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Porky Pig wears no trousers so it makes sense he has no print. Whereas Petunia wears a skirt and I guess they think it would be too controversial to have a official female minifigure without underwear.

Although other manufacturers had toys based on cartoons, the cartoons were distinct from the toys. Whereas LEGO media (at least the successful stuff) tends to be based on the actual toys. In the UK and some other European countries it would not have been allowed. Maybe the Danish company were following the same ideals, that (free to air) kids' TV shows should not be solely for advertising.

It is a razor.

Here, they went quickly then got restocked and never disappeared again! You won't lose money on them, you can sell the 3 Classic Space figures from each set for more than you paid. Selling that volume might take a while though!

Head, crest, tail. Pepe le Pew has no chance, so Penelope Pussycat is out too.

That problem still exists. They should have moulded Marvin's head in the same way as the rest. It looks like it has been shrunk.

That makes you quite lucky. You can sell off any minifigs and so your LEGO purchases will cost significantly less than for those that keep minifigs.

In the cartoons, Road Runners legs are the same thickness as Wily E Coyote's legs, so lego has been consistent with them here.

Road Runner's looks printed to me, there is a line above the waist.

Yes, but my post has been cut. This was in reply to a factually incorrect statement... You should note that TLG has never produced any cathedrals or other buildings of contemporary religions, it's against their guidelines.

I guess it is down to the low number of female characters.

That you can buy so many well under RRP shows how over produced this set was. In the UK it was half off for months in many supermarkets.

Many can be used for animal minifigures, so no worse than specific superheroes. I can only see one with no print - Marvin. I don't understand Marvin's head. I get they want to use traditional lego parts, but his head looks like it has been shrunk, especially compared to every other figure in the series. They should have gone moulded and bigger, like every other one. It will be interesting to see if Petunia has the same legs, or if the hips are different colour or there is underwear printing. I'm hoping for more plain fleshie hips there too, but that might be too risqué for lego.

How is this a tutorial? It is an existing LEGO design. https://brickset.com/sets/40005-1/Bunny

Dish soap / washing up liquid in warm water.

Similar to the recent pirates and more distant Kingdoms one then. It makes much more sense to be that scale.

Probably more important is how many other movie companies already have an ongoing relationship with LEGO and want their media franchises on the shelves. I don't recall any amazon only exclusives, especially worldwide exclusivity.

What relationship? Do you mean because Amazon sells LEGO products?

After the first two, I thought there was going to be a pattern. A series of 8x8 vignettes for each faction over the years would look great.

They would also presumably be rather monochromatic parts as well. So lego could always do them black and LBG if they didn't want them to be so useful as, say, white for reusing for more realistic figures.

Yes, exactly. If you ignore things that don't fit a perceived pattern then you make the perceived pattern stronger.

I don't really see your point. I did use Superheroes, Monkie Kid and Ninjago, the themes he used plus some other action / play themes. The point is, if you want to prove something then a careful selection of sets to illustrate your point makes it look like your proof is real, even when in reality it is not and just down to a heavily biased selection. Of course if you only select sets with spaceships, mechs and bikes then there appears to be a majority of sets with spaceships, mechs and bikes. That not everything is spaceships, mechs and bikes. That not everything is the same. That there is variation. But only if you don't discount the things that don't fit with a view that everything is the same these days.

What is the pattern, that if you want to see something then by careful selection you can see it? You could include sets from the past year from Ninjago, Monkie Kid, Superheroes, other licenses and modern themes that are not spaceship, motorbike or mech based, such as these. I can see the pattern that location based play is alive and well across many themes, even avoiding themes such as City and Friends where locations are common.

If you bought them on bricklink rather than a job lot from a yard sale or ebay, presumably they are relatively clean anyway. If it is down to corona virus, you could also leave them for a week.

If it is a traditional chess set, and not a scene, then I'd expect it to be substantially bigger than the Kingdoms set as that was just £40 / $50 RRP. This one is rumoured to be 5x the price. For that price, I'd expect it to be closer to the Fantasy Era Giant Chess set (852293), which did have horses.