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12-15-2012, 09:47 PM
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Crazy Jetty
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Anytime a building block brand announces the aquisition of a new license, there's more potential than will ever be met.
Personally, I feel Kreo has yet to come even close to the potential the brand can achieve. If they played their cards right, they could actually even become a real contender to Lego, more so than Megablok, with it's poor reputation. (They actually need to do generic sets, for one thing. TF is all they have, and a license can't carry a building block brand alone.)
But that's neither here, nor there.
Star Trek Kreos are one of the things I'm looking forward to the absolute most next year.
Anyone else eager for these?
If so, what are you hoping for?
I hope the emphasis on movie is light. Not that I dislike the movie, I just hope that it's a foothold to establish the brand, and then hit up the other trek series.
But what I really hope, and it already does not look to shape up this way, is that there are two catagories. Model kit ships that are not playsets or mini figure compatable (Simular to some of the collector sets Star Wars has made... though not on that scale or mega price),
and
playset pieces.
For the model kits, anyship they want to give us I want.
For the playsets, First and formost, I need to see Bridges. Every major Bridge, we need to have.
Bridges for Enterprises original, new, NX, A, D, and E. Voyager's Bridge, DS9's Ops. After that, key sets, such as transporter rooms, D's Engineering (Perhaps a three set piece that can be combined into one mega set), Picard's Ready Room, Quark's Bar, Sickbay, Ten Forward, alien ship bridges.
Perhaps instead of releasing one mega set for an entire bridge, they can release smaller sets that have a few consols and two characters.
Using TNG here for example, but this works for every bridge and crew:
Helm, Ops, and the Viewscreen with a baseplate, and comes with Data, Ro Laren, and a generic ensign.
A large set with the three chairs and the curving guardrail, on a baseplate that connects to helm and ops, and comes with Picard, Riker, and Troi.
Then three small sets that combines make up all the consols on the back wall, along with pieces to make all the walls on the bridge, and each one coming with another maincast, and a generic crewman. (Geordi, Worf, Beverly)
Combine them all and you have the entire bridge in a way that does not cost $100 in one shot.
$15 for the back consols, $25 for Helm and Ops, and $35-40 for the main bridge piece (Captain's chairs and guardrail).
Would love to see small sets that focus on minifigures to help fill out core characters, and blind packs of "generic" aliens, such as Ferengi, Cardassians, Borg, and Klingons (This way if you're trying to armybuild, you're not stuck with 5 Kirks and 6 Geordis, as you're trying to find just
one
borg or klingon.
Or at least follow Character Builder's example by releasing troopbuilder fivepacks. (I'd buy at least three borg sets)
Would be especially cool to see them start to cater to the adult collector market, by making some sets that have little appeal to kids (Like Picard's ready room, and the conference room), and selling them through a Kreo Collector site, or something, and allowing them to focus on more action oriented sets for retail.
But... it's all very doubtful. Most likely Hasbro rill release a handful of sets and abandon it, even though this could be their Lego Star Wars.
I mean seriously... serious Star Trek fans have been starving for a strong line to collect since Playmate's trek petered out in the late ninties. And as I mentioned in another thread, representations of ships, beyond a select handful almost never happen. Even more rare are important playsets like Bridges. Playmates did a few, but that was it. The Bridge is as important as the ships and characters themselves.
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