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Re: GENERIC themes you want to see!

Post by Hamahaki » Mon Jul 24, 2017 8:27 am

Too bad we will never get a military theme
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Re: GENERIC themes you want to see!

Post by Duerer » Mon Jul 24, 2017 9:27 am

I think Star Wars and Indiana Jones' not-nazis, as well as some other licensed themes, should do for now. Aside from that, I'm not sure how well conventional military vehicles would even work as Lego sets, though.
I'm entirely ignoring TLG's pseudo-pacifist stance on things and mostly refer to playability, which would be reduced to moving tracks and the main cannon's shooting function at best. Even if Lego did some tanks and tank-like vehicles in the past, they look way different from modern or historic battle tanks:
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Plus, conventional designs look rather unexciting and unappealing to most kids, given that not all of them are history or military nuts.
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Re: GENERIC themes you want to see!

Post by Hamahaki » Tue Jul 25, 2017 4:16 pm

But they look cool
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Re: GENERIC themes you want to see!

Post by Omega Prime » Tue Jul 25, 2017 8:16 pm

I'm not even sure if half the tanks that lego makes as official sets are actually tanks. The first one is the odd Triangle-shaped car, and the second is a starfighter cockpit on suspension. The only real features they share with modern tanks are tons of guns and treads. :???:
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Re: GENERIC themes you want to see!

Post by Duerer » Wed Jul 26, 2017 12:29 am

Omega Prime wrote:I'm not even sure if half the tanks that lego makes as official sets are actually tanks.
That's the point I guess. Kids aren't supposed to play with boring box-shaped tanks but with all these rad weirdly-shaped non-tanks that are proof to the designers creativity.
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Re: GENERIC themes you want to see!

Post by dilanski » Mon Jul 31, 2017 5:42 pm

Hamahaki wrote:Too bad we will never get a military theme
If the next big marvel movie had a too prominent to pass on fight scene with a tank, then we'd get a tank. A straight up military theme would never happen.

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Re: GENERIC themes you want to see!

Post by Omega Prime » Mon Jul 31, 2017 8:08 pm

dilanski wrote:
Hamahaki wrote:Too bad we will never get a military theme
If the next big marvel movie had a too prominent to pass on fight scene with a tank, then we'd get a tank. A straight up military theme would never happen.

"Look Mommy! An Apache Gunship! I want one so I play kill the reporters and children!"

Sounds awesome for Brikwars. Not for a public image.
That would be amazing, though.
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Re: GENERIC themes you want to see!

Post by Scribonius » Sat Aug 19, 2017 8:12 pm

I realize people are going to flame me for this, but I don't care. I actually like the City sets. Mind you, I also do Lego trains, so I'm kind of biased. The Jungle Explorer sets are new, and kind of awesome. Yeah, they keep making new Police and Fire sets, but they're all DIFFERENT/same (as in, the same, but still DIFFERENT). While the sets are the same, they have been giving us some new ideas. A Bank came with one of the Police sets, for example. The City Transport sets are nice, too. A bus stop and magazine stand? That's new. I loved the older city street sets they made, and would like to see more generic buildings in that line. Y'know, apartment buildings, houses, basic cafe/restaurant/business buildings. We used to have more of those. Gas stations, motorcycle/bicycle/car repair/sales shops, pizza shops... How about a strip mall? A park? Library might be boring, but would still fit...

Honestly, upon reflection we might not need REAL Generic themes, just... slightly less... commercialized ones? Like spin-off kind of things? I dunno. Wouldn't be too hard to go the Knight's Kingdom route but go more "Game of Thrones," for lack of a better word. Give us Noble Houses for Castle, perhaps? Kids might like the idea of trying to set House Lionclaw against House Darkwolf or House, well, to go classic, Black Falcon...

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Re: GENERIC themes you want to see!

Post by Duerer » Sun Aug 20, 2017 1:12 am

Scribonius wrote:Y'know, apartment buildings, houses, basic cafe/restaurant/business buildings. We used to have more of those. Gas stations, motorcycle/bicycle/car repair/sales shops, pizza shops...
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Re: GENERIC themes you want to see!

Post by Venge » Sun Aug 20, 2017 10:28 am

Omega Prime wrote:
dilanski wrote:
Hamahaki wrote:Too bad we will never get a military theme
If the next big marvel movie had a too prominent to pass on fight scene with a tank, then we'd get a tank. A straight up military theme would never happen.

"Look Mommy! An Apache Gunship! I want one so I play kill the reporters and children!"

Sounds awesome for Brikwars. Not for a public image.
That would be amazing, though.
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Re: GENERIC themes you want to see!

Post by Duerer » Sun Aug 20, 2017 10:55 am

Then build your own heliboi if you feel underrepresented. TLG can't provide you with sets for all of your fetishes, after all.
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Re: GENERIC themes you want to see!

Post by Zahru II » Sun Aug 20, 2017 11:48 am

I did some database scrounging for fun and it turns out recently we've been getting roughly 20 helis or heli-like models per year. It's been a running joke amongst people keeping up with city, considering even the undersea sub-range (Ha) couldn't get away with not having at least one dedicated heli set in its roster.
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Re: GENERIC themes you want to see!

Post by Venge » Sun Aug 20, 2017 11:57 am

Zahru II wrote:I did some database scrounging for fun and it turns out recently we've been getting roughly 20 helis or heli-like models per year. It's been a running joke amongst people keeping up with city, considering even the undersea sub-range (Ha) couldn't get away with not having at least one dedicated heli set in its roster.
But they're always portrayed in an urban or nonviolent role, never as gunships or anything, kinda like how 90% of action heroes are male. I wanna see an attack helicopter set. Also, does anyone know if we've gotten a d a p p e r minifig yet?
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Re: GENERIC themes you want to see!

Post by Duerer » Sun Aug 20, 2017 12:02 pm

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US folks already got a Hind Attack Helicopter like about a decade ago. That should suffice.
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Re: GENERIC themes you want to see!

Post by Venge » Sun Aug 20, 2017 2:49 pm

How appropriate that we are having this discussion today, as today happens to be World Helicopter Day (I'm not shitting you).

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