Lego David

Where did you get that info from?

Will this added VAT affect only the sellers or the buyers too?

I knew that was gonna happen eventually. From what we know so far, how high will those taxes be?

@Falconfan1414 is there anything you can tell us about this new rumor about Hidden Side continuing?

Maybe because they plan on making the final wave of Hidden Side (if there will be one) a LEGO Store exclusive, like it has happened with the last waves of Elves and Ultra Agents. Maybe the sets from the newest wave will just stop being supplied to normal retailers, but will still be available in LEGO Stores and on LEGO.com

That's a pretty sick looking robot! Great Job!

The use of CCBS feet pieces as the neck of the horse is easily the biggest stand out from this MOC!

It came from StoneWars, which reported that all the Hidden Side sets would reach end of life by the end of 2020.

So, according to Brickfanz.com, Hidden Side may actually not be over just yet: http://bricksfanz.com/lego-hidden-set-may-not-be-ending-just-yet/ Any thoughts?

And not just the older ones, but the newer ones too: LEGO has proven time and time again that their designers can pull off amazing unique and original Space Ship designs, yet they continue sticking to the dull, repetitive and boring Star Wars ships that a as @danth pointed out, haven't even changed much in the past 20 years.

LEGO doesn't do full waves based on the Disney+ shows, because currently they've still got a bit of a limited release. Disney+ hasn't even been released in most countries yet. They do a few sets based on them, no doubt about that, but not an entire wave of sets. The Mandalorian, despite being so popular, only got a few sets based off it, and Clone Wars Season 7 only got two sets based on it.

The release date for this new trilogy just got pushed back to 2023 (originally it was supposed to come in 2022) so if they wanted to, they could release a new in-house Space Theme in the meantime, just like they did during the gap between the prequel and sequel trilogies.

Elves maybe could be counted (since it had a TV Show and it lasted for four years) but Monster Fighters and Ultra Agents definitely not. They were made as just one-off themes, and got no TV Show and very little marketing push.

The problem is... Those BB Themes have failed in both generating a fanbase and generating profit. Otherwise, Nexo Knights wouldn't have ended so early. If their lines aren't as successful (in terms of profits) as they hoped, they'll just cut them short. And that's the point I've been trying to make all along... The competition with Ninjago always limits the success of the other BB themes. So that's what makes them a not very good strategy in my opinion.

I wasn't talking about those, I was talking about Chima, Nexo Knights and Monkie Kid, which could definitely be viewed as Ninjago clones. That's not what I meant. I meant unique I a way that doesn't feel like it's too similar to another theme.

Very nice! You managed to capture the same look as the original sets, while also integrating the CCBS plates very well! Great Job!

That's another really good point. Most of the Big Bang themes we have gotten so far have failed to have any lasting impact, compared to something like say, Rock Raiders which despite being very short lived, is still very fondly remembered in the community 20 years after it's release. So if your Big Bang themes are as "Big" as you advertise them, why do they keep failing at making an impact? The answer is rather simple: They are all more or less Ninjago clones. So if they want their BB themes to succeed and become popular, they should make something completely unique and original instead of continuing to try to emulate Ninago's success.

I agree with everything said here. This is the exact problem I also have with the BB themes.

Ever since the great success of Ninjago in 2011, LEGO seems to have shifted their business model from having just casual original themes to having mostly just Big Bang Original Themes. In case you aren't familiar with what a "Big Bang Theme" is, it's an original LEGO theme that is planned to last for at least three years, and gets a lot of marketing push in the first year in order to create a "Big Bang" in terms of sales. On the surface, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with such themes, until you realize that all the Big Bang themes we've gotten so far have been more or less just Ninjago clones. Chima, Nexo Knights, and recently Monkie Kid have all tried to emulate Ninjago's success while simultaneously competing against it, and for the most part, they have all failed more or less. Chima tanked in it's third year, Nexo Knights was cut short very early on, and while we don't know yet about how well Monkie Kid sold, I have a feeling it would also suffer a similar fate as the other two (especially when you consider how overpriced the sets are). So, what do you think? Are Big Bang Themes a bad strategy for LEGO? Should LEGO keep pursuing them, or should they return to more casual original themes, like in the late 2000's and early 2010's?

I have a question: Why does the Skull Sorcerer minifig have Garmadon's face when in the show, he turned out to be a completely different character?

This is about the series as a whole, both the media and the sets. So, I'm pretty sure it's okay if the thread remained here.

I agree that it had it's flaws, but it did have some good things about it as well. So it wasn't a completely horrible show.

I highly disagree with everything stated here. The TV Show wasn't terrible... It had a weak start, but got better over time, and as I pointed out in my topic post, it did managed to get a solid conclusion to the story, unlike Nexo Knights. And the set designs were not polarizing in any way... I personally loved them, and so did a lot of other people. If anything, the Ninjago set designs are the ones which are actually polarizing. Nick on Planet Ripple does a pretty good job defending Chima and explaining why the theme is good in this video:

Just out of curiosity, why do so many people say the Graveyard Mystery is one of their favorite sets? That one is one of the least interesting ones to me. The build just doesn't feel substantial enough for a 30$ set.

Legends of Chima was one of the first "Big Bang" themes, and it was originally intended to be Ninjago's successor, but due to the fact that Ninjago continued past it's planned three years, it resulted in both themes being released and competing against each other for sales and popularity. Of the two, Ninjago was obviously the winner, and Chima was left in the dust, being mostly disliked by most fans and even outright hated by some. Personally, I loved the theme back when it was on shelves, and got quite a few of the sets... and I am a fan of it even to this day. This may piss off a lot of people, but in retrospect, I actually like Chima a lot more than Ninjago. I loved the world building, and the animal-inspired vehicle sets are in my opinion a lot more interesting than the generic good guy vehicles that Ninjago keeps making every year. Even the TV Show, which wasn't very well received by most people, had the best looking 3D animation out of all of LEGO's TV Shows, as stated by Tommy Anderson himself on Twitter. And although the writing wasn't the best in the first year, the show did improve as time went on, and even managed to get a solid conclusion to the story, unlike something like say, Nexo Knights, which ended very abruptly and never got a proper ending. So I do want to know... why do so many people hate Legends of Chima? Was it the fact that it supposedly tried to replace Ninjago? Was it the TV Show? Was it the sets? I really want to know, because I never understood why this theme was so hated.