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I love Raw Jaw. The design is more original than "lol make a gorilla". And I actually like it is smaller than a 2.0 Hero. Unlike the heroes, he is bulky.

It was great to make Ogel one of Valkyries' ancestors, it is a great callback and explanation for her aquatic lair. The 400 stripes are doing great, too bad that I couldn't find out where to send the questions.

What is up with this show? It seems to get a lot of adult fandom. I mean, for a show with ponies that's surprising. It even seems like it has a larger periphery than Phineas and Ferb if you go by the amount of threads in the internet in which this pony show appears. But that would be crazy. I would find the idea of a ponies show getting more mature fandom than P&F a total aberration against the whole universe. I mean, it has ponies in it! Edit: Seems I won't be trying this out, liking the ponies show seems to be correlated with having a sense of taste completely incompatible to mine.

There is nothing lazy about the design process. More so, since designers have to comply with a lot more requirements than ... MoCers (Price, playability, stability, etc), it is probably a lot harder to design sets and the opposite of being lazy. This is most likely a completely made up fact. I would doubt the designers don't have a sizable amount of people to put them in line if they make a bad decision. There are probably very hard conditions they need before a set idea is approved and before the set idea goes to production. It is a creative process. Few people should work in a set design. When you add more people to a creative task, it doesn't improve things that much and in fact, too many of them would be detrimental to the object. Design by committee is discredited for a good reason. Ever heard of what a camel is? Quite honestly, AFOL's opinions are basically worth nothing. I am an AFOL, I disagree with many of the sets and things TLG have done in the past, but think about it. a) AFOLs don't have a relevant portion of the market. b) AFOLs as a whole are impossible to please. I tell you, if TLG decided to make an AT-ST instead of this eccho base thing, there would be as many AFOLs complaining about TLG not trying new set ideas. There is also how most AFOLs are horribly affected by Nostalgia Goggles, some of us really want TLG to make sets like back in the time they were 10, which is something that is actually unreasonable to expect. c) AFOLs buy sets anyway. Seriously, what is up with that? We spend all our days and nights complaining in forums about sets. And then... We buy them anyway. TLG don't have any reason to listen to anyone but their wallets, and if our wallets don't send theirs the message, they will never get it. If they get profit from the set and even you will get it then they didn't blow it. That's the reason you can't tell them that they blew it. If it succeeds in profits, it will mean that TLG have figured out that pandering to SW fans that really want accurate sets but would buy non-accurate sets anyway does not really pay as much as giving the rest of their costumers what they want. The collect-it-all mentality of course annoys you and me, but it is irrational to expect LEGO not to go with a profitable strategy just because we would like a different strategy, because we are an incredibly reduced section of their market.

Well, I would say it depends about how much content there really is in the booklet, if the higher level designs are really useful, it is an editorial and designer work. I guess also the cool tray has an effect but probably not a lot of it. Wow, did anyone else notice that the page is not in flash? Some well-made stuff. It seems (I can't test) that it is possible to buy this kit from any S@T-compatible country, at least that is what things like "add to cart" imply to me. Edit: Oh gosh, the robot designer kit, I really wish I could get it somehow.

I'd rather have a good set than something that is iconic SW but not a well-designed set. There is no reason to think TLG would always concern about making things that resemble iconic things from SW. For starters, for non-SW fans there are really so much things that are immediately recognizable without the minifigs. I am more on the geeky side of the non-SW fandom and even I have trouble really recognizing ships other than the Millennium Falcom, the X-wing, the imperial ships and the Death Star. The rest I am not sure if I remember or if they are just a ship with a SW minifig on them.

I am mad. That mothership is amazingly cute. I would understand some modifications from prototype to final , but the changes are so extreme with the mothership. The original design was just made of win. The final one is just large. I mean, it has a complete different "spirit" in the design. I am also disappointed in that I really like the color scheme of the original ADU Jetcopter better than the final color scheme. Stone somehow makes the Jet copter look more technological and militaristic to me for some strange reason.

Last thing we need is more SW minifigs. LEGO are not allowed to sell individual SW minifigs because then Hasbro become paranoid and begin to believe that LEGO are threatening their valuable SW action figure monopoly.

It may or may not be different to SW. But it does not explain why buying the BP is seemingly more expensive than buying the actual sets in which the minifigs come .

Slopes are painted?

The aliens are also the ones from the smallest sets. For that price (15.0) You could actually buy the two smallest sets... and get the same ADU soldiers and aliens, but many bricks instead of the civilian. Only exception would be that you would only get three human guns and one alien gun instead of 2/2 .

Yes, sorry about that. it is just that I was comparing the price with which I purchased the striking venom (50 USD) to the actual price I would have to pay for the mothership (85 USD). I didn't notice that I got the SV a lot less expensive than usual because it for some reason didn't have the extra pricing caused by not living right next to a LEGO factory. The SV had 7 minifigs.I would love getting the mothership for 60 USD. Instead of the 85 it will cost in my retailer.

The mommyship is skeletal because no retailer would order a 120.00 space set (What a bulky, correctly designed mommyship would cost) when they could instead order star wars sets with that price

BPs should be for army building. This fig is taking the place of an alien troper, a scientist or an ADU soldier. And that civilian is already in the tripod set anyway.

Including the civilian in the battle pack seems to be a great way to make the battle pack less useful for space fans. Anyway, it would be great if those battle packs were available outside US...

I will get at least one Raw Jaw. Scorpio and waspix seem good to harvest pieces from.

Transformers is not a license. It is a toy brand. The TV shows and movies are actually 30/90 minute long adverts for toys. A toy brand owned by Hasbro who would never let TLG or any competitor win more market using their characters. The "crap brand" that is make transformers construction toys is Hasbro, under the BTR (before) and now Kreeo/whatever alter ego. It is not LEGO that does not want to make those franchizes. Potato head and Barbie not appearing in LEGO toy story is most certainly because Fisher price / Mattel wouldn't like a competitor earning market with their stuff either. Pretty sure they have construction toys.

The mothership to me is like the 7707 Striking venom. It is very large and skeletical, but that probably means that the mothership will be great as a cherry to put on top of an Alien army. Imagine a couple of tripods and saucers being shadowed by a mothership that no longer looks empty because of the smaller sets using its space. Unfortunately, the price is not practical 60 USD is like twice of what the Striking venom used to cost and I think they may have the same amount of pieces and the same size... I would not mind at all getting one if I find it 25% off.

Belville is something we are all trying to forget. Just like 4Juniors and what not.

The cavewoman looks ok and she has a printed top. To me that looks better than the strange suddenly pink sides of the dancer.

They could just not add the repeats at all and just have less minifigs per series. It would also make it easier to complete them.

To be fair they were right that time. 1997-Early 2000s was a very dark age for LEGO in which they had many losses and their revival is seen as a miracle in some articles and attributed to going back to making bricks and improving the designs.

I like the 2x4 tiles and the SNOT used. I mean, it would have been very easy for TLG to go the McDonalds mini-racers way and just make 4 molds that make a very accurate but <insert that tiresome argument> design. But instead they did make sure to include some nice brick count and actually do something interesting in the parts that are not the roof or the front. And sure it sticks out, but it is supposed to look like a LEGO lightning McQueen, not like lightning McQueen.

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