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Here in Australia where we have Certified Stores rather than directly LEGO-run stores, all the polybags do show up in those Certified Stores and not in general big chain retail stores. So it definitely depends where you are in the world.

The fact that all blind bags encourage gambling in children doesn't excuse LEGO also encouraging gambling in children. Everyone doing a bad thing doesn't make it not bad. I truly hope LEGO suffers sales consequences.

It's great they have added some more from 80111, but they're still missing the purple helmet as mentioned and also the black bowl cut hair. Strange that the inventory of that set is being dropped onto the service like this.

We'll never know for sure or ever know designers' own frustration with things because the only current employees who give interviews are those with media training, and they're never going to come out and say "yeah the higher ups really wanted us to make X and we knew it was going to suck". For most of all Licensed themes, I truly think it's a complex conversation where IP partners, team leads and who they report to, as well as the designers all have input into the conversation about what gets made. That could also factor into the strategy more broadly, although the parameters have to come from somewhere and the trends speak for themselves. We know Superheroes gets a fairly low budget and that it's for the entirety of the Superheroes theme - Marvel and DC - but the budget doesn't explain the overall trend of what material they decide to produce and what they don't.

You clearly don't know Mark Stafford then. Look up his bricklist on Brickset. The guy's a fantastic fan and designer who has done tons of legendary sets. He has an account and does periodically pop by.

Why are you here on a discussion forum if you don't value discussion? The "it's a toy so no criticism of its design matters" argument is SO tired.

I do want Phase II Fox to finally give my two shock troopers some leadership and direction in their aimless lives. And I really wanted to like this set in principle, but something does look slightly wonky about it from these crappy images. Perhaps better images will do it better justice, and I'm keen to see the actual detail on the Minifigures too. It's still mind boggling that in every other Licensed theme the designers say "we can only do material that kids actively see in current media", while the Star Wars designers go "here, here's an obscure version of a ship that kids will have never seen and a bunch of figures from a very specific Clone Wars episode". I like it, but weird.

What is this IP marking you've been talking about, and how does one look it up?

The tuk tuk chase and plane from the end both would've made good sets in LEGOs vehicle-loving wheelhouse. The plane wouldn't have even needed to be a spoiler set - just the plane and the characters. Archimedes' tomb would be a good playset at a variety of scales.

Well I found the movie to be the worst type of bad - competent and coherent while dull, unengaging and mediocre. But it got me thinking about in a LEGO context if a line of sets based on a flop movie has ever done well. We can all day LEGO dodged a bullet not making sets for it, despite there being some sequences in the film that would make good sets. I can think of lines based on flops that we're pretty sure didn't do well (Lone Ranger, Prince of Persia), and lines based on box office hits that likely didn't do well (Angry Birds, both recent waves of Avatar sets which I see way marked down all over the place here). But I can't think of lines that likely did do well, based on box office flops. Just wondering.

Do Stuntz fairings work on non Stuntz motorcycle chasses? They wouldn't include a Stuntz motorcycle in a Marvel set.

It's impossible to extrapolate from one data point. I could see them doing Ollivaner's because of the iconic scene there, but I doubt they'd have confidence in doing some of the more general stores.

Apologies, I didn't look closely enough at all the posts when checking. Scrubbed now, so hopefully this conversation doesn't look too weird. Thanks for flagging. Carry on mates!

Hey hey! A great sign indeed!

Yet still no Lunar New Year parts.... That's concerning at this point.

Without actually having the Friends set, I'd agree that the interior of the Friends set is definitely way better - more shelves, actual refrigerators, a better checkout. The interior of the City set is easily the worst part, with just an overall lousy or under-developed design that doesn't do a great job mimicing the real world. Then again, that speaks to the dichotomy between City and Friends sets. By and large City sets prioritise broad play scenarios over minute detail, while Friends definitely prioritises both exterior aesthetics and finely packed interior detail as its play experience. A kid could still roleplay shopping in a grocery store perfectly well with the city one, but I'd imagine a kid who likes fine attention to detail, and semi realistic detail at that, would be much happier with the Friends version.

For anyone in Australia reading this topic, our Aussie Target has the Botanical Garden for $79 Aussie dollars right now. That's an absolute bargain. Gosh I love when LEGO releases a whole bunch of stuff right before End of Financial Year sales, and the retailers just go "yeah whatever everything is on sale".

I have checked with our Ambassador and we think Bulgaria should be ok.

The seal battlepack is a fantastic set. I waited for BaP for the otters because literally all I wanted was one otter piece. But the seal set has not only the two fantastic new seals, but also new colour combos for the minifigure's hat-hair and backpack. Fantastic stuff.

The seal battlepack is a fantastic sets. I waited for BaP for the otters because literally all I wanted was one otter piece. But the seal set has not only the two fantastic new seals, but also new colour combos for the minifigure's hat-hair and backpack. Fantastic stuff.

Wow the rendering on those image is ROUGH! I'm sure the set will look a lot better in the real-life images, because it just looks like a shoddy Studi.o MOC at this point. New figure parts and details are nice though.

Here you go (and that's just American ones) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Unreleased_American_films Some of these films were 100% finished and about to be released when they were pulled. Yes, it happens. A couple of recent examples that come to mind without a simple Google that were indefinitely shelved but ultimately released are Take Me Home Tonight (completed in about 2008 and shelved until another company picked it up and released it in 2011) and The King's Daughter (shelved in 2015, released by another company in 2022). Anyway, this conversation has drifted away from both LEGO and civility, so let's get back to LEGO and not what may or may not become of the remnants of the DCEU.

I think they'll show up eventually. The fact that none of the prints and recolours exclusive to 80111 are there means they simply haven't listed anything unique from that set yet. Sure they make arbitrary decisions all the time, but it would be very weird if they suddenly started excluding parts from Lunar New Year sets from PaB, as there's no argument that random recoloured parts (like the cloud piece in cool yellow for instance) is licensed or something like that.

Yes they are. 2186

Well, not 100% because it can't be on a baseplate, but in build style and scale it sounds like it should match up with the Diagon Alley set.