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Now you're just trolling us. That said, I am agog to think we actually live in a world where not only will LEGO The A-Team and LEGO Gremlins (!!!) soon be a thing, but LEGO The Simpsons and LEGO The Big Bang Theory have already happened. Some of the licenses we're getting these days would have been unthinkable not so many years ago.

I'd expect Superman to be able to kill anyone that way, not just mogwai / gremlins, though of course most versions of Superman wouldn't do such a thing . Zach Snyder's, apparently, but not most others... That's exactly what I was thinking, although I don't remember seeing an umbrella in the video where he's riding around with the Wicked Witch of the West. Then again, that's just the teaser video. And of course we know from the supremely awesome, fiendishly brilliant, shamefully underappreciated sequel Gremlins 2: The New Batch that there are ways for a mogwai / gremlin to get around that whole "bright light" thing. I expect the Gremlins Adventure World to just have a lot of DARKNESS!, actually (and also NO PARENTS! - well, at least not one of Kate's, anyway. Hard to believe we're getting official LEGO minifigures from the movie that gave the world that particular character's Christmas memories...).

Assorted records, firsts and other points of interest for LEGO CUUSOO / Ideas: Shinkai 6500 • First CUUSOO-crowdsourced set in the program - Everything this set did, it was obviously therefore the first at, including being the first CUUSOO set based on a real-life subject; also the first CUUSOO set with custom-decorated elements (via stickers). Hayabusa • First CUUSOO set with a minifigure • First CUUSOO set with printed elements (the minifigure parts) • First CUUSOO set made available outside Japan Minecraft Micro world • First CUUSOO set selected by 10,000 supporters rather than 1,000 (the original vote goal in the early days) • First CUUSOO set selected by users around the globe, not just in Japan • First CUUSOO set based on a licensed pop-culture entertainment franchise • First CUUSOO set with a modular-style build • First CUUSOO set to include non-minifigure-scale figures (brick-built microfigures) • First CUUSOO set to include new / custom printed elements (the minifigure in Hayabusa used an existing head and torso) • First CUUSOO set to spin off a whole new theme • Record holder for fastest CUUSOO / Ideas project to date to get 10,000 votes (garnered full support within 48 hours of posting) Back to the Future DeLorean time machine • First CUUSOO set of a minifigure-scale vehicle (Hayabusa is an unmanned probe, and the model is not to scale with minifigures; the minifigure is included solely as a display companion piece) • First CUUSOO set with new / custom printed minifigures • First / earliest CUUSOO model build to appear in a LEGO video game (tied with the Ectomobile and TARDIS, all three appearing in LEGO Dimensions; the DeLorean was the earliest released of the three) • First CUUSOO set to raise money for a charity • First CUUSOO set with a customer service replacement part Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover • First CUUSOO set to not have any decorated elements (either stickers or prints) • First CUUSOO set released the same calendar year as another CUUSOO / Ideas set Ghostbusters Ectomobile • First CUUSOO / Ideas set to carry "Ideas" branding rather than "CUUSOO" • First CUUSOO / Ideas set approved over a competing project of the same subject matter from the same review batch • First CUUSOO / Ideas set to leapfrog a previously-approved CUUSOO / Ideas project in the production queue • First Ideas set release timed to a special date / occasion (the 30th anniversary, noted on the packaging) • First Ideas set to include a minifigure of a person of color in a realistic (non-yellow) skin tone Exo Suit • First approved Ideas project leapfrogged by a later-approved project in the production queue • First Ideas set directly tied to a specific classic, traditional LEGO theme (classic Space) • First Ideas set released simultaneously with another (tied with Research Institute) • First Ideas set to include a female minifigure (tied with Research Institute) Research Institute • First Ideas set approved after being held over from an earlier review batch • First Ideas set released simultaneously with another (tied with Exo Suit) • First Ideas set to include a female minifigure (tied with Exo Suit) • Record holder for smallest / least expensive Ideas set to date (165 pieces, $19.99 USD) Birds • First Ideas set of completely natural subject matter (excluding display base nameplates) • First Ideas set in life-size or larger scale The Big Bang Theory • First Ideas set from the creator of a previous set • Record holder for the most minifigures in an Ideas set to date (seven) WALL•E • First Ideas set of a large-scale, posable figure (some of the Birds have some limited ranges of movement, but only to an extremely limited degree and as a side consequence of the building techniques used; WALL•E is more action-figure-like) Doctor Who TARDIS • First Ideas model to appear in a LEGO video game before the set's release Maze • First Ideas set to include a baseplate • First Ideas set to fully duplicate (including size and functionality) a real-world object, just in LEGO • First "abstract" Ideas set (though replicating a real-world object, that object itself is an abstract game) • Record holder for largest, most expensive Ideas set to date (769 pieces, $69.99 USD) ________________________________________________________ Some notable milestones we've yet to see: • First Ideas set with DUPLO elements, Power Functions, minidolls, or CCBS "constraction" figures • First Ideas set from a pre-existing licensed theme

I was planning on submitting an entry for the Maze contest but never finished it; who knows whether I'll get this project done in time to enter this contest. That said... I was actually already thinking about an Architecture-style creation I intend to submit soon to LEGO Ideas. I haven't submitted it yet - it's not even built yet, nor will it be the next thing I build - but assuming I do get it done in time, I assume it's acceptable to submit it for both this contest and then to LEGO Ideas, as long as I do it here first, right? Also, does it have to be local to me? This project of mine is for a building in a different country on a different continent, albeit one I visited once when I was quite young. There's no way for me to get to it now, though, although there are pictures of it on the Internet (which I was planning on using as photo reference, of course).

I doubt it, honestly. I know Ninjago is probably less appealing to lots of AFOLs than either Disney or the regular line, but we're not the target market. Ninjago is actually one of their top five themes; it's massively successful with their core customers (kids), and they're naturally going to want to capitalize on that. A "CMF" line for the movie is a no-brainer. It's not like Disney is going away anytime soon.

The Pizza Planet Alien is the only figure in this series who's much of an army-builder, though, and they might have wanted that. They may well also have blown out their "new molds" budget for this series on the other seventeen figures, and the PPA doesn't need any new molds. And not everyone considers it useless - lots of Toy Story fans will surely want it, or indeed multiples, as I indicated earlier. Heck, the only reason I don't feel compelled to get dozens of him myself is because I already amassed 23 of them from the 2010 Toy Story line.

I loved that there were different versions of it for the original theatrical and home video releases.

Oh, no, no no no no no. Gremlins 2: The New Batch is awesome.

They'll obviously be based on their appearance in the film, since that's what the project represented and what the supporters supported. That said, minifigures are themselves a sort of caricature of real human beings anyway, and given that they'll be subject to the design aesthetic of LEGO minifigures, it's frankly not likely to make that huge a difference - minifigures of the movie's animation portrayals of the Beatles would look very similar to minifigures of the real Beatles in the same outfits. If you mean totally different outfits from their animation appearances, though - with one of their real-life looks, like the early dark suits or something, and not the animation look - then I think you're going to be very disappointed, but frankly that would be the way to go. The project is of the Yellow Submarine, and any included minifigures will surely be designed to go with the rest of the set.

The Gingerbread House definitely seems likeliest to me, but both the Fossil Museum and Johnny Five are smaller or fewer parts than they at first might seem, which could help them. I think all three of those have decent chances. Only one requires licensing and it isn't too onerous, and with the Maze now out at $69.99 for 769 pieces, all three fall into the size / price range of what they've shown they're willing to do. I don't know that they're likely to approve multiple projects, though, especially with them going into this review with a backlog of four approved sets already waiting for their turns in the production queue.

I believe so. That's what I was thinking when I said "Based on what little was indicated about the expected release in the first announcement from this year" in my previous post. I can't watch the video just now, though.

So... we're now waiting on four separate Ideas projects that have all been approved / announced, but not yet released (or even had their final versions shown). We can probably expect the next announcement in roughly four months, give or take a few weeks. Based on what little was indicated about the expected release in the first announcement from this year (in which they announced the Caterham Super 7 and Adventure Time figures sets), I doubt we'll get more than one of those sets in that timeframe, if that. While the current review seems like a tough one that might not yield more than one set, it's still quite possible, as is their simply not releasing any of the currently-awaited sets before the next announcement (or a combination of both). I wonder whether we might find ourselves waiting on as many as five or six announced sets at once?

I don't have the LEGO Dimensions set yet (or any other LEGO Dimensions sets), but I do have the LEGO Ideas set, which uses what I believe is the same head for the 12th Doctor. I was amused to see that each of the other three minifigure heads - the 11th Doctor, Clara Oswald, and even the Weeping Angel - all have double-sided heads with different expressions, but the 12th Doctor has only the one, slightly stern, scowling expression. :D

And Star Wars characters have appeared in Soul Calibur games. I think the limitations on characters in worlds in Disney Infinity weren't there because they specifically wanted to keep from mixing franchises; if so, they wouldn't have had them mixable in the Toy Box mode at all. I suspect it had more to do with the wildly varying natures of the different franchises and the power sets of different characters, and how certain characters might be wildly unsuited for one another's sets of challenges. For example, just getting around in a building might be a formidable challenge for a foot-tall toy like Sheriff Woody or Buzz Lightyear, but for an average Marvel superhero, the same situation would be nothing at all.

I guess you never saw Who Framed Roger Rabbit. (Which, BTW, is itself a property I'd guess might make an appearance in LEGO Dimensions, if and when Disney ever comes on board...)

Warner Bros. and Cartoon Network are, of course, part of the same corporate family.

Here's my list again of all the licensed themes in the game for which physical LEGO Dimensions packs have been released, or will be. As before, ones with asterisks have had one or more LEGO CUUSOO / Ideas projects that made it to review (one for those that made it to review but weren't approved, two for those that have had at least one project approved as a set). A more important distinction, though, and one I can't believe I forgot to note before, is which ones are LEGO things only because of LEGO Dimensions. Slightly over half (!) are properties that have no other LEGO sets outside of the LEGO Dimensions packs, and aren't getting any that we know of yet (at least, not that I know of, but I'm happy to welcome corrections). All these LEGO Dimensions-only properties are marked with asterisks in front of the property name: * The A-Team Adventure Time ** Back to the Future ** * Beetlejuice DC Comics / Teen Titans GO! / The LEGO Batman Movie * Doctor Who ** * E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial Ghostbusters ** * The Goonies * * Gremlins Harry Potter / Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Jurassic Park / Jurassic World * * Knight Rider Middle-Earth * * Midway Arcade * Mission: Impossible * Portal * * Powerpuff Girls Scooby-Doo! The Simpsons * Sonic the Hedgehog * The Wizard of Oz *

I don't think being Star Wars-related necessarily kills a project's chances all by itself; it just means the possibility of TLG already working on something similar is greater, and there can be other license factors that complicate things. It should probably be noted that a) every Star Wars project that has made it to review in the past had at least one other likely strike against it, and b) the Dark Bucket project, a Star Wars project that was archived before even getting to review and which is the one Star Wars project for which a specific reason was given for why it wasn't accepted, was indeed declined for a legal reason, but not simply that the license outright forbid doing Star Wars sets through Ideas (rather, it simply infringed on Hasbro's action figure license, and thus would have to have a more substantive brick-based build than just putting a hundred minifigures together). To me, that suggests that there could in fact be Star Wars projects that could be approved, and we just haven't gotten any of them to review yet. That said, I doubt either of these is likely to be one (even though I like and supported both, and would be happy to be proven wrong). The Jedi Council chamber is probably too large to be done with the limited production capacity currently allocated to Ideas sets, and the rolling BB-8 is fundamentally dependent upon magnet elements they no longer make for safety reasons, and they may be unable to devise a workaround using other magnetic elements.

It wasn't that they don't allow Marvel and DC to be mingled; it was that there's nothing in the game that isn't owned by Disney. Disney Infinty is made up entirely of Disney properties.

Because the '80s were more awesome than all other eras. :p ;)

Hmm... the LEGO Ideas Doctor Who set and the Doctor Who Level Pack for LEGO Dimensions use different but similar builds for their brick-built Dalek figures, complete with the same printed element on top (and presumably, the Level Pack might have used an even more similar or even identical build as the Ideas set, if not for the need for 3-in-1 alternate builds using the same set of parts). I wonder whether the BMO figure in the Adventure Time Team Pack might be the same way, and have a design similar to one in the Ideas set?

I don't know about that. I do think these two most likely are, alas, for different reasons, but I dk also think it's possible we could see one get through someday (and in fact, I'm planning a Star Wars project myself).

Well, note that of the six franchises I've mentioned that had Ideas projects make it to review but not approved, half of them (DC, Middle-Earth, Jurassic Park) have actually had non-LEGO Dimensions sets - whole themes, even; it's just that they haven't had any Ideas sets. Only three franchises that have made it to review and not gotten anything approved but got Dimensions stuff have had nothing other than the Dimensions material - Portal, The Goonies, and The Wizard of Oz.

Not necessarily, since there are still tons of people who like only one franchise or the other, and among those people who are fans of both, there's also a subset who could afford and would actually buy both. That said, it's true Mega Bloks has picked up the Star Trek license and is active with it. As long as that's the case, LEGO won't be able to do anything with the franchise, and we don't know how long MB's license will last.

These are all the licensed themes in the game; ones with asterisks have had one or more LEGO CUUSOO / Ideas projects that made it to review (one for those that made it to review but weren't approved, two for those that have had at least one project approved as a set): The A-Team Adventure Time ** Back to the Future ** Beetlejuice DC Comics / Teen Titans GO! / The LEGO Batman Movie * Doctor Who ** E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial Ghostbusters ** The Goonies * Gremlins Harry Potter / Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Jurassic Park / Jurassic World * Knight Rider Middle-Earth * Midway Arcade Mission: Impossible Portal * Powerpuff Girls Scooby-Doo! The Simpsons Sonic the Hedgehog The Wizard of Oz *