Latest impact of other themes on historic themes

[DonQuixote]

17 hours ago, Roebuck said:

They might be, the spacefigs from the set comes in January, so If they show up it will be in January.

 

No, it's January or never

Never?! 

That would be a dirty move by Lego. 

[GreenhouseBricker]

Did anyone see the new oval shield element used as a sign in the new modular set? It would be interesting to see it used as a castle piece.

 

https://www.newelementary.com/2025/12/review-11371-shopping-street-from-lego.html

Bricksie showed it off in his review. It has a crossbar in the back so it can be held or connected in different ways.

 

 

I guess this shield piece was introduced in the new Star Trek set

[Lyichir]

2 minutes ago, GreenhouseBricker said:

Did anyone see the new oval shield element used as a sign in the new modular set? It would be interesting to see it used as a castle piece.

 

https://www.newelementary.com/2025/12/review-11371-shopping-street-from-lego.html

Bricksie showed it off in his review. It has a crossbar in the back so it can be held or connected in different ways.

 

 

Not a new element, it originated back in 2011 in the Star Wars theme (printed, in transparent purple). Has appeared in many other themes since then (Chima, Ultra Agents, Dimensions, as well as the shield of Orion from the space CMFs), but it wasn't until this year that it appeared in grey (in the Enterprise set).

[GreenhouseBricker]

58 minutes ago, GreenhouseBricker said:

Did anyone see the new oval shield element used as a sign in the new modular set? It would be interesting to see it used as a castle piece.

 

https://www.newelementary.com/2025/12/review-11371-shopping-street-from-lego.html

 

50 minutes ago, Lyichir said:

Not a new element, it originated back in 2011 in the Star Wars theme (printed, in transparent purple). Has appeared in many other themes since then (Chima, Ultra Agents, Dimensions, as well as the shield of Orion from the space CMFs), but it wasn't until this year that it appeared in grey (in the Enterprise set).

It looks like they changed the grip on the back. Not just a single handle. Now it has a crossbar.

[Lyichir]

29 minutes ago, GreenhouseBricker said:

 

It looks like they changed the grip on the back. Not just a single handle. Now it has a crossbar.

That's just a "lightsaber blade" piece inserted through the grip (much like you can do with some other circular or ovoid shield castle shield pieces, to mount them on poles or spears or whatnot).

[GreenhouseBricker]

44 minutes ago, Lyichir said:

That's just a "lightsaber blade" piece inserted through the grip (much like you can do with some other circular or ovoid shield castle shield pieces, to mount them on poles or spears or whatnot).

Ahhh I thought it was a single fixed piece. that makes sense. Thanks

[Lyichir]

By the way, someone mentioned the Black Falcon insignia on Mr. Oz's new torso in the Dreamzzz sets, but I thought I'd mention that Zoey and Izzie's new torso/leg prints could also work well in a fantasy setting (both being armored designs lacking modern features like zippers). There's also an armor pauldron piece in trans colors (trans orange, opalescent clear, trans bright green, and trans light blue) a new large fantasy sword mold in various colors (opalescent clear with a gold hilt, trans bright green with a gold hilt, trans light blue with a silver hilt, and trans pink with a black hilt), fantasy energy creatures in trans colors (trans bright green, opalescent clear, trans orange, and trans light blue) and crystal halves that can contain them in trans light blue and trans pink.

Obviously most of this is of no use for actual historic builders, but for fantasy fans a lot of this could be useful. This wave is giving me some major Elves vibes which as a huge fan of that theme, is absolutely not a bad thing!

[Roebuck]

There are a flower-girl in the coming BAM wave that might be useful as a elf, Druid etc in a castle setting if the flower is removed 

[zoth33]

BDP series 10 has some great submissions obviously some great castles but there are several civilian sets that look good and other scenes that are interesting.  I just took a quick look last night will take a longer look today and vote on the ones that I would like to see built.  

[Roebuck]

There are some great looking BDP for sure, but they are basically mocs and do not give us anything new. I hope Lego sees that BDP Castle sets are very popular and give us a new normal(Icons) Castle set! The danger is that they think we have BDP, Creator 3-in-1 and a CMF fig once a year, no point in making anymore normal Castle set then 

[SpacePolice89]

25 minutes ago, Roebuck said:

There are some great looking BDP for sure, but they are basically mocs and do not give us anything new. I hope Lego sees that BDP Castle sets are very popular and give us a new normal(Icons) Castle set! The danger is that they think we have BDP, Creator 3-in-1 and a CMF fig once a year, no point in making anymore normal Castle set then 

Now would be the perfect time for a full wave of normal Castle sets with Dreamz and Monkie Kid on the way out and they are also too similar to the Ninjago sets while being subpar in quality and too silly compared to Ninjago. It's madness to have so many silly themes with mechs in vibrant colors. Maybe something like the fantasy era Castle sets would be the best solution?

[zoth33]

18 hours ago, Roebuck said:

There are some great looking BDP for sure, but they are basically mocs and do not give us anything new. I hope Lego sees that BDP Castle sets are very popular and give us a new normal(Icons) Castle set! The danger is that they think we have BDP, Creator 3-in-1 and a CMF fig once a year, no point in making anymore normal Castle set then 

Considering that one person from Lego saying that the BDP is more than just Castle hopefully that shows lego that it is popular and they could release sets and they would sell well but we will have to see as a full theme would takes years to develop.  

[zoth33]

Series 29 CMF Unicorn Elf comes with an actual unicorn.  There are some really nice pieces.  Lloyd's torso and pants are very nice.  The skeleton fish piece is great and the clown fish looks great too.  The chocolate dragon piece will be useful.  tahu looks really good.  The witch has some useful parts too.  

[iragm]

13 hours ago, zoth33 said:

Series 29 CMF Unicorn Elf comes with an actual unicorn

Best part here is that the ears don't show on the elf, so the tiara can be used on other castle figures, and the unicorn's horn can be removed so it's just a foal.  Excellent figure and not army-buildable so it should be only $8-10 or so on Bricklink.  The others to me are uninteresting.

[MAB]

24 minutes ago, iragm said:

Best part here is that the ears don't show on the elf, so the tiara can be used on other castle figures, and the unicorn's horn can be removed so it's just a foal.  Excellent figure and not army-buildable so it should be only $8-10 or so on Bricklink.  The others to me are uninteresting.

Any figure is army-buildable if someone wants to. It is then just a question of how many people army build with it.

[Wardancer]

The chocolate dragon can surely be used … as a non-chocolate dragon 😀. 
 

Isn‘t the steampunk gun a violation of the no realistic weapons policy? 

[zoth33]

20 hours ago, Wardancer said:

The chocolate dragon can surely be used … as a non-chocolate dragon 😀. 
 

Isn‘t the steampunk gun a violation of the no realistic weapons policy? 

It's more of fantasy weapon based.  It's not like an ak-47 or M-16 or ar-15 weapon.   To be fair they have made realistic weapons in pirate and western sets.  

On 2/27/2026 at 11:59 AM, iragm said:

Best part here is that the ears don't show on the elf, so the tiara can be used on other castle figures, and the unicorn's horn can be removed so it's just a foal.  Excellent figure and not army-buildable so it should be only $8-10 or so on Bricklink.  The others to me are uninteresting.

There are some good parts though like the 2 new fish molds.  The dragon and new cat mold.  The slime guy could be useful.  Lloyds torso and pants are good for making custom fantasy figs.  The witch and monster hunter have some interesting parts.  

[Lyichir]

On 2/27/2026 at 5:00 PM, Wardancer said:

The chocolate dragon can surely be used … as a non-chocolate dragon 😀. 
 

Isn‘t the steampunk gun a violation of the no realistic weapons policy? 

Unprinted so a little less personality than non-molded dragons, but could work great for a statue.

Fantasy weaponry like this "gunblade" is inherently not realistic or modern, which is where Lego draws the line.

Not medieval specific but that fish skeleton could also see good use in a medieval town or fishing village, among many other scenarios (Gollum would certainly enjoy picking those bones clean).