Looks like it's just expensive, and Blizzard store exclusive. I hope other sets aren't exclusive, but Bastion is all I really wanted. I doubt they'll make a Hammond set since he's so new.
Looks like it's just expensive, and Blizzard store exclusive. I hope other sets aren't exclusive, but Bastion is all I really wanted. I doubt they'll make a Hammond set since he's so new.
I wait to see D va
The minifig scale with the Bastion is off, but I wonder if they could use the Friends line to make a D.Va figure to go along with it...
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Looks like it's just expensive, and Blizzard store exclusive. I hope other sets aren't exclusive, but Bastion is all I really wanted. I doubt they'll make a Hammond set since he's so new.
I wait to see D va
The minifig scale with the Bastion is off, but I wonder if they could use the Friends line to make a D.Va figure to go along with it...
They could do Bastion with Technic to transform back and forth but I rarely see technic stuff anymore
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Reinhardt is probably gonna get a very unique looking bigfig? I guess there was never much chance of an accurate scale for these characters that need to be brick built, but I bet there'll be some good MOCs to fix em up. Very curious to see D.Va's mech. Bet it's gonna be huge
Also wonder if we'll get the full roster in Lego form? Also also wonder if we'll be getting accurate looking weapons. A lot of em wield sci fi stuff, but some characters have fairly realistic looking guns, which Lego seems to shy away from?
Something I've been wondering about since getting back into Lego in my adult life.
Isn't the whole concept of the price to piece ratio kind of flawed? Surely it's the overall design aesthetic, brand familiarity, and fun of the build that makes up the lion's share of a sets value isn't it? The price to piece ratio kind of implies that the value is in the volume of overall pieces doesn't it? While I get that has some ties with the fun of the build it still seems by and large like a strange rubrik to use in assessing value of new sets.
Something I've been wondering about since getting back into Lego in my adult life.
Isn't the whole concept of the price to piece ratio kind of flawed? Surely it's the overall design aesthetic, brand familiarity, and fun of the build that makes up the lion's share of a sets value isn't it? The price to piece ratio kind of implies that the value is in the volume of overall pieces doesn't it? While I get that has some ties with the fun of the build it still seems by and large like a strange rubrik to use in assessing value of new sets.
It depends what you're using it for. If just to build the box model and done, then sure. But if you're planning to break it down and introduce the bits into your own builds then recognising that you get less bits for your money with licenced sets is a valid observation.
In said case though aren't you better off just buying loose pieces in those free for all style sets? Surely that's more cost effective (barring specialized pieces only available in certain sets).
In said case though aren't you better off just buying loose pieces in those free for all style sets? Surely that's more cost effective (barring specialized pieces only available in certain sets).
At least on high price per point pieces a lot of times you'll get big pieces and/or rarer pieces. You could literally build that bastion from the 10$ basic brick set in the color of your choice
Edit: for example this is a 20$ set and it even lights up and has actual tread!
In said case though aren't you better off just buying loose pieces in those free for all style sets? Surely that's more cost effective (barring specialized pieces only available in certain sets).
Yeah, but rarer bits tend to be in these sets, and also building the box model is also fun!
Something I've been wondering about since getting back into Lego in my adult life.
Isn't the whole concept of the price to piece ratio kind of flawed? Surely it's the overall design aesthetic, brand familiarity, and fun of the build that makes up the lion's share of a sets value isn't it? The price to piece ratio kind of implies that the value is in the volume of overall pieces doesn't it? While I get that has some ties with the fun of the build it still seems by and large like a strange rubrik to use in assessing value of new sets.
Sure, it's a flawed metric, but it's a universal one.
For example, maybe you don't like TIE fighters, I do. I have around 20 assorted Lego TIEs in assorted makes and sizes. I have a hard time saying "No" to a Lego TIE fighter, and I'm going to have fun with the TIE fighter sets. Building the panels, while repetitive is almost meditative to me since so many of the steps are repeated and the look of the TIE fighters just matches what I like.
Conversely, I've never really enjoyed the Technic sets. Sure, it's neat to watch the gears work together and seeing how the working bits come together, but I don't like the way the sets tend to look skeletal and almost unfinished. Maybe that's your thing though.
So, it's hard to have a qualitative standard when it's something hard to measure like fun in a build o aesthetic. What you like may not match what I like.
On the other hand, dividing price by part count is pretty hard to disagree about. I'm not saying you should have that be your only metric, it certainly isn't the only thing I look for, but it's something I take into account.
I figure I can get the official one, then use it to piece out a bunch of differently colored variants and have an omnic army in different skins from the game.
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I've read the odd comment too that this color scheme is just for the blizz store and a normal one is coming to regular stores but can't find any confirmation?
I am kind of disappointed in their guns as you could use the ones they made for star wars or the old west sets for some of the overwatch with some add on parts
As someone who knows nothing about Overwatch -- so is that Bastion and the Bastion they released already, like, the same fig or something?
Omnic Bastion, the orange one that's Blizzard exclusive, is 182 pieces. This new one is 602 pieces. More detailed, much larger build.
I meant in the fiction/setting of the game.
I know little more about the setting than you, but watching the character intro movies, I'm pretty sure they are.
Orange Bastion is one fresh off the line, ready to enter the Omnic Wars as a front line troop.
Green and tan Bastion is one remaining Bastion unit that managed to self repair and is coming too in the post-Omnic War setting of the game.
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I wait to see D va
The minifig scale with the Bastion is off, but I wonder if they could use the Friends line to make a D.Va figure to go along with it...
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They could do Bastion with Technic to transform back and forth but I rarely see technic stuff anymore
Also wonder if we'll get the full roster in Lego form? Also also wonder if we'll be getting accurate looking weapons. A lot of em wield sci fi stuff, but some characters have fairly realistic looking guns, which Lego seems to shy away from?
Isn't the whole concept of the price to piece ratio kind of flawed? Surely it's the overall design aesthetic, brand familiarity, and fun of the build that makes up the lion's share of a sets value isn't it? The price to piece ratio kind of implies that the value is in the volume of overall pieces doesn't it? While I get that has some ties with the fun of the build it still seems by and large like a strange rubrik to use in assessing value of new sets.
It depends what you're using it for. If just to build the box model and done, then sure. But if you're planning to break it down and introduce the bits into your own builds then recognising that you get less bits for your money with licenced sets is a valid observation.
At least on high price per point pieces a lot of times you'll get big pieces and/or rarer pieces. You could literally build that bastion from the 10$ basic brick set in the color of your choice
Edit: for example this is a 20$ set and it even lights up and has actual tread!
Yeah, but rarer bits tend to be in these sets, and also building the box model is also fun!
Sure, it's a flawed metric, but it's a universal one.
For example, maybe you don't like TIE fighters, I do. I have around 20 assorted Lego TIEs in assorted makes and sizes. I have a hard time saying "No" to a Lego TIE fighter, and I'm going to have fun with the TIE fighter sets. Building the panels, while repetitive is almost meditative to me since so many of the steps are repeated and the look of the TIE fighters just matches what I like.
Conversely, I've never really enjoyed the Technic sets. Sure, it's neat to watch the gears work together and seeing how the working bits come together, but I don't like the way the sets tend to look skeletal and almost unfinished. Maybe that's your thing though.
So, it's hard to have a qualitative standard when it's something hard to measure like fun in a build o aesthetic. What you like may not match what I like.
On the other hand, dividing price by part count is pretty hard to disagree about. I'm not saying you should have that be your only metric, it certainly isn't the only thing I look for, but it's something I take into account.
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Tiny and common, when I mention the basic bricks, I mean he's built from the most common pieces of the bulk piece classic sets.
^ those colored basic boxes are under 10$
He doesn't seem to be even a very complex build either, I'm pretty sure I could build him directly off that single picture on the box.
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Also, lil bummed that Reinhardt and Bastion are so out of scale. D.Va's bunny meka is looking good.
That bigger Bastion is very nice, too.
Omnic Bastion, the orange one that's Blizzard exclusive, is 182 pieces. This new one is 602 pieces. More detailed, much larger build.
I meant in the fiction/setting of the game.
I know little more about the setting than you, but watching the character intro movies, I'm pretty sure they are.
Orange Bastion is one fresh off the line, ready to enter the Omnic Wars as a front line troop.
Green and tan Bastion is one remaining Bastion unit that managed to self repair and is coming too in the post-Omnic War setting of the game.
I am amused at Widowmaker very frustratedly powerwalking away from Tracer's vehicle in the first one.
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You've just got to find someone who really likes Reinhardt but not D'va and go halvsies with them.
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There were official Star Trek mega bloks/construx.
But they were Mega Bloks, so lots of big custom pieces and shoddy quality control.
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