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2024.05.02 02:19 Clay_Bricks Every retiring LEGO set + Store Exclusive (May 2024 update)
It's a new month, which means its time for another set retirement update!
As always, we owe a massive thanks to ZombieYeti from the BrickHound Discord for providing this valuable data. If you're looking for real-time in-stock/deal alerts for Lego.com and other sites, make sure to check out his server!
This information is scraped directly from Lego's website, and all dates are subject to change. ZombieYeti is currently developing a website to host this data and offer real-time updates. In the meantime, here is a list of every set and their corresponding retirement date as per LEGO's system!
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. Due to Reddit's character limits, we can't include everything here, but the full spreadsheet contains every set.
submitted by Clay_Bricks to Legoleak [link] [comments]
There was a massive update to the spreadsheet this month! Now you can see set exclusivity & new releases, use filters, and get a direct link to sets on LEGO.com! Buying sets using these links supports me directly! More regions coming soon.
Reminder that retirement updates are now fully automated on Discord!
Thanks to ZombieYeti, the Brick Tap discord now has the BrickHound bot posting automated retirement updates, as soon as they are changed in the data!This information is scraped directly from Lego's website, and all dates are subject to change. ZombieYeti is currently developing a website to host this data and offer real-time updates. In the meantime, here is a list of every set and their corresponding retirement date as per LEGO's system!
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. Due to Reddit's character limits, we can't include everything here, but the full spreadsheet contains every set.
FULL LIST ON GOOGLE SHEETS <--
REAL TIME UPDATES ON DISCORD <--
NEW SETS ADDED:
| Theme | Set # | Set Name | Retirement Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brickheadz | 40676 | The Phantom Menace | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60436 | City Advent Calendar 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Despicable Me | 30578 | Minions' Jetboard Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43253 | Disney Princess Advent Calendar 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42637 | Friends Advent Calendar 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76438 | Harry Potter Advent Calendar 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 30685 | TIE Interceptor Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40675 | Clone Commander Cody | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Despicable Me | 75580 | Minions And Banana Car | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Despicable Me | 75580 | Minions' Music Party Bus | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Despicable Me | 75580 | Brick-Built Gru And Minions | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Despicable Me | 75580 | Minions And Gru's Family Mansion | Dec 31, 2025 |
| DreamZzz | 71478 | The Never Witch's Midnight Raven | Dec 31, 2025 |
| DreamZzz | 71479 | Zoey's Cat Motorcycle | Dec 31, 2025 |
| DreamZzz | 71480 | Logan the Mighty Panda | Dec 31, 2025 |
| DreamZzz | 71481 | Izzie's Dream Animals | Dec 31, 2025 |
| DreamZzz | 71483 | The Never Witch's Nightmare Creatures | Dec 31, 2025 |
| DreamZzz | 71484 | Cooper's Robot Dinosaur C-Rex | Dec 31, 2025 |
| DreamZzz | 71485 | Mateo and Z-Blob the Knight Battle Mech | Dec 31, 2025 |
| DreamZzz | 71486 | Castle Nocturnia | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Friends | 42626 | Adventure Camp Water Sports | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Friends | 42631 | Adventure Camp Tree House | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Mario | 71433 | Goombas' Playground | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Mario | 71434 | Soda Jungle Maker Set | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Marvel | 76286 | Guardians of the Galaxy: The Milano | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Marvel | 76288 | Iron Man & Iron Legion vs. Hydra Soldier | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Marvel | 76289 | Thor vs. Surtur Construction Figure | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Marvel | 76290 | The Avengers vs. The Leviathan | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Marvel | 76291 | The Avengers Assemble: Age of Ultron | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Marvel | 76297 | Dancing Groot | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Sonic | 76997 | Tails' Adventure Boat | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Sonic | 76998 | Knuckles and the Master Emerald Shrine | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Sonic | 76999 | Super Sonic vs. Egg Drillster | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Speed Champions | 76923 | Lamborghini Lambo V12 Vision GT Super Car | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Speed Champions | 76924 | Mercedes-AMG G 63 & Mercedes-AMG SL 63 | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Speed Champions | 76925 | Aston Martin Safety Car & AMR23 | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Star Wars | 75380 | Mos Espa Podrace Diorama | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Star Wars | 75382 | TIE Interceptor | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Technic | 42173 | Koenigsegg Jesko Absolut Grey Hypercar | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Animal Crossing | 77051 | Fly with Dodo Airlines | Dec 31, 2026 |
| Animal Crossing | 77052 | K.K.'s Concert at the Plaza | Dec 31, 2026 |
| Art | 31212 | The Milky Way Galaxy | Dec 31, 2026 |
| City | 60423 | Downtown Streetcat & Station | Dec 31, 2026 |
| Mario | 71439 | Adventures with Interactive LEGO® Mario™ | Dec 31, 2026 |
| Mario | 71440 | Adventures with Interactive LEGO® Luigi™ | Dec 31, 2026 |
| Mario | 71441 | Adventures with Interactive LEGO® Peach™ | Dec 31, 2026 |
| Star Wars | 75381 | Droideka | Dec 31, 2026 |
| Technic | 42175 | Volvo FMX Truck & EC230 Electric Excavator | Dec 31, 2026 |
| Technic | 42176 | Porsche GT4 e-Performance Race Car | Dec 31, 2026 |
| Technic | 42182 | NASA Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle - LRV | Dec 31, 2026 |
| Icons | 10341 | NASA: Artemis Space Launch System | Dec 31, 2027 |
CHANGES FOR MAY:
| Theme | Set # | Set Name | Old Date | New Date | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miscellaneous | 40573 | Christmas Tree | Dec 31, 2024 | Dec 31, 2025 | +1 year |
SETS RETIRING IN 2024:
| Theme | Set # | Set Name | Retirement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Avatar | 75572 | Jake & Neytiri's First Banshee Flight | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Avatar | 75574 | Toruk Makto & Tree of Souls | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Avatar | 75575 | Ilu Discovery | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Avatar | 75576 | Skimwing Adventure | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Avatar | 75579 | Payakan the Tulkun & Crabsuit | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43213 | The Little Mermaid Story Book | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43220 | Peter Pan & Wendy's Storybook Adventure | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41724 | Paisley's House | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41744 | Sports Center | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41754 | Leo's Room | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 75969 | Hogwarts Astronomy Tower | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76388 | Hogsmeade Village Visit | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Jurassic | 76957 | Velociraptor Escape (4+) | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71360 | Adventures with Mario | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71387 | Adventures with Luigi | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71395 | Super Mario 64 Question Mark Block | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71403 | Adventures with Peach | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71408 | Princess Peach's Castle | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71419 | Peach's Garden Balloon Ride | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71420 | Rambi the Rhino | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71421 | Dixie Kong's Jungle Jam | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71425 | Diddy Kong's Mine Cart Ride | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Minifigures | 66764 | Series 26 Space 6 Pack | Aug 31, 2024 |
| Minifigures | 71046 | Series 26 Space | Aug 31, 2024 |
| Animal Crossing | 30662 | Maple's Pumpkin Garden (Polybag) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Architecture | 21056 | Taj Mahal | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Architecture | 21057 | Singapore | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Art | 31209 | The Amazing Spider-Man | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Art | 31210 | Modern Art | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Batman | 30653 | Batman 1992 Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Batman | 76224 | Batmobile: Batman vs. The Joker Chase | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Batman | 76240 | Batmobile Tumbler | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Batman | 76252 | Batcave – Shadow Box | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Batman | 76259 | Batman Construction Figure | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Batman | 76264 | Batmobile Pursuit: Batman vs. The Joker (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Batman | 76265 | Batwing: Batman vs. The Joker | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40547 | Obi-Wan Kenobi & Darth Vader | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40615 | Tusken Raider | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40616 | Harry Potter & Cho Chang | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40617 | Draco Malfoy & Cedric Diggory | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40618 | Kingsley Shacklebolt & Nymphadora Tonks | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40620 | Cruella & Maleficent | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40621 | Moana & Merida | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40627 | Sonic the Hedgehog | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40628 | Miles 'Tails' Prower | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40630 | Frodo & Gollum | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40631 | Gandalf the Grey & Balrog | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40632 | Aragorn & Arwen | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40672 | Knuckles & Shadow | Dec 31, 2024 |
| BrickHeadz | 40676 | The Phantom Menace | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40677 | Prisoner of Azkaban Figures | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 30663 | Space Hoverbike | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 30664 | Police Off-Road Buggy Car Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60283 | Holiday Camper Van | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60287 | Tractor | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60336 | Freight Train | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60364 | Street Skate Park | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60365 | Apartment Building | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60366 | Ski and Climbing Centre | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60370 | Police Station Chase | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60372 | Police Training Academy | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60375 | Fire Station and Fire Engine | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60376 | Arctic Explorer Snowmobile | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60377 | Explorer Diving Boat | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60378 | Arctic Explorer Truck and Mobile Lab | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60379 | Deep-Sea Explorer Submarine | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60380 | Downtown | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60383 | Electric Sports Car | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60384 | Penguin Slushy Van | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60386 | Recycling Truck | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60387 | 4x4 Off-Roader Adventures | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60388 | Gaming Tournament Truck | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60389 | Custom Car Garage | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60392 | Police Bike Car Chase | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60395 | Combo Race Pack | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60396 | Modified Race Cars | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60397 | Monster Truck Race | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60399 | Race Car (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60403 | Emergency Ambulance (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60405 | Emergency Rescue Helicopter | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60410 | Fire Rescue Motorcycle (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60413 | Fire Rescue Plane | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60417 | Police Speedboat and Crooks' Hideout | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60428 | Space Construction Mech | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60432 | Command Rover and Crane Loader | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60436 | City Advent Calendar 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60438 | Sailboat | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60439 | Space Science Lab | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60441 | Space Explorers Pack | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Classic | 10696 | Medium Creative Brick Box | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Classic | 10698 | Large Creative Brick Box | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Classic | 11013 | Creative Transparent Bricks | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Classic | 11017 | Creative Monsters | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Classic | 11027 | Creative Neon Fun | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Classic | 11028 | Creative Pastel Fun | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Classic | 11029 | Creative Party Box | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Classic | 11030 | Lots of Bricks | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Classic | 11033 | Creative Fantasy Universe | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 30645 | Snowman Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 30666 | Gift Animals Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 30667 | Animal Birthday Party Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 30668 | Easter Bunny with Colourful Eggs Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 30669 | Iconic Red Plane Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 31088 | Deep Sea Creatures | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 31120 | Medieval Castle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 31124 | Super Robot | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 31125 | Fantasy Forest Creatures | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 31126 | Supersonic-jet | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 31133 | White Rabbit | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 31135 | Vintage Motorcycle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 31138 | Beach Camper Van | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 31141 | Main Street | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 31143 | Birdhouse | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 31144 | Exotic Pink Parrot | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 40651 | Australia Postcard | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 40654 | Beijing Postcard | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 66783 | Colourful Animals Play Pack | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Despicable Me | 30578 | Minions' Jetboard Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 30661 | Asha's Welcome Booth Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 30671 | Aurora's Forest Playground Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 40613 | Mini Disney Palace of Agrabah | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43205 | Ultimate Adventure Castle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43206 | Cinderella and Prince Charming's Castle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43210 | Moana's Wayfinding Boat | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43211 | Aurora's Castle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43214 | Twirling Rapunzel | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43215 | The Enchanted Treehouse | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43216 | Princess Enchanted Journey | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43218 | Anna and Elsa's Magical Carousel | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43219 | Disney Princess Creative Castles | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43221 | 100 Years of Disney Animation Icons | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43223 | Asha in the City of Rosas | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43224 | King Magnifico's Castle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43225 | The Little Mermaid Royal Clamshell | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43226 | Disney Duos | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43227 | Villain Icons | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43229 | Ariel's Treasure Chest | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43231 | Asha's Cottage | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43232 | Peter Pan & Wendy's Flight over London | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43234 | Elsa's Frozen Treats | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43239 | Mirabel's Photo Frame and Jewelry Box | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43241 | Rapunzel's Tower & The Snuggly Duckling | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43253 | Disney Princess Advent Calendar 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DreamZzz | 30636 | Z-Blob and Bunchu Spider Escape Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DreamZzz | 40657 | Dream Village | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DreamZzz | 71453 | Izzie and Bunchu the Bunny | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DreamZzz | 71454 | Mateo and Z-Blob the Robot | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DreamZzz | 71455 | Grimkeeper the Cage Monster | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DreamZzz | 71456 | Mrs. Castillo's Turtle Van | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DreamZzz | 71457 | Pegasus Flying Horse | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DreamZzz | 71458 | Crocodile Car | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DreamZzz | 71459 | Stable of Dream Creatures | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DreamZzz | 71460 | Mr. Oz's Spacebus | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DreamZzz | 71461 | Fantastical Tree House | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DreamZzz | 71469 | Nightmare Shark Ship | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DreamZzz | 71471 | Mateo's Off-Road Car | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DreamZzz | 71472 | Izzie's Narwhal Hot-Air Balloon | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DreamZzz | 71476 | Zoey and Zian the Cat-Owl | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DreamZzz | 71477 | The Sandman's Tower | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10412 | Animal Train | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10872 | Train Bridge and Tracks | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10874 | Steam Train | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10875 | Cargo Train | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10882 | Train Tracks | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10909 | Heart Box | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10935 | Alphabet Town | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10959 | Police Station & Helicopter | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10970 | Fire Station & Helicopter | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10971 | Wild Animals of Africa | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10975 | Wild Animals of the World | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10980 | DUPLO Green Building Plate | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10981 | Growing Carrot | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10982 | Fruit and Vegetable Tractor | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10983 | Organic Market | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10984 | Organic Garden | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10985 | Wind Turbine and Electric Car | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10986 | Family House on Wheels | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10987 | Recycling Truck | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10988 | The Bus Ride | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10989 | Water Park | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10990 | Construction Site | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10991 | Dream Playground | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10992 | Life at the Day-Care Center | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10995 | Spider-Man's House | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10996 | Lightning McQueen & Mater's Car Wash Fun | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10997 | Camping Adventure | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10998 | 3-in-1 Magical Castle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 30635 | Beach Cleanup Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 30658 | Mobile Music Trailer Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 30659 | Flower Garden Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41725 | Beach Buggy Fun | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41727 | Dog Rescue Centre | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41728 | Heartlake Downtown Diner | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41730 | Autumn's House | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41731 | Heartlake International School | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41734 | Sea Rescue Boat | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41735 | Mobile Tiny House | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41736 | Sea Rescue Center | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41737 | Beach Adventure Park | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41738 | Dog Rescue Bike | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41739 | Liann's Room | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41740 | Aliya's Room | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41745 | Autumn's Stable | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41746 | Riding School | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41747 | Heartlake City Community Kitchen | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41749 | News Van | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41752 | Sea Rescue Aircraft | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41753 | Pancake Shop | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41755 | Nova's Room | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41756 | Holiday Ski Slope and Café | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41757 | Botanical Garden | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41759 | Heartlake City Bus | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41760 | Igloo Holiday Adventure | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42601 | Hamster Playground | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42605 | Mars Space Base and Rocket | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42607 | Autumn's Baby Cow Shed | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42608 | Tiny Accessories Store | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42609 | Electric Car And Charger | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42612 | Cat Playground Adventure | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42613 | Heartlake City Hospital Ambulance | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42615 | Pet Adoption Day | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42616 | Heartlake City Music Talent Show | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42617 | Farm Animal Sanctuary | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42619 | Pop Star Music Tour Bus | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42632 | Farm Animal Vet Clinic (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42633 | Hot Dog Food Truck | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42637 | Friends Advent Calendar 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Gabby's Dollhouse | 10785 | Bakey with Cakey Fun | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Gabby's Dollhouse | 10786 | Gabby & MerCat's Ship & Spa | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Gabby's Dollhouse | 10787 | Kitty Fairy's Garden Party | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 30677 | Draco in the Forbidden Forest Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76389 | Hogwarts Chamber of Secrets | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76402 | Hogwarts: Dumbledore's Office | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76405 | Hogwarts Express - Collectors' Edition | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76407 | The Shrieking Shack & Whomping Willow | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76413 | Hogwarts: Room of Requirement | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76414 | Expecto Patronum | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76415 | The Battle of Hogwarts | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76416 | Quidditch Trunk | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76420 | Triwizard Tournament: The Black Lake | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76422 | Diagon Alley: Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76423 | Hogwarts Express & Hogsmeade Station | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76424 | Flying Ford Anglia | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76432 | Forbidden Forest: Magical Creatures | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76438 | Harry Potter Advent Calendar 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Icons | 10274 | Ghostbusters ECTO-1 | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Icons | 10283 | NASA Space Shuttle Discovery | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Icons | 10303 | Loop Coaster | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Icons | 10304 | Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 1969 | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Icons | 10306 | Atari 2600 | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Icons | 10308 | Holiday Main Street | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Icons | 10320 | Eldorado Fortress | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Icons | 10321 | Corvette | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Icons | 40634 | Icons of Play | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ideas | 21318 | Tree House | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ideas | 21327 | Typewriter | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ideas | 21331 | Sonic the Hedgehog - Green Hill Zone | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ideas | 21332 | The Globe | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ideas | 21334 | Jazz Quartet | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ideas | 21338 | A-Frame Cabin | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ideas | 21339 | BTS Dynamite | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ideas | 21340 | Tales of the Space Age | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Indiana Jones | 77012 | Fighter Plane Chase | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Indiana Jones | 77013 | Escape from the Lost Tomb | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Indiana Jones | 77015 | Temple of the Golden Idol | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Jurassic | 76944 | T. rex Dinosaur Breakout (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Jurassic | 76946 | Blue & Beta Velociraptor Capture | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Jurassic | 76949 | Giganotosaurus & Therizinosaurus Attack | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Jurassic | 76951 | Pyroraptor & Dilophosaurus Transport | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Jurassic | 76958 | Dilophosaurus Ambush | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Jurassic | 76959 | Triceratops Research | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Jurassic | 76960 | Brachiosaurus Discovery | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Jurassic | 76961 | Visitor Centre: T. rex & Raptor Attack | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71374 | Nintendo Entertainment System | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71422 | Picnic at Mario's House | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71423 | Dry Bowser Castle Battle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71424 | Donkey Kong's Tree House | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71427 | Larry's and Morton's Airships | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71428 | Yoshis' Egg-cellent Forest | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71429 | Nabbit at Toad's Shop | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 10791 | Team Spidey's Mobile Headquarters (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 10792 | Drill Spinner Vehicle (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 10793 | Spidey vs. Green Goblin (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 30769 | Venom Street Bike (Polybag) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76210 | Hulkbuster | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76217 | I am Groot | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76218 | Sanctum Sanctorum | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76226 | Spider-Man Figure | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76232 | The Hoopty | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76241 | Hulk Mech Armor | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76243 | Rocket Mech Armor | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76244 | Miles Morales vs. Morbius | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76245 | Ghost Rider Mech & Bike | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76247 | The Hulkbuster: The Battle of Wakanda | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76248 | The Avengers Quinjet | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76249 | Venomised Groot | Dec 31, 2024 |
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| Marvel | 76256 | Ant-Man Construction Figure | Dec 31, 2024 |
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| Marvel | 76260 | Black Widow & Captain America Motorcycles | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76262 | Captain America's Shield | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76263 | Iron Man Hulkbuster vs. Thanos (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76266 | Endgame Final Battle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76275 | Motorcycle Chase: Spider-Man vs. Doc Ock | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21166 | The 'Abandoned' Mine | Dec 31, 2024 |
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| Minecraft | 21240 | The Swamp Adventure | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21241 | The Bee Cottage | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21242 | The End Arena | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21243 | The Frozen Peaks | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21244 | The Sword Outpost | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21245 | The Panda Haven | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21246 | The Deep Dark Battle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21247 | The Axolotl House | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21248 | The Pumpkin Farm | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21250 | The Iron Golem Fortress | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21253 | The Animal Sanctuary | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21257 | The Devourer Showdown | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40296 | LEGO House Build Your Meal Brick Bag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40297 | LEGO House 6 DUPLO Bricks | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40347 | LEGOLAND Driving School | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40429 | Ninjago World | Dec 31, 2024 |
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| Miscellaneous | 40643 | Jade Rabbit | Dec 31, 2024 |
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| Miscellaneous | 40714 | Carousel Ride | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40715 | Alien Pack | Dec 31, 2024 |
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| Miscellaneous | 80112 | Auspicious Dragon | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 80113 | Family Reunion Celebration | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Monkie Kid | 80036 | The City of Lanterns | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Monkie Kid | 80041 | Mei's Dragon Jet | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Monkie Kid | 80043 | Yellow Tusk Elephant | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Monkie Kid | 80044 | Monkie Kid's Team Hideout | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Monkie Kid | 80046 | Monkie Kid's Cloud Airship | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Monkie Kid | 80047 | Mei's Guardian Dragon | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Monkie Kid | 80048 | The Mighty Azure Lion | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Monkie Kid | 80049 | Dragon of the East Palace | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Monkie Kid | 80050 | Creative Vehicles | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Monkie Kid | 80053 | Mei's Dragon Mech | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 30650 | Kai and Rapton's Temple Battle Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 30674 | Zane's Dragon Power Vehicles Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71741 | NINJAGO City Gardens | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71782 | Cole's Earth Dragon EVO | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71783 | Kai's Mech Rider EVO | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71784 | Jay's Lightning Jet EVO | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71785 | Jay's Titan Mech | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71786 | Zane's Ice Dragon Creature | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71787 | Creative Ninja Brick Box | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71788 | Lloyd's Ninja Street Bike (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71789 | Kai and Ras's Car and Bike Battle (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71790 | Imperium Dragon Hunter Hound | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71791 | Zane's Dragon Power Spinjitzu Race Car | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71792 | Sora's Transforming Mech Bike Racer | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71793 | Heatwave Transforming Lava Dragon | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71794 | Lloyd and Arin's Ninja Team Mechs | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71795 | Temple of the Dragon Energy Cores | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71796 | Elemental Dragon vs. The Empress Mech | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71797 | Destiny's Bounty - Race Against Time | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71798 | Nya and Arin's Baby Dragon Battle (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71800 | Nya's Water Dragon EVO | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71801 | Kai's Rising Dragon Strike | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71802 | Nya's Rising Dragon Strike | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71803 | Arin's Rising Dragon Strike | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Sonic | 30676 | Kiki's Coconut Attack Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Sonic | 76990 | Sonic's Speed Sphere Challenge | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Sonic | 76991 | Tails' Workshop and Tornado Plane | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Sonic | 76992 | Amy's Animal Rescue Island | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Sonic | 76993 | Sonic vs. Dr. Eggman's Death Egg Robot | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Sonic | 76994 | Sonic's Green Hill Zone Loop Challenge | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Speed Champions | 30683 | McLaren Formula 1 Car Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Speed Champions | 76906 | 1970 Ferrari 512 M | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Speed Champions | 76907 | Lotus Evija | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Speed Champions | 76908 | Lamborghini Countach | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Speed Champions | 76909 | Mercedes-AMG F1 W12 E Performance & Mercedes-AMG Project One | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Speed Champions | 76914 | Ferrari 812 Competizione | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Speed Champions | 76915 | Pagani Utopia | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Speed Champions | 76916 | Porsche 963 | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Speed Champions | 76917 | 2 Fast 2 Furious Nissan Skyline GT-R (R34) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Speed Champions | 76918 | McLaren Solus GT & McLaren F1 LM | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 30680 | AAT Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
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| Star Wars | 75257 | Millennium Falcon | Dec 31, 2024 |
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| Star Wars | 75341 | Luke Skywalker's Landspeeder | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75344 | Boba Fett's Starship Microfighter | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75345 | 501st Clone Troopers Battle Pack | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75346 | Pirate Snub Fighter | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75347 | TIE Bomber | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75348 | Mandalorian Fang Fighter vs TIE Interceptor | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75350 | Clone Commander Cody Helmet | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75351 | Princess Leia (Boushh) Helmet | Dec 31, 2024 |
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| Star Wars | 75353 | Endor Speeder Chase Diorama | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75354 | Coruscant Guard Gunship | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75356 | Executor Super Star Destroyer | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75357 | Ghost & Phantom II | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75358 | Tenoo Jedi Temple (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75359 | 332nd Ahsoka's Clone Trooper Battle Pack | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75360 | Yoda's Jedi Starfighter | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75361 | Spider Tank | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75363 | The Mandalorian N-1 Starfighter Microfighter | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75364 | New Republic E-wing vs. Shin Hati's Starfighter | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75365 | Yavin 4 Rebel Base | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75368 | Darth Vader Mech | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75369 | Boba Fett Mech | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75370 | Stormtrooper Mech | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75371 | Chewbacca | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Technic | 30682 | NASA Mars Rover Perseverance Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Technic | 42096 | Porsche 911 RS | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Technic | 42136 | John Deere 9620R 4WD Tractor | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Technic | 42138 | Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 | Dec 31, 2024 |
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| Technic | 42153 | NASCAR Next Gen Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Technic | 42155 | The Batman - Batcycle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Technic | 42157 | John Deere 948L-II Skidder | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Technic | 42162 | Bugatti Bolide Agile Blue | Dec 31, 2024 |
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2024.04.26 07:13 Fine_Ad_1918 Notes of The First Contact War 1: The Fist [SSB]
thanks to u/bluefishcake for letting me use his setting, thanks to u/Sp3zn4s696, u/AnalysisIconoclast, u/An_Insufferable_NEWT, u/SpaceFillingNerd, and everyone at the SSB discord. You guys helped me do what i thought was impossible. I have been a long time lurker, and this is my first post here. please give feedback and tell me what I can do better. I would greatly appreciate anything I can do to make this more enjoyable. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 5 months ago, Solo Nobre, UN Interstellar Directorate Sgt. Everett Janson An annoying buzz sucked me out of the pleasant dream; it faded away within mere moments. 5:00 AM, just like always I rose from my bed, stretching and blinking the last remains of sleep from my eyes as I surveyed the darkened shapes within my room. The apartment seemed to be just as I left it, with the slim window by my bedside offering a slice of the metropolis of New New York. God Bless noise-blocking windows. If not for them I wouldn't sleep at all. I sit up on the center of the bed and take care of my prosthetics. Can't keep them on me during sleep, the damn things have a mind of their own when I dream. I grimace as I tune them, the process always being unpleasant. Damn penny pinching VA. Couldn't spend a dime more for proper neuro-link, I sigh as I finally finish the re-calibration of the final prosthetic and attach it into the socket in my arm. I flex the mechanical muscles and smile, "Works fine." Breakfast was a meager affair, with coffee and cold dinner from yesterday being the main highlights. I make sure to add one ration bar for the midday slump; just in case. I sit at the table, chewing on a stale chunk of nutri-bread as I look at my second-hand Omnipad; my current recommended feed being a mess of news stories. Let's see.... A Shil'vati tourist murdered by extremist group on Franklin. Negotiations between the Alliance and the Imperium over the Asherna system stall to a halt. Directorate marines take out Consortium slavers, who established a base on Pandora II … I hummed to myself, washing the taste of synthetic nutrients down with a swig of coffee. Another boring week then? I swipe a metallic finger across the glassy surface of the Pad, switching to my current messages. A frown crossed my face as I gazed upon the first message. Another denied claim, VA being cheap as always. I shook my head at that, marking it as read before moving onto the rest of the messages. Old buddies want to get drunk, my sister in law is asking for money again, can’t she keep a job and... I frowned again as I saw something new, actually new. Message marked... delivered by interstellar courier? My frown deepened. "The hell?" “Dear Sgt. Janson, I am As’lia, a film student at Empress' Zah’rika’s Academy for Young Ladies. I am directing a documentary series about the recent conflict between The Imperium and The Directorate. Currently I am attempting to find veterans of both sides so they could share their stories. My series has been recently approved by both of our governments' Ministries of Culture in order to foster more mutual respect for our peoples. I am currently able to offer you 650,000 credits for your participation and another 40,000 per month in recurring payments, however, you will have to provide your own transportation to Shil. Please contact me if you are interested. Sincerely, As’Lia” What the heck, am I dreaming? I thought to myself, putting my pad away and grabbing my work bag. I”ll deal with that message later tonight, this can’t possibly be real. Why would anyone want a grumpy, sad excuse for a soldier for their documentary? I zoned out as I fell into my normal routine at work, trying to make the most of the long day working as a Bailiff. I had to sit through case after case of people who did something utterly moronic. There was a money launderer who physically washed the money, a drug dealer who was actually selling boxed cake mix, and worst of all, a man who smuggled mint candies into Shil territory. I finally managed to get back home around 12:30 AM. Exhaustion washed over me as I flopped down onto the battered couch in the living room, the message from As’Lia floating to the surface of my mind. Despite my misgivings, I had to face the facts. Working a job I hate, fighting with the VA for what I rightly deserve, and being another lonely, forgotten veteran in a nation with millions just like me. After that, I knew what I had to do. I responded to the inquiry with a resounding yes before sending 50,000 CUs to my sister in law with a message stating “Don’t ask for more” before getting all my affairs in order. 3 months ago, Solo Nobre Spaceport, UN Interstellar Directorate
Sgt. Everett Janson I am standing in front of the ship that will take me, others who received the message and the first Directorate Embassy to Shil. As I stepped aboard, I was greeted by a Naval Infantryman who showed me to my berth. The ship was a retrofitted Heavy frigate. From the moment I stepped on board, I felt like I was finally home. The berth I was assigned to already had two others in it. A large bulky warborg, and a tall willowy man with an eyepatch, we all introduced ourselves, the Warborg was called Fred, and he used to serve with Cerberus. The other man was named John, and he's a Naval officer and diplomat. As soon as we made basic pleasantries, an announcement went out for “all documentary personnel, please report to the meeting room.” The meeting room wasn’t much, just a bunch of chairs, a large computer screen and a table bolted to the floor. Once we all filed in, I saw that there were two more members of the group, but I didn't have much time to look around, because soon after we entered, a man in a fine suit came into the room. “Hello folks, I assume that you all know why you are here” at this there were various nods to the affirmative “great, well here are some extra orders from central military command. You are to represent the Directorate in the most positive light possible, you are to figure out any flaws in the Imperium's defenses, and you are to promote coexistence between our two nations.” The suited man then closed his pad and asked “any questions?” At that, there was silence, the suited man smiled, and left the room. All the rest of us shared introductions. The other two were named Rosalina, and Margit. They were a strike pilot, and a tanker respectively. We all started chatting and played cards for a while. Funnily enough, we were all deployed to Orvet III for the initial Shil invasion. John and Rosalina fought in orbit, and Fred, Margit, and I all fought on the ground. We all realized that we met before, Fred’s Platoon was relieved by my company, and Margit’s company. Rosalina and John provided support fire during the final push to defend Orvet. A discussion started sharing what everyone did during the other parts of the war. Fred was deployed to provide naval infantry an extra boost in boarding actions, Margit was like me, we both spent our time fighting in the frontlines, Rosalina was deployed to harass Shil shipping, and John seemed to have the most interesting time, he launched attacks against Shil worlds, killed a Shil princess, and secured Alliance support for our war effort. We were all surprised that he was going to Shil. I would bet that there is still a sizable bounty on his head for his deeds. After talking for many hours we said our goodbyes and went back to our berths to get some sleep. 8 Hours ago, Shil, Shil'Vati Imperium Sgt. Everett Janson Finally we made planetfall onto the surface of Shil, the others all have business to attend to elsewhere, and so I am by myself. I am supposed to be at the academy at 4:00 pm, and it is 8:00 am now. My luggage was already at the embassy and with nothing to do, so I decided to go on a guided tour of the city. Having found a reputable company and booking a 4 hour tour of the city. The guide himself was a small, skinny looking Shil boy who upon seeing me nearly freaked out, to be fair, now that I think about it, I do look pretty goulish. The skin on my face is literally stapled on, and I am probably more metal than flesh. After he calmed down, I asked him “where to first?'' After that, he started leading me around the city and talking without end. I learned more history and politics in that first hour than I have learned throughout school. Even the horrified looks and hushed whispers of the passersbys didn’t detract from the marvels. We passed life-like statues, beautiful buildings, and exquisite architecture. Man, maybe there would be less crime in New New York, if the architecture was anything other than brutalist prefabs. Although the one young girl who took one look at my grimacing countenance dropped her cone, pointed and wailed upon seeing the effects of what could generously be called meatball surgery did dampen my spirits just a little. I didn’t really know what “the enemy’s heart” would actually look like, I may have expected a place even more brutalist than my home world, not something with green spaces, and color in every hue of purple. Soon we were coming upon the imperial palace, goddamn, this is beautiful, why don’t we have things like this? Oh right, the Shil bombed it. I decided to ask my guide about a good place to get lunch. Soon, it was time for me to get to the Academy. I got a taxi and asked the driver in my broken Shil to “take me to Empress' Zah’rika’s Academy for Young Ladies.” The taxi ride was quite nice, I got to see more sights that weren’t covered by the walking tour I took previously. After a nice 20 minute ride in silence, I arrived at the academy. The Academy was quite large and imposing. I walked through many halls that were filled with artwork that is truly amazing. It took me a bit to get there, the Academy was like a maze. After 20 minutes of backtracking and checking a pretty outdated map that I had. I finally found my way to the room where filming was being done. The room was large, filled with film equipment, and painted a disgustingly vivid shade of violet. There was a large table with many Shils sitting on one side, and a bunch of empty chairs on the other side. Huh, I guess I am the first human here. The Shil on the other side of the table started to glare at me, especially at my FISTer patch. I sat there in an awkward silence, hoping that something, anything, would happen. Finally after 12 minutes of silence, the other humans filed into the room. Good, at least I am not the target of their ire any more. About 8 minutes later two young Shils walked into the room. The first one introduced herself as As’lia, she was the one who sent the message that brought me here. She said “ welcome all, thank you for coming to participate in interviews for my new documentary about the conflict”. She then looked around, and saw me, in my old uniform, my cybernetics polished to a dull shine. She said “ok, do you want to go first?” I replied with “I guess”. Present day, Shil, Shil'Vati Imperium Sgt. Everett Janson “Six years,” I sighed, “It has been six years since we found out we aren’t alone in the cold, cruel universe. Six years ago humanity was just recovering from the Razing of The Rim," I continued, "we were not ready, nor were we expecting to have to fight alien invaders. The war was 4 years of brutality We lost two planets, millions of lives, and a large part of our navy, but we were able to inflict severe losses to their population, their pride, and their willingness to invade random worlds. Now, we have peace, fragile as it might be, but peace nonetheless.” The purple skinned girl started raising her hands simultaneously up to her shoulders, and I broke my eyes off from the camera lens. What did that even mean? she repeated the gesture, faster and faster, until she sighed. “More emotion, it needs more emotion!” “Sorry,” I muttered, rehearsing what I’d just said- what else was there to say? They came, they saw, they attempted to conquer - though at least at a heavy cost. I’d bet that there are now thousands of Shil’vati Marines with a well-earned fear of drones and tanks now. We tried it again, and this time she seemed satisfied enough until we came to the new part. “A few months ago, I got an email from some Shil’vati film student who wanted to interview me for a docu-series about the war. At first I couldn’t imagine: ‘me, a human sergeant, going to the homeworld of my nation’s greatest enemy, to help some film student pass their class’. But I then took a look at my life and thought maybe this might actually be a good thing. My goal is to show the other perspective on the war that greatly affected both of our nations.” Six years ago, 14 days to invasion 93rd Mechanized Infantry battalion, 2nd company, Orvet III, UN Interstellar Directorate Cpl. Everett Janson It is dark and cramped in the belly of the CV270. The troop bay is practically a freezer under the lacking winter sun. My company had been doing exercises out in the woods near Karlov city, and we were finally heading back to base. We, the men and women of the 93rd Mechanized Infantry, had been posted here in response to the Free World secessionist crisis. The free world league was crushed, and the Rim was brought back into compliance, but we were still here. Erik, my squad leader, opened up his hip flask of some dubious liquid that was probably against regulation and offered it around. “Come on Janson, sure you don’t want some,” he growled in his gravelly voice, I replied with a curt “nope” and went back to dozing off, dreaming of an actual bed to lie my head on. Right as I attempted to drift back off to sleep, a crackly message came over the troop bay radio. “The corvette Pendant, and the Q-ship Henry Kissinger, have detected something big on sensors. Readiness 3 declared. All personnel are to be deployed in anti-invasion positions.” With this pronouncement, the entire squad stopped their banter and the became deadly serious. The driver kicked the engine into full gear to the Aton Ridge, a set of hills and forests that the 93rd was to hold. The other vehicles in the company rushed there too. In two hours, we were at the ridge. The place was abuzz with activity, naval Seabees worked with our engineers to set up comms, prefabs, and entrenchments. There were Warborgs with their glossy black armor and unsettling amber eyes, helping move entire howitzers and crates of ammo that must weigh at least 600 pounds. Infantry and armor crowded the area and waited, we waited for something, anything to take our minds off the terror of the idea that we will have to fight aliens. Every day, more combatants arrived. On day one, Two heavy infantry companies and one Mech company of Cerberus Mercs arrived. On day two, a bunch of policemen and logistics personnel showed up. On day three though, an entire regiment of Free World League remnants who caused us no end of trouble during the Razing, arrived with artillery, a signal platoon, a bunch of AA weapons, and tanks. Their CO said “a cease fire has been signed between us, we will defend humanity from the alien threat.” I liked his attitude but I wasn't as hopeful as him. The free worlders’ gear was old and but serviceable, but their tanks were practically 4 person coffins. Despite that, if they were hull down, they should be fine. We swore that no damn alien would take the ridge, unless we were all dead or ordered to fall back. Six years ago, 1 day to Invasion 93rd Mechanized Infantry battalion, 2nd company, Orvet III, UN Interstellar Directorate Cpl. Everett Janson We spent 13 days on the ridge just entrenching, with more forces arriving daily to turn our position into a fortress. We don’t know if it would be enough, though. We did our best to get any rest that we can before the inevitable invasion. At about 11:20 that night, we got another radio message “The system defense fleet has engaged and crippled the enemy fleet, but was forced to retreat under withering enemy fire. Readiness 2 declared. Prepare to repel the invaders, LONG LIVE THE DIRECTORATE!!!” With that we ran to our positions and waited. I was sent to assist the missile company, and the other anti orbit forces. Within 12 minutes, I was sitting on the side of a mobile anti-orbital gun and fiddling with my computer, trying to connect the gun batteries together. As I looked off into the distance, I saw missiles, loaded with bomb pumped lasers, shoot off into the sky. The cold winter air was filled with chaff, jamming waves, and other methods to reduce the accuracy of orbit to ground fire. I just sighed, pulled out a cigarette and lit it. I turned to senior gunner Goldman, and offered him one too. He took it, and muttered “480 CUs that this will be worse than the siege of Tau IX, back during the Razing.” Another gunner yelled out “nah, make it 900”, soon all the gunners started shouting even higher amounts of cash. It took the gun officer to get all of them to shut up and get back to work. In just a few hours, the gun officer yelled out “ready up, the aliens are overhead.” The gun crew, and all the gun crews across the ridge sprung into action. They fired up the computers and the control software rotated all the pieces into place. I yelled out “battery set, fire when ready.” The gun officer shouted “load Nuclear, Set airburst”, the senior gunner shouted “coils at 100%”, and the other gunners set the autoloader with 8 missiles. The gun officer then growls “wait until they hit high atmo, I want the shots to be as effective as possible.” It didn’t take long though for the guns to fire. The shot being flung at hypersonic speeds made an incredibly loud crack as it sped through the atmosphere, soon it engaged its engine and went into the murderous final stretch. Across the region, it looked like fireworks were grazing through the sky. The computer stated “good hit, scratch 8.” We didn’t care, I routed orders to batteries, and the batteries obeyed. Soon shot two was fired, with the same results, more shuttles being turned into slag. The active camouflage tarps that were set up over the guns didn’t hide much because of the huge flashes of projectiles coming out from under them. But for every shuttle we downed, 5 more took their place, and as we kept up our steady barrage, the aliens’ orbit to ground fire became more accurate. The gun crew I was with took this as a sign to switch to kinetic shipkiller rounds. Due to the haze of chaff and jammers, the alien ships had to enter the atmosphere, and this made them a good target for our batteries. Throughout that night, we destroyed frigates, transport ships, and maybe a cruiser. But the cost was high, many of our positions were blown to kingdom come by lasers from orbit, a lot of us died at the ridge in the night. When the morning finally came, there were scorched pits everywhere. We cheered because the enemy's orbit to ground shots didn’t kill us all. But now the enemy had made planetfall, and I went to rejoin the 2nd company, my work with the Missile company finished. I grabbed up my com equipment, my spare mags, and my laser designator and got in a nice, slightly less cold than average foxhole. All around us, I heard the hiss of alien lasers striking into the ground around the area inaccurately and the crack of our retaliatory counter fire. Both of which were really just meant to suppress the enemy at this range. The Aliens made landfall later that day, but boy did we have a nasty surprise for them. Their landing sites were rendered into glass by nuclear weapons the minute they committed to any given landing zone. Poor bastards, I wouldn’t wish that fate upon anyone. Yet, I delivered that fate for thousands of them, I called out coordinates into the Coms, and marked them with a laser designator. About 30-60 seconds later, a nuke, airburst, or kinetic strike hit their positions. Their laser fire tried to find our silos, our mobile batteries, and our subs. They weren’t having the best luck with that. The flash of ionized air was almost as common as the mushroom clouds of our low yield nukes. The sound and light of it all was overwhelming. It was beautiful, and horrifying in equal measure. It was a symphony of artillery, and I had the honor of conducting it. My baton, my designator. My tailcoat, a suit of Battle Plate. I was caught up in the flow of it so much, that I nearly caused a blue on blue. After that mishap; I was relieved of duty, and rotated back so I could rest. Present day, Shil, Shil'Vati Imperium Sgt. Everett Janson As'lia turned to me first and asked “Mr. Janson, what unit were you in?” I replied with “93rd mechanized, at Aton ridge.” “What did you do during the conflict?” I gave a grim smile and said “Don’t you mean the invasion?” This answer seemed to make her wince in discomfort, but she didn’t answer. I didn’t care either way. “I was a FISTer, I called in artillery, directed orbital fire, and did my best to blunt your forces' advances,” I answered. “Did a good job too.” She didn’t seem to fully understand the significance of my post. Next she asked “Why did you fight? You could have had a nice life anywhere else, but you chose to fight in a backwater in your outer rim.” I truly smiled at that one. Time to spread some Directorate propaganda. I spoke carefully, “I fought because I believe in the Directorate, not the government or the powerful, but the people. I fight for the people and their security.” She states impassively. “That is an admirable goal.” She continues by asking me “did you have friends in the army?” I reply with, “ I had some great friends, sadly I haven’t kept in touch with them” She then asked “have you killed anyone”... continued in the comments
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Sgt. Everett Janson I am standing in front of the ship that will take me, others who received the message and the first Directorate Embassy to Shil. As I stepped aboard, I was greeted by a Naval Infantryman who showed me to my berth. The ship was a retrofitted Heavy frigate. From the moment I stepped on board, I felt like I was finally home. The berth I was assigned to already had two others in it. A large bulky warborg, and a tall willowy man with an eyepatch, we all introduced ourselves, the Warborg was called Fred, and he used to serve with Cerberus. The other man was named John, and he's a Naval officer and diplomat. As soon as we made basic pleasantries, an announcement went out for “all documentary personnel, please report to the meeting room.” The meeting room wasn’t much, just a bunch of chairs, a large computer screen and a table bolted to the floor. Once we all filed in, I saw that there were two more members of the group, but I didn't have much time to look around, because soon after we entered, a man in a fine suit came into the room. “Hello folks, I assume that you all know why you are here” at this there were various nods to the affirmative “great, well here are some extra orders from central military command. You are to represent the Directorate in the most positive light possible, you are to figure out any flaws in the Imperium's defenses, and you are to promote coexistence between our two nations.” The suited man then closed his pad and asked “any questions?” At that, there was silence, the suited man smiled, and left the room. All the rest of us shared introductions. The other two were named Rosalina, and Margit. They were a strike pilot, and a tanker respectively. We all started chatting and played cards for a while. Funnily enough, we were all deployed to Orvet III for the initial Shil invasion. John and Rosalina fought in orbit, and Fred, Margit, and I all fought on the ground. We all realized that we met before, Fred’s Platoon was relieved by my company, and Margit’s company. Rosalina and John provided support fire during the final push to defend Orvet. A discussion started sharing what everyone did during the other parts of the war. Fred was deployed to provide naval infantry an extra boost in boarding actions, Margit was like me, we both spent our time fighting in the frontlines, Rosalina was deployed to harass Shil shipping, and John seemed to have the most interesting time, he launched attacks against Shil worlds, killed a Shil princess, and secured Alliance support for our war effort. We were all surprised that he was going to Shil. I would bet that there is still a sizable bounty on his head for his deeds. After talking for many hours we said our goodbyes and went back to our berths to get some sleep. 8 Hours ago, Shil, Shil'Vati Imperium Sgt. Everett Janson Finally we made planetfall onto the surface of Shil, the others all have business to attend to elsewhere, and so I am by myself. I am supposed to be at the academy at 4:00 pm, and it is 8:00 am now. My luggage was already at the embassy and with nothing to do, so I decided to go on a guided tour of the city. Having found a reputable company and booking a 4 hour tour of the city. The guide himself was a small, skinny looking Shil boy who upon seeing me nearly freaked out, to be fair, now that I think about it, I do look pretty goulish. The skin on my face is literally stapled on, and I am probably more metal than flesh. After he calmed down, I asked him “where to first?'' After that, he started leading me around the city and talking without end. I learned more history and politics in that first hour than I have learned throughout school. Even the horrified looks and hushed whispers of the passersbys didn’t detract from the marvels. We passed life-like statues, beautiful buildings, and exquisite architecture. Man, maybe there would be less crime in New New York, if the architecture was anything other than brutalist prefabs. Although the one young girl who took one look at my grimacing countenance dropped her cone, pointed and wailed upon seeing the effects of what could generously be called meatball surgery did dampen my spirits just a little. I didn’t really know what “the enemy’s heart” would actually look like, I may have expected a place even more brutalist than my home world, not something with green spaces, and color in every hue of purple. Soon we were coming upon the imperial palace, goddamn, this is beautiful, why don’t we have things like this? Oh right, the Shil bombed it. I decided to ask my guide about a good place to get lunch. Soon, it was time for me to get to the Academy. I got a taxi and asked the driver in my broken Shil to “take me to Empress' Zah’rika’s Academy for Young Ladies.” The taxi ride was quite nice, I got to see more sights that weren’t covered by the walking tour I took previously. After a nice 20 minute ride in silence, I arrived at the academy. The Academy was quite large and imposing. I walked through many halls that were filled with artwork that is truly amazing. It took me a bit to get there, the Academy was like a maze. After 20 minutes of backtracking and checking a pretty outdated map that I had. I finally found my way to the room where filming was being done. The room was large, filled with film equipment, and painted a disgustingly vivid shade of violet. There was a large table with many Shils sitting on one side, and a bunch of empty chairs on the other side. Huh, I guess I am the first human here. The Shil on the other side of the table started to glare at me, especially at my FISTer patch. I sat there in an awkward silence, hoping that something, anything, would happen. Finally after 12 minutes of silence, the other humans filed into the room. Good, at least I am not the target of their ire any more. About 8 minutes later two young Shils walked into the room. The first one introduced herself as As’lia, she was the one who sent the message that brought me here. She said “ welcome all, thank you for coming to participate in interviews for my new documentary about the conflict”. She then looked around, and saw me, in my old uniform, my cybernetics polished to a dull shine. She said “ok, do you want to go first?” I replied with “I guess”. Present day, Shil, Shil'Vati Imperium Sgt. Everett Janson “Six years,” I sighed, “It has been six years since we found out we aren’t alone in the cold, cruel universe. Six years ago humanity was just recovering from the Razing of The Rim," I continued, "we were not ready, nor were we expecting to have to fight alien invaders. The war was 4 years of brutality We lost two planets, millions of lives, and a large part of our navy, but we were able to inflict severe losses to their population, their pride, and their willingness to invade random worlds. Now, we have peace, fragile as it might be, but peace nonetheless.” The purple skinned girl started raising her hands simultaneously up to her shoulders, and I broke my eyes off from the camera lens. What did that even mean? she repeated the gesture, faster and faster, until she sighed. “More emotion, it needs more emotion!” “Sorry,” I muttered, rehearsing what I’d just said- what else was there to say? They came, they saw, they attempted to conquer - though at least at a heavy cost. I’d bet that there are now thousands of Shil’vati Marines with a well-earned fear of drones and tanks now. We tried it again, and this time she seemed satisfied enough until we came to the new part. “A few months ago, I got an email from some Shil’vati film student who wanted to interview me for a docu-series about the war. At first I couldn’t imagine: ‘me, a human sergeant, going to the homeworld of my nation’s greatest enemy, to help some film student pass their class’. But I then took a look at my life and thought maybe this might actually be a good thing. My goal is to show the other perspective on the war that greatly affected both of our nations.” Six years ago, 14 days to invasion 93rd Mechanized Infantry battalion, 2nd company, Orvet III, UN Interstellar Directorate Cpl. Everett Janson It is dark and cramped in the belly of the CV270. The troop bay is practically a freezer under the lacking winter sun. My company had been doing exercises out in the woods near Karlov city, and we were finally heading back to base. We, the men and women of the 93rd Mechanized Infantry, had been posted here in response to the Free World secessionist crisis. The free world league was crushed, and the Rim was brought back into compliance, but we were still here. Erik, my squad leader, opened up his hip flask of some dubious liquid that was probably against regulation and offered it around. “Come on Janson, sure you don’t want some,” he growled in his gravelly voice, I replied with a curt “nope” and went back to dozing off, dreaming of an actual bed to lie my head on. Right as I attempted to drift back off to sleep, a crackly message came over the troop bay radio. “The corvette Pendant, and the Q-ship Henry Kissinger, have detected something big on sensors. Readiness 3 declared. All personnel are to be deployed in anti-invasion positions.” With this pronouncement, the entire squad stopped their banter and the became deadly serious. The driver kicked the engine into full gear to the Aton Ridge, a set of hills and forests that the 93rd was to hold. The other vehicles in the company rushed there too. In two hours, we were at the ridge. The place was abuzz with activity, naval Seabees worked with our engineers to set up comms, prefabs, and entrenchments. There were Warborgs with their glossy black armor and unsettling amber eyes, helping move entire howitzers and crates of ammo that must weigh at least 600 pounds. Infantry and armor crowded the area and waited, we waited for something, anything to take our minds off the terror of the idea that we will have to fight aliens. Every day, more combatants arrived. On day one, Two heavy infantry companies and one Mech company of Cerberus Mercs arrived. On day two, a bunch of policemen and logistics personnel showed up. On day three though, an entire regiment of Free World League remnants who caused us no end of trouble during the Razing, arrived with artillery, a signal platoon, a bunch of AA weapons, and tanks. Their CO said “a cease fire has been signed between us, we will defend humanity from the alien threat.” I liked his attitude but I wasn't as hopeful as him. The free worlders’ gear was old and but serviceable, but their tanks were practically 4 person coffins. Despite that, if they were hull down, they should be fine. We swore that no damn alien would take the ridge, unless we were all dead or ordered to fall back. Six years ago, 1 day to Invasion 93rd Mechanized Infantry battalion, 2nd company, Orvet III, UN Interstellar Directorate Cpl. Everett Janson We spent 13 days on the ridge just entrenching, with more forces arriving daily to turn our position into a fortress. We don’t know if it would be enough, though. We did our best to get any rest that we can before the inevitable invasion. At about 11:20 that night, we got another radio message “The system defense fleet has engaged and crippled the enemy fleet, but was forced to retreat under withering enemy fire. Readiness 2 declared. Prepare to repel the invaders, LONG LIVE THE DIRECTORATE!!!” With that we ran to our positions and waited. I was sent to assist the missile company, and the other anti orbit forces. Within 12 minutes, I was sitting on the side of a mobile anti-orbital gun and fiddling with my computer, trying to connect the gun batteries together. As I looked off into the distance, I saw missiles, loaded with bomb pumped lasers, shoot off into the sky. The cold winter air was filled with chaff, jamming waves, and other methods to reduce the accuracy of orbit to ground fire. I just sighed, pulled out a cigarette and lit it. I turned to senior gunner Goldman, and offered him one too. He took it, and muttered “480 CUs that this will be worse than the siege of Tau IX, back during the Razing.” Another gunner yelled out “nah, make it 900”, soon all the gunners started shouting even higher amounts of cash. It took the gun officer to get all of them to shut up and get back to work. In just a few hours, the gun officer yelled out “ready up, the aliens are overhead.” The gun crew, and all the gun crews across the ridge sprung into action. They fired up the computers and the control software rotated all the pieces into place. I yelled out “battery set, fire when ready.” The gun officer shouted “load Nuclear, Set airburst”, the senior gunner shouted “coils at 100%”, and the other gunners set the autoloader with 8 missiles. The gun officer then growls “wait until they hit high atmo, I want the shots to be as effective as possible.” It didn’t take long though for the guns to fire. The shot being flung at hypersonic speeds made an incredibly loud crack as it sped through the atmosphere, soon it engaged its engine and went into the murderous final stretch. Across the region, it looked like fireworks were grazing through the sky. The computer stated “good hit, scratch 8.” We didn’t care, I routed orders to batteries, and the batteries obeyed. Soon shot two was fired, with the same results, more shuttles being turned into slag. The active camouflage tarps that were set up over the guns didn’t hide much because of the huge flashes of projectiles coming out from under them. But for every shuttle we downed, 5 more took their place, and as we kept up our steady barrage, the aliens’ orbit to ground fire became more accurate. The gun crew I was with took this as a sign to switch to kinetic shipkiller rounds. Due to the haze of chaff and jammers, the alien ships had to enter the atmosphere, and this made them a good target for our batteries. Throughout that night, we destroyed frigates, transport ships, and maybe a cruiser. But the cost was high, many of our positions were blown to kingdom come by lasers from orbit, a lot of us died at the ridge in the night. When the morning finally came, there were scorched pits everywhere. We cheered because the enemy's orbit to ground shots didn’t kill us all. But now the enemy had made planetfall, and I went to rejoin the 2nd company, my work with the Missile company finished. I grabbed up my com equipment, my spare mags, and my laser designator and got in a nice, slightly less cold than average foxhole. All around us, I heard the hiss of alien lasers striking into the ground around the area inaccurately and the crack of our retaliatory counter fire. Both of which were really just meant to suppress the enemy at this range. The Aliens made landfall later that day, but boy did we have a nasty surprise for them. Their landing sites were rendered into glass by nuclear weapons the minute they committed to any given landing zone. Poor bastards, I wouldn’t wish that fate upon anyone. Yet, I delivered that fate for thousands of them, I called out coordinates into the Coms, and marked them with a laser designator. About 30-60 seconds later, a nuke, airburst, or kinetic strike hit their positions. Their laser fire tried to find our silos, our mobile batteries, and our subs. They weren’t having the best luck with that. The flash of ionized air was almost as common as the mushroom clouds of our low yield nukes. The sound and light of it all was overwhelming. It was beautiful, and horrifying in equal measure. It was a symphony of artillery, and I had the honor of conducting it. My baton, my designator. My tailcoat, a suit of Battle Plate. I was caught up in the flow of it so much, that I nearly caused a blue on blue. After that mishap; I was relieved of duty, and rotated back so I could rest. Present day, Shil, Shil'Vati Imperium Sgt. Everett Janson As'lia turned to me first and asked “Mr. Janson, what unit were you in?” I replied with “93rd mechanized, at Aton ridge.” “What did you do during the conflict?” I gave a grim smile and said “Don’t you mean the invasion?” This answer seemed to make her wince in discomfort, but she didn’t answer. I didn’t care either way. “I was a FISTer, I called in artillery, directed orbital fire, and did my best to blunt your forces' advances,” I answered. “Did a good job too.” She didn’t seem to fully understand the significance of my post. Next she asked “Why did you fight? You could have had a nice life anywhere else, but you chose to fight in a backwater in your outer rim.” I truly smiled at that one. Time to spread some Directorate propaganda. I spoke carefully, “I fought because I believe in the Directorate, not the government or the powerful, but the people. I fight for the people and their security.” She states impassively. “That is an admirable goal.” She continues by asking me “did you have friends in the army?” I reply with, “ I had some great friends, sadly I haven’t kept in touch with them” She then asked “have you killed anyone”... continued in the comments
2024.04.08 01:46 kaleviko [All] A piece of chocolate cake
In P4, the Silver Mustang Casino driver was looking for a red door in Lancelot Court, trying to get Cooper to the Jones's house. Then he spotted the door.
While he superficially pointed towards the door, there was also a shadowy, low-built sports car parked on the street, framed right at the tip of his stretched finger. A similar car, rhyming with the red door, was Red's black Corvette Stingray that was otherwise only seen a few episodes later in P6.
When Janey-E took Cooper inside, she sat next to a red balloon, but other than that, the hint about Red's presence didn't seem to yield anything. Finding the bag was full of money, she realised all their problems would be solved. Elated, she got up.
Oh, Dougie.
Normally, we'd understand Janey-E's comment about the chocolate cake so that there was just one piece left of it, and there was no more cake than that. This would become something to think about much later in P15. Cooper was again sitting in that same chair, wearing the same suit and looking just as inoperable as before when Janey-E brought him a piece of chocolate cake. She was very happy.
This looked as if it continued the scene from P4. But there were a few problems to deal with before such conclusion would work.
She put the balloons on.
Janey-E was wearing the same jeans and the same white shirt as in the P4 scene, only having changed her pinkish sweater to a flowery overshirt. There were no balloons around the kitchen but their colors - red, blue, yellow and green - were suggestively repeated in the colors of the flowers on her shirt.
When Cooper soon got up, pushed a fork into a wall socket and electrocuted himself, we got a quick shot of Janey-E in the kitchen with a half-eaten chocolate cake on the counter. Clearly, there was much more than just a piece left of the cake.
Too much cake.
Apart from the cake, we were nevertheless teased to put these two scenes together so that the scene in P4 continued with the scene in P15. Cooper would have already got his sandwich and now moved to eat the piece of chocolate cake while she had cleaned up the balloons and changed her shirt, not losing any of her good mood. It would still have been that same evening.
If this was, indeed, the intention here, the chocolate cake was left as a riddle to solve. There was too much of it. What was going on with the cake?
This would now be the time to think about Red's Corvette. In P6, Red and Richard had a stressful meeting at a Twin Peaks sawmill warehouse next to the car. Towards the end of the scene, Red took a dime and slapped it heads up on the back of his hand.
The head on the dime is that of President Roosevelt. The head of another Roosevelt is carved on the Mount Rushmore, President Theodore Roosevelt, seen in the photograph that Albert gave Cole later in P4. This Roosevelt is famous for giving his name to teddy bears, one of which was without its head on the table when Richard went to rob his grandmother in P10. While strangling the poor woman, he quickly turned towards the table.
He may have meant his uncle Johnny, also in that direction, but the mutilated teddy bear, with a gaping hole in its makeshift plastic head substitute, seemed like a more fitting match. Coincidentally, also Sonny Jim had a teddy bear, or at least its head, in his room when Cooper went to say goodnight to him in P6. Perhaps the teddy head peeking from the nightstand stood for the missing head of Johnny's teddy, the possible "piece of shit".
That seat comes with a red balloon.
Regarding how Red associated himself with a Roosevelt and then we got a teddy without its head, the possible Corvette parked outside the Jones's house may have suggested that Sonny Jim's teddy head was an abstraction for Red's severed head. This would link to a fairly complicated plotting around the Rancho Rosa Little Boy who in P5 found a bomb under a car and possibly became possessed by an antagonistic supernatural entity brought over from Inland Empire, the Phantom. Like Sonny Jim, this nameless boy lived with his mother, who was always sitting next to a red balloon. There was another red balloon next to Janey-E when she took Cooper in and they sat at the table.
The Little Boy may have appeared in a parallel storyline as Richard, another "kid", who in a surprise twist would have killed Red and his two goons. The killings would have been shown to us as the three men burning alive in Rancho Rosa when they were breaking in to Dougie's Ford, seemingly because the bomb went off but possibly because the Little Boy watching on used his new terrifying powers on them.
The destructive nature of these powers was implied by the nuclear explosion in P8 that was accompanied with Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima: since the bomb going off in Hiroshima was named as Little Boy, the explosion killing the men was hinted to have been caused by the kid credited with the name of an atomic bomb.
Little Boy ballooned so he got balloons.
When the nuclear bomb's characteristic mushroom cloud appeared in P8, Lynch's camera slowly drove into the ballooning explosion. This may have implied that the birthday balloons all over the Jones's house were the explosion's abstract aftermath. If so, all these scenes took place in that house, even if the place magically changed its appearance from one storyline to another.
Thinking about all this, the chocolate cake dilemma might be solved so that the "piece" they had saved for Cooper was not about the piece of cake but about another kind of piece. Like the color of the cake suggested, that "piece" would have been the "piece of shit", now appearing as the cake that Janey-E cut a piece from.
Thus, earlier that evening, this would have been where Red was killed, and the chocolate cake stood as an absurd abstraction for his remains. In a very Lynchian show of morbid humor, they were disposing of his body by feeding it to Cooper. Is it delicious? Later on, only the head remained, kept by the boy who had killed the man.
This fantastical twist would now connect to an entirely different storyline. The total of the jackpot brought to Janey-E was initially said to be $425,000. The idea of that kind of money appearing after someone was killed was also a part of Ray and Darya's story to kill Mr C that he foiled in P2.
So then, if this was followed as intended, Cooper stuck the fork in the socket already that same evening, shortly after bringing Janey-E the money. The cash seems to have been a payment for the killing that was confirmed by the "chocolate cake", the body they had saved as the evidence of a mission accomplished, the murder of a certain "piece of shit", elsewhere appearing as the character credited as the color Red.
Later in P4, it was morning, and Cooper was upstairs, sitting on the bed in pajamas. There were clothes next to him, as if someone had been next to him but disappeared without his clothes. Gerard showed up, telling Cooper he had been "tricked". If this wasn't in continuation of the evening seen earlier in the episode, what trick got him back to the house?
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Limo Driver: "There it is. There's your door right there, Mr Jones."There it is.
While he superficially pointed towards the door, there was also a shadowy, low-built sports car parked on the street, framed right at the tip of his stretched finger. A similar car, rhyming with the red door, was Red's black Corvette Stingray that was otherwise only seen a few episodes later in P6.
When Janey-E took Cooper inside, she sat next to a red balloon, but other than that, the hint about Red's presence didn't seem to yield anything. Finding the bag was full of money, she realised all their problems would be solved. Elated, she got up.
Janey-E: "I'm gonna fix you a sandwich, and then I'm gonna get you a piece of Sonny Jim's chocolate cake, 'cause we saved a piece for you."She was almost bursting from happiness.
Janey-E: "Oh, Dougie. I'm so glad you're home, Dougie."She kissed him on the head and went to the kitchen, leaving Cooper sitting at the table.
Oh, Dougie.
Normally, we'd understand Janey-E's comment about the chocolate cake so that there was just one piece left of it, and there was no more cake than that. This would become something to think about much later in P15. Cooper was again sitting in that same chair, wearing the same suit and looking just as inoperable as before when Janey-E brought him a piece of chocolate cake. She was very happy.
Janey-E: "Oh, Dougie. It's like all our dreams are coming true."She kissed him on the cheek and went back to the kitchen, leaving Cooper eating the piece of chocolate cake.
This looked as if it continued the scene from P4. But there were a few problems to deal with before such conclusion would work.
She put the balloons on.
Janey-E was wearing the same jeans and the same white shirt as in the P4 scene, only having changed her pinkish sweater to a flowery overshirt. There were no balloons around the kitchen but their colors - red, blue, yellow and green - were suggestively repeated in the colors of the flowers on her shirt.
When Cooper soon got up, pushed a fork into a wall socket and electrocuted himself, we got a quick shot of Janey-E in the kitchen with a half-eaten chocolate cake on the counter. Clearly, there was much more than just a piece left of the cake.
Too much cake.
Apart from the cake, we were nevertheless teased to put these two scenes together so that the scene in P4 continued with the scene in P15. Cooper would have already got his sandwich and now moved to eat the piece of chocolate cake while she had cleaned up the balloons and changed her shirt, not losing any of her good mood. It would still have been that same evening.
If this was, indeed, the intention here, the chocolate cake was left as a riddle to solve. There was too much of it. What was going on with the cake?
This would now be the time to think about Red's Corvette. In P6, Red and Richard had a stressful meeting at a Twin Peaks sawmill warehouse next to the car. Towards the end of the scene, Red took a dime and slapped it heads up on the back of his hand.
Red: "This is me."This is me. Or my head, at least.
The head on the dime is that of President Roosevelt. The head of another Roosevelt is carved on the Mount Rushmore, President Theodore Roosevelt, seen in the photograph that Albert gave Cole later in P4. This Roosevelt is famous for giving his name to teddy bears, one of which was without its head on the table when Richard went to rob his grandmother in P10. While strangling the poor woman, he quickly turned towards the table.
Richard: "And I'll cornhole that piece of shit!"The \"piece of shit\" with hole for a corn to go through.
He may have meant his uncle Johnny, also in that direction, but the mutilated teddy bear, with a gaping hole in its makeshift plastic head substitute, seemed like a more fitting match. Coincidentally, also Sonny Jim had a teddy bear, or at least its head, in his room when Cooper went to say goodnight to him in P6. Perhaps the teddy head peeking from the nightstand stood for the missing head of Johnny's teddy, the possible "piece of shit".
That seat comes with a red balloon.
Regarding how Red associated himself with a Roosevelt and then we got a teddy without its head, the possible Corvette parked outside the Jones's house may have suggested that Sonny Jim's teddy head was an abstraction for Red's severed head. This would link to a fairly complicated plotting around the Rancho Rosa Little Boy who in P5 found a bomb under a car and possibly became possessed by an antagonistic supernatural entity brought over from Inland Empire, the Phantom. Like Sonny Jim, this nameless boy lived with his mother, who was always sitting next to a red balloon. There was another red balloon next to Janey-E when she took Cooper in and they sat at the table.
The Little Boy may have appeared in a parallel storyline as Richard, another "kid", who in a surprise twist would have killed Red and his two goons. The killings would have been shown to us as the three men burning alive in Rancho Rosa when they were breaking in to Dougie's Ford, seemingly because the bomb went off but possibly because the Little Boy watching on used his new terrifying powers on them.
The destructive nature of these powers was implied by the nuclear explosion in P8 that was accompanied with Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima: since the bomb going off in Hiroshima was named as Little Boy, the explosion killing the men was hinted to have been caused by the kid credited with the name of an atomic bomb.
Little Boy ballooned so he got balloons.
When the nuclear bomb's characteristic mushroom cloud appeared in P8, Lynch's camera slowly drove into the ballooning explosion. This may have implied that the birthday balloons all over the Jones's house were the explosion's abstract aftermath. If so, all these scenes took place in that house, even if the place magically changed its appearance from one storyline to another.
Thinking about all this, the chocolate cake dilemma might be solved so that the "piece" they had saved for Cooper was not about the piece of cake but about another kind of piece. Like the color of the cake suggested, that "piece" would have been the "piece of shit", now appearing as the cake that Janey-E cut a piece from.
Thus, earlier that evening, this would have been where Red was killed, and the chocolate cake stood as an absurd abstraction for his remains. In a very Lynchian show of morbid humor, they were disposing of his body by feeding it to Cooper. Is it delicious? Later on, only the head remained, kept by the boy who had killed the man.
This fantastical twist would now connect to an entirely different storyline. The total of the jackpot brought to Janey-E was initially said to be $425,000. The idea of that kind of money appearing after someone was killed was also a part of Ray and Darya's story to kill Mr C that he foiled in P2.
Mr C: "How much do they want me dead? What are they paying you?"By P10, Cooper's jackpot had swelled from $425,000 to $447,000 (+$22,000), and in P11 to $472,000 (+$25,000), still short $28,000 of half a million. The systematic change in the amount was possibly offered as a means to properly organise the wildly winding plot that had the characters and their environments in a constant, dreamlike flux.
Darya: "We'd split a half a million."
So then, if this was followed as intended, Cooper stuck the fork in the socket already that same evening, shortly after bringing Janey-E the money. The cash seems to have been a payment for the killing that was confirmed by the "chocolate cake", the body they had saved as the evidence of a mission accomplished, the murder of a certain "piece of shit", elsewhere appearing as the character credited as the color Red.
Later in P4, it was morning, and Cooper was upstairs, sitting on the bed in pajamas. There were clothes next to him, as if someone had been next to him but disappeared without his clothes. Gerard showed up, telling Cooper he had been "tricked". If this wasn't in continuation of the evening seen earlier in the episode, what trick got him back to the house?
2024.04.05 00:48 murkwithasmurk $6000 2010 Corvette around Laguna Seca
 | For my Cake Day this year I’m sharing with all of you the final chapter and wild conclusion to my adventure to San Diego in my super cheap corvette! Thanks to everybody who has supported me along the way I couldn’t do it without you! submitted by murkwithasmurk to CarTrackDays [link] [comments] |
2024.04.04 16:07 murkwithasmurk Rat rod Corvette Finale
 | For my cake day this year I’m sharing with all of you the final chapter and wild conclusion to my adventure to San Diego in my super cheap Corvette! Thanks to everybody who has supported me along the way!! submitted by murkwithasmurk to Corvette [link] [comments] |
2024.04.02 05:57 Clay_Bricks Every retiring LEGO set (April 2024 update)
It's a new month, which means its time for another set retirement update! Not much to note once again this month! And no, no April Fools jokes here
As always, we owe a massive thanks to ZombieYeti from the BrickHound Discord for providing this valuable data. If you're looking for real-time in-stock/deal alerts for Lego.com and other sites, make sure to check out his server!
This information is scraped directly from Lego's website, and all dates are subject to change. ZombieYeti is currently developing a website to host this data and offer real-time updates. In the meantime, here is a list of every set and their corresponding retirement date as per LEGO's system!
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. Due to Reddit's character limits, we can't include everything here, but the full spreadsheet contains every set.
submitted by Clay_Bricks to Legoleak [link] [comments]
Reminder that retirement updates are now fully automated on Discord!
Thanks to ZombieYeti, the Brick Tap discord now has the BrickHound bot posting automated retirement updates, as soon as they are changed in the data!This information is scraped directly from Lego's website, and all dates are subject to change. ZombieYeti is currently developing a website to host this data and offer real-time updates. In the meantime, here is a list of every set and their corresponding retirement date as per LEGO's system!
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. Due to Reddit's character limits, we can't include everything here, but the full spreadsheet contains every set.
FULL LIST ON GOOGLE SHEETS <--
REAL TIME UPDATES ON DISCORD <--
NEW SETS ADDED:
| Theme | Set # | Set Name | Retirement Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minifigures | 66764 | Series 26 Space 6 Pack | Aug 31, 2024 |
| Minifigures | 71046 | Series 26 Space | Aug 31, 2024 |
| City | 60441 | Space Explorers Pack (30663 + 60428 + 60430) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Classic | 40715 | Alien Pack | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Classic | 40716 | Alien Planet Habitat | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Batman | 76271 | Batman: The Animated Series Gotham City | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Disney | 43248 | Inside Out 2: Emotion Cubes | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Mario | 71435 | Battle with Roy at Peach's Castle | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Mario | 71436 | King Boo's Haunted Mansion | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Mario | 71437 | The Bowser Express Train | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Star Wars | 75378 | BARC Speeder Escape | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Star Wars | 75383 | Darth Maul's Sith Infiltrator | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Duplo | 10431 | Peppa Pig Garden and Tree House | Dec 31, 2026 |
| Duplo | 10432 | Peppa Pig Boat Trip | Dec 31, 2026 |
| Duplo | 10433 | Peppa Pig Birthday House | Dec 31, 2026 |
| Duplo | 10434 | Peppa Pig Supermarket | Dec 31, 2026 |
| Ideas | 21348 | Dungeons & Dragons: Red Dragon's Tale | Dec 31, 2026 |
CHANGES FOR APRIL:
| Theme | Set # | Set Name | Old Date | New Date | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friends | 42619 | Pop Star Music Tour Bus | Dec 31, 2025 | Dec 31, 2024 | -1 year |
| LEGO House | 40505 | LEGO Building Systems | Dec 31, 2025 | Dec 31, 2024 | -1 year |
| LEGO House | 40504 | A Minifigure Tribute | Dec 31, 2024 | Dec 31, 2025 | +1 year |
| Friends | 42614 | Vintage Fashion Store | Dec 31, 2024 | Dec 31, 2025 | +1 year |
| Gabby's Dollhouse | 10788 | Gabby's Dollhouse | Dec 31, 2025 | Jul 31, 2026 | +6 months |
SETS RETIRING IN 2024:
| Theme | Set # | Set Name | Retirement Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minifigures | 66763 | Minifigures Series 25 6 Pack | Apr 30, 2024 |
| Minifigures | 71045 | Minifigures Series 25 | Apr 30, 2024 |
| Avatar | 75572 | Jake & Neytiri's First Banshee Flight | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Avatar | 75574 | Toruk Makto & Tree of Souls | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Avatar | 75575 | Ilu Discovery | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Avatar | 75576 | Skimwing Adventure | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Avatar | 75579 | Payakan the Tulkun & Crabsuit | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43213 | The Little Mermaid Story Book | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43220 | Peter Pan & Wendy's Storybook Adventure | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41724 | Paisley's House | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41744 | Sports Center | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41754 | Leo's Room | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 75969 | Hogwarts Astronomy Tower | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76388 | Hogsmeade Village Visit | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Jurassic | 76957 | Velociraptor Escape (4+) | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71360 | Adventures with Mario | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71387 | Adventures with Luigi | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71395 | Super Mario 64 Question Mark Block | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71403 | Adventures with Peach | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71408 | Princess Peach's Castle | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71419 | Peach's Garden Balloon Ride | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71420 | Rambi the Rhino | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71421 | Dixie Kong's Jungle Jam | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71425 | Diddy Kong's Mine Cart Ride | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Minifigures | 66764 | Series 26 Space 6 Pack | Aug 31, 2024 |
| Minifigures | 71046 | Series 26 Space | Aug 31, 2024 |
| Animal Crossing | 30662 | Maple's Pumpkin Garden (Polybag) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Architecture | 21056 | Taj Mahal | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Architecture | 21057 | Singapore | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Art | 31209 | The Amazing Spider-Man | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Art | 31210 | Modern Art | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Batman | 30653 | Batman 1992 Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Batman | 76224 | Batmobile: Batman vs. The Joker Chase | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Batman | 76240 | Batmobile Tumbler | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Batman | 76252 | Batcave – Shadow Box | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Batman | 76259 | Batman Construction Figure | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Batman | 76264 | Batmobile Pursuit: Batman vs. The Joker (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Batman | 76265 | Batwing: Batman vs. The Joker | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40547 | Obi-Wan Kenobi & Darth Vader | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40615 | Tusken Raider | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40616 | Harry Potter & Cho Chang | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40617 | Draco Malfoy & Cedric Diggory | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40618 | Kingsley Shacklebolt & Nymphadora Tonks | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40620 | Cruella & Maleficent | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40621 | Moana & Merida | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40627 | Sonic the Hedgehog | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40628 | Miles 'Tails' Prower | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40630 | Frodo & Gollum | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40631 | Gandalf the Grey & Balrog | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40632 | Aragorn & Arwen | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40672 | Knuckles & Shadow | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40677 | Prisoner of Azkaban Figures | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 30663 | Space Hoverbike | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 30664 | Police Off-Road Buggy Car Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60283 | Holiday Camper Van | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60287 | Tractor | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60336 | Freight Train | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60364 | Street Skate Park | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60365 | Apartment Building | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60366 | Ski and Climbing Centre | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60370 | Police Station Chase | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60372 | Police Training Academy | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60375 | Fire Station and Fire Engine | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60376 | Arctic Explorer Snowmobile | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60377 | Explorer Diving Boat | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60378 | Arctic Explorer Truck and Mobile Lab | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60379 | Deep-Sea Explorer Submarine | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60380 | Downtown | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60383 | Electric Sports Car | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60384 | Penguin Slushy Van | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60386 | Recycling Truck | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60387 | 4x4 Off-Roader Adventures | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60388 | Gaming Tournament Truck | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60389 | Custom Car Garage | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60392 | Police Bike Car Chase | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60395 | Combo Race Pack | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60396 | Modified Race Cars | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60397 | Monster Truck Race | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60399 | Race Car (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60403 | Emergency Ambulance (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60405 | Emergency Rescue Helicopter | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60410 | Fire Rescue Motorcycle (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60413 | Fire Rescue Plane | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60417 | Police Speedboat and Crooks' Hideout | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60428 | Space Construction Mech | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60432 | Command Rover and Crane Loader | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60438 | Sailboat | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60439 | Space Science Lab | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60441 | Space Explorers Pack (30663 + 60428 + 60430) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Classic | 10696 | Medium Creative Brick Box | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Classic | 10698 | Large Creative Brick Box | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Classic | 11013 | Creative Transparent Bricks | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Classic | 11017 | Creative Monsters | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Classic | 11027 | Creative Neon Fun | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Classic | 11028 | Creative Pastel Fun | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Classic | 11029 | Creative Party Box | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Classic | 11030 | Lots of Bricks | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Classic | 11033 | Creative Fantasy Universe | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 30645 | Snowman Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 30666 | Gift Animals Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 30667 | Animal Birthday Party Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 30668 | Easter Bunny with Colourful Eggs Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 30669 | Iconic Red Plane Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 31088 | Deep Sea Creatures | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 31120 | Medieval Castle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 31124 | Super Robot | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 31125 | Fantasy Forest Creatures | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 31126 | Supersonic-jet | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 31133 | White Rabbit | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 31135 | Vintage Motorcycle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 31138 | Beach Camper Van | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 31141 | Main Street | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 31143 | Birdhouse | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 31144 | Exotic Pink Parrot | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 40651 | Australia Postcard | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 40654 | Beijing Postcard | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 66783 | Colourful Animals Play Pack | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 30661 | Asha's Welcome Booth Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 30671 | Aurora's Forest Playground Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 40613 | Mini Disney Palace of Agrabah | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43205 | Ultimate Adventure Castle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43206 | Cinderella and Prince Charming's Castle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43210 | Moana's Wayfinding Boat | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43211 | Aurora's Castle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43214 | Twirling Rapunzel | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43215 | The Enchanted Treehouse | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43216 | Princess Enchanted Journey | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43218 | Anna and Elsa's Magical Carousel | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43219 | Disney Princess Creative Castles | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43221 | 100 Years of Disney Animation Icons | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43223 | Asha in the City of Rosas | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43224 | King Magnifico's Castle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43225 | The Little Mermaid Royal Clamshell | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43226 | Disney Duos | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43227 | Villain Icons | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43229 | Ariel's Treasure Chest | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43231 | Asha's Cottage | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43232 | Peter Pan & Wendy's Flight over London | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43234 | Elsa's Frozen Treats | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43239 | Mirabel's Photo Frame and Jewelry Box | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43241 | Rapunzel's Tower & The Snuggly Duckling | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DREAMZzz | 30636 | Z-Blob and Bunchu Spider Escape Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DREAMZzz | 40657 | Dream Village | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DREAMZzz | 71453 | Izzie and Bunchu the Bunny | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DREAMZzz | 71454 | Mateo and Z-Blob the Robot | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DREAMZzz | 71455 | Grimkeeper the Cage Monster | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DREAMZzz | 71456 | Mrs. Castillo's Turtle Van | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DREAMZzz | 71457 | Pegasus Flying Horse | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DREAMZzz | 71458 | Crocodile Car | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DREAMZzz | 71459 | Stable of Dream Creatures | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DREAMZzz | 71460 | Mr. Oz's Spacebus | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DREAMZzz | 71461 | Fantastical Tree House | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DREAMZzz | 71469 | Nightmare Shark Ship | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DreamZzz | 71471 | Mateo's Off-Road Car | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DreamZzz | 71472 | Izzie's Narwhal Hot-Air Balloon | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DreamZzz | 71476 | Zoey and Zian the Cat-Owl | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DreamZzz | 71477 | The Sandman's Tower | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10412 | Animal Train | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10872 | Train Bridge and Tracks | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10874 | Steam Train | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10875 | Cargo Train | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10882 | Train Tracks | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10909 | Heart Box | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10935 | Alphabet Town | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10959 | Police Station & Helicopter | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10970 | Fire Station & Helicopter | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10971 | Wild Animals of Africa | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10975 | Wild Animals of the World | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10980 | DUPLO Green Building Plate | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10981 | Growing Carrot | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10982 | Fruit and Vegetable Tractor | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10983 | Organic Market | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10984 | Organic Garden | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10985 | Wind Turbine and Electric Car | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10986 | Family House on Wheels | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10987 | Recycling Truck | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10988 | The Bus Ride | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10989 | Water Park | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10990 | Construction Site | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10991 | Dream Playground | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10992 | Life at the Day-Care Center | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10995 | Spider-Man's House | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10996 | Lightning McQueen & Mater's Car Wash Fun | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10997 | Camping Adventure | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10998 | 3-in-1 Magical Castle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 30635 | Beach Cleanup | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 30658 | Mobile Music Trailer Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 30659 | Flower Garden Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41725 | Beach Buggy Fun | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41727 | Dog Rescue Centre | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41728 | Heartlake Downtown Diner | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41730 | Autumn's House | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41731 | Heartlake International School | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41734 | Sea Rescue Boat | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41735 | Mobile Tiny House | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41736 | Sea Rescue Center | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41737 | Beach Adventure Park | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41738 | Dog Rescue Bike | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41739 | Liann's Room | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41740 | Aliya's Room | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41745 | Autumn's Stable | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41746 | Riding School | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41747 | Heartlake City Community Kitchen | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41749 | News Van | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41752 | Sea Rescue Aircraft | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41753 | Pancake Shop | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41755 | Nova's Room | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41756 | Holiday Ski Slope and Café | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41757 | Botanical Garden | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41759 | Heartlake City Bus | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41760 | Igloo Holiday Adventure | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42601 | Hamster Playground | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42605 | Mars Space Base and Rocket | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42607 | Autumn's Baby Cow Shed | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42608 | Tiny Accessories Store | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42609 | Electric Car And Charger | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42612 | Cat Playground Adventure | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42613 | Heartlake City Hospital Ambulance | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42615 | Pet Adoption Day | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42616 | Heartlake City Music Talent Show | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42617 | Farm Animal Sanctuary | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42619 | Pop Star Music Tour Bus | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42632 | Farm Animal Vet Clinic (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42633 | Hot Dog Food Truck | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Gabby's Dollhouse | 10785 | Bakey with Cakey Fun | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Gabby's Dollhouse | 10786 | Gabby & MerCat's Ship & Spa | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Gabby's Dollhouse | 10787 | Kitty Fairy's Garden Party | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 30677 | Draco in the Forbidden Forest Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76389 | Hogwarts Chamber of Secrets | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76402 | Hogwarts: Dumbledore's Office | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76405 | Hogwarts Express - Collectors' Edition | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76407 | The Shrieking Shack & Whomping Willow | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76413 | Hogwarts: Room of Requirement | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76414 | Expecto Patronum | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76415 | The Battle of Hogwarts | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76416 | Quidditch Trunk | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76420 | Triwizard Tournament: The Black Lake | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76422 | Diagon Alley: Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76423 | Hogwarts Express & Hogsmeade Station | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76424 | Flying Ford Anglia | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76432 | Forbidden Forest: Magical Creatures | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Icons | 10274 | Ghostbusters ECTO-1 | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Icons | 10283 | NASA Space Shuttle Discovery | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Icons | 10303 | Loop Coaster | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Icons | 10304 | Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 1969 | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Icons | 10306 | Atari 2600 | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Icons | 10308 | Holiday Main Street | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Icons | 10320 | Eldorado Fortress | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Icons | 10321 | Corvette | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Icons | 40634 | Icons of Play | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ideas | 21318 | Tree House | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ideas | 21327 | Typewriter | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ideas | 21331 | Sonic the Hedgehog - Green Hill Zone | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ideas | 21332 | The Globe | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ideas | 21334 | Jazz Quartet | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ideas | 21338 | A-Frame Cabin | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ideas | 21339 | BTS Dynamite | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ideas | 21340 | Tales of the Space Age | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Indiana Jones | 77012 | Fighter Plane Chase | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Indiana Jones | 77013 | Escape from the Lost Tomb | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Indiana Jones | 77015 | Temple of the Golden Idol | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Jurassic | 76944 | T. rex Dinosaur Breakout (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Jurassic | 76946 | Blue & Beta Velociraptor Capture | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Jurassic | 76949 | Giganotosaurus & Therizinosaurus Attack | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Jurassic | 76951 | Pyroraptor & Dilophosaurus Transport | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Jurassic | 76958 | Dilophosaurus Ambush | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Jurassic | 76959 | Triceratops Research | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Jurassic | 76960 | Brachiosaurus Discovery | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Jurassic | 76961 | Visitor Centre: T. rex & Raptor Attack | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71374 | Nintendo Entertainment System | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71422 | Picnic at Mario's House | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71423 | Dry Bowser Castle Battle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71424 | Donkey Kong's Tree House | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71427 | Larry's and Morton's Airships | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71428 | Yoshis' Egg-cellent Forest | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71429 | Nabbit at Toad's Shop | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 10791 | Team Spidey's Mobile Headquarters (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 10792 | Drill Spinner Vehicle (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 10793 | Spidey vs. Green Goblin (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 30769 | Venom Street Bike (Polybag) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76210 | Hulkbuster | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76217 | I am Groot | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76218 | Sanctum Sanctorum | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76226 | Spider-Man Figure | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76232 | The Hoopty | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76241 | Hulk Mech Armor | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76243 | Rocket Mech Armor | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76244 | Miles Morales vs. Morbius | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76245 | Ghost Rider Mech & Bike | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76247 | The Hulkbuster: The Battle of Wakanda | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76248 | The Avengers Quinjet | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76249 | Venomised Groot | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76251 | Star-Lord's Helmet | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76254 | Baby Rocket's Ship | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76256 | Ant-Man Construction Figure | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76257 | Wolverine Construction Figure | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76258 | Captain America Construction Figure | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76260 | Black Widow & Captain America Motorcycles | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76262 | Captain America's Shield | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76263 | Iron Man Hulkbuster vs. Thanos (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76266 | Endgame Final Battle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76275 | Motorcycle Chase: Spider-Man vs. Doc Ock | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21166 | The 'Abandoned' Mine | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21178 | The Fox Lodge | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21179 | The Mushroom House | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21189 | The Skeleton Dungeon | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21240 | The Swamp Adventure | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21241 | The Bee Cottage | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21242 | The End Arena | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21243 | The Frozen Peaks | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21244 | The Sword Outpost | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21245 | The Panda Haven | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21246 | The Deep Dark Battle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21247 | The Axolotl House | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21248 | The Pumpkin Farm | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21250 | The Iron Golem Fortress | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21253 | The Animal Sanctuary | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21257 | The Devourer Showdown | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40296 | LEGO House Build Your Meal Brick Bag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40297 | LEGO House 6 DUPLO Bricks | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40347 | LEGOLAND Driving School | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40429 | Ninjago World | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40505 | LEGO Building Systems | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40534 | LEGO House Chef | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40556 | Mythica | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40573 | Christmas Tree | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40574 | LEGO Brand Store | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40639 | Bird's Nest | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40640 | LEGO Nutcracker | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40641 | Birthday Cake | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40642 | Gingerbread Ornaments | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40643 | Jade Rabbit | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40644 | Pinata | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40714 | Carousel Ride | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40715 | Alien Pack | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40716 | Alien Planet Habitat | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 80112 | Auspicious Dragon | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 80113 | Family Reunion Celebration | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Monkie Kid | 80036 | The City of Lanterns | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Monkie Kid | 80041 | Mei's Dragon Jet | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Monkie Kid | 80043 | Yellow Tusk Elephant | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Monkie Kid | 80044 | Monkie Kid's Team Hideout | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Monkie Kid | 80046 | Monkie Kid's Cloud Airship | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Monkie Kid | 80047 | Mei's Guardian Dragon | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Monkie Kid | 80048 | The Mighty Azure Lion | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Monkie Kid | 80049 | Dragon of the East Palace | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Monkie Kid | 80050 | Creative Vehicles | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Monkie Kid | 80053 | Mei's Dragon Mech | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 30650 | Kai and Rapton's Temple Battle Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 30674 | Zane's Dragon Power Vehicles Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71741 | NINJAGO City Gardens | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71782 | Cole's Earth Dragon EVO | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71783 | Kai's Mech Rider EVO | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71784 | Jay's Lightning Jet EVO | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71785 | Jay's Titan Mech | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71786 | Zane's Ice Dragon Creature | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71787 | Creative Ninja Brick Box | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71788 | Lloyd's Ninja Street Bike (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71789 | Kai and Ras's Car and Bike Battle (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71790 | Imperium Dragon Hunter Hound | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71791 | Zane's Dragon Power Spinjitzu Race Car | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71792 | Sora's Transforming Mech Bike Racer | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71793 | Heatwave Transforming Lava Dragon | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71794 | Lloyd and Arin's Ninja Team Mechs | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71795 | Temple of the Dragon Energy Cores | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71796 | Elemental Dragon vs. The Empress Mech | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71797 | Destiny's Bounty - Race Against Time | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71798 | Nya and Arin's Baby Dragon Battle (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71800 | Nya's Water Dragon EVO | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71801 | Kai's Rising Dragon Strike | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71802 | Nya's Rising Dragon Strike | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71803 | Arin's Rising Dragon Strike | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Sonic | 30676 | Kiki's Coconut Attack Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Sonic | 76990 | Sonic's Speed Sphere Challenge | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Sonic | 76991 | Tails' Workshop and Tornado Plane | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Sonic | 76992 | Amy's Animal Rescue Island | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Sonic | 76993 | Sonic vs. Dr. Eggman's Death Egg Robot | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Sonic | 76994 | Sonic's Green Hill Zone Loop Challenge | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Speed Champions | 30683 | McLaren Formula 1 Car Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Speed Champions | 76906 | 1970 Ferrari 512 M | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Speed Champions | 76907 | Lotus Evija | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Speed Champions | 76908 | Lamborghini Countach | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Speed Champions | 76909 | Mercedes-AMG F1 W12 E Performance & Mercedes-AMG Project One | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Speed Champions | 76914 | Ferrari 812 Competizione | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Speed Champions | 76915 | Pagani Utopia | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Speed Champions | 76916 | Porsche 963 | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Speed Champions | 76917 | 2 Fast 2 Furious Nissan Skyline GT-R (R34) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Speed Champions | 76918 | McLaren Solus GT & McLaren F1 LM | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 30680 | AAT Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75257 | Millennium Falcon | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75290 | Mos Eisley Cantina | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75304 | Darth Vader Helmet | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75308 | R2-D2 | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75313 | AT-AT | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75333 | Obi-Wan Kenobi's Jedi Starfighter | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75341 | Luke Skywalker's Landspeeder | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75344 | Boba Fett's Starship Microfighter | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75345 | 501st Clone Troopers Battle Pack | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75346 | Pirate Snub Fighter | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75347 | TIE Bomber | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75348 | Mandalorian Fang Fighter vs TIE Interceptor | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75350 | Clone Commander Cody Helmet | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75351 | Princess Leia (Boushh) Helmet | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75352 | Emperor's Throne Room Diorama | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75353 | Endor Speeder Chase Diorama | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75354 | Coruscant Guard Gunship | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75356 | Executor Super Star Destroyer | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75357 | Ghost & Phantom II | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75358 | Tenoo Jedi Temple (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75359 | 332nd Ahsoka's Clone Trooper Battle Pack | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75360 | Yoda's Jedi Starfighter | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75361 | Spider Tank | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75363 | The Mandalorian N-1 Starfighter Microfighter | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75364 | New Republic E-wing vs. Shin Hati's Starfighter | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75365 | Yavin 4 Rebel Base | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75368 | Darth Vader Mech | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75369 | Boba Fett Mech | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75370 | Stormtrooper Mech | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75371 | Chewbacca | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Technic | 30682 | NASA Mars Rover Perseverance Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Technic | 42096 | Porsche 911 RS | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Technic | 42136 | John Deere 9620R 4WD Tractor | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Technic | 42138 | Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Technic | 42145 | Airbus H175 Rescue Helicopter | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Technic | 42147 | Dump Truck | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Technic | 42148 | Snow Groomer | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Technic | 42149 | Monster Jam Dragon | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Technic | 42150 | Monster Jam Monster Mutt Dalmatian | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Technic | 42152 | Firefighter Aircraft | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Technic | 42153 | NASCAR Next Gen Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Technic | 42155 | The Batman - Batcycle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Technic | 42157 | John Deere 948L-II Skidder | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Technic | 42162 | Bugatti Bolide Agile Blue | Dec 31, 2024 |
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2024.03.31 03:55 Bugaboo2823 Post about a car for sale keeps getting removed for trademark infringement.
Hi all. My husband has posted a vehicle for sale on Facebook Marketplace, and he is trying to broadcast it to the related Facebook groups (it's a Corvette, he's trying to post about it in some Corvette enthusiast groups).
Within minutes of posting to these groups, his post is getting removed for "trademark infringement." There's no additional information available that helps identify where in the post the issue is, so he doesn't know how to fix it. Has anyone experienced something like this before? If so, what was your solution? This has been a very frustrating experience trying to get this car sold, and this Facebook fiasco is just icing on the cake.
TIA.
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Within minutes of posting to these groups, his post is getting removed for "trademark infringement." There's no additional information available that helps identify where in the post the issue is, so he doesn't know how to fix it. Has anyone experienced something like this before? If so, what was your solution? This has been a very frustrating experience trying to get this car sold, and this Facebook fiasco is just icing on the cake.
TIA.
2024.03.11 02:35 Illuminight1798 AITA for refusing to see my dad after all he's done?
I (15F) Refused to see my dad for multiple reasons. Starting off, when I was 2 years old, my father had left my mother and filed for divorce. My mom had told me that, my father had left because he could take care of me at the time, which was understandable. But he also REFUSED to pay child support whilst hooking up with multiple different girls at the time. He refused to even see me and blatantly ignored my mother just to get rid of me. He missed a court date, which he was supposed to attend for child support. Instead he never showed, my mother called her friend that was a cop at the time to go to the gas station where she had spotted my father, after not showing up for court and refusing to pay child support. Skip ahead, when im 3, my father decides to have another child. But this times different, he stayed with the woman for 5 years, raising my half sister, and finally acting like he cared but always gave her more attention. Now again, fast forward years later, to where I'm 14. My dad at the time, had been married to my step mother for 7 years. I now have 2 sisters. both around 11, and 12. Both spoiled like brats. My sisters always have something to complain about. Growing up with them I was always and I mean always left out, or not paid attention to. My sisters would always find a way to ruin my dad or make my parents mad at me. My step mom, from the beginning never liked me only for the fucking fact she knew my mom in high-school and they hated each other, so she always when I got in trouble, had to blame my mother by saying "It's disappointing how your mother raised you" or "Couldn't your mother do any better" which always hurts because my mom trys her best for me. Now, again, fast forward to my 15th birthday. It was horrible only because I didn't get a party like how my sisters did. None of the family showed and they didn't even say happy birthday to me. Just gave me a cake, a Nintendo cartridge for a game, 200$ and that's it. Makes no sense. One night, I was really really upset about something and attempted to tell my dad. standing in the kitchen, full face of tears, and telling him how I didn't want to be here anymore. He told me to suck it up, that only my grades matter in school and that no one will ever hire me in a job if I keep acting like a baby. A few other things my dad has done was ground me for 3 months because I had a c in my math, always lectured me and made me cry over the smallest thing, refusing to get help for me at the age of 8 when I had a very abusive step dad, saying that my two other sisters are better than me at most, saying that I act just like my mother which he hates, and the worst one of all, refusing to give me a car that's in my dead grandfather's will, until I go to college. If I don't go, he's going to give it to my sister. It's a 1978 Corvette Stingray. That car is the only thing that's left of my dead grandfather which I had a very close bond w. So AITA??
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2024.03.10 20:02 wrylashes Paragon power to victory?
R5: Paragons are fun, but my current run has been almost fully defined by them, and I'm not sure how I feel about it.
First I got AstroCreator Azaryn about as early as possible, juicing my research. I credit her in part for me deploying my first cruisers when others were still running corvettes and destroyers. But in addition, by the random rolls for extra traits she ended up with salvager II, and I later increased it to 3. When I finally did get into a war (my empire are pacifists) she salvaged close to 40 hulls -- all corvettes, destroyers, or frigates I think, but it was still a lot of free ships.
But all of that salvage was just the icing on the fleet domination cake. I tried out the revised Galactic Doorstep origin, so repaired a gate fairly early on. Once I did, out popped Skrand Sharpbeak and his ship, which added about 150% to my fleet power at the time. That was enough that another empire proposed subjugating themselves to me almost immediately, and suddenly I found myself with more than double the diplomatic weight of anybody else in the Galactic Community. With the extra increased research from my subject I pushed further ahead, and soon enough two more empires begged to become my subjects.
On top of that I got a couple of the fairly useful non-legendary paragons, in Borin and Vas the Gilded (the free envoys that she provided were also a big help).
It really felt that most of my success this game has come from good luck with paragons. Hard to say if I've adapted to the new patch properly, or if I just got ridiculously lucky!
(More recently the Khan popped fairly early, before I had really prepped for that, so the game isn't going to be a total cake walk, and this is my first game under the new settings so I'll have to see how the crisis goes, but for the most part I feel like I've been on easy street)
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First I got AstroCreator Azaryn about as early as possible, juicing my research. I credit her in part for me deploying my first cruisers when others were still running corvettes and destroyers. But in addition, by the random rolls for extra traits she ended up with salvager II, and I later increased it to 3. When I finally did get into a war (my empire are pacifists) she salvaged close to 40 hulls -- all corvettes, destroyers, or frigates I think, but it was still a lot of free ships.
But all of that salvage was just the icing on the fleet domination cake. I tried out the revised Galactic Doorstep origin, so repaired a gate fairly early on. Once I did, out popped Skrand Sharpbeak and his ship, which added about 150% to my fleet power at the time. That was enough that another empire proposed subjugating themselves to me almost immediately, and suddenly I found myself with more than double the diplomatic weight of anybody else in the Galactic Community. With the extra increased research from my subject I pushed further ahead, and soon enough two more empires begged to become my subjects.
On top of that I got a couple of the fairly useful non-legendary paragons, in Borin and Vas the Gilded (the free envoys that she provided were also a big help).
It really felt that most of my success this game has come from good luck with paragons. Hard to say if I've adapted to the new patch properly, or if I just got ridiculously lucky!
(More recently the Khan popped fairly early, before I had really prepped for that, so the game isn't going to be a total cake walk, and this is my first game under the new settings so I'll have to see how the crisis goes, but for the most part I feel like I've been on easy street)
2024.03.02 22:09 Clay_Bricks Every retiring LEGO set (March 2024 update)
It's a new month, which means its time for another set retirement update! Not much to note this month!
As always, we owe a massive thanks to ZombieYeti from the BrickHound Discord for providing this valuable data. If you're looking for real-time in-stock/deal alerts for Lego.com and other sites, make sure to check out his server!
This information is scraped directly from Lego's website, and all dates are subject to change. ZombieYeti is currently developing a website to host this data and offer real-time updates. In the meantime, here is a list of every set and their corresponding retirement date as per LEGO's system!
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. Due to Reddit's character limits, we can't include everything here, but the full spreadsheet contains every set.
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Reminder that retirement updates are now fully automated on Discord!
Thanks to ZombieYeti, the Brick Tap discord now has the BrickHound bot posting automated retirement updates, as soon as they are changed in the data!This information is scraped directly from Lego's website, and all dates are subject to change. ZombieYeti is currently developing a website to host this data and offer real-time updates. In the meantime, here is a list of every set and their corresponding retirement date as per LEGO's system!
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. Due to Reddit's character limits, we can't include everything here, but the full spreadsheet contains every set.
FULL LIST ON GOOGLE SHEETS <--
REAL TIME UPDATES ON DISCORD <--
NEW SETS ADDED:
| Theme | Set # | Set Name | Retirement Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| City | 60439 | Space Science Lab | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43242 | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' Cottage | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Friends | 42602 | Space Research Rover | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Marvel | 76284 | Green Goblin Construction Figure | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Marvel | 76298 | Iron Spider-Man Construction Figure | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Miscellaneous | 40505 | LEGO Building Systems | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Technic | 42196 | Lamborghini Huracán Tecnica Orange | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Icons | 10332 | Medieval Town Square | Dec 31, 2027 |
CHANGES FOR MARCH:
| Theme | Set # | Set Name | Old Date | New Date | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duplo | 10872 | Train Bridge and Tracks | Jul 31, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | +6 months |
| Duplo | 10874 | Steam Train | Jul 31, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | +6 months |
| Duplo | 10875 | Cargo Train | Jul 31, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | +6 months |
| Duplo | 10882 | Train Tracks | Jul 31, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | +6 months |
| Brickheadz | 40547 | Obi-Wan Kenobi & Darth Vader | Dec 31, 2025 | Dec 31, 2024 | -1 year |
| Duplo | 10980 | DUPLO Green Building Plate | Dec 31, 2025 | Dec 31, 2024 | -1 year |
| Jurassic Park | 76960 | Brachiosaurus Discovery | Dec 31, 2025 | Dec 31, 2024 | -1 year |
| Jurassic Park | 76961 | Visitor Centre: T. rex & Raptor Attack | Dec 31, 2025 | Dec 31, 2024 | -1 year |
| Jurassic World | 76944 | T. rex Dinosaur Breakout (4+) | Dec 31, 2025 | Dec 31, 2024 | -1 year |
SETS RETIRING IN 2024:
| Theme | Set # | Set Name | Retirement Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minifigures | 66763 | Minifigures Series 25 6 Pack | Apr 30, 2024 |
| Minifigures | 71045 | Minifigures Series 25 | Apr 30, 2024 |
| Avatar | 75572 | Jake & Neytiri's First Banshee Flight | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Avatar | 75574 | Toruk Makto & Tree of Souls | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Avatar | 75575 | Ilu Discovery | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Avatar | 75576 | Skimwing Adventure | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Avatar | 75579 | Payakan the Tulkun & Crabsuit | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43213 | The Little Mermaid Story Book | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43220 | Peter Pan & Wendy's Storybook Adventure | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41724 | Paisley's House | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41744 | Sports Center | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41754 | Leo's Room | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 75969 | Hogwarts Astronomy Tower | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76388 | Hogsmeade Village Visit | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Jurassic Park | 76957 | Velociraptor Escape (4+) | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71360 | Adventures with Mario | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71387 | Adventures with Luigi | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71395 | Super Mario 64 Question Mark Block | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71403 | Adventures with Peach | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71408 | Princess Peach's Castle | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71419 | Peach's Garden Balloon Ride | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71420 | Rambi the Rhino | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71421 | Dixie Kong's Jungle Jam | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71425 | Diddy Kong's Mine Cart Ride | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Animal Crossing | 30662 | Maple's Pumpkin Garden (Polybag) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Architecture | 21056 | Taj Mahal | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Architecture | 21057 | Singapore | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Art | 31209 | The Amazing Spider-Man | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Art | 31210 | Modern Art | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Batman | 30653 | Batman 1992 Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Batman | 76224 | Batmobile: Batman vs. The Joker Chase | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Batman | 76240 | Batmobile Tumbler | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Batman | 76252 | Batcave – Shadow Box | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Batman | 76259 | Batman Construction Figure | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Batman | 76264 | Batmobile Pursuit: Batman vs. The Joker (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Batman | 76265 | Batwing: Batman vs. The Joker | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40547 | Obi-Wan Kenobi & Darth Vader | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40615 | Tusken Raider | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40616 | Harry Potter & Cho Chang | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40617 | Draco Malfoy & Cedric Diggory | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40618 | Kingsley Shacklebolt & Nymphadora Tonks | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40620 | Cruella & Maleficent | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40621 | Moana & Merida | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40627 | Sonic the Hedgehog | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40628 | Miles 'Tails' Prower | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40630 | Frodo & Gollum | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40631 | Gandalf the Grey & Balrog | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40632 | Aragorn & Arwen | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40672 | Knuckles & Shadow | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40677 | Prisoner of Azkaban Figures | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 30663 | Space Hoverbike | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 30664 | Police Off-Road Buggy Car Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60283 | Holiday Camper Van | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60287 | Tractor | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60336 | Freight Train | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60364 | Street Skate Park | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60365 | Apartment Building | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60366 | Ski and Climbing Centre | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60370 | Police Station Chase | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60372 | Police Training Academy | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60375 | Fire Station and Fire Engine | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60376 | Arctic Explorer Snowmobile | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60377 | Explorer Diving Boat | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60378 | Arctic Explorer Truck and Mobile Lab | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60379 | Deep-Sea Explorer Submarine | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60380 | Downtown | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60383 | Electric Sports Car | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60384 | Penguin Slushy Van | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60386 | Recycling Truck | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60387 | 4x4 Off-Roader Adventures | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60388 | Gaming Tournament Truck | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60389 | Custom Car Garage | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60392 | Police Bike Car Chase | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60395 | Combo Race Pack | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60396 | Modified Race Cars | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60397 | Monster Truck Race | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60399 | Race Car (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60403 | Emergency Ambulance (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60405 | Emergency Rescue Helicopter | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60410 | Fire Rescue Motorcycle (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60413 | Fire Rescue Plane | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60417 | Police Speedboat and Crooks' Hideout | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60428 | Space Construction Mech | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60432 | Command Rover and Crane Loader | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60438 | Sailboat | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60439 | Space Science Lab | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Classic | 10696 | Medium Creative Brick Box | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Classic | 10698 | Large Creative Brick Box | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Classic | 11013 | Creative Transparent Bricks | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Classic | 11017 | Creative Monsters | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Classic | 11027 | Creative Neon Fun | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Classic | 11028 | Creative Pastel Fun | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Classic | 11029 | Creative Party Box | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Classic | 11030 | Lots of Bricks | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Classic | 11033 | Creative Fantasy Universe | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 30645 | Snowman Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 30666 | Gift Animals Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 30667 | Animal Birthday Party Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 30668 | Easter Bunny with Colourful Eggs Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 30669 | Iconic Red Plane Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 31088 | Deep Sea Creatures | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 31120 | Medieval Castle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 31124 | Super Robot | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 31125 | Fantasy Forest Creatures | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 31126 | Supersonic-jet | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 31133 | White Rabbit | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 31135 | Vintage Motorcycle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 31138 | Beach Camper Van | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 31141 | Main Street | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 31143 | Birdhouse | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 31144 | Exotic Pink Parrot | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 40651 | Australia Postcard | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 40654 | Beijing Postcard | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 66783 | Colourful Animals Play Pack | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 30661 | Asha's Welcome Booth Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 30671 | Aurora's Forest Playground Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 40613 | Mini Disney Palace of Agrabah | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43205 | Ultimate Adventure Castle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43206 | Cinderella and Prince Charming's Castle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43210 | Moana's Wayfinding Boat | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43211 | Aurora's Castle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43214 | Twirling Rapunzel | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43215 | The Enchanted Treehouse | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43216 | Princess Enchanted Journey | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43218 | Anna and Elsa's Magical Carousel | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43219 | Disney Princess Creative Castles | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43221 | 100 Years of Disney Animation Icons | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43223 | Asha in the City of Rosas | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43224 | King Magnifico's Castle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43225 | The Little Mermaid Royal Clamshell | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43226 | Disney Duos | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43227 | Villain Icons | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43229 | Ariel's Treasure Chest | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43231 | Asha's Cottage | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43232 | Peter Pan & Wendy's Flight over London | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43234 | Elsa's Frozen Treats | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43239 | Mirabel's Photo Frame and Jewelry Box | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43241 | Rapunzel's Tower & The Snuggly Duckling | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DREAMZzz | 30636 | Z-Blob and Bunchu Spider Escape Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DREAMZzz | 40657 | Dream Village | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DREAMZzz | 71453 | Izzie and Bunchu the Bunny | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DREAMZzz | 71454 | Mateo and Z-Blob the Robot | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DREAMZzz | 71455 | Grimkeeper the Cage Monster | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DREAMZzz | 71456 | Mrs. Castillo's Turtle Van | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DREAMZzz | 71457 | Pegasus Flying Horse | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DREAMZzz | 71458 | Crocodile Car | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DREAMZzz | 71459 | Stable of Dream Creatures | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DREAMZzz | 71460 | Mr. Oz's Spacebus | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DREAMZzz | 71461 | Fantastical Tree House | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DREAMZzz | 71469 | Nightmare Shark Ship | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DreamZzz | 71471 | Mateo's Off-Road Car | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DreamZzz | 71472 | Izzie's Narwhal Hot-Air Balloon | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DreamZzz | 71476 | Zoey and Zian the Cat-Owl | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DreamZzz | 71477 | The Sandman's Tower | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10412 | Animal Train | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10872 | Train Bridge and Tracks | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10874 | Steam Train | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10875 | Cargo Train | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10882 | Train Tracks | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10909 | Heart Box | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10935 | Alphabet Town | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10959 | Police Station & Helicopter | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10970 | Fire Station & Helicopter | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10971 | Wild Animals of Africa | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10975 | Wild Animals of the World | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10980 | DUPLO Green Building Plate | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10981 | Growing Carrot | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10982 | Fruit and Vegetable Tractor | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10983 | Organic Market | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10984 | Organic Garden | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10985 | Wind Turbine and Electric Car | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10986 | Family House on Wheels | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10987 | Recycling Truck | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10988 | The Bus Ride | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10989 | Water Park | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10990 | Construction Site | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10991 | Dream Playground | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10992 | Life at the Day-Care Center | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10995 | Spider-Man's House | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10996 | Lightning McQueen & Mater's Car Wash Fun | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10997 | Camping Adventure | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10998 | 3-in-1 Magical Castle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 30635 | Beach Cleanup | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 30658 | Mobile Music Trailer Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 30659 | Flower Garden Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41725 | Beach Buggy Fun | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41727 | Dog Rescue Centre | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41728 | Heartlake Downtown Diner | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41730 | Autumn's House | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41731 | Heartlake International School | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41734 | Sea Rescue Boat | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41735 | Mobile Tiny House | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41736 | Sea Rescue Center | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41737 | Beach Adventure Park | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41738 | Dog Rescue Bike | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41739 | Liann's Room | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41740 | Aliya's Room | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41745 | Autumn's Stable | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41746 | Riding School | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41747 | Heartlake City Community Kitchen | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41749 | News Van | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41752 | Sea Rescue Aircraft | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41753 | Pancake Shop | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41755 | Nova's Room | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41756 | Holiday Ski Slope and Café | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41757 | Botanical Garden | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41759 | Heartlake City Bus | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41760 | Igloo Holiday Adventure | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42601 | Hamster Playground | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42605 | Mars Space Base and Rocket | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42607 | Autumn's Baby Cow Shed | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42608 | Tiny Accessories Store | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42609 | Electric Car And Charger | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42612 | Cat Playground Adventure | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42613 | Heartlake City Hospital Ambulance | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42614 | Vintage Fashion Store | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42615 | Pet Adoption Day | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42616 | Heartlake City Music Talent Show | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42617 | Farm Animal Sanctuary | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42632 | Farm Animal Vet Clinic (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42633 | Hot Dog Food Truck | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Gabby's Dollhouse | 10785 | Bakey with Cakey Fun | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Gabby's Dollhouse | 10786 | Gabby & MerCat's Ship & Spa | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Gabby's Dollhouse | 10787 | Kitty Fairy's Garden Party | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 30677 | Draco in the Forbidden Forest Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76389 | Hogwarts Chamber of Secrets | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76402 | Hogwarts: Dumbledore's Office | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76405 | Hogwarts Express - Collectors' Edition | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76407 | The Shrieking Shack & Whomping Willow | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76413 | Hogwarts: Room of Requirement | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76414 | Expecto Patronum | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76415 | The Battle of Hogwarts | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76416 | Quidditch Trunk | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76420 | Triwizard Tournament: The Black Lake | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76422 | Diagon Alley: Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76423 | Hogwarts Express & Hogsmeade Station | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76424 | Flying Ford Anglia | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76432 | Forbidden Forest: Magical Creatures | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Icons | 10274 | Ghostbusters ECTO-1 | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Icons | 10283 | NASA Space Shuttle Discovery | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Icons | 10303 | Loop Coaster | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Icons | 10304 | Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 1969 | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Icons | 10306 | Atari 2600 | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Icons | 10308 | Holiday Main Street | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Icons | 10320 | Eldorado Fortress | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Icons | 10321 | Corvette | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Icons | 40634 | Icons of Play | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ideas | 21318 | Tree House | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ideas | 21327 | Typewriter | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ideas | 21331 | Sonic the Hedgehog - Green Hill Zone | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ideas | 21332 | The Globe | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ideas | 21334 | Jazz Quartet | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ideas | 21338 | A-Frame Cabin | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ideas | 21339 | BTS Dynamite | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ideas | 21340 | Tales of the Space Age | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Indiana Jones | 77012 | Fighter Plane Chase | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Indiana Jones | 77013 | Escape from the Lost Tomb | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Indiana Jones | 77015 | Temple of the Golden Idol | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Jurassic World | 76944 | T. rex Dinosaur Breakout (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Jurassic World | 76946 | Blue & Beta Velociraptor Capture | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Jurassic World | 76949 | Giganotosaurus & Therizinosaurus Attack | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Jurassic World | 76951 | Pyroraptor & Dilophosaurus Transport | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Jurassic Park | 76958 | Dilophosaurus Ambush | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Jurassic Park | 76959 | Triceratops Research | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Jurassic Park | 76960 | Brachiosaurus Discovery | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Jurassic Park | 76961 | Visitor Centre: T. rex & Raptor Attack | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71374 | Nintendo Entertainment System | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71422 | Picnic at Mario's House | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71423 | Dry Bowser Castle Battle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71424 | Donkey Kong's Tree House | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71427 | Larry's and Morton's Airships | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71428 | Yoshis' Egg-cellent Forest | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71429 | Nabbit at Toad's Shop | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 10791 | Team Spidey's Mobile Headquarters (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 10792 | Drill Spinner Vehicle (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 10793 | Spidey vs. Green Goblin (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 30769 | Venom Street Bike (Polybag) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76210 | Hulkbuster | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76217 | I am Groot | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76218 | Sanctum Sanctorum | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76226 | Spider-Man Figure | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76232 | The Hoopty | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76241 | Hulk Mech Armor | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76243 | Rocket Mech Armor | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76244 | Miles Morales vs. Morbius | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76245 | Ghost Rider Mech & Bike | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76247 | The Hulkbuster: The Battle of Wakanda | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76248 | The Avengers Quinjet | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76249 | Venomised Groot | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76251 | Star-Lord's Helmet | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76254 | Baby Rocket's Ship | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76256 | Ant-Man Construction Figure | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76257 | Wolverine Construction Figure | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76258 | Captain America Construction Figure | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76260 | Black Widow & Captain America Motorcycles | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76262 | Captain America's Shield | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76263 | Iron Man Hulkbuster vs. Thanos (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76266 | Endgame Final Battle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76275 | Motorcycle Chase: Spider-Man vs. Doc Ock | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21166 | The 'Abandoned' Mine | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21178 | The Fox Lodge | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21179 | The Mushroom House | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21189 | The Skeleton Dungeon | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21240 | The Swamp Adventure | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21241 | The Bee Cottage | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21242 | The End Arena | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21243 | The Frozen Peaks | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21244 | The Sword Outpost | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21245 | The Panda Haven | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21246 | The Deep Dark Battle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21247 | The Axolotl House | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21248 | The Pumpkin Farm | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21250 | The Iron Golem Fortress | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21253 | The Animal Sanctuary | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21257 | The Devourer Showdown | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40296 | LEGO House Build Your Meal Brick Bag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40297 | LEGO House 6 DUPLO Bricks | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40347 | LEGOLAND Driving School | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40429 | Ninjago World | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40504 | A Minifigure Tribute | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40534 | LEGO House Chef | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40556 | Mythica | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40573 | Christmas Tree | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40574 | LEGO Brand Store | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40639 | Bird's Nest | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40640 | LEGO Nutcracker | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40641 | Birthday Cake | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40642 | Gingerbread Ornaments | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40643 | Jade Rabbit | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40644 | Pinata | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40714 | Carousel Ride | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 80112 | Auspicious Dragon | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 80113 | Family Reunion Celebration | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Monkie Kid | 80036 | The City of Lanterns | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Monkie Kid | 80041 | Mei's Dragon Jet | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Monkie Kid | 80043 | Yellow Tusk Elephant | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Monkie Kid | 80044 | Monkie Kid's Team Hideout | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Monkie Kid | 80046 | Monkie Kid's Cloud Airship | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Monkie Kid | 80047 | Mei's Guardian Dragon | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Monkie Kid | 80048 | The Mighty Azure Lion | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Monkie Kid | 80049 | Dragon of the East Palace | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Monkie Kid | 80050 | Creative Vehicles | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Monkie Kid | 80053 | Mei's Dragon Mech | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 30650 | Kai and Rapton's Temple Battle Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 30674 | Zane's Dragon Power Vehicles Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71741 | NINJAGO City Gardens | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71782 | Cole's Earth Dragon EVO | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71783 | Kai's Mech Rider EVO | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71784 | Jay's Lightning Jet EVO | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71785 | Jay's Titan Mech | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71786 | Zane's Ice Dragon Creature | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71787 | Creative Ninja Brick Box | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71788 | Lloyd's Ninja Street Bike (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71789 | Kai and Ras's Car and Bike Battle (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71790 | Imperium Dragon Hunter Hound | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71791 | Zane's Dragon Power Spinjitzu Race Car | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71792 | Sora's Transforming Mech Bike Racer | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71793 | Heatwave Transforming Lava Dragon | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71794 | Lloyd and Arin's Ninja Team Mechs | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71795 | Temple of the Dragon Energy Cores | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71796 | Elemental Dragon vs. The Empress Mech | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71797 | Destiny's Bounty - Race Against Time | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71798 | Nya and Arin's Baby Dragon Battle (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71800 | Nya's Water Dragon EVO | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71801 | Kai's Rising Dragon Strike | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71802 | Nya's Rising Dragon Strike | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | 71803 | Arin's Rising Dragon Strike | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Sonic | 30676 | Kiki's Coconut Attack Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Sonic | 76990 | Sonic's Speed Sphere Challenge | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Sonic | 76991 | Tails' Workshop and Tornado Plane | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Sonic | 76992 | Amy's Animal Rescue Island | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Sonic | 76993 | Sonic vs. Dr. Eggman's Death Egg Robot | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Sonic | 76994 | Sonic's Green Hill Zone Loop Challenge | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Speed Champions | 30683 | McLaren Formula 1 Car Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Speed Champions | 76906 | 1970 Ferrari 512 M | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Speed Champions | 76907 | Lotus Evija | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Speed Champions | 76908 | Lamborghini Countach | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Speed Champions | 76909 | Mercedes-AMG F1 W12 E Performance & Mercedes-AMG Project One | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Speed Champions | 76914 | Ferrari 812 Competizione | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Speed Champions | 76915 | Pagani Utopia | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Speed Champions | 76916 | Porsche 963 | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Speed Champions | 76917 | 2 Fast 2 Furious Nissan Skyline GT-R (R34) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Speed Champions | 76918 | McLaren Solus GT & McLaren F1 LM | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 30680 | AAT Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75257 | Millennium Falcon | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75290 | Mos Eisley Cantina | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75304 | Darth Vader Helmet | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75308 | R2-D2 | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75313 | AT-AT | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75333 | Obi-Wan Kenobi's Jedi Starfighter | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75341 | Luke Skywalker's Landspeeder | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75344 | Boba Fett's Starship Microfighter | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75345 | 501st Clone Troopers Battle Pack | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75346 | Pirate Snub Fighter | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75347 | TIE Bomber | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75348 | Mandalorian Fang Fighter vs TIE Interceptor | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75350 | Clone Commander Cody Helmet | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75351 | Princess Leia (Boushh) Helmet | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75352 | Emperor's Throne Room Diorama | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75353 | Endor Speeder Chase Diorama | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75354 | Coruscant Guard Gunship | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75356 | Executor Super Star Destroyer | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75357 | Ghost & Phantom II | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75358 | Tenoo Jedi Temple (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75359 | 332nd Ahsoka's Clone Trooper Battle Pack | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75360 | Yoda's Jedi Starfighter | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75361 | Spider Tank | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75363 | The Mandalorian N-1 Starfighter Microfighter | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75364 | New Republic E-wing vs. Shin Hati's Starfighter | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75365 | Yavin 4 Rebel Base | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75368 | Darth Vader Mech | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75369 | Boba Fett Mech | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75370 | Stormtrooper Mech | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | 75371 | Chewbacca | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Technic | 30682 | NASA Mars Rover Perseverance Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Technic | 42096 | Porsche 911 RS | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Technic | 42136 | John Deere 9620R 4WD Tractor | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Technic | 42138 | Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Technic | 42145 | Airbus H175 Rescue Helicopter | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Technic | 42147 | Dump Truck | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Technic | 42148 | Snow Groomer | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Technic | 42149 | Monster Jam Dragon | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Technic | 42150 | Monster Jam Monster Mutt Dalmatian | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Technic | 42152 | Firefighter Aircraft | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Technic | 42153 | NASCAR Next Gen Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Technic | 42155 | The Batman - Batcycle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Technic | 42157 | John Deere 948L-II Skidder | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Technic | 42162 | Bugatti Bolide Agile Blue | Dec 31, 2024 |
https://discord.gg/brick-tap-1128148810439331861
2024.03.01 21:06 TalasAstory Wishlist of Gameplay elements for Lategame and general Gameplay
Hey i thought it would be nice to talk about wich things we would realy like to have for the Game.
I will start with my number one thing:
Also maybe ad the Option to give one of your squad captains one of your ships. This would also finally make it possible to have a squad of living or sentinel ships.
The corvette would not be able to be armed unless of a combat Corvette type with Combat systems installed.
This would also open up the dors for mobile vendors in the world. Imagine for instance a corvette landing close by and there is a Gek that basicaly turned the ship into a foodtruck and is selling coockies and cakes in the middle of nowhere.
We actualy know how this would look as the Questgiver on renagade stations basicly looks how i would imagine a tiny C-Rank corvette would llok like.
Besides the fact that even at the lowest fusion requirement of 2 the living Freighter would cost 20.000 quicksilver (9 weeks of daylies) not calculating the nanites and Time it takes to upgrade the ships (especially the frigates) to s-rank which could be close to 100 hours gameplay) this would both be a motivation for players and a nice money sink. at a faktor of 3 we are already talking 67.500 Quicksilver. (half a year of daylies.)
For example i can imagine 3 basic mission types.
This could also be turned into a faction challenge where you pick your faktion first and then fight of everone else. (giving the first real PvP mode)
So thats it for now. i Have 6 more but i dont have time to write it all.
submitted by TalasAstory to NoMansSkyTheGame [link] [comments]
I will start with my number one thing:
- I wish there was a Hangar manager station.
Also maybe ad the Option to give one of your squad captains one of your ships. This would also finally make it possible to have a squad of living or sentinel ships.
- Adding Corvettes to the Game.
The corvette would not be able to be armed unless of a combat Corvette type with Combat systems installed.
This would also open up the dors for mobile vendors in the world. Imagine for instance a corvette landing close by and there is a Gek that basicaly turned the ship into a foodtruck and is selling coockies and cakes in the middle of nowhere.
We actualy know how this would look as the Questgiver on renagade stations basicly looks how i would imagine a tiny C-Rank corvette would llok like.
- Evolving the Living ship.
Besides the fact that even at the lowest fusion requirement of 2 the living Freighter would cost 20.000 quicksilver (9 weeks of daylies) not calculating the nanites and Time it takes to upgrade the ships (especially the frigates) to s-rank which could be close to 100 hours gameplay) this would both be a motivation for players and a nice money sink. at a faktor of 3 we are already talking 67.500 Quicksilver. (half a year of daylies.)
- Community raids.
For example i can imagine 3 basic mission types.
- Live seeding. The community is challenged to find a Planet without Fauna, and based on the mineral and flora they are challenged to go to other planets, find fauna that could live on the planet, make them companions, get eggs and deliver them to the Planet all while preventing the sentinels from exterminating the transplanted invaders. Once enough compatible eggs have been delivered a major sentinel attack will start for a 2hours and depending on how many sentinels where defeated the raid gives bonuses. If to view Sentries have been defeatet the raid can also fail. Once one raid ends another can be started immediately but only one community raid can be active at a time.
- A Raid where the community builds a Planetary archive. This means flattening the building site, getting the construction materials, and stocking a minimal of 100.000 Artifacts.
- A Station Raid.
This could also be turned into a faction challenge where you pick your faktion first and then fight of everone else. (giving the first real PvP mode)
So thats it for now. i Have 6 more but i dont have time to write it all.
2024.02.24 02:44 cblaze316 Hand written dinner menus from 95 and 96 but with 60s flair!
 | These were holiday/celebration menus some one hand wrote and I assume cooked, found at an estate sale on "Dena" street in California, thus an explanation for the first "restaurant" name. submitted by cblaze316 to FoundPaper [link] [comments] |
2024.02.12 01:42 Paulno90 An Open Letter to Blackbird, and the fans.
After a few hours in the recent demo. I have some thoughts for both 'sides'. Warning: Long post ahead.
Where I'm coming from
I remember being a kid in single digits, we couldn't afford a PC, so going to my dad's (who was a computer programmer) on the weekends was the only time I'd get to play games. We downloaded the demo "Homeworld", didn't know what to expect but man I enjoyed it! Played that demo so much. Eventually we got the game, and I spent countless weekends playing. This was the first game I ever played online multiplayer, and my first intro to online clans as well. There was a high ranking clan called "666", which after a trial 1v1 match against a high ranking member, I was allowed to join! MAN I FELT SO COOL!
Fast forward to HW2 (skipped HW:C as we couldn't afford it), and geez, what a game. HW2 ranks up there with one of my favourite games of all time. In my opinion it was the PERFECT sequel. It took everything about the original game and gave us more of it, made it bigger and better, and added some cool features on top such as subsystems. Few sequels in gaming history have pulled off what HW2 did. HW2 really gave that 'Fleet Admiral' feeling. You'd throw countless units at a problem, lose half of them, then rebuild. In the HW1 campaign, every single ship was vital, you wanted to protect them all, which played into the story of being the last of your kind, making a dash across the galaxy to reclaim your home. In follow up campaign runs, I was one of those people that used the 'CAPTURE EVERYTHING' strategy, and by the final mission I had a fleet that was simply unfathomable in size....
I watched the shenanigans around the IP, Relic Entertainment, THQ bankruptcy etc, eagerly wanting to hear some kind of news around the franchise. When that eventually wrapped up, and HW:DoK was announced, I was pumped, FINALLY it was back on track.
I played HW:DoK, and even though it was a more classic RTS, I had fun, and loved the story. It really felt like a true addition to the franchise, and gave us a really cool insight into the backstory of the Khar-Toba. I've consumed almost all the lore there is on the game (though there's so much I've mostly forgotten now, in place of stupid adult knowledge like designing commercial models for orgs).
For the fans
For diehard HW fans such as myself, after playing the demo, two things are clear to me, which I think we all need to remember as we temper our expectations:
I enjoyed my time with the demo. At first I opted for classic controls, but eventually I tried the new modern controls, and came to the conclusion that the 'addition' of free camera movement is an improvement. I'm now comfortably using a mixture of both classic focus control and free camera, using the 'hold right-click' method. There are a lot of times in HW2 where I wanted to go look at an object, but couldn't 'focus' on it, and this solves that.
They've obviously built this game around the mega-structures. Much of the gameplay and mechanics seem focused on that. I am not sure if that's a good or bad thing yet. When I first heard about it, I imagined things like atmospheric fleet battles above or amongst planetary terrain. Or navigating through giant debris/asteroid fields. The thing that made HW unique wasn't the 'space' element alone, but the entire 3D movement of it. That can be achieved with terrain elements in play, I just hope it's not the entire focus of the campaign, I do want my fair share of open space too.
I am very hopeful for the full release, however, I'm pretty disappointed in one way though. This game basically ignores HW2's existence, in that most of it's gameplay and functionality improvements are gone, in this way it feels more like a sequel to HW1. It is a sequel to HW2 in story only. The original Homeworld team making this have spoken many times about how HW3 is an attempt to achieve the original vision they had for Homeworld 1, which pans out in gameplay.
Homeworld 3 is basically The Force Awakens, not Return of the Jedi. Homeworld fans may have wanted a RotJ, but fans like me will settle for almost anything (except for the utterly tragic Homeworld Mobile, don't even get me started on that).
#2 - Appealing to a wider audience.
For better or worse, the gaming industry, and games development as a process, has changed dramatically since HW2 came out (21 years ago). Today, developers can't just build a game with the sole focus of "just make the best game possible for launch, because we have limited ability to fix it after, and a great game will sell more copies", now days it's "build a game that's good enough for launch, and how else can we generate revenue from it beyond launch?".
'Games as a service' has taken over the mentality of the industry. If I can produce 1 game, and make $X from the game at launch, that's great, BUT, if I can produce 1 game, make $X at launch, then continue to support that game with some kind of ongoing services post-launch which require less effort than building a sequel, I can make $X+++++ from it over time. Taking the cynicism out of it, this makes sense from a business perspective, and will allow Blackbird/Gearbox to build on the game and the franchise over time. Unfortunately, if we want a Homeworld 4, this is how we get it...
It's also very clear to me that Blackbird has built HW3 with the MOBA/Starcraft/Streaming crowd in mind. The simple rebinding of command keys to the MOBA control scheme is obvious enough. The unit special abilities are very MOBA/Starcraft-y, but I'm not sure if they work here.
At least in War Games, they've definitely sped up the pace of the game, a lot. To be fair, the originals weren't very fast paced, and wouldn't have been exciting as a 'Streaming game'. Developers do kind of need to factor in streamers now, because they are AMAZING marketing tools.
In defense of Blackbird. There hasn't been a mainline entry for 21 years, and they are clearly trying to relaunch the franchise into a mainstream title in today's gaming world, hence the above change in focus. They need this game to appeal to a broader market, there just isn't enough die hard Homeworld fans to sustain this game over a long period, sorry guys, those numbers don't stack up.
So I understand, but it does feel like it has lost some of the things that made HW1 and 2 truly unique. HW2 especially.
For Blackbird
As a businessman, I fully understand the direction you've taken for this game, I can almost picture the meetings you guys would have had when planning things out, but there's one lesson I really hope you guys can learn, which SO many developers have failed to learn in the past 10 years, leading to many franchises dying as a result. Battlefront, anyone? (Other examples: Dawn of War 2/3, and Command & Conquer 4)
The lesson is, don't change what is working, don't change what the fans love. Modernising is great, but that can't come at the cost of what made that franchise unique in the first place. The philosophy needs to be "addition by addition", not "addition by subtraction", and I'm worried you guys have taken the latter approach, which has never worked for game sequels.
My general feedback on Homeworld 3 as it stands right now:
1) Precise movement controls & the movement plane - I have one BIG complaint about this. In HW3, whenever you're performing a W-movement command, a vertical line will appear for ships to indicate their Y-axis (vertical) position relative to your selected ship. This tells you how far away that other ship is above or below your current position and allows precise movement with the W-movement command. HW1/2 had this as well, HOWEVER, in HW3, only ships appear with a Y-axis vertical line, in previous entries, all objects had a Y-axis line. This helped you to determine precise Z/Y/X coordinates for basically any object on the map, units, debris, resource fields etc. In HW3, you can't right-click move to a resource field. So how do I move my units there? Either A) Use a controller as a shepherd and order my units to guard it, or B) Try to painstakingly figure out the exact position in 3D space using the camera. I hope this was a bug. I really seem to be having a much more difficult time with precise ship movements in HW3 than any previous game. It feels like there is less assistance in precise movement controls, focusing on the point-and-click modern controls.
2) A much greater focus on micro - HW2 had micro, but more of a wider fleet strategic micro/macro. Not an individual unit micro in the vein of Starcraft 2. I'm not sure I like this approach, I play HW for the power dream of being a Fleet Admiral, not a strikecraft pilot.
3) Moving away from Strikecraft squadrons - this was SO cool in HW2. This is clearly due to the above, but I will miss seeing all my little strikecraft squadrons flying around in their mini-X formations. I thought that maybe 'Shift-Click build' may have created some kind of middle-ground, where ships built in a 'group production' may result in them being bound together or something, which would be the best of both worlds, but alas, tis not to be.
4) Subsystems - both production and strategic (i.e engines). Added a cool strategic element to gameplay. Oh, there's an enemy battlecruiser in their backline pummelling my fleet? I'll send in my attack bombers to target their missile battery and engines to weaken them and make sure they can't close the gap before I'm ready to take them out. Or. I'm attacking an enemy resource outpost which has a carrier escort? I'll target their fighter production first to ensure they can't reinforce during my assault.
5) Quantity over quality - It seems like this game is leaning back into HW1 in this regard. I don't remember all the RU amounts, but in the final War Games round, I was solo, had all the RU's on the map (around 20k in the bank) and bad timing on my part resulted in me completing the final objective just as I was attacked by an enemy fleet which wiped out most of my own fleet. I tried to rebuild in time to take on the Battlecruiser, but that 20k RU's was gone in about 60 seconds and I still only had 2/3 the fleet max. In HW2, I remember losing my entire flight multiple times, and rebuilding everything multiple times, in the one match. Also feels like a relatively small fleet limit, hopefully that's just for WG though.
6) Unit abilities usefulness/overpowered - This also takes off from the micro thing. HW1 had abilities, most of them were hidden, like the Missile Destroyer's barrage, or the Multi-Gun Corvette's burst fire, but you also had Grav-Well Generators, and Cloak Generators. HW2 expanded on abilities, but not to the extent that they felt MANDATORY TO USE, just useful. In HW3, it feels like you are penalised for not using them, but at the same time you need to micro so much to use them that it is easily forgotten as you try to macro. In the above story, after losing the final round, the Battlecruiser had maybe 15% health left, as I got back to the menu I realised "DAMN IT, I researched all those abilities for the final battle but I forgot to use them". Is it an option to make abilities less powerful, but also auto-activate? They feel way overpowered. Interceptors shouldn't be able to MELT everything.
7) Bugs - This IS a demo, it is a vertical slice of the game. (To others: A vertical slice is, imagine when you take a slice of a cake, you get a taste of all the flavours, but it's still only a portion of it.) This slice of the game was clearly completed months ago (since it's the exact version they've been showing at game conferences). There is indeed bugs, and feels like some things are missing.
8) No unit systems focusing - In HW1/2 you could tell your ships to focus on either Speed, Power, or Balanced. This would determine their effectiveness in combat, Speed for more manoeuvrability or power for more firepower. This feature is gone. UNLESS, the "Weapon" icon when you click on individual units is some kind of feature, it seems like a clickable button and so far offers no purpose which tells me it could be a locked demo feature.
9) Ship movement pathways - The fact that my ships don't follow the exact path I tell them to follow is super annoying. Many times, I used W to command them to go somewhere, they will confirm, then reroute and create their own path even when there's no objects between A and B. Often they would do this, and inadvertently put themselves directly in the line of fire. Like in the aforementioned War Games final round, I ordered my Carrier to retreat, and it auto-pathed the opposite direction and flew straight into the Battlecruiser.....
10) KEY BINDINGS!!!!! - GUYS. I understand moving to the MOBA control scheme, but not giving us the option to rebind them to whatever we want?! That's just a baaaaad move. I hope this was just a demo thing to force people to experience the free camera, and the full game will let us do that. ALSO - Where is the hotkey for controlling Y-axis movement?!?!?! The only way to do it is holding left-click while in the W-movement command. Bring back the option of holding shift while in the W-movement command to control Y-axis!!!!
11) Using terrain as cover - So far, this is a lot less useful in the game than it seemed. It requires a lot of micro to use in combat, too much for this game so far, and units are not tanky enough to even warrant it. May be useful in retreat? or setting up ambushes? but sensors show up units behind cover anyway.... I saw a post that if you do hide behind terrain, the AI just keep firing at the terrain instead of trying to get around it. HA! I'd expect some kind of cat and mouse play where the enemy ship tries to get line of sight.
12) The graphics - Overall, I think the game is gorgeous. I am running in max settings, but it's so pretty to look at. I'm not having any significant issues with rendering or anything. Anyone who says HW2 looks the same, either is running at really low settings, or is being an ass. Some things could look better, there are some minor visual bugs, and ship damage and destruction is janky AF, but it's an open beta really.
Conclusion
I think the game will be great, but the real test, will be the single player campaign, and how the game plays in Skirmish. My real concern here, is that the MOBA/Starcraft/Streamer crowd you are trying to court, won't enjoy the 3D space RTS gameplay, and the diehard Homeworld crowd will also become alienated by the changes you've made to court the former. You could end up with a game that goes well at launch, but 12 months later is dead in terms of online multiplayer, which is where you've put a lot of your eggs.
One last thing, PLEASE PLEASE for the love of all the gaming gods, don't forsake Homeworld 2.
P.S On the delay
A bit of insight for those not into software development. The game was delayed by approx 8 weeks. I assume based on everything we've heard that Blackbird uses a form of Agile methodology for their development pipeline. But let's assume they do. Depending on how long their sprints are (a sprint is a block of time allocated to work on or complete a specific list of tasks, avg is 2 weeks, but I imagine a game dev could be longer 3-4 weeks), let's say it's 2 weeks, that's 4 extra sprints worth of things for them to do on the game before it launches. Depending on how many people they've got working in each squad, BI has approx 300 staff right now, assume two dozen devs total, most of them working on future content at this point, let's say 6 devs focused on release, based on BI's 4 day work week, approx 30 hours per week, that's just over 700 hours of more work that can go into the game before launch.
This is enough time to iron out a lot of bugs, and improve functionality of some features, probably not enough to change things entirely.
EDIT: Went over and cleared some things up, and also tried to make it a bit more readable.
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Where I'm coming from
I remember being a kid in single digits, we couldn't afford a PC, so going to my dad's (who was a computer programmer) on the weekends was the only time I'd get to play games. We downloaded the demo "Homeworld", didn't know what to expect but man I enjoyed it! Played that demo so much. Eventually we got the game, and I spent countless weekends playing. This was the first game I ever played online multiplayer, and my first intro to online clans as well. There was a high ranking clan called "666", which after a trial 1v1 match against a high ranking member, I was allowed to join! MAN I FELT SO COOL!
Fast forward to HW2 (skipped HW:C as we couldn't afford it), and geez, what a game. HW2 ranks up there with one of my favourite games of all time. In my opinion it was the PERFECT sequel. It took everything about the original game and gave us more of it, made it bigger and better, and added some cool features on top such as subsystems. Few sequels in gaming history have pulled off what HW2 did. HW2 really gave that 'Fleet Admiral' feeling. You'd throw countless units at a problem, lose half of them, then rebuild. In the HW1 campaign, every single ship was vital, you wanted to protect them all, which played into the story of being the last of your kind, making a dash across the galaxy to reclaim your home. In follow up campaign runs, I was one of those people that used the 'CAPTURE EVERYTHING' strategy, and by the final mission I had a fleet that was simply unfathomable in size....
I watched the shenanigans around the IP, Relic Entertainment, THQ bankruptcy etc, eagerly wanting to hear some kind of news around the franchise. When that eventually wrapped up, and HW:DoK was announced, I was pumped, FINALLY it was back on track.
I played HW:DoK, and even though it was a more classic RTS, I had fun, and loved the story. It really felt like a true addition to the franchise, and gave us a really cool insight into the backstory of the Khar-Toba. I've consumed almost all the lore there is on the game (though there's so much I've mostly forgotten now, in place of stupid adult knowledge like designing commercial models for orgs).
For the fans
For diehard HW fans such as myself, after playing the demo, two things are clear to me, which I think we all need to remember as we temper our expectations:
- This is definitely a reboot, not a sequel.
- This game is obviously being made to appeal to a wider audience.
I enjoyed my time with the demo. At first I opted for classic controls, but eventually I tried the new modern controls, and came to the conclusion that the 'addition' of free camera movement is an improvement. I'm now comfortably using a mixture of both classic focus control and free camera, using the 'hold right-click' method. There are a lot of times in HW2 where I wanted to go look at an object, but couldn't 'focus' on it, and this solves that.
They've obviously built this game around the mega-structures. Much of the gameplay and mechanics seem focused on that. I am not sure if that's a good or bad thing yet. When I first heard about it, I imagined things like atmospheric fleet battles above or amongst planetary terrain. Or navigating through giant debris/asteroid fields. The thing that made HW unique wasn't the 'space' element alone, but the entire 3D movement of it. That can be achieved with terrain elements in play, I just hope it's not the entire focus of the campaign, I do want my fair share of open space too.
I am very hopeful for the full release, however, I'm pretty disappointed in one way though. This game basically ignores HW2's existence, in that most of it's gameplay and functionality improvements are gone, in this way it feels more like a sequel to HW1. It is a sequel to HW2 in story only. The original Homeworld team making this have spoken many times about how HW3 is an attempt to achieve the original vision they had for Homeworld 1, which pans out in gameplay.
Homeworld 3 is basically The Force Awakens, not Return of the Jedi. Homeworld fans may have wanted a RotJ, but fans like me will settle for almost anything (except for the utterly tragic Homeworld Mobile, don't even get me started on that).
#2 - Appealing to a wider audience.
For better or worse, the gaming industry, and games development as a process, has changed dramatically since HW2 came out (21 years ago). Today, developers can't just build a game with the sole focus of "just make the best game possible for launch, because we have limited ability to fix it after, and a great game will sell more copies", now days it's "build a game that's good enough for launch, and how else can we generate revenue from it beyond launch?".
'Games as a service' has taken over the mentality of the industry. If I can produce 1 game, and make $X from the game at launch, that's great, BUT, if I can produce 1 game, make $X at launch, then continue to support that game with some kind of ongoing services post-launch which require less effort than building a sequel, I can make $X+++++ from it over time. Taking the cynicism out of it, this makes sense from a business perspective, and will allow Blackbird/Gearbox to build on the game and the franchise over time. Unfortunately, if we want a Homeworld 4, this is how we get it...
It's also very clear to me that Blackbird has built HW3 with the MOBA/Starcraft/Streaming crowd in mind. The simple rebinding of command keys to the MOBA control scheme is obvious enough. The unit special abilities are very MOBA/Starcraft-y, but I'm not sure if they work here.
At least in War Games, they've definitely sped up the pace of the game, a lot. To be fair, the originals weren't very fast paced, and wouldn't have been exciting as a 'Streaming game'. Developers do kind of need to factor in streamers now, because they are AMAZING marketing tools.
In defense of Blackbird. There hasn't been a mainline entry for 21 years, and they are clearly trying to relaunch the franchise into a mainstream title in today's gaming world, hence the above change in focus. They need this game to appeal to a broader market, there just isn't enough die hard Homeworld fans to sustain this game over a long period, sorry guys, those numbers don't stack up.
So I understand, but it does feel like it has lost some of the things that made HW1 and 2 truly unique. HW2 especially.
For Blackbird
As a businessman, I fully understand the direction you've taken for this game, I can almost picture the meetings you guys would have had when planning things out, but there's one lesson I really hope you guys can learn, which SO many developers have failed to learn in the past 10 years, leading to many franchises dying as a result. Battlefront, anyone? (Other examples: Dawn of War 2/3, and Command & Conquer 4)
The lesson is, don't change what is working, don't change what the fans love. Modernising is great, but that can't come at the cost of what made that franchise unique in the first place. The philosophy needs to be "addition by addition", not "addition by subtraction", and I'm worried you guys have taken the latter approach, which has never worked for game sequels.
My general feedback on Homeworld 3 as it stands right now:
1) Precise movement controls & the movement plane - I have one BIG complaint about this. In HW3, whenever you're performing a W-movement command, a vertical line will appear for ships to indicate their Y-axis (vertical) position relative to your selected ship. This tells you how far away that other ship is above or below your current position and allows precise movement with the W-movement command. HW1/2 had this as well, HOWEVER, in HW3, only ships appear with a Y-axis vertical line, in previous entries, all objects had a Y-axis line. This helped you to determine precise Z/Y/X coordinates for basically any object on the map, units, debris, resource fields etc. In HW3, you can't right-click move to a resource field. So how do I move my units there? Either A) Use a controller as a shepherd and order my units to guard it, or B) Try to painstakingly figure out the exact position in 3D space using the camera. I hope this was a bug. I really seem to be having a much more difficult time with precise ship movements in HW3 than any previous game. It feels like there is less assistance in precise movement controls, focusing on the point-and-click modern controls.
2) A much greater focus on micro - HW2 had micro, but more of a wider fleet strategic micro/macro. Not an individual unit micro in the vein of Starcraft 2. I'm not sure I like this approach, I play HW for the power dream of being a Fleet Admiral, not a strikecraft pilot.
3) Moving away from Strikecraft squadrons - this was SO cool in HW2. This is clearly due to the above, but I will miss seeing all my little strikecraft squadrons flying around in their mini-X formations. I thought that maybe 'Shift-Click build' may have created some kind of middle-ground, where ships built in a 'group production' may result in them being bound together or something, which would be the best of both worlds, but alas, tis not to be.
4) Subsystems - both production and strategic (i.e engines). Added a cool strategic element to gameplay. Oh, there's an enemy battlecruiser in their backline pummelling my fleet? I'll send in my attack bombers to target their missile battery and engines to weaken them and make sure they can't close the gap before I'm ready to take them out. Or. I'm attacking an enemy resource outpost which has a carrier escort? I'll target their fighter production first to ensure they can't reinforce during my assault.
5) Quantity over quality - It seems like this game is leaning back into HW1 in this regard. I don't remember all the RU amounts, but in the final War Games round, I was solo, had all the RU's on the map (around 20k in the bank) and bad timing on my part resulted in me completing the final objective just as I was attacked by an enemy fleet which wiped out most of my own fleet. I tried to rebuild in time to take on the Battlecruiser, but that 20k RU's was gone in about 60 seconds and I still only had 2/3 the fleet max. In HW2, I remember losing my entire flight multiple times, and rebuilding everything multiple times, in the one match. Also feels like a relatively small fleet limit, hopefully that's just for WG though.
6) Unit abilities usefulness/overpowered - This also takes off from the micro thing. HW1 had abilities, most of them were hidden, like the Missile Destroyer's barrage, or the Multi-Gun Corvette's burst fire, but you also had Grav-Well Generators, and Cloak Generators. HW2 expanded on abilities, but not to the extent that they felt MANDATORY TO USE, just useful. In HW3, it feels like you are penalised for not using them, but at the same time you need to micro so much to use them that it is easily forgotten as you try to macro. In the above story, after losing the final round, the Battlecruiser had maybe 15% health left, as I got back to the menu I realised "DAMN IT, I researched all those abilities for the final battle but I forgot to use them". Is it an option to make abilities less powerful, but also auto-activate? They feel way overpowered. Interceptors shouldn't be able to MELT everything.
7) Bugs - This IS a demo, it is a vertical slice of the game. (To others: A vertical slice is, imagine when you take a slice of a cake, you get a taste of all the flavours, but it's still only a portion of it.) This slice of the game was clearly completed months ago (since it's the exact version they've been showing at game conferences). There is indeed bugs, and feels like some things are missing.
8) No unit systems focusing - In HW1/2 you could tell your ships to focus on either Speed, Power, or Balanced. This would determine their effectiveness in combat, Speed for more manoeuvrability or power for more firepower. This feature is gone. UNLESS, the "Weapon" icon when you click on individual units is some kind of feature, it seems like a clickable button and so far offers no purpose which tells me it could be a locked demo feature.
9) Ship movement pathways - The fact that my ships don't follow the exact path I tell them to follow is super annoying. Many times, I used W to command them to go somewhere, they will confirm, then reroute and create their own path even when there's no objects between A and B. Often they would do this, and inadvertently put themselves directly in the line of fire. Like in the aforementioned War Games final round, I ordered my Carrier to retreat, and it auto-pathed the opposite direction and flew straight into the Battlecruiser.....
10) KEY BINDINGS!!!!! - GUYS. I understand moving to the MOBA control scheme, but not giving us the option to rebind them to whatever we want?! That's just a baaaaad move. I hope this was just a demo thing to force people to experience the free camera, and the full game will let us do that. ALSO - Where is the hotkey for controlling Y-axis movement?!?!?! The only way to do it is holding left-click while in the W-movement command. Bring back the option of holding shift while in the W-movement command to control Y-axis!!!!
11) Using terrain as cover - So far, this is a lot less useful in the game than it seemed. It requires a lot of micro to use in combat, too much for this game so far, and units are not tanky enough to even warrant it. May be useful in retreat? or setting up ambushes? but sensors show up units behind cover anyway.... I saw a post that if you do hide behind terrain, the AI just keep firing at the terrain instead of trying to get around it. HA! I'd expect some kind of cat and mouse play where the enemy ship tries to get line of sight.
12) The graphics - Overall, I think the game is gorgeous. I am running in max settings, but it's so pretty to look at. I'm not having any significant issues with rendering or anything. Anyone who says HW2 looks the same, either is running at really low settings, or is being an ass. Some things could look better, there are some minor visual bugs, and ship damage and destruction is janky AF, but it's an open beta really.
Conclusion
I think the game will be great, but the real test, will be the single player campaign, and how the game plays in Skirmish. My real concern here, is that the MOBA/Starcraft/Streamer crowd you are trying to court, won't enjoy the 3D space RTS gameplay, and the diehard Homeworld crowd will also become alienated by the changes you've made to court the former. You could end up with a game that goes well at launch, but 12 months later is dead in terms of online multiplayer, which is where you've put a lot of your eggs.
One last thing, PLEASE PLEASE for the love of all the gaming gods, don't forsake Homeworld 2.
P.S On the delay
A bit of insight for those not into software development. The game was delayed by approx 8 weeks. I assume based on everything we've heard that Blackbird uses a form of Agile methodology for their development pipeline. But let's assume they do. Depending on how long their sprints are (a sprint is a block of time allocated to work on or complete a specific list of tasks, avg is 2 weeks, but I imagine a game dev could be longer 3-4 weeks), let's say it's 2 weeks, that's 4 extra sprints worth of things for them to do on the game before it launches. Depending on how many people they've got working in each squad, BI has approx 300 staff right now, assume two dozen devs total, most of them working on future content at this point, let's say 6 devs focused on release, based on BI's 4 day work week, approx 30 hours per week, that's just over 700 hours of more work that can go into the game before launch.
This is enough time to iron out a lot of bugs, and improve functionality of some features, probably not enough to change things entirely.
EDIT: Went over and cleared some things up, and also tried to make it a bit more readable.
2024.02.02 20:03 Clay_Bricks Every retiring LEGO set (February 2024 update)
It's a new month, which means its time for another set retirement update! No real big news for the list this month, but the subreddit did just pass 40,000 members! We on the /LegoLeak team want to thank everyone for supporting this sub so actively, even though its not the most traditional subreddit! It's crazy how much its grown, and that's all thanks to you guys!
As always, we owe a massive thanks to ZombieYeti from the BrickHound Discord for providing this valuable data. If you're looking for real-time in-stock/deal alerts for Lego.com and other sites, make sure to check out his server!
This information is scraped directly from Lego's website, and all dates are subject to change. ZombieYeti is currently developing a website to host this data and offer real-time updates. In the meantime, here is a list of every set and their corresponding retirement date as per LEGO's system!
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. Due to Reddit's character limits, we can't include everything here, but the full spreadsheet contains every set.
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Reminder that retirement updates are now fully automated on Discord!
Thanks to ZombieYeti, the Brick Tap discord now has the BrickHound bot posting automated retirement updates, as soon as they are changed in the data!This information is scraped directly from Lego's website, and all dates are subject to change. ZombieYeti is currently developing a website to host this data and offer real-time updates. In the meantime, here is a list of every set and their corresponding retirement date as per LEGO's system!
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. Due to Reddit's character limits, we can't include everything here, but the full spreadsheet contains every set.
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NEW SETS ADDED:
| Theme | Set # | Set Name | Retirement Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brickheadz | 40672 | Knuckles & Shadow | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40677 | Prisoner of Azkaban Figures | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 30668 | Easter Bunny with Colourful Eggs Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 66783 | Colourful Animals Play Pack | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 30677 | Draco in the Forbidden Forest Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40714 | Carousel Ride | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Speed Champions | 30683 | McLaren Formula 1 Car Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Speed Champions | 76919 | 2023 McLaren Formula 1 Car | Jul 31, 2025 |
| Brickheadz | 40670 | Iron Spider-Man | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Brickheadz | 40671 | Potted Groot | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Brickheadz | 40674 | Stitch | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Creator | 31154 | Forest Animals: Red Fox | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Creator | 31158 | Sea Animals | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Ninjago | 71810 | Young Dragon Riyu | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Ninjago | 71811 | Arin's Ninja Off-Road Buggy Car | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Ninjago | 71812 | Kai's Ninja Climber Mech | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Ninjago | 71813 | Wolf Mask Shadow Dojo | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Ninjago | 71819 | Dragon Stone Shrine | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Star Wars | 75375 | Millennium Falcon | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Star Wars | 75376 | Tantive IV | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Star Wars | 75377 | Invisible Hand | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Star Wars | 75379 | R2-D2 | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Star Wars | 75387 | Boarding the Tantive IV | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Technic | 42165 | Mercedes-AMG F1 W14 Pull-Back | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Harry Potter | 76429 | Talking Sorting Hat | Dec 31, 2026 |
| Icons | 10330 | McLaren MP4/4 & Ayrton Senna | Dec 31, 2026 |
| Ideas | 21346 | Family Tree | Dec 31, 2026 |
| Ideas | 21347 | Red London Telephone Box | Dec 31, 2026 |
| Technic | 42171 | Mercedes-AMG F1 W14 E Performance | Dec 31, 2026 |
| Icons | 10331 | Kingfisher Bird | Dec 31, 2027 |
CHANGES FOR FEBRUARY:
| Theme | Set # | Set Name | Old Date | New Date | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creator | 40519 | New York Postcard | Dec 31, 2024 | Dec 31, 2025 | +1 year |
| Miscellaneous | 40644 | Pinata | Dec 31, 2026 | Dec 31, 2024 | -2 years |
| Technic | 42157 | John Deere 948L-II Skidder | Dec 31, 2026 | Dec 31, 2024 | -2 years |
| Ideas | 21338 | A-Frame Cabin | Dec 31, 2025 | Dec 31, 2024 | -1 year |
| Marvel | 76218 | Sanctum Sanctorum | Dec 31, 2025 | Dec 31, 2024 | -1 year |
| Miscellaneous | 80112 | Auspicious Dragon | Dec 31, 2025 | Dec 31, 2024 | -1 year |
| Duplo | 10993 | 3-in-1 Tree House | Dec 31, 2027 | Dec 31, 2026 | -1 year |
SETS RETIRING IN 2024:
| Theme | Set # | Set Name | Retirement Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minifigures | 66763 | Minifigures Series 25 6 Pack | Apr 30, 2024 |
| Minifigures | 71045 | Minifigures Series 25 | Apr 30, 2024 |
| Avatar | 75572 | Jake & Neytiri's First Banshee Flight | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Avatar | 75574 | Toruk Makto & Tree of Souls | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Avatar | 75575 | Ilu Discovery | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Avatar | 75576 | Skimwing Adventure | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Avatar | 75579 | Payakan the Tulkun & Crabsuit | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43213 | The Little Mermaid Story Book | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43220 | Peter Pan & Wendy's Storybook Adventure | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10872 | Train Bridge and Tracks | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10874 | Steam Train | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10875 | Cargo Train | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10882 | Train Tracks | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41724 | Paisley's House | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41744 | Sports Center | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41754 | Leo's Room | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 75969 | Hogwarts Astronomy Tower | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76388 | Hogsmeade Village Visit | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Jurassic | 76957 | Velociraptor Escape (4+) | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71360 | Adventures with Mario | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71387 | Adventures with Luigi | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71395 | Super Mario 64 Question Mark Block | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71403 | Adventures with Peach | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71408 | Princess Peach's Castle | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71419 | Peach's Garden Balloon Ride | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71420 | Rambi the Rhino | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71421 | Dixie Kong's Jungle Jam | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71425 | Diddy Kong's Mine Cart Ride | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Animal Crossing | 30662 | Maple's Pumpkin Garden (Polybag) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Architecture | 21056 | Taj Mahal | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Architecture | 21057 | Singapore | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Art | 31209 | The Amazing Spider-Man | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Art | 31210 | Modern Art | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Batman | 30653 | Batman 1992 Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Batman | 76224 | Batmobile: Batman vs. The Joker Chase | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Batman | 76240 | Batmobile Tumbler | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Batman | 76252 | Batcave – Shadow Box | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Batman | 76259 | Batman Construction Figure | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Batman | 76264 | Batmobile Pursuit: Batman vs. The Joker (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Batman | 76265 | Batwing: Batman vs. The Joker | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40615 | Tusken Raider | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40616 | Harry Potter & Cho Chang | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40617 | Draco Malfoy & Cedric Diggory | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40618 | Kingsley Shacklebolt & Nymphadora Tonks | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40620 | Cruella & Maleficent | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40621 | Moana & Merida | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40627 | Sonic the Hedgehog | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40628 | Miles 'Tails' Prower | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40630 | Frodo & Gollum | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40631 | Gandalf the Grey & Balrog | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40632 | Aragorn & Arwen | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40672 | Knuckles & Shadow | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | 40677 | Prisoner of Azkaban Figures | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 30663 | Space Hoverbike | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 30664 | Police Off-Road Buggy Car Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60283 | Holiday Camper Van | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60287 | Tractor | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60336 | Freight Train | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60364 | Street Skate Park | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60365 | Apartment Building | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60366 | Ski and Climbing Centre | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60370 | Police Station Chase | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60372 | Police Training Academy | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60375 | Fire Station and Fire Engine | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60376 | Arctic Explorer Snowmobile | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60377 | Explorer Diving Boat | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60378 | Arctic Explorer Truck and Mobile Lab | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60379 | Deep-Sea Explorer Submarine | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60380 | Downtown | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60383 | Electric Sports Car | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60384 | Penguin Slushy Van | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60386 | Recycling Truck | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60387 | 4x4 Off-Roader Adventures | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60388 | Gaming Tournament Truck | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60389 | Custom Car Garage | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60392 | Police Bike Car Chase | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60395 | Combo Race Pack | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60396 | Modified Race Cars | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60397 | Monster Truck Race | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60399 | Race Car (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60403 | Emergency Ambulance (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60405 | Emergency Rescue Helicopter | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60410 | Fire Rescue Motorcycle (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60413 | Fire Rescue Plane | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60417 | Police Speedboat and Crooks' Hideout | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60428 | Space Construction Mech | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60432 | Command Rover and Crane Loader | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 60438 | Sailboat | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Classic | 10696 | Medium Creative Brick Box | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Classic | 10698 | Large Creative Brick Box | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Classic | 11013 | Creative Transparent Bricks | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Classic | 11017 | Creative Monsters | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Classic | 11027 | Creative Neon Fun | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Classic | 11028 | Creative Pastel Fun | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Classic | 11029 | Creative Party Box | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Classic | 11030 | Lots of Bricks | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Classic | 11033 | Creative Fantasy Universe | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 30645 | Snowman Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 30666 | Gift Animals Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 30667 | Animal Birthday Party Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 30668 | Easter Bunny with Colourful Eggs Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 30669 | Iconic Red Plane Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 31088 | Deep Sea Creatures | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 31120 | Medieval Castle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 31124 | Super Robot | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 31125 | Fantasy Forest Creatures | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 31126 | Supersonic-jet | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 31133 | White Rabbit | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 31135 | Vintage Motorcycle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 31138 | Beach Camper Van | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 31141 | Main Street | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 31143 | Birdhouse | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 31144 | Exotic Pink Parrot | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 40651 | Australia Postcard | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 40654 | Beijing Postcard | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | 66783 | Colourful Animals Play Pack | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 30661 | Asha's Welcome Booth Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 30671 | Aurora's Forest Playground Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 40613 | Mini Disney Palace of Agrabah | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43205 | Ultimate Adventure Castle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43206 | Cinderella and Prince Charming's Castle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43210 | Moana's Wayfinding Boat | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43211 | Aurora's Castle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43214 | Twirling Rapunzel | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43215 | The Enchanted Treehouse | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43216 | Princess Enchanted Journey | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43218 | Anna and Elsa's Magical Carousel | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43219 | Disney Princess Creative Castles | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43221 | 100 Years of Disney Animation Icons | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43223 | Asha in the City of Rosas | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43224 | King Magnifico's Castle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43225 | The Little Mermaid Royal Clamshell | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43226 | Disney Duos | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43227 | Villain Icons | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43229 | Ariel's Treasure Chest | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43231 | Asha's Cottage | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43232 | Peter Pan & Wendy's Flight over London | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43234 | Elsa's Frozen Treats | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43239 | Mirabel's Photo Frame and Jewelry Box | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43241 | Rapunzel's Tower & The Snuggly Duckling | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DREAMZzz | 30636 | Z-Blob and Bunchu Spider Escape Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DREAMZzz | 40657 | Dream Village | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DREAMZzz | 71453 | Izzie and Bunchu the Bunny | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DREAMZzz | 71454 | Mateo and Z-Blob the Robot | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DREAMZzz | 71455 | Grimkeeper the Cage Monster | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DREAMZzz | 71456 | Mrs. Castillo's Turtle Van | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DREAMZzz | 71457 | Pegasus Flying Horse | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DREAMZzz | 71458 | Crocodile Car | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DREAMZzz | 71459 | Stable of Dream Creatures | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DREAMZzz | 71460 | Mr. Oz's Spacebus | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DREAMZzz | 71461 | Fantastical Tree House | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DREAMZzz | 71469 | Nightmare Shark Ship | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DreamZzz | 71471 | Mateo's Off-Road Car | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DreamZzz | 71472 | Izzie's Narwhal Hot-Air Balloon | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DreamZzz | 71476 | Zoey and Zian the Cat-Owl | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DreamZzz | 71477 | The Sandman's Tower | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10412 | Animal Train | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10909 | Heart Box | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10935 | Alphabet Town | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10959 | Police Station & Helicopter | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10970 | Fire Station & Helicopter | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10971 | Wild Animals of Africa | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10975 | Wild Animals of the World | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10981 | Growing Carrot | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10982 | Fruit and Vegetable Tractor | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10983 | Organic Market | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10984 | Organic Garden | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10985 | Wind Turbine and Electric Car | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10986 | Family House on Wheels | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10987 | Recycling Truck | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10988 | The Bus Ride | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10989 | Water Park | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10990 | Construction Site | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10991 | Dream Playground | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10992 | Life at the Day-Care Center | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10995 | Spider-Man's House | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10996 | Lightning McQueen & Mater's Car Wash Fun | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10997 | Camping Adventure | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | 10998 | 3-in-1 Magical Castle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 30635 | Beach Cleanup | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 30658 | Mobile Music Trailer Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 30659 | Flower Garden Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41725 | Beach Buggy Fun | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41727 | Dog Rescue Centre | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41728 | Heartlake Downtown Diner | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41730 | Autumn's House | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41731 | Heartlake International School | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41734 | Sea Rescue Boat | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41735 | Mobile Tiny House | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41736 | Sea Rescue Center | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41737 | Beach Adventure Park | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41738 | Dog Rescue Bike | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41739 | Liann's Room | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41740 | Aliya's Room | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41745 | Autumn's Stable | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41746 | Riding School | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41747 | Heartlake City Community Kitchen | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41749 | News Van | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41752 | Sea Rescue Aircraft | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41753 | Pancake Shop | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41755 | Nova's Room | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41756 | Holiday Ski Slope and Café | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41757 | Botanical Garden | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41759 | Heartlake City Bus | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 41760 | Igloo Holiday Adventure | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42601 | Hamster Playground | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42605 | Mars Space Base and Rocket | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42607 | Autumn's Baby Cow Shed | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42608 | Tiny Accessories Store | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42609 | Electric Car And Charger | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42612 | Cat Playground Adventure | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42613 | Heartlake City Hospital Ambulance | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42614 | Vintage Fashion Store | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42615 | Pet Adoption Day | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42616 | Heartlake City Music Talent Show | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42617 | Farm Animal Sanctuary | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42632 | Farm Animal Vet Clinic (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | 42633 | Hot Dog Food Truck | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Gabby's Dollhouse | 10785 | Bakey with Cakey Fun | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Gabby's Dollhouse | 10786 | Gabby & MerCat's Ship & Spa | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Gabby's Dollhouse | 10787 | Kitty Fairy's Garden Party | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 30677 | Draco in the Forbidden Forest Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76389 | Hogwarts Chamber of Secrets | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76402 | Hogwarts: Dumbledore's Office | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76405 | Hogwarts Express - Collectors' Edition | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76407 | The Shrieking Shack & Whomping Willow | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76413 | Hogwarts: Room of Requirement | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76414 | Expecto Patronum | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76415 | The Battle of Hogwarts | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76416 | Quidditch Trunk | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76420 | Triwizard Tournament: The Black Lake | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76422 | Diagon Alley: Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76423 | Hogwarts Express & Hogsmeade Station | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76424 | Flying Ford Anglia | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | 76432 | Forbidden Forest: Magical Creatures | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Icons | 10274 | Ghostbusters ECTO-1 | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Icons | 10283 | NASA Space Shuttle Discovery | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Icons | 10303 | Loop Coaster | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Icons | 10304 | Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 1969 | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Icons | 10306 | Atari 2600 | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Icons | 10308 | Holiday Main Street | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Icons | 10320 | Eldorado Fortress | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Icons | 10321 | Corvette | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Icons | 40634 | Icons of Play | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ideas | 21318 | Tree House | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ideas | 21327 | Typewriter | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ideas | 21331 | Sonic the Hedgehog - Green Hill Zone | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ideas | 21332 | The Globe | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ideas | 21334 | Jazz Quartet | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ideas | 21338 | A-Frame Cabin | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ideas | 21339 | BTS Dynamite | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ideas | 21340 | Tales of the Space Age | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Indiana Jones | 77012 | Fighter Plane Chase | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Indiana Jones | 77013 | Escape from the Lost Tomb | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Indiana Jones | 77015 | Temple of the Golden Idol | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Jurassic | 76946 | Blue & Beta Velociraptor Capture | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Jurassic | 76949 | Giganotosaurus & Therizinosaurus Attack | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Jurassic | 76951 | Pyroraptor & Dilophosaurus Transport | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Jurassic | 76958 | Dilophosaurus Ambush | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Jurassic | 76959 | Triceratops Research | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71374 | Nintendo Entertainment System | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71422 | Picnic at Mario's House | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71423 | Dry Bowser Castle Battle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71424 | Donkey Kong's Tree House | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71427 | Larry's and Morton's Airships | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Mario | 71429 | Nabbit at Toad's Shop | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 10791 | Team Spidey's Mobile Headquarters (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 10792 | Drill Spinner Vehicle (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 10793 | Spidey vs. Green Goblin (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 30769 | Venom Street Bike (Polybag) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76210 | Hulkbuster | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76217 | I am Groot | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76218 | Sanctum Sanctorum | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76226 | Spider-Man Figure | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76232 | The Hoopty | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76241 | Hulk Mech Armor | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76243 | Rocket Mech Armor | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76244 | Miles Morales vs. Morbius | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76245 | Ghost Rider Mech & Bike | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76247 | The Hulkbuster: The Battle of Wakanda | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76248 | The Avengers Quinjet | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76249 | Venomised Groot | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76251 | Star-Lord's Helmet | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76254 | Baby Rocket's Ship | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76256 | Ant-Man Construction Figure | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76257 | Wolverine Construction Figure | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76258 | Captain America Construction Figure | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76260 | Black Widow & Captain America Motorcycles | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76262 | Captain America's Shield | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76263 | Iron Man Hulkbuster vs. Thanos (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76266 | Endgame Final Battle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76275 | Motorcycle Chase: Spider-Man vs. Doc Ock | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21166 | The 'Abandoned' Mine | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21178 | The Fox Lodge | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21179 | The Mushroom House | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21189 | The Skeleton Dungeon | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21240 | The Swamp Adventure | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21241 | The Bee Cottage | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21242 | The End Arena | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21243 | The Frozen Peaks | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21244 | The Sword Outpost | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21245 | The Panda Haven | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21246 | The Deep Dark Battle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21247 | The Axolotl House | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21248 | The Pumpkin Farm | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21250 | The Iron Golem Fortress | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21253 | The Animal Sanctuary | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | 21257 | The Devourer Showdown | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40296 | LEGO House Build Your Meal Brick Bag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40297 | LEGO House 6 DUPLO Bricks | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40347 | LEGOLAND Driving School | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40429 | Ninjago World | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40504 | A Minifigure Tribute | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40534 | LEGO House Chef | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40556 | Mythica | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40573 | Christmas Tree | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40574 | LEGO Brand Store | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40639 | Bird's Nest | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40640 | LEGO Nutcracker | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40641 | Birthday Cake | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40642 | Gingerbread Ornaments | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40643 | Jade Rabbit | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 40714 | Carousel Ride | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 80112 | Auspicious Dragon | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | 80113 | Family Reunion Celebration | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Monkie Kid | 80036 | The City of Lanterns | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Monkie Kid | 80041 | Mei's Dragon Jet | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Monkie Kid | 80043 | Yellow Tusk Elephant | Dec 31, 2024 |
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2024.01.31 01:33 _bannanjoe HYMAINTY: Chapter Four: "I Blow Up a Spaceport" Zara 0.4
First/Previous
Location: Nithara, Atara System (Binary Star System)
Date: 27/13/4725 - Cycle 5 (Year 4,700,250,005,523)
Time: 13:42 Universal Standard Time (UST)
The importance of our mission weighed heavily on our minds as we departed from the Council Chambers. The bustling streets of Nithara seemed vibrant. Our thoughts were consumed by silence. Tal was the one who broke the silence her voice filled with determination and concern.
"Zara it's crucial that you prepare yourself and have a face to face conversation with the others, " she said.
Her words struck me deeply. It wasn't about getting ready for the mission; it was also about those who were part of our lives, our unit. They deserved to be informed about what was unfolding.
As we approached the Sprinter, a thought crossed my mind. "Cass, do you have a place to stay? If not It won't be a long drive to our House."
Cass appeared surprised. Nodded in agreement. "Um no I hadn't really thought that far ahead. So i guess I'm comeing"
The drive back to our unit's home contrasted starkly with the liveliness of the city. Inside the Sprinter, an air of solemnity prevailed as we became momentarily disconnected from the world around us and immersed ourselves in contemplating what lay ahead.
Tal skillfully maneuvered through the streets while I observed landmarks passing by.
Each one of them held memories from a time when life was simpler. Now those memories are overshadowed by the seriousness of our situation. It hit me in a way that beyond the city limits there lay an unknown filled with uncertainty and danger.
"I haven't visited our place in quite some time " I mentioned, breaking the silence. My voice carried a mix of nostalgia and apprehension.
Tal responded with a smile. "They'll definitely be surprised. It's important that they're part of this conversation."
As we moved from the heart of Aurion towards the suburbs we approached our unit home. The vibrant energy of the city center slowly gave way to an atmosphere, which sharply contrasted with our turmoil. Our home, nestled modestly among neighboring structures, was more than a building; it represented our unity. Served as a sanctuary brimming with cherished memories from our time together, as a unit. Its sea green exterior blended harmoniously with the surrounding Verelume foliage teeming with growth.
The garden resembled a tapestry depicting Verelumes vitality. Adorned with blooming flowers and trees adorned in leaves that symbolized renewal and hopefulness. The air carried the scents of Verelume combining notes with hints of earthy rejuvenation that further enhanced the tranquility of the garden.
Approaching the house the vibrant garden appeared to welcome us while also subtly foreshadowing the changes. It mirrored the life and warmth within symbolizing that this home had witnessed the cycles of Verelume and other seasonal shifts. Now as our mission's reality began to dawn upon us the house prepared itself for a transformation.
We parked our Sprinter near the house, its presence providing a presence in this setting. The front yard showcased nature's artistry with a garden, under the gaze of an ancient oak tree.
As we strolled through the garden we could hear the rustling leaves announcing Éloises arrival. Emerging from behind foliage was her towering figure of Bovinneein species, her face filled with joy. "Zara! Tal!" she exclaimed warmly and surprisingly.
I responded with warmth "It’s so good to see you, Éloise." Her presence brought about a sense of familiarity despite her imposing height.
Tal interjected with seriousness evident, in her tone. Said, "We have much to discuss."
Understanding how grave our expressions were Éloise suggested optimistically "Let's sit in the garden.""It's so peaceful here " she said, leading us to the garden chairs nestled under the shade of the romein tree. We settled down enveloped by the tranquility of the garden.
This particular spot, sheltered by the romein tree, has always been a place for our group. It's where we've had meaningful conversations, a space that holds significance for decision making and sharing.
Before long, Éloise returned with a tray of Firna and Gleem. Her nurturing nature always brings comfort. "Let's start our conversation with some Firna," she said as she set down the tray. "Now, what's this mission about?"
I raised an eyebrow in surprise. "How did you know we were going to discuss a mission, Éloise? We haven't mentioned it yet." With a knowing smile Éloise replied, "Tal informed me while you were on your way. She thought it would be wise for me to be prepared for something."
Tal gave me a look to acknowledge her action. I took a breath. Began explaining the details of our assignment. Éloise listened attentively; her expression transitioning from concern, to unwavering determination.
"Got it " she responded once I finished talking. "We need to start preparing.. We should also inform the others."
"We're all in this together right?" Tal glanced at Cass and Jade who had been quietly observing.
"Cass, do you mind taking Jade to one of the guest rooms? Zara and I need to have a conversation with Éloise." Cass nodded, expressing her gratitude.
"Of course. Come on Jade " she said softly leading Jade away. With Cass and Jade gone the tranquility of the garden again embraced us.
In this moment with Éloises support and Tal by my side the upcoming mission felt a little less overwhelming. We were like a family united in this endeavor prepared to confront whatever challenges awaited us. Éloise gave me a look as she handed me an envelope.
"This arrived just before you came, " she informed me. I opened it. Discovered a letter from the Council. The document outlined aspects of our mission, each detail emphasizing the seriousness of the situation we were stepping into. As I skimmed through the letter certain phrases caught my attention.
"It says here that Lieutenant Dos Rey Tiyohkiso will be our coordinator from above " I informed Tal and Éloise, realizing how pivotal the Lieutenants role would be in our mission. Éloise leaned closer, for emphasis.
" What about the hostages?" I let out a sigh. "We still don't know where they are. Our main priority is to locate and ensure their safety." Tal crossed her arms, deep in thought.
"We also have some flexibility to suggest team members for the mission. Do you have anyone in mind?" Éloise perked up.
"It's crucial that we choose wisely. Each team member could bring something to contribute." I held up the form. Added, "We need to submit our choices on this form at 15 hours before departure. Alternatively we can finalize our team when we meet at the designated meetup point."
As our discussion came to a close I glanced again at the letter signed by Niyar Lotner from Old Rinoterra. I couldn't help but comment, "Why do they still use the Old Rinoterra script? It's like they enjoy making things complicated."
Just Then a young Kaictet boy playfully emerged from the brush appearing to be around six years old. His fur blended effortlessly with his surroundings like a chameleon. Excitement sparkled in his eyes as he approached us.
"I can change colors!" he exclaimed with pride showcasing his species unique ability.
Tal, always attentive, as a parent smiled warmly and said, "Wow that's right Kaelin! Good job. "
Kaelin, now enjoying the attention, Decided to clamber up my leg attempting to climb onto my lap. Tal gently intervened. "Be careful Kaelin " she advised softly but firmly. "Let's be considerate of others."
Kaelin nodded enthusiastically with his energy. "Sorry, Zara, " he said with a smile.
"I just wanted to show you!" He said Excitedly
I chuckled and steadied my chair. "No worries, Kaelin. You certainly have talent."
Éloise, observing from the side, chimed in, "He's a learner and always curious about everything around him."
Glancing back at the letter a thought crossed my mind. "Kaelin do you know what this says?" I asked while pointing to the Rinoterra script.
Intrigued, Kaelin's eyes widened; however, he shook his head in response. "Nope! I only know the words Mommy teaches me."
Tal stepped in with a touch of amusement in her voice. "Old Rinoterra can be quite complex for a six year old, like you Kaelin"
Laughing lightly, I folded the letter. And Said playfully, "Well then maybe someday you can teach me a bit of your Rinoterra knowledge."
His face lit up with excitement. "Oh yes I really like that idea!"
As Tal guided Kaelin back, towards the house it served as a reminder of the joyful nature of childhood contrasting with the weightiness of our impending mission.
"It's about time we start moving, " Tal suggested, glancing at the fading daylight. "We need to make preparations."
Leaving behind the Verelume garden I carried Kaelins energy and Tals nurturing warmth within me providing comfort amidst the challenges that awaited us. Tal turned to me. Said, "I'll meet you in the storage room."
Entering the lit storage room Tal skillfully maneuvered through shelves filled with items each holding stories of past adventures and missions. She handed me an utility belt equipped with an assortment of gadgets. "These might come in handy " she commented, her voice slightly echoing within the enclosed space.
I carefully examined each gadget recognizing their usefulness. "Thank you Tal " I replied while securing the belt around my waist.
Next Tal reached for a looking weapon with a design distinct from firearms.
Resembling a nail gun the body had a metallic look giving it a vibe. The drum magazine seamlessly blended into the weapon eliminating any bulk.
One of the standout features was the absence of a trigger guard. Instead there was a built in trigger mechanism that allowed for firing. Tal explained that this design choice was intentional, for response and ease of use in close combat situations.
"The pistol has a matte finish " Tal continued as she ran her fingers along its contours. "It's been modified for efficiency. The drum magazine can fire at a velocity making it quite formidable in capable hands."
I examined the weapon in my hands feeling its weight and balance— yet intriguing. "It does remind me more of a nail gun " I remarked with a mix of curiosity and skepticism, in my voice.
Tal chuckled at my observation. "Don't let its unconventional design deceive you; it's much more than meets the eye."
"This here's a gift from a buddy in the navy made for those times when you need to be subtle and act fast, " Tal said as I clipped the war pistol onto my belt. Adding it to my collection of gear "I'll take it although I doubt I'll have use for it " I added with a touch of pride and confidence in my abilities.
"Keep it close Zara " Tal advised. "You never know when it might come in handy."
"Tal there's something I need to ask you " I began with a shift in tone.
Tal looked at me sensing the gravity of the situation. "What's weighing on your mind Zara?"
I took a breath before speaking up. "Regarding our mission... I think you should join us. Your experience as a war reporter could be extremely valuable."
Tal let out a laugh. Her eyes betrayed some caution. "You want me to tag along on this mission to Tersun? Zara I've witnessed warfare already. The stories I've covered... Ojin warriors tearing planets apart. Elkelin wiping civilizations from history."
"It's a reminder of the frightening powers that exist out there."
"Yes '' I insisted. "You've witnessed wars, covered battles. Your perspective could have an impact on how Tersun's perceived by the UPH."
Tal shook her head, a mix of amusement and contemplation on her face. "Are you serious about this? It's not about risking your life there; you want me to join in"
Her laughter had a lightness to it. I sensed she was genuinely considering the idea. "It goes beyond that Tal. It's about making a difference and understanding where we stand in this conflict "
She paused, appearing in thought. "I'll give it some thought, Zara. There's much to consider."
I nodded, respecting her need to carefully contemplate this decision. "Just take your time. Think it over. Your insights would truly be invaluable."
Leaving behind the cold and practical storage room our group made their way towards the dining area feeling as if they were entering a new world. The utilitarian nature of the storage space gave way to the inviting atmosphere of the communal dining area.
It was like transitioning from responsibilities to the comfort of shared companionship. As we closed the door behind us the sterile environment of the storage room was replaced by an welcoming glow in the dining area.
The enticing scent of Éloises Umbra Nectar and the Lumidian vegetable medley filled the air not signaling a meal but also symbolizing a cherished tradition of unity and relaxation. Tal, who had walked with almost robotic steps in the storage room now moved with a noticeably more relaxed stride. The familiar surroundings of the dining area seemed to dissolve any formality or pressure from earlier in the day creating an atmosphere of ease and familiarity.
We gathered around the table creating a contrast to the shelves and starkness of our previous location. Here, in this space everything felt casual yet deeply meaningful reflecting our unit's essence. Cass seamlessly integrated herself into our group adding her unique presence to our collective story.
Her presence tonight after what happened in the day showed how our lives are constantly changing.
Éloises cheerful attitude while serving the Umbra Nectar wasn't about being hospitable; it reflected the strong sense of community we had. Her actions went beyond simply providing a meal; they were a celebration of our unity.
The dinner unfolded smoothly like a tune. Each of us contributed to the conversations and shared stories creating a narrative that was more than just ordinary. Our discussions touched on topics but carried an underlying awareness of the larger significance of our gathering.
Cass, feeling more relaxed, now shared her thoughts. "This Umbra Nectar is not about flavor. It's about forging connections " she said, capturing the essence of our gathering in a word.
"That's Éloises talent " Tal responded warmly and appreciatively. "She has a way of bringing us and reminding us of the strong bonds we share."
As we finished our meal, Casss reflective tone encapsulated the importance of the evening.
"Being here with all of you tonight after what happened earlier today it feels like we're coming together in a meaningful way " she observed. I nodded in agreement. "Life is about adapting and finding harmony in unexpected places. Your presence here tonight shows that adaptability." Casss gaze lingered on the remaining food. "Our individual journeys and separate experiences are all part of an interconnected story."
The conversation gradually came to an end leaving behind thought provoking ideas. The smooth integration of Cass into our evening highlighted the adaptability and interconnectedness that lies at the heart of our group.
It served as a reminder that when faced with uncertainty it's our collective resilience and unity that prepare us for the challenges ahead.
As I retired to my quarters I pondered on the tapestry of our lives and looked forward to the upcoming discussion with Tal. Our combined journey, marked by the shared experiences of this evening, promised to delve into the complexities of our mission and the vast universe.
Tal, now nestled comfortably among soft pillows, turned towards me. Her eyes with their blend of emerald green and white shades reflected profound contemplation.
"I've been pondering your proposal " she began, her voice a mix of uncertainty and determination. "Joining this mission... It feels like entering a realm of unknowns, something vast and consequential."
I reached out for her hand offering reassurance. "It's a decision," I said, fully understanding the weight of her thoughts. "Your insights are vital Tal. You've witnessed the intricacies and challenges of conflict that often remain hidden, behind overarching narratives."
Her gaze reflected contemplation and introspection as she engaged in an internal debate. "Can I truly immerse myself in that world again?" she whispered softly, her voice carrying echoes of experiences.
Sensing a tremble in her hand I held it more firmly to provide comfort. "You possess the ability to uncover truths and confront complex issues " I gently reassured her. "That's why you're indispensable – to shed light on the overlooked aspects of the story."
Tal took a breath and met my gaze with conviction shining in her eyes. "Alright, count me in, " she declared resolutely. "But I don’t won't simply observe; I want to be a part of what actively unfolds next."
"Our conversation became more meaningful as the night went on delving into subjects. Tal thoughtfully expressed "This mission goes beyond tactics. We are confronting a struggle, a battle against an entity that always seeks more power."
"It's not merely an operation, " Tal emphasized. "It revolves around UPHs unyielding quest for power and their determination to impose their worldview on everyone." I nodded in agreement. "They are attempting to unify the galaxy under their rule. Their constant pursuit of power is causing instability even within their own system. The irony is quite striking."
Tal chuckled softly. The sound reverberated in the room. "Their vision revolves around maintaining and expanding control. It is inciting unexpected resistance in unsuspecting places."
Reflecting upon her words I contributed with my thoughts. "Their mistake lies in believing they can dictate how every world should live. Each planet has its dynamics and way of being."
"It's a display of their longing for dominance," Tal stated while shaking her head. "They believe they are guiding humanity towards a purpose but their methods are proving to be counterproductive." We exchanged a glance of understanding. "Their relentless pursuit of control is ultimately leading to their downfall."
"They're fueling the opposition by insisting on holding onto power " Tal remarked. She then elaborated on the concept of control.
"The UPHs grasp on power is like trying to hold sand. The more they tighten their grip the more it slips away. Their desire for control only breeds resistance."
I pondered over the metaphor. "Ironically their desperate attempt to maintain power is causing them to lose influence. The tighter they cling, the more they lose."
"In their pursuit of absolute dominance they are undermining their own position, similar to how sandcastles erode under the relentless waves " Tal concluded.
As our conversation dwindled we prepared ourselves for sleep in our shared bed—a comforting arrangement that symbolizes our journey. "Goodnight, Tal '' I whispered softly.
"Goodnight " she responded in a hushed tone as her eyes peacefully closed in preparation for rest. The closeness we shared offered reassurance as we drifted off united in facing the challenges and intricacies of our mission.
As gentle rays of dawn gradually filled the room gently rousing us from slumber...As I slowly woke up the comforting presence of Tal next to me served as a reminder of the journey we were embarking on together especially during these uncertain times.
Carefully I sat up without causing any disturbance to Tals slumber. The morning stillness felt like a sanctuary for a moment—a pause before we faced the challenges of the day. Observing the tranquility on Tals face was a contrast to the intense discussions and tasks awaiting us.
As she gradually awakened, her eyes blinking slowly in the morning light I softly whispered, "Good morning." The new day had arrived, carrying both the weight and promise of our mission.
"Mmm, morning " she replied in a voice. We allowed ourselves a few moments of silence as we mentally prepared for what lay
Eventually both of us got out of bed. Stretched out the stiffness from sleep. There was an understanding between us that today held great importance—a day filled with tasks that demanded our complete attention and effort. We began our morning routines carefully selecting attire suitable for the activities planned for the day—each movement deliberate and mindful of what awaited us.
Tal swiftly dressed herself, her demeanor shifting into one focused on determination.
We exchanged glances silently acknowledging the significance of the day. Our outfits were practical chosen for functionality and ease of movement adapting to the nature of our mission.
Once we were prepared we made our way towards the dining area. It was a path that transitioned us from the solitude of our own quarters to the vibrant atmosphere of our unit's communal space.
As Tal and I entered the dining area we could feel the lively energy emanating from our fellow unit members. Éloise had prepared an assortment of dishes called the 'Harmony Platter,' which showcased a diverse range of culinary traditions within our unit.
Lysanthir, one of our Orjay unit mates, was attentively taking care of the children at a table. His calm and nurturing demeanor made him beloved by all the youngsters. "Lysanthir really seems to be in his element " I remarked to Tal as I noticed his effortless connection with the kids.
"He has a way of bringing serenity to their mornings " Tal replied with a smile as he observed Lysanthirs interactions.
The 'Harmony Platter' offered a blend of flavors. It included Seed Cakes for the Ojin community and delicately spiced Grains favored by the Elkelin members.
The Orjays fondness for flavors was well catered to with the addition of tier Fruit slices and a drizzle of Nectar.
As we gathered around the table with our unit members the atmosphere was warm and lively. Conversations flowed effortlessly ranging from hearted topics to more pressing matters related to our mission. "We still have an hour before we need to depart, " I reminded everyone, emphasizing the urgency of the day. "And remember, we won't be leaving from the spaceport; it's actually at a military facility further away."
Acknowledgement came from all sides of the table, each member fully aware of the significance of our mission. Once the children were happily occupied with their breakfast Lysanthir joined us bringing his contemplative presence into our group.
Cass took a moment to express her gratitude towards Lysanthir. "Thank you for helping me set up the guest room and for taking care of Jade yesterday. It meant a lot, " she said appreciatively.
"No problem, anytime," Lysanthir replied, offering a friendly smile. "We're here to support each other especially when it comes to family."
In an effort to lighten up the atmosphere a bit I decided to inject some humor into our conversation.
"Hey Cass you really let loose at night after a few drinks " I playfully teased her. "It's not often we see you so relaxed."
Cass chuckled, feeling slightly embarrassed but entertained. "I guess I don't handle Umbra Nectar well. Hopefully I didn't make a fool of myself."
Laughter filled the table as we all enjoyed this hearted moment.
Tal then redirected our attention to the timing of our mission. "Let's be mindful of our schedule today " she said, ensuring everyone was, on the page. "Zara have you submitted that form we received with today's mission details?"
A hint of concern flickered within me. "I haven't done it yet but I'll make sure to get it done after breakfast " I replied, realizing the urgency of the task.
"We can't afford any delays today " I added with a sense of responsibility weighing on me.
As breakfast drew to a close, Tal prompted us to move. "We should get going, " she said. "The mission location requires some travel ahead."
Inspired by Tals words we swiftly concluded our breakfast gathering.
Each one of us chipped in to clear the table, a yet meaningful gesture that showcased our unity. After bidding Jade a brief farewell we gathered our equipment and made our way towards the vehicles. There was an atmosphere of determination among us; we were a team, each ready for the day's mission united in purpose as we approached the Sprinter.
As we drove to the spaceport an unusual tension hung in the air heightened by news reports of unrest and increased security measures playing on the car radio. Tal and I exchanged glances silently acknowledging that today's mission would be far from straightforward.
Upon reaching the spaceport chaos greeted us. Alarms blared and panicked crowds swarmed around us. "What a mess! " Tal muttered as we pushed through to the reception desk where a flustered receptionist hastily directed us to Lieutenant Dos Rey Tiyohkisos' Corvette class ship.
Navigating through the pandemonium a missile suddenly hurtled towards us. Instinctively I activated my gravity shield. The explosion erupted with force throwing us all to the ground. "Wow!" Cass exclaimed with shock evident in her voice.
We swiftly regrouped.
Tal, always prepared for action, activated her gravity shield. "We need to get moving away!" she urged.
Another wave of missiles descended upon us. "Cass, can you slow down these things?" I asked urgently, my voice tinged with a sense of urgency.
Cass, her expression a mix of concentration and uncertainty gave it her all. The air surrounding the missiles shimmered as their speed decreased slightly. "That's the best I can manage " she said with frustration evident in her tone.
Dos Rey Tiyohkisos telepathic voice broke through the chaos, commanding. "Stay alert. The arsenal is their target " he warned, his message adding a layer of seriousness to our mission.
As we advanced towards the arsenal Dos Rey Tiyohkiso emerged from his ship instantly transforming the battlefield with his presence. Enemy ships. Crumbled before our eyes disintegrating under his immense power.
Upon reaching the arsenal the sight of weapons sent chills down my spine. "We must obliterate this place completely "I declared firmly; the weight of that decision, in my voice.
Tal looked at me with disbelief etched on her face. "Zara, are you out of your mind? We can't destroy a spaceport!"
Cass interjected, her voice filled with concern. "This is absolutely crazy Zara. Even for us."
I let out a chuckle. "These things have timers right?”
Reluctantly Tal and Cass joined me in placing the explosives. We worked swiftly, aware that time was running out on the spaceport.
As the Corvette ascended the spaceport, beneath us erupted into an explosion. "Damn " Cass whispered, the impact of our actions weighing heavily on us.
Attempting to lighten the atmosphere I remarked, "Well that's one hell of a way to bypass the parking queue."
A fleeting strained laughter filled the cabin momentarily relieving us from the gravity of what we had done. The choice to obliterate the spaceport would forever remain with us as a reminder of the harsh decisions made during war.
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Location: Nithara, Atara System (Binary Star System)
Date: 27/13/4725 - Cycle 5 (Year 4,700,250,005,523)
Time: 13:42 Universal Standard Time (UST)
The importance of our mission weighed heavily on our minds as we departed from the Council Chambers. The bustling streets of Nithara seemed vibrant. Our thoughts were consumed by silence. Tal was the one who broke the silence her voice filled with determination and concern.
"Zara it's crucial that you prepare yourself and have a face to face conversation with the others, " she said.
Her words struck me deeply. It wasn't about getting ready for the mission; it was also about those who were part of our lives, our unit. They deserved to be informed about what was unfolding.
As we approached the Sprinter, a thought crossed my mind. "Cass, do you have a place to stay? If not It won't be a long drive to our House."
Cass appeared surprised. Nodded in agreement. "Um no I hadn't really thought that far ahead. So i guess I'm comeing"
The drive back to our unit's home contrasted starkly with the liveliness of the city. Inside the Sprinter, an air of solemnity prevailed as we became momentarily disconnected from the world around us and immersed ourselves in contemplating what lay ahead.
Tal skillfully maneuvered through the streets while I observed landmarks passing by.
Each one of them held memories from a time when life was simpler. Now those memories are overshadowed by the seriousness of our situation. It hit me in a way that beyond the city limits there lay an unknown filled with uncertainty and danger.
"I haven't visited our place in quite some time " I mentioned, breaking the silence. My voice carried a mix of nostalgia and apprehension.
Tal responded with a smile. "They'll definitely be surprised. It's important that they're part of this conversation."
As we moved from the heart of Aurion towards the suburbs we approached our unit home. The vibrant energy of the city center slowly gave way to an atmosphere, which sharply contrasted with our turmoil. Our home, nestled modestly among neighboring structures, was more than a building; it represented our unity. Served as a sanctuary brimming with cherished memories from our time together, as a unit. Its sea green exterior blended harmoniously with the surrounding Verelume foliage teeming with growth.
The garden resembled a tapestry depicting Verelumes vitality. Adorned with blooming flowers and trees adorned in leaves that symbolized renewal and hopefulness. The air carried the scents of Verelume combining notes with hints of earthy rejuvenation that further enhanced the tranquility of the garden.
Approaching the house the vibrant garden appeared to welcome us while also subtly foreshadowing the changes. It mirrored the life and warmth within symbolizing that this home had witnessed the cycles of Verelume and other seasonal shifts. Now as our mission's reality began to dawn upon us the house prepared itself for a transformation.
We parked our Sprinter near the house, its presence providing a presence in this setting. The front yard showcased nature's artistry with a garden, under the gaze of an ancient oak tree.
As we strolled through the garden we could hear the rustling leaves announcing Éloises arrival. Emerging from behind foliage was her towering figure of Bovinneein species, her face filled with joy. "Zara! Tal!" she exclaimed warmly and surprisingly.
I responded with warmth "It’s so good to see you, Éloise." Her presence brought about a sense of familiarity despite her imposing height.
Tal interjected with seriousness evident, in her tone. Said, "We have much to discuss."
Understanding how grave our expressions were Éloise suggested optimistically "Let's sit in the garden.""It's so peaceful here " she said, leading us to the garden chairs nestled under the shade of the romein tree. We settled down enveloped by the tranquility of the garden.
This particular spot, sheltered by the romein tree, has always been a place for our group. It's where we've had meaningful conversations, a space that holds significance for decision making and sharing.
Before long, Éloise returned with a tray of Firna and Gleem. Her nurturing nature always brings comfort. "Let's start our conversation with some Firna," she said as she set down the tray. "Now, what's this mission about?"
I raised an eyebrow in surprise. "How did you know we were going to discuss a mission, Éloise? We haven't mentioned it yet." With a knowing smile Éloise replied, "Tal informed me while you were on your way. She thought it would be wise for me to be prepared for something."
Tal gave me a look to acknowledge her action. I took a breath. Began explaining the details of our assignment. Éloise listened attentively; her expression transitioning from concern, to unwavering determination.
"Got it " she responded once I finished talking. "We need to start preparing.. We should also inform the others."
"We're all in this together right?" Tal glanced at Cass and Jade who had been quietly observing.
"Cass, do you mind taking Jade to one of the guest rooms? Zara and I need to have a conversation with Éloise." Cass nodded, expressing her gratitude.
"Of course. Come on Jade " she said softly leading Jade away. With Cass and Jade gone the tranquility of the garden again embraced us.
In this moment with Éloises support and Tal by my side the upcoming mission felt a little less overwhelming. We were like a family united in this endeavor prepared to confront whatever challenges awaited us. Éloise gave me a look as she handed me an envelope.
"This arrived just before you came, " she informed me. I opened it. Discovered a letter from the Council. The document outlined aspects of our mission, each detail emphasizing the seriousness of the situation we were stepping into. As I skimmed through the letter certain phrases caught my attention.
"It says here that Lieutenant Dos Rey Tiyohkiso will be our coordinator from above " I informed Tal and Éloise, realizing how pivotal the Lieutenants role would be in our mission. Éloise leaned closer, for emphasis.
" What about the hostages?" I let out a sigh. "We still don't know where they are. Our main priority is to locate and ensure their safety." Tal crossed her arms, deep in thought.
"We also have some flexibility to suggest team members for the mission. Do you have anyone in mind?" Éloise perked up.
"It's crucial that we choose wisely. Each team member could bring something to contribute." I held up the form. Added, "We need to submit our choices on this form at 15 hours before departure. Alternatively we can finalize our team when we meet at the designated meetup point."
As our discussion came to a close I glanced again at the letter signed by Niyar Lotner from Old Rinoterra. I couldn't help but comment, "Why do they still use the Old Rinoterra script? It's like they enjoy making things complicated."
Just Then a young Kaictet boy playfully emerged from the brush appearing to be around six years old. His fur blended effortlessly with his surroundings like a chameleon. Excitement sparkled in his eyes as he approached us.
"I can change colors!" he exclaimed with pride showcasing his species unique ability.
Tal, always attentive, as a parent smiled warmly and said, "Wow that's right Kaelin! Good job. "
Kaelin, now enjoying the attention, Decided to clamber up my leg attempting to climb onto my lap. Tal gently intervened. "Be careful Kaelin " she advised softly but firmly. "Let's be considerate of others."
Kaelin nodded enthusiastically with his energy. "Sorry, Zara, " he said with a smile.
"I just wanted to show you!" He said Excitedly
I chuckled and steadied my chair. "No worries, Kaelin. You certainly have talent."
Éloise, observing from the side, chimed in, "He's a learner and always curious about everything around him."
Glancing back at the letter a thought crossed my mind. "Kaelin do you know what this says?" I asked while pointing to the Rinoterra script.
Intrigued, Kaelin's eyes widened; however, he shook his head in response. "Nope! I only know the words Mommy teaches me."
Tal stepped in with a touch of amusement in her voice. "Old Rinoterra can be quite complex for a six year old, like you Kaelin"
Laughing lightly, I folded the letter. And Said playfully, "Well then maybe someday you can teach me a bit of your Rinoterra knowledge."
His face lit up with excitement. "Oh yes I really like that idea!"
As Tal guided Kaelin back, towards the house it served as a reminder of the joyful nature of childhood contrasting with the weightiness of our impending mission.
"It's about time we start moving, " Tal suggested, glancing at the fading daylight. "We need to make preparations."
Leaving behind the Verelume garden I carried Kaelins energy and Tals nurturing warmth within me providing comfort amidst the challenges that awaited us. Tal turned to me. Said, "I'll meet you in the storage room."
Entering the lit storage room Tal skillfully maneuvered through shelves filled with items each holding stories of past adventures and missions. She handed me an utility belt equipped with an assortment of gadgets. "These might come in handy " she commented, her voice slightly echoing within the enclosed space.
I carefully examined each gadget recognizing their usefulness. "Thank you Tal " I replied while securing the belt around my waist.
Next Tal reached for a looking weapon with a design distinct from firearms.
Resembling a nail gun the body had a metallic look giving it a vibe. The drum magazine seamlessly blended into the weapon eliminating any bulk.
One of the standout features was the absence of a trigger guard. Instead there was a built in trigger mechanism that allowed for firing. Tal explained that this design choice was intentional, for response and ease of use in close combat situations.
"The pistol has a matte finish " Tal continued as she ran her fingers along its contours. "It's been modified for efficiency. The drum magazine can fire at a velocity making it quite formidable in capable hands."
I examined the weapon in my hands feeling its weight and balance— yet intriguing. "It does remind me more of a nail gun " I remarked with a mix of curiosity and skepticism, in my voice.
Tal chuckled at my observation. "Don't let its unconventional design deceive you; it's much more than meets the eye."
"This here's a gift from a buddy in the navy made for those times when you need to be subtle and act fast, " Tal said as I clipped the war pistol onto my belt. Adding it to my collection of gear "I'll take it although I doubt I'll have use for it " I added with a touch of pride and confidence in my abilities.
"Keep it close Zara " Tal advised. "You never know when it might come in handy."
"Tal there's something I need to ask you " I began with a shift in tone.
Tal looked at me sensing the gravity of the situation. "What's weighing on your mind Zara?"
I took a breath before speaking up. "Regarding our mission... I think you should join us. Your experience as a war reporter could be extremely valuable."
Tal let out a laugh. Her eyes betrayed some caution. "You want me to tag along on this mission to Tersun? Zara I've witnessed warfare already. The stories I've covered... Ojin warriors tearing planets apart. Elkelin wiping civilizations from history."
"It's a reminder of the frightening powers that exist out there."
"Yes '' I insisted. "You've witnessed wars, covered battles. Your perspective could have an impact on how Tersun's perceived by the UPH."
Tal shook her head, a mix of amusement and contemplation on her face. "Are you serious about this? It's not about risking your life there; you want me to join in"
Her laughter had a lightness to it. I sensed she was genuinely considering the idea. "It goes beyond that Tal. It's about making a difference and understanding where we stand in this conflict "
She paused, appearing in thought. "I'll give it some thought, Zara. There's much to consider."
I nodded, respecting her need to carefully contemplate this decision. "Just take your time. Think it over. Your insights would truly be invaluable."
Leaving behind the cold and practical storage room our group made their way towards the dining area feeling as if they were entering a new world. The utilitarian nature of the storage space gave way to the inviting atmosphere of the communal dining area.
It was like transitioning from responsibilities to the comfort of shared companionship. As we closed the door behind us the sterile environment of the storage room was replaced by an welcoming glow in the dining area.
The enticing scent of Éloises Umbra Nectar and the Lumidian vegetable medley filled the air not signaling a meal but also symbolizing a cherished tradition of unity and relaxation. Tal, who had walked with almost robotic steps in the storage room now moved with a noticeably more relaxed stride. The familiar surroundings of the dining area seemed to dissolve any formality or pressure from earlier in the day creating an atmosphere of ease and familiarity.
We gathered around the table creating a contrast to the shelves and starkness of our previous location. Here, in this space everything felt casual yet deeply meaningful reflecting our unit's essence. Cass seamlessly integrated herself into our group adding her unique presence to our collective story.
Her presence tonight after what happened in the day showed how our lives are constantly changing.
Éloises cheerful attitude while serving the Umbra Nectar wasn't about being hospitable; it reflected the strong sense of community we had. Her actions went beyond simply providing a meal; they were a celebration of our unity.
The dinner unfolded smoothly like a tune. Each of us contributed to the conversations and shared stories creating a narrative that was more than just ordinary. Our discussions touched on topics but carried an underlying awareness of the larger significance of our gathering.
Cass, feeling more relaxed, now shared her thoughts. "This Umbra Nectar is not about flavor. It's about forging connections " she said, capturing the essence of our gathering in a word.
"That's Éloises talent " Tal responded warmly and appreciatively. "She has a way of bringing us and reminding us of the strong bonds we share."
As we finished our meal, Casss reflective tone encapsulated the importance of the evening.
"Being here with all of you tonight after what happened earlier today it feels like we're coming together in a meaningful way " she observed. I nodded in agreement. "Life is about adapting and finding harmony in unexpected places. Your presence here tonight shows that adaptability." Casss gaze lingered on the remaining food. "Our individual journeys and separate experiences are all part of an interconnected story."
The conversation gradually came to an end leaving behind thought provoking ideas. The smooth integration of Cass into our evening highlighted the adaptability and interconnectedness that lies at the heart of our group.
It served as a reminder that when faced with uncertainty it's our collective resilience and unity that prepare us for the challenges ahead.
As I retired to my quarters I pondered on the tapestry of our lives and looked forward to the upcoming discussion with Tal. Our combined journey, marked by the shared experiences of this evening, promised to delve into the complexities of our mission and the vast universe.
Tal, now nestled comfortably among soft pillows, turned towards me. Her eyes with their blend of emerald green and white shades reflected profound contemplation.
"I've been pondering your proposal " she began, her voice a mix of uncertainty and determination. "Joining this mission... It feels like entering a realm of unknowns, something vast and consequential."
I reached out for her hand offering reassurance. "It's a decision," I said, fully understanding the weight of her thoughts. "Your insights are vital Tal. You've witnessed the intricacies and challenges of conflict that often remain hidden, behind overarching narratives."
Her gaze reflected contemplation and introspection as she engaged in an internal debate. "Can I truly immerse myself in that world again?" she whispered softly, her voice carrying echoes of experiences.
Sensing a tremble in her hand I held it more firmly to provide comfort. "You possess the ability to uncover truths and confront complex issues " I gently reassured her. "That's why you're indispensable – to shed light on the overlooked aspects of the story."
Tal took a breath and met my gaze with conviction shining in her eyes. "Alright, count me in, " she declared resolutely. "But I don’t won't simply observe; I want to be a part of what actively unfolds next."
"Our conversation became more meaningful as the night went on delving into subjects. Tal thoughtfully expressed "This mission goes beyond tactics. We are confronting a struggle, a battle against an entity that always seeks more power."
"It's not merely an operation, " Tal emphasized. "It revolves around UPHs unyielding quest for power and their determination to impose their worldview on everyone." I nodded in agreement. "They are attempting to unify the galaxy under their rule. Their constant pursuit of power is causing instability even within their own system. The irony is quite striking."
Tal chuckled softly. The sound reverberated in the room. "Their vision revolves around maintaining and expanding control. It is inciting unexpected resistance in unsuspecting places."
Reflecting upon her words I contributed with my thoughts. "Their mistake lies in believing they can dictate how every world should live. Each planet has its dynamics and way of being."
"It's a display of their longing for dominance," Tal stated while shaking her head. "They believe they are guiding humanity towards a purpose but their methods are proving to be counterproductive." We exchanged a glance of understanding. "Their relentless pursuit of control is ultimately leading to their downfall."
"They're fueling the opposition by insisting on holding onto power " Tal remarked. She then elaborated on the concept of control.
"The UPHs grasp on power is like trying to hold sand. The more they tighten their grip the more it slips away. Their desire for control only breeds resistance."
I pondered over the metaphor. "Ironically their desperate attempt to maintain power is causing them to lose influence. The tighter they cling, the more they lose."
"In their pursuit of absolute dominance they are undermining their own position, similar to how sandcastles erode under the relentless waves " Tal concluded.
As our conversation dwindled we prepared ourselves for sleep in our shared bed—a comforting arrangement that symbolizes our journey. "Goodnight, Tal '' I whispered softly.
"Goodnight " she responded in a hushed tone as her eyes peacefully closed in preparation for rest. The closeness we shared offered reassurance as we drifted off united in facing the challenges and intricacies of our mission.
As gentle rays of dawn gradually filled the room gently rousing us from slumber...As I slowly woke up the comforting presence of Tal next to me served as a reminder of the journey we were embarking on together especially during these uncertain times.
Carefully I sat up without causing any disturbance to Tals slumber. The morning stillness felt like a sanctuary for a moment—a pause before we faced the challenges of the day. Observing the tranquility on Tals face was a contrast to the intense discussions and tasks awaiting us.
As she gradually awakened, her eyes blinking slowly in the morning light I softly whispered, "Good morning." The new day had arrived, carrying both the weight and promise of our mission.
"Mmm, morning " she replied in a voice. We allowed ourselves a few moments of silence as we mentally prepared for what lay
Eventually both of us got out of bed. Stretched out the stiffness from sleep. There was an understanding between us that today held great importance—a day filled with tasks that demanded our complete attention and effort. We began our morning routines carefully selecting attire suitable for the activities planned for the day—each movement deliberate and mindful of what awaited us.
Tal swiftly dressed herself, her demeanor shifting into one focused on determination.
We exchanged glances silently acknowledging the significance of the day. Our outfits were practical chosen for functionality and ease of movement adapting to the nature of our mission.
Once we were prepared we made our way towards the dining area. It was a path that transitioned us from the solitude of our own quarters to the vibrant atmosphere of our unit's communal space.
As Tal and I entered the dining area we could feel the lively energy emanating from our fellow unit members. Éloise had prepared an assortment of dishes called the 'Harmony Platter,' which showcased a diverse range of culinary traditions within our unit.
Lysanthir, one of our Orjay unit mates, was attentively taking care of the children at a table. His calm and nurturing demeanor made him beloved by all the youngsters. "Lysanthir really seems to be in his element " I remarked to Tal as I noticed his effortless connection with the kids.
"He has a way of bringing serenity to their mornings " Tal replied with a smile as he observed Lysanthirs interactions.
The 'Harmony Platter' offered a blend of flavors. It included Seed Cakes for the Ojin community and delicately spiced Grains favored by the Elkelin members.
The Orjays fondness for flavors was well catered to with the addition of tier Fruit slices and a drizzle of Nectar.
As we gathered around the table with our unit members the atmosphere was warm and lively. Conversations flowed effortlessly ranging from hearted topics to more pressing matters related to our mission. "We still have an hour before we need to depart, " I reminded everyone, emphasizing the urgency of the day. "And remember, we won't be leaving from the spaceport; it's actually at a military facility further away."
Acknowledgement came from all sides of the table, each member fully aware of the significance of our mission. Once the children were happily occupied with their breakfast Lysanthir joined us bringing his contemplative presence into our group.
Cass took a moment to express her gratitude towards Lysanthir. "Thank you for helping me set up the guest room and for taking care of Jade yesterday. It meant a lot, " she said appreciatively.
"No problem, anytime," Lysanthir replied, offering a friendly smile. "We're here to support each other especially when it comes to family."
In an effort to lighten up the atmosphere a bit I decided to inject some humor into our conversation.
"Hey Cass you really let loose at night after a few drinks " I playfully teased her. "It's not often we see you so relaxed."
Cass chuckled, feeling slightly embarrassed but entertained. "I guess I don't handle Umbra Nectar well. Hopefully I didn't make a fool of myself."
Laughter filled the table as we all enjoyed this hearted moment.
Tal then redirected our attention to the timing of our mission. "Let's be mindful of our schedule today " she said, ensuring everyone was, on the page. "Zara have you submitted that form we received with today's mission details?"
A hint of concern flickered within me. "I haven't done it yet but I'll make sure to get it done after breakfast " I replied, realizing the urgency of the task.
"We can't afford any delays today " I added with a sense of responsibility weighing on me.
As breakfast drew to a close, Tal prompted us to move. "We should get going, " she said. "The mission location requires some travel ahead."
Inspired by Tals words we swiftly concluded our breakfast gathering.
Each one of us chipped in to clear the table, a yet meaningful gesture that showcased our unity. After bidding Jade a brief farewell we gathered our equipment and made our way towards the vehicles. There was an atmosphere of determination among us; we were a team, each ready for the day's mission united in purpose as we approached the Sprinter.
As we drove to the spaceport an unusual tension hung in the air heightened by news reports of unrest and increased security measures playing on the car radio. Tal and I exchanged glances silently acknowledging that today's mission would be far from straightforward.
Upon reaching the spaceport chaos greeted us. Alarms blared and panicked crowds swarmed around us. "What a mess! " Tal muttered as we pushed through to the reception desk where a flustered receptionist hastily directed us to Lieutenant Dos Rey Tiyohkisos' Corvette class ship.
Navigating through the pandemonium a missile suddenly hurtled towards us. Instinctively I activated my gravity shield. The explosion erupted with force throwing us all to the ground. "Wow!" Cass exclaimed with shock evident in her voice.
We swiftly regrouped.
Tal, always prepared for action, activated her gravity shield. "We need to get moving away!" she urged.
Another wave of missiles descended upon us. "Cass, can you slow down these things?" I asked urgently, my voice tinged with a sense of urgency.
Cass, her expression a mix of concentration and uncertainty gave it her all. The air surrounding the missiles shimmered as their speed decreased slightly. "That's the best I can manage " she said with frustration evident in her tone.
Dos Rey Tiyohkisos telepathic voice broke through the chaos, commanding. "Stay alert. The arsenal is their target " he warned, his message adding a layer of seriousness to our mission.
As we advanced towards the arsenal Dos Rey Tiyohkiso emerged from his ship instantly transforming the battlefield with his presence. Enemy ships. Crumbled before our eyes disintegrating under his immense power.
Upon reaching the arsenal the sight of weapons sent chills down my spine. "We must obliterate this place completely "I declared firmly; the weight of that decision, in my voice.
Tal looked at me with disbelief etched on her face. "Zara, are you out of your mind? We can't destroy a spaceport!"
Cass interjected, her voice filled with concern. "This is absolutely crazy Zara. Even for us."
I let out a chuckle. "These things have timers right?”
Reluctantly Tal and Cass joined me in placing the explosives. We worked swiftly, aware that time was running out on the spaceport.
As the Corvette ascended the spaceport, beneath us erupted into an explosion. "Damn " Cass whispered, the impact of our actions weighing heavily on us.
Attempting to lighten the atmosphere I remarked, "Well that's one hell of a way to bypass the parking queue."
A fleeting strained laughter filled the cabin momentarily relieving us from the gravity of what we had done. The choice to obliterate the spaceport would forever remain with us as a reminder of the harsh decisions made during war.
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“When I was five, I imagined that there was such a thing as a unicorn. And this was before I had even heard of one, or seen one. I just drew a picture of a horse that could fly over rainbows, and had a huge spike in its head. I was five! Five years old. Couldn’t even talk yet.”
“Jim and I are great friends. We hang out a ton, mostly at work.”
“As it turns out, you can’t just check someone into rehab against their will. They have to do it voluntarily. They have to hit rock bottom. So, I think I know what I need to do at this point. I need to find ways to push Meredith to the bottom. Um. I think I can do it.”
Michael scott quotes inspirational
“They always say that it’s a mistake to hire your friends. And they are right. So, I hired my best friends. And this is what I get!?”“The only time I set the bar low is for limbo.”
“Don’t ever, for any reason, do anything to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what.”
“It takes an advanced sense of humor. I don’t expect everyone to understand.”
“I’m not gonna cry over it. I did that in the car on the way home.”
“The only thing that could make this day better is ice cream.”
“Those things are like ticking time bags. Alright? Think about it.”
“Don’t worry about Phil. He drives a corvette. He is doing just fine. OK. Calling cards are… the wave of the future. These things sell themselves.”
“Two weeks ago, I was in the worst relationship of my life. She treated me poorly, we didn’t connect, I was miserable. Now, I am in the best relationship of my life, with the same woman. Love is a mystery.”
“You will not die! Stanley! Stanley! Barack is President! You are black, Stanley!”
“I want today to be a beautiful memory that the staff and I share after I have passed on to New York. And if Toby is a part of it, then it’ll suck.”
“I think Angela might be gay. Could Oscar and Angela be having a gay affair? Maybe! Is that what this is about?”
Motivational michael scott quotes
“That was offensive and lame. So double offensive. This is an environment of welcoming and you should just get the hell out of here.”“Oh, this is gonna feel so good getting this thing off my chest… that’s what she said.”
“Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject. So you know you are getting the best possible information.”
“Guess what, I have flaws. What are they? Oh, I don’t know. I sing in the shower. Sometimes I spend too much time volunteering. Occasionally I’ll hit somebody with my car. So sue me.”
“Friends joke with one another. ‘Hey, you’re poor.’ ‘Hey, your mama’s dead.’ That’s what friends do.”
“I am running away from my responsibilities. And it feels good.”
“Toby is in HR, which technically means he works for a corporation. So he’s not really a part of our family. Also, he’s divorced, so he’s not really a part of his family.”
“Saw Inception. Or at least I dreamt I did.”
“Jan is cold. If she was sitting across from you on a train and she wasn’t moving, you might think she was dead.”
“Number eight. Learn how to take off a woman’s bra: You just twist your hand until something breaks.
“I don’t come up with this stuff, I just forward it along. You wouldn’t arrest the guy who was just passing drugs from one guy to another.”
Famous michael scott quotes
“I love my employees even though I hit one of you with my car.”“I would not miss it for the world. But if something else came up, I would definitely not go.”
“This is our receptionist, Pam. If you think she’s cute now, you should have seen her a couple years ago.”
“Like right here is my favorite New York pizza joint. And I’m going to go get me a New York slice.”
“Sometimes you have to take a break from being the kind of boss that’s always trying to teach people things. Sometimes you just have to be the boss of dancing.”
“I would say I kind of have an unfair advantage because I watch reality dating shows like a hawk, and I learn. I absorb information from the strategies of the winners and the losers. Actually, I probably learn more from the losers.”
“Nobody likes beets, Dwight! Why don’t you grow something that everybody does like? You should grow candy.”
“It takes you thirty seconds to brush your teeth? Wow, that’s ten times as long as it takes me.”
“I took her to the hospital. And the doctors tried to save her life, they did the best they could. And she is going to be OK.”
Michael scott quotes you miss
“Yes, it is true. I, Michael Scott, am signing up with an online dating service. Thousands of people have done it, and I am going to do it. I need a username. And I have a great one. Little Kid Lover. That way people will know exactly where my priorities are at.”“People will never be replaced by machines. In the end, life and business are about human connections. And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake. And to me the choice is easy.”
“Hi, I’m Date Mike. Nice to meet me. How do you like your eggs in the morning?”
“I’ve got to make sure that YouTube comes down to tape this.”
“OK, too many different words from coming at me from too many different sentences.”
“The people that you work with are, when you get down to it, your very best friends.”
“Webster’s Dictionary defines wedding as ‘the fusing of two metals with a hot torch.'”
“Granted, maybe this was not the best idea, but at least we care enough about our employees that we are willing to fight for them.”
“I guess the attitude that I’ve tried to create here is that I’m a friend first and a boss second and probably an entertainer third.”
“It’s not like booze ever killed anyone.”
“And I knew exactly what to do. But in a much more real sense, I had no idea what to do.”
Funniest michael scott quotes
“The worst thing about prison was the dementors.”“There’s no such thing as an appropriate joke. That’s why it’s called a joke.”
“Society teaches us that having feelings and crying is bad and wrong. Well, that’s baloney, because grief isn’t wrong. There’s such a thing as good grief. Just ask Charlie Brown.”
“I say dance, they say ‘How high?'”
“Tell him to call me ASAP as possible.”
“Presents are the best way to show how much you care. It’s a tangible thing you can point at and say, ‘Hey man, I love you. This many dollars worth.’”
“Dwight, you ignorant slut.”
“I want you to rub butter on my foot… Pam, please? I have Country Crock.”
“There is no greater feeling than when two people who are perfect for each other overcome all obstacles and find true love.”
“I would say I kind of have an unfair advantage because I watch reality dating shows like a hawk, and I learn. I absorb information from the strategies of the winners and the losers. Actually, I probably learn more from the losers.”
“About 40 times a year, Michael gets sick but has no symptoms. Dwight is always gravely concerned.”
“There were these huge bins of clothes and everybody was rifling through them like crazy. And I grabbed one and it fit! So, I don’t think that this is totally just a woman’s suit. At the very least it’s bisexual.”
Inspiring michael scott quotes
“Any man who says he totally understands women is a fool. Because they are un-understandable.”“When the son of the deposed king of Nigeria emails you directly, asking for help, you help! His father ran the freaking country! OK?”
“I had a great summer. I got West Nile virus, lost a ton of weight. Then I went back to the lake. And I stepped on a piece of glass in the parking lot, which hurt. That got infected. Even though I peed on it.”
“If I had a gun with two bullets and I was in a room with Hitler, Bin Laden, and Toby, I would shoot Toby twice.”
“I saved a life. My own. Am I a hero?… I really can’t say, but yes!”
“No, I’m not going to tell them about the downsizing. If a patient has cancer, you don’t tell them.”
“An office is not for dying. An office is a place for living life to the fullest, to the max, to… an office is a place where dreams come true.”
“Do I need to be liked? Absolutely not. I like to be liked. I enjoy being liked. I have to be liked, but it’s not like this compulsive need to be liked, like my need to be praised.
“Sometimes I’ll start a sentence, and I don’t even know where it’s going. I just hope I find it along the way.”
“Do I have a special someone? Well, yeah, of course. A bunch of ’em. My employees.
“They say on your deathbed you never wish you spent more time at the office — but I will.”
Short michael scott quotes
“Make friends first, make sales second, make love third. In no particular order.”“I love inside jokes. I hope to be a part of one someday.”
“I’m an early bird and a night owl. So I’m wise and have worms.”
“Well, it’s love at first sight. Actually, it was… no, it was when I heard her voice. It was love at first see with my ears.”
“The most sacred thing I do is care and provide for my workers, my family. I give them money. I give them food. Not directly, but through the money.”
“I wanna be married and have 100 kids so I can have 100 friends and no one can say ‘no’ to being my friend.”
“I feel like all my kids grew up and then they married each other. It’s every parent’s dream.”
“You know what they say ‘Fool me once, strike one, but fool me twice… strike three.’”
“I know it’s illegal in Pennsylvania, but it’s for charity, and I consider myself a great philanderer.”
Top michael scott quotes
“Two queens at casino night. I am gonna drop a deuce on everybody.”“I don’t understand. We have a day honoring Martin Luther King, but he didn’t even work here.”
“I’m not superstitious but I am a little stitious.”
“Now, you may look around and see two groups here. White-collar, blue-collar. But I don’t see it that way. And you know why not? Because I am collar-blind.”
“And I’m optimistic because every day I get a little more desperate.”
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2024.01.05 18:50 ska2oosh New(ish) to the fandom? Here’s some you (probably) haven’t read yet
Hello everyone. I’ve been apart of this fandom for two years now, aka long enough to have read all the classics but not all of the more obscure/less reccomended fics.
One thing I’ve noticed is that when people are asking for recommendations on here it’s usually the same ten stories being listed, and almost all can be easily found in the first few pages of AO3 if you sort by kudos. Not that those stories aren’t amazing! Because they totally are, and deserve the praise. But I’m willing to bet there’s a lot of people in the same boat as me who have read 95% of the classics already, making those recs unhelpful. So I want to give some hidden gems I’ve stumbled upon that I’ve not seen posted here (or at least not very often). If you have any you’d like to recommend as well, please comment below!
Palm Springs by KittyCargo
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One thing I’ve noticed is that when people are asking for recommendations on here it’s usually the same ten stories being listed, and almost all can be easily found in the first few pages of AO3 if you sort by kudos. Not that those stories aren’t amazing! Because they totally are, and deserve the praise. But I’m willing to bet there’s a lot of people in the same boat as me who have read 95% of the classics already, making those recs unhelpful. So I want to give some hidden gems I’ve stumbled upon that I’ve not seen posted here (or at least not very often). If you have any you’d like to recommend as well, please comment below!
Palm Springs by KittyCargo
Harry collapsed into the chair next to him. “What is happening?”Being Robin Gives Me Magic by CheatsatUNO / Series Link
“One of those infinite time loop situations.”
“What?!”
“You know. Yesterday is today. Today is today, tomorrow is today.”
“But how do I stop it? I don’t want tomorrow to be today. I want tomorrow to be tomorrow!”
“Yeah, that’s understandable.” Malfoy said calmly. “Do you like tacos?”
“Just admit it, you’re obsessed with me. At least you have good taste.” Draco huffs out a laugh, but is met with silence. He looks up from under his eyelashes at Robin. The other boy is staring out the only window in the small office. His cheeks are flushed.It’s Too Cold for Wyverns To Fly by SteampunkSerpent27
“Maybe a bit,” he mumbles, hardly loud enough for Draco to make out. But he does hear it, and it makes his heart soar. And then it crashes. Draco is such an idiot. Only an idiot gets a massive crush on two different people.
What a stupid problem to have.
Or
Draco gets caught by Batman's sidekick, Robin, while taking pictures of them one night. Also Draco is getting more acquainted with Harry Potter at school. Why are they both hot?
Father always told him it wasn't safe to go outside, that dragons like him would never be seen as anything other than vermin to be eradicted. But what happens when a green-eyed boy turns that all on its head?stop covering my eyes by haey1
“Draco told me you visited him yesterday,” Narcissa said.Heliotrope by sharpethana
”Yes,” Harry responded.
“He told me you punched him in the face.”
Harry suppressed a wince. “Yes. I did.”
Eight years after the war, Harry Potter has been roped into helping Narcissa restore the Malfoy Manor and in his efforts, he finds a Draco Malfoy who has no idea who he is.
Draco does not approve of the new gardener his mother has hired. Not one bit.Draco Malfoy and Another Sodding Christmas by Kbrick
Draco just wants to become the next president of Gringott's Wizarding Bank. Is that too much to ask?Fade to Silver by furiosity
A Christmas Carol retelling featuring Draco as Scrooge; Lavender Brown as Draco's Christmas-obsessed Bob Cratchit; and Snape, Vincent Crabbe, and a not-at-all-dead Luna as the three ghosts.
Also featuring: a Harry still very much in love with Draco and a Draco who's still in love with Harry, although he’s too stubborn to admit it.
MAN WITH SEVERE AMNESIA ADMITTED TO LOCAL HOSPITALTen Visits to Fire and Flight: The World of Dragons by fanfairmod, SanderVanSunshine
He's got an impressive black eye, a careful smile, and no memory of his past. He says his name is Draco Malfoy, but concedes that he isn't sure if the name is really his. It came to mind when he approached a Transport Police officer in King's Cross, he says, and he used it. That was two days ago….
A decade after the war, Draco Malfoy has made a new name for himself, running the dragonology department at the British Museum of Magic. And in spite of his cranky assistant (and her rude drawings), the other department heads (jog on, Janet), and three untamed children (menaces), it’s brilliant.What Branches Grow by fools_errand
Or it would be, if Harry Potter didn’t have so much bloody free time after his morning show (which Draco does not and will not listen to).
When a run-of-the-mill investigation turns up evidence that the Death Eaters may be resurfacing, Harry seems to be the only one who believes Malfoy has anything to do with it. Yet according to official records, he’s been the poster child for the Ministry’s post-war Rehabilitation program, living in a small muggle town in Wales.the eighth sin by honeybeet
It’s obvious that he’s guilty of something, but a Malfoy that rides a bike and reads poetry is not exactly what Harry had been picturing all these years.
When Draco is sentenced to five years of house arrest, without magic, alone, the only person to visit him is Potter. But Draco’s beginning to doubt whether Potter is really there at all.Counter-Curse by Justlikewriting
When Harry took his first holiday in years, he decided to spend it house sitting Ron and Hermione’s flat in a Muggle part of London. It should have been easy enough - minding their plants, their Kneazle and their cat - and it would have been, if Harry hadn't seen someone blacking out in the flat opposite on his first day.Hope’s Only Promise by bluesyquill
Of course, it was just his luck that the man in the other flat turned out to be none other than Draco Malfoy, Assistant Hotel Manager. Of a very Muggle hotel. Which also happened to serve the best cake. Ever.
And then there was this group called Counter-Curse, which was desperately trying to get Harry's attention as well.
Harry lives in Havana and loves making batidos from all his favorite fruits. He doesn’t have a job and plans to wile away his life in his own little plot of paradise. Draco, released from Azkaban on probation, is set with the unwieldy task to convince Harry to come home. He has to go right back to prison if he fails, but he has been cursed to keep all of that from Harry.Color Sorting by SamundertheLights
After moving in together, Harry starts noticing things about Draco which he hadn't noticed before.Here We Are, Entwined and Unafraid by silverspirit2005
This was the first thing that Father’s said: “You are meant to die for Harry Potter.”When He Awoke by CorvetteClaire
In exchange for protection, the Malfoys agreed for a soul bond between Draco and Harry Potter, which they eventually realised would ultimately lead to their son's death. This is the story of how Draco went through seventeen years of his life with this fact.
Strange things are happening to Draco Malfoy. He keeps waking up... changed. His father offers one explanation, but Harry may have the ultimate answer.The Misadventures of Draco Malfoy, Ferret by sabershadowkat
A silly take on the question of magical inheritance and sexual identity.
Snape turns Draco into a ferret for his own protection. He would've been safer with the Dark Lord.
2024.01.01 23:25 Clay_Bricks Every retiring LEGO set (January 2024 update)
Happy New Year! We hope everyone has had a wonderful 2023 and we here at /LegoLeak / Brick Tap want to thank everyone for the years of support. We wouldn't do this stuff if not for the Lego community being great, so thank you!
Anyway, back to what you came here for. A new year means an updated retirement list, and for this Reddit post, an entirely new list of sets! Thanks to LEGO adding most of the January sets to the data last month, we were able to have this one out on time!
As always, we owe a massive thanks to ZombieYeti from the BrickHound Discord for providing this valuable data. If you're looking for real-time in-stock/deal alerts for Lego.com and other sites, make sure to check out his server!
This information is scraped directly from Lego's website, and all dates are subject to change. ZombieYeti is currently developing a website to host this data and offer real-time updates. In the meantime, here is a list of every set and their corresponding retirement date as per LEGO's system!
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. Due to Reddit's character limits, we can't include everything here, but the full spreadsheet contains every set.
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Anyway, back to what you came here for. A new year means an updated retirement list, and for this Reddit post, an entirely new list of sets! Thanks to LEGO adding most of the January sets to the data last month, we were able to have this one out on time!
Reminder that retirement updates are now fully automated on Discord!
Thanks to ZombieYeti, the Brick Tap discord now has the BrickHound bot posting automated retirement updates, as soon as they are changed in the data!This information is scraped directly from Lego's website, and all dates are subject to change. ZombieYeti is currently developing a website to host this data and offer real-time updates. In the meantime, here is a list of every set and their corresponding retirement date as per LEGO's system!
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. Due to Reddit's character limits, we can't include everything here, but the full spreadsheet contains every set.
FULL LIST ON GOOGLE SHEETS <--
REAL TIME UPDATES ON DISCORD <--
NEW SETS ADDED:
| Theme | Set # | Set Name | Retirement Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disney | 43239 | Mirabel's Photo Frame and Jewelry Box | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 30769 | Venom Street Bike (Polybag) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | 76275 | Motorcycle Chase: Spider-Man vs. Doc Ock | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | 43237 | Isabela's Flowerpot | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Disney | 43249 | Stitch | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Marvel | 76276 | Venom Mech Armor vs. Miles Morales | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Marvel | 76277 | War Machine Mech Armor | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Marvel | 76278 | Rocket's Warbird vs. Ronan | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Marvel | 76279 | Spider-Man Race Car & Venom Green Goblin | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Marvel | 76280 | Spider-Man vs. Sandman: Final Battle | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Marvel | 76281 | X-Men Jet | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Marvel | 76282 | Rocket & Baby Groot | Dec 31, 2025 |
| Art | 31211 | The Fauna Collection - Macaw Parrots | Dec 31, 2026 |
| Creator | 40725 | Cherry Blossoms | Dec 31, 2026 |
| Ideas | 21345 | Polaroid OneStep SX-70 Camera | Dec 31, 2026 |
CHANGES FOR JANUARY:
| Theme | Set # | Set Name | Old Date | New Date | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mario | 71429 | Nabbit at Toad's Shop | Jul 31, 2025 | Dec 31, 2024 | -6 months |
| Icons | 10320 | Eldorado Fortress | Dec 31, 2026 | Dec 31, 2024 | -2 years |
| Icons | 10321 | Corvette | Dec 31, 2026 | Dec 31, 2024 | -2 years |
| Technic | 42157 | John Deere 948L-II Skidder | Dec 31, 2026 | Dec 31, 2024 | -2 years |
| Architecture | 21056 | Taj Mahal | Dec 31, 2025 | Dec 31, 2024 | -1 year |
| Art | 31209 | The Amazing Spider-Man | Dec 31, 2025 | Dec 31, 2024 | -1 year |
| Art | 31210 | Modern Art | Dec 31, 2025 | Dec 31, 2024 | -1 year |
| Classic | 11028 | Creative Pastel Fun | Dec 31, 2025 | Dec 31, 2024 | -1 year |
| DreamZzz | 71472 | Izzie's Narwhal Hot-Air Balloon | Dec 31, 2025 | Dec 31, 2024 | -1 year |
| DreamZzz | 71477 | The Sandman's Tower | Dec 31, 2025 | Dec 31, 2024 | -1 year |
| Technic | 42152 | Firefighter Aircraft | Dec 31, 2025 | Dec 31, 2024 | -1 year |
| Miscellaneous | 40638 | Heart Ornament | Dec 31, 2024 | Dec 31, 2025 | +1 year |
| Technic | 42115 | Lamborghini Sián FKP 37 | Dec 31, 2024 | Dec 31, 2025 | +1 year |
| Technic | 42130 | BMW M 1000 RR | Dec 31, 2024 | Dec 31, 2025 | +1 year |
| Technic | 42141 | McLaren Formula 1 Race Car | Dec 31, 2024 | Dec 31, 2025 | +1 year |
| Technic | 42151 | Bugatti Bolide | Dec 31, 2024 | Dec 31, 2025 | +1 year |
SETS RETIRING IN 2024:
| Theme | Subtheme | Set # | Set Name | Retirement Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minifigures | - | 66763 | Minifigures Series 25 6 Pack | Apr 30, 2024 |
| Minifigures | - | 71045 | Minifigures Series 25 | Apr 30, 2024 |
| Avatar | - | 75572 | Jake & Neytiri's First Banshee Flight | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Avatar | - | 75574 | Toruk Makto & Tree of Souls | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Avatar | - | 75575 | Ilu Discovery | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Avatar | - | 75576 | Skimwing Adventure | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Avatar | - | 75579 | Payakan the Tulkun & Crabsuit | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Disney | - | 43213 | The Little Mermaid Story Book | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Disney | - | 43220 | Peter Pan & Wendy's Storybook Adventure | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | - | 10872 | Train Bridge and Tracks | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | - | 10874 | Steam Train | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | - | 10875 | Cargo Train | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | - | 10882 | Train Tracks | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Friends | - | 41724 | Paisley's House | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Friends | - | 41744 | Sports Center | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Friends | - | 41754 | Leo's Room | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | - | 75969 | Hogwarts Astronomy Tower | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | - | 76388 | Hogsmeade Village Visit | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Jurassic | Park | 76957 | Velociraptor Escape (4+) | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Mario | - | 71360 | Adventures with Mario | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Mario | - | 71387 | Adventures with Luigi | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Mario | - | 71395 | Super Mario 64 Question Mark Block | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Mario | - | 71403 | Adventures with Peach | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Mario | - | 71408 | Princess Peach's Castle | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Mario | - | 71419 | Peach's Garden Balloon Ride | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Mario | - | 71420 | Rambi the Rhino | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Mario | - | 71421 | Dixie Kong's Jungle Jam | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Mario | - | 71425 | Diddy Kong's Mine Cart Ride | Jul 31, 2024 |
| Animal Crossing | - | 30662 | Maple's Pumpkin Garden (Polybag) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Architecture | - | 21056 | Taj Mahal | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Architecture | - | 21057 | Singapore | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Art | Marvel | 31209 | The Amazing Spider-Man | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Art | - | 31210 | Modern Art | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Batman | - | 30653 | Batman 1992 Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Batman | - | 76224 | Batmobile: Batman vs. The Joker Chase | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Batman | - | 76240 | Batmobile Tumbler | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Batman | - | 76252 | Batcave – Shadow Box | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Batman | - | 76259 | Batman Construction Figure | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Batman | - | 76264 | Batmobile Pursuit: Batman vs. The Joker (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Batman | - | 76265 | Batwing: Batman vs. The Joker | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | Star Wars | 40615 | Tusken Raider | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | Harry Potter | 40616 | Harry Potter & Cho Chang | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | Harry Potter | 40617 | Draco Malfoy & Cedric Diggory | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | Harry Potter | 40618 | Kingsley Shacklebolt & Nymphadora Tonks | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | Disney | 40620 | Cruella & Maleficent | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | Disney | 40621 | Moana & Merida | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | Sonic | 40627 | Sonic the Hedgehog | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | Sonic | 40628 | Miles 'Tails' Prower | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | Lord of the Rings | 40630 | Frodo & Gollum | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | Lord of the Rings | 40631 | Gandalf the Grey & Balrog | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Brickheadz | Lord of the Rings | 40632 | Aragorn & Arwen | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | Space | 30663 | Space Hoverbike | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | - | 30664 | Police Off-Road Buggy Car Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | - | 60283 | Holiday Camper Van | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | - | 60287 | Tractor | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | - | 60336 | Freight Train | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | - | 60362 | Car Wash | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | - | 60363 | Ice Cream Shop | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | - | 60364 | Street Skate Park | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | - | 60365 | Apartment Building | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | - | 60366 | Ski and Climbing Centre | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | - | 60370 | Police Station Chase | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | - | 60372 | Police Training Academy | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | - | 60375 | Fire Station and Fire Engine | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | - | 60376 | Arctic Explorer Snowmobile | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | - | 60377 | Explorer Diving Boat | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | - | 60378 | Arctic Explorer Truck and Mobile Lab | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | - | 60379 | Deep-Sea Explorer Submarine | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | - | 60380 | Downtown | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | - | 60383 | Electric Sports Car | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | - | 60384 | Penguin Slushy Van | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | - | 60386 | Recycling Truck | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | - | 60387 | 4x4 Off-Roader Adventures | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | - | 60388 | Gaming Tournament Truck | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | - | 60389 | Custom Car Garage | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | - | 60392 | Police Bike Car Chase | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 2K Drive | 60395 | Combo Race Pack | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 2K Drive | 60396 | Modified Race Cars | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | 2K Drive | 60397 | Monster Truck Race | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | - | 60399 | Race Car (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | - | 60403 | Emergency Ambulance (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | - | 60405 | Emergency Rescue Helicopter | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | - | 60410 | Fire Rescue Motorcycle (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | - | 60413 | Fire Rescue Plane | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | - | 60417 | Police Speedboat and Crooks' Hideout | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | Space | 60428 | Space Construction Mech | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | Space | 60432 | Command Rover and Crane Loader | Dec 31, 2024 |
| City | - | 60438 | Sailboat | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Classic | - | 10696 | Medium Creative Brick Box | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Classic | - | 10698 | Large Creative Brick Box | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Classic | - | 11013 | Creative Transparent Bricks | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Classic | - | 11017 | Creative Monsters | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Classic | - | 11027 | Creative Neon Fun | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Classic | - | 11028 | Creative Pastel Fun | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Classic | - | 11029 | Creative Party Box | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Classic | - | 11030 | Lots of Bricks | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Classic | - | 11033 | Creative Fantasy Universe | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | Holiday | 30645 | Snowman Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | - | 30666 | Gift Animals Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | - | 30667 | Animal Birthday Party Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | - | 30669 | Iconic Red Plane Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | - | 31088 | Deep Sea Creatures | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | - | 31120 | Medieval Castle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | - | 31124 | Super Robot | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | - | 31125 | Fantasy Forest Creatures | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | - | 31126 | Supersonic-jet | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | - | 31133 | White Rabbit | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | - | 31135 | Vintage Motorcycle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | - | 31138 | Beach Camper Van | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | - | 31141 | Main Street | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | - | 31143 | Birdhouse | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | - | 31144 | Exotic Pink Parrot | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | - | 40519 | New York Postcard | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | - | 40651 | Australia Postcard | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Creator | - | 40654 | Beijing Postcard | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | - | 30661 | Asha's Welcome Booth Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | - | 30671 | Aurora's Forest Playground Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | - | 40613 | Mini Disney Palace of Agrabah | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | - | 43205 | Ultimate Adventure Castle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | - | 43206 | Cinderella and Prince Charming's Castle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | - | 43210 | Moana's Wayfinding Boat | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | - | 43211 | Aurora's Castle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | - | 43214 | Twirling Rapunzel | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | - | 43215 | The Enchanted Treehouse | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | - | 43216 | Princess Enchanted Journey | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | - | 43218 | Anna and Elsa's Magical Carousel | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | - | 43219 | Disney Princess Creative Castles | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | - | 43221 | 100 Years of Disney Animation Icons | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | Wish | 43223 | Asha in the City of Rosas | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | Wish | 43224 | King Magnifico's Castle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | - | 43225 | The Little Mermaid Royal Clamshell | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | - | 43226 | Disney Duos | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | - | 43227 | Villain Icons | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | - | 43229 | Ariel's Treasure Chest | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | Wish | 43231 | Asha's Cottage | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | - | 43232 | Peter Pan & Wendy's Flight over London | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | - | 43234 | Elsa's Frozen Treats | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | - | 43239 | Mirabel's Photo Frame and Jewelry Box | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Disney | - | 43241 | Rapunzel's Tower & The Snuggly Duckling | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DREAMZzz | - | 30636 | Z-Blob and Bunchu Spider Escape Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DREAMZzz | - | 40657 | Dream Village | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DREAMZzz | - | 71453 | Izzie and Bunchu the Bunny | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DREAMZzz | - | 71454 | Mateo and Z-Blob the Robot | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DREAMZzz | - | 71455 | Grimkeeper the Cage Monster | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DREAMZzz | - | 71456 | Mrs. Castillo's Turtle Van | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DREAMZzz | - | 71457 | Pegasus Flying Horse | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DREAMZzz | - | 71458 | Crocodile Car | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DREAMZzz | - | 71459 | Stable of Dream Creatures | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DREAMZzz | - | 71460 | Mr. Oz's Spacebus | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DREAMZzz | - | 71461 | Fantastical Tree House | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DREAMZzz | - | 71469 | Nightmare Shark Ship | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DreamZzz | - | 71471 | Mateo's Off-Road Car | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DreamZzz | - | 71472 | Izzie's Narwhal Hot-Air Balloon | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DreamZzz | - | 71476 | Zoey and Zian the Cat-Owl | Dec 31, 2024 |
| DreamZzz | - | 71477 | The Sandman's Tower | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | - | 10412 | Animal Train | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | - | 10909 | Heart Box | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | - | 10935 | Alphabet Town | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | - | 10959 | Police Station & Helicopter | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | - | 10970 | Fire Station & Helicopter | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | - | 10971 | Wild Animals of Africa | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | - | 10975 | Wild Animals of the World | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | - | 10981 | Growing Carrot | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | - | 10982 | Fruit and Vegetable Tractor | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | - | 10983 | Organic Market | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | - | 10984 | Organic Garden | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | - | 10985 | Wind Turbine and Electric Car | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | - | 10986 | Family House on Wheels | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | - | 10987 | Recycling Truck | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | - | 10988 | The Bus Ride | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | - | 10989 | Water Park | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | - | 10990 | Construction Site | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | - | 10991 | Dream Playground | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | - | 10992 | Life at the Day-Care Center | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | Marvel | 10995 | Spider-Man's House | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | Disney | 10996 | Lightning McQueen & Mater's Car Wash Fun | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | - | 10997 | Camping Adventure | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Duplo | Disney | 10998 | 3-in-1 Magical Castle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | - | 30635 | Beach Cleanup | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | - | 30658 | Mobile Music Trailer Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | - | 30659 | Flower Garden Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | - | 41725 | Beach Buggy Fun | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | - | 41727 | Dog Rescue Centre | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | - | 41728 | Heartlake Downtown Diner | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | - | 41730 | Autumn's House | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | - | 41731 | Heartlake International School | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | - | 41734 | Sea Rescue Boat | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | - | 41735 | Mobile Tiny House | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | - | 41736 | Sea Rescue Center | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | - | 41737 | Beach Adventure Park | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | - | 41738 | Dog Rescue Bike | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | - | 41739 | Liann's Room | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | - | 41740 | Aliya's Room | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | - | 41745 | Autumn's Stable | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | - | 41746 | Riding School | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | - | 41747 | Heartlake City Community Kitchen | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | - | 41749 | News Van | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | - | 41752 | Sea Rescue Aircraft | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | - | 41753 | Pancake Shop | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | - | 41755 | Nova's Room | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | - | 41756 | Holiday Ski Slope and Café | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | - | 41757 | Botanical Garden | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | - | 41759 | Heartlake City Bus | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | - | 41760 | Igloo Holiday Adventure | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | - | 42601 | Hamster Playground | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | Space | 42605 | Mars Space Base and Rocket | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | - | 42607 | Autumn's Baby Cow Shed | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | - | 42608 | Tiny Accessories Store | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | - | 42609 | Electric Car And Charger | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | - | 42612 | Cat Playground Adventure | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | - | 42613 | Heartlake City Hospital Ambulance | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | - | 42614 | Vintage Fashion Store | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | - | 42615 | Pet Adoption Day | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | - | 42616 | Heartlake City Music Talent Show | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | - | 42617 | Farm Animal Sanctuary | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | - | 42632 | Farm Animal Vet Clinic (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Friends | - | 42633 | Hot Dog Food Truck | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Gabby's Dollhouse | - | 10785 | Bakey with Cakey Fun | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Gabby's Dollhouse | - | 10786 | Gabby & MerCat's Ship & Spa | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Gabby's Dollhouse | - | 10787 | Kitty Fairy's Garden Party | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | - | 76389 | Hogwarts Chamber of Secrets | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | - | 76402 | Hogwarts: Dumbledore's Office | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | - | 76405 | Hogwarts Express - Collectors' Edition | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | - | 76407 | The Shrieking Shack & Whomping Willow | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | - | 76413 | Hogwarts: Room of Requirement | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | - | 76414 | Expecto Patronum | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | - | 76415 | The Battle of Hogwarts | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | - | 76416 | Quidditch Trunk | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | - | 76420 | Triwizard Tournament: The Black Lake | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | - | 76422 | Diagon Alley: Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | - | 76423 | Hogwarts Express & Hogsmeade Station | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | - | 76424 | Flying Ford Anglia | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Harry Potter | - | 76432 | Forbidden Forest: Magical Creatures | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Icons | - | 10274 | Ghostbusters ECTO-1 | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Icons | - | 10283 | NASA Space Shuttle Discovery | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Icons | - | 10303 | Loop Coaster | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Icons | - | 10304 | Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 1969 | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Icons | - | 10306 | Atari 2600 | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Icons | Holiday | 10308 | Holiday Main Street | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Icons | - | 10320 | Eldorado Fortress | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Icons | - | 10321 | Corvette | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Icons | - | 40634 | Icons of Play | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ideas | - | 21318 | Tree House | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ideas | - | 21327 | Typewriter | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ideas | - | 21331 | Sonic the Hedgehog - Green Hill Zone | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ideas | - | 21332 | The Globe | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ideas | - | 21334 | Jazz Quartet | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ideas | - | 21339 | BTS Dynamite | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ideas | - | 21340 | Tales of the Space Age | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Indiana Jones | - | 77012 | Fighter Plane Chase | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Indiana Jones | - | 77013 | Escape from the Lost Tomb | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Indiana Jones | - | 77015 | Temple of the Golden Idol | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Jurassic | World | 76946 | Blue & Beta Velociraptor Capture | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Jurassic | World | 76949 | Giganotosaurus & Therizinosaurus Attack | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Jurassic | World | 76951 | Pyroraptor & Dilophosaurus Transport | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Jurassic | Park | 76958 | Dilophosaurus Ambush | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Jurassic | Park | 76959 | Triceratops Research | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Mario | - | 71374 | Nintendo Entertainment System | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Mario | - | 71422 | Picnic at Mario's House | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Mario | - | 71423 | Dry Bowser Castle Battle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Mario | - | 71424 | Donkey Kong's Tree House | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Mario | - | 71427 | Larry's and Morton's Airships | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Mario | - | 71429 | Nabbit at Toad's Shop | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | Spidey & His Amazing Friends | 10791 | Team Spidey's Mobile Headquarters (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | Spidey & His Amazing Friends | 10792 | Drill Spinner Vehicle (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | Spidey & His Amazing Friends | 10793 | Spidey vs. Green Goblin (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | - | 30769 | Venom Street Bike (Polybag) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | Ultimate Collector Series | 76210 | Hulkbuster | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | - | 76217 | I am Groot | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | Buildable Figure | 76226 | Spider-Man Figure | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | - | 76232 | The Hoopty | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | Character Mech | 76241 | Hulk Mech Armor | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | Character Mech | 76243 | Rocket Mech Armor | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | - | 76244 | Miles Morales vs. Morbius | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | Character Mech | 76245 | Ghost Rider Mech & Bike | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | - | 76247 | The Hulkbuster: The Battle of Wakanda | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | - | 76248 | The Avengers Quinjet | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | - | 76249 | Venomised Groot | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | Helmet Collection | 76251 | Star-Lord's Helmet | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | - | 76254 | Baby Rocket's Ship | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | Buildable Figure | 76256 | Ant-Man Construction Figure | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | Buildable Figure | 76257 | Wolverine Construction Figure | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | Buildable Figure | 76258 | Captain America Construction Figure | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | - | 76260 | Black Widow & Captain America Motorcycles | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | - | 76262 | Captain America's Shield | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | - | 76263 | Iron Man Hulkbuster vs. Thanos (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | - | 76266 | Endgame Final Battle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Marvel | - | 76275 | Motorcycle Chase: Spider-Man vs. Doc Ock | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | - | 21166 | The 'Abandoned' Mine | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | - | 21178 | The Fox Lodge | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | - | 21179 | The Mushroom House | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | - | 21189 | The Skeleton Dungeon | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | - | 21240 | The Swamp Adventure | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | - | 21241 | The Bee Cottage | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | - | 21242 | The End Arena | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | - | 21243 | The Frozen Peaks | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | - | 21244 | The Sword Outpost | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | - | 21245 | The Panda Haven | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | - | 21246 | The Deep Dark Battle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | - | 21247 | The Axolotl House | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | - | 21248 | The Pumpkin Farm | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | - | 21250 | The Iron Golem Fortress | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | - | 21253 | The Animal Sanctuary | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Minecraft | - | 21257 | The Devourer Showdown | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | - | 40296 | LEGO House Build Your Meal Brick Bag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | - | 40297 | LEGO House 6 DUPLO Bricks | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | - | 40347 | LEGOLAND Driving School | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | - | 40429 | Ninjago World | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | - | 40504 | A Minifigure Tribute | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | - | 40534 | LEGO House Chef | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | - | 40556 | Mythica | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | Holiday | 40573 | Christmas Tree | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | - | 40574 | LEGO Brand Store | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | Holiday | 40639 | Bird's Nest | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | Holiday | 40640 | LEGO Nutcracker | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | Holiday | 40641 | Birthday Cake | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | Holiday | 40642 | Gingerbread Ornaments | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | Holiday | 40643 | Jade Rabbit | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | Holiday | 80113 | Family Reunion Celebration | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Monkie Kid | - | 80036 | The City of Lanterns | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Monkie Kid | - | 80041 | Mei's Dragon Jet | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Monkie Kid | - | 80043 | Yellow Tusk Elephant | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Monkie Kid | - | 80044 | Monkie Kid's Team Hideout | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Monkie Kid | - | 80046 | Monkie Kid's Cloud Airship | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Monkie Kid | - | 80047 | Mei's Guardian Dragon | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Monkie Kid | - | 80048 | The Mighty Azure Lion | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Monkie Kid | - | 80049 | Dragon of the East Palace | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Monkie Kid | - | 80050 | Creative Vehicles | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Monkie Kid | - | 80053 | Mei's Dragon Mech | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | - | 30650 | Kai and Rapton's Temple Battle Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | - | 30674 | Zane's Dragon Power Vehicles Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | Modular Building | 71741 | NINJAGO City Gardens | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | - | 71782 | Cole's Earth Dragon EVO | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | - | 71783 | Kai's Mech Rider EVO | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | - | 71784 | Jay's Lightning Jet EVO | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | - | 71785 | Jay's Titan Mech | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | - | 71786 | Zane's Ice Dragon Creature | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | - | 71787 | Creative Ninja Brick Box | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | - | 71788 | Lloyd's Ninja Street Bike (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | - | 71789 | Kai and Ras's Car and Bike Battle (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | - | 71790 | Imperium Dragon Hunter Hound | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | - | 71791 | Zane's Dragon Power Spinjitzu Race Car | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | - | 71792 | Sora's Transforming Mech Bike Racer | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | - | 71793 | Heatwave Transforming Lava Dragon | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | - | 71794 | Lloyd and Arin's Ninja Team Mechs | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | - | 71795 | Temple of the Dragon Energy Cores | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | - | 71796 | Elemental Dragon vs. The Empress Mech | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | - | 71797 | Destiny's Bounty - Race Against Time | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | - | 71798 | Nya and Arin's Baby Dragon Battle (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | - | 71800 | Nya's Water Dragon EVO | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | - | 71801 | Kai's Rising Dragon Strike | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | - | 71802 | Nya's Rising Dragon Strike | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Ninjago | - | 71803 | Arin's Rising Dragon Strike | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Sonic | - | 30676 | Kiki's Coconut Attack Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Sonic | - | 76990 | Sonic's Speed Sphere Challenge | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Sonic | - | 76991 | Tails' Workshop and Tornado Plane | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Sonic | - | 76992 | Amy's Animal Rescue Island | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Sonic | - | 76993 | Sonic vs. Dr. Eggman's Death Egg Robot | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Sonic | - | 76994 | Sonic's Green Hill Zone Loop Challenge | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Speed Champions | - | 76906 | 1970 Ferrari 512 M | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Speed Champions | - | 76907 | Lotus Evija | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Speed Champions | - | 76908 | Lamborghini Countach | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Speed Champions | - | 76909 | Mercedes-AMG F1 W12 E Performance & Mercedes-AMG Project One | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Speed Champions | - | 76914 | Ferrari 812 Competizione | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Speed Champions | - | 76915 | Pagani Utopia | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Speed Champions | - | 76916 | Porsche 963 | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Speed Champions | - | 76917 | 2 Fast 2 Furious Nissan Skyline GT-R (R34) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Speed Champions | - | 76918 | McLaren Solus GT & McLaren F1 LM | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | - | 30680 | AAT Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | - | 75257 | Millennium Falcon | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | Master Builder Series | 75290 | Mos Eisley Cantina | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | - | 75304 | Darth Vader Helmet | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | - | 75308 | R2-D2 | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | Ultimate Collector Series | 75313 | AT-AT | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | - | 75333 | Obi-Wan Kenobi's Jedi Starfighter | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | Ultimate Collector Series | 75341 | Luke Skywalker's Landspeeder | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | - | 75344 | Boba Fett's Starship Microfighter | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | - | 75345 | 501st Clone Troopers Battle Pack | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | - | 75346 | Pirate Snub Fighter | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | - | 75347 | TIE Bomber | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | - | 75348 | Mandalorian Fang Fighter vs TIE Interceptor | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | Helmet Collection | 75350 | Clone Commander Cody Helmet | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | Helmet Collection | 75351 | Princess Leia (Boushh) Helmet | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | Diorama Collection | 75352 | Emperor's Throne Room Diorama | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | Diorama Collection | 75353 | Endor Speeder Chase Diorama | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | - | 75354 | Coruscant Guard Gunship | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | Midi-scale Collection | 75356 | Executor Super Star Destroyer | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | - | 75357 | Ghost & Phantom II | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | - | 75358 | Tenoo Jedi Temple (4+) | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | - | 75359 | 332nd Ahsoka's Clone Trooper Battle Pack | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | - | 75360 | Yoda's Jedi Starfighter | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | - | 75361 | Spider Tank | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | - | 75363 | The Mandalorian N-1 Starfighter Microfighter | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | - | 75364 | New Republic E-wing vs. Shin Hati's Starfighter | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | - | 75365 | Yavin 4 Rebel Base | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | Character Mech | 75368 | Darth Vader Mech | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | Character Mech | 75369 | Boba Fett Mech | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | Character Mech | 75370 | Stormtrooper Mech | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Star Wars | - | 75371 | Chewbacca | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Technic | Space | 30682 | NASA Mars Rover Perseverance Polybag | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Technic | - | 42136 | John Deere 9620R 4WD Tractor | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Technic | - | 42096 | Porsche 911 RSR | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Technic | - | 42138 | Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Technic | - | 42145 | Airbus H175 Rescue Helicopter | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Technic | - | 42147 | Dump Truck | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Technic | - | 42148 | Snow Groomer | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Technic | - | 42149 | Monster Jam Dragon | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Technic | - | 42150 | Monster Jam Monster Mutt Dalmatian | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Technic | - | 42152 | Firefighter Aircraft | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Technic | - | 42153 | NASCAR Next Gen Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Technic | - | 42155 | The Batman - Batcycle | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Technic | - | 42162 | Bugatti Bolide Agile Blue | Dec 31, 2024 |
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2023.12.20 00:46 shadowedskyline [RO] Dark Night Riders Ep. 1 - The Tail of the Dragon
Hi, I am sharing the first episode of my short story, Tail of the Dragon.
Here is the first episode.
Dark Night Riders
Episode 1: Tail of the Dragon
May 17th, 2014
Within North Carolina and the Great Smokey Mountains National Park lies an 11-mile mountain pass with 318 curves which is a popular destination for all sorts of automotive enthusiasts, called the “Tail of the Dragon”. This is where our story starts.
Danny, a 24-year-old tech millionaire races through the Tail of the Dragon in his Velocity Yellow 2008 Chevrolet Corvette Z06. As he keeps pushing the car to the limits, he keeps setting new personal records. By lunchtime, he does four runs on the 11-mile mountain pass. On this final approach, he finds a good scenic overlook which is situated next to a cliff that drops 50 or so feet. Danny pulls up his Corvette behind a 2011 Iridium Silver Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG and pulls out his BLT sandwich from the trunk. As he is eating his sandwich, he hears a thunderous roar and feels the vibrations. He gazes up and sees a substantial rockslide heading toward him. He realizes it's too late to save his car, so he dashes to vacate the area. As he is running, he spots a beautiful blond-haired woman, who’s probably in her early 20s in the direct path of the rockslide. He grabs her and pulls her along with him. The rockslide comes crashing down and collides with the two cars hurdling them down the cliff. At this point, both cars are totaled and there isn’t much either can do.
The beautiful woman yells out, “The hell! My car’s gone and so is my phone.”
As Danny is trying to calm her, both make their way toward the cliff to peer down to see the carnage. Both cars are beyond unrecognizable. Danny reaches into his pocket for his phone but notices that his phone is down with the carnage.
Both Danny and the woman sit down by the road and wait for a passing vehicle to come. The woman introduces herself. “There is so much in my car, which is now in that ravine. But thanks for pulling me out of the way. I’m Isabelle, by the way.” They sit by the road for about 15 minutes, chatting about all sorts of things. Danny learns that she’s from Pinecrest, Florida, which is just south of Miami. She learns that he’s an e-commerce mogul from San Diego. Danny sees an approaching car, so he flags it down. He explains that both Danny and Isabelle just lost their cars and their belonging due to the rockslide and need some assistance getting to their hotel, which coincidently is the same one.
Once, they get to their hotel in Robbinsville, they ask the receptionist if they can borrow a phone in which she provides a cordless landline to make the call. Isabelle calls her sister, Kiara, to explain what is going on and that it is going to take some time to come home. Her sister picks up the phone and asks, “who’s calling?” Isabelle tries to explain that she’s the one calling, but her voice is not transmitting. So, after a minute of no communication, Kiara hangs the call, so she taught. However, the phone is still on. In the background, you can hear Kiara flirting with a man. Through the conversations between Kiara and the man, Isabelle has a sinking feeling. Isabelle recognizes the voice of this man, it's her fiancé, Ruhaan. Ruhaan is in love with her sister. Their wedding is supposed to take place in a week. However, now Isabelle is stuck with a moral dilemma, does she marry Ruhaan knowing full well that he is in love with her sister or go against her parents’ wishes and arrange a way for her sister to get married to Ruhaan? She explains this dilemma to Danny and they ponder. In the background, the news coverage of two causalities in the Tail of the Dragon is playing. Isabelle starts scheming.
The news anchor explains, “Today at Deals Gap, there was a landslide that took the lives of two people, Isabelle Turner from Pinecrest, Florida, and Daniel Gibson from San Diego, California. You may recognize Daniel as the owner of the e-commerce site, IBuys.com. However, at the scene of the accident, no bodies could be found. An investigation is being performed.” The news anchor then goes more into depth about Danny’s accomplishments.
This gives Isabelle an idea. “What if we pretend that we’re dead only to get my sister married to Ruhaan? Both families will still be there. All the preparations are already completed. But the main question is, how can we convince my parents to get Ruhaan married to my sister? We need to formulate a plan.”
After some hesitation from Danny, he agrees to help. After spending the latter half of the day planning. They come up with a solution. Isabelle wants Danny to convince her parents that Isabelle has died, and her last wish on Earth is to get Ruhaan and Kiara married. She also wanted Danny to carry out those wishes. Danny explains, “Kiara, I simply cannot carry out this, I am too much a well-known figure that if I do this, they will catch on to my identity. However, I can ask my brother to help.”
Danny calls his brother. “Hey Ethan, I need your help. In a couple of days, can you take a flight to Miami?” Danny briefly explains the plan to his brother. Isabelle’s parents own an old mansion that has been gated up in Miami suburbs which the locals have deemed haunted and as such no one wants to live there. Danny, Ethan, and Isabelle will move into that home and convince Isabelle’s family that the house is haunted by Isabelle’s spirit and that her last wish before she goes to heaven is that they get her sister married to Ruhaan. After some hesitation, Ethan agrees to the plan. The only condition, Danny must let Ethan keep the Ford GT for a couple of weeks which Danny agrees to.
As for the next steps, Danny and Isabelle need to figure out a plan for how they will get from Robbinsville to Miami. Near their hotel, there is an automotive dealership, Collin Auto Sales, which is where they are headed. They call an Uber, place their belongings into the car, and make their way to the dealership. Since there are no long-haul car rentals and the nearest airport is 2.5 hours away in Charlotte, NC, the best option is to buy a vehicle and drive it down to Miami. Once they get to the dealership, Danny purchases a Snazzberry Red 2008 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon. They finish the paperwork, pack the bags, and head off toward Miami. This trip should take approximately 13 hours. Danny hauls the Jeep for a few hours until he reaches the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport where he books a night at a Marriott hotel. Danny and Isabelle share a room; however, they decide to book a room that contains two twin beds, one for each. They drop off their luggage and head out to eat. For dinner, both decide to have a sit down at a local Vietnamese Restaurant called Pho Dai Loi. The next morning, Danny and Isabelle wake up at 6 am, they have their breakfast, and then head out to make ground. This stretch is going to take 10 hours. Once they reach the outskirts of Miami, Isabelle shows the directions to their parents’ abandoned mansion that was supposedly abandoned in the early 2000s. They reach the mansion around 8:30 pm, Isabelle unlocks the door and they both move into the home. They turn on the power, find a suitable room, and sleep the night without any major hiccups.
The next morning, they pick up Ethan from Miami International Airport. On the way back to the mansion, Isabelle explains the plan to Ethan. She explains that she wants to pretend that she was killed in the landslide and thus is haunting this location until Ruhaan marries Kiara. To make it convincing, she is providing Ethan with some personal information that only she or her family would know. Once they reach home, the neighbors spot the Jeep and alert Isabelle’s parents and within 30 minutes, Dr. Turner, Isabelle’s dad, shows up with a 12-gauge shotgun and 2 police officers. They pound the door furiously until Ethan opens it, to which Dr. Turner starts yelling and demands Ethan be arrested. Ethan counters by explaining that Isabelle’s spirit has brought him here as she had some unfinished business to take care of before departing to heaven. Dr. Turner doesn’t believe him and demands proof, in which Ethan provides some explicit personal information that he was given by Isabelle to her father which then softens Dr. Turner a little and he eases. He dismisses the cops and chats with Ethan, trying to cope with the loss of his daughter.
“You were saying, my daughter's spirit contacted you? What happened to my daughter? And why is my daughter contacting you?” As he finishes the sentence, Isabelle’s father starts sobbing. This pulls on heartstrings of Isabelle. But Isabelle knows why she must do what she is doing. She needs to get her sister married to her true love.
Ethan glances over to a rocking chair in the living room and nods his head. “Isabelle is telling me that she was in a car accident.” He looks over at the rocking chair again and shakes his head. “Sorry, she wasn’t in a car accident, but instead, she was killed by a rockslide. She’s telling me that she wants her sister to be married before departing to heaven and…”
Dr. Turner interjects, “We were in wedding preparation to get Isabelle married in just a few days. Oh my, what is Ruhaan going to think? What about my wife? Kiara?”
“I know this must be tough, and I can understand, I have been in this situation before. Isabelle isn’t the first spirit that I have communicated to. Isabelle is telling me that Ruhaan and Kiara will understand. Since Ruhaan’s family is already here and yours as well, it only makes sense to get Kiara and Ruhaan married.”
Dr. Turner considers the request for a minute but rejects the motion. “How will it look if I just get Ruhaan married to my other daughter?” After this question, Dr. Turner exits the mansion pondering on the next steps. But the word starts spreading throughout the city that Ethan can talk to spirits and a queue forms in front of the mansion. People want Ethan to speak to other spirits.
Ethan explains the predicament to Danny and Isabelle, and both convince Ethan to play along. Ethan starts entertaining the locals with tales of the departed loved ones. The next morning, Isabelle’s mother, father, and sister arrive at the mansion along with Ruhaan. All of them have a somber look on their face as if none were able to sleep that night. Dr. Turner requests Ethan to explain what Isabelle wants between Ruhaan and Kiara and he recounts the plan set by Isabelle to get Kiara and Ruhaan married. After hearing this proposal, Ruhaan and Kiara instantly reject the idea. But the gears in their heads start turning which Ethan notices. He can tell Ruhaan and Kiara are somewhat excited about this predicament. Kiara questions, “How can we do this to our sister?” To which, Ethan replies, glancing his head to the side. “Kiara, Isabelle wants both of you to be happy, and she can sense that this is the right route to take. Isabelle has explained to me that by doing this, she can make peace and ascend to heaven. Can you both do this for Isabelle’s sake?” Ruhaan peers over to Kiara, “We’ll have to think about it. This isn’t something we can just agree on right now.” After finishing the conversation, Kiara and Ruhaan leave the living room and head to the kitchen to discuss. After 30 minutes of discussion, they reenter the room, and they agree. Afterward, Ethan can see that both Ruhaan and Isabelle are somewhat content with the decision. “Okay, if we are going to have the wedding with Ruhaan and Kiara, let’s have the ceremony here, so Isabelle’s spirit can join the all festivities.” With that comment, Ethan does a side glance toward where Isabelle and Danny are. This makes the family suspicious. “Ethan, is there someone else here?” “Yeah, of course. I am not here by myself. Isabelle is sitting right over there.” He points to the exact location of Isabelle. For a second, that completely scared Isabelle, and thus her heart starts rapidly pounding. “Yes, son. I completely forgot about that.” The room’s atmosphere is again somber as the family comes to terms that Isabelle is no longer with them. “We’re going to have a memorial service for Isabelle tomorrow. I wish for you to come.” To which, Ethan replies, “Isabelle doesn’t want a memorial just yet. She wants to celebrate the union between Kiara and Danny.”
Kiara questions, “Who’s Danny?” Ethan is completely frozen. Kiara asks again, “Who’s Danny?”
Ethan responds, “He is my brother. Ruhaan reminded me of him and as such, it just slipped off my mouth.”
Kiara replies, “Your brother must be a sweet man if Ruhaan reminds you of him.”
“Yeah, that he is. He would do anything for a girl that he loves.” With that, Isabelle gives a side glance to Danny and smirks.
After the conversation, Isabelle’s family including her extended family help clean the mansion in preparation for the wedding festivities. Her family spends most of the day cleaning the house and making it spotless. The only room that Ethan specifically told was off-limits was one of the bedrooms where Danny and Isabelle were residing.
The next day was the rehearsal dinner, and all the guests pour into the mansion lawn and are seated in their assigned locations. There are all kinds of arrangements made, and the overall layout is exactly what Isabelle ever wanted. Because of this, Isabelle sits by the window on the verge of tears. Even though she knows there is a plan for her too, and she must wait for her knight in shining armor, it’s not easy. She continues to stare at all the festivities and décor, and the sadness just overcomes her. All of this was for her. She spent the better part of a year planning this wedding and now, someone else is marrying the man, she wanted to spend the rest of her life with. Deep down, she knows she made the right decision. If he is in love with my sister, he will never feel the same love for me ever, she ponders. This relationship wouldn’t last. However, this does not make the pain, she is feeling right now any less real. She wishes she could run down to the altar and get married. She wishes she could tell her parents everything. She wishes she never knew about this. She wishes she can cry all this pain away. At this current moment, thousands of thoughts are running through her head. Her anxiety is increasing, and she might be on the verge of a panic attack. Danny sees her staring out the window about to implode and tells her to breathe and to take it all one bit at a time.
Danny wishes he could understand the hurt and pain, but he cannot. His only advice is that all the hurt and pain she is feeling will take time to heal. Like any open wound, only time can heal it. You cannot rush it. She will get over the hurt and look back at all this as if this was just another experience. “Just go ahead and let all the pain out, it’s okay to cry. It’s okay to let your emotion out. At the end of the day, we’re all human.” He explains this is the only way to start the healing process. Isabelle follows Danny’s advice and lets the emotions flow out. Danny knows at this moment; all he can do is comfort her and nothing more.
The next day comes and this is the wedding day! The guests start pouring in and they sit one by one in their assigned locations. The groomsmen are there and so are the bridesmaids, sure, the bridesmaids are Isabelle’s friends, and some are not happy about Ruhaan getting married to Isabelle’s sister, however, there is not much they can do. At the altar, Ruhaan is waiting in his tux, along with the other groomsmen, and on the other side are the bridesmaids. Next, Isabelle’s father comes down the aisle holding Kiara’s hands. Isabelle is in total awe seeing how beautiful Kiara looks in Isabelle’s wedding gown. Kiara stands next to Ruhaan, and they exchange their vows and get hitched. They soon have their first dance, and their wedding cake is cut during the reception.
Around the same time, one of Isabelle’s younger cousins spots Isabelle peering out from the window of the mansion and for a moment, both look eyes and in an instant, the kid runs towards Isabelle’s father and shares everything he has just seen. Isabelle calls Ethan and explains to him the situation. As Dr. Turner is searching everywhere to find Isabelle, Ethan explains to him that the kid most likely saw Isabelle’s spirit peering out from the window. Sometime later, Kiara makes a toast to Isabelle, wishing that she was here and that she owes her elder sister a lot for getting her married to Ruhaan. At the end of the day, Isabelle spends some time reflecting on the day with Danny. It’s been a long day for her. She had to see the man whom she loved, get married to her sister. It’s a lot to take in.
The next morning is the one that she regrets. She has to come clean to her parents and her family. Danny pulls up to her parents’ house in the Jeep. Isabelle gets out of the Jeep and walks towards the house with her heart beating a mile per minute. She knocks on the door, and it opens, and her parents run out and hug her for what felt like an eternity. Everyone’s emotional as all hell can be. After a while, her parents are furious. They demand answers. She explains everything, starting from the landslide, the phone call to Kiara, the idea of faking her death, meeting Danny and her brother, and the plan for the wedding. After hearing all of this, her parents ease up a little and they understand the motive but wish she would have been honest with them from the beginning. In the last few days, there has been a bit too much heartbreak to go around. However, Isabelle is still adamant that she has made the right decision. The rest of the day is spent having fun between Danny, Ethan, Isabelle, and her parents.
That night, Danny takes Isabelle on a drive and tells her how much he has enjoyed the last few days with her, and he might be falling for her. He also explains that he would love to get to know her even more, and thus, he offers her a role of a software engineer at his company. The only catch, she will move to San Diego.
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Here is the first episode.
Dark Night Riders
Episode 1: Tail of the Dragon
May 17th, 2014
Within North Carolina and the Great Smokey Mountains National Park lies an 11-mile mountain pass with 318 curves which is a popular destination for all sorts of automotive enthusiasts, called the “Tail of the Dragon”. This is where our story starts.
Danny, a 24-year-old tech millionaire races through the Tail of the Dragon in his Velocity Yellow 2008 Chevrolet Corvette Z06. As he keeps pushing the car to the limits, he keeps setting new personal records. By lunchtime, he does four runs on the 11-mile mountain pass. On this final approach, he finds a good scenic overlook which is situated next to a cliff that drops 50 or so feet. Danny pulls up his Corvette behind a 2011 Iridium Silver Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG and pulls out his BLT sandwich from the trunk. As he is eating his sandwich, he hears a thunderous roar and feels the vibrations. He gazes up and sees a substantial rockslide heading toward him. He realizes it's too late to save his car, so he dashes to vacate the area. As he is running, he spots a beautiful blond-haired woman, who’s probably in her early 20s in the direct path of the rockslide. He grabs her and pulls her along with him. The rockslide comes crashing down and collides with the two cars hurdling them down the cliff. At this point, both cars are totaled and there isn’t much either can do.
The beautiful woman yells out, “The hell! My car’s gone and so is my phone.”
As Danny is trying to calm her, both make their way toward the cliff to peer down to see the carnage. Both cars are beyond unrecognizable. Danny reaches into his pocket for his phone but notices that his phone is down with the carnage.
Both Danny and the woman sit down by the road and wait for a passing vehicle to come. The woman introduces herself. “There is so much in my car, which is now in that ravine. But thanks for pulling me out of the way. I’m Isabelle, by the way.” They sit by the road for about 15 minutes, chatting about all sorts of things. Danny learns that she’s from Pinecrest, Florida, which is just south of Miami. She learns that he’s an e-commerce mogul from San Diego. Danny sees an approaching car, so he flags it down. He explains that both Danny and Isabelle just lost their cars and their belonging due to the rockslide and need some assistance getting to their hotel, which coincidently is the same one.
Once, they get to their hotel in Robbinsville, they ask the receptionist if they can borrow a phone in which she provides a cordless landline to make the call. Isabelle calls her sister, Kiara, to explain what is going on and that it is going to take some time to come home. Her sister picks up the phone and asks, “who’s calling?” Isabelle tries to explain that she’s the one calling, but her voice is not transmitting. So, after a minute of no communication, Kiara hangs the call, so she taught. However, the phone is still on. In the background, you can hear Kiara flirting with a man. Through the conversations between Kiara and the man, Isabelle has a sinking feeling. Isabelle recognizes the voice of this man, it's her fiancé, Ruhaan. Ruhaan is in love with her sister. Their wedding is supposed to take place in a week. However, now Isabelle is stuck with a moral dilemma, does she marry Ruhaan knowing full well that he is in love with her sister or go against her parents’ wishes and arrange a way for her sister to get married to Ruhaan? She explains this dilemma to Danny and they ponder. In the background, the news coverage of two causalities in the Tail of the Dragon is playing. Isabelle starts scheming.
The news anchor explains, “Today at Deals Gap, there was a landslide that took the lives of two people, Isabelle Turner from Pinecrest, Florida, and Daniel Gibson from San Diego, California. You may recognize Daniel as the owner of the e-commerce site, IBuys.com. However, at the scene of the accident, no bodies could be found. An investigation is being performed.” The news anchor then goes more into depth about Danny’s accomplishments.
This gives Isabelle an idea. “What if we pretend that we’re dead only to get my sister married to Ruhaan? Both families will still be there. All the preparations are already completed. But the main question is, how can we convince my parents to get Ruhaan married to my sister? We need to formulate a plan.”
After some hesitation from Danny, he agrees to help. After spending the latter half of the day planning. They come up with a solution. Isabelle wants Danny to convince her parents that Isabelle has died, and her last wish on Earth is to get Ruhaan and Kiara married. She also wanted Danny to carry out those wishes. Danny explains, “Kiara, I simply cannot carry out this, I am too much a well-known figure that if I do this, they will catch on to my identity. However, I can ask my brother to help.”
Danny calls his brother. “Hey Ethan, I need your help. In a couple of days, can you take a flight to Miami?” Danny briefly explains the plan to his brother. Isabelle’s parents own an old mansion that has been gated up in Miami suburbs which the locals have deemed haunted and as such no one wants to live there. Danny, Ethan, and Isabelle will move into that home and convince Isabelle’s family that the house is haunted by Isabelle’s spirit and that her last wish before she goes to heaven is that they get her sister married to Ruhaan. After some hesitation, Ethan agrees to the plan. The only condition, Danny must let Ethan keep the Ford GT for a couple of weeks which Danny agrees to.
As for the next steps, Danny and Isabelle need to figure out a plan for how they will get from Robbinsville to Miami. Near their hotel, there is an automotive dealership, Collin Auto Sales, which is where they are headed. They call an Uber, place their belongings into the car, and make their way to the dealership. Since there are no long-haul car rentals and the nearest airport is 2.5 hours away in Charlotte, NC, the best option is to buy a vehicle and drive it down to Miami. Once they get to the dealership, Danny purchases a Snazzberry Red 2008 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon. They finish the paperwork, pack the bags, and head off toward Miami. This trip should take approximately 13 hours. Danny hauls the Jeep for a few hours until he reaches the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport where he books a night at a Marriott hotel. Danny and Isabelle share a room; however, they decide to book a room that contains two twin beds, one for each. They drop off their luggage and head out to eat. For dinner, both decide to have a sit down at a local Vietnamese Restaurant called Pho Dai Loi. The next morning, Danny and Isabelle wake up at 6 am, they have their breakfast, and then head out to make ground. This stretch is going to take 10 hours. Once they reach the outskirts of Miami, Isabelle shows the directions to their parents’ abandoned mansion that was supposedly abandoned in the early 2000s. They reach the mansion around 8:30 pm, Isabelle unlocks the door and they both move into the home. They turn on the power, find a suitable room, and sleep the night without any major hiccups.
The next morning, they pick up Ethan from Miami International Airport. On the way back to the mansion, Isabelle explains the plan to Ethan. She explains that she wants to pretend that she was killed in the landslide and thus is haunting this location until Ruhaan marries Kiara. To make it convincing, she is providing Ethan with some personal information that only she or her family would know. Once they reach home, the neighbors spot the Jeep and alert Isabelle’s parents and within 30 minutes, Dr. Turner, Isabelle’s dad, shows up with a 12-gauge shotgun and 2 police officers. They pound the door furiously until Ethan opens it, to which Dr. Turner starts yelling and demands Ethan be arrested. Ethan counters by explaining that Isabelle’s spirit has brought him here as she had some unfinished business to take care of before departing to heaven. Dr. Turner doesn’t believe him and demands proof, in which Ethan provides some explicit personal information that he was given by Isabelle to her father which then softens Dr. Turner a little and he eases. He dismisses the cops and chats with Ethan, trying to cope with the loss of his daughter.
“You were saying, my daughter's spirit contacted you? What happened to my daughter? And why is my daughter contacting you?” As he finishes the sentence, Isabelle’s father starts sobbing. This pulls on heartstrings of Isabelle. But Isabelle knows why she must do what she is doing. She needs to get her sister married to her true love.
Ethan glances over to a rocking chair in the living room and nods his head. “Isabelle is telling me that she was in a car accident.” He looks over at the rocking chair again and shakes his head. “Sorry, she wasn’t in a car accident, but instead, she was killed by a rockslide. She’s telling me that she wants her sister to be married before departing to heaven and…”
Dr. Turner interjects, “We were in wedding preparation to get Isabelle married in just a few days. Oh my, what is Ruhaan going to think? What about my wife? Kiara?”
“I know this must be tough, and I can understand, I have been in this situation before. Isabelle isn’t the first spirit that I have communicated to. Isabelle is telling me that Ruhaan and Kiara will understand. Since Ruhaan’s family is already here and yours as well, it only makes sense to get Kiara and Ruhaan married.”
Dr. Turner considers the request for a minute but rejects the motion. “How will it look if I just get Ruhaan married to my other daughter?” After this question, Dr. Turner exits the mansion pondering on the next steps. But the word starts spreading throughout the city that Ethan can talk to spirits and a queue forms in front of the mansion. People want Ethan to speak to other spirits.
Ethan explains the predicament to Danny and Isabelle, and both convince Ethan to play along. Ethan starts entertaining the locals with tales of the departed loved ones. The next morning, Isabelle’s mother, father, and sister arrive at the mansion along with Ruhaan. All of them have a somber look on their face as if none were able to sleep that night. Dr. Turner requests Ethan to explain what Isabelle wants between Ruhaan and Kiara and he recounts the plan set by Isabelle to get Kiara and Ruhaan married. After hearing this proposal, Ruhaan and Kiara instantly reject the idea. But the gears in their heads start turning which Ethan notices. He can tell Ruhaan and Kiara are somewhat excited about this predicament. Kiara questions, “How can we do this to our sister?” To which, Ethan replies, glancing his head to the side. “Kiara, Isabelle wants both of you to be happy, and she can sense that this is the right route to take. Isabelle has explained to me that by doing this, she can make peace and ascend to heaven. Can you both do this for Isabelle’s sake?” Ruhaan peers over to Kiara, “We’ll have to think about it. This isn’t something we can just agree on right now.” After finishing the conversation, Kiara and Ruhaan leave the living room and head to the kitchen to discuss. After 30 minutes of discussion, they reenter the room, and they agree. Afterward, Ethan can see that both Ruhaan and Isabelle are somewhat content with the decision. “Okay, if we are going to have the wedding with Ruhaan and Kiara, let’s have the ceremony here, so Isabelle’s spirit can join the all festivities.” With that comment, Ethan does a side glance toward where Isabelle and Danny are. This makes the family suspicious. “Ethan, is there someone else here?” “Yeah, of course. I am not here by myself. Isabelle is sitting right over there.” He points to the exact location of Isabelle. For a second, that completely scared Isabelle, and thus her heart starts rapidly pounding. “Yes, son. I completely forgot about that.” The room’s atmosphere is again somber as the family comes to terms that Isabelle is no longer with them. “We’re going to have a memorial service for Isabelle tomorrow. I wish for you to come.” To which, Ethan replies, “Isabelle doesn’t want a memorial just yet. She wants to celebrate the union between Kiara and Danny.”
Kiara questions, “Who’s Danny?” Ethan is completely frozen. Kiara asks again, “Who’s Danny?”
Ethan responds, “He is my brother. Ruhaan reminded me of him and as such, it just slipped off my mouth.”
Kiara replies, “Your brother must be a sweet man if Ruhaan reminds you of him.”
“Yeah, that he is. He would do anything for a girl that he loves.” With that, Isabelle gives a side glance to Danny and smirks.
After the conversation, Isabelle’s family including her extended family help clean the mansion in preparation for the wedding festivities. Her family spends most of the day cleaning the house and making it spotless. The only room that Ethan specifically told was off-limits was one of the bedrooms where Danny and Isabelle were residing.
The next day was the rehearsal dinner, and all the guests pour into the mansion lawn and are seated in their assigned locations. There are all kinds of arrangements made, and the overall layout is exactly what Isabelle ever wanted. Because of this, Isabelle sits by the window on the verge of tears. Even though she knows there is a plan for her too, and she must wait for her knight in shining armor, it’s not easy. She continues to stare at all the festivities and décor, and the sadness just overcomes her. All of this was for her. She spent the better part of a year planning this wedding and now, someone else is marrying the man, she wanted to spend the rest of her life with. Deep down, she knows she made the right decision. If he is in love with my sister, he will never feel the same love for me ever, she ponders. This relationship wouldn’t last. However, this does not make the pain, she is feeling right now any less real. She wishes she could run down to the altar and get married. She wishes she could tell her parents everything. She wishes she never knew about this. She wishes she can cry all this pain away. At this current moment, thousands of thoughts are running through her head. Her anxiety is increasing, and she might be on the verge of a panic attack. Danny sees her staring out the window about to implode and tells her to breathe and to take it all one bit at a time.
Danny wishes he could understand the hurt and pain, but he cannot. His only advice is that all the hurt and pain she is feeling will take time to heal. Like any open wound, only time can heal it. You cannot rush it. She will get over the hurt and look back at all this as if this was just another experience. “Just go ahead and let all the pain out, it’s okay to cry. It’s okay to let your emotion out. At the end of the day, we’re all human.” He explains this is the only way to start the healing process. Isabelle follows Danny’s advice and lets the emotions flow out. Danny knows at this moment; all he can do is comfort her and nothing more.
The next day comes and this is the wedding day! The guests start pouring in and they sit one by one in their assigned locations. The groomsmen are there and so are the bridesmaids, sure, the bridesmaids are Isabelle’s friends, and some are not happy about Ruhaan getting married to Isabelle’s sister, however, there is not much they can do. At the altar, Ruhaan is waiting in his tux, along with the other groomsmen, and on the other side are the bridesmaids. Next, Isabelle’s father comes down the aisle holding Kiara’s hands. Isabelle is in total awe seeing how beautiful Kiara looks in Isabelle’s wedding gown. Kiara stands next to Ruhaan, and they exchange their vows and get hitched. They soon have their first dance, and their wedding cake is cut during the reception.
Around the same time, one of Isabelle’s younger cousins spots Isabelle peering out from the window of the mansion and for a moment, both look eyes and in an instant, the kid runs towards Isabelle’s father and shares everything he has just seen. Isabelle calls Ethan and explains to him the situation. As Dr. Turner is searching everywhere to find Isabelle, Ethan explains to him that the kid most likely saw Isabelle’s spirit peering out from the window. Sometime later, Kiara makes a toast to Isabelle, wishing that she was here and that she owes her elder sister a lot for getting her married to Ruhaan. At the end of the day, Isabelle spends some time reflecting on the day with Danny. It’s been a long day for her. She had to see the man whom she loved, get married to her sister. It’s a lot to take in.
The next morning is the one that she regrets. She has to come clean to her parents and her family. Danny pulls up to her parents’ house in the Jeep. Isabelle gets out of the Jeep and walks towards the house with her heart beating a mile per minute. She knocks on the door, and it opens, and her parents run out and hug her for what felt like an eternity. Everyone’s emotional as all hell can be. After a while, her parents are furious. They demand answers. She explains everything, starting from the landslide, the phone call to Kiara, the idea of faking her death, meeting Danny and her brother, and the plan for the wedding. After hearing all of this, her parents ease up a little and they understand the motive but wish she would have been honest with them from the beginning. In the last few days, there has been a bit too much heartbreak to go around. However, Isabelle is still adamant that she has made the right decision. The rest of the day is spent having fun between Danny, Ethan, Isabelle, and her parents.
That night, Danny takes Isabelle on a drive and tells her how much he has enjoyed the last few days with her, and he might be falling for her. He also explains that he would love to get to know her even more, and thus, he offers her a role of a software engineer at his company. The only catch, she will move to San Diego.
2023.11.23 01:10 WhyCantIBeFunny AITA MIL keeps bringing stuff I don’t want into my house and I can’t stand it anymore
I’m lucky as MILs go and probably shouldn’t complain. We get along well, I respect her etc.
Except for one problem: she brings junk into my house every single time she comes. Sometimes it’s cloaked as a ‘gift’ - Here’s a Xmas towel I got at Walmart for 99 cents! Other times it’s something she desperately ‘needs’ - Oh, it’s so cold at your house I need to keep wool slippers here. And lately, she just sneaks stuff in.
Things that have appeared at my house under one of these guises: -Fuzzy slippers x 3 pairs (all 3 pairs are here) -Corvette mugs x 4 -Two more random mugs -TJMaxx wine glasses, I box -Floor rugs x 2 -Knife sharpener -Sweaters, coats, dress shirts etc. -Special pillows x 3 -Towels, bedding, blankets
And of course insane amounts of food we don’t eat, cheap toys for the kids, and random small stuff like hairbrushes and socks and stuff.
Everything is presented with the declaration: it wasn’t expensive, if it bothers you, you can throw it away.
We have tried talking to her. I have tried explaining that I don’t have room for this stuff and I really don’t want to throw away uneaten food and brand new toys because it’s wasteful, but nothing helps! Every time it’s: oh it’s just something small or oh it’s (daughter’s) birthday so we brought shitty apple pie. Yes, but I spent 2 days baking so she had cake and 3 special desserts, then you guilted your son into eating one slice of the pie and the rest was thrown away!
Today we got a text telling us that she has shipped an office chair to our house. Because apparently sometimes grandpa likes to nap in office chairs and I guess the other 3 we have aren’t good enough? Grandpa comes to visit us about 3 times per year. Since they only live 2 hours away and just bought a giant truck, we asked that they take grandpa’s office chair with them when they leave and bring it back next time he comes out (which will probably be April).
So, AITA for being annoyed and asking them to take the giant office chair back with them? Also, any advice on how to make this stop…
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Except for one problem: she brings junk into my house every single time she comes. Sometimes it’s cloaked as a ‘gift’ - Here’s a Xmas towel I got at Walmart for 99 cents! Other times it’s something she desperately ‘needs’ - Oh, it’s so cold at your house I need to keep wool slippers here. And lately, she just sneaks stuff in.
Things that have appeared at my house under one of these guises: -Fuzzy slippers x 3 pairs (all 3 pairs are here) -Corvette mugs x 4 -Two more random mugs -TJMaxx wine glasses, I box -Floor rugs x 2 -Knife sharpener -Sweaters, coats, dress shirts etc. -Special pillows x 3 -Towels, bedding, blankets
And of course insane amounts of food we don’t eat, cheap toys for the kids, and random small stuff like hairbrushes and socks and stuff.
Everything is presented with the declaration: it wasn’t expensive, if it bothers you, you can throw it away.
We have tried talking to her. I have tried explaining that I don’t have room for this stuff and I really don’t want to throw away uneaten food and brand new toys because it’s wasteful, but nothing helps! Every time it’s: oh it’s just something small or oh it’s (daughter’s) birthday so we brought shitty apple pie. Yes, but I spent 2 days baking so she had cake and 3 special desserts, then you guilted your son into eating one slice of the pie and the rest was thrown away!
Today we got a text telling us that she has shipped an office chair to our house. Because apparently sometimes grandpa likes to nap in office chairs and I guess the other 3 we have aren’t good enough? Grandpa comes to visit us about 3 times per year. Since they only live 2 hours away and just bought a giant truck, we asked that they take grandpa’s office chair with them when they leave and bring it back next time he comes out (which will probably be April).
So, AITA for being annoyed and asking them to take the giant office chair back with them? Also, any advice on how to make this stop…
2023.11.11 19:24 alexrobb_90 AITA For wanting my friend to apologize to me after I drank too much at her wedding?
This story has weighed on me for over a year, I (33F) watch Petty POV with Charlotte Dobre and it inspired me to share my story and hear from you. Warning: It’s really long. So about 2 years ago, my bestie (28F) got engaged to her now husband (34M), let’s call her Ashley and he can be Duke. It was almost exactly a year after my husband had proposed to me. She had been my MOH in my wedding months before her engagement and she wanted me to be her MOH when she got married. Ashley and Duke have two children together and had been together for a very, very long time. It was reasonable to believe they would be engaged soon enough. Note: Ashley and I had actually had a falling out but when she saw I was engaged on Social Media she reached out and I am a very forgiving and “water under the bridge” kind of person. My sister was originally my MOH but she dropped out and ended up not coming to the wedding (due to mental health) so Ashley filled her spot pretty early on. Note: After my wedding, which I planned by myself (and it was beautiful) Ashley kept making comments to me like “when I get married, you’ll plan my wedding.” She did this a few times so before she was engaged, after making this comment again I looked at her and I said, “I don’t mind helping you plan a wedding, but if you really expect me to plan the whole thing, you’ll have to pay me. Weddings are hard.” Flash forward to her proposal, it’s Jan. 2022. We were at our community’s annual wine walk and Duke had told me he was going to propose. I brought my camera, she went to meet her family for dinner and then I got the call. I was only a block away so I ran back and started taking photos of her crying and in awe. It was the beginning of the “year of Ashley”, which is what I dubbed it. That might have been my first mistake… So we got to planning, I had just gotten married so I had some little things I could let her borrow, and some leftovers she could have. I gave her my leftover tulle, I let her use my cake cutters, I let her borrow my card box, I bought and painted an alter, I planned a beautiful bachelorette party, I planned a beautiful bridal shower (her mom refused to help me) and I made handcrafted soap for her shower party favors. I’m also a relatively skilled photographer. I was a reporter for a few years and went to journalism school so I have training and know how to use a DSLR. Ashley and Duke didn’t have a lot of money, and they had two kids, so I offered to do their engagement photos for free. I gave them a full day, as many outfits they wanted and we had the kids half the time and dropped them off with a sitter for the other half the time. (this is thousands of dollars worth of work - just to be clear). I’m also pretty good at makeup. So my friend and I started to talk about her look. She couldn’t afford a makeup artist the day of her wedding so we figured out a look, I gave her a practice session and then made notes so we could do the exact same thing the day of the wedding. (This was also provided for free because she was my bestie). My friend couldn’t afford to have her photographer around for the “getting ready” shots - she hired her just for the ceremony and after the ceremony, so I offered to take some detail shots the day of. So now I’ve volunteered to do her hair, makeup and getting ready photos as well as being the MOH. (This was probably my second and third mistake). Because of her relation to me, my wedding DJ offered to do her wedding at a discount. So between the alter, the makeup, the hair, the photos, the MOH responsibilities and the DJ, I spent over a thousand dollars to make this experience really special for her and used my name to save her money where we could. Plus the engagement photos. Note: So the planning process was moving at a snail's pace, I would go over and offer to help but she was disorganized and wasn’t ever able to provide me with a checklist, or any responsibilities I could take off her hands. She also scheduled all the crafting days for party favors on the only day I couldn’t help with that either. Suffice to say, I was trying to help her plan the wedding but I didn’t have enough information to actually do anything but offer up my stuff. Then they went on vacation, her husband didn’t have permission to go, so when they got back he was fired. This was about 3-4 months before the wedding and my friend began to show signs of stress and worry. They had just bought a trailer home, and now they were down an income, but with no plans to stop the wedding, we proceeded. I would talk her down weekly, stop by the house and help her feel better. I would say things like, “don’t let it stress you out, we’re going to make it happen. No matter what, you’ll leave married and nothing else matters. Things are going to work out, I can feel it. Everything will be beautiful” etc About 6 weeks before the wedding she lets me know she doesn’t have any money. I’ll let that sink in for a minute… Shocked? So was I! I had been asking her to make me a list of what was paid for and what was left so we could budget and make progress. She told me it would be 2 weeks before she could do that. I waited a day and I told her again, if I can’t SEE it, I can’t help. I am neurodivergent, so while I’m incredibly detail-oriented, I’m also incredibly forgetful and need to have lists and things written down for me to keep everything in line. I wrote a legit script and agenda for my whole wedding - to give you an idea of the level of organization I would need to plan a wedding. I convinced her to get on a facetime with me and with her there on the phone with me, I made up a budget in a spreadsheet and we started talking options. She told me that she might ask for money from an uncle (we’ll call him Richy). She would then use that money to pay off the loan she has against her 401K and then take a new loan out to pay for the wedding. They could work out a payment plan and she could pay him back over time. I was like “YES DO THAT”. Richy was very generous and lent her the money. I also considered pulling from one of my retirement funds to help pay for it. My husband is really supportive so even though he thought the idea was stupid, if that’s what I wanted to do he was on board. The penalty for doing that was going to cost about the same as what I wanted to give to Ashley so we ultimately decided NOT to do that (best decision I made). So we are 4 weeks away from the wedding, the money has come in, another co-worker of Ashley’s paid for the porta-potties, someone made her a bouquet, a friend of her grandpa let her use his house and land as a venue for free and everything was getting lined up. Note: There was no itinerary or list of tasks for the day of, so I worked on my friend to try to get that stuff written down - which we never did. So lets go to the wedding shall we. The day before the wedding (it’s October now) my husband, Ashley’s moms and grandparents and half the wedding party shows up to the property to start setting up. (I left out the part about how the tent she ordered was too big and she had to order a different one and some of the other complications leading up to the wedding. I also left out that the alter I bought was no longer needed so I just ate that cost). It really started to get dark, so we were hanging lights and getting tables ready in the dark. Everyone was tired and ready to leave and I was like, Whoa, we need to do a rehearsal - quick. (Half the party wasn’t there so we made due with who we had). We ran through the rehearsal, it was a joke, but we did the thing and we left. Some of us went back to Ashley and Duke’s place (since the rehearsal dinner I thought we’d have we weren’t having) and did a mock bachelor party and planning session. I sat there and helped Ashley make her wedding playlist, we listened to SO MANY songs, saved them to a Spotify list on my phone and drank. Probably drank too much… I tried to get her to focus but alas, still no itinerary. Note: to be clear, I know that not everyone makes an itinerary for their parties. It could just be me - but if she wanted me to make sure everything was going the way she wanted… that was the only way for me to do it. I explained to her, that if it isn’t written down, something will likely be forgotten by me - it wasn’t her priority. Morning of the wedding, I’m hungover… I get up late, my husband and I NEED breakfast, so we are even later and when we get to the venue to help with final touches, it looks like my friend is a bit irritated that I’m late. I apologized on the phone and profusely when I got there. Then I forgave myself because I had volunteered to help and I was there (an hour later than planned) hours before the wedding to help. Knowing Ashley to be who she is, I brought us a pre-game 6-pack. (Not a mistake) Getting ready was fun! I did her makeup and she looked gorgeous, I did her hair with help from another Bridesmaid (we’ll call her Sarah). Then I took a break to take some detail shots. I think maybe my break was a little too long, but it is what it is. I finished getting our bride ready and then had Sarah take more detail shots because I didn’t really have the time to do it and it wasn’t the most important thing to Ashley. I wasn’t ready when the photographer got there, so Ashley yelled at me to get in my dress and get ready, so I did (So FAST) and looked great. I had missed being in a fair number of “getting ready” photos but that was ok with me cuz it was Ashley’s day and I was here to make it happen PERIOD. We’re rushed now, so we all line up and start getting ready to move. When we get to our starting positions, Ashley tells me she forgot to give her son the rings (he was the ring barrer) so I ran and nearly wiped out, grabbing the pillow and handing it off. Her son and daughter (flower girl) start down the aisle. But the little girl was too young to be a flower girl so she stopped and got confused and then the people who were seated had to call for her to keep coming, throw the flowers, you can do this, etc. etc. Then me and the best man, the bridesmaids and groomsmen, we all work our way down. Then my friend’s song starts and as she’s making her way to me I realize SHE DOESN’T HAVE HER FLOWERS. She looked at me and whispered, I forgot my bouquet. I just smiled and said, you look beautiful, don’t even need them, you’re getting married. She smiled and it was on. She got married and we were all joyous. So they get married and I tell Ashley, I’ll run for your flowers now. They’ll be in the photos and no one will even know. I run in grab them, run back and she looks at me and says “Bestie, get me out of these shoes.” Got it! I run back, grab different shoes, get under that dress, took off the uncomfortable ones, got her in the comfy ones and we went off for photos. I had lent them my walkie-talkies so we could communicate with Ashley’s cousin who was supposed to tell the DJ when we were ready to be announced. We make our way to the tent and the song starts to play but the DJ isn’t calling any names. I say into the walkie - have him announce us. She couldn’t hear over the speakers, so I shout it “Announce us”. The DJ finally figures out what he’s done wrong and then announces us wrong. Good enough. We all get in, the bride and groom are announced, we sit at the head table and then everyone grabs food and stops by to give their blessings. I left my speech notes in the bridal suite and so I start to get them and Sarah offers to grab them instead. By this point, she was already a little drunk (by far the drunkest of all of us that night) - she pre-gamed a bit more than the rest of us. I agree and when she comes back it looks like she got them all. I start to give my speech and when I get to the very end where I am meant to quote something Ashley and Duke always say to each other, the card isn’t there. I recovered quickly and had Ashley say it into the mic - looked planned and it was great. I was the only person who was supposed to give a speech, but her cousins wanted to say something so they did. One did well and the other, not great but not tackle-worthy. The Bride had decided not to say anything - which would be fine but it’s customary to thank your guests and bridal party and as a result - she never did. Food. Photos. Check. So now the bride and groom do their dances, goes great. They go to take their photos and I knew that when she got back she wanted people to be able to dance under the tent (the much smaller tent) so I start getting the tables moved out of the way like she asked. The dancing started and that was about the time I started drinking… (the real mistake) I then help the bride pee by holding her dress and I get everyone to go out to their car and decorate it with my chalk markers. We are all partying and dancing and visiting. I make the rounds to people I know and it’s a great time. It’s time to introduce Lola. Lola (fake name) had known the guy who offered up the house. She is a bartender and he was a regular. He clung to her most the night which I thought was weird and I called him a creepy old guy (COG) a few times. One of those times I guess I said it in front of him - which was not great. At some point in the night, Grandpa comes up to me and says that the little girl has accidentally locked the bridal suite and they don’t know how to get in. I said, doesn’t COG know how to get in? Grandpa said he does but he isn’t here. Grandpa then tells me he and Lola took a joy ride in his new Corvette. I said, GREAT! I can call Lola. I call her and she asks him for the code to unlock the door, I punch it in, unlock the door and all is fixed. I go back to partying, I’m dancing with the bride, my hubbs, my friends and then grandpa comes back up to me. Grandpa has had some drinks. And he said, what do you think Lola and COG are doing? (cue eyebrows) I had no idea what he was talking about. It had been over an hour and I guess Lola and COG were still gone. I explained to Grandpa that even though a sugar daddy isn’t out of the realm of possibilities, Lola has a boyfriend she loves very much and I highly doubt they are doing anything. She knows him from work. ** I put up my best - don’t talk about my friend like that attitude He kept on about it and I said, I’ll just call her and ask her to come back. So I call there in front of him and some standers-by and she doesn’t answer… This was a bad look and I was drunk so I didn’t explain the situation very well. A few more times during the night, people would come up to me and say things, or make gross gestures about Lola. I was pretty sure nothing was going on but I was a little worried and eventually texted her and got a response. She was on her way back. It’s safe to say Lola and I were both drunk. When she got back I said, dude, these people think you’re fucking that dude (drinking too much is bad folks). She immediately burst into tears and I immediately feel like shit. I apologized profusely and tried to repair any damage my big mouth had caused. Damage to Lola, damage to her reputation, all of it. It was late so Lola, myself and another friend just chatted in the bridal suite until my husband came to get me and said it was time to leave. (apparently, Ashley and I had already packed up my makeup and stuff - so it was pretty easy to get pulled together.) When we left the house EVERYONE was gone. (things I left out - the bride and groom forgot to cut the cake, throw the bouquet, and toss the garter. I also had started the clean-up process and assured the moms they did NOT have to clean up - this was before Grandpa had come back with his ideas about Lola and COG - which distracted me so I didn’t do a lot of cleaning up myself but my husband and the boys had it handled. I left out the part where Grandpa let me wear his hat, Ashley’s younger brother had thanked me for all my hard work and help with this and exchanged information with other guests I was later told *hated* me.) So everyone is gone and my husband said they didn’t come to get me because they didn’t want to interrupt. We stopped by the bride’s house to drop things off and I got a very cold vibe from Ashley. I was wracking my brain to figure out what I had done - and figured it was making Lola cry that upset my friend… The morning after - I was feeling awful. I felt so bad for the whole Lola thing and I talked to her and told her again how shitty that was and how sorry I was and I hope she forgives me. She did, no questions asked. But I still felt horrible for months. I am the kind of person that aches when I feel guilty - to the extreme. I was so angry at myself and I felt sooooo bad. I talked to Ashley and asked if there was more I could do to help clean up. I had left a couple of things at the venue and she told me she’d get them and not to show up at the venue. When she got home I went to her house and Duke was sitting outside. Duke is pretty chill, so I sat down and asked him point-blank, “is there something I did while I was drunk that I need to apologize for? Other than the obvious. Is anyone (looking toward the front door) mad at me for what I did?” He said, I was pretty drunk by the end but everyone had a good time and no one is mad at me. So I go into the house, I sit with Ashley and I said - pointblank - “I am SOOO Sorry I got so drunk last night. I really want to apologize for anything I might have done that upset you yesterday, I’m so sorry and feel really bad.” It was about now that I realized things were not ok. Ashley looked me in the eye and said “that whole situation with Lola was entirely your fault.” I was shocked. I explained that I had apologized to Lola for making her cry and that she had forgiven me. Then Ashley told me I was running round the whole reception talking about Lola and telling everyone she has a boyfriend and I don’t know what she’d doing with COG. My friend told me that she had to apologize for me because I called the COG a COG in front of him (to which he responded “I get that a lot” so I feel validated). Ashley said just because it happened to Lola doesn’t mean it didn’t also affect her wedding and that I was making it sound like it didn’t matter what Ashley thought. I apologized again. I then tried to explain that I didn’t run around, but that Grandpa and some of the guys kept coming up to me. That I hadn’t even realized Lola was still gone until over an hour had passed. She didn’t like what I had to say, so I stopped and started to just apologize profusely again. After all my heartfelt apology and accepting that I was being held responsible for… I guess everything… I said to her “I know I messed up and did a bad thing, but I have to forgive myself, I can’t keep beating myself up. I did one bad thing, but I did a lot of really good things.” When I said that, she shrugged and made a look that to me said “no you didn’t”. That hit me so hard that I am actually traumatized from this experience and it ultimately launched me into a depressive episode. I left and took about a week to recover before I could even see her again. She insisted on coming to my home to drop things off, so when she came and forced herself into my home, and saw that I didn’t want to hear about her new hairdo and that I had a hard time looking at her - she left and decided that she was still mad at me. I tried to talk to her. I never stopped apologizing but I expressed how it felt like she didn’t think I did enough and that she had never thanked me or apologized for making me feel like I did a bad job. She acknowledged that was true and pretty much said that she never would but that I did a pretty good job leading up to the wedding. She also told me that all her family hated me now, all her friends were talking about me and that I wasn’t allowed at any events involving her family anymore. She said I was the reason her moms left early (which as far as I can tell isn’t true) and that no one likes me anymore and is super pissed that I was blaming her grandpa for everything. She then told me to stop arguing with her and that she didn’t want to hear me blaming other people anymore so she was done listening to me. I was the reason for the only drama at her wedding and that hurt her. At some point I know I told her that she should stick up for me because that’s what friends do. She didn’t like that… then I told her I needed some time to recover from all this before we could talk. She gave me a week. Note: I later looked at all my time stamps and between the missed call to Lola and me making her cry was a total of 45 minutes. So this whole “drama” was 45 minutes and involved like 4 people… but from her perspective that is the only thing about what I did that day that stands out, so therefore it is all that matters. She never said that I “ruined” her wedding but with what she did say, sounded like that is what she thought. A week later I got this message, “I’m checking in. I need you in my life. You are the only one who understands me. And I need my best friend right now. Everything I have been dealing with the last two weeks have shown me that all that stupid shit I was mad about doesn’t actually matter. I had a wedding, I got married and you were there by my side doing everything I needed. All the rest will fall away but I need you.” I felt better, thinking we would repair this but I also felt like if we didn’t clear the air, this would be held over me for the rest of our friendship. I responded that I didn’t know how to respond to that yet, but that I do want to stay friends and that once I know how to say what I want to say, I’ll send it and I love her. This is what I ended up saying: “I love you, I miss you and I appreciate you. I want to move forward from this just as much as you do, it’s just hard for me because I want so badly for you to tell me I did a good job at your wedding and that you’re sorry you made me feel as though you thought I didn’t do enough. I would like for you to forgive me for my mistakes and I’d like for neither of us to ever have to relive this pain or discuss this particular matter again. It’s been really hard on me, it’s tortured me more than I think you know. I feel like my boundaries were crossed and I feel like I wasn’t stuck up for and it felt like you weren’t trying to understand where I was coming from. Some of my words seemed twisted and now I’m afraid. “I don’t want to be afraid, and I would like for us to stay best friends. I want to move right on past this and get back to all the best parts of our friendship. And I’m trying really hard to get there. I’m just worried that if I don’t set my boundaries now they’ll get crossed again and I, or both of us will be here again, hurt and confused.” I was pretty proud of my feeling-words and trying to be clear about what it was I needed to feel valued and forgiven. She replied, “Um that was not what I was expecting and I can’t give you what you are asking for. So I guess boundaries are set and we will have to go our separate ways. Just know that I love you and I wish you well in your future endeavors. I am sorry that I can’t give you what you’re asking for because that would be me telling you what you want to hear and not telling you the truth. I never intended for this to be the way this conversation went and I’m sorry that it is probably going to ruin your evening. I’m sorry you’ve been hurting over me but now you can move on.” And then she blocked me - which I discovered when I tried to reply. We haven’t spoken since. BUT grandpa’s wife still likes my posts on social and all her family members and Ashley are still friends with me on social… AITA?? Some Hindsight: This friend and I have had 3 fallingouts now (this being the third) and all of them are related to my boundaries being violated. We sent them Christmas presents after the fight anyway and tried to keep some level of communication going but it didn’t work. My counselor told me that people get drunk at weddings and make mistakes, and that I apologized and that’s all I can do. She told me to work on ***setting boundaries*** because if I had had some boundaries to begin with I may have never been put in this position. She also told me that she suspects this was going to happen regardless of me setting boundaries now or later. In hindsight, I think her wedding wasn’t what she wanted it to be, that she wanted me to plan it and when things went wrong she took that frustration out on me. Which for me is really sad, because her wedding really was beautiful and sometimes things go wrong - what matters is you married the love of your life right? What do you think?
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2023.10.31 22:53 justcs I'm fucked
I hate crying on the internet but its worked before and I have no other outlets.
Stage 4 Herditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer metastasis to the omentum and lymph nodes.
Back in March-May I got /gastroparesis and lost 40 pounds. I almost died of malnutrition. I had a a feeding tube placed and was in patient for 2 weeks. I eventually started eating again around July.
The /gastroparesis was confirmed severe by a Gastric Emptying Study. At 4 hours I had only digested 10% of the food. I vomited at least 20 times a day even though nothing went in my mouth. Coffee grounds. Fluids.
I could not drink water because my esophagus was so damaged. My electrolytes were so bad at one point I could not unseize my hands.
A little about me. Young. Always sober. Non smoker. Always healthy. My stomach ruptured April 4th 2022. I had a 10 houer emergency surgery and woke up to being told I had stage 4 stomach cancer that ate through my stomach, which they removed. I had a nervous breakdown on dilauded. It's a genetic mutation in the CDH1 gene. Less than 3% of stomach cancer are this. It's aggressive and I had no prior symptoms. Merry Fucking Christmas.
It is now 18 months later. I've had 12 rounds of chemo. I've had 3 stents in right kidney. I've had immunotherapy. I've had a pulmonary embolism. I lost my business I built. I almost lost my dear dog. I honestly don't know how I'm still alive.
I had a metastases in the omentum which is a very very gnarly way to die. The only thing they can do is CRC/HIPEC which is also known as MOAS or the Mother Of All Surgeries. It is exploratory which mean they will cut out any and all disease in a procedure that can take up to 16 hours. They flood your abdominal cavity with a heated Chemo to kill anything left behind. The recovery is brutal and its up to the surgeon to what organs you wake up missing. Most of what they target is just not viewable to PET/CT.
Personal details I'm hesitant to share but I need to. My caregivers are my parents. I have no children. Never married. Never had a girlfriend. I am a good person. 850 credit score. Homeowner. Lifelong sober. No criminal record. Neighbors love me. They cut my lawn for me for the past 2 summers. I love my country. Big fan of the pipe hitters.
My siblings: Junkies. Drama. Alcoholics. Fuckups. Abandoned there own children. Divorced. Mostly stable now, but damn.
Mom got her masters 20 years ago. I cooked. I cleaned. I took care of the dogs. I did the laundry. Cut the lawn. I was in school after being discharged from the USMC after having a nervous breakdown in boot. I wanted to get some at the height of the Iraq war. I have a college degree.
During this time my mom was taxed out, Mo one helped besides my father and a couple of his close friends (really good guys). Meaning my 5 siblings. Not only. My brother was stealing. Lying. On heroin. Wrap sheet. Unprotected oops sex babies. Every time I interjected it backfired.
My step siblings in another states were causing drama. Drugs. Stealing. Fuckups. Multiple children with different baby daddies. Jerry Springer shit (other's words not mine.)
Fast forward. I've stuck by my parents. They bought a brand new house. I moved to the city they lived in despite there being no friends, family, job opportunities, social opportunities. I again mowed their lawn. Every summer. For 4 years. No help. Ever. With shit tools. Paid for gas. I have 5 able bodied young siblings. They were all causing drama. I walked their dogs every day for 6 years. I watched the dogs when they went on vacation.
My estranged Grandma gets Alzhemiers. Estranged meaning I never slept over her house once as a child for no good reason. I helped take care of her despite her basically being a stranger. Only one. I have 5 cousins. I don't know what they did when she stayed with my aunt and uncle but she died in our house and I never saw anyone come over. She was mean. She was nasty. They did everything for her despite her basically being a POS to my mother her whole life. Thats just how my parents are and how I am. They grin-and-bared all.
During all this my siblings are in rehab, having kids they abandoned, getting divorced, commiting crimes, not even sending xmas or birthday cards. I don't ask my parents for anything.
So my dad I've never disprected. My mom is quite like her mom and very stubborn, difficult, micromanging. I could spend 5 hours cutting their lawn perfect. Holes in the bottom of my shoes. Half gallon of water. Drenched in sweat. "You put the rake back in the wrong spot in the garage." Let me bitch about that for 20 minutes instead of, "Thanks. I had to move the rake."
So I'm basically at the end of my cancer journey, and well, life. I am staying with my parents at their new house. Its been rough.
Like everything in life it starts off well. Those 2 times I went to baseball and then forced to quit. Those 2 times I went to boy scouts and never again. I'm digressing to express my deep frustration.
The first summer was great on treatment. This is usually how it goes in my life. You get one. Yet my siblings have bankrolled rehabs in multiple states.
I thought I was done so I returned to normal life. Thats why I went home. Through my first summer of treatment I kissed so much ass. Everyone knows my parents are the best.
Fast forward to the second summer of cancer. After I returned to my house last winter I almost died. They didn't intervene until I was eating through a tube in my stomach. Her excuse was "I thought you wanted to do this alone," despite me never saying or implying that in any way. You see my mom has a tendency to be indirect about everything to the point where she will say something entirely nonsensical instead of just saying "its my opinion" or "i prefer not/no" she would rather make up something and defend it at at great lengths where and normal and honest person would just keep it simple, something which makes the world go round.
This summer it's missed appointments. Its "you figure it out". It's "I can't drive 5 minutes to get you liquid tylenol" without bitching when you literally cannot swallow pills and are pissing blood. It's Tuesday and I asked for a trip the dispensary because my GP is back and I have nausea and vomiting and cannot digest food. It's a gradual descent into hell, you don't just spawn there. I have no promethazine and I don't like it. As before I almost died because she couldn't be the bigger person, I thus suffer because she is immature.
Now it's also "why can't you take the trash out when it's full." It's "why can't you keep the bathroom clean" THE DAY AFTER literally I had the worse night of my entire sickness. Vomit. Diarrhea. All while I had to lie down on the bathroom floor and administer meds through a tube in my stomach but couldn't stay prone long enough for the syringe to empty. I was basically doing mountain climbers while vomiting and shitting in a small bathroom. Beat that.
Hell I didn't even blame them for almost letting me die from Gastroparesis. I blamed myself. My neighbor saved my life. Without him and his wife's intervention I would be dead for sure. I was incapable of understanding how bad it was and my parents ignored me despite repeated calls for help.
Don't get my wrong I love my parents. I wouldn't be here without them. But I can't hold my tongue anymore. I've been blaming myself for everything since my biological parents divorced. And I think my mother took advantage of that. I have been blamed for a lot my whole life. Big and small.
I've took it upon myself to fix problems and claim responsibility for things that had nothing to do with me. It has reduced my ability to live a full and complete life. It created an unhealthy perception with the news and world events.
I have never experienced a loving adult relationship with another human being. I'm scared to. I'm dying and I'm still dealing with this. I accept this.
My mother has always been severely micromanaging. It is so bad when I went to big boy University I could not complete my lab classes because I had anxiety. It was like being back at home frying an egg and being told, "Your doing this that and this wrong." I can boil water wrong.
Mind you I live perfectly on my own. Cooking, cleaning, maintaining my own vehicles, bicycle, landscaping. Left to my own devices I'm fine. I cannot deal with even the slightest assistance because a lifetime and non-stop nagging micromanaging. It takes me a long time to accomplish and understand something but if you leave me the fuck alone I can do it. I can get along with others fine, I just can't work functionally with others.
Now living with my mom since cancer has been hard. Again. I in no way mean to throw my parents under the bus. They paid for gas to drive me to chemo and radiation. They put miles on their car. They helped feed my dog when I couldn't get out of bed. She did my laundry and cleaned the room I stay in.
However. I pay for my food. I pay for my toiletries. I pay for my dog food. Hell I even buy my own water.
My insurance covers my medical not them. I have people who take care of all the bureaucratic bullshit. My parents don't have to deal with any of that but get my butt into the infusion center chair or radiation table and get me home. My insurance situation couldn't be easier or better. God bless the United States. Leave no man behind.
Despite me living here in my parents house this spring/summer, still paying to heat and cool my house, water, trash service on a house they will be inheriting, giving my neighbor gas money to mow my big ass lawn, on a house they will be inheriting. Yes I am terminal for sure.
Let me remind you I almost died of malnutrition this spring. I went from 220 pounds to 175 pounds. Fast. I started eating again in July. I still have a feeding tube in my stomach.
I got excited about getting groceries. Walmart pickup is easy.
"We have no room for all this."
Excuse me?
Literally for the past 6 months every grocery haul, "We have no room for all this." Mind you my parents eat out very often at nice places. They have TWO FULL SIZE refrigerators. They have a mini fridge coffee bar. They have a modern FULL SIZE KITCHEN in a 2k sq/ft house with just them living there plus me. But, I cannot order fucking groceries without a bunch of shit.
They have 8 pounds of expired walnuts in the freezer that have been there since last summer. A skunk six pack of beer from July in the fridge and no one drinks alcohol in this house.
We have no room for food for my son who couldn't eat food for 5 months and has a feeding tube but miraculously started eating again.
Cooking situation. I'm poor. No ones fault and I don't give a shit. I cooked 90% of my meals at my house. I cannot cook now. For 6 months I hear, "Oh you can cook." Begrudgingly I cook eventually. Literally 1 minute into heating a pan to cook eggs, "Youre burning the pan." Mind you this "favorite pan" is burnt to fuck and the handle is already broke. It's probably a $50 at best.
I offered to bring over and GIVE THEM my entire ALL CLAD AND LE CRUESET cookware. She says its too heavy for the stove despite it being a nice stove just like mine. Again my mom is neurotic and leads to extreme micromanaging and weird logic. She accused me of using the "rough side of the sponge" on the stove. "Don't use that side." Apparently a sponge can scratch a expensive glass top stove. Thats what I'm dealing with.
So my anxiety and weird "guilt" is kicking in to where I'm basically a dying man who jumped for joy about being able to eat again and I can't even make a fucking grill cheese sandwich. The price of prepared food is taxing me financially as I have adapted my budget to exclusively cooking the past decade and that is how I live. Thank god my appetite is manageable.
Every little thing makes me want to bash my head into a fucking tree. If I don't put a pair of scissors back in the drawer facing north all shit is lost. Yet if I ask why are all my shirts missing in my laundry I'm being "unappreciative." Despite me having done my parents laundry for years perfectly with no drama. Every sock accounted for motherfucker.
My point is I cannot make an honest inquiry without it being some negative character fault of mine and her being in the defensive. I just want to know where my fucking clothes are, you did the laundry not me.
Any time I get a package from Amazon I get shit. "We have no room for this." I have nothing. I have 2 drawers of clothes. I have a laptop. I have a box of snacks. I have a jar of candy. I have some water bottles. I have shower shoes and go fasters. I basically live like a student. Always have.
This house is 2k sq ft and I live in the smallest room in the house. There are three much larger unused rooms upstairs. THREE. They have THREE ACRES. They have a 700sq/ft shed PACKED WITH SHIT THAT NEVER MOVES. Boxes of shit floor to ceiling. You cannot walk in there. They have A 200sq/ft unused CHICKEN COOP. Its nice. You could live in that alone. They have a full tour-sized RV. Yet "WE HAVE NO ROOM."
Im beginning to think I am the object you have no room for.
PLUS THEY'VE HAD SHIT IN MY FUCKING HOUSE FOR YEARS THEY WILL NOT TAKE THE FUCK OUT AND I HAVE TO MOVE AROUND TO CLEAN MY GARAGE EVERY SPRING. ABSOLUTE JUNK TOO. Whenever I bring it up they give me a hard time. AND THEY SAY I AM A HOARDER. CANNOT MAKE THIS SHIT UP.
My mother is difficult. And when she's upset my father has to be an adult babysitter. 9 times out of 10 she will not resolve the simplest issues directly and has to get him involved, and she doesn't do it gracefully. She knows how he handles problems.
I've tried everything. I've written letters. I've sat down with her. We've tried counseling. I've even went to church with her since that is her thing. This is my life story.
I don't know what else to do. Its always walking on eggshells with her. Its basically to point where I can only say basic words in an effort to not escalate anything. Yes. No. Okay. There is no opportunity for any healthy relationship besides this.
Now I am again having Gastroparesis symptoms. My stomach is fucked up and I have the scars to prove it.
I asked her to take me to get medicine Thursday. It is now Tuesday. I have no medicine. They instead get my nephew (my brothers son he raises on facetime halfway across the country) Friday and tell me I was being mean to him because I stayed in my room all weekend. Icing on the cake I leave to walk to the grocery store Saturday and come home to them blowing me up because "I didn't tell them I was leaving" despite my mother sitting there as I put on my shoes and coat and not bothering to ask where I was going. I told them I don't feel good. MY CANCER HAS MESTASTISIZED AND I HAVE GP SYMPTOMS AND STAGE-FUCK-YOU-4 "YOURE-DEFINITELY-DEAD-SOON" CANCER. Im dealing with serious shit and your fucking me up I need space ZERO CONTACT ZERO LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE. I HAVE A FUCKING CELL PHONE ON ME 24/7 YOU CAN SHOOT A MISSILE UP MY ASS FROM SPACE!
So they get in my face (both have anger problems, mom has emotional problems) and I basically tell them fuck you because I heard them the other night talking about sending my sister money just because they felt sorry for her.
Sister who is a recovering addict. 3 babies by 3 different men. Never helped with shit ever. No job. Smokes cigarettes. Meanwhile my vehicle is broken, my glasses broke, my laptop broke.
Am I the asshole?
They A. Know my finances. B. Know I can' legally drive without glasses C. Know I've never asked them for anything D. Know all I have is a computer (I cannot even walk my dog without pissing blood so I basically stay inside all day).
Again am I the asshole? Is it unreasonable for me assuming, they and everyone else knowing I will be dead soon, to focus all their energy on me? In my opinion as soon as they knew I don't have meds, glasses broke, the next day I should be picking out frames and have what I need. Is that unreasonable? Because my piece of shit grandmother never went 1 day without meds I guarantee it.
So yes I am angry they're sending my retard sister cigarette money and I told her, "Why are you sending people money and I can't even see." That turns into "you're ungrateful." Meanwhile my vehicle is fucked not because of me, but because they took it to a shitty mechanic, my dog is going blind and is probably is pain, i had to order laptop parts on a payment plan or I would be staring at the wall.
Literally my whole life I'm ungrateful. Asking for lunch, shoes, a heater for my unfinished cold ass basement I grew up in with springs in my mattress where me and my dog used to have to cuddle at night to stay warm. Anything I ask for its always "well i gave you xyz so asking for that is ungrateful." FUCK YOU I NEVER EVEN ATE LUNCH MY ENTIRE HIGH SCHOOL.
Again I'm not trying to throw my parents under the bus. I wish this could be more anonymous and I leave out as much detail as I can out of respect. I'm just tired because my parents do A LOT for A LOT of people. They tithe. They donate. They freecycle. They're genuinely good people. However when you see that and then get STAGE-4-DEAD-BEFORE-40 cancer, and know people buy corvettes and trips to disney on their last years and YOU GET SHIT FOR ORDERING FOOD FROM WALMART AFTER ALMOST STARVING TO DEATH.
I have seen it so many times. They will be fake, nice, do favors for people they don't even like. I just thought they would at least see I was dying. Minimally leave me alone on ITS A BAD DAY TODAY SORRY. I'm not shitty to them. Not talking to someone on a BAD DAY OF CANCER is not shitty its responsible. I'm working through this best I can. Do I need a "FUCK OFF" sign on my door? MAXIMALLY EAT IT. EAT SOME SHIT FOR ONCE. GOD KNOWS I HAVE FOR YOU. GOD KNOWS YOU DEAL WITH OTHER PEOPLES SHIT WITH A SMILE. This is the first time I've complained publicly about NEVER HAVING EATING LUNCH IN HIGH SCHOOL AND GOING HOME TO A FROZEN DARK BASEMENT SO BAD IT RESULTED IN MY DROPPING OUT OF SCHOOL. Be a good parent first then "a good person". YOUR KIDS ALWAYS COME FIRST EVEN EVIL RICH PEOPLE KNOW THIS.
I'm done enduring, suffering, doing for others. I will not kiss ass. If you fuck with me I will literally blacklist you out of my life forever. If you are incompetent or cannot do your job I will laugh at you in your face. If you are wrong or intellectually dishonest I will call you on your bullshit to your face. I am a smart wise and capable man. I will not accept double standards or tolerate hypocrisy. I judge all individuals by the content of their character, their good deeds, and their legacy. Race, gender, affiliation, religion. I will do for you what I will do for my brother. If I live through any more days this is my creed. I give no fucks what you think of me. Cancel me. Dox me. Disown me. You will not rewrite history. This is my gift from cancer.
If I am having a bad day leave me the fuck alone. I will work through it like everything else in my life, no therapy, no drugs, no nothing.
I am living through trauma. This is my time. I value it. You too have limited time. There are few people on this earth who I honestly believe owe me that time. Any others who sacrifice, to you am I grateful. No one owes me anything besides those I have knowingly sacrificed for myself.
I'm sorry I am no superhero and expect a return on the love I have given. That is all. If that means you need to eat shit for a day, here is some salt and pepper. I've seen you eat worse for people you literally hate.
And don't get me wrong. I love my family. I love my country. But things have been said to me that I just cannot hold in any longer, such as "I can't retire because of you."
I'm dealing with this the best I can. I am not an invalid. I am a capable man. I can hike 16 miles in one day with a 40 pound. I can deconstruct and repair a laptop from scratch. I can bootstrap an operating system from a usb stick. I can out perform any motherfucker on the job site. I can squat 3 plates. I can make a dinner so good it will put Gordon Ramsay out of business. I know more about books than any librarian in my state. I change my own oil. I haven't watched TV is 2 decades. I've been open and online before Aaron Schwartz was conceived rest in peace. I am friends with geniuses 3 steps removed from Richard Feynman. I can pull out radio signals from north korea with my Grandfathers grundig (rest in peace). I can ease a dying dog and train a wild beast. Give me a laptop an internet connection and time I can conquer anything. And so can you.
So basically I die as an ungrateful hoarder who can't see and is eating fucking box rations in a closet and can't even get medicine. All because my family is too immature and proud to treat me like all other people they have helped in life. They were all I had left and I cannot face them as a rational adult at this point. The situation is beyond stupid yet irreplaceable.
My retard (no offense) siblings get 2nd 3rd 4th tries, pats on the back. I get a fuck you and a nice box to die in.
There is no way I can endure "the mother of all surgeries" with this bullshit, especially not worth it considering a 50% 5 year survival rating at best.
I am waiting on my repsonse from my Doctor. I have informed them I will be returning home to die alone and asked for Palliative assistance. Godspeed. You will all be with me like always. I'm here forever.
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Stage 4 Herditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer metastasis to the omentum and lymph nodes.
Back in March-May I got /gastroparesis and lost 40 pounds. I almost died of malnutrition. I had a a feeding tube placed and was in patient for 2 weeks. I eventually started eating again around July.
The /gastroparesis was confirmed severe by a Gastric Emptying Study. At 4 hours I had only digested 10% of the food. I vomited at least 20 times a day even though nothing went in my mouth. Coffee grounds. Fluids.
I could not drink water because my esophagus was so damaged. My electrolytes were so bad at one point I could not unseize my hands.
A little about me. Young. Always sober. Non smoker. Always healthy. My stomach ruptured April 4th 2022. I had a 10 houer emergency surgery and woke up to being told I had stage 4 stomach cancer that ate through my stomach, which they removed. I had a nervous breakdown on dilauded. It's a genetic mutation in the CDH1 gene. Less than 3% of stomach cancer are this. It's aggressive and I had no prior symptoms. Merry Fucking Christmas.
It is now 18 months later. I've had 12 rounds of chemo. I've had 3 stents in right kidney. I've had immunotherapy. I've had a pulmonary embolism. I lost my business I built. I almost lost my dear dog. I honestly don't know how I'm still alive.
I had a metastases in the omentum which is a very very gnarly way to die. The only thing they can do is CRC/HIPEC which is also known as MOAS or the Mother Of All Surgeries. It is exploratory which mean they will cut out any and all disease in a procedure that can take up to 16 hours. They flood your abdominal cavity with a heated Chemo to kill anything left behind. The recovery is brutal and its up to the surgeon to what organs you wake up missing. Most of what they target is just not viewable to PET/CT.
Personal details I'm hesitant to share but I need to. My caregivers are my parents. I have no children. Never married. Never had a girlfriend. I am a good person. 850 credit score. Homeowner. Lifelong sober. No criminal record. Neighbors love me. They cut my lawn for me for the past 2 summers. I love my country. Big fan of the pipe hitters.
My siblings: Junkies. Drama. Alcoholics. Fuckups. Abandoned there own children. Divorced. Mostly stable now, but damn.
Mom got her masters 20 years ago. I cooked. I cleaned. I took care of the dogs. I did the laundry. Cut the lawn. I was in school after being discharged from the USMC after having a nervous breakdown in boot. I wanted to get some at the height of the Iraq war. I have a college degree.
During this time my mom was taxed out, Mo one helped besides my father and a couple of his close friends (really good guys). Meaning my 5 siblings. Not only. My brother was stealing. Lying. On heroin. Wrap sheet. Unprotected oops sex babies. Every time I interjected it backfired.
My step siblings in another states were causing drama. Drugs. Stealing. Fuckups. Multiple children with different baby daddies. Jerry Springer shit (other's words not mine.)
Fast forward. I've stuck by my parents. They bought a brand new house. I moved to the city they lived in despite there being no friends, family, job opportunities, social opportunities. I again mowed their lawn. Every summer. For 4 years. No help. Ever. With shit tools. Paid for gas. I have 5 able bodied young siblings. They were all causing drama. I walked their dogs every day for 6 years. I watched the dogs when they went on vacation.
My estranged Grandma gets Alzhemiers. Estranged meaning I never slept over her house once as a child for no good reason. I helped take care of her despite her basically being a stranger. Only one. I have 5 cousins. I don't know what they did when she stayed with my aunt and uncle but she died in our house and I never saw anyone come over. She was mean. She was nasty. They did everything for her despite her basically being a POS to my mother her whole life. Thats just how my parents are and how I am. They grin-and-bared all.
During all this my siblings are in rehab, having kids they abandoned, getting divorced, commiting crimes, not even sending xmas or birthday cards. I don't ask my parents for anything.
So my dad I've never disprected. My mom is quite like her mom and very stubborn, difficult, micromanging. I could spend 5 hours cutting their lawn perfect. Holes in the bottom of my shoes. Half gallon of water. Drenched in sweat. "You put the rake back in the wrong spot in the garage." Let me bitch about that for 20 minutes instead of, "Thanks. I had to move the rake."
So I'm basically at the end of my cancer journey, and well, life. I am staying with my parents at their new house. Its been rough.
Like everything in life it starts off well. Those 2 times I went to baseball and then forced to quit. Those 2 times I went to boy scouts and never again. I'm digressing to express my deep frustration.
The first summer was great on treatment. This is usually how it goes in my life. You get one. Yet my siblings have bankrolled rehabs in multiple states.
I thought I was done so I returned to normal life. Thats why I went home. Through my first summer of treatment I kissed so much ass. Everyone knows my parents are the best.
Fast forward to the second summer of cancer. After I returned to my house last winter I almost died. They didn't intervene until I was eating through a tube in my stomach. Her excuse was "I thought you wanted to do this alone," despite me never saying or implying that in any way. You see my mom has a tendency to be indirect about everything to the point where she will say something entirely nonsensical instead of just saying "its my opinion" or "i prefer not/no" she would rather make up something and defend it at at great lengths where and normal and honest person would just keep it simple, something which makes the world go round.
This summer it's missed appointments. Its "you figure it out". It's "I can't drive 5 minutes to get you liquid tylenol" without bitching when you literally cannot swallow pills and are pissing blood. It's Tuesday and I asked for a trip the dispensary because my GP is back and I have nausea and vomiting and cannot digest food. It's a gradual descent into hell, you don't just spawn there. I have no promethazine and I don't like it. As before I almost died because she couldn't be the bigger person, I thus suffer because she is immature.
Now it's also "why can't you take the trash out when it's full." It's "why can't you keep the bathroom clean" THE DAY AFTER literally I had the worse night of my entire sickness. Vomit. Diarrhea. All while I had to lie down on the bathroom floor and administer meds through a tube in my stomach but couldn't stay prone long enough for the syringe to empty. I was basically doing mountain climbers while vomiting and shitting in a small bathroom. Beat that.
Hell I didn't even blame them for almost letting me die from Gastroparesis. I blamed myself. My neighbor saved my life. Without him and his wife's intervention I would be dead for sure. I was incapable of understanding how bad it was and my parents ignored me despite repeated calls for help.
Don't get my wrong I love my parents. I wouldn't be here without them. But I can't hold my tongue anymore. I've been blaming myself for everything since my biological parents divorced. And I think my mother took advantage of that. I have been blamed for a lot my whole life. Big and small.
I've took it upon myself to fix problems and claim responsibility for things that had nothing to do with me. It has reduced my ability to live a full and complete life. It created an unhealthy perception with the news and world events.
I have never experienced a loving adult relationship with another human being. I'm scared to. I'm dying and I'm still dealing with this. I accept this.
My mother has always been severely micromanaging. It is so bad when I went to big boy University I could not complete my lab classes because I had anxiety. It was like being back at home frying an egg and being told, "Your doing this that and this wrong." I can boil water wrong.
Mind you I live perfectly on my own. Cooking, cleaning, maintaining my own vehicles, bicycle, landscaping. Left to my own devices I'm fine. I cannot deal with even the slightest assistance because a lifetime and non-stop nagging micromanaging. It takes me a long time to accomplish and understand something but if you leave me the fuck alone I can do it. I can get along with others fine, I just can't work functionally with others.
Now living with my mom since cancer has been hard. Again. I in no way mean to throw my parents under the bus. They paid for gas to drive me to chemo and radiation. They put miles on their car. They helped feed my dog when I couldn't get out of bed. She did my laundry and cleaned the room I stay in.
However. I pay for my food. I pay for my toiletries. I pay for my dog food. Hell I even buy my own water.
My insurance covers my medical not them. I have people who take care of all the bureaucratic bullshit. My parents don't have to deal with any of that but get my butt into the infusion center chair or radiation table and get me home. My insurance situation couldn't be easier or better. God bless the United States. Leave no man behind.
Despite me living here in my parents house this spring/summer, still paying to heat and cool my house, water, trash service on a house they will be inheriting, giving my neighbor gas money to mow my big ass lawn, on a house they will be inheriting. Yes I am terminal for sure.
Let me remind you I almost died of malnutrition this spring. I went from 220 pounds to 175 pounds. Fast. I started eating again in July. I still have a feeding tube in my stomach.
I got excited about getting groceries. Walmart pickup is easy.
"We have no room for all this."
Excuse me?
Literally for the past 6 months every grocery haul, "We have no room for all this." Mind you my parents eat out very often at nice places. They have TWO FULL SIZE refrigerators. They have a mini fridge coffee bar. They have a modern FULL SIZE KITCHEN in a 2k sq/ft house with just them living there plus me. But, I cannot order fucking groceries without a bunch of shit.
They have 8 pounds of expired walnuts in the freezer that have been there since last summer. A skunk six pack of beer from July in the fridge and no one drinks alcohol in this house.
We have no room for food for my son who couldn't eat food for 5 months and has a feeding tube but miraculously started eating again.
Cooking situation. I'm poor. No ones fault and I don't give a shit. I cooked 90% of my meals at my house. I cannot cook now. For 6 months I hear, "Oh you can cook." Begrudgingly I cook eventually. Literally 1 minute into heating a pan to cook eggs, "Youre burning the pan." Mind you this "favorite pan" is burnt to fuck and the handle is already broke. It's probably a $50 at best.
I offered to bring over and GIVE THEM my entire ALL CLAD AND LE CRUESET cookware. She says its too heavy for the stove despite it being a nice stove just like mine. Again my mom is neurotic and leads to extreme micromanaging and weird logic. She accused me of using the "rough side of the sponge" on the stove. "Don't use that side." Apparently a sponge can scratch a expensive glass top stove. Thats what I'm dealing with.
So my anxiety and weird "guilt" is kicking in to where I'm basically a dying man who jumped for joy about being able to eat again and I can't even make a fucking grill cheese sandwich. The price of prepared food is taxing me financially as I have adapted my budget to exclusively cooking the past decade and that is how I live. Thank god my appetite is manageable.
Every little thing makes me want to bash my head into a fucking tree. If I don't put a pair of scissors back in the drawer facing north all shit is lost. Yet if I ask why are all my shirts missing in my laundry I'm being "unappreciative." Despite me having done my parents laundry for years perfectly with no drama. Every sock accounted for motherfucker.
My point is I cannot make an honest inquiry without it being some negative character fault of mine and her being in the defensive. I just want to know where my fucking clothes are, you did the laundry not me.
Any time I get a package from Amazon I get shit. "We have no room for this." I have nothing. I have 2 drawers of clothes. I have a laptop. I have a box of snacks. I have a jar of candy. I have some water bottles. I have shower shoes and go fasters. I basically live like a student. Always have.
This house is 2k sq ft and I live in the smallest room in the house. There are three much larger unused rooms upstairs. THREE. They have THREE ACRES. They have a 700sq/ft shed PACKED WITH SHIT THAT NEVER MOVES. Boxes of shit floor to ceiling. You cannot walk in there. They have A 200sq/ft unused CHICKEN COOP. Its nice. You could live in that alone. They have a full tour-sized RV. Yet "WE HAVE NO ROOM."
Im beginning to think I am the object you have no room for.
PLUS THEY'VE HAD SHIT IN MY FUCKING HOUSE FOR YEARS THEY WILL NOT TAKE THE FUCK OUT AND I HAVE TO MOVE AROUND TO CLEAN MY GARAGE EVERY SPRING. ABSOLUTE JUNK TOO. Whenever I bring it up they give me a hard time. AND THEY SAY I AM A HOARDER. CANNOT MAKE THIS SHIT UP.
My mother is difficult. And when she's upset my father has to be an adult babysitter. 9 times out of 10 she will not resolve the simplest issues directly and has to get him involved, and she doesn't do it gracefully. She knows how he handles problems.
I've tried everything. I've written letters. I've sat down with her. We've tried counseling. I've even went to church with her since that is her thing. This is my life story.
I don't know what else to do. Its always walking on eggshells with her. Its basically to point where I can only say basic words in an effort to not escalate anything. Yes. No. Okay. There is no opportunity for any healthy relationship besides this.
Now I am again having Gastroparesis symptoms. My stomach is fucked up and I have the scars to prove it.
I asked her to take me to get medicine Thursday. It is now Tuesday. I have no medicine. They instead get my nephew (my brothers son he raises on facetime halfway across the country) Friday and tell me I was being mean to him because I stayed in my room all weekend. Icing on the cake I leave to walk to the grocery store Saturday and come home to them blowing me up because "I didn't tell them I was leaving" despite my mother sitting there as I put on my shoes and coat and not bothering to ask where I was going. I told them I don't feel good. MY CANCER HAS MESTASTISIZED AND I HAVE GP SYMPTOMS AND STAGE-FUCK-YOU-4 "YOURE-DEFINITELY-DEAD-SOON" CANCER. Im dealing with serious shit and your fucking me up I need space ZERO CONTACT ZERO LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE. I HAVE A FUCKING CELL PHONE ON ME 24/7 YOU CAN SHOOT A MISSILE UP MY ASS FROM SPACE!
So they get in my face (both have anger problems, mom has emotional problems) and I basically tell them fuck you because I heard them the other night talking about sending my sister money just because they felt sorry for her.
Sister who is a recovering addict. 3 babies by 3 different men. Never helped with shit ever. No job. Smokes cigarettes. Meanwhile my vehicle is broken, my glasses broke, my laptop broke.
Am I the asshole?
They A. Know my finances. B. Know I can' legally drive without glasses C. Know I've never asked them for anything D. Know all I have is a computer (I cannot even walk my dog without pissing blood so I basically stay inside all day).
Again am I the asshole? Is it unreasonable for me assuming, they and everyone else knowing I will be dead soon, to focus all their energy on me? In my opinion as soon as they knew I don't have meds, glasses broke, the next day I should be picking out frames and have what I need. Is that unreasonable? Because my piece of shit grandmother never went 1 day without meds I guarantee it.
So yes I am angry they're sending my retard sister cigarette money and I told her, "Why are you sending people money and I can't even see." That turns into "you're ungrateful." Meanwhile my vehicle is fucked not because of me, but because they took it to a shitty mechanic, my dog is going blind and is probably is pain, i had to order laptop parts on a payment plan or I would be staring at the wall.
Literally my whole life I'm ungrateful. Asking for lunch, shoes, a heater for my unfinished cold ass basement I grew up in with springs in my mattress where me and my dog used to have to cuddle at night to stay warm. Anything I ask for its always "well i gave you xyz so asking for that is ungrateful." FUCK YOU I NEVER EVEN ATE LUNCH MY ENTIRE HIGH SCHOOL.
Again I'm not trying to throw my parents under the bus. I wish this could be more anonymous and I leave out as much detail as I can out of respect. I'm just tired because my parents do A LOT for A LOT of people. They tithe. They donate. They freecycle. They're genuinely good people. However when you see that and then get STAGE-4-DEAD-BEFORE-40 cancer, and know people buy corvettes and trips to disney on their last years and YOU GET SHIT FOR ORDERING FOOD FROM WALMART AFTER ALMOST STARVING TO DEATH.
I have seen it so many times. They will be fake, nice, do favors for people they don't even like. I just thought they would at least see I was dying. Minimally leave me alone on ITS A BAD DAY TODAY SORRY. I'm not shitty to them. Not talking to someone on a BAD DAY OF CANCER is not shitty its responsible. I'm working through this best I can. Do I need a "FUCK OFF" sign on my door? MAXIMALLY EAT IT. EAT SOME SHIT FOR ONCE. GOD KNOWS I HAVE FOR YOU. GOD KNOWS YOU DEAL WITH OTHER PEOPLES SHIT WITH A SMILE. This is the first time I've complained publicly about NEVER HAVING EATING LUNCH IN HIGH SCHOOL AND GOING HOME TO A FROZEN DARK BASEMENT SO BAD IT RESULTED IN MY DROPPING OUT OF SCHOOL. Be a good parent first then "a good person". YOUR KIDS ALWAYS COME FIRST EVEN EVIL RICH PEOPLE KNOW THIS.
I'm done enduring, suffering, doing for others. I will not kiss ass. If you fuck with me I will literally blacklist you out of my life forever. If you are incompetent or cannot do your job I will laugh at you in your face. If you are wrong or intellectually dishonest I will call you on your bullshit to your face. I am a smart wise and capable man. I will not accept double standards or tolerate hypocrisy. I judge all individuals by the content of their character, their good deeds, and their legacy. Race, gender, affiliation, religion. I will do for you what I will do for my brother. If I live through any more days this is my creed. I give no fucks what you think of me. Cancel me. Dox me. Disown me. You will not rewrite history. This is my gift from cancer.
If I am having a bad day leave me the fuck alone. I will work through it like everything else in my life, no therapy, no drugs, no nothing.
I am living through trauma. This is my time. I value it. You too have limited time. There are few people on this earth who I honestly believe owe me that time. Any others who sacrifice, to you am I grateful. No one owes me anything besides those I have knowingly sacrificed for myself.
I'm sorry I am no superhero and expect a return on the love I have given. That is all. If that means you need to eat shit for a day, here is some salt and pepper. I've seen you eat worse for people you literally hate.
And don't get me wrong. I love my family. I love my country. But things have been said to me that I just cannot hold in any longer, such as "I can't retire because of you."
I'm dealing with this the best I can. I am not an invalid. I am a capable man. I can hike 16 miles in one day with a 40 pound. I can deconstruct and repair a laptop from scratch. I can bootstrap an operating system from a usb stick. I can out perform any motherfucker on the job site. I can squat 3 plates. I can make a dinner so good it will put Gordon Ramsay out of business. I know more about books than any librarian in my state. I change my own oil. I haven't watched TV is 2 decades. I've been open and online before Aaron Schwartz was conceived rest in peace. I am friends with geniuses 3 steps removed from Richard Feynman. I can pull out radio signals from north korea with my Grandfathers grundig (rest in peace). I can ease a dying dog and train a wild beast. Give me a laptop an internet connection and time I can conquer anything. And so can you.
So basically I die as an ungrateful hoarder who can't see and is eating fucking box rations in a closet and can't even get medicine. All because my family is too immature and proud to treat me like all other people they have helped in life. They were all I had left and I cannot face them as a rational adult at this point. The situation is beyond stupid yet irreplaceable.
My retard (no offense) siblings get 2nd 3rd 4th tries, pats on the back. I get a fuck you and a nice box to die in.
There is no way I can endure "the mother of all surgeries" with this bullshit, especially not worth it considering a 50% 5 year survival rating at best.
I am waiting on my repsonse from my Doctor. I have informed them I will be returning home to die alone and asked for Palliative assistance. Godspeed. You will all be with me like always. I'm here forever.