NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 9172501" data-attributes="member: 4534">From 2008-2014, Lego had a crowd sourcing platform where fans could suggest sets for the company to build.  Many years ago there was some sort of pretition to get Lego to produce a set based on Joss Whedon's Firefly television series.  Some of the sets to come out of this platform included the NASA Mars Rover, the Ghostbusters car with figures, and the DeLorean from Back to the Future.  Fans petitioned for Lego to create a set based on Joss Whedon's Firefly television series and the company rejected it outright despite the 10,000 signatures.  Lego didn't think a franchise the heavily featured a space hooker was in line with their brand.  (Anakin murdering a bunch of kids is okay but we draw the line at space hookers.)  A friend of mine argued that Lego was stupid for rejecting this because they were leaving money on the table.  This was back in 2012, Serenity/Firefly was still hot, and she believed this was a product Firefly fans would eat up even if they didn't normally buy Lego bricks.  While I agree with her that it would sell well, I sided with Lego because I thought preserving their values was worth more than whatever extra scratch they'd make with the Firefly set.  (I later learned the decision to start producing Star Wars sets was very divisive in the company and caused a lot of internal strife becaues many the license violated some of their founding principles.)  Steve Jackson and the other folks running Steve Jackson Games seem to know what they're doing.  I imagine they're fully aware they might have squeezed out a bit more with GURPS by doing things differently, but this way they keep total control over it.  At the very least they're not going to pull a Wizards and create their own rival to their flagship game.</blockquote>

Verification