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  2. M'Kyuun
    I suggest keeping an eye on New Elementary.com, as they are, to wit, the only LEGO fan site that keeps astutely abreast of all new and recolored elements on a continual if obsessive basis. I've found them to be an excellent resource, as I'm always interested in what new parts are being introduced for my MOCing needs and they are generally on top of new releases with both set reviews and parts breakdowns. Disclaimer: I have zero affiliation with New Elementary beyond being a fan, but, like Bricklink, they are a huge resource to FOLs and, IMHO, deserve to be recommended at every opportunity. As to those parts you pointed out, I agree. I, too, wish they'd make more types, as well as versions with studs. My parts wishlist is long, but LEGO has really been pumping out interesting and useful parts over the last few years, many of which were only available before by buying other "clone" brands, who in many ways, were way ahead of LEGO for years in their parts innovation. I still wish they'd make plates with studs top and bottom for simplified SNOT building. LEGO's playing catchup, but themes like Speed Champions are driving the addition of long sought highly useful wedges, slopes, tiles, etc and I hope that trend continues unabated.
  3. Seto Kaiba
    Disney is just LucasFilm's parent company. Their only involvement in its day-to-day operations is appointing the members of its Board of Directors. The development and production of new Star Wars stories is managed within LucasFilm itself by its Chief Creative Officer (Dave Filoni) and the various producers working under him. Dave Filoni has brought characters back past their use-by date, as noted previously, but that's effectively a fate reserved for Filoni's personal stable of action-friendly Creator's Pet characters that he used heavily in his Star Wars: the Clone Wars series and its spinoffs. As a non-action girl and a non-Filoni original character, Dedra Meero is profoundly unlikely to make a comeback at any point. 🤣
  4. David Hingtgen
    Current theory: Windows just has drive letter assignments all borked up, and is getting very confused. It actually works to put the old "D" drive from years ago in (my backup-backup at the moment), but it freezes, works, freezes, works, and repeats, until it eventually figures it out. Transferring what I can while it's working. Noticed that if you open drive manager THEN plug it in, it has a decent chance of reading it. (can't boot that way, so can't really USE the drive---but can at least scrape some files). Will try that method with the "just borked this week" drive later. (having to copy via USB 2.0....) It's like---it knows of multiple drives that have been "D" and it hates that it can't reconcile the differences and just freezes up when it encounters "any variation of a drive that has ever been D". (yet it doesn't have that problem with C, or most USB drives)
  5. kajnrig
    They're wearing Captain Commando uniforms.
  6. Today
  7. azrael
    Not necessarily. Unless the SSD controller chip decided it had enough of you and shot itself. I've seen it happen. Windows kept crashing on a computer until it stopped booting and eventually disappeared from the BIOS. SSDs have that tendency that when they die, THEY DIE. Not the slow death of spinning rust. And it's usually the SSD controller that dies first before the NAND chips. The only other time I've seen something like this was when I was trying to flash a 980 Pro's firmware. It would show in the BIOS but wouldn't detect/mount in Windows nor would take the firmware flash from Samsung Magician nor bootable media until I found another computer that I could install only the SSD into. Got it to take a Windows install then finally flashed with new firmware. Behaved afterwards.That's why I said, try it on another system.
  8. David Hingtgen
    Well, it's looking worse and worse. Bios doesn't see the drive at all, Windows11 has it "briefly appear drive F, freezes for a while, then unfreezes with the drive disappearing again". Samsung Magician can't see it. (and it used to). Did it just up and 100% fail, overnight? Only 2-3 years old. Though I swear it showed up in drive manager once, fairy early in this saga. Last dying breath?
  9. mechaninac
    The best kind... one that can MAKE toys.
  10. Yesterday
  11. Knight26
    Just started watching this with my son and the thing that jumped out to me is that the Special Forces group are wearing the TCTF uniform from the game Oni. Or at least armor inspired by that game. Is there any crossover? The similarities in design are just too much to be a coincidence to me.
  12. Thom
    Not in hand yet. but can this be considered a toy..?
  13. Thom
    @pengbuzz Understand the hurt. But, also glad to hear you found the right size spheres for the 22 incher! Huzzah!
  14. Chronocidal
    they've definitely been introducing a whole host of new and interesting shapes, with some really great use cases. One of the interesting ones I only discovered yesterday is just a tiny wedge plate, and I kind of wish they would make many more of these types of parts, in as many angles as possible, because they are fantastic for shaping. Unfortunately.. for the way I relly need these, I actually really need one with a stud, so they're stackable. Also really useful would be those quarter round tiles, but also with studs so you can stack them into a quarter cylinder.
  15. Duke Togo
    I find it amusing that anyone thinks Disney is making story decisions.
  16. Big s
    Just because something was done in Andor or Rogue one doesn’t mean that someone else won’t do something horrible later on. It is still Disney owned and they have shown that they have the power to ruin anything they can
  17. Big s
    X was cancelled due to low viewership, and I thought I heard the same for Reco. Might be wrong on the latter. Wtch might be the only one so far that was actually intended to be shorter, although not sure on the intentions for this one yet and don’t really know if it’s a success or not.
  18. M'Kyuun
    I haven't really given the Sail Barge a look, but I'll agree that 35480 and its 3-stud counterpart have proven immensely useful. I wish they'd make more parts with hollow studs.
  19. M'Kyuun
    So they're all in a game? Not really a premise I was hoping for.
  20. sh9000
    Marvel Legends Maximum McFarlane Spider-Man.
  21. azrael
    Do you have a laptop or another computer you can use to backup your storage drive? Just to rule out any potential issues with the originating computer, I'd use a secondary computer to back up the old storage drive to the new external drive.
  22. David Hingtgen
    The storage drive is a SATA 2.5in Samsung 870 EVO SSD. Usually "D". It will sometimes show up as just a "disk" as "D", but is unreadable etc. It'll freeze if you try to click on it. Figuring a Win 10 reinstall is pointless, I finally upgraded to 11 right before going to bed. Will see if it handles drives any better. Am going to buy another external backup drive, and see if I can access the problem drive via an enclosure/USB and transfer contents. Generally: if only boot drive is installed, things are fine. If the storage drive is plugged in--problems, most often won't boot. If it does boot, then storage drive is unreadable/inaccessible in any way. Some USB sticks are now causing similar issues, if inserted---it sees they're there, and gives a drive letter-----but lists no volume/size/contents, and freezes if you try to look in them. Drive management will freeze if you try to do anything while the storage drive is plugged in. Have tried different SATA ports, and going to start trying different cables, just in case it's a physical problem. (but the fact it refused to close a browser and refused to shutdown RIGHT before everything screwed up, makes me think it's software/update, and not physical). Though of course, maybe a physical failure caused the refusal? But a storage drive shouldn't...
  23. Old_Nash_II
    first teaser of new series
  24. grogall
    Ja, I just think there aren't enough out there! 🤣
  25. Tking22
    Colleen of course :). That said, I'd like to see Danny get some redemption, and where the last season ended, it could be interesting.
  26. Mog
    Which one? 😉
  27. azrael
    Is the storage drive a NVMe/SATA drive or a USB? Sounds like the former. If the drive was assigned a letter but a different drive is now using the same letter, the drive will mount but not be assigned a letter. You can force a drive to be assigned a specific letter at boot in Drive Management, otherwise it gets assigned the next available letter. Force shutdown during the Windows Update may have messed up the partition table and/or USB driver. Maybe reinstall the chipset driver? Try removing all drives except your boot. Plug each one back in one at a time to be sure they still detect and are accessible. You can try doing a repair with only the boot drive plugged in then start plugging your drives back in one at a time.
  28. Black Valkyrie
    😑 https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2025/05/30/the-legend-of-zelda-movie-may-land-a-perfectly-cast-princess-per-report/
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