I don't think its unrelatable to deliberate on certain special or rare items in a collection, its the possible value and essentially scale that a majority of your viewers (definitely including myself) can't really fathom. $2,000 is a lot of money, and arguing it isn't is ignorant
For your minifig put the two part in hot water... Wait... Then put them together still in the hot water... And wait for the water to cool down... When it's cold you are safe ! No cracks 😉 it works! done it at least 20times especially with brown, dark green,...
R u sure you didn't use the wedge piece where the straight panel goes earlier in the instructions so you were only left with a straight panel at the end? That's happened to me a bunch and I think they included the wrong piece but actually for as many times as I've got missing pieces I've never got a wrong piece. Whenever it's a wrong piece scenario in my experience that's my own error earlier in the set somewhere I picked up and used the wrong one without even noticing.
Ask M&R: Do you think Lego will ever make a set based on the Umbara Arc the Clone Wars Series? And if so, do you think they will include any names 501st characters like Appo, Dogma, Tup, Kix, Jesse, and Hardcase?