So why was the Lego TMNT line canceled?

[TigerClaw]

Originally Posted by Splinter

Nope. Mega Bloks dropped Marvel... then Lego picked it up a few years back.

Could it be cause Marvel was asking for too much money, or cause there Marvel line wasn't selling well?

[Splinter]

Originally Posted by TigerClaw

Could it be cause Marvel was asking for too much money, or cause there Marvel line wasn't selling well?

Not sure. It may have been due to Marvel wanting less focus on X-Men and FF.

And Mega Bloks had a ton of X-Men figures ready to roll out before they lost the license.



You can see tons of unreleased figures from their Toy Fair display. Primarily Spidey and X-Men.

[darthwahl56]

Originally Posted by Anima Gemini

They did make sets based on PDNT, but I don't think they sold very well. I remember a lot of people saying they ended up on clearance at many retailers. I think that's what did it in. Makes sense they didn't want to do more after those sets failed.

Personally, I bought all the Nick sets and passed on all the PDNT ones. Doesn't surprise me if many others did the same. Just another thing PD ruined. TMNT would have been perfect in LEGO Dimensions. *sigh*

The sewer set for the movie legos was pretty cool. Besides that I am missing the Nick Shredder lego set and the Nick Spider bytes set then to a lesser extent Mikey with RC shellraiser, Kraang "target practice," and the Oroku Saki figure

I personally would have just wanted a TMNT Lego game. Not a Dimensions level or whatever. I have never played Dimensions.

[raph27]

Originally Posted by darthwahl56

I personally would have just wanted a TMNT Lego game. Not a Dimensions level or whatever. I have never played Dimensions.

Imagine if for the storyline they did a Turtles Forever-esque scenario with all the different versions of characters being playable.

[DevilSpooky]

Originally Posted by darthwahl56

The sewer set for the movie legos was pretty cool. Besides that I am missing the Nick Shredder lego set and the Nick Spider bytes set then to a lesser extent Mikey with RC shellraiser, Kraang "target practice," and the Oroku Saki figure

I personally would have just wanted a TMNT Lego game. Not a Dimensions level or whatever. I have never played Dimensions.

Well, the new Ghostbusters set for Dimension is the entire movie story, not a single level like the rest of the sets so they could do the same for TMNT.

[thundermaster612]

Originally Posted by darthwahl56

The sewer set for the movie legos was pretty cool. Besides that I am missing the Nick Shredder lego set and the Nick Spider bytes set then to a lesser extent Mikey with RC shellraiser, Kraang "target practice," and the Oroku Saki figure

I personally would have just wanted a TMNT Lego game. Not a Dimensions level or whatever. I have never played Dimensions.

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[IndigoErth]

I had assumed TMNT simply decided to move to competitor Mega Bloks, and probably understandably dropped Lego in the process? Was always my guess.

[atreyu2112]

This topic is covered at length over at the eurobricks forums, although the you'll have to search for the thread.

The reason why there is no LEGO TMNT game or wave 3 sets is due to licensing costs. Nickelodeon wanted more money for the brand, LEGO did not want to pay. A shame because some of the more interesting vehicles came late season 3 & in season 4. It would have been real interesting to see what LEGO would have done moving past wave 2.

That being said, Mega Bloks is KILLING it. Nick, Classic & Comic iterations... all done extremely well. There's no going back

[thundermaster612]

So Nick is the nasty culprit eh? and people criticize Cartoon Network for being greedy...


It also appears that Lego has a better relationship with Cartoon Network while Nick and Mega Bloks is the same.

[Prowler]

I should ave bought some of those sets when I had the chance, but Lego is expensive, you see.

[snake]

I'm afraid Megabloks is doing a better job than Lego. Partially for including various incarnations as well as the Nick ones. Though I can assume that the reason for the inclusion of other literations is because the Lego theme did not do as well as they expected, so they branched out. Sadly a failiure was probably needed for Nick to consider allowing Megabloks to make sets for the OT and Mirage.

[satas]

Originally Posted by darthwahl56

The sewer set for the movie legos was pretty cool. Besides that I am missing the Nick Shredder lego set and the Nick Spider bytes set then to a lesser extent Mikey with RC shellraiser, Kraang "target practice," and the Oroku Saki figure

I personally would have just wanted a TMNT Lego game. Not a Dimensions level or whatever. I have never played Dimensions.

I actually found the Spider Bytes set at Toys R us this week and incorporated it into the Baxter Stock stuff from MegaBloks. I really like Fly Stockman perched on the Spider Bytes set.

[jestermon]

I hope Lego never gets it back.

[Zulithe]

It's very common for LEGO to license a theme and only keep it for a short time.

I think LEGO picked up the TMNT license when they were phasing Ninjago out. But due to demand, they brought it back and are now making a Ninjago film and are about to reboot the series. So keeping TMNT throughout that entire process would have been somewhat of a conflict because the properties are too similar.

Originally Posted by Splinter

No loss. Mega Bloks has done a much better job with the property anyway.

LEGO has lots of original properties and themes that are a huge hit. Ninjago is the most obvious one to parallel with TMNT. LEGO doesn't "need" TMNT so didn't throw a huge chunk of its resources behind it to make lots and lots of sets.

MB focuses almost entirely on licensed content so they can give something like TMNT more focus and release more sets and minifigures.