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Sure, it was small and they went bigger in the new set. Just like they would likely go big with any location they do next, whether they did it over 10 years ago or not.

They also did Rivendell before, and that didn't stop them doing a much larger version last year.

I'd interpret it the other way, they are doing what they do very well. 10-15 years ago, it was easy to get 30% off most sets aside from relatively few exclusive sets, and discounts of 50% were not unheard of as sets were clearanced. They have since put prices up, and now more people are willing to pay high prices and heavy discounts are rare.

You'd need permission from LEGO to use their name to describe your business.

White PVA is clear once dry. You could test it on a piece of clear plastic food wrap, sticking it an old brick if you want to be sure.

I second this. In fact I now do an extra step. If the stickers have come off, give the underside of the stickers a coat of diluted PCA and let it dry. Then do the top side and let it dry. Then do the underside again, give it a couple of minutes, then apply. I find that seals the underside so even if you miss an small area when sticking it, it is still sealed. I also clean up once applied while still wet, as if you peel dry PVA overspill you can lift the stickers again.

It has been more than 10 years since this thread was active and the poster has not visited EB for over 7 years now. If you want to find pictures of Helm's Deep MOCs, use Google.

That isn't misprinted. It is worn out.

There was another discussion, it could well have been in General, but didn't take off whereas this one did.

And in the early days of CMF we were getting three series of 16 = 48 unlicensed minifigures per year which you claimed was just not true. It is true.

What exactly do you think is not true? There were three unlicensed sets per year up to 2014, although in the UK we got the extra Team GB in 2012.

When I collected them, we were used to getting 48 unlicensed characters per year, 16 per series. That has obviously been cut to just 12 per year now, with the smaller number per series and two licensed series per year taking the place of unlicensed series. For unlicensed series, they seemed to run out of ideas as they started repeating ideas too frequently and there were also complaints about the difficulty of keeping up with collecting the whole series before they disappeared from stores (before the days of buying whole boxes). I guess that partly fed into the changes, although sales numbers going down for the unlicensed series while having strong sales when the licensed series were introduced is probably the main driver for what we have today.

D&D is not really any worse than any other licensed series.

Due to the armour? I bought loads of the Heroic Knight CMF for the same thing.

I doubt a LOTR CMF line would be as interesting as it might sound, at least for existing LOTR LEGO fans. CMF have to appeal to a lot of people, unlike the large 18+ sets, so almost certainly they would repeat the nine characters in the Fellowship. This is what they did with the Simpsons CMFs (repeating the main five each time, and having them in the Simpsons House) and the Harry Potter series (repeating Harry, Hermione, Ron). It woudln't be so bad if they gave them new outfits, but even if they did, it would probably be just slightly different prints like going from the 2012 sets to Rivendell. For anyone that already has the original figures or the newer figures, that would probably be not so inspiring. Then what do they do with the other three places (or 7 if they go for 16 in the series). That could make or break it for existing fans. A CMF series would be a nice way to introduce a lot of characters not seen in the boxed sets and I am sure a lot of existing LOTR LEGO fans would like this, but given there are no small sets then the number of people wanting incidental characters if they don't already have the main characters is going to be relatively small compared to those for other licenses where the CMF can be used by themselves or to add to widely available sets.

If kids want small and reasonably affordable toys that transform between robot and vehicle easily and reliably, won't they just buy Transformers?

Yes, photos of you with your sets (or anything that should be covered under your insurance that is not valuable enough to be listed as a separate item) can help prove you had them for an insurance claim, better than if you had no photos or other records. Keeping photos of the receipts is also pretty easy too these days. You can always ask the insurer what they suggest you keep.

I had the same feeling when I saw the leaks. These look a bit Ninjago or Monkie Kidd like to me. Some of the torsos are OK (I hope) and the armour might be useful, but I don't like the cartoony teeth necklace, for example. Still, better than Chima with the blue orbs on the torsos. I was hoping for something more like the S3 CMF elf. That torso and other parts can be used for more varied characters and is generic enough to army build too.

I don't know the source but this looks great. There are lots of great details but my favourite part is the use of those technic bricks, they work really well for the windows.

Either way, you wait. So wait and see.

Sorry, it wasn't really aimed at yours in particular so my comment is possibly out of place. Yours looks pretty much the standard modular on a MILS base. Elsewhere, a number of people are calling their City designs MILS but have variable width roads and paths or roads that are not centred at so on. The modulars are fairly consistent so naturally fit together reasonably well.

These deviate quite a lot from the original MILS system. I remember reading hispabrick when MILS was being developed and there are really quite strict rules about design and boundaries so that MILS plates can be used in a collaborative way. And it was designed for landscapes (L). So many people are now using them for City and Modular builds, I wonder if now I the time for MICS (Cuty), with rules for joining pavements and roads across boundaries. Of course, for personal rather than collaborative use, standards are less if an issue but I've seen so many youtubers doing their own versions that could never be used in a collaborative way that the original system was designed for.

Having other characters that wouldn’t normally appear in CMF, like the traditional British police constable, is also a way to get interesting figures. An obvious one they could do is a Canadian Mountie style character.

It was even better in the more distant past. Licensed parts were fairly frequently added by mistake and only removed after a couple of weeks so were quite easy to get hold of. And loads of pricing errors giving free parts or very cheap parts (5p for some torsos, and so on). And very fast turn around.

Yes, but then that is similar to the more recent buildable action figures. These have many more attachment points for system parts, but still out of scale with minifigure worlds.