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The thing is that kids don’t care about adherence to a strictly defined genre. Heck, I bet a lot of adults don’t either. They care about whether they find the sets cool, and a varied range of subject matter helps ensure that there’s always something to appeal to a wide range of preferences. For kids who like motorbikes there are motorbikes. For kids who like dragons there are dragons. For kids who like temples there are those too. Artificially imposing a single overarching genre onto a theme that so far has managed to not just survive but thrive without one seems like a move that would bring with it plenty of drawbacks with minimal benefits.

You mean the blue on the markers/dials in the sets? I think that's Medium Azur, not Dark Azur. Dark Azur does seem to be used for a lot of the ghost-fighting vehicles and weapons, though.

Yeah, it's definitely Vibrant Coral. It actually makes me wonder if this theme is what Vibrant Coral was introduced for—its vibrant and distinct color probably makes it an effective "marker" for the app to be able to detect on a variety of different background colors (like the Dark Red of the high school), possibly moreso than traditional reds, oranges, or pinks. More main characters would be neat, and could definitely be added over time, though I also feel like storywise a focus on a smaller cast of main characters wouldn't be the worst thing for the theme. They could easily vary things up even with the same main characters by giving them different outfits in future sets or waves.

I think if there were a set like this it would have to include a train base as well to attach the bogeys to—otherwise it would mostly only benefit the kind of hardcore train fans who already have extra bases to attach them to (something builders are unlikely to obtain except from other train sets since they only rarely appear in non-train sets). Including a base would increase the size and price but it feels like it would be necessary to expand the audience by allowing the set to serve as a true "gateway" to building your own trains. I also think that, given the size, a boxed set might make more sense than a polybag.

To be honest I think it's good that they're starting with a somewhat small cast. They can potentially expand that cast of characters later, but for now four core human characters (Jack, Parker, JB, and El Fuego) seems like a decent variety. And story-wise, a smaller cast is easier to develop—I can't help but consider Ninjago vs. Nexo Knights, the latter of which started with a bigger cast of main heroes (five knights+Robin & Ava+Merlok) but did a poorer job of developing those characters as well as distributing them throughout the sets effectively (the biggest victim of which was Ava, who got frustratingly little development compared to her peer Robin and not only never got so much as a costume change but was left out of the final wave entirely).

Man, this afternoon I was just thinking about how far they could take this theme... the way it "spookifies" pretty mundane subject matter makes it versatile as heck, since any sort of vehicle or setting you might expect to be able to find in an ordinary-seeming town like Newbury could be made ghostly in a future set. I'd love to see things like fairgrounds, arcades, farms, playgrounds, and more get the spooky treatment if the theme continues beyond its debut year!

I think the main reason why it shouldn't is that the theme's flexibility is probably a big part of how it has been able to last so long. The ability to shift from fantasy-esque dragons to futuristic vehicles to traditional Japanese architecture helps the theme to keep things fresh, as well as to appeal to buyers with a wide range of interests. I think limiting it to one style of subject matter would hurt the theme more than it would help it.

Or a sheepdog, perhaps.

Probably not. The names are hardly any more alike than any of the other hundreds of town names ending in "bury".

Zusammengebaut has pics of all the sets, including the train: https://zusammengebaut.com/lego-hidden-side-toy-fair-2019-alle-sets-im-detail-65641/ I'm not really much of a train fan so don't have much to say about it. The cars are nothing to write home about but the engine is nice. And I sort of like the use of Technic ball joint parts for coupling the cars together.

I think it could be neat if they went for something like the Ghost Train from the conceptually similar webcomic Paranatural, mostly looking like a normal train but with the front boiler of the train able to hinge up to form a gaping mouth (and probably other areas of the train that could transform as well). In any case, I have high hopes considering how effective the transformation function for the school seems to be.

Lego's certainly come a long way since the fairly disappointing Castle of Morcia, haven't they? This set's transformation seems so much more dynamic and interesting without seeming to affect the "untransformed" set's appearance much at all.

From the sound of it, the content seems like it will be determined by which actual sets you have, not by scanning unrelated media or objects. Nexo Knights may have had scannable Nexo Powers in ancillary materials but the AR component of this game reminds me more of Fusion, which did not. Ghosts and demons are both fictional and the "rules" that govern them (including whether people or objects can be possessed by them) vary from story to story. Just because the ghosts are possessing people doesn't mean they don't qualify as ghosts.

This theme looks really cool. I'm really excited for it—much moreso than I had been for Monster Fighters.

I wasn't a huge fan of the sets when they came out, but the game Lego Battles for the Nintendo DS made me warm up to them somewhat. I kind of wish more alien architecture had been featured like in that game—the ships had a fairly unique Giger-esque aesthetic and some outposts or bases with a similar look could have been amazing.

Personally I get some of the most enjoyment out of illustrated fictional guidebooks based on particular themes, rather than the sort of reference books that more often than not are composed primarily of stock photography and facts that are more often than not readily available elsewhere. Books like The Book of Monsters and the subsequent Book of Monstrox are chock full of lavish illustrations that I often find more inspiring than pictures of sets or even MOCs and display models. As far as nonfiction, one of the most perennially useful to me has been Brick by Brick by David Robertson, which offers a remarkably in-depth look at the factors that nearly led Lego to bankruptcy and how they turned things around. Especially as part of a community of AFOLs who often have only a surface level understanding of how Lego as a company is run, it's incredibly handy to have such an authoritative and well-researched book detailing how Lego went from pretty much its lowest point to becoming a dominant force in the toy industry.

I imagine negotiating for the likeness rights of him as an individual might be more complex if he were to appear in sets in addition to appearing in animated form in the movie. We've heard that Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be released in a set but from the sound of it it doesn't sound like she charged any fee for the rights to represent her likeness, something a professional actor like Bruce Willis is likely to take a little more seriously. Don't get me wrong, it'd be a great fig (just like Shaquille O'Neal would have been for the first movie), but once you start dealing with the likenesses of real individuals instead of just licensed fictional characters, the licensing probably gets a lot more complicated.

If they do that the sequel might also explain why Robin and Batgirl don't show up in TLM2.

How would you have expected it to be included? Unlike TLBM it didn't feature any of the same characters or even the same real-world family, so I would think it would be weird if it DID show up. It's a more "traditional" spin-off, off being its own thing instead of building toward the next crossover.

You say "a Turkish airline" as if this is a small organization. According to Wikipedia, Turkish Airlines is the largest international passenger carrier in the world by number of passenger destinations. That said, I'm not assuming this airline safety video has some outstanding budget. But it's also extremely short—as contrasted with a typical TV season, which is much longer than even a full movie. Even Ninjago's shorter seasons tend to run for 10 22-minute episodes. And it also benefits from reusing the assets from the movie itself, which have been developed through a longer development pipeline than might necessarily be afforded to a yearly franchise like Ninjago or Nexo Knights. Believe me, I'd love it if the Lego licensed TV series could someday approach the same level of realism as these sorts of promotional featurettes. But I have plenty of reason to doubt that we've gotten to that point just yet.

Probably because they're not literally being paid by sponsors to do so? Not to mention a 10 or more episode TV series requires a heck of a lot more animation than these commercials, and in fact runs for much longer than any of the full movies. I would not be surprised if the production timeline is much different as well. EDIT: Anyway, big news! An official Lego News video from the Lego Lab YouTube channel features more pics of the Rexcelsior, which should put any fears of a paltry interior to rest:

As @Pdaitabird suggested at the beginning of the thread, it's so that people who are browsing through the recent activity page don't get bombarded with spoilers despite not specifically choosing to visit this topic. Anyway, after my first rewatch I'm much more confident in my judgment of this one as on-par with the first one. Both of them are not only incredibly funny but also good at making me tear up at the most emotional moments.

Because of the fluorescence I personally see the most difference in low-light conditions (where it retains its hue and visibility slightly better than your average color), or under a blacklight (where the effect is dramatically amplified). But really, apart from that the main "special" thing about it is that it's a new color that occupies a red-orange part of the color scheme that few other modern colors occupy.