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21306: The Beatles Yellow Submarine (LEGO Ideas)

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Blondie-Wan Grand Master

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Ooooh, the minifigures look great! Granted, they also look exactly like how I expected them to. It's a shame some people here don't appreciate them, but oh well. They certainly look how they ought to, anyway.

Unfortunately, I wouldn't expect to see any other characters here, unlike with the K'Nex version, as pretty much anyone else would require new molds to look really right. I expect the actual sub to look a lot better than that one, though.

I just wish I'd submitted this myself. If was one of many projects I was mulling over for a long time, until somebody else went and beat me to it. That they not only made it to 10k but actually got it approved really ought to teach me not to foot-drag on submitting my own stuff, but alas, so far I still have yet to submit any. Oh, well. It'll definitely happen, once I finally get my ideas built...

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They look terrible BECAUSE they look like the source material. It's one of those situations where NOT being true to the source material would be welcome. So many times we complain about Lego sets or minifigs not properly representing the source, and this time, sadly, they nailed it. Would've been better if the minifigs represented a real-life version of the Beatles, even if they wore similar outfits to the cartoon.

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Ooooh, the minifigures look great! Granted, they also look exactly like how I expected them to. It's a shame some people here don't appreciate them, but oh well. They certainly look how they ought to, anyway.

It's a weird art style. So, it's even weirder to see it translated to Lego. I can understand why people have had the reaction they're having. Accuracy doesn't necessarily mean it's aesthetically pleasing. Too, I can't help but think maybe people were expecting something different, the Yellow Submarine Beatles are definitely different from the real life people. Even being familiar with the movie I was expecting something different.

Ringo should have had printed arms. Some new hair molds would have helped too. These more generic pieces with printed sideburns don't exactly work that great. Too, Paul's coat might have been better as a clothe element.

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Ringo should have had printed arms. Some new hair molds would have helped too. These more generic pieces with printed sideburns don't exactly work that great. Too, Paul's coat might have been better as a clothe element.

I agree. Especially on the printed arms.

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They look terrible BECAUSE they look like the source material. It's one of those situations where NOT being true to the source material would be welcome. So many times we complain about Lego sets or minifigs not properly representing the source, and this time, sadly, they nailed it. Would've been better if the minifigs represented a real-life version of the Beatles, even if they wore similar outfits to the cartoon.

Nah, they're better this way. Their mandate is to please the people who supported this set because they wanted an authentic-looking Beatles Yellow Submarine set, with minifigures that look like the characters as portrayed in the film, not people with minimal interest in the movie and the group and who just want a handful of more ordinary-looking minifigures.

People in the latter camp can get minifigures to suit their taste seventy-six ways to Sunday, whereas people in the former will likely only ever have this set (and maybe a LEGO Dimensions pack or three :tongue::wink:). It's kind of unfair to ask them to give up a measly four minifigures just so you can have a 0.0000000000001% increase in minifigures of a sort you already have ninety-two trillion, three hundred forty-seven billion, eight hundred sixty-eight million, four hundred three thousand, five hundred twenty-two of.

Besides, the cartoony outfits are really the biggest departure from the "norm" of minifigure design; their faces aren't actually a huge departure from how contemporary minifigures portraying either live-action characters or LEGO-original ones generally look.

It's a weird art style. So, it's even weirder to see it translated to Lego. I can understand why people have had the reaction they're having. Accuracy doesn't necessarily mean it's aesthetically pleasing. Too, I can't help but think maybe people were expecting something different, the Yellow Submarine Beatles are definitely different from the real life people. Even being familiar with the movie I was expecting something different.

It is an unusual art style, but it is indeed true to the source material, and that's important.

Ringo should have had printed arms.

Sure, but so should the Ghostbusters in the Ectomobile. Them not having them was probably a limitation of the production time for this set (and Ideas sets in general) being allocated in a factory that doesn't have the capacity to do arm printing (and/or the machines that do arm printing being solidly tied up with more mass-market specialty minifigures like the blind-bagged ones). That's something I do wish were different (and I also wish the printing of the extension of Paul's coat down to the tops of the legs were carried around to the sides), but aside from presumably being beyond the scope of Ideas, it would probably have made those who dislike these minifigures like them even less anyway if it had happened (though I suppose if they're not getting the set anyway, that probably doesn't matter).

Some new hair molds would have helped too. These more generic pieces with printed sideburns don't exactly work that great. Too, Paul's coat might have been better as a clothe element.

New parts were never going to happen for this, and I think the hair molds chosen do work well.

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New parts were never going to happen for this, and I think the hair molds chosen do work well.

They are well chosen. As close as possible with what's available. I understand why they can't do new molds, but I think that's something they need to change eventually. In a way it makes Ideas sets seem like the ugly stepchild of the group. The regular sets get all the new molds while the Ideas sets are stuck with the hand me downs. At the very least they could have included a new piece in the CMF just so it could be used for this Ideas set.

Them not having them was probably a limitation of the production time for this set (and Ideas sets in general) being allocated in a factory that doesn't have the capacity to do arm printing (and/or the machines that do arm printing being solidly tied up with more mass-market specialty minifigures like the blind-bagged ones).

That probably true, but I think they should have put arm printing above leg printing in terms of importance. Not having the stripes on the arms kind of ruins the look of the coat. I would have gladly traded his leg printing for correct arms.

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I think they will be useful to cross the streets in-between buildings with Paul out of step #PaulIsDead. Just kidding...

I do wish the figures looked more like the actual real life band members, but with the source material Lego did an accurate job. I've never actually seen the film though, sounds like to much of a trip!

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You know this how?

Pretty sure he just read it over on the reddit thread... But he also isn't saying that there is one, only saying that maybe they made them look cartoony because they might be planning a pack.

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I've never heard of the movie or seen those cartoon characters. If it's something really iconic, I must have fallen asleep under a boulder.

As a a fan of the Beatles and much bigger fan of John Lennon as a person I was hoping for a chance to have a minifig version of at least Lennon

Maybe if I watch the cartoon/movie it grows on me. I don't particularly like the yellow submarine song either, it's too happy and jingly.

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I've never heard of the movie or seen those cartoon characters. I must have fallen asleep under a boulder.

Were you listening to the Stones then? ;-)

Anyway i think the yellow submarine and its movie are iconic and anybody that is into pop-music history should know of it.

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