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In the case of the modular vehicles or Dreamzzz, I think the intent is that the builds should be modular within the fiction that kids might be playing. Having to completely take apart and rebuild something would bring the game to a grinding halt, but modular constructions could be altered within the flow of play.

"Irish Parade Fan," maybe?

Are we assuming that it does?

Aw, but I wanted an Amaury Guichon expy! Joking aside, flamboyant period clothing (and if it's a Willy Wonka-alike, it will be flamboyant) is always fun to have for minifigures, you can reuse it for some very fun characters.

Thank you for this. It gets very frustrating trying to discuss what is and isn't suitable for LEGO conversion in an all-ages market when you have people going: "Why wouldn't they do a theme for my favorite movie, The Dismemberment Explosion Squad? They did sets for Toddler Central, which has an episode where the kids sneak downstairs after their bedtime and the background audio heavily implies that the parents are watching an R-rated action movie!"

Painting of a unicorn, tapestry of a unicorn, book with a unicorn on the cover... That said, a unicorn foal does seem the most likely--it's not as if any new molds would be required.

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Should Legend of Zelda get its own thread now that there are officially multiple sets?

I've been feeling similarly lately--the IP licenses are not inherently a problem, but I think LEGO has found so much success with them that they sometimes (often?) focus on being The Cool Licensed Thing at the expense of being LEGO and doing what LEGO is best at. So much emphasis is placed on visual fidelity to the thing being recreated, that once-essential factors like accessibility or versatility are ignored.

It's on r/legoleaks. Looks like a red (or red-orange) elephant costume, pastel jester, and a box-shaped costume that people are comparing to a pop-tart, but I think it might be a floral-patterned gift box?

3. Any "similar character" to Sherlock Holmes is also going to be primarily a detective. Maybe this needs something more akin to the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen where it's a team of famous 19th Century literary characters, all with different specialties? 4. Good point that pure Warring States would lose the ships...maybe do more of a mashup of eras with the Mongols as a "wild card" faction that can complicate any samurai vs. samurai situation? 5. Explaining why "always chaotic evil monsters" is problematic is outside the scope of this thread, but hopefully the trend away from it in fantasy fiction speaks for itself. I think the premise would be more popular if it were more nuanced and there were heroic orc/goblin characters as well as human/elf antagonists.

1. This sounds delightfully whimsical. You mention futuristic technology, but what's the overall vibe? Maybe everything is underwater because it's a fantastical universe where everything is water and the surface is completely unknown! 2. Why the 1960s specifically? Is it for Cold War vibes, the fashions, or something else? 3. A Victorian-era theme would be excellent, but I'm having trouble visualizing "Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack the Ripper" as a concept. Sherlock isn't an action hero, he's a master detective who solves crimes after the fact. What's the intended dynamic here? 4. A "historical Japan" setting would also be excellent, but I'd be leery of applying "good guys vs. bad guys" to a historical scenario that could easily be coded to modern nations that are often in conflict. No, modern Japan and Mongolia are not at odds, but modern Japan and China are in certain ways, and given that the Mongols were the rulers of China at the time of the invasion in question...yeah. I think a better use of old Japan would be to set it in the Warring States period (as I believe classic Ninja was) so that all the color-coded factions are Japanese and the question is avoided. 5. On a related note, medieval-style fantasy has lately been leaning away from "good human(oids) vs. evil monsters" precisely because it reminds people so much of real-world racial stereotyping and conflicts. Maybe as a variation on your concept, color-coded evil wizards could be controlling or manipulating multiple groups and making them fight each other when they would normally be at peace, and the line could follow a core group of characters representing all the groups who have somehow resisted the mind control and are trying to sort things out.

This, pretty much. A licensed CMF works best as an adjunct to an entire line, when the cast of characters (and/or variant costumes) is large enough that it's not feasible to include them all in the set(s). For a single movie (or, more likely, a movie franchise) to get a CMF--but no sets--it would need to not only have enough humanoid characters to fill out all the slots, but have its appeal revolve entirely around the characters with no iconic scenes or locations to use as a "stage" for said characters. I can't think of any examples off the top of my head, and I will note that of@williejm's examples above, Snow White already got a full-fledged set with most of the main cast (with the Villain appearing elsewhere prior), and Encanto was made into a minidoll line. For Inside Out, I think we only got the Brickheadz and that abstract cube thing, but I think the characters as minifigs would be the most appealing in sets that replicate the whimsical design of the mindscape shown in the films.

Most Disney movies don't have a big enough cast to fill out a CMF with characters that would be widely desired.

This is a fair point, but minifigures tend to be more archetypal than real people, in no small part because they have to be very simplified at their small scale.