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  1. AndyC
    It would certainly be anachronistic, but on the other hand the vast majority of potential customers has probably never seen a William Hartwell episode and thus they're unlikely to sell well. So it's about the only way, short of something like collectable minifigures, of getting a figure of those characters.
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    The Ecto-1a (i.e. the Ghostbusters II variant) would seem like the best compromise for both including the iconic car and not making people who forked out for the original feel they're paying twice.
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    Yeah TLG aren't daft enough to release two versions of the same set that will be borderline indistinguishable when on shelves (except with one being cheaper). Especially when they know AFOLs who really don't want the interior will reuse or bricklink those pieces elsewhere. The only "exterior only" sets I can think of were the early modulars like Café Corner and by far the most complaints about those was the lack of interiors, so suggesting AFOLs don't want them seems contrary to the evidence. Personally I enjoy building them even if they're not obvious when the models are sat on display.
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    That relationship doesn't necessarily help though. If the existing contract with Disney has constraints in place around the choice of products to focus on in a given year (to align marketing resources etc) it might be more difficult than if they were negotiating a one-off product. And nobody's going to go through negotiating a separate deal just to bring an Ideas set to fruition.
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    Trademarks can be industry specific, so using mini in conjunction with something car specific isn't allowed but that doesn't exclude the use of the word elsewhere.
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    Most likely it's just because there has never been a compelling enough need for one. It's far harder to imagine the justification for that piece (as nice as it might be from a completism point of view) than say a 1*3 tile and yet it was a very long time before that surfaced.
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    It's a very interesting approach to stop-motion animation. I'd have assumed you would have saved a separate file per frame, allowing you to go back and "tweak" bits and pieces if they didn't quite look right. Either way props to you for putting the effort in, it takes a lot of effort to do stop motion, especially when you are working against the limitations of LDD in many ways.
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    The figures are nice, but the sets disappointing overall. Both the ship and fort look as if they were just rebuilt from the concept drawings of the 2009 line. There's no doubting they are different, but not anything like the variety we saw in the original Pirates theme. Even Lego Police Stations usually manage to mix it up a bit better than that. Not convinced about the bandana piece either, but I'll wait on clearer pics to really decide as maybe the detailing helps.
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    Wow, really never expected to read that this morning. What a terrible loss to the community, I'm sure we will all miss him dearly. My condolences to his family.
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    With something like LDD, you're still building within the constraints of the Lego System though, the pieces have to exist and physically fit together. In some ways LDD is stricter in this regard, connections have to be "legal", in others less so because gravity/stability play no part. I don't see either of them as inherently "better" than the other from a creative perspective, they are just different ways of expressing your Lego based creativity. The fact that you can take a digital only model and make it for real is an added bonus in that regard.
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    I sometimes find these "basic bricks" type boxes to be reasonable value if you can repurpose the actual container as Lego storage too, since reasonable quality storage boxes are often quite expensive anyway.
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    I'd agree it seems unusual but it's definitely how the instructions tell you to build it. If it were a problem I'd have expected TLG to have replaced their instructions by now. Still shouldn't be hard to mod it if it really feels wrong.
  13. AndyC
    Doing a little math on the instructions, I believe they should end up at the same height. It's not entirely clear why they aren't from you photo but the centre section looks right so I suspect the outer one is one plate too low somewhere along the way.
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    If an application which hasn't been manifested as Windows 7 compatible crashes the video driver, which LDD might do if you open really big models, Windows will assume it's a compatibility bug and from then on will forcibly switch the theme to Aero Basic whilst it's running to prevent future crashes. I'm not sure you can easily undo this, I seem to recall the switch gets buried in the registry somewhere but I don't have the details to hand right now.
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    AndyC replied to JeagerEX's topic in Community

    It's a lot easier to "do licenses" when you don't bother with the pesky business of actually negotiating and paying for the license.
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    It would seem like a more logical argument. Of course the chances of the general public being on side with that argument is slim, it's much easier to raise funds and awareness by general demonizing of the oil companies.
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    They could, then everyone would complain there aren't enough female minifigs because they'd assume they're all guys. Lego literally cannot win this one, short of ditching minifigs entirely.
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    And if you actually look at that torso design, it's hardly a "size zero", there's still a relatively wide waistline.
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    Sort of. The basic brick shape and studs on the top came from Kiddicraft, but it was Lego who invented the tube system underneath that made the bricks stay together properly.
  20. AndyC
    At this point it's almost inevitable that any even vaguely rare part on one of your models will be instantly bought out and then appear at much higher prices. Perhaps next time you should buy them all up in advance and then sell them on yourself at a more reasonable rate!
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    3009p01 I believe.
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    It should be fine, you'll just need PF extension cables at either end to convert between connection types.
  23. AndyC
    I think Greenpeace would do better to highlight the work of companies like Lego who are investing money in trying to find greener materials for their products instead of trying to create scandals like this.
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    But that was the same smiley face used by, for example, nurses with the pigtail hair that were equally assumed to be female. I don't therefore think you can say automatically say it's a "male" face, even if i'd agree that many (if not all) people would tend to assign a male gender to most of the smiley minifigs with hats, rightly or wrongly.
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    Brilliant question! Definitely studs up for me.
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