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What do you think?
On rebrickable I read the next piece of article, prediciting 2018 sets….
LEGO Creator Expert
In the LEGO Creator Export line a single new modular building have been announced. The beautifully curved 10256-1 (Downtown Diner) is in shops now. Other models seem to be a Rollercoaster set, and Expert Car and a new Winter Village set.
• 10260-1 - Downtown Diner - PENDING
• 10261-1 - (Rollercoaster set?)
• 10262-1 - (Expert Car?)
• 10263-1 - (Winter Village set?)
When I focus on set 10262-1 (Expert Car I expect it will be the Jaquar E-type Roadster wich is in review at the moment. Has anybody got more info?
https://brickset.com/article/29689/lego-ideas-third-2016-review-results
My fingers are crossed for Stitch, a project I've been following for some time. I love the movie Lilo and Stitch, and the model is so delightfully adorable! I'm a sucker for buildable characters in general. This also looks as though it would be an extremely affordable model! As far as I can tell, Stitch remains highly marketable, even though he hasn't been featured in new movies or TV shows in some time.
The BMW, if it's as well known to motorcycle enthusiasts as the Caterham was to car enthusiasts, will probably be a great fit for Ideas. I do have some questions as to how sturdy it is, but I feel like it would not be too hard to redesign it with legal connections and current bricks now that the macaroni tube has been redesigned.
The Flintstones is another seemingly natural fit for the Ideas platform, with both play and display value, familiarity to multiple generations, and designed with great car to feel like a viable set using existing molds. I do think the Dino in the updates, as brilliantly designed as he is, might require more prints and recolors than could be justified in addition to all the major character prints and recolors.
Maybe I’m mixing sci-fi themes, but isn’t the Acclamator a Star Wars ship?
I believe the Acclamator is SW but was grandfathered-in. So, between that, and how huge (and gray) it is, it has no chance.
Wouldn’t those same arguments also apply to Stitch?
Disney characters generally have quite the mass appeal (also more well known with kids than Flintstones) and they obviously have a number of licenses on Disney products.
For me, I like both of those sets the most out of that group, but I have far more interest in the upcoming round with several sets I desperately want.
Stitch is essentially the same as Wall-E. I suppose that would mean the Flintstones is the most plausible?
I apologize, I forgot about the Stich submission. You are correct though, and Stitch might also compliment the Wall-E figure nicely. Though they already made the mini-figure version, so maybe they wouldn't be interested in this version? I don't know. I'd support a Flintstones and Stitch, but would prefer Flintstones as there is a little more play value and it's not just a statue, more or less.
When talking about mass appeal, I was referring more to the constant plane and car submissions that we see most every round.
The lack of comments may be an indication that I'm not alone....
Personally I like that this one passed review. It's definitely very clever, and I'm counting on the Lego designer to make it look more interesting.
Some people might also have hoped for more of RobenAnne's seaside buildings to be made into sets, but it was always very unlikely that something from the same series would be selected. (Now also against the updated Ideas guidelines)
It is nice that something different has been accepted again, but I'm not going to buy it. It is clever that it opens up the way it does but that lasts, what, 60 seconds at most? It is nothing much to look at. The play value is similar to a small creator set and there doesn't appear to be any good parts. If it comes with a nice minifig, I'll buy the parts on B+P or BL.
I just do not find it works well as a display piece, a game, a toy, a vignette, etc.. Yes, it is an interesting mechanism, but meh. It is cool that something new is through, but I would have bought instantly any of the fishing village buildings.
I'm glad they didn't do the seaside buildings for example. I know a lot of people love them. They are lovely, but they've been done and I am glad they are not doing essentially the same thing again - the audience for the set would be that same. I'm sure he'll be able to make some money from them, by selling his instructions. He already has a great reputation.
The others didn't really have much of a chance, maybe the Jag. So it is not like this project stopped another fan favourite getting made (even though approvals don't actually stop other projects, LEGO can approve two if they want).
Perhaps they should slow the IDEAS factory down and make it an annual release, rather than churning out a new one every quarter or so? Maybe it was just a weak grouping this time around, but aside from a pipe dream of a line of Fishing Village sets, nothing was particularly noteworthy to me.
I know there is no opening mechanism and it is purely a display piece but visually (especially for a gwp) it looks so much more like a believable book than the ideas submission does and unless TLG knock it out of then park with the redesign of the ideas set, #40291 will suffice for me.
Have Lego ever hinted at the possibility of going back and looking at older projects to see if circumstances have changed and the set is more plausible to release? I would still ensure a Quest Builder set stays sold out until retirement.
in another hand, a pop-up mechanism integrated into a normal playset could work well.
As for reducing frequency to annual, I think this might kill the whole Ideas concept as the chance of getting selected would be so low that fewer people would submit.
Quick question-didn't the pizza restaurant/arcade reach 10k votes? Was it not eligible this time around for some reason? i know it wouldn't have been selected in all likelihood but i'm still curious to know its status.
No disrespect to the original builders but I think they could have done more with the book covers and the styling of the page edges, would perhaps of benefitted by using some of the 1x2 grille bricks 2877.
I can see why it has been selected, and I'm going to go ahead and predict that the production version will change some peoples' minds.
I can see it being popular with young (and maybe not as young) readers who have lots of imagination and a bit of building experience to customize it.
I can't wait to see the final design LEGO come up with and hope for 2 or 3 alternate interior builds included.