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Nice try but unless you got it free with a promotion the only other way to buy it is from Ebay and it's very genuine.

Can we find them on Google? If so by which keywords? Are they on a web site outside the USA>

TV SERIES COMING; ACTIVITY & ghost-hunting BOOKS EACH WITH MINIFIGURE COMING 2020: https://www.target.com/p/guide-to-ghost-hunting-with-minifigure-lego-hidden-side-by-meredith-rusu-paperback/-/A-77568073 https://www.target.com/p/activity-book-with-minifigure-lego-hidden-side-by-ameet-studio-paperback/-/A-77568070 Yes that would make the theme more attractive to AFOLs like myself than just avoiding it, or like me, using select sets as add-on kits to my Monster collection.

I really think Lego jumped the gun with planning Hidden Side as a success and began producing a second wave before giving the first wave a chance. Monster Fighters went on sale around this time despite being released months earlier than anticipated and despite some fans insisting it was a popular line, business shows otherwise, and it was one of the most overstocked themes in 2012. I've noticed one of my local Wal-Marts moved all the Hidden Side sets off the shelves and into a hidden standup display to make it look as if Hidden Side sets were selling out. Given the general income for this area, it would definitely seem unlikely, especially on a theme so dependent on an app that requires a very expensive phone to begin with. Bottom line - Lego sets are toys, not apps. When the app is far better than the sets, that is a problem. The "ghosts" in each set are cheap 2D representations of actual 3D spooks that would have really enhanced the sets. Add to the wacky color variety and weird piece selection and design and the whole thing looks like a repeat of Time Cruisers with Fright Knights and Ninjago Ghosts. Not to mention it is a total ripoff of Stranger Things, whose set itself is laughable.

Wow! It's great to hear from the people who weren't given high-priced sets grow up and afford them for their children or themselves. I was spoiled. Between alliwance and gifts, I always had all the smaller sets by my birthday. For Christmas the bigger sets and money I got was used to complete each theme. I remember being 6 and getting the Black Seas Barracuda my birthday. That Christmas or next it was the Island and Fort Legorado. Plus a robin hood set. Until I met kids at school I thought that was normal for those of us who collected Lego. I grew up in the Midwest. The idea of collecting Lego was absurd and counter-productive to the Midwestern ways of giving hotwheels cars or Tonka trucks to boys or even guns. And cooking sets, baby dolls, or barbies. In other words, toys were used as a means to teach children how to behave in a traditional manner and I was often teased for collecting Lego sets. Lego sets, at that time, couldn't teach me to live in the real world and work at plants of fix cars, only to have an imagination, which doesn't get you anywhere in the Midwest.

Only if the Shrimp boat brings shrimp for the restaurant to serve. Otherwise they are not mutually exclusive. And why not pair them? Gives them meaning. The Graveyard and Train go together in some ways too.

So I broke down and bought the Juice Bar, new and through the secondary market. (very cheap) I'm not impressed with the very vibrant, cheap looking pieces. But I bought this set as an add-on to my horror scene (which I will upload later). I do like the kid. I think LEGO done a great job of recreating a character you could see on The Disney Channel or Nickelodeon. (Although, hilariously, there is a girl who resembles her in the remake of "Child's Play"). I like the citizen - when he is a citizen. I'm not a fan of the ghost heads because - looking at the theme's graphics, they are poor representations of 3D ghosts. However, I do like his face a little better than the rest of these ghosts. Stickers are lame, except for the Slushi one, that one is awesome. The two lone ones on the back remind me of the ugly out-of-place Blue ones from the Werewolf sets. I'm impressed by the size. This is a big juice bar and worth me paying far less than getting it free with such an amount of purchase. As a theme overall, perhaps Wave 2 will add some continuity to it but for the most part this theme can be broken down into its "twos": a school and a bus; a shrimp shack and juice bar; leaving the graveyard, boat, and stunt car to have their matches in the second wave. Like everyone else, better ghost figures are a must. I wish they would have provided 3D molded heads like they did with the Simpsons. I'm not a fan of the culture represented by the citizens and designs. Where did Lego get the influence for that god-awful graveyard design? Kreo? I haven't matched them against my existing monster themes or Scooby/Ghostbusters, but I feel they are out of place and belong with the Mixels or as its own theme. It was nice seeing pieces from The Haunted House reused, although only 2. I do love Lego's appeal to this new generation, I'm guessing "juice bars" are popular in cities? I didn't think they were a thing like Starbucks. Overall, it'll serve my purpose of putting it near my witch cottage for patrons watching fights to get juice. Beyond that, it belongs only in the Hidden Side theme and sometime in the future I'll set it against the old Studios Monsters, MF, GB, SD themes to show what I mean. 5/5 for Hidden Side/Stranger Things fans; 3/5 for serving my purpose despite the crazy color scheme; 5/5 for value in terms of the size of the juice bar and minifigure count; 1/5 for having minimal replay value; and 1/5 for only looking great with HS theme sets, 1/5 for stickers; 1/5 for minimal storage value; and 1/5 for appealing too much to kids and less to teens or AFOLs..; 1/5 for looking like cheap dollar general ripoffs; 1/5 for lame white box/instructions color; 1/5 for being too dependent on an app with limited device support; but 5/5 for being on sale in deep discounts everywhere.

Target has these listed for sale, due out August 2020 lol.. https://www.target.com/p/activity-book-with-minifigure-lego-hidden-side-by-ameet-studio-paperback/-/A-77568070 https://www.target.com/p/guide-to-ghost-hunting-with-minifigure-lego-hidden-side-by-meredith-rusu-paperback/-/A-77568073

Brick Fanatics Issue #9 has a feature on the 30 years of Pirates. Having not bought this issue myself I have no ideas about the details: https://www.brickfanatics.com/product/brick-fanatics-magazine-issue-9/?wpam_id=6

For those interested, the current version of the Hidden Side site is active and provides download details and FAQ for the app, theme information, product information, and an entire writeup on AR games. They're really putting a lot of stock into this feature and I'm assuming they hope to implement it in other themes. I will give this theme a shot when I see it in a store on a shelf the next time I am out. I do recall the HD photos from the last round of photo leaks did make the theme look more viable. There are also some videos, but nothing like the previously released one. Here's hoping to some shorts that may also make the sets more interesting (like Scooby Doo). https://www.lego.com/en-us/themes/hidden-side/ar-games And here's an early article about this theme. To date, almost all of the new articles have just been press-release formats and not really a review for positive or negative: https://www.fastcompany.com/90305260/lego-is-betting-on-the-wrong-future

And the sales are already up on Amazon for 3 of these sets! They did this with Monster Fighters back in 2012! And I'm in America but it doesn't surprise me Pokemon Go is still popular over there. The game may still be ongoing but trust me, the trend is dead and faded away when schools banned here in America.

Interestingly, Kreo originated the "spooky city" idea with their Cityville sets almost 10 years ago. I'm reading a lot of enthusiasm and positive vibes from Europeans, not so much into the sets other than "I love it" but negativity about the AR, which was supposed to be Lego's selling point for this theme. Was Pokemon Go not in Europe? That was a trend that died quickly. I'm loving the fan speculation about future waves - airplane, carnival, more AR based ghosts made into figures, etc. If Lego can provide these, I'd see even the first wave worth getting. It appears this wave, like most other themes, have complements - diner/boat, graveyard/stunt truck, lab/school/bus, and the train just sits by itself (for now). The juice bar could complement it but I suspect it's meant to complement future sets in Wave 2. FYI: Monster Fighter complements I found useful (my opinion, not official): 1. Haunted House with Vamp Hearse. 2. Graveyard / Zombie Car / Ghost Train / Werewolf / Mummy. If you couldn't get the Graveyard, Halloween Accessory Kit with other accessory kit. 3. Vamp castle / coffin car with Frankenstein Lab For the record, number 2 sits between 1 and 3 in my setups as they share this graveyard /forest /swamp.

Yes including transforming them into zombies like I have done with Santa Clause, a clown, a Monster Fighter, and more. Or even convert some of these minifigs to ghosts or witches with the swapping.

Because the file name had 671 so I assumed that was the number. But I cannot find an idea book by that number so I officially have no clue about the original source of Europa.

Wasn't the one from the '80s (http://oldinstructions.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/1987-250-1-Ideas-Book.pdf). I swore I had seen that but guess not.

What about the idea book before that, wasn't there one in the 80s?

I believe it was #260, last pages

I've been collecting Legos since the 80s son. I personally have lived through the Pirates debut, the first Ghost minifigure, and all the sets from there on. I'm not too fond of Pirate lore but something about those sets and the Robin Hood sets hooked me as a kid. I'm not fake, I run two fan sites, one which happens to be dedicated to Spooky Lego sets, as well as other brick brands, and I'm with a huge majority of both AFOLs and trade publications who are against Hidden Side and project its failure. I understand business all too well, my masters degree just happens to be business administration, and this is clearly Lego capitalizing on Stranger Things and Ghostbusters, just in their own way. It's like somebody watched Ghostbusters 2016 and just went with it. I'm loving the look of the female scientist. And I LOVED the video. But I'm just not digging the set vibes and their design. Doesn't make me fake. I didn't like the comical ghosts from the Ninjago ghost line and if I wasn't n my dark ages I'd collected the Skeleton Army line from the old Castle Fantasy era. I wasn't too thrilled with Fright Knights because of their designs and that's considered one of the worst lines in Lego history. Wasn't a fan of Time Cruisers either but obviously there were a lot of fans as there were entire comics and radio shows based on that line. I'm not real impressed with the faces of these "ghosts" and everything about it feels comical and weird, like a Monster High set from the other brand. FYI: The Zombie Graveyard set from 2012's MF line was Lego's way of capitalizing on the Walking Dead phenomena back in its heyday. Only Toys R'Us seemed to catch that, although hilariously the ENTIRE IDEA of a zombie "bride and groom" and voodoo doctor (which was replaced by a zombie driver with a brown hand, alluding to the race of the voodoo doctor from the same film I'm about to name) is actually from an older film called White Zombie and it even featured a zombie wedding. But that was also a time when zombies were creations of voodoo doctors and were not dead, rotted animated corpses but rather hypnotized slaves under someone else's control. I was talking about the set being based on the controversial film, Temple of Doom. That set sparked a lot of controversy upon its release, based on the content of the movie, which featured child endangerment, child slavery, the bloody heart rip, burning a man alive, the demonic vibe from the chants of the Thugee cult, and the production design of the film. Thanks to that set, many kids could be introduced to a film that should have been rated R but only wasn't because of had Steven Spielberg behind it (that's a known fact in the film business industry) but instead created the PG-13 rating for future films. The set itself may be innocent but its derivative content is not. Stranger Things is WAY more innocent than that film. As much throwback to '80s pop culture, it leaves out facts like one of the worst eras for crimes, AIDS, gangs, drugs, society recognizing predators exist, serial killer trials, baby switching, kidnappings, society acknowledging safety concerns with trick er treating (notably candy being spiked with razor blades or poison), etc.

where is it?

For the love of God the stupidest thing I read all day. Obviously he missed the first Lego Vampire who's alt head was drooling blood from his mouth or the whole Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom set. Or the uncut version of the Studios Monsters short film which really was scary, reminded me of the older Gumby cartoons. There is nothing serious about these sets to make them remotely scary. They're just as playful and comical as the sly and ornery Lord Vampire from MF or the comics in the original Studios monsters and MF lines.

The theme is pretty restrictive and doesn't leave much room to be mixed with other themes. Monsters from the MiniFigs line, the MF line, or thd Studios line do not fit here at all. Neither does Harry Potter. Not even Scooby Doo or GB fit here in terms of designs and color schemes. I don't feel the vibe when I try and mesh Scooby Doo with MF. Only reason my Arkhym Asylum and Temple of Doom work is because thy use the same architecture / design. Although I was able to mesh the old HP graveyard duel with my MF sets just fine. But HS is its own theme where only its own ghost minifigs and designs work with it. Now the regular minifigs and the scientist could fit with the women's GB but def stay away from Studios, Monsters, Scoovy, and MF.

Lego must know something we don't to already have information available to the public about ten new sets for HS next year. I'm with a lot of people. I think the second wave should have more actual ghosts and not these TimeCruiser swaps that look horrible. I wasn't a fan of the Ninjago Ghost series and not a fan of these ghosts at all. Way too fake. I didn't like the ghost pieces in the GB HQ set either, only the minifigs. These minifigs look like shit. I was going to buy one or two sets but they're poorly designed and way too flashy for me. That doesn't include the whole stupid AR concept. Why even have Lego sets if we can just play games on our phones that look way better than the sets? Here's hoping the ghosts break beyond the ghost barrier and come into the real Newbury world so we get rid of the AR bull. Wave 2 would be much better. I'm not a huge fan of Stranger Things either. I like it and enjoy the throwback to the '80s (which I didn't remember as that great as they glorify) but I don't love it, especially for a $200 set where I'd only care to have the monster.

I believe the original source of Europa was an 90s Idea Book, #671 to be exact

Yes I own The Toy that Changed Our Lives

The first one I picked up at a newsstand. I haven't gotten the second one (the one above) yet.