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    That picture CM4S posted shows the telltale China-factory-minifigure signs well - indent on the arm, and numbers on the 'wrist' or stem you might say of the hand. If these figures don't have it either, that's a good sign that they will be nice, high quality. Although I'll be interested to see if the CMF minifigures end up coming from the regular CMF factory. It's not unprecedented that CMF-factory parts have made it into sets; Wyldstyle for example has a torso that comes from there, with the arm indents and hand-numbers.
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    I'm not sure if anybody has asked this before, just2good, so apologies if they have, but do these figures have the moulded number marks on their hands like CMF figures, or are they the regular-set mould?
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    To be fair, those characters are actually shown for more than two seconds and do things in the film. If people were asking for those twin white-skinned bounty hunter girls or any of the weird characters you see in the opening Cantina montage, I'd agree, but Ponda Baba, Wuher, and Evazan actually have roles in the film, albeit small ones. LEGO has made some pretty unimportant characters recently (especially in the Desert Skiff and Sailbarge sets, and in the new EpII sets), so to hope for characters that actually have more than one shot of screen time and do things doesn't seem so far fetched.
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    Re your comment about the minifigures having double-sided expressions, Csacsa, I'm very glad that they mostly do since the head prints are wonderful to use without the helmets. That's what was genius about LEGO's initial planning of the Chima theme - to make a theme with very unique minifigure prints that are still universally useful, and not just moulds. I don't have much Chima, but I had to get a few things (and especially Lagravis) because the minifigures can look so bad-megablocks with other minifigure accessories. Lagravis with his dark blue cape and a dark blue hood looks incredible. Lavertus looks pretty awesome too without his 'helmet,' and two faces make him all the more useful.
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    Wow, seeing Scorm in your lovely close-ups makes him look awesome indeed! That's a really cool minifigure. As for the vehicle, it still looks kind of mish-mashy in pictures. Something looks off with it, and I think it's mostly the fact that the front 'arms' go straight out. If it had curved arms, I think it would look a whole lot better. As it is it looks kind of like a tilted-down airplane shape, since they look more like wings than arms. Perhaps in real life it fairs better. All that said, the play feature of the claws seems extremely cool and well done.
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    Look really bad to who? I don't think there are many children out there who will look at store shelves and say 'mommy, why does Marvel have so many more sets? It's unfair!'More seriously, Superheroes are perhaps now more 'mainstream' than they have ever been before, but it's because of film and TV (but mostly film, since there's always been Superhero TV shows). If you look at it objectively, Marvel simply has more. More films of all sorts, and more highly watched TV. There's Spider-Man, X-Men, Avengers stuff, and Guardians of the Galaxy all coming out in a single year! That's a great reason for LEGO to produce sets. DC has nothing close. Yes, there's such a wealth of comic material that LEGO could theoretically put out ten sets for DC every year, but Superheroes are popular because of Film, not because of comics. They brought it upon themselves that they don't have as much good material that LEGO thinks can really move sets.
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    It's quite possible that the Guardians sets won't be there, since they could be spoiler-ish. We should at least see the X-Men set, though.
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    Highest grossing film in February. Some, if not all, of Marvel's properties will surely bring in much more.
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    In the original semi-announcement, which you can read translated on Brickset here.
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    This is fantastic! The contrast between the older-style and very modern interior is wonderful and quite realistic. It evokes a feel of the interior apartment being recently renovated to make it quite modern, and the furniture looks like it came right out of Ikea or CB2! Superb decisions all around.
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    I think you're probably thinking of Rogue flying it badly in X2.
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    That's why there are three booklets: the first is the micromanager, while the other two are what you can decide to do with the rest of the parts. I guess I never wrote that explicitly in my reviews that you don't take apart the micromanager, but it is shown in each 2-in-1 review with both models.
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    Dang, finally another color for the awesome headphones hairpiece. Where are these things going to be available?
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    That one is deeplinked in the first post on this very page!Every trailer just makes this movie seem more crazy.
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    That's a fun head. That expression will bring Emmet to 7 so far, unless it's reversible, in which case 8. I guess you could count the disguise-Emmet that comes with the game too, but that barely looks like him. What's annoying is that the worst Emmet head comes in the most sets! But the Cloud Cuckoo and CMF ones are easy enough to get, so it's not too bad.
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    I don't think it really detracts from the house for that part to be gone. You barely ever even see it from the outside - it's kind of tucked away. I couldn't have even told you that existed! The meat of the house, its main look and the garage, is there in the set, and that seems perfect.
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    I know he'd already decided to go, but watching the film I felt as though he would've "un-decided" at least for a moment once Thorin did the statue thing. To me it would've been more powerful, and I think would have worked better, for Smaug to leave before Thorin and the dwarves arrived in the throne room at all.
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    The actual index is pinned. This is the discussion thread about the index, which is linked in the pinned index topic. Bumping is a no-no generally, but bumping this thread if a review you did was overlooked is ok. However, as I explained, we (Cornelius and I) have plenty of work to do on the index and we're aware of the fact that a lot of things haven't been added to it yet. So… bumping this thread - still ok in general sometimes. Right now - we know there's a lot that needs doing so bumping might not be all that useful.
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    The Index is quite in need of an overall update, and a lot is currently missing. When we finally get around to fixing this problem, I can assure you that your review (and all the other ones that aren't in the index yet) will not be overlooked!
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    That's quite a matter of taste. I think the movie version looks like a horrid, deranged muppet. The CW at once looks cute and serious, much more bad-megablocks. I'd imagine Yoda is a popular character with kids, and especially the funky Clone Wars Yoda.
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    The ending would have been much better in my mind if Smaug had left before Thorin got to pull his stupid gold-statue trick. Smaug's character logic worked up until the gold-statue thing, but not so much after it. I'll explain: before the statue, Smaug had chased around the dwarves for a while, it wasn't working out so well, so he was pissed off. Then he gets Bilbo alone, and decides he might as well mess with Bilbo by destroying Laketown, seeing as how chasing the dwarves had just pissed him off anyway. That made enough sense. In Smaug's mind, he finally gets some peace from the pesky dwarves, and he can always come trash them later. It would've been a nice ending for him to leave, and then Thorin and the rest rush into the throne room, see Smaug is gone, and look at each other like "well, shit." Instead, the movie includes them pouring molten gold on Smaug which does absolutely nothing (an element that I liked, the whole it being useless thing), and then he decides to fly off without dealing with them anyway. All the dwarves are right freaking there! Breath fire now! Even if he'd decided to leave, once they come at him again, it would make more sense for Smaug's character to snap back. The only good the gold did was provide one last lovely visual of it flying off, but that's not how movie decisions should be made. Smaug would've snapped back at them after they did that. It didn't serve the film at all.
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    The figures are what they had to be. I didn't love the initial pictures of the figures "in the flesh" that surfaced online, but they're growing on me. Would they have looked better if they were all looking straight ahead with wide eyes? I don't know. Like strangley said right above, LEGO executed some expressions pretty well, and it gives the figures personality. No 3D Simpsons toys look quite right, but these are ok. As for the house - I'm truly floored. It leaped right off the screen into LEGO. The interior is ridiculous in the amount of stuff and rooms they worked in. It's like LEGO made the first-ever Simpsons set the Death Star, except this really is the whole thing (minus a few rooms, but whatever). I used to be in the camp (or maybe just my own camp) hoping that the house would be a regular LEGO set around $50 so that I could easily pick it up. But now that I've seen the direction LEGO went, I can't feel the same way. It might still be out of my price range, but it's a smart move and a beautiful set for fans of the show. I can see this being sold in entertainment stores that sell movies and music and not LEGO (the same way that the Minecraft sets are sometimes). The front of the box says: "here's the Simpsons house and HOLY CRAP IT'S LEGO." What adult nerd not-even-AFOL fan of the show is going to pass that up?
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    Love that last one, Oky! Especially funny because they were supposed to be the same characters and Lucas failed with casting (or maybe succeeded by making there be a need for more action figures?) I'm guessing that's what gave you the inspiration for the funny in the first place. I should really try to think of more of my own someday. Making funnies is fun.
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    Yes! You're right - still goes for around $3 a piece on BL… that's crazy! I have a ton of them in old dark grey so I didn't think much of it (BL tells me I must have had 5 dark bley as well from two Harry Potter sets).
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    LEGO has had unique, named characters for quite a while now. It's over two decades! Perhaps there are more now than ever before, but dating back to the original Pirates line and Castle at the same time, there were unique figures. The late 90s had plenty too - Rock Raiders was all specific characters, and Ninja had its share as well. Even if not everybody knew their names, the fact that there was only one white ninja in one set was cool. As a child I put a lot of emphasis on the minifigures in my play. Sure, the model is there for them to interact with, but it was all about the minifigures first and them interacting with the set second. I made up my own names for characters when LEGO had none, but still.
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