Sarah

They do not have any less movement than the doll house figures I played with endlessly growing up. IT never even occurred to me to wish they had more movement. Nor did it prevent me from spending hours having them go visit my sister's family and her house, or playing my own house. I think a figure the target aged girl can identify with is much more important than movement. My own daughter (age 5) plays more with the animal figures as the main characters in her stories -- and they do not move at all!

I love your buses.

Yes. I would have voted for this if I had seen it

As you said, for the target market, I don't think the different sizes is an issue at all. I see my son and daughter playing with their Lego together. It is never a problem if the figure they are holding is a minifigure or a minidoll. I remember the play I did as a child. I would put families together of dollhouse figures and minifigures for the "toddlers" (even though they were out of proportion) and we would act out the Christmas story using every toy that could come to hand -- the angel was always the ceramic decorative angel on the wall. But some figures would be Little People while others would be brick-built people or Barbies. Just depended on what we were playing with that year. I remember the year we used a Hot Wheels car as the "Camel" to carry Mary and Joseph to the stable. And baby Jesus would usually be one of our baby dolls so we could cuddle him ourselves. (So massively bigger in scale than all the other people)

I have two kids -- ages 5 and 9. WHen we went on vacation this summer, I carried their Lego passports with me in my purse to check out every Lego store we might run into. I wonder, should we manage to get London before they are too old, if the London Lego store would be able to stamp their blue passport books? Or if there is some difference inside (Usually a store only has 1 stamp to give at a time. But the stamps change over time, to incentize coming back) I LOVE that red Double Decker Bus I saw in the background of your pictures. I had a red bus like that as a kid (Hot Wheels type. Not sure where I got it -- maybe Florida's Disney?) but have been fond ever since. Not that they are easy to find over here. I got a freebie double decker bus from Lego a while back with purchase but had no idea it was available as a purchaseable set now!

I like Olivia's original Workshop better -- with the microscope, clamp, chemicals, etc. (I still have it set up in my office to look at frequently) But I do like the extra robots and robot charging spots on this one. I LOVE the photography set. Reminds me of my dad's set up. May need to get two to have two of those lights (or see if I have the pieces to put it together already) I didn't like a bunny in the bakery set. Animals and food do not mix! I also like Andrea's stage set better than this new one -- esp. the piano. The puppy sets... My 5 year old will love. She doesn't care what the set itself is. The pieces will go in the bin with other Lego pieces. But the Dogs will get added to her animal collection and played with plenty. We can afford $6 for just the animal piece. The puppy car may well find itself with a whole menagerie inside. I really like this pool better than the last one. ESP the new slide pieces that will allow for much more variation in slides in the future! And an aquarium! And the stairs! And a lifeguard seat! I do miss the basketball hoop where you played from the pool.

Have we seen a minidoll with glasses yet?

It looks like some of the sets, including the new DC SUperhero school, will be out in December for Christmas!

I consider myself a geek and was not even aware Crystal Maze was a TV Show.

Interesting. I bought the tracks on Oct 1, with the set. Our Lego store (Austin) had both those and switching in stock

Honestly, with my 5 year old daughter? I am expecting the DC Superhero Girls to be more popular. She's loved the Elves sets but the only princess ones she is interested in are the animal ones.

I assure you, Little House on the Prairie is Quite Well remembered among a significant segment of the adult population. WIth great fondness. The books are still read. The reruns still show on TV and a book called Pioneer Girl:An Annotated Biography was recently published with extensive scholarship about the facts on each detail. I pre-ordered the book and it was so popular it took me 6 months past publishing date to receive my copy and I know others waited even longer. It is now on its 9th printing (since 2014!) https://pioneergirlproject.org/ There was recently a stage musical called Little House on the Prairie that toured the US: Melissa Gilbert played Ma. http://littlehouseontheprairie.com/about-us/little-house-on-the-prairie-the-musical/ There MAY be a movie in the works: http://www.today.com/popculture/little-house-prairie-get-film-adaptation-paramount-studios-t69321 A recent article about Little House tourism: http://midwestweekends.com/plan_a_trip/history_heritage/ingalls_wilder/wilder_pageants.html Several of the towns even have annual plays/festivities around the Ingalls/Wilder family stories.

(Sorry about that. HAd some problems with a previous aborted reply showing up when I tried to reply and took me a bit to figure out how to erase the previous reply and then replace with the new one) Are you sure that is real sand? I thought it might be some of that play sand that clumps together so nice. -- Kinetic Sand

Not sure what LBM is but puppy friends, Elves and DC Superhero sounds right down the alley of my daughter as well. (Though she still needs help putting together the bigger sets, my 9 year old son is happy to help. -- and it is really more of an attention span issue than ability.)

I don't know who she is, but I really like the look of the girl in the leafy dress and red hair.

Lego just keeps getting better and better. My daughter has recently been intrigued by the DC supergirls line of action figures. I can easily see her wanting these sets as well.

Why can't they just continue to make the older set instead of continually re-releasing it? Sure. Have a police station on the shelves all the time. But don't spend all that design time recreating it so often!

For those who have seen pictures, is the DC Superhero Girls lines a new minidoll line?

My daughter, OTOH, is going to be thrilled. She's a big fan of the Palace Pets. SHe's bleagh about the Princesses but loves the animals.

*raised hand* Which means either we will be buying more track, or putting it entirely IN FRONT of the tree (whcih if we don't get the PF stuff, may be more workable)

I like this one. Reminds me of the Homemaker figs days from when I got my very first Lego.

The aquarium sounds interesting even if the pool is nothing to write home about!

Maybe the real sexism is feeling you have to call dolls for boys "Action figures" They are all just dolls. Minidolls remind me of my dollhouse figures growing up. (Except we need some kids to go with them). BONUS! WIth Lego, you can make your OWN dollhouse! Just the size you want, with all the exact parts you want. My sister and I played hours with our dollhouses. Going to visit each other, making up names for the characters (and birthdays, and likes and dislikes). We'd bribe babysitters to bring both dollhouses out to the living room to play with them. But lest you think I was brainwashed, I also played quite a bit with Hot Wheels, chemistry sets, a plastic magic kit, and star wars figurines when visiting at a friend's house (Which were played with pretty much like dollhouse figures). We seemed to have a good number of toys from all aisles of the toy store, just depending on our own interests. And most got played with. Oh and Lego. Starting with the Farm, then Homemaker Kitchen and bathroom sets. And continuing on with some space, a fire station, and a few small castle sets (though I remember *wanting* that Yellow Castle, it was out of the budget for our family or me personally). Some of those I bought myself with Christmas money/allowance. Polly Pocket was also very popular with kids when I was growing up (Though I never had any? Maybe they came out when I was too old -- I was 10 in 1983.) My daughter (who just turned 5) loves the hand sized figures and smaller stuff -- Disney Princess, Little Pony, and Lego minidolls and animals. My son loves putting together the sets. My daughter puts together pieces and then plays with them. She swoops the dragons around (with a horse for a passenger) and has the minidolls talk to the animals (and her brother's Minecraft minifigures when they go to The Dungeon to visit)

Agreed. I see a lot of hate here, in the AFOL community. But not in the intended audience.

Laugh. Whereas I love the theme and not this project.