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60346 Barn & Farm Animals (Medium category, perplexingly) An outpost on an inhospitable planet. Since I'm running the contest (though probably won't be judging), I may or may not keep this in competition.

In honour of the alt-build contest we have going at the moment, I've done an alt-build of 60346 Barn & Farm Animals, which is about on my MOC-building level. I'm calling it Red Island Refuge since it's like a lonely little outpost on a distant red planet, but cozy inside. As you can see it's got a datapad for entry and sideways entry doors. There's a ladder on the side to get up to the air treatment equipment on the roof. There's a nice big window on the back so the inhabitants can get some natural light and see their surroundings. While the ground of the planet is too inhospitable to life, they've managed to engineer soil and water on the side of the building. Inside there are (almost) all the amenities one needs: a bed, sink, toilet, places to keep tools and a crate for the food they grow. No spacesuits for exploring the planet unfortunately, but I was limited by what's included in the set. Full Flickr set here. Let me know what you think!

It doesn't work like that at LEGO with a timeline so short. They'd have already planned this out, and only if sales were absolutely disastrous would they change course (like cancelling Vidiyo, or second waves of some things back in the day). The pricing of these sets is too damn high for me, but when they keep resetting Hogwarts every fourth year, they're bound to do different things. Right now we're in the mega expensive era of Hogwarts for wealthy people. 2018-2020 was the relatively reasonable revamped Hogwarts, 2021-2023 was the callback anniversary retro Hogwarts, and now we're into the mega expensive dollhouse Hogwarts. That said, at least the side buildings go with other things and look good by themselves this time, unlike in 2021-2023. We'll see what 2026 brings.

What do you suggest? Some memes and joking around is ok as long as they're somewhat on track. The seperate Aslume is still open. Ultimately one of my key reasons for moderating is so that it feels like a welcoming enough place for people who want to discuss DC LEGO to come in and discuss DC LEGO without finding a hodgepodge of random in-jokes and completely unassociated discussion. I don't want it be unfun, and yeah it sucks that there isn't that much actual DC LEGO to discuss for 2025, but that's just how it is. Also I take the no Superman 2025 retail sets to mean... Corenswet SDCC figure confirmed.

I'd say it's lightly encouraged to make something as different as possible, but overall aesthetics and good usage of parts are just as important, so you don't need to focus on originality for originality's sake. Which is to say, if you think you can best make a starship into a Star Wars building rather than something not Star Wars, you could still have a good shot. For this particular contest every entry can only be built from one set, sorry!

Just absurd and mind-boggling. I don't even care about the film personally but I can't understand how LEGO and WB wouldn't mutually agree to support DC's supposed cinematic relaunch with a strong assortment of toys to build excitement. And it's just sad what's become of LEGO's DC offering over the years.

It mightn't be a different theme, but it's a good looking sloop! I especially like the texture on the hull.

We're just going for that the alt-build is a significantly different thing, so to make an architecture set into a vehicle, you'll have that covered. If you took a police station set and made it into just a different police station, that'd get lower marks in the originality category, but if it was a police spaceship, that's different. Especially in the smallest category, but really in all of them, there is almost inevitably going to be something tying the alt-build back to the original set. That's just the nature of alt-builds. The judges will score originality within reason.

Dinos fine. Romans let's not.

Nope, sorry. It may seem arbitrary but I had to cut it off somewhere. We may run another one in the future where alt-builds of larger sets are allowed.

Me neither. Feels like trolling. But anyway, it's time for the Aslume to reopen. Let's see if people follow the one imposed rule.

You were one of the main contributors to its closing.... Anyway, shame that figure was fake. It's genuinely astonishing that there might be zero tie in sets for DC's supposed big relaunch.

Come on @CloneCommando99. Don't do things like that. Of you guys make me constantly come in and moderate this topic, it'll just end up locked for long stretches of time. The Aslume thread will reopen too, but with the caveat to stop discussing world history/politics. Was that leaked Corenswet Supes figure confirmed to be fake then?

Sure I guess in a small set that could make the difference.

I already said no more discussion of real world history stuff. I will lock this topic for 12 hours so you can have a breather. I have also now renamed this topic ASLUME and opened and pinned the new 2025 one for on-topic discussion about DC Superheroes sets.

This thread is for discussing LEGO DC Superheroes sets in 2025, and DC properties as they directly relate to LEGO. If you're looking for the old off the rails discussion from 2024, find it here. Rules will be enforced in this topic.

Oh, that is weird. Sorry, that's not how I read your comment before. The bestseller half of my 9th October order shipped within a week, but the standard is still stuck in limbo.

I already said not to discuss it anymore. So don't discuss it. I have hidden the extra comments discussing it.

Why is that odd? Bestseller ships very quickly. That's the point of Bestseller.

Yeah, we've been down this road before and had to shut it down. There are always people who come out of the woodwork and claim that Christmas and Easter as depicted in LEGO don't relate to anything actually Christian. Which to me is absolute bollocks (they're Christian holidays after all), but anyway... Let's not have this discussion again.

And Daoist things in the Lunar New Year sets.

Same boat, ordered on October 9th. My bestseller olive green croc that I ordered at the same time is still waiting for its standard tail

It's LEGO... just take the wall with the door off if you want? Personally, while I'm not interested in buying into this new system for myself, from a play perspective I think the closed up rooms that you pull out and open up is pretty cool and magical. I would dig it as a kid. My only critiques are just that, so far, the rooms have struck me as expensive and/or underwhelming, but the concept and structure of the system is good.

I think the only Friends animal that has crossed over is the raccoon recently used for baby Rocket Raccoon, while in the other direction the small bird, chicken and small owl have all crossed over from non-Friends into Friends. I've started just accepting it and mixing some Friends animals into minifigure displays, like the chonky cats. The disparity in eye style and general roundedness of many Friends animals compared to non-Friends one is still a little too far for me though, and I wish City would just get half as many animals as Friends gets. Clearly they aren't SO expensive to produce when Friends has an outpouring of fresh animals every year without ridiculous set prices.

Frogs are like an in joke with designers at this point, especially in the Harry Potter theme. They use them as much as they can.