>be biggest toy company in the world>aquire biggest franchise in the world>hundreds of millions of dollars put into researching and developing the toy of the century>best they could do is funko pop ripoffYou wanna know the worst part anons? This is gonna sell billions on brand recognition alone.>bu...but smartbrickHe'll say "pika pikachu, thanks for 40$ moron" when you shake him or something
>>11585526Its a fucking electronic brickheadz, when you think they spent half a billion dollars to develop the smart brcisk...
>>11585526>biggest franchisePokemon isn't that big
>>11585535Verifiably false>>11585530It takes 2 years to bring a lego set from idea to market. With as big a franchise as pokemon, this has probably been in development since nintendo collaborated with lego. There are entire scientific studies commisioned, focus groups, product testing, development, outside contractors (e.g. consumer psychologists).... You know how when you watch a marvel movie, the credits roll for 20 minutes? Its the same with lego sets, especially for a new flagship line.
>>11585526I love the Mario smartbricks, maybe ill get pika too. I just don't want a bunch of cubey piecey builds of pokemon that'll end up being garbage to construx
>>11585526Galidor looked better.
>>11585559Who?
>>11585526>NO NO NO NO NO IT WAS MEANT TO BE MEGA BLOKS THAT WON NOOOOOOOOOOO
>>11585591Ok...?
>>11585526Hehehe
>>11585526
>>11585535Pokemon is a global juggernaut brand, bro. Where have you been?
>>11585526It’s like a metaphor for the Game Freak games
>>11585526A lot of people are saying this is fake because of the way the red cheek wraps around the side and that LEGO wouldn’t do that
>>11585526That looks like absolute dog shit if true. Lego and Pokemon aren't compatible. Megablocks sisters we had it so good ;_;
>>11585535Yes it is>>11585538>Frozen that highHuh
>>11585818Frozen isn't even that unexpected, Anpanman and Pooh are the real headscratchers. Especially the latter surpassing the entirety of Disney just by itself.
>The biggest toy company in the world that puts the least amount of effort into their products while simultaneously charging an ever increasing premium is partnering with the biggest franchise in the world that puts the least amount of effort into their video games while simultaneously charging an insane amount of money for their product Truly a match made in heaven
>>11585526Its over
>>11585526i like itit looks cute and it has smart brickand it seems that we gonna have more pokemon with smart bricks inside>>11585796>hat looks like absolute dog shit if trueit looks BLOCK-y just like a lego creation should lookwhat did you want? a perfectly realistic 1:1 on model pikachu made out bricks?that would fucking suck and be big/expensive as fuckIt's fine.
I guess its going to depend heavily on the price point. Surely this isn't the $650 set.I could see them making some kind of phone app or brick build Pokedex that can "scan" the Pokemon, and see them doing more of these where they can interact with each other, learn moves, and battle. At least that's what I'd assume they'll do
>>11586096The smart brick set will be released in the summer. For somw reason the first wave is 18+ statueshit and then we get gimmick shit
>>11586102>>11586096It will be exactly around Mario sets.mario costs 45-50 bucks/eurosPikachu probably will be around 50-60 but could be found on Amazon on discounts for 45-60 price depending on days/sales.Why you faggots making a tragedy out of this definitely kids oriented set. Go cry about Mario sets being too childish/blocky looking as well...
>>11586104How is something kid oriented when it costs 45$ minimum?This was made to target kidults and hypebeasts. This will go mega viral with the tcg collecting crowd and the anime tourists. Every piece, was meticulously placed by a 40 year old behavioral psychologist with a minor in marketing. It is soulless
>>11586125>How is something kid oriented when it costs 45$ minimum?it's LEGO with electronic complicated smart brickhow fucking much it could cost in 2025 Drumpf days?20 bucks?are you retarded? it's not 2002 anymore
>>1158614445 dorrar pls
>>11586144Cats
>>11586165>that setnot as big as that pika-set nor it's electronicAre you retarded>>11586183what
>>11586125>kidultsI told you to stop with that. It's not going to catch on.
>>11586330Don't pay any attention to the schizo. The voices tell him to shitpost and he can't help himself.
>>11585538this makes the murder of star wars all the sadder
>>11585538Who’s that between Frozen and Star Wars?
>>11586851Anpanman
I'm just glad the hypebeasts wont be buying gunpla, and instead will be buying out pokemon lego
>>11585538Funny how big Anpanman is overall but in the west more people know a parody based on him
Update: x wing smart brick confirmed to be 90$.No way pikachu is going to be under 40$
>>11585538Does this take currency inflation into account, because bigger numbers doesn't automatically mean more wealth over a long period of time.
>>11585526>the pikachu legofags deserveI kneel
>>11585767Its a prototype pic.
>>11585767Lego can print on curves nowthey have that technology(it's old technology that other companies have been using forever)I think it's fake because I'm foolishly holding on to hope that Lego would do better. If it winds up to be fake, then it's a great job by whoever created it, it's lame enough, real enough, to convince people Lego would do it like that.Lego doesn't want you to look at it and think "Pokemon" Lego wants you to look at it and think "Lego"
>>11587754Why is rock dude so sad?
>>11587922Because he is worth so much and yet not really.
>>11587852Lego wants you to look at it and think "add to cart">well yeah they're in the business of selling toysThey're in the business of selling $300 funko pops that happen to come with a bunch of bricks
>>11587852>nowalways could. The curved slope pieces were introduced in 2002, and from day 1 there were printed versions. For instance the designs on the 2002 Jedi starfighter
>>115880902002?!Try the first minifigure head
>>11587263I find it stranger that it isn't Shin-Chan nor Doraemon instead. I did see Anpanman toys various toy stores in Tokyo, but the former 2 had the most presence
LolBut somehow right is bad
>>11585538Disney killed Star Wars so we'll be lucky if Star Wars even manages to reach 100 billion in our lifetimes.If we had another prequel situation with lots of expandable material for games, books, figurines we'd have a chance to maybe even surpass Pokemon but that chance is gone now with the Sequel Trilogy.
>>11588834It’s le bad because they ripped off Lego even though Lego itself is a rip-off
>>11585538Good good. Explained nicely.
>>11585767I used to wonder about that myself. Thought it was a bunch of mumbo-jumbo. A magical pokemon toy holding together good and evil… Team Rocket and the trainers. Crazy thing is… it’s true. The Pikachu. The Squirtle. All of it. It’s all true.
>>11590348lol"Lego gets Pokemon"is similar to the old guy at the beginning of Star Wars Force Awakenshe said "This will begin to make things right!" and we all CHEERED like FINALLY! awesome Star Wars again.... if only we knew then, that it was the beginning of the ruining of it.Lego will ruin Pokemon. we all thought it was impossible to ruin Star Wars, yet... it happened.
>>11590290This
>>11590492>we all thought it was impossible to ruin Star WarsWho's this 'we'? Most people were very pessimistic about the buyout and were saying it's ruined the moment Georged signed. Hell, some were saying it back in when The Phantom Menace released.Lego.
>mega construx good nowCmonLego>>>>shit>>>>mega
>>11590615>>11590631Go away frenchie
>>11591170You might not agree with his opinion, but that doesn't make him French.
>>11590615you're kidding right?history lesson:at the time Lucas sold Star Wars, it was generally believed that Lucas had ruined SW himself with the prequel trilogy. the short answer to how: it was too much politics, not enough characters being friends together, and the silly callbacks (clone troopers are all Boba Fett? WTF!)Disney had a reputation for treating things with care and respect. they had deep deep pockets full of cash. cash they could hire THE BEST people. THE BEST people with the infinite Disney money would surely be able to re-capture the spark and magic of the original trilogy.Disney expectations were massive. they bought SW for FOUR BILLION DOLLARS no way would they mess that up! Whoops! how did that happen?!!!!????
>>11590492>if only we knew then, that it was the beginning of the ruining of it.I knew it and I was in my mid-teens, so either I'm a motherfucking genius or other people(yourself included) are utter retards. Yidsney had sent quite a few signals their take on Star Wars is going to be dogshit long before TFA came out>choosing a notorious hack faggot JJ Abrams as a director. I vividly remember seeing condolences from Star Trek fans who already knew TFA is going to be ass from that single fact alone.>shutting down Lucasarts and announcing the Star Wars game license is going to get handled to the absolutely garbage company that is EA. I cannot emphasize hard enough how great the 00s and early 10s were for Star Wars fans into vidya(aside from TORtanic lol), and that going from that to EA was an EXTREMELY obvious sign of Disney not planning to handle the franchise with due care>unceremoniously throwing EU into the trash can in one fell swoop. All of these amazing stories that were bread and butter of more hardcore fans, ready to be adapted into great films, only to get tossed away forever in favor of whatever Abrams and other hollywood nonces would shit outSure, if you were one of the casual fans like my parents who ONLY watched the movies or only liked/cared about the original trilogy, then yes, you had a reason to be excited because the trailer had MILLENIUM FALCOOOOOON. But that kind of a fan is a fucking cattle, and the cattle ended up obediently marching into Walt Disney's merry little slaughterhouse.
>>11591548>>choosing a notorious hack faggot JJ Abrams as a director.I'll even be fair and say JJHackbrahms did not completely wreck Trek. he cleverly isolated HIS version in a time anomaly, so he "left alone" the other stuff. it could have been a lot worse. and the Trek movie we got was very action-y. a lot more Star WARS rather than TREK, so watching him get SW was encouraging... at the time (a very small window of time, lightning strike window)
>>11591170Who
>>11591717It's the schizo's ex-boyfriend. He sees him in every post he doesn't like.
