult with each instalment. Minas Tirith seems especially tricky to me. Even with a set as large as $500, it's still either going to be basically a microscale exterior with perhaps minifigure-compatible rooms inside, or very playset-y inside and out, which then might not be attractive. LEGO has done plenty of weird mashups of scales before (see that Jurassic Park gates with Minifigure scenes built in for example), but it still seems difficult. And where would characters like Theoden, Eomer, Eowyn and even Saruman fit in? Would they throw Saruman into a Two Tower Bara-dur set? Would the others be in the Return of the King set even though they were only outside Minas Tirith?

Thanks for the updates everyone. There was finally enough in stock at once for me to do a US order to my US relatives. Now that shipping is free even for "standard" orders over $35, there's really no reason for US-based folks not to do multiple smallish orders. We're not so lucky here in Aus (though I personally have the US option). And now I should have enough VIP points to mostly negate the shipping cost in my next Australian order, whenever LEGO adds all the cool hairpieces from the Foosball Table and all the new parts from January. Here's hoping they do eventually, anyway.

Oh that's great! I take it back.

Well... it's beautiful. Glorious. Superb. Way out of my price range, and that's ok. Of course I wished LEGO made some small memento/collectibles for the fans who don't have deep pockets full of cash. Sure I spend more than AUD $800 a year on LEGO these days, but not in one go. I'd love a $40-$50 vignette of the four hobbits hiding under the tree with a Ringwraith up above, for example. But I get that that's now how they do business anymore. The Minifigures have some flaws, which is a shame. Even billion dollar companies have to have their limits and procedures to keep those profits safely going up, but when they can't do new faceprints for every main character, it does kind of hurt. Nothing new, as LEGO would have us believe many dissimilar actresses look the exact same in LEGO form. For standard sets it's annoying but ok. For big prestige ones like this, come on. I'm also torn on the new Gimli beard. It's great there's a helmet-less option now, but it does sacrifice the hair down his back when he does have the helmet on.

@living_off_lego has already accurately answered the question, but to answer it myself, Licensed themes are anything LEGO has done based on an external property/IP, not something created internally at LEGO. Numbered Minifigures or even The LEGO Movie does not count since we consider that in-house. It doesn't matter what thing LEGO has done based on the License: Dimensions, Brickheadz, CMF, single promotional polybag, or obviously full sets. As long as LEGO has made a LEGO something out of the License, it's eligible for this contest. Also to clarify, while the contest is called "Cozy Corners", entries don't technically need to have walls, as long as they fit the brief of a character's private/happy place.

That's correct, and right in the rules too: "Your MOC must relate to any Licensed property LEGO has done past or present, excluding Star Wars, and fit the brief of a character's personal place. You don't have to use LEGO's parts/Minifigures from your chosen License, but the property should be clear. (I.e. you can make your own Indiana Jones Minifigure from other LEGO parts, but it should be identifiable as Indy)" If you really want to stretch it and make a cosy corner for a character that LEGO never made but from a license they did make, fine (for example, one of the other A-Team members or whatever Simon Pegg's character is named from Mission Impossible).

Unless you have made multiple orders within the span of a day or two, usually you cannot, from my experience anyway. It was explained to me by customer service that they pack the orders quite quickly after the orders come in, but they hold the packed orders for quite a while before sending them in bulk to their destination countries where they are then handed on to local post. So you might well get many separate orders on the same day, but LEGO can't/won't combine them after they are packed and sealed, which is pretty soon after they are placed.

To be fair, a normal non-LEGO chess set doesn't have anything with which to stick down the pieces on each square. While with LEGO the opportunity is there, the set is technically as playable as a regular chess set exactly as it is!

First of all Star Wars is excluded from this contest anyway, and secondly LEGO has done a LOT of licenses so if you think "LEGO licensed = Star Wars & Batman" then that's more on you than it is on LEGO. In our last contest we had someone build a Spice Girls vignette for example, because yes that's a license LEGO has done! The rules also stipulate that what is built for this contest can be made up, as long as you make it look tied to a character from a license LEGO has done. That really leaves it quite wide open.

That's the head from the cancelled Overwatch 2 set too. This rollout of new parts is so strange. Still none of the missing stuff added for outside of North America.

There are so many in the image though. That image is smeared and broken to death. It could be real, but if it is something is very glitchy about it.

I actually quite like the Tomb set. My memory of the film is a vast space, which this captures with the big wall and statues better than the more cramped old set did. The standalone structures imply a larger size than is actually presented. That said, I could be wrong and remembering the upper place where Indy is before he falls into the tomb? It's been a very long time since I saw the movie. In any case, I still think the set has an interesting design, though I doubt I'll pick it up myself. Having been fully immersed in LEGO at the time of the old sets and not a huge fan of Indy, none of these look essential to me, though I do think they're good for what they are. The old line had fantastic small sets, which is something that is obviously not going to be replicated because LEGO just doesn't do much of that anymore. The old Dr Jones Sr figure is still one of the best likenesses of a real actor ever, and so I have no need for a new one.

I have moved this to Licensed because it definitely doesn't belong in Town - and also featured it because the builds are very well done! Excellent brick-built details at this scale, and honestly I wish LEGO took more liberties with the building details and precise style of their brickheadz. These fit the brief but are oozing personality.

Well 4867 was originally intended to be called Battle for Hogwarts, an actually fitting name, before it was changed to the bland and ill-fitting final name. But that's beside your point, which stands. You can't always read a particular scene of set of circumstances into the name. See plenty of recent examples: Clock Tower, Astronomy Tower, Ministry of Magic... none of those names say the actual scenes the sets depict.

@ubertoys it is a lovely design, but not Licensed (so doesn't belong in this topic) and having your first post on this site being self-promotion is not what we're all about.

The survey JeanGrey got contained many sets that are currently out on shelves as well, and they too were watermarked in the same way. So it isn't too weird. Where was it said that Rivendell wasn't from the same source? There's so much info swirling around that it's hard to keep track now.

I was always surprised LEGO made that first Deadpool, but I'd almost be even more surprised with another one now that he's very publicly associated with a vulgar R-rated series. What LEGO will touch based on simply comic source material and what they'll touch based on mass media like film is different, I should think. But here's hoping for all of the people who missed out on the first one.

Ok enough with the squabbling. It's derailing a thread that should be focussed on the cool LEGO. No more, move on now.

If you believe that's real, then every other leak that's been posted recently here is real too. At least in terms of existence. I'm still taking it with a healthy grain of salt until one of these shows up in more finalised official images. And there's always the possibility that LEGO is truly market testing them and won't follow through with some.

The Entry Topic is now open, so I will be pinning this topic for the duration of the contest. Let us know any questions in the comments here. Looking forward to seeing what people make!