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I'm aware of the limitations. On the other hand, the body proportions are much closer to an actual human. Well, I guess a trade-off of sorts is always inevitable. Actually, I have one knockoff minidoll bought a few years ago near a beach out of curiosity, and it's very similar to LEGO but the legs are posable. So this can be done. Who knows, maybe one day LEGO will fix this, like they made short posable minifig legs. And the smaller rowboats with oars, and castle doors. That was it. I remember how frustrating it was not being able to add any brown bricks to my brown hull of the Caribbean Clipper. I remember the time when literally my ONLY green thing in LEGO was the vest on Captain Redbeard's torso. I did not even have any trees or flowers back then.

Whose shade usually doesn't match the head of the same minifigure (applies equally to yellow and fleshtones).

My thoughts exactly. I agree. Friends is like City but better. Here's an unpopular opinion then: If LEGO abandoned their minifigures altogether and just stuck to the minidolls, I think I could live with that. Provided there would be greater diversity of prints and gear: Pirate minidolls, Castle minidolls, etc. Not gonna happen though.

Sometimes I wonder what would happen if LEGO had reversed the order: introduced the fleshies first all those decades ago, and then added the yellow heads all of a sudden at some point. Just imagine the outrage. Well this is kind of similar to the fleshie situation. I remember how hated those new colours were back when it was still a fresh thing. Nowadays people actually prefer the new ones (we discussed this in our LUG some time ago and almost everyone confirmed this). This is because they are easy to get, people have gathered sufficient collections of those to stop caring about the old ones, and everyone simply got used to the new colours. Reminds me of this big LEGO event in Olomouc in Czechia which I attended a few times. There were literally hundreds of MOCs there and I think I only saw two people with the old colours. One was a Classic Space diorama with the monorail etc. The other one was me (pirate ships with old brown hulls and some old light grey too). Besides, a lot of current MOCers and AFOLs got into LEGO when the old colours had been long gone.

That's some interesting information! Good to know that this is still continued. They were never that popular in Poland, although a few books were actually written by Polish authors, if Polish Wikipedia is to be trusted. If I remember correctly, the one book I read all those years ago was supposedly written by Alfred Hitchcock (according to the cover), which was not really the case.

I agree on Ninjago and Dreamzzz. Those figures are so specifically designed to be used just in their own themes and nowhere else. Especially the torsos, but some heads and legs too. Unless you are building a MOC in one of those themes, and they are not really popular choices for MOCing, they are completely useless. As for superheroes, well, those are based on comic book characters. If it's not your thing then most are useless too. By analogy I would add Star Wars for me, as i don't care about the franchise so I can't really use those minifigs anywhere. I have some SW minifigs, mostly from various brick mixes I got, and I just keep them in a box and never use. But, objectively, I must admit that both superheroes and Star Wars are much more popular MOCing themes than Ninjago and Dreamzzz, so in that regard those figures are 'less useless'.

Hey, I read one of those books like 35 years ago or so. Pretty strange to me, I thought this stuff was rather obscure and not that well-known to deserve its own sets. Anyway, wasn't there a tunnel under all this junk that they used to enter the trailer? Or am I just remembering this wrong?

The very same ship did appear as the Interceptor in Pirates of the Caribbean, so it might as well be released as a PotC set https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Lady_Washington

Yes, the limited nature of the Star Trek line is very frustrating. Even making a proper Starfleet crew in TNG-style uniforms would be insanely costly. Let's hope good sales of the Enterprise D will inspire LEGO to release more.

This is a pretty impressive vessel here, but as mentioned by others, better pictures would do it more justice. Looks amazing nonetheless!

Yes, that's a relief! I would hate to see those pieces discontinued!

Thanks a lot! I always like it when the minifigs have some way of actually getting on their spacecraft! Well, it's not the first time I've done this (see HERE), and not the last either, as I already have some plans for further Duplo usage! Thanks for the comment! You're right! Thanks! I'm glad you like it! Thanks! Yeah I know there wasn't much white in M:Tron vehicles, but like I said, it was built specifically for an exhibition, and I really wanted to use something unusual and still be able to do this in time. After several attempts, I settled for this Duplo piece. Maybe a red one would've been better, who knows (I don't even know if it exists in red ).

I got mine yestarday. The main thing and the gifts. I'm glad to have ordered it immediately. Same here. Also, I would never believe this would actually happen until I saw the leaks. One day someone told me LEGO's Star Wars contract prohibits them from releasing anything from similar "competing" brands. And this might still be true as this seems to be more of a one-off (so an exception then) rather than the beginning of a new series (very unfortunately).

Some interesting pirate pieces in here...

As another person who has visited the actual site and seen the sign up close, I must say this is very good! The architecture-style hotel is excellent as well!