The LEGO Ideas Thread

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[BrickBob Studpants]

12 hours ago, danth said:

A little sad that half of Ideas sets are licensed slop. It's like Speed Champions but for houses. 

Looks like we can add “slop” to the pile of words that have lost all meaning

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[Wolfpack]

Both programs have their problems.

I would prefer if they would take the BDP selection and make them "normal" sets like Ideas. In Ideas the last set I liked was Viking Village and even that one was selected by target not by lego! They had some thirty sets after that, but basically all licenced or some recreation of an object or an animal. In BDP I like most of the sets, but they bring nothing new (except for sticker sheet), not even instructions. Why cannot they select such sets for Ideas??? Keep BDP only as a selection process and make all sets in Ideas.

[BrickBob Studpants]

1 hour ago, Wolfpack said:

Why cannot they select such sets for Ideas??? Keep BDP only as a selection process and make all sets in Ideas.

The BDP sets are pretty niche in the grand scheme of things with a much lower production capacity. I mean, a lot of sets each round don’t get enough pre-orders to even be produced!  Some of them could probably sell well as Ideas sets, but I reckon a lot of them wouldn’t. 

[Black Falcon]

5 hours ago, hikouki said:

They said that Golden Girls is leaving the parking lot ~ does that mean it actually got rejected???

Yes.

1 hour ago, Wolfpack said:

Both programs have their problems.

I would prefer if they would take the BDP selection and make them "normal" sets like Ideas. In Ideas the last set I liked was Viking Village and even that one was selected by target not by lego! They had some thirty sets after that, but basically all licenced or some recreation of an object or an animal. In BDP I like most of the sets, but they bring nothing new (except for sticker sheet), not even instructions. Why cannot they select such sets for Ideas??? Keep BDP only as a selection process and make all sets in Ideas.

The thing about BDP is that they can just produce it in one go, so they basically have to make sure all the parts are produced beforehand that they need and put together their sets. If you would make an own theme out of it you would need budget for the parts etc as all of it needs storage and a higher production capacity, which is just not there. On the same time it would basically remove all differences between the BDP and Ideas and make the bdp sets ideas ones, so in the end, you would have ideas and essentially just remove the bdp completely.

 

[Wolfpack]

1 hour ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

The BDP sets are pretty niche in the grand scheme of things with a much lower production capacity. I mean, a lot of sets each round don’t get enough pre-orders to even be produced!

Not true. That never happened! So far all the sets got produced.

3000 sets is minimum and all the sets got 10.000 or more orders (Lost City had the least and that was about 10.000 as far I remember), average has been 30.000, which is not much less than some exclusive sets (unofficially some d2c sets have a production run of less than 100.000)

Also you must take into account that marketing and advertisement for BDP is basically nonexistant. Despite that and despite having no new parts the sets are sold out in a week with no problem. With new parts, instructions, proper marketing and availability on the lego site the sales would be huge.

Black Falcon. Yes, that is what I want. BDP should be removed and Ideas should have those unlicenced sets instead. If not all, than at least one round per year should be done this way. Lego bought BL after all, I am not a fan of that, but they should at least take the better advantage of it.

They can make them limited to 50.000 or something and in one run as far as I care, if prodution capacities are the problem. BDP in current form makes no sense, it is just PAB for other people MOCs.