Calabar Posted October 25, 2015 Posted October 25, 2015 Question: is it me or in Italian S&H the price of this set lifted from fifty to sixty Euro while the set was not buyable yet? Maybe in other European countries too? Quote
Kaanere Posted October 25, 2015 Posted October 25, 2015 Question: is it me or in Italian S&H the price of this set lifted from fifty to sixty Euro while the set was not buyable yet? Maybe in other European countries too? It aslo costs 60€ in Spain. Quote
masdcw Posted October 25, 2015 Posted October 25, 2015 Count your blessings... It's 65 € for the Netherlands... Why is it always much more expensive for us Dutch people?!? Quote
Sir Gareth Posted October 25, 2015 Posted October 25, 2015 Kinda wish the Ideas set included Amy since it is based off of the Time of the Doctor Five minifigures would have been pretty reasonable for a $60 set. Quote
LEGODalekbuster523 Posted October 25, 2015 Posted October 25, 2015 Kinda wish the Ideas set included Amy since it is based off of the Time of the Doctor Five minifigures would have been pretty reasonable for a $60 set. Amy only appeared at the end as a hallucination though. Quote
Sir Gareth Posted October 26, 2015 Posted October 26, 2015 (edited) Amy only appeared at the end as a hallucination though. I get that it was only a hallucination, but it still would have been nice to recieve her. She appeared in the episode for nearly as long as the Twelfth Doctor did. Edited October 26, 2015 by Sir Gareth Quote
LEGODalekbuster523 Posted October 27, 2015 Posted October 27, 2015 I get that it was only a hallucination, but it still would have been nice to recieve her. She appeared in the episode for nearly as long as the Twelfth Doctor did. I know but the difference there is that the 12th Doctor is the current Doctor therefore they need him there to tie it in with the current era. Quote
Sir Gareth Posted October 27, 2015 Posted October 27, 2015 (edited) I know but the difference there is that the 12th Doctor is the current Doctor therefore they need him there to tie it in with the current era. I mean in addition to the other minifigures, not in the place of one. Five minifigures is fair for a $60 set, even a licensed one. And if you can't tell by my avatar, the Twelfth Doctor is my favorite, so I'm more than happy to be receiving multiple variants of him Edited October 27, 2015 by Sir Gareth Quote
LEGODalekbuster523 Posted October 27, 2015 Posted October 27, 2015 I mean in addition to the other minifigures, not in the place of one. Five minifigures is fair for a $60 set, even a licensed one. And if you can't tell by my avatar, the Twelfth Doctor is my favorite, so I'm more than happy to be receiving multiple variants of him It's already technically six minifigures; whilst Amy would have been nice, I don't think she was really needed anyway. Quote
deskp Posted October 27, 2015 Posted October 27, 2015 It's already technically six minifigures; whilst Amy would have been nice, I don't think she was really needed anyway. If you wanna be technical it's only 4 minifigures. Quote
Tariq j Posted October 27, 2015 Posted October 27, 2015 It's already technically six minifigures; whilst Amy would have been nice, I don't think she was really needed anyway. But I think Kids would want to recreate the Eleventh Doctors final scene, and an Amy minifigure would be a perfect addition here. But speaking of minifigures, I think Lego should've made an alternate "older" Eleventh Doctor face and Doc Brown hairpiece so the builder could swap the Doctor between old and young. Quote
LEGODalekbuster523 Posted October 28, 2015 Posted October 28, 2015 If you wanna be technical it's only 4 minifigures. I was counting the 11th Doctor, 12th Doctor, Clara, Dalek, Dalek and Weeping Angel. I'm sure LEGO probably count the two Daleks. But I think Kids would want to recreate the Eleventh Doctors final scene, and an Amy minifigure would be a perfect addition here. They'll be fine. Just use their imagination and have Amy represented as a rubber or something. Quote
deskp Posted October 28, 2015 Posted October 28, 2015 I was counting the 11th Doctor, 12th Doctor, Clara, Dalek, Dalek and Weeping Angel. I'm sure LEGO probably count the two Daleks. LEGO: "Includes 4 minifigures with assorted accessory elements:" Quote
LEGODalekbuster523 Posted October 28, 2015 Posted October 28, 2015 LEGO: "Includes 4 minifigures with assorted accessory elements:" I'm surprised at that. The images of the box make it look like they count the Daleks as minifigures. Quote
nikhkin Posted October 28, 2015 Posted October 28, 2015 I'm surprised at that. The images of the box make it look like they count the Daleks as minifigures. They are included as characters, but Lego only counts them as minifigures if they are literally minifigures. The Daleks are brick-built Quote
Blondie-Wan Posted October 28, 2015 Posted October 28, 2015 (edited) Yep. Their usage of the word "minifigure" seems to have varied a bit over the years, and indeed other companies and people use it all sorts of ways, but currently, LEGO itself has a pretty strict definition of what it officially refers to as a "minifigure". They apply it only to LEGO figures that are made with a certain number of traditional minifigure elements. Other figures, even if they're about the same size and scale and are meant to be used in conjunction with minifigures, aren't. For example, R2-D2 isn't considered a minifigure, while C-3PO is. If you look at the initial press releases for LEGO Dimensions, they talk about Fun Packs, Team Packs and Level Packs for franchises like Back to the Future, Ninjago and The Lord of the Rings featuring "minifigures" from those franchises, but within the same sentence referring to the ones for The LEGO Movie just as "characters"; that's thanks to Unikitty. Note also how the official description of the new Ghostbusters Firehouse Headquarters refers to it having nine minifigures (Peter, Ray, Egon, Winston, Dana, Louis, Janine, the library ghost, and zombie driver), plus Slimer, a pink ghost and a blue ghost. Even something like the classic LEGO skeleton isn't technically considered a "minifigure", even though it represents a skeletal version of a minifigure character, since it has too few traditional minifigure elements to qualify (just the skull, which is the same actual part mold as a regular minifigure head). We, of course, are free to do otherwise if we so choose, and I like to consider R2-D2 (and other astromech droids), battle droids, skeletons, Unikitty, Daleks, Slimer, rock monsters, etc. to all be minifigures. They just aren't counted as such in official LEGO set descriptions. Edited October 28, 2015 by Blondie-Wan Quote
A Gallifreyan Cat Posted October 29, 2015 Posted October 29, 2015 So I'm assuming that the first time you'll be able to order this is midnight, December 1st? If so, I won't be going got bed early then! Quote
dannallcorn Posted October 30, 2015 Posted October 30, 2015 If you are in the UK there is a preorder up on The entertainer shop website but you have to pay there and then £49.99. Quote
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