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  1. MAB
    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.
  2. MAB
    I don't have it, but I seem to remember it is quite big isn't it - too big for spider pig.
  3. 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.
  5. MAB
    Who cares about the kids? This is lego we're talking about. :-)
  6. MAB
    That actually matches lego's white printing quite well. The colour nearly always bleeds through white / light printing on dark parts these days.
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    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.
  9. 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.
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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.
  20. MAB
    ^ 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? :-)
  21. MAB
    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.
  22. MAB
    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.
  24. MAB
    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.
  25. MAB
    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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