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Perhaps they'll be printed on. In any case, it's nice to finally be getting some more solid info about this series, and the reveal of regular minifig heads is excellent news.

Don't forget the Mariachi guy! But yeah, the rock/punk scene is definitely over-represented. I'd like to see a lot more musical genres featured, with distinctive instruments: Jazz: trumpet Classical: Violin Folk: Acoustic guitar Bluegrass: Banjo Marching Band: Flute/piccolo

Depends who you ask. A lot of people still see it as feminine, even the very bold "imperial" shades.

"They" who? What?

I'm hoping she has an icicle crown.

Except that in the original fairy tale*, the Snow Queen had nothing to do with the mirror. There's sort of a throwaway first act where the Devil invents a mirror that reflects all goodness as badness and beauty as ugliness. It gets shattered into a million pieces, which scatter all over the world and get into people's eyes and hearts, causing them to become cynics. One such victim is the boy Kay, which is how he becomes susceptible to the Snow Queen's influence, thus starting the story proper. Most adaptations omit the bit with the Devil simply because it's so superfluous to the rest of the story. Instead, they often cut out the middleman and have the Snow Queen herself use shards of ice to influence Kay directly. * "The Snow Queen" is probably my favorite fairy tale of all time, and I don't use the word "favorite" lightly. I made my own Snow Queen minifig a while back, so this is very exciting news to me!

Very hard to choose one, but I have to give the edge to the Tiger Woman for that witty Lee Meriwether hairdo! Honorable mention goes to: Gorilla Suit Guy, for being able to serve as an actual gorilla (as long as you don't see him from the back) Lizard Suit Guy, for being able to serve as a fantasy lizardman by swapping out the head for a plain red one Unicorn Girl, for being a costume I would have wanted when I was little.

I like the backstory they gave the Queen! I figured she was "just" going to be the Classic King's wife, but it turns out she's a sovereign in her own right! Good on you, LEGO!

And to Toy Story 3, with that recolor of the teddy bear!

Seconding the dreads. A simple ponytail that ties at the nape instead of the top/back of the head. Qui-Gon's hair would be good if not for the thick locks over the shoulders that make it too specific to the character. Also: Existing hairstyles in more colors. I'd really like to have the Hobbit hair in blond and black.

My categories are: * Everyday Folks (modern-day people just doing their thing, but not necessarily their job--think Grandma, Bride, Sleepyhead) * Professionals (modern-day people doing their job) * Athletes (self-explanatory) * Historical Folks (people wearing historical or national costume) * Critter Costumes (self-explanatory) * Fantastic Characters (any fantasy, sci-fi, or mythological concepts--I lump them together because the genre boundaries are so fuzzy) * Entertainers (musicians and other performers) The only ones I don't make a point of snapping up are Professionals and Athletes, and even then if I get one I'll often keep it.

HA! Love the reindeer-taur!

I'm curious as to where you people draw the line between "classic" Disney and "modern" Disney. To me, everything from The Little Mermaid onward is modern.

I think it's quite likely that we'll get molded heads even for the "normal" looking human characters, i.e. the ones that would be face characters in the parks. Disney is tetchy about its trademarked character designs to the point of absurdity. I consider it a minor miracle that we got Princess minidolls with the same head design as Friends.

Is it bad that I knew which scene it would be before I clicked?

Yes please to all of those, BrickOn! Also: * Girl Workshop Elf * Polar Bear Suit * Jack Frost * Sugar Plum Fairy * Baby New Year * Befana * St. Lucia * Krampus * Herald Angel Yes, I know some of these are blatantly religious, but that gets to be a murky area with Christmas, which is as much a secular holiday as a religious one and uses a lot of the same imagery and characters in both aspects.

Count me in as someone who would get a kick out of a second Monsters wave! Here are my picks: * Bride of Frankenstein (I guess they'd call her Monster Bride or something) * Chupacabra * Evil Clown * Evil Scarecrow * Good Witch * Grim Reaper * Headless Horseman * Hunchback * Phantom of the Opera * Reptile-person * Swamp Thing * Victorian Medium (not a monster herself, but she communes with ghosts) And if it wouldn't run afoul of the "no religious figures" rule: * Demon/Devil I feel like that one should be allowed. The stereotypical red dude with horns and a pitchfork is more of a pop-culture image than a genuine religious icon.

If they did a Legend of Zelda theme, I'd actually like it if the sets were designed pastiche-style, i.e. not Ocarina's Water Temple or Twilight Princess's Water Temple or Wind Waker's Water Temple, but a more generalized Water Temple combining elements of several with some new design motifs specific to the LEGO sets.

For what it's worth, "scary knight" seems like an awkward translation of "Fright Knight" into another language and back to English. Like many others, I'm hoping for some sort of undead or monstrous warrior, since we already have a knight who's "merely" villainous.

Even more likely than the Tribal Woman?

Maleficent was the villain in Sleeping Beauty, not Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. I couldn't let that pass without comment.

I'm sure I've mentioned this in a couple different threads already but I'll mention it here too: Disney theme parks The parks contain a plethora of iconic structures and vehicles, including castles, trains, spaceships, and spinning teacups. They could cross it over with other Disney licenses, including Star Wars. The "themed lands" conceit provides an opportunity to present a variety of environments and moods within the same line.

My tastes are extremely varied as it is, and I'm always thinking about ways to combine one thing I love with another. So I definitely love "all sorts" of LEGO themes. Here are the themes I've "collected" (i.e. bought more than one set of for its own sake, not for parts acquisition) since getting back into LEGO about eight years ago: Non-Licensed * Creator * Castle * Pirates * Pharaoh's Quest * Monster Fighters * Winter Village Licensed * Avatar: The Last Airbender * Indiana Jones * Pirates of the Caribbean * The LEGO Movie To say nothing of all the scads of CMFs I've collected!

I suspect you are being sarcastic, but sure, I'll bite. No, "feminine" armor and loads of pink and purple are not necessary. A head with defined eyelashes and lips--since that is how TLG codes its adult female minifigs--should suffice. In a line with named individual characters instead of just "Soldiers 1 through 12," the same head could be used with more feminine clothing and hair to show what she looks like out of armor. To steer this a little back toward the main thread topic, please remember that this was just one of several suggestions I had to make Castle more appealing to girls. Girls don't necessarily shy away from action-intensive scenarios, but they do like to feel as though they can be part of it instead of stuck on the sidelines as the damsel in distress. Let me share a personal anecdote. Back in 2008, I bought the Castle Advent Calendar. I was babysitting my nice (aged four at the time) and wanted to introduce her to LEGO, so rather than save it for myself and open one mini-build a day, I did them all in a row and let her help. I also pulled out some of my existing Castle minifigs so we would have more characters to play with. She pounced on the princess minifig, of course, but when it came time to imagine scenarios, she immediately came up with the idea that bad guys were attacking the village and the princess went and pulled the sword out of the stone to defeat them. For the record, I didn't prompt her on this. She obviously didn't know the Arthurian legends at the time, but "the sword in the stone" had entered her consciousness anyway and she developed ideas about its purpose based on what appealed to her.

...and? I guess what I'm asking is, why are people so much more attached to historical sexism than other historical facts? Also...you're way too hung up on that image of The Sorceress I linked to. I wasn't trying to say "This is what a sorceress is by default," just demonstrate the precedent for a "sorceress" being a good-aligned character.