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The family-oriented cruises, ranging from 2- to 4 nights, are designed for the local Asian market. While the toy-themed cruises end on August 30, the ship will continue to sail the regional itineraries from Hong Kong until mid-September. Overall, the ship’s shape proved to be one of the most difficult aspects of the design, particularly the proper tapering and angles for a realistic model when working with square and rectangular bricks. Gray used ship deck plans and his own photos of the vessel as a basis to build his model. I’m still grumpy that people immediately bought this on Mercari for $60 instead of waiting till around $40.
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From October 30, 2021 to April 2022, AIDAprima will head for various major cities in Western Europe from Hamburg. If you fancied a cruise on the AIDA Prima they depart Kiel, Germany, every Saturday for a week long cruise right up until the 23rd October. She’ll then explore the Baltic Sea, Copenhagen, Visby, and Stockholm areas, finishing with various cities in from April 2022.
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I’m going to the Westfield Shepherds Bush store on 1 Jan where I’ll be spending £70. Your £100 spend would take our combined total to £170, the threshold for this set. And now I'm hoping I can find enough sets to buy (and space at home to display them) that meet the threshold to get this. A normal set with printed pieces like would be an instant buy. Galaxy Explorer was easily the best set I got to build since I stopped playing with Lego just under 15 years ago.This will unfortunately be a hard pass, unless I find it on Bricklink for a reasonable price. Black and trans-yellow, with yellow highlights, are the iconic colours of Blacktron, so the cockpit canopy returns from XL-15 Spaceship and I think it looks fantastic.
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Stickers are applied throughout the set, replacing printed elements from the original model. This is disappointing, especially since some designs could probably have been omitted to reduce the number of unique decorations required. The cruiser remains appealing though, including hinged wings, which look great in either configuration. If you’re in the UK, can make it to London on 1 Jan and are after this set but were only planning on spending £100, PM me.
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If you weren't aware of it until this week, you need to follow more outlets.I understand why this and the Forest Hideout are GWP sets and not available off the shelf. While appealing to AFOLs, these type of sets won't grab the attention of most children, and would eventually become shelf warmers and then likely hit the discount bin. The limited run of them ensure Lego doesn't lose out money on the smaller production, and it helps drive direct sales. This also discourages scalpers from getting them all.I've never understood the disdain for stickers in Lego sets, I can only imagine how much these people would hate plastic model kits and waterslide decals. Lego stickers are essentially indestructible and permanent if you treat your Legos with a modicum if care. I own a lot of the original sets released when they first started making Star Wars.
Probably less apt for a nostalgia reissue, and I'm just happy to get a reissued Blacktron guy as it is. Assuming that Blacktron is intended to rival Classic Space, I can imagine this spacecraft silently bypassing the patrolling Galaxy Explorer and smuggling contraband onto the surface of a planet. Once the cargo compartment has been removed, the below vehicle could return to orbit as a nimble starfighter! I think this configuration looks excellent, particularly with the wings swept back.
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Fortunately I do not feel the need today to buy the new versions of Star Wars if I already own the original. But I understand the need for remakes for those who don't have certain items from the line yet. I own the original Black Seas Barracuda but the remake was a definite must buy for me.
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A Roman-themed pool called the Parthenon Pool features hot tubs, six water slides, and a stage for live music. Stage performances are produced in the ship’s 1,000-seat Zodiac theater and other activities include ropes courses, ziplines, and a rock-climbing wall. The summer sailings depart from Hong Kong and Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and are geared to the Asian market. Youngsters sailing aboard a Resorts World Cruises ship are invited to unleash their inner creativity on a series of special, themed voyages in Asia that shine the spotlight on an iconic children’s game. We'll send you the latest cruise updates daily to your inbox.
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Shame about all the stickers, I had hoped for the consoles to be prints at least. The only readily-available modernized classic sets are $100 and $400 which, to a lot of people, is quite a hefty chunk of change. The alternating yellow and black stripes along the spacecraft's flanks are attractive and return from the original vessel, like the angular cargo section. However, perhaps the most recognisable features of the classic set are its trans-red fins, which were historically represented by trans-red 2x6 double wedge plates. Trans-red tiles covering opaque plates are less effective, but the fins still appear eye-catching. Cruise Hive was established back in 2008 and among the earliest blogs in the industry.
The elongated shape is admittedly exaggerated when compared with the 1987 model, although that only accentuates the cruiser's slender design. The trans-red laser cannons located on either side have also been lengthened to good effect. Next up, Gray wants to build Carnival Paradise, one of the fleet’s only two remaining Fantasy-class vessels. He has sailed on Carnival Elation and loves the smaller cruise ships. Your obsession about what anyone, AFOL or not, should and should not do with their stickers is starting to get seriously creepy. Or over several bricks at once, or on my laptop, or on my forehead while I'm sawing and gluing and painting my bricks into a monstrosity of my own deranged design?
With the “AIDA promise”, AIDA Cruises offers more flexibility and security when planning your vacation. Generous booking options are part of the offer, from the small deposit to free rebooking. The “AIDA promise” is already included in the travel price for new bookings up to September 30, 2021 and applies to departures up to March 31, 2022. All cruises are conducted in accordance with AIDA Cruises’ comprehensive health and safety protocols, as well as national and local infection control laws and ordinances. Until October 23, 2021, AIDAprima will set off from Kiel on Saturdays on seven-day trips to the Baltic Sea to Copenhagen, Visby on the island of Gotland and Stockholm.
I'd love more classic themed sets that I can just on the regular. Judging by many comments I started to think that my country, Poland, is some sort of lego heaven. That's because all the gwp sets are always readily available for reasonable prices on the aftermarket. The last very desired GWP- forestmen hideout, was and still is easy to buy for a price of 40 to 50 USD.
40580 Blacktron Cruiser presents an almost perfect modern version of 6894 Invader, accurately recreating the most important assets of the classic model, while making improvements wherever possible. I think emphasising the vehicle's slender shape is extremely effective and the model is instantly identifiable with its ancestor. Stickers are an unwelcome addition, but were presumably the only option for a promotional set.
I got the Galaxy Explorer despite not being my era, due to it being a brilliant, excellently designed set.I think in this set, albeit just a GWP, nostalgia is doing all the heavy lifting. To me it looks like a quite nice build from a 5 year old's imagination, using their spare bricks. An OK GWP only if there are £50 and £100 thresholds alongside. Ideally with fewer stickers, but I'll take what I can get. I actually really like the trans-red tiles, more so than the wedge plates. I hope they announce when this will launch soon, I want to know whether to gamble on waiting to buy the TIE Bomber, given the odds of that set selling out.
The annual event in Portland, Oregon draws more than 7,000 attendees, and in 2024, featured 552 builders exhibiting 1,354 amazing creations. Awards are voted on for People’s Choice recognition and Best in Show creations. After finishing the Alaska season in September, the ship will reposition to Galveston to offer Eastern, Southern, and Western Caribbean itineraries, as well as the occasional Panama Canal cruise. He knows about ship operations and which boats are tenders and standard lifeboats, how the covered pool is used, and more.
Removing the astronaut's air tanks reveals how this minifigure has changed, as it now features printing on the reverse! Some would perhaps have preferred a direct reproduction of the older Blacktron figure, but the spacecraft has been updated, so similarly modernising its pilot seems reasonable to me. Blacktron astronauts are almost as beloved as their Classic Space counterparts, partly for their shadowy uniform. Initially, this minifigure appears unchanged from those produced in 1987, so includes an identical black helmet with matching visor and a smiling head underneath. The white torso decoration looks brilliant too, standing out remarkably well against the black plastic.
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