Blondie-Wan

Did anyone here go to yesterday's launch event, and if so, how was it? Did you get the free item? What was it?

There really needs to be a separate thread for franchises we think are actually likely to make it in. There actually was one, in fact, very briefly, but unfortunately a mod didn't understand the difference between the two. Oh, well. Here are a few more properties I'd like to see added to LEGO Dimensions that I don't think anyone has mentioned yet (I won't bother relisting all the ones I mentioned earlier, or that I've seen others bring up). I might revisit these with specific ideas about what characters and builds would be included: Babylon 5 Big Trouble in Little China Labyrinth The Last Starfighter The Neverending Story TRON Willow Interestingly, I think just about all of these are actual possibilities now, as opposed to some of the things mentioned earlier like Alien and My Little Pony. Babylon 5 is probably the longest shot here in terms of it likely not appealing to kids all that much, but I can't see it as being of less interest to contemporary children than The A-Team. And hey, it's a Warner property... The other six would all fit nicely with all the other 1980s properties that fill out so much of the game (seriously, it's as if Ernest Cline were one of the game's producers...).

(Putting aside that I think all of them have more than 10 additional parts) yes, but... so? They're not selling just the minifigures (and the other parts), even if that's all that some of their customers want. They're selling parts of the game experience, as well. What are they supposed to do, have everyone who buys a LEGO Dimensions pack declare whether they're going to use it in the game or not, and get a big discount if they promise use it only for parts? Note also that some of these licenses would surely never exist in LEGO at all if not for their inclusion in the game. It's only because of the game material produced that the minifigures exist at all.

Technically, they were German soldiers, but not necessarily Nazis themselves (though obviously in service of the Nazi regime). That might be why they allowed them, while never producing minifigures of specific characters who are actual, unmistakable Nazis, such as Toht and Vogel. Though they did do Dr. Schneider... That said, I do know there were people inside LEGO at the time who were uncomfortable with taking on the Indiana Jones license. I suspect it was pretty controversial internally.

I'd really hate to see anything for this game released exclusively for one console or console family, even if it were a console I had. I hope they don't go down that route. ____________________________ An interesting development here:

Yikes! I had no idea. I knew the culture at LEGO had long resisted anything violent or morbid, but to think there was such revulsion at the early idea of a skeleton, which is now such a classic LEGO icon... it's just amazing. I have to wonder what Godtfred Kirk Christiansen would say now about some of the licensed material that's made it into official LEGO products, especially something like Gremlins.

Can all DC characters access the DC, The LEGO Batman Movie, and Teen Titans GO! Adventure Worlds by themselves?

It's also possible, but not certain, that we'll get more packs for Ghostbusters and Adventure Time. In his recent Reddit AMA, Parsons indicated all three Powerpuff Girls would get playable minifigures, with unique head sculpts for each. The wording leaves a little room for doubt, though, but I do think all three will come. Marceline has indeed been released, but in the US she's been pulled back from shelves to address the blank toy tag issue, and we don't know yet when it'll be fixed.

That probably refers to the actual, physical minifigure (or at least a unique hair mold for it) not yet being finalized and in production. I imagine the game content for it is well under way, though it's surely not done, either.

Not by most of us, they weren't. At the very least, there's a significant distinction to be made between joint efforts between LEGO and Warner that revolve around LEGO's IP and completely non-LEGO-owned outside IPs such as Star Wars, Portal, and Winnie the Pooh.

I'd guess because for most people it's just not a huge issue, Undi3sss's disappointment notwithstanding. There are plenty of minifigures that lack much more significant details that plenty of us still think are fantastic, and while I have seen people nitpick and complain about printing or lack thereof on various other minifigures, I haven't seen anyone else outside this thread complain about the lack of printing on the legs of this particular figure (in fact, if anything, I've seen people pleased with the legs as they are, since short legs in plain white are a rarity). I certainly don't think the lack of printing, which I consider somewhere from an extremely minor issue to a complete non-issue, remotely approaches completely ruining the figure. But YMMV, and none of the above is to say either of you is "wrong", of course - different strokes for different folks and all that, and if you're disappointed, you're disappointed. But speaking for myself, it's just not what I'd call a big deal.

Sure, but isn't this a thread for dream LEGO games, as opposed to things we think are likely to happen? And given that, one of my own dream games that I know full well won't happen but that I'd love if it did would surely be a LEGO My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, complete with corresponding sets. One more I'd love that's slightly more likely, though still pretty darn improbable, would be LEGO Lucasfilm Adventures, or something like that. It would be a game combining not just Star Wars and Indiana Jones, which of course have had LEGO themes and videogames before, but also Willow, American Grafitti, you name it. One could play through all these stories individually, but also meld them together, play with characters from different LFL properties, etc.

I'd look at the Ideas Terms of Service for answers to questions like that, or ask them directly using the contact info on the site, but it appears to me it's perfectly fine as long as you don't do it for money. The terms are quite clear that you're not allowed to sell instructions for a project and still have it as a project on Ideas, so if you're thinking about creating something and either submitting it to Ideas or selling instructions for it, you have to choose which one you'd rather do, since you can't do both. But as far as I can tell, if you want to offer instructions for an Ideas project as a free download, it looks like that's all hunky dory.

Huh - I thought I'd responded to this earlier, but I guess not... Anyway, speaking for myself, I would dearly love some LEGO game material based on The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles / The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones. That would be almost as wonderful as actual LEGO sets based on the series (as well as more sets based on the feature films). It's nice to be able to note the 2008-2009 LEGO Indy line, while lacking any actual sets based on the show, did at least feature a couple subtle acknowledgements of it in the ancillary material. The first version of LEGO's website for the theme originally featured a brief bio of Indy that included a brief mention of events from his youth that were covered in the show. And the soundtracks of the LEGO Indiana Jones videogames utilize not just (mostly) music from the scores for the films, but also music from the scores for various episodes of the show.

Does anyone know whether the GameStop Black Friday deal will be available online?

He's clearly positioned as the movie's secondary lead (have you not seen the trailers?), and more importantly, he's not a Disney-original character, but rather a Disney take on a pre-existing mythical figure, Māui, a cultural hero of Māori people. Making him a villain would be like making a villain out of Mohammed or Jesus. I find it extremely, profoundly unlikely Disney would turn him into a villain, given that they're not actively trying to antagonize the entire culture the movie is ostensibly celebrating.

I believe the George Harrison minifigure uses the same hair element originally created for Sabine Wren from Star Wars.

There could indeed be, but this set isn't for them. The project that Kevin Szeto created and that 9,999 other people voted for was for the Yellow Submarine from Yellow Submarine, and not the Cavern Club, Magical Mystery Tour bus, Shea Stadium, Abbey Road, the set of The Ed Sullivan Show, or any other vehicle or location associated with the group, and the Yellow Submarine was what the LEGO Ideas team approved. Of course any included minifigures would naturally be chosen to best go with the set's main model, rather than alternate versions - just as, say, the Doctor Who set that includes Clara Oswald also includes the Eleventh and Twelfth incarnations of the Doctor and not, say, the Fourth and Fifth. It's why all LEGO's police cars come with police instead of being driven by bakers and surfers, all their X-Wing Fighters come with Luke Skywalker and/or some other Rebel pilot(s) rather than Jawas, Sandpeople, and Indiana Jones, and their pirate ships tend to come with pirates rather than astronauts. Now, if the set had come with other versions of the lads from Liverpool in addition to their Yellow Submarine versions, that would be a cool bonus, but there's no reason to go with the early suits or the tan ones from Shea Stadium or whatever instead of their animated garb from this movie. I can understand that... though FWIW, this set simply has well over twice as many pieces as the K'Nex one, in addition to being much more accurate-looking (though in fairness, the K'Nex one appears to have more play features as well as more figures).

Maybe, though it seems to me Adventure Time would do equally well. I wonder whether there might be an anniversary figuring into it. The movie Yellow Submarine came out in 1968, but the song that inspired it debuted in 1966, making it fifty years old this year.

I'm curious about the timing. This is coming out in a couple weeks, before the Adventure Time figure set, despite coming from the batch after the one that had that project. It's not the first time one Ideas set has leapfrogged another in the production queue, but the first time it happened (when the Ghostbusters set came out before the Exo Suit) there seemed to be clear reasons for it. I wonder why it happened this time...

I love it! The price is about what I expected, and really not bad at all considering it's 550 pieces including five figures, and printed parts for all deco (one presumes, anyway). Lots of bright, cheery color, and aside from the printed parts it appears several parts are making their debuts in these colors. I want two!

I generally do just that, as a look at my post history should show. When did we change from quoted images being permitted as long as they weren't on the same page? My quote did in fact have a specific reason for using the images, as they were marked "GeekTree", and I noted that I'd done a search on YouTube for "GeekTree" but hadn't located the video. Without those images, though, the reason for my search wouldnt have been clear to someone joining the thread only on the last page and seeing my post but not the one to which I was responding. I regret that in my appraisal of whether quoting the images was warranted I obviously reached a different conclusion from yours, but I assure you I did give the matter due consideration.

Any chance you could post a link to the video? I tried searching YouTube for "GeekTree", but found only videogame stuff...

I don't see how LEGO is doing something hypocritical.

Indeed. I think the back-to-back approvals of the Apollo 11 Saturn V and the Old Fishing Store make the LEGO Observatory Mountain View project look like a much likelier contender than it did five or six months ago. They've been steadily pushing the upper range of size and price for Ideas sets higher and higher for a while now, and I think the days when we could almost automatically count on a $100+, 1000+piece project getting nixed may now be behind us. I love your Particle Accelerator (and your creations in general, both on Ideas and not), but I always thought it was a long shot for all the reasons you've described, plus the fact that it's designed to propel a ball as fast as it can go - it just looked very much like an immediate red flag on safety grounds, if you'll forgive my saying so. It's still great, though (and the video you made for it gives its project page some of the greatest entertainment value to be found on any Ideas page). I'm hopeful for your Pop-up Book. Also slightly irritated, because one of the projects I've had percolating in my mind for years is also a pop-up book, but that's my own fault for foot-dragging on building and submitting my projects, and yours is far from the first Ideas project I've seen that used a similar idea to one I've had but not submitted (another one I was beaten to was the Beatles' Yellow Submarine, and now that's actually becoming a set! Oh, well...). Anyway, congratulations on your well-earned success so far, and best of luck in the future (and I hope you'll resubmit your shamefully overlooked daVinci Flyer! I want to support it again).