Licencing in Reverse

[Mister Phes]

What if a major studio approached LEGO and tried to procure a licencing agreement which stated they would produce a tetralogy of films (well the trilogy concept has been flogged to death!) whose storylines focus on the sets and characters of the LEGO pirate theme? Ok, that'll never happen! What if a major independant filmmaker... Wait! Isn't George Lucas the only one with enough clout to achieve such a venture? He'll never do that! Looks like its all up to me... Just give me a few decades...

I'm not even going to share half my ideas because they're so good :^D But here's how I'd divide the 4 films.

First film would focus on 1989-1991

Second 1992-1993

Third 1994-1995

Fourth 1996-????

The existing sets could be worked into the storyline, but new sets and characters could be introduced to fill any gaps. The entire theme could be relaunched with the old sets being re-released along side new ones. Of course the newer sets would have to keep a similiar architecture to the older ones (oh the pitty!) to prevent it looking like two different themes had been "thrown" together.

This way the pirate collectors could get the sets they missed out as a kid and be supplied with fresh new sets. The theme would also be introduced to a new generation but with the new sets this generation wouldn't feel alienated by the older sets' seniority (if that could possibly happen anyway). The colour change might be annoying though...

Ok, I'm done day dreaming...

[Norro]

What if a major studio approached LEGO and tried to procure a licencing agreement which stated they would produce a tetralogy of films (well the trilogy concept has been flogged to death!) whose storylines focus on the sets and characters of the LEGO pirate theme? Ok, that'll never happen! What if a major independant filmmaker... Wait! Isn't George Lucas the only one with enough clout to achieve such a venture? He'll never do that! Looks like its all up to me... Just give me a few decades...

I'm not even going to share half my ideas because they're so good :^D But here's how I'd divide the 4 films.

First film would focus on 1989-1991

Second 1992-1993

Third 1994-1995

Fourth 1996-????

The existing sets could be worked into the storyline, but new sets and characters could be introduced to fill any gaps. The entire theme could be relaunched with the old sets being re-released along side new ones. Of course the newer sets would have to keep a similiar architecture to the older ones (oh the pitty!) to prevent it looking like two different themes had been just "thrown" together.

This way the pirate collectors could get the sets they missed out as a kid and be supplied with fresh new sets. The colour change might be annoying though...

Ok, I'm done day dreaming...

I intend to do my own story, illustrated with MOCed LEGO...

God Bless,

Nathan

[Mister Phes]

Then turn it into a film in a licencing agreement with LEGO to produce a whole new theme and re-release more older sets?

[Norro]

Then turn it into a film in a licencing agreement with LEGO to produce a whole new theme and re-release more older sets?

No, the lego line would feature superior sets based on excellent AFOL standard MOCs...

God Bless,

Nathan

[Mister Phes]

That sounds like it could get quite expensive unless there were many restrictions placed on the size and number of pieces used...

[Norro]

That sounds like it could get quite expensive unless there were many restrictions placed on the size and number of pieces used...

Since we're dreaming...Lego decides to go for quality above all limiting factors.

God Bless,

Nathan

[Mister Phes]

Does LEGO already pride itself on quality above all limiting factors?

[Starwars4J]

Does LEGO already pride itself on quality above all limiting factors?

If they did, we wouldn't be stuck with bley, lower MF count, fewer colors (yes, I'm from the US), and lower piece-counts overall >_>

[Mister Phes]

Is bley really such a bad thing? Fewer colours? I still thought there were too many colours even after the palette was reduced to 56. I'm not sure what you being from the USA has to do with the price of LEGO sharks.

But I will agree lower mini-figure and lower piece counts are atrocious...

[Starwars4J]

Is bley really such a bad thing? Fewer colours? I still thought there were too many colours even after the palette was reduced to 56. I'm not sure what you being from the USA has to do with the price of LEGO sharks.

But I will agree lower mini-figure and lower piece counts are atrocious...

I said I was from the US because I said "color" instead of "colour" ;)

[Dreamweb]

How about an animated movie made using Lego? Like in some commercials where we've seen animated Lego, or in a few music videos I've seen.

[Norro]

Is bley really such a bad thing?

YES! It is terrible (from a pirate/castle perspective, it may be all right for a cement based town...)

And I agree with all the evidence listed above.

God Bless,

Nathan

[Sting]

I remember people freaking out about the change to Bley a year ago... and I didn't get it...

I have tried to mix the two recently(by accident).

I am an official hater of Bley. How terrible... and why did they even HAVE to change it!? Can someone bring me up to date with lego's reason for making a stupid unnessecary colour change??

[The Middleman]

The bleys aren't bad colors; they're just NEW colors, and that's the problem people have with them. The old light gray is lackluster, in my opinion, and discolors similarly to white. The new grays have a nice sheen to them. I doubt anybody would be angry if bley had always been around.

Even then, I don't really understand the issue. Why not a little variety? Surely people can get as much old gray as they need from Bricklink, and the sets supply them with bley. I'd like to see a castle built entirely in bley.

[Starwars4J]

I doubt anyone would have complained either, and I don't dislike the bleys persay, I just dislike the fact that they replaced a color with a similar, yet noticably different one. It makes it hader to organize your pieces, and well...I just dislike the change. If it was always blay, and always would be blay, I wouldn't have a problem.

[Mister Phes]

I said I was from the US because I said "color" instead of "colour" ;)

But US spelling is everywhere around me so I don't even notice...

[Mister Phes]

The bleys aren't bad colors; they're just NEW colors, and that's the problem people have with them. 

Why not a little variety?

If anyone listened to those MP3's about the future direction of LEGO that was posted here a few months back the answer is there. Since I'm dying I'm not going to look the thread up and get the proper names.

But here's my delerified interperatation of what was said. Once upon a time there was a LEGO King. Heh? No that weren't it. I'll try again. The reason these new shades of grey and brown are replacing the traditional shades is because the traditional shades weren't on the same "spectrum" as all the existing LEGO colours. So they've released these new shades to put the greys and brown in line with all the other colours.

Errr... Did anyone need that explaination or did I write that for nothing?

The old light gray is lackluster, in my opinion, and discolors similarly to white.  The new grays have a nice sheen to them.  I doubt anybody would be angry if bley had always been around.

Like Bloody Jay said the old light grey is lackluster and LEGO wanted more constrast between that grey and the other colours.

Why not a little variety?

Some of you like lots of colours, so here you go! More shades of grey and brown yaaaaaay! But if you're like me you won't give two hootz. Maybe not even one. However! I have not encounter bley in the real world yet and if it were to slip into my collection then perhaps I've be writing a different tune...