finished my first lego in a million years, a gift from my mom last last Christmas. I am pleased and fascinated how lego translates to the shapes of a concept car, especially one so small, but they way you combine hinges and such to attach pieces at interesting angles is really satisfying
i have a huge Porsche set i am going to build after this and wanted to get my sea legs back
Oh yeah, I built that one once and it ruled.
The pikachu is hideous but that Eevee ain’t too bad. The badges are very tempting as a preorder incentive
I kinda wish they’d go with some more interesting Pokemon choices. Lemme get a Snorlax or a Dugtrio or something
I was kinda hoping the giant set would be the original 151 but I guess Pokemon Co. dictate that all merch must start with these 5. I’m just impressed how borfed Pikachu’s face is.
MF looks more like Jake the Dog
the pokemon centre is the only one that looks close to what i think most people would want from the concept “expensive pokemon lego”: actual sets with minifigs and little moulded pokemon parts and such.
not these grotesque lumpy homonculi
pokemon center just looks like a target branded exclusive or some shit
i kinda… i kinda like the freakish pikachu. hes like ff16 moogles
pokemon gunpla is cheap and looks exactly how they’re supposed to!!!
yeah imo lego are good at representing things at a certain level of cutsey abstraction, these giant lumpy attempts at Cartoon Sculpture made of 90% custom & printed on parts is so far away from anything i’d want to build lol.
There goes any hopes that LEGO Pokémon would be interactive. Or affordable. Or look good.
Dang those really escalate in price lol. I was like hm 60 bucks okay not bad then I see 200 and I’m like oof then the third rolls in at 650 like we’re not playing anymore.
moved so youre not left out of the convo happening here too
I really hate the recent design push towards using SNOT bricks to hide the maximum number of studs and hide the fact that it’s LEGO as much as possible.
i’ve been hanging out on the lego castle subreddit a fair bit lately, and some people come up with some cool designs and reimaginings, but the trend toward slick, smooth, no-studs-visible design kinda bums me out. if it’s hiding its legoness, why even bother being lego? imo
I kinda appreciate them allowing designs that break the orthogonal structures with hinges and angles. I think a lot of these recent ‘rich adult collectors logo’ are just hideous kitsch that acts as a sort of consumerist objet d’art. I’m thinking of things like the Mona Lisa or the love statue, where the legoness, and play, are forgotten altogether in favour of ‘it’s the thing!’. I think it’s another reason why the Eevee one stands out as the best here since it seems the most toylike in that you could feasibly play with and pose it. I think the simplicity of Pokémon designs just doesn’t gel well with the bumps and pieces of Lego. That or they could try and pick a more appropriate Pokémon for Lego like Porygon or Magnemite but we gotta get our mascots out there. I shudder at the thought of Lego Vaporeon or Lego Snorlax.
is the 18+ on the packaging because pikachu has a intricately sculpted erect penis and the pokemon center has graphic depictions of pokemon gore inside, or are these mainly to indicate that the sets are too expensive for an elementary school kid to ask for for christmas?
wild that pokemon, a media franchise for children that remains popular with today’s children, is licensed by lego, a toy company that makes toys for children, but only releases very expensive collector’s sets for, presumably, millennials approaching middle age
the charizard/venusaur/blastoise thing could look kinda nice—if you’re inclined to have large plastic statues of pokemon in your house*—if they were just nicely detailed, well-produced plastic or resin. the lines and divisions caused by the bricks make them look just messy to my eye.
*which i’m not, so why am i even opining about this?
If children dare pick these off the shelf, the kevlar-adorned security guard will present a verbal warning and usher the needful rich adult to take the box away from them. ‘Will that be card or cheque, sir?’
like daphny said, there are pokemon plastic models from bandai that combine actually looking like their subjects, being a construction toy, and having normal human pricing
