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>Why does Pooh have a brick-built balloon instead of using the one from the Collectible Minifigures line?
>Ilia: A lot of the elements for the Collectible Minifigures are only available for the Collectible Minifigures line. So it’s difficult to include them in. It might not be available, or we might need to make it in a different color. So it is challenging.
>Ben: You can attach the brick-built balloon to the tree as well, without having to add some clear element on top of it.
>Why does Pooh have a crop-top instead of a molded piece that would give him a more realistic tummy?
>Ashwin Visser, Graphic Design: The challenging part with LEGO is always 2D graphics that you know are going flat on the figures. There are limits to what we can achieve with [extra] elements to give them depth, and to give them volume.
>Felipe Telles, Element Designer: It’s nice to have a more realistic figure. But also, those figures are so iconic. It is important that they can move their head and can be a bit more expressive.
>Ilia Gotlib, Model Designer: Very, very often when you turn something into a minifigure you have to make some compromises to meet the standards and guidelines that we have. There are a few figures that do have things like a molded stomach, but then you can’t move the head. So we try, as much as possible, to maintain playability.
>Where’s Christopher Robin?
>Ilia: We really pushed for him to be included. But there are limits to our budget, both in terms of how much we can put into the model and how many things like color changes we can put in. We just have to prioritize. In a lot of ways we felt that Christopher Robin comes across as whoever’s playing and building the set. You are Christopher Robin in that instance. He would have been amazing to get as a minifigure, but the ones that we did include were were even more important.
