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52 minutes ago, Pseudoty said:

Not really digging the ocean depth approach. It should have been a 2 in 1 with the option to build the continents in classic lego colors with the ocean all blue or the color of your choice to keep with the new lego is all inclusive theme. 

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lol - you gotta be kidding me.  the opposite of everyone is awesome.  they got Antarctica right.   having done 1 of the Art builds (marilyln monroe), this black-white version seems like a punishment.

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This is not very good. The colors are just leftover from DOTS series 1. Lego could have utilized a more realistic approach to the water and land. A topographic style map would have been really interesting, allowing variations in height for different areas of the world, but even then the scale would be even more enormous than this already is. No-one in their right mind will be changing the style of the ocean. 1x1 plates are the absolute worst to remove and are prone to cracking.

I give it like 2 stars.

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Well. As the resident cartographer....

I guess I’ll hope this less than great reception translates to deep discounts for my personal collection.

I’m also hopeful the MOC community will do some cool stuff with this. I’d be willing to grab 2000 blue 1x1s (at a penny each hopefully) to change out the ocean. Or make other changes like a topographic map, or setting up countries. Could be fun.

Maybe some enterprising individual will create label stickers for country names, etc.


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This strikes me as an odd choice given that the IDEAS line Globe should be coming out at some point this year as well.
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Odd? Or complementary? Seems like a perfect match. You don’t want to miss out on one if you’ve got the other!


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1 hour ago, Alpinemaps said:

Well. As the resident cartographer....

I guess I’ll hope this less than great reception translates to deep discounts for my personal collection.

I’m also hopeful the MOC community will do some cool stuff with this. I’d be willing to grab 2000 blue 1x1s (at a penny each hopefully) to change out the ocean. Or make other changes like a topographic map, or setting up countries. Could be fun.

Maybe some enterprising individual will create label stickers for country names, etc.


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Such a map fanboy...

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Well. As the resident cartographer....

I guess I’ll hope this less than great reception translates to deep discounts for my personal collection.

I’m also hopeful the MOC community will do some cool stuff with this. I’d be willing to grab 2000 blue 1x1s (at a penny each hopefully) to change out the ocean. Or make other changes like a topographic map, or setting up countries. Could be fun.

Maybe some enterprising individual will create label stickers for country names, etc.


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I’m not a fan of the scheme used, but I do see a lot of potential in this one. There are so many ways it can be modified. I could see using this to track the family travels. Instead of a pin, add a red tile.

It would be cool to see them release printed flag tiles as a supplement or part of the Dots line to allow labeling of the map.

It may not be perfect, but I like the possibilities. Besides, my kids will love it which is good enough for me.
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1 hour ago, dennugsmello said:

Guess I'm the only one who kind of likes it. I'm trying to envision it as if its on the wall and I'm across the room.  In that scenario it might look like a really nice piece of art. Not necessarily a perfect world map.  

I love the concept, just not a huge fan of the color scheme.  I think people are upset because it just had soooo much potential.  Saying that - I will probably buy it for my personal collection, because I have all of the landmark architecture series sets, and I want to hang it on the wall and surround it with those sets.  I think by itself it would look average.  With the color of all the landmark sets surrounding it - I think it'll look pretty good.

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9 hours ago, Alpinemaps said:

Well. As the resident cartographer....

I guess I’ll hope this less than great reception translates to deep discounts for my personal collection.

I’m also hopeful the MOC community will do some cool stuff with this. I’d be willing to grab 2000 blue 1x1s (at a penny each hopefully) to change out the ocean. Or make other changes like a topographic map, or setting up countries. Could be fun.

Maybe some enterprising individual will create label stickers for country names, etc.


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See the source image 

I was a cartographer too, until my job series was changed to an aeronautical information specialist.  :) 

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