MaxiVisVires wrote:For the NDA's I signed in the past, it only had to do with the subject matter I viewed. If the company came out with another project that wasn't in relation to project I looked at, I don't think the NDA stands any ground on that.
That's true, although then there're the later questions of who knew what when, and you have to watch for stepping on the other NDA'er's toes - I got such a pile of email after JoshWedin's
"I talked to someone at NWBrickCon, who was under NDA" post last month. (I swear that wasn't me! I didn't hear anything about LEGO's 2007 plans until well after the con was over.) So in the interest of preserving my own NDA, I'd like to preface with the disclaimer that I don't know anything about where this Czech photo came from or what it was for, but as a Photoshop guy there are a bunch of details I can point out.
First off is that the skeleton faces are pretty clearly decals with the sticker edges photoshopped out. This makes me think that the photo is probably some kind of mockup rather than something meant for official release, maybe a promo shot for sneak-previewing to buyers or for some toy fair somewhere.
Somebody already mentioned the lack of a LEGO logo, which is also iffy, I'd've expected to see "LEGO Castle" rather than just "Castle." However the photo looks like it might have been cut out of a catalog or cropped down from a larger picture - I can't imagine they would have cut the flail out of the bottom of the frame in the original image unless they were specifically trying to hide the element details; and then why would they have foregrounded it in the first place?
Lastly, if you look at how many times identical figures are duplicated, and how none of them are posed to be in perspective with one another, it's pretty clear that whoever made this image had only a very limited selection of photos to copy-paste from, rather than having access to any of the physical sets and figures to pose themselves. The foreground skelly's hand is also way out of perspective and shows earmarks of photoshop's Distort tool, which seems like it'd be unnecessary if the imagemaker had an actual skeleton to photograph.
So I'm in the dark as anybody about whether the battle scene is an "official" photo, or if somebody just hacked it together out of copy-pasted images scanned from who knows where. To me it looks a lot more prototype-mockup than production-ready. (And I know I'm going to be eating my words later if I'm wrong and this photo starts showing up in the magazines. I hope the Lego gods will be forgiving if that's the case; you might see this post change to
"omg L0LZ these fotos R00L!!! [edited 1 time by rayhawk]".)
As for the 2007 stuff itself -- without going into detail, I am just about as excited as possible about the new line. These are sets I would have killed for when I was a kid. I wish I could be more specific, but I think a whole lot of the complaints in this thread will be resolved once people get the actual models and elements in hand instead of having to make guesses based on blurry jpegs.
), but the colors still need a little work.
