tell me about it, I don't think I filled you guys in on what happened with that..
So I did the design up (recreated it from scratch in illustrator) priced a heap of parts and got rough numbers from some people to see if I'd have enough to make it worthwhile, and also which colours were popular and the most affordable (some parts aren't available in bulk for example)
I sorted all that and deemed it worthwhile, got a short list of colours etc. I found a localish printed and sent him some blank torsos along with a exosuit green spaceman torso to use for a colour matching sample as well as position reference.
He confirmed he received them and I said as soon as you're ready to go let me know and I'll send money. He didn't reply for about a month, I followed up again, no reply, and again, no reply.
So he's disappeared off the face of the earth taking my spaceman torso with him but thankfully I never paid anything. Everything was waiting on that which fell through. The X-files ones I printed were through someone else as a test run, worked out well so now I can move forward with the classic spacemen and x-files as well.
Augh that sucks dude, and losing that spaceman torso is adding insult to injury! I totally forgot how super nice some of those colours look on the classic spacemen though, I really wish they'd make more classic space men stuff akin to the exo suit.
On a totally unrelated note legogaf friends, I think I'm slowly getting back in on this.
Its no secret to you all that I'm primarily in on the Superheroes sets, but having not bought anything since the new year, I've since shaken this off.
As mentioned earlier, I picked up the Miles Morales Spider-Man vs Carnage set, which is a neat little build (if somewhat pricey with that extra licensing cost on top).
The hover copter looks cool, but because of how its angled there's no way to really balance it upright without it falling over or sitting at an angle.
Honestly for me the high point is the generic SHIELD Agent that comes with it. I wish they had a troop building set with some of these guys (and/or gals), because I would totally love to have a squad of them but I'm not really in the market for buying multiple versions of this set unless I got it on clearance at some point. Could have done with a second SHIELD Agent just to give the set a little more value. Also, no webbing accessory for Miles is kind of weird.
Miles is a solid figure, the back print stands out as super nice to me for some reason.
Carnage is a cool minifigure that is flawed in Lego's unwillingness to cast the parts used to hold his tentacles on in red. For anyone that has Venom, you'll recognised the same setup of neck peg holding back accessory that holds 4 recoloured vines (thankfully at least these are in red), but the actual piece that holds the tentacles together is still in the same black that Venom's was in.
Also even though the tentacle back acessory obscures it, Carnage does have a nice back print.
I also spotted the Justice League vs Bizarro League bluray reduced on sale at a local supermarket and picked that up today mostly for Batzarro, so I am pretty happy with that
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