At least they can use the yellow heads.  I don't know why hey didn't do this back when people cared about SImpsons, but those were the early days of Lego IP licensing.

Well, this turned out exactly the way I thought it would, i.e. it looks horrible.  I was still clinging to a faint hope that this was somehow an ugly rumour set forth into the world by some misguided person or a massively out-of-season April Fool's prank...

Seriously, that set is just... bland.  There are one or two interesting building techniques, but nothing new, and certainly not anything with a "wow" factor like the Orthanc Tower or Parisian Restaurant sets.  Especially since it's apparently around 2,500 pieces, which must make it the least inspiring set of that size in the history of LEGO.  I suppose it's somewhat inevitable seeing as it's supposed to represent a mundane suburban home, and cartoon shows tend to have less detail and brighter blockier colours in general, but I'm not exaggerating when I saw I think I'd be able to design something like that in my sleep without even breaking a sweat (OK, maybe I'm exaggerating a little, but the point still stands).  Aside from a load of spare bricks in beige (which would admittedly be useful) I see absolutely nothing appealing to me here--though then again I'm not a Simpsons fan...

As far as the minifigs go, there's no other way to say it--they just look hideous.  I'd say that this is easily shaping up to be the worst LEGO theme since Galidor... and given the way LEGO's themes have been going recently, that's no easy feat.

The great thing is that you don't have to buy the sets.  But Flying Minifig, it's not a joke.  I work at a lego retail outlet.   We have confirmation of these sets.

I don't care for the Simpsons at all in the first place and this seems like an awfully big set for a lot of money that no one actually wants that badly. 
Retail price is 200 US dollars. 

An interesting thing though with the minifigures...printed sleeves!  And printed short legs! 

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Pushover, I can only redirect you to the post I made at the top of the page.

They could have picked something less...yuck.

If LEGO wants to make something for adults, they don't have to make it vulgar. They could always make sets based off movies and things from their time that no kid really cares about today. Heck, what about LEGO He-man? I would buy that over LEGO Simpsons. A toy company geared towards kids should still pick lines that are (sort of) family friendly, regardless of who they are making them for.

Besides, I don't think AFOLs buy sets to play with them, they buy them for the pieces.

I don't know about today's episodes, but I bet some of the episodes in the earlier seasons (1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, etc.) aren't as naughty. I don't know if that's true or not, though; it's just a thought.

You'd be surprised. If you click on that Facebook link that Pushover posted, and just scroll through those comments, you'll see some people (mainly adults, however) who actually do want this set "that badly"...

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Bart has an ID card with his face on it, thus it is almost useless for any other purpose.

It seems to me that the people on Facebook etc. who really want this set are fans of the show, and not really AFOLs.  Still, I suppose this might attract new AFOLs (though I'm not sure whether that would be good or bad).  For now I'm still traumatised by those horrifically ugly minifigs.

That would be Homer you are referring to.  Bart is the boy with the red t-shirt and skateboard (I do know that much about the Simpsons...).

The printed shirt-sleeves are certainly useful, but that is probably just about the only good thing to come from this theme, in my opinion.  And they're sure to turn up in a bunch of other themes in the future, so there's probably not even any exclusivity to that.