Itaria No Shintaku

Hello, I really hope that Fangy will give us another of his fantastic reviews. In the meantime, my vote goes for the Scarecrow, but I don't feel overwhelmedly excited for this particoular series.

I don't see it like a problem. Remember that in Canada you have a totally different weather than in Italy... I doubt you have 45°C in Canada. ;)

This. I really hope and think it's very possible.

Well, one year has passed and minifigures series 10 and 11 were spoilered long before their actual launch, so I wasn't able to place a minifigure guessing game. But good news, everyone (I'd need a Farmsworth emoticon here ;D), as I am back with your favourite (or at least not-least-favourite) game, the minifigures guessing game. So here's the game: You tell me the list of the 16 minifigures you think are likely to be released on series 12. Please do not list the minifigures that you wish to appear as there is another topic. (EG. you'd love a space zombie alien dragon, but you think it's unlikely, well do not post it). I know it's difficult but please, please, please do not be generic. A s "some sports minifigure" will award you no points. And I start, as always did, but alas I do never win.... 1) A basketball player. 2) An indian snake charmer. 3) A greek philosopher 4) An haircutter. 5) A female elf. 6) A panda suit guy. 7) A ballerina. 8) A male ice skater. 9) A female trapezist 10) A burglar 11) A female post worker 12) A racer girl 13) A noblewoman 14) A mongol warrior 15) The Fly (as the horror movie resuing parts from galaxy squad) 16) A sculptor. Let's see your guess!

Not necessarily. In 34 years of life I have NEVER seen a female construcion worker. So it's just about your country or mine, not a global condition. Actually it's mostly like that today too. Capitalism has awarded rich people what Monarchy and Noblety awarded centuries ago, but the problem is still the same. The lower class is still in a slavery condition, but's it's masked as freedom. It is not. You have to work 12 to 16 hours per day to get a minimum wage that barely helps you to survive. This is not really much much different from slavery. And witch hunting? Do you really think people is entitled to have a personal opinion? Today witches are who opposes to gay marriage, or whoever seems close enough to pedophilia. History repeats itself, in a less brutal way but things ain't changed much. Thank you for agreeing that the "Damsel in distress" trope still applies in the nowadays world and hence it has nothing to be criticized. I appreciate your intellectual honesty, really. Er... I never said that a black ghostbuster is wrong. I just said that is wrong to put it BECAUSE three white ghostbusters seemed racist. Since there is no difference between black and white, nobody should feel offended if ghostbusters were all males, all females, two black and two white... see? It doesn't make any difference! Do you really think that someone would have complianed if the new lego city sets portraited only female cops? No. But if there aren't feminists complain. Is that logical? Er... no sorry I do not agree with you. I believe that THIS is a social influence. But that's just my 2p. And no, I do feel that the reasonment that women and man can achieve the very same goals... well that's anachronistic. Thanks to science we developed a nearly full knowledge of the deep differences that there are between male and femail which wasn't available years ago. So that's a modern way into thinking. What I don't feel like it's the need to complain! I mean, I really feel that sometimes there are wasted places in the 16 collectible minifigures, for minifigures that have really no use for me, because they HAD to put a female character in it. Pick series 11. A female robot? Seriously? Who needed that? I have never seen a female robot among boy's toys in my entire life. But they had to to be politically correct. This should be insulting for women, IMHO. Like the woman's day should be insulting for women. IMHO Peace.

Aanchir. I appreciate your words. Bytheway I will always have an opinion different from yours. In my hopinion one of the things society has to stop as soon as possible is "male bashing". Feminism leaded to a wrong concept of the male, and this is why I am proudly anti-feminist. Feminism to me is a for of sexism. Rarely feminist battle for sex equality. Not the one I know, for least. I pick you an example so you can truly understand what I mean. If you see a movie with the "damsel in distress" trope you feel disturbed. I totally disagree while it's your right to feel the way you feel. I instead feel lot of disturbed when "male bashing" happens, and believe me, nowadays it's FAR more often. This is what happens: in a movie, a man that hits or beats a women, is a monster, is a bad man. A woman that hits or beats a man, instead, is seen as a positive stereotype. Think about, for example, "Kill Bill" with inverted roles. Feminist people would have blocked such a movie. Male bashing is everywhere, in commcercials, movies, tv shows and so on. If we aim to gender equality... it's ok, so we should educate society that violence against male and women is the very same thing. And this is nearly impossible, male bashing to be eradicated would need a tremendous efforce, and I don't think society is able to. We live in the world of the "politically correct". They had to put a black ghostbuster, three white ghostbusters seemed racist. Does this seem right? Of course it's not! They could have been all white, all blacks, all women... I don't find it normal to put a female role, a black role, a gay role, because it's more fair... ...if it fits, it's ok, but being forced by the politically correct is simply wrong. How many sales did Nya make? More than Cole? Or Zane? I highly doubt it. Boys do not want Nya. And boys are not yet influenced by the society, they're too young. Think about 1989 pirates. There is a female pirate. In my not too detailed knowledge of pirates, I hardly even heard a female pirate. They HAD to put it one, for the "politically correct". Did we really need her? No. Nice costume, but that's all. Well I think I expressed my point well enough, I hope it doesn't offend anyone since this is not the spirit I wrote it.

Since I am an open person, I asked my gf on this topic. Police woman/Galaxy Squad/Ninja/Hero Factory, her reply "Personally I love Lego, but I would never buy such themes, not now neither when I was a girl because they're mostly action themes and girls do not like action. I would have loved to buy a proper Lego Zoo which they never did. So they include few girls because they are oriented to boys and boys do not like to buy a lot of female minifigures, I think" She also agrees that "pink and rose are nowadays more suitable to represent a girly product". She in the same time says that "Friends does not totally represents the goals and attitudes of a girl, but it's not to blame for that" Then she added this, which many of us won't agree on: "By the way most AFOLs are man because man like to play even when they grow, while girls are more practice and focused on real life, they grow faster and they abandon their toys many years before men do. Adult women rarely feel the need to play, and if they do they do not use toys, they prefere cards game or the like". These are her words which I reported nearly in the same way she told me, I don't remember the very precise words. I believe in the end she's right. Lego has to make money, like CaptainJohnPaul says, not to change the world. I quote what he said.

Removed content. I don't want to enrage hate here. I am a polite and peaceful person.

I find this highly offensive and I didn't expect that from you. You are inherently calling me non-intelligent and ignorant. I was polite all along, you are not. Calling one "ignorant" and having "no intelligence or virtue" because you do not share his opinion is not a great sign of be a smart and democratic person. This is also strawmanning because I never said that woman are subordinated to man, instead I stated the very opposite: men are expendable, women are not. So you are even placing in my mouth words I did not say, nor mean, nor even allude, about feelings I totally do not share. I am more than highly offended. You should have spared your futile rant. I demand your apologizes.

I think it's just an error. The head seems far too thin to enclose a normal minifig head.

I must agree with you, he must be a paramedic!

Thank you very very much!

Seems I was right, tho

Er... not. It's not a social belief. That's the way things are. Market researches show clearly that boys are more attracted to blue, and girls to pink/violet. This is mostly why TLC made blue boxes for city sets and pink boxes for friends sets. You can't "socially" force a kid to like or dislike a color. It would be like "socially" forcing them to like ord dislike a scent, or a taste for a food. Plus, since I am continuosly censuring myself not to offend people, but I wanted to spend 2 words on the "Damsel in Distress" trope. My girlfriend LIKES me to care about various stuff. She preferes ME to drive. She likes to enjoy trips, enjoying views and captruing details that I cannot do while driving. My girlfriend LIKES me to open her door of restaurants, cars, serving her the drinks at the table and so on. I am censuring myself so I won't go in deep with this argument, but I will just throw a little rock, if it offends someone I will remove this line because I know many aren't able to accept lines like this, because they easily get misunderstood but: Woman has been given by nature the most beautiful role among the genders: she can give birth to new life. As a man, I suffer for not having this chance. It is indeed a serious pain to suffer a whole life for the period, with pains, diseases, or simply being uncomfortable. It is indeed a serious pain to stay 9 months with nausea, extra weight, pains and so on. And it is indeed a serious pain the whole act of giving birth to a child. But, pain or not, I will never been given this opportunity. I cannot simply choose to enter pregnancy. Thus, male role is indeed to protect women. THEY are the important gender of our race. THEY give birth. A man is most "expendable" than a woman. This is where the "damsel in distress" tropy comes from. Whatever society tries to do, they would never change the way it is. Women are phisically weaker. Some women I know are knocked out from their period (some can't even work properly during those days, a friend of mine gets temperature over 38C every time she has her period). This does NOT in any way make women worse than men. They will always be the life bringers, they didn't choose this as we didn't choose our role. This just reinforces the fact that a man role is to serve and protect woman. I mean, if we are totally interchangable and equal, why do they keep separing championships in sports in "woman" and "man" categories? Socially they're trying to disrupt human nature, convincing us that women and men are interchangable. This is one of the steps society is trying to do to cancel the difference between us, making us just replaceable puppets. Think about it. They're trying to convince you that etnicity does not matter, based on the fact you may be racist, thus trying to cancel the heritages of races. They're trying to convince you that gender does not matter, based on the fact you may be sexist, thus trying to cancel the differences between male and female. They're trying to convince you that sexual orientantion does not matter, based on the fact you may be homophobe, thus trying to cancel the unicity of our sexual desires. We humans must fight against this. We are everybody unique, with our differences, heritages, sexual interests, tastes, and so on. We have abilities for different tasks that come from our gender, our skills, our culture, our education. We are not all the same. I love LEGO because it makes perfectly understand this. We must never, never forget that our differences makes us unique people. Men have virtues and vices of being male. Women have virtues and vices of being female. Women's virtues are not always achievable by men and viceversa. Brains do work in different way, making men more suitable for some activities and women more suitable for others. This doesn't mean that a certain woman can not attain results in a mainly-male field, and vice versa, only that it will be harder for her/him. I could start a whole line including the "male-bashing-trophy" which is fair more worrying than the "damsel-in-distress-trophy", but that would be stopping censuring myself, because I could not be nice. So I end it here. I just felt the urge to add my 2p, but I really think we should everybody remember that Lego is a toy.

The problem is that feminism is often (if not always) a form of sexism... and the manners of the girl in that video are aggressive. But thank you for your words I appreciated them.

My thoughts: 1 - Barbarian. :( I expected a cape... or a better weapon. Disappointed. 2 - Scarecrow. EXCELLENT! One of the best CMF EVER! 3 - Lederhosen. Very good! Too bad for the pretzel again! 4 - Evil Mech.. -.- really did we need this guy? 5 - Tiki Warrior... MINE! Shut up and take my money! 6 - Gingerbread man... Dunno... not my kind. 7 - Christmas Elf ... Not my kind eather. But nice tho. 8 - Yeti - Nice, but I would have done a removable head... 9 - Climber. LOVE THE ROPE. Hope they do it in brown! 10 - Welder. Very nice! 11 - Scientist. Maybe I will use this for the flasks 12 - Blues Brother. EXCELLENT. I am not into this kind of minifigure, but love it! 13 - Waitress - Excellent hairpiece! 14 - Grandma. I love it! 15 - Bobby. Very nice! 16 - Robot. UGLY!

I share all the things you did say. There's a big difference between not allowing to comment at all, and letting many people express their thoughts and then declare it over before it gets too hot...

I'd add some spare thoughts, after I got calm, since I lean to become argumentative and I don't like myself, when topics get hotter. I really, really believe this topic should be closed before it gets too far. I felt really offended by the video posted, and in the meantime I know for sure that LiamM32 didn't intend to. I beg pardon it's just I find outrageous that people use toys and children for their political purposes. So I really really wish this topic to get closed and people like the girl in the video spreading all this hate towards a TOY really become aware of how mean they are, exploiting a toy for children to convey their personal controversial political ideas is really a low blow. I won't reply this topic, I get mad when I see stuff like this. I tried to keep it polite, but I won't be able to keep it like this for long, so I prefere to censure myself. I repeat myself at the cost of being annoying: using kids and toys to convey ideas, moreover wrong, it's the thing that pisses me off the most. This is why I overreacted.

I also sell them and rarely girls are interested, if never. I couldn't make it to the end. That girl may look educated, but she's biased as hell. Not only. She says much false things (one for example, but there are more, she says that in Friends all professions/activities are female stereotypes, while I already pointed out that magicians or karate champions are not female stereotypes, nor biologist or so on... so please...) and hearing that made me nervous. This person is misleading and reporting biased and facticious stuff in order to attack TLG for mysterious reasons. What's the problem with girls liking pink stuff? I mean, when I was a boy I highly disliked pink stuff. And that wasn't because my parents teached me that! For example again: as a child I highly wanted the "market game" in which you get a small assorment of fruit and so on to play the greengrocer with your friends... That was considered girlish but my parents bought me it for Christmas and I was very happy. I loved the tiny fruits looking like real ones because I always loved miniaturized stuff, this is mostly what I love in LEGO. But apart from that single thing, that makes me think how my parents didn't care if a product was girlish or boyish, I know what I liked. We should stop to decide what's better for our children. They are people as much as we are, and if they can't decide most of the things, I am totally sure they can decide which toys they like most. Children are not a product. They have their life and it's their right to choose. If a boy wants dolls, I hope he gets dolls. I don't think dolls will make him gay and even if they did, what's the big stuff? Girls usually love different stuff from boys, that's it. Plus, I have experienced fun in building Friends set, they're not EASY to build, they present the same issues, if not more, in building a counterpart of a city. THIS is what people should be concerned about: if they made easier set for women, that would have been a problem. Sorry that biased girl really made me nervous, I always hate when people try to manipulate the people's opinion by stating incomplete or facticious facts. EDIT: I went to her youtube channel to tell her how wrong this video was and no surprise she doesn't allow comments. Only dictatorial, antidemocratic, or people who know they are purposely selling false things, disable the opportunity to reply.

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!!!! Excellent review Rufus, you are a top class.

I wandered through this forum but couldn't find a thing: I am looking for pictures of minifig faces and torsos that are not present in LDD to put them in the renders I get with ldd2povray. Has anyone a list of pictures?

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Alas he did in the later... and not to improve, alas...

I saw all of those and you are really good in care for little details, the most difficult thing in Lego MOCs imho. Really really good!