The Simpsons Get Even Yellow-er With Official LEGO Set

[josemlopes]

the fuck? So, FIREFLY is too adult for Lego, but the SIMPSONS gets a green light?

The show that has an unrepentant alcoholic hero?
That celebrates the insane and violent acts of destruction of its cast?
That promotes JAZZ?!

Its probably because the fanbase for Firefly is mostly adults where the one for Simpsons is both adults and kids (and to be honest its a shit ton larger so you know that probably even if it was just adults it could still be made)

 

[Trucken]

Toy think stepping on a brick of Lego hurts? Just imagine the pain if you step on Lisa's head.

I still want it though. Looks very cool.

 

[Squilookle]

I remember a time when LEGO did it's OWN sets, without any kind of movie or TV tie-in bullshit whatsoever. Back then, the sets were far more imaginative than these licensed ones will ever be.

 

[Mr. Q]

The Simpsons pets Snowball and Santa's Little Helper appear in the art at the top of the box, but don't seem to be in the set anywhere (unless Snowball is the black thing Maggie is holding).

...is that a gun?

Considering the running joke around Maggie ever since "Who Shot Mr. Burns", I like to think it is.

I was thinking the same thing myself. Someone better warn the baby with the uni-brow cause Maggie might fuck his shit up.

 

[Artemicion]

Isn't The Simpsons a little mature for LEGO's target audience? They cover very adult themes, and LEGO's always taken a hard line to those sorts of things. They shot down the Firefly campaign for being too adult - and compared to The Simpsons, Firefly's downright saintly.

 

[faefrost]

The Simpsons pets Snowball and Santa's Little Helper appear in the art at the top of the box, but don't seem to be in the set anywhere (unless Snowball is the black thing Maggie is holding).

...is that a gun?

It's a screw driver. Lego just updated the part recently so it looks like a modern cordless drill driver.

As a Lego fan and collector I find it oddly disturbing that the most realistic Lego house ever made comes from The Simpsons!

 

[faefrost]

I remember a time when LEGO did it's OWN sets, without any kind of movie or TV tie-in bullshit whatsoever. Back then, the sets were far more imaginative than these licensed ones will ever be.

Lego has their own Movie out next month. Here is a big new set from it, at roughly the same size and price as the Simpsons house.

Imaginative enough?

 

[SirCannonFodder]

Isn't The Simpsons a little mature for LEGO's target audience? They cover very adult themes, and LEGO's always taken a hard line to those sorts of things. They shot down the Firefly campaign for being too adult - and compared to The Simpsons, Firefly's downright saintly.

I guess you weren't around back when they used to put Bart Simpson's face on everything, and I mean everything, even remotely related to children?

 

[Artemicion]

I guess you weren't around back when they used to put Bart Simpson's face on everything, and I mean everything, even remotely related to children?

LEGO's always taken a hard line to those sorts of things.

I'm very much aware of the Simpson wave in the 90s and into the 2000s, but that doesn't change the fact that LEGO's never tread on this kind of ground before.

 

[McMarbles]

This means there's gonna inevitably be a Lego Simpsons video game, right? Day 1.

 

[The Enquirer]

I remember a time when LEGO did it's OWN sets, without any kind of movie or TV tie-in bullshit whatsoever. Back then, the sets were far more imaginative than these licensed ones will ever be.

Hell, even Lego Racer's was a little more imaginative than some of these new games. I mean don't get me wrong, they're good and all, but the whole purpose of Lego was to just use your imagination and build whatever you wanted, not just have all this pre-made stuff. I may be able to forgive this a little bit if they come out with a...

Spoiler

Hank Scorpio set where you can build your own base and doomsday weapon! Hey, that'd encourage creativity! Problem solved.

 

[weirdee]

This would have been great if they had released it....in the 90s.

Still, better late than never.

 

[Product Placement]

The Simpsons pets Snowball and Santa's Little Helper appear in the art at the top of the box, but don't seem to be in the set anywhere (unless Snowball is the black thing Maggie is holding).

...is that a gun?

It's a screw driver. Lego just updated the part recently so it looks like a modern cordless drill driver.

As a Lego fan and collector I find it oddly disturbing that the most realistic Lego house ever made comes from The Simpsons!

Ah, so instead of equipping Maggie with a firearm, they gave her the tool she used to almost slay her own father. That's much better.

 

[userwhoquitthesite]

Its probably because the fanbase for Firefly is mostly adults where the one for Simpsons is both adults and kids (and to be honest its a shit ton larger so you know that probably even if it was just adults it could still be made)

Don't forget that they also made Indiana Jones, The Hobbit and Lord of the Ring films into Legos.

The Simpsons are yellow. LEGO people are also yellow.

I don't think that Lego people have been yellow since... whenever Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban came out or so.

I invite you both to reread the last line of my post, and evaluate just how serious I was being.

 

[Scarim Coral]

So is there anything that Lego hasn't gotten its hands on yet? Marvel, Minecraft and now this. I'm not saying it's a bad thing, I just don't want to see every single thing being made into Lego form (well the ones that aren' desperately need to be Lego).

 

[Sonic Doctor]

I remember a time when LEGO did it's OWN sets, without any kind of movie or TV tie-in bullshit whatsoever. Back then, the sets were far more imaginative than these licensed ones will ever be.

I go way back with Legos. I remember and had some of those old pirate sets. What pissed me off as a kid was that when the new pirate sets came out several years after the old ones, the cannons were just props and didn't have firing mechanisms.

That was the first time I witnessed the ugly point of changing a toy to make it "safer". Supposedly the shooting cannons were too "dangerous", that you could hurt someone with the little shooting Lego piece.

 

[Sonic Doctor]

Wait, only NOW they do this? I thought they'd make them back in the nineties, during the series' heyday.

It was previously revealed that as well as several LEGO Simpsons sets, a LEGO Simpsons TV show is also in production for this year.

Wait, what?!

That's because in the 90's, nobody had clued them in that show tie-in sets would be popular.

As far as I can remember, they didn't start doing major tie-in sets until 1999, with Star Wars Lego sets.

Now the Wikipedia page says that the Star Wars sets were the 23rd intellectual property tie-in, but I can't seem to find out where that point came from, cause searching for the others finds nothing before Star Wars, and the source cited for that point, the source doesn't even say that point.

I'm willing to bet that Star Wars was the first movie/show tie-in.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Isn't The Simpsons a little mature for LEGO's target audience? They cover very adult themes, and LEGO's always taken a hard line to those sorts of things. They shot down the Firefly campaign for being too adult - and compared to The Simpsons, Firefly's downright saintly.

Speaking as someone that played with LEGO and watched The Simpsons from as far back as they can remember, I doubt it.

Whilst the character figures are insanely creepy, I actually would love to own a bunch of sets and recreate parts of Springfield. A power plant set would be absolutely crazy-awesome.

 

[Alfador_VII]

Ok LEGO you have my interest with this Simpsons set.

Now, over to you, Traveller's Tales, I want to play a LEGO Simpsons game