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They're calling one of the few non-18+ sets a display piece? It is the first set to include an orange lightsaber, which a lot of people commented on when it released. Maybe they did indeed use AI to write this (hence the generic "desirable display piece" description) and it got confused when it was writing about the "exciting new thing" it had pulled from other people's reviews and went for the character's name instead of his weapon. Or maybe it's written by the same people who design the modern clone figures, given their proclivity for inaccuracy.

Ok so I just rewatched the scene and it's 1 assassin droid with around 5 b1s that fight the clones, although it is Padme who kills the assassin droid.

Yes, it is a 3D printed part designed by Horcikdesigns, for which I am very grateful, which I mention every time someone asks me about it, because that part is incredibly useful. But to be more precise, it is a combination of the aforementioned 3D printed part to which I also glued 3L litfarm superglue.

It happened to me, so yes, it’s from Lego, they use international services to ship it to New Jersey who in turn usually use, USPS or UPS to deliver them 😭😭 I had an order stuck in customs for two months from Lego. But DHL showed up on the tracking

I had this show up on my Informed Delivery notices "DHL ECOMMERCE NORDIC LAX". I'm hoping it is for the first standard part order I made on 11/17. In the past mine always came through the New Jersey facility so this is new. I don't recall having any other orders from anywhere else that this might be for.

"LEGO Black Friday isn't all about sales" is correct, albeit for a completely different reason than what John L. Ego wants us to think. Obviously, it’s going to be a full-scale invasion, and alas, we only have two days to prepare—this must be the culmination of what all our jonkling has revealed.

Oh, luckily I stopped updating Studio a while ago since it always broke something.. it seems they managed to elevate it to the next level.

What is that part used as the lower A-arm that holds the wheel hubs? Is it 3d printed?

The employees are the ones making the company lots of profit - us customers are just the idiots paying!

Are they similar to the soapbox racers?

I had it in my cart and ready to check out and then kicked me off the site and got placed into a waiting room. Five minutes later got back in and it was out of stock. Frustrated that a 10 day sale only lasted a couple minutes. Lego rarely gives discounts on exclusives. I waited for this one. Guess I can look at the bright side, I didn’t spend any money. The bummer is I didn’t get the discount, the points or the 3 GWPs. The parts on B&P that went on sale, I was unfortunately too late to the game. Would have liked some of those cows, torsos and other fun pieces. Again, saved me from spending money, I guess.

@Gorilla94 I think they have to stretch it out some, because releasing the "most detailed" Hogwarts ever in a shorter time period would price it out of a good chunk of people's budgets. As it stands now, we have no idea what it will end up costing us, which probably also helps their sales. If people knew from the outset the sets so far would cost them about 780 EUR, would they have started collecting them? And we're not done yet. That's two years out of at least three years, at this rate it'll be close to 1.2 k by the end of 2026, and if it goes into 2027?

That's actually an excellent deal, what is that, $250ish of free lego for buying the death star? More horrifying black friday news, the US site now has a list called "Lego Star Wars Black Friday Sets" and literally none of them are on sale. It's just an article about sets you can buy at full price. Some especially hilarious bits- -They wrote about the gingerbread AT-AT (honestly a good one to write about, it's a fair price and cute set), and due to them putting up a display of the set listing, the article is showing that it's out of stock. You can't even buy it. -In a similar vein, due to including the set listings in the article, they are proudly displaying a 1-star average review under their blurb about the juggarnaut. -The article calls the firespeeder a "highly desirable display piece" (This doesn't seem like it was AI written, but it's harder to tell with corporate speak), which... what? It's from a lego special- as well as claiming it's the first set to include a Sig Greebling Figure... aside from being a weird thing to brag about, that's not even true. -They have a blurb about helmet sets saying they have helmets of "many iconic characters, and we're not just talking about Darth Vader and Stormtroopers", which is good because neither of those helmets are sold by lego anymore. They also include $30 sets in their "small sets" list, which... fine. That one's not really on lego, and more on the inescapable march of inflation, but still puts me in a dour mood. Edit: For those of you in the US, amazon has the following deals at the moment, though they don't have any of them marked specifically as black friday: Tantive IV $40 (50% off), Tantive IV Hallway $33 (40% off), Peridea $33 (40% off), Maul Mech $11.3 (37% off), Plo Koon's Microfighter $9.4 (37% off), Droidika $42 (35% off), Luke Mech $11.18 (30% off), TIE Fighter and X-wing mashup $82.5 (25% off), And of course about half the sets from the past year or two at 20% off as is normal for amazon.

Looks like Australia is getting an interesting deal- you get the midi scale Falcon, buildable Wicket, and the Star Wars Logo when you buy the Death Star. Presumably they've seen people displaying the Falcon in the DS hangar bay, and presumably they're struggling to sell the latter 2 so are palming them off as a GWP to boost Death Star sales

Maybe an adversary gazing at the vessel that just marooned him there? A beautiful render of the Fortuna, Mister Phes.

It's weird they don't at least do 2 normal ones, they used to for ages.

(MINOR SPOILERS BASED ON PLOT LEAKS AND SET PHOTOS) Those are all excellent. I think we're all predicting that one way or another Raimi Goblin is coming. I hope so, but we'll have to see whether or not lego tries to hold him back in the most expensive set.

RAEL! I NEED YOU RAEL! That would be nice, whether or not the vs was a D2C remake of older BPs like I'd been suggesting. Even something like 2 normal packs (Which I'm confident lego could get down to $18ish, and hopefully will given I haven't been seeing great sales on the $20-23 packs- even though the $45 one is doing horrifyingly well) and a pack like the coruscant one would be nice. Yeah, I was focused on the original era of battle packs, but the 2016/17 FO/Resistance and Rebel/Imperial packs would also be good and have had enough of a design scheme evolution for a remake. Unfortunately they gave up on the opposing faction battlepacks in 2018, and the stud-shooter-intro set of packs in 2014/15 also lacked faction clash, but I guess they could also expand some of the two-in-one BPs from that 2012/2013 era. So long as they make the price a bit more reasonable again, PLEASE. This would be one of the best moves the theme could take. You could still even give us one clone battlepack every year, and there wouldn't be nearly as many complaints because we'd also be able to get any other faction alongside it. Yeah, it's hilariously arrogant. Like we should be honored to purchase from them at (an extremely inflated) full price. I felt like I hadn't ordered from their store in awhile so I went back and confirmed that yup, the last time I bought from them was black friday 2024, where they A: had sales and B: I used up my VIP points to get the set for $3. There's just no reason to buy from them anymore- the GWPs are always at hilariously high thresholds anyway. Usually we'd get high-quality leaks around thanksgiving and lego would reveal them shortly after, so I think one or the other will happen any day now. I don't think I've seen it since around it's release when I was a kid so I'm pretty fuzzy here too. Yup. It's wild to me that this was publicly stated rather than hidden behind some sort of smokescreen about double points and GWPs. It's so arrogant. And that's the other part of it that's wild to me, is that black friday isn't an "out of the kindness of their heart the company takes a big loss" sort of thing either. It uses the principle of loss-leaders- items that the store will take a loss on to generate significant traffic to their storefront/site, leading to other sales on full-price items while they're there. Black Friday also serves to clear out old stock so a company can move the Christmas inventory onto shelves. With the takeover of online shopping it doesn't work quite as well as before, but the principle still generally holds. You CAN be profit-motivated and make moves to increase profits that are also beneficial to consumers, lego just doesn't seem to remember that. But as you point out, they also don't remember that Bionicle saved them from bankruptcy just 20-25 years ago, so... They're essentially already here, with how well that stupid 327th pack is selling when it's quite literally 50% more than the coruscant pack for the same amount of stuff. I still can't get over that. I LIKE the 327th. They were the legion I used in battlefront for ages. I think a lot of people like them just off the "rule of cool" schema that they all have pauldrons and kamas. Had it been a normal pack, they would probably have been one of the last legions I was still willing to buy. But that price is just gross, and the fact that it's so easily compared to a set of better value makes me retch.

I have not encountered any serious steering issues. The fully loaded machine weighs about 10 kg and I guess about 2 kg of that weight is supported by the front axle (including lifted harvesting unit, which is not documented in the last, now already three-year-old update - thanks for a reminder to shoot a few new photos ). The steering angle is limited by the axle's structure to about 30 degrees to each side, though it has nothing to do with the motor's strength. Steering is always easier when the vehicle is moving but the motor manages it even when stationary. I suppose the LAs internal clutch will cause problems sooner than the motor itself in some heavier applications. In that case, you might want to use 2 linear actuators instead of one. On the other hand, the stress will then be directly translated to the motor itself, therefore a stronger one may be needed. I have used both solutions in my models, the one with 2 small LAs in my other WIP model looks like this:

Hi everyone, guess what rank the Technic F1 cars get from RacingBrick

Completely agree. If LEGO are going to scale down sets etc, battle packs are the perfect way…because they appeal to a wide variety of audiences.

This is the latest version of my BTR-90, this time I equipped the turret with a cannon drive, unfortunately it does not fire any projectiles, it only simulates the recoil when firing. The commander's turret is also motorized, but that is just a function in order to occupy all the channels of the buwizz that is in the turret. The turret rotation is provided by a PF M motor, the cannon elevation, firing from the cannon and the commander's turret rotation are provided by three CADA micromotors. I also improved the chassis a little, the most visible change is the lights and the rear part of the hull. Of the changes that can be seen, the one that is not significant at first glance is that I used the wheel configuration I use on my Tatra 813 (Fischer Technik 80 tires with black hot melt adhesive-bonded 43.2x18 LEGO wheels).

I guess they went out of stock within a minute after midnight? We had the same happening here, hence so many canceled orders or orders that didn´t even got through. Western Europe had more stock, they could still order some hours later...

Yeah the scene with Fox is what I was thinking of, it's been a while since I've seen the CW movie though.

That was going to be my Christmas gift to myself... I've been trying to justify it for a few years, but with the sale and retirement next month, things had finally lined up for me to be able to buy it. Got checked out right at midnight, got my "Order Confirmed" e-mail... And it was cancelled in the morning. Really sucks, but it's on me for trying to wait for that last sale, I suppose... And now I'll have to wait 5-8 years for the next Castle revival!