Blondie-Wan

Shrek isn't Pixar. It actually parodies a lot of Disney stuff, but it isn't from Disney or any of its subsidiaries itself.

Once I would have agreed, but with them doing both The Simpsons and The Big Bang Theory I'm no longer quite so sure - at the very least, while lots of individual episodes and scenes wouldn't make the cut, the general series premise and characters just might, at least for a single set. Have you tried submitting it? The worst they can do is say "no". If you do choose to submit it and they allow it, I'll support it.

I'm not remotely concerned with profit, since I never bought them as an investment - not a financial investment, anyway (an investment in fun, yes). If you bought it as an investment, I guess I understand your apparent annoyance, though with all due respect I can't say I entirely sympathize. I seriously doubt any speculators are going to go bankrupt and have to get real jobs because they bought hundreds of these and it plummeted in value to pennies. It's still going to go up in value on the secondary market eventually (fortunately or not), just possibly not to whatever figure the most optimistic of speculators might have been hoping for or counting on. But it's not like regular people are going to be able to continue to go into stores and buy them at or below MSRP for years to come; that was never in the cards.

After a bit of a LEGO Star Wars acquisition drought, I finally picked up again with a vengeance. Monday the 22nd was a warm-up - just another 75074 Snowspeeder Microfighter (and with it, this month's free LEGO Star Wars poster, for Star Wars - Episode VI: The Empire Strikes Back) as part of a larger purchase of mostly non-Star Wars sets, but the following day was the main event: my single largest (most expensive) ever, the mighty 10236 Ewok Village! As one of the more impoverished fans (judging from some of the other purchases I regularly note others here making), this was a really big deal to me. I'd dearly love to have, say, the Death Star, but honestly I wanted this set at least as much as that one, and given that it's more affordable I thought I made sure I got it. It would be incredibly difficult for me to get both, so I thought I should make a choice between the two, and though I will surely miss the Death Star I'm very glad to finally have this (and with it, another free poster). Huzzah! As I happens, this means I now have one unopened copy of each of the four sets released to date to feature Ewok minifigures. I think I shall put them all together more or less at once, one after another, in an overall Ewok-centric build session.

Everyone does, I'm sure, but they haven't yet released the set before this one. It'll happen within the next few months, though. Keep in mind their development time for Ideas sets is still faster than that for most of their other sets in other lines. It just seems so long for us because with Ideas sets, we see when the process begins, which we don't for most sets in other lines.

The LEGO Dimensions version of Unikitty appears to have an exclusive new print for her facial expression (though strictly speaking, she technically isn't what LEGO currently officially considers a "minifigure"). If we include accessories and such, Wyldstyle has her scanning / tracking device (incorporating a a 1x2 tile with an exclusive print), and Marty has his hoverboard (not presented as a minifigure accessory, but one for all practical intents and purposes).

Indeed, though as I'm sure you know all too well, US prices aren't good reflections of the rest of the world's prices most of the time, and I don't know what yours will be. Apologies for not addressing that earlier - when I made my previous post I was looking at the mobile version of the site, which doesn't show all the info (like "Country") below user avatars.

That's just lovely in multiple ways.

Standard prices for everything (in the US): Starter Pack - $99.99 Level Pack - $29.99 Team Pack - $24.99 Fun Pack - $14.99

Well, the NFC bases are printed with character-specific iconography, which makes them nice little display bases even if you don't play the game, and I suppose there'll be people who treat those bases as sort of deluxe equivalents of the black 3x4 tiles with four studs that come with the blind-bagged Minifigures. I think the three characters themselves - minus accessories - are identical to versions found in other sets, but Wyldstyle does have her two-piece scanning / tracking device, as seen in The LEGO Movie, and it uses a printed 1x2 tile that's unique to this set. It's a noteworthy accessory / piece of equipment that's closely associated with one of the major characters of the movie / theme, and one she's seen using briefly but quite prominently in that one scene. Diehard The LEGO Movie completists will certainly want that printed tile (ironically, in the actual film it appears to be a sticker). I'm sure there will indeed be some people who part these sets out, just like any other set, and it'll probably go both ways (i.e., some will be players of the game who don't care about having the "correct" figures, and some will be non-players who just want some but not all of the parts, and/or want to sell parts off to make money). I don't think most people will do that, though; it'll be kind of a niche.

Hey, it's only two fewer than what I have in my own pic (and your photography's better, too!). None of mine are keychains, though; I didn't get any of the "extended line" stuff, though I kind of wish I had. I did get at least one of each boxed, non-Duplo set, though, plus duplicates of a few, plus one Duplo set and multiples of the Army Jeep and Alien Spaceship polybags. Agreed! Hey, you have larger Marvel armies than I do! I do love Marvel, but I just haven't been able to get much of it, since a number of other lines are higher on my priority list and I have a hard enough time as it is getting everything I want from them. :( I have a whopping two Chitauri, alas. Perhaps the most impressive "army" I have Marvel-wise is my pair of Sentinels (I found two copies of 76022 X-Men vs. The Sentinel clearanced at $15 each! ). I was actually thinking that might be a great idea for a thread, too - "Show us your Armies of One!", or some such thing. I think I could do very well in that one, at least for one theme; I collected the Indiana Jones line as aggressively as I could. Not only did I get all of the sixteen boxed, retail sets (plus the Brickmaster polybag), but of those sixteen, 7623 Temple Escape is the only one I have only one of - somehow, despite my limited means, I managed to get anywhere from two to eleven copies apiece of those other fifteen sets, and every set in the line includes a version of the title character. Counting the several I have yet to open and assemble, I have over fifty minifigures of Dr. Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones, Jr.!

And of course there's the toy pad itself, which could also be considered a LEGO element (it does have studs, after all). And the NFC bases - three of one type, all printed, and one of another, blank. And there are other parts in colors in which they're either uncommon or unique to this set (at least, it has eight of those new-ish A-shaped plates - this piece - in medium blue).

I really hope they do a Velma Dinkley Fun Pack for LEGO Dimensions. She's a cool character and one I think would be the most fun to play after Scooby and Shaggy, the game could really use more female characters in general, and it'd be great to be able to get her in a $15 set.

There are dedicated threads in a number of the forums for presenting images of one's masses of minifigures from various themes (such as Star Wars, the Castle-related themes, etc.) that lend themselves to accruing huge numbers of uniformed "troops" and background populations. There doesn't seem to be one for the licensed themes, though (outside the ones that go in other forums), so I thought I'd start one! I was thinking about this recently when responding to an old post of Oky's in a minifigure-collecting thread over in General Discussion; he had shown (years ago) his complete set of Toy Story minifigures, albeit including unique characters and excluding duplicates, so not really an "army-building" sort of thing. I, too, collected the Toy Story line, and tried to get lots of extras of the theme's two different varieties of little green guys. I'm therefore going to kick this off with my Army men and Pizza Planet aliens, and here they are! Look at that effective "Baseplate Environment" camo on those Army men! Good job, soldiers! It's not as many as I'd like, but I know it's more than many people have, so I won't lament. It's also not all the ones I have, actually, since I still have several unopened sets - one more copy of 30071 Army Jeep (the Army man polybag), two apiece of 7595 Army Men on Patrol and 30070 Alien Spaceship (the PP alien polybag), and five of 7591 Construct-a-Zurg (I actually have a total of eight copies of that set, having found a great deal on it a while back). When I finally get around to opening them and putting them together, they'll add seven Pizza Planet aliens and nine Army men to what you see here, for grand totals of 23 and 30 of the two, respectively. So, friends, how about the rest of you? Anyone care to show your Chitauri soldiers or Gotham City PD cops? Let's see them! And eventually I'll post all my German and Russian soldiers, Thuggees, and other folks from the Indiana Jones line. I'm looking forward to seeing yours!

Ah, good. I couldn't make out the patch in the image earlier. That said, it does now vex that we finally have 1/4 of the team looking right, but not the other three, and the fact his base just has the "no ghosts" emblem instead of something more specific to him has me worry that he's the only Ghostbusters we'll get. But we'll see...

I do not, but the fact they exist at all might at least be taken to mean Series 1 and The Simpsons' House sold well last year.

Not in the movies, at least. Thanks!

Er, wait - why have they printed his left arm? The Ghostbusters emblem should be on the right.

Oh, man, I'd hope so. I think ideally, we'd get one Level Pack, one Team Pack and one Fun Pack for the franchise, which would let us get th whole team without having too many packs with essentially duplicate functionality (since the team members may have different personalities and all but in gameplay terms they're very alike, being four regular human guys who all carry the same equipment).

I also loved it (oh, hey everyone; here's my first post in this thread!). Yes, I'm also a fan of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, and I was tickled by this episode, especially .

There's no PC version. It'll be on PS3, PS4, XBOX360, XBOX ONE, and WiiU.

I think they stopped making the LEGO-branded ones for a while, and recently started again. A couple weeks ago I was in a local Walmart - the same store in which, a few months ago, I bought the last of these cases I'd seen anywhere (and where they were on clearance) - and they had a whole new endcap of them that they didn't have before, back up to full price, and most tellingly, they appeared to have the same bright green baseplates that have replaced the old "regular" green ones. They had over 70 of them.

Well... huh. I must say, that's surprising, though certainly welcome if true. I was under the impression the Level Packs would be the sole sources of environments for those franchises that have them. It would probably help with the licensing costs if they had to pay each rightsholder for certain franchises only for those add-on packs that actually contain material from those franchises, and that everything in the base game / starter pack was stuff owned by either Warner Bros. or LEGO. My guess was that the multiverse of the game included Legends of Chima, NinjaGo, The LEGO Movie, The Lord of the Rings, The Wizard of Oz, DC Comics, and Scooby-Doo, but all the others were added via Level Packs. Thus, if you got, say, the Fun Packs with Bart Simpson and/or Krusty the Clown, you would have those The Simpsons characters, but not Springfield, the world they're from; they'd just run around Middle-Earth, the land of Oz, etc. instead. Similarly, if you got the Back to the Future Fun Pack with Doc Brown but not the Back to the Future Level Pack, you'd have Doc Brown, but not Hill Valley. But getting the Level Pack for any world / universe / whatever would add that whole entire realm to the game (as well as giving you a single playable character from that franchise). But if that's not how it works... well, hmmm.

The minifigure's hair looks light brown to you? Really? It looks like dark brown to me... _________________________ I must admit I'm not terribly familiar with Portal yet - I think I might have played just one of the games for about two minutes once, and don't really know all the associated backstory and lore, but I did just want to respond to this: A motion-capture performer named Glidewell? Oh, that's just perfect! :D

Those look like the LEGO-licensed project cases made and sold by Iris. For some years now they've offered these cases, both with and without official LEGO co-branding; when offered with LEGO branding, they typically have a small molded LEGO logo and artwork of a minifigure head or some other piece of official LEGOS art on the front / top, include a 32 x 32 baseplate, and cost around $10 USD. The "non-LEGO" versions lack the LEGO logo, lack any sort of LEGO artwork, and lack a baseplate, but are exactly the same otherwise and cost about half as much. ______________________________________ If you'll all forgive me quoting my own earlier response to Oky: Since it's relevant to the discussion here I've decided to go ahead and post them here; apologies for my poor photography skills, but I'll work on that. These are all of my opened and assembled minifigures of both of the two major varieties of little green guys from the Toy Story saga: Note the "dirty" Pizza Planet aliens from 7596 Trash Compactor Escape near the back. There are two from that set here, along with one apiece from 7598 Pizza Planet Truck Rescue, 7592 Construct-a-Buzz, three copies of 7591 Construct-a-Zurg, and nine copies of the polybag 30070 Alien Space Ship, for a total of sixteen Pizza Planet aliens. The twenty-one army men here (including five medics) are from five copies of 7595 Army Men on Patrol and one of the polybag 30071 Army Jeep. As indicated previously, I do have more, though somehow I seem to have misremembered the number of copies Alien Space Ship I have - apparently I have only eleven, not fourteen. Argh. Oh, well. Anyway, the rest of both weren't in those photos because I haven't opened all my sets yet. Here are both armies in their entirety, including those in as-yet unopened sets: I got lucky with all those Construct-a-Zurgs! Anyway, whenever I finally get around to opening all of these and putting them together, I'll have 23 Pizza Planet aliens and 30 Army men. I'd love dozens more of each, but I know I was really lucky to get even this many, so I won't complain.