My thoughts on Angry Bird theme.
Overall I think LEGO did a fantastic job in the set designs based on the theme and source material. These are not sets that fall into my must get list, but I certainly appreciate the design work. I can understand people not liking the sets because they don't like the movie designs or just don't like the theme that it's based. I personally like the design changes they made to adapt to the movie and keep the general look of the game. At first, I wasn't too keen on the adapted character designs for the movie, but they grew on me.
I think these sets have a lot of playability for the target audience, especially the castle.
This short Christmas clip,
Season's Greetings from the Hatchlings!, helped sell me that the movie and bird designs can be very marketable to kids.
I'm a sucker for minifigs of all types. I want all of the Angry Birds minifigs as these will most likely be a one and done deal. If against odds, the movie is a smash hit, we may see a 2nd wave for the sequel. I believe these minifigs love or hate will find a certain appeal in the future for LEGO collectors. A little like Fabuland minifigs. Not great by today's standards, but will have a strange nostalgic odd appeal someday.
These sets capture the designs well based on the trailer,
The Angry Birds Movie trailer .
75825 The Pig's Pirate Ship
75823 Egg Theft from Bird Island
As I said, these sets aren't on my to get list, but on a good sale I will grab these sets. The color palette in the large sets have a lot of reusable colors (light bley and reddish-brown in the castle and boat sets respectively).
There are some nice new colors of parts I think will be useful.
There's a yellow and purple of the
Dome 2X2, Inverted W. One Stud which are new colors for that part.
This part makes for a much better balloon (with 1 2x2 Dome Top round bricks) instead of the two 2X2 Dome Top round bricks.
I don't know about others, but I do want a lot of the the new egg part. I'd like to see what people can do with that in MOCs.
I love how this part in red gives the feel of the slingshot in the castle set even though it is really a catapult. Brilliant idea and NPU.
Lt Steering Gear
The center tower with the spiral slide is cool. Egg rolls down the spiral slide into a net then into a large black "bowl". What part is that black bowl? It almost looks like the planet part from the Star Wars planet sets.
I can't make out that trans clear part with the gold goblet in the castle. It looks like it could be a Cylinder Half 2 x 4 x 5 with 1 x 2 Cutout, but bottom doesn't look quite right for that part.
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