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[(1)Stein]

 

Yep! Official reveal is imminent!

[RichardGoring]

It looks better than I thought it would actually.

But the saucer section of the Enterprise keeps drawing my eye negatively. I can't get over seeing it at a hexagon because of the way it's constructed. Hopefully the shadows/lines won't be as harsh in the real life set, and it's the photography lighting that is doing it an injustice, because the rest looks great.

[(1)Stein]

12 minutes ago, RichardGoring said:

It looks better than I thought it would actually.

Agree! But there is always going to be some compromises since its Lego, But looks like a fun build and the GWP shuttle is great as well! Just wander how they continue with the license!? It will really get interesting when they do Klingons and Romulans 🤔

Edited November 2 by (1)Stein

[MKJoshA]

I'm pretty excited for this set. But I'm curious, why Ro with the Shuttlepod? There are so many other characters they could have picked. Why someone with such little screen time? 

[(1)Stein]

8 minutes ago, MKJoshA said:

why Ro with the Shuttlepod?

Not sure but maybe she was liked from the set Designer, and a larger set with her in it would have gotten more negative responses!? Besides that larger image...

[Artifex]

Looks like an older Lego-style design.

It brings back some fond memories.

Not bad, but different from what I expected.

Modern Lego seems to be... leaner.

[strangely]

The shuttle looks great, too bad it's a gwp. Guess I'll try to get it from a reseller.

The Enterprise is cool, I just have no want/space for it.

If they ever make playsets I'd definitely buy those though.

[hikouki]

I wanna buy it just for the minifigs. LOL

I am pretty sure someone will make a MOC on RB with less hexagonal features.

[JohnTPT17]

5 hours ago, MKJoshA said:

I'm pretty excited for this set. But I'm curious, why Ro with the Shuttlepod? There are so many other characters they could have picked. Why someone with such little screen time? 

My initial thought was that Ro could potentially share a head with Major Kira from DS9, so Ro was chosen to "get ahead" on prints. However, Kira wears her ear piece over the opposite ear from Ro, so that might not be the case...

[Tc99m]

20 hours ago, MKJoshA said:

I'm pretty excited for this set. But I'm curious, why Ro with the Shuttlepod? There are so many other characters they could have picked. Why someone with such little screen time? 

LEGO thinks (perhaps correctly) that the target audience wants 'a vehicle'. So, what can accompany a starship set? A shuttlecraft of course. And you need someone to pilot the shuttlecraft, and Ro is the only recurring character who's established as a pilot (of the main characters, both Geordi, Wesley or Riker would qualify, but they're already in the big set of course), although we never see Ro piloting a Type 15 in TNG.

Other recurring/main characters like O'Brien, Yar or Pulaski would be an odd match with the shuttle. Another factor might be that the designers wanted to include another female minifig. In that sense, I feel a bit bad for Yar that she is left out in favor of Ro and Guinan (I remember that Denise Crosby was also a bit sad that she wasn't approached for a cameo in ST:Picard).

Said it before: not mad about Ro, but truly a missed chance to do a transporter room set, which could have come with an O'Brien minifig and would have made a nice display set for the other minifigs. I'm also not a big fan of the boxy design of the Type 15 shuttlecraft, the Type 6 would have been a better choice imho.

Edited November 3 by Tc99m

[MKJoshA]

I've heard many people call Ro Laren a recurring character, but she was only in 5 episodes in TNG. And really any character could have piloted a shuttle. I too thought that maybe Lego was trying to introduce a generic Bajoran face for us, but as @JohnTPT17 pointed out the print doesn't work for Major Kira. I think @(1)Stein has presented the most plausible possibility I've heard yet. Maybe we'll get an explanation with the full reveal of the set. 

[RichardGoring]

50 minutes ago, Tc99m said:

LEGO thinks (perhaps correctly) that the target audience wants 'a vehicle'. So, what can accompany a starship set? A shuttlecraft of course...

...but truly a missed chance to do a transporter room set...

It's curious that they appear to have moved away from the dioramas, but are also continuing to look at sitcom sets on Ideas. A transporter room set really would have been great, but it also leaves the door open for a real transporter room set in future if they want to do smaller scenes/sets.

3 minutes ago, MKJoshA said:

I've heard many people call Ro Laren a recurring character, but she was only in 5 episodes in TNG. And really any character could have piloted a shuttle. I too thought that maybe Lego was trying to introduce a generic Bajoran face for us, but as @JohnTPT17 pointed out the print doesn't work for Major Kira. I think @(1)Stein has presented the most plausible possibility I've heard yet. Maybe we'll get an explanation with the full reveal of the set. 

That felt too low (although it's still a low number), so I looked it up, and it's actually 8. I've never really thought of her as a mainline cast character and would consider Reg Barclay as more prominent (he was in ten episodes).

I had assumed that she was there to tie things into DS9, and in looking up the number, it turns out that she was planned to be a main character in DS9, but Michelle Forbes turned down the role, so we got Kira Nerys instead. So could have been a lot more significant.

I really hope we get Tasha Yar, Dr Pulanski, Chief O'Brien, and Q at some point. Can't really see major sets featuring all of them though, sadly.

[MKJoshA]

44 minutes ago, RichardGoring said:

That felt too low (although it's still a low number), so I looked it up, and it's actually 8. I've never really thought of her as a mainline cast character and would consider Reg Barclay as more prominent (he was in ten episodes).

I had assumed that she was there to tie things into DS9, and in looking up the number, it turns out that she was planned to be a main character in DS9, but Michelle Forbes turned down the role, so we got Kira Nerys instead. So could have been a lot more significant.

I really hope we get Tasha Yar, Dr Pulanski, Chief O'Brien, and Q at some point. Can't really see major sets featuring all of them though, sadly.

I looked it up to and while I found the number 8, I counted only 5 TNG episodes and 2 Picard episodes. Even if it's only 5 or 6 that's still more than I remember her being in. O'Brien was a much more memorable character for me, maybe due to DS9. Tasha Yar, Dr Pulanski or Barclay would have been good choices. But since she showed up in Picard I guess it makes decent sense for Lego to make a version of her.

[Tc99m]

44 minutes ago, RichardGoring said:

It's curious that they appear to have moved away from the dioramas, but are also continuing to look at sitcom sets on Ideas. A transporter room set really would have been great, but it also leaves the door open for a real transporter room set in future if they want to do smaller scenes/sets.

 

I had assumed that she was there to tie things into DS9, and in looking up the number, it turns out that she was planned to be a main character in DS9, but Michelle Forbes turned down the role, so we got Kira Nerys instead. So could have been a lot more significant.

I really hope we get Tasha Yar, Dr Pulanski, Chief O'Brien, and Q at some point. Can't really see major sets featuring all of them though, sadly.

Honestly, I would get my hopes up too much for diorama's (yet). There has been only one set announced so far, it's not that LEGO is launching a whole range with several waves each year (like they do with other IP's, that have a theme with both bigger and smaller sets). They're also keeping it into the Icons theme so far, it's not a separate theme like SW, HP, etc.

A lot will probably hinge on how well this set is going to sell, but to me it looks more like LEGO is going to treat Star Trek like they do IP's such as LOTR or Zelda: one big Icons set a year - perhaps one or two smaller sets to accompany them and if we're lucky a CMF-series.

And if that's the case, it will probably more 'generic' sets (like starships, shuttlecraft, etc.) that appeal to a broader audience than smaller diorama's which will appeal more to Trek fans only (although I'd wager my money on one of the Enterprise bridges).

Not trying to be a party pooper btw, but just being realistic - I really don't think we'll get the same amount of sets that Bluebrixx released. 

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That felt too low (although it's still a low number), so I looked it up, and it's actually 8. I've never really thought of her as a mainline cast character and would consider Reg Barclay as more prominent (he was in ten episodes).

Barclay has only 5 TNG appearances, unless you count his cameo on First Contact. The majority of his appearances (6) was actually on Voyager.

For me, Ro was a way more prominent character than Barclay (on TNG at least). 6 of her 8 appearances were in season 5 and they were obviously setting her up for more appearances in season 6 and 7 (since a few of her season 5 appearances don't really revolve around her as a character, but she's just treated as a regular member of the bridge crew), but Forbes notoriously didn't want to commit herself to a show fully (hence her character being rewritten into Kira for DS9, and later B'Ellanna Torres for Voyager - for which they tried to get Forbes as well).

[MKJoshA]

1 hour ago, Tc99m said:

Barclay has only 5 TNG appearances, unless you count his cameo on First Contact. The majority of his appearances (6) was actually on Voyager.

For me, Ro was a way more prominent character than Barclay (on TNG at least). 6 of her 8 appearances were in season 5 and they were obviously setting her up for more appearances in season 6 and 7 (since a few of her season 5 appearances don't really revolve around her as a character, but she's just treated as a regular member of the bridge crew), but Forbes notoriously didn't want to commit herself to a show fully (hence her character being rewritten into Kira for DS9, and later B'Ellanna Torres for Voyager - for which they tried to get Forbes as well).

Hmm, memory is such a quirky thing. I would have guessed Barclay had a lot more than 5 episodes. Alright, I stand corrected. Ro is a decent choice. 

[RichardGoring]

Yes, memory is clearly off. I always thought Q was far more prominent too, but he's only in a few episodes.

Of course the one that we're all missing and is far more prominent than all of them is Lwaxana Troi, who is not only a great character, but Majel Barrett was the ships computer across many of the series (and all TNG) and was also in TOS. It would have been terrific to get her as a GWP, but maybe she's better suited to a real set at some point in the future.

[saibot]

19 hours ago, hikouki said:

I wanna buy it just for the minifigs. LOL

I am pretty sure someone will make a MOC on RB with less hexagonal features.

This is what I'm hoping, a more "rounded" or fuller dish section will be moc'd up, with possibly the trans-blue ring for the phaser rings, I can't make these out from the leaked pics.

[RichardGoring]

5 minutes ago, saibot said:

This is what I'm hoping, a more "rounded" or fuller dish section will be moc'd up, with possibly the trans-blue ring for the phaser rings, I can't make these out from the leaked pics.

I'm hoping that it's the lighting that's causing the issue here and that in real-life and more natural lighting it won't be quite so obvious.

[Siroco]

Imo, TLG did well not "locking" an important character in a gwp

[JesseNight]

5 hours ago, Tc99m said:

Other recurring/main characters like O'Brien, Yar or Pulaski would be an odd match with the shuttle. Another factor might be that the designers wanted to include another female minifig. In that sense, I feel a bit bad for Yar that she is left out in favor of Ro and Guinan (I remember that Denise Crosby was also a bit sad that she wasn't approached for a cameo in ST:Picard).

Said it before: not mad about Ro, but truly a missed chance to do a transporter room set, which could have come with an O'Brien minifig and would have made a nice display set for the other minifigs. I'm also not a big fan of the boxy design of the Type 15 shuttlecraft, the Type 6 would have been a better choice imho.

It kinda makes sense they went for the type 15. GWP are usually small simple sets, and the type 6 is a major size up. I've seen some great mocs of type 6 shuttles in minifig size that were a few hundred parts already.
Transporter room would have been great indeed, maybe we'll still see one in the future?

Sure they could have included Yar, but I understand why they didn't. She was part of TNG for less than 1 season. Many who jumped in the series later when it first aired wouldn't even know about her until much later. Denise wanted out herself though, so she can't complain that she wasn't in ST:Picard, her character died after all.

The set looks better than I had expected, I do agree that the layer with the corners is a bit off on the saucer.

[(1)Stein]

11 hours ago, MKJoshA said:

I've heard many people call Ro Laren a recurring character, but she was only in 5 episodes in TNG. And really any character could have piloted a shuttle

Well when Lego gets into Battlestar Galactica then she is ready as a Minifigure! 🤪

Edited November 3 by (1)Stein

[JohnTPT17]

14 hours ago, Tc99m said:

And if that's the case, it will probably more 'generic' sets (like starships, shuttlecraft, etc.) that appeal to a broader audience than smaller diorama's which will appeal more to Trek fans only (although I'd wager my money on one of the Enterprise bridges).

A Bridge set (and potentially a Promenade, or even just Quark's from DS9) would be my ideal future for Star Trek sets. Not only could the cost easily be about half that of the entire Enterprise, but you could get all of the associated minifigures and give all of them something to do in a much more "playable" role. I'd love to set up some scenes of a crew with my Muppet minifigs, for example - not near as easy or fun to do that when all of the minifigs are just statically standing to the side of the ship.

Zelda seems to potentially be going down a somewhat similar path (starting with a large model, then going to something smaller a few years later), so it could potentially be in the cards.

Edited November 4 by JohnTPT17

[MKJoshA]

I would love a TNG Enterprise D Bridge, Quarks, and something Voyager related. 

[Frizzlefry25]

Man I really hate the look from underneath, this thing will definitely need to be displayed low, or at an angle, or modded to hide that hideous underside.

There is a pretty good episode with Ro when she leaves to join the Maquee and sneaks a shuttle through the shields of the enterprise between the nacelles. She does feel like she was in more episodes as many of them had an impact on Picard and the series. I'm really going to have to decide to cash in my points or not?!!!  It's either going to be both or none!

[(1)Stein]

So apparently official beam in, is on Thursday... 

Edited November 5 by (1)Stein