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While I want Trains to win as it's my all time favourite theme I am not holding out much hope but hey you never know!
Bionicle, Time Cruisers, Alpha Team, Trains, and Studios could be fun too. But it's up in the air if I would buy any of those. It depends on how the set turns out.
...So it looks like I have about 1/3 to 1/2 of a chance at getting something I would want to buy. I'm pretty optimistic about the potential outcomes!
I'm probably a little biased in this regard, but I think it's time for Space to get reimagined. We have both Pirates of Barracuda Bay and the upcoming Medieval Blacksmith (amazing remakes!) that I can be content with. Exo Suit... as much as I love it, wasn't quite a remake of Classic Space (in my opinion).
There are too many options. I immediately decided that Classic Space is my first option, but that leaves two more to go...
The set from the LEGO Movie was not bad, but since it was part of the LEGO Movie it doesn't seem like a true remake to me. It also wasn't Adult Themed like POBB (which is close enough to the Adult category), Blacksmith, or even the Crocodile Locomotive. I guess my point was that they were both remakes and very well designed.
Imagine a UCS Space set other than Star Wars...
They've already shown they can make a pretty nice recreation of them out of LEGO too, the LEGO House duck set is pretty good.
Or, a set of old style town plan buildings with text bricks. Imagine a vintage set with loads of 1x6 store name bricks.
For a one off adult aimed set, I find it a little sad they don't do something a little more off the wall.
Feels like it has to be space, castle or town really. As people have mentioned in various places it feels like space has got lot of love recently. Castle is getting a couple of sets this year (which might increase its chances of production if lego already have new printed parts). And I'm not sure how you update town without it just being city or modular-ish.
That said, would love something forestmen, or wolfpack. But just as a thing, not necessarily a 90th anniversary thing at the expense of everything else!
I think if it is just AFOL fans that vote it will be space that wins easily.
What will win will be whatever the Lego Youtubers get their mindless hoards to vote for.
I think it’s mega important to remember that the winning theme will be DECIDED BY TLG - so although the top 3 will definitely (there’s no ‘ifs’) include Classic Space, it might not be decided to be the overall ‘winner’ in their eyes. The whole activity is more of the covert way to also discover what themes are important which could shape other future theme development, at least slightly. TLG won’t bring back Bionicle as a full theme but a ton of votes for certain types of Space or Castle might have an effect - they might also consider more Trains in the City and 18+ themes if that gains a good amount of votes.
I haven’t actually cast my vote yet, but will be voting for Adventurers (IMO one of the best ever System themes and full of variety - plus Johnny Thunder and his crew are iconic), Alpha Team (Way better than Agents and more stylish, plus a villain called Ogel) and Aquazone (Still TLG’s best underwater theme particularly in the early Aquanauts and Aquasharks waves). Only the first three themes in TLG’s list were necessary! Really hope Adventurers makes their shortlist at least.
Also, I would’ve voted for Western if that was there. If they brought it back they could easily make it so the narrative was on the side of the natives (such as Comanche) protecting themselves against the ‘evil’ soldiers, or keep it like some of the early parts of theme and just have sheriffs/bandits.
Time Twisters is weird but ’Town’ takes the biscuit for weirdest longlist choice! I’m guessing they just put the option in as it’s an evergreen theme and the others are all cited.
I'm wondering if they might have been a little turned off on more vintage sets by what appears to be anemic (at best) aftermarket response to the severely limited Walmart exclusive 60 years of the Brick sets #4000028, #4000029, and #4000030. While they initially sold out very quickly and there seemed to be a rush in the aftermarket at first, recent activity has seen those sets selling around or even well below RRP. I could definitely see them seeing that as a negative for the desirability of older vintage Town style builds. (Although it should probably be seen more as a rejection of those individual over-priced, lackluster sets themselves and not vintage builds as a whole.)
So it will be interesting to see what makes the final three. As to which one Lego will choose... I have no idea.
And as for those who say we've had a new Classic Space set in Benny's ...ship - I would agree, but if you asked me if we had a grown-up, Neo-Classic Space, all the bells and whistles, quality tested new Classic Space set I would say 'No'.
Bits fall off #70816 - I am the unhappy when this occurs.
I'm sure that all of the themes have their own advocates within TLG, so hopefully whatever gets chosen will do it justice, but also hold appeal for those who may not be necessarily so fond of that particular theme.
What I really don't want to see is lots of people who end up voting for one particular theme due to nostalgia, but then don't follow it up with their interest in the product - or worse still, whine about what they've got....
Also, WHERE ON EARTH IS FABULAND?
1. Rock Raiders
2. Classic Space
3. Space Police, Ice Planet, Blacktron, Adventurers, Black Falcon...
The third option is tough! My impulse is to select Space Police, as this theme (along with Power Miners) got me into LEGOs in the first place. However, Ice Planet has never got a remake to my knowledge and would make an epic display. Blacktron could be easily combined with Space Police and make a nice duel-theme return. Adventurers was such a great theme and would make an epic set too. I'm just getting into LEGO Castle themes as well, and I love Black Falcon, so that's a great option.
I desperately want Rock Raiders remade as it's both a mining and space theme with a cool storyline. I really want to see the Rock Raider character's updated too. I never grew up with Classic Space, but I still love it for some weird reason (lol). Trust me, with the advent of new color shades since 1978, there are plenty of ways to make Classic Space look more interesting ;)
Woah, 45K and counting.
Has anyone started going through the data?
So... no surprises there then. Probably only the third theme that gets into the shortlist will be a surprise, on a quick glance Adventurers and Classic Castle seem to get a lot of attention.
As we suspected, there aren’t actually that many supporters for specific space subthemes in what I can see - certainly not enough to get 3rd highest votes.
They don't need to keep high interest in Classic Castle or Space or Pirates, Ice Planet or Aqua Zone or anything else to sell one off adult sets based on those themes. They only need to keep a continued interest in those themes if they are intending to sell the theme again. Increasing the interest in Pirates as a theme makes sense if they want to sell small pirates sets again. If they aren't going to sell small sets, it doesn't really matter if POBB is a Pirates set or not. And if they had wanted to increase the interest in the Pirates theme, I think they would have stuck a big old Pirates logo right on the front of the POBB box.
These were my observations so far (in no particular order):
Adventurers, Classic Space, Black Falcon, Bionicle, Forestmen, Ice Planet, Rock Raiders, and Studios popped up a lot. Wolfpack, Space Police, Pirates, Model Team, and Imperials seemed to be not far behind in popularity.