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  1. Lyichir
    I think even NYCC might be a little early for the results of the latest Ideas review. And of course, Ideas review results have never been announced at a con before—the Ghostbusters set was revealed at SDCC this year, but that was well after the project itself had been announced to have passed review. I wouldn't count the Doctor Who projects out just yet, but I also wouldn't expect their success to be announced until after NYCC has come and gone.
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    Nope, still no official announcement of Elves. Personally, if Lego announces a theme other than Bionicle at NYCC I'm hoping it's Elves—the pictures we've seen so far look incredible and I'm itching for more information.
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    The NEWEST one is easier to put on baseplates, but both of these are older varieties. The newest one was introduced a year ago and has anti-studs along the whole bottom of the shark—in other words, you no longer have to prop the shark off a baseplate or other part with a 1x2 plate. Of the two varieties here, I think the nose on the bottom one MIGHT be a more rounded variety that replaced the pointier one from the top one in 2010—but maybe not, since the bottom one seems to be old Dark Gray, which would mean the noses are the same and the bottom one is just at a bad angle. I don't know about the difference between their main bodies, either—apparently they went by the same ID number, and even Bricklink doesn't differentiate them despite clearly showing the variations in one of the alternate photos. So I don't have any other information on when any changes were made.
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    Also, if you're counting Dekar and Hydraxon or Takua and Takanuva then it would follow that Turaga Dume and Ultimate Dume would also count.
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    Very neat! I had not gotten this app because I had no way of judging whether its quality compared to other online or physical databases. But with the base app available for free, I'm downloading it now—and if it is all it's cracked up to be, I may very well decide to pay for the more recent expansions!
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    This is a wonderful MOC! I had this set as a kid, along with many of the other Western sets (branded as Wild West in the U.S.). I love how it hews close to the design of the original set but packs in so much more detail. If I had one criticism, it'd be that the baseplate ends up looking so much less detailed than the rest of the MOC—even for a desert, it feels uncharacteristically flat. I have to admit that while I had no interest in the Lone Ranger movie, I was very tempted to pick up the Silver Mine Shootout set, in part because it felt so much like an update of the Bandit's Secret Hideout.
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    Yeah, even as someone who's generally positive-to-ambivalent about stickers I can't argue with that. This set is teeming with not just stickers, but STAMPs—huge ones that are applied over a large number of parts with seemingly no thought put into how much that would affect disassembly. The most recent Maersk Ship has a fair number of STAMPs, but at the very least those are applied to simple, three-piece constructions that can easily be removed from the model and take up only the space of a single 2x4 brick. This one is much worse—my little brother has it, and the stickers are practically destroyed from the one time he tried to disassemble it.
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    I for one thought the Flatiron building looked gorgeous when I saw the pics. I'm not an architecture expert and wasn't comparing it directly to pictures of the real deal, but it looked similar enough to what I remember of the actual building to be instantly recognizeable, and solely from a building perspective it looked gloriously complex, interesting, and aesthetically pleasing. So considering that I think "life support for creativity" is a significant overstatement. The new sets look fascinating and I would expect them to be as popular and successful as many past sets in the theme.
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    Don't think it's specifically to appeal to feminists... maybe they just wanted a figure for girls to identify with on the side of the "good guys". We don't even know if she'll be a soldier in the finalized sets, given that she might be just as preliminary as the other figs (she could be out of uniform in the final set, or possibly not appear at all). If she does appear similarly to how she does in the preliminary pictures, it's not totally unprecedented—the Lego Pirates waterskiing show at Legoland Florida features a "Miss Miranda Valentina" who, while not necessarily a soldier herself, is basically in charge of the imperial soldiers and fights alongside them. I'd hesitate to say this is the same exact character (although it'd be an interesting shoutout), but it's not completely improbable that her role might be similar—a colonial leader or aristocrat, or relative of one, who takes up arms against the pirates with the rest of the soldiers.
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    So can anyone tell if the 2x2 round plate launcher (which is in several sets, including all of the battle packs) is a new element? It sure looks like one, and I'm very interested given Lego's phenomenal recent track record with new launcher designs.
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    Are we sure? We know that Lego is presenting more information about Bionicle at NYCC but we don't know that that's the only thing that will be revealed. Lego's panel (or panels?) haven't been added to the NYCC schedule yet, so it's hard to tell the extent of what they'll be presenting.
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    I don't expect TLM2 to leave out Bionicle entirely. The Lego Movie established the world and the characters; that gives TLM2 almost complete freedom to delve into some of the weirder parts of it.
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    Elves IS for girls—it's very clearly designed to appeal to young girls like the Friends theme, and will probably be shelved near Friends in the "pink aisle" of many retailers. But it's not ONLY for girls any more than Friends is ONLY for girls, or for that matter, any more than Ninjago or Bionicle or Star Wars are ONLY for boys. Anyone who wants a Lego set is free to buy it just like anyone else, and while an adult male might get some funny looks at the checkout counter with a cart full of Elves sets, if the sets appeal to you then there's no point in bowing to social pressure.
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    Everyone keeps saying the masks won't be backward compatible, but I really expect this to be compatible with the Brain Attack headpiece, and possibly the Glatorian head as well. Those nubs on either side look like they'd fit nicely in the Technic axle holes on the sides of those heads (or the similar axle holes on Y-joints and Hero Factory/Glatorian hands, which further increases their versatility). It probably won't be compatible with Mata or Metru heads... but hardly anything in the past few years has been, and many of the Metru-style masks, at least, are compatible with the Brain Attack head. And while the Mata masks don't work with the Brain Attack head, we're getting new versions of all of them which probably will, so I don't see much reason to get bent out of shape over this.
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    He said on the LMBs that he's not writing the story—just consulting and making recommendations. That could very well change over the course of the theme if they want books or comics or the like, but for now it sounds like he's just a member of the story team, if even that.
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    I don't see any "big ugly round holes". The Nuva-esque symbols could simply be a motif chosen for nostalgia and nothing more. I do think they give a better look than, say, Matoran lettering would have.
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    The best thing that could happen to the brand, in my opinion. The Lego name is no longer a point of shame, but of pride, and the name has been adjusted to match.
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    ...Did you mean to post this here? This is the Bionicle topic, so it's not really relevant. And if you're just spamming it anywhere you can, that's no good.
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    Not to mention that even with the clear pictures we have we STILL don't know for sure about all the parts and features of the new Bionicle sets. Maybe try asking again once the sets are actually released and we can judge the two fairly?
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    Not just too long, but misses the point. "We build heroes" is more than a slogan, it's a mission statement. Hero Factory doesn't just build Heroes and send them off to work independently—they equip them, train them, and teach them how to be the heroes they were designed to be. In other words, the Heroes aren't fully "built" the moment they come off the assembly line (yes, I know they're not built on an assembly line—it's a figure of speech), but rather, they're molded into heroes through training and experience. In that sense, the slogan isn't too far off from the kind of slogan you might see in real-world military recruitment, where the goal is to take average citizens and train them to be soldiers for a common cause.
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    I haven't got the parts to try it yet, but actually a Friends-style pegasus would be surprisingly easy to build. Take one Friends horse (if you want to do it out of existing colors, let's pick this one), two of these, one of these to fill out the back, and two Lord of the Rings eagle wings. Voila! One perfect, purist pegasus. Not hard for fans to do, and Lego themselves would have the liberty of recoloring it should they decide to put one in a set.
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    I would agree with that. Bionicle's story was a big part of what set it apart from other themes, so I can't imagine Lego neglecting to talk about whatever story medium they have planned for its return. But I don't know if that's what was meant by the theme reveal, or if we should expect a separate reveal there. New York Comic Con has put the panel schedule on their website but the Lego panel is curiously absent, so apart from what they've told to fansites when giving out tickets we don't have much to go on. It'll be interesting, that's for sure.
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    I don't have any real stories to tell and certainly wouldn't have any medical literature on the subject, but I find the CCBS (the building system used for Hero Factory, Super Heroes, and Legends of Chima action figure sets) to be quite therapeutic. The parts snap together satisfyingly, there's no risk of breakage unlike older Bionicle parts, and the building style allows for much more organic and freeform builds than typical Lego.
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    Apart from one-off species like Plomar or Dom de la Woosh, I think you might be right! Not sure, though—I'm not that much of a Chima fan and haven't watched much of the TV series.
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    Someone introduced me to this style of art when I was at Family Camp this summer. I passed on making one of my own in part because I didn't know how well-suited it could be to things I enjoyed like Lego, and now I think I missed out! This is absolutely gorgeous!
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