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You should be fine. I couldn't wait but I was hoping to buy all the Scooby sets during TLC's Double VIP points but I'll have them all by that time lol. I'll get the minifig book that day or so and I'm waiting on the Wicked Witch/Scooby packs after buying the entire CMF14 and Scooby lines.

Anyone have this and can give better details? http://toysnbricks.com/the-lego-ideas-collection-2015-special-edition-wexclusive-minifigure/ Like ISBN, are the "individual books" just separate chapters from other books? What specifically is in the "Spooky Nightmares" books? Maybe the TOC from each book? Thanks.

I gave some suggestions for modding in the Scooby thread but I decided to give it a try with what I had. The rules I gave myself is no pieces that aren't already with the set. After I removed the kitchen and put it in the mansion, I made a homemade freezer with the orange and gray pieces and then lthat left me 4 1x2 white bricks. Here goes. If you mod this set with only these pieces you will destroy the playability. As an AFOL that's OK, I wanted something more closer to Scooby. All 4 Gang Members fit! The big thing is is to extend the seating area (double it). You're also removing the unncessary column that extended out. If you look at an actual Mystery Machine the blue waves suffice for the blue on the far end of the van. Unfortunately, they don't all fit in their actual order (front, left to right: Shaggy, Velma, Daphne, Fred) but they all four fit and so does Scooby, pretty well too without really sitting on them. You do sacrifice the space in the van's storage compartment and the empty view when looking in, past the gang. The gang also sits really close to one another but again at least they fit. Just look at the photos and see what I done. I just changed some of the pieces around. I kept to the "blue line" logistics of the van, although I really wanted the windshield to sit directly without the blue bricks underneath (it looks better actually, except for the missing blue line that should be there). You can also see some fun I had with CMF14 being added and the new kitchen I designed with extra pieces after modding the Mystery Van. Don't buy a second Mystery Van to mod this. The windshield had to be longer to actually double the width. Also note I removed all the bricks from under the controls in the front. Check them out through Dropbox (EuroBricks won't let me upload them)" https://www.dropbox.com/sh/npohrfqdxuwzw9d/AAC6NgV_KN-H01M8_5UdyBIsa?dl=0

Mansion Review Bought the Mansion last night, only the lighthouse left to go. Didn't change my first impressions from its original reveal in the beginning of the year all that much. I am impressed of its size. The exterior is pretty awesome. The winners from this mansion are the pumpkin pieces, custom coffin print, and the safe. The greenhouse is very awesome. But lack a lot of people have been saying, the interior is lacking, especially where the spike ball trap is concerned. Now I get a lot of people, adults like myself I imagine, feel that the spike ball trap would be the end of the Mystery Gang's adventure before it even got started. I'm not all too familiar with the Scooby cartoons past the episodes that inspired this theme. But wouldn't the gang be wary of a spooky mansion anyway and like Indiana Jones try to trick the trap? I mean, Shaggy can throw his sausage in their and the spike ball can come down and all they would have to do is walk around it. So in that respect I don't get why people feel they are doomed. While the set is acceptable on its own, it really merits a second addition, which I may plan to sell all the figures from this set so I can have enough to buy another set. From there I would build a second greenhouse, I'm undecided if I would attached it to make it wider or longer. The would mod the set so it can be attached to the back of the entrace of the mansion, likely removing the key to maybe the second greenhouse (there is an extra key in the set so that could mean the original could stay there). I would have to remove the small gray piece that allows the floor to be removed to put the technic brick there, or simpler I could extend the mansion by extended the first floor to be enclosed, like the mansion. I would build another second floor and make it my third floor, attaching directly to the clocktower portion. With all the extra pieces I'd have from not building a second clock tower I can really do this mod very well. Finally I would build another right side so that the building looks identical on each side. I would have to buy a custom bookshelf from Ebay and simply not include another kitchen. The extra pieces I'd have from the second clocktower would allow the bookcase to be movable in some ways (I'm thinking just make it lift upwards like a fancy car door but to stay true to Scooby lore it should probably be built like the sliding jail door in the newer Arhkam Asylum set. I could even add a grandfather clock from the older MF line and add a vampire coffin to the second floor of this in place of a second safe (which could be placed behind the moving bookshelf). The extra flytrap and spike ball would likely be transferred to Arkaymn Asylum and the CMF14 Plant Monster would be in its place. There are just so many possibilities to make this better if you have two copies! For now, again, the interior is definitely designed to house a monster in each room where it has extra, odd-looking space. The Phantom has been placed by the safe and the Black Knight in the kitchen to resemble the Knight in the kitchen in the episode with the Phantom, despite he's a black knight. I would probably extended the sidecar on the motorcycle so the whole gang could fit, including Scooby. The vampire is still where he's supposed to be. For added kicks, I bought 4 extra CMF14 minifigures (I own all 16) randomly, on purpose. The trick-er-treat skeleton was added to the front of my door way; the wolf is in the tree on the right side of mansion; the spector haunts the entrance to the greenhouse, and the gargoyple stands on the round starirwell, blocking the vampire (I could remove the pieces on the round gray 2x1 brick on the roof but I plan to use argoyes in the Haunted House gate or not at all. Still I plan to feel out the bags for gargoyles and zombies and skeletons since that pumpkin pail is awesome. My Toys R Us (Vienna, WV) is pretty stocked in both Scooby and CMF14 figures (in fact the CMF14 display case was overfull). Overall, the mansion is nice but its lacking of a more detailed interior (did we really need all the extra rooms if we couldn't detail what we needed); it's zany black/purple cartoon design, the goofy motorbike deal, stickers, a brick-built venus flytrap (that just isn't all that cool), and the whole set being open-back doesn't add wonders to it. The white/blue interior of the kitchen ruins any chance of believing that's a spooky kitchen - it looks new with that scheme. A gray kitchen would have sufficed. When I look at the set it shouldn't be a dilapidated mansion - only a few bricks are rotated to make it look so and the rest of the mansion looks in solid condition. I do find it funny TLC added outdoor lights since the Haunted House lacked this. Scooby Snacks I want to reiterate something I said when this theme was being heavily discussed. Yes, there are no apparent references to the real Scooby Doo boxed snacks in any of these sets. We get hamburgers, sandwiches, and bones. But, in almost every set that uses a 1x1 brown stud we get an extra one. In the few episodes I watched from the first series, all the snacks were round and brown, lighter brown but still brown and round. Alot of times two snacks were given. If you buy all of the sets you will have more than enough of these to have an abundant of Scooby Snacks which you can store in the Mystery Van. Mystery Van mod The biggest gripe I have about this, besides the fact you can't fit all 4 gang kids in the front of the van, is that the Mystery Van has an interior. In the first few episodes I seen from the first series, either the van had an interior of tools (first episode) or was completely empty. The LEGO set has an unnecessary kitchen which can be added to the mansion or somewhere else. The interior of the van could then be modded so that, at least the motorbike and boat could fit inside (I haven't tried these yet but it would give these two vehicles a logical purpose). Again, Scooby snacks can be added as well. This set can't really be modified to fit the gang - you would have to widen the set, which almost works except you need a longer windshield. I'm not sure if TLC has ever made a longer windshield and if it would match the logistics of a LEGO Scooby windshield. Nevertheless it would take very few pieces to extend the van so the gang can fit in, although it may make it look goofy and almost squar-ish in size.

Thanks everyone. Like I said I do plan to make at least 2 more monster videos detailing ALL the LEGO Halloween & Monster sets and other stuff ever made so that will cover all the missing stuff. I want those to go more in depth as well. They will be more "fan-friendly" in terms of categorizing (Buckets, Keychains, Clocks/Watches, etc) and may not be done by Halloween. For example, did you know there was a Halloween writing pen back when TLC distributed pens? These were designed through an outsourced company. The Studios monster video had 2 versions - a kid-friendly version and an uncut, not-so-kid-friendly spookier version? There were 2 Halloween buckets. There have been quite a few keychains, though only representing a ghost, two vampires, and a monster, for example. You'll learn more about all of this soon. Monsters & Halloween are so easy for me to collect and archive because there just isn't that much compared to Christmas or themes like Star Wars.

I was watching the first Ghostbusters movie last night and it dawned on me... Why exactly do we never see the Ghostbusters walk across room to room? Well... brace yourselves. I read alittle to behind the scenes thinking it's because a lot of the rooms were sets... and the answer actually will help us gauge what can and cannot fit in the Firehouse: The outside shots were of a firehouse in New York. The inside shots were all done in another firehouse but in LA. So what does that mean to us? Tell me what rooms are in the Ghostbusters firehouse. You really cannot without describing the room layout in the LA firehouse. Because we don't really see any rooms in the New York firehouse. So I expect TLC to take advantage of this liberty and just add rooms where people are not expecting them to be, like the Simpsons house from what I read in the initial reviews. We know there's gotta be a place for the trap. Wouldn't make sense otherwise. But that was in the basement - I don't recall anything else being in the basement and a few of the layouts I have seen there wasn't suppose to be. I never have known for TLC to make multi-level sets (unless they're using the baseplates from the '90s that were used for dungeons and prisons) and I don't see them making a small basement just for this room. So I expect, if they even include it, it will be somewhere else throughout the Firehouse. Otherwise, if they chose to make a basement, if they wanted to go "off the mark" like they did with almost every Scooby set, they could add an "earthquake" road where the road can bend out of shape. I know that happened at the apartment building but I'm just saying since TLC is starting to mix iconic moments into sets (Scooby Doo is a great example).

Yea but it's kinda a "fourth wall" thing like in acting. They might as well as just look into the camera while they're at it. I know the toys in Toy Story acknowledge their tags but I think it's more awesome if the LEGO toys in the movie actually act like that is their reality to them. I know in the movie they were just toys played with by a kid (and that kinda ruined it for me) but it's really best when the entire world is a whole other reality.

MODDING IDEAS: Has anyone ever considered buying 2 mansions so we can have identical sides and double-up on the greenhouse to make one massive greenhouse attached in the middle or off to the side of the mansion? The extra spike ball can go to the arkaym aslyum like originally suggested at the beginning of this post as well as the extra venus flytrap for poison ivy. I wished I bought 2 HHs. I did buy 2 Ecto-1s and all I got was a longer vehicle but at least the guys and the packs all fit just fine. Also, even though the top of the mansion is a clock, it makes sense to take it off and just put one of the MF grandfather clock sets somewhere in the mansion. There are custom "expansion packs" of book cases that can be used to add to things like this. Another piano from the Vampyre Castle may help as well. What should I do with the extra kitchen from the Mystery Machine? I kinda wanna take it out and mod it so the gang fits inside. I already put an extra kitchen in the Haunted House but I guess it wouldn't hurt to stack them or add it to the Vampyre or Frankenstein castles?

Any Ecto?

Care to explain here? I only see the Witch being joined with the zombie, and the wolfman and monster rocker be added with the vampire. If people wanted to use their imagine, yea I suppose. Then again, they might as well add this year's Trick or Treat set as a cemetary for their Scooby mansion or to any past graveyard set to make it have meaning, since it's color scheme somewhat matches the mystery mansion and the Kingston Mansion did have a cemetary around it.

Actually your idea is flawed logic to the value-conscious LEGO consumer who just wants the iconic Mystery Machine, since it is the most like the cartoon version and here is why: Their idea of thinking is the theme only needed the van. That's it. The van should have been a $50 set so all te gang could be included and actually the 4 humans could sit in the front without hassle (it can likely happen if you put the gang's torsos on a brick and take off their arms for that effect). So, I'll break it down to describe their line of thinking: The whole theme, if all 5 sets are bought, is roughly $200. You MUST spend at least $120 to get the entire gang (Machine and Mansion). You will have 2 extra Shags and Scoobs which can be sold to get back profit, assuming someone does that, which would make buying these two sets still expensive after Ebay and Paypal fees. (You'd basically be spending $112 after you sell Scooby and Shag, which sell for $10 each free shipping but the fees will dock this down some and it is quite the hassle, trust me I used to sell alot on Ebay). Or... You can spend the $30 for the van and the 3 gang members. Then buy only 2. Velma is going for $20 right now from Mexico, the parts are genuine I can tell from their photos. Daphne is going for $20 as well right now (on Ebay BTW, free shipping). That's $70. Assuming the person has a credit card and can use points to buy the Van off of Amazon or a 5% Target Red card or LEGO VIP points, they can get these below $70. So compare $112 to $70. Now you say... But for $42 more they're getting a haunted mansion with all kinds of monsters and cool pieces. Yes, yes they are. But not everyone is collecting LEGO Halloween and monster pieces. In fact, the holiday still gets lackluster attention compared to Christmas. This is the first year the Club magazine dedicated more than one page to Halloween (and successfully done so in all 3 editions of the magazine) but also the first year that TLC has decided not to release a MMB that is Halloween centered. Cool, we get a scary angler fish, but whoopy. There is still a skull or mummy that TLC could have done aside from the, at least 2 witches, 2 vampires, sveeral pumpkins, ghosts, and bats, and tons of monsters they have given us. Not to mention PAB won't even touch Halloween. The closest thing is Legoland and Discovery Centers who seem to not put their ideas online, except for maybe an occasional Youtube video where they have shown us how to make a mummy or in this month's club magazine where we can make another ghost :) And frankly, not everyone wants a purple house. Sure, that's a great house for the Wacky Witch but everything in it makes no sense for the witch (BTW - since the Wacky Witch's bio eludes to Hanzel and Gretel, maybe someone will be dark enough to make their version with the new gingerbread house coming this Christmas). If somebody doesn't want it, from a conservative style of looking at money, especially as adults, $42 could be well spent elsewhere. So $70 for the van and whole gang is quite affordable to some people who maybe care more about Star Wars or are waiting for Doctor Who or whatever. For me, the Scooby Doo Collection for $135.00 (the kit TLC sells at S@H) would be just suitable if I wanted only the sets from SDWAY. I'd get many monsters from the first series, a haunted mansion, and the mystery van. BTW: Has anyone watched any episode of Scooby Doo these sets are loosely based from? What are your thoughts there? According to the interview wit the designer, the sets were "inspired" by the cartoon series. As we know that includes a couple different Scooby series. And that he felt each episode could be given a whole set (though the episode with the witch and zombie can honestly be a theme to itself with a general store, riverboat, and witch shack, not to mention the mystery machine). Are you mad that many liberties were taken? Like the Mystery Mansion is very loosely based on the Kingston Mansion but notice the moving bookcase isn't in the set? The mansion seems to have the kitchen that Scoob/Shaggy ate from in the episode with the Phantom yet the Mansion eludes to the castles in the first series by adding a clock tower (the vampire never came out of a clock in the series). The greenhouse is from another mansion and I haven't read if the spike ball trap is from anything yet. What about the Mummy Mystery Adventures, which is already a clustermess because in "A Mummy Too" the setting wasn't a museum but "Department of Archaeology" at an University. The first episode the Black Knight was in a museum and in a box. What about the robotic tree controlled by the zombie? Where was there ever a robotic tree in Scooby lore?

AGAIN I WOULD LIKE TO DIRECT YOU TO MY POSTS A COUPLE PAGES BACK IN BIG FONT SIZE... THE ANIMATED SPECIAL HAS A NAME AND IS DUE IN OCTOBER JUST BEFORE HALLOWEEN. THE DESIGNER SAID IT WAS PLANNED AS A ONE RELEASE. SALES COULD MEAN NEW WAVES. COBI/CB RELEASED SCOOBY BLIND BAGS - WHY CANT LEGO DO THE SAME? THE LEGO SCOOBY DOO 22 MINUTE ANIMATED SPECIAL INFO: Lego Scooby-Doo: Knight Time Terror A New Movie During Half-Term Scooby-Doo Week Scooby’s month kicks off on Boomerang with the UK Premiere of the brand new show Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! on Sunday 4th, followed by the Scooby Sundays from 4th to 18th October. Don’t miss Scooby’s best adventures from 9am to 9pm! The “Scooby-Doo Week” starts on 24th October, just in time for some Half Term fun, and the LEGO Scooby movie – Knight Time Terror – is also part of the treat. Sources: - https://www.regularc...015-highlights/ - http://scoobysnax1.w...g/category/news SCOOBY DOO COMPILATION DVD THAT COVERS ALL 8 VILLAINS: OK, so this isn't a documentary or anything. But it's Warner Bros.' attempt to capitalize on the existing sets with the original episodes from which they are based. There is no mention of "LEGO" in the title or description but this site clearly identifies each monster his or her episode's origin. Those same villains are the same villains currently listed on the official Scooby Doo web site, which I brought to everyone's attention a while ago. It is a Walmart Exclusive in the U.S. To celebrate the release of the LEGO sets, Wal-Mart has released a store-exclusive DVD "Scooby-Doo: Favorite Frights," which is available now at all Wal-Marts. The set has 8 episodes, all of the episodes on the set feature the villains included in the LEGO set. Luckily for us, there is one new-to-DVD episode, Scoo-Be or Not Scoo-Be from The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries. Here is the full episode list: 1. What a Night for a Knight (featuring the Black Knight from the Mystery Mansion set) 2. Hassle in the Castle (featuring the phantom from the Mystery Mansion set) 3. A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts (featuring the vampire from the Mystery Mansion set) 4. Scooby-Doo and a Mummy Too (featuring the mummy from the Mummy Museum Mystery set) 5. Which Witch is Which? (featuring the zombie from the Mystery Machine set) 6. Fright House of a Lighthouse (featuring the Creepy Keeper from the Haunted Lighthouse set) 7. The Headless Horseman of Halloween (featuring the Headless Horseman from the Mystery Plane Adventures set) 8. Scoo-Be or not Scoo-Be? (new to DVD, featuring the sea beast from the Haunted Lighthouse set) Sources: - http://scoobysnax1.w...ite-frights-dvd - http://scoobysnax1.w...g/category/news - http://www.walmart.com/ip/46616295

Read my posts a couple back to see the tidbits I grabbed from the interview and the Blocks magazine review. The hate for the mansion, according to the review, at least the For/Against and numerical score they gave the sets, I'll outline them all below. If you want to read the interview or reviews in full the magazine is only $7.99 digitally so go buy it. Mystery Mansion For: - Velma to complete the gang. - Spooky details bring out dilapidated condition of mansion. Against: - Minimal play features - Lack of variety with other Mystery Inc. members - Much of the dilapidated effect is through stickers Score Metrics: Build: 10/20 Playability: 4/20 Minifigures: 11/20 Price: 12/20 Collectibility: 15/20 Total: 52/100 Haunted Lighthouse For: - Great structure and landscaping - Interesting villains - Speedboat is colored varied but still keeps with the theme. Against: - Daphne variant would have made the set more desirable - The review itself did state disappointment with including a monster with no basis (although like I said in my post detailing the 22 minuted animated LEGO Scooby special, it is loosely based on the Sea Demon/Gilly Stern, based on a Hamlet character) Score Metrics: Build: 19/20 Playability: 20/20 Minifigures: 19/20 Price: 16/20 Collectibility: 16/20 Total: 90/100 Mummy Museum Mystery For: -Cheap way to get the two main characters. - Great details although achieved through stickers Against: - Mummy isn't a very inspired villain Score Metrics: Build: 13/20 Playability: 16/20 Minifigures: 15/20 Price: 16/20 Collectibility: 10/20 Total: 70/100 Mystery Machine For: -Van is a solid representation despite size limitations. - Fred is exclusive to this set. Against: - You can't fit the entire Mystery gang inside - You'll spend more time applying stickers than building Score Metrics: Build: 15/20 Playability: 15/20 Minifigures: 18/20 Price: 17/20 Collectibility: 18/20 Total: 83/100 Mystery Plane Adventures For: - Headless Horseman is one of the best villains in whole range - Solid build with great parts palette Against: - Color scheme is off-putting at first. - Same Shaggy from 75900 Score Metrics: Build: 17/20 Playability: 16/20 Minifigures: 18/20 Price: 16/20 Collectibility: 15/20 Total: 82/100

I thought D2C also meant selected retailers like TRU and Target? Either way, you know TLC will ship these in few amounts so when they sell out the aftermarket will go crazy. Then some of us will be tempted to buy them impulsely and run their few stock out again. Just so they can release them a couple weeks later like nothing happened. TLC needs to fix this, this is NOT the behavior of a reputable and respectful toy company.

MORE INTERVIEW TIDBITS... The sets were designed to try to be modular. You get the Mystery Machine and drive it to each other set to solve the mystery in each set. The lead designer acknowledge d having Scooby and Shaggy in every set would be redundant. But you can't have a Scooby set without Scooby and you can't have Scooby without Shaggy.

Honestly, once I noticed how poorly the villains were bundled together and how shitty the two big sets looked, then how a plane and headless horseman by themselves was lackluster, the Mummy display without being in a museum, and a robotic tree with the mystery machine, just a general slopjob after all, like the new Pirates and the Monster Fighters, I expected TLC to plan for one wave.

I'm very curious about the animated special myself so I decided to google "be cool scooby doo lego animated special" and, wouldn't you know... THE LEGO SCOOBY DOO 22 MINUTE ANIMATED SPECIAL INFO: Lego Scooby-Doo: Knight Time Terror A New Movie During Half-Term Scooby-Doo Week Scooby’s month kicks off on Boomerang with the UK Premiere of the brand new show Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! on Sunday 4th, followed by the Scooby Sundays from 4th to 18th October. Don’t miss Scooby’s best adventures from 9am to 9pm! The “Scooby-Doo Week” starts on 24th October, just in time for some Half Term fun, and the LEGO Scooby movie – Knight Time Terror – is also part of the treat. Sources: - https://www.regularc...015-highlights/ - http://scoobysnax1.w...g/category/news SCOOBY DOO COMPILATION DVD THAT COVERS ALL 8 VILLAINS: OK, so this isn't a documentary or anything. But it's Warner Bros.' attempt to capitalize on the existing sets with the original episodes from which they are based. There is no mention of "LEGO" in the title or description but this site clearly identifies each monster his or her episode's origin. Those same villains are the same villains currently listed on the official Scooby Doo web site, which I brought to everyone's attention a while ago. It is a Walmart Exclusive in the U.S. To celebrate the release of the LEGO sets, Wal-Mart has released a store-exclusive DVD "Scooby-Doo: Favorite Frights," which is available now at all Wal-Marts. The set has 8 episodes, all of the episodes on the set feature the villains included in the LEGO set. Luckily for us, there is one new-to-DVD episode, Scoo-Be or Not Scoo-Be from The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries. Here is the full episode list: 1. What a Night for a Knight (featuring the Black Knight from the Mystery Mansion set) 2. Hassle in the Castle (featuring the phantom from the Mystery Mansion set) 3. A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts (featuring the vampire from the Mystery Mansion set) 4. Scooby-Doo and a Mummy Too (featuring the mummy from the Mummy Museum Mystery set) 5. Which Witch is Which? (featuring the zombie from the Mystery Machine set) 6. Fright House of a Lighthouse (featuring the Creepy Keeper from the Haunted Lighthouse set) 7. The Headless Horseman of Halloween (featuring the Headless Horseman from the Mystery Plane Adventures set) 8. Scoo-Be or not Scoo-Be? (new to DVD, featuring the sea beast from the Haunted Lighthouse set) Sources: - http://scoobysnax1.w...ite-frights-dvd - http://scoobysnax1.w...g/category/news - http://www.walmart.com/ip/46616295

New Video here... https://youtu.be/RcFqSRFV_3U I took some of your advice and slowed down the video like I meant to. I also fixed a few things to make them go smoother. I removed the Bonus and added another. This video covers only the major important points of Halloween history with LEGO so most of those sets don't belong here since they're not milestones. I will make more videos in the future that shows EVERY HALLOWEEN & MONSTER SET Lego has made. It is long overdue.

HALLOWEEN IS AROUND THE CORNER... AND YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS? SPOOKY FUN FOR EVERYONE!!! Over the years I have taken my time to diligently archive many of the LEGO Halloween & Monster sets ever released. I have also made 2 videos: one outlining the history of Halloween sets released by TLC and another counting down the top 10 creepiest, spookiest, scariest, sets. Both videos come with bonus content. I understand the Halloween history one speeds too fast. If it gains traction I'll upload a slower version. You may access these cool videos and sites through the links found in my signature below. Please enjoy them and have a Happy Halloween!

Again that is based on a third-party magazine who spoke to the lead designer. I am shocked there are no other interviews with him from any other sources. We already know from a revealed list of 2016 sets that a second Scooby wave wasn't on there but it is always possible we see one for Q4 (Q2 in UK/EU). Then again, in the Ghostbusters Firehouse thread, there are some rumors that a GB theme could come next year based on the female sets. That's just mentioned and by no credible source who could have easily misunderstood other rumors.

Just read the Blocks Magazine Issue 11 interview with LEGO Scooby Doo designer, Nik Groves. He answers a few questions people have posed here and questions some of us may have wondered about but never asked. Here's a summation of that interview: - There are no plans to continue the Scooby Doo line. My take: As we know from the Ghostbusters brand, that could mean "not at this time" but doesn't mean TLC couldn't consider it in the future. - The stickers are necessary for practical and economical reasons. My take: Like the Haunted House designer, he acknowledges we don't like stickers. But like he says - it costs a lot to print multiple printed bricks. These same bricks are often reused in other sets and there has to be a different machine for each printed and non-printed version of the same brick. So it's also economically based. - Scooby Doo was meant to be limited in articulation to match "LEGO DNA." My take: Not much is expounded on this. - The theme was designed more for kids, who they felt would care less that the sets are based from 45 years of Scooby Doo material, not just the first series. My take: The sets were made to be cartoony and iconic of the famous playsets kids have come to known, like the Mystery Machine and Spooky Mansion,. - 7 of the 8 villains are actually from Scooby Doo cartoons. My take: The Swamp Monster, disguised by Mr. Brown, is not explained to his exact origins. - Liberties were taken for many reasons, mainly to appease kids and not adults. My take: The Mystery Machine was designed to be small and affordable so kids can play with it. The Mystery Mansion purposely mixed many monsters from many cartoons so kids could have a variety. - Sets were also based on previous sets for some inspiration, the Haunted House being mentioned by Blocks. My take: More liberties were taken again. There is a mention of the zombie and how he doesn't come with the witch, no reason why, just says this is so. - The Mansion itself is NOT from any specific Scooby Doo haunted house or castle but a more of their design so kids can identify it is a spooky house. - Several designers designed several vehicles/building: Michael Fueller the Mysrey Machine and Bjarke Madsen, the mansion. - The Zombie is not from the Living Doo despite his design matches that zombie's design specifically. - Characters and plot points are all from their obvious series (there is a page devoted to this, as well as outlining the differences and liberties taken, by Bricks and not by Nik himself) and no episodes were specifically stated by either the designer or magazine : Scooby Doo: Where Are You: Mystery Mansion (all villains from this series; venus plant is not mentioned), Mystery Machine (Zombie acknowledged, not tree), Mummy Adventure (mummy) * It's important to note: For fans of ONLY Scooby Doo: Where Are You?, TLC has you in their thoughts with the NEW Scooby Doo Collection at S@H: http://shop.lego.com/en-US/LEGO-Scooby-Doo-Collection-5004810 The Scooby Doo Show: Mystery Plane Adventures (Headless Horseman) What's New, Scooby Doo: Haunted Lighthouse (Creepy Keeper; Swamp Monster is original) - The magazine felt the Mansion lacked play ability and was the worst set in the theme but you should still get it to complete the gang. They feel the reason Velma was put only in this set was for marketing purposes and give people a reason to buy this set.

You mean when they show the Firehouse in one of the newer videos? Genius, that slipped my mind. Folks here is what the Lego Firehouse will look like as just2goid suggested. http://ghostbustersnews.com/2015/08/26/first-look-ghostbusters-hq-in-lego-dimensions/#prettyPhoto https://m.facebook.com/ghostbustersnews/posts/1038176536222939 http://lego-dimensions.wikia.com/wiki/Firehouse [quote name=Rookie875' timestamp='1442686821' post='2335011] Just2Good said look to Dimensions for answers, in the voice cast trailer Winston has Finn (from Star Wars) hair!!

Great call... except just2good already said that in his announcement video a couple days ago.

Has anyone asked Brett or the other guys if TLC has contacted them about their HQ projects? Seems like a lot of people are talking for them and no one is inquiring whether they knew about this or not. Either way, I hope the $350 price tag is exclusively for the building. TLC could have phased out the Ecto-1 but didn't for a reason and I bet this is it. Still, if they did include another Ecto-1, it would be about a $50 value, so a $300 building would still be huge. Look at this this way, the Movie Cinema was about $150 and the Haunted House was like $180. Those are huge sets and easy to compare to a multistory firehouse. And no to a StayPuft build. Has anyone suggesting that ever seen the movie? He was never in any important scene with the Firehouse, it was Dana's apartment building where his scene occurred, so why does it make sense to include him? I know Slimer wouldn't make sense in that regard but he's a small build and wouldn't take up the piece count to make this awesome. What pieces would TLC use to even make this? Maybe as one of those action figure deals they're doing with Darth Vader but I don't see much else coming from that. And this dude, get over it already. TLC never releases "two versions" of the same set at the same time. They're likely to rerelease any popular theme and sets (Harry Potter, Spongebob) but never two versions. Start saving your money now and stop blasting "your opinion" several times in this forum and flooding it. It's not practical for TLC to even do this. That's not "my opinion" - that's my business sense from my education. Like someone already said, Ghostbusters is more appealing to AFOLs and even their kids. There aren't a whole lot of Halloween specials kids nowadays know about or have been served - I think the generation behind me is all excited about Halloweentown. My generation still holds on to the classics that came before us - Charlie Brown, Grinch Night, and hordes of other Halloween specials. AFOLs are willing to dish out the money for something that huge. The same reasons we dished out the money for any major Star Wars set like the Death Star if we wanted to (I didn't, the Haunted House is my most expensive set until this Firehouse). Some kids love Star Wars but this generation after mine seemed to like only the new stuff that came out when they were younger so they're avoiding more of the nostalgic items and Star Wars appeals more to AFOLs. I had no problems getting $100 sets as a kid. My 6th birthday party I got Black Seas Barracuda. Every year after that I'd only get about a $50 set for my birthday and then, at least, a $100 set for Christmas. I seldom asked for the ones under $100 but back then all LEGO sets were awesome so you were happy with just a small race car. I didn't care to complete collections when I was younger and I think the first collection I even aimed to complete was the Wild West & Indians, then I think I even completed all the Adventurers sets even though I wasn't a fan of the Asian ones. Until the Studios monster sets I didn't really go for collections, just for the pieces and minifigures and with a little allowance or at times my parents buying me random things I could get bigger sets. Then I collected the whole awful Knights KIngdom thinking there wouldn't be better Castle sets and didn't even aim to complete a collection until Monster Fighters. Normally what money I got for my birthday mainly went to Legos so what my parents didn't get me (the smaller sets) I got myself. I hope they use the idea from the guy who made a basement for it but I guess asking for a basement level is too much to ask for.

HEADS UP - There are few differences among each region's Club magazines. For example, the UK favors the Friends series and this month there is actually a pull-out Halloween poster of the Friends' Heartlake hotel. Also a new Scooby Doo game is another one. Not sure if the US/CA versions are different.