Karalora

To me this is clearly intended to read as a float/set of floats in a theme park parade.

You know what? Fair.

I think "sets you like" is meant to be parsed as "particular sets that you wish existed," not "any sets you like."

It's gatekeeping, is what it is. "You must be this adroit at MOCing to be part of our AFOL community." Which of course leaves people below that skill level without a community...and without support for getting to said skill level. This is certainly a source of frustration for me.

I feel like having pre-built figures defeats the purpose of Build a Minifig, but I definitely agree that it can be frustrating to hunt for the pieces you want in a bin where a hundred strangers' hands have been rummaging, kids have been pulling the arms off of torsos, etc. All the stores I frequent seem to have given up on keeping the parts sorted by type, making it doubly difficult to sift through them. Is there a workable compromise that doesn't require having someone on staff just to hand out requested parts? Because that would be inconvenient for stores and customers alike.

I just watched the LoZ: Tears of the Kingdom gameplay demo with Eiji Aonuma, and I am almost convinced we are definitely going to be getting LEGO sets based on this game. Link has a new power specifically for the purpose of building useful items out of components he finds.

Given that the 18+ sets are mostly designed for display rather than play, I'm not sure how else the boxes should be designed? They show what the assembled set looks like, against a plain background that makes the colors and shapes pop.

If I had the option to pay, say, $5-10 more to get a set I want with all printed parts instead of stickers, I would. But LEGO doesn't give me that option. Any given set either uses stickers or it doesn't; in the former case, my choice is between buying a set with stickers or forgoing it altogether.

I...don't know what you expect me to say in response to this. The fact that the whole park is called the Magic Kingdom doesn't change the fact that Main Street isn't, in itself, especially magical. With regard to your layout...you do you, I wasn't trying to criticize your plans. I thought you were looking to recreate the vibe of Main Street, USA in the Disney theme parks and I made a suggestion.

If you have the Creator Modulars, I would recommend those over Diagon Alley. The Disney theme parks Main Street is very much an everyday (early 1900s) town, not a magical neighborhood. The idea is to ease you in instead of hitting you with the fantastic adventures right off the bat.

A Main Street--or at least a small section of it--would be lovely, especially if it included the antique vehicles that operate in that area. It doesn't seem very likely, however, because of the lower appeal to children compared to a fairy tale castle or electric train.

If I'm remembering the trailer that dropped the other day correctly, it takes its aesthetic cues from the Anaheim building facade. The WDW version would make a lovely set too of course, but I think its specific architecture is not nearly as iconic. Such curmudgeonly slander against a delightful and whimsical ride! Seriously, "it's a small world" (the lowercase letters and quote marks are part of the spelling) and its associated theme song have to be the most unfairly maligned things Disney has ever produced.

I would honestly be utterly delighted with any reasonably well-designed theme park related set. Sleeping Beauty Castle would of course be ideal for me, since I love the detailing on the existing Disney Castle but would prefer the one from my "home park" so to speak. A higher piece count might mean more accurate scaling (the Disney Castle should be about twice as large in order to be properly in scale with minifigs) or it might mean that some more of the immediate grounds are included in the build, either the Plaza Hub out front (with the "Partners" statue) or the courtyard behind it (with Fantasyland ride entrances). A full-sized Haunted Mansion would also be excellent, and might even be likely given the upcoming movie. Okay, I'll bite: How do you think being live-action would improve Up?

This, so much. It hurts my heart that the mainstream seems to view live-action cinema as the only truly valid storytelling medium, inherently superior to books or theatre or video games or especially animated cinema.

Prince John's tail sits under his robe and pokes out the bottom. I can't recall offhand whether the minifig has a cloth robe piece (and am not currently in a position to check), but it seems like it would be difficult to accomplish either way. Not to mention, a skinny lion tail would be very prone to breaking/tearing. I don't mind the lack. It's not a crucial part of his design.

I put together my Wildflower Bouquet yesterday. Trying to hopefully kick-start spring because this winter has been dragging.

These look really good! Did you design custom graphics or are all those existing tiles?

My guess is that the videos in question used the leaked images, and are being struck for that reason. Two videos that I know of which discuss the set without displaying those images are still up.

Eh, I can take or leave Cinderella. If they put her in a CMF I'd want her for completeness, but I've never felt drawn to the character. I disagree with the common position that she should have been included with the castle--uncoupling it from her in order to represent the theme parks rather than the movie is surely why the set was called "Disney Castle" instead of "Cinderella Castle," and her fairy tale is one of many referenced in the interiors.

I don't think Mickey in a gray suit would go with the Haunted Mansion because the iconic suits for the attraction are green. (Also, I would really hope for a full minifig-scale set to come with the unique characters from the attraction, not Disney toons dressed up. I'm fairly flabbergasted that we got a human butler minifig with the microscale set.) The Mark Twain would be lovely, but might be considered redundant with the Steamboat Willie set. I'd like to see the Jungle Cruise--a boat with a skipper and a few passengers (human or characters, either one is acceptable in this case) and a section of riverbank with wild animals. I thought it might happen as a tie-in with the Dwayne Johnson movie, but I'm not terribly surprised that it didn't. A Mad Tea Party with elaborate Technic gearworks to create the spinning would be excellent.

Besides Robin Hood, most chroniclers classify The Aristocats, The Rescuers, and The Fox and the Hound in that era. It's not that the films are necessarily bad per se--The Rescuers consistently gets good reviews and Robin Hood somehow manages to be much greater than the sum of its parts for people who got into it as children (such as you, and also me), but the company was flailing in the absence of decisive central leadership during that period and becoming much more timid about its art. Budgets shrank to the point where reusing animation from previous films, once a sparingly used time-saver, became an absolute necessity just to finish a film (the prime example being our beloved Robin Hood), and they were only able to release an animated feature about every 4 years. The live-action division, as @Murdoch17 points out, was even worse off, with more movies being produced but almost every one of them utterly forgettable. In 1985, they tried to pull out of the slump with The Black Cauldron, a big-budget fantasy that brought animation back up to a high standard of quality but unfortunately missed the boat on literally everything else--clumsy script, dull characters, no songs, and a blank of a background score (despite bringing Elmer Bernstein on as the composer). Fortunately, the next year brought The Great Mouse Detective, which scaled back the animation a little in favor of going ham on fun characters, a tight story, and all that other good stuff. The Disney Renaissance proper began in 1989 with The Little Mermaid, but Cauldron and Detective aren't quite part of the post-Walt slump. The one is too ambitious and the other too all-around competent to qualify. That transitional period also saw Who Framed Roger Rabbit, a hybrid live-action/animation project which has never been eclipsed as far as the seamlessness of its medium blending. Disney got their groove back in fits and starts and tbh when I watch Mermaid nowadays, I can tell which sequences had the effort lavished on them and which proceeded at about the same low-medium level of craft as the previous era.

Agreed. We've got the pre-feature era (Oswald), Golden Age (Evil Queen, Pinocchio & Jiminy, Sorcerer Mickey), Silver Age (Queen of Hearts, Aurora, Cruella), and post-Walt Dark Age (Robin Hood & Prince John). The Disney Renaissance is already well-represented, but we got some of the often ignored characters (Pocahontas, Mulan). Then the post-Renaissance is represented (Stitch, Tiana, Dr. Facilier, Baymax), and Pixar is thankfully limited to two (Miguel & de la Cruz). A very good spread overall, and it's also nice to see that they seem to have broken out of the insistence upon "pairing off" characters. It's harder to get a proper mix when each title represented must take up two or more slots.

Welp, that's 18 more for my wishlist!

If that's "as nicely as possible," then what the heck would you say if you weren't being nice? You all but called people stupid if they don't feel the need to squish bags in order to get specific CMFs.

I want more theme park sets, including characters unique to the parks. We got that Haunted Mansion microbuild with the butler minifig which is fine, but I'd still like to see a full-sized one with more ghost characters.