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Well I would have gotten the Jabbas Barge and Battle of Hoth but as usual I'm incredibly unlucky. Saw the Barge for $89.99 at ToysRus.com. It can stack with a $20 coupon to make it $69.99. Decided to go to a store instead since SUPPOSEDLY ToysRus stores are having crazy good deals like the Battle of Hoth for $30. Well... as usual mine doesn't. Everything was pretty much normal price or on a "sale" that was the normal price ($120 Barge). So I go home and figure I'll just order the barge from their online store. It had been about 1 hour. Suddenly the price went up $20. So I get nothing.

It's okay. I'll just continue never buying the magnets. I'd buy them if the minifigures were completely natural and unimpeded. They'd make a great way to get rarer figures (even at their ridiculous markup). Oh well.

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Nope. Numbers don't lie. The popularity in the UK and US is not comparable. In the UK the highest ratings showed that like one in SIX people watched Doctor Who. That's ONE IN SIX. In the USA the best they've gotten so far was about 1 in THREE HUNDRED. In fact even though the UK has only 63 million people and the US over 300 million there's more Doctor Who viewers in the UK by a pretty large margin. So I don't think that constitutes "through the roof". About 16% of the UK watched Doctor Who at it's best ratings. Compared to the US having about .3% at it's peak. Plus Doctor Who is marketed a bit differently in the US. In the UK it's almost a kids show (but of course made for everyone). In the US it's got much less kids watching and more adults (proportions). Usually Lego goes for franchises that are for world wide release and will sell well no matter the region. I think they'd be lucky to sell 1/10th the amount of Doctor Who Lego in the US as the UK. Whereas usually the US has most regions beat with the sales. I'd love to see it but I just don't see it happening. :(

Forestmen just because of Nostalgia. Plus I like the Robin Hood vibe.

My eyes! The Goggles do nothing! It's funny to see that Harry Potter is so old now. So old they didn't use Fleshies at first.

There's inspiration. Likely flat out using yours as a reference. It doesn't appear to be traced and there's a fair amount different though and the lines don't match up perfectly (just some of them almost) so it doesn't appear to be traced. If this wasn't an owned character it would be more of a big deal. But it's Spiderman :P. There's also no loss as far as I know on either side. Like once I entered a contest with unique art and it turned out someone else traced some official photographs which wasn't allowed and they were in a close 2nd. Luckily I still won. Idunno, I'm a professional artist. I can't say I haven't been inspired by something and made something similar. This is probably MORE similar than I'd ever do though :P.

Keep telling yourself that :).

The amount of iconic non-prequel things is basically zero. I think I'll get that Chewie and maybe that Death Star Troopers thing and skip absolutely everything else.

I considered the neck stud size. I simply can't tell for sure with those pictures :P. The necks appear (to me at least) to be ever so slightly thicker than the regular minifigures. With those necks reaching nearer the border of the chest. But again, I cannot tell realistically with these pictures. I also do not know if Lego has a minimum thickness for the neck on the heads (not the studs) which may or may not be able to be thinned. I do not have the appropriate information. And I also don't think Lego did it out of malice or ignorance (wat? seriously?). I just showed my ideal size of the head molds. :P

My quickly done and roughly done "ideal" head mold size. The first is Homer. The second is the minifigure magnified. The third tries to fit with the proportions which for a LEGO Minifigure is surprisingly easy. The point: It should be smaller! (I didn't count the neck, if I do the head would be slightly smaller still)

If you compare proportions even though in the cartoon they do have oversized heads and stuff it's still way more oversized than in the show.

You use literally too liberally. Examples: -Release date after the armageddon. -Release date set for a time in the past. The movie people wait for time travel to become possible so they can fulfill that date. -Release date in late 2015, then getting an incurable sickness that has you set to die much sooner, too soon even for Abrams to show you on your death bed like that one d00d. -A release date set in a time perpendicular to our own. Us mortals who see time linearly cannot see it. -February 29th, 2015. -Any time in the year 2999. -Release date set on the date your whole family was slaughtered, all of which were looking forward to watching the movie with you. -etc

I'm disappointed that Chewie's bowcaster is still medieval. It has a freakin' arrow. XP Also I think the rifles are dumb too. Tarfur and that soldier d00d come with a classic musket. I don't know why Lego is being so cheap there.

Because Episode 1 was in full kiss George Lucas's butt mode and nobody would question him they didn't hate him. They all foolishly loved him. Lucas surrounded himself with blind people who were either scared or unwilling to hide doubts. Hence, why the prequels sucked. Lucas works best when he hates his job and has others to combat with creatively.

Anything that doesn't spam me Spiderman, Batman or Iron Man minifigures.

Ahahahaha. Made me laugh. At the same time it kind of sucks that the market won't flood so they become affordable. :P

Does LEGO have some kind of ties to these guys? Why do they do Maersk stuff occasionally? Seems random.

It'll probably have purple pants. :P

I don't think you can call a Zeppelin of any kind a "speeder" :P. Snowslug.

The Character building figures are okayish. I bought the Daleks and Cybermen. Cheap plastic. Daleks at least look believable by real Lego. Even if Character Building lost the license I doubt Lego would bite. There's not enough of a viewership outside of the UK. While it's more popular in the US and other places than ever it is nowhere near the same level of popularity, kind of still a bit "cult"y and oddly even though it's made with kids in mind it's not really a kids show over here :P. In the UK you can find Doctor Who toys in toy stores. Those are like... only in specialty nerd/scifi stores here and much of the time not even then.

Imagine the eye placement needed for that visor. You've got to have eyes at the very top of your skull. This is probably the ugliest minifigure in years.

I'd like 'em batter if they were about 66-75% the current size. They just look too big.

Which was point B. It wouldn't help, and probably would hurt them if they did the toony look for Lego ONLY. You can pull that with already popular characters like Wolverine who is immediately recognizable in every form. Guardians of the Galaxy? Almost zero known outside of comic people and stuff like that. It would be a marketing mistake that would negatively affect sales, I'm 100% sure of that. Maybe after the movie they'll be known enough to start making toony versions. But for now it's a good business decision to go with the movie looks. Essentially this is their introduction to the greater populace and for toys to sell to that same greater populace you wouldn't want to make them look completely different, unless they're like Wolverine or something already at least relatively popular. Guardians of the Galaxy are by far the least known of all the recent Marvel character movies. They can't take risks. :)

Cartoony and classic would A) Work terribly for a movie and B) Work poorly as a toy representing the movie.