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[jedijeff]

ya know i was considering not getting them before but now seeing them im way reconsidering and will be getting both :biggrin: :biggrin: GREAT JOB LEGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ImperialJohn]

Both are ugly but I guess ok for parts.

Wonder why LEGO is starting so many new lines?!? *wacko*

Answer to myself: "No more HP, No more Batman" = "new lines" :cool:

[gylman]

I assume Batman is meant to replace SW in the next few years, and seems like a good choice.

Batman, like Star Wars and Harry Potter, is a license with "legs", meaning that they can get several or many years out of it.

Avatar and Spongebob are not - at least Spongebob is not. There's not much more to Spongebob than the sets we already have - IMHO. Avatar is a very successful kids's show right now, and is likely to get much more popular in the next year or two. They might get more out of it. However, neither can replace something like HP long term. I would predict that TLC will come up with one or two short term licenses every year, just to keep some variety and interest in things.

[jegoing]

Spongebob has more characters and more play enviorments that could be done. Spongebob has been around since 1999, that's quite a bit of time. Wouldn't you agree?

What do you mean replace Star Wars? We haven't even seen the TV Series yet. More Lego sets yet to come perhaps?

I assume Batman is meant to replace SW in the next few years, and seems like a good choice.

Batman, like Star Wars and Harry Potter, is a license with "legs", meaning that they can get several or many years out of it.

Avatar and Spongebob are not - at least Spongebob is not. There's not much more to Spongebob than the sets we already have - IMHO. Avatar is a very successful kids's show right now, and is likely to get much more popular in the next year or two. They might get more out of it. However, neither can replace something like HP long term. I would predict that TLC will come up with one or two short term licenses every year, just to keep some variety and interest in things.

[Chuck]

Pros:

-Female anime-like head

-Interesting baddie heads, great for your evil peach armies

-Cool armor prints

-Red helmets

-Nice torso prints and leggings

-Great amount of shield discs for your medieval army needs

-Lemur seems an interesting add to your RPG game monsters or jungle MOCs

-CRAZY piece count on the ship!

-Interesting cannon

Cons:

-Printed or Sticker windows on Air Temple

-The avatar's head leaves much to be desired

-The ship's anchor is silly

-Catapults!

-Red cannon discs

-Peach skin

I will definetly pick these up... Im so broke this year. :biggrin:

the ship dosn't have an anchor, thats a cleat.

-l2k-

[KMOI]

Nah, I'm pretty sure that's an anchor. Don't cleats usually appear on the railing of a ship? So that people can actually reach it? The fire nation soldiers aren't notorious for flying, you know. :biggrin:

Anyhoo, I'm sure both Star Wars and Nick lines will get along nicely. Besides, with all these sets, there's only one thing that's going to happen. That's right, more complex MOCs!

[gylman]

Spongebob has more characters and more play enviorments that could be done. Spongebob has been around since 1999, that's quite a bit of time. Wouldn't you agree?

What do you mean replace Star Wars? We haven't even seen the TV Series yet. More Lego sets yet to come perhaps?

I assume Batman is meant to replace SW in the next few years, and seems like a good choice.

Batman, like Star Wars and Harry Potter, is a license with "legs", meaning that they can get several or many years out of it.

Avatar and Spongebob are not - at least Spongebob is not. There's not much more to Spongebob than the sets we already have - IMHO. Avatar is a very successful kids's show right now, and is likely to get much more popular in the next year or two. They might get more out of it. However, neither can replace something like HP long term. I would predict that TLC will come up with one or two short term licenses every year, just to keep some variety and interest in things.

Frankly, don't you think they are running out of SW ideas? They even had to recycle the ISD. How many X wings and Tie fighters and Slave ships and snow speeders can you take. I can't imagine there is a lot more juice to squeeze out of SW. The sandcrawler and sail barge to me seem to be pretty much the last big things.

I watched a good number of Spongebob episodes. My impression is that the variety of locales and sets is very limited. I totally cannot imagine what they could do with SB next that would be significantly different than what they have now.

All this is my personal opinion - I have no particular inside information or insight into the workings of TLC

[snefroe]

Spongebob has more characters and more play enviorments that could be done. Spongebob has been around since 1999, that's quite a bit of time. Wouldn't you agree?

What do you mean replace Star Wars? We haven't even seen the TV Series yet. More Lego sets yet to come perhaps?

I assume Batman is meant to replace SW in the next few years, and seems like a good choice.

Batman, like Star Wars and Harry Potter, is a license with "legs", meaning that they can get several or many years out of it.

Avatar and Spongebob are not - at least Spongebob is not. There's not much more to Spongebob than the sets we already have - IMHO. Avatar is a very successful kids's show right now, and is likely to get much more popular in the next year or two. They might get more out of it. However, neither can replace something like HP long term. I would predict that TLC will come up with one or two short term licenses every year, just to keep some variety and interest in things.

Frankly, don't you think they are running out of SW ideas? They even had to recycle the ISD. How many X wings and Tie fighters and Slave ships and snow speeders can you take. I can't imagine there is a lot more juice to squeeze out of SW. The sandcrawler and sail barge to me seem to be pretty much the last big things.

I watched a good number of Spongebob episodes. My impression is that the variety of locales and sets is very limited. I totally cannot imagine what they could do with SB next that would be significantly different than what they have now.

All this is my personal opinion - I have no particular inside information or insight into the workings of TLC

i don't see batman replacing sw. batman doesn't have many options for sets either and it's most definitely not as popular as sw. i'll assume sw will go on for at least 2006-2007. i guess the problem with sw is they need very good sales to turn it into a great success, so as i said in another topic, they need the classics of sw to pull that off

spongebob is also not going to last for several years. things move on pretty fast in the kid's world of toys and tv shows. sponge might be popular right now, but i can think of lots of other shows that were hot for 1-2 years and then simply disappeared from the radar, like ninja turltes, power rangers, bob the builder, pokemon, ...

i don't expect avatar to be around for very long for the obvious reasons; it's not well known here in Belgium, it's not really part of the culture... i don't think it's going to "connect". for that, you need the media (tv-shows,...) to popularise the charactars and story... i don't see that happening... it may sell rather well, because of adults buying the sets for parts....

[Wolf04]

My poor Wolf04 :-D !!!! Its not good for the sheppard to be lost loooooooooool

Before this thread, avatar was discussed primarly here and here

Where have you been

Yoda

Oh thanks...that brings some relief, though it's weird that Lego is getting all Asian all of the sudden. These were definately a surprise for me since I missed the previous topics and I had no idea what they were. I have a ton of work with school and I guess this is what you people call the "Dark Ages", so I don't follow every single that leaks out. At first, I thought it was an early April Fool's Joke. :$

[KMOI]

I kinda find the asianess of Lego very nice. I mean I'm chinese myself and I'm really liking how Lego is going for the world now, rather than just euro and north american-related themes.

Anyhoo, I disagree with you, snefroe. Nick toons are notorious to hold a constant fan following for a very VERY long period of time. And unlike Cartoon Network and Disney Channel, they don't try to kill off their cartoons. They try to promote each and every one. Especially with Avatar. Over here in North America, it's EXTREMELY well recieved. Though not like Pokemon in it's gold ages, it's still phenominal. To me, Spongebob and Avatar are like sleeper agents. They don't have a huge boom period, but rather, a long outstretched period of general proficincy.

In terms of sets, I also have to disagree there too. Spongebob mostly has adventures in the sets that were already made. Unless you count the movie, there isn't really much you can do. I mean even the CITY has less screen time than the Jellyfish fields. And how many sets could you make from a single jellyfish field? Five at the very most.

Avatar on the other hand has WONDERFUL potential for sets. Every episode, they encounter a new land mark and all those temples are simply breathtaking. I mean don't even get me started with the Fire Nation town, or the Northern Air bender temple and don't even THINK of mentioning the Northern Water tribe. You could literally go for miles with Avatar alone.

Anyhoo, that's another too cents from your friendly neighbourhood Avatar freakazoid!

[gylman]

I have to agree with pretty much everything you say KMOI. Avatar has potential to be a medium term license (2-3 years). It is a very well made show compared to nearly anything else out there now for this target audience. It may become huge, but one can never predict that sort of thing reliably.

It is only in its first year. When Yugioh was in its first year or DBZ, no one had heard of them. I would say Avatar is ahead of where they were at 1 year. The marketing of Avatar has not even begun - Lego is actually the first license for them I believe. If you do an eBay search on Avatar you will find nothing but DVDs. A CCG is coming up for Avatar, and the interest level among kids is very high. If TV shows were stocks, I would be putting all my money on Avatar.

[Wolf04]

Didn't someone from LEGO say that they're not doing any other licenses and they will be concentrating more on their core products... :dry:

[KMOI]

Meh, doesn't hurt to speculate a bit. Besides, I was just merely pointing out the potential that Avatar has over Spongebob, despite the age difference between the two.

Although I do love the main lines alot, I wouldn't mind seeing more Avatar sets. As someone else said, it's a blessing to Castle and Ninja fans. There's just so much that's right with this line that I find it hard to even think of a way that it's bad. Sure, I'm younger, but there's something about it, though I can't put my finger on it right now.

[jegoing]

Lego has only redone sets that needed a better build. The 2003 X-Wing and 2006 Slave one cost more and are vastly improved models from their lego precursors. I'm enjoying these licenses for their uniqueness that only lego can bring to them, with their quality. I can't wait for Batman, Avatar and Spongebob. The Lego version of the Batman Tumbler is going to be once heck of a model. I'm excited about the future of LEGO.

Oh and the ISD is a playset for kids rather than the UCS ISD.

Frankly, don't you think they are running out of SW ideas? They even had to recycle the ISD. How many X wings and Tie fighters and Slave ships and snow speeders can you take. I can't imagine there is a lot more juice to squeeze out of SW. The sandcrawler and sail barge to me seem to be pretty much the last big things.

I watched a good number of Spongebob episodes. My impression is that the variety of locales and sets is very limited. I totally cannot imagine what they could do with SB next that would be significantly different than what they have now.

All this is my personal opinion - I have no particular inside information or insight into the workings of TLC

[reideen1313]

Didn't someone from LEGO say that they're not doing any other licenses and they will be concentrating more on their core products... :dry:

I can confirm that LEGO is working on some .... more traditonal LEGO properties that many fans will be very excited to see. That's honestly all I can say right now on that.

[SuvieD]

I can confirm that LEGO is working on some .... more traditonal LEGO properties that many fans will be very excited to see. That's honestly all I can say right now on that.

That isn't nice or even right to say that. What do you mean traditional? You have dropped a small hint but don't get my hopes way up. Do you mean traditional like 1970's traditional with no arm figures and everything is boxy or do you mean 1980's traditional when we had Space, Pirates and Castle all at one time?

Or are you taking about something else like legends?

[Zane]

I just watched the first episode of Avatar. Although Aang is a little...childish, the show is cool.

TT

[reideen1313]

I can confirm that LEGO is working on some .... more traditonal LEGO properties that many fans will be very excited to see. That's honestly all I can say right now on that.

That isn't nice or even right to say that. What do you mean traditional? You have dropped a small hint but don't get my hopes way up. Do you mean traditional like 1970's traditional with no arm figures and everything is boxy or do you mean 1980's traditional when we had Space, Pirates and Castle all at one time?

Or are you taking about something else like legends?

Unfortunately, that's all I can say at this time. :smile: Sorry!

[KMOI]

I just watched the first episode of Avatar. Although Aang is a little...childish, the show is cool.

TT

Dude, keep watching! The series gets better and better as they go along! Especially the last 5 or so episodes. Also, the Siege of the North saga was simply breathtaking. It just blows away any finale that you've EVER seen.

[Zane]

Sounds awesome. I've watched the first episode twice more, and it is truly fantastic. Yu-Gi-Oh is an utter bore now, to be honest. I LOVE Avatar. I have three tapes all ready to record every episode. How many episodes are there in Series 1? How many series are there in all?

TT

[Sir Dillon]

These are looking really great! :smile: I don't really like the face on the Avatar, but everything else is good.

Could someone please tell me when these are supposed to be coming out? I know it's been said before, but couldn't find where. :$

[Zane]

The same time as Batman, I think.

TT

[KMOI]

I thought it would be at the same time as Spongebob, as it's another one of the Nick series. THis said, I have not the slightest clue because we haven't even seen promotional posters at this point. We already have a Batman comic and teaser poster, but not a word on Avatar.

Anyways, there's a total of 20 episodes in the first season. As for series, there are speculated to be 3, one for each existing nation. The second season is said to come out in march, so things are REALLY looking up! If yopu want, youtube has pretty decent versions of the episodes 15-20, but recording is good too. Another essential episode is number 12. It really explains what's the deal with Zuko. Very good episode. :)

Heh, another note, are we allowed to mention youtube? It's not really a downloading thing, and I saw a link to a japanese Spider-man show on youtube so I thought it would be ok to mention it.

[Sir Dillon]

Ok, thanks for the reply.

[ApophisV]

I can confirm that LEGO is working on some .... more traditonal LEGO properties that many fans will be very excited to see. That's honestly all I can say right now on that.

So on long terms TLC will really be going back to their roots? After all those official contrary statements (No licenses, More licenses, Back to the brick, Lets do manga,....... :glare: ) I really would like to get some realistic statement on their course.