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  1. AndyC
    Well that will just get handled by the usual review process, in the same way it would if you used illegal building techniques or ended up with a very fragile model. Obviously if you want you project to succeed, it's probably better to avoid using things like monorail parts that are almost certainly difficult to work around. If you project isn't allowed under the new rules, it wasn't ever going to pass the review anyway. Clarifying the things which are guaranteed to fail your project is much fairer to you as a user of Cuusoo, because it's giving you the chance to maximise the opportunity of success if you make it to the review stage.
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    Probably just down to parts having a lower polygon count in older versions, but it could be just about anything.
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    LDD actually is multi-threaded (as can be seen in Task Manager) but the problem runs deeper than that as the algorithms used by LDD to calculate viable connections apparently don't lend themselves to be easily parallelised. Furthermore LDD was designed around building small models for purchase by Design-By-Me customers, it simply isn't built in a way that's designed to scale up to huge digital designs like these and it's unlikely it would be without major redesigns. If you want to build big with digital designs, you really need to go with something LDraw based.
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    Drop-ship scams. It's bad enough getting defrauded out of a few purchases. Getting defrauded on an order worth a lot of money is something they really want to prevent.
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    Is it just me or is one of those houses (the one that has a single hinge) built on two 32*16 standard plates?
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    I find the very idea of Lego "canon" bizarre, forcing any sort of rules on how to play seems so fundamentally un-Lego like. I know that, as a kid, my Pirates fought with Knights and Spacemen and it never once occurred to me that they shouldn't. Imagination should be the only thing that dictates how you can play with Lego and long may that continue.
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    Have you tried going into the settings, turning all the graphics options to minimum and the compatibility settings to maximum? What you're describing sounds like a driver issue somewhere so it's probably best to see if it works in the "safest" settings, then slowly dial them up to find the point it starts failing.
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    My understanding is that breathing holes like that were introduced into various products that children might swallow in an effort to prevent choking. However it was later determined that not only did it have a minimal effect on airflow, but that it potentially made it harder for the natural gag reflex to force it back out, thus many manufacturers phased such things back out again.
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    Marketing rights would seem to cover selling t-shirts showing the model and probably instructions too.
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    I think that's intentional. A LEGO movie needs to be more than just a normal movie using minifigs in it, it needs to capture the whole building/rebuilding ethos. I suspect we'll see them in the movie get broken up and rebuilt into these crazy contraptions. I also have a feeling the original designs will probably appeal more to many AFOLs than the wacky alternate designs.
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    Quite. And the idea that the best way to get rid of excess stock is to first create a multi-million dollar movie rather than, for example, just sticking them in Pick A Brick walls is clearly crazy.
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    The grey one is holding an old Pirates compass, the other an Alien Conquest gun.
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    Standing in front of any oncoming train is rarely a good idea! Great model though.
  14. AndyC
    Every revision I see with that large slope piece only serves to convince me more that it really doesn't work well at all. Badbob001's solution with the 6x6 tile is pretty cool though, looks like a better trade off.
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    Does the EV3 recognise the signals from the PF speed controller (the one commonly used with train sets) at all? That would seem even more useful than just the standard PF remote, which duplicates the EV3 remote.
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    I thought I'd read on here somewhere that TLG had said that if you ordered a PF receiver, you'd just get a v2 one as they'd used up any remaining v1 versions.
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    If he turns up anywhere, I expect it to be in the most expensive set of the Movie line. It's a fig with such obvious AFOL appeal but less so for kids.
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    Sure, they could have. But then 9998 of the voters might have really only voted because they wanted an official Starbucks set. It's difficult to say for sure what the effects of massively changing the focus of a project like that would have had, especially since we aren't privy to the comments people included with their supporting vote.
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    From the very beginning they've said that it's possible for multiple sets to pass review, in which case they'd be queued up and produced in subsequent available slots (which would be interesting from the PoV of guesstimating how frequent such slots might be) and they've also always said that there is no guarantee that any set would pass in a given review. The idea that each review period is some sort of competition seems to have been very much a community thing, possibly driven by the fact only one set from each passed the first few reviews (and compounded by the results of multiple review periods being announced this time with a single set outcome)
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    Legally I doubt that, it's a two-way contract. You have given them the rights to produce it but they are obliged to pay out if they ever did.
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    There are countless examples of this in the past, I believe TLG do it when they consider the part a drop-in replacement for the existing piece when the change in design shouldn't have an impact on current designs using it, presumably because it simplifies the process of slowly phasing out the older mold. Of course the fact it shouldn't have an impact doesn't always mean it won't....
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    I don't think you can really say the Portal sets were rejected "easily", it clearly got far enough to be extended beyond it's original review period. And that's despite the fact it was both a "theme" project and had such heavy reliance upon new parts. Ultimately I suspect it just wasn't possible to do without bringing in new parts, or at least not to a level that seemed compatible with the original proposal. I don't think Portal fans should be despondent, it just needs someone to come up with a one-off proposal with a design that can be realised with existing pieces. I'm not convinced that isn't possible.
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    To be honest, that's makes it an even more ridiculous proposition and it's fairly ill conceived to begin with. I definitely wouldn't consider it viable to start investing in 9V stuff now, it just doesn't make any sense from a long term perspective.
  24. AndyC
    Not to mention that if you want an AFOL-oriented steam locomotive there is only the Emerald Night, whereas there are multiple options if you're after a diesel of some sort (Maersk, BNSF, Santa Fe)
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    Fake CMF Series

    AndyC replied to JeagerEX's topic in Community

    I can only assume the reproduction work is being farmed out to cheap labour who are simply instructed to copy the set design and thus are doing so rather blindly, rather than assessing the parts that could just as easily be a completely different look without affecting the overall set.
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