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  1. MAB
    They do help spur sales of comic con tickets.
  2. MAB
    Business partners. There are always plenty more fans ready to come into lego, but if they fall out with their business partners (such as the studios) then future licenses may be in jeopardy and go to MB instead. What about people from Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland?
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    When I was a kid (late 1970s, early 80s), I thought nothing of using lego to build spaceships for my Kenner SW figures, often with toilet rolls attached using sticky tape or blu-tack, with lumps of plasticine for details. They landed on launch / landing pads made from painted cardboard boxes or any other junk we had around. My parents watched my play sometimes but didn't really join in or direct play. These days, my kids are stopped from gluing things to lego, mainly by their dad. :-)
  4. MAB
    Based on reports of people standing in line, the chances of getting one was about 60%-70%. So not too bad.
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    Yes. Well, we can dream.
  6. MAB
    There is an alternative view that the Hobbit was meant to be two series, one for each film, and that a third LOTR (RotK) series of sets would come out fall/autumn 2014. When the third film was announced, then the third wave of LOTR could have been put back / cancelled completely, as it would clash with the third wave of Hobbit sets that now need to come out in late 2014 to coincide with the film in cinemas.
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    So now the wait is on to find out what the last few unknown sets will be ... the polybags. I'm expecting one or two if like the other series. Fingers crossed for minifigs not already in the boxed sets.
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    I doubt they will. For all themes except superheroes, they seem to mainly do fakes of official figures only.
  9. MAB
    Yes, unfortunately they haven't taken on board that you give an army builder and the set sells better.
  10. MAB
    Probably so that they are not copied and manufactured by bootleg makers in the Far East before they are released by lego. They will probably fake the figures anyway once the sets are out, but at least let lego get them out first. I don't think they can have the blog / site removed, but the CEE team can stop sending free promotional / review sets. That is normally enough to make most blogs tow the line.
  11. MAB
    For me, the current situation is win/nothing for lego/me. I don't feel I have lost if I don't have an exclusive. There is a reason lego do it, as otherwise they wouldn't do it. Will they tell us the reason they do it? No.
  12. MAB
    Although it is a nice idea, I'm not so sure they'd sell very well especially when you consider the sales of full ranges. Stick this up against Star Wars and the multitude of what seems to be barely recognizable ships and a few nice minifigs, and SW will still sell 10x more. Kids won't want it, would AFOLs display the builds? The Fell Beast is the highlight for me, the others although you can see what they are, I don't think I would display them. With Legolas, Eomer, Gollum, Uruk-hai, Nazgul it is also a lot of repetition of what is past. Do you intend a new print for Gandalf, or just the now regular Santa with Gandalf's head and beard? Otherwise it is only really old Bilbo that is new. Even if it did get to 10K in three months, timing is against it too. It wouldn't be done until Xmas 2015, missing the regular sets on the shelves, and possibly the end of the license too. Sorry it sounds so negative, but I cannot see it going anywhere.
  13. MAB
    They are brickwarriors torches... http://www.brickwarr...om/metal-torch/ Same with the kite shield up the top.
  14. MAB
    Why would they put the Bo5A Bard in this set? It would still be another Bard, just in different clothes - the wrong clothes for the scene. There would also be people complaining that we have already got Thranduil, and this is just another version. Legolas is there because he sells sets. Not everyone gets every set. It is a shadow, from the flick of hair in that hairpiece.
  15. MAB
    You didn't support the Research Institute. You supported the Female Minifigure Set. There were a number of different scenes in the original submission, three of them happened to be science based. The whole point of the submission was not the Research Institute, it was the female minifigs.
  16. MAB
    If they name it right, yes. They already have Elven helmets, Dwarven helmets, etc. And Goblin shields with white hand print... Of course, they wouldn't call them Gondor helmets, but come up with a generic name.
  17. MAB
    The Eagles played a fairly important role though. And they got there before Beorn, didn't they? Plus the important thing is how it is portrayed in the PJ film, as that is what the set is based on.
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    After seeing the new Hobbit wave, I also think Lego has given up on Hobbit/LOTR, and just fulfilling their contracts. It is time for brickforge or brickwarriors or one of the other custom parts companies to step in and create a Gondor style helmet and a Witch King mask. I'm glad I bought a load of BF dwarf helmets when they were cheap.
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    How many people would buy lego sets if they were just different sized boxes of primary colour bricks (bricks, not parts, but I'll let you include a few windows and doors). How many of those would buy the same or a similar box again the next year, and the next year, and so on. Lego needs sets to inspire children to build and to survive as a company. As for collectable minifigs, there are different ways of using them. Personally, I don't have the collect-them-all mentality. I collect the ones I like, often in large numbers to army build, for MOCs. I also use single characters to inspire smaller MOCs. There are a number of them that I don't like, so I don't feel the need to keep them if I happen to get them.
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    I don't think you should expect a fair and objective assessment, though. At least, not from Lego. They will do a business focused assessment. If stopping exclusives hits their bottom line at events like SDCC, and they lose advertising deals / discounts because of drawing in less people, then they won't stop.
  21. MAB
    I doubt it. Probably just a regular slope, a cape and a bit of artist license in the box art.
  22. MAB
    Remember if you do want LEGO to keep doing exclusives for comic cons and other events, then you can also write to them and tell them how much you enjoy that they make these figures that would otherwise not make it into more general retail sets.
  23. MAB
    That is what is happening more and more on lego ideas now. For example, this idea ... https://ideas.lego.com/projects/74539 has been featured on a number of blogs recently, for example: http://thefamilybric...ry-exploration/ http://nerdapproved....xploration-set/ There is very little discussion about the set. The whole focus of it seems to be a female in a non-confrontational space role, although she is about to mine alien planets for their minerals. I reckon it would have only half that number of votes if the head was a male one.
  24. MAB
    Brickmap is a LEGO CEE team idea, to collect resources together, from custom parts to film makers to jewellery makers. You might be able to find someone in the database that does what she needs. http://brickmap.info/index.php
  25. MAB
    I would imagine it is down to the truck looking like modern warfare. The difference between allowed violence and not allowed violence seems to be a very fine line, and only lego knows where it is.
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