Blondie-Wan

Well, most LEGO people (minifigures) lack posable knees, and those are based on real-life beings that have them. If they don't have them, why should mechs, which generally aren't even based upon real-life knee-equipped objects? :p ;) I imagine it actually is indeed a cost issue.

A very low possibility of passing isn't the same as absolutely no chance of passing, though. Obviously they don't want to give people the impression that large sets are likely to happen, but they also don't want to rule them out entirely, either. It's conceivable they could one day have a large project in review at the same time all the internal production concerns are in perfect alignment to do a large set, and they might want to do it. Yes, but the two are different models, and this one has a frankly much more appealing design (in addition to getting to be the second such project to accrue the votes, suggesting more of an audience than the first one might have). There's still no guarantee or anything, but I think this one does at least have a better chance than the ATLAS-only project did.

How about this? It appears in some sets that also have screaming male faces, too.

It depends on how large the aberrations are. Can you post pics of some typical ones that bother you?

The updated final proposal for that project doesn't use chroming.

One of EB's own has a nicely-designed Large Hadron Collider that has amassed over 1500 votes in just three days. At that rate, I think it has an excellent shot at rocketing up there in time for the next review batch deadline (and should certainly have no problem getting the needed votes within a year, at any rate). Of older projects (specifically those due to expire in 61 days), I wouldn't want to rule out anything with around 7000 votes or so or more. I'm sure many of those won't make it, but some well might.

$10, as of this writing - have a look and see. (I don't know if it's the same in brick-and-mortar TRU stores, but I'd imagine so, though if one can order online it doesn't matter anyway, right?)

Slightly off-topic since this is for the 2015 sets, but the 2014 sets have been starting to go away in the past couple weeks (save for the Minifigures line, which has been sold out nearly everywhere for almost a year, and the various promos). I very nearly didn't notice in time and almost missed out on a few (I'm trying to get as much of the line as I can, including hopefully all the boxed retail sets), but fortunately I seem to have picked up on it just in time, and I've actually been scoring some excellent deals - a second Benny's Spaceship, Spaceship, SPACESHIP! for $49 from Wallyworld, just like you, plus a Super Secret Police Dropship for $59, Ice Cream Machine for $9, a second Trash Chomper for $15, and more; it now looks like I have a surprisingly good shot at actually collecting more or less the whole theme, save for some of the promo sets. Most of the deals I've found lately have been at Walmart, which isn't all that surprising, but even Toys 'R' Us - Toys 'R' Us! - has discounted Rescue Reinforcements, now. I now either have in hand or am awaiting receipt of (from recent orders) every boxed set in the first wave, two of the three or four second wave sets (depending on whether you count the Sea Cow as part of the second wave), all the Minifigures, two of the three polybags, the three theater ticket / videogame preorder minifigures, the two TRU build event "sets", and the Piece of Resistance book with included robot minifigure, and the "Everything is Awesome!" edition Blu-ray with Vitruvius. The only things I'm lacking are the theater promo set (in the tin), the SDCC Unikitty, Micro Manager Battle (the Wyldstyle polybag), the polybag with the vehicle microbuilds, the LEGO Store Monthly Model Build Micro-manager, Metal Beard's Sea Cow, Emmet's Construct-o-Mech, and the three sets that just came out (plus the "extended line" stuff I'm not concerned about, like keychains and such). Being unable to get the theater promo set in the tin and especially the SDCC Unikitty figure really stings, but everything else is either doable, or something I don't need to worry about (in that it's stuff I can easily recreate with my own parts and such from elsewhere). I... I think... I think I'm going to make it!! :D I've actually been able to start getting a few duplicates now of things I'd like multiples of, even. Thanks to clearances, I have two apiece of Getaway Glider, Trash Chomper, and Benny's Spaceship, Spaceship, SPACESHIP! (in addition to two or three of some of the minifigures), and should be able to get additionals of these and / or a few others. This is the largest LEGO theme that I've ever managed to collect to this level of completion. There are a few others that come close - I got all sixteen of the retail Indiana Jones sets (plus many, many duplicates - Temple Escape is the only one I have only one of), plus the Brickmaster set, but aside from there also being a couple rare convention promos I'm devastated not to have, the overall theme is still smaller than this one. Similarly, I actually managed to get all of the Prince of Persia sets, but that was a mere five retail boxes plus a Brickmaster polybag. Likewise with Alien Conquest, I have all the boxed retail sets, but again it's a much smaller theme than TLM. Getting this much of this theme is much harder. I set out to try to get all the sets for The LEGO Movie, but I'm not sure I thought I'd come this close to actually doing it - yet here I am, closing in on the finish line. Well... wow.

I actually saw this shortly after you put it on Ideas, and I like it quite a bit - you already have my support, as of yesterday. :) I think you've done a good job of building a microscale version of a large scientific research instrument / facility, that might not necessarily lend itself towards a visually-interesting model, and done a good job of making it engaging to look at. And I see I'm not the only one who thinks so, given that you've garnered over 1300 votes (including mine) in just a couple days, an envious accomplishment. Good luck with it!

I hadn't been paying attention to this thread or the thing with the codes, and I only just today realized that the codes are connected to an ongoing giveaway of actual physical sets. :o I had thought they were for something to do with the online game, like the codes from the previous series (which I'm also interested in but haven't gotten around to trying yet). Holy smokes. I'm glad I at least found out while I still have enough time to use all my codes, but I do wish I'd realized earlier.

I can think of one way we'd get Robo-Wyldstyle with her ponytail sticking out of her helmet, actually, though it probably won't happen: The LEGO Movie Minifigures Series 2. It'd also be a good way to get Michelangelo the artist. Of course we would likely have heard about it already, and it would have to take the place of either The Simpsons Series 2 in May, or Series 14 in October (or come out next year, which is just beyond the bounds of what's realistic for a theme built around one movie with no continuing media support for a while, even one as wildly successful as this). Ah, well. It would have been nice, but then this theme has offered plenty of collecting challenges as it is, without adding another so-called "CMF" release to it...

No Wild West Wyldstyle?

Mass Effect has an ESRB rating of "M", though, for "Blood, Language, Partial Nudity, Sexual Themes, Violence", whereas nearly all Star Wars material has (the equivalent of) an MPAA rating of "PG" or something "softer", and Star Wars is generally considered a family-friendly franchise. Mass Effect is not.

I can't see the quoted poster's image, but I can understand getting the older scouts instead of the newer ones, if one already has a bunch of older ones, as I do. I have over 20 of the old ones, amassed from various sets over the years, and unfortunately any new ones I get in sets from here on out won't match them; it's like starting over from the beginning. It'll be a long time before I wind up getting that many of the new ones just from sets, and I've never been crazy about getting ones from Bricklink, though perhaps I'll cave eventually.

If I may be forgiven for going on a tangent, actually, just where is there a good fleshtoned substitution head for Biggs? I'd like to have an "updated" Biggs using his 7140 / 7142 helmet, a later (current) X-Wing pilot torso and legs, and an appropriate head, but I can't quite find one of that last item that looks quite right - the closest heads available all seem to have too great a difference in the pattern and/or color of the facial hair, look too old, or have some other issue that keeps them from working well as Luke's old buddy from Tatooine. But I'm not able to keep up with every face print out there; perhaps there are some good candidates I've missed. Anyone know of any?

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They might consider it a little dark / violent / gory by LEGO standards. I wouldn't think it has anything to do with conflicting with Monster Fighters or Minifigures Series 14.

Different strokes for different folks. Personally, I'm actually tickled by the very idea of a crash test dummy minifigure, and I'd rate the S1 Demolition Dummy more highly than either the S1 Cheerleader or the S2 Spartan Warrior, even though I have more of the latter two than I do of the Dummy. And the S5 Zookeeper is actually one of my favorite figures from that series. I think there are very few minifigures from any of these series that aren't really well done; it's more a matter of personal tastes, interests, usefulness, etc. But that's just me...

I could have sworn that they added that policy awhile back? Oh well if it hasn't been official before better that they do so now. Yes, indeed - there aren't all that many such projects (ones that don't show any kind of LEGO construction at all in their images), and the few that are there don't seem to get many votes, but they do exist. I just came across this old one this morning while browsing through the site. Now that they're no longer accepting projects without images of brick-built creations, they'll turn up even less frequently, and within a year all the existing ones will expire, but they're there. (The comments on that one I linked to are amusing - every single one is about the fact the project just has photos of the real house, with not one pic of a LEGO version.)

You think so? As far as I can tell, both shows do actually have adult followings, particularly the Avatar and Korra stuff (I see it extensively covered all the time on sites like The Mary Sue), but also Spongebob Squarepants. It certainly skews more to kids, of course, but I know older viewers do watch.

Okay, done! I have to admit I'm actually not familiar with the series yet, but do want to check it out, and as a pure LEGO theme I thought it looked interesting. I'm going ahead and supporting your project on those grounds, as well as to thank you for your contributions here (and because your project looks neat, even if I don't yet understand what it represents).

In the US, it's free with any purchase of $35 or more, throughout February or while supplies last. I've gotten two of them so far already.

I was very fond of this cartoon for a little while when I was a kid forty years ago (around the same time I first discovered LEGO, as it happens), and this is a well-done build, instantly recognizable to those of us who know the show. I like how faithfully you were able to do it using a completely purist build, and using such an economy of pieces, something many licensed MOCs don't accomplish. I've gone ahead and added my own support for it on Ideas. Good luck!

Well, assuming that's the case (which we don't know for certain yet), it could well be because this is still the Ideas line, and has to be fit around all their other scheduled lines, which are planned much further in advance and which take up most of their production capacity.

Well, even if we put aside representational issues, the wheelchair ramp project I linked to remains a LEGO Ideas project - it's something that the project creator and others want to see released as a set, and thousands of people have voted for it. If it gets 10,000 votes it'll be evaluated for its potential as a commercial project, and it obviously has some, since people have voted for it and it continues to accrue votes. The fact is, there are people in wheelchairs; they do exist. LEGO sets portray many fanciful things, such as Ghostbusters, time travelers, events that took place in a longago faraway galaxy or Middle-Earth or whatever, but they also portray regular, ordinary, day-to-day life - cars, trucks, buses, schools, cops, firefighters, scientists, teachers, shoppers, business people, etc. People with disabilities do exist in day-to-day life, as do accommodations for them. There's no reason to avoid representing them in LEGO sets when virtually everything else that exists in the universe (and an awful lot that doesn't) is fair game. If some folks here don't get the appeal of such sets, like Sven F here... ... then they don't have to support them, but there's no reason to object to others posting them or supporting them. If you don't want it, then just don't vote for it, and don't buy it if it gets made, but there's no need to act like nobody else could possibly have a reason for wanting it. The one I specifically linked to might not yet have anywhere near the votes it needs, but it does have several thousand, so obviously some folks want it.(Incidentally, the reason I linked to that Accessibility Set project in the first place was nothing to do with what the project is about; it was about the bent lever shown on the wheelchair in one of the pics, and whether something like that would now be considered a part modification.)