was not expecting the sand green! lovely!

Wow. Just wow.

Man, that's beautiful. And the price is better than I expected. Looking forward to the designer video and review to see all the functionality. I love it but it's not really in my wheelhouse.

Can I save my game on it, though?

Wonder who the target market is for this. Maybe 80+? Do they buy Legos?

While its not for me personally... Wow that is amazingly accurately detailed and well built.

Also, off topic slightly... but with all these reveals recently I can't help but wondering what we're going to be left with to see when the Lego Con eventually happens...?

For 200 EUR you can get a real vintage one.

@morvit said:
"Wonder who the target market is for this. Maybe 80+? Do they buy Legos?"

No, they buy Lego!

This will be a fine edition to my collection :D

Beautiful!

Ooof. My daughter just bought an actual antique 1910s Underwood for this much money. Which is probably cooler than a non-working Lego replica, but she'd probably love both.

One of the rare cases where the color inconsistency of sand green is actually going to lend itself to the authenticity of the model.

Surely if Lego can release this, they can release a new Castle line. No way a new Castle line sells worse than this...

Kinda pricey IMO, but looks really cool! I’m interested to see the functionality of it, and love the color choice!

This is absolutely mesmerizing!

I wasn't anticipating this set that much but this set looks lovely! The sand green color choice is a good choice too in my opinion.

Great color! This looks absolutely fantastic! This is a definite buy (but not on release date; I won't be home around that time :)
I don't really care whether it works or not tbh

@morvit said:
"Wonder who the target market is for this. Maybe 80+? Do they buy Legos?"

I'm 43 and I had a typewriter in elementary school. I remember writing a report on Leif Erikson on it in third grade. All the other kids wrote theirs by hand.

Technology does not advance linearly. Innovation accelerated so fast with the advent of personal computing that oldish tech seems ancient, but it's really not.

The big question is: stickers or prints? I can't quite tell from the photos.

@morvit said:
"Wonder who the target market is for this. Maybe 80+? Do they buy Legos?"

Besides, typewriters have a cult following. I’m on the young side and I’ve had one for a couple years now.

@morvit said:
"Surely if Lego can release this, they can release a new Castle line. No way a new Castle line sells worse than this..."

"The thing I like SURELY must sell better than the thing I don't like! There is no bias in this line of thought whatsoever!"

@Snaz said:
"Looks accurate to the source material (It looks like a typewriter)

I won't buy it. I'm personally not a big fan of typewriters, and it's $200. It's a shame that Ideas sets are almost always over $100 recently..."
Blame the people who are always clamoring for large sets and getting upset when LEGO tries to downsize them to make them more accessible and affordable. The Ideas range is entirely 18+ products now, and it's not difficult to see why.

Beautiful model. I probably won’t get this but its impressive.

Price feels a little high for a nonlicensed Ideas set. Blacksmith has roughly same piece count at 75% of the price.

I wonder if you could mod it into a computer keyboard somehow, with some sensor and a raspberry pi or similar

Looks great! And now we can rebuild the 911 in sand green.

This isn't necessarily a set I want to get in order to display, but I kind of want to get it for the experience of building the working mechanisms integrated into it.

@lentrott said:
" @morvit said:
"Wonder who the target market is for this. Maybe 80+? Do they buy Legos?"

No, they buy Lego!

"

No, they buy LEGO!

Originally I had no interest in this set, and now... well I'm blown away by the thing! It's simply beautiful, and would make an excellent display piece in my office. What's another 200.00 to add to a Want List that's already my annual income? Then I'd just need a model of similar design quality of a vintage rotary phone, something like: http://www.oldphoneshop.com/products/vintage-rotary-phone-1a-highboy-monophone-automatic-electric.html

I think this will do exactly what TLG aimed for w/this project, which is to entice new AFOL's.

@CapnRex101 said:
" @DoonsterBuildsLego said:
"The big question is: stickers or prints? I can't quite tell from the photos."

The keys are printed, although I believe a couple of stickers are included."

According to the German website zusammengebaut.com, the keys are all printed and there are 2 stickers included. One on the front (System) and one on the back.

Can I play Call of Duty on it?

I'm REALLY impressed by this model, but TOTALLY unimpressed by the quality of the pieces.

I can't begin to understand how TLG are ANYTHING BUT TOTALLY EMBARRASSED by such massive colour inconsistencies in the Sand Green pieces...

@illennium said:
" @morvit said:
"Wonder who the target market is for this. Maybe 80+? Do they buy Legos?"

I'm 43 and I had a typewriter in elementary school. I remember writing a report on Leif Erikson on it in third grade. All the other kids wrote theirs by hand.

Technology does not advance linearly. Innovation accelerated so fast with the advent of personal computing that oldish tech seems ancient, but it's really not."

.. and I'm 38 and used my mother's typewriter when I was at school. I actually started to learn to touch type on it, although we got a PC before I mastered it - much less force required!

Very happy that this isn't oversized and overpriced to accommodate app functions as happened with the grand piano. Ideas is definitely my favourite line at the moment, I'll be picking this up sooner or later!

This looks considerably better than I imagined and I don’t think I had particularly low hopes. It was a pass for me and has moved to a maybe.

@Ayliffe said:
" @morvit said:
"Surely if Lego can release this, they can release a new Castle line. No way a new Castle line sells worse than this..."

"The thing I like SURELY must sell better than the thing I don't like! There is no bias in this line of thought whatsoever!""

Oof, your strawman's strawbrother's strawdog is still reeling from your slick burn. But all the real humans are confused about how your mind functions.

Type writers are really niche, so the market for this is theoretically pretty small. This set looks awesome, but I certainly will not buy it anywhere near retail price.
Castles are cool, lots of people like them. It would be astounding if the market for castles was smaller than the market for this.
As for bias, everything is biased to some extent, so calling out bias is often worthless. It can make sense when someone is claiming to be objective, and when the issue is important. This is neither. I hope you have an educational day!

Very cool. Nice rocket engine exhaust on the right. For extra fast typing.

@LegoSonicBoy said:
" @Snaz said:
"Looks accurate to the source material (It looks like a typewriter)

I won't buy it. I'm personally not a big fan of typewriters, and it's $200. It's a shame that Ideas sets are almost always over $100 recently..."
Blame the people who are always clamoring for large sets and getting upset when LEGO tries to downsize them to make them more accessible and affordable. The Ideas range is entirely 18+ products now, and it's not difficult to see why."

If you want cheap sets, then go look at 90% of the remaining themes.

@Bmuralles said:
" @Ayliffe said:
" @morvit said:
"Surely if Lego can release this, they can release a new Castle line. No way a new Castle line sells worse than this..."

"The thing I like SURELY must sell better than the thing I don't like! There is no bias in this line of thought whatsoever!""

Oof, your strawman's strawbrother's strawdog is still reeling from your slick burn. But all the real humans are confused about how your mind functions.

Type writers are really niche, so the market for this is theoretically pretty small. This set looks awesome, but I certainly will not buy it anywhere near retail price.
Castles are cool, lots of people like them. It would be astounding if the market for castles was smaller than the market for this.
As for bias, everything is biased to some extent, so calling out bias is often worthless. It can make sense when someone is claiming to be objective, and when the issue is important. This is neither. I hope you have an educational day!"

Real human here. So you make an ad hominem attack on the poster who is deconstructing the straw man argument in the OP, fair enough, but it doesn’t make your argument convincing.

It’s false equivalency, yes, castles would sell more units, and that will be why most retailers stock the Creator castle over this, but it isn’t the same target market, it’s like arguing ice cream would sell more than pineapple so pineapple producers should make more ice cream.

This looks very nice, a bit like the Grand Piano but IMHO more elegant and much more mechanically interesting.

30 new prints ? (well technically 29, there are 2x SHIFT KEY)

@Kynareth said:
" @Bmuralles said:
" @Ayliffe said:
" @morvit said:
"Surely if Lego can release this, they can release a new Castle line. No way a new Castle line sells worse than this..."

"The thing I like SURELY must sell better than the thing I don't like! There is no bias in this line of thought whatsoever!""

Oof, your strawman's strawbrother's strawdog is still reeling from your slick burn. But all the real humans are confused about how your mind functions.

Type writers are really niche, so the market for this is theoretically pretty small. This set looks awesome, but I certainly will not buy it anywhere near retail price.
Castles are cool, lots of people like them. It would be astounding if the market for castles was smaller than the market for this.
As for bias, everything is biased to some extent, so calling out bias is often worthless. It can make sense when someone is claiming to be objective, and when the issue is important. This is neither. I hope you have an educational day!"

Real human here. So you make an ad hominem attack on the poster who is deconstructing the straw man argument in the OP, fair enough, but it doesn’t make your argument convincing.

It’s false equivalency, yes, castles would sell more units, and that will be why most retailers stock the Creator castle over this, but it isn’t the same target market, it’s like arguing ice cream would sell more than pineapple so pineapple producers should make more ice cream."

This may be the most intellectual debate I’ve seen on brickset in a while.

Epic. Just epic.
Now who will be the first to incorporate the "BACK SPACE" tile into a nice Classic Space MOC?

@Kynareth said:
" @Bmuralles said:
" @Ayliffe said:
" @morvit said:
"Surely if Lego can release this, they can release a new Castle line. No way a new Castle line sells worse than this..."

"The thing I like SURELY must sell better than the thing I don't like! There is no bias in this line of thought whatsoever!""

Oof, your strawman's strawbrother's strawdog is still reeling from your slick burn. But all the real humans are confused about how your mind functions.

Type writers are really niche, so the market for this is theoretically pretty small. This set looks awesome, but I certainly will not buy it anywhere near retail price.
Castles are cool, lots of people like them. It would be astounding if the market for castles was smaller than the market for this.
As for bias, everything is biased to some extent, so calling out bias is often worthless. It can make sense when someone is claiming to be objective, and when the issue is important. This is neither. I hope you have an educational day!"

Real human here. So you make an ad hominem attack on the poster who is deconstructing the straw man argument in the OP, fair enough, but it doesn’t make your argument convincing.

It’s false equivalency, yes, castles would sell more units, and that will be why most retailers stock the Creator castle over this, but it isn’t the same target market, it’s like arguing ice cream would sell more than pineapple so pineapple producers should make more ice cream."

But LEGO is a company that can make both ice cream (Castle) and pineapples (niche 18+ sets). Ice cream outsells pineapple, and more stores are willing to carry more ice cream and will give it lots of shelf space. Whereas, pineapple will be sold by only a few stores and only recieve minimal shelf space.

LEGO is failing to recognize this and appears to be devoting much of their R&D to cranking out more pineapple, when there's a large underserved segment asking for ice cream.

@bamaker said:
" @Kynareth said:
" @Bmuralles said:
" @Ayliffe said:
" @morvit said:
"Surely if Lego can release this, they can release a new Castle line. No way a new Castle line sells worse than this..."

"The thing I like SURELY must sell better than the thing I don't like! There is no bias in this line of thought whatsoever!""

Oof, your strawman's strawbrother's strawdog is still reeling from your slick burn. But all the real humans are confused about how your mind functions.

Type writers are really niche, so the market for this is theoretically pretty small. This set looks awesome, but I certainly will not buy it anywhere near retail price.
Castles are cool, lots of people like them. It would be astounding if the market for castles was smaller than the market for this.
As for bias, everything is biased to some extent, so calling out bias is often worthless. It can make sense when someone is claiming to be objective, and when the issue is important. This is neither. I hope you have an educational day!"

Real human here. So you make an ad hominem attack on the poster who is deconstructing the straw man argument in the OP, fair enough, but it doesn’t make your argument convincing.

It’s false equivalency, yes, castles would sell more units, and that will be why most retailers stock the Creator castle over this, but it isn’t the same target market, it’s like arguing ice cream would sell more than pineapple so pineapple producers should make more ice cream."

But LEGO is a company that can make both ice cream (Castle) and pineapples (niche 18+ sets). Ice cream outsells pineapple, and more stores are willing to carry more ice cream and will give it lots of shelf space. Whereas, pineapple will be sold by only a few stores and only recieve minimal shelf space.

LEGO is failing to recognize this and appears to be devoting much of their R&D to cranking out more pineapple, when there's a large underserved segment asking for ice cream."

Comment assumes without evidence that ice cream would outsell pineapple.

Lego undoubtedly has a segment of the company that engages in marketing and research, and investigates what product lines would be likely to be profitable. Maybe they've found that Castle isn't as viable now as it was in the 1980s and they aren't ready to conclude that demand would outweigh production costs. This *is* a company with a bottom line to meet, after all.

Beware of the mind fallacy: I think X, therefore everyone thinks X, therefore, society should cater to my desire for X.

I'm gonna need to see a video of the play functions in action before I make my $200 decision...

edit: nevermind, it's right here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeLA7gZzdtU

@Kynareth said:
" @Bmuralles said:
" @Ayliffe said:
" @morvit said:
"Surely if Lego can release this, they can release a new Castle line. No way a new Castle line sells worse than this..."

"The thing I like SURELY must sell better than the thing I don't like! There is no bias in this line of thought whatsoever!""

Oof, your strawman's strawbrother's strawdog is still reeling from your slick burn. But all the real humans are confused about how your mind functions.

Type writers are really niche, so the market for this is theoretically pretty small. This set looks awesome, but I certainly will not buy it anywhere near retail price.
Castles are cool, lots of people like them. It would be astounding if the market for castles was smaller than the market for this.
As for bias, everything is biased to some extent, so calling out bias is often worthless. It can make sense when someone is claiming to be objective, and when the issue is important. This is neither. I hope you have an educational day!"

Real human here. So you make an ad hominem attack on the poster who is deconstructing the straw man argument in the OP, fair enough, but it doesn’t make your argument convincing.

It’s false equivalency, yes, castles would sell more units, and that will be why most retailers stock the Creator castle over this, but it isn’t the same target market, it’s like arguing ice cream would sell more than pineapple so pineapple producers should make more ice cream."

Comparing CITY to Castle is nearly the same analogy. Castle is very niche compared to generic City/Town sets. So this triggered person is being very ironic or something else.

@bamaker said:
"LEGO is failing to recognize this and appears to be devoting much of their R&D to cranking out more pineapple, when there's a large underserved segment asking for ice cream."

You're literally getting a Creator castle this year. Got a legit pirate ship last year. Sales figures of each of those will likely dictate the subject matter going forward. You're not underserved.

I want to add: negativity is a morale suck. It's a miracle of human civilization that many of us are now at a point where we can complain about "I want a specific Lego line" instead of "I want more food" or "I want to live past the age of 30." Regardless, negativity has a tendency to be infectious, so one person's vocalized unhappiness often hits everyone else very badly, *whether you like it or not.* If you're on a long car trip and one person starts screaming "I'M BORED," that's going to ruin things for everyone else.

It's a free forum: you can write what you want until the mods kill a thread. Just be cognizant: when people are positively reacting to a new product, and that one guy comes in to say "I DON'T LIKE LEGO TIDDLYWONKS; I WANT MORE FABULAND," it really, really, really kills the mood for everyone else. This is particularly true when 1) eBay exists and you can go find old Fabuland, or 2) Lego is by nature a modular product; you're entirely free to build your own Fabuland until a new product line comes along.

Also, 3) you can constructively write to Lego's feedback team and let them know you want more Fabuland. Maybe you can generate enough interest that it'll happen.

Or, hey, maybe you can submit a 10,000 vote Fabuland idea to the Ideas thing, which is specifically grounded in marketing interest.

@morvit said:
"Wonder who the target market is for this. Maybe 80+? Do they buy Legos?"
What an ignorant comment all around.

Just because you are too young to have had a typewriter doesn't mean that people who did must be very old.

I am 44 and had a manual typewriter during all of my childhood and youth, and when I started working in '97 the bank I worked for had manual as well as electric typewriters galore. My father finally got rid of his (electric) typewriter around 2010.

Plus, it's LEGO, not Legos.
That's just as annoying as people who talk about Star Trek and mention "the Borgs"...

For me, this set is a must have. Not day one of course, as I'll wait for the inevitable eventual discount, but a definitive must have. And I know of several people who think the same.

@cody6268 said:
"This is the problem I have with it. Look at a lot of the Technic sets these days. Not counting the Jeep Wrangler (what, $40,000 these days); most of them are replicating large several-hundred-thousand dollar cars and heavy machinery. Even though LEGO these days is commonly doing north of $150 sets, they still do sub-$50 versions of certain vehicles. Still, only a tiny fraction of what the "real thing" costs.

But, one can easily find a typewriter. Since most people under the age of 30-40 probably don't even know what they are, I've seen them at flea markets and such under $20. Only through antiques dealers and those who know what they're selling. I'm 24, and used an electric Smith-Corona in middle school as it allowed me to get more done without the distractions on my HP desktop I had back then. Problem was that it was a leftover the small Christian school I attended had just given me as surplus "they didn't need it anymore; hadn't been used in years" when I asked (this was 2006-7), and it was worn out. My great-Granddad had one, which is currently just decoration around the house. It weighs 30 pounds. My grandmother also had a Remington, but it was poorly stored, and had ruined (got thrown out years ago). I'm wanting a portable mechanical model, and there are many at a price FAR less than this $200 set. "

Honest question because it's very possible that I'm in the minority here and that's okay -- different views are great -- but I am just curious. Do people buy LEGO sets (in part) because they can't have the real thing? I am curious if that is a factor for people. I have seen this sentiment a number of times -- Jang has made this point about the price of the LEGO NES as well, and has recently started comparing the value of LEGO sets to, e.g., die-cast models of the same cars and objects.

I buy LEGO sets because I collect LEGO and like to build LEGO. Obviously I pick and choose which models to buy based on what looks cool to me. but it's never occurred to me to think whether I could buy the real thing instead. If anything, as with the NES, I have both the original and the LEGO set side by side, because they're both cool in their own completely different ways and it's cool that they both exist. I buy the LEGO botanical sets even though I have my own garden with plenty of flowers and several acres of woods with many different kinds of trees and plants.

I find the idea of choosing between the real thing and a LEGO version fascinating because it's so foreign to me to compare them. Is this something that a lot of people do when considering which sets to buy? I'm not judging it at all, I just am curious to understand it.

This looks like a much more successful product than the Ideas piano. It still doesn't do what the real thing does, but the mechanism inside seems to be quite impressive.

It’s beautiful! I’m not sure yet, but I might get this. It’s a gorgeous model, and between all the printed letter key tiles and all the sand green elements it’ll be a fantastic parts pack.

@morvit said:
"Surely if Lego can release this, they can release a new Castle line. No way a new Castle line sells worse than this..."

Perhaps, but I’d bet this will sell more sets to people who don’t normally already buy LEGO than a new set or line in an existing classic LEGO theme like Castle would. That’s probably a significant consideration.

@GrosPanda1979 said:
"I was really impressed with the design in the video, right up until I realised that the ink ribbon is fake and that it doesn't actually function as a real Typewriter! Given the time and resources TLG have, SURELY they could have came up with a way to have it actually work? The original Technic Control Centre back-in-the-day, allowed you to create a working Plotter with a supplied pen. This set is like building a guitar without strings, it's a great "looking" piece, but it's only a facade. "

You really thought it was going to function? I mean...

@morvit said:
"Wonder who the target market is for this. Maybe 80+? Do they buy Legos?"

I'm 50, used a manual typewriter all through middle school and high school. Typing class was mandatory, even! Aside from that, though, as someone who is a writer by trade and also loves vintage stuff, this is a Day One for me.

So the target market, I think, includes anyone old enough to have used a typewriter (40+, maybe), anyone who is a writer, for fun or money (small numbers, admittedly) and anyone who likes vintage stuff (HUGE numbers).

I think it'll sell just fine.

For all the folks wondering who’d pay more for a LEGO recreation of a real-world object than they would for the actual thing, what about 7594 Army Men on Patrol? I bought six copies of that, and that set cost maybe thirty times what one would pay for four actual traditional little green army men, even with a Jeep. :p :D

Granted, in this case the LEGO version not only replicates the full functionality of the original but actually adds some since the soldiers can be posed and re-posed and all, but still. :p ;)

@Cooliocdawg said:
" @Kynareth said:
" @Bmuralles said:
" @Ayliffe said:
" @morvit said:
"Surely if Lego can release this, they can release a new Castle line. No way a new Castle line sells worse than this..."

"The thing I like SURELY must sell better than the thing I don't like! There is no bias in this line of thought whatsoever!""

Oof, your strawman's strawbrother's strawdog is still reeling from your slick burn. But all the real humans are confused about how your mind functions.

Type writers are really niche, so the market for this is theoretically pretty small. This set looks awesome, but I certainly will not buy it anywhere near retail price.
Castles are cool, lots of people like them. It would be astounding if the market for castles was smaller than the market for this.
As for bias, everything is biased to some extent, so calling out bias is often worthless. It can make sense when someone is claiming to be objective, and when the issue is important. This is neither. I hope you have an educational day!"

Real human here. So you make an ad hominem attack on the poster who is deconstructing the straw man argument in the OP, fair enough, but it doesn’t make your argument convincing.

It’s false equivalency, yes, castles would sell more units, and that will be why most retailers stock the Creator castle over this, but it isn’t the same target market, it’s like arguing ice cream would sell more than pineapple so pineapple producers should make more ice cream."

This may be the most intellectual debate I’ve seen on brickset in a while. "

To be honest the main outcome in my mind is that I really wanna try a pineapple ice cream as a result of all this!

Tom Hanks would love this

@Kynareth said:
" @Bmuralles said:
" @Ayliffe said:
" @morvit said:
"Surely if Lego can release this, they can release a new Castle line. No way a new Castle line sells worse than this..."

"The thing I like SURELY must sell better than the thing I don't like! There is no bias in this line of thought whatsoever!""

Oof, your strawman's strawbrother's strawdog is still reeling from your slick burn. But all the real humans are confused about how your mind functions.

Type writers are really niche, so the market for this is theoretically pretty small. This set looks awesome, but I certainly will not buy it anywhere near retail price.
Castles are cool, lots of people like them. It would be astounding if the market for castles was smaller than the market for this.
As for bias, everything is biased to some extent, so calling out bias is often worthless. It can make sense when someone is claiming to be objective, and when the issue is important. This is neither. I hope you have an educational day!"

It’s false equivalency, yes, castles would sell more units, and that will be why most retailers stock the Creator castle over this, but it isn’t the same target market, it’s like arguing ice cream would sell more than pineapple so pineapple producers should make more ice cream."

I'm not saying they shouldn't sell the type writer (neither was the OP), just stating that if this is profitable for them castle would likely be too.

As for your false equivalency, Lego makes Lego. Pineapple farmers can't just switch to making ice cream on a whim, but Lego can make whatever they want out of Lego. It's awesome that they make a wide variety of things to appeal to all sorts of interests, but there's also nothing wrong with someone saying something like "if they're producing this niche thing, I'm sure they could also release this less niche thing that I really want".

Lego, Please make cheaper ideas sets like you did previously not like $100+++ sets I really don’t like this trend

@bamaker said:
" @Kynareth said:
" @Bmuralles said:
" @Ayliffe said:
" @morvit said:
"Surely if Lego can release this, they can release a new Castle line. No way a new Castle line sells worse than this..."

"The thing I like SURELY must sell better than the thing I don't like! There is no bias in this line of thought whatsoever!""

Oof, your strawman's strawbrother's strawdog is still reeling from your slick burn. But all the real humans are confused about how your mind functions.

Type writers are really niche, so the market for this is theoretically pretty small. This set looks awesome, but I certainly will not buy it anywhere near retail price.
Castles are cool, lots of people like them. It would be astounding if the market for castles was smaller than the market for this.
As for bias, everything is biased to some extent, so calling out bias is often worthless. It can make sense when someone is claiming to be objective, and when the issue is important. This is neither. I hope you have an educational day!"

Real human here. So you make an ad hominem attack on the poster who is deconstructing the straw man argument in the OP, fair enough, but it doesn’t make your argument convincing.

It’s false equivalency, yes, castles would sell more units, and that will be why most retailers stock the Creator castle over this, but it isn’t the same target market, it’s like arguing ice cream would sell more than pineapple so pineapple producers should make more ice cream."

But LEGO is a company that can make both ice cream (Castle) and pineapples (niche 18+ sets). Ice cream outsells pineapple, and more stores are willing to carry more ice cream and will give it lots of shelf space. Whereas, pineapple will be sold by only a few stores and only recieve minimal shelf space.

LEGO is failing to recognize this and appears to be devoting much of their R&D to cranking out more pineapple, when there's a large underserved segment asking for ice cream."

Do you have any concrete proof for the castle demand? LEGO, while branching out with its target audiences, is still a toy company primarily aimed at children. Odds are the R&D department gave the okay on themes like SuperMario instead of castle because kids liked the former over the latter.

I like seeing LEGO experiment with old themes via creator. Perhaps if the castle set sells well enough, it could be the evidence the company needs to reconsider castle as a theme

@bamaker said:
"LEGO is failing to recognize this and appears to be devoting much of their R&D to cranking out more pineapple, when there's a large underserved segment asking for ice cream."
I love pineapple, and I love ice cream (who doesn't?). Even better, I love pineapple ice cream. :-)

@illennium : I can only speak for myself of course, but I never buy a LEGO (or competing brand) set in lieu of an original or other type of facsimile.
If I wanted a functional typewriter I could simply have one of my father's old ones. I will buy this for the fun of building it plus the display value.

Same with something like the Creator Expert line of vehicles. The Ferrari F40 (the real one) for example is one of my favorite cars of all time, and therefore I already have several scale models of it, all of which are more detailed and realistic than the LEGO version. Still, when 10248 arrived, I had to have it because it combined one of my favorite cars with my favorite hobby. And I have not regretted buying it, just as I won't regret buying this set even though it is just a display piece and more expensive than a real typewriter.

Needless to say, I also have the Speed Champions F40 ;-)

@Ayliffe said:
" @Cooliocdawg said:
" @Kynareth said:
" @Bmuralles said:
" @Ayliffe said:
" @morvit said:
"Surely if Lego can release this, they can release a new Castle line. No way a new Castle line sells worse than this..."

"The thing I like SURELY must sell better than the thing I don't like! There is no bias in this line of thought whatsoever!""

Oof, your strawman's strawbrother's strawdog is still reeling from your slick burn. But all the real humans are confused about how your mind functions.

Type writers are really niche, so the market for this is theoretically pretty small. This set looks awesome, but I certainly will not buy it anywhere near retail price.
Castles are cool, lots of people like them. It would be astounding if the market for castles was smaller than the market for this.
As for bias, everything is biased to some extent, so calling out bias is often worthless. It can make sense when someone is claiming to be objective, and when the issue is important. This is neither. I hope you have an educational day!"

Real human here. So you make an ad hominem attack on the poster who is deconstructing the straw man argument in the OP, fair enough, but it doesn’t make your argument convincing.

It’s false equivalency, yes, castles would sell more units, and that will be why most retailers stock the Creator castle over this, but it isn’t the same target market, it’s like arguing ice cream would sell more than pineapple so pineapple producers should make more ice cream."

This may be the most intellectual debate I’ve seen on brickset in a while. "

To be honest the main outcome in my mind is that I really wanna try a pineapple ice cream as a result of all this!"

Go for pineapple sherbet instead. Now that stuff is GOOD.

Oh, this looks fantastic. My late Grandpapa would have loved this as a former newspaper publisher. I'm glad they were able to work in more functionality than the Ideas proposal itself had, and that all the keys are printed (I'm normally okay with stickers but that many round stickers on round parts would've been a pain to line up).

I wasn't aware that 3 years of inflation equalled out to an extra $100, thanks for shafting Australia yet again Lego.

I am still salty that they didn't chose Bionicle but this is a beautiful set indeed.

@jkb said:
" @Jotahesse1 said:
"An NES first and now a typewriter. What is next? A first gen iPod model as a working music box with a U2 track. "

First 5000 preorders will get either a limited Bono or Steve Jobs Bust model.

Anyway, sometimes, I ask myself how many Ideas supporters actually buy the final product they voted for...
anyone any numbers?"

I would also be very interested in knowing this - maybe @Huw can organise some sorts of survey of 1) how many sets do you vote for in a given year and 2) how many of these sets do you actually buy.

Personally, I stopped voting for sets because: of the fantastic selection of sets making it past the 10k mark, very few (read next to none) of the one I voted for made the cut to a produced model so I stopped caring. So now, I cannot complain and must be content with what comes out - and that's just fine like that, I vote with my money.

That said, before I refrained from voting, I voted for the Saturn V, the Pirates of Barracuda Bay and the ISS space station (special vote); I own those three sets.

@Snaz said:
"Looks accurate to the source material (It looks like a typewriter)

I won't buy it. I'm personally not a big fan of typewriters, and it's $200. It's a shame that Ideas sets are almost always over $100 recently..."

21318 and 21322 worth every penny...

Regarding the non-sequitur assertion that Castle sets would sell better, there a bunch of castles in other themes this year (Creator, Disney, Harry Potter) that, while not equivalent to a standalone castle theme in the eyes of AFOLs, very possibly might appeal more to the same kids who would otherwise buy one. I wouldn't mind a Castle theme (or heck, even getting Elves back), but if an original castle theme were really as sure a seller as fans make it out to be I doubt Lego would hesitate to release one. But the alternative, that the market for castles is currently saturated by other themes and that other kinds of themes with more crossover appeal have better sales potential, is a very real possibility that shouldn't be discounted, even if it stings for fans of classic castle themes.

I'm going to throw out a wacky side comment in the hopes that somebody at Lego notices:

I'd love to see a Collectible Minifigure Wave that includes a bunch of classic minifigure reissues. (Remember when we got the original 1978 Police Officer reissued?) So maybe a classic Knight or two, a reissued Captain Redbeard, an original Town fireman, an original print Johnny Thunder....

Anyway, throw in some 80s Castle guys to make our Castle fan here happy.

@Ladondorf said:
"Are the two large, curved, sand green pieces on the front new?"

I'm pretty sure they're a recolour of the rear panels on the 10295 Creator Expert Porsche as noted by some earlier comments.

@Leetr_Frkno said:
"I wasn't aware that 3 years of inflation equalled out to an extra $100, thanks for shafting Australia yet again Lego."

Your currency's last high point was already in 2012, and has been on a downward trend ever since. At current FX, AUD 330 is approx EUR 210, pretty close to the European RRP.

I know this is a sore point with Australians on this site (and similar sentiment is regularly expressed by Canadians), but the simple fact is: your currency is not worth anymore what it once was.

"Why get this when I could get a real one?"

Because this one is Lego. Case closed

If you want to get a real typewriter, you could before, and you can now. If you want to get a Lego typewriter, you could *not* before, and you can now. Same goes for the Ship in a Bottle, Marble Maze, Pop-up Book, Voltron, Jurassic Park, Minecraft, anything space-related, Speed Champions, virtually every Lego theme. Yes, you can get Star Wars action figures, why would anyone want Star Wars Lego? Because it's Lego!

I guess it looks nice, but as I have nothing to do with it once it's build, I'll skip it.

This set made me think that for the poll maybe we can add "Yes, but for the parts" as an option ?

@stlux said:
" @Leetr_Frkno said:
"I wasn't aware that 3 years of inflation equalled out to an extra $100, thanks for shafting Australia yet again Lego."

Your currency's last high point was already in 2012, and has been on a downward trend ever since. At current FX, AUD 330 is approx EUR 210, pretty close to the European RRP.

I know this is a sore point with Australians on this site (and similar sentiment is regularly expressed by Canadians), but the simple fact is: your currency is not worth anymore what it once was."

I don't think you'll find the Canadians complaining too hard about this one. The fact remains that Australia, Europe AND the UK are paying 25% more for this set than our North American counterparts. To fully understand the average Aussie AFOLs' angst you need to go back further than 2012. At the turn of the century we were regularly paying half the North American price for the majority of sets.
While I also understand that the North American prices generally don't include sales tax, it should also be noted that its not uncommon for US based AFOLs to be purchasing sets at 50% or more discount.

The pricing of TLG products on an INTERNATIONAL level is a lot more complicated than using a simple exchange rate to explain it.

My personal issue is the fact that while I'm paying a considerable premium than I was 20 years ago, the quality of the product is magnitudes worse than what it once was. I don't believe this part of the equation is debatable.

Back...space? By the time I was old enough to learn how to type, my dad had traded his typewriter in for a Trash-80, but I’m assuming this is to just reposition the carriage so you can use a white-out ribbon to “delete” a mistake?

@bamaker:
Except every time they put ice cream on the shelf, people complain that they don’t like the flavor, and buy potato chips instead, and then the retailers complain to them asking why they keep shipping ice cream when all anyone buys are chips. If Castle sold well enough to command a shelf at Walmart, it would have a shelf at Walmart. The last thing anyone wants is for condensing of the product line to continue unchecked to the point where all that’s left is plainvanilla ice cream and you can’t even buy a jar of sprinkles to hide the flavor.

@AustinPowers:
Seriously, dude, _IT’S_NOT_”LEGO”_!!!!!!! There is a page on there website that, for years, has tried, to no avail, to disabuse people of the false idea that “LEGO” is, or ever was, a noun. It’s not. It’s an adjective. It’s “LEGO bricks”. “LEGO parts”. The only thing more annoying than seeing people cry about “license fees” on sets that cost less than $0.10/pc is people saying, “My way of saying it wrong is more correct than your way of saying it wrong.” I don’t personally care how anyone says it, but if you’re going to tell people they’re saying it wrong, learn to say it right first.

@PurpleDave said:
"Back...space? By the time I was old enough to learn how to type, my dad had traded his typewriter in for a Trash-80, but I’m assuming this is to just reposition the carriage so you can use a white-out ribbon to “delete” a mistake?

@bamaker:
Except every time they put ice cream on the shelf, people complain that they don’t like the flavor, and buy potato chips instead, and then the retailers complain to them asking why they keep shipping ice cream when all anyone buys are chips. If Castle sold well enough to command a shelf at Walmart, it would have a shelf at Walmart. The last thing anyone wants is for condensing of the product line to continue unchecked to the point where all that’s left is plainvanilla ice cream and you can’t even buy a jar of sprinkles to hide the flavor.

@AustinPowers:
Seriously, dude, _IT’S_NOT_”LEGO”_!!!!!!! There is a page on there website that, for years, has tried, to no avail, to disabuse people of the false idea that “LEGO” is, or ever was, a noun. It’s not. It’s an adjective. It’s “LEGO bricks”. “LEGO parts”. The only thing more annoying than seeing people cry about “license fees” on sets that cost less than $0.10/pc is people saying, “My way of saying it wrong is more correct than your way of saying it wrong.” I don’t personally care how anyone says it, but if you’re going to tell people they’re saying it wrong, learn to say it right first."

As a company name, "Lego" is a proper noun.

Of course, your annoyance is with "Lego" as a descriptor of the product rather than the adjective describing the parts of the product. Language is, like it or not, dynamic--it trends how people use the words. The famous example is the "thermos," which is the name of the Thermos company, but very quickly became the common descriptor of the product itself.

One thing that doesn't get observed much is that Lego is slowly becoming a collectibles company that happens to still make toys.

@rmpe99bs said:
"One thing that doesn't get observed much is that Lego is slowly becoming a collectibles company that happens to still make toys."

*Lego shifts from 1% of products focused mainly on adults to 2% of products focused mainly on adults*

WHERE are the TOYS? Will SOMEONE please think of the CHILDREN?????

@PurpleDave said:
"Back...space? By the time I was old enough to learn how to type, my dad had traded his typewriter in for a Trash-80, but I’m assuming this is to just reposition the carriage so you can use a white-out ribbon to “delete” a mistake?"

On vintage typewriters the backspace key is used to help aid in aligning the paper position for paragraphs / indentation or if you over-space when formatting, e.g. more than one space after a period like some writers like to do for sentence legibility.

And yeah, to correct typing mistakes it's used to properly align the carriage for overtyping the correct character using a whiteout strip (most likely something you just inserted manually between the paper and ribbon while typing the correction). You backspace to line up the wrong character and need to first retype the wrong character using the whiteout strip, backspace again and then retype the intended character. And good luck getting that alignment correct if you didn't catch your mistake early enough on the same line before introducing a carriage return.

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Speaking of typing mistakes, TLG could have gone a step further and included a brick-built bottle of liquid paper to complete the authentic vintage typewriter experience.

@cody6268 said:
"This is the problem I have with it. Look at a lot of the Technic sets these days. Not counting the Jeep Wrangler (what, $40,000 these days); most of them are replicating large several-hundred-thousand dollar cars and heavy machinery. Even though LEGO these days is commonly doing north of $150 sets, they still do sub-$50 versions of certain vehicles. Still, only a tiny fraction of what the "real thing" costs.

But, one can easily find a typewriter. Since most people under the age of 30-40 probably don't even know what they are, I've seen them at flea markets and such under $20. Only through antiques dealers and those who know what they're selling. I'm 24, and used an electric Smith-Corona in middle school as it allowed me to get more done without the distractions on my HP desktop I had back then. Problem was that it was a leftover the small Christian school I attended had just given me as surplus "they didn't need it anymore; hadn't been used in years" when I asked (this was 2006-7), and it was worn out. My great-Granddad had one, which is currently just decoration around the house. It weighs 30 pounds. My grandmother also had a Remington, but it was poorly stored, and had ruined (got thrown out years ago). I'm wanting a portable mechanical model, and there are many at a price FAR less than this $200 set. "

I'm sorry, I fell asleep....

@ResIpsaLoquitur:
“LEGO” is not the name of the company. It’s “The LEGO Company”. It’s part of “The LEGO Group”. Their retail branch is “LEGO Brand Retail”. Still not a noun.

I wish it transformed into a robot.

@PurpleDave said:
"Seriously, dude, _IT’S_NOT_”LEGO”_!!!!!!! There is a page on there website that, for years, has tried, to no avail, to disabuse people of the false idea that “LEGO” is, or ever was, a noun. It’s not. It’s an adjective. It’s “LEGO bricks”. “LEGO parts”."

Lego is most definitely a noun, not an adjective. Nouns can function in the grammatical role of adjectives when used as attributive nouns, as seen in your examples above. But that does not make them adjectives: consider the incoherent phrase a "a Lego lovely set," which would be perfectly valid if "Lego" actually were an adjective, instead of being governed by the syntax rules of attributive nouns.

Since it is a noun, your objection boils down to a purely subjective dislike of shortening "Lego bricks" down to "Lego." The objection is unfounded. To say "I want to play with Lego" could imply bricks, sets, even—*shudder*—Galidor. Just not MegaBloks.

The pluralization "Legos" is of course an abomination because, as any owner of a Lego collection can tell you, a big pile of Lego pieces is effectively impossible to count. (Heck, I can't even be sure my sets are all counted!) That makes it an uncountable noun, so the correct plural form is "Lego."

@AllenSmith said:
"The pluralization "Legos" is of course an abomination..."

I'm 42 and have always called them "Legos" and until LEGO pays me to market them or be a spokesperson I will continue to refer to them as such. Stop gatekeeping terminology. It's insufferable.

@Sandinista said:
" @bamaker said:
" @Kynareth said:
" @Bmuralles said:
" @Ayliffe said:
" @morvit said:
"Surely if Lego can release this, they can release a new Castle line. No way a new Castle line sells worse than this..."

"The thing I like SURELY must sell better than the thing I don't like! There is no bias in this line of thought whatsoever!""

Oof, your strawman's strawbrother's strawdog is still reeling from your slick burn. But all the real humans are confused about how your mind functions.

Type writers are really niche, so the market for this is theoretically pretty small. This set looks awesome, but I certainly will not buy it anywhere near retail price.
Castles are cool, lots of people like them. It would be astounding if the market for castles was smaller than the market for this.
As for bias, everything is biased to some extent, so calling out bias is often worthless. It can make sense when someone is claiming to be objective, and when the issue is important. This is neither. I hope you have an educational day!"

Real human here. So you make an ad hominem attack on the poster who is deconstructing the straw man argument in the OP, fair enough, but it doesn’t make your argument convincing.

It’s false equivalency, yes, castles would sell more units, and that will be why most retailers stock the Creator castle over this, but it isn’t the same target market, it’s like arguing ice cream would sell more than pineapple so pineapple producers should make more ice cream."

But LEGO is a company that can make both ice cream (Castle) and pineapples (niche 18+ sets). Ice cream outsells pineapple, and more stores are willing to carry more ice cream and will give it lots of shelf space. Whereas, pineapple will be sold by only a few stores and only recieve minimal shelf space.

LEGO is failing to recognize this and appears to be devoting much of their R&D to cranking out more pineapple, when there's a large underserved segment asking for ice cream."

Do you have any concrete proof for the castle demand? LEGO, while branching out with its target audiences, is still a toy company primarily aimed at children. Odds are the R&D department gave the okay on themes like SuperMario instead of castle because kids liked the former over the latter.

I like seeing LEGO experiment with old themes via creator. Perhaps if the castle set sells well enough, it could be the evidence the company needs to reconsider castle as a theme "

This typewriter got 10,000 votes on Lego Ideas. Compare that to the dozens of Medieval-themed projects on Lego Ideas that have reached 10,000. Also, the most popular options in the poll for this set on this website are not "yes".

One thing's for sure, this typewriter is higher quality than the last Castle wave . . .

@CDM said:
" @AllenSmith said:
"The pluralization "Legos" is of course an abomination..."

I'm 42 and have always called them "Legos" and until LEGO pays me to market them or be a spokesperson I will continue to refer to them as such. Stop gatekeeping terminology. It's insufferable."

My argument was entirely based on English grammar. It had nothing to do with—and actually completely contradicts—the contralingual word-policing fantasies of Lego's legal department. You are of course free to disagree on grammatical grounds, but beware that the whole point of making hyperbolic statements about the possibly-debatable subject of whether Lego is countable is to have fun arguing about grammar.

@Hamster_Productions said:
"On the one hand this looks incredible to build and display, on the other hand I could buy a real type writer for half the price... I'm in a dilemma with this one!"

I guess it's not a matter of choosing between a LEGO replica or the real thing. The magic in some of these Ideas sets is that it is a sculpture you're actually buying, a brick-built piece of art.

Besides what everybody else has mentioned regarding demand for this set vs. demand for a castle wave, I feel like it's relevant to point out that a full wave of sets takes a lot more resources to produce than a single stand-alone set, especially when it's entirely possible that LEGO intends to produce and distribute that stand-alone set in a more limited capacity due to its niche appeal.

Clearly, this set isn't standing in the way of stand-alone Castle releases, since there have already been at least two this year (the Ideas Medieval Blacksmith and Creator 3-in-1 Medieval Castle). But for LEGO to free up enough resources for a full wave of Castle sets, it'd have to take the place of SEVERAL other sets that those resources are currently going towards — whether that means downsizing multiple ongoing themes, turning down multiple pitches for stand-alone sets, or discontinuing a full theme of comparable size.

That's not to say that it'd be unrealistic to hope for a Castle theme in the future. But stand-alone releases like this, the Everyone is Awesome set, the Space Shuttle Discovery, etc don't somehow "prove" that LEGO could introduce a new Castle theme whenever they felt like it. Because rolling out a new theme requires not only recognizing the demand for it, but also making room for it within LEGO's overall product portfolio. And sometimes it's tricky to do that without sacrificing sets or themes that might be more effective at expanding LEGO's audience as a whole.

I’m amused by people comparing the price of this to a real typewriter. Has anyone told these people that LEGO is a construction system? (Fill in toy here by all means, I’m okay with that too). It’s value is measured along different axis, just as always is the case with any other set.

@ALEGOMan said:
"Why do these boring sets make it to shelves but not stuff like the goonies ship and red dwarf sets?"

I'm not going to comment on the relative levels of "boring" between the sets mentioned, but I suspect it's a combination of:

1) no licensing requirements for the typewriter;
2) The Goonies is a movie from 1985 which has had little media produced since the movie; and
3) Red Dwarf is well-known in the UK and not well known at all in most of the rest of the world.

I'm not trying to diss the quality of The Goonies or Red Dwarf, but they are pretty niche.

@PurpleDave said:
" @AllenSmith:
@ResIpsaLoquitur:

https://www.lego.com/en-us/legal/notices-and-policies/fair-play/

“Proper Use of the LEGO Trademark on a Web Site
If the LEGO trademark is used at all, it should always be used as an adjective, not as a noun. For example, say “MODELS BUILT OF LEGO BRICKS”. Never say “MODELS BUILT OF LEGOs”. Also, the trademark should appear in the same typeface as the surrounding text and should not be isolated or set apart from the surrounding text. In other words, the trademarks should not be emphasized or highlighted. Finally, the LEGO trademark should always appear with a ® symbol each time it is used.”

It’s about halfway down that page. This is the _only_ guidance they have on noun/adjective, LEGO/LEGOs, and so forth. Again, I don’t really care what people call them. They can say “Leg Godt bricks” or “FREGO” for all I care. My beef is with people incorrecting others’ use of the term. Call it Thumper’s Corollary: If you can’t say anything right, don’t say nuthin’ at all.

@ResIpsaLoquitur:
And companies must protect trademarks. If they don’t, those trademarks can be permanently revoked, like what happened to Aspirin and Xerox."

I'm a lawyer and I've dabbled in IP law, so I'm already aware of this. (See my comment on Thermos above.) Nonetheless, companies can nudge language, but they don't own it. There is, quite literally, no way to stop the average individual from using "Lego" as a noun if they want to do it. People can steer language, but people have a much harder time steering other people.

(Anyone here arguing for corporate word control should check whether they've ever used "Google" as a verb or referred to any soft drink as a "Coke"--yes, the latter is very common in the Southern United States.)

@magni_nominis_umbra said:
[[ @stlux said:
[[ @Leetr_Frkno said:
[[ ... the quality of the product is magnitudes worse than what it once was. I don't believe this part of the equation is debatable.]]

20 years ago was part of my "dark ages", but I gotta say that I'm constantly blown away by the sets that are being released these days. The build techniques, variety of subject matter and physical quality of the product always impress me. We're the sets from 20 years ago really better? Can you suggest some for me to check out? Thanks!

@PurpleDave said:
"https://www.lego.com/en-us/legal/notices-and-policies/fair-play/"

Lego's lawyers don't get to make the rules of English, nor do they even have the legal power to compel third parties to following their branding guidelines. The only legal action they can attempt is to prevent the genericization of the Lego trademark. But using "Lego" by itself to exclusively refer to Lego products carries no threat of trademark loss, any more than saying "there's a Toyota in my driveway" does when referring to a parked Camry.

Corporations have a long history of trying to dictate the "correct" usage of their brand in contravention of English language rules—demanding all caps, nonstandard capitalization, tangled wording—in an attempt to dupe editors into giving them free marketing. None of this is legitimate, much less correct, and may be freely ignored.

"Correct" is a function of language, and I think there is a very compelling linguistic argument that "Lego" should be pluralized as "Lego."

Wow, I think these comments need Brickset bingo, surely there would be a full house (too expensive, why did they make this and not bring back my favourite theme from the past, Legos/Lego/LEGO...). Good going everyone!

It's prettier than I could have expected it to be and I would enjoy building it for the mechanisms but ultimately I don't have enough typewriter nostalgia to want to keep it and display it. Probably could buy, build and resell without making too much of a loss if I held onto it I suppose.

@rmpe99bs said:
" And according to your own data, thats a 100% increase. Thank you. I would contend that licensed sets are treated as collectibles. Without doing a count, the percentage of non-licensed sets has been decreasing over time. Like most companies that survive after the founding generation, the original motivations are gone and what's left is a company that exists to make money that happens to make the product that led to success in the first place. I don't begrudge them that. "

But is a percentage comparison more relevant than the number of sets produced? If they are making more non-licensed sets overall, why does it matter if they are also making more licensed sets?

There are 49 2021 City sets listed in the Brickset database. In 2005, the first year of City, LEGO only produced 34 sets. The count from 2021 ranks as the fourth highest number of City sets produced in the past 16 years.

There are non-licensed themes other than City, of course. Last year, LEGO produced 49 Ninjago sets, versus 43 in 2011 and 10 in 2014.

Friends has been around since 2012, when LEGO produced 36 sets. Last year, there were 58.

Last year, there were 17 Seasonal sets. There were 3 in 1999, and 15 in 2011.

LEGO produced more Hidden Side sets in recent years (32) than there were ever Rock Raiders (16). They made more Nexo Knights sets than all of the Aqua Raiders, Aquazone and Atlantis sets combined.

To all who are saying one could buy a real typewriter for the price, you really don't get what Lego is about, do you? Lego fans want Lego sets, not something else. Replicating something real with Lego bricks is part of the fun and beauty of this hobby.

About the Castle theme argument, which we already had 100x times - it's not viable. Kids don't want it, only 40+ adults do. And not that many of them, just a loud minority. Lego caters for them with one-off products like the Ideas blacksmith, or Pirate Bay in case of Pirates theme. You are still going to get 18+ homages to old themes, in proportion to the real demand they command. But not a full kids set wave. I don't understand why we are still beating this dead horse.

I believe the topic is of the new Ideas set "Typewriter". Which I think is pretty realistic looking, having actually owned a similar looking typewriter back in the day, (when this was a luxury item to own). It is impressive, since to get LEGO pieces to look like this, is quite the trick. I will be adding this to my wish list, which I keep trying to shorten, unsuccessfully, as they keep coming out with such different great looking sets.
Not to get off topic like so many others have, but the comment about disliking this set because it isn't a Castle, is the most ridiculous comment. What is that, oh it's calling whining.

@Squidkid_Belmont said:
"Is no one going to talk about the BACKSPACE BUTTON ON THE KEYBOARD!?!?!?!?!? Seriously, that would NOT work on an actual typewriter!"
Typewriters had backspace keys. They moved the carriage back one space. On many manual typewriters, it was the only way to produce certain characters. For example, to create an exclamation point on my typewriter, I have to type a period, backspace, then type a single quote. This is also how you do underlining. It was also used for correction: backspace to the mistake, put a piece of correction film over the paper, and strike the mistake key again, transferring the white correction medium onto the paper overtop the error.

Where backspace keys are actually nonsense is on Windows computers, where they don't move the cursor back a space, they actually delete the character behind the cursor. On a Mac, the key is sensibly labeled "delete."

@PurpleDave said:
" @AustinPowers :
Seriously, dude, _IT’S_NOT_”LEGO”_!!!!!!! There is a page on there website (...) learn to say it right first."

"There" website?

From someone who appears to be so anal about everything, it's quite amusing to see such a blunder.

And I thought YOU were the native speaker and not me. ;-)

Seriously though, dude, no hard feelings. I quite enjoy our arguments. :-)

@PurpleDave said:
" @ALEGOMan :
So far, Doctor Who is the only Ideas set based on an entertainment IP that did not originate in the US, "

and Minecraft

@The_Toniboeh said:
[[ @PurpleDave said:
[[ @ALEGOMan :
So far, Doctor Who is the only Ideas set based on an entertainment IP that did not originate in the US, ]]

and Minecraft ]

And Yellow Submarine.

Also it could be argued that both Winnie the Pooh and Voltron did originally originate in the UK and Japan respectively, even though the Ideas sets were of course based off the US version of those properties.

To all the people moaning over the price:

There's a perfectly workable way to stop being frustrated with the price of LEGO:

Behave like a rational adult and come to terms with the fact that ANY given set is going to cost more than you'd like. I wonder how you people manage the rest of your lives, seeing how your expectation management is so poor when it comes to LEGO...

@Macropod said:
"To all the people moaning over the price:

There's a perfectly workable way to stop being frustrated with the price of LEGO:"
Indeed there is: never buy directly from LEGO unless the set is exclusively available there and really worth the price to you.
For example I recently bought the Everyone is awesome set directly from LEGO (actually I bought two), because imho that set offers tremendous value for money even at RRP.
Many other sets, not so much. But most of the time one just has to be a little patient before any given set becomes available at a substantial discount via Amazon or some other retailers.

@Patrik78 said:
"Another dust collector set..."

According to my understanding of entropy, *all* sets are dust collecting sets

@fakespacesquid said:
" @Patrik78 said:
"Another dust collector set..."

According to my understanding of entropy, *all* sets are dust collecting sets "

TBH, collecting dust is the easiest, cheapest and fastest way of collecting.