Why Lego won’t ever make military-related toys

[Booyakasha]

DC pays more, simple enough. They got the financial backing of Warner Brothers, who's owned by Time Warner.

Yeah, yeah. Just wait until the Girl Genius movie comes out and makes a trillion dollars in its opening weekend. You'll be eating your words then, won't you.

[Sim Kid]

I wouldn't.

Because I'd actually want to see that.

[Booyakasha]

Me too.

Also everyone else in the known universe.

So when's the damn 'Lego Girl Genius' set coming out? I want some Girl Genius toys, man. I want a Sleipnir O'Hara minifigure, and a Bangladesh DuPree as well.

[I REALLY HATE POKEMON!]

Lego Pokemon would be cool.

[Booyakasha]

^Lego Von Pinn would kick the everloving sh*t out of Lego Pikachu.

Von Pinn is made of rough tough stuff, homey.

[I REALLY HATE POKEMON!]

are we talking like random lv4 forest pikachu or ashs hax godchu

[Booyakasha]

Whichever. Von Pinn is scary. She lifts Agatha up by the throat one-handed in her first scene. I don't doubt she could manhandle any given crummy little electro-rat.

[I REALLY HATE POKEMON!]

I don't know how this got bumped but Pikachu wins, Boo. Even in the first season he's casually blowing up giant tank-like Team Rocket weaponry in a single blast. He's cute but also scary. He's like a little Super Saiyan rodent.

[Booyakasha]

^Thread got bumped because I made a post about the new Lego pirate ship, and then deleted that post because it was a really, really crappy, embarrassing post (I was whining about how it isn't a very good Lego pirate ship, yet I want it anyways because I'm an idiot. Everyone would have thought less of me if I left that post up. Fortunately no one will ever now know that that post existed, because it is gone, and there's literally no evidence, and certainly I won't go spilling the beans. Ahahahaa.)

[Heroine of the Dragon]

....but I like Lego pirate ships...

[I REALLY HATE POKEMON!]

Lego has never really interested me much. As a kid it wasn't even close to being my favorite toy, mostly because I'm not the creative type and leaned toward action figures. Now they've been getting increasingly political so I like them even less. What really surprises me is why people like their video games. I couldn't imagine more boring, generic design if I tried, and they've just been rehashing it for over a decade at this point.

[Booyakasha]

^^I like them, too, but sometimes a ship just doesn't interest me at the time, and then a couple years later I kind of get a yen, but by that point the price has skyrocketed. And it feels like it's only the pirate ships where the prices go bonkers like this.

Out of the whole Pirates of the Caribbean line, I didn't get but the Queen Anne's Revenge. So now if I want the Black Pearl or Silent Mary I can prepare to shell out eight hundo bux or more.

...maybe I should just get the new Ninjago ship instead. I like variety----------the new pirate ship is kind of just an unimpressive pirate ship, but the new Ninjago ship is another cool junk. Galleons are cool, but I like a junk or viking-style longboat, a twin-hulled catamaran.

[Heroine of the Dragon]

Agreed about the prices. I hummed over a pirate ship and it's some crazy price now. I do like the dragon's figurehead on the Ninjago ship. What I'd love to see is a flying pirate ship (think FF-inspired).

[Booyakasha]

...I seem to recall a flying ship from about twenty years ago. It was from a kind of a time-traveling theme...

Hey, here we go. It's not very big, but look-------------dragon figurehead. I think. Actually, that might be just a kind of dragony-looking horse helmet. Still, though. Kind of close.

Not really my thing. I think 'flying ship', I prefer something steampunk like 'Girl Genius' (I'd love a Lego set of Castle Wulfenbach). Heck, I bought the pirate airship Swashbuckler toy from the MLPFiM movie (candy-coloured friendship-powered ponies with cutlasses and harpoon cannons-----------I wish I was sick enough in the head to come up with this stuff).

[Booyakasha]

...so I got the new huge Lego ECTO-1. It's a big set. Probably bigger than the action figure-scale toy that came out in the 80s. I like it a lot.

I thought of getting the equally huge Lego Batmobile from the 1989 movie, except I'm already a little low on space for huge new Lego stuff, so instead I got the much more reasonable-sized Batmobile from the 60s teevee show. It's great.

[Heroine of the Dragon]

I don't recall seeing the Flying Time Vessel here. It's cute but not what I was imagining...

The ECTO-1 looks amazing!! Have fun building it!!

[Booyakasha]

...ahahahaa. My brain ain't workin so hot just now, man.

I was looking at Legos at the store yesterday, and I saw Lego has made a new Duplo set featuring a red panda (likely because red pandas are going to be in the zeitgeist because of the new Pixar), and my first thought was "what the heck? They're making 'Aggretsuko' Legos now?"

...I've been staying up too late.

(I got the new BTTF Delorean set, incidentally. It looks pretty keen.)

[I REALLY HATE POKEMON!]

Back to the Future is so rewatchable. The best movies are.

[Booyakasha]

Yeah. BTTF is good biz.

...I like this run of super-nice Lego sets based on iconic pop culture vehicles. I wonder what's next---------Bandit's t-top Trans Am? Ash's '73 Oldsmobile? the powerful Mach 5? K.I.T.T.? the A-Team van? Adam-12? Chitty Chitty Bang Bang? Sam and Max's warped non-euclidean DeSoto? the Bluesmobile (extra points if you can pull out a pin and have it fall to pieces like at the end of the movie)? Guess it's just to wait and see.

(EDIT: Now I think of it, it'd be cool if Lego expanded its remote-control robots line, too. R2-D2 was a good start, but, like, alright------------WALL-E would sell like hotcakes, and, I mean, like who doesn't want a little Lego Johnny 5 homey.)

[I REALLY HATE POKEMON!]

I think it helps that BTTF had memorable tie-ins that keep it sort of relevant. Most notably, that cool ride at Universal Studios, that was awesome. The infamously bad games and neat pinball table might contribute. I also vaguely remember a cartoon but it must not have been very good because I don't remember anything beyond it existing.

Iconic pop culture vehicles huh? ZERO-ONE would be incredible. On one hand it's Pokemon related, but it's still relatively obscure, not sure it's iconic enough.