Still no warm tan face with glasses for me. Maybe the next set haha

That's an incredibly cool set, I'm just unsure if it's $110 cool or not.

Who asked for this? A small snub fighter trying to out run a giant rainbow-colored pickle with as side build of an abacus made of human heads? I say it again: WHO ASKED FOR THIS!?!

I'm going to have to try and figure out who this guy is now, aren't I.

I don't really get it but I hope some of the wall of disembodied heads end up available on Bricks and Pieces.

Wow, this is incredible.

I'm not the target audience, but I hope whoever buys it enjoys it.

I wasn't expecting to like any of the sets from this movie (if in fact there will be others) as much as I like this. That shuttle and its exhaust are pretty cool. I have to wonder how many will be picked up by people looking to resell the parts, what with over thirty unique heads, the flight suits, and that canopy.

The ship is nice enough and I really like the look of that canopy piece, but I thoroughly dislike all flesh-tone minifigs, so all those heads would be wasted on me. So I'll pass on this.

I'm cringing at the intuition this will fracture or topple, so wondering about the structure -- what kind of rigid armature is hidden within the canted exhaust plume? (>40 studs? Are those 1x6 or 1x8 tiles?) And where is the center of gravity? The billowing-steam base doesn't look to extend beneath the vehicle, but its size might be obscured by the photo's angle.

Note that set contains 51 minifig *heads*, not *minifigs*. (I happened to see a YouTube video yesterday that reviewed the history of sets with >20 minifigs -- Dacta, chess boards, MCU buildings, etc.)

Doesn't really make me that Happy. But maybe it'll live a Double Life...

Some of those Nougat faces could work well for clone troopers though

I can't get this They Might Be Giants song out of my head now, (pun intended).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr0n0ln-vDw

Very odd set / collaboration. Couldn't he have just submitted a set to Lego Ideas like everyone else? :p

I also see the first minifig head with a hair lip.

Likely the first minifigure scale spaceship set that I'm not hooked to buy. All the parts, all the money is in the exhaust fumes. Well, I'll see if I can bricklink the ship only, just with a different canopy colour.

Dear LEGO product management: Yes, Adults want interesting LEGO sets. They can be big, that's okay, they can be sophisticated, that's also okay. But they shouldn't consist of 50+% trash pieces that DON'T contribute to the joy of a model!

Is the wall of heads his trophy cabinet of defeated enemies?

I think it looks really cool

I'd love to know who the target audience for this is and just how big that audience is. It just seems extremely niche. Pharrell is a popular musician but he's not Taylor Swift or BTS, and the subject matter isn't something that's known to the audience either (like with that BTS set of a scene from a music video).

It's as if Pharrell designed a MOC and then used his fame, clout and connections to convince LEGO to make it an official product, even though it's very questionable who will actually want to buy this.

@Graysmith said:
"I'd love to know who the target audience for this is and just how big that audience is. It just seems extremely niche. Pharrell is a popular musician but he's not Taylor Swift or BTS, and the subject matter isn't something that's known to the audience either (like with that BTS set of a scene from a music video).

It's as if Pharrell designed a MOC and then used his fame, clout and connections to convince LEGO to make it an official product, even though it's very questionable who will actually want to buy this."

It’s almost like there’s a LEGO/Pharrell movie coming out…

@Graysmith said:
"I'd love to know who the target audience for this is and just how big that audience is. It just seems extremely niche. Pharrell is a popular musician but he's not Taylor Swift or BTS, and the subject matter isn't something that's known to the audience either (like with that BTS set of a scene from a music video).

It's as if Pharrell designed a MOC and then used his fame, clout and connections to convince LEGO to make it an official product, even though it's very questionable who will actually want to buy this."
My thoughts exactly.
Could this be a contender for worst selling set of the year?

Don't get me wrong, I love LEGO Space, but this set fails to excite me on any level. Design, pieces, price, nothing about it interests me. Plus I fail to see why people like Pharrell Williams in the first place. His music to me is just as uninspired as this set. At least in that sense it's a fitting match.

Oh and if you leave the spaceship off, the rest of the exhaust plume looks like a giant...

(insert appropriate sequence from Austin Powers movie here)

@jkb said:
"Likely the first minifigure scale spaceship set that I'm not hooked to buy. All the parts, all the money is in the exhaust fumes. Well, I'll see if I can bricklink the ship only, just with a different canopy colour.

Dear LEGO product management: Yes, Adults want interesting LEGO sets. They can be big, that's okay, they can be sophisticated, that's also okay. But they shouldn't consist of 50+% trash pieces that DON'T contribute to the joy of a model!"

Speak for yourself. The colourful trail and smoke plumes appeal to me. It doesn’t appeal to you, and that’s ok - but don’t speak for everyone.

To woke for my taste, easy pass...

Sleek ship, and that canopy!
The plume and wall of heads can do without.
Will consider when it hits 40% off.

@chief7575 said:
"I can't get this They Might Be Giants song out of my head now, (pun intended).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr0n0ln-vDw

Without clicking I know it’s the Hall of Heads
"

A tiny spaceship, some severed heads and a giant multicoloured dildo... no thanks!

Minifigure head battle pack.

@AndyB1 said:
"I'm going to have to try and figure out who this guy is now, aren't I."

I think most people would know him from the "Happy" song he did a while back. He is also a prominent music producer, both by himself and as part of the group The Neptunes.

I think the model is pretty good! The price is just a bit steep for what it is.

And while I appreciate them taking a fun new direction for the biopic flick, I don’t really get why it has to be LEGO. It’s not even animated to look like LEGO stop-motion animation. Seems more like a film about the artist that just so happens to be animated like those LEGO videos on YouTube.

Nothing against the artist himself. I don’t really know anything about him other than making the catchy songs in Despicable Me.

Though the wall of decapitated minifigure heads neatly arranged is kinda creepy. I like having more parts for more options, but this kinda reminds me of those soccer sets. Diversity isn’t a selling point and should naturally Be weaved into the build. I feel like stopping to point out how diverse a LEGO set is gives the impression that it’s the exception in the grand scheme of things. Couldn’t these heads have been used on minifigures for other astronauts, back up dancers, or musicians to help Pharrell out on a show?

@tomenadi said:
"To woke for my taste, easy pass..."

This is "to" (sic) hard to pass up. Perhaps if you learned to spell, people might take you seriously

Great variety of minifig heads. Hopefully they will show up in Pick a Brick.

Future shelf warmer.

Is anyone else reminded of the Head Museum from Futurama?

It's definitely odd! I always appreciate the inclusion of numerous skin tones because I know that's the kind of thing that angers people who deserve to Stay Mad... but it's an odd set!

Who in the world is going to the theatre to watch this movie? Probably nobody

I kinda wonder about the longtime stability of the exhaust fume "pillar".

Don't remotely care for the actual set, but the heads are gonna be useful once people part them out and put them on bricklink.

"My Phriends." That may be the LEGO sticker of all time.

@Username28 said:
""My Phriends." That may be the LEGO sticker of all time."

it honestly baffles me a bit. With that text you'd think it's people he worked with throughout his career. But apparently its literally just random Minifig heads?

Who the heck is actually buying this?

The celeb-collab era has arrived at LEGO

I'm done

I don't think I'm the market for Pharrell, and didn't realise he was big enough for a biopic, but I quite like the model (although I have no use for so many spare heads). Is it a stand-alone object, and not something that's intrinsically related to him from a music video or similar?

I assume there's no history of him having any interest in Lego? I guess going to NASA for a space ship was outside of his marketing budget!

@tomenadi said:
"To woke for my taste, easy pass..."

please explain what is "to woke" about this set? I would like to hear in clear words.

too many people use the word "woke" to couch straight-up racism, so would be delighted if you had another explanation...

The financials on this deal must be fascinating – merely seems like a vanity project to me.

Love the diversity idea but I'd prefer a minifig pack. That said, friggin gold canopy <3

I like the concept, the idea a d the set à lot! This one will eventually come up on my living room shelf, for sure. I like lego sets as toys, and Lego set as this one. Just like I liked Everybody is awesome (that's the name right? Not sure but I think so...)
I have just pre ordered it on Lego shop. Released September 20th. Perfect.

I like the ship... thats about it

Truly one of the sets of all time.

This set is everything wrong with modern LEGO, and why I'm getting out of the hobby wholesale.

@YoungB1ood said:
"Who the heck is actually buying this?"

Nobody, it's not for sale yet.

I'll give you twenty bucks for just the spaceship, take it or leave it.

I like the spaceship, but the stack of mini figure heads freak me out a bit.

Given what else is on my list, this is an easy pass.

@Murdoch17 said:
"Who asked for this? A small snub fighter trying to out run a giant rainbow-colored pickle with as side build of an abacus made of human heads? I say it again: WHO ASKED FOR THIS!?!"

You may have just flipped me from "no" to "yes" with that set description! WAY more imaginative than the official writeup. Haha

One other thing, those heads (especially the ones in the rarer skin tones) aren't much use without matching hands. So if so many torsos (or complete minifigs) were out of budget, they should at least have put a matching set of hands per head in the box.
Can't be much creepier either. They already give us a wall of chopped off heads, why not matching sets of chopped off hands too?

Drum-laquered gold canopy: great. I'm sure it'll sell for a premium on BL once this hundred-dollar set is out.
The rest of it: Forgettable parts/heads pack. Even the roughly 8" by 8" spaceship, while cleanly built, is nothing to write home about.

@Djhorn said:
" @tomenadi said:
"To woke for my taste, easy pass..."

please explain what is "to woke" about this set? I would like to hear in clear words.

too many people use the word "woke" to couch straight-up racism, so would be delighted if you had another explanation..."

Might as well have said "it's too multi racial for my taste". Saves us having to decode what appears to be casual racism.

Strange set. I had to Google this one, a reminder of how out of touch I may be.

This is one of those rare occasions when I find the word 'tzompantli' useful.

So Lego now has Friends, F·R·I·E·N·D·S and Phriends sets.

On the surface this might be the oddest product TLG has released. I certainly can't think of a more unusual set in the last 30 years.

@AndyB1 said:
"I'm going to have to try and figure out who this guy is now, aren't I."

If you don't know by now, you probably haven't listened to any (new) music this century.

I also congratulate you for somehow having managed to avoid his omnipresent song Happy for the past 11 years. That's an impressive feat in and of itself.

Am I missing something or can one only be a "phriend" if one's bald?

@Angry_Warlock said:
" @Djhorn said:
" @tomenadi said:
"To woke for my taste, easy pass..."

please explain what is "to woke" about this set? I would like to hear in clear words.

too many people use the word "woke" to couch straight-up racism, so would be delighted if you had another explanation..."

Might as well have said "it's too multi racial for my taste". Saves us having to decode what appears to be casual racism. "

Don't forget xenophobia. Probably scared rainbows turn kids gay or something. :'-)
Also, it's 'too', not 'to'.

@Murdoch17 said:
"Who asked for this? A small snub fighter trying to out run a giant rainbow-colored pickle with as side build of an abacus made of human heads? I say it again: WHO ASKED FOR THIS!?!"

Someone other than you clearly. :)

It's my understanding that Pharrell is a Lego fan, so the movie and this set is purely a vanity project for him.

I am absolutely not the market for either, so I'd let it pass by without comment, except for one thing someone wrote when this leaked awhile ago:

"We could have gotten a Lego Movie 10th anniversary set, but we got this."

Another set that looks like it came from DEI consultants in LEGO so they can score diversity brownie points.

If LEGO truly cared about diversity, they would launch affordable sets that consist only of minifgure parts. It can be achieved with pick a brick to an extent, but it is a very expensive affair relative to what you get, same problem with this rocket or 21337, sets that come with lots of heads but essentially zero play value. At this point I wouldn't be surprised if LEGO releasing those diverse flops is intentional, so they can gain media coverage on how progressive they are and then shut off the production quickly with justification that sets don't sell, 21337 is honestly a perfect example, didn't even reach half of average IDEAS lifespan.

@ToysFromTheAttic said:
" @AndyB1 said:
"I'm going to have to try and figure out who this guy is now, aren't I."

If you don't know by now, you probably haven't listened to any (new) music this century.

I also congratulate you for somehow having managed to avoid his omnipresent song Happy for the past 11 years. That's an impressive feat in and of itself."

Not a huge amount, no. I find most to be not to my tastes. Now when Rammstein etc. release new music, I'm all over it. I don't know the Happy song off the top of my head and couldn't say I'd even recognise it without going to listen to it. I'm happy for this state of affairs to continue :-D

I'm just trying to figure out how it doesn't fall over... I need to see this on display at the lego store

Another set straight to the bargin bin.

I feel if the minifig head rack was sold separately it would be great for combining with extra DnD CMF's to flesh* out your parties.

I honestly forgot this movie was even a thing, but what I didn't forget is that when rumors of this set first floated around it was assumed to be a $100 Blacktron ship. I still want them to do a Legacy set for the Renegade...

*...pun not intended

@SummerSanta said:
"This movie screams CMF gold mine! You have a film full many of the worlds most famous musicians. Did TLG have cold feet after Vidiyo bombed? "

Getting the rights to alot of big artists Pharrel worked with would be pretty expensive. Besides some of them being potentially too controversial.

Like others have opined already, although I am a LEGO Space fan, I don't have any interest in this set, although I do like the look of the spaceship itself.

I've observed a few other comments questioning the dildo-esque nature of the gas trail, etc., and the wall of "trophy heads" just seems weird.

That being said, another reason I won't get this is because of the originator's earlier music video work, "Blurred Lines." Between the fully-clothed trio of male singers and the sparsely-clothed bevy of female models strutting around, plus the questionable lyrics, I found that music video having an air of misogyny and objectification. Since then, even though the guy is talented to be sure, I just don't want to get this apparent "vanity project" (as others have stated).

I love Pharrell (a great musical icon who still appears to be, and one hopes always will be, a positive role-model, unlike, alas, some of his contemporaries), I love the diversity of flesh-tone minifig head pieces, and, on balance, I really like this set. It's a decent price when compared to other recent sets, and whilst I suspect the heads will be the biggest selling-point for many AFOLs, the rocket ain't a bad model (which is just as well, because £94.99 would be hard to justify for the head-pieces alone). Plus, the film appears to be getting decent notices, and if it ends up having any sort of cultural impact, that rocket's appeal may significantly increase. Plus, a Lego musical biopic is just a wonderful out-of-the-box concept.

Looks incredibly pointless

How weird: we’re not all the same.

@tomenadi said:
"To woke for my taste, easy pass..."
'Too woke'?

Well, I'm therefore pleased to say I'm on the 'woke' side of the equation in this instance, although I don't really know why [this set is 'woke'].

@MLF said:
"I am absolutely not the market for either, so I'd let it pass by without comment, except for one thing someone wrote when this leaked awhile ago:

"We could have gotten a Lego Movie 10th anniversary set, but we got this." "

"We could have gotten something I want, but we got something someone else might want."

@Links said:
"A tiny spaceship, some severed heads and a giant multicoloured dildo... no thanks!"Brilliant! That should have been the marketing tagline. I'm certainly sold.

Also, to all those people who are asking 'Who's going to watch this movie?' The answer is ME! Same answer applies to 'Who's going to buy this set?' (albeit, I'll probably wait to see if it's discounted first).

@omnius said:
"Future shelf warmer.

Is anyone else reminded of the Head Museum from Futurama?"

I wasn't until I listened to the song @chief7575 posted, But then I immediately thought of it. Of course, I have been watching the series on Hulu.

@AustinPowers said:"One other thing, those heads (especially the ones in the rarer skin tones) aren't much use without matching hands. So if so many torsos (or complete minifigs) were out of budget, they should at least have put a matching set of hands per head in the box.
Can't be much creepier either. They already give us a wall of chopped off heads, why not matching sets of chopped off hands too?"

Two reasons. One, Lego doesn't put loose hands in sets. 10291 (and I think one other set whose name I can't remember) had torsos without hands to represent shirts, but they've never put loose hands or legs in sets. Two, the figures are wearing spacesuits, so they're not showing skin other than that of their heads.

@NissanZ32 said:
"Another set that looks like it came from DEI consultants in LEGO so they can score diversity brownie points."

Another comment that looks like it came from a racist.

Wow, it's N O T H I N G :D

What even is LEGO any more

This year’s Queer Eye set. Half price a month after release :-D

@MLF said:
"It's my understanding that Pharrell is a Lego fan, so the movie and this set is purely a vanity project for him.

I am absolutely not the market for either, so I'd let it pass by without comment, except for one thing someone wrote when this leaked awhile ago:

"We could have gotten a Lego Movie 10th anniversary set, but we got this." "Oh, I didn't realise it was an 'either/or' scenario.

So, this set has prevented TLG from releasing (another) set based on the 2014 Lego Movie, has it?

Oh well. FWIW, I prefer this set to any of the previous Lego Movie sets. Nice to have minifigures and heads that represent a variety of races and skin textures.

@billydeewilliams said:
""We could have gotten something I want, but we got something someone else might want.""

lol, not just me. I don't have a crystal ball, but I don't think it is hard to argue that a set celebrating The Lego Movie would have done well.

From what I know of him, Pharrell is a decent guy, and better fit for the brand then some of the things Lego has partnered with lately. Will that translate into set sales? I don't know.

If you love it or hate it, it’s a just promo/IP set for a movie that has a heavy connection to Lego - standard stuff for how marketing works these days.

Don’t know why people think there are other motivations behind it

@billydeewilliams said:
" @NissanZ32 said:
"Another set that looks like it came from DEI consultants in LEGO so they can score diversity brownie points."

Another comment that looks like it came from a racist.

"

Glad I'm not the only one to notice the silliness of some of the comments here.

I don't regard myself as particularly 'woke' (whatever that even means), but all the seething over a set based off an upcoming movie featuring a popular music star who's associated with an extremely popular family IP (i.e. Despicable Me) absolutely perplexes me.

No-one here is obliged to purchase a set that they regard as 'woke' (i.e. a set that acknowledges the world isn't exclusively populated by straight white men), so why begrudge anyone who is interested in it?

The beautiful thing about Lego is that it has such a wide potential appeal, across various demographics, and without ever taking away from one to focus on another. I'm sure all the people complaining here are already more than catered for as far as sets go this year, and those who aren't will probably never be satisfied.

@Slave2lego said:
"If you love it or hate it, it’s a just promo/IP set for a movie that has a heavy connection to Lego - standard stuff for how marketing works these days.

Don’t know why people think there are other motivations behind it"

It's CLEARLY all part of a shadowy NWO conspiracy to indoctrinate society with communist values. How is that not abundantly obvious?!?

Now, has anyone seen by tinfoil cap?

@billydeewilliams

BRILLIANT takedown of Nissan!!

All those heads stacked is actually kind of creepy! There isn't a picture of all 51, but I hope they threw in a classic smiley. That deserves to be represented!

I don't get how something never seen before can be an Icon.

Probably another LEGO write-off.
No one is interested in a Pharrell life story LEGO biopic.
Give it time. It’ll be in the 20-40% off stage down the road.

@SummerSanta said:
"On the surface this might be the oddest product TLG has released. I certainly can't think of a more unusual set in the last 30 years. "

In the last *thirty* years? The timespan that includes Galidor, Znap, and Belville? Forma, Fusion, Life of George? Bionicle, Hero Factory, Ben 10? Racers, back when the drivers were 2x2 plastic lumps? Every McDonalds toy? Time Cruisers, Spybotics, Sports?

I feel like you'd have a hard time making the case that this is the oddest set released *this* year.

@goozle said:
"This set is everything wrong with modern LEGO, and why I'm getting out of the hobby wholesale. "

@monsieurlee said:
"The celeb-collab era has arrived at LEGO

I'm done"

It's not an airport, you don't have to announce your departure. And like above, this kinda just makes it sound like y'all just got here. TLG was doing product placement for Shell 60 years ago. They gave the Nesquik Bunny a racecar. Maersk, all of basketball, Little Robots, this is definitely not anywhere near the worst idea or execution they've had. If a spaceship with a rainbow contrail is enough to push you out, no one is stopping you.

@Brainslugged said:
"Very odd set / collaboration. Couldn't he have just submitted a set to Lego Ideas like everyone else? :p

I also see the first minifig head with a hair lip."

You're looking for "cleft palate" and not the derogatory term "harelip."

@Djhorn said:
" @tomenadi said:
"To woke for my taste, easy pass..."

please explain what is "to woke" about this set? I would like to hear in clear words.

too many people use the word "woke" to couch straight-up racism, so would be delighted if you had another explanation..."

Yes, AMEN.

@tomenadi said:
"To woke for my taste, easy pass..."

Your spelling is very un-woke.

@fakespacesquid said:
"It's not an airport, you don't have to announce your departure."

Thanks for that, now I have to clean coffee off my laptop screen XD

@NissanZ32 said:
"Another set that looks like it came from DEI consultants in LEGO so they can score diversity brownie points.

If LEGO truly cared about diversity, they would launch affordable sets that consist only of minifgure parts. It can be achieved with pick a brick to an extent, but it is a very expensive affair relative to what you get, same problem with this rocket or 21337, sets that come with lots of heads but essentially zero play value. At this point I wouldn't be surprised if LEGO releasing those diverse flops is intentional, so they can gain media coverage on how progressive they are and then shut off the production quickly with justification that sets don't sell, 21337 is honestly a perfect example, didn't even reach half of average IDEAS lifespan.
"

Please stop posting here, Mr Nissanwhatevernumber. Please. You do not belong here. Just go away. Flee to your flock at X.com or 4chan.

Sigh.

@Djhorn said:
" @tomenadi said:
"To woke for my taste, easy pass..."

please explain what is "to woke" about this set? I would like to hear in clear words.

too many people use the word "woke" to couch straight-up racism, so would be delighted if you had another explanation..."

I am sure that if @tomenadi would bother, he would come up with an explanation.

And I am sure that even that explanation would just be an excuse to hide his inherent racism/bigotry. Oh, and do not forget that so far 17 users liked his comment. Which means that out of the few dozen users bothering to post here, at least 17 are just as equally guilty of being a racist creep.

Yuck. And then you wonder why some people are just fed up with the comments here.

@Ridgeheart said:
"I was hoping this set would include Snoop Dogg and Busta Rhymes.

You have made a powerful enemy this day, Pharrell."

I believe Snoop Dogg's face is included.

This has been utter wtf release to me since I’ve seen the first leaks. Like why? When you have a year dedicated to celebrating Lego Space why not to make a homage to a classic set from Futuron, Space Police or M:tron, since we recently had only Classic Space and Blacktron. Why to use a release slot on this?

@myth said:
"This has been utter wtf release to me since I’ve seen the first leaks. Like why? When you have a year dedicated to celebrating Lego Space why not to make a homage to a classic set from Futuron, Space Police or M:tron, since we recently had only Classic Space and Blacktron. Why to use a release slot on this?"

Because, surprise surprise, life and a company's decisions are not all about you

@AustinPowers said:
"Oh and if you leave the spaceship off, the rest of the exhaust plume looks like a giant...

(insert appropriate sequence from Austin Powers movie here) "
This set is just begging to be parodied! I can see someone on YouTube giving a deadpan review of a mod of the set but with a choice of flesh tone coloured bricks for the 'jet stream' and hair coloured parts for the 'fumes' :~D

@myth said:
"This has been utter wtf release to me since I’ve seen the first leaks. Like why? When you have a year dedicated to celebrating Lego Space why not to make a homage to a classic set from Futuron, Space Police or M:tron, since we recently had only Classic Space and Blacktron. Why to use a release slot on this?"

You bought 68 sets released this year, somehow I think you'll make it to tomorrow without another CS release

My, there is quite of a lot of bigoted garbage in this thread, isn't there? We might want to call in a trash truck to have it all hauled away...

@myth said:
"This has been utter wtf release to me since I’ve seen the first leaks. Like why? When you have a year dedicated to celebrating Lego Space why not to make a homage to a classic set from Futuron, Space Police or M:tron, since we recently had only Classic Space and Blacktron. Why to use a release slot on this?"

We also had a full CMF line referencing all of those vintage factions, plus a dedicated new Space line paying hommage to the old sets, so I don't think there's any shortage of catering to Classic Space fans. And you never know what else LEGO is cooking up.

"Been waiting for this!" Said no one ever, I reckon.

Not my thing, but a very cool-looking set!

Also, the market for gold canopy is going to be a lot of fun to watch on Bricklink. :-)

I have no idea what this is... but hey, Spaceship!

I LOVE everything about this set. It’s the perfect complement to the D&D CMF series. Boom! Endless character customization options. And the spaceship isn’t bad, either!

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This might be one of the weirdest Lego sets ever. Maybe I'm missing some reference, after all I haven't been following whatever Pharrell has been up to the last couple of years, but I just don't get it. Is he even still that relevant, or did they release this set about 10 years too late?

The spaceship looks okayish, though rather basic by todays Lego standards, the "stand" is kinda nice I guess. But €110 nice? Absolutely no way.

And then there's those heads......which just looks like a freak show. And apparently only two bodies to go with it? Which makes that one picture kinda misleading......"Buy 25 sets and you can recreate this picture!"

I can't help but feel similar as with the 21337 Table Football: a rather poor and heavily overpriced set with a load of minifug stuff thrown in that doesn't need to be there. In itself all of those heads are great (even when I very much prefer my minifigs yellow), but once again they should have just made a dedicated minifig builder set. For half the price and with much more pieces for that specific purpose.

Looks great, but out of context, I'm sure most people will be confused as to what it is.

I haven't been so intrigued by a set in a long time. How does it balance??? The whimsical nature of this build and the collection of darker skin tones on the heads is amazing. I hope more of the printed torso's and legs can be made available. Maybe on shop at home soon.

@CapnRex101 said:
"I am not going to close the comments at the moment because the vast majority of people are actually discussing the set. I have removed a comment exchange that used an offensive term because I think the message was conveyed and lessons learned.

Hopefully we can now return to the topic at hand.

Personally, I think the model looks good and the wide selection of new heads is definitely welcome, but I do find this a strange choice for a product. Pharrell has plenty of fans and I could envisage people buying a set themed around Pharrell in some way. However, without seeing the film, I am not entirely clear on the connection between him and this set, beyond the rather abstract 'space represents infinite possibilies", which Pharrell appreciates."

Thank you for removing the offending comment chain.

One of his Phriends is Sallah from Indiana Jones!

@Djhorn said:
" @tomenadi said:
"To woke for my taste, easy pass..."

please explain what is "to woke" about this set? I would like to hear in clear words.

too many people use the word "woke" to couch straight-up racism, so would be delighted if you had another explanation..."

Careful there. These days, when you're talking about racism, I think using the word "couch" might technically count as adult content.

who is Pharrell Williams?

given the poll result i dont think anyone else knows either

@Fantastic_mr_fox said:
"I don't particularly like what it stands for but I might buy it just for the heads, female heads are really expensive on Bricklink. also the printed female hairpiece pretty cool. that gold windscreen could be used for classic space. probably not getting it though.

"

You don’t like “inspiring everyone to unlock their creativity and unleash their limitless potential through LEGO Play”…?

@Sethro3 said:
"I haven't listened to Pharrell since Minions and I have yet to even see the trailer for this movie."
I have seen the trailer, but instead of excited it left me puzzled. Normally a trailer tries to excite people into wanting to see the movie. This trailer was so confusing as well as boring that I have zero inclination to watch the movie.
Totally weird as a partnership for LEGO imho.

New faces in flesh tones are always a good thing. Hopefully this leads to more variety from PAB online, because it's sometimes difficult to personalize minifigures (especially in multiples for personal distribution to friends or events) when most flesh faces are tailored to specific characters or actors that you can't get them on PAB so you have to dig for Bricklink sellers that have a dozen quantity.

That all said, despite the flowery press release description, I find the set still very strange. It seems apparent that the "Phriends" head abacus is a shortcut to abstractly represent all of the celebrity cameos in the movie without having to license their likenesses and names. (Humorously the cameos with the most attention are the Daft Punk ones, which inherently aren't present in this set.) The whole movie and set initiative feels like a massive enigma, Lego's return to theaters is a biopic of a musician laden with celebrity cameos with only one set because it's an impossible concept to merchandize within the Lego business model.

Maybe it'll do well, I am really out of touch with musicians that aren't classic rock or major movie composers, so it took until this comment section to learn that the particular song I was aware of was written by Pharrell (a song that I'm pretty sure is in the trailer, I just must not have connected the two), so it could be really popular at the box office, but it's coming out in a month and has barely any marketing on Lego's end, so celebrity cameos aside it kind of feels like they're shipping out this movie to fail. We'll see.

@AustinPowers said:
"I have seen the trailer, but instead of excited it left me puzzled. Normally a trailer tries to excite people into wanting to see the movie. This trailer was so confusing as well as boring that I have zero inclination to watch the movie.
Totally weird as a partnership for LEGO imho. "
I kinda wonder why they didn't include Lapdance nor Blurred Lines in that trailer ;-)

Even when I'm not really a fan I do respect him as one of the more influential artists and producers of this century so far. But nothing in this trailer makes me want to watch that movie either. It all just seems like one big ego trip.

It's a LEGO set alright.

There are pieces, there are also minifigures, the pieces and minifigures make a model for display or play, and they can be used with other pieces and minifigures. Good for Mr. Williams, I guess.

Is there really enough noteworthy material to support 158 comments of ... something?

What. Just... what!? Is this about a pop music video or something? Does a giant rack of heads appear in one? Does someone's face morph into every person's face? Is this rocket ship known by everyone but me?

I mean, I live under a rock, so it wouldn't surprise me (the rent is surprisingly high!). I know Pharell Williams from one or two songs and that's it. But... what does it mean?
Surely a set like this must be super recognizable if they're charging 108 euro for it. The Yellow Submarine went for less if I recall.

Idk, but from an outsiders perspective this looks like a big ask from the buyer to actually want specifically this... scene. The ship itself looks like it could have made a 30 euro set, so the other 78 must be quite crucial to this scene?

Why are they all bald? And where are their bodies? ….So much for being their Phriends…

@goozle said:
" @pocketone23 said:
" @Djhorn said:
" @tomenadi said:
"To woke for my taste, easy pass..."

please explain what is "to woke" about this set? I would like to hear in clear words.

too many people use the word "woke" to couch straight-up racism, so would be delighted if you had another explanation..."

Yes, AMEN.
"
Location: Portland, OR
lol
"

You took the time to look up their location hoping that it would conform to some weird stereotype that you have?
lol

Weird. I dig it! Fun contrast of colors between the black 'n' gold ship and the pastel-rainbow jet stream. Rocket stream. Ship stream.

This is a fundamental failure on Brickset's part. All the ignorant comments about this set being bizarre and coming out of left field and being some woke conspiracy could have been reduced if they had covered the reveal of the movie and its trailer. They have had months to say anything about the new Lego Movie coming. Couldn't they have at least made an article linking to the trailer? Rather than an advertisement for yet another third-party minifigure stand? And it's not as if nobody thought Piece by Piece wouldn't have any physical products released with it. This set was rumored even before the trailer dropped.

While this article finally acknowledges the film's existence, it is too little too late, and as Gaston would put it "There are no pictures!" Because frankly nobody fully reads Lego's stilted press releases, most do look at the pictures though. So the bookend mentions of the major motion picture could be missed.

Whether or not one believes Brickset had a duty to inform about the movie, it would have been a lot easier to have made a short article earlier this year than have to deal with moderating this chat, since this set is the first exposure the reader base has had of Piece by Piece. This is the aftermath of people being uninformed.

@Norikins said:
"This is a fundamental failure on Brickset's part. All the ignorant comments about this set being bizarre and coming out of left field and being some woke conspiracy could have been reduced if they had covered the reveal of the movie and its trailer. They have had months to say anything about the new Lego Movie coming. Couldn't they have at least made an article linking to the trailer? Rather than an advertisement for yet another third-party minifigure stand? And it's not as if nobody thought Piece by Piece wouldn't have any physical products released with it. This set was rumored even before the trailer dropped.

While this article finally acknowledges the film's existence, it is too little too late, and as Gaston would put it "There are no pictures!" Because frankly nobody fully reads Lego's stilted press releases, most do look at the pictures though. So the bookend mentions of the major motion picture could be missed.

Whether or not one believes Brickset had a duty to inform about the movie, it would have been a lot easier to have made a short article earlier this year than have to deal with moderating this chat, since this set is the first exposure the reader base has had of Piece by Piece. This is the aftermath of people being uninformed."

I mean, the first sentence of the article included: "inspired by Piece by Piece, an upcoming LEGO animated documentary about musician Pharrell Williams". To me, that seems like enough for people who don't instantly jump to ridiculous conclusions in order to start their rants.

Pharrel's phallic rainbow

I love the center-of-gravity manipulation of this set. I wouldn't be surprised if thought had to be given to the ship being light on pieces so the whole thing wouldn't fall over.

I recall Lego wanting to do *something* with the WB Music label during around the time they were pushing Vidiyo. Had Vidiyo been more successful, I could imagine a hypothetical collection of smaller celebrity-based sets (or blind bag minifigures) selling very well. This, however, is another expensive functionless display piece that'll be culturally dated/irrelevant in five years. I really do wish Lego had faith in more original concepts instead of feeling the need to parasitize disposable pop culture.

Strange how people are acting like Pharrell strongarmed Lego into a vanity project while also pretending no one’s ever heard of him. Lego would absolutely kill to start a series of documentaries told in lego animation style. Back to the set: it’s WEIRD, and I love it for that. All I want to see is things I haven’t seen before.

@Norikins Respectfully disagreeing as hard as possible. This chatter would’ve been dealt with here *and* at the theoretical movie announcement, the only difference would be another dumpster fire comment section. In this case, there’s no reasonable blame that could be placed on the Brickset crew (except maybe tidying up a tiny bit earlier, but we always hope these things work out)

@MisterBrickster said:
" @fakespacesquid said:
"It's not an airport, you don't have to announce your departure."

Thanks for that, now I have to clean coffee off my laptop screen XD"

Well, come on, you should know better than to attempt drinking anything while reading Brickset comments!
:-)

@ra226 said:
"I have no idea what this is... but hey, Spaceship!"

This comment best read in Benny's voice.

@mr_skinny said:
"This year’s Queer Eye set. Half price a month after release :-D"

I wouldn't complain at all if that happened

@monsieurlee said:
"The celeb-collab era has arrived at LEGO

I'm done"

Did you completely miss the BTS set? Not the first of it's kind, and won't be the last.
But then what do you care, you are "done."

@DenDeze said:
"To woke for my taste, easy pass..."

OH NO! THIS LEGO SET GIVES ME CUSTOMIZATION OPTIONS WITH A BUNCH OF HEADS. AND THERE ARE MORE TONES OF SKIN THAN JUST WHITE! OH WOE IS ME!

Just give up on Lego.

@monsieurlee said:
"The celeb-collab era has arrived at LEGO

I'm done"

Did you miss the 2003 NBA Collab?

Omigod, do you realize what this means?!?
Pharrel Williams sang on Daft Punk's Get Lucky!
We're getting Daft Punk minifigs!!!!!!11

(I wish...)

In other news, I'm disappointed to see that the two woke/DEI comments came from users in Belgium and Switzerland, respectively. It really shows that racists are everywhere.

@SinKiller_Nick said:
" @monsieurlee said:
"The celeb-collab era has arrived at LEGO

I'm done"

Did you completely miss the BTS set? Not the first of it's kind, and won't be the last.
But then what do you care, you are "done." "

Not to mention 1349 way back in 2000.

What kind of people write comments like "Had to google him"??? Are you living in the caves? I'm not his fan but his well known musician since 15 years just like Beyonce or Snoop Dogg.

Price is too high imho, but for sure it won't be "worst set of the year".

@David85 said:
"who is Pharrell Williams?

given the poll result i dont think anyone else knows either"

Given the poll results, it could well be that others do know who he is.

I like Pharrell and many of his collabs. This isn't one of them.

Price is too high. The rainbow contrail is too high. And, the designers were too high when this was created.

That said, I will be picking this up for 50%. The heads are great. The cockpit is cool. The white round pieces are useful.

I really like that they are doing crazazy things like this. I just don't feel I can support it at full price. I have too much already.

@chrisaw said:
" @SinKiller_Nick said:
" @monsieurlee said:
"The celeb-collab era has arrived at LEGO

I'm done"

Did you completely miss the BTS set? Not the first of it's kind, and won't be the last.
But then what do you care, you are "done." "

Not to mention 1349 way back in 2000.
"

Or literally every Star Wars and Harry Potter set since 1999.

@CCC said:
" @David85 said:
"who is Pharrell Williams?

given the poll result i dont think anyone else knows either"

Given the poll results, it could well be that others do know who he is."

Writing something like 'who is Pharrell Williams?' is just really dumb. Some people rather exhibit their ignorance than do a 5 second Google search which can give you the answer to such a question in full detail. I'm not going to pretend like I know every celebrity there is, because I don't, but few people have been so active in multiple fields of entertainment and media as Pharrell Williams has. Even my mother knows who Pharrell Williams is, without being able to name any of his tunes, so it's beyond me how anyone can't be aware of him, unless they haven't been near a radio and TV for over two decades. I'm sure there are uncovered tribes in the Amazon that can hum Happy or Blurred Lines. And even if anybody here can't, you can look it up. There's more stuff on the internet than LEGO. ;-)

@Briczk said:
"What kind of people write comments like "Had to google him"??? Are you living in the caves? I'm not his fan but his well known musician since 15 years just like Beyonce or Snoop Dogg.

Price is too high imho, but for sure it won't be "worst set of the year"."

He's been around for far longer than that, actually! Pharrell Williams first appeared on the SWV song Right Here from 1993, although uncredited, and has worked as a producer under the name Neptunes (with Chad Hugo) with major label artists like Teddy Riley, Puff Daddy and Kelis since the 1990s, before making it big in the early 2000s with N*E*R*D and producing and writing hit songs for superstars like No Doubt, 'N Sync, Beyoncé, Britney Spears, Snoop Dogg, Madonna, Miley Cyrus, and Shakira.

On the set itself... The spaceship looks simple yet sleek, and I think the rainbow exhaust is neatly done. The included minifigure heads are a nice bonus, though I would've preferred a few extra full minifigs. Other than that, as many have stated previously, the price is horrendous, and I'm sure it'll be discounted soon enough.

@jkb said:
" @ToysFromTheAttic said:
" @chrisaw said:
" @SinKiller_Nick said:
" @monsieurlee said:
"The celeb-collab era has arrived at LEGO

I'm done"

Did you completely miss the BTS set? Not the first of it's kind, and won't be the last.
But then what do you care, you are "done." "

Not to mention 1349 way back in 2000.
"

Or literally every Star Wars and Harry Potter set since 1999."

Remarkable Shell and Maersk haven't come up yet. Or Esso."

Maybe because those are brands, not celebrities. ;-)

But one could argue Robin Hood's a celebrity...

You can't let a certain part of this set fall off a shelf, or heads will roll.

@CCC said:
" @David85 said:
"who is Pharrell Williams?

given the poll result i dont think anyone else knows either"

Given the poll results, it could well be that others do know who he is."

Yes, there's a big difference between "This doesn't interest me" and "I don't know what this is." I've voted "This doesn't interest me" on a lot of sets where I was fully aware of whatever IP they were connected to.

@Briczk said:
"What kind of people write comments like "Had to google him"??? Are you living in the caves? I'm not his fan but his well known musician since 15 years just like Beyonce or Snoop Dogg."

Technically, I'm living in fallout shelter in a cave so you've offended me.
Who and who? (On that latter one, did you misspell Snoopy, the famous World War I flying ace?)

;-) (this is a joke post)

@ToysFromTheAttic said:
"If you don't know [who Pharrell Williams is] by now, you probably haven't listened to any (new) music this century."

And there's the rub. It's highly possible to be *exposed* to recent pop music (movie soundtrack; background piped into a store, gym, casino, etc.) but lack its *metadata* (performer, date, genre). You get those only if you scrutinize the movie credits or you're specifically searching for an album. Further, you'll associate the music with a *face* only if you pay attention to celebrity news or go looking for music videos. (In the same fashion, if you absorb world news by radio, it's possible to be familiar with the names of politicians but not their photos.)

@TheOtherMike said:
"You can't let a certain part of this set fall off a shelf, or heads will roll."

Yeah, yeah, yeah.... funny.

I think it's perfectly fine that some people haven't heard of Pharrell, not sure why people are getting so irate over it.

I can accept that people have diverse interests and experiences, and just because Pharrell is famous in some parts of the world doesn't mean that 90-year-old women in Tanzania need to have heard of him.

@AndyB1 said:
" @ToysFromTheAttic said:
" @AndyB1 said:
"I'm going to have to try and figure out who this guy is now, aren't I."

If you don't know by now, you probably haven't listened to any (new) music this century.

I also congratulate you for somehow having managed to avoid his omnipresent song Happy for the past 11 years. That's an impressive feat in and of itself."

Not a huge amount, no. I find most to be not to my tastes. Now when Rammstein etc. release new music, I'm all over it. I don't know the Happy song off the top of my head and couldn't say I'd even recognise it without going to listen to it. I'm happy for this state of affairs to continue :-D "

The only reason I know who he is is because Weird Al parodied one of his songs.

@Ridgeheart said:
" @WizardOfOss said:
" @jkb said:
"On the other hand, Robin hood didn't actively collab with LEGO. Gustave Eiffel, H.C. Andersen, Galileo Galilei and the women of NASA didn't either...."
What a horrible company, just using peope's likeness without even just asking their permission....BAD LEGO!

All jokes aside, this does make me wonder who would be the oldest historical person portrayed in Lego?"

https://brickset.com/minifigs/col003"

That's pre-historic :P

@MegaBlocks said:
"I think it's perfectly fine that some people haven't heard of Pharrell, not sure why people are getting so irate over it.

I can accept that people have diverse interests and experiences, and just because Pharrell is famous in some parts of the world doesn't mean that 90-year-old women in Tanzania need to have heard of him."
Absolutely.
I can't understand people saying something like "have you been living under a rock" or "haven't you listened to music over the past twenty years".

Guess what, there's plenty of real music out there to get by a lifetime without ever coming into contact with music from Pharrell Williams.
And some people like me don't care who produced a song anyway. I knew Happy from watching Despicable Me, yet I had no clue who produced (or performed) the song. And I didn't care either, because I don't like that kind of music. To me songs like that go into one ear and are immediately forgotten again.

As for who is well-known where, I guess if LEGO released a Helene Fischer set (not that I like her music either), most people outside of Germany would likely also say "Helene who?" even though she is arguably much more famous and well-known over here than P. Williams.

@mmillers said:
"pretending no one’s ever heard of him"
Things Brickset commenters have never heard of over the years:

* Pharrell Williams
* BTS
* Adidas
* Horizon: Zero Dawn
* Any and all supercars
* Queer Eye
* Football
* Football but there's women doing it
* Pride flags
* Polaroid
* The Nightmare Before Christmas
* Hocus Pocus
* Football but it's a table
* Avatar (the blue one)
* NASA but there's women doing it
* Ben 10
* Angry Birds
* Trolls

Things they have heard of:
* Ghostbusters
* Back to the future
* Spongebob Squarepants
* Avatar (the anime one)
* Scooby-Doo
* The Big Bang Theory (but they do not care for it)

@MisterBrickster said:
" @mmillers said:
"pretending no one’s ever heard of him"
Things Brickset commenters have never heard of over the years:

* Pharrell Williams
* BTS
* Adidas
* Horizon: Zero Dawn
* Any and all supercars
* Queer Eye
* Football
* Football but there's women doing it
* Pride flags
* Polaroid
* The Nightmare Before Christmas
* Hocus Pocus
* Football but it's a table
* Avatar (the blue one)
* NASA but there's women doing it
* Ben 10
* Angry Birds
* Trolls

Things they have heard of:
* Ghostbusters
* Back to the future
* Spongebob Squarepants
* Avatar (the anime one)
* Scooby-Doo
* The Big Bang Theory (but they do not care for it)
"

I want to nominate this for the best ever Brickset comment, because it's both painfully accurate and absolutely hilarious.

Besides all the debates, I actually think this set has a lot of really good things going for it (albeit, likely not $110 worth of good things). Among other things, it has a good spacesuit design, a good number of exclusive pieces that are really cool (like the gold windscreen, which I love), and the selection of darker-colored faces will be really useful for anyone looking to add some diversity to a flesh-tone build. If I was a serious MOC builder (don't currently have the space for it), I'd gladly pick up this set on sale just to part it out.

@ToysFromTheAttic said:
" @MisterBrickster said:
" @mmillers said:
"pretending no one’s ever heard of him"
Things Brickset commenters have never heard of over the years:

* Pharrell Williams
* BTS
* Adidas
* Horizon: Zero Dawn
* Any and all supercars
* Queer Eye
* Football
* Football but there's women doing it
* Pride flags
* Polaroid
* The Nightmare Before Christmas
* Hocus Pocus
* Football but it's a table
* Avatar (the blue one)
* NASA but there's women doing it
* Ben 10
* Angry Birds
* Trolls

Things they have heard of:
* Ghostbusters
* Back to the future
* Spongebob Squarepants
* Avatar (the anime one)
* Scooby-Doo
* The Big Bang Theory (but they do not care for it)
"

I want to nominate this for the best ever Brickset comment, because it's both painfully accurate and absolutely hilarious. "

Yep, it's a great post, although I'm clearly an exception around here since I DO know the blue Avatar but not the anime one.

@MisterBrickster said:
" @mmillers said:
"pretending no one’s ever heard of him"
Things Brickset commenters have never heard of over the years:

* Pharrell Williams
* BTS
* Adidas
* Horizon: Zero Dawn
* Any and all supercars
* Queer Eye
* Football
* Football but there's women doing it
* Pride flags
* Polaroid
* The Nightmare Before Christmas
* Hocus Pocus
* Football but it's a table
* Avatar (the blue one)
* NASA but there's women doing it
* Ben 10
* Angry Birds
* Trolls

Things they have heard of:
* Ghostbusters
* Back to the future
* Spongebob Squarepants
* Avatar (the anime one)
* Scooby-Doo
* The Big Bang Theory (but they do not care for it)
"

The thing is again people are assuming that it is strange no one has heard of any of this stuff, but it is very easy to avoid most of this stuff, there are no pop music programmes on mainstream TV channels now. Streaming and algorithms mean that people will have no exposure to current pop music.

I only know of Taylor Swift because the news talks about her all the time, yet I don't know any of her songs because I don't seek them out to be streamed.

A PS exclusive game requires people to own a Playstation, a Netflix show requires people to have a Netflix subscription and watch reality TV shows.

The internet has created echo chambers and this website proves it when people are outraged that people express different opinions or haven't heard of stuff.

I have more exposure to Pharrell because he is the creative director at Louis Vuitton now, and I expect most people here didn't know that, but I'm not going to kick off over that.

@sideswinger said:
" @JavaBrix said:
"
I'm not the target audience, but I hope whoever buys it enjoys it."

Who exactly IS the target audience?"
Sony Music Entertainment Investor Relations

@Murdoch17 said:
"Who asked for this? A small snub fighter trying to out run a giant rainbow-colored pickle with as side build of an abacus made of human heads? I say it again: WHO ASKED FOR THIS!?!"

it’s Lego. Who asked for many of the things that are released? Who asked for an hot dog truck or a Van Gogh painting? End of the day, it’s about if it looks like a fun build or a fun design. And this looks fun to me. I like building interesting things and that ship with the multi colored cloud trail, standing up like that, it looks like a fun build. And that’s all that matters imo. I don’t ask for most of the LEGO stuff I build. Still have fun with it tho.

@sideswinger said:
"Who exactly IS the target audience?"

Fans of Pharrell Williams, duh.

Finally! A supply of heads for all of those extra torsos from clearance Queer Eye sets. Now we just need a botanical set that makes flowers out of legs.

@MisterBrickster said:
" @mmillers said:
"pretending no one’s ever heard of him"
Things Brickset commenters have never heard of over the years:

* Pharrell Williams
* BTS
* Adidas
* Horizon: Zero Dawn
* Any and all supercars
* Queer Eye
* Football
* Football but there's women doing it
* Pride flags
* Polaroid
* The Nightmare Before Christmas
* Hocus Pocus
* Football but it's a table
* Avatar (the blue one)
* NASA but there's women doing it
* Ben 10
* Angry Birds
* Trolls

Things they have heard of:
* Ghostbusters
* Back to the future
* Spongebob Squarepants
* Avatar (the anime one)
* Scooby-Doo
* The Big Bang Theory (but they do not care for it)
"

I appreciate this archival research.

Ok, I googled Pharrell Williams in response to the incredulity that people wouldn't know him, and actually yes, I do know (and like!) the Happy song. But I'm 100% certain I'd never heard his name, it's just been another random song I hear in bars or on TV or somewhere, I never liked it enough to Google who performed it...
So yes, I affirm that it's possible to have no idea about the IP Lego uses, without necessarily being hostile to it. I have no issue with Lego doing random collaborations with people I don't know, and as I said above I quite like this spaceship, I just wish it were cheaper.....

@WizardOfOss said:
"To be fair: https://www.offiziellecharts.de/charts/single-jahr/for-date-2014

But then again, Weird Al never parodied Helene Fischer yet did parody Pharrell, and that's still the ultimate recognition that you truly made it..."

Many a musician has said that they were glad to get a call from Mr. Yankovic, because a Weird Al parody is widely considered to be a real sign of a succesful song. And speaking of "Tacky," the video is amazing, if you pay attention. It's all in one take, going from the top to the bottom of a multistory building, and Al appears at the beginning and at the end of it, having changed costumes on the way. Apparently he was sort of breath by the end, due to having to run down stairs and change clothes in the time of one song.

@SillyTwig said:
"There's something deeply disturbing about displaying a rack-o-heads.... Also.... what was wrong with just yellow smileys!?!"

Isn't the point that people are all different and not just a load of uniform clones that classic smileys would suggest.

@MegaBlocks said:
" @MisterBrickster said:
" @mmillers said:
"pretending no one’s ever heard of him"
Things Brickset commenters have never heard of over the years:

* Pharrell Williams
* BTS
* Adidas
* Horizon: Zero Dawn
* Any and all supercars
* Queer Eye
* Football
* Football but there's women doing it
* Pride flags
* Polaroid
* The Nightmare Before Christmas
* Hocus Pocus
* Football but it's a table
* Avatar (the blue one)
* NASA but there's women doing it
* Ben 10
* Angry Birds
* Trolls

Things they have heard of:
* Ghostbusters
* Back to the future
* Spongebob Squarepants
* Avatar (the anime one)
* Scooby-Doo
* The Big Bang Theory (but they do not care for it)
"

The thing is again people are assuming that it is strange no one has heard of any of this stuff, but it is very easy to avoid most of this stuff, there are no pop music programmes on mainstream TV channels now. Streaming and algorithms mean that people will have no exposure to current pop music.

I only know of Taylor Swift because the news talks about her all the time, yet I don't know any of her songs because I don't seek them out to be streamed.

A PS exclusive game requires people to own a Playstation, a Netflix show requires people to have a Netflix subscription and watch reality TV shows.

The internet has created echo chambers and this website proves it when people are outraged that people express different opinions or haven't heard of stuff.

I have more exposure to Pharrell because he is the creative director at Louis Vuitton now, and I expect most people here didn't know that, but I'm not going to kick off over that."

One could argue that only watching mainstream TV is an echo chamber too, especially if it's only commercial TV. Yet I'm sure even they at some point have covered many of the above topics and brands to some degree. Even if they didn't, there are some evergreen brands on this list that have such a global recognition that I find it hard to imagine people truly have no idea what they are.

I see how people might've missed Pharrell if they've not actively engaged with pop music for the past two decades, but people who don't know Adidas, Polaroid or Trolls must be truly oblivious to popular culture in the past 40 years. Which is fine, if that's the case, especially if you over or below a certain age, but if these folks can find the comment section on Brickset to share their ignorance, I'm sure they also know how Google works. Or should we add Google to the above list as well? I'm beginning to think we should! ;-)

@CCC said:
" @SillyTwig said:
"There's something deeply disturbing about displaying a rack-o-heads.... Also.... what was wrong with just yellow smileys!?!"

Isn't the point that people are all different and not just a load of uniform clones that classic smileys would suggest."

Not necessarily. The brilliance of the classic smileys is they could be whoever we wanted them to be in our imagination, whatever skin colour, creed, gender..., which is sort of what Lego is built on. The moment we try to represent someone's real-world external appearance but in Lego form, we lose a big part of that imagination and enter the world of facsimile representation. Now the problem is because we're all different, the only true way to do that is to custom face print and colour match each of us, which doesn't seem possible with Lego's technology or commercial limitation, which is why these sort of sets end up never pleasing the very people they were trying to appeal to.

@SillyTwig said:
" @CCC said:
" @SillyTwig said:
"There's something deeply disturbing about displaying a rack-o-heads.... Also.... what was wrong with just yellow smileys!?!"

Isn't the point that people are all different and not just a load of uniform clones that classic smileys would suggest."

Not necessarily. The brilliance of the classic smileys is they could be whoever we wanted them to be in our imagination, whatever skin colour, creed, gender..., which is sort of what Lego is built on. The moment we try to represent someone's real-world external appearance but in Lego form, we lose a big part of that imagination and enter the world of facsimile representation. Now the problem is because we're all different, the only true way to do that is to custom face print and colour match each of us, which doesn't seem possible with Lego's technology or commercial limitation, which is why these sort of sets end up never pleasing the very people they were trying to appeal to."

Figures don't have to match you or I to represent diversity though. They just have to show diverse features. For example, adding a hearing aid to a head indicates that there are people with hearing aids in the LEGO world, and is likely to make kids with a hearing aid feel more included even if the hearing aid is a different colour or in the different ear to theirs.

While it is a nice story that classic smileys can be anything you want to imagine them to be, they are, by definition, the opposite of diverse as they are all the same. To extend it, they might as well only make one single colour, unprinted torso and legs that get reused for every figure, as they can be whatever you want to imagine them to be.

@WizardOfOss said:
" @ToysFromTheAttic said:
"I see how people might've missed Pharrell if they've not actively engaged with pop music for the past two decades, but people who don't know Adidas, Polaroid or Trolls must be truly oblivious to popular culture in the past 40 years."
Adidas, Polaroid, sure. But Trolls? And I thought maybe that was mostly an American thing (just like Hocus Pocus)....but apparently you're typing this from een Nederlands zolderkamertje ;-)

I'm 46, yet somehow I was indeed completely oblivious to those until the Lego sets from a few years ago. When/where should I have picked up on those before? i (now) know they existed for decades and might have even seen a doll once or twice, but other than that? Am I just too young to know?"

Trolls actually originated from Denmark, just like LEGO. They've been around for just about as long as LEGO has, and they had several peaks in popularity, most notably in the early 1990s, with even an animated movie. At some point they were so omnipresent, event the Ninja Turtles had a sub-line of Trolls-inspired action figures. It's more likely you were actually 'too old' for the Trolls back then, as you had to have been in your early teens, but they were hard to miss on TV and in print ads. Later, in the 21th century, they made various comebacks in animated form.

Too young for the 1956 movie, too young for the early 90s revival I guess....

At that time I was quite a Ninja Turtles fan, having seen both the 1990 and 1991 movie in theatre. And obviously watched tons of cartoons on TV (Telekids....). But either I must have completely missed Trolls, or seen it and thought of it as some short-lived fad not worth remembering. And I doubt they were ever advertised in De Gelderlander or Autoweek ;-)
(and obviously no internet either, so things went huge or remained confined, not much inbetween)

But that's probably just the thing with anything pop-culture: If you're not the target audience, it's very easy to miss, as it will mostly be advertised in stuff aimed at similar audiences. And as long as it doesn't get as big as, say, Star Wars or Pokemon, it won't make headlines ot the evening news either, or otherwise be seen very much outside of it's own little confined world. A brand as Adidas on the other hand, you will see in shops, on TV with sports events, or even just other people waring it. And while Polaroid might be a bit more niche, it still was such an iconic product that was seen in so many TV shows or movies.

I'd say artists/musicians generally are very much like that pop-culture stuff. And yes, you will hear most popular music if you want to or not, but that's not the same as knowing about the artist. And very few ascend from just being a pop artist to a truly unavoidable phenomenon. Like right now Taylor Swift, in the past Michael Jackson, or even further back The Beatles. Pharrell certainly isn't quite at that level, not even was at the peak of his fame which arguably was about 10 years ago with Happy, Get Lucky and Blurred Lines being unavoidable. Dare I say his biggest "claim-to-fame" outside of his music has been the controversy and copyright lawsuits around Blurred Lines?

@YoungB1ood said:
"Oh and not to be nit picky but how do the physics check out on this set? That angle is pretty severe."

Look at the 360° video on the Lego website. The base extends much further to the back than what seems on the pictures. Center of gravity will still be well above the base. No magic involved here, just creative camera angles.

Come on guys, some of these comments are making fans of Lego sound like total nerds who are locked in a basement or glued to a computer, gaming 24/7 with no social skills or awareness of what is going on in the outside world *roll eyes*

I’d like to think there are Lego fans out there who have heard of Pharell Williams and not just every Lord of the Rings character but if you haven’t, don’t worry, there are Lego fans out there that do know who he is. Plus you don’t really need to know who he is to appreciate a rocket ship with colourful jet stream…

It looks like the souvenir / trophy case of a diverse head hunting serial killer.

@gunther_schnitzel said:
"Hard pass."
It certainly would be....

@sjr60 said:
" @gunther_schnitzel said:
"Hard pass."
It certainly would be...."

Even with the best / strongest laxative.