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It's always nice when designers will come down to mingle with us mere commoners! I'll echo the sentiments about Elves as a theme; while not every set has interested me, all the sets I have picked up have been great, and it has held my interest (as a theme) like no other since I was a kid. It even convinced me that minidolls are cool.

Yikes, I'm not really a great Technic builder, but this sounds like a ton of fun. I'll have to see if I can put something together.

I don't know that I would say it's "practically the same", but there are some definite similarities. The two models seem to differ in a lot of the finer details/building techniques, although the basic approach to the area around the eyes is the same. Furthermore, the overall dimensions and the proportions of face, ears, and eyes are identical to yours. Interesting. It looks like the builder may have looked to yours for inspiration, which if a MOC builder did this I would say they owe you an attribution at least. However, since it was an Ideas submission, you gave TLG permission to use it however they see fit. This kind of discussion has come up before on EB, here is the beginning of a memorable discussion from about 5 years ago if you are interested, and this particular comment from @Lyichir (from the same thread) sums up my thoughts on the matter.

That's great, I love how on top of everything you guys always seem to be, thanks!

Was there an update overnight or something? I had to log in this morning (my login is saved on my phone so I never have to do this), and suddenly everything looks different: the headers for each post are much bigger and a different color, forum navigation buttons are about double the size, and text is misaligned--the page number and the date of posting overlap considerably. I can post a screenshot if it will be helpful. I have checked my phone settings and everything there, and nothing is out of the ordinary. I'm using Chrome on Android 7.0.0, by the way. Thanks in advance!

Great! Thanks for the good news.

While I hope it's not the end of Elves, if it is I expect they'll let the Super Hero Girls theme do the heavy lifting for awhile. After that--and after Elves has been laid to rest for a year or two--I expect a return to high fantasy but with Fairies instead. Wings instead of ears, flowy dresses, etc. Sets built similar to the Ant-Man set, with life-size brick-built objects, but Fairy-ized (ie a home built inside a flower, etc). This is all speculation; I know nothing. I have gone on record before saying I would love a Friends-in-Space theme, but I don't think the sci-fi would appeal to the target demographic as well as fantasy themes, so I'd say its less likely, at least for now.

Thanks for the heads up! Unfortunately only some Walmarts in my area marked it down this far...and according to BrickSeek they are all out of stock. Some others in the area have it for $53 but that's not quite the same now, is it? On my quest to find this, I discovered that the same stores had marked down Ragana's Castle to $49 (!)...a few weeks ago, so now they're all out of stock.* YMMV, but it's worth looking into if you are still in the market for those sets. I wish I had taken better notes when the Dragon Sanctuary and Secret Market were retiring--I will probably never get those now because the aftermarket prices are so outrageous. FYI the SKUs for the sets are: 55225091 for the Goblin Village 52440973 for Ragana's Castle Happy Hunting! *after fruitless BrickSeek searching anywhere within an hour of where I live, I found one on eBay, actually for less since there was no sales tax.

I am very curious to see how they pull off the ship in a bottle, both in terms of build techniques as well as parts used. I have no feelings toward Voltron either way, other than that I would be curious to know the details of the license.

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I won't miss the PAM--what I will miss is having a good section of the wall with complimentary parts. It was nice to get a great variety of useful pieces in green, or blacks and whites that worked well together.

You might find some ideas/inspiration from this set: Ignoring the purple (since your focus is black only), the black horns and balconies are prevalent throughout, but in enough varied forms that there are a lot of ways to adapt it for your needs. Beyond that, I would suggest browsing EB's Historical forum and looking at MOCs, both in the main thread and in Historica. You'll find lots of different styles of avoiding the plain wall syndrome from castle builders there. Good luck!

I would love if, as a prequel, it reveals a lead up to a Secret Invasion storyline (present day) or something. On the same note, I understand that the new Lego Marvel SH game has a comic cover variant of Kang the Conqueror--but that there aren't any Fox characters (like X-men or F4) in the game. It makes me wonder if part of Fox's TV deal last year included them swapping rights with Marvel Studios for some villains but maybe just not in time for them to be included in the game (in other words, I would love to see Kang in the MCU!)

I agree with this post completely. As for new parts for figs (new accessories) versus new system parts, I think a lot of it comes down to scale. Usually they need to only be a single piece (sometimes two) because they have to fit in a minifig's hand. This can sometimes be done with existing parts, but it's hard to do without the item then being way too big, or looking incomplete or worse, unrecognizeable. Take for example the whisk piece that came with the recent pastry chef CMF. No existing piece (or combination of pieces) would work. Period. A new piece had to be made. Perhaps a less extreme example is the painter's palette. You could use a plate or something and it might be passable. But with that specific piece there is no confusion over what it is. As an added bonus, those same pieces can then be repurposed in ingenious ways that make us burst into joyful peals of "NPU!"--for example, that same palette being used as a lilypad in the upcoming Ninjago city. These new minifig accessories can enhance the system of bricks. On the other hand, system innovations are often far more forgiving. The scale can be adjusted, the curves built using SNOT rather than flat stacking, other configurations made to achieve the same basic look that uses parts we already have. It is using those limitations to achieve the same look that is a mark of ingenuity and creativity, rather than having the perfect piece made just for this single occasion. System can be reconfigured to not need new molds in ways that minifigs cannot. (And frankly, I think we are actually a little too spoiled now with all the tile and slope combinations we have!) Bottom line: pretty much every new piece lately is useful and adds to the system in meaningful ways, whether destined for system builds or a minifig hand. (If you don't believe me, Jack Stone and all the new pieces produced during his era would like a word with you.)

The Incredible Hulk (2008). Better than I remembered; while flawed, it was enjoyable enough on rewatch that it has climbed a bit in my MCU rankings. Before that, April and the Extraordinary World. It was pretty good for what it was, except for the unexplainable presence of

Thanks for the review, I appreciate the work you do for all of us! This series really doesn't do much for me. I was hoping through the review that some fig or another might spark my interest, but most of them didn't--not at $4 a pop, anyway. The only ones I would want are Misako, General #1, Anglerfish, and the Rocker. I might pick up a Lloyd G., too. But if I never got around to picking up any of those I wouldn't feel too bad. Well, except the General #1, that's probably one I will track down, since every part there can be repurposed.

Wow, those windscreens look amazing, I never would have guessed they weren't originally that color! Maybe up close they look different, but in your photo they really look nice. I have been messing around with other applications of solvents and various chemicals on ABS lately, but haven't done much with polycarbonate.

I saw Homecoming over the weekend and it was, uh, good. Overall, I wasn't amazed by it but it didn't disappoint either. The story was well written, the dialogue too, the acting and casting was pretty good for everybody, from the big names to the side characters. Michael Keaton was probably the greatest part of the movie though, with the car scene (you see a bit of it in the trailers) being his best. Most SH villains get hammier and sillier as the movie progresses, but I think he actually got better as the movie wore on. As for the rest of the movie, I'd say it justified its existence; no one thought we needed yet another iteration of the character for another decade or so, but thankfully the movie proves itself. At the same time, I don't know personally that I would need to see it again. Not anytime soon, at any rate. Not a spoiler, just a personal comment/rant:

Woah. That set was already a steal before as far as PPP, but that's hard to pass up. ...and I get paid Tuesday Thanks for the heads up!

I hadn't thought about this possibility but I'm liking it. I just hope if that's the case there isn't too much fleshie showing. Not that I really mind fleshies, it's just that my current (and foreseeable future) collection has a lot more customizing options for classic yellows. Now all we need is some one who knows to confirm or deny HP/FB.

It looks like, going back through the last few pages, the ones we have confirmed are: Firework/Firecracker suit Elephant suit Cake suit Brick suit With additional (substantial?) rumors of a Spider suit and a 2nd Brick suit (probably a different color).

Netflix' Castlevania series. At least, I started it. It was pretty good for the first several minutes, a little gory but intriguing, but then it veered away from the horror and just got very coarse and vulgar (gratuitously so) and completely turned me off from it, so I switched it off. It was disappointing.

If we are coming in with a new character, should we do a formal introduction thread, or wait until jobs, etc. are explained?

This. Or post the pictures but put captions that explain them, where they're from and why you're posting. Being coy about it makes it seem like you have legit info and either aren't allowed to fully disclose it, or you're just cat-and-mousing us which gets real old real fast--especially when it turns out it was nothing. Saying "it is what it is" is all good and fine unless people feel like they've been duped, it which case it turns out to not be what it was. I'm not really emotionally invested in this kind of thing myself (IMO "leaked" info is overrated), but I think you should have expected this reaction; perhaps being a little more forthcoming in the future would avert it. So... @Amazing Bricks, what kind of hint were you intending to give before all this mutual miscommunication?

Eh, I'd take a Seamus McFly, Clint Eastwood Marty, pastel-cowboy Marty, and every Biff variant in the series. That being said, you're not wrong.