LEGO at SDCC 2014

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• Mojoest Member Posts: 477

  August 2014

  After returning to the office from a few days of leave this morning look what was waiting for me.
  
  I would like to get Rocket too, but as I'm only interested in the minifig and not the set I think I'll wait to see if it comes out in a regular set (fingers crossed).
  
  Thanks for all the comments on here its been really great fun and very informative reading them.

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• Geddes Member Posts: 574

  August 2014

  ^congrats, your right it was good to have a thread about these exclusives and the con. Also it didnt get ripped apart by naysayers for a change!

  

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• jediami65 Member Posts: 474

  August 2014 edited August 2014

  FYI: From NeoApe.com
  
  One thing to note is that the SDCC version of Bard the Bowman will be included with The Battle of Five Armies (79017).
  
  The Battle of Five Armies (79017) – 472 pcs – $59.99
  
  Azog, Bard the Bowman (SDCC version), Dain Ironfoot, Legolas, Thorin Oakenshield, 2 Orcs, Eagle

  

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• Aanchir Member Posts: 3,044

  August 2014

  My twin brother ordered a SDCC Unikitty online and it arrived recently. We're waiting to watch what happens to the price before opening it. If it gets to the point where opened ones go for a higher price than he paid for a sealed one then he says he'll open it without hesitation.

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• bobabricks Member Posts: 1,842

  August 2014 edited August 2014

  Funny, #79017 will include two originally SDCC released minifigs. :P
  
  @Aanchir I would be scared to build Unikitty, especially after all of the brick cracking fun we have had this year.

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• Aanchir Member Posts: 3,044

  August 2014

  bobabricks said:

  Funny, #79017 will include two originally SDCC released minifigs. :P
  
  @Aanchir I would be scared to build Unikitty, especially after all of the brick cracking fun we have had this year.

  I haven't had any experience with 1x3 bricks and plates cracking, and since those are the only parts of the exclusive Unikitty that are actually "exclusive" I don't think I have much to fear in that regard. Other than the decorated 1x3 bricks and plates for the face, all the other parts are the same as the ones in Unikitty from #70803 Cloud Cuckoo Palace.

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• jimmysnuff Member Posts: 2

  August 2014

  I'm glad that TLG are starting to bring out the SDCC figs in sets - Green Lantern for example. The secondary market pricing of these figs is ridiculous and just encourages bootlegs. If anything there should be exclusive packaging for the SDCC stuff for the hard out collectors, but that's it.

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• Gooker1 Member Posts: 599

  August 2014

  Like people have been asking for years now, make the fig, but you can keep the exclusivity by changing the outfit...which is what they did w/ the set releasing next year.

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• Aanchir Member Posts: 3,044

  August 2014

  Gooker1 said:

  Like people have been asking for years now, make the fig, but you can keep the exclusivity by changing the outfit...which is what they did w/ the set releasing next year.

  I fell that way as well, but there are some people who insist that the SDCC versions of characters like Shazam and Phoenix are the quintessential depictions of those characters and that a new version would not suffice. Still, in my opinion, the LEGO Group wouldn't even necessarily have to change the costumes to release a new fig — after all, the LEGO Group has released multiple versions of characters like Han Solo that ostensibly depict the same outfit despite having new or different prints for every part of his wardrobe.

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