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I guess they could do them as sets which do not have to go through the LEGO design process to make sure they fit the LEGO standards and also avoid the instruction design (just supply the stud.io file) which could save them significant staff time. Even so, if they are doing this through BL then I imagine they would need some ground rules for sets that pass through it, such as a basic palette of parts (so no rare or new colour parts), basic minifigure parts only (no prints), limited number of minifigures to parts ratios, and so on. Much like they did for the original AFOL sets.

I don't mean don't complain. I mean don't buy the ones you don't like, instead buy the ones you do or something else or make something else from them. Especially when the alternatives put forward are not likely to make any sense to the majority of people or even be useful parts for others. Such as the idea of the lion barber. What would that be? A (plain) lion minifigure with scissors? Or a lion dressed in a traditional barber shop apron. If the latter, the parts are likely to be too specific to be used for other lion characters or for human barbers. If the former, it just looks like LEGO included a random accessory with a figure. In that case they might as well include something relevant, maybe a T-bone steak or similar. Have a generic lion figure rather than a lion doing a specific job figure. And if it is a barber torso that could be used for a human, then it makes much more sense to have a lion figure and a human barber figure, rather than putting a lion's head on a barber's torso.

Blue Peter is classic 70s/80s TV in the UK. They often had a you can make this (insert object here) from a cereal box, a couple of toilet rolls, some crumpled tin (aluminium) foil and sticky backed plastic. You post actually prompted me to buy a DOTS set yesterday. For myself! There's a first time for everything.

Great details all over, plus bonus points for including some modulex.

Nobody really knows as you can tell from other threads, so it is fairly pointless to have a dedicated thread on it right now. Hopefully once there is actual verified information on it, there will be a new thread not full of speculation and discussion about something unknown.

Last time they did them manually, with staff meant to be doing other stuff drafted in to do the picking. I cannot really see how it is cost effective to do "small but large" runs by manually picking parts (small compared to regular LEGO runs, but still 1000s of sets). Especially now they would be more official LEGO sets, there would be even higher interest in them, so it could be 10000 sets or more of each.

The duck on a roller skate is an official LEGO build ... from yesterday's Friends calendar (I can post now without spoiler warnings!)

That's up to you, depending on what you find inappropriate or gross. The birth / creation of Lurtz was a pretty gross scene in LOTR, but LEGO even made that into a set.

LEGO is in control as to what they put into sets. If they want to do LEGO LOTR again and there is nudity in the show, then they can choose not to show nudity in their sets. They can choose to mark their sets as 18+ if they want to. Not everyone is deeply offended by a boob or backside, and these scenes need not be shown in LEGO form.

Yes, it's not unusual unless they want to keep it a secret as to which LT characters are in it or if there is other sensitive or spoiler information (team affiliations and so on). If it is Space Jam and the LT characters are wearing basketball kits, then it is of no interest to me.

Some of those more techie/sci-fi designs reminded me of this ... That was probably the last time I made a bracelet. Why didn't we have DOTS back in the early 1980s?

Right. Licensed aliens doing what they do in popular movies in licensed sets are completely understandable. But that doesn't mean I'd want to see an alien hairdresser, alien surfer, alien skateboarder, alien dentist, alien butcher, alien chef, alien diner waitress, alien skier, alien wearing a giraffe suit, and so on. They make little sense. And can also be easily made if you really want to putting an alien head on the body of whatever City style character is necessary. If you don't like most of them, the answer is simple. Don't buy them. I collected from Series 1 and this happened to me, but it was about Series 12-15 that I realised they were losing their appeal as a complete collection. Why should? What is appealing about an old man in a boring suit to kids? Kids learning to play the violin will be more interested in a normal kid playing the violin than a bald old man. If you as an AFOL want it to be an old man, then it is straight forward to take a City suited minifigure and give the violin accessory to him. Or, of course, give it to an alien to make an alien violin player.

Even if the show is inappropriate or gross, LEGO could still do LEGO-ized versions if they wanted to. The original movies are not exactly appropriate for kids, yet they still went with them.

Nice MOCs, but given the existing blacksmith set that has been approved, I doubt they have any chance of passing review. Maybe you will get to the 10K club but I cannot see them being successful in review. So in that sense, it doesn't really matter about the parts count, detail and so on. May as well go as best as it can look and get the votes if it will be rejected due to overlap with previous successful IDEAS sets anyway.

Probably an acetate sheet for overhead projectors. PVA works well for that.

Instead of canned air you can use a cheap airbrush compressor instead. Or if you are on a really low budget, a bike pump and old pop bottle. But do it away from the display area, or it just settles again. Maybe LEGO needs to sell LEGO branded dust to sprinkle on displays. That way, even when dusty, they are purist dusty.

I don't see how LEGO would do it much better. The boat is essentially Naida's epic ship from Elves, and the Castle part looks rather LEGO like too.

Well, I'm not surprised at all. In fact ... LEGO Ideas Discussion - Page 187 - General LEGO Discussion - Eurobricks Forums I agree it would probably be only non-licensed. However, it would be interesting in how they pick/package them, as the AFOL programme really seemed to stop all employees doing any work except packing.

Monkey king and ghost knights exist in popular culture. Similarly yetis and gingerbread men and aliens. However, alien gingerbread kings don't so I would not expect to see one. It would suggest they have really run out of ideas and they are just picking random parts from the BAM bins without caring what comes out. If you want unique mashups, just pick multiple bags and mix them up. Or buy random parts in the BAM.

It's already been discussed on the relevant thread.

I guess summer 2020 never happened. Or autumn. Will winter?

So add a cape to the lady bug and armour to the dog yourself. We all have our peculiar fantasies that others would think "what is this?" if it was an official figure. The good thing about these is the lack of skin print on most, so if you want to stick a green head and hands on one of them to make them an alien, you can. We've had loads of superheroes recently in the DC series, and various Batman movie series. Put the plane on the dog and you have a flying dog guy. And what about a centaur drag queen? If they just randomly put a head, torso and accessories together to make an out of the box character, then to most people they will look like they randomly put together a torso, head and accessories. We will end up with a zombie skateboarder (they already did one of them) zombie surfer, alien skateboarder, and so on.

Pretty much what I do. I tend to know what I will use in many builds, so I tend to just buy out a BL store's stock of that part when I am buying something.

Nice build. I was attracted here by the post on the front page and the excitement that someone had discovered white masonry bricks ... oh well, the wait goes on!

I'm sure it would be more widely used if it was more widely available.