Brick bank still on Amazon! I thought it was retired? Jangs review of the garage tells me to pickup Parisian restaurant instead.
You'll have to get 'em all eventually! Stopped giving Jang clicks a while back, did he dislike the garage that much, or is it just that the Parisian Restaurant is better?
Because that's not really fair, PR is better than everything.
Any particular reason you stopped on Jang? Was it him being obsessed with LEGO using the same head for Stormtroopers?
Could be about him going what-about-men-of-nasa about the Women of NASA set.
I watch Jang less and less too. Now I usually skip to the final remarks only of sets I'm interested in. There is no particular reason for it (maybe it's also because if I want a set, I'll get it and opinions don't matter that much anymore compared to when I just got back into Lego), but I have to say he sometimes makes strange remarks. The NASA women thing was a big 'wtf' for me, and in his fire brigade review he also said you could swap out the female head of the fire chief if you were not okay with it.
And still folk give him views.
Some of Jang's remarks reported in his thread certainly do sound strange. I've always noticed him commenting on how he prefers the LEGO torsos not be gender-specific, but I've always interpreted that positively, in the sense that in that way there's no limitations on the roles characters can take within the sets.
That's the positive way to spin it, but kids mimic what they see in real life in their play. Which means that kids will place their male figures in male dominated roles, and then play reinforces those steriotypes. Lego knows this, which is why they go out of their way to have gender inclusive playsets. Demanding that kids be free to replace female characters in important roles with men is not healthy.
I would have thought if it didn't bother him he wouldn't even mentioned it.I think you're interpreting this exactly opposite to how I do, which is that Jang wants children to have as many options as possible.
Regarding the Fire Brigade set review, I don't think Jang is endorsing swapping out the head of the female minifigure. I think his literal words, after highlighting that it is the first figure of its kind, is that you can swap out the head "if it bothers you", suggesting that it is those who are doing it that would be agitated, and that he himself isn't.
I would have thought if it didn't bother him he wouldn't even mentioned it.
Seems normal.He talks about it fairly often, but usually in the context of "I wish this fig had a smaller chest/hips so that I could stick a male head on it".
Otherwise, not so much.
https://ideas.lego.com/projects/fcf1dec0-bdf7-48c7-9da7-95fd68e41480
This Pirate Ideas set looks awesome! It really needs to hit 10k!
I definitely supported this one. Love it.
There's a leaked Avengers set in the Endgame spoiler thread:
War Machine Buster - Hulkbuster-sized version of war machine
Today at the New York Toy Fair, LEGO unveiled four new Jurassic World sets each with a unique dinosaur including a Tyrannosaurus Rex, Triceratops, Baryonyx and Dilophosaurus. The sets are based on a new animated mini-series called LEGO Jurassic World – Legend of Isla Nublar which is a prequel series to the first Jurassic World live action film.
They'd rename it Females of NASA anyway.
I don't know if you have those Five Below stores near where you're at, but I was in one yesterday and they had a bunch of those sets you're talking about on the shelf there.So I wanted to do Lego competition for my class, but I can no longer find those $5 boxes of solid color Lego pieces. Saw them for a long time and finally had an idea for my kids that could use them and now they're no longer on sale? The larger sets with more colors are still around, but I wanted the small sets so each kid could have their own to take home and everyone has the same pieces.
Thanks so much! No store nearby, but I bought them online!I don't know if you have those Five Below stores near where you're at, but I was in one yesterday and they had a bunch of those sets you're talking about on the shelf there.