Faefrost

Just curious, has Lego ever done licensed sets based on a live action TV series? I know they have done sets based on Movies, and sets based on Animated series. But I can't think of anything based off a more adult targeted Live action TV show? That mau work against any "SHIELD" based sets.

Metalic coloring in plastic is weird. Traditionally it has been very very dependent on the quality of and vagaries in the base metalic colored plastic purchased for use. But those could often be inconsistent over time. More so that any primary colors. That last big change we saw around 2010 was probably Lego working out a mechanism to use their new color injection technology to create acceptable metallics. Just as the change in gold, they are probably now injecting the color straight into the mix during the injection process instead of dealing with inconsistant batches of pre colored plastic. It results in a different looking coloring for those items, but much more consistency going forward. Good Cragar Fan, you have to remember. Lego is a business. While you as a collector or more niche army builder wants a consistency of appearance over a very extended period of time, technology does evolve. The manufacturer will develop new ways of doing things. Many of these will prompt a change in traditional appearance, but will result in a long term increases in quality, efficiency and overall design. Especially keep in mind, Lego's two main goals in production are A. Consistency and Quality of the Primary "Brick" building elements. What we think of as the main structural stuff. Bricks, plates, etc. B. Complete consistency of all colors and color pallets throughout a given Sub Theme. Far less critical are whether minifig accessories from a 2004 line perfectly match those from a 2010 line. They may be a slightly different color. They may be from a new or re-engineered mold. Just so long as all of the 2010 sets use the same colors and parts they are within their completely reasonable quality standards.

They should be fairly current. The CMF Series 8 Pirate Captain had one in pearl gold.

It seems to vary wildly this release. The Gunship also has a really decent price per piece, while Jabba's Sail Barge and the Jekk14 Stealth Fighter both look to have an absolutely awful price per piece.

Looking at that picture again, and the unintended color shifts in it, I still can't help but weep that they didn't make the new Castle in Dark Tan. That would have been so awesome. Kind of a nod back to the classic Yellow Castle, but in a more realistic earth/stone color. And much more distinctive than yet another bley castle.

Probably not until they reveal the May Calender.

This is still one of my all time favorite MOC's. In fact I think I am going to drop the movie in right now, while I am supposed to be working

If it helps to mentally place the BluRay Bilbo minifig into the movie. The vest and scarf on the minifig match what Bilbo is wearing right at the very beginning of the movie, when he firsts meets Gandalf while he is sitting in front of Bag End. There is probably a deleted scene somewhere that has him wearing a blue coat over that initial outfit.

I kind of enjoyed some of the more light hearted silliness to the main villains in the Hobbit movies. The Trolls were great. The Goblins were close to how I always imagined them (well ok, Dame edna was certainly not in my imagination.) I think the jarring shifts in tone came more from the deviations from the source materials. The Azog stuff with the Dwarves being hunted. It didn't gel quite as well. I think Jackson would have been better to keep most of this movie light and then slowly creep the darkness in over the three films until you get to 5 armies. It's not perfect. But still better than most other stuff I have watched this season. And in comparrison to LotR, Not as Good as FotR or RotK, but on par or better than TT. If only the editing team could have trimmed out about 40 minutes of Dwarf's running, and running and running. It's like a bloody New Zealand travelogue.

I found Pre Vizla's Starfighter and the Gungan Sub marked for Clearance at Walmart. Less than $70 for the pair.

Part of the confusion came in because Bricktrix isn't simply an AFOL. He is a designer for TT games. Those pics weren't of a MOC. They were hires renders of his designs for the Lego PotC game. But he has also said that his design was for the game only and would not withstand real world forces such as gravity. As far as some of the other PotC ships. There are sometimes complications. The Interceptor is a good example. That ship is not simply the HMS Interceptor as seen in PotD, TCotBP. It is a real ship, the Lady Washington, owned by the State of Washington. And it carries it's own licensing headaches. (It also served as the USS Enterprise in one of the Star Trek movies). To make a set based on it Lego would need a separate deal with Washington State. ( although that would make for a neat CuuSoo project)

It must be said. The Hobbit, An Unexpected Journey, is vastly improved by watching it on BluRay or DVD. If just for the ability to pause it to go use the bathroom somewhere around Goblintown. The absence of the nausea inducing 48 FPS (or the fact that our eyes are more accustomed to it on TV) is also a great benefit.

Honestly? Only 100 to 200,000 have read said books. Vs somewhere in the neighborhood of 2 billion movie fans. I think there will be a lot more and a lot louder conglomeration of movie fans if they are suddenly told "oh by the way, Chewie died off camera in a book 10 years ago". Heck even most of the book reading fans hated the whole Chewie thing. And it is the perfect example of why they will be mostly just ignoring the books. There is no way to square the required accumulated book continuity, backstory and plot twists, with what the non book reading fans know, expect, or even want to see. The best you can hope for from the EU stuff is a few cameo's and Easter eggs, and maybe the use a couple of characters. It's not like they haven't done this before... Does anybody remember "Splinter of the Minds Eye"? The book that was written after Star Wars but before Empire Strikes Back. Empire wiped out pretty much everything about it. Besides, be honest, who here thinks J J Abrams has read any, let alone all of the SW novels? We can be fairly certain that George Lucas hasn't. We know he doesn't read other people's stories set in his world. So if movie VII is being made by JJ Abrams based on some outlines by George Lucas... Where exactly does that leave the EU novels?

The patern printing on his scarf and vest is fantastic. I love the second face. Not quite as crazy about the first.

My local Walmart had 9525 pre vizlas Mando fighter and 9499 Gungans sub on clearence. I think I paid a hair over $70 usd for the pair.

The appeal of the skiff is it has some really great figs for a $20 set. Not as much the build or display model. For a newly returning fol and Star Wars fan you will probably like a nice swoosh able ship to start off. Something classic that looks good on your desk. These would be some of my suggestions, 9492 tie fighter. Perhaps the best tie Lego has ever made. Decent figs, not too pricey. 9493 x wing Starfighter. Great x wing model. Great figs including Porkins. Pretty much a SW must have. 75003 a wing Starfighter. $24 set looks great,swooshes well. A wing pilot, Han Solo, admiral Akbar. Great low price set. 9500 Sith Fury, an obscure ship as its frOn a TOR period video game. But it fits well with regular era SW. Great figs, and an incredibly detailed and challenging build. Just a fun set.

Australia would almost deffinately switch to being supplied by the far eastern supply chain. Which may or may not have an effect on pricing, but will almost certainly be a huge help in availability. If nothing else it will probably mean you wont have to wait months for new set releases.

Actually if some of Singers hints are true, he's going to do far better than simply pretend that X3 never happened. The next X-Men movie is "Day's of Future Past". For those who have never read the comic book, this is the title of a classic X-Men time travel story. The actual comic story was for all intents and purposes a complete and utter copy of the first James Cameron/Arnold Schwartznegger Terminator movie. From a dark apocalyptic future, where mutants are hunted to death by giant government created robots called Sentinals, an older version of one of the X-Men is sent back in time/switched places with their younger version, in order to change the timeline and prevent the event that led to the creation of the Sentinals and the destruction of everything. In the comic the time jumper was Kitty Pride (Shadowcat). As I said complete and utter Terminator retread. So it is safe to assume that they will rather radically change a good deal of story elements. (Jimmy Cameron may have ignored a 2 issue comic story from the early 80's written when he was just starting out and only had one well known movie under his belt. His lawyers however will not ignore a movie of the same subject that has the potential to unseat his Avatar as all time great blockbuster. Just saying) So anyway... The key point is given the time travel / "Change the past / Change the Future" nature of the story, Brian Singer does not simply have to ignore X3... He can completely and utterly wipe it out while staying within the movie continuity. And the only thing more satisfying to an X-Man fan then pretending X3 never existed is making a movie where it is officially wiped from existence. I don't think we will see a Kelsey Grammer Beast in part because it will be very very hard to square his look and voice with Nicholas Holt's younger take on the character. Granted the same may be said of Professor X and Magneto, but somehow I don't think it will be quite as big a leap. Kind of a shame either way. I much prefer the look they pulled off for the Beast with Holt. But Kelsey Grammer perfectly nailed the Beast voice that I always heard in my head while reading him.

I'm not sure that I buy the statement that it was intended for 8 seasons. No TV show would ever contemplate such longevity. They may dream of it. They may even sketch out some rough ideas just in case. But really for a successful show, anything over 3 seasons (which makes them viable for syndication and reruns) is gravy. It is virtually unheard of for an animated show to go much past 4 seasons. That's around the point where the costs of producing new episodes start to look bad vs the returns on doing so. At 120'ish episodes in the can Disney has to be thinking that even if they started airing the show on Disney XD, they could get almost as good a return by simply looping the 5 existing seasons, and making a few TV movies from season 6, rather than keeping the show in its continuous $40 million/ year annual production format. Heck if they were to simply sell season 6 as separate DVD movies they would probably get a huge direct return. Moreso than they would have gotten by simply airing the episodes. I do think we will most definitely see whatever was made for season 6. And it will certainly be in a format that we will be paying for one way or another. Lucasfilms and Disney are not simply going to leave that kind of money on the table. As far as how and why this move would be to draw focus towards he new movies. The logic/marketing path goes something like this.; We know that the new movies will be more focused on the OT and beyond. We know that the original (still living) principle actors will be involved as their classic characters. This means that the marketing push wants to start equating Star Wars in people's minds once again with Luke, Leia and Han. They want to take the next two years to finish the association with Anakin, Young Obi Wan, Jake Lloyd, Hayden Christian, JarJar Binks, etc. this means for at least the next two years they will also be deliberately moving focus away from some of the PT era good stuff like Clones. We saw the same thing happen a few years back with Star Trek. When ST Enterprise was cancelled, it was not simply ratings as they claimed. The actual decision to cancel had been made months before anyone even saw any ratings. They wanted to clear the decks for the new JJ Abrams movie, and reduce any preconceptions or direct comparisons between the two projects. Now granted this may be a total fools errand in the modern world. The core of both the SW and ST fan bases are so plugged in that this marketing approach seems beyond stupid and quite insulting. Unfortunately it does still seem to work with the more low information casual fan, which is what movie profits are based on.

Mineral Oil or Mineral Spirits will work to soften some glues with no damage to the plastic.

In the back pages of the DK Lego Batman book there is a picture of a scratch model that the Lego designers worked up for Wonder Woman's invisible jet. So we may yet see one as a production set.

It makes sense. China is an expanding market for their product, and placing a factory there avoids some of the import restrictions that they currently deal with. It's probably also good news for our Australan friends as it will give a much shorter distribution chain for them. By building heir own factory rather than "partnering" with a local vendor they may also cut back on some of the more egregious IP theft and risk to their tooling. As for those fearful of primary production being moved there. I don't think so. The Window of China's artificial over competitiveness in manufacturing is fast closing. Outside of local Asian markets TLG will probably get a better return on costs from some of their Easter European and Mexican plants these days.

I may be burn't at the stake for his, but I think a Jedi Temple set would work better as a TCW set. In the PT the Temple is a boring place of people standing and sitting around, until the main protagonist of the films decides to kill all the children, for little apparent reason. Woot! "play Well!". Whereas in the TCW Temple you have that whole wonderful "Bounty Hunters infiltrating the Temple to steal a Holocron from the Library" story arc. You get Jedi. You get some of the best Bounty Hunters. (Cad Bane, Aura Sing, etc) you get the Library and an excuse for some Jedi we do not otherwise see. And you get a ton of play features. Air Shafts, secret passages, hidden Holocron and explosions. Great stuff for all ages. The only downside is TCW minifig faces.

Is 75025 the Jedi Defender? If so what else comes with it besides the white Miralan Jedi? How big did it look? Is it comparable to the Fury?

Standard Minifigs made with ABS should not really deteriorate. Maybe some slight yelowing of the plastic due to the flame retardants. The big mystery will be some of the newer soft rubbery heads and hairpieces. Things used in highly specific figs, mostly in licensed lines, like Yodas head etc. I don't think it is known yet how well the rubbery plastic ages. Some rubbers will deteriorate over time (look what happens if you leave old old tires sitting) while some will stay stable for generations.