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You could move the bricks / plates around on the base and make the tyre tracks closer together if you wanted a smaller jeep. I don't think home made stickers would be that hard. You can download the JP logo and the stripes are easy enough to sketch.

And people that buy this set are people that want to display what appears to be a really nicely designed and very large detailed brick built dinosaur, along with the gates to Jurassic Park and the characters from that movie. They could have done a much smaller set, essentially a character pack, with small vignettes and some people would still have thought them iconic enough characters to buy and display them. It is like all LEGO sets. If it is not quite what you want, modify it so that it is what you want. At least here they are doing the minifigures. If they did a jeep, then chances are it would have been stickered for decoration, so printing your own will be little different to what an official one would have been. Whereas if they hadn't done minifigures, making them look LEGO-like would have been much harder.

Yes, it is a scam site, the same as this one: www.toyjoyloy.com

A hairpiece with cauliflower ears would be great. The aviator headgear, recently used again for Jacob Kowalski, would probably be used.

Chances are kids will want sets from the Jurassic World series - movies from their time - and not an old movie like Jurassic Park. So it makes sense that LEGO produces a number of sets from JW at price points that parents can afford. Which is what they have done.

Probably also because there was a pretty good chance it would be - a major setting in JP and the Ideas one had a gate and vehicle, so a good chance that LEGO would not repeat / copy that. And if there was a good chance of it happening, it is a good bet to be proved right about something and then using that to imply that the leaker was somehow a reliable source. It is a bit like suggesting that they were going to do a Knight Bus in the HP range. Why do people modify their jeeps to look like in the movie? They are not iconic - they cannot be based on the second statement. They are only iconic when combined with other aspects - that there are kids inside and a T-Rex is about to eat them. Or, maybe, people want a vehicle to look like something out of the movie and it is iconic by itself without the story telling. If you know the story, you recognise it and don't need the dinosaur or frightened kids to tell you the story.

The T-Rex - superb. The detail and even moreso the stability look great. The gate - quite an accurate design (from the front) but just a boring lump! Plus I don't think it works anywhere near as well as the Death Star did as a playset of smaller vignettes. If it was smaller and maybe had a tree either side it would have looked a little better, but still a bit boring. Where is the action? The minifigures - great.

Impressive. It certainly dwarfs the neighbouring fish and chip shop.

If someone wants a small version, they can buy this: If they are going to go big, they might as well go big. There are plenty of smaller JW sets already if people want smaller ones. Plus, it seems there are always complaints about wasting parts on vehicles in larger sets aimed at older people, when they should have used the parts for the scene and left out the vehicle. Only if they do that, then there are complaints that there should be a vehicle. They will never win there.

Maybe go for a minfiigure in the same colour as the helmet, or just a plain light bluish grey one.

Helmet from this guy?

Maybe because they have enough long running licensed themes already. They have SW, Marvel, DC, HP. There is a difference between these and franchises like Despicable Me and Angry Birds in the age group they are marketted to. The current long running themes are aimed at older consumers (that have a longer attention span) and are known to be good themes for merchandise. Whereas themes aimed at younger kids rotate a lot more, whatever is at the cinema is popular and often soon forgotten. Thinking back, Minions seemed to be all the rage when Despicable Me was out, then died down quickly, then all the rage again for DM2 (but not Despicable Me merchandise, it had to be DM2), then died down just as quick. I imagine it is better for them to make three or four one-off flash-in-the-pan themes based on current movies than it is to make one long running theme over multiple years for properties like this. If you don't like one franchise, chances are there will be something else along soon. If you like more than one small theme, then they'll get your cash multiple times. Whereas if it is one long running theme, they might get boring after a while or you might feel you have enough if you just buy into one wave and not bother with later ones. If you didn't like the theme, then maybe they miss doing other franchises as they concentrate on the one they chose. Plus other companies will probably get rights to the themes LEGO didn't buy into and LEGO will lose sales to these competitors that do the current movies while LEGO continues in the longer themes based on older non-current themes.

I don't think so... US box: UK box:

I'd buy the proper old parts on bricklink.

There are many other techniques possible, but why not just tile a plate then angle it with hinges?

For me there are too many lion heads. A couple of them makes a statement and highlights the entrance or wherever they are placed. Having them on every bare section of wall is a bit over the top. Also floors 1 and 2 look identical, so increase part counts through repetitive building.

Yeah, so close now. I voted for that one quite a while ago. It doesn't look quite so novel since the kinetic model Chinese Dragon came out, but still cool. I loved the Star Wars version they did too.

Pizza suit guy = watermelon reprinted, which is fairly new in itself. As to others, butler - we already have the waiter. Could reuse the bowler hat which would make him slightly more interesting. Chef - we have loads already. Dentist - recent one in Assembly Square. So if true, that's a few I won't be looking for.

Isn't that exactly what they have, just without the name? Invent an umbrella theme called "Kids' Movies". Then in that umbrella theme put Angry Birds, Trolls, Minions, etc, as subthemes. Then remove the umbrella theme name. What do you have, a collection of smaller subthemes. Given how merchandise sales really tales off once a movie has gone from theatres, I cannot see Minions having the longevity to last three years, with new sets each year. These have to be short-lived themes with sets coming out only while the movie promotes merchandise sales. For Disney, they might get away with it, as at least some of those movies have the longevity and there is a whole range of movies to choose from. In a sense we already have a Disney umbrella theme in the Disney Princess line, which has been going for the past five years.

LEGOLAND has made quite an investment in this Castle (from Brickset). https://brickset.com/article/44164/inside-the-legoland-castle-hotel-in-billund

Yeah, although it depends how much you want to get involved with the backstory. I never watched any of the online media associated with it, I don't know if there was other stuff. I found that easy to ignore. Whereas if they did a Robin Hood set, I imagine most people are already swayed by the folklore. If they did a set with these two factions, I wonder how many would take the boars as baddies rather than just opposition to the other faction. The Evil Knight is one of my favourites (much more than the Heroic one) and with a change of head becomes far less evil.

That was pretty much spot on for the source material though!

What do you mean here? There are too many modular style buildings or not enough? There are a huge range of projects on Ideas. I don't know what this means. The ones in the recent 10 year vote all went through the standard system. They were not pre-selected by LEGO without a previous public vote to get to 10000. LEGO did not pre-select any possible sets that did not make it to 10000. How much time should LEGO devote to assessing each submission? Especially licensed ones, as these can take a long time with negotiations. Supporters' time is next to nothing. Designers have to put in the effort either way.

It hasn't though. LEGO have only picked from projects that have made it to 10,000, aside from blocking some IPs from the start. They do not pick projects from the outset. And that is the whole point of ideas, to see what people want. If they choose which projects could make it from the start and discount others, then after a few rounds they will end up with lots of similar submissions as people learn what will be allowed to be voted on and what will not. Plus it will be a huge amount of work deciding about licensing for every submission where a licensed property is involved, especially if it leads nowhere. There will still be people disappointed that their vote was not made. Think of all the people that voted for Stitch this time around.

They did a survey a while ago about what VIP members wanted. Personally, I'd like them to get rid of the discounts and instead have exclusive items that you can exchange points for (or have both). I'd prefer an exclusive poly or minifigures instead of £5 / $5 off.