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  1. Digger of Bricks
    Okay, done! It's kind of weird actually that did forget to account for them. Here's the edited description:
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    Here are a few other detailed set ideas: Dumbo | Casey Junior's Circus Train - Priced at approximately US $100-$120, this set would feature locomotive Casey Jr. with at least three circus animal transporting box cars and a caboose, all set upon a full oval assembly of track. Figures would include Mrs. Jumbo, Dumbo, Timothy, and various other animal molds, both new and reprinted preexisting ones. Also, minifigures would include a train engineer, at least one clown, and the ringmaster. Peter Pan | Showdown on the Jolly Roger - Priced at around US $100-$120, this set's main build would be of a minifigure scaled build of Captain Hook's Jolly Roger. Minifigures would include Peter Pan and Captain Hook (both with expressions differing from their CMF counterparts), John, Michael, Wendy, Mr. Smee, at least two Lost Boys and two pirate henchmen. Also, a Dark Green recolor of Lego's current crocodile mold and a small, brick built lantern printed with Tinkerbell's silhouette could be included. The Little Mermaid | Prince Eric Takes On Ursula - Priced at somewhere between US $40-$60, the two main builds in this set would be of an upturned shipwreck and a Ant-Man style, brick build Queen Ursula. Four minifigures would come in the set, including both Ariel and Ursula (both with expressions differing from their CMF counterparts, with Ariel utilizing a Dark Green recolor of CMS2 Mermaid Batman's elongated tail), Prince Eric, and King Triton (also utilizing the new, elongated tail piece). While I do expect to see more female villains like Maleficent in future minidoll based Disney Princess sets, I don't really know about male villains. Perhaps those characters could hypothetically have a better chance of being seen in minifigure based sets instead? If sets featuring villians from Disney Princess movies were instead minifigure based, perhaps they could have a broader appeal for both girls and boys, since I'd presume the presence of those characters would mean that the sets would depict battle/showdown scenes from those movies. Really?! Wow, I'd certainly like to see how those are going to turn out! Will they be built from physical bricks, or are they CAD designed?
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    While I think that my eariler proposal on this topic for a Dieselpunk/Sky-Fi inspired Adventurers theme would be more plausibly viable, here's another idea I've thought of for a Sky-Fi inspired action/adventure theme. How about a Dieselpunk/Sky-Fi take on Lego's traditional Pirates theme, focused upon a band of vigilante aviators who hunt and capture marauding sky pirates, making up for the lagging work of an otherwise incompetent Royal Air Navy. Alongside the traditional Pirates theme, I'm also drawing inspiration from the Crimson Skies game franchise, except the theme's heroes wouldn't be the sky pirates in this case. Well, even though you could completely omit any Japanese styling or influences from such a theme, the whole "giant robot vs. monster" genre is already most heavily associated with Japanese pop culture. Instead, I think the best we could hope for would be a wave of Ninjago sets inspired after that genre, where the theme's usual medieval influences would be stripped and take more after the original Exo Force theme, only this time making the ninjas' adversaries Japanese dragon inspired kaiju instead of robot insurrectionists.
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    Amazing! Such an aesthetic improvement, as the building now looks like an all new construction as opposed to a Populuxe reface of an older building (if that's how we are to interpret the official set). Like the others have said, I prefer the three story variant over the four story one. But, do you think there may be a way to incorporate bow/arch parts into the White frame of the wraparound shop window, as so to mirror the streamlined style of the wraparound window of the Diner's ground floor?
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    I've voiced my criticisms of the Simpsons theme on other topics in the past, but I've never really watched the show myself. But you see, the way I feel about it, with properties that teeter on the edge between acceptability for children and otherwise for various reasons, LOTR/The Hobbit is a more acceptable choice for TLG since it's more of an altruistic tale of good verses evil. On the other hand, with comedy centric properties like the Simpsons, those lines seem a little more blurry and stuff of that nature just doesn't feel very characteristic of TLG's values.
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    John Belushi for me.
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    If you are interested, here's the New Elementary blog's latest post, which focuses on the geometry of and experimentation with that particular piece. It just may give you some ideas! New Elementary - The New LEGO® 1×2 Rounded Plate
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    Second to his work on 2005's King Kong, probably my next favorite score of James Newton Howard's would be for Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire from 2001. Amongst my favorite particular tracks from that score are The Submarine, the first fourty-five seconds of Touring the City, and the final track Atlantis. For many though, this track is the one that is most cited for the movie, which is a pretty extraordinary piece even though it may not be one of my top favorites. Please do, as he's pretty much a household name in film composers much like John Williams or James Horner! For starts, check out his scores for both Gladiator and the Dark Knight trilogy, the latter of which he composed alongside with James Newton Howard.
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    I just noticed something. Is the skin tone on the Bodybuilder a different shade of yellow, perhaps Flame Yellowish Orange instead of Bright Yellow for a fake bronzed look?
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    Wow. There is always so much to love about each of these series, and again, this one is no exception. Right off the bat, the Pirate Queen is such an extraordinary CMF design, and that Jouster one? Also, your Politician CMF is a hilarious choice as far as archetypes go, and the Beanstalk Climber is another clever choice I have never even thought of before for a CMF archetype. His recolored TLNM Lloyd hairpiece works great too!
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    I'm really surprised we haven't heard much anything about those three DC SuperHero Girls sets since that last catalog preliminary leak. It seems like it's this year's least inquired about theme for 2018.
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    The symmetrical mod for this makes the set look so much better, and great to finally see in real bricks! Hmm, it kind of does look that way.
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    A Mallard, or some other streamlined British steam locomotive, could make for an amazing Creator Expert train set! But, much like the Emerald Night and the Horizon Express, I'd expect Lego to instead do an inspired set, as opposed to a direct copy, complete with its own original name. That way, Lego designers can take slightly altered liberties with its color scheme and design, perhaps giving us a locomotive done in Earth Blue (as opposed to Bright Blue) and wheels recolored in Dark Red (as opposed to Bright Red wheels which we have already).
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    I don't mean to nitpick @SpiderJazz, but I don't think that the Sanctum's window is a new piece like you described earlier after all. To me, it appears to be a reprint of this part framed in by four large "macaroni" tiles.
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    I never want to see the day when a TLG policy change like that ever happens, as the Simpsons was bad enough.
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    Hey there, welcome to Eurobricks! It's amazingly ironic that you should mentioned Casey Junior, as I was only speculating the other day about the possibility of a set based upon that train over on this topic. I was wondering if 2019 might bring such a set in the advent of the release of Tim Burton's remake of the 1941 classic for that year. Also, your suggestion for Carl Fredricksen's house from Pixar's Up is yet another great idea, and one I could plausibly see happening.
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    Ingenious part reusage there! To me, this spacecraft vaguely resembles Captain Nemo's Nautilus from Disney's adaptation of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. But, like @Littleworlds had suggested, I guess it also resembles the Slave I in a way too.
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    Oooh, I really, really, really like this! Particularly, this craft's footprint looks pretty darn cool, but those rear thrusters and retro, Naboo Starfighter like rocket cone point are what does it for me. I also like your usage of that smaller canopy/windscreen part for the cockpit. All in all, a most swooshable Classic Spacecraft!
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    The Embassy. It is a most underappreciated forum that doesn't get as much traffic as other subforums do, and it is where fans can engage in discussions with not necessarily TLG employees, but ambassadors for the company. There is both a new part suggestion topic and minifigure suggestion topic there, and most discussions focusing on the LEGO Ideas program take place there too. As for TLG employees, there are a few around here as users on this forum, but they don't post very often.
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    I'm not really a fan of the TV show myself, so I'm probably not one to speak, but I think it would be fun if each of the lions could rebuild (instead of transform) into their respective limbs. But I don't know how real fans of the TV show would feel about that though.
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    As far as outstanding parts go, the Trans. Purple window panes in the Wakanda set might be new, but I'm not certain. We don't see many larger parts and/or canopies come in that color often, so that's always welcome.
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    Much like the Diner did in that same review, maybe? Well, perhaps you may be on to something, as that could make for a cool Creator Expert set.
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    If you guys check out Reddit: Lego under the tag New Set/Leak, there are some leaked images of the six sets being released this spring for Avengers: Infinity War, and the largest set of the wave is basically... a modular building (closely at least). Hey there, welcome to Eurobricks! I myself am another Art Deco junkie, and you've certainly have some awesome taste in Deco architecture!
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    Wow. That Sanctum is a modular. I'll just have to wait for better pictures to give my final judgement of that particular set, but other than that, there's nothing that specifically striking to me about the others. As for that Milano, it looks aesthetically inferior to last year's in both color scheme and construction I think.
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    I hope to someday see an action/adventure theme that changes up the typical good guy/bad guy dynamic by adding a third party. Rather than simply having a team of heroes defend themselves against a hoard/army of bad guys, how about instead having the theme's heroes defending a more vulnerable group from the theme's antagonists. For example, how about... A space theme focused on a crew of intergalactic explorers defending a planet's native inhabitants from a army of extraterrestrial conquerors? An Adventurers theme revolving around a team of cartographers and explorers finding themselves in the middle of a war between an indigenous population and an imperial army of conquerors? This honestly could very well be, and while I'd like to see a Space Pirates approach myself too, I don't think that will ever happen thanks to Star Wars. Besides, traditional Pirate fans probably would want to see a more historically rooted take for a "big bang" Pirates theme anyway. P.S. 2019 actually will be the theme's 30th anniversary, as it first came around in 1989.
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