A press release from Lego announces their intentions to release a line of sets _base_d on the upcoming Harry Potter series of movies.   http://www.lego.com/info/pressspecific.asp?PressReleaseId=111

A press release from Lego announces their intentions to release a line of sets _base_d on the upcoming Harry Potter series of movies. [Shudder]  What's next, Pokemon?  (Actually, not a bad idea, and IMO a better idea than this Harry Potter craze.) Cheers, Zach

Brian Kendig < This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it wrote in message A press release from Lego announces their intentions to release a line of sets _base_d on the upcoming Harry Potter series of movies. [Shudder]  What's next, Pokemon?  (Actually, not a bad idea, and IMO a better idea than this Harry Potter craze.) Cheers, Zach No, Lego should stop at Starwars. Before it gets crazy... Have you seen monopoly now ? When the Starwars Special Editions came out, Monopoly came out with it's Starwars edition. A great idea. It sold a lot of copies of an old game that was probably not making much money anymore for them. So they went and milked the idea for what it was worth. They came out with a batman & robin movie version starwars ep 1 golf harley davidson football nhl hockey pokemon looney toons just to name the ones off the top of my head. Now imagine 5 years down the line. Lego sets are starting to phase out for the toy/book flavour of the month Harry Potter, Pokemon, Digimon, whatever. The difference between starwars and harry potter, is that starwars is part of our culture now. It's timeless. People will always love those movies, and they will be around for a long time, there is also a big following. With Harry Potter, afterawhile, the books will begin to go downhill. I give it 3 more _title_s, and then kids will find another book. Rowlings won't care, she'll be enormously rich after that from selling her movie rights, and rights for lego products etc. I think it's a bad move. The only good is more mythical creatures for lego to create =)

The difference between starwars and harry potter, is that starwars is part of our culture now. It's timeless. People will always love those movies, and they will be around for a long time, there is also a big following. With Harry Potter, afterawhile, the books will begin to go downhill. I give it 3 more _title_s, and then kids will find another book. Oh, yeah...25 years and Star Wars is timeless ?    Not yet, it's not.  (I love Star Wars, but we'll see if the appeal holds.)    As for Harry Potter, well, after 3 more _title_s, they'll have to find another book. The series is designed to cover his schooling