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  1. MAB
    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.
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    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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    I'm not too bothered by them, especially if they are not parts of the regular numbered series (like TLM, Simpsons 1 and 2, Team GB.) In the UK and other parts of Europe, it has it's own comic with "free" gift every month. And it seems to sell well. It wouldn't surprise me if Ninjago CMFs also sold well. Pocket money toys sold to kids. And bear in mind we do not get the TV shows on mainstream TV.
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    So do these female warriors need to have cleavage on show, or feminine shaped armour, or wear lipstick to show they are female? Does she need to have long flowing locks coming out of her helmet to show she is female? Should they be wearing pink and purple to denote that it is a women only battalion? If so, isn't that rather sexist? If not, existing parts not be used (minus heads with a beard on them). A woman with no make-up on, wearing armour and a helmet looks pretty much like a man wearing armour and a helmet. If girls don't believe that current minifig knights can be female, why would they accept new ones unless they are made in pink and have cleavage and make-up?
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    Rumour has it that there were too many complaints about not being able to build them without instructions.
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    It is only worsening the divide in the sense that girls that would never have played with Lego are now playing with Lego. These tend to be the more "girly" girls. It's a good thing they are building. If it takes more pink and minidolls to get them playing, so what? It may widen the divide, but traditionally more "boyish" sets are being made more accessible to girls by including more female minifigs. However, it is important that the "boyish" sets remain technical.
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    The official lego forums seems to get quite a bit of it. At least they did a couple of years ago, I haven't been back since.
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    ^ Women are allowed to drive cars. They have to be, otherwise what's the point of a recovery truck if not for a mechanic to rescue a damsel in distress? :-)
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    If they shrink wrap them on a piece of card, instructions wouldn't be damaged in the box. It's worse when it happens to sticker sheets, as the stickers can peel off if bent.
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    There already is a free C-3PO polybag. In TRU. In UK. That's a problem with threads like this. It really needs USA only in the title, and similar threads for other countries as offers vary throughout the world.
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    It would be a really sad day if lego only made sets / ranges that appealed to both girls and boys. They need to have "boy" ranges and "girl" ranges and "boy and girl" ranges. "Boy" ranges will still appeal to some girls and "girl" ranges to some boys. "Boy" ranges will not appeal to all boys, same as "girl" ranges will not appeal to all girls. Similarly "boy and girl" ranges will appeal to some boys and girls, but not all. Not all boys like the same thing. Not all girls like the same thing. For the city style sets, it would be good if lego could use more double sided heads with male faces on one side and female on the other. When someone is wearing a fire helmet, for example, it is easy to make the character male or female by twisting the head. Where they have hair, it cannot be that expensive to include one extra hairpiece so that child can decide. Of course, that only works where a neutral torso makes sense too. Of course often to distinguish between male and female faces it needs make-up or lipstick, otherwise people assume they are male if there is no make-up.
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    My wishlist is simple: For sets: mainly LBG and DBG a bit of reddish brown some black some tan and dark tan For minifigs: Not too fussed about colours. Maybe some new factions. Old style weapons. Proper armour, not futuristic.
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    Girls tend to favour minidolls over minifigs, but that doesn't mean Elves is girls only. I know of a few boys that have the Farran set. Similarly, Nexo Knights and similar series such as Ultra Agents may be primarily marketed to boys but girls can play too, and there are female figures in the sets. Personally. I think it is good that there are ranges for girly girls and boyish boys, along with ranges in the middle of two extremes such as city. City is getting better for male to female ratios, not perfect but better. I think minidolls are a good thing. Personally, I don't like them and prefer minifigs, but I've seen my own daughter go from not playing with Lego as she doesn't really like minifigs to loving Lego as she likes the minidolls. Lego made a smart move introducing them. Just introducing more female characters in mimifig form may not be the answer.
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    My feeling too. If only they had made those a bit more traditional I would have been in. Way too futuristic for me.
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    It was also mentioned that the bucket can take a handle in the Minifigures Encyclopedia from 2013.
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    I'm not sold on it either. It's definitely more action and sci-fi than history.
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    But then that rule could be applied in many ways. If it is not going to be made, then don't let people get their hopes up. Whether it is on size, or licensing, or parts usage, or product overlap, etc. Dr Who was unlikely to be made at one stage, since a rival had the license. Big Bang Theory was unlikely to be made due to the more adult nature. But lego did the diligence and decided it was financially worth doing both. The same is also true of large sets. If they are large, they are unlikely. However, if a business case can be made, then they will do whatever works for them.
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    It's not the cost though, it is the cost of using them. They are going to have to use new machines if they want to seal ziplock bags, not the old heat sealed ones. So they have to change machinery in their process line just to give you a change of bag, which many people will throw away anyway as their kids play with the set then mix it up with others. Plus if a bag doesn't quite seal or unseals on transportation, then they've got spillage and a possible refund for the entire set. Most heat sealed bags don't come undone. Unless you want to pay extra for a person to check each ziplock bag has been thoroughly sealed. Or, as 100 bags are just a couple of dollars, the onus could be on the buyer. If you want to use resealable bags, then you buy them and store the parts that way. The same is true for boxes. If a buyer wants to be able to store in watertight plastic boxes, they can buy stackable storage boxes. Not everyone should end up paying for them though, if they don't want them.
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    I don't think ideas is full of 10,000+ piece builds that are getting in the way of other projects though. They are easy to skip over if you don't like them. It's not like you cannot find anything due to the number of 10,000+ piece builds on there.
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    If you compare the LEGO games boxes to normal board games, you can see that lego can do good packaging when they want to. They are in regular games style boxes, with a lift off lid. Perfect for storing the game parts in. However, games are meant to be played and stored complete. As others have noted, for sets that is probably not such a big deal as most kids do mix them up. The other good thing about their game boxes was that they standardised the sizes of most of them, so they stacked well.
  22. MAB
    And that the mountain climber and welders would be. They know exactly what they are doing, making the popular ones rare. They just cannot say it.
  23. MAB
    Nice MOC, best I've seen at this scale. It's great the way detail is added by turning one row of binoculars around. It's not very lego set like though, and I imagine finding the right curvature is difficult. It's good to see what can be done at this scale that would never be done by lego.
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    They could also set limits such as no more than three active projects, no more than 10 submissions per year and the ability for a user to close their own project down. However, they'd also need to impose the limits properly - one account per person. Although they cannot manage to do that on their main selling site, so I doubt they'd do it for ideas. Ideas makes them money. Some ideas float to the top and they ultimately choose what makes it to market, and they make money off the sets. Why change it to make it better for users, the end result will be no different to now. Filtering by piece count may not be a good thing. It will encourage larger models to use larger parts rather than regular parts. If you are building a wall, why use 8 1x2 bricks when you can use a 1x16 and save 7 parts. So if building a 16x16 house for example, submissions will tend towards using 1x16 and 1x14 bricks to lower piece counts. As soon as rules are changed, players change their gameplay to get around the rule changes.
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    Imagine what will happen though. Let's say they reject a project if it has less than 20 votes after a month. What does the user do? They relist their project and it starts again. Same old crap but a new submission sitting there for another month until it gets rejected and then relisted again. You'll probably end up seeing the crap many times more than you do now, as it will be continually relisted and appearing as a new project. I also don't really see the point of being about to filter out projects with less than 100 votes. It is like saying nobody should buy from a zero feedback seller on ebay. Someone (in fact 100 people) has to vote for the project to get it moving. If everyone was able to filter out low vote projects, nobody's projects would get votes. And your votes are no more special than other people's. If they have to put some work in to find projects to vote for, then so should you. That said, I doubt any projects actually make it on ideas without external promotion. It is not regular voters that seal the fate of projects, it seems to be external advertising of projects that bring in the votes.
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