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It took 13 years and I just had my first casualty to the "brittle brown" epidemic of 2012-2017. Poor Bard the Bowman. I was organizing my minifigures, nudged his right leg, and it snapped right off going flying. I managed to save his legs, main torso, head, hair, & hands. However, the arms and waistline piece are dust in the wind. I took a handheld power drill with the smallest drill bit I had and slowly ground down the peg extending from the hip's middle part (circular disk area between the legs, the "groin" I suppose) into the leg piece itself still stuck until said peg crumbled. (Repeated for the other leg because that snapped off too.) I decided to drill out the stiff arms as well instead of waiting for either of those to do the same as what the legs did and/or crack the torso. There is a little bump at the end of the arm piece resting inside the torso, I started with drilling that bit down until it fell apart which loosened the rest of the arm to pop off mostly. The external section of the arm broke off while leaving some "armpit" in the hole. Once again, carefully drilled until that crumbled. Walked away with a couple abrasions on the inside of the legs facing the "groin" area (of which only really show up under a light) and no cracks on the torso anywhere. Not sure what to do next. I may very lightly smooth down the inner surface area of the legs and arms to reduce any possible grinding should I replace the hip & arm parts. Ol' Bard will be missing his hip printing and have little in the way of pose ability but compared to the worst-case scenario, I think he will be alright. Well, mostly. ....And now onto my army of fourteen Uruk-Hai. Nothing broken or cracked there, only stiff thank goodness. I just have a bunch of bodies missing their heads & hands in a drawer. ....Well, that last sentence sounded wrong. Anywho. I was thinking of picking up some plain dark red torsos from LEGO's pick a brick (if they ever get any in that is) or use some other dark red torsos. I mean, the Uruk-Hai minifigures are going to be wearing chest armor therefore any printing will simply be covered anyhow. Not sure about the legs; perhaps something dark brown. At the moment I am using a couple of the Hun Warrior minifigure as a new body. (Dark red torso with nice leggings that actually kind of work for the ork.) I am curious what other leg prints could work. So that's what I have been up to. General organizing, building some armies, and.... stuff.

That's what I think. My only other thought is Amazon/Walmart might figure they can make more selling their own products rather than fees off 3rd party sellers. With the increased cost of doing business that has exploded over the past few years they might figure there is less overhead managing the inventory of thousands of 3rd party sellers. Probably a combination of things like this.

The movement with the 3d printed train is pretty cool though. I guess it at least has that going for it.

That is what I am not getting. This does not seem like something this current government would care about at all. I feel they would tend to be way in the opposite direction. The only thing I can think is that the larger Toy companies are pressuring this to decrease sales of older toys and increase sales of newer toys for them. Either that or some cabal of insurance companies or testing companies had some sort of pressure or influence applied.

Wonder where all this special compliance regulation is coming from. This administration is supposed to be anti-regulation. Did'nt they de-regulate CFPB. I guess they don't care about CSPC

Walmart joins the fun but so far doesnt seem to have actually affected my listings. Maybe lego is excluded hopefully.

Since when we have to weigh every single Lego set? Are we selling cokes or toys?

Here around the 2:10 timestamp is a good look at the 3D printed tiny train and its functions. This would mark the first widely available set to include such an element while technically being LEGO's fourth official 3D printed piece I believe. 1st was a drafting table machine arm from a LEGO Tour 2019 set (New Elementary article with actual photos), 2nd a toy duck given as a gift with purchase to LEGO House visitors, third a pogo stick for backers of The Secret Life of LEGO book, and now this toy train. After looking back at how incredibly niche & rather sparse the releases of 3D printed elements LEGO has attempted thus far, I am not too worried of its inclusion here. I do ponder upon what this may entail going forward of course.

Channel Tang Brick Studio has quite a few armies.

This is why I weigh every set I purchase. Since I don't usually purchase just 1 of anything, it's easy to know if they don't weigh the same.

Curious if you visited Amazon's procured third party list for testing? Most of the approved providers are outside of the US. Some don't even test children's toys. Many of the sites give limited information and some are flagged as not secure, lol. I feel for 'Bob' from customer service who works for one of these companies and is probably used to a few inquires a week.

Coincidentally, a different buyer complained about missing pieces and I received a email from amazon saying they are launching an ASIN investigation. Has anyone else had this? I'm wondering what the timeline is and what has happened for other people. If they ask me for invoices I am toast...

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Under the current circumstances and lack of clear future why would you focus on anything?

ah if so, all Lego technically can be built by less than 12. Its just a marketing ploy by lego

Just to be clear...Amazon did specify some things that are intended for 12+ that still look like children's toys are still subject to documentation if they decide that. I know that most McFarlane, NECA, Sideshow/Hot Toys, Mezco, Super 7, etc. are sold as and marketed for adults and packaged as such. Most of them still very much look like toys/action figures. I would love for all those to be exempt, but Amazon is clearly run by robots and AI and who knows how they will interpret things going forward. I would be ecstatic if even half my inventory survives the purge.

Very informative. So the strategy is to focus on 12+ sets now. Hmmmmm....

They didn't say a deadline. Everything will be ASIN based and will come in waves with different deadlines is the way I understood it. They also said if a toy has any "playability" it would not be excluded from the under 12 testing. Lego sets 12+ would not require testing Of course this comes right after the listing violation debacle where I still have 3500 units stranded. I have another week or so before auto-removal and my front porch looks like Santa's sleigh exploded.

Hes very into Walmart these days. But I saw a similar warning on my walmart account today regarding toy certificates...

I wanted to but forgot to join. Did they say the deadline date?

Anyone else join the Toy compliance webinar today? I did and I'm 99% sure resellers are done on Amazon. I'm just waiting for the 3000+ compliance request that should hit in the next couple of days. And at that point, it's gonna be a race to the bottom until the due date. THEN... after all the genuine Lego listings are gone... Amazon will be over taken with "Compatible with Lego" listings. It's not feasible to test Lego products because every color and every plastic has to be tested. I once got a pallet of 9516's examined by CPSC and they told me I had to supply testing records. Not just the results of the test (these can be found on the Lego compliance website) but also the testing methods used and details of the test. Of course Lego doesn't supply this (I even begged Lego) and after getting quotes from multiple approved labs ($15,000-$20,000 per lego set) ... my only option was to sign it over to CBP to be destroyed. I wish I knew what "Secret Marketplace" the Brick Bucks guy is talking about

yup, thats the absurdity of it. even after 100% refund you are still at the whim and mercy of some petty karen. But at least you've done all you can do..... thats my philosophy.

The logic is sound, but that doesn’t guarantee the customer won’t leave negative feedback — which could then be picked up by bots systems and result in a case being opened.