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nobbyiscool
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The light starts to decrease so quickly at this time of year. It bums me out, I'm rarely enamoured by the Big Bash, but it's a good thing to have on while I'm building Lego at this time of year. But as the light starts to fade, my options are limited to a pretty dull reading lamp... which I had to buy, because my loungeroom lights are 5 torturously bright LED lights that completely throw off my sleep rythm.
nobbyiscool
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The pure 80s beauty of this has me seriously considering it.
I've literally just seen it for the first time on the Lego site, I mustn't be paying enough attention to upcoming releases.
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I've literally just seen it for the first time on the Lego site, I mustn't be paying enough attention to upcoming releases.
Blacktron Renegade 10355 | LEGO® Icons | Buy online at the Official LEGO® Shop AU
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BLUEY!! Just revealed by Jays Brick Blog!! Coming mid year are half a dozen sets. He says this wave is Duplo and 4+ sets, is it too much to hope there will be an adult set, or even CMFs?
Definitely on the list, I suspect I'll wait for a discount though.The pure 80s beauty of this has me seriously considering it.
I've literally just seen it for the first time on the Lego site, I mustn't be paying enough attention to upcoming releases.
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nobbyiscool
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I'm only seriously back into Lego over the last couple of years.
What's the deal with the Lego Bricklink crowdfund stuff? Since when does Lego need to crowdfund projects?
Where did these projects come from? Were they also crowd sourced?
What's the deal with the Lego Bricklink crowdfund stuff? Since when does Lego need to crowdfund projects?
Where did these projects come from? Were they also crowd sourced?
This started a few years ago when COVID caused the number of Ideas submissions to skyrocket. Lego went from a dozen or so in each round to more than 50, and of course they could only make 1 or 2 from each round.
In addition, many of the builds were large and complex, and not easy to turn into official sets.
They decided to implement the Bricklink Designer Program to allow some of the Ideas submissions not selected to be made available to fans that wanted them. These sets are not built to "official" standards, but are vetted and approved by Lego.
In order to avoid inventory/production scheduling issues with additional unplanned sets, Lego makes the sets available for pre-order only, which is where "crowd funding" comes in. If they reach a minimum order quantity, they will build them, up to a current maximum of 30,000 sets I believe. There is only one production run each, and they do not go on general sale.
I'm not sure if the BDP takes submissions from outside the Ideas process, but I don't think so.
TL;DR it's for sets that although worthy, don't make the Ideas official set cut.
I am a Star Wars fanboy. I have been one since going to see the original movie at the Elizabeth Drive-In in Adelaide back in the 70's. Yes for anyone in SA there was a Drive In in Elizabeth. Many suburbs had one.
nobbyiscool
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Super comprehensive, thanks heaps man. I'm about to torture myself and check out what, if anything, I would've bought in previous years...
Yeah don't do that, some of them are much rarer than this (I think the first series only had 5,000 sets produced and created a massive bunfight with unmet demand. Hence the current production limit of 30,000).
Lego promised to make the instructions publicly available on their site, so it is in theory possible to build your own from parts, but given your experiences doing this I'd not recommend it.
Just subscribe to the relevant email/blog sources so you know when the next round is available for pre-order. The next round is available from February 4, and popular sets still sell out quickly. See https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/main.page.
EDIT : I ordered the Art of Chocolate from Series 3 just on a whim, I thought it looked like something Lego would never make. Might be fun. Due for release around 1st March.
nobbyiscool
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Went to Northland this morning, which is one of my least favourite places in Melbourne.
Is it normal for shelves to be so bare at this time of year? Did Target & Kmart overdo their specials? I've never seen anything like it, cos for some reason when they don't have Lego to put on their shelves, they don't replace it with anything. It was like toilet paper during COVID.
Is it normal for shelves to be so bare at this time of year? Did Target & Kmart overdo their specials? I've never seen anything like it, cos for some reason when they don't have Lego to put on their shelves, they don't replace it with anything. It was like toilet paper during COVID.
Yes, this is usual, the toy shelves generally are bare after Christmas. What isn't usual is that no-one seems to have any of the new January 1 sets. I guess they figure that people don't buy toys in January, which is presumably why Lego has its biggest release on January 1.
Thanks for this, I wasn't sure how it worked either.
If the Tuting Machine doesn't get up, hopefully this is the fallback option. I need that set
I better go vote for some. Turing will be one of them.
nobbyiscool
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I'm sure my phone and social media algorithms deliberately serve me up Lego news, especially when it's in mainstream sources - even so, I've been pretty surprised by the amount of coverage for Lego x Bluey today. This is going to go apeshit.
Yeah I think Bluey would be popular.
I just watched the new Wallace and Gromit movie yesterday and I would be all over that if they did it.
There have been W&G submissions in Ideas before but none have been selected. Unfortunately, were they to commit this to production now, it would arrive far too late to ride on the success of the movie. Think Angry Birds Lego here, which although well done, arrived after the game had kinda disappeared.
I think any licenced things are a bit tricky.
Lego don't seem to have had many issues with this - I imagine they'd have an awful lot of brand clout and most companies would really go after a Lego licence.
Even Star Trek seems to have come over, from a rival company who didn't renew it. I'd imagine there'd have been some chin scratching in Lego HQ over that, and whether it would take share from Star Wars. My guess is they figured it would be incremental, with people like me who aren't into SW but would buy ST.
nobbyiscool
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I got the impression a few years ago with the McLaren partnership that they were just as excited about it as Lego were.
That's turned into a pretty big win for all parties, it was what got me back to Lego, and I shudder to think of the thousands I've spent since then!
MatthewB
If the drinking lamp is lit, you should be too
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im not big into ST, but will buy the Enterprise later this year
I think I'd want the original (-A?). Rumours suggest that the first will be the Next Generation iteration (-D?), coming for Black Friday.
(Wonder if it'll come with Picard's Lifeboat?
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I do not like Star Trek. Sorry, not sorry.
MatthewB
If the drinking lamp is lit, you should be too
- Sep 17, 2015
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I think I'd want the original (-A?). Rumours suggest that the first will be the Next Generation iteration (-D?), coming for Black Friday.
(Wonder if it'll come with Picard's Lifeboat?
yea i saw it was rumored to be D today and the shuttlepod as well
nobbyiscool
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Nah, I'm not a sci-fi guy, I don't think I've seen a frame of star trek or star wars.
