LEGO Stranger Things Rumours Discussion

[Puresh]

Just now, Ultron said:

Is it really necessary to use spoiler tags? The first season has been out for like 3 years now and I don't think anyone clicking on this thread wouldn't be a fan. 

I've met multiple people in the Lego community that are just now getting into the show because of the set release. I don't want to ruin the experience of watching the first season for anyone

[BrickBob Studpants]

1 minute ago, Puresh said:

I've met multiple people in the Lego community that are just now getting into the show because of the set release. I don't want to ruin the experience of watching the first season for anyone

Exactly, that's also my reasoning  By internet rules, spoilers have been fair game for a loooooong time now, but for that very reason I decided to use a spoiler tag  You wouldn't want to spoil something for people who're just getting into it 

[Ultron]

4 minutes ago, Lego-Freak said:

Exactly, that's also my reasoning  By internet rules, spoilers have been fair game for a loooooong time now, but for that very reason I decided to use a spoiler tag  You wouldn't want to spoil something for people who're just getting into it 

Inherently I would think they would avoid the set altogether then as that itself could very well be a spoiler to said people, but I see the reasoning. 

[x105Black]

19 hours ago, strangely said:

In America it's TV-14, same as the Big Bang Theory.

Exactly.  And the target audience for LEGO products (as advertised on the boxes) can be as high as 16+.

17 hours ago, strangely said:

I just get tired of all of this pearl clutching about this or that being 'too adult' for Lego.

Well said.  I completely agree.

I don't see the problem with LEGO Stranger Things.

[Vonsek]

https://kockashop.hu/lego/xyz-123456789

Seems like Kockashop removed their listing regarding the set.

[General Magma]

Interesting. I definitely like the show, and am curious to see what they will do with this.
Does anyone know if the poster that's been circulating is official? I do hope that Hopper will get his hat with hair attached to it, that'd also make it highly useful for cowboy-related figures.

[Puresh]

11 minutes ago, General Magma said:

Interesting. I definitely like the show, and am curious to see what they will do with this.
Does anyone know if the poster that's been circulating is official? I do hope that Hopper will get his hat with hair attached to it, that'd also make it highly useful for cowboy-related figures.

That's fan made

[BrickBob Studpants]

16 minutes ago, Vonsek said:

https://kockashop.hu/lego/xyz-123456789

Seems like Kockashop removed their listing regarding the set.

I'm surprised it took TLG that long to ask them to remove it, considering it's supposed to be a secret until the official reveal 

I've just realized something: if I'm not mistaken, then Stranger Things sets a new record for the shortest timespan between the introduction of a licensed theme and the inception of the franchise it's based on. Usually, TLG focus on franchises that have existed for at least 10 years with most of them existing for 20, a couple longer than 50 and some even 80+ years. The only other exception I can think of was Angry Birds with a difference of 7 years, and ST more than halves that record... Focussing on established franchises with large fan-bases is a smart move, but I'm glad to see they're willing to tackle new franchises as well 

 

[nikhkin]

10 minutes ago, Lego-Freak said:

I'm surprised it took TLG that long to ask them to remove it, considering it's supposed to be a secret until the official reveal 

I've just realized something: if I'm not mistaken, then Stranger Things sets a new record for the shortest timespan between the introduction of a licensed theme and the inception of the franchise it's based on. Usually, TLG focus on franchises that have existed for at least 10 years with most of them existing for 20, a couple longer than 50 and some even 80+ years. The only other exception I can think of was Angry Birds with a difference of 7 years, and ST more than halves that record... Focussing on established franchises with large fan-bases is a smart move, but I'm glad to see they're willing to tackle new franchises as well 

 

Minecraft was only about a year after the game was released.

Overwatch has only been around for 3 years or so. 

[Puresh]

2 minutes ago, nikhkin said:

Minecraft was only about a year after the game was released.

Overwatch has only been around for 3 years or so. 

Minecraft came out in 2009, the ideas set in 2012

Overwatch came out in 2016, the theme in 2018 - so it's shorter than ST

And when it comes to Angry Birds, that was already an established game franchise long before the movie

[BrickBob Studpants]

14 minutes ago, Puresh said:

Minecraft came out in 2009, the ideas set in 2012

Overwatch came out in 2016, the theme in 2018 - so it's shorter than ST

You're right of course, I forgot about the video game franchises (despite me collecting them as well, shame on me). 

[Whovastron]

How about adventure time? Not sure when that started but the set(s) couldn’t have been too long after

There’s also Ben 10, Avatar, Cars, Pirates of the Caribbean. Those were all less than 10 years, maybe even less than 5

[Holden Brickfield]

What about Harry Potter? Those first sets came out the same year as the first movie, unless you want to count the inception of the franchise as when the books started publishing, though I’m quite confused by the metrics at play here. 

[Whovastron]

1 hour ago, Holden Brickfield said:

What about Harry Potter? Those first sets came out the same year as the first movie, unless you want to count the inception of the franchise as when the books started publishing, though I’m quite confused by the metrics at play here. 

I believe they mean the inception of the franchise. Otherwise most themes happen the same year as what they’re based on (first marvel, Star Wars, speed racer, prince of Persia, Jurassic world etc.)

[Vonsek]

Hmm, i contacted Kockashop and they said LEGO requested them to remove their listing regarding 75810. 

[BrickBob Studpants]

18 hours ago, Whovastron said:

How about adventure time? Not sure when that started but the set(s) couldn’t have been too long after

There’s also Ben 10, Avatar, Cars, Pirates of the Caribbean. Those were all less than 10 years, maybe even less than 5

I haven‘t thought this through, have I  Pirates is a bit older if you count the ride as the franchise‘s inception, but you‘re 100% right about the rest of course.

21 minutes ago, Vonsek said:

Hmm, i contacted Kockashop and they said LEGO requested them to remove their listing regarding 75810. 

The cat is already out of the bag, TLG may just as well reveal it now 

[Whovastron]

17 minutes ago, Lego-Freak said:

I haven‘t thought this through, have I  Pirates is a bit older if you count the ride as the franchise‘s inception, but you‘re 100% right about the rest of course.

The cat is already out of the bag, TLG may just as well reveal it now 

That’s alright mate, it was an interesting thought, and it was really hard to think of a franchise less than 10 years old without going to brickset!

they should reveal it, but they’ve already sent out emails with the 15th written as the reveal date. Kinda sucks it’s revealed the day of the midnight event, I might go to it and it would suck if it’s a bad set

[TOTDForever]

I started watching the show out of excitement for this d2c, and I'm surprised they are making this set at all.....there are so many suggestive (yet awesome) scenes. I wonder what will the set depict? (If anyone responds no spoilers please I'm early in season 1)

[Vonsek]

39 minutes ago, TOTDForever said:

I started watching the show out of excitement for this d2c, and I'm surprised they are making this set at all.....there are so many suggestive (yet awesome) scenes. I wonder what will the set depict? (If anyone responds no spoilers please I'm early in season 1)

It’s the Byers House. The house that the missing kid lives in.

[Puresh]

3 minutes ago, Vonsek said:

It’s the Byers House. The house that the missing kid lives in.

Yep, just wait and see, there will be loads of iconic moments to come in there that the Lego set can depict 

Edited April 29, 2019 by Puresh

[TOTDForever]

11 minutes ago, Vonsek said:

It’s the Byers House. The house that the missing kid lives in.

 

7 minutes ago, Puresh said:

Yep, just wait and see, there will be loads of iconic moments to come in there that the Lego set can depict 

It has been confirmed that it's the byer house? In that case I expect something on the lines of the simpsons house in terms of structure. Maybe a shed build where Will was captured, the Christmas lights hung up inside, the painted alphabet on the walls etc etc

[Vonsek]

28 minutes ago, TOTDForever said:

 

It has been confirmed that it's the byer house? In that case I expect something on the lines of the simpsons house in terms of structure. Maybe a shed build where Will was captured, the Christmas lights hung up inside, the painted alphabet on the walls etc etc

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[Puresh]

8 minutes ago, Vonsek said:

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Edited April 29, 2019 by Puresh

[Whovastron]

The house is a bit too small to be Simpsons house size. It’s only one floor for starters. There’s 3 bedrooms, bathroom, kitchen and living area. Without the alphabet lights/ mind flayer drawings, there isn’t really much to make the house in steering. The sheer size of this set really confuses me. They could easily make a good facade of the house with less than 1500 pieces, makes me think we’ll atleast get fort Byers and Hopper’s police car as well as the house, if it even is the house. Could be the government building.

I also wonder whether we will get any characters from beyond season 1? Mike, Dustin, Lucas, Will. Eleven, Hopper, Joyce, Nancy, Jonathan, Steve and the baddie guy gives us 11 minifigs. It would be nice to get Max and Billy (and I guess Barb, I really don’t get why people care so much about the character) but then that’s 14 figs, which I can’t see happening at this price point

[Blondie-Wan]

21 hours ago, Whovastron said:

How about adventure time? Not sure when that started but the set(s) couldn’t have been too long after

Adventure Time began in April of 2010. LEGO released their first Adventure Time products (LEGO Dimensions packs) in September 2016, and the LEGO Ideas set that December.

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There’s also Ben 10, Avatar, Cars, Pirates of the Caribbean. Those were all less than 10 years, maybe even less than 5

I believe Ben 10 and Avatar are rarities in having been done in LEGO when those properties were very new. Cars made its LEGO debut (in DUPLO) in 2010, four years after the first Cars movie in 2006. Pirates of the Caribbean debuted as a theme park attraction in 1967, and the first movie came out in 2003; the first LEGO sets were released in 2011, when the fourth film came out.

19 hours ago, Whovastron said:

I believe they mean the inception of the franchise. Otherwise most themes happen the same year as what they’re based on (first marvel, Star Wars, speed racer, prince of Persia, Jurassic world etc.)

All of those franchises debuted long before LEGO produced sets from them, although in the cases of their first Marvel, Speed Racer, and Prince of Persia, LEGO’s first products from those franchises are based on specific iterations / adaptations that were indeed new.

LEGO Star Wars debuted in 1999, 22 years after the franchise began, with five sets based on the original trilogy, followed by eight more based on that year’s long awaited first prequel episode.

LEGO’s first Marvel-based sets were based on the 2002 Spider-Man movie and its first sequel in 2004, and were released when the movies were new. The character debuted 40 years earlier, though, and the origins of the overall Marvel Comics universe go back even farther.

LEGO’s Speed Racer theme was based on the 2008 movie, and released about when it was, but of course that movie was an adaptation of a television series that had been around since 1967, itself adapted from a printed serial that debuted a year earlier.

LEGO Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time appeared in 2010, alongside that year’s movie, which was based on the long-running Prince of Persia video game franchise that began in 1989.

LEGO’s history with the Jurassic franchise arguably begins in 2000 with the LEGO Studios theme, whose flagship set was the Steven Spielberg Moviemaker Set - though not labeled specifically as “Jurassic Park”- or “Jurassic World” anything, it not only clearly depicted the making of a scene from The Lost World: Jurassic Park, but actually used Spielberg’s name, along with JP iconography. The following year saw two sets added officially under the name Jurassic Park III (though one was actually more from the second movie). The original Jurassic Park movie was released in 1993, and based on a book released three years earlier.