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Finished this up last night, first from the lot I grabbed last week. Great set. Will do the Black Pearl today, just got the parts in the wash.

Cool. When are we getting the depressed Rancor's lair addon ?

doesn’t look like a certain religious structure. Pass

i was one of those that was extremely skeptical over the past many years in a previous thread about this. But times have changed. 1. COVID has screwed up all aspects of producing and distribution of products. I imagine LEGO had this idea and was previously discussed but was shelved by Hasbro. Hasbro may now want to find more ways of making $ since their own manufacturing seems to be backed up. (All of the action figures pre-orders seems to be dates further out into the future.) 2.One limited figure/ model to test the water might be a safe way for Hasbro to see what the reaction from fans would be like. 3.With LEGO producing all these mech the last several years, HASBRO would be wise to license Transformers to keep the name relevant. Also Transformers fans gotta be tired of all those rehashed action figure with different color schemes. My fingers are crossed and hope the rumors are true.

Agreed with licensing concerns, but technically there are several Transformers products that do not follow “transforms into a truck without disassembly”. They are more like action figures than transformers. I am very interested to know how LEGO pull this off if the news is true. Just a few years ago nobody thought LEGO could create a Power Rangers-esque Mech by combining several different vehicles.

Yeah. I don’t consider him a reliable guy (obviously). I’m talking about a couple of others that didn’t fall for that.

Nope ... not for me either:

thanks for the reminder. wow! time flies so fast!...

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75319 The Armorer’s Mandalorian Forge

40476 Daisy Duck

Official images of 75326 Boba Fett's Throne Room have been published on Brickset:

Lego has a premium value that Kre-O and Mega don't have. A well done large Lego Transformer would sell for a couple hundred dollars and sell quite well. Hasbro would get a solid percentage of that and it likely wouldn't ever be marked down much to move units. Likely more volume, a higher asking price, a better-made product, and tons of free publicity. Heck, if I'm Hasbro I'm shopping this proposal TO Lego and not the other way around.

It still needs to be a prize in the annual raffle. Yay LEGO!

If you sold less than $20k or had fewer than 200 transactions on Amazon in 2021, then Amazon was not required to give you 1099k. Otherwise, you need to contact Amazon as they should have provided those by 1/31.

Robert Greene has written on (and since expanded on) the ‘forms of seduction’, which, to him, can/does refer more broadly to having an appeal that enables you to convince others to your point of view. One such form is (I forget his term) the ‘blank slate’, the silent type, the kind of person people are able to project their own desires, ideals, or self-reflections onto (while also retaining an air of mystery/intrigue/excitement). I believe this was, broadly speaking, the appeal of Boba. A cool looking, formidable silent type from which people were able to project whatever they wanted. The lead actor was right; he should’ve had fewer lines. Of course, that’s just one of many issues with the show…

Before BoBF ever came out, I had tried many times to figure out what the real allure of Boba Fett was, considering the man hardly did anything at all in the movies. I came to the conclusion that people had assumed he was the equivalent of a James Bond for bad guys. And I was really, really hoping that is what they would have portrayed in BoBF. But wow, it was horrid what they did with his character in this show. He was the exact opposite of a young, dashing evil James Bond. He was instead a non-athletic, smiling grandpa who had awkwardly uncomfortable conversations with animals. Episodes 1-4 could be summed up with a few words: Daimyo, Daimyo, Bib Fortuna, pay me, bacta tank. This mobster show was worse than The Godfather Part 3. And, yes, I am aware that I am saying something that I can't take back. Having seen a lot of different mobster movies and shows, I don't know how Fett wasn't whacked within 5 minutes of walking down the street, which ironically would have made the show better and actually interesting (I don't count Season 3 of the Mandalorian as part of the show). The supposedly expert Night Wind assassins tried to kill him, but for some reason only with electric cattle prods, and failed miserably as expected. This ridiculous assassination attempt was just one of many, many sad and unrealistic plot fails. Krrsantan was yet another disappointment. He should have been awesome, but instead of barehanded squeezing the brains out of an unconscious boba's skull like a water balloon, this assassin instead opts to just throw him out of the tank and give him an opportunity to fight him. And why he bothers with electric brass knuckles, when his punching power alone should be enough to explode bodies, is beyond me. The Book of Boba Fett does for Star Wars Episodes 7-9 what Episodes 7-9 did for the prequels. It all of a sudden makes you go "well maybe they weren't so bad after all..."

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So this is what I've spent the last month doing. Plus I did a mini remodel of a bathroom last weekend, and put up a lot more shelving for LEGO. Lego or woodwork - I guess I'm just addicted to building stuff! https://youtu.be/iWLxLSz8R4Y

is this a deal? asking for a friend

This was supposed to be satire, right? Right?

Disappointed in this season. At this point I feel the Star Wars creators should have just left Boba dead at the bottom of the Sarlacc Pit. They pretty much ruined an iconic fan favorite character. The finale was fine, but it had it's work cut out for it to redeem this trash heep of a season and it didn't quite make it. If I were a gambling man, I'd wager that there are actually fewer Boba Fett fans in the world after this season than there were before. Sent from my SM-G996U using Tapatalk

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i built the creator tiger and crocodile sets over the weekend. for reasons i can't put into words, these sets appeal to the lego purist in me. they were quick and interesting builds. the tiger has several sections that snap satisfyingly with a "click" when put together. i am thankful lego put the time and effort to make some actual printed wedge tiles for the tiger set forming the top of the stripe pattern that are critical to the set but could have been ruined with stickers.

Calling out a private company for moderating content is not a free speech issue. Joe Rogan's rights to his show and what he says on the show extend no further than the agreement he's signed with Spotify, and I can assure you that they have very clear guidelines about what they consider acceptable speech and behavior on their platform and will allow, as would any publisher or platform--that's the company's right. If canceled on Spotify, Rogan can continue to shout what he wants on the street corner, sign on to a new platform, etc. Thus, there would be no free speech violation if Spotify elected to terminate his contract over something he said, nor would it be a free speech violation if a private employer fired you over something you said. To be clear. Young wasn't just coming out of left field here--he was backing the open letter signed by over 200 health professionals asking for Spotify to moderate the content that they allow on their platform.

Getting constitution lessons from 80s movies is on par with getting medical advice from Joe Rogan.

don't most people get better from Covid after 5 days (without meds)?

"Joe Rogan has admitted he’s cringing after being fact-checked about Covid-19, having been proven wrong on his own podcast – admitting he was ‘winging it’ during the debate. It all started when the podcaster sat down with Australian broadcaster and fellow podcast host Josh Szeps for a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience. Everything was going well until, Rogan began spouting some incorrect information about myocarditis. Myocarditis is an inflammation of the heart muscles and can be a side effect of the Pfizer vaccine, but is much more commonly a result of contracting the Covid-19 virus. Rogan boldly stated that myocarditis is a 'common' side effect in children who have had the vaccine, but Szeps cut him off quickly to point out that it isn't true. Rogan then read aloud during the podcast episode: "[Males aged] 12 to 17, were [most] likely to develop myocarditis within three months of catching Covid at a rate of 450 cases per million infections. This compares to 67 cases of myocarditis per million of the same age following their second dose of Pfizer. Szeps then explained: "Yeah, so you're about eight times likelier to get myocarditis from getting Covid than from getting it from the vaccine.” Rogan seemed to move on fairly swiftly, saying the point was ‘interesting’ before going off on a tangent about fact-checking and finding information on the internet." Too many people take what Joe Rogan says as fact. He is an entertainer. He is no different than Rowdy Roddy Piper in that sense. He is paid to entertain. I stand with Neil Young on this one.

Neil Young had polio as a child, so he's a big proponent for vaccines. I'm assuming he didn't take aim at R Kelly because R Kelly doesn't have a podcast putting out misinformation that can harm people. I don't listen to the JRP, or Neil Young, so it's all the same to me.

So far, I feel like Book of Boba Fett is the Star Wars equivalent of the first Star Trek movie or the pace of basketball games before the advent of the shot clock. I guess the creators figured we'd all had enough fun watching Star Wars and that it was time to slow things waaaaayyyyyyy down.

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My response when I saw this was “holy ****.” The key, to me, is who is presenting the leaked info. Some reliable leakers are posting this. Now maybe they’re getting fooled to flush out who is leaking. But I haven’t seen some of the really good leakers leak anything intentionally wrong. They don’t even confirm the intentionally wrong stuff.