Logan McCain Hi, yes, we're still here and all is well.  We got slammed with the holiday rush and are still working to ship out orders for other products, but we're continuing to work on these.  I know it seems like we keep saying that :-) but things are still moving forward to release asap this spring.

Logan McCain Yep, still good.  Working 9+ hours six days a week just filling Millennium Falcon, Hogwarts, and Disney Castle pre-orders.  Working on lightbars as time permits, but it's moving very slowly because the pre-orders come first.

Logan McCain Yes, the mode setting is maintained even when power is off.

Logan McCain Really hard to say.  The transparent parts will be glued to the tile underneath, forming the lightbar.  The glue is pretty strong (it fuses the plastic) but I'm sure you could pry it off if you tried hard enough.

Logan McCain No it would be pretty well attached-- the wire comes out the bottom of the lightbar assembly, so as long as it's mounted onto the top of a vehicle, you should be good.  The main concern would be knocking one of the top parts loose (one of the transparent 1x2 tiles) but again you'd need to knock it pretty hard for one of those to detatch, I'd think.

Tanner Saadi I thought about that too when designing our kit for that set years ago.  In the end it was just too much work.  The way to do it would be to make a flex PCB with tiny LEDs embedded that would fit between the brick and the tiles.  Problem is you need to make hundreds of those parts in order for the cost to be affordable, and we're already well down the road selling our Hogwarts kits.

Logan McCain Yes, all good here.  June was a busy month!  Two shows in two weeks-- our first shows since before Covid.  2,000 miles driven, thousands of people visiting our booth.  We did have a chance to run-test the self-contained lightbar-- you can see the video here.

Rob Klingberg I'm assembling lightbars this week and next, so they should be online soon.

Logan McCain There is just one wire (two thin wires, one plug) that connects to the battery.  For this video, the battery pack was a coin cell pack, I believe, and it's inside the vehicle.  The wire comes out the bottom of the lightbar itself, and you can still attach the lightbar to the top of studs with the wires passing around/under, and then down into your vehicle.  I'll post more photos soon so you can see how it all comes together.

Logan McCain yes that is the first model we're releasing-- the fully self-contained version with multiple effects (minus the battery pack).

After the self-contained 1x6, we'll be doing several that are not self-contained, meaning you will still need an external effect controller:

• 1x6 but with 3x 1x2 tiles on top (no black grille part in the center), so 9 lights total (3 under each 1x2 tile) in multiple base tile colors (red, black, white, light bluish gray, dark bluish gray) and with multiple top color combinations (all trans-red, all trans-blue, all trans-orange, etc.).
• 1x8 with 8 total lights (either 4x 1x2 tiles or 2x 1x4 tiles) in multiple base and top colors.
• 1x4 with 4 total lights (either 2x 1x2 tiles or one 1x4 tile) in multiple base and top colors.
• 2x6 with 8 total lights (the center 2x2 space will be solid or with 2x grille pieces)

1x3 and 1x2 lightbars require a different lighting and controller design, so for those we will be launching a Kickstarter-type campaign after the above models are released.  Assuming we receive enough support for those, we will move forward with production, but as of now, 1x3 and 1x2 lightbars are not on the production timeline.

In terms of battery,  you can use any of our power supplies.  The smallest is this one.

I hope this information is helpful-- again, we really are working on getting the first batch ready as quickly as we can.

Logan McCain AH, ok, got it!  Yes we will be making those designs with the initial release of the self-contained 6-wide lightbar (Red + Red, Blue + Blue, and Red + Blue).

Thank YOU for your patience and for keeping after us-- hopefully you'll agree it was worth the very long wait!

Logan McCain Maybe but don't worry-- tell me which one(s) you want and I'll save some for you.