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If I didn't already have almost two dozen of the old ones already, I might receive the change more enthusiastically, but oh well. I know they'll be awesome for all those who weren't as fortunate as I was when getting the main Toy Story theme. :) I'll still get at least one or two of these, anyway, but I won't army-build them.

I have 23 of them, and I'd still like even more, but... well, looking at the pic, I can see the collar is different, even though it's very similar to the previous one. Ah, well. I guess I have enough anyway. I'll still get one of these for completeness, but let others build their own PPA armies from this series. They're... well, consistent, actually. All the characters who appear human (at least from the waist up, and if you ignore color - including such non-humans as a mermaid, a genie, a toy figure, and so on) have traditional minifigure heads; all the ones who are more overtly non-human have special heads. They're following the same rules here for this series that they do with LEGO Star Wars characters. But it is different from how they normally do other cartoon characters, as well as how Disney presents the characters at their theme parks.

Really? Well... hmm. I'm not sure how I feel about that; I put some effort into amassing 23 of the Pizza Planet aliens already. Are they about to become obsolete? I haven't been up to packet-feeling (not to mention paying for) 20+ copies of the same army-building blind-bagged Minifigure since around Series 5 or 6 of the "regular" "CMFs", and I certainly don't wanf to feel compelled to do it for minifigures I already feel were done well in a theme, but I also wouldn't want to just blow off this version entirely if I can really use it. I hope that if its there, it actually is very similar or even identical to the ones from various Toy Story sets (as some of the "CMFs" for The Simpsons were identical to ones in the D2Cs and/or LEGO Dimensions packs), so I can comfortably use them all together.

My wife did, actually, when I was talking about this line with her. She's not a huge LEGO fan, but she is something of a fan after our time together, and she's also long been a Disney fan as well. It seemed a decent idea to her. It does to me, too, honestly, but I was under the impression all the figures in this series would be animated characters - none from live action, and certainly no real people.

I like that you included the roof rack. That's an easily overlooked detail.

A couple of us had already mentioned safety as a possible point of concern for the project, though we may not have made it clear why.

I'd try LEGO's Customer Service first.

I picked up a couple copies of this set several months ago, clearanced all the way down to $15 (!) - hooray! - but only just hours ago did I finally get around to opening one of them and putting it together. I'm very pleased with my purchase, I must say, and glad that I got two for less than the price of one. The Blackbird is indeed roomier than one might expect; I'm delighted to see it can accommodate as many figures as it can. And the Sentinel is quite fun.

Peeron used to do perfectly what you describe, but it seems to have been updated only sporadically over the last several years and has become less useful since around 2010 or so, alas. It's still terrific for older sets and parts, though.

It has, at least once, albeit with other printing that may still make it unsuitable, for the Flying Wing in the Indiana Jones line.

The requirements for inclusion in the Disney Princess line do not, curiously enough, include actually being a princess in-story (though obviously it certainly helps); note that Fa Mulan is a Disney Princess, but not actually a princess. Moreover, while Elsa ascends to become the queen in her story, she at least starts as a princess. A number of the other Disney Princesses are princesses only for part of their respective films; it's just that usually when that's the case, they start as non-princesses and finish as princesses, rather than the other way around. But there's nothing saying it can't be the other way around, and since (among other factors) Elsa is a princess for at least part of her story (unlike Mulan), it seems likely she'll be inducted eventually. That said, do we know whether the two princesses featured in this series will in fact be Disney Princesses (capital D, capital P), just plain old princesses, or both? There are actually a number of princesses in Disney movies who aren't officially Disney Princesses...

No, it's not; it could be that a lack of room for the beams could stress it by pressing it together rather than pulling it apart, for example. Or it could apply stresses in some other direction. Mind you, I'm not saying it definitely would or would not stress the parts, or that he's definitely right about it stressing or you're not or whatever. But his statements are not automatically contradictory just from the wording.

Mmm, not too shabby!

I do think it would make sense to do each of the main Rebel fighters at least once before doing a bunch of remakes, and the A-Wing is now long overdue. That said, I really hope a truly definitive, ultimate Millennium Falcon is in the works for next year. The 40th anniversary calls for something iconic.

Currently, there are eleven official Disney Princesses: Snow White Cinderella Aurora Ariel Belle Jasmine Pocahontas Mulan Tiana Rapunzel Merida Note that Elsa and Anna aren't officially on the list yet, though they're obvious shoo-ins; they haven't been officially coronated as part of the line yet, but it's pretty much a given they'll both be added soon. Their absence as yet is why their LEGO DP sets have also had the Frozen logo as well as the DP logo, when the sets for the other princesses haven't borne their respective movies' logos.

I'm pretty sure many people already do just that, actually. Note also that they obviously vote on the project design long before anyone ever sees the final set. Furthermore, sets are always going to be redesigned according to various internal design parameters that TLG can't share anyway. If they were going to approve only projects that were already designed exactly the way TLG would release them, it would just mean that no Ideas projects would ever get approved - well, maybe one every fifty years or something like that, but essentially none. Supporters leave suggestions all the time, but not everyone sees the need for all floors to be tiled; studs are simply part of the inherent look of LEGO. Looking over the comments for the original project, I see lots of people had suggestions about the minifigures - what legs to use, what hair elements, what torso decorations, etc., as well as entire other characters to have, and various aspects of the apartment that should be included, what other sets should be done to go with it, and so on. Unless I've overlooked something, though, not one person suggested tiling the floors. It apparently just wasn't a priority for the overwhelming majority of people. Note also that adding a layer of tiles over nearly the entire footprint of the set would have raised the production cost, and possibly the selling price with it, of a set that was already the most expensive Ideas set yet released.

I don't think that's the case, actually. He's saying that if built according to instructions it won't be stressed, and if built a different way it will be. That's not contradictory.

The latter two, of course, are part of a huge franchise that has two movies released each year, soon to be three (!). It might be fair to look at it more as "x sets released for Avengers: Age of Ultron and Ant-Man, and y sets released for Captain America: Civil War and Doctor Strange" (or in other words, "x sets for the 2015 movies and y for the 2016 ones").

They don't include baseplates in sets nearly as often as they used to, but they do still include some. All the modular buildings do, for starters.

Why should they?

My dream set would be a Millennium Falcon that wasn't just "a version" of the ship, but rather a comprehensive one that represented it in all the movies in which it appears - one with swappable antennas, different landing gear configurations, etc., to represent it through the years, and a huge minifigure selection with multiple versions of Han, Chewie, Lando, Leia, Luke, Artoo, Threepio, Ben, Rey, Finn, BB, Nien Nunb, Rebel gunners and navigator, Stormtroopers, scanning crew, etc. - like how 10188 Death Star actually represented both Desth Stars, with scenes from two different episodes. This Falcon would be definitive, with sufficient figures and other features to represent any Falcon scene from any of the movies released up to that point (and maybe even books and novels as well).

I must say, I do like that it uses grey for the maze walls along with tan for the greater bulk of the play area. I think the grey accents make it look slightly more appealing than it would as a solid block of tan, though that would surely be truer to the overwhelming majority of wooden ones out there.

The most recent communications from the Ideas team sound pretty upbeat about the upcoming announcements, which to me sounds like we're not getting a second announcement in a row with no sets approved, so I'm under the impression at least one thing will make it. Again, here's the batch whose results are due next (plus one project held over from a previous batch for further consideration): F7A Hornet (this is the held-over one) Brick-built Adventure Time figures Caterham Super Seven Modular Library Lothlorien LEGO Physics Ghostbusters: Stay Puft Marshmallow Man Indominus Rex The Hobbit - Rivendell The Little Prince To me, the fact the Hornet was held for additional consideration is a good sign for that one; it means they're interested, and of course it looks very much like something they might do in one of their own themes. As has been said before, I suspect the deciding factor on this is brand fit. Regarding the others, we do know they've been expressly requesting projects that aren't based on pop-culture licenses. I don't think that means they aren't interested in the pop-culture stuff, but it does add layers of complexity to the review / approval process, and they probably just want to have a greater selection of projects they can approve more easily. That said, it bodes well for Caterham Super 7, LEGO Physics, and the Modular Library. But the latter is still on the large side for Ideas. I think the Physics and Caterham projects are the likeliest of those three. Of the others, I think the Adventure Time project is the strongest contender. Like so many pop-culture projects, it's all about having a bunch of immediately recognizable characters, yet it's also much more of a building experience than it would be if it were simply minifigures, which is sure to appeal to the Ideas crew. And for this particular franchise, the approach makes sense - Adventure Time is extremely visually stylized, to the point where more conventionally dedicated figure elements would likely get special molds, not just for heads like The Simpsons but in at least some cases whole bodies. The brick-built approach almost certainly allows them both to justify including characters that they wouldn't get around to in "regular" figure form even if they did a whole theme, and also include more characters in a single set than they ever would with either funky new molds or ordinary minifigures (indeed, the brick-building aspect means they could comfortably do a set of just a bunch of characters, as this project proposes, something they rarely even approach with minifigure themes). Furthermore, we have indications they're adding Adventure Time to LEGO Dimensions (where, if true, they undoubtedly would do minifigures and/or specialized molds, but just for a small handful of the characters represented in this project), and this would mean they have the license, but unlike with so many other Ideas projects from existing licensed franchises, this set isn't one they'd be particularly likely to already be doing on their own. I think it has an excellent chance. __________________________ I wonder whether they might also be announcing anything besides new sets. The fact they recently had a huge review batch with nothing approved might mean that they might have a "free" slot in the limited production capacity they allocate to Ideas sets. Perhaps they could use it to do another run of one or more of the most in-demand discontinued earlier sets, and bring back the Curiosity Rover or the Research Institute one last time, while we wait for the next new set? I know a lot of people would be happy about that. Or maybe they'll add some new features to the site. We'll see...

I'd say it's profoundly unlikely, given how conceptually similar it is to an already-released set. Apologies for quoting myself, but: Looking back on this now, I think my reply to CM4Sci comes off as a little testy. I want to apologize if I was rude. I was just a bit taken aback by your lack of interest in the science projects in general, and this project in particular, especially with the "does nothing" note. But I shouldn't be rude. Again, apologies!

They actually have done straight rereleases of sets before, and for whatever reason, they apparently don't generally sell as one might expect. They seem to have mostly moved away from it in recent years, and it doesn't help that when they released a new version of the Winter Toy Shop last year that was mostly the same build as the 2009 original (just with a few things added), people went bananas (not in a good way).