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  1. MAB
    ^ Let's hope LEGO don't act on the initial comments made by many fans when this was first leaked.
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    That is different. CMFs have often had one piece heads for aliens, etc. Imagine if they did for example, a Mowgli and a Baloo. If Baloo had a detailed molded head and he was stood next to Mowgli with a plain regular minifigure head, I don't think they would go that well next to each other. Similarly, characters like Captain Hook are pretty distinctive. remove their noses by using regular minifigure heads and they will not look as good as if they did molded heads. They will also look strange next to characters where this type of detailing is present. They would end up looking like this: in the same series as this: Lots of head detail in some of the figures, with minimal in the others. They would look poorly made.
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    If any are molded, I'd prefer that they are all molded. That is also sensible, since then the whole series looks like a whole series. Not half a series with minifig heads and hair that looks like a regular minifig series, then another half a series with different Simpsons-style molded heads. Not really. Star Wars is an almost 40 year old film franchise that has had world wide coverage over decades. Gravity Falls has been shown on TV in some countries, if you happen to get and watch the Disney Channel.
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    I think Europe only had one run too and was never really out of stock in the three months it was available. It just wasn't as popular here for "the common man" compared to in the US. I guess that is down to it being a NASA / US focussed set. I know I helped out quite a few people in the US buying them here and shipping them over for them throughout February and March. I never had any problem getting them until they were gone for good.
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    For weapons and so on you can just about get away with dissolving ABS in minimal acetone (and I mean minimal, allow it to slowly dissolve adding a drop at a time) and casting with that. For bricks it doesn't really work as the castings will shrink a little as the acetone evaporates plus they can deform as well if one part dries quicker than another. And they tend to be rather flexible afterwards too, much more than normal lego. Warnings similar to above about ventilation apply.
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    Has it been confirmed that it is a series of 16? It could have a different number (like Team GB). A series of 11 numbered and named players would make sense, or could be 11 + substitutes. Although you are right it could be a bit boring. Most German players even seem to have the same haircut, so not much variation at all! If it is actual (named) players, I wonder if they would go down the fleshie skin route? If it is a Euro 2016 series, I don't really get the German DFB connection. The DFB only does it's own marketing, not marketing for other national FA's. Plus there are 24 teams in Euro 2016. It would be pointless to do a series with only some of them so the series would need to be 24 sets.
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    Are they (Shinkai, Hayabusa and Curiosity) really great though or just another popularity contest? Just like many of the recent sets are media related sets and make it due to the number of fans of the franchise, you could equally well say that, for example, Curiosity only made it due to it's fan base voting for it. The only difference is that it is a real life object as opposed to a media franchise, it still needed its fans. Ideas is by definition a popularity contest, as you have to be popular to get through. If you don't have a fan base, then the chances are unlikely. That is only true in the US and Canada. In the UK and Europe it was available online for about three months and in-store for even longer than that.
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    ^ I doubt it. And if they did, it would be tough for them to get agreement from all the individual football associations to use the badges and kits. If you've ever looked at the Panini stickers, check out England. They always end up with a generic flag rather than the badge, and the kits are airbrushed white. The English FA won't allow Panini to use the badge or kit, as they sell rights to Topps. Character Building has had a license for international kits, I wonder if some of those licenses are still current.
  9. MAB
    And replace the (minidoll) elves with (minifig) elves, they've got (another) winner.
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    My son was reading a Lego Club magazine yesterday and I could just see the headline on one of the pages. "Attack on Minas Tirith". Seems interesting. So I looked a bit closer and realised it was a couple of years old and it was an advert for the LOTR pirate ship.
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    I'm not too sure about the age brackets. I cannot really see 14 year olds wanting to have Nexo Knights. It may be the target build age, but most 13-14 year olds I know of want to feel more grown up than what this appears to be.
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    That's actually what they do in the basic boxes. Some instructions included, some online. My kids prefer building the ones with paper instructions. Even with a tablet, it is annoying to have to build from screen instructions.
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    I don't have it, but I seem to remember it is quite big isn't it - too big for spider pig.
  14. MAB
    I haven't got very many parts with me at the moment (I'm on the road), but I do have a couple of alien parts and the MBA minifigs. So I'll start off with something simple. Agent 3 never seemed to be around during alien sightings.
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    I can see the Homer and spiderpig mocs already.
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    Who cares about the kids? This is lego we're talking about. :-)
  17. MAB
    That actually matches lego's white printing quite well. The colour nearly always bleeds through white / light printing on dark parts these days.
  18. MAB
    The number of yellow hips is amazing, I've been after some new ones for ages. It would be great if they did a monochrome series of minifigs. 16 bags, 16 plain minifigs in different colours. Feeling would be redundant as they are all the same. Great for monochrome collectors, and awful for people who insist on keeping a full set sealed. Wishful thinking, I know. Or they could do a special series, monochrome but with the letters L E G O (blank) M I N I F I G U R E S on their torsos. It would look great at the top of a display case. And it works, 16 of them.
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    That is nothing like I suggested. If there are for example four soldiers, a king, a queen and a princess, then the set is interesting for boys. A girl can turn it into a set with two soldiers, a king, and a queen and princess (that can also be soldiers in disguise). There is no need for weak princes being saved by heroic female warriors which probably wouldn't sell so well. However, it requires imagination to change it from how it looks on the box. That is what is sadly lacking these days.
  20. MAB
    Why is it a cop out to change minifig identities. After all Lego is a building toy designed to be changed. That includes minifigs.
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    If they were throwaway, then they had no place being there. They should not be throwaway, they should be as good as the original build, or not there at all. Show a child a model that can be built, but give them no instructions and they will do one of three things. Ignore it and just build the original one, try it and probably come up with something similar but not quite, or bug their parents for help. If the parent does do Lego, they get a bad impression. So they don't buy again, or complain. And it is so easy to complain these days, in public. Here's another thread mentioning rumours about why they stopped ... https://m.reddit.com/r/lego/comments/33mmdq/id_love_to_see_more_alternative_builds_on_the/
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    If you look at this thread http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=115898#entry2358702 you'll see comments such as instructions for alternate builds should be printed, not just available online. People don't want to have to download and print, not with a premium product. They also don't want to have to figure out how to build something from a single picture. (Which is a shame). One if the problems now compared to way back then is the numbers of parts, especially small ones. With not too many parts, alternative build are relatively easy. With many, they are harder. And (some) parents don't want kids continually asking how to do or complaining about builds where there are no instructions. And with social media how it is these days, Lego doesn't want angry parents being pestered by kids as they cannot build something that Lego has shown them, but not provided instructions for. If they've paid for the set, they expect the instructions for the models that can be built.
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    There are two probable reasons. One is the annoyance for customers being shown a build with no instructions. The other is that it takes time to do alternate designs (like the 3 in 1 creator sets) and designers are at capacity already and it costs Lego to hire more so they don't. It is probably a combination of the two.
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    Given the amount of sets pumped out for the Lego Movie and the CMF range, I'm sure they'd find enough source material in any movie to make 16 characters. I'm not a fan of the movie but did watch it with my kids. To me, it seemed some of the sets and characters had literally only seconds of screen time.
  25. MAB
    I wasn't actually being sarcastic - it's a serious point to see if you want existing sets or something new and much more girly. Some past sets have exactly what you want. Remove the head from the princess and put it on a knight. You have the princess knight. Nothing else needs changing. Just because the box or instructions don't direct you to do it, it doesn't mean you cannot do it. A "boys" set now appeals to (some) girls. Of course, there will still be a lot of girls not wanting it, and a number that will still say it is a boys set even if shown they can put a female head on a soldiers torso.
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