Lego is getting to a point where my precious yellow heads will be ancient.
Let's all go to the place where Lego is made and demand yellow.

Yellow heads aren't going to go, the flesh toned heads are only for licensed sets. And I think now is a good time to point out that people focus too much attention on the negatives, what about all the great stuff LEGO has come out with recently? The modular set lines, the merry go round set, the blue Volkswagen beatle, the Emerald Night, the Custom Car Garage, Space Police 3, Indy, the Taj Mahal, the Eiffel tower, etcetera. LEGO is a business, they need to supply for the majority of customers, which are pretty much 3-13 year olds, thats why they're coming out with new bionicles and speed racer stuff becuase thats what the kids want. No one can please everyone.

Although, I would have thought the clone wars was based on the opposite premise of losing money, but just to squeeze as much as possible out of the idea.

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LEGO has always been expensive, especially for non-US buyers, and I thought the Emerald Night and the Medievil Market were pretty amazing, but you can't expect LEGO to come out with something amazing every three months.

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vik, LEGO will always be awesome. The stud/tube method is ingenious. Just look how internationally popular it is: PEOPLE ARE FREAKIN MAKING MOVIES WITH IT. But that's not the point. The newer LEGO sets are designed for Playing. The older LEGO sets were designed for Building. Building is the whole point of LEGO. That's why they made Brick Buckets, large sets like the Taj Mahal, Creator Sets, Technic Sets, Mindstorms Sets, etc...

Just take a look at many recent Star Wars sets. They have a looooooot of plates. You can't build a set with plates. LEGO used to be about Building and Rebuilding. Now it's just Building and Playing.

"actuallly this involves spiderman too, not batman. but im also taking a new approach, more comedy, less action. i dont see to many movies like that with more comedy than action" --SteveStarfyTV on an Indiana Jones meets Star Wars idea.

You are looking at this from a brickfilmers perspective, becuase we usually need walls in our sets, and plates aren't useful for walls.  But as you said, LEGO is for building. Building anything you can think of, that isn't just buildings, what about spaceships, cars, boats?

Not with a plate like this:

"actuallly this involves spiderman too, not batman. but im also taking a new approach, more comedy, less action. i dont see to many movies like that with more comedy than action" --SteveStarfyTV on an Indiana Jones meets Star Wars idea.

No, they're quite stable, and yes fib, i can use those plates.