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I hope they let me pre-order more than one. If they don't I'll simply buy it from multiple countries. XD

ENHANCE!!! (If this isn't the UCS Falcon I'll cry)

That new piece basically matches the cockpit dimensions perfectly it seems. This kind of seals the deal.

Well for clarification I meant his original preferences should say the same. So if he lied ladies he should still like ladies as a gal. But I can't say what it was because I've not paid that close of attention! It would just be mighty convenient if the first time we saw him with a dude (instead of just a hint) it happens to be when he's a woman. :P I kind of disagree about his relationships. He's had several now and they... kind of worked? Idunno I think the Doctor's problem is he's basically Jesus and can be taken down a peg and experience more human things. He's Superman, he's hard to relate to. And he's too perfect and never screws up. I want a character with some flaws but every single flaw they give the Doctor they take back (like when he did NOT actually fail his home planet and they took back the ONE thing he messed up on...). I'm sick of perfect Doctor. I guess you don't need a relationship for addressing that. And I do believe you can be as mysterious and stuff while still being flawed.

Star Trek I think the only chance that happens is with Ideas and with a limited Ideas release. This is only possible if Mega Bloks loses it's license. Though to be fair the Mega Blok sets are decent, but I'd highly prefer Lego ones. I think a Lego ideas set that is simply the Enterprise-D bridge, a fairly large/medium set with all the main characters (Picard, Riker, Data, Geordi, Diana, Crusher, Worf, maybe a few "Red shirts") would have the potential to sell decently too. The difficult part is how to do a freakin' Klingon in Lego form. I'm not sure it could be done well enough without a new mold, which Ideas doesn't do. Geordi has a hairpiece available that, while it's not totally accurate, would be good enough and I suppose the visor could be part of the print. No phasers or tricorders and stuff either because it would involve a new mold. I wouldn't mind a TOS bridge set either with all the characters. Though again, I think Spock would need a new hair mold to work well...

I'm going to risk sounding un-PC but considering there was absolutely not evidence that I'm aware of that the doctor is bi until like literally this last episode where he admitted a man-crush (in like 40whatever years of history) it seems forced. So is this new female doctor going to have a male romantic love interest because she's female? Or will she still be attracted to the occasional female? I'm curious about the sexuality of the new Doctor. I wouldn't care if there wasn't already that history. Considering none of his incarnations have changed sexuality (apparently) despite the personality changes (I might be wrong, haven't watched all the ridiculous amount of episodes) I wouldn't want it to change now just because he will be female now. I don't really care that the Doctor will be female. I'm more excited for the new showrunner. Muppet sucked IMO. He was good as a non-showrunner and on some episodes but his grand ideas ALWAYS fizzled and were ALWAYS ridiculous and made no sense.

It's more DS9 in style and DS9 IMO is arguably better story wise than TNG. They can still discover stuff while following an interesting story arch and still be Star Trek. If you want something that is ONLY like TOS or TNG or VOY which it's episodes mostly designed to be seen in any order and very compartmentalized... I think Star Trek can be so much more and DS9 proves it. DS9 is the least Star Trek'y Star Trek and it's just freakin' amazing. It explores characters with DEPTH and with imperfections. It explored things Star Trek hadn't before in a very Star Trek way. The fact that they're looking at DS9 for inspiration is very exciting for me. You CAN have wars and space battles and still have those crazy good "discovery" based episodes and philosophical discussions. No harm in having some CONFLICT while we're doing all the normal Star Trek stuff. Yeah, they can go too far but here's hoping they don't! "In the Pale Moonlight" of DS9 is one of the single best episodes of Star Trek ever. DS9 really explores what an "evolved" and utopian society does when that is threatened by people who aren't quite as reasonable. DS9 puts into question are they really evolved or is it just the environment? What if that environment goes away? What if there's a real threat? It just is great. Not everyone can be Picard. Picard was like a freakin' beacon of Starfleet values. Most people even in Starfleet can't match him. While I love Picard I also love stories that explore other types of characters and people who are more human, possibly more TESTED than Picard (Sisko was more tested by far IMO, it would be interesting to see if Picard has a breaking point...). I want to explore the less perfect people in bad scenarios because we've already seen what Picards do (unwavering in beliefs and faith in diplomacy and stuff), Kirk (cowboy), Sisko (tried and tested family and military man almost), Janeway (... too Picard-like IMO, just a bit more willing to disobey the rules), archer (just angry and bad IMO, didn't like Enterprise)... So now we're getting a story not from a captain's perspective, and with characters not overdone (Voyager would have been better if half the stuff in it wasn't already done previously in Star Trek, so many repeat episodes and characters were too similar to previous ones). Blablabla I'm rambling. Point is I'm excited for the potential of the new series. Dunno if it'll be good or not. But I'm not going to limit the scope of what it is to be "Star Trek". I could take new things. The Federation, despite being "utopian" has historically found itself at war, almost every freakin' decade. War opens up the Federation in ways that peace time like in TNG never could. Picard had that going for him, captaining and doing most of his great deeds in times of peace. OKAY I'll stop. Star Trek is just one of my favorite series ever (TOS movies, TNG, DS9, ST2009).

CBS is trying to successfully launch CBS All Access. It's not that they don't have faith in the show. They're putting a lot into it by having it as basically the thing that's SUPPOSED to successfully get All Access popular. And it's supposedly a highly funded show. They seem to be putting a lot into it. The question is... if Star Trek fails in the US (where it's CBS All Access) will they give up on it? I'm not sure anything besides like Game of Thrones would make people interested in it. I plan to watch Star Trek in whatever NON-CBS All Access way available... I already pay for Netflix and Amazon Prime... and Hulu just for a month since I'm watching something on there with my girlfriend. I can't be bothered with a freakin' fourth one (oh I forgot I have HBO All Access too...). I'll probably change my make it look like my Netflix is in the UK and watch it that way :P (is this something you can admit here? It's not exactly pirating lol). If it gets good reviews and preforms well in non-US countries I'd hope they'd continue to back it even if it doesn't do enough to get CBS All Access off the ground....

This is one of those movies that needs to make it into the history books so we never make the same mistake again.

As a minifigure guy I don't mind the attention. I mean my life has made it clear I won't have time for Lego for a long time so I'm even considering selling my collection, but of course NOT the minifigures. I still want to collect those! As for the new general parts... I'm kind of against that too. I think Lego atm has too many parts. I honestly have started to feel like it's too complex and some of the parts are just not needed and simplification is in order. I mean have you ever tried to use one of those Lego programs? Finding each part, knowing their names and where they are located in the catalog of parts... it's so unintuitive. Heh. But I don't really care I guess. It's not a big issue or even a small one. I just think... less is more sometimes. Minecraft represents something way too simple. I feel like Lego is on the opposite side of the spectrum and that they can have like half or less as many parts and still be able to produce crazy amazing things just as easily, perhaps reserving new parts for times it's truly needed.

That's harsh heh. I still am not convinced. First off Disney should have known about their style. It's their bad that they hired them at all (and apparently had concerned from day 1... yet still hired them). Second off these guys legit make AMAZING films. I don't question that maybe they weren't compatible with the type of work that Disney wanted. But I would say we can't know that the movies would actually be BAD. And three, it seems like a pissing contest to me. The GREAT directors wanted some leeway and wanted to do things their way and the GREAT writers wanted them to keep to the script more. Two groups of doubtlessly very TALENTED people sadly couldn't work together. I can't help but think if the directors were a bit more respectful of the script and the writers were a bit more open to some extra experiments that the film would get as good as it could ever get, but they couldn't meet in the middle because both groups were stubborn as heck. There's so many rumors flying around about the movie basically being Ace Ventura or something but I'm going to still treat those as rumors and stick to the facts and what we know. And I don't think those guys would make it THAT ridiculous... rumors have a way of being exaggerated. But ultimately we won't really know. Even if the movie is amazing we can't say it wouldn't have been amazing in a different way. And even if the movie is terrible we can't say the other way would have been better. Unless a lot of info and some scenes get shown showing the ridiculousness we probably will never know! If Han Solo starts coming out of a Rhino's back-end I'd be concerned though...

I'm okay with them reaching out to gals. They've noticed the females seem to like Star Wars too.

I don't like the rank pips. You can barely see them. They should be on the neck or wrists. Somewhere more prominent.

It's just impossible to say anything definitively. They were basically fired for not sticking to the script enough, improving things and making it more comedic, which I don't know how anyone would expect anything else from these two. And it might have worked. Or maybe it wouldn't have. Some people are saying this is good and Han Solo should never be comedic. Some people are saying it's bad because they were skilled people and made good movies and maybe a comedic movie (which I doubt was comparable to Ace Ventura and I know how people EXAGGERATE). But we'll never know. I for one don't trust the judgement of Disney IN ANY REGARD. I kind of trust Kasdan though... sooo maybe it was going too far. But I don't know. We won't know. Everything is guesswork. Maybe Kasdan was being a classic overprotective artist and was being too protective of his vision and maybe the movie would have been amazing, possibly more comedic but still an amazing Star Wars. Maybe it would have sucked and been weird and Ace Venturay. I for one think the movies NEED to explore new tones especially if we're going to get a STAR WARS MOVIE EVERY YEAR FOR THE NEXT 100 YEARS! But at the same time Kasdan does good stuff, but at the same time I absolutely love some of Phil Lord and Christopher Miller's stuff too! The one thing I'm sure of is that they SHOULD have expected this from Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. Their personalities are known in the industry and they have a certain style they don't really deviate from. Lucas Arts should have known better.

We can only guess what this means. I'll guess though. They've specifically said that they had an issue with the feel and tone of the movie. I actually think Star Wars should reach out and get different feels and tones. Star Wars tonally is EXTREMELY limited. The scope of it is TINY thematically and feeling wise. Why NOT experiment with the tone and feel in the spin-offs? I think the spin-offs are perfect for good Star Wars movies which don't have to have the same tone. We could have more light-hearted, funny ones (without going TOO far), some that are more like Breaking Bad tonally, blablabla whatever... Plus, honestly the tone and Star Wars feel doesn't make a GOOD movie. I know Rogue One tends to be liked but come on, it wasn't a good movie haha. It FELT like Star Wars sometimes but that didn't help it's characters having any development or any CHARCTER. It got along SOLEY on it's Star Wars feel which made for a meh movie. I'd say Rogue One was basically Micheal Bay's Star Wars Transformers. A lot of nothing with legit cool Star Wars on top, which works for a lot of people I guess (I blame those people for us having so many of these Transformers movies which are factually terrible). I'd rather have experiments and HIGH QUALITY stuff. But they're owned by Disney now. Just like Marvel they'll never take an actual risk ever again.

The first half of Wonder Woman was quite good. The second half loses the charm the first half had and becomes your standard super hero movie, with a forgettable villain and kind of a dumb theme/lesson.

Boring, ridiculous movie. I really wanted to take a nap during the action sequences.

I like the minifigures, and the fun little tools it comes with! I plan to buy it. I probably won't build it because I'm out of display area. But it's got some fun stuff.

I feel like since Disney took over Star Wars they've not let toy companies go as far from the source and canon material as they used to. Maybe that's why we're not getting a BB8 which is actually Christmasy (like Red and Green instead of orange or something... like maybe his ball could be a snowglobe or he can look like an ornament and have a little hook on the top of his head to hang on a tree. Revan was the last amazing minifigure we got that was unusual (still being "normal" but not something you'd expect!). Really wish they'd do a Malak! I'll be skipping this Advent Calendar. It's just got nothing that's actually special.

That doesn't mean that they can sell them in the same style. Those special minifigure deals haven't been sold individually and the ones that have come with a bit of something to build besides the minifigure. As far as I'm aware they (at last check) can't sell individual CMF SW stuff because it's not really a build. But if they had a tiny set where you had to actually build something WITH the figure (as they often do with promotional things) then they're allowed, but obviously that wouldn't be CMF. Also any packs "sold" as a bonus doesn't count as individually selling them and is obviously contractually allowed. Blablabla I've worked in Merchandising a bit. The contracts are VERY VERY SPECIFIC. If they didn't SPECIFICALLY negotiate for the ability to make a SW CMF line they wouldn't be able. It's as simple as that in most cases. None of the other stuff they sell can actually be compared to the CMF lines. It's contracts though. Just make zero assumptions. Contracts are basically incredibly dumb, often incredibly limiting and you never know what's in them unless they're made public. There's nothing "obvious" about the contract status. They either have it or they don't. Last time they made an official comment they said they don't. And everything they've done since means hack squat for whether or not they currently have the ability to do it. It means absolutely nothing either way.

I think Rogue One could have been much better had they simply cut back on the amount of characters and given the important ones more time. The dumb suicidal guy who refuses to run any longer (from an EXPLOSION) is also the stupidest freakin' thing I've ever seen in Star Wars. Get rid of the stuff like that which doesn't make sense either. The characters were dumb and I still can't even remember all of their names. It's sad that the best character is the robot which just has some entertaining one liners. In terms of liking it for the ships, battles, etc. I can't say it did bad there. Those felt Star Wars. But that's the easiest part to get down. The Prequels as bad as they are to a lot of people still FELT like Star Wars when it come to the ships, droids, technical aspects, etc. But that just doesn't make for a good story. I'd compare Rogue One to Transformers (but not THAT bad lol). It's a lot of show, and it shows well, but it's empty and the characters such. Star Wars is ALL about the characters which did not feel Star Warsy in this movie. We got to know Finn and Rey in 5 minutes better than we did all the characters in Rogue One combined. And while there were moments were I was legit AMAZED, they were still hallow. Like the Darth Vader scene. Yes, it WAS cool. I don't think that can be denied. However, did it really have anything behind it besides that? It was yet another hallow moment in an incredibly hallow movie. Oh and the GCI was freakin' terrible haha. But I guess some people have more of an eye for it. Some people didn't know they were fake... whereas I felt like I was watching Roger Rabbit, however I work in video games so maybe my eyes are more keen. Anyways, I still very much look forward to Episode 8. Less so for the Young Han movie (nobody wondered how he got his name...). I loved Episode 7 but hope 8 is more different. I guess I loved it for it's characters. Rey and Finn are just masterfully shown off. I knew their names pretty much immediately which is a good sign. Even Poe who doesn't get much screen time has 10x the character anyone in Rogue One has. BB8 has more character than everyone! Kylo Ren was awesome. The story... another Death Star thingy... not as strong. But the characters more than made up for it (assuming 8 and 9 aren't also rehashes, I'm okay with 7 being a new introduction with old ideas). I guess I'll shut up. Half the Star Wars movies are my favorite movies (IV, V, VI, VII). I just find that I can't have a movie with soulless and characterless characters and actually still enjoy it. "It's the fanboy eletism that was so darning to the Prequels, and it seems most Star Wars fans agree Disney's two offerings so far are leaps ahead of the PT" (can't seem to copy paste quotes and I'm too lazy to actually do this quote right) But I would go as far as agreeing that Rogue One is better than the prequels, VII by a long shot. I think it's less elitism and more expectations. Like Star Wars, the original trilogy, were movies that changed the CULTURE as a whole. They were so good, and came at the perfect time (there was less competition back then, huge factor). People put them up on a pedestal as 5/5 star movies. And when a movie comes out that's 3/5 stars, or even 4/5... it's still seen as lesser and the lesser aspects are magnified so while it might be 4/5 it might feel like 2/5 simply because of expectations. Like if a Star Wars movie doesn't achieve a certain level of greatness, even if it's still good it'll be attacked by fans because "good" isn't good enough. I'm sure I do that. I'm also really good at making things sound 10x worse than I mean. :) Episode I was just a below average movie in my opinion with II getting better and III being pretty good. But honestly, since it's Star Wars, pretty good ain't good enough! Rogue One was decent. Just not GREAT to me. Therefore it's TRASH ;D hahaha. I honestly don't care that I do this either. I just expect more from this franchise. I'm going to nitpick it to death and it's not because I'm a Star Wars elitist. It's because I can't enjoy a Star Wars movie unless it's truly GREAT. Whereas if you renamed Rogue One something like... Tom One, and took it slightly out of the Star Wars universe I'd probably enjoy it a bit more. But then again the one appeal to it is that it's got lots of legit cool Star Wars stuff so I'm not sure anyone would like it at that point.... Take away the Star Wars vehicles, put in original ones. Take away Stormtroopers, replace them with another Sci-fi/fantasy force. Take out Darth Vader and replace him with a cool tech Samurai. What would you have? Pretty much nothing. I believe that if you took out the Star Wars from VII it would still be a good movie because it's got good characters. Idunno, I just pay for movies and stories, not slideshows of pointless but cool things. (okay now i"ll really shut up)

Rogue One kind of sucks so no way should anyone put it in the same grouping as the original trilogy. Red Letter Media has a lot of good videos on Rogue One which are all spot on (as well as their Prequels ones too!).

What makes you say they clearly have the license to make Star Wars ones? You haven't read the contracts. Star Wars could have sold those exclusive rights to other companies or those other companies sub-contracted them to others. Or perhaps there's specifically clauses which prevent Lego from doing this (and trust me, it's not 100 up to Lego). You don't know the contracts and can't possibly know. If Lego says they can't do it, that probably means they contractually can't until new contracts are written...

The 5 post credit scenes were ridiculous. It was literally too much. Plus most of them had little to do with anything for the average movie goer or even some comic people like me whose simply not familiar with Guardians of the Galaxy enough to give a crap about half the post credit scenes which were useless references to comic-only things which DOES NOT make for good movies (it's like Thor's random pool of visions in the second Avengers...). Aside from that it was a decent movie. 3.5/5 stars. Enjoyable. Absolutely no risks or anything that would make it stand out significantly but that's what we've come to expect from Marvel movies strategically designed to be as inoffensive and as mass media as possible for the biggest $$$ impact. I kind of thought it felt a bit soulless because of the extremes it went to for this effect. I mean, I get it, Baby Groot is cute, that doesn't mean we need dance numbers and endless scenes pointing it out. It's a bit too much. They took everything they could that was enjoyable in the first movie and multiplied it 10 fold, which doesn't mean it's better (1 is a bit better I think). I sound harsher than I mean to. It was enjoyable! But that's about it.

I'm kind of getting sick of the endless variations of tie fighter. How many different wing shapes will they do before they've done them all? Not to mention outside of a select few like the Tie-Bomber a lot don't even look like they have a unique function.