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Better than most of the other Lego games that are based off of movies but still has its flaws. The treasure chests, relics within and opening of those relics is a total time sink. Just sit there pressing the same button 30 times in a row; you got another Where's My Pants guy, here's some mega relic shards. Enemies coming at you and no easy or quick way to equip a weapon or last weapon used. However cooperative play is fun if you have someone willing for some mostly hack n slash gaming.

I called B&P and they said no one is going to get their orders unless Megbricks takes a few days off of placing orders. They said they can't even see the emergency exit door because its blocked by Megbricks' pending shipments. Three of their forklifts broke down from hauling Megbricks' orders. At this point they're considering changing the name to MegBricks and Pieces. Give 'em a break!

Its more likely that Lego will continue to be successful despite one or two AFOL always talking about what they think Lego is doing wrong than Lego going under because they didn't cater to the individual desires of a small fraction of the barely double digit percentage of sales that AFOL constitute. In the meantime you could MOC build your own Lego company made from "in-house" bricks which are far superior to those icky licensed theme bricks.

Haha and there it is. Just "licensed vs original themes" round 2. Merge topic?

Those are terrible comparisons but if you're going to flat out ignore what was said while bringing up examples that are explicitly excluded from the post because they're not relevant to the discussion you're quoting then it's not a discussion. (this type of corporate behavior was directly addressed in my post. And again.). Lego doesn't have to worry about bad movies, the studios do. The Ninjago movie (lowest rated for purpose of discussion as you're not clear on which Lego movie you think failed and financially none of them are complete failures) was not favorably reviewed and that's on Warner Brothers (and yet the film still made almost twice its budget in box office), the Ninjago sets that Lego produces however are some of the most raved about ever.

A lot of the OP's threads are just thinly veiled criticisms of TLG operations (themes they should discontinue, non kid-friendly sets, licensed vs original themes) appearing as a means to find faults where there aren't any or garner agreement on perceived faults so this thread speculating on a hypothetical total demise comes across as a continuation of that trend. All that despite TLG still being the worlds largest toy company by revenue. TLG is clearly doing a lot of things right. But to participate the biggest failures (of big 'successful' companies) in history are predominantly publicly traded banking, insurance, brokering, securities or hedge fund companies most of which were committing crimes, operating negligently, without proper regulation or some combination. TRU, a retailer, was doomed by the leveraged buyout. By comparison TLG is a privately held toy manufacturer, nearly unrivaled, of sound morals, total value over 14 billion (2012), with around 4.4 billion in revenue, more than a billion US dollars in profit and leadership that didn't come from Wall Street so...

I said they'll be around through at least all of the current AFOL's lives, 20-80 years. There will be new AFOL every year. Poorly worded yes but whatever given the thread subject.

They'll be around through all the current AFOL's lives. After which point who cares, we're all dead. Then the BURPs SPUDs and STAMPs will rise up, take over every set and finally be appreciated.

In other threads and at Lego.com its being referred to as:

Yeah I don't really like the looseness of that bogie plate connection either; 2x2 turn table plate is a decent alternative and eliminates the need for technic plates or those huge limiting train baseplates.

Two of the greatest builders ever sharing their skill. We should all be honored. Endless amazing creativity.

Beautiful scene! I especially like the build-up of the terrain using plates and side-visible layers of the land.

Supported a little while ago, definitely want pirate parts and an abundance of reddish brown. Bring back the palm tree trunk!

Mostly keep them but have disposed of a lot of the smaller ones. Very large set instructions are kept even if they've been taken apart for parts and never intend to rebuild; not sure why I keep them. Stacked neatly in a closet.

This is so very cool. Love the heavy industry feel of the whole build and very true to life steel-working process. Amazing build throughout and very inspirational.

Absolutely gorgeous! Awesome use of a wide range of building techniques to make it hyper-realistic. You say pic heavy but I say not enough pictures cause its so wonderful!

Agreed. Same goes for all the Brickheadz, Speed Champions, Creator Expert cars, Architecture and City submissions as well. But that's a good chunk of Ideas. And yeah those two sitcom TV sets are very similar; A bunch of Caucasian fleshies in an open dollhouse style one-room display with different stuff on the walls. Shouldn't even be mentioned in the same paragraph as Ship in a Bottle or Pop-up Book.

Went to a train museum recently and saw one of the funniest looking vehicles ever. The museum featured mostly old steam locomotives and rail cars but off to the side was a curious and hilariously tiny little box of a rail vehicle. Didn't know anything about them until searching and decided to make a build inspired by these little old maintenance vehicles. Very loosely based off the one seen which was a tan and rusty Fairmont A4E. Railroad Speeder! They do look pretty amusing to operate Checking on some defect detectors

Manatee arrived safely in LA. Thanks for putting this all together CopMike! Prizes for a fun build off are not necessary for a friendly build challenge but its one of the many things that makes Eurobricks the best Lego gathering on the internet. Thank you!

Great new original 'in-house' theme with lots of potential, new molds and interesting and creative builds. Don’t really care for the phone aspect but that's optional. 9/10 Next theme: Galidor

Definitely! Kept getting a nostalgic feeling off of these pictures recalling vague sets from the past and had to google. Recalled 'time ____'... oh yeah Time Cruisers!

Yeah what were they even doing in the film.

Haven't been able to find but a couple of leftovers in stores so I did what in the past turned out to be foolish and ordered... direct from Lego Shop@Home. Something of an amazement: 24 ordered, got 1 full set and 4 duplicates. My luck is officially over for the year.

Oh wow that is gorgeous. I never would have considered that blue but you have made it work so beautifully. The brick yellow works great for the masts too. Such a wonderful smaller ship, can't wait to see it with the sails!

Wow that is excellent. I can't even identify some of these parts but the choices and usage combines for a fantastic result. Great build.