LEGO has just made it known that the results of the first 2021 Ideas review will be published tomorrow, most likely at 2pm BST / 9am EST.
You may recall that a whopping and unprecedented 57 projects amassed 10,000 supporters during the period concerned, so I am sure it has not been an easy task picking one, or more if we're lucky, from the selection.
The Ideas pipeline is quite long already so, at the current rate of 4 or 5 sets a year, whatever's chosen probably won't be released until 2023.
Here's what we are still awaiting:
View all 57 projects after the break and, in time-honoured fashion, let us know your predictions in the comments.
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All the rest feel like unobtainable licenses or retreads of exisiting ideas as nice as they might be.
Jazz Quartet seems like exactly the sort of set Ideas was invented for though. I really really like it.
I confidently (and therefore surely incorrectly) predict it'll be that that goes through, and nothing else.
CASTLES!
ZELDA!
ZELDA CASTLES!
What's that you say? A violin??? Here you go!
Ultimately I think I've found the non-IP sets a lot more interesting. The IP stuff feels a bit too easy to suggest as you're just relying on it having a big enough fanbase rather than the strength of the actual design.
Source: https://www.facebook.com/LEGOIdeas/posts/4969069219773903
of the Nintendo projects in this round that’s the one I’d be least interested in but it would be funny if that’s the real reason for the day delay.
As to separate sites, if there is a separate site for licenses, one for modulars, then why not one for technic designs, one for classic themes, one for art and another for objects, another for this, and another for that. Start splitting and there is the expectation that each site gets at least one set per year or even per round, plus it dilutes the number of people looking and any crossover.
Jazz Quartet made it and it’ll be interesting to see how much TLG change the design - having less pieces invested in the floor might be a god start price wise but the design is really interesting and what Ideas should be all about.
The (American) Office I can totally ignore because I couldn’t care less but I can imagine there may be disputes about the other Office 10k achievers that weren’t selected, considering the actual designs didn’t feel they differed that much and it was just “here’s a bunch of minifigs from another sitcom”.
Snow White is interesting - I quite like the design but not sure if I’d commit to buying something that big for it.
Unless they have good parts, both an easy pass IMO.
I'll be buying the already chosen Sonic set when it comes up though and maybe the lighthouse.
Office may have been the actual worst.
I cannot say I am surprised by the Office getting chosen, just that it has taken so long to be picked. I know it is very popular in America so will probably sell well. It has been on Netflix internationally so must be doing okay on there as well. Still not as good as the UK one though.
It does show that there is some demand for including bicycle lanes in City sets. It is sad they need IDEAS to tell them that, but maybe they will notice and do something about it. It would have made an awful IDEAS set, but a great City add on pack.
I'm using an adapted version of that design in my own city - the pieces are easily available.
I'll be anxiously awaiting the Snow White announcement as well. I'd snap that set up in a heart beat!
I'd prefer they do their own follow-ups to The Blacksmith, like they have done with FRIENDS. They can do the designs themselves, they don't need IDEAS now to ask for castle type builds.
That said - they should just siphon off all of the TV properties into their own theme and move onto other things in the Ideas line.
I also disagree with you that IDEAS items should be unique which can be built off a current LEGO theme. The idea of doing a railway station is not unique. The idea of doing a post office is not unique. They are also copying existing things, and also using the popularity of the Modulars. So why is that also not lame? Especially as LEGO already do a Modular each year outside of the IDEAS system, there is no need for them to be told fans want yet another modular. Whereas they don't do a sitcom set each year outside of IDEAS. There is no sitcom theme.
Kind of crazy to accept one and not the other though, I agree, and I also think the other one is better.
There's no way it will be that size if Big Bang/Central perk/seinfeld are anything to go by.
I'm surprised we haven't had a Cheers set yet, but perhaps a bar is too much... Frasier is supposedly getting a relaunch soon so perhaps we could get his living room.