2022 Modular speculation

BooTheMightyHamster

Come on.  Somebody had to start it!

Brainslugged

Police Station! Oh, wait...

Astrobricks

Post Office,
Library,
Art Museum,
Italian restaurant specializing in northern Italian cuisine from, but not limited to the Tuscany region :)

autolycus

I’ve got a reliable source telling me it’s going to be designed by Jamie and be a re-imagined version of Cafe Corner combined with Green Grocer. It will have 2 vehicles, a new molded Segway piece and a classic Renault Dauphine. It will have a roof technique that has been used a ton in MOCs. It will have at least 2 mini figures, all yellow.

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A reliable source of utter bull malarkey known as Autolycus.

gmonkey76

If it's not a Lighthouse with a helicopter pad I won't be happy.

Brainslugged

It will definitely have stolen an idea from someone's MOC from mid-2021.

PapaBear

Next one has to be a corner, right?

I'd like to see some small trade businesses like a carpenter or an electrician turned into a modular.  The LEGO town has become decently diverse with a couple restaurants, some local municipalities, a garage, a cinema.  What about a plumbing company or a garbage collection?  It's a dirty job, but those guys make good money.  Or how about an electronics store or a musical instrument shop?

With COVID, generational change, and the rise of Amazon, a lot of businesses will become extinct in the future.  Maybe LEGO should make a list of some businesses we might see disappear and sculpt it into modular form before they are gone for good. 

(Actually, now that I think about it, they probably already thought ahead of me.  Bookstores are quickly becoming non-existent and even the car of the future may threaten garage shops)

autolycus

PapaBear said:

Next one has to be a corner, right?

Like I said: combo Cafe Corner and Green Grocer.

I’m just glad it isn’t going to be another fantasy set like Gingerbread and Elf Club House. Those don’t fit into my town at all! Wait... wrong thread!

Seriously though: a hardware store would be a good choice. A giant brickbuilt hammer sign would be fun. Or maybe a hand saw.

iwybs

Bruce Wayne's penthouse apartment with a helipad, only it's not Bruce Wayne because these are non-licensed Modular Buildings.  But there IS a helicopter.

madforLEGO

autolycus said:

PapaBear said:

Next one has to be a corner, right?

Like I said: combo Cafe Corner and Green Grocer.

I’m just glad it isn’t going to be another fantasy set like Gingerbread and Elf Club House. Those don’t fit into my town at all! Wait... wrong thread!

Seriously though: a hardware store would be a good choice. A giant brickbuilt hammer sign would be fun. Or maybe a hand saw.

Yeah I, and others, have been on the Hardware shop 'bandwagon' for about 3 years now. I think it makes sense as there are many tools and implements that you could fill the store with that LEGO already makes so they could keep new part design costs lower.

ReesesPieces

Not sure of the main building but a small pawn shop as a side might be fun.  You can fill it with random items and will be a good way to hide Easter eggs from older sets.  Besides, these minifigures need a way to get quick cash to maintain their sugar high from those smuggled in cookies.

Russell844

Post Office :)

CCC

Haven't you heard? After the worldwide riots due to the release of the Police Station, they eventually cancel the modular range in mid 2021.

arathemis

I bet it will be a hospital. Who knows when this virus might attack the minifigs and we need to be prepared for it with tests and empty beds in the nintensive health care section. 

LusiferSam

Why are these threads titled "rumours"?  I have yet to see any rumors.  The correct titles should be "Speculations". 

SumoLego

From what I can tell, the only difference is if I indicate someone else is speculating - that's a rumor.

Brainslugged

LusiferSam said:

Why are these threads titled "rumours"?  I have yet to see any rumors.  The correct titles should be "Speculations".  

I heard a rumour from @CCC that the line was ending in 2021.

vanvonfull

I hear hospital thrown around a lot (likely because the staff are heroes right now) but I don’t think that can be squeezed into a modular - there’s too much going on. Waiting room, OR, ER, Maternity, NICU, Recovery, imaging, lab, cafeteria...In the end a 2 bed hospital would just leave us wanting more. Maybe an assembly square size could do it better, I just don’t think it’s likely. 

But I could (And I want) to see a small family practice clinic (one doc, one nurse) on one floor with room to do a checkup and give immunizations and maybe a small old timey pharmacy on the ground floor (not a giant walgreens/CVS). Something with a 20s to 50s vibe. 

Astrobricks

^ Most modulars vastly simplify what is depicted inside due to very limited space.

CCC

Brainslugged said:

LusiferSam said:

Why are these threads titled "rumours"?  I have yet to see any rumors.  The correct titles should be "Speculations".  

I heard a rumour from @CCC that the line was ending in 2021.

That's not a rumour. It is factual speculation. 

Legoboy

I want to know why this 22 thread has more facts in these first 19 comments than the first 3 months of the 21 thread?

SumoLego

CCC said:

That's not a rumour. It is factual speculation. 

I heard a rumor from @Brainslugged indicating the line was ending in 2021.

See!  Circled closed, proceed.

Astrobricks

Legoboy said:

I want to know why this 22 thread has more facts in these first 19 comments than the first 3 months of the 21 thread?

Facts about the definition of rumor?

sweetness34

I’m hoping for a corner hospital with an old timey ambulance. I have been working in a hospital for about 25 years and would love to see one in modular form. 

ER, x-ray and admitting station on main level 
hospital rooms and nursing station on second level
physical/occupational therapy room on third level 

Astrobricks

Psych ward in the attic (at the hospital where my mom used to work, the psych wards were on the top floor).

eMJeeNL

autolycus said:

 It will have at least 2 mini figures, all yellow.

So it'll contain a sauna?

BooTheMightyHamster

@drdavewatford
@CapnRex101
@Huw

Could someone do me a favour and change the thread title from "2022 Modular rumours" to "2022 Modular speculation" please?  I think it better reflects the nature of the discussion.

Thanks.

CCC

eMJeeNL said:

autolycus said:

 It will have at least 2 mini figures, all yellow.

So it'll contain a sauna?

No, a morgue.

SumoLego

^ That's a cold sauna.

Casper_vd_Korf

Wait, (362 days to go!)? Does that mean that the mods know something? That the 2022 modular is revealed on 27-11-2021? Or that it gets released then?





Probably not.

daewoo

This thread should be renamed Wish Lists cause that's what it will most likely contain.

Mr_Cross

Brian said:

There's no pleasing some people.

Ex Leper said:

That's just what Jesus said sir.

Astrobricks

Does this mean a mod has agreed to change the thread subject daily for a year? ;-)

560Heliport

Why not just call it "2022 Modular Discussion"? 

CCC

560Heliport said:

Why not just call it "2022 Modular Discussion"? 

And being modular, it could be attached to previous modular discussions.

MrJackson

Here's an unpopular opinion (which maybe belongs in the "Unpopular opinions" thread):

Market Street is the most "modular" of the modular buildings.

It has multiple combinations built into the fundamental design, in terms of which orientation the roof goes, whether the building is the right or left half, and if my memory serves me correctly one of the suggestions is to use the upper level as an independent abode (I could be misremembering that one). The only thing "modular" about the Modulars is their ability to be arranged in a street or on a shelf in whatever order you want (which is a characteristic that basically is literally all Lego) and their ability to have that middle floor repeated ad infinitum (which is a characteristic that's unique).

Personally I don't get the hate for it - it was very much a product of its time but for what it is it's a decent rendition of that style house. The only other sets to really be "modular" in the sense of actually having different modules that can be rearranged are the "modular" 3-in-1 sets like #31081 Modular Skate House - and those sets are milquetoast at best. 

SumoLego

CCC said:

And being modular, it could be attached to previous modular discussions.

I don't see any friction pins.  This is more like the GBHQ and Old Fishing Store... Modular Adjacent.

Astrobricks

Good points, but modular also refers to the ability to easily separate the floors from each other, and of course, sets like Pet Shop and Bookshop have easily separated buildings.

Paperballpark

And I believe it's still possible on all modulars to add additional middle floors if you want to.

Astrobricks

Paperballpark said:

And I believe it's still possible on all modulars to add additional middle floors if you want to.

Which @MrJackson mentioned.

CCC

And I believe it's still possible on all modulars to add additional middle floors if you want to.

Paperballpark

Astrobricks said:

Paperballpark said:

And I believe it's still possible on all modulars to add additional middle floors if you want to.

Which @MrJackson mentioned.

I didn't see that part of his comment

TheOriginalSimonB

What the world needs is a combo hipster clothing emporium and mobile phone store.  Just because it doesn't fit the modular era shouldn't put anyone off...

khmellymel

TheOriginalSimonB said:

What the world needs is a combo hipster clothing emporium and mobile phone store.  Just because it doesn't fit the modular era shouldn't put anyone off...

Surely it's the ultimate in hipster-ness if the clothing shop is in an era'd building!

Paperballpark

I'm going to post this without comment, to see what people say/think.


I'll say where I got it from in due course.

Casper_vd_Korf

If it was real Lego I would want that.
(you forgot to remove the legs of the dragon)

arathemis

this would go nicely with the Chinese new year sets. Still pissed that the first 2 were only available in S-E Asia. That dinner set is awesome.

It would go nicely along side the Palace cinema to create a mini China-town, given its similar roof tops.

autolycus

Not a modular. No technic pins, no white street lamps, etc. 😜

Tkatt

 Astrobricks said:

^ Most modulars vastly simplify what is depicted inside due to very limited space.

 I blame staircases, they consume so much space. LEGO should embrace the portal technology they introduced in LEGO Dimensions and just have minifigs teleport to the upper floors. 

Paperballpark

Casper_vd_Korf said:

If it was real Lego I would want that.
(you forgot to remove the legs of the dragon)

Dammit I did forget about that! Yes it's not Lego, it's a brand called Loz which I accidentally stumbled across today in a store in KL which was basically like a Lego clone brand store. (I was in a Christmas decs store, went upstairs to look for more, and there was a huge load of clone brand sets up there!)

What struck me most was that very few of the sets on sale were copies of Lego sets. And quite a few of them - like the one above - looked good enough that people would go mad for them if they were actual Lego sets.

Here's the original photo:

FollowsClosely

Extraction from promobricks:

"Instead of the usual, the LEGO modular corner building is not built at a 90-degree angle, but tapered off. The new hotel is most comparable to the famous Flatiron Building in New York, even if the angle is a little more obtuse. As is so often the case, the new LEGO Modular Building has three floors, with the facade of the ground floor made of nougat-colored bricks, which form arcades on the side facing the street .

On the other side of the building, the acute angle creates a free space that is filled by a small, one-story extension. There is an art gallery here. A gray staircase leads from the sidewalk to the roof of the gallery, on which there is apparently a terrace of the hotel. On this roof terrace there is a palm tree, the trunk of which is built from several Crown Eggshell elements.

The facade of the first floor of the hotel has a light color and is decorated with additional arcades. There are also two attached red flags. There is no large hotel sign like the one at 10182 Café Corner. The upper floor is covered by the roof, which is built with turquoise stones."

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