Lego Cuusoo killed the Serenity Project before it even got to the review stage.
I still feel this partially has to do with all the older AFOLs frowning upon the idea of licenced themes. Or more specifically, they're jealousy that licenced themes have achieved support so much faster than their favorite entries. Like seriously, the amount of hate I was reading was staggering.
Granted, Serenity did have it shortcomings, in that it did have more adult themes than most traditional Lego licenced themes. It wasn't nearly as bad a Shaun of the Dead, and I thought they could've just gone with the whole space-ship thing and stuck with them, but they have to observe all the details, and frankly it's been pretty clear that some themes that AFOLs would love to see just won't happen because they're not fitting with Lego's ideals... which is fine, if a tad bit disappointing in this case.
Of course, you know the Back to the Future set's going to show up eventually. That trilogy is just as iconic as Star Wars or Indiana Jones, and it's a lot more kid friendly than Serenity or Shaun of the Dead. And with the anniversary coming up, the timing will be just right. Marty McFly will travel into the future and see a Lego set of himself already in production.
I have no opinion on the two video game project, since I haven't played either. Eve looks okay for a ship, but not enough for me to wanted, The Zelda figures look great but the set idea is kinda meh. They could've done better. And of course, two non-licenced themes that I'm full behind are the Modular Western Town (which I prolly wouldn't buy) and the Space Marines (which I would totally buy.) I'm sure they'll get some support now that the main licenced themes have risen to 10,000.
I have two ideas myself that could potentially be made into projects, although I lask the time / motivation to really turn them into projects. One would be a Bionicle Game set, like how they've done the Star Wars, Harry Potter, and Ninjago games. They'd have the license, and I would really like to see micro-figs painted as the original Toa. But there are so many things against that; Why would they use 01 characters that are now super old?
Second one is more simple: release a brown minifigure head with a female face printed on it! It's not a set idea, but gosh darn it Lego why won't you do it? Then we could make a Zoe figure of our own from Firefly, as well as other classic characters. I'm holding out that they continue to make Super Hero sets and include an X-Men set with Storm in it... then there's be no way around producing the right head. And this could be in either a BlackBird set or an Xavior Mansion set... iconic pieces from the X-Men universe that would look great in Lego form and could include all sorts of great figures (besides just Wolverine.) C'mon, Lego make it happen!
In other news, water pipe sprung a leak this afternoon, so we fixed it but need to wait until morning for the pipe cement stuff to dry so no water for tonight. (And I got all muddy fixing it. )
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