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  1. MAB
    The ones in the first picture of just customs. For example, one of them has the Harry Potter Lucius Malfoy / Death Eater head, SW torso, etc. Also the Royal Guard headgear seems to have been painted. It is way too shiny. Most figures are recognizable if you know the source. I don't find any of the ninjago ones recognizable as I don't watch the TV series or play with the sets. I know they are ninjago, but I couldn't tell you who they are. The same will be true of SW. If someone doesn't follow the franchise, they are unlikely to know who minor characters are but might know key characters as they enter popular culture. For example, Darth Vader might be highly recognizable even if you have never seen the films, but General Veers less so.
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    I guess it depends what you want to show and who you want the tribute to be aimed at. If you google Lego Twin Towers you will see architecture style builds of the Twin Towers, as well as models of the moment they were hit. Or you could go for a minifig scale vignette and focus on the firefighters for example if you want to aim the tribute at them.
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    If I remember correctly 20 or so years ago, they came in the same sets as the correct colour ones. Unless someone opens a new set and proves it to BL, they will never add it as an alternate figure to the inventory.
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    There is also likely to be confusion over, for example, custom figures from IPs. If someone makes their own version of a Batman figure, for example, then I guess it is fair play that they can show their custom figure here as a work of art. What if they then try to sell the figures? They are then producing something stolen (IP of DC) and selling it, so no different to Lepin apart from the scale. It is also not ripping off lego, but a third party IP. Is it OK to do that so long as they are not infringing against lego? Of course, you could replace Batman with Ghostbusters symbol arms, Gondor shields, etc and various other things that lego do not make (or had not made at the time in the case of GB arms) that have been sold on here.
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    The first thing I thought of when I saw the title was "Westworld" (the Yul Brynner film). Robots and cowboys ...
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    Or alternatively, the early Americans killing ....
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    [MOC] BENDER

    MAB replied to J_C's topic in Special LEGO Themes

    But apart from all that, I wonder why not? :-) PS. Nice model, and even nicer that you shared the instructions.
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    There are loads of parts that would do for teenagers, I'd just load up bricklink, go to torso assemblies and start looking... It really depends what you want them to be doing / style of dress. (or the zombie version ...)
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    Nice! I think the roof might be improved slightly by using inverted arches (30099) instead, so you don't get the 'empty' side showing.
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    Lego have already lost. Even if they win, lepin have at least a year to sell their copies of every modular, Cinderella's caste, the UCS MF, GBHQ, etc. And if there is a still a market for knock-off flagship sets, another company will arise and fulfill the demand, and on and on. Lego may win every battle they fight, but they have already lost the war.
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    Very nice. One question though - why use an axe? Is there anything special about it? As it seems you could equally well use a 3L or 4L bar, and in this sense the bark is a similar technique to the roofs and fences that people have made for a while from droid arms, just rolled up. It would also allow more colour options.
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    Of course, but then you put focus on the qualities that you deem more important, which happen to be the ones that minifigures possess. Although of course it is really subjective, since the subjectivity comes from the questions you choose. Minidolls are actually more superior objectively if the only requirement tested is realistic body shape. That is, does the figure have relatively realistic human proportions? Minidolls clearly have objective superiority there. But it would be subjective in that I am choosing to only take one quality that interests me. Minidolls and minifigures are different. Neither is better than the other. There are more minifigs than minidolls. There are also more minifig collectors than minidoll collectors. Does that mean anything about their "quality" though? To me, no.
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    Is it ridiculous? You need to say where you are wanting it sent to (presumably US). It is no doubt going to need to be tracked and insured too. If it was being sent from the UK, just regular airmail with track and trace will be coming in at just over $16. If he is also charging for packaging and maybe a slightly faster delivery service, and probably some component of the cost is going on PayPal fees and exchange rates, then it is not hard to see $25 all in. If it is ridiculous, then buy from a US seller. National postage is normally cheaper than international.
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    I thought S14 had some of the best characters so far. What was wring with S15 and 16?
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    I see a few problems: I don't think lego thinks that castle needs reviving. To get a useful collection of modules requires more than one set (not allowed for ideas). If a customer wants large castle sections that are quick and easy to build with, they could use duplo castle.
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    Looking at how younger girls play, I don't think posability is a problem. My youngest has both dolls and figs, but rarely poses legs or arms / hands on the figures. When she is story telling / make believe playing, the characters just jump along from stud to stud. They never walk using their legs. Similarly they hold cups but don't need a realistic drinking action. Mind you, the boy plays in the same way.
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    I imagine it would be less successful rather than not successful, but of course it is something that cannot be tested. No doubt they have loads of interesting but different sales data, on sets like the blue and pink suitcase 10659 and 10660, that they can use to test popularity of similar minifig sets between boys and girls. It would be more interesting if they did two very similar sets at the same price aimed at the same demographic containing minifigs and minidolls; the supermarket suitcase and Heartlake supermarket were almost there.
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    So you don't like them enough to use them, but you like them enough not to trade them? Hated by you maybe, but not by everybody. Some people like the minidolls. My daughter (who falls in the 5-12 year old age range on many of the Friends and Elves boxes) prefers them to minifigures. Some of her friends are not really fans of traditional lego, but they like the Friends sets. Lego did their job very well when coming up with the minidolls. They managed to appeal to people that were not playing with lego.
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    But if you missed the first sets, then you wouldn't be able to get the main focus of the theme - the five friends. So they have to repeat the figures. They do introduce further characters in both the series and the sets. That is partly historical and because of what people are used to. People (especially AFOLS) often have large collections of lego, including minifigures. If they suddenly stopped making minifigures and replaced them with something else, then there would be outrage. Not becuase minifigures are better but because that is what people already have. Their old collections no longer fit with the new stuff. They already did this before with colours. The old greys and browns were replaced and some people were furious. Yet somehow they got by. Were the old colours superior to the new? If they could go back in time and could come up with more detailed minifigures that were better articulated, more realistic shapes, more variable in heights, etc but still had them with modular / swappable parts and they put them in all the sets that came out in the past then I'd probably prefer they went along the more detailed route. As an AFOL, I don't mix minidolls and minifigures, and wouldn't if they went all minidoll. Yet it is funny to see kids play. They care much less about such things. Mine mix minifigs and minidolls. But then they also mix in playmobil characters, my old Kenner SW characters, figurines that were free with comics, etc.
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    It is because Friends is mainly based on a group of five friends. Hence the number of characters is quite small as they get repeated a lot.
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    Chances are they are gone for good. In my experience, when licensed parts get removed rather than sold out then it doesn't ever come back. Now is probably the time to buy them on BL, when they are cheap-ish (but more than a BnP) as resellers didn't pay too much for them and there is still a lot of stock around.
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    There is a new LEGO Flagship Store opening in Leicester Square later in the year, so there is a chance that they are saving the London Bus promo for the opening.
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    For many you are going to have to pull hands from arms and arms from torsos (and also legs from hips for some).
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    If German kids are anything like UK kids then Castle sales will be high. Meaning sales for the current Castle sets, as in Nexo Knights. I dread to think how many 6-9 year old boys' parties I have been to with my kids, and how many of the birthday boys have been getting small sets of NK from their friends and the Fortrex from their parents. That one in particular seems to be outselling the Jestro's Lair and other mid-large sets. I guess Jestro's Lair will be saved for Christmas. For me, the heroes sets are too blue, but the villains are actually quite decent castle sets (mainly Jestro's Lair) for MOCs. Quite black, but I use a lot of black. It could have been much worse, given Jestro's colours are red and purple, they could have made his lair much more purple than black. Fortunately they didn't. I'm a little surprised that they have both NK and Ninjago out at the same time. Obviously different inspirations behind the themes but both quite action focussed sets aimed at mainly boys of a certain age.
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