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  1. lifeinplastic
    I’m happy with that, if true. I don’t really like licensed stuff generally but if we must have a licensed CMF, the D&D at least were more compatible with unlicensed themes. Even as a mainly City collector, there were a few useful parts, unlike the silly Spider-pony nonsense.
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    Is that what you call them in Scotland? 😂
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    The employees are the ones making the company lots of profit - us customers are just the idiots paying!
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    Double ew!
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    I didn’t realise Santa’s visit had stickers - I bought it but haven’t ever opened it (I liked the idea of building it with kids of my own). Yes, thank goodness for the lack of stickers in the Modular’s. Hoping we get some good printed pieces in the new one. I liked the sign for the Jazz Club . I always leave negative comments about stickers when adding feedback if asked to fill in a survey visiting the Lego website!
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    I don’t think I’ve seen their tv ad but basically where marketing uses figures you can’t buy anymore like the crash test dummy.
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    Yes, I felt the Alpine Lodge was spoiled by the stickers sign. I never attach stickers in sets (stickers actually make me feel physically sick - apparently it’s called pittakionophobia), so my set felt very incomplete. I think Lego take the mickey by including stickers, particularly in sets over £100
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    What I find very annoying is Lego using older figures that are no longer available in their marketing.
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    Yes, it’s almost like they were called out on their greed and could find any way to justify it!
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    I don’t disagree as such - I think the frustration is that Lego City could be as good or even better if, like Friends, they had a similar focus on leisure activities instead of regularly regurgitating police and fire sets (don’t get me started on the Formula 1 stuff) plus with a similar abundance of animals. It’s the minidolls and incompatible animals that make Friends so off putting for me and it certainly doesn’t evoke the same feeling for me at all as Paradisa did where I’d go out and buy the whole theme tomorrow if I could. Whereas I can go out and buy Friends sets right now but I don’t and wouldn’t really want to in 30 years time.
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    Yes, Friends gets a lot of good stuff and parts but it isn’t confined to a summer vacation setting and no longer a pastel colour palate, so it isn’t the same as Paradisa. It’s effectively just Lego City with minidolls and animals that look like they wear make/up.
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    Would it be too rebellious in the Winter Village thread to express a desire for an annual ‘Summer Village’ set as an attempt to revive the Paradisa theme? Asking for a friend.
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    This for me highlights how it has now become rather unpleasant to be a Lego hobbyist. The grossly inflated prices mean you now have to wait for when Lego dictates is the best time to buy and we all have to play the game as to when we are getting double points or that GWP, otherwise we end up overpaying or missing out. If products were priced reasonably there wouldn’t be this problem. Lego influencers also add to the hype and have added to the stress of the hobby in my view.
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    I think we’re overthinking it here. It’s a winter village. Some sets are set in European style Christmas markets or towns where it snows. Others are in the North Pole or wherever Santa and his elves live. Keep them separate or combine them however you wish. We don’t need plots and characters - sometimes it’s nice to have a blank canvas for people to use their own imaginations for a change.
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    My glass is always half full. Probably because if I drank the rest of it, I’d have to buy another round and I can’t afford it these days thanks to the price of bricks!
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    Surely the older we become, the quicker a year seems to pass as it is a smaller proportion of our lifespan? e.g. a year for a 10-year old is 1/10th of all the time they have experienced, whereas a year for an 80 year old is only 1/80th and therefore relatively less?
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    I’ll keep complaining until we get justice for all the missing African Iconic 4…! Yes, we’ll get 2 at the very most, unless Lego decide to finally reward us for this 220 page thread and give us a proper all animal series, which I can’t see happening especially straight after the costume series. They won’t include the missing African Iconic 4 though as they are too big. I’m thinking the next most likely new CMF animals would be a beaver as this could be linked to a lumberjack/lumber hill or Canadian Mountie or a meerkat just because they are popular. I’d most like a swan though as this would work so well in the Lego City (my dream is an affordable canal boat set with swans and no big ugly helicopter or similar included).
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    I don’t believe Lego are just simply giving away things away out of the goodness of their heart. GWPs are far more prevalent these days to try to justify the enormous increases in price in recent years, which will have been altered to factor in giving away so many sets ‘for nothing’. It’s a marketing ploy to make people think they are getting something more and yes, those that buy earlier will benefit whereas those that don’t may miss out (or actually benefit from a different GWP available at a later date). The specific GWP may not be linked to the cost of specifically that set, but it is quite naive to think customers don’t end up paying for them in the end. It’s just a case of having to play the game to make sure as a customer you feel you are getting something more than the next customer. The same with double points weekends - it’s all designed to make sure as a fan base we spend more overall. Lego doesn’t care two hoots if it’s fair or not but it’s no ‘gift’!
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    I don’t really care for GWPs. Would much rather Lego spent the money giving us the best set they can. In fact they’re not really a ‘gift’ at all as the cost will have been accommodated into jacking up the set price. i was hoping the music shop rumours would be somewhere that sells musical instrument and hopefully providing us with some new moulded instruments like the Jazz Club’s double bass. However, the Star Trek set includes a character with a brick built trombone - Lego choosing the cheap option yet again.
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    I’ll join the noise of people here and elsewhere feeling disappointed that the LNY sets aren’t locations but just objects. I won’t be buying either of these. This sort of thing annoys me about Lego - they don’t ever seem to put enough thought into this type of thing. It’s the same as the Hogwarts students where the uniforms were changed so those partially trying to build up a collection representing the two more obscure houses could not do so over time as the uniforms were changed. Also, things like the Collectible Minifig diner waitress, who was given a name badge so you couldn’t then buy several to represent multiple staff as they’d all have the same name! It might seem trivial to some but it’s just a bit thoughtless in my view.
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    Don’t you dare play the Duplo card with me! 😅😅😅 I suppose the turkey’s counterpart is the food piece too, right?
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    Giraffe, Llama, Raccoon and Guinea Pig costume figs currently writing to Lego HR about their lack of counterparts! 😭
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    I feel the same - I can't wait to have a classic regular series again. Hopefully filling gaps of both missing accessories (e.g. sports gear, animals, tools) and absent themes (historical, cultural and former Lego themes), which is something the early series generally did. This is a fun series though and certainly for me much more exciting than Formula 1, Spider-Man, which do not really offer anything new or useful to general Lego themes. From my most favourite to least favourite... Peacock Koala Frog Goldfish Crocodile Parrot Dolphin Monkey Lion Rabbit Dalmatian Cat It does still also leave lots of opportunity for other costumed animals in future.,
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    I’m hoping for geese - it’s only a small set though so probably unlikely to have a new mould. A recoloured sheep would be good. The rest of the rumoured sets don’t sound too likely to produce new animals - but I’m hoping the ‘Great Vehicles’ sets provide a surprise - perhaps safari vehicles (with one of the missing 4 - hippo, giraffe, rhino, zebra), a National Park ranger’s vehicle (with a bison), a canal boat (with swans) or a coastal boat (with sea lions) and that the trains are an Outback train (with kangaroos) or an Andean train (with llamas). Doubt Lego will give us anything though!
  25. lifeinplastic
    I always enjoy seeing your builds @snaillad - instantly recognisable!
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