The Big Bang Theory Discussion

[SMC]

If you don't like the show you don't have to buy the set but these of us that do can if we want, simple.

Can we talk about what cool things we might get in this set now...

[Steph 104th]

If you don't like the show you don't have to buy the set but these of us that do can if we want, simple.

I couldn't agree more, got to Culture and Multimedia if you are looking for a place to moan about how you dislike the show. We like and we will buy it.

[Cagast]

I will buy it if it is going to include some good hairpieces and pieces generally. I still hope for black Larry the barista's piece.

[Cy_Bored1337]

If you don't like the show you don't have to buy the set but these of us that do can if we want, simple.

Can we talk about what cool things we might get in this set now...

I bow to you

[kevkipo]

Again everyone i did not make this Topic to go and rant, like Steph said go and moan about that somewhere else

[Balbo]

Juhu, I can't wait to get my hands on this set .

I'm so excited to see how they will design the set and how many figures they will include. I'm not expecting more than 4, tough.

Edited November 16, 2014 by Balbo

[kevkipo]

Juhu, I can't wait to get my hands on this set .

I'm so excited to see how they will design the set and how many figures they will include. I'm not expecting more than 4, tough.

They will include the whole gang

[tonif430]

Love this set

[Sam892]

If I'm being honest I'm not really bothered about getting a set based around The Big Bang Theory. I am more interested in the special parts this set will most likely have. Parts like , Miniature LEGO Death Star, DC or Marvel Action figures, Green Lantern/ Flash T shirt, Rock Band controller, a few Board games ect. That's what's really appealing to me here all those special one of parts. Hopefully if LEGO see money in TBBT having another set I would hope for the Comic Shop.......... all those cool little pieces.

[Borador]

If you don't like the show you don't have to buy the set but these of us that do can if we want, simple.

Can we talk about what cool things we might get in this set now...

So we shall.

Do you think Sheldon will have a shirt he's worn on the show, or will they give him a "LEGO-y" one (like one with a brick or classic space logo)? Same goes for Leonard.

How do you suppose they'll manage the height difference between Sheldon and everyone else? He isn't that tall, they are just shorter, but I don't think short legs are appropriate for most of them.

What hairpieces do you suppose they'll use? I'd bet Sheldon will have the hair like Obi-Wan, Leonard like Malfoy, Howard the original Ron Weasley hair, Raj... Larry the Barrista? And I have no idea what they'll use for the girls.

How much of the apartment do you suppose they'll make? Just the couch and TV? Maybe the bookshelves too?

Expanding on the last question, how big is this going to be, and how much will it cost?

Seven figures? That's a lot, I wonder if they'll actually do that...

Do you think they'll reference specific episodes, like they did with The Simpsons ("I choo-choo-choose you, old man yells at cloud, etc.)? Maybe a cup labelled "urine cup" (it was on the bottom, but I'll accept it on the side) or a set of bongos (which you should never play walking down the stairs) or maybe even a robot arm (scratch that, that episode was far too inappropriate, but you never know).

Do you think the figures will have double sided heads? Will they have arm/leg printing where needed? (ie, if they put Howard in plaid, will they print the arms, etc.). I know at least Sheldon will have short sleeves.

Will the action figures be microfigs or trophies?

That's about all I've got for now. That should start the discussion.

Edited November 17, 2014 by Borador

[Blondie-Wan]

Do you think Sheldon will have a shirt he's worn on the show, or will they give him a "LEGO-y" one (like one with a brick or classic space logo)? Same goes for Leonard.

A fine question, and an important one. The torso prints have the potential to make this set appealing even to LEGO fans who don't care for the actual show.

I think a "LEGO-y" shirt like the one you describe would be perfectly in keeping with Sheldon's character and wardrobe choices, even if we don't actually see him wear one in the show. I think there are fans of the show, though, who'd be disappointed if the Sheldon minifigure is wearing anything other than one of his classic shirts he wears a lot (The Flash, Green Lantern, test pattern, etc.).

How do you suppose they'll manage the height difference between Sheldon and everyone else? He isn't that tall, they are just shorter, but I don't think short legs are appropriate for most of them.

I don't think they'll do anything about it at all, just as they ignore height differences for most other characters in most other licensed sets and themes. In most of their source material, there's a wide range of height differences - consider the differences in height between, say, Marion Ravenwood, Indiana Jones and anyone played by Pat Roach, say, or between Princess Leia Organa, C-3PO, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Darth Vader and Chewbacca. Those differences are huge, but those characters are all routinely depicted with minifigures of essentially the same height. They usually only bother with height differentials with characters with extreme differences (R2-D2, Yoda, Short Round, etc. - and even then the differences in the minifigure heights aren't nearly so drastic as those of the "real" characters), or when the source material is animated, and they go to unusual lengths to retain the particular design styles of the characters (as with the characters from Spongebob Squarepants or Toy Story). For The Big Bang Theory, a live-action sitcom featuring actors portraying regular human beings of heights in a varied but common range, I think they'll just use standard-height minifigures for everybody. The closest thing to a deviation from "regular" minifigures that I could see them doing for this project is using the new two-color molded limbs introduced with The Simpsons for different sleeve and pants leg lengths, but that won't affect the figure heights.

What hairpieces do you suppose they'll use? I'd bet Sheldon will have the hair like Obi-Wan, Leonard like Malfoy, Howard the original Ron Weasley hair, Raj... Larry the Barrista? And I have no idea what they'll use for the girls.

Penny has been seen with different hairstyles on the show, so they could use just about anything, but I think the Elizabeth Swan hair or the Series 10 Trendsetter hair might be a good choice. I think Amy will get the Series 10 Librarian hair, which seems perfect to me, and Bernadette could possibly have the Olivia hair, the "princess" / Marion Ravenwood hair, or the Mary Jane / Hermione hair.

That's assuming they do have these characters, of course, which leads us to...

How much of the apartment do you suppose they'll make? Just the couch and TV? Maybe the bookshelves too?

Expanding on the last question, how big is this going to be, and how much will it cost?

Seven figures? That's a lot, I wonder if they'll actually do that...

I could see this having anywhere from three to seven, and which characters are included depends on how many they have. For given numbers of figures, I think these are the characters they'll use:

3 - Leonard, Sheldon, Penny

4 - Leonard, Sheldon, Howard, Raj

5 - Leonard, Sheldon, Penny, Howard, Raj

6 - Leonard, Sheldon, Penny, Howard, Raj, and Amy or Bernadette

7 - Leonard, Sheldon, Penny, Howard, Raj, Amy, Bernadette

I think six minifigures is unlikely, because I don't think they'd do either just Amy or just Bernadette without the other, but it's possible. I similarly don't think they'd do either Howard or Raj without doing the other, and Penny is likelier than either, so if it's just three minifigures Penny is one of them, but if it's four, then Howard and Raj are both there but not Penny. Leonard and Sheldon I'm confident will be there no matter who else is, of course.

I actually think it's fairly likely we'll get all seven, though, since that's part of the core concept for the Ideas project. The proposal features all seven characters, and that's the project people voted for, and while an Ideas project is subject to revision in terms of the build, the core idea is what they try to keep if it becomes a set. If a project is critically dependent upon a number of minifigures greater than what TLG is willing to put in a set, they'll more likely reject it altogether rather than produce a set which is fundamentally different in concept from what people voted for. With this project, I think it's likely people were voting for a set with as many of the important TBBT characters as possible, and since that's the concept they approved it I think LEGO's goal will be to try to get as many of those seven characters in as they can. Three is the absolute bare minimum number of characters I can see them including, but I'm almost certain they'll have more than that, and I think it's actually fairly likely they'll have all seven.

The rest of the set will be as big as it needs to be to accommodate all the included minifigures and to carry enough detail to be recognizeable as the living room set. That should make it a nicely furnished little area, suitable for dropping into an empty LEGO house for insta-decorating, but it won't be a particularly complex build, I think - simpler than that of, say, the Ectomobile, which is what I think should allow this set to come in at hopefully no more than $50, even though it might have up to three more minifigures than the Ghostbusters set. $50 (well, $49.99) is the maximum price (in the US, of course) of any CUUSOO / Ideas set so far, with the three most expensive sets all coming in at that point (including the first, the Shinkai 6500, which never actually had a release outside Japan and for which the only price ever used was therefore in yen, but even that they do show with a $50 US price); the other five sets released to date include three at $34.99 and one apiece at $29.99 and $19.99. It may well be that for the moment, $50 or so is about as pricey as they're willing to go with a set in this line - maybe a few dollars more, like $54.99, but not $60 or $70. We'll know soon enough, of course.

Do you think they'll reference specific episodes, like they did with The Simpsons ("I choo-choo-choose you, old man yells at cloud, etc.)? Maybe a cup labelled "urine cup" (it was on the bottom, but I'll accept it on the side) or a set of bongos (which you should never play walking down the stairs) or maybe even a robot arm (scratch that, that episode was far too inappropriate, but you never know).

That episode with the robot arm is the kind of thing I was thinking would get the whole project declined on brand fit grounds, but it didn't happen, so anything's possible. Since the robot arm is very much the kind of thing that would be at home in the living space of these characters anyway, I could now even see something like it being included, just without any reference to what specifically happens with it in the episode. That said, it's just as likely to not make it because it would use a lot of parts for something not constantly seen in every episode. If they do include five, six or seven minifigures in a $50 set, they'll surely want to conserve parts elsewhere, meaning they'll want to use most of the parts on things that will represent as much of the show as possible (like pieces of furniture seen all the time), and I'd imagine episode-specific things will mostly be a single piece here, a simple two- or three-piece build there.

But then again, I was sure the project wouldn't pass at all to begin with, so what do I know...

Do you think the figures will have double sided heads? Will they have arm/leg printing where needed? (ie, if they put Howard in plaid, will they print the arms, etc.). I know at least Sheldon will have short sleeves.

I think the short sleeves (over long sleeves, specifically) are possible, but not a given. We know they don't like to tie up too much of their production capacity on Ideas sets, and in particular they tend to avoid using the limited capacity for their most advanced techniques on them. Note how the Ghostbusters didn't get the Ghostbusters emblem printed on their uniform sleeves, even though TLG can print on arms and that emblem is arguably the most distinctive part of the Ghostbusters uniform jumpsuit. Arm printing is still something of a limited-capacity luxury for TLG, and they opted to reserve it for mass-market stuff rather than the limited-run Ghostbusters set, even though the latter would have really benefitted from it. The short-sleeves molding is a much more recent innovation than arm printing, and I suspect one for which they currently have much more limited capacity, so I wouldn't be at all surprised if it didn't get used for this set, even though I agree the set would really benefit from it. But you never know...

Double-sided heads are apparently fairly trivial to do, though, judging from how common they are. Moreover, nearly every minifigure in nearly every Ideas set has had a double-sided head, whether it was an existing head or a new one - the green Classic Spacefolk in the Exo-suit set are the only Ideas minifigures without double-sided heads (and they utilize existing head prints which just happened to be single-sided). Every new head designed specifically for a CUUSOO / Ideas set has been double-sided, as have several pre-existing heads reused in CUUSOO / ideas sets. Given this, I think double-sided heads in this set are extremely likely.

Will the action figures be microfigs or trophies?

I don't know (and we might not get either), but a mix of both to represent different scales and whatnot would be great.

[gedren_y]

There are several possibilities for Sheldon's shirt. I would immediately remove the test pattern shirt from the list, as it has more than five colors. There is the Minecraft Evolution shirt (red with yellow printing) that could be Lego-fied, but really wouldn't need to be. Any of the superhero shirts would work, as they are all DC brands, though his Hawkman shirt may be difficult to do (yellow with bright light orange and black printing).

No on the robot arm. The Lego Death Star is plausible, along with the Green Lantern lantern and the silicon lifeform DNA model shown in the Idea. The white board on easel is possible, though not likely in the same form as in the Idea. The Green Lantern action figure is possible, though unlikely given where in him Sheldon hides his cash. The collectable sword is possible, if they do the wall with the door (it's location).

How many figures? I want them all, but will accept any that Lego gives us.

[Doom2099]

I can't wait for these sets. From Sheldon's Death Star to his Police Station, there's more love for Lego on this show than anywhere else. Glad to see it's being recognized!

Plus being a ratings smash doesn't hurt at all.

[Shib]

As much as I'd love for the final set to be the same price as the Ecto-1 I think that the necessary details to make the set good (what made the project so good) will require a lot more parts and a lot more printing. I think TLG would be crazy to not include all 7 lead character and any that get left out could cause complaint and reduce sales (there will always be that person who says 'I loved the Ideas project but no way am I buying it without Amy!") so I'd be surprised if they don't include the full 7. The only dodge I could imagine them doing is doing it as 2 sets that join together e.g one set as living room the other as Kitchen with technic pins to join them.

I wouldn't be surprised to see some episode specific references, but I imagine it'd more likely be that the whiteboards have pictures from the pictionary game etc.

I hope that DC don't see any conflict in using micro figures printed as action figures with their characters or stop the use of a Sheldon comic book hero shirt, it would seem in their interest to allow TLG to use them, but they might put additional licensing fees on it that TLG won't want to pay.

Very much surprised this got through, but I think it's a good sign that it did. It shows that TLG are taking the AFOL dollar seriously and opens the door to other potential licences that might have otherwise been passed on.

[SMC]

So we shall.

Do you think Sheldon will have a shirt he's worn on the show, or will they give him a "LEGO-y" one (like one with a brick or classic space logo)? Same goes for Leonard.

How do you suppose they'll manage the height difference between Sheldon and everyone else? He isn't that tall, they are just shorter, but I don't think short legs are appropriate for most of them.

What hairpieces do you suppose they'll use? I'd bet Sheldon will have the hair like Obi-Wan, Leonard like Malfoy, Howard the original Ron Weasley hair, Raj... Larry the Barrista? And I have no idea what they'll use for the girls.

How much of the apartment do you suppose they'll make? Just the couch and TV? Maybe the bookshelves too?

Expanding on the last question, how big is this going to be, and how much will it cost?

Seven figures? That's a lot, I wonder if they'll actually do that...

Do you think they'll reference specific episodes, like they did with The Simpsons ("I choo-choo-choose you, old man yells at cloud, etc.)? Maybe a cup labelled "urine cup" (it was on the bottom, but I'll accept it on the side) or a set of bongos (which you should never play walking down the stairs) or maybe even a robot arm (scratch that, that episode was far too inappropriate, but you never know).

Do you think the figures will have double sided heads? Will they have arm/leg printing where needed? (ie, if they put Howard in plaid, will they print the arms, etc.). I know at least Sheldon will have short sleeves.

Will the action figures be microfigs or trophies?

That's about all I've got for now. That should start the discussion.

Great questions I think/hope we will get all 7 of the gang and I hope they get new prints although I am not sure if the two color arms will be used. I would love to see Sheldon in a flash shirt and I hope DC ok it. I don't think Lego will do anything about the height difference as Lego don't seem to want to move away from normal legs and would also mean they can all sit too. As for hair Amy should get Librarian hair as it seems made for her other than that Im not too up on my hair. I think we will see as much of the apartment that we see on ideas if they do move it at all they could add in the wall with the door. Another idea that could be cool is add cameras and have it as a TV set, I might do this with mine anyway. I hope we see a lot of cool things in the apartment like micro lego and microfigs but there are a lot of new prints needed and I really hope Lego go all out with this one and make it the best print part pack ever.

[Ezekiel2517]

I hope that Howard doesn't get the old Ron Weasley hair. I don't like that piece.

[kevkipo]

I hope that Howard doesn't get the old Ron Weasley hair. I don't like that piece.

Me neither, let's hope for the Barista's

[Venkefedo]

I hope that Howard doesn't get the old Ron Weasley hair. I don't like that piece.

That hairpiece is great! ...for Doc Ock, or Guy Gardner, or...like...certain types of monks. Decent for Lloyd Christmas. But not really ideal for Howard, except from a front view.

I'd also prefer Larry the Barista's hair. That piece could stand to be used more, so bring it on!

[sunhuntin]

looking forward to seeing what the finished set looks like. anyone else who would love to see sheldon and leonard in the ball pit? pennys hair could be the same as that used on the goth girl from CMF s12, except blonde.

[Steph 104th]

With pictures for Lego Birds being released, I think it won't be long before we get the pictures for this, only thing is I think the set would have been modified more the Birds resulting in us having a slightly longer wait for images.

[Sven F]

Me neither, let's hope for the Barista's

I will buy it if it is going to include some good hairpieces and pieces generally. I still hope for black Larry the barista's piece.

Me neither, let's hope for the Barista's

I'd also prefer Larry the Barista's hair. That piece could stand to be used more, so bring it on!

This is just guessing, but it seems to me that a lot of hairpieces and accessories that are exclusive to the CMF series are not included in any sets unless the piece is decided to be used continuously, and i am going by the fact the CMF's are produced in china and would complicate packaging. Duplicating moulds for use in other factories might be too costly. There have been a lot of cases where an existing cmf part would serve as a much better piece in a set than what they used. This might be why that seagull never made it to the Parisian Restaurant or why the flying flusher uses brick built plungers, etc..

[SMC]

^ I agree but it does seems odd that lego pay for a new mold that only gets used once but I can think of a lot of times when they don't use the better option from the cmf line, the new police hat with badge, hockey sick in free Christmas set.

Edited November 26, 2014 by SMC

[Steph 104th]

@Sven F,That's a very good point but I think SMC has the same point of view as me, the counter for that hairpiece could also be: Molds cost up to €250000 a piece so they might want to get their moneys worth and use the piece.

Edited November 26, 2014 by Steph 104th

[thestericho]

Hopefully this is a decent sized set

Very happy this was selected to be a official lego set.

[JaseTJ]

With pictures for Lego Birds being released, I think it won't be long before we get the pictures for this, only thing is I think the set would have been modified more the Birds resulting in us having a slightly longer wait for images.

I wouldn't count on it. The Birds set was released with maybe a couple of color changes... other than that it was basically the project, no? BBT will take a lot more time, mainly to figure out what to include or not.