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  1. Blondie-Wan
    Not to mention all the Racers and train sets, which can have layouts several feet across using just a couple dozen or so pieces of track.
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    Heck, even if one were a heathen who didn't care about an Apollo Saturn V model at all, this set would still be highly desirable purely as a parts pack, given how amazingly reasonably priced it is.
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    If you mean the upcoming Women of NASA one, I'm sure it won't, since the project is explicitly about women and there were no female Apollo astronauts. I'm absolutely certain it will have at least one or two other astronauts, though.
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    BTW, in case anyone is still wondering, LEGO has confirmed all the decorated elements are printed. No stickers.
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    I also suspect LEGO's designers would rather get a signed copy from Buzz rather than simply give him one. Or maybe both.
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    Omigosh, you're right! My mistake. Though in my defense, in that set they weren't the actual "people" of the set, but represented, well... figures. Here they're *the* figures representing the set's actual population. But man, I really have been getting it wrong with those. Earlier today I noted on Facebook that this is the first time the nanofigures have appeared in white, only to have it pointed out they're also in the Capitol Building set in the Architecture line.
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    Indeed. So much for all those confidently pessimistic predictions we'd never get an Ideas set with 1000 pieces or more. Hasan from the Ideas team made a reply to a comment on the site not long ago that strongly suggested the Old Fishing Store would be over 1500 pieces, as well.
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    I'm sure. I can't help but think the designers must have tweaked the piece count once they realized it would be in that ballpark, so that they could get that number. This is one giant leap for LEGO Ideas. It's by far the largest Ideas set yet, both in terms of the physical size of the completed model and the piece count, which isn't merely the highest yet, it's well over twice the piece count of the next-largest set (the Caterham) - in fact, it's actually closer to three times the Caterham's piece count than twice. It's naturally also the most expensive, though surprisingly not by nearly as much as one might expect given the piece count - I could easily have seen this going for $200. Beyond that, this is also the first Ideas set to have nanofigures (or microfigures, whichever the trophy figures are called). Remarkably, as large as it is, it's quite possible its records will be broken with the very next set, since the Old Fishing Store could easily surpass it in both piece count and price (though this will certainly remain unsurpassed in sheer height, of course).
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    The original MOC is actually pretty amazing. There's a lot more to it than just a big cylindrical stack; it actually has some impressive functionality (which must be seen in a video to fully appreciate).
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    I've updated the initial post in the thread with the final set info and images. saabfan and whatsuptoday, well done, guys, and congratulations. You must be so proud and thrilled. Also, this set sets a new record: • largest and most expensive Ideas set to date ... though I think there's a fair chance the very next set after this, the Old Fishing Store, will break one or both of those records (albeit "largest" only by piece count, not by height).
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    My birthday is June 23rd... and my wife's is July 16th, the same day Apollo 11 was launched. We got married at a planetarium... and honeymooned in June at Kennedy Space Center (combining our honeymoon with my birthday and a central Florida trip we take every year anyway for a gaming convention). We are definitely getting this set. Maybe more than one. They definitely look like prints to me. What are you seeing that looks like it might have stickers? I do love the range of display options. I'm also sure it won't be long until some of us start MOCing gantries, pads, crawlers, etc. to go with it.
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    It's... so beautiful...
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    I think it'll be the full reveal, since the previous three covered the mission from launch to splashdown. I've been checking the page, just waiting!
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    I'm not sure what happened with your quick search on Bricklink (maybe it was a little too quick?), but the 100% sticker-free Toy Story set 7591 Construct-a-Zurg uses the same cone in purple for most of Zurg's head, and his mouth is printed on that cone. I was thinking the same thing once I saw that third teaser image. I confess it hadn't occurred to me at all before that, but as soon as I saw that pic I thought it might be a possibility.
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    I think we can safely assume it's a print, not a sticker. Ideas sets in general virtually always use printed parts and not stickers. The only times they've ever used stickers are for the very first two CUUSOO sets (both I nitially released back when they were produced in extremely limited quantities exclusively for the Japanese market) and The Big Bang Theory, which used a couple stickers for part types that are seldom or never printed (and for which they presumably aren't set up to print on). And even that last set still had several set-specific printed parts in addition to those two stickered ones, and every CUUSOO / Ideas set outside those three has had only prints for element decoration (though two sets, the Curiosity Rover and the Maze, didn't use any decorated elements at all, whether stickers or prints). It's still possible there might be stickers elsewhere in this set, but I'm sure the majority of decorated parts in it (including all the ones we've seen, including this cone used for the command module) are prints.
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    It's not necessarily that it's an especially amazing minifigure; the point is about merely preserving a little joy of surprise, for those who don't want to know absolutely everything there is to know about the series in advance, since part of the fun is in simply discovering the figure as one gets it. You may want to consider editing your post so it doesn't divulge the minifigure's name, in case David Thomsen is still following the thread.
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    I think it's possible this set will include both minifigures and nanofigures, as the Helicarrier does. But I don't want to get hopes up to ridiculous levels, when honestly, either one would be great on its own.
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    I kind of like David Thomsen's request. We're pretty thoroughly spoiled about many LEGO products as it is, and I can see how it's kind of a rare opportunity to enjoy a surprise for once. There'll still be ample opportunity for anyone who actually wants to see the "mystery" minifigure as soon as possible to do so in the appropriate thread in Special Themes; I don't see a need to put it on the front page the instant it appears, and one can't reasonably expect everyone to be able to get a complete Minifigures series on the first day of release. I hope the EB powers-that-be agree the request is a reasonable one, and don't post images of it right away someplace where they'll be seen by everyone who comes to the site.
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    LEM inclusion confirmed!
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    I was just coming here to post about that. Drat. So much for those Star Wars projects I've been planning but never got around to submitting. Currently active ones get to stay, though: Also, licenses LEGO has had in the past but which aren't currently active (e.g., Indiana Jones, Avatar: The Last Airbender, etc.) can stay, and projects from any currently active license will be accepted again if that license becomes inactive (so, if LEGO ever discontinues Star Wars and some competing toy company doesn't pick up the construction rights, they'll accept Star Wars submissions again). This doesn't apply to licenses originally obtained through CUUSOO / Ideas, though, which are permanently off the table (so, no Adventure Time, Doctor Who, etc.), or at least unless and until there's another rules change reversing this. There's a list of all affected properties here.
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    It's a Doctor Who reference. :)
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    No confirmation of that yet, though many of us fully expect minifigures of the Apollo 11 crew.
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    Oops, sorry - I should have responded to this a while ago, but missed it... They actually wound up releasing four last year: the Maze, the Caterham 720R, the Beatles' Yellow Submarine, and the Adventure Time figure set. Only the first two of those had come out when you asked your question, and the last one was originally set to come out on January 1, 2017, but got pushed up to December 26, 2016 at the last minute. Last year was the third year in a row with four Ideas sets (2014 had the Mars rover Curiosity, the Ghostbusters Ectomobile, the Exo Suit, and the Research Institute, and 2015 had the Birds, The Big Bang Theory, WALL•E, and the TARDIS from Doctor Who). This year might have had four if Adventure Time hadn't been pushed up a week into last year, but as things stand right now, it will have only two or three - this Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket in the summer (I was originally seeing July, but now it's apparently June), the Old Fishing Store in the fall, and then Women of NASA will come in the winter, either late this year or early next year. I don't know for sure, but I'm guessing the reason we're getting "only" two or three this year is because both this one and the Fishing Store are so unusually large for the Ideas line, and require more development and production time than most other Ideas sets. Getting more sets each year is nice (well, at least if one can keep up with them all, I imagine), but I think it'll be worth getting slightly fewer Ideas sets in a year if it means a couple of them can be as substantial and lavish and "extra-special" as it appears these two will be. Oh, and one last thing I just realized: if this is indeed coming in June, it should be released at around the same time the next review results are announced! I think we're always going to have a backlog of at least a couple Ideas sets that have been announced but not released.
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    And it's great to see the project creator checking in here! Congrats again on your awesome Ideas accomplishment. It's well-earned.
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    I just came to put that in the set thread over in Special Themes! This thing is indeed going to tower over not just every other Ideas set, but nearly (?) every other LEGO set ever. And it's beautiful.
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