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I wonder if that is actually a downside. There are some really well detailed scale models already available. Will a lego one sell well against them? That is something they will have to take into consideration.

The other use is to leave him in a drawer and get him out in two years and trade for 10 useful figures. That's what I did with the bunny guy. :-)

Mars Rover was available for three months constantly at S@H in the UK. Research Institute was also available for weeks, not hours. Advent calendars have also been easy to get, with many stores putting them on sale (discount) before December, such as in the Argos 3for2.

No use for a mullet? The spaceman / astronaut is not the first similar pairing though. We've had loads of mechs, robots, pairs like flamenco and now ballet, etc. Male - female pairs like tennis, caveman, cyclops, etc. The spaceman although a similar idea is very different printing to the new astronaut. They don't even look like they come from the same series the print style is so different.

TheJoker won the Batman lot! It must be fixed :-)

Tumnus.

Already exists (from Ninjago).

England haven't been World Champions (World Cup Holders) in a long time. So long, we've got songs about it that need to keep getting changed.

They are both reddish brown.

If it is those four teams, I think we will hear a lot more of this. Why no Italy, or Belgium, or Portugal? All good football nations and good lego markets. Then why no Hungary or Czech Republic, homes to lego manufacturing? For me, it would have been great if they did 24 figures, all generic players one per country.

You have double counted the "elvis" style hair for Egon Spengler. You have it on his head, but also higher up with the black and flesh versions.

I hope not. I'd prefer available in UK (or even just England) with England players. While it would be great for those in Northern Ireland or Wales to get their players, I doubt the markets are big enough there. Plus it would be great to see Scottish collectors having to get a purely England team to be complete :-) That said, I'd prefer they did one minifig in generic (unnamed) strip for each country.

I don't know. If they did a gold Mickey as a chase figure, with exactly the same parts as a regular Mickey, in the same series then it would make sense. I doubt they will, but it would be funny if they did, just to see all the posts comparing the weights of regular vs golden Mickey.

Looking good :-) I won the unikitties lot last year, my daughter still loves them.

Is there going to be an early sneak peek at the prizes like last year?

There are two ways to increase income - sell more to existing fans, or sell to more fans. That is what expanding the range does. Before Friends / minidolls, those (mainly girls) were not buying lego, they were buynig something else. Before LOTR, some fans might have been MOCing their own models, but the license brought in many new buyers, who are now probably cutting down on buying. Only to be replaced by fans of license X, who will stay until license X finishes.

The brickforge proton pack and gun can be connected by sheathing off electrical wire. This makes them look even better.

Not necessarily. It could be that the net represents one that is slightly elastic and only just holds the animal when in a ball. That said, it is totally unrealistic anyway for an animal catching net, it looks more like a butterfly net. Plus surely most pros would use a trap not a net. Yep, I said it a while back ... http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=113150&st=450#entry2365570 I find the BW ones are slightly too long, making the top bar look like it goes through rather than just under the shoulder but even so they look good. Splayed out arms wouldn't be such a good idea. If they did that, why not legs that are bent or legs "at ease", or straight out arms, and all sorts of poses. Minifigs wouldn't look like minifigs any more.

K'Nex make them, and they are still for sale in some (discount) stores in the UK.

For me, when thinking of Disney I'd probably go for Mickey Mouse, Cinderella, Jungle Book, Snow White, Peter Pan, Aladdin, Lion King and Frozen. Toy Story too if allowing Pixar brand. All animation. Of course there are live action films from the present and from the future, but many of them I wouldn't necessarily identify as Disney. They could be any production company, not much distinguishes for example Flubber from Hook. Either could be Disney. Then there are all those old docu-movies such as The Legend of Lobo, I really wouldn't identify it as Disney. I was surprised to see they are still producing stuff like that, often 2-3 movies per year.

Presumably because of LOTR. That picture is from about 2008, isn't it? So not long before they would have started planning for LOTR. It was only like concept art at the time in the club magazine, so maybe they decided to use what they came up with in the CMF series as they knew LOTR was coming by then. And even then only ones that want to collect minor print variations. I am a LOTR minifigure collector (as well as the sets!). But the dimensions ones have no interest whatsoever for me. They are existing ones with such small details changed, the changes are pointless. Some will consider my collection incomplete. I consider it complete. I am happy without them. Now if they release a decent Witch King or Eowyn, then I'll buy it. But not print variations of characters I have had multiple times already.

A lot of TV properties aren't well known worldwide. In many countries, if you don't get the Disney channel, then you won't have heard of them.

I'll make a start ... this year's tree should be made from beer bottles. :-)

No doubt Lego like you to think that they are tied by action figure contracts, so they can have the simple unconfirmed rumour that they cannot do cheap packs containing licensed minifigs not because they don't want to but because they are not allowed to, as that means people have to buy expensive sets to get them. Same with the magnets being glued. There was always the rumour that this was down to licensing. I think a more plausible explanation was that people were buying them instead of the sets they came in so Lego put a stop to it. Yes, I agree, this discussion was had a couple of weeks back too. To all those saying that they want normal heads as it means they can reuse parts in other creations, why would Disney want you doing that? Their characters are their characters - the hair styles, the heads and faces, the dresses and outfits, all of it. I doubt they want you removing parts and using them on other characters. Another minor miracle is that these aren't glued to stop you doing it with body parts.

Why should that complaint die? This is meant to be an aspirational set, the highest price bracket, one of the best lego can produce. Yet they cannot produce printed parts for it? Consider how many printed parts come in $20 duplo sets, how many printed parts come in $20 Juniors sets. They can do small print runs for SDCC exclusives and their own business card minifigures, but not do printed parts for the top of the range sets? They are using 1970s technology to decorate their sets. Of course people should complain. They managed to wipe out stickered torsos 30 or so years ago (well almost, there are still the odd few produced), so presumably they knew back then that stickers were crap. If people shouldn't complain about stickered parts, why doesn't lego just go back to no printed parts at all? Just let people decorate their sets with stickers. I hope people do complain in the yearly surveys about stickers. There should be the aspiration that lego gets rid of them. Cheap Chinese clones can do it. Megabloks can do it. So why can't lego? Sergio's one opens in an even simpler way, essentially just a single hinged side. Lego's way of doing it gives the appearance of more play space.