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It's my entry to the Lego Ideas Jurassic Park contest, more photos here: https://ideas.lego.com/challenges/e689dd66-3f42-4f55-b4fa-486a4c7d66c3/application/9b434185-6e70-4b90-8ea2-125bd7d77836 I started this creation with a samurai raptor, but when I finished the dress in black/dark grey this idea came to my mind. The Little Red Raptor Hood by hachiroku24, en Flickr The Little Red Raptor Hood by hachiroku24, en Flickr

I'm still not convinced the barn find will be the 911: -There is a 1x6 black plate in front of the mudguards. -The rim is the Speed Champion model, not the Technic model. -The big big Speed Champion piece to conect the wheels, which the 911 doesn't use. But maybe this is just a model built for the barn scene. I think the car will be the 911, it's the most logical assumption.

If it's about a budget thing, I prefer the Overwatch theme this way. The game doesn't have an insane amount of content, so it's better to have 2 sets well made than 7 with no printed pieces or without new molds. I'd be happy with the next wave being just a set with Mei and a big Snowball and Torbjorn (with Brigitte, maybe?) with a big turret, like the one from reddit

Wrecking Ball has a weird colour in the game. It looks dark grey most of the times, but it looks greenish-grey too. I don't know if sand green is the best choice, but definetely not a bad one. It looks very good in that colour.

Hammond looks like a mold piece, not a minifigure, right? There are a lot of printed pieces in both sets. Amazing.

Thank you! I don't care too much if it's oversized, I like the style Lego did for D.Va, Reinhardt and Bastion (the one from the Blizzard store). The Wrecking Ball I actally wanted to do to was way bigger, with room for a minifigure with small legs, but I decided to do it smaller in scale of my other Overwatch mocs. A couple of weeks ago I made an Orisa in the Lego style of D.Va and I'm really glad wit how it looks: I think if this were going a Lego set, they'd change the face to a printed 2x2 round inverted plate ( 2654 ). Weeeeell, they used Donald Duck's head for Deadpool Duck. Technically it's not the same license (but it's still Disney so... same license I guess).

Why? I think a minifig would look cute and well detailed. In the game, his heigh is like 1/3 of a human, and the head is even bigger: I have no idea about what extra characters could be in these sets. Hammond is only related to Winston, and Roadhog and Junkrat only with the Junker Queen, which is not even in the game yet (they were in London, so maybe they put Tracer with them). I really want to have Mei, but I can't imegine her being in any of the sets.

According to promobricks, Wrecking Ball is just 20€. The D.Va and Reinhardt set came with two minifgs and two mekas for 45€, so I can see the Wrecking Ball set as just the ball and Hammond (being Hammond a minifig with short legs). Compared to other human characters in the game, Hammond is similar to Rocket Raccon in size. Junkrat and Roadhog set seems expensive, so I think it will come with another minifig. Since they're releasing all the Junkertown and the Scrapyard arena together (there is a poster of Hammond fighting in the arena and Junkrat is part of the crowd), I think the other character may be Ana, because she has a skin of Junkertown (but I think it's not canon). The best option in the canon would be D.Va again, but in the Scrapyard skin. Or maybe another Reaper, since he's the best counter for Roadhog. Who knows.

I can't wait to see how they managed to make Wrecking Ball, and if it can transform.

But as far as I understand how licenses work, they only need the license for the colours and decals, since that's what exclusive from the movie. I think the Explorer and the Wrangler are very generic cars and you can do them without being exactly an Explorer and a Wrangler. I mean, you can find a lot of cars that, in minifig scale, would look exactly the same as the Explorer (4-door Chevrolet Blazer, Toyota Land Cruiser, Isuzu Trooper...). For the Jeep is harder to find similar cars, but there are, like the Toyota Fj40. Even Mark Stafford says he doesn't fully understand how licenses work, so probably everything we're saying here is just a lot of nonsense. If I were him, I'd have included the book version of the Explorer just to trigger fans.

This the best exclusive/promotional set they've ever done, by far.

I posted this one: https://ideas.lego.com/challenges/f72933d5-6a50-4179-8a95-617380b3c74c/application/aab06b29-fc19-4ec9-b44a-c45bc053a998 I really want to win something, but I don't know. After the Ragaru's demogorgon, the tunnels and the Norton's cabin with the Blazer, the TV with the poster from season 2 or some entries inspired by the set with that Other Side style, I can't get over the idea that my entry is just a van with a bike and a road. Oh, by the way, the Blazer from the set like the Blazer from Chief Brody from Jaws:

Lol, I wonder when they did this interview. This is almost the exact same phrase I said about people asking for a car in a bigger scale I'm glad to see we think the same about the cars (but I actually thought the gate was in minifig scale). I don't think they need the manufacturers licenses to make the cars. I spoke with one of the designers from the Jurassic World game and he told me they did the cars with enough changes to avoid copyright problems. For example, the Jeep has the front grill horizontal instead of vertical: And the Pontiac from The Lost World had two cheese slopes in the front but that was too similar to an original Pontiac GTO, so they had to remove it: That original version of the car appears in yellow in the car transporter in the of the San Diego stage. It's not visible here, but I remember watching a gameplay that showed it.:

There is a better view here, at the end of the video: I have no idea of what car could be.

I really don't see any similarity between the Ideas project and this D2C set. The building technique and the design of the gate are totally different, even conceptually, and the minifigures are different (D2C has "battle damage" Ian Malcolm and the project had a regular Ian Malcolm for example). Yes, both have a brick built T-Rex too, but the one from the project was a T-Rex in the same scale of the mold one while the D2C has "the biggest Lego dinosaur ever made" and that's one of the main selling features of the set. I don't know, the Ideas project is old enough to exist before the D2C set, but on the other hand, the Ideas project doesn't come to my mind when I'm looking at the D2C set.

It's not the same to modify/paint/buy a car than selling a 250€ display set. People who do the first are very specific people that want to recreate the car in real life. The scenes are iconic, not the cars. If the cars were from Jurassic World, nobody would care about them (in other words, we won't skip or complain about a set if the don't include one of them). Selling the cars without minifigures (but this is something literally impossible to happen) or even in a scale that doesn't work with minifigures would be a fail, because people want to have the same feelings they do watching the movie, and that includes the story telling. Just imagine an UCS Millennium Falcon cockpit set, with small scenes inside them recreating scenes from Episode IV, and this set being sold without the chance of having a "proper" Millennium Falcon where you can put Han and Chewie in the cockpit and Luke training with Obi Wan in the living room.

I don't know, maybe it's just something subjective, but I think the sets always need a "purpose" to exist from the point of view of minifigures. This doesn't mean I want realistic set, but something like the Death Star or Bespin are good examples. These kind of sets (in a subtheme where we don't have "typical" toys) should be a toy, not a big display model like a Star Wars fighter or a car. But the set isn't bad tho. The gate and the T-Rex are really good builds, that's why I don't think the designer did anything wrong. On the other hand, I understand and agree with the criticism. Jurassic Park is a very important movie for a couple of generations, something as important as Star Wars. Most of the people here like Lego because it's a toy, and the fact that we probably won't have more "toy sets" except the control room, has triggered a lot of fans. Why do I have the feeling of the "subverted expectations" from The Last Jedi/Diablo Immortal/Game of Thrones all over again? The problem appears when the final product isn't better than the rumours and the speculation, but I think it's wrong to blame the rumours and the speculation. With that logic, then we should always expect the worse so everything will be awesome.

I think what failed here is understanding why the people loved the movie and why some stuff from the movie is iconic. What made the dinosaurs great are not the dinosaurs themselves, but how the characters reacted to them, and that interactions involves everyhting: What's happening, where, how, why. And I think all of this should be adapted to Lego sets. You have the characters, you have a part of the gate and a dinosaur. But these things by themselves are not iconic. They become iconic when everything is working together. The Ford Explorer is iconic when it has two kids inside and a T-rex is about to eat them, or when the main characters are inside a room trying to lock the door because there is a raptor outside (I think this is a better known example xd). I don't know, I don't see that storytelling in this set.

I'm very surprised with that brickset article. I can't believe they are using the argument of the vehicles here. JP cars are really important, I mean, there even conventions about people who modified Jeeps and Explorers to look like in the movie. I see a lot of people saying they should release the vehicles in the Creator Expert style, and that's a really bad idea. The cars are important and iconic because how the characters are linked to these vehicles in the movie. There is a lot of stuff going on inside them (the first T-Rex scene, the gate scene, the T-Rex chase, the first time we see a dinosaur...). If they release the cars, they MUST BE minifig scale to work as a set. This is not like a Bond car, where the car itself is the gadget and the "leitmotiv"? of the set. You need to link the minifigures with the cars.

They did the same in 2018 with the Ferrari 488 GT3. It came as a single car set and in the Ferrari garage set.

Release date of what? New Overwatch sets? EDIT: YAY!

I'm a big fan of the JP/JW saga, I even like JPIII (the spinosaurus set was one of the first sets) and Fallen Kingdom a lot and I like the set, but I can understand why people is complaining about it, and I don't think the set itself is the problem. The set is great, and probably this can be the only way to have a minifig scale which is awesome (and between this or the visitors center, I don't care, I my opinion both choices are good). But I think the lack of the Jeep or the Explorer has triggered a lot of negative reactions. I have a Youtube channel where I upload videos building my mocs, and the JP cars have an insane amount of views. The Ford Explorer has 1 million views. Another point is the dinosaur. This is mostly a subjective point, but I think the sauropoda intead of the T-Rex, which already have a good mold, would have been more interesting. At this moment, I have a Ford Explorer from the JW videogame with a couple of modifications on my desk, and it's going to be with the JP set. I can't wait to put everything together. Really, I don't think the negative reactions are because of your work, the set itself is amazing.

I think if the set were smaller and included at leat the Jeep Wrangler we wouldn't be seeing this controversy. Well, I think even if the dino were the Sauropoda instead of another T-Rex people would be loving the set.

Oh, so you have not seen the back of the box, right?

The gate was massive in the film: I think a Ford Explorer from the JW videogame (8 studs wide) will fit perfectly there: