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  1. Karalora
    I'm not very familiar with the earlier games in the series, but the latest Animal Crossing lets you customize your house and the island where it is situated on a grid-based layout, so it should work pretty well as LEGO sets.
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    I don't make fan films or anything like that, but the classic smileys don't read as characters to me. They give the minifigs a mannequin-like quality. It's the iconic LEGO minifigure face, all right, but I have little use for it.
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    Lion King, are you thinking of the porcupine? It doesn't start with Q, but there's a Q sound in the pronunciation, and its needles are called quills.
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    The horse chase between Ichabod and the Headless Horseman is pretty memorable. Maybe something small with the minifigs, their horses, and some builds of spooky trees for the environment? It would make a great addition to a Halloween layout! Granted, Ichabod Crane would be hard to "minifig-ify" on account of his extreme features.
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    That might be acceptable...as long as the production was amateurish enough that the Dickens characters were clearly actors rather than the real deal, as it were.
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    I seem to be in the minority here, but I actually don't want the Winter Village to include any sets that reflect specific Christmas stories. No Scrooge counting-house or Cratchit home, no Frosty, no Rudolph, no Charlie Brown...please. This is my village, where my winter holiday stories take place, not the ones written by anyone else.
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    I intend to. (I will then have to decide what to do with the old one.)
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    I love this! I just fought several of these guys in this evening's game session (I was collecting Sage's Wills). You've covered the essentials, certainly.
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    The other Botanicals thread contains some light speculation about possible future sets in the line, but I thought it would be nice to have a dedicated thread for the topic. I've picked up several of the sets--mostly the flowers--and quite like how they look and how easy it is to swap out individual stems to make a constantly evolving seasonal bouquet. So what else would be good to have? Here's my list so far: Mushrooms (maybe on a section of crumbling log) Kitchen Herb Windowbox (sage, parsley, rosemary, etc.) For Christmas: Poinsettias, sprigs of holly, mistletoe ball For Halloween: Mini pumpkins A subseries of the monthly birth flowers. Some of these, you'll notice, have already been done, but we could see new variations, or have the primary and secondary flower for each month together in a set What else do we need from this line? Put your ideas here!
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    My friend, if you can subdue a Cucco long enough to cook and eat it, you just let me know what it tastes like... 😂
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    OP you had me at Great Deku Tree. I want that set so bad I can taste it. (It tastes like chicken!)
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    I put some glass aquarium filler in a vase to hold the stems steady.
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    I can't remember if anyone has commented on the sparkle pattern on Sorcerer Mickey's robe, but it makes me wonder if it's actually intended to represent the character as he appears in the Fantasmic! show at the theme parks, rather than in Fantasia.
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    My dread is that the leak itself was deemed a "serious issue."
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    People aren't seeming to get that the Disney Castle has little to do with Disney's princess movies per se, and everything to do with the theme parks. Where Mickey Mouse is 100% likely to turn up, wearing a tuxedo like his minifig from the other set.
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    The color oddities in the merch are because the merch isn't based on the movies. It's based on the Disney Princess brand, which alters the designs for some of the characters, especially the older Princesses, in order to make more eye-catching dolls and other toys. The DP brand is only superficially connected to the Disney princess movies. Something we have to face up to is that Disney, the corporation, has no respect for its own products, especially older animation. To us, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs might be an important work of art. To the Disney corporation, it's a) a significant event in the history of animation that the company can take credit for (even though everyone who actually worked on it is long dead), and b) the origin of a character--no, an image--they can market to little girls in order to sell toys.
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    Short answer: To promote the remakes in the hope that people will bother to watch them. Long answer: Actually there is no long answer, that's it.
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    LEGO seems to think so. Otherwise they wouldn't have included enough zebra stickers to cover a good 25-30% of it. And yes, I know the intended build is just one possibility and that's the beauty of this hobby, but we're talking about LEGO's production decisions here. If they want to sell a model that's intended to be covered in stripes, they should have the decency to make striped parts.
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    Holy moly @danth, that poor safari truck...that is just unconscionable. I would hope that even the sticker apologists can agree, that is taking the practice way too far. I find it acceptable (if mildly to moderately annoying) to use stickers to add minor unique surface designs to a small area of a model. There are ELEVEN zebra-patterned stickers on that sheet (plus one non-zebra sticker), covering a sizable proportion of the truck's exterior surface. If the zebra pattern is that important to the look of the model, LEGO should have just bitten the bullet and produced parts with a zebra print.
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    Okay, fine, some people (including OP) passionately despise stickers to the point where it is affecting their buying habits. But what is the point of coming into a thread for venting about stickers just to say "Sucks to be you, they're never going away"?
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    I don't think anyone was saying that stickers are so hated that the only viable business move for LEGO would be to stop using them and go to all prints. At most, we were saying that we dislike them and wish we had the option to get the sets we like with prints instead, even at a higher price point. This is a thread for venting about how annoying stickers are. And honestly? Most of the time? It's not that big a deal. An "ugh" moment while building, and then I'm over it--the sticker is on the piece, and I never have to worry about it again. Worst-case scenario, I fumble the application badly enough that I need to order a replacement sticker sheet. (Hey, here's a thought, TLG...include extra stickers in sets that use them. They're cheap to produce, right?) But I would still rather not have to take that step. I would rather the part have its design pre-printed. And that's what this thread is for--explaining the many reasons why most of us prefer prints to stickers.
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    What are you trying to say here, exactly? Because it comes across like you're trying to invalidate the opinions of people who dislike stickers by implying that if we really disliked them, we'd only buy sets without them. Which is utter nonsense, for reasons that have already been discussed.
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    The sets still sell because the stickered version is the only one available. It's not like LEGO is making sets in two versions--stickers or prints--and letting the market decide. We don't have a completely free choice here. Any given set either uses stickers or doesn't, and if it does, the choice is between accepting stickers and skipping the set altogether. That most of us don't hate stickers enough to avoid every (otherwise delightful and beautiful) set that uses them doesn't constitute an endorsement of stickers per se...although you're probably correct that LEGO will interpret it that way, since they have other incentives to produce stickers rather than prints.
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    I think an acceptable Sidon minifig could be achieved with Avatar-style extra-long legs to give him that height. His game model is about twice the height of Link's, but LEGO doesn't need to be that proportionally accurate. Gorons would need a new body mold though, yeah. Maybe even hinged in a way that they could curl up and roll!
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    In my experience, kids these days almost never play "pirates" or "cowboys" or even--to take something you'd think would be extremely popular right now--"superheroes." What they play is <Name of Currently Popular Franchise Within The Genre In Question>. For superheroes, that would be either MCU/Avengers or Justice League. It's all about emulating specific characters and stories that they know from movies and TV shows. There aren't currently any popular ongoing franchises in the pirate or western genres, so kids don't tend to play in those genres.
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