Cult_Of_Skaro Posted January 10, 2014 Posted January 10, 2014 So a Bea Arthur or Diahann Carroll figure? I imagine it'll be a relatively famous player from the originals given LEGO's history and the recent OT push by Disney. Yeah, or Chewie's wife/grandpa/son! Quote
Faefrost Posted January 11, 2014 Posted January 11, 2014 So a Bea Arthur or Diahann Carroll figure? I imagine it'll be a relatively famous player from the originals given LEGO's history and the recent OT push by Disney. But which Bea Arthur character? It would be so hard to choose. The singing Tatooine saloon keeper? The robot cooking show chef? (The fact that I even know some of the choices really really disturbs me... ) Quote
Cult_Of_Skaro Posted January 11, 2014 Posted January 11, 2014 But which Bea Arthur character? It would be so hard to choose. The singing Tatooine saloon keeper? The robot cooking show chef? (The fact that I even know some of the choices really really disturbs me... ) Cooking show chef. Definitely. Quote
tkatt Posted March 6, 2014 Posted March 6, 2014 It's yellow Luke. http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1465419217/?tag=bfstaff-21 Kind of a disappointment for me. Quote
Cult_Of_Skaro Posted March 6, 2014 Posted March 6, 2014 Are you sure that's an official image? It seems bizarre to me that they'd do that. I mean, how many kids are going to be excited over a yellow luke? Quote
Lobot Posted March 6, 2014 Posted March 6, 2014 Yes, it's also on the DK website I'm not one to be too critical about things, but what were TLG thinking of? Quote
Blondie-Wan Posted March 6, 2014 Posted March 6, 2014 Wow, really? That's an odd choice, to say the least. Quote
Robianco Posted March 6, 2014 Posted March 6, 2014 Odd choice? It's horrific! It just makes no sense at all... It's a poor looking figure if it is indeed the way they go... They've never done 'retro' figures before so I don't see them doing it now. I seem to remember seeing something saying it was a Luke figure but I'm hoping this is just a placeholder. Quote
Steel Tiger Posted March 6, 2014 Posted March 6, 2014 That means they have discontinued the trend of putting celebration minifigures in these books. That significantly reduces the chance of getting a Jan Dodonna fig! Does this mean that they are going to clog up the future books with retro han and retro leia? I don't like where this is going... Quote
LegoFjotten Posted March 6, 2014 Posted March 6, 2014 Yellow Luke… that idea is just the worst. Quote
TheBrickPal Posted March 6, 2014 Posted March 6, 2014 This is an absolutely horrible choice for a minifigure. What is there for those who want an exclusive one? Quote
Brickmamba Posted March 6, 2014 Posted March 6, 2014 I for one won't be getting the book, horrible waste of a minifigure slot Quote
Suspsy Posted March 6, 2014 Posted March 6, 2014 Wow. This is one time where I'm going to just come right out and say it: Lego made an idiotic choice. Quote
strangely Posted March 7, 2014 Posted March 7, 2014 I don't know if it's exactly idiotic. I feel like it's more of a miscalculation. Looking at it I almost get the feeling that Lego was hoping to cash in on nostalgia, why else rerelease a retro minifigure if not to cash in on nostalgia. I mean a fair amount of the Lego movie and its sets used nostalgia to grab attention, so I feel like old Luke was more of that. Which in theory is actually a good idea, but it doesn't work well in this theme. When Lego rereleased Johnny Thunder in the Lego movie sets I was pleased, but that's because he's an iconic character from a retro theme that was discontinued over a decade ago. And that version was pretty much the best version of him. Luke on the other hand has been remade every few years. There's almost always a variation of this costume available somewhere. And this particular variation, while the first, was also the weakest. I mean I think it's an interesting piece of Lego history (Although this minifigure isn't even exactly the same), but it just isn't that particularly special. I guess I could reason that maybe I'm just not the target audience, but that leaves me to wonder what a kid would want with an extremely outdated minifigure that was made and discontinued before they were even born. I mean the nostalgia factor doesn't really work in that case, so what exactly is the appeal. I just feel like nostalgia wasn't the best move to sell this book. Quote
J.V.D. Posted March 7, 2014 Posted March 7, 2014 Personally I find a perfect and logic choice to include (a replica of) the first ever Star Wars minifig in this book that kind of commemorates 15 years of Lego Star Wars... Do all the whining people here, and on other fora, realy only buy those books for the minifigure?.. Sounds like a big waste of money and resources to me.. If I buy a book, its for the book itself.. whatever comes with it, is a bonus.. just that.. When it is a Lego product I want to buy.... I just buy Lego.. but.. that is just me. In fact, I am getting a bit tired and annoyed with all those "exclusive" figures that you can only get when you buy a certain product (be it a book, game, blue ray, spent an amount in a certain shop), or go to a convention.. Many of those end up in the hands of exploiters anyway.. I also find it a bit strange that people blame TLG for this "bad choice".. Maybe they propose possible exclusives, but I guess it is still the publisher (DK) who decides if and which minifig is going to be included as a bonus.. And, despite .dk being the www-suffix for Denmark, to my knowledge TLG and DK are not the same company.. Quote
strangely Posted March 7, 2014 Posted March 7, 2014 Do all the whining people here, and on other fora, realy only buy those books for the minifigure?.. Sounds like a big waste of money and resources to me.. If I buy a book, its for the book itself.. whatever comes with it, is a bonus.. just that.. When it is a Lego product I want to buy.... I just buy Lego.. but.. that is just me. Well I would agree that the book itself is what's worth buying, but in this case that's not exactly true. This book is just an updated version of an older book. So for those who had the old book there has to be extra incentive to buy it again. And exclusive minifigures do make that decision easier. I don't usually buy these products just for the exclusives that come along, but there are some times where it adds incentive to buy it. Even for people who don't have the old book it's got to be somewhat disappointing that the old book came with a new and one of a kind minifigure while this version reprints an already widely available one. In fact, I am getting a bit tired and annoyed with all those "exclusive" figures that you can only get when you buy a certain product (be it a book, game, blue ray, spent an amount in a certain shop), or go to a convention.. Many of those end up in the hands of exploiters anyway.. I also find it a bit strange that people blame TLG for this "bad choice".. Maybe they propose possible exclusives, but I guess it is still the publisher (DK) who decides if and which minifig is going to be included as a bonus.. And, despite .dk being the www-suffix for Denmark, to my knowledge TLG and DK are not the same company.. I don't like convention exclusives, since there is only a small number of them and ultimately people jack the prices up significantly. However I think the exclusives added onto books, movies and in store are alright. I mean most of them are pretty widely accessible, and generally there's a lot more of them in circulation. And in the past when I've bought them on Ebay it's been pretty reasonable. Exclusives I think are fine so long as they have a large distribution. And it was TLG choice to include Luke. DK may be able to make suggestions, but ultimately they don't own the source material, there's no reason they'd have final say on anything. And considering Lego produces the minifigure DK couldn't force them to include anything they didn't want to. I'd even say Disney may have had a say in the final decision since they own Star Wars in general. Again I understand the logic behind including him. And a retro minifigure is an interesting idea, even a good idea I'd say. But the problem is that even though it's a fifteen year old minifigure it was still being featured in sets only ten years ago. And there's so many of that Luke floating around it doesn't make it particularly rare or hard to find. It's a neat little bonus, but ultimately I feel like it has a very confined amount of people who want it. Quote
werpudel Posted March 7, 2014 Posted March 7, 2014 is that the same yellow luke that came with the original landspeeder? if so, that sucks, 'cause I just got that set (used) about 2 weeks ago... Quote
Ki-Adi-Mundi Posted March 7, 2014 Posted March 7, 2014 Does anyone know how long they need to translate and publish it in Germany? Quote
Sir_Basil_Ashton Posted March 7, 2014 Posted March 7, 2014 In fact, I am getting a bit tired and annoyed with all those "exclusive" figures that you can only get when you buy a certain product (be it a book, game, blue ray, spent an amount in a certain shop), or go to a convention.. Many of those end up in the hands of exploiters anyway.. I don't like convention exclusives, since there is only a small number of them and ultimately people jack the prices up significantly. However I think the exclusives added onto books, movies and in store are alright. I mean most of them are pretty widely accessible, and generally there's a lot more of them in circulation. And in the past when I've bought them on Ebay it's been pretty reasonable. Exclusives I think are fine so long as they have a large distribution. Personally I don't mind convention exclusives. They're a good incentive for those that spend big bucks to attend them. Now I don't agree with the prices those convention exclusives fetch but that price is driven by what people are willing to pay for them. Depending on the convention, some of those exclusives can be limited to 1000-2000 units. That's a very small number when you think of all the AFOL, collectors, etc. Quote
Maniac4Legos Posted March 7, 2014 Posted March 7, 2014 Chewbacca deserves to get a medal. Not that it's impossible but it would be difficult to make chewy have a medal. Maybe it would be a matter of printing instead of molding? It would make sense since three were awarded after the battle of Yavin, not two as already made. Quote
arc Posted March 8, 2014 Posted March 8, 2014 I for one like the yellow Luke. I started collecting SW Lego in 2005 so I would be glad to add a classic figure to my collection. Quote
Farmer Harv Posted March 20, 2014 Posted March 20, 2014 Seeing as I have just started collecting and have no yellow Minifigs at all I think this is a great choice. The figure goes back to the beginning of an era, and fits very well with the beginning of my collection. Now if I'd been involved since 99 I might think differently, but even in my other hobbies and collections I don't think a retro/duplicate item has ever soured me to the point that I denied myself an interesting purchase because of it. Quote
HanShotFirst Posted March 21, 2014 Posted March 21, 2014 (edited) The luke fig is really boring and dissapointing. You'd think they could have come up with something just a tad more creative... Edited March 21, 2014 by HanShotFirst Quote
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