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I'll echo Lyichir's call for more livable space, as well as more civilians. Also, I'd like to see some old sub themes and factions return. I don't necessarily even need updated torso prints (and I suspect even lots of contemporary kids would be fine with old figure designs), though I understand TLG would be reluctant to go that way. Also, more women. Lots more. Also, more new animal molds.

I think this is one theme for which most of us who have any interest in the sets will do so because of the parts assortment, rather than the builds / scenes, the figures, or the source material. I totally understand why TLG would get this license (and argued for precisely that in the early pages of this thread), but man, this movie looks like the worst thing TLG has ever made sets from. That said, I'll be happy to grab some sets myself, if/when they get steeply clearanced.

I just hope none of the exclusive figures are characters I want.

Same here. I wish I'd been able to get the Pirate one, but hopefully I'll get this one. I did at least get the Space one, I'm glad to say. It would indeed. Actually, it would be great if they just sold packs of all sorts of animals on their own. I'm sorry I missed out on getting a slew of cheap horses when they were on PAB as discussed above (I meant to, but didn't get around to it in time), but there are tons of critters I'd love to get in quantity, for all kinds of themes.

Where? The only castle character I see anywhere (Nexo Knoghts or otherwise) is the retro one in the Free Exclusive Classic Knights set. Am I missing something?

And you all thought there'd be no traditional Castle stuff this year. It seems that after the similar Classic Space and Classic Pirate sets offered the last couple years, it's now Castle's turn for one of these sets. This definitely looks like a must-have, even if it's tiny.

No, do as many as you want - it's not like it matters whether they're all in the same series or not, as long as we get them eventually. Since you're just listing characters you want, go with as many (or as few!) as you like.

I don't have any duplicates yet. I'm mulling over getting a couple of them for parts. I've also been thinking about whether to get multiples of the Pizza Planet Alien, to expand my collection from what I have of the 2010 line; I was thin in of not just accounting for the differences between these and the originals, but actually using them, in order to have three of these represent Andy's trio of PP aliens, while my others would be other, more "generic" ones.

I just got most of the ones I still needed today. The only two I don't have now are Alice and the Cheshire Cat. I actually do have one copy of each at hand, unopened, but I've earmarked them for a friend who's a huge Alice in Wonderland fan and to whom I promised I'd find her one of each of those two characters, so now I need to find one more of each for myself.

All of the above. Also, while LEGO's products have become more violent than they used to be, they're still not particularly overtly violent; much violence is implied rather than directly portrayed, and their violence trails much of the market in extent.

Disney didn't simply acquire the singular property of Star Wars; it acquired its entire parent company, Lucasfilm Ltd., just as it previously acquired Marvel and Pixar (which itself used to be part of Lucasfilm). Lucasfilm's other properties include Indiana Jones, which itself is now therefore a Disney property and one that has had a LEGO theme, albeit one produced in its entirety to date prior to Disney's acquisition of Lucasfilm; it can be considered a retroactive Disney LEGO theme (and one likely to return with actual Disney branding, when the franchise itself returns in 2019). There are actually quite a great many LEGO sets and themes based on Disney properties and productions, especially once one includes things that didn't start out with Disney but were acquired by them. The earlier Pixar things are a special case - all Pixar's feature films since the original Toy Story have been distributed by Disney, but Disney didn't actually own Pixar until years later. If one excludes properties Disney acquired after they made their debut, as with Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and the Marvel universe, one might therefore consider also excluding both Toy Story (which had a full-blown theme in 2010, including both DUPLO and "System" sets, as well as the two minifigures in this series) and The Incredibles (which, unlike Toy Story, is presently represented in LEGO only by the two minifigures in this series), as both franchises debuted prior to Disney's acquisition of Pixar. However, Cars (and its non-Pixar-made spinoff Planes), WALL•E, and Brave, which have all also had official LEGO products, were all released post-acquisition. Then again, none of LEGO's products from those three (counting Cars and Planes together as one) have had figures of the sort officially classified by LEGO as minifigures, so they might be beyond the scope of this anyway. In addition to the minifigure themes mentioned by xboxtravis7992, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is another minifigure-based LEGO theme based on a Disney movie (though the original Prince of Persia video game franchise on which the film is based is not a Disney property, the film itself is).

I was starting to respond to a post but hit reply before I was done with it, and decided after quoting the other post but not saying anything new to change it, hence "no message" or "never mind".

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Very sweet armies, Pennas2000! I'm most envious. I'd dearly love to have those sort of armies of Cybermen and Daleks (and Weeping Angels as well, for that matter), but so far, all I have for this particular franchise is what comes in a single copy of the Ideas set. I do intend to pick up the LEGO Dimensions material as well, but I doubt I'll ever be able to justify getting as many Daleks and Cybermen as you have in the same manner you've done; I have to hold out hope for battle packs and the like. I actually started a "Show Your Armies" thread for the Licensed forum in general a while back; it hasn't seen a lot of action so far, but your post would be a perfect entry for it. Here it is, if you're interested (and if you're not interested, well, there it is anyway).

They could; in fact, they've done that before (not specifically for that purpose, but it did have that effect). The Female Minifigure Set that became the Research Institute was originally part of the Fall 2013 Review (the same batch that gave us two Ghostbusters projects, one of which was of course approved), but was held over for additional consideration, and wound up being approved in the Winter 2014 Review. Similarly, at different times they've held over projects of a Landrover Defender, the F7A Hornet from Star Citizen, and two different, competing TARDIS projects from Doctor Who (again, one of which was eventually approved). The Female Minifigure Set / Research Institute is the one project that got held over to another review, and then approved when nothing else was; those other four held-over projects were all either approved or declined when other projects also got approved. But the Female Minifigure Set / Research Institute did prevent us from having a whole review with no approved projects back in 2014; it took more than another year for us to finally have one (ironically, in the largest review batch to date, with a whopping thirteen projects at once, all declined together).

That is one fine creation, with excellent use of curved slopes. A very clean and cute build that really captures the source material. Just because neither has happened yet doesn't mean they absolutely can't. We certainly can look to past CUUSOO / Ideas sets for indications of what they're likely or not to do, but not of concrete barriers. Nearly every Ideas set to come out so far has been some sort of first, after all.

The old "horse helmets" don't fit (is there a special term for those things?), but the old barding does work with the new horse, as discussed here. The new horses were specifically designed to be backwards-compatible with the old barding. Putting the barding on does mean you can't move the hind legs back to make it rear up or whatever, but then one can't do that with the old horses at all, with or without barding.

Of the next batch for which we're awaiting results (the Third 2015 Review), I think the Concorde, Apollo II Saturn V, and Beatles Yellow Submarine are probably the three strongest contenders; I'd have a hard time narrowing it to two. Of the batch after that (the First 2016 Review), I think the Gingerbread House is likeliest, and I have a tough time choosing a second-most likely from the remaining eight. That said, I think I voted for all eighteen projects from both review batches combined, so I'll probably be happy with whatever's chosen. EDIT: I forgot to mention there's a whole thread devoted entirely to almost this very question (differing only in not specifying "2").

But... The original also uses SNL actors, and what "several" are you referring to? Harold Ramis isn't "several" people.

Nice find on that Sonic! Ugh. So are they really going to keep those characters exclusive to E3?! That's deeply unfortunate. I hope it's just that they're debuting there, and those promos will become a little more widely available later.

I think it's unlikely, though I'd love for it to happen.

Atlanta?! The one at Sugarloaf Mills, or the other one?

I've never seen horses on the PAB wall at any LS I've ever been to, alas. The closest I've gotten to that were scorpions on the PAB wall, and horses in PAB on S@H. They were actually quite cheap for a brief period - fifty or seventy-five cents apiece, I think (!), but eventually went up to a dollar or more. These were the older horses, without the articulated back legs; I think they must have been clearing out stock in anticipation of the new horses introduced in 2012, though I don't know why they'd raise the price partway through if they were doing that - I'd have expected the opposite. Anyway, these were older-style horses, in white only, with the printed bridle.

No thoughts on my guess that they'll get a wider release, just without the specially-colored bases?

Perhaps the same way they already reference having multiple Batmen in the game?