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lol, that's even worse than the Exo-Force impulses. Perhaps even as bad as the Life on Mars ones. Like this:

In my opinion, old grays and the new blueish grays look bad in combination mostly because it highlights how horrible the old grays were. In all honesty, I think that if I were to reuse the old themes and make remakes I would use the new grays. They look much better to me. And since I didn't have a big collection until returning from my dark ages as an AFOL, I don't have so many old gray with me anyway. The new grays have so much more 'life' when compared with the old ones, I mean really. It also seems to me that they are less likely to get yellowed, an issue that was very bad with the white bricks in my old collection. BTW, I am pretty sure that there is a "new white" as well, it looks a little different to the old one and also seems less likely to get yellow. I actually can spot the difference between my old and new white bricks from a distance. It would be pretty bad if dark gray and gray were very common in my old collection, but I honestly don't have so many of them. Dark grey makes a small tupperware and normal gray twice the size of that small tupperware. When compared to the amount of black, I have around 10 times more black than gray.

hmnn scorpio looks like a very weak set for 25.0 to be honest.

On the other hand, retailers/LEGO/ anyone involved are professional and wouldn't increase the price if they didn't expect it to sell. If it really turns out that moms won't buy collectable minifigs anymore and the sales drop, they will return to the old price. But I don't think it will happen. These things are selling like pancakes. It may actually turn out that AFOLs are affecting the sales a lot more than little kids getting figs from their moms.

Everything is "compatible". but taller minifigs are an athrocity. Jack Stone was a flop. Technic minifigs got rightly sent to extinction. Etc. Fabuland on the other hand is awesomely loved and AFOLs even get to use Fabuland figs as sigs and in MoCs and vignettes. What's the main difference? I would say that Fabuland figs although different in many things to normal minifigs at least kept the scale, which allows you to keep them as part of the LEGO world (ie: Other minifigs). With the Jack Stone giberish, that is not possible. Then we have the height, when minifigs are taller, that greatly limits your MoCing, you would have to use more bricks for no reason. Minifigs not close to real minifig scale just don't work. You may be able to put pieces together and call them "compatible". But there is such thing as visual incompatibility. You cannot just put Galidor heads in your system MoCs. There are ways to make them fit, but they won't "fit" visually. It is simple as that. Considering basic history is one thing, but jumping to conclusions is another thing. You assume that Belvile lasted for more years because it was more successful economically than Paradisa. I cannot find anything that backs this claim. For starters, neither of the themes seems to have been a particular "hit". Only thing that would back the assumption is that they overlapped but Belvile survived. Though themes overlap all the time. Space police III overlapped with Bionicle and outlived it, that does not mean it was more popualr than Bionicle. We do not know exactly what was in the minds of TLG business strategists when making the decision to stop producing Paradisa and move to Belvile. Note that the decision happened in 1997. We are talking about a period of time in which many terrible decisions that led TLG to neigh bankruptcy were taken. It must be telling that the strategists that chose Belvile over Paradisa may have been the ones that almost destroyed LEGO in the pre-2000s :/ I can offer an alternative theory to Belvile being more popular: TLG was starting to go through economical issues so they thought that it was better to scrap one of the two very unsuccessful girl themes and the heads at TLG chose belville because that theme had the better chance to allow them to 'innovate' through the use of big molds to replace the construction toys idea.Even if we assumed that Belvile was indeed more profitable than Paradisa. We shouldn't rush to assumptions on the reason it was more popular. Is it for the terrible scale? Or is it for the dolls being more like dolls? Or perhaps it is related to marketing? Lack of male figs?

Meh, I hope that the 1% of uncertainty debunks this theory. I would like to believe TLG have finally learned their lesson after the Jack Stone and Belvile failures, they won't keep making the same mistakes over and over again, will they? The other day I got my hands in a paradisa bulk and buy was it a useful bunch of pieces and minifigs, I don't get why would TLG not try something like that again, and was very hopeful they would do it again with this rumored girls theme.

ADU is at best a predecessor from a couple of centuries before Space police.

I think such a price increase would make more sense if blind packaging was scrapped. For that price, you would not like to play lottery anymore.

Sebulba seems overdone, honestly. It is supposed to look like a fig not like a small Sebulba statuette. I really like the details on the orange pod. But as always, price is a huge turn off in SW sets.

Price increase seems to be related to retailers mostly. When series 4 arrived here they were at the same price as series 1 and 2. (Around 2.30 USD)

Me too

I was going to get Nex 2.0 but seeing that 3.0 has two orange hands I will probably skip and wait for 3.0 to arrive in a perhaps 4 months. Neither 2.0 or 3.0 excite me that much beyond the orange HF parts, to be honest. I like orange.

It could happen. They basically made a squidman repeat in Series 3 just a year after his set was released. But the list is probably fake.

Series 1 was more of a sci-fi space man. I guess they could do a realistic astronaut. But that would kind of blow if it is included in the same series as a firefighter. I am skeptic.

I am fine with orange lines as long as they aren't overdone. Some clone faces are seriously overdone. The detailing improved a little from the first series and it is not as bad as before. Though still teeth plagues too many minifig faces.

Have: 2xArtist (Series 4) (Opened and assembled but without use, can include instructions if you wish. I could include the bag but it is hard to notice which of the bags is the artists' and they are cut with scissors) 1xArtist Unopened. Want: * Punk Rocker (series 4). * Cyborg (Series 2) * Rench (From Raid VPR) Don't mind if it is opened. But no noticeable usage marks/misprints cause the artists are in new condition. Note that I live in Bolivia so each pays for shipping fees... Perhaps it would be better if you live closer.

I can't picture TLG stopping this thing in the short or medium term. These figs sell like crack. Seriously, series 4 has just arrived on here 1 week ago and they are gone already. Imagine that, third world country going to a huge pricing crisis and there are so few AFOLs I have only known two of them yet. But the CM fly the shelves like crazy.

Rotor should take great offense to that.

Bulk 1.0 did not look sleek to me. The armor seems more bulky than with the other heroes and the gun covers a lot of the body. The helmet does not cover many space vertically. He does look sleek in the legs, but all 1.0 heroes have the same legs.

I would have liked Fangz if it had exo-force-based claws like the heroes in its feet. Or if they used the Ben 10 pieces that Waspix uses in its arms. I may still get one if I have the money/find it in a sale because some of the pieces used for the back seem interesting. The head may also be useful. Waspix seems like a purchase for me because of the Ben 10 pieces of which I have none currently, and them in black is a very neutral color. My current fear right now is that the 2.0 villains are very expensive in my store, for some reason, they didn't follow the usual price increase for 13.00 USD stuff. I hope the normal 3.0 villains are not so expensive. I may as well get only heroes this year if they are. It is odd because Fire Lord, for example turned out to be far less expensive than Von Nebula. So there is actually a very small price gap between Drilldoozer and Firelord. I am not getting the titans, because my Brother has decided to monopolize them. I was initially interested in Scorpio, but the newest pics and review make it look a little disappointing. I don't know.

As "skalpers" are usually one of the few ways one has to get sets he missed during his dark ages. Sure why not?

The artist and the mad scientists are 2 of the three series 4 I wanted and I got them through luck. It was a great day. All I need is a Hazmat guy and all my series 4 needs will be covered.

I regret missing Exo-Force, it happened during my dark ages. I was still able to buy many sets, but there are many which I wish I could get but are vanished off the shelves. Edit: Oh, and Batman. On the other hand, my wallet would be happy for that. I don't feel healthy when I spend money on LEGO stuff that isn't sci-fi.

2.0 sets finally arrived here. I am now the proud owner of Evo 2.0. I cannot describe how great this thing is in real life. If we compare it to HF 1.0, the figure is taller, way more articulated, has more parts and not actually more parts, but useful parts. There is no part I would call overspecialized, whereas the 1.0 parts turned out to be rather useless, specially the shin guard-armor hybrid. Anyway, this figure looks great. Even the plastic is shinier this year.

That combiner looks great in CGI. I guess it really says something about the HF build system that combiners do not look like improvised, random things.