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Lego creator expert next car model?
Ondra
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Do you think that next year, we will se some new exclusive car in line with great volkswagen beetle 10187 or even better volkswagen camper van 10220?I think is something going because there is three years gap between these two sets and in 2014 there is also three years gap.
I think next set is volkswagen golf, because in 2014 is 40 years anniversary.But there are another famous cars for example Checker cab, british black cabs, mini cooper.
Tell what you think :-).
I think next set is volkswagen golf, because in 2014 is 40 years anniversary.But there are another famous cars for example Checker cab, british black cabs, mini cooper.
Tell what you think :-).
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Comments
It may be an iconic car, but it is no beetle or camper van.
Or the "A-Team"truck,cuusoo anyone?!
I think golf is same milestone cars as beetle, is one of most selling car worldwide.Popular in legos main market Germany.Also I think still have volkswagen license.But who knows.
If this link does exist 'tween Lego and VW how about the Audi Quattro S1 (reckon the shape would translate well in Bricks) or if that is still not iconic enough, something from the long history of Porsche 9** series (911, 959, cabriolet etc).
There are some more good ideas in this thread...
But I dont think so there will be UCS car model this year, because we already have many exclusive models also with sydney opera house.
^ The Thing would be pretty fun
http://brickfanatics.co.uk/lego-2014-rumor-mill-mini-architecture/
Mustangs/Corvettes and the likes are fine for a US market but you sort of have to think more internationally.
A Mini, especially designed like the ones in The Italian Job (original) would probably go down a storm across Europe anyway.
How about KITT or a black transam like in Smokey and the Bandit or something like that...I definitely could get on board with that although I can't see it happening.
Everyone will have their own favourite car, but personally, I'd love Lego to do something based off (arguably) the most iconic car of the 21st century imho. Yep, I'd pay through the nose for a really nicely done UCS Bugatti Veyron :-) (but I bet you already guessed that from my username) :-P
*Realises UCS Veyron is never going to happen, a licensing agreement from Bugatti would cost a small fortune and Lego would never do it*
Lego, go ahead and surprise me ;-)
But I just like to think that Lego do want to do a Veyron, but it's difficult to get the shallow angles exactly right at usual Lego scales (and believe me, I've tried it at both 14 and 18 stud scale) so they wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole... Oh wait, that DeLorean made it through okay :-P
Who knows though?
p.s. Sorry for sounding like a car geek :-) Lego cars are my two greatest passions combined! :-)
It's all opinion but I have the same problem with something like the C7 vette mentioned above. Purely from a "model of a car" standpoint there is almost nothing "remarkable" about a C7 vette compared to the original Mini. The new vette looks very similar to all sorts of ferrari's, Astin Martins, Maserati's etc. It's a very powerful Chevy that they finally decided to do a decent interior on, so it is remarkable compared to C6 but not overall as a car.
The 911 Turbo is my #1 vote and it can be almost any model year too new or old, as the overall appearance has stayed the same over decades. But my (personal) bias is for this rare Porsche beauty a 987 Spyder:
A Lego Porsche 911 would be fantastic, I admit (but since Lego Racers has gone, any supercar that gets the Lego treatment now would be music to my ears). But something tells me that Porsche has a licensing deal with the dare-I-say-it dreaded clone brand, and they've made a (rather nasty looking) sort of 'UCS' (I use the term incredibly loosely) Porsche 911 already... I've seen it in the local toy shop, it's ghastly, too many one-use bricks... urgh!
In fact, it's not just a UCS Veyron I'd like to see... there are many cars both old and new that I'd like to see Lego-ised (and I'd think they'd make great models if they did a classic supercar, to continue with the classic car theme Lego has when making these Creator expert car models), I could just be biased since the Veyron is my favourite car, just because of the all the records it broke about 8 years ago, and all the subsequent speed wars of the last 8 years we have seen. This is the point where I could talk all about these rare cars that only real supercar nuts would have heard of, but I won't since this is a discussion about Lego and I don't want to bore anybody to death...
My point is, of all the supercar speed kings, most will think of the Veyron, and many will recognise the front end (I don't think you'd mistake that front end for anything else), or maybe the car that previously held the speed record prior to the Veyron - the McLaren F1 (my second favourite car), but that one, from just the exterior it could be mistakened for many other cars.
Of course, I'm just offering my opinion, I don't want any 'Veyron vs F1' arguments to come out of this :-P (I've seen far too many believe me)
Personally, I would buy several of these in Lego kit form.
Anyway back to the original question, I'd love to see a Mercedes-Benz 300SL gull-wing made by Lego. It's iconic with those doors, super expensive, was once the fastest production car in the world (that bits for you @TheOneVeyronian), the doors would give it some functionality and Lego have an existing agreement with Mercedes for the Unimog.
That would be my personal preference but after that it can only be something that is truly iconic, with a very distinctive look and known the world over like a 911, original Mini, 2CV. The american muscle cars just aren't in that league, they all look similar (which has already been pointed out by many Americans here), and simply aren't that well known outside of the USA or petrolhead circles. On the plus side if they did do a US muscle car Lego wouldn't have to bother with a working steering mechanism as they can't do corners in real life anyway. :) Just had to get that one in.