AndyC

You are almost certainly editing the wrong preferences file. You should be editing the one within your user folder, not the one in the Program Files directory.

The big problem with trying to combine Creator-style 3 in 1 sets with a licensed theme is that you could potentially run into a lot of issues getting all three designs approved. Remember that every model not only has to pass Lego design guidelines but would also need to be signed off by the licensor. If they decide there is something they want changed about model 2 for example, then you run into the issue of either trying to solve it without adding pieces, adding more pieces and still trying to stay in budget or having to also change models 1 and 3 to compensate for the piece changes - risking those being de-approved and the whole process repeating. Not to mention that I think your justification is flawed. Parents see the 3 in 1 label as something that will extend the lifetime of the one set they buy, they don't want to think of it as having to buy 3 identical products to get what their kid really wants. AFOLs buy multiples of sets all the time, but your average parent would much prefer to buy 3 entirely different sets so their kids can build new things - not the three things they can already build.

That would be cool, although where I am in the UK we do actually have food waste recycling collection, which would explain the fishes and banana I suppose. I'm not even going to comment on what the brown 1x1 round plate might be representing.

How long do they stay yellow? What happens with pieces like he chain link that are removed temporarily and then restored in some future brick set? Are you limited to moving within the original categories or can you create new ones? Where do group icons come from? If I move the piece used for the icon out of that category and put it in another, what happens to the icon? Will the UI cope if a user puts all the bricks in a single category? Will it cope if every piece gets put in a separate category? Should you be allowed to rearrange pieces within a category or is the ordering still based on size? What happens to the pieces in a category if a user deletes a category? What happens if a user deleted a category that pieces are supposed to go in for a new brick update? Adding a "simple" feature is often a lot more complicated than it sounds once you realise how much thought should go into the design. I've barely even scratched the surface of what needs to be considered for adding a feature like that. Particularly when it directly affects the core purpose of the product. I'm not saying it wouldn't be useful, I just don't think it's quite as easy as it seems on the surface.

I know. Somehow I've always known....

I think that's mostly a case of "I have this set, I don't really want to sell it but I like to keep everything in my Bricklink inventory"

Maybe BossK's head wasn't produced in the Chinese facility, there has never been anything other than pure speculation to suggest which pieces are or are not produced in China.

My suspicion is that it has far more to do with retailers discovering that they can bump the price up without noticably affecting sales. Here in the UK I've not seen any price rise on the minifigures, but then we've never encountered quite the same supply shortages that US customers did (and of course we pay more for Lego sets already!)

That's cool, I had a play around with that set myself but couldn't come up with any really good alternatives. Your little coast scene is inspiring.

The Atlantis visor fits on the Atlantis diving suit piece, because I just tried it. Are you sure you weren't trying the (similar looking) space suit visor piece? Like Superkalle I have a suspicion it shouldn't fit, but I'm not near my parts at the moment so I can't check.

Hehe, if they do a second wave that would make a great polybag set.

It's a reasonably safe bet that TLG looked at all the predicted sales figures, production costs and various logistics involved with machines necessary to produce other lines and came to the conclusion that another production run simply wasn't going to generate the necessary returns to make continuing production no longer worthwhile. As much as there are a handful of people here saying they'd definitely buy it, that's not necessarily enough to justify producing it. Not to mention that many of those people deliberately decided not to purchase it when it was available (for one reason or another) and who knows for certain whether any of them would buy it today if it hadn't been discontinued. As far as the secondary market goes, I doubt TLG are that bothered what the effect on the resale value is (pretty much every company on Earth would much rather that second hand goods simply didn't exist). However what they are undoubtedly aware of is there are a large number of sets out their destined for resale and, if it were re-released, sellers might end up slashing prices to get rid of what now appears worthless stock and negatively affect sales of the re-released version. Now in ten to fifteen years time they might well find a reason to do a new UCS falcon release using newer techniques and pieces, but I wouldn't necessarily bet on it.

I liked it so much I bought the company! Well, okay, not the company, but I did buy the entire theme today. It's the best space theme since the original classic space sets in my mind, so I don't really get the hating on it. Maybe it's just that the quirky B-movie quality of the spaceships appeals to me. I'd even say the 'mothership' looks like the kind of thing you used to see in old movies, as opposed to the kind of mothership more common in modern films like Independance Day. It's true that it couldn't possibly hold all the ships that surely must have launched from it, but then the practicalities of such things rarely seemed to feature in B-movies either. So is it up to Lego Space standards? Nope, it exceeds them in my opinion.

The downside, however, is that newer parts are often not present. I seem to recall someone calculating that, once you account for the fact LDraw treats different prints as different parts which LDD does not, the two have roughly the same number of pieces available. And there still isn't an LDraw tool that comes close to the ease of use and level of productivity that can be acheived with LDD once you get used to it. And until there is some sort of consensus on how to define connectivity between pieces, I'm not sure it ever will.

You'll probably want to enable Extended Mode, which gives you access to a much wider selection of parts and colours. Instructions on how to enable it can be found here

I'd suspect the graphics card myself, so it's probably worth checking if updated drivers are available. I'm not sure if LDD is doing transforms in hardware, but it's quite possible that it is.

If you mean a while after the compressor is turned off, then yes it will. The weight of the attachment will eventually force air out of the system. It happens with all pneumatic models and isn't anything to worry about.

That's crazy, I picked one up MISB for £300 about two years ago. In fact if you look at the past 6 months worth of sales on Bricklink, they aren't generally going for anything like that much.

Well you only really need one side of the remote to control a train, so by assigning a train to each "half" of the four channels you can control a maximum of eight trains.

A few people have noted that the newer style magnets sometimes don't hold so well, possibly because the internal magnet hasn't quite spun into the right position. Sometimes just giving them a strong tap helps, otherwise just try swapping the magnet piece on the tender with one from the carriage and see if that helps.

I like it. I think the only distracting thing is the "rainbow" colouring around the base, as it draws the eye away from where you want to look. Replacing that with a single colour like green, brown or even grey would go a long way towards keeping focus where you want it.

The problem with building sideways like that is that there is no real interlocking to prevent the bricks from simply separating when a large force is placed on it vertically. Imagine what would happen if you attached a very heavy weight to the end of that L-piece (the left hand side in your first image) without anything to support it underneath. Building stronger beams solely out of basic bricks/plates really requires you to stagger them in such a way the the pieces interlock in 3 dimensions, whilst avoiding doing so in a uniform way that would allow a shearing force to separate the pieces.

Why does it matter? Honest question, because outside of TLG the product code really isn't terribly important, indeed for most products from most companies you probably wouldn't even notice it on the box. In fact, given that some leaks seem to stem from people prodding the LEGO website with likely upcoming set numbers, I wager that it'd beneficial for LEGO to make set numbering even more arbitrary than it is now.

A LEGO built assembly would probably make it a lot easier to get the spacing between stands a whole lot easier though.

Leaving out 8086 is frankly scandalous, it ought to be one of the all time top 3 at least. It's certainly more deserving than Hemlock Stronghold. The only 'notable' thing about that is the claim it's the first appearance of the skellie, despite the fact he appeared in at least 6036 Skeleton Surprise and 6254 Rocky Reef the previous year.