Blondie-Wan

Johnny Thunder v Olivia: Dawn of Justice

Goodness, I cannot believe we've gotten well into the second page of this thread and nobody has mentioned anybody from TRON!

Oh, by the way, re: the updated initial post: This will actually be the 12th, not the 11th: 1. Shinkai 6500 2. Hayabusa 3. Minecraft Micro World 4. Back to the Future DeLorean Time Machine 5. NASA Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover 6. Ghostbusters Ectomobile 7. Exo-Suit 8. Research Institute 9. Birds 10. The Big Bang Theory 11. WALL•E WALL•E 12. Doctor Who TARDIS If this info came from LEGO itself, I'm guessing it's counting from the order of the review batches these sets came from and not the releases of the actual sets, since Doctor Who and Companions was in an earlier batch than the one with WALL•E (it was actually the same one as Birds and The Big Bang Theory), but held over for further consideration and announced with WALL•E. Either that, or they must not be counting Shinkai 6500 since it wasn't a worldwide release. But anyway, this set is the 12th to come out of CUUSOO / Ideas (really, it should just be called the 7th Ideas set, since the first five were CUUSOO sets, but never mind).

I'm sure they'll be printed. For one thing, most CUUSOO / Ideas sets use only printed parts, not stickers. Only three have stickers at all, and of those three, two are the very first two (Shinkai 6500 and Hayabusa), from when the whole program was just getting started and was a lot smaller; the other, The Big Bang Theory, still uses a ton of prints, and only two stickers - both of which, it's been pointed out in discussion of that set, go on pieces TLG seldom if ever has printed on before, so it's possible they don't have appropriate mechanisms in place yet for printing on those parts. Secondly, the parts all look printed in the official images. Granted that they're all renders rather than photos of real brick, but TLG's official set image renders still clearly, scrupulously show when elements are stickered, with visible edges indicating the additional layer atop a brick or tile, and none of the official images betray any sign of this. I'm sure all or nearly all the 40+ decorated elements in this set are prints, including the exterior signage.

Lots of us think Sherlock's content skews a little too adult and insufficiently kid-friendly for TLG to want to touch it, Then again, lots of us thought the same of The Simpsons and The Big Bang Theory, so what do I know...

If it's really not coming until July, I doubt they'd show it this early. But January? Certainly possible.

Or if?

We should be able to select multiple options, for those of us whose top picks are ties.

Okay, but then what does "D2C Minifigures" even mean? A blind-bagged minifigure series sold only through LEGO's own stores? I mean, I'm going to assume we're not talking about sets that combine the blind-bagged presentation of Minifigures with the size and price of a typical D2C, as surely no one here thinks LEGO would have us spend $200+ on a single box containing nothing but unknown mystery minifigures. Are we talking about a giant-sized, brick-built model of a minifigure, à la 3723?

I have to say, that actually sounds more like a reason to do it than one not to, but oh well.

This is a really tough call.

I love it! I'm so glad they kept the fold-out feature of AndrewClark2's original concept (of course, that was probably the key reason they opted for his project over the competing one). I will say part of me really wishes they'd used his suggestion of one "new" Doctor (somewhere from 9 through 12) and one "classic" (1 through 8), and included Four. However, I do see value in having sequentially adjacent Doctors for regeneration play. And it'll all be fine once we get more sets in the theme. I think just about all of this could still work, aside from having a different figure selection in the Ideas set and having Four replace Eleven in my original Minifigures series 1 lineup. If we just add a second Minifigures series and, say, battle packs for Cybermen, Weeping Angels, Sontarans, Zygons, etc. of course including more Daleks, I think we'd have the basics of an excellent Doctor Who theme. Long may it run!

I think it's possible the set will have both, actually - paired 1x3s for the splitting side(s), and 1x6s for the other sides.

LEGO itself does, so why shouldn't we?

Nice! Let's have that one here, too (these should probably all be put together in the initial post of the thread, actually):

Is that "2" at the beginning of "25822" a typo?

Perhaps, but I've also seen some clever MOCs that incorporated specialized minifigure heads to represent things other than heads.

Because then you're stuck keeping those parts together if you want to keep the sticker intact.

That's cool! Where'd you learn this?

Is there any reason to think those aren't just from the creation of the 2010 theme, and that they're from this upcoming series?

I think it's actually quite likely those parts (and most if not all other decorated elements) will indeed be printed. Most CUUSOO / Ideas sets do use printing - everything in all but three sets, I believe. Of those three, the most recent one (The Big Bang Theory) also has printed elements, and uses stickers mainly or only for parts that it doesn't usually print (and thus doesn't have printing pads for). The only other two to use stickers were the very first two (Shinkai 6500 and Hayabusa). All the decorated elements in the Minecraft micro world, the DeLorean time machine, the Ectomobile, the Exo-suit, the Research Institute, the birds, and WALL•E are printed. I don't see why this Doctor Who set would be any different.

Not too shabby! And the whole assemblage works even better when you remember that Pixar originated as a division of Lucasfilm.

NICE!!! Let's have a copy of that image here in this thread, where it belongs: Ooh, I see hinges! Presumably this one opens up (not just the doors, but splitting fully open) in the manner of AndrewClark2's original project, which might account for the Police Public Call Box sign being split across two tiles. I can live with that; I suspect Doctor Who will eventually get further sets, in which case I think it likely we'll get more than one version of the TARDIS anyway. But this is an excellent start. And I don't believe those are stickers!

That's true; I did know that, but didn't think about it when I posted.

There are lots of reasons they pass on projects, and we don't know what all of them are. Sometimes it's not as simple as there being something "wrong" with a particular project; it may just be that they have other projects they want to do more, and of course they can't do everything. When you go to a restaurant, I'm guessing you don't order everything on the menu, or even a third of the menu, but just pick one or two or three things. You can't eat everything, after all. That doesn't mean you dislike everything you didn't order, right? It just means you picked the item(s) you wanted most. LEGO is in a similar position. They might genuinely like everything in a given review batch, but they can't make all of them; their production capacity is mostly tied up doing regular, non-Ideas sets, and they have just a little bit left that they can allocate to Ideas sets. Maybe these two small projects could be done more easily than that big one, so they choose those. Or maybe the big one is big, but it also would use a bunch of common parts in ordinary colors, so it's really easy - or maybe it uses special parts in funky colors, but they're all parts that it coincidentally happens to be making a lot of anyway for some regular mass-market theme, so it's still easy to do. There is lots of weighing of options and considerations against one another, until they decide upon which project(s), if any, they're going to do from a particular review batch. And it's entirely possible some projects that otherwise have everything going for them are just victims of timing - like, maybe there's a sports car project that would have been a shoo-in in the last review, but in this review there's a similar but even better project, or there's something else that's even better that they'd rather do instead. There might be nothing wrong with the car project; it might be a perfectly good project that they like a lot, and perhaps it would have been chosen in the previous batch, but now there are four other projects that they'd rather do instead, so now it doesn't get approved. There's a ton of luck involved. There are also other factors that have nothing to do with luck, but some of them we know nothing about - what other themes TLG is planning for a year or two from now, what legal terms exist in their various licensing agreements, how many and which different part molds they're currently planning on using for their own products over the next few months, what their supply of a particular plastic color is like right now or anticipated to be like over the next six months, what old themes their last three customer surveys told them their customers were most interested in seeing return, etc.