Whyyyyy? I know this will sell like hotcakes, but that's the scary part -- it's an original theme opportunity getting eaten up by a license. I hope Dreamzzz isn't dying for this; it's just starting to get really, really good (but then, cyberworld waves are always good). I might get this if they have some interesting buildings.Lego Pokemon is happening next year,
Dreamzzz looks like their usual 18-24 month unique theme slot, although it's gone a bit long already. Monster Fighter, Chima, Hidden Side, Nexo Knights, there have been a regular churn for those slots, about every 2 years, like clockwork. Sometimes there is a gap that gets swapped for an IP (where there are gaps, or weird launches like Vidiyo), but an OG theme follows.
MEGA as a whole is going to be phased out in 2025 to be replaced by something called Mattel Brick Shop (more information on it comes in May). Allegedly there's going to be Barbie and MOTU Lego sets in 2026 as well. I'm not sure how Barbie and Friends will coexist, but the MOTU sets will be based on the new movie. I think that Mattel is going to outsource all the licenses Lego deems acceptable (Hot Wheels, Barbie, MOTU, Pokemon) and keep Mattel Brick Shop for violent video game sets Lego would never associate themselves with.
This sucks. Dreamzzz was just starting to really settle into its groove; it always needed more pure vehicles and less creatures. The cancelled game tower set sounds really cool; I have no idea why it was cancelled when those Ninjago City-style sets are always great.
First Lego Sonic now Lego Pokemon. We're just one step away from Lego Sonichu. Come on Lego just make it happen.
There's gotta be some coding in there to imply Newton as gay.
that looks nothing like the desktop PC the Curies worked with
Anyone who's been a Lego fan for a longer while knows that in the early 2000s the company was saved by Star Wars, Lego's first huge licensing deal. Lego stretched themselves too thin in the '90s with lots of themes and experimental products that were expensive due to Lego's autistic R&D. Meanwhile the '90s kids stopped playing with plastic bricks and turned to video games. Lego stayed in business thanks to Star Wars branded sets and games which sold like hot cakes at premium prices, boosted by the second movie trilogy. That's why Lego pounced on Harry Potter to coincide with its first movie's release, and the rest is history.
What's this about? The only cracked parts I have are older. Does this have to do with their shift towards renewable materials for bricks? When I first heard of that I was afraid that this meant new bricks turn to dust in 10 years or so. Personally I'm glad they're coming out with new parts I've always wanted; let's just hope we get a 1x2 plate with studs on both sides and studded slopes some time.
If this was a MOC it would have been totally studless. It should have been built with sideways bricks rather than plate stacking. These display type sets are better suited for MOCs anyway.
Lego's quality control and manufacturing standards have gone down a lot in the last 5 years or so. Newer bricks often have these marks on the sides. If you search for "Lego mold marks" you won't be able to unsee it, and you'll find plenty AFOLS complaining about it.
I'll take stuff like this over "brand logo" sets.
I remember these goofy little stickman paintings, neat to see them again after so long translated pretty accurately into lego form. Not gonna be able to afford the asking price though lmao.
Kinda revisionist, star wars wasn't the only thing that saved lego, there were also several extremely successful themes that came out around the same timespan of lego star wars, and lego star wars actually came out during 1999, one year before 2000. Personally I'd say 2001 was a turning point year for lego to go on the up and up to some degree. I still have a lot of these either partly assembled or intact somewhere in some box or bin probably, oddly not many figures from this time crack I've noticed. You don't start seeign that shit happen frequently till like the mid-late 2000s era into the whole of the 2010s. Lime was the first color to have that shit happen to it, and brown and the other colors soon followed suit.
I've noticed that myself. That's not really a concern for me as long as the bricks stay together.
The stickman set is respectable. I even tolerate the flowers since it gives us lots of parts in strange colours that would have only been possible to get as prototypes. The worst are the "geek displayables"; it's an excuse not to work in action features when they could have had both high detail and action features. What would have been a Marvel or Star Wars playset a few years ago is now a piece of land with some minifigures thrown on and maybe a small building or vehicle.I'll take stuff like this over "brand logo" sets.
I feel like this is peak slop. The zenith of laziness and pandering to manchildren that'll honk like baboons when they see Thing They Recognize.
The battle packs and Microfighters are basically those. Battle packs are ludicrously expensive; it's $25 for 4 minifigures and a piece of rock nowadays -- why get that when you could get the Dreamzzz jet which has a great build and better minifigures? And because they have QR codes for the blind packs, the regular minifigures series are another equivalent to that.
