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The Joker Manor is a licensed set, whereas NINJAGO City is not. In licensed sets, LEGO has to buy the rights to use the name of every character under protection of copyright. This is aside from the fact that fancy molds cost more to make (rollercoaster, fun-house mirrors). Copyright is also subject to landmarks, and logos tied to them (Architecture). There's also the Mojang tax, where all Minecraft toys/media outside of the game are re-diculously overpriced due to how expensive Mojang puts the Minecraft name up for. NINJAGO City is an absolute miracle that it's at that price and scale. It can't be compared to, and become the basis of all our expectations, as it's a rare, and very infrequent aligning of all the right things.

It... it has 3,444 pieces... That's about $0.07 per piece. A set at its price should only have close to 2,700 pieces. Instead it's bogged on for being too small, even though its 21 inches (55cm) tall, 25 inches (66cm) wide, and 10 inches (27cm) deep. That's not small. To give you perspective, The Big Ben expert set is less wide by nearly 8 inches (22cm) and taller only by 2 inches (5 cm). Nothing about this set reflects a "high price." In fact, aside from maybe needing a couple more unique minifigs to whet the pallete, I'd say this set is nearly a steal.

The ad in the LEGO Life Magazine referring to NEXO Knights 2018 is from the US version. I can confirm that as I now have a copy of said magazine.

We're surprisingly very, very uninformed in that department, seeing as we're literally a day away 'til October.

It's been heavily implied that they'll show up in December. Whether that comes to fruition, no one really knows, but plan for it to happen, nonetheless.

Designer videos have had quite a long stretch between announcement and video release this entire year. It's killing me too. Oh, yeah, this is my first post regarding the set. I love it. Certainly not as detailed as I would've liked though (it needs more Joker decor) but I'm perfectly fine with what we're getting. Just wish Alfred had a cowl. I also think its funny that people are complaining about the price. a) It's a licensed set b) It comes out to about $0.07 per piece. c) It's nearly two feet tall, and just over two feet wide Though this is after we've been spoiled by NINJAGO City (which, as a reminder, is unlicensed) and then there's the fact that people have been prioritizing how they spend their money, due to wanting the UCS Falcon.

Look at the far right of the table. That's a Nutcracker!

It's been out for four days. Again, this has been the worst box office year since 2001. The fact that Ninjago is doing this well is pretty good for most movies in this really, really difficult time in the movie business. If you aren't Disney and don't have some sort of unwavering critical acclaim (which LEGO does not have), you aren't going to hit your projections during this season, even if the movie is promoted hard.

Let me continue this discussion by immediately informing everyone that the box office has hit the lowest it has been in 16-years. Simply, fewer people are going out to see movies. It's not this one movie that's doing less than anticipated.

That will depend entirely on what minifigs we could potentially get in a third wave.

So let's look thoroughly at these sets, and their discrepancies

Now that some people have seen it (spoiler free info is unspoilered)... This, once again, was another movie in the TLM ilk that did not feel like a LEGO Movie. It's more a movie that just so happens to be made out of LEGO. TLM specifically undertoned the fact that LEGO was at its core, in the fact that everything is constantly being built, and rebuilt, in a way that was present throughout. Without establishing that undertone, both TLBM, and TLNM are doing things that any sort of animation, or person could've done, though there is a shoe-horned in "Let's Build!" moment in both of them, that felt quite out of place. TLNM further strayed from this idea with the inclusion of natural elements, and completely distracts from the fact that it's supposed to be a movie about LEGO, not a movie that happens to be made of LEGO. It should also be said that natural animation is much more affordable to create and render in comparison to an entire world made of LEGO. Which begs for the question to be asked: Did production cut corners in animation due to a smaller budget? Did some story pieces get chosen over others just to finish the movie by the very specific, and never changing (after the official announcement), release date for this movie? Did this also effect how the videogame was planned (potential lack of content supplemented with TV show stuff)? Were the sets designed as if they had a different direction in mind mid-way through production that effected the direction sets were designed?

The idea is that the kids who will enjoy the movie (and there will be), who have never seen the TV show, will then go to the TV show, seeing that there isn't much a difference between the two, aside from voices and the overall story.

Just so that it's seen... Dear LEGO, Please give Macy a large vehicle at some point in 2018. Sincerely, -All applicable (which should be all...) NEXO Knights fans

The dead horse called. It heard you were within fifty feet of it with a stick to beat it... TLNM's future will purely depend on money, though criticism to the movie's overall story-arcs/execution (which it will get a lot of, believe me) will certainly effect how a potential sequel/non-licensed LEGO Movies would turn out.

CHIMA's 2014 Speedorz sets didn't advertise cards, though they were included. The Quake Mech should have a turntable in there, as those are the only controls he has.

What will make or break my opinion on the spinners is whether or not they'll include trading cards. My 2011-2012 stash is getting lonely. Also, I have to be honest, Agents really spoiled Volcano lairs for me. Neither of the two since have been as interesting as Dr. Inferno's. The Quake Mech apparently has a kick stand to keep it standing up. And regarding the spinners... I'm fully under the impression that this movie was under time constraints, and that they simply had to choose a direction in the allotted time in order to finish the movie. So many things are inconsistent in concept, the sets, the video game, and the actual movie itself that begs for answers as to what happened.

In all honesty, we won't really know until the general public sees it.

Which in it of itself is faaaar from accurate in set form.

Pretty sure Harley drives her truck on the way to the Gotham Power Pland near the movie. Lady Iron Dragon, however, is nonsensically shoehorned into these sets. I'll leave a couple more days before I offer the disappointing reason why.

It's not spoilers if she doesn't actually show up in this scene. The fact that she does show up in these sets is really, really odd.

Irrelevant. NA's catalogs in past years around this time would deliberately omit content that would be releasing early in Europe, only for them to show up in March. There is a certain formlessness that I see in these that I saw in CHIMA's final days. I'd rather the story end with an actual ending, rather than not wrapping it up, and getting it canceled anyway.