What next vintage set could be recreated by TLG ?

[Corydoras]

Thanks! I'm currently building it IRL, and will probably have to redesign the claws, as they may be a bit too fragile.

[Khargeust]

Any ideas for 2026 ?

[Murdoch17]

23 minutes ago, Khargeust said:

Any ideas for 2026 ?

Nobody knows anything yet. Too early for any leaks for Lego exclusives.

Edited August 17, 2025 by Murdoch17

[SpacePolice89]

19 hours ago, Khargeust said:

Any ideas for 2026 ?

I am hoping for it to be the Mission Commander or a Futuron Monorail.

[engine1ear]

Anyone down for 858 Auto Engines? I'd love to see a larger scale more detailed rendition. I'd be so over the moon.

[DonQuixote]

On 8/18/2025 at 10:57 AM, SpacePolice89 said:

I am hoping for it to be the Mission Commander or a Futuron Monorail.

I am hoping for a space police 1 set or a remake of the Black Knights castle from 1992 

[SpacePolice89]

8 hours ago, DonQuixote said:

I am hoping for a space police 1 set or a remake of the Black Knights castle from 1992 

The Black Knights Castle would also be a great choice. It is one of the favorite sets from my childhood and in my opinion the best castle ever made.

[Khargeust]

I have high hopes for the recreation of a Black Knights castle to follow up the soon-to-be-disappeared LKC. The Sea Serpent remake, likely coming out next year, would make a perfect GWP!
Black Knights are the only classic faction that hasn't been remade yet, despite a redefined crest in the set's instruction booklet (the only one of all that has not yet had a reboot by the way).

For Pirates we definitely need a new version of an imperial ship or a remake of the Skull's Eye Schooner. Or the comeback of the islanders ? But it may be too niche.

About Space, I would take it all ; as long as it's done well, focused on play features and without stickers !

Edited August 22, 2025 by Khargeust

[Khargeust]

Still no leaks. 

[SpacePolice89]

5 hours ago, Khargeust said:

Still no leaks. 

I wouldn't give up yet. With the Lion Knights Castle being hugely popular there's still a decent chance that we'll get a new large Castle Icons set.

[Renny The Spaceman]

23 minutes ago, SpacePolice89 said:

I wouldn't give up yet. With the Lion Knights Castle being hugely popular there's still a decent chance that we'll get a new large Castle Icons set.

I think the remakes as a line probably is done but I wouldn't doubt a new Castle Icons set using some of the new factions

[SpacePolice89]

4 minutes ago, Renny The Spaceman said:

I think the remakes as a line probably is done but I wouldn't doubt a new Castle Icons set using some of the new factions

Why would they suddenly stop making them?

[Renny The Spaceman]

18 minutes ago, SpacePolice89 said:

Why would they suddenly stop making them?

Bar Lion Knights Castle they all had short runs and were widely discounted, and usually we knew what theme a remake would be based on pretty early and we don't. I'd like to be wrong but I don't think they'd do another one out of obligation. Especially as the biggest ones that could be done at that scale, with modern colours have been done now

[SpacePolice89]

4 minutes ago, Renny The Spaceman said:

Bar Lion Knights Castle they all had short runs and were widely discounted, and usually we knew what theme a remake would be based on pretty early and we don't. I'd like to be wrong but I don't think they'd do another one out of obligation. Especially as the biggest ones that could be done at that scale, with modern colours have been done now

I'm afraid that you might be right but I still hope that they'll make a new Black Knights Castle because the Lion Knights Castle seems to have been the most popular Icons remake. 

[Lion King]

21 minutes ago, Renny The Spaceman said:

Bar Lion Knights Castle they all had short runs and were widely discounted, and usually we knew what theme a remake would be based on pretty early and we don't. I'd like to be wrong but I don't think they'd do another one out of obligation. Especially as the biggest ones that could be done at that scale, with modern colours have been done now

That’s right. But there is no oringal castle for Lion Knights  Catle, didn’t they?  Regneade and For Elorado were the existing sets in the 1980s and 1990s so it’s the remakes for those.  Yet, I’m not sure why Mediveal Village Square doesn’t sell well as it’ snot a remake. 

[DonQuixote]

3 hours ago, Lion King said:

Yet, I’m not sure why Mediveal Village Square doesn’t sell well as it’ snot a remake. 

Because the set didn't live up to the leaked prototype images. And stickers... 

[Renny The Spaceman]

3 hours ago, Lion King said:

That’s right. But there is no oringal castle for Lion Knights  Catle, didn’t they?  Regneade and For Elorado were the existing sets in the 1980s and 1990s so it’s the remakes for those.  Yet, I’m not sure why Mediveal Village Square doesn’t sell well as it’ snot a remake. 

I don't think it's the fact of it being a remake that's the issue (though town square I believe is supposed to be a remake of the fantasy era one, I think it was closer in the early draft that was leaked) I don't think there's one simple reason we can see for why any of these did poorly such as "being remakes" I think it might have just been a case diminishing returns. with Barracuda bay a couple years before then Lion Knights Castle and the Galaxy Explorer they hit the big three with big expensive homage sets, all three are exactly what someone who likes one of those themes would want at the right price point for it, each further one felt like it was slightly less definitive and justified it's pricepoint slightly less. So if you're more casual or passively interested in any of these themes you'd get only a couple at most. The Hardcore fans are all that's left then and I imagine most are satisfied by the Bricklink Designer program giving 78 different massive grey castles at the Lion's Knight pricepoint 

[Lyichir]

I think it's probably worth considering that the Galaxy Explorer and Lion Knight's Castle were originally 90th anniversary sets, which might've been one small factor in their popularity compared to their less well-received follow-ups. It's possible that Lego might take a break from these sorts of sets in off years, but even then I doubt they'll stop doing sets based on their history altogether, especially when we get to the even bigger 95th anniversary in two years.

[MAB]

12 hours ago, Lyichir said:

... but even then I doubt they'll stop doing sets based on their history altogether, especially when we get to the even bigger 95th anniversary in two years.

Is 95th a big anniversary,  bigger (in importance) than 90th? No doubt the 100th anniversary in 6/7 years time will bring plenty of a nod to history sets but if they stick a 95th anniversary badge it looks a bit desperate to me. 

Especially with the 50th anniversary of the minifigure coming, that seems a bigger deal than 95th of the company and I expect we'll get remakes of minifigures. The question is, do they (re-)release just the minifigures or also some building sets for them to go in? 

[Stereo]

50th for Technic is also 2027 so I expect they'd do something for that.

[DonQuixote]

10 hours ago, MAB said:

 

Especially with the 50th anniversary of the minifigure coming, that seems a bigger deal than 95th of the company and I expect we'll get remakes of minifigures. The question is, do they (re-)release just the minifigures or also some building sets for them to go in? 

Agree ! They need to bring back a Black Knight minifig for the anniversary of the minifigs. Complete with a long updated wyvern shield and wyvern plumes.

[Lion King]

I don’t’ think 50th anniveary for mini figure would be a great CMF option as we had the CMF series for 40th anniveary and we only got “ramek” of the classic Policeman back in 2018. The rest of the series was bunch of costumes along with birhtday-focused mini figures (clown, party boy, party girl, guy in birthday cake). 

And in 2022, CMF series’s was again costume-themed. Nothing about classic mini figures, such as Lion King, Blck Knight, Blacktron, etc. we will see about 50th anniveary. In 2028. 

We will have 20th anniveary for modular building in 2027, by the way. 

On 11/22/2025 at 6:53 PM, Renny The Spaceman said:

I don't think it's the fact of it being a remake that's the issue (though town square I believe is supposed to be a remake of the fantasy era one, I think it was closer in the early draft that was leaked) I don't think there's one simple reason we can see for why any of these did poorly such as "being remakes" I think it might have just been a case diminishing returns. with Barracuda bay a couple years before then Lion Knights Castle and the Galaxy Explorer they hit the big three with big expensive homage sets, all three are exactly what someone who likes one of those themes would want at the right price point for it, each further one felt like it was slightly less definitive and justified it's pricepoint slightly less. So if you're more casual or passively interested in any of these themes you'd get only a couple at most. The Hardcore fans are all that's left then and I imagine most are satisfied by the Bricklink Designer program giving 78 different massive grey castles at the Lion's Knight pricepoint 

Not that I’m aware about the remake of fantasy era set but it’s fair that MTS is not exactly the same as the early draft.

I think most of AFOLs don’t like some of those remakes of the original sets, such as Regneade, Galaxy Explorer, Fort Elorado. I have read several AFOLs’ negative comments about them. Regneade being ugly, El Elorado being too faithful to its original version, etc. i think it’s a problem with nostalgia. I had two gWPs (Forestmen’s Hideout and Blacktron Crusiier) and i had mixed feelings toward them. They feel… old to me - I just can’t put my finger on it.  So I sold them. I prefer completely new and oiringal sets like Lion Knights’ Castle.  I just don’t know how to put words together, honestly.  

1 hour ago, DonQuixote said:

Agree ! They need to bring back a Black Knight minifig for the anniversary of the minifigs. Complete with a long updated wyvern shield and wyvern plumes.

And they need to update a Samurai or Shogun or Ninja form classic Ninja theme. 

[Kit Figsto]

On 11/22/2025 at 5:53 PM, Renny The Spaceman said:

I don't think it's the fact of it being a remake that's the issue (though town square I believe is supposed to be a remake of the fantasy era one, I think it was closer in the early draft that was leaked) I don't think there's one simple reason we can see for why any of these did poorly such as "being remakes" I think it might have just been a case diminishing returns. with Barracuda bay a couple years before then Lion Knights Castle and the Galaxy Explorer they hit the big three with big expensive homage sets, all three are exactly what someone who likes one of those themes would want at the right price point for it, each further one felt like it was slightly less definitive and justified it's pricepoint slightly less. So if you're more casual or passively interested in any of these themes you'd get only a couple at most. The Hardcore fans are all that's left then and I imagine most are satisfied by the Bricklink Designer program giving 78 different massive grey castles at the Lion's Knight pricepoint 

This is kind of my take on it as well.  I'm pretty sure that I own a total of one classic Space/Castle/Pirates set (it was before my time), but there is a LOT from that era that I'd love to own, I just can't justify the price in most cases.  This problem presents itself again when most of the remake sets have been $200+, the exceptions being the two space sets, both of which looked nice to me, but not enough to spend $100.  I am a little bummed that I missed the Black Friday Amazon deal for the Renegade, as $54 would've been more than okay with me, but oh well.  The Eldorado Fortress and Lion Knight's Castle both are/were of interest to me, but I have neither the space nor the disposable income to buy something that's, say, a 6/10 on the "interest" scale for me.  

I feel as if there's a bit of a paradox here - more people would be interested in the classic remakes/classic style sets if they put out waves of smaller sets (like the 2013 Castle or 2015 Pirates), but the interest level in those waves appears to be too low to justify actually making them - with the amount of new sets and licenses that LEGO's pumping out these days, I can pretty much guarantee that they'd have done a Castle/Pirates theme if it was profitable, and I'm, sure there's no shortage of designers in the company that would jump at the chance to work on a project like that.  I've actually really enjoyed bot h the Forest Hideout and Blacktron Cruiser GWP (though I know a lot of people had mixed feelings on them), and I think that size is great.  I got the Cruiser for like $30, which felt fair, and I got the Forest Hideout as the GWP when I bought a couple of sets that I'd been waiting on purchasing, though again, I'd have been okay buying that for $20-25.  

[Renny The Spaceman]

On 12/7/2025 at 6:34 PM, Kit Figsto said:

This is kind of my take on it as well.  I'm pretty sure that I own a total of one classic Space/Castle/Pirates set (it was before my time), but there is a LOT from that era that I'd love to own, I just can't justify the price in most cases.  This problem presents itself again when most of the remake sets have been $200+, the exceptions being the two space sets, both of which looked nice to me, but not enough to spend $100.  I am a little bummed that I missed the Black Friday Amazon deal for the Renegade, as $54 would've been more than okay with me, but oh well.  The Eldorado Fortress and Lion Knight's Castle both are/were of interest to me, but I have neither the space nor the disposable income to buy something that's, say, a 6/10 on the "interest" scale for me.  

I feel as if there's a bit of a paradox here - more people would be interested in the classic remakes/classic style sets if they put out waves of smaller sets (like the 2013 Castle or 2015 Pirates), but the interest level in those waves appears to be too low to justify actually making them - with the amount of new sets and licenses that LEGO's pumping out these days, I can pretty much guarantee that they'd have done a Castle/Pirates theme if it was profitable, and I'm, sure there's no shortage of designers in the company that would jump at the chance to work on a project like that.  I've actually really enjoyed bot h the Forest Hideout and Blacktron Cruiser GWP (though I know a lot of people had mixed feelings on them), and I think that size is great.  I got the Cruiser for like $30, which felt fair, and I got the Forest Hideout as the GWP when I bought a couple of sets that I'd been waiting on purchasing, though again, I'd have been okay buying that for $20-25.  

Yeah, exactly and especially with BDP just being and endless stream of Lion Knights Castles for different factions Castle has too many big sets for any collector to buy them all where as if there were a smaller set for X or Y potential remake it'd be easy to justify buying it

 

[ShaydDeGrai]

While there are certainly some fond old themes that I'd love to see a modern take on (many halve already been belabored here but I'll also name-drop ExoForce and Agents anyway), and there are certain kits that I'd love to see re-released just "as-was" (monorail, the 8480 technic space shuttle) I also realize that those kits included specialty parts we will likely never see again.   Of course I.m a fan of the classics (castle, pirates, (non-Star Wars) space and all its "-tron" variations) but I also feel that itch has been pretty well scratched at this point (not complaining mind you, just - satisfied).

However, in a different thread, I got thinking about a time before Technic ( yes, I'm old, and I've got the "dirt" badge to prove it).  This reminded me of my first "Expert Builder" sets which evolved into the Technic line.  It also made me think how the "feel and style" of such builds shifted from "system" bricks with Technic holes to the generally stud-less  "Technic as a modern day Mechano/Erector Set" construction we're all accustomed to today.

Not to fault the current direction of the line by any means, but were I thinking about a vintage revival with a Technic twist, I would start with the 8880 Supercar and all the old-school building techniques then maybe add a outer skin (again using system plates and tiles rather than technic body panels) as a separate construction step so builders have the option of stopping at an 8880 recreation or doing the full build and making something on par with the UCS Batman Tumbler.  Better yet, make the skin a removable shell to reveal the classic model underneath with minimal effort.