LEGO Hidden Side 2020

[Classic_Spaceman]

8 minutes ago, Feng-huang0296 said:

Oh, I really hope that Jack and Parker both aren’t in the Portal set. I remember hearing it has four minifigures, Jack and three ghosts, I was hoping for that. If both heroes are in the Portal, that means only two ghosts, or worse, only one if it turns out to only have three figures. 

 

Per the PROMOBRICKS description, the Hidden Side Portal includes four Minifigs - Three of which are Blue Jack and two red ghosts. Blue Parker would be a logical fourth Minifig. 

On 10/14/2019 at 10:05 AM, kelceycoe said:

LEGO Hidden Side - Hidden Side Portal (70427)
4 Minifigures - 19.99 Euro - 189 Pieces

The Hidden Side Portal looks like a dark Harry Potter version of Aragog's hideout - but without a huge spider, but with a darker tree. Exactly this tree is supposed to represent the portal. Where will this portal lead? Maybe the light blue and thus frosty-looking treetop reveals this. But the minifigure of Jake is very cold. What's a little irritating about this set are the two fire ghosts - Nexo Knights sends greetings.

 

[Fenghuang0296]

28 minutes ago, Classic_Spaceman said:

Per the PROMOBRICKS description, the Hidden Side Portal includes four Minifigs - Three of which are Blue Jack and two red ghosts. Blue Parker would be a logical fourth Minifig. 

Yeah but I was hoping the fourth would be a yellow or blue ghost, to add some variety. Even a green one.

On 10/14/2019 at 7:05 PM, Itaria No Shintaku said:

These will be in hidden side 2020.

Ghost clowns -> Amusement Park set.
A piece that can connect two heads to the body.
A piace that can bend the torso sideways, probably attaching to the legs on one end and to the torso on the other.
The forest will have probably bright blue leaves and black moss leaves, 3 enemies and  Jack.

Sets look very promising to me.

Please remind all of this come from non definitive pictures so anything can change in the final version.

See? This is what I was thinking of. 

[Classic_Spaceman]

11 minutes ago, Feng-huang0296 said:

Yeah but I was hoping the fourth would be a yellow or blue ghost, to add some variety. Even a green one.

If that were the case, though, it would have been mentioned in the description. ?

Probably the reason that the Blue Parker Minifig was not referenced, is that Parker's standard outfit and hair are already close enough in colour to Jack's ghostly blue look, such that whoever saw the sets simply did not notice the difference. 

Edited November 5, 2019 by Classic_Spaceman

[samurai-turtle]

18 hours ago, Cut the Kragle said:

I've just discovered this! That's amazing. I have a few Ninjago sets but never got into the cartoon series. It's so funny that they killed off a main character and had him as a ghost for a couple of seasons but LEGO claim they don't like to have anything related to death... 

That is not what happened to Cole. If you ever watched the show Danny Phantom it's similar to that, because he got fused with ghost DNA. And Phantom was still a live (a good show if anyone hasn't watched it yet). 

16 hours ago, AnyColourYouLike said:

Well, technically, Cole didn't die, he just got turned into a ghost, because, as far as I can remember, he didn't escape from a some kind of a haunted temple on time. 

Yes, that sounds right from what I remember. 

[Cut the Kragle]

7 minutes ago, samurai-turtle said:

That is not what happened to Cole. If you ever watched the show Danny Phantom it's similar to that, because he got fused with ghost DNA. And Phantom was still a live (a good show if anyone hasn't watched it yet). 

 

8 minutes ago, samurai-turtle said:

  17 hours ago, AnyColourYouLike said:

Well, technically, Cole didn't die, he just got turned into a ghost, because, as far as I can remember, he didn't escape from a some kind of a haunted temple on time. 

He didn't die. He just got turned into a ghost... Usually the most efficient way to become a ghost is to die, right?

 I jest, but by definition ghosts are dead people. It's so funny that LEGO tried to tiptoe around the dying part but still have a character become a ghost!

[Lucarex]

In amongst the whole “has Jack died/been ghostified/gloomed*/just been locked in a cold freezer for a bit” debate, don’t forget that in one of the HS animated shorts (where J&P check out Newbury Manor), Jack is temporarily possessed by the bat ghost thing on the ceiling.
 

So it’s clear spooky things can happen to heroes that aren’t permanent or too dark for kids. Same with Clay turning to living stone in S3/4 of Nexo.


* my take FWIW

Edited November 5, 2019 by Lucarex

[Exetrius]

He probably accidentally entered the Spirit Realm, like Aang did.  

[Fenghuang0296]

34 minutes ago, Lucarex said:

In amongst the whole “has Jack died/been ghostified/gloomed*/just been locked in a cold freezer for a bit” debate, don’t forget that in one of the HS animated shorts (where J&P check out Newbury Manor), Jack is temporarily possessed by the bat ghost thing on the ceiling.

It’s a Popobawa, or Bawa for short. The same boss ghost as appears in the Ghost Train set. It’s an evil bat spirit from Zanzibar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popobawa

[Itaria No Shintaku]

17 hours ago, Feng-huang0296 said:

Yeah but I was hoping the fourth would be a yellow or blue ghost, to add some variety. Even a green one.

It's a blue and black ghost.

[Fenghuang0296]

Just now, Itaria No Shintaku said:

It's a blue and black ghost.

Awesome!

[Itaria No Shintaku]

Actually, the rollercoaster has two ghost clowns, the underground entrance one that looks with the leg piece of the sandman and that rocky monsters from Nexo, the lighthouse 2, the plane at least one if not two, the buggy one with a piece that allows two heads.and well that's is since the rest of the sets are from june and I don't know them.

[Fenghuang0296]

1 minute ago, Itaria No Shintaku said:

Actually, the rollercoaster has two ghost clowns, the underground entrance one that looks with the leg piece of the sandman and that rocky monsters from Nexo, the lighthouse 2, the plane at least one if not two, the buggy one with a piece that allows two heads.and well that's is since the rest of the sets are from june and I don't know them.

Sounds good. By ghosts I assume you mean civilians who get possessed by ghosts? And the subway has a mining that gets leg swapped? Awesome.

[Itaria No Shintaku]

Not always, but preliminary images do not help.

[Fenghuang0296]

Also, what's your source on this?

[Itaria No Shintaku]

I saw a retailer catalogue. So that's reliable.

[Fenghuang0296]

Just now, Itaria No Shintaku said:

I saw a retailer catalogue. So that's reliable.

Is it online anywhere? Can I see it?

[Itaria No Shintaku]

No, and no.

[BrickBob Studpants]

17 hours ago, Itaria No Shintaku said:

No, and no.

Looks like the era of leaked retail catalogues is over now... it shall be missed  TLG’s crackdown on retailers has eventually started to work. I faintly remember them adding individualised watermarks to the catalogues a few years ago so that the culprits could be traced back, but it‘s apparently only started to be effective recently. I wonder what changed 

[Lucarex]

3 hours ago, Lego-Freak said:

Looks like the era of leaked retail catalogues is over now... it shall be missed  TLG’s crackdown on retailers has eventually started to work. I faintly remember them adding individualised watermarks to the catalogues a few years ago so that the culprits could be traced back, but it‘s apparently only started to be effective recently. I wonder what changed 

Apparently (a local independent retailer near me) there have been some heavy-handed cease and desist type warning letters sent out for leaks and breaching embargo dates. Biting the hand that feeds them just it isn’t worth the hassle.

[Itaria No Shintaku]

1 hour ago, Lucarex said:

Apparently (a local independent retailer near me) there have been some heavy-handed cease and desist type warning letters sent out for leaks and breaching embargo dates. Biting the hand that feeds them just it isn’t worth the hassle.

Agreed.
You can gather info from them but you cannot see them.

[Lyichir]

On 11/4/2019 at 4:27 PM, Cut the Kragle said:

I've just discovered this! That's amazing. I have a few Ninjago sets but never got into the cartoon series. It's so funny that they killed off a main character and had him as a ghost for a couple of seasons but LEGO claim they don't like to have anything related to death... 

When did Lego ever claim this (apart from a long, long time ago, before the first official minifigure skeletons)? The theme this topic is actually about is practically all about death, being a ghost-hunting theme.

You might be confusing Lego's policy on modern warfare being depicted in sets, but that is specifically against modern weaponry and military equipment. That's less about death and more about a particular form of violence that could very easily hit too close to home for many members of Lego's global audience.

[Fenghuang0296]

1 hour ago, Lyichir said:

When did Lego ever claim this (apart from a long, long time ago, before the first official minifigure skeletons)? The theme this topic is actually about is practically all about death, being a ghost-hunting theme.

You might be confusing Lego's policy on modern warfare being depicted in sets, but that is specifically against modern weaponry and military equipment. That's less about death and more about a particular form of violence that could very easily hit too close to home for many members of Lego's global audience.

Exactly. Some of the ghost bios in the app even specifically discuss how the ghost died. For example;

Ben “Batter” Jackson.

Holds the Home Run record for the Crazy Crays. He died trying to catch a ball in his mouth. 

[Lucarex]

Not to mention Spencer who “chased one car too many” to become a ghost dog as revealed in the first HS magazine.

[Cut the Kragle]

14 hours ago, Lyichir said:

When did Lego ever claim this (apart from a long, long time ago, before the first official minifigure skeletons)? The theme this topic is actually about is practically all about death, being a ghost-hunting theme.

You might be confusing Lego's policy on modern warfare being depicted in sets, but that is specifically against modern weaponry and military equipment. That's less about death and more about a particular form of violence that could very easily hit too close to home for many members of Lego's global audience.

It's part of the guidelines on LEGO Ideas.

Product Ideas related to the topics below do not fit our brand values and will not be approved for publication on LEGO Ideas.

1. Politics and political symbols, campaigns, or movements
2. Religious references including symbols, buildings, or people
3. Sex, nudity, drugs, or smoking
4. Alcohol in any present day situation
5. Swearing or profanity
6. Death, killing, blood, terrorism, horror, or torture
7. First-person shooter video games
8. Warfare or war vehicles in any modern or present-day situation, or national war memorials
9. Large or human-scale weapons or weapon replicas of any kind, including swords, knives, guns, sci-fi or fantasy blasters, etc.
10. Racism, bullying, or cruelty to real life animals

They have recently added a slight disclaimer that "LEGO Ideas maintains an even stricter policy than the rest of the LEGO Group" but there's still a massive inconsistency in what LEGO says they won't produce sets about and what they actually do. As the examples given by Feng-huang0296 and Lucarex only serve to highlight.

[Lyichir]

On 11/7/2019 at 11:08 AM, Cut the Kragle said:

It's part of the guidelines on LEGO Ideas.

Product Ideas related to the topics below do not fit our brand values and will not be approved for publication on LEGO Ideas.

1. Politics and political symbols, campaigns, or movements
2. Religious references including symbols, buildings, or people
3. Sex, nudity, drugs, or smoking
4. Alcohol in any present day situation
5. Swearing or profanity
6. Death, killing, blood, terrorism, horror, or torture
7. First-person shooter video games
8. Warfare or war vehicles in any modern or present-day situation, or national war memorials
9. Large or human-scale weapons or weapon replicas of any kind, including swords, knives, guns, sci-fi or fantasy blasters, etc.
10. Racism, bullying, or cruelty to real life animals

They have recently added a slight disclaimer that "LEGO Ideas maintains an even stricter policy than the rest of the LEGO Group" but there's still a massive inconsistency in what LEGO says they won't produce sets about and what they actually do. As the examples given by Feng-huang0296 and Lucarex only serve to highlight.

It's always been pretty clear that Lego Ideas has different guidelines than Lego in general. The Ideas guidelines are not just about what Lego themselves are willing to consider producing, but also keeping the Lego Ideas community positive by ruling out controversial topics, or ones that hew too close to the border of what Lego would consider acceptable. Part of it is also that where the line gets drawn internally might be too dependent on context to write into a succinct overarching and public-facing policy.

In the case of Hidden Side, it's worth mentioning that all the deaths alluded to are part of the backstory, not part of scenarios explicitly depicted in the sets themselves. Like including a minifigure skeleton in a dungeon scene, that kind of allusion to death and danger is a lot different than explicitly depicting a murder or death in a set proposal.