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[Gregorovich]

I'd like to see...

-pen or pencil minifigure accessories
-1L and 2L bars
-plates with studs on the top and bottom
-new, smaller book pieces
-dress slopes the same height as minifigure legs
-small flames
-more fabric skirts
-golf club minifigure accessory
-ice cream cone minifigure accessory

[JustinYum]

Not trying to point out every little thing, but I couldn't help myself...

SilentMode, on 22 April 2011 - 09:58 AM, said:

...1x1 round...cones in green.

They had plenty of those in the christmas bakery and toy shop, unless I missed something.

Gregorovich, on 22 April 2011 - 11:55 PM, said:

I'd like to see...

-pen or pencil minifigure accessories
...
-new, smaller book pieces
-small flames
-golf club minifigure accessory
-ice cream cone minifigure accessory

Links to respective suggestions:
-This or that make excellent substitutes to real pen and pencil molds.
-Can't find it right now, but Harry Potter had a tile with a book printed on it
-'Nuff said 'bout small fires.
-The same effect can be approximated with a 4 stud bar and a horizontal clip plate without a new mold.
-Kind of old fashioned and probably discontinued, but this piece fits the bill.

[SilentMode]

JustinYum, on 23 April 2011 - 12:45 AM, said:

They had plenty of those in the christmas bakery and toy shop, unless I missed something.

Touché to the frankenbiting. I just think those particular pieces should be more common.

[Gregorovich]

JustinYum, on 23 April 2011 - 12:45 AM, said:

Links to respective suggestions:
-This or that make excellent substitutes to real pen and pencil molds.
-Can't find it right now, but Harry Potter had a tile with a book printed on it
-'Nuff said 'bout small fires.
-The same effect can be approximated with a 4 stud bar and a horizontal clip plate without a new mold.
-Kind of old fashioned and probably discontinued, but this piece fits the bill.

For the pen/pencil, those are quite good substitutes, but I'd like a mold that is actually designed to be a pen/pencil.

I've got that tile (1x1 flat tile with blue book and stars printed on it), and I don't really like it because it's nothing like a book. What I meant was a mould similar to the existing book piece that opens and closes, but just smaller. I feel the existing one is too large, and it's difficult to make a minifigure hold it.

For the small flame, I mean a very small flame. One that could look like a candle's flame.

That's quite a clever idea for the golf club, I'd never thought of that. Thanks for sharing it.

As for the ice cream, I'd never seen that mould before. Thanks for showing me that.

Edited by Gregorovich, 23 April 2011 - 11:02 AM.

[Aanchir]

Gregorovich, on 23 April 2011 - 10:59 AM, said:

For the small flame, I mean a very small flame. One that could look like a candle's flame.

Hard to make a flame much smaller than the "plume" one that's out currently. What size candle are you thinking of? A 1x1 round brick, or something even smaller? As it is, I think the only thing that might be smaller is this piece from the LEGO Ben 10: Alien Force sets, which admittedly would be cool in a transparent color. It's thinner than the "plume", but also longer, so it would probably look rather awkward on a candle sized to be held by a minifigure.

Other sets just use 1x1 round plates on top of white 1x1 round bricks to imitate a candle flame's ambient glow. In my opinion, this works rather efficiently, as would this piece in Transparent Bright Orange or Transparent Yellow.

You have to keep in mind that there's a certain size threshold beneath which LEGO probably wouldn't make any piece. And I wouldn't want an incredibly tiny flame piece because it'd always be getting lost or getting stuck inside other pieces.

A pencil/pen mold would be a nice thing to have, though. Again, the size problem comes up, but it could potentially be dealt with.

[jonwil]

I would like to request the new 8 x 16 and 16 x 16 plates in more colors. Black would be nice for one as something to aid in building larger-span roofs on buildings, as would light bley, dark bley and white (again for roofs)

[LEGO Historian]

I know I'm late to the party...

But what LEGO really needs is a COMPLETE window system, so that folks don't have to use the back of those ugly headlight bricks (you can see the small holes in the back)...

TLG came out with a new flat 1x2x2 and 1x2x3 window... FINALLY!!

Now what they need to do is to continue to make other sizes OF THAT TYPE.  I hate mixing and matching unrelated windows together... it just looks cheesy for the world's premier building toy to use gimmickry to make windows.

Below is the old 1956-86 window system (I modified the image of the door to mimic a window).  TLG should come out with an entire series such as these below (they could certainly use most of these as flat fronted windows, with one or 2 exceptions, and add a few taller ones as well).  I did a survey a few years back... and the old classic windows could be combined into over 105 useful designs when mixed together.

So let's stop using the headlight bricks for anything except headlights... and have TLG come up with a window "system" worthy of the worlds leading architectural toy...

Cheers,
Gary Istok

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[LEGO Historian]

Another pair of windows that would be cool, would be to re-introduced the old Minitalia windows of 1970-75... reused again in black in LEGO sets #1 and #2 from 1976-77 (only sold in Italy and Japan).

I love these 2 windows... one is a 1x6x3 Panorama type classic window, but with 13 panes... the other is a 1x4x3 window with 12 panes (all are non-moving).  This 2nd window predated the 1x4x3 window with shutter clips and shutters by 7 years (it was introduced in 1970 as a Minitalia window)... before the 1978 introduction of the 1x4x3 window with 2 moveable window panes and shutter clips for green shutters....

Unfortunately TLG doesn't like to re-introduce retired parts... except in a different style.

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[Aanchir]

Here's something I'd like. It's not a new part design per se, but rather a part with a very useful decoration.

What I'd like are two printed versions of 8x16 flat tiles (part 48288) in either 199 Dark Stone Grey or 26 Black. One of them would have road stripes going across it the short way, and the other would have a crosswalk going across it the long way. Using the two together with unprinted 8x16 tiles, you could easily create any combination of urban grid-based streets. What's more, these streets have the appropriate dimensions to be used with the modular building series, something that is not possible with actual road plates unless you transplant the modular buildings from their original baseplates to the road plates (and even then, this would leave irregularly-sized gaps between buildings unless you specifically used road plates with an 8-module curb).

[jonwil]

Talking of windows, I wish the glass for the new 1 x 2 x 3 and 1 x 4 x 3 windows existed in trans-light-blue and trans-smoke as well as trans-clear.

[Lego Amaryl]

I'd like to get the 1x4x6 transparent doors also in opaque colors (e.g. brown, white, black, yellow). So they can be used as internal doors, instead of current doors that have the window inside and are not appropriate (especially for bathrooms like in the Pet Shop set!).
I'd also like a more realistic piece to make the handles of the door, both sides, intead of using the round plate 1x1.

Edited by Lego Amaryl, 13 May 2011 - 03:15 PM.

[jonwil]

The 1 x 4 x 6 door already exists in white (in a police set)

But yes I agree, I would love to see it in more colors.

[ENeuman]

LEGO Historian, on 13 May 2011 - 06:05 AM, said:

I know I'm late to the party...

But what LEGO really needs is a COMPLETE window system, so that folks don't have to use the back of those ugly headlight bricks (you can see the small holes in the back)...

TLG came out with a new flat 1x2x2 and 1x2x3 window... FINALLY!!

Now what they need to do is to continue to make other sizes OF THAT TYPE.  I hate mixing and matching unrelated windows together... it just looks cheesy for the world's premier building toy to use gimmickry to make windows.

Below is the old 1956-86 window system (I modified the image of the door to mimic a window).  TLG should come out with an entire series such as these below (they could certainly use most of these as flat fronted windows, with one or 2 exceptions, and add a few taller ones as well).  I did a survey a few years back... and the old classic windows could be combined into over 105 useful designs when mixed together.

So let's stop using the headlight bricks for anything except headlights... and have TLG come up with a window "system" worthy of the worlds leading architectural toy...

Cheers,
Gary Istok

I really do those windows bring back because those various sizes that I need on LDD and my MOC projects.

I hope that Lego will decide to allow remake those parts again or modification to new lego set with new various sizes.

[Lego Otaku]

A 3 wide window would be nice!  There are many panel that could be used as window, as well as 4 wide panel and window. But no 3 wide window or 3 wide panel for window. :/

I would also love to see a 1x1 tile with clip like http://www.bricklink...Item.asp?P=2555 but has stud on the bottom instead of socket.

Addendum:  Plant leaf 6x5 in other color would be nice. Brown for bare "branches" as well as red, orange, and yellow for autumn scene.

Still would like the flower stem (1x1, 3 pins) in yellow for making corn field.

Edited by Lego Otaku, 22 May 2011 - 02:51 PM.

[Piranha]

I would like to see a RC/PF/Plastic version of this, the Track Crossing.

Reason is since they discounted the double switchover so now we can't make a figure 8 or similar and is a very useful piece of track.

Also the 9V version is very expensive now, is different in color and the rails don't match (metal).

Perhaps it could be sold in a pack with curve or straight or by itself.

Also I think flexi track is over used, I want an 8 straight, 8 curved pack and keep flexi track as a separate product.

[Legoless]

Macoco, on 06 June 2011 - 04:04 AM, said:

I would like to see a RC/PF/Plastic version of this, the Track Crossing.

Reason is since they discounted the double switchover so now we can't make a figure 8 or similar and is a very useful piece of track.

Also the 9V version is very expensive now, is different in color and the rails don't match (metal).

Perhaps it could be sold in a pack with curve or straight or by itself.

Also I think flexi track is over used, I want an 8 straight, 8 curved pack and keep flexi track as a separate product.

The consensus amongst many train enthusiasts was that the 8 straight, 8 curved pack forced them to buy curved tracks that they were never going to use (as many layouts call for far more straight track than curves). I agree with you that packaging flexi track in with straights is also not a good idea, as they have had a poor reception amongst AFOLs and are not suitable for heavier trains. But even accepting that AFOLs are not the core market demographic for TLG, it would seem to make sense to offer only the track pieces that customers actually want rather than forcing them to buy stuff they don't (not very ecological for one thing). Luckily there is an alternative with ME tracks, although their range is, probably out of necessity, being unfolded rather slowly and is incomplete as yet.

Its perfectly possible to make a double crossover out of 4 sets of points, albeit the track geometry might not be desirable, due to the peculiar geometry designed into Lego pointwork. In real-life British practice point-based switchovers are preferred to using diamond crossings, although the actual paired points are usually much further apart than is the case for most model layouts.

[Piranha]

Legoless, on 07 June 2011 - 06:42 PM, said:

The consensus amongst many train enthusiasts was that the 8 straight, 8 curved pack forced them to buy curved tracks that they were never going to use (as many layouts call for far more straight track than curves). I agree with you that packaging flexi track in with straights is also not a good idea, as they have had a poor reception amongst AFOLs and are not suitable for heavier trains. But even accepting that AFOLs are not the core market demographic for TLG, it would seem to make sense to offer only the track pieces that customers actually want rather than forcing them to buy stuff they don't (not very ecological for one thing). Luckily there is an alternative with ME tracks, although their range is, probably out of necessity, being unfolded rather slowly and is incomplete as yet.

Its perfectly possible to make a double crossover out of 4 sets of points, albeit the track geometry might not be desirable, due to the peculiar geometry designed into Lego pointwork. In real-life British practice point-based switchovers are preferred to using diamond crossings, although the actual paired points are usually much further apart than is the case for most model layouts.

Who wants flexible track though? Now I think it has its merits and uses but that is why there is a separate whole package of 64. Now yes true straight is in a higher demand than a curve but would you rather have flexible track or some extra curves? I for myself prefer the extra curves for switch points.

You wouldn't happen to have an image or example of the 4 point double crossover? (however I still suggest for the "+" track)

[Commander Uno]

Here is a list of the pieces I want:
1X1 Circle Tile
and a 2 stud high 1x1 piece with a stud on the top and the bottom.

[Asher]

Commander Uno, on 26 June 2011 - 08:48 PM, said:

Here is a list of the pieces I want:
1X1 Circle Tile

2012 Town sets have these now used for headlamps.

[jedimaster]

I would very much like to see a Corinthian Capital produced to sit on top of the recently produced fluted columns. I know that Ionic Capitals can be made out of standard pieces but I would love to be able to have Corinthian Capitals to build with.

Edited by jedimaster, 20 October 2011 - 09:36 PM.

[Sid Sidious]

I want to see a LEGO pear.  A lot new animals would be good, like lions, tigers, more birds (turkey, vulture, penguin, toucan, etc.), antelopes, giraffes, turtles, raccoons, or cobras.

[Dakar A]

An element approximately the size of the parts on the outer ends of the branches of this peice:



So that it could be fitted between theundersides of two bricks, to eaisly invert a peice or two. Would also leave no space between the two bricks, like this does:

[Legocrazy81]

Its not a new element in the brick sort of way, I wasn't sure if I should've made it owns thread, so I'm putting it here. What about making hats with some hair under the brim? A good example would be Professor Sprout, under her hat sticks out a big bunch of grey curly hair.

[brickmack]

Wedge parts with the angled section on both left and right sides in the same part, but done so it is an odd number of studs wide (such as a 3x3 wedge, which would be the angled parts from a left and a right 2x3 wedge connected to a 1x3 plate in the middle). I can post pictures if this isn't very clear.

"Cheese grater" slopes without the vents

Tiny PF motors that are just a few studs long

NXT remote controller

More parts in some of the rarer colors, like orangeish brown and pink.

Legocrazy81, on 20 November 2011 - 02:59 AM, said:

Its not a new element in the brick sort of way, I wasn't sure if I should've made it owns thread, so I'm putting it here. What about making hats with some hair under the brim? A good example would be Professor Sprout, under her hat sticks out a big bunch of grey curly hair.

I think it would be good if they came up with some way to have the hair and hat as separate parts, so you can take the hat off. Perhaps something like the little mini-pin thing used to attach the crowns onto the princesses/queens/female royal characters' heads in some of the castle sets.

[The Sarge]

Here's a few:

A 1L x 1W x 2H cone - like a stretched version of the small cone.
A 2L x 2W x 1H cone - a cone version of the dome piece, that is used as R2 heads. More conical than the R5 head.
The 1x1x1/3 round plates with holes in more sets, not just games.
Bring back finger hinges...
Five-wide parts.
A piece like the control lever base, but without a slot and with a notch at the bottom to be able to remove it.