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In the US, you can get an Amazon Visa card (issued by Chase) that gives you 3% cashback on Amazon purchases and it goes up to 5% if you have Prime. So if you align it with one of their free Prime trials you can get it for 5% off.

As long as the sets are worthwhile on their own, you don't have to make the way they combine together have to accommodate people who only buy some of the sets. For example, I remember the Transformers sets from my youth where some of them could combine together to make one big robot. If you didn't buy all the sets then you couldn't make the big robot, period. Another example is what Bluebrixx did with their Castle Blaustein sets. There you couldn't even build anything else with the expansion sets if you didn't have all the previous sets, but you could stop buying the sets at any point and still have something complete. But it wasn't modular at all and they still sell the base set as fast as they can make them. It's a way of making a really huge set (25,000 pieces) without selling it as one massive set. In the Technic lineup, Lego has made sets where if you buy 2 or 3 sets it's possible to build a larger set out of the combined pieces that doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the smaller sets. It's just something extra you are able to do if you buy them all and a bridge towards having larger sets for someone who maybe otherwise wouldn't spend that much all at once. So there's more than one way to break up big sets into small sets.

My guess would be the seams in the background are the problem. Pretty easy to fix in post.

Lego knights with their faces eaten by bananas. Pleasant dreams!

I wonder if Viva La Dirt League's Epic NPC Man would meet TLG's standards. Probably too adult. But it could be a nice little medieval village, though Greg the garlic farmer is the only one who really has a house. Most of the other buildings where they film are too modern. For those who don't know, they do comedy sketches based on a fictional MMORPG where some of the NPCs have become self-aware.

Official sets do the pieces in a bag not used until a later step thing too. The shuttle 10283 has some parts in one of first bags used for the Hubble that don't get used until way later in the build. It would be nice if they did something to actually indicate those parts are supposed to be left over at that point.

There are gloves that work with touchscrreens.

Looks great! So much more pleasing than TLG's cheesy solution.

Is the motor working? If the motor works, does the alternate function of that motor when the lever is flipped work properly? That would help to isolate where the problem is.

I know I am very late to the party, but I finally gave in and purchased this wonderful set. I just finished building the first stage and I was looking at where the fins attached and thought it was a shame the base of it has to straddle the line between the black and white stripes. Then I thought about cutting up some unused stickers I have that have black parts to cover up that side of the base. Then I got to wondering if perhaps that entire side of the tail might also supposed to be black. Well, from what I can find, I think the fin are actually dark gray. The part, 6239, is available in dark bluish gray. So I'm really curious why they chose to make them white! base of apollo 11 saturn v

I didn't buy 8043 for my nieces and nephews, but being able to hand them the set and remote and let them have at it without having to worry about anything is part of the appeal. Those teens have siblings and adults have kids and family.

Okay, I have backed away from the ledge but my tinfoil hat is still on because that kind of stuff has already happened. The lack of a physical and kid-resistant controller is still a big turn off for me though. I'm not going to freak out and assume that one set is the direction they are going, but necessity is the mother of invention. When you can just throw as many motors at the problem and let the app solve the control issues and the sky is the limit on prices, well you get really cool mocs not Lego sets.

If I understand correctly, there is no handheld remote in the box? The only way to operate the motors is through an app on a smartphone? Count me out of this system. S-brick and buwizz are one thing as it's an optional thing you can do instead of the normal controls. But a system that depends on an app is a system that Lego can decide to no longer support at any time in the future. When technology has moved on eventually they aren't going to want to have to keep updating the software for the hardware they aren't making any money off of, and then eventually you won't be able to install the old app on your new phone and the whole system is bricked.

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