Lyichir

Unsourced rumors. I feel like this seems like an example of the "telephone game", where the existing rumors were miscommunicated and then reported in increasingly widespread sources. Without a primary source (or a secondary source who has established themselves as reliable when it comes to rumors like this, like several members here on Eurobricks), I would not consider this particular variation of the rumor to be reliable. It would take a more concrete source for me to believe that Lego's relatively large summer Nexo wave (which had an impressive showing at multiple toy fairs) had been cancelled outright on such short notice. Slightly more plausible (assuming this rumor has any validity at all) would be a regional release like the final wave of Chima action figures or the final wave of Ultra Agents, or even a "store exclusive" final wave like with last year's final Bionicle wave. But for the wave to be cancelled altogether would basically either require that the decision were made ages ago, before production started (implausible, since in that case the Toy Fair showing wouldn't happen) or for Lego to have decided not to ship these sets at all after they had already been produced (also a pretty ludicrous proposition since failing to sell already produced sets would be an unnecessary waste).

Without any obvious primary source, the idea that the summer sets won't even be released seems a bit like a result of the telephone game. The existing rumor that Nexo Knights might be ending this year could easily morph into "ending right away", get published in a magazine, and suddenly everyone is mourning/celebrating the theme's end without any sort of confirmation. It's not impossible, but when a rumor like this appears without any sort of provably reliable source, and the fairly large summer wave already been shown off at Toy Fair, it'll take a little more to convince me that this isn't just a massive misinterpretation.

A better method of estimating international prices would be to look at other current or recent sets that have had the same Danish prices, and compare their prices in other countries. It still wouldn't necessarily be foolproof, but would give a better idea than a straight currency conversion. EDIT: Unfortunately, it looks like the site in question took the listings down. Did anyone keep a list of the raw (unconverted) Danish prices for comparison's sake?

This is good information but you should probably share it in the Ninjago 2017 sets topic in the action themes forum. This topic is more for discussion of the movie itself, not the accompanying products (and prices alone don't give much insight into that).

I'd hesitate on that just because I'd want to see the first one before I assume that a sequel would be necessary. However, post-Lego Batman Movie, I can definitely see the potential for a Lego Batman Movie 2. I can think of all sorts of opportunities for that... more emphasis Batman's relationships with the rest of the Justice League, Robin joining the Teen Titans, etc.

Even if Nexo Knights ends after this year, don't necessarily take that as a guarantee that regular Castle will come back right away. The past decade has pretty consistently featured a new castle theme every three years—even in cases where the previous castle theme only lasted for two (as with Castle 2013 and arguably Kingdoms if you don't include the D2C Kingdoms Joust). I don't want to see people whining that Lego has abandoned castle altogether if Nexo Knights ends and there isn't a castle theme immediately ready to take its place.

It's looking like the current Hands of Time sets are all we're going to get for that. It's possible that there might still be extended line products tied in with Hands of Time in the future (maybe a Vermillion battle pack or something like that?), but the summer set list we have so far solely consists of Ninjago Movie sets.

It would not be too out of the blue for Nexo Knights to end after this year. My brother recently found a post by Mark Stafford about the theme from near its debut: Note that he mentions resting the classic castle theme "for a year or two". Not that that post would have constituted a firm ceiling on Nexo Knights' lifespan (since it probably would have been continued for longer if it had been a breakout hit on the level of Ninjago), but it shows that even Lego's internal expectations for the theme were fairly measured before launch. As for what will replace it, it's hard to say. Nexo Knights fills two separate roles: a Castle theme and a media-driven "big bang" theme. What sort of big bang theme might be planned for next year is anyone's guess this early on, but chances are that another Castle theme will arise at some point after Nexo Knights' end. Which is not to say that another Castle theme will pick up directly afterward—Castle themes have generally debuted every three years or so in recent memory, so even if Nexo Knights ends after this year a new Castle theme might not debut to take its place until 2019.

Black two module axles never actually went away, they just became less common. In fact, as of last year, all even-numbered axles (not just 2M ones) come in both black and red, while odd numbered ones come in grey and yellow. But despite adding a bit of optional color variety Lego still seems intent on sticking to a color system that makes similar-length axles easy to tell apart. Anyway, this is a good set—a huge improvement over the very dated original UCS Snowspeeder. I've tried putting as much of it as I can together on LDD, and it's really masterful how well they've made everything fit together here.

In that case you could easily remove that part or even replace it with something else. I don't think it's permanently attached.

I certainly doubt that even if Dimensions were continuing, and even if it were continuing to bring Lord of the Rings characters, it would ever be the source for any sort of generic soldier character. Apart from the generic ACU trooper in the Jurassic World team pack, Dimensions mostly focused on distinctive characters with distinctive abilities.

Jango came out in the first wave, which paired "good guys" and "bad guys" evenly. Jango was paired with Clone Commander Cody. As for Boba, the main reason we haven't seen him yet is probably partly due to the fact that the Scout Trooper and Stormtrooper Commander releasing this summer will be the first wave of "legacy characters" since that original wave. All the interim waves have tied in specifically with new movie releases (The Force Awakens and Rogue One), neither of which included Fett.

It's the new 4x4 quarter circle tiles, which has appeared in sets like the Assembly Square and the Ninjago Dragon's Forge among others.

Is it possible that there could be a "special edition" pack with a different fig (like The Lego Movie's combo pack featuring the original Vitruvius)? From what I had seen the Batgirl poly was just in a Target exclusive pack that might not be the be all and end all of special editions.

By "impractical" I mean "not even fully functional". Camera controls are not just optional but essential for a game like this, particularly for the open-world sections, since those sections are not a first-person or over-the-shoulder game (save for most vehicles) that could control the camera based on the player's position alone, nor is it an on-rails experience (save for the sub-missions that leave the open world) that can control the camera based on the player's position in a straightforward, relatively linear level. Including a fundamentally broken control option that would force player two to drop out of the game on a regular basis so that player one could have a full-featured control scheme would be far, far worse than merely limiting the control options on the Switch version of the game to one that has equivalent functionality and availability to those available on other systems.

I just don't see how they'd make it work. You can't just leave off the camera controls—if anything, I'd think they'd be even MORE important when you have another player running around with you in the game. I doubt they went in on Switch development without even considering the option, especially considering that multiplayer is such a big feature of this rerelease and that the ability to separate the joycons is such a big feature of the Switch. So I can only imagine that they considered the option and found it to be lmpractical.

I feel like that would have been relatively difficult to implement. The Wii U version used both control sticks, one for the camera and one for movement controls, so it would presumably be challenging to provide the same control options to two individual controllers with only one stick each.

You mean in terms of the requirements on it being stricter than on actual internally-produced sets? It's largely because of the low production volume of Ideas sets. Ideas sets have much smaller initial production runs than your typical sets, a necessity given the brief turnaround time between approval and release (even though it may seem like ages to us, it's much quicker than the multi-year development cycles of your average themes). Since Lego has to fit Ideas sets into an already packed production schedule, they simply can't produce as many of them at a time, and because of that it'd be much harder to recuperate the high cost of a new mold.

No, they're just going back to stocking those retailer exclusives at Lego stores as well (like they had done prior to last year).

You're in luck...

Not really. In addition to the footage from TLM being used, Batman's character development from TLBM directly extends from the end of TLM. For the entirety of TLM, Batman was resistant to working as a team with others and at the end of it, even his first decent treatment of Wyldstyle essentially constitutes pushing her away. TLBM is all about how being a brooding loner who rejects meaningful relationships with others is a fundamentally unhealthy way of dealing with his past trauma and does not in fact make him a better hero.

Gosh, what COULDN'T you do? The nice thing about BrickHeadz is that, unlike many minifigure-based Lego themes, it doesn't really rely on any specialized molds whatsoever. And unlike Dimensions, there's no real impetus to remain console-neutral (which is to say, first-party characters are totally feasible). The only real limits are brand fit (even in a theme like BrickHeadz, Lego probably wouldn't license any games with graphic, realistic violence or explicit sexual content) and the ability to get the license (which can be hard for the lay fan to get any insight into, though looking at the franchise's propensity for licensing and whether other building toy manufacturers already have a license helps). With that in mind, what would I most like to see? Besides the ones that my brother already mentioned, plenty of other franchises appeal to me: Mega Man, Shantae, Animal Crossing, Kid Icarus, Splatoon... even as a gamer who primarily plays on Nintendo systems, it's a huge list.

I'm not a huge fan of the new graphics. In particular, the light colors make it much harder to tell the topic icons apart... the difference between hot topics, read topics, and unread topics is much more subtle than it has been in the past when there were generally much more vivid color schemes. A brighter green and a darker pink might help matters, but I'm not totally sure.

Lego being able to replace all stickers with prints isn't just a matter of "streamlining". Lego parts come in all shapes and sizes, and as such most parts need unique fittings to go through their pad printing machines. These fittings are obviously much cheaper than the precision steel molds used for new elements, but nonetheless the cost would still add up if Lego had to produce them for every single part that needed any sort of decoration. That's part of why parts which have been printed before are more likely to be printed in future sets—if Lego doesn't already have the fittings necessary to print a particular piece, it's much cheaper and easier to print out a sticker sheet than to fabricate a new fitting, but for parts that Lego has printed before the fittings already exist. But even beyond that, there's a cost savings involved with sticker sheets in sets with a large number of decorations. Each printed part has to be printed individually no matter how much you "streamline" the process, which requires more time and more equipment than printing out a single sticker sheet which can be used for all the necessary decorations. AFOLs may hate sets with gigantic sticker sheets, but the alternative would require giving those sets a much smaller number of decorated parts in general.