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Well, we do now know there will be a minimum of two sets, both in this same year. Perhaps it should be pinned now? Granted that both sets we know about are also actually part of other themes (LEGO Ideas and LEGO Dimensions), but still...

I picked up a 75033 Star Destroyer Microfighter today. It's the only copy of this particular set I've seen in stores in a few months, and the last OT vessel from the first series of Microfighters that I didn't already have. I wouldn't mind another, but I doubt I'll be able to find one. I'm glad to have this one, though.

I'm sure more than a couple of us are going to try adding Power Functions and such.

It's strongly implied to be Doc Brown rather than Chris Lloyd. He speaks as Brown, wears his clothes, and has scientific equipment scattered about and the DeLorean time machine under a tarp. Tangentially, the use of the actor as the character in another live-action bit similar to the first does make me wonder not only whether we might see a few more (I'd love a follow-up with Peter Capaldi as the Doctor), but also whether Joel McHale might have something to do with the actual game, and not just the announcement video.

I know they've always barred using the LEGO logo (unless it's as part of a project, of course, like a LEGO Store), but mockup boxes were indeed originally okay. They haven't required changes to projects that were originally submitted user different rules, so lots of things that had packaging mockups (or otherwise violate rules instituted after submission, like not depicting LEGO brick constructions but instead just having photos or artwork of actual, non-LEGO objects) were allowed to stay. Of course, a lot (most?) of those projects have now expired, and it's only a matter of time before all of them do.

What I want to know about is the LEGO multimegaomniuberuniverse within this one. There are a number of LEGO sets that actually portray LEGO sets, like the Toys 'R' Us truck of a few years ago, or this year's new Town Square. Could we extrapolate from their existence a conjectural entire LEGO multiverse within LEGO City, complete with its own offshoots and such? Does it go infinitely down, in a fractal pattern of infinite LEGO multiverses within LEGO multiverses, like so many interlocking Danish matryoshka dolls? If so, could it extend the other way? Could we ourselves just be LEGO maniacs in sets or commercials or The LEGO Movie within an even greater LEGO multiverse?

I'm still not sure I understand, but it does make sense that the Doctor Who Ideas set is #11. The Birds set is #9, and the The Big Bang Theory one is #10. Those two plus the Doctor Who project all came from the same review batch; Birds and The Big Bang Theory were announced together, while two different Doctor Who projects was held over for additional consideration, and then one of them was announced alongside a project from the following batch, which was of course WALL·E. Since the Doctor Who and WALL·E projects were announced together but Doctor Who was from an earlier batch, it makes sense that it would be #11 and WALL·E would be #12, though they might just wind up being released at the same time anyway (like the Exo-suit and the Research Institute last year). This also gives us an idea when the Doctor Who Ideas set will come out. The Big Bang Theory is due for release on August 1st, and according to the retailer link in the WALL·E thread, that set is due a month later, on September 1st. If true, we should expect the Doctor Who set sometime in that timeframe, from Aug. 1 to Sept. 1. Now if only we could see it...

The instructions that were briefly available confirmed the decorated elements in the LEGO Dimensions set are indeed all printed. In fact, as far as I can tell from the several instruction booklets that have appeared so far, the only decorated elements in the entire LEGO Dimensions theme that use stickers rather than prints are some of the pieces of the portal in the starter set (and even that also uses some printed elements). It appears there are no stickers in any of the add-on packs, just prints. "No 2"?

Whoa! A new Ideas set revealed by a retailer site?! I'd expect that with "regular" sets, but not an Ideas one. Bizarre. WALL·E looks great, though his eyes/"head" looks perhaps a wee bit large, considering it's supposed to be retractable into his body. Still quite nice proportions, though. And I'm glad to see they're including not only his little roach buddy but the plant as well. ?

Perhaps, but some of them have already done as well or better in just a few weeks or months as they previously did in over a year. Also, one can try out new strategies for accruing votes and such, and outside factors can play a strong role. The Golden Girls project currently under review got the Staff Pick and coverage on NY local TV news, MSN, Time.com, Moviefone, E! Online, People, EW, The Mary Sue, Golden Girls Central, The Huffington Post, and any number of other places. And it's not just a matter of all those sites having been ready to promote a Golden Girls project the instant one appeared - not only was it posted about three weeks before The Huffington Post found it and promoted it, but it was actually the latest of (at least) three different Golden Girls projects on the site, and the other two are both still gathering votes even though they were posted before this one (and one of them is very similar to the one that got all that attention). This clearly shows that a project or subject matter can go unnoticed on Ideas for a long time, but then find a sudden surge of attention if conditions are right. That gives a good reason to try again, even with a project that might have gotten only a few hundred votes before.

Oh, yes, lots of them have been. There are several just by members here, in fact - The Real Indiana Jones has a whole series of projects based on history and myth from classical antiquity, for example, and has been resubmitting them all. I've seen other projects resubmitted by other Ideas members as well, sometimes with no changes at all, sometimes with minor ones, and sometimes with quite substantial ones. And I've even seen members of LEGO's Ideas team themselves support such projects and comment on them, at least once or twice expressing gladness that the project creators decided to resubmit them.

Is that what those things are? I was wondering about them. I'm not well-acquainted with Hero Factory stuff, and there are lots of parts from it I don't know. And look at that big, funky-shaped 12 x 24 plate with the two 6 x 6 corner cutouts and the 6-wide circular hole! Far out! I somehow didn't realize there would be a big new oddly-shaped plate like that; I guess I was thinking the whole portal assembly was based on a few smaller, more conventional plates held together edge-to-edge by all the stuff stuck on top of them. Nice to see we finally get Wyldstyle's Piece of Resistance tracker (and with a printed tile, yet - even while the one in the actual movie was shown as a sticker). That's not in any of the regular The LEGO Movie sets, is it? I haven't actually put any of mine together yet, aside from the Minifigures line - I've been waiting until I could finish collecting more or less the whole line, and then put all of them together in one huge TLM build-fest... That, plus when the other instructions confirmed it a month or so ago, plus when LEGO reps confirmed it a while before that... ;)

Testing to see if the filter is still active: Angry Birds Edit: huzzah!

Perhaps, but I was thinking if they can include something like The Wizard of Oz, an acknowledged cinema classic that lots of people to this day still see as kids but still a movie that came out 76 years ago, they could conceivably include some vintage LEGO themes (and in a sense they are, with Benny from The LEGO Movie). But I was mostly thinking about much more recent, current or even brand-new themes, such as Elves (which launched a mere two months ago) or the current iteration of Pirates.

Oh, I do think there's room for additional, LEGO-original themes; I just don't think there are going to be add-on packs representing "ordinary" stuff like bus drivers and mail carriers. But I do think we might get more "fantastic" or "adventurous" characters like Johnny Thunder, or even the Elves characters (and speaking for myself, I'd sincerely like to see that).

Hey, at least Middle-Earth got a goodly amount of stuff. I know it's not as much as the theme could have gotten, and many significant characters and whatnot are still missing, but all told it really did get a lot. I think Star Wars and Harry Potter might be the only licensed themes that have really gotten more, although the Marvel and DC universes are closing in on it fast if they haven't passed it already.

Until such time as the mods see fit to lift the filter (something I really expected them to have done by now; perhaps they actually intend now to leave it on forever, so that people can't even refer to an actual, official LEGO theme by its actual name without extraordinary measures like the one I'm about to describe), one can work around the filter by breaking up one of the words with the color tag, and just setting the color to black so it shows up the same way, like so: Angry Birds (hit the quote button to see what I've done). Alternately, break it up with italicization tags, like this: Angry Birds.

I'm sure that would be neat, but there's essentially zero chance of it happening. Transformers is not just an entertainment property that happens to have toys, but a toy brand first and foremost, and it's owned by one of LEGO's top competitors (and one which has its own line of LEGO-like construction toys, at that). For LEGO to license Transformers from Hasbro would be like Volkswagen getting a license from Ford to make Mustangs. Neither company is interested in such a thing. Since Hasbro owns both Transformers and Kre-O (their own line of LEGO-like construction sets), they can (and do) make Transformers Kre-O sets already. They have no interest in giving up their own rights to make their own construction toys from one of their other most popular properties in order to let their biggest competitor have the rights instead. And LEGO doesn't want to have a theme that promotes the products of one of its own major competitors.

I'm not absolutely certain, but I think it was submitted before that rule was in place. I think the rule about no packaging mock-ups came around the same time the whole platform transitioned from CUUSOO to Ideas, and this project was submitted shortly before that, in March of last year. There are a slew of older, mostly expired projects scattered hither and yon across the site that were fully compliant with the rules when they were submitted, but which would be in violation of one rule or another if submitted today.

And I have no idea why they moved this thread to Culture & Multimedia when it's clearly about LEGO sets, but there they go.

It's possible, but I think all the figures in the game will come from themes and franchises that have some sort of fantastic or adventure-related component (at least some of the time - The Simpsons probably isn't what most people would consider an adventure series, but there have surely been many adventures over the course of the show). In light of what we know, I'm going back on some of my earlier guesses and assuming that "everyday life" themes like City and Friends won't be here (unless one counts their protrusion into other themes, like Bad Cop, Emmet and Wyldstyle all being basically City-type characters from The LEGO Movie). I don't know about historical characters fitting into this milieu, though I guess you never know.

Yesterday I went to the home of a dear friend who was recently hoitalized with a terminal diagnosis, and who passed away last week. In the days before he died he was putting his affairs in order as his family and friends, including myself, visited him to see him one last time, offer what comfort and companionship we could, and say goodbye; during this timeframe, in the midst of taking care of what he could, he was bequeathing his various possessions to everyone, and he gave me his old LEGO. He had a collection of older sets - a small one by the standards of most here, but all good (what LEGO isn't?), mainly classic Space and Castle stuff from the early to mid-'80s, not necessarily complete or in perfect shape, but wonderful. I went to his home yesterday to collect it along with a few items of furniture. I'm very glad to have it all, and the Space stuff in particular is some of the stuff I desired most in all the world, but it's pretty much the absolute last way I can think of that I'd like to add to my collection, and I'd give it all back plus everything I already owned to get my friend back. But there's nothing I or anyone or anything else on Earth, no matter how powerful, can do to make that happen. :/

We have seen three sets for The Simpsons, thanks to the prematurely-posted instruction booklets; we know there will be a Level Pack with Homer Simpson, plus the family sedan and their TV set, and two FunPacks - one with Bart Simpson and a go-kart, the other with Krusty the Clown and a tiny clown car-type thing. We haven't seen anything from Ghostbusters yet. I don't know why; they have now officially announced it., but haven't shown anything yet.

It's bizarre to me that people think Angry Birds is somehow too old to be a LEGO theme. Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings, Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Speed Racer, The Lone Ranger, Prince of Persia, Toy Story, Pirates of the Caribbean, Mickey Mouse & friends, Winnie the Pooh, Disney Princess, The Big Bang Theory, Jurassic Park, Doctor Who, WALL·E, Scooby-Doo, The Simpsons, and The Wizard of Oz were or will be all older than Angry Birds at the times they launched or will launch as LEGO sets and themes. I don't see people fixating on how many decades old they are... (Somebody PLEASE fix the filter!)

How do they lose focus on their main themes? Are they just forgetting to make Star Wars sets for a year? Are they accidentally putting pirates and dinosaurs in City sets?