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  1. Blondie-Wan
    I’ve decided not to look at the leaks any longer and instead just wait for the official announcement, but if they were to make the Demogorgon able to have the “petals” both opened and closed, I’d imagine they’d do it by including a second head that’s just a standard minifigure head with an appropriate “closed petals” design printed on it. (I still can’t quite believe this is actually happening!)
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    I don’t know, but let’s say at least 10,000, for starters. How many people are interested in LEGO models of the Eiffel Tower, Tower Bridge, the Statue of Liberty, Fallingwater, the Guggenheim, the Farnsworth House, the Brandenburg Gate, Villa Savoye, Willis Tower, the Sydney Opera House, and most directly analogously the Great Wall of China?
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    Indeed, I suspect part of the whole appeal of LEGO Ideas from LEGO’s POV is the opportunity it provides them to sell bricks to people who aren’t necessarily already LEGO fans. Making new customers, even if only for one set, is surely more valuable than having yet one more offering for people who were already going to spend all their disposable cash on LEGO anyway. Machu Picchu, not famous enough?! It’s one of the most famous places in the world!
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    The Boost set is really sweet! Unfortunately it’s a little rich for me, but I might still try for it.
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    I’m in the process of putting together a LEGO room, and wondering what sort of light source is best - like, the actual light quality (characteristics) from different sorts of bulbs, etc. I want something that will let parts and builds look their best, and make it easy as possible for my aging eyes to distinguish similar colors from one another, yet hopefully not be too revealing of minor color variations in pieces ostensibly the same color, and of course not subject them to too much discoloring UV radiation. Any thoughts? Relevant expertise? Half-baked opinions?
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    For all we know, they may not have a choice; there could well be a legal agreement in place that stipulates the date of the announcement and release. Moreover, there has to be some announcement, which means some specific date has to be chosen to announce it, and no matter what date it is there are going to be people grousing that it should have been earlier. Some folks might not be happy unless they publicly announce on social media the moment they even think of doing a set based on a given property, and in that case they’d instantly have tons of unwanted feedback from thousands of people saying they should do it this way or that way. I really don’t blame TLG for holding their cards close to their chest.
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    Wait, what?! I was wholly unaware there were rumors of LEGO Stranger Things until earlier this month, and the oldest mention of it I'd seen anywhere since is from February. Were people outside LEGO actually talking about it as far back as last year?! I missed that...
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    Where is everyone getting info about the character assortment?
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    Over in the Stranger Things thread elsewhere in this forum, when the subject of spoilers for the show came up and someone suggested that anyone reading the thread was surely already a fan of the show, and someone else responded that they knew people in the LEGO fan community who were now exploring the show because of the upcoming set. It got me thinking about some of the other media creations upon which other LEGO products have been based. For many years, most of what I knew about Harry Potter I knew because of the LEGO sets. And while I was acquainted with the original Prince of Persia video games, I might not have ever seen the 2010 movie if not for the interesting-looking LEGO theme. I still haven’t really delved into Avatar: The Last Airbender (or its followup, The Legend of Korra), but it’s been on my agenda for several years now, and my interest was initially spurred by the two sets LEGO released back in 2006. How many folks here have checked out (or even gotten heavily into) some entertainment franchise specifically because it got some sort of official treatment in LEGO?
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    Well... wow. There it is. Somehow, I still can’t quite believe this is happening, even though I’m now sure it is.
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    Adventure Time began in April of 2010. LEGO released their first Adventure Time products (LEGO Dimensions packs) in September 2016, and the LEGO Ideas set that December. I believe Ben 10 and Avatar are rarities in having been done in LEGO when those properties were very new. Cars made its LEGO debut (in DUPLO) in 2010, four years after the first Cars movie in 2006. Pirates of the Caribbean debuted as a theme park attraction in 1967, and the first movie came out in 2003; the first LEGO sets were released in 2011, when the fourth film came out. All of those franchises debuted long before LEGO produced sets from them, although in the cases of their first Marvel, Speed Racer, and Prince of Persia, LEGO’s first products from those franchises are based on specific iterations / adaptations that were indeed new. LEGO Star Wars debuted in 1999, 22 years after the franchise began, with five sets based on the original trilogy, followed by eight more based on that year’s long awaited first prequel episode. LEGO’s first Marvel-based sets were based on the 2002 Spider-Man movie and its first sequel in 2004, and were released when the movies were new. The character debuted 40 years earlier, though, and the origins of the overall Marvel Comics universe go back even farther. LEGO’s Speed Racer theme was based on the 2008 movie, and released about when it was, but of course that movie was an adaptation of a television series that had been around since 1967, itself adapted from a printed serial that debuted a year earlier. LEGO Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time appeared in 2010, alongside that year’s movie, which was based on the long-running Prince of Persia video game franchise that began in 1989. LEGO’s history with the Jurassic franchise arguably begins in 2000 with the LEGO Studios theme, whose flagship set was the Steven Spielberg Moviemaker Set - though not labeled specifically as “Jurassic Park”- or “Jurassic World” anything, it not only clearly depicted the making of a scene from The Lost World: Jurassic Park, but actually used Spielberg’s name, along with JP iconography. The following year saw two sets added officially under the name Jurassic Park III (though one was actually more from the second movie). The original Jurassic Park movie was released in 1993, and based on a book released three years earlier.
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    List update: added Stranger Things (!).
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    That’s probably part of it. I also suspect, as you do, the youth of so many of the core characters is also a factor.
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    I’d have thought Stranger Things clearly goes over the line, myself. I think it’s more a case of the line having been pushed farther and farther. At this point I could see them reconsidering licenses previously deemed insufficiently kid-friendly, like Halo and Firefly / Serenity. Looking back now at some of the things they’ve done and are apparently about to do, it’s almost hard to believe there was ever a time when it seemed unlikely to many of us that they’d ever do Middle-Earth or Indiana Jones.
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    Holy smokes. This is seriously happening?!
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    Puresh can always get around it by pointing out that it isn’t a Winona Ryder figure, it’s a Joyce Byers figure. LEGO hasn’t made any figures of Chris Pratt, Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Samuel L. Jackson, Johnny Depp, etc., but they’ve done plenty of figures of characters played by those performers.
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    Oh, undoubtedly (assuming this thing is for real, which seems likely though I still can’t quite bring myself to believe it ). If it’s coming anytime close to May, it has to have been in the works for more than a year already, possibly two. Especially if it’s as large as the price implies, I don’t see this being something whipped together in an afternoon, if you catch my drift. Most likely (again, assuming this is happening) this was being developed back in 2017.
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    Erm... whoa. I’d like to think this is real, and goodness knows they’ve surprised me before with The Big Bang Theory, The Simpsons, Gremlins, etc., but Stranger Things?! That’s beyond “surprising” and into “shocking”. I can’t believe they’d do that one. And yet, here we are talking about it, with links to outside sources saying it’s happening and even offering set info. Is this for real? When did you submit yours?
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    Two clearanced (half-price!) copies of 75207 Imperial Patrol Battle Pack.
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    Not sure it’s an innately less interesting shape and build than the Saturn V, but I do agree it’s conceptually very similar ground. Still, for fans of real-life space exploration, it clearly has appeal of its own that isn’t satisfied by simply having already done that one rocket (or even the multitude of other Ideas sets based on real-world space exploration). The fact that this sort of thing keeps entering review batches, over and over and over and over, presumably indicates there’s a steady, unwavering fan base for this sort of product idea, and the fact that realistic / real-world scientific exploration, discovery, and research in general (and space exploration, discovery, and research in particular) has formed the basis of more approved Ideas projects than any other category except pop-culture entertainment licenses (and vehicles, which overlaps both categories) surely indicates the TLG sees a continuing business case for them. Not that it guarantees anything, of course (especially after they recently declined two other Space X projects along with an ISS all in the same batch), but still. FWIW, I’d buy this, and I already have the Saturn V (and have thought of getting a second)...
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    Huh. Most unfortunate. It would hardly be the first time LEGO has nabbed a license previously held by a construction toy competitor (indeed, they’ve done it before even specifically within the LEGO Ideas program). But if MegaBloks currently has it as this project enters review (assuming it does at all), it would almost certainly scuttle any chance. It’s strange to think of the project creator overlooking such a huge obstacle when they’ve clearly put so much research and other work into it, though. I wonder whether there might be a chance offered by the fact the MB sets target such a different age range. Sesame Street is aimed principally at very young children, and if LEGO did it as a regular mass-market line first instead of an Ideas thing it would almost certainly be a DUPLO line, but the Ideas project is really more of a thing for nostalgic adult fans. Is there any chance LEGO and MB could share the license by offering products to different age segments of the market? It seems unlikely, but stranger things have happened... Otherwise, I think the only chance the project might have would be to enter review after MB’s license has ended, or is about to.
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    Wait - they do? Who? I know K’Nex had it from 2008 to 2010, but that was quite a while ago...
  23. Blondie-Wan
    Thanks for the info. I wish I’d known earlier, but I’ve seen zero mention of this anywhere before now (did I just miss something?). It appears the art sleeves are on Blu-rays for all the DC and Wizarding World stuff, but only on DVDs for the other movies. Unfortunate; I’ve been wanting to upgrade my old DVDs of Gremlins and The Goonies to Blu-ray for quite some time, and would have loved to have done it with editions with the lenticular LEGO art, but the option apparently isn’t there. Oh, well. Perhaps I’ll pick up Wonder Woman and/or Batman with the art sleeves, and/or The LEGO Batman Movie and/or The LEGO Ninjago Movie with the minifigures.
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    I found the Beetlejuice and The Goonies ones on eBay, so now I know. They have stickers on them advertising free admissions to The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part, which would indicate to me that these were out before the movie was released if legonerd54321 hadn’t already told me they’d been out a while, but I’d completely overlooked them. Anyway, has anyone here gotten any of these LCU releases with the LEGO Dimensions Starter Pack minifigures? How long have these been out - the same timeframe as the Warner movies with LEGO art on the sleeves, or longer? Is it just the first two (the only ones I saw yesterday), or is The LEGO Ninjago Movie also available with the minifigures?
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    Not that I’m aware, but it certainly should be sometime this year. It’s worth noting it was announced before Steamboat Willie, but the latter leapfrogged it in actual production. I imagine this is because it (Steamboat Willie) was being developed well before it was actually announced, and possibly also because the Treehouse will be a larger, more complex model that is taking some time to develop. This sort of thing (Ideas sets being released out of the order in which they were announced) has happened multiple times before. The Exo Suit was announced before either Ghostbusters or the Female Minifigure Set / Research Institute, but Ghostbusters came out first of those three, and then the Exo Suit and Research Institute were released simultaneously, two months after Ghostbusters. A couple years later, the Caterham and Adventure Time were announced together in one review, and then Yellow Submarine and the Apollo Saturn V were announced together in the next review - but the Caterham came out first, and then Yellow Submarine even though it had been announced after Adventure Time, and then came Adventure Time.
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