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I’ve updated the list to add The Flintstones, coming soon via LEGO Ideas.

I don’t get why you’d think the fact a folk art tradition goes back centuries makes you think it’s for tourists. Do you think Peruvian peoples were courting tourism 500 years ago? At any rate, it's true I can’t speak for the submitters, but I can speak for myself, and yes, I genuinely liked the project. I’d have been happy to have gotten an official set from it.

This, absolutely.

That’s fine, but that alone doesn’t warrant “lost faith last year when “Wonders of Peru” reached 10k”. That sounded like it was some sort of affront to the very idea of Ideas, which seems pretty unfair to me. If it’s not your cup of tea, that’s fine, but why take umbrage at other people deciding they like this perfectly well-constructed LEGO representation of a cultural item?

And what’s wrong with a cultural thing?

What was wrong with Wonders of Peru? That’s a great project. It was always a long shot to become a commercial set, sure, but it certainly wasn’t undeserving of success.

What about the thing at the far left, that looks like a 2x2 corner brick, right below the left side of the 1x6 plate? Is it really just a 2x2 corner brick? I’d have thought it surely existed in this color (for that matter, I’d have thought the same of the 1x6 plate and 1x6 brick...). Is it really new?

Detective’s Office is still available, both in Shop at Home and at my own store. And the possibility of either or both becoming unavailable when Corner Garage is released is why I qualified my statement thusly: (bolding again added for emphasis and clarity) I’m not saying (and wasn’t saying) it was definitely going to happen; I was noting it as a remarkable possibility. (I also personally wouldn’t use the phrase “long gone” to describe either of them even if they are indeed gone by the time Corner Garage comes out on January 1st, as it would have been only a little over a month at most, which I don’t consider a particularly long time, but I recognize that’s a personal appraisal, and YMMV.)

Because the Corner Garage is one additional one after the five I listed, and five plus one equals six. Yes, I’m well aware of the retirement of these two, as I thought was clear when I said this: (bolding, italicizing and underlining added for emphasis and clarity) I didn’t mean six in production, but six that are available at once (hence my use of the word “available”). Detective’s Office and Brick Bank May have either ceased production or be about to, but there’s still stock of both in the channel. My second-to-last sentence in that post should have made it clear I was talking about six modulars all being available - not just on the secondary market, but new, from LEGO, at MSRP - all at once:

That’s an opinion, but doesn’t really answer my question. I think an attempt to quantify the specific number of details in the midulars would find s comparable number of them in this one to the other buildings you’ve mentioned. Whether you like the details here is another matter, but I don’t think this set is lacking details.

Who said anything about Ninjago buildings? I’m talking about the five modulars currently available: 1. Parisian Restaurant 2. Detective’s Office 3. Brick Bank 4. Assembly Square 5. Downtown Diner I don’t know why you thought I was talking about Ninjago stuff; I never mentioned any.

Lacks details? How?

I like it! As with all the modulars, I see things I might like to mod and perhaps expand, but I think it’s a winner. I definitely want to see more of it. Right now, there are five modulars currently available at once, which I believe is a record. Depending upon how long it takes the currently-retiring Detective’s Office and Brick Bank to sell out, though, we could actually have six on shelves at once. Unreal!

That sort of thing happens all the time, of course. A current Star Wars battle pack (75206) features two specific, unique Jedi characters alongside two “generic” clone trooper army builders. A number of the Middle-Earth sets featured one or more unique characters in a mix of minifigures otherwise perfectly suited for army-building. I already have multiple Bennys from the first two years’ worth of LEGO cinema goodness (at least one of each boxed TLM set except MetalBeard’s Sea Cow, plus duplicates of both Benny’s Spaceship, Spaceship, SPACESHIP! and the Benny Fun Pack for LEGO Dimensions), and I’m not parting them out on BL even though I don’t really need that many Bennys, simply because I don’t want to break up the sets. I’m very much hoping we’ll get this “new old” helmet in those additional colors, myself.

Ahh, I see the two projects now - the Chemical Plant and the Dinosaurs Fossils Skeletons - Natural History Collection. I must have experienced some momentary site glitch. The next deadline should be early January. I’m not sure of the exact date, but I think around January 3rd.

You never know. There have been a small handful of projects that rocketed to 10k in just two or three weeks, and one that got there in less than two days. Something could still surprise us tomorrow. But yeah, it’s certainly possible we’ll have a tiny batch of just two or three projects. EDIT: Actually looking at it just now, I’m not seeing anything that’s qualified (i.e., nothing comes up under “Achieved Support”). What ones are you seeing?

Will all the set pics, prices, and piece counts be added to the initial post?

After waiting for it since before its January 1 2016 release, I finally picked up this set today with the Black Friday sale, just as it’s about to be retired. I can’t wait to build it (but I’ll have to!). This is the largest LEGO set I’ve ever gotten and the one with the highest MSRP (though not the one for which I’ve actually paid the most, thanks to today’s sale and a bunch of VIP points I’d saved up). The only one I’ve ever spent more on was the Star Wars Ewok Village, for which I paid the regular MSRP. Between LEGO Ideas, LEGO Dimensions, this and everything else, LEGO Ghostbusters encompasses a total of eight sets - but this one amounts to over half the whole theme all by itself, in terms of price and/or piece count, so I’m very glad I was able to get it (unlike the vast numbers of expensive desirable sets I’ve missed out on in the past from various themes). Now the only LEGO GB thing I lack is the Brickheadz set. I haven’t really been doing Brickheadz, but I’m contemplating getting that one just to have this whole theme, but fearful it may lead me down another collecting rabbit hole... Anyway, I’m really looking forward to putting this one together. I’m also actually thinking of mods I might want to do, even though it’s already amazing, but we’ll see...

Additionally, while I don’t know what your personal level of access to a LEGO store is (or what your local store’s parts selection is like if you have one), it may be worth your while to look at the Build-A-Minifigure kiosk found in many LEGO stores. They often have elements for City-type minifigures reflecting normal everyday existence.

Man, those sets are awesome. I’m going to have to try to get everything, like I tried for the first movie’s sets (I managed to get everything except Metalbeard’s Sea Cow, and a couple of the promos and ultra-rare stuff). The LEGO Batman Movie undoubtedly is a cool expansion of the DC theme, as The LEGO Ninjago Movie is of the Ninjago theme, but both are also part of the universe established with the first movie, as is the Unikitty TV show. Given how big the LCU is getting, maybe we should have a dedicated forum just for it, and allow discussion of sets from all of these there. (I also am a big proponent of allowing discussion of sets in multiple forums if they fit - a Hogwarts Express being discussed in both Licensed and Trains, for example, as opposed to arbitrarily deciding a given set or theme or whatever absolutely has to have all discussion confined to just one area.) _____________________ Re: the new trailer and the new sets, OMIGOSH OMIGOSH OMIGOSH

Okay. I’m basing it on the photo here, of course, not your figure in hand, which I haven’t seen. It’s just that you were comparing yours to the photo here, which doesn’t quite show the torso print reaching the very bottom edge of the torso.

No, if you look closely at this pic you’ll see the torso print doesn’t quite extend to the bottom edge of the torso; nothing is cut off. It may be that the torso print design is small for your tastes (leaving a bit more margin than you’d like, notably at the top), but I don’t think it’s a misprint.

That’s true! I stand corrected - but that was also a unique case, in that the Disney Minifigures were clearly adhering to a design logic different from how other cartoon-based minifigures have been handled in the past (i.e., all human characters, or characters with distinctly human faces in-universe, are depicted with standard minifigure heads even if their cartoon stylings were significantly different from most realistic human proportions à la Captain Hook, while specially molded heads are reserved for characters with distinctly nonhuman features such as Mickey & Minnie, Donald & Daisy, Stitch, etc.), regardless of whether or not those characters had previously been portrayed as minifigures with special heads that accurately reflected their cartoon stylization. In-universe, Buzz Lightyear is a stylized action figure, but still one essentially depicting a human being in a spacesuit. As such, he gets a human head, and that meant a standard LEGO minifigure head. I don’t know for certain why they went with this particular approach to the Disney line when they’ve handled other licensed animated characters differently, but I think it may have simply been a way to apply a consistent design aesthetic rule to a disparate group of characters from different franchises that have a variety of different design sensibilities. Sleeping Beauty and Aladdin (for example) both depict human or near-human characters pretty differently. This would almost certainly never be an issue with a Minifigures line based entirely upon a single franchise, such as The Simpsons. I think it likely came up in the Disney series only because that series isn’t really just a single franchise, but nine different franchises - Mickey & Friends, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Sleeping Beauty, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Toy Story, Lilo & Stitch, and The Incredibles.

LEGO does now have a Brickheadz set of Homer Simpson and Krusty the Clown, so the theme persists, at least in that minute degree. Whether they’ll ever do anything else beyond this last set, I really don’t know; it doesn’t seem particularly likely to me that they’d return to minifigure-based sets, but if nothing else, it is still an active license, for the moment. I agree. I also don’t see LEGO going from special molds to standard minifigure heads. They’ve gone the opposite direction on various occasions - with Squidward in the SpongeBob Squarepants theme, for example, and with Tusken Raiders in Star Wars - but AFAIK, they’ve never done the reverse. I don’t really see them doing it when they already have so many special molds at hand.

I don’t understand what you mean by “The special on that set is that it has an outer package as shown on the pic”. There’s no picture in your post. Do you mean that the LEGO set box is contained in an outer box?