SpacePolice89

Interesting. I see it completely the other way. I see the new versions as studless Playmobil like sets while the older ones looks more like construction toys and have more pleasant colors and design. I think there is no universal truth which tells us objectively which style is superior, in the end it is highly subjective and down to personal preferences.

Yes they are, I wish they would make a large Ice Planet set with some penguins included but that is unfortunately not likely because Lego discontinued trans neon orange recently

I agree that some of the new City sets are very good and that's why I wrote I believe some of the current sets (about 50%) are inferior to earlier versions but that is my personal opinion. I think the current drop in quality is not comparable to what happened in the late 90s but still alarming.

For me as a kid it was a necessary evil to use bricks in many different colors. I remember wanting to build huge spaceships and bases in certain colors but not having enough pieces in those colors and that forced me to use other available colors. I remember not liking that but I still had lots of fun building those things.

Thanks for the information!

Change isn't always for the better. Take Town/City for example. That theme was fantastic up until the mid 90s with only good change happening to the theme. Then they started junio rizing the sets and quality dropped tremendously. Then a slow recovery started and around 2010 the sets were amazing again but unfortunately after 2020 quality has started to go down again with some of the City sets. It was actually too much change and the wrong sort of change that led to the economic trouble Lego experienced in the late 90s and early 00s (too many pieces and colors, too many new product categories besides toys, juniori zation, Galidor, Znap etc).

Is there a list with the names of all the tags and what they are awarded for? In the staff structure, user groups and tags thread only some are mentioned. Especially the small Black Knights shield, the Imperial Soldiers flag and the Classic Space logo look very cool.

Yes, that seems to be the case. The ones with hips and legs in different colors that I managed to find on Pick a Brick all had printing. One style that never caught on was the one with legs in different colors. The Dragon Knight using that part looked great though. Image belongs to Brickshelf user Royalbrickcustoms (118070)

I didn't say anything about not getting new parts only that too many specialized parts are not good. And I don't agree with the "boys club" argument about 90s Lego. The female friends I had when I grew up did like Lego as much as us boys. On the street I grew up on we were two boys and four girls. We all played together a lot with Lego and no one had any problems with the minifigs. The classic smiley faces could be either male or female and the female faces from Town/Paradisa and Pirates could easily be put on a male minifig if one of the girls wanted a female minifig instead. But mostly we didn't care too much about that. I think too much focus on gender or race is bad for any product even if the intentions are good.

When I was a kid playing with sets from the late 80s and 90s I never felt I had enough pieces in the same color for MOCs I wanted to build and back then the color options were very limited. Imagine today with all the colors how it must be for a kid owning 10-50 sets, very few of those pieces will be in the same color. Only when I discovered Bricklink in 2001 I could realize all my projects I had dreamt of for many years. Today as an AFOL with money to spend on Lego it is still expensive to have a large inventory of pieces for MOCs and sets restauration and it also takes a lot of space. Therefore I would prefer fewer colors and I only stock the colors I mentioned above for myself. I don't mind that because I also prefer the look of Lego sets from the 80s and 90s over todays sets.

Cycling, hiking, cross country skiing, cars, video games, history, reading, gardening, movies and tv series. I also have a cat but I consider him a family member and not a hobby.

Same here, I like to have no music when building. I mostly listen to music when driving. I also like Bruce Springsteen but my two favorites are Lita Ford and Elvis Presley. Others that I like very much are CCR, Nena, Green Day, Toby Keith, Pat Benatar, John Denver, Bonnie Tyler, Van Halen, Ray Parker Jr., Anne Linnet, Bon Jovi, Men at Work, Huey Lewis and the News, Loa Falkman, Jerry Lee Lewis and theme music from films and tv series that I like.

What some see as progress and improvement others see as decline in quality. This of course is a matter of opinion and preferences. Lego is still a high quality product but I believe the quality was even higher in the late 80s and early 90s, this includes the bricks themselves as well as instructions. Modern instructions are too dark and the paper is very low quality.

To clarify, I meant that an early 90s color palette (including trans neon orange and green) plus the colors I mentioned would be ideal. I don't mind some extra colors for special occasions like Maersk blue but the permanent colors should be kept to a minimum.

I haven't seen such legs and hips in a while in new sets. Is this style still being used? I'm meaning ones like in the picture below. It doesn't have to be white and black, gray and black was also very popular not so long ago and many other combinations also exists. I've seen many printed legs with hips in different colors and many unprinted single color leg and hip assemblies in recent sets. According to Bricklink the white/black version hasn't been made since 2020. I can't find them on Pick a Brick either. I ended up buying used ones because I'm building a small Blacktron 2 force based on the recent Blacktron 2 CMF torso with otherwise the same parts as the original. This is the type of legs I'm asking about I'm building several Blacktron 2 astronauts like the one in the middle but with the same helmet as the M-Tron minifig.

The rococo style was popular in the 18th century (about 1730-1760) so that makes the Rococo Lady exist in roughly the same time period as Pirates. Many of the pirates and soldiers from that theme uses tricorne hats which were also widely used in the 18th century and early 19th century. A Pirates CMF series would be fantastic with representation from different centuries, Armada (16th and 17th centuries), Imperial Soldiers and Guards (18th and early 19th century) and of course pirates and islanders which are suitable for all those centuries. As I mentioned above the Pirates theme is positioned between the medieval period and more modern times. Most of the Pirates line minifig clothing and hats seems to be based on stuff from the 18th and very early 19th century (bicorne, tricorne and shako hats for example). The uniforms and ships also suggest that time period. Although the armada subtheme seems to be inspired by earlier Spanish stuff from the 16th and 17th centuries like morion helmets. The "golden age of piracy" period is between 1650-1730 and there was a resurgence of piracy in the Americas and Caribbean in the early 1800s up until about 1830. So the the Pirates theme seems to be taking place during those years. That makes the Highwayman CMF to also exist in the same time period as Pirates and the Rococo Lady. It doesn't matter that all these styles are mixed a little bit because fantasy and imagination is what Lego is all about.

There are too many specialized pieces nowadays. There are also too many different colors. In the late 80s and early 90s there was a good ratio between specialized pieces and more generic pieces in sets. Too many colors and too many specialized pieces makes it difficult to build large MOCs with pieces from your own collection. With the introduction of tan, pink, purple and orange in the 90s there were enough colors, anything more than that is unnecessary.

I like this one more than the original.

I pre ordered the minifigure book from amazon.de for €40.44 including shipping. I look forward to get a new Blacktron minifig. Estimated delivery is September 16.

I'm looking forward to seeing your fort when it is ready.

If the factory code is S the set is packed in Kladno and most of the pieces are made in Billund. If the factory code is B the set was packed in China and most parts are also made there. "The first two numbers are the week of the year. The letter is the country. The last number is the last number of the year of production. The letter codes are: H = Nyíregyháza, Hungary R = Ciénega de Flores, Mexico S = Kladno, Czech Republic Q = Purkersdorf, Austria B = Shenzhen, China (Not Confirmed) M = Billund, Denmark (Not Confirmed) O = Billund, Denmark (Not Confirmed) " Information from:

My fort has mostly the correct parts except for the palm tree leaves (small version, 1994) and flag (New Eldorado Fortress version, 2023). All the rest of the parts are the correct ones but some are definitely newer than the late 80s-early 90s. For example the white 3x3 bricks with modified facet are brand new and so are also some of the other small white and yellow pieces. All gray parts are the original gray except one not so visible plate (under the tower structure) that is bluish gray. Do you want all your pieces to be from the correct period or only those that have small differences like the 1x1 modified plate with clip that has changed a bit over the years?

The tube display look fantastic. You are very lucky to own such a rare piece. I have always wondered what happens to such items when they are no longer needed.

Are the blue Legs actually meant for the governor or are they just placed in the wrong spot in the box(packing error)? Because 6276 Eldorado Fortress also includes a pirate with blue legs. https://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemInv.asp?S=6276-1&viewItemType=M On Bricklink there is no mention of different legs but the early flags with stickers are mentioned "The very first production runs of this set came with a white 2525 Flag 6 x 4 and a sticker sheet, however the LEGO Group switched to a printed flag very quickly. Since the number of sets known to exist with a printed flag is much greater than those without, the printed flag is listed in the Regular Items section."