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Mm, I don't know - the Elves have actual magical powers, remember. Your Pirates might be in for a surprise...

Tangentially, I think it would be great if one could get some of the many science-related ones in science museum gift shops. I've long kind of hoped we could get another run of the MSL Curiosity Rover if science museums requested it for their shops. The Oscar statue would probably be fairly popular, but I kind of doubt AMPAS would allow the license.

Well, the original is a well-known piece, and it could be seen as promoting the brand, and TLG did at one time sell single-color parts packs anyway. Moreover, since it would have such a simple parts assortment, being made of basic bricks in a basic color, it could probably be produced with minimal effect on the rest of their production capacity. That might factor into whether they produce it. I think I'd probably buy it, myself.

Nathan Sawaya stared actively promoting it recently on social media. It may also have gotten additional attention elsewhere that I don't know about, but I have been seeing it turn up on Facebook and so on.

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I somehow hadn't noticed this thread until just a day or two ago, but it's kind of neat to have this resource for learning the meaning behind all these titles on EB. I guess I'll go ahead... I seem to have gotten my title "Honest as Abe" after posting about returning an extra set LEGO sent me by accident in a Shop@Home order. My title seemingly magically appeared almost immediately after I made my post; until then I had no idea how people got those titles (and I still don't know who gave me this one, but it's a nice one to have, so... thanks, Mystery Moderator!). As far as I know, it's the only title I've had here, though I guess it's possible I had a previous one I never noticed.

I know there almost always is, and almost certainly will be with this particular movie; I was pointing out that there doesn't have to be.

It could have no real villain. That would be a refreshing change from so many other movies.

Nice! I have all those, save for the slight variations from the magnet sets, which I personally didn't worry about since they're the same designs, just with what amount to manufacturing variation differences in print quality, though now I kind of wish I'd gotten them anyway. I was glad to be able to get all the non-Duplo boxed retail sets, as well as two of the polybags and one of the Duplo sets, but I actually wish I'd gotten more of the Duplo stuff, oddly enough - I mean, as long as I have some Duplo Toy Story figures anyway, I might as well have all of those, too, right? But I have only a couple, alas. Did you do any army building for this theme, by chance (or do you still)? I wound up getting seven copies of the Army Men on Patrol set plus two of the Army Man polybag, plus eight copies of Construct-a-Zurg (! - I found a bunch of them inexplicably marked down to $3 apiece at one particular Walmart; I assumed they were clearanced, but the same store later got additional copies for full price, and still later offered them on sale for $15), plus 14 (IIRC) of the Pizza Planet Alien polybags, as well as at least one of every other regular set with PPA minifigures, so I have over two dozen of each of this theme's two different major types of Little Green Men. I was actually thinking of posting a "Show your armies!"-type thread in the Licensed Themes forum, like the ones in other forums for Star Wars, Castle, etc. armies and other large population groups, only for all the licensed themes that go in that forum, but I'm not quite ready with my own pics - I still have lots of unopened sets for most of these themes (including over half of my sets from my favorite theme in this forum, Indiana Jones - I got a slew of duplicate copies of sets, usually but not always on clearance, to get additional parts, especially minifigures, but a bunch of them aren't opened yet).

Oh, with regard to this earlier question: Or that. I think we overlooked it before, but it does say an Internet connection is required. I suspect Vorkosigan's guess is correct, and that the bases trigger downloads of new material for the game. This would mean one has to have an active connection to bring in new characters and levels, at the very least, and possibly to be able to play the game at all, though that's probably not much of an issue for most players in this day and age.

They're just my personal judgements, nothing official, but I think you might be right; I've also added Doctor Who, based on the Metro report.

Confirmed themes and franchises: NinjaGo The LEGO Movie DC Comics Middle-Earth The Wizard of Oz Back to the Future Very likely from what's known / all but confirmed: Legends of Chima Doctor Who Ghostbusters Jurassic Park Scooby-Doo The Simpsons Plausible guesses, from extant themes that fit: Elves Harry Potter I'm personally inclined to view any theme guesses outside these with some skepticism (even the ones I've made myself), but there will undoubtedly be some.

No idea, but I've been wondering whether there might be some sort of possibility of using the pad outside the game - in conjunction with MindStorms materials, for example. I'm sure persons more tech-savvy than I am will at least try to hack something out of it, if there's no official out-of-box support...

Oh, gosh, no - I just have Aira's Creative Workshop and Azari's Magic Fire, the two smallest sets. But I intend to get more.

That's the sort of thing I was thinking - perhaps something like a sculpture-style bust of a character would be a way for an Ideas set to get LEGO's foot in the Nintendo license door, as it were, allowing for a full-on theme with its own molds later on (as Minecraft got). Of course, it's also possible Nintendo for one reason or another simply isn't interested in this sort of merchandise (or even that they are, but they and TLG aren't able to come to terms they find mutually satisfactory). There could be any number of obstacles aside from the special molds issue (and some of them may be known to Nintendo but not to LEGO, say).

It could also be a simple typo in a message meant to say "Elven". :p (No, I don't really think that's what it is. But you never know...). How many here have already gotten all the sets so far?

We don't know exactly why the last one didn't make it though, IIRC. They stopped giving exact reasons a while ago for why projects don't get approved. Moreover, it's conceivable someone could come up with a Legend of Zelda project that doesn't require any new molds, and they don't want to rule it out (it helps, of course, that all projects submitted now must use only existing element shapes).

That would probably be the case most of the time, but sometimes a set might not make it due to some temporary circumstance - a necessary license being held by a competitor, for example, or TLG offering a similar set at the same time a project is in review. In such cases it might be worth one's while. For example, not too long ago they archived all Jurassic Park projects on the site when it emerged Hasbro held the construction toy rights to the franchise, but when the new movie's release date shifted, it apparently nullified Hasbro's license terms, freeing the license for LEGO, who swooped in and scooped it up, and projects based on the series were allowed again.

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What do you mean by "lose a little of the total measurement"? Measurement of what?

I'm not sure what the OP means by "bracelets". Where are the bracelets in that Springtime set?

I think pretty much every LEGO video game based on an entertainment franchise, even the Star Wars ones, depicts characters, creatures, buildings, vehicles, etc. not portrayed in the actual sets. And every licensed theme, even Star Wars, lacks certain things in official sets that some fans would like to see.

Most likely. But there is a third Golden Girls project, and though it's far behind the other two in votes, it did also get a boost from the recent attention. Conceivably both of those could go into the batch after this one, and if so - if they had a batch with two other projects based on the show, right after this one which also had a project based on the show - one of them might have a chance.

The stuff in the starter pack includes the game pad and the RFID bases, as well as the more conventional LEGO elements. You wouldn't be able to do much with the game without them.

I am... intensely interested in the new movie, yet also weirdly ambivalent. Whatever I wind up thinking of the movie, though, my primary interest with Star Wars will always be the original trilogy (and the EU works produced in the same era), and thus I for one will always have interest in new sets from that timeframe, even if they're remakes of remakes of remakes.