Renny The Spaceman

You know I liked him a lot more this time, felt more whimsical and endearing. I look forward to his next reincarnation

Yeah, comparing films to books isn't an apt comparison. Very famously the version of Star Wars George originally tested horribly and was substantially re-edited by his then wife to make the film we know today. Whilst Tolkien fully wrote and determined everything in how the Rings trilogy of books was done there was substantial push and pull and changes from how George envisioned the films and how the people he worked with changed various elements of it.

Said this exact thing a minute ago. Who's gonna be looking up "construction figures" online?

As a non fan the torsos all look so similar I don't get LEGO giving Mr Fantastic a different torso given they're cheapness here unless it was the stretchy one. There's no way this title would sell any better than just calling it Fantastic 4 Vs Galactus. Like they already have all the buzz words, no-one is gonna be looking to buy a "construction figure" online and then come across this.

Right? Like I get the messy corporate reasons they can't do so as a full fledged theme again but like having a creator 3 in 1 "Fire Robot" set or something to test the waters with this system seems like such a shoe in. This is ase someone who never got into Bionicle too I'm sure there are designers pushing for it but I doubt there's any big plans in mind. I feel it's inevitable to eventually get some sorta actual Bionicle throwback utilising the new constraction stuff. People are super nostalgic for it now, a nice model of one of the recognisable ones would probably do decently

Very similar to how they hamper most of their original themes with app integration now, LEGO does well as it's own thing, being an inferior but more expensive version of something popular pleases no-one. They will never learn this lesson though

I think it's very funny that only one Constraction theme ever didn't crash and burn horribly and it was an unlicensed one but for whatever reason LEGO is unwilling to ever stop doing these horrible looking branded constraction figures that clog up clearance shelves forever to the point they now shove them in normal sets to desperately try get any of them to sell ever. Like I'd get if they were shoving constraction designs into original themes like Ninjago or whatever because people actually miss Bionicle and that theme at some point sold well, no-one misses the Superhero constraction sets but LEGO is ridiculously unwilling to just let them die

I think the joke started because they're still silly. Like they're constantly played for comic relief, one of them gets ambushed because Harrison Ford taps him on the shoulder! Like we can say that in the movies we're told they're super serious perfect soldiers and they kill most of the nameless Rebels in the one scene per movie that happens but at the end of the day most of their screen time is them having casual conversations, missing on purpose, being taken by surprise and instantly being killed, being beaten by rocks and so on. Sure there's lore explanations for why they're not actually as pathetic as they seem in the movies but the average moviegoer who just casually watches the film just sees them being pathetic. I think George just liked making the generic mooks in most his films comic relief come to think of it.

I think so, I mean his plan is to establish a space fairing society after all, it only makes sense that he's the progenitor behind Blacktron. The Haunted mansion says that Baron Von Barron's first name is Samuel, his first partner in Crime is Sam Sinister so that adds up. My personal headcanon for the Sam Sinister switcheroo is Samuel had impersonated Sam after the latter's death described in the Mansion's instructions to take his estate. You're being a real Corporal Clot about this :P

He's a bold free thinker saying what polite society refuses to. Let him express himself and be free Ha, exactly!

No you don't, Mr Imposter is a flawless beacon of wisdom

To be fair I think this goes beyond that gag, like no matter how much we're told stormtroopers or any other generic evil force is actually super accurate it won't feel that way unless they actually do something, killing a main character is above the pay grade of any henchmen in a family adventure franchise because no matter how deadly they are to the extras they're always just goons to the leads.

I've never seen or heard of a different flavour of hot cross bun to the basic. They're not a big deal in my lives experience. Maybe I'm just living in some weird cave or something but I think it's fair to say it's not on the same level. The spices no, but (once again, exclusively in my personal lived experience, it's not universal) kids totally got that. Again, could be I'm the weird outlier here but the kids I knew growing up definitely made that connection regardless of religious background. The cross is a hard symbol to not intuit the meaning of growing up in the western world. Or maybe it's easy to miss and I'm the weird one, dunno

Also these figures are leaning way further into creating new or resurrecting old parts to use. Generally it's little more than a few new (though quite generic) torsos that a Creator set is given the budget for. This years lineup is bringing back decade old molds like the crown and ghost but also having several new, not particularly reusable, prints per these sets.

Maybe? I feel like Santa is so far removed from Saint Nick plenty of kids know him without knowing the origin but I think everyone who is aware of what a hot cross bun understands the link, it's quite literally baked into it. I think it's very likely LEGO would consider it far enough removed to do, but it's definitely more up in the air than stuff from the modern traditions of Christmas which really share little more than a name with the classic conception of it

Would that be LEGO's first direct acknowledgement of Christianity in the CMFs? Honestly would be a pretty funny way to break that seal

Agree with everything being said here, this is beginning to form a really strong City sub theme, this set is absolutely the best of the explorer sets so far and I hope the variations of these sets keep coming

Would Walter the Softy be his closest confidant in this universe? If base Dennis can this easily dispatch a Dalek who knows what Absolute Dennis could do! Also, on a related note it might be relevant to say that I may or may have not gotten my first ever LEGO Minifigures pack that might have contained a specific, demolition obsessed character that could have become a fundamental part of this forum from the Beano Magazine in 2010 that was designed to advertise series 1

TRUE! The only costume character I'd get excited for is a pigeon one

My lord they are. Is Commando is secretly writing the Beano?

I was the same tbh, but I get why pwoplw do this so much

Yeah, this lineup of sets is so good man. Really hope Creator keeps this trajectory

I'd respect them so much if they did that

I wouldn't say that, it really couldn't be. The design is much more abstract and dependent on the individual parts that originally made it. I think it can't really be upscaled within LEGO's standards for stability like the Black Seas Barracuda and Galaxy Explorer can. I still think it's good and feels like it fits in with the Blacktron design language really well

I wasn't calling anyone stoned, I was using wordplay to refer to a high horse. Doesn't really make sense literally, who's the horse in that situation?