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I feel like they should do some sort of review between getting all the 10k votees for a period and announcing them. There's no point in letting other builders think that sets like this are gonna be possible through IDEAS, especially when it seems like a lot of people are only building to get it submitted. I've seen a bunch of these models like the farm on Flickr for months.
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Yeah, I agree actually. To be honest, I wouldn't stop there, I think Ideas needs a complete revamp. Too many submissions are either way too big/complex/fiddly to have any chance of being made into sets (at least, not without a complete redesign) or are just someone's favourite (often niche) IP. As it is, the only submissions that are denied from the start are ones which are remade old sets, and I think you'd get a lot more quality submissions if Lego had higher standards for what was accepted in the first place.
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Hot take, but a lot of Ideas could be replaced by just listening to what the adult collector market is asking for and then delivering those kind of sets. I don't think it should take a few thousand submissions for Lego to say 'Hey, maybe they want a detailed build Castle set', but instead a global mega corporation wants random people on the internet to do market research for them so they can sift through a bunch of 'IT'S THE CHOPPER FROM THE TV SHOW AIRWOLF' bullshit and then only move forward with 1/10th of it.
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Jan 10, 2022 22:11
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I would like to build the chopper from Airwolf.
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Cloks posted:I would like to build the chopper from Airwolf. Beaten... 
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Jan 10, 2022 22:28
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I think Ideas is mostly just a way for the designers to get inspiration for cool sets. Since a lot of ideas sets come out being completely different from the original submission, they could take something like that coral set and make something good out of it.
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I'm really hoping the Naruto thing makes it. I'd sell the Naruto figures and populate it with the Ninjago crew. Also, catching up with some of my backlog. Currently working on the Speed Champions dragster for 76904, and the core of that build is just plain weird:  
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Jan 10, 2022 22:35
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The_Doctor posted:Was it this Ideas set? It just achieved 10,000 supporters so it may yet be real! Wasn't that either, but still, this one is cool too. I swear I saw one that had two of the new Black Falcon figures along with two forestmen. Still this one is cool. Also if that It's a Wonderful Life set gets released I'm totally buying it.
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Finished the BMW bike So… many… stickers It looks awesome and I’m glad they put the work stand with the plaque in there, gonna look great on display. I don’t build enough technic to comment on interesting techniques or anything but man there were some blowups/callouts in the instructions that weren’t necessary and sometimes where you really need another angle and they’re just like “figure it out.” The tires/wheels and the front fork pieces are awesome, I hope the forks find their way into another bike set.
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More fun than a technic beam which is usually how they do that stuff. Though I guess the scale of that model would have created issues with that approach.
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Love the Terrariums, Orchid, and the Ramen Shop.Cojawfee posted:Everything else is just a big mess of pieces that would be terrible to build, or it's just not interesting. The JWST looks like it is absolutely huge and would cost 400 dollars based on a video I saw of it. People need to be more realistic. The Garden & Greenhouse is at least a 64x64 set, incredible chutzpah to submit something on that scale. Lol
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I’ve wondered if Ideas might be a little more manageable if it was based against contests that you submit and vote against, rather than voting for as many submissions as you want on a rolling basis.
In other words, LEGO announces a theme, creators submit their ideas for the theme, everyone gets to vote for one submission for the theme, and then LEGO takes the top three to design review or something. Absent that, I think a lot of problems could just be solved with limiting the number or novelty of parts.
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Terrariums looks pretty good. Is Steampunk Explorers just a stealth Planet Express building?
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The Bionicle submissions break my heart because like a lot of late millenials that line was my gateway to Lego. But it seems so unlikely that we'd ever get an IDEAS set that either brings back enough old molds to make a Bionicle (no hero factory parts) or enough printed parts to get a decent set of minifig Toa.
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I really like the SR-71; it's a good size and a very clean-looking build, although I do not like the thick edging particularly around the nose; that needs a lot of rework. Lego did a Gremlins Dimensions set, so I could see a Gremlins set working especially with it maybe being in production in some form. I'd love a JWST, and I like that this one is minifig scale, but it's so huge I find it pretty doubtful to succeed in that form. I'm also not a fan of how the sunshield was done. I don't think the rolled-up map gimmick for Land Ahoy is enough to get a set; it's pretty uninteresting otherwise. Apart from Gremlins, I don't think any of the licensed stuff here has a chance. The Greenhouse is too big and the Coral Reef is a parts pack of 'unusual shapes in unusual colors'. Terrarium and Orchids are nice, but they won't Ideas them when they already have their plants line. The Emergency Box is a fun thing, but I see it more like a GWP rather than a separate set. Johnny Five looks enormous and they've never motorized an Ideas set. I don't think the Orrery would have enough appeal. The Dojo and Riverside Scholars look small and interesting enough that they're a possibility.
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Lego is never going to do a SR-71 after they canceled that Osprey. I'm rebuilding all my childhood Lego sets and i got the first 54 sets complete with instructions. Another 44 are incomplete:  So, i placed five different orders on Bricklink to see if i can complete them. And it seems my collection has grow in mysterious ways when it was stored at my parents. Really random pieces like this one: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=45301&idColor=88#T=S&C=88&O=%7B%22color%22:88,%22iconly%22:0%7D The colour i have is only used in a Star Wars Geonosian Starfighter. No minifigs, no other parts, just one wing piece. There are also pieces of a small submarine, more police and what might be a big Jack Stone collection. Got a bunch of minifigs that at first glance seem to be knock offs be might be Jack Stone. engessa fucked around with this message at 10:51 on Jan 11, 2022 |
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engessa posted:Lego is never going to do a SR-71 after they canceled that Osprey. As a child of the 70's and 80's I really want to collect all the old space lego sets - its so tempting that I might have to clear some more display space and just crack on with it.
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Andoman posted:As a child of the 70's and 80's I really want to collect all the old space lego sets - its so tempting that I might have to clear some more display space and just crack on with it.  I really like the 80's LAZORS on the front of the instructions. But Space never tickled my fancy, Castle was my crack ever since i was 6 or so. I think half of all the Lego i have is Castle stuff.
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I had the yellow castle in the early 80's and whilst I loved the set space was where it was at for me. I guess that has stuck with me as now I collects the Lego Star Wars sets.
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engessa posted:Lego is never going to do a SR-71 after they canceled that Osprey. Eh, one is a combat craft and the other is reconnaissance, emphasis on NASA. There's no reason not to other than the inevitable breathless condemnations of what an evil and bad company Lego is (from the usual suspects)
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Overwatch 2 set release paused while Lego ponders their relationship with Activision
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lol now do it for the Harry Potter stuff too.
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Oxyclean posted:lol “Oh, our scruples disappear for a POPULAR line”
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Dogen posted:Overwatch 2 set release paused while Lego ponders their relationship with Activision Is there a lot of crossover between overwatch fans and Lego fans???
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Dogen posted:Overwatch 2 set release paused while Lego ponders their relationship with Activision
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Literally A Person posted:Is there a lot of crossover between overwatch fans and Lego fans??? I'm a big fan of how the last waves went to clearance prices pretty quickly, does that count?
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I wish Lego would stop buying IPs.
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Sivart13 posted:if this was gonna come out in Feb 1, they've gotta already have made the sets, right? What do do they do, bury them in the desert? Not sure. The osprey was recalled after some hit shelves even. I’d guess they recycle what they can…?
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Sivart13 posted:if this was gonna come out in Feb 1, they've gotta already have made the sets, right? What do do they do, bury them in the desert? Which is to say, I'm not really sure, I wonder if it's worth the trouble to try to send any non-specific parts back to be reused, or if they just recycle what plastic they can? Literally A Person posted:I wish Lego would stop buying IPs. Honestly that'd probably do wonders for my budget since that would just leave modulars. 
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IPs are really good for getting new minifig molds made, you can say that at least
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Bring back the Lord of the Rings IP imo. I want to live in the universe where LOTR got sets every year instead of Harry Potter
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It honestly surprises me Harry Potter lego continues to come out despite that line of books ending some time ago. Star Wars at least has/had new movies and shows as an excuse.
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Oxyclean posted:It honestly surprises me Harry Potter lego continues to come out despite that line of books ending some time ago. They are still making the Fantastic Beasts movies and there was some big 20th anniversary thing recently on HBO, so it's definitely still fresh. There's plenty of sets to wring out of that world yet.
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Oxyclean posted:While maybe twisting your point, wouldn't "no IPs" also mean goodbye to Creator Cars, speed champions, and any branded technic stuff, and maybe even anything NASA? Of course I am just being over dramatic but I just am not a fan of film and TV sets. I just love the stuff Lego does that isn't tied directly to that kind of thing.
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Oxyclean posted:It honestly surprises me Harry Potter lego continues to come out despite that line of books ending some time ago. Much like Star Wars, there's always 5-15 year old children discovering these IPs for the first time. They will be popular even when the earth becomes a scorched hellhole and the alien archeologists find them.
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Ragequit posted:They are still making the Fantastic Beasts movies and there was some big 20th anniversary thing recently on HBO, so it's definitely still fresh. There's plenty of sets to wring out of that world yet. Shame they have issued so many chunks of Hogwarts in lieu of a Ministry, Malfoy Manor, Dept. of Mysteries, Shell Cottage, or any other appealing locations as a set
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Andoman posted:I had the yellow castle in the early 80's and whilst I loved the set space was where it was at for me. I guess that has stuck with me as now I collects the Lego Star Wars sets. I liked space but castle was always my favorite to play with. I also mostly collect SW but I guess for different reasons. It's just a combination of my favorite toys as a kid (Lego) and the toys that I desperately wanted the most but couldn't really have because they were mostly gone by the time I was old enough for action figures.
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Literally A Person posted:Of course I am just being over dramatic but I just am not a fan of film and TV sets. I just love the stuff Lego does that isn't tied directly to that kind of thing. I'd be a lot more forgiving of the film and TV stuff if I didn't suck up so much of their bandwidth. I just want some big space sets that aren't grey Star Wars or slightly futuristic City themed.
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Castle and Western are the two themes I can't figure out. City has always had steady releases, and Classic Space sorta got folded into the space stuff they do for City, but I'm surprised they're not dropping a yearly Castle or Western themed set every year. I would have assumed those were evergreen play themes, but maybe I'm just blinded by my own memories of how loving rad Fort Legorado was.
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