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Lego need to find something other than that slope for dress lower halves. It makes all the females seem Amazonian. They need to make a lower slope or a dedicated piece for the purpose.

Actually forget Sinbad I read up on the story last night and I don't think a woman murdering thief would be suitable as a toy. Turns out Sinbad is a complete loser all round. He wasn't even a good sailor and kept sinking his ships. Useless.

Love the paint application but it's a very fat kitty. Obviously spent too long in the circus truck. What type of paint did you use?

*shudder* No - Not Disney Tarzan!!!! Actually it's probably one of the only ways we'd get Lego Tarzan. Though it annoys me how they took inspiration from the movie 'Greystoke' and Made Jane British. Jane is American from Baltimore, Maryland. Also, the Disney version of Tarzan himsel has such a distinctive look to him it might look weird in minifig form. I still think the Adventurers or Questers as they're now known I suppose would fit Tarzan better. The Questers are archaeologists yes? Well as I said, in the Tarzan world there are lost cities and civilisations, temples and monsters, myth and legend and treasures. Perfect for Professor Hale, Jake Raines and Helena Tova to explore. It wouldn't even need to be a Tarzan minifig. There are plenty of other wild man of the jungle stories around. All Lego need do is create a minifig of a well muscled man wearing nothing but a loincloth and sporting wild hair and call him whatever they want to. Tarzan like but not infringing on copyright. Tarzan is copyright free in Australia and certain parts of America btw. The other thought I had last night was an Arabian Knights theme. the most obvious are Aladin and the seven voyages of Sinbad. Then there's Ali Baba and the fourty (More like four if Lego made this a set) thieves. I know they just did Prince of Persia and it didn't do well but these stories are copyright free and wide open to interpretation. Lego could go nuts on them. Heck we've already see a genie or 'Djin' in the cmf series 6 line up. Never mind all this movie franchise stuff Lego should tackle some family favourite stories. Classic adventures. Robinson Crusoe and the Swiss family Robinson. Treasure island and The neverending story. Peter Pan would be great too. Home grown products rather than overpriced movie tie in stuff.

I don't is the short answer. I'm not interested in the value, I never plan on selling any of it even if I'm poor. And I rarely keep sets built. I buy Lego for parts or bulk parts so I can build whatever I want to and have fun not spend hours cataloguing it and being anal about whether or not the instructions are in numerical order. This may sound harsh and is in no way aimed at any person in particular but I think if all you do is purchase to list and tick off a list and stack in a corner then there's not much point in purchasing. Lego is a construction toy for people with imagination, to encourage to imagination in people and bring out creative and engineering flair. If you collect Lego and don't have the imagination to do anything other than build the set once then pack it away back in its box you might as well find something else to spend your time with. Something more suited to being catalogued like stamps or Pokemon cards.

I'd like Lego to release minifigs from their own Batman game. Loads of great designs that never saw production. No need for construction sets just a nicely packaged bunch of figs. Same with Indiana Jones and any other licensed theme. It seems such a waste to go to the trouble of designing characters and then to just leave them as mere pixels. I'm not interested in other stuff. like street fighter or tekken. just the cartoon-ish family friendly stuff Lego already does.

Too late for Tintin? There a few toy shows late this year and early next year. Lego could still pull something out of the bag at those. I've read that there's a new Tarzan movie in the works. A non Disney one. Live action. I think Tarzan could appeal to kids. Any Tarzan story contains action and adventure. Good vs bad. Animals. So it could work in Lego form. Tarzan's tree house would be a good place to start. Another jungle setting. Maybe a crocodile filled river. Then there's the usual port/trading post where scoundrels, hunters, and bounty hunters congregate. Also in Tarzan stories are lost cities and temples, bizarre communities like the ant men and apparently a man sized unicorn sea horse... There are 26 Edgar Rice Burroughs books and 9 more authorised by Burroughs' estate. Plus almost 90 movie adaptations bearing the Tarzan name. There have been 7 TV series and 4 major theatrical productions. Countless comic books and a smattering of video games. Not to mention all the unofficial and bootleg stuff. Tarzan is a huge area of interest and for the most part family friendly. If Lego are looking for an idea to move their adventurers to next then Tarzan's jungle is perfect.

I'm just about to start Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan of the apes. I've loved Tarzan movies my whole life but never read the books so I thought it was about time to get acquainted. Also as I'm working on a Tarzan minifig theme for fun I wanted to do some research. The movies aren't the best source I've found. Anyway, I'll be reading the Tarzan series for the foreseeable future.

I ordered some transparent loveliness a couple of days ago. I'm loving the broken bottle. I made a really girly squeal of delight when I spotted that. Much to my shame...

There's a light orange bicycle floating around too. I'd love to own both blue and orange but sadly both are out of my budget range for single items. It would be nice if Lego produced more colours. Silver and dark red or blue would be nice.

The ambulance and Doctor's car seemed to sell okay. The problem with the last hospital not selling is that it wasn't really a hospital. It didn't look like a hospital. It had a huge one piece baseplate with very little sitting on top. Just a bit rubbish really. That hospital was a box full of nothing. And there was too much red. Hospitals never use red because there's a psychological connection with blood and anger. Most hospitals use greens and blues in soft shades as it gives an impression of soothing calm and cleanliness. Nurses are also quite superstitious and don't like red or white flowers on the wards. White flowers are seen as funeral flowers and again, red flowers invoke images of blood. Besides, why use red for a hospital when there's a red fire brigade and the postal service uses red? The red cross was abandoned years ago in favour of the blue star of life and if a cross is used it's usually green. Only the Red cross organisation that provides aid in war torn places uses the red cross now. I digress. For a hospital sub-theme to work it has to be substantial and diverse. It can't be skimped on detail. There are so many specialist departments to a hospital it can't include many but obvious areas like Emergency room, operating room, ward, x-ray room, ambulance bay, main entrance foyer and reception desk, general clinical consulting room and the very important elevators must be included or it's just going to fail dismally. Hence my reasoning that making it a moduler sub-theme and breaking down the hospital into several sets is the logical way of achieving something like this.

I suppose it depends on how they look. If it's just more red vehicles with the same old black uniformed fireman then it's a bit of a let down. If it's actually a forest fire crew with new hi-viz uniforms including the reflective high heat protective one with the hooded helmet then great. A team like that could work as an airport fire crew too. Unles the torso had a tree logo or similar.

For some reason I didn't see your post. Modular does seem the way to do a Hospital justice though. I mean modular in the sense of various interconnecting sets rather than a building in the modular range. I think a lot of parents baulk at the cost of the larger sets so a series of sets would split the cost and allow parents/family to spread the thing over birthdays and Christmas with the odd pocket money priced set in between. which is sensible given the current global economy.

The black lamp post and the light blue torso with scarf are the only parts of this set I'm interested in. I'll admit that this is the best in the Winter village series so far but None of them have really grabbed me.

Forest rangers sound good. With the farm being out of town I think it's kinda cool that there are some more out of town sets. And a forest is a great setting. Brown bears and burning trees and 4x4's and rangers chasing miscreants. Reminds me of the old RES-Q subtheme in a way.

They're roughly a bricks height taller than regular minifigs. So I'm guessing a building with a door would have a door height of 6/7 bricks high. the handbag accessory looks to be about the same height as the new minifig bucket accessory with the handle upright. Compare the pic of the girly figure on a cmf minifig stand to the cmf series 6 alien (newest pic) also on a stand. Both pics are scaled the same. If the handbag accessory is any indication other accessories will also have a very loose cartoonish design and not really fit in with regular system bits and bobs. Having said that, Look how many Fabuland pieces have crept into system sets over the years.

Taking a close look at the snake tails it seems the tail sits on top of studs rather than around studs. the main 'leg' part is where the piece attaches to bricks. Also the tail is ridged on the underside. As for the different colours it's possible that if there are five new treasures, each one is guarded by one of the five snake men. blue, green, black, red, purple. Or perhaps only one of the five treasures can defeat a particular snake man. perhaps each treasure will have a coloured gemstone to match each snake man colour?

I like the sounds of the last two but I have enough trucks and garbage trucks. I'll probably skip the new ambulance unless it totally wows me. As for a possible new hospital. When one turns up I'd quite like it split into different sets rather than one big set. Set one the hospital main building with the main entrance and foyer on the ground floor then some sort of consulting/examination rooms above. possibly a couple of vending machines or a little gift shop. and a small side ward with just a couple of beds. Set two would be a main ward with the usual beds and curtains between beds and bits and bobs of patient treatment like leg casts and crutches and a wheelchair etc. This could be bought in multiples and stacked to build the bulk of the hospital. Set three would be the ambulance bay with an office and a roof over the top of the ambulances as they're parked. Set four would be the operating room. with gurney, overhead lamp with light brick and fibre optic hose detail used to illuminate the operation. Then the usual medical equipment like oxygen tank and mask, light box for x-rays, trolley with forceps and scalpels, computer screens and a machine that goes *ping!*. Vehicle wise, I wouldn't bother with an air ambulance. Very few hospitals have helipads. I'd go with a paramedic car and fast response paramedic motorbike. Also a non-emergency patient transport bus. Lots of uniformed minifigs from ambulance crew to various nursing/surgical staff and suited doctors in white coats. The odd patient in night attire or surgical gown. Nothing exciting but exactly what you'd expect. I know it's highly unlikely Lego would make a properly modular hospital like this but to get one that's a decent size and has all the parts you'd want it would have to be split up across various sets.

A Boadicea in hot pink? A sword wielding female Celt would be cool though.

I think I'll take a more radical step if this is released and actually remove the bone section. I'm not normally one for such measures but in this case I'd have to as it really does stretch the rules of anatomy. I'd probably get two or three of the butcher so the removed bone would be re-purposed as extra skeleton parts or dog bones. I'll admit though that I'm happy to see some beef in Lego food. Those poor Lego minifigs must be sick of their limited diet by now. Although the recent addition of fish, chickens, goats and black pudding sausage is sure to have been welcomed. Oh and the cream pie from the clown too. Now all they need is cutlery.

Love it. I also like the garage rear looking like a quick mod would open it up so it could lead straight into a separate 32x32 vehicle yard.

Series 6, 7, or 8. Whichever series these minifigs are from they're pretty cool. However, the Alien torso is absolute amateurish rubbish. and I've never seen a t-bone steak with a leg bone coming out of the end, probably because t-bone steaks come from the middle of the cow not from anywhere near a leg. I'm sure if this IS an official bunch of minifigures Lego would spot the mistake and rectify it. and give the alien a proper torso design.

'Legos' is the worst word. Lego Lego Lego!

Thomas the tank engine?

Hmmmm has someone from Lego been looking at my designs? If so that's incredibly cool. Grey alien Butcher