{"id":1506,"date":"2007-11-16T07:31:42","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T12:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1506"},"modified":"2007-11-16T07:31:42","modified_gmt":"2007-11-16T12:31:42","slug":"on-other-needed-legos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1506","title":{"rendered":"On Other Needed LEGOs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three weeks ago I&#8217;d mentioned how some phrases kept turning up in my search logs, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1472\">phrases related to LEGO <i>Doctor Who<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Strangely, after writing about the <i>need<\/i> for <i>LEGO Doctor Who<\/i> products, people stopped &#8220;asking.&#8221;  Go figure.<\/p>\n<p>Howsomever, LEGO searches <i>have<\/i> remained popular.  Just from the last week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>LEGO Batman Killer Croc<\/li>\n<li>LEGO Frodo<\/li>\n<li>Star Wars LEGO Darth Plagus<\/li>\n<li>English Patient LEGO<\/li>\n<li>Star Wars LEGO People<\/li>\n<li>Star Trek LEGO<\/li>\n<li>Deep Space Nine LEGO<\/li>\n<li>James Bond LEGO<\/li>\n<li>Star Trek Enterprise LEGO<\/li>\n<li>LEGO USB Hub<\/li>\n<li>LEGO Mara<\/li>\n<li>Winnie the Pooh LEGO<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Which makes for an interesting little snapshot, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>Take out <i>Star Wars<\/i>.  Take out Batman.  Take out Pooh, as there are LEGO products based on all three properties.  And what are we left with?<\/p>\n<p><i>Star Trek<\/i>.  <i>The English Patient<\/i>.  <i>James Bond<\/i>.  <i>The Lord of the Rings<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Properties that haven&#8217;t been LEGOfied.  Properties that LEGO consumers are obviously looking for information about, even if I&#8217;ve never directly addressed any of these <i>directly<\/i>.  That&#8217;s the splendiforous thing about Google &mdash; it doesn&#8217;t <i>care<\/i> where the words are on the page, only that the information is <i>there<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>So, let&#8217;s run down the four.<\/p>\n<p>LEGO <i>Star Trek<\/i>.  Oh, I&#8217;d <i>love<\/i> for this to happen, but&#8230; it won&#8217;t happen.  At a guess, the LEGO Corporation can&#8217;t even <i>bid<\/i> on that license, in the same way that Dark Horse Comics couldn&#8217;t buy the <i>Star Trek<\/i> comics license when it lay fallow for several years &mdash; Dark Horse&#8217;s contract with Lucasfilm precluded them from that.<\/p>\n<p>But!<\/p>\n<p>I can <i>so<\/i> picture LEGO <i>Star Trek<\/i> sets.  I could imagine a LEGO <i>Enterprise<\/i>-A (still my favorite <i>Trek<\/i> ship, sorry Matt Jeffries) set, at the same size as the monster Imperial Star Destroyer set.<\/p>\n<p>I can picture a bridge playset.  I can picture an <i>Enterprise<\/i>-D engineering set.  I can picture a Guardian of Forever playset.  I can picture Harlan Ellison choking on a LEGO block, too, at the damned impudence.<\/p>\n<p>I could absolutely picture a LEGO <i>Star Trek<\/i> video game.<\/p>\n<p>LEGO <i>Star Trek<\/i> is something that <i>should<\/i> be done.  But it won&#8217;t happen.  Bugger.<\/p>\n<p>LEGO <i>English Patient<\/i>.  Umm&#8230; <i>why<\/i>?  Okay, I can see making a LEGO plane.  I can see making LEGO tanks.  But what in the movie is there that can be <i>done<\/i> in LEGO?  And who would buy it?  Who would <i>want<\/i> it?  Don&#8217;t misunderstand me, I love <i>The English Patient<\/i>.  I find the film tragically romantic and unabashedly weepy.  But there&#8217;s no hole in my life that LEGO <i>English Patient<\/i> sets would fill.<\/p>\n<p>LEGO <i>James Bond<\/i>.  It&#8217;s an interesting idea, but really?  What would one <i>do<\/i> with it?  What kind of sets could you create?  Some of Commander Bond&#8217;s cars, maybe?  Maybe Blofeld&#8217;s lair or something?  Like <i>The English Patient<\/i>, I&#8217;m not sure that there&#8217;s anything that really <i>lends<\/i> itself to LEGOfication.<\/p>\n<p>LEGO <i>Lord of the Rings<\/i>.  Like LEGO <i>Star Trek<\/i>, this would be awesome.  There&#8217;s <i>so<\/i> much to build.<\/p>\n<p>Playmates held the license for <i>Fellowship of the Ring<\/i> and produced a few LEGO-like sets in 2001.  No, I never bought any of them.<\/p>\n<p>For right now, I think the ship has sailed on LEGO <i>Lord of the Rings<\/i>.  However, when <i>The Hobbit<\/i> is made, then might be the time for LEGO to look into licensing <i>The Hobbit<\/i> for LEGOfication, and then release <i>Lord of the Rings<\/i> sets alongside assuming they can wrangle that license.<\/p>\n<p>LEGO <i>English Patient<\/i> and LEGO James Bond.  Not needed.<\/p>\n<p>LEGO <i>Star Trek<\/i>, needed but won&#8217;t happen.<\/p>\n<p>LEGO <i>The Hobbit<\/i> and, by extension, LEGO <i>Lord of the Rings<\/i>, needed and hopefully doable.<\/p>\n<p>And of course, someone asked about a LEGO Mara Jade, but I mentioned the need for that when talking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1246\"><i>LEGO Indiana Jones<\/i><\/a> a few months ago. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three weeks ago I&#8217;d mentioned how some phrases kept turning up in my search logs, phrases related to LEGO Doctor Who. Strangely, after writing about the need for LEGO Doctor Who products, people stopped &#8220;asking.&#8221; Go figure. Howsomever, LEGO searches have remained popular. Just from the last week: LEGO Batman Killer Croc LEGO Frodo Star<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1506\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Other Needed LEGOs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[484,4103,368,4089,4114,485],"class_list":["post-1506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legos","tag-hobbit","tag-lego","tag-lord-of-the-rings","tag-star-trek","tag-star-wars","tag-the-english-patient","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}