Renny The Spaceman

The cheesemen have unified?

Yeah, if they do it I doubt many characters with discontinued parts would return. Would rather they stay away from stuff like Ninjago in that hypothetical, if the theme got one figure in a line up it'd just be a subtly different variant on Kai or Lloyd. With a situation like that it'd be best left to themes not currently ongoing

I don't think so. I've talked about this before but I think we vastly underestimate the difference between the 2010s and 2020s for LEGO. First, they do so many sets for new licenses that require so many new figures I think a big reason why across most every licensed theme figures from the 2010s look more detailed, with more unique prints is they had more budget per theme and second it used to be these sets used to be part of much larger themes which helped support these sets by both giving sets themes a stronger in built audience and being able to spread budget for prints across waves. We will, at best, get half as many prints s the 60s batcave

It's a disguised Emmet

Surely with the Ninjago Movie it did, that was delayed to 2017 pretty late, they needed to pull a Summer 2016 Ninjago Wave and winter 2017 one out of their backsides quickly with reused elements from earlier waves and movie concept art. Would also explain why there are like 3 figures in that CMF who aren't in the final movie. I'd love them to do that, if they were really up against the clock they could do a greatest hits series and slap on a "15 years of CMFs" logo in the corner

Is this really the theory we're running with?

Yeah of course, everyone's interpretation is valid. I do like the idea of in a way recontextualising the statue from Space police as not a tribute to the first LEGO Space explorationinstead being made of the ultimate ideal of Space travel, that eventually gets realised. In a metatextual way that could explain why CS is the ever present LEGO Space theme though I don't know if I want that headcanon. Depends on how optimistic your future is, if I were to do CS leadership though it definitely wouldn't be a single leader drenched in gold, sorta goes against the core of it in a clear, thematic and literal way. The latter being the obvious element of part of the charm being a Smurf like thing were all the astronauts looking the same yet being different able to tell eachother apart, if I were to do leaders it'd need to be multiple to work for me. But also Thematically, I just hate the gold astronaut look, it's tacky and obviously implies a culture way too similar to ours. A single total leader drenched in the garbage metal we assigned value in doesn't fit in with the CS aesthetic (I don't think any metallic colours do tbh) and just visually implies a king. More power to you if it works for you but I, personally l, hate that colour for CS

You know I've always thought the same thing about the yellow astronauts, wonder if it's an after effect of this Box art being so commonly used when people talk about CS My personal take has always been CS is the most optimistic Space faction, it's a mix of the lack of visors covering their smiles and the quaint absurdity of their aesthetic. I don't think they've got a leader, I think they're the plutonic ideal of a space fairing society where science and research is it's own reward and that's what they do. Simplicity and boundless charm in the face of cynicism is what they are at their core to me, that's why the lack of visors works so well for me, if you're asking how they can breathe you're not operating on their wavelength. They're gonna spend their week driving an impractical spaceship with a steering wheel to brick up some rock samples to study and they couldn't be more excited.

Yeah, that'd be fun. I think the City Undercover model is the best compromise, the sets work as standalones but include the lead from the game. I thnk a big issue with modern LEGO original themes (that wasn't an issue for the first few waves of Ninjago, funnily enough) is they just don't really make sense unless you've seen the show in a way most successful LEGO non-licensed themes don't do. As for all the people arguing again about Star Wars and how it affects LEGO Space, there's probably nothing legally but yeah the theme is less of a priority when they have a million star wars shows to make sets of. Maybe it was at some point part of an agreement but there would have been so many renegotiation over the years especially given the big change in leadership that took effect for LEGO in 2014 (I believe that's when the Disney Logo started showing up on the boxes). I think there's not enough to say anything either way about it. Though, yeah, I'd obviously prefer for us to have a break from the 70 quid grey baseplate sets based on a streaming show no-one will remember in 7 years for an original Space wave but that's not how LEGO's current model works.

I think Nick gave the construction license to an actual former bootleg company that had to rebrand to avoid legal issues when they got the rights. Same thing happened with Angry Birds Funny SpongeBob hasn't been revisited, the amount of Youtube channels back in the day that entirely lived off that theme was mad

I wish I was called Grape, banger name. Don't need it, I'm friends with the Dummy, his ops are my ops, his friends are my friends. Lmao, yeah. The stories we make as kids are always fun to look back on, they're in-depth but not properly thought out, clearly derived from what we watched and who we were around and we're not old enough to be self aware so they're completely unashamed of what they are. As someone who has written before I love looking back at how I used to tell stories. This was a fun read, never sharing mine though. Some memories are just mine and I like keeping them that way :) You guy's are nothing if not consistent

Maybe, while we're at it my name is Peter Popoff, I'm your cousin from Nigeria, I'm a rich man and will send you millions you just need to send me a grand to get the ball rolling. And after that I'll let you kick this American football I'll set in front of you

They're all true, LEGO is actually heard our cries and is makeing a Superman CMF of 12 subtly different versions of the Gunn Supes design

I think his torso and head are at least, could be misremembering. It makes sense if he doesn't show up, glamour and glitz aren't really his thing, he's a messiah for the common man. If he show'd up to such a high class event it'd probably.be brief, or maybe he'd stay longer to hand out his new album (who knew you could cover the entire LEGO Racers soundtrack with just a slidewhistle)

Not for me but whatever formalwear the Dummy is in, if he can make room in his busy schedule to appear, should probably have a bowtie that just seems like the sorta dress sense he'd have. This is only tangentially related but I saw Morbius on opening night so I remember this happening before the morbing time stuff took off a few days later. After I saw it that dance scene was the main thing on my mind because it's so funny, the only needle drop in the film was a song was randomly in the middle in a song where the only intelligible lyric was "have sex" so I remember the talks amongst the people I saw it with being insane confusion over what the song was actually saying because the fact one line was in english made us all have a lady mondegreen moment and hear other lyrics. This was obviously common among early Morbers because I remember, for like about a week before the meme really took off and thus there were more eyes on the song, the Genius page for Ekse was vandalised and no-one noticed. All the lyrics were replaced with what people heard it as, I believe it was just endless variations on the phrase "have sex, poop my pants my tent, poop my pants my tent, have sex" and it sounds so stupid now but at the time that killed me man. I remember the lyric meaning bit being just a paragraph saying it's a song about how Matt Smith is so cool he can shit himself all over his tent and still get laid. This little paragraph was for no-one but me, I just remember dying laughing at that, my favourite memory of Morbius. Also a very valid paint. Dummy kinda busted. Him and Luigi are kinda the most OP characters ever I looked it up and screenshots do exist of this, it stayed up for way longer than I remembered though lol, people were posting about it in late May!

Greggs is DC canon?

I think the theme and the general push for that film flopping as it did shows pretty clearly differences in how successful and unsuccessful legacy sequels go. Disney banked hard on the nostalgia for the old films carrying it whilst back in the day with Crystal Skull there was a big marketing push before the movie specifically targeting getting new audiences invested in the series, they had a heavy push with various LEGO animations, games + had him cameo in the complete saga the year before just on the LEGO end. The film was gonna flop no matter what with that budget but coasting on nostalgia so hard meant it entirely relied on old fans to support

It's a really good set, lots of personality but doesn't distract from the characters, will look forward to your comic Yeah, the most important step in that journey methinks. I'm sure you'll come across the tile later. Oh please no. The Dummy is a kind saviour he asks nothing more of his followers than going bowling with him. And maybe the occasional gift of a wall he can disassemble. He could take on anyone, Luigi of course isn't really a person, he's beyond such simple labels. The Dummy would still win a one on one fight though, it's why Luigi must scheme and plot and make alliances. If the Dummy wasn't a factor he could have won in a weekend. Dummy's will to demolish is more powerful than anyone else's will to do anything, like Hal has done before this would me he has enough will to make all the rings leave their bearers and the Dummy would then use them to deconstruct all the other combatants atom by atom. His will to do so is so great no-one could defeat the constructs

It's weird how much they overcharge even for the small dinosaur. Looking over the original JW wave they are all were pretty reasonably priced despite the dinos, in the UK the big set with the indominus was under the 10p per piece thing. Exactly like the General Previous thing where they weren't treated as super specialised pieces that cost extra but with both when they were reintroduced in 2018 they decided to charge way more for them going forward

I agree it's definitely the second place but even then it wasn't as bad, people who just bought randomly in stores could get one. I don't think it was like the beastmaster is now Nah, I'm glad people can still get older series packs for reasonable prices, every fig is someone's favourite the more variety only did the lines favours. Especially as 12 fig series themselves have a good handful of mediocre ones all the time.

This is art, the only two pillars of hope against Luigi bonding. The girders are super effective small builds too. Looks good in the photos at least I think a previous Dummy/Luigi brawl works in our timeline. He did visit the famous pizzeria that started it all in our lore, easily could have had a scuffle when he realised where he was. Luigi is the only person who could make him break a sweat I call it a one of a kind friendship You didn't over pay by much anyways, on bricklink it's like 7 bucks in the US for one and that doesn't take into account shipping. He's a lad and a half and worth the extra cost. This Dummy has a story now, he had raided a nearby warehouse for some biscuits to share with his new friend Kal

The fisherman was series 3, so your memory is fine there. Yeah, that's probably a notable factor

Goes without saying Making Truss Denmark's probably is two birds with one stone, definitely that.

Yeah, 100%. I think the Spartan looks tame in comparison as back then the scalper market wasn't nearly as big. This one by nature of being a cool action character with a unique animal probably is especially popular with kids which makes the situation sadder. Yeah, the police guy was a chase and he was easier to get.

That's interesting. I don't know if there's ever been a CMF demand issue as intense as this one (ignoring the obvious Mr Gold) aside from maybe the series 2 Spartan. Wonder if they were even remotely expecting this