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Ah, I only got one sheet.

Put the FO TIE together last night. Kind of underwhelmed by it, and wondering why a couple people couldn't figure out where the red stickers went?

You don't have young kids. My daughter makes no distinction at all between Snow White, Elsa or Star Wars Rebels. All are Disney as far as she is concerned. Only adults make such distinctions. As far as which minifigs get molded heads and which get the standard round, I would suggest that looking to in-park characters will be a great way to figure out which get what. Anything where the in-park is a face character getting a round, and anything where the in-park wears a helmet-head getting a molded head. These guides are the same brand wide, even when the venue isn't actually a part of the Disney Corporation, such as the Cruise Line or Disney on Ice. For example, The Seven Dwarves have head helmets in park, on Ice and on the ships, but Maleficent and Snow White are always face characters. By that logic, Hook gets a mold and Tink and Pan get round heads, even though they are all from the same film.

I'm just picturing a new wave of folks complaining that they've been blacklisted by TLG customer service. I hope TLG is having people send the defective parts back so they can fix whatever's going wrong.

Ooh! I hope that we get even more tan cheese slopes! There simply weren't enough in the Tower Bridge set! /sarcasm

This. Ren's is not just home made, but also seems likely to have been built with zero guidance from a Sith Lord or Jedi Master. Which kind of makes it more impressive that it works at all.

Love it! Did you use those black bevel gears to set the scale?

There are two parts with an insanely high price: the printed radar dish and the boat rigging in LBG. The radar dish is much cheaper unprinted, and there are several work-arounds for the boat rigging. Needing two of the boat rigging makes it even worse. There is one other part, that due to quantity, quickly joins the list of parts needing a substitute, the LBG levers. You can get one for like $2, IIRC, but 60 are needed! I used the older light gray ones for a lot cheaper. There are a couple of other parts that, depending on your wallet, may give pause, but I thought those three were the worst when I did mine, and I only finished this past summer. It is absolutely possible to build in 2015, even if you want 100% accuracy, but you would be paying over $100 each for the two rarest parts.

I could be totally wrong, but I suspect the steering wheel is a representation of an anti-static element?

I would be interested to see how the opinions on this align with two things: 1: presence or absence of a Dark Ages and length of it 2: chosen profession I'm an engineering student, but have a 20-25 year dark ages, and I LOVE panels! I find the models from ~2013 and onward to be an interstellar leap above and beyond the studful Technic sets of my youth, both in mechanical design and visual design. I think panels are a huge part of that... Although bevel gears are huge, too.

No... They are actually following the rules of the promotion, as listed on the TRU website.

I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned something from the Carbon Freezing Chamber set: There's a 1x4 Technic brick visible in the image. We know that TLG tends to use several of any part, rather than have singletons. I wonder if there are more of the Technic brick that we cannot see to help make a complete ring, and/or connect modularly to future Cloud City sets? ...and unless my eyes decieve me, are Boba's toes printed?

Weird, my TRU had blazoned the entire shelf with the $40 spend requirement... It's on the TRU website as $40, too. They did say that they keep getting more in, so that's good news if anyone is still needing one.

Went to TRU and got the FO TIE to qualify for the Threepio polybag, then crossed the street to the LEGO store and snagged an FO Snowspeeder. I think the Rebel Alliance is going to have a tough time of it round my house. :)

You apparently don't understand how plastic items are created. Making a new mold has almost nothing to do with if there is a similar one already. Every new mold has to be made completely new. It's NOT weird that LMC sets aren't microscopically detailed. It's a fairly low-res game to begin with that primarily revolves around some pretty generic blocks. Additional printing adds time and steps to the process and COST. If it isn't economically viable to make a set that intended for kids up to AFOL / AFOMinecraft standards, then it will be made from more generic/universal components. Anything made to meet the exact appearance of in-game items most likely can't be used in anything but LMC sets due to copyrights etc. This isn't an evergreen line like City or Creator, or even Star Wars. There is a very real risk that Minecraft won't be so popular even a year from now, as kids are always on to the next thing. LEGO dropping massive development costs into a young franchise / line is up to them. They've set a budget, if these things are such a big problem, don't buy the sets and/or provide feedback through the online surveys.

Are you watching the same Star Wars Rebels I am? There is plenty not 'inherently for kids'. I mean, Seventh Sister was oozing sexuality/innuendo at Ezra last week... It's almost getting to the point where I won't let my daughter watch until I've seen it before we watch together. ...and we pretty much know that three principal characters are all but guaranteed to be killed off. I hope Rebels doesn't get left out of upcoming waves, but it certainly seems to be a possibility, what with the massive amount of new material to model from coming down the pipeline. That A-wing definitely seems like the best opportunity for a Rebels based set based on what we've heard so far. A Tauntaun AND a Wampa?

How is this NOT front-paged yet?

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As mentioned earlier, LEGO made quite a few new molds for this line. We know that they only make a finite number of new molds each year, because past experience of making too many new parts all the time was a big part of why the company nearly died. So... Not everything got new molds that would be limited in use to exclusively Minecraft sets. Some things that already had similar items in LEGO form didn't. It wouldn't be fair for one line, not even an evergreen one, got most or all of the new molds for the year. In my opinion, if you like the theme, you should be ECSTATIC that you've gotten as much as you have, since no other Ideas set has grown into a line. Heck, none of the others have even gotten a second set! (Yes, I know Ghostbusters will be getting the Firehouse, but it hasn't actually been released yet.)

There is no reason on Earth why there should be any shortage of subject matter for this line, even with avoiding religious structures. I've filled out that online survey at least a dozen times and put different suggestions on it every time. I was glad to see I M Pei finally get a nod, as I'd suggested him for the line a few years back.

I think the polybag AT-DP are the perfect scale for use with the Gozanti...

Bravo! The greebling must have been a blast! I've never seen so much!

Since it cannot land with the TIEs attached, it ought to be displayed elevated... It would look less bus-like then, too. (But I'm glad the TIE are strong enough to support the whole ship. That's impressive to me, since they are so small.

If the last few years are anything to go off, we'll get some of the 1H sets on 1Jan, but the 1H Flagship, plus one other set, will show up with the 2H wave in August. TLG hate us in that way.

Do you want LEGO, Minecraft or LEGO Minecraft? If you want LEGO, why get the Minecraft sets? If you want Minecraft, why not just play the game? But if you want LEGO Minecraft, why shouldn't it be a blending of the two? Unless you want to pay for infinite bricks? To look like Minecraft, blockiness is essential. I say this because those amazing, massive constructions that people make in Minecraft would take hundreds of thousands, if not millions of bricks to make. There's got to be some compromise. Hence a blend of obvious LEGO elements and obvious Minecraft elements. So, yeah. I think you're being a bit harsh. When I see LEGO Minecraft sets, I have no doubts what it is representing. LEGO isn't about creating 100% accurate / photorealistic models. It's about making items that represent subjects well, but typically are still clearly made from LEGO. I think the sets nail that concept. I don't think they could have done better at all.