Modular Building Sets - Rumours and Discussion

[Pauolo]

On 5/24/2026 at 1:44 AM, Lion King said:

Maybe I misremember but i am pretty sure we talked about sand green pieces being brought back would be expesnive some months ago. I can’t rmeember which pieces, ignoring the price on PAB.

I think you're talking about the two sand green parts that were used for Green Grocer and went out of production for almost two decades. These became quite expensive because of their rarity, and the amount of each required for building GG. It was a surprise that Lego brought these two parts at all for Shopping Street, because there would probably be no use of them outside this modular. It would be more expensive in terms of production load than cost, I think. But then, there's so many factories around the world I guess it's no longer an issue.

[hikouki]

The 1x8 seems to be out of stock... but hopefully it will be back under bestsellers.

[Lion King]

9 hours ago, Pauolo said:

I think you're talking about the two sand green parts that were used for Green Grocer and went out of production for almost two decades. These became quite expensive because of their rarity, and the amount of each required for building GG. It was a surprise that Lego brought these two parts at all for Shopping Street, because there would probably be no use of them outside this modular. It would be more expensive in terms of production load than cost, I think. But then, there's so many factories around the world I guess it's no longer an issue.

Yes, those two sand green pieces we were talking about.  I guess that is not a reason why an extra $10 for a Hautned House set then. 

[Lyichir]

9 hours ago, Pauolo said:

I think you're talking about the two sand green parts that were used for Green Grocer and went out of production for almost two decades. These became quite expensive because of their rarity, and the amount of each required for building GG. It was a surprise that Lego brought these two parts at all for Shopping Street, because there would probably be no use of them outside this modular. It would be more expensive in terms of production load than cost, I think. But then, there's so many factories around the world I guess it's no longer an issue.

I don't think no use for them outside the Green Grocer is really an adequate assessment—there's plenty of potential uses for them now that they're in production, in all sorts of themes. When it comes to a recolor of a basic part like that it's just a matter of one set or theme with the budget "taking the leap", so to speak, by deciding to use its budget for that instead of for something flashier or more impactful.

[BrickFit26]

On 1/15/2026 at 4:44 PM, karrit said:

I like the idea of it.  I fear the portraits will be stickers though.

You're right and I hate stickers. 18+ sets shouldn't have them as well as their GWP attached to the 18+ sets. 

 

Edited May 28 by BrickFit26

[Lion King]

On 5/28/2026 at 12:46 PM, BrickFit26 said:

You're right and I hate stickers. 18+ sets shouldn't have them as well as their GWP attached to the 18+ sets. 

 

That’s a sad reality as not all 18+ sets are sticker-free.  Modualr Buildigns are only the comfort for me. 

[Lion King]

Soooooooo it’s July and we are 5 or 6 months away from offical reveal. 

Surely it’s under tight wraps, so there won’t be much leaks this summer.  But when I googled “2027 modular building Lego set” and AI mentieond fans voted hospital and post office.  I wonder where was that poll from.  But both hopsital and post office are great (and potential) choices for the 20th anniveary set, although it’s kinda odd that hopsital is not enabler “celebrate-y” with bunch of thrwobacks to previous modular buildings. 

[RichardGoring]

3 hours ago, Lion King said:

Soooooooo it’s July and we are 5 or 6 months away from offical reveal. 

Surely it’s under tight wraps, so there won’t be much leaks this summer.  But when I googled “2027 modular building Lego set” and AI mentieond fans voted hospital and post office.  I wonder where was that poll from.  But both hopsital and post office are great (and potential) choices for the 20th anniveary set, although it’s kinda odd that hopsital is not enabler “celebrate-y” with bunch of thrwobacks to previous modular buildings. 

I suspect that it's said 'fans voted' to mean that there is a lot of chatter here, Reddit, and other places, about what people would like to see, rather than any formal vote.

[Roebuck]

5 hours ago, RichardGoring said:

But when I googled “2027 modular building Lego set” and AI mentieond fans voted hospital and post office.  I wonder where was that poll from.  

It's AI, can not take anything as a fact unless you check the sources 

[Pauolo]

If that AI was scrubbing data from reddit, then yeah hospital as a wish pops up often there. Post office less, I think most consider it boring. I believe a post office has more chances to appear as a side building instead of as a modular's main building.

Edited July 5 by Pauolo

[Lion King]

Yeah, Definitley it’s fan-made polls.  It has me wonder it’s just interesting to see hopsital and post office popped up vai AI. It made me if Lego is looking for “high votes” for 20th anniveary set.  But it’s still not a fact. 

[Pauolo]

On 5/19/2026 at 7:05 PM, Lion King said:

I was reading other day about the rumored Icons set, “Haunted House”. I was hoping it would be a 16x32 modualr building to join the main Modualr Building Collection. However, it could make sense that there might be e anew series as AFOLs dub it “Halloween village” like Winter Village series. 

Seems like you were right about the new series. It's going to be the first set of a new "Midnight Valley Collection" series. But a small one in scale: 1440 parts with only 3 minifigs for a pricetag of 110$/€. I'm sure there will be modular-scaled MOC of it pretty soon after its release.

[hikouki]

7 hours ago, Pauolo said:

Seems like you were right about the new series. It's going to be the first set of a new "Midnight Valley Collection" series. But a small one in scale: 1440 parts with only 3 minifigs for a pricetag of 110$/€. I'm sure there will be modular-scaled MOC of it pretty soon after its release.

Lego has a long 'policy' of not making modular buildings other than for the actual modular line (except maybe for some Marvel or Ninjago D2C's). But they seem to realize that if they release a "dollhouse" (i.e., open-back) buildings, fans will be alright with it since someone will modularize it into a MOC.

[Pauolo]

2 hours ago, hikouki said:

Lego has a long 'policy' of not making modular buildings other than for the actual modular line (except maybe for some Marvel or Ninjago D2C's). But they seem to realize that if they release a "dollhouse" (i.e., open-back) buildings, fans will be alright with it since someone will modularize it into a MOC.

I never heard anything about such policy. But maybe this is related to Lego wanting to stop using baseplates, which are necessary for modulars. I think this is evidenced by Ideas' Italian Riviera's original submission making use of a baseplate, but the final product not using any. And it has buildings with four walls instead of being open in the back.

[RichardGoring]

44 minutes ago, Pauolo said:

I never heard anything about such policy. But maybe this is related to Lego wanting to stop using baseplates, which are necessary for modulars. I think this is evidenced by Ideas' Italian Riviera's original submission making use of a baseplate, but the final product not using any. And it has buildings with four walls instead of being open in the back.

Not sure about the baseplates. The motorized lighthouse used a baseplate. I suspect for the Italian Rivera the kids of baseplates was to better facilitate the angles. There have also mentioned before that baseplates cause greater packaging difficulties. 

But who knows? You could be right. And they change their 'rules' pretty frequently anyway.

[Lion King]

15 hours ago, Pauolo said:

I never heard anything about such policy. But maybe this is related to Lego wanting to stop using baseplates, which are necessary for modulars. I think this is evidenced by Ideas' Italian Riviera's original submission making use of a baseplate, but the final product not using any. And it has buildings with four walls instead of being open in the back.

In my opinion, if they want to do a traditional Hallowen or Christmas-themed 16x32 Modular Building sets, i don’t think they would want to step  using baseplate. I never heard of that policy myself either but I can see why they would do that for Ideas sets. 

On 7/5/2026 at 6:53 AM, Pauolo said:

Seems like you were right about the new series. It's going to be the first set of a new "Midnight Valley Collection" series. But a small one in scale: 1440 parts with only 3 minifigs for a pricetag of 110$/€. I'm sure there will be modular-scaled MOC of it pretty soon after its release.

“Midnight Vallage” name sounds cool to me! And i think 3 minifigures are a good start as it’s a toe in water for its new lineup like they did othe Winter Village and Modular Building Collections in the past. I kinda wish there would be a traditional Halloween / Christmas-themed modualr buildings on 16x32 baseplates so they will include printed elements, although I welcome a new, seperate lineup. 

[Pauolo]

On 7/6/2026 at 2:31 PM, Lion King said:

I kinda wish there would be a traditional Halloween / Christmas-themed modualr buildings on 16x32 baseplates so they will include printed elements, although I welcome a new, seperate lineup. 

Well, they did make a Christmas-themed one, but only for employees. Also it's smaller than the Bookshop and Pet Shop modulars, but more in scale with regular Winter Village sets. A lot of stickers too, with reproductions of boxes from legacy sets.

 

Btw, since they released 60506 Classic Beach Tram, I wish Lego would make a tram station or bus stop as or integrated in a modular. So far, public transportation was not represented in the modular collection (not sure the vintage taxi GWP counts as such).

Another concept I'd like to see is a construction site like the BDP set, where the many jobs of construction workers would be represented. Similar to that concept, house/building renovation work: https://ideas.lego.com/product-ideas/97df3bc8-a062-4d4d-9302-3fbd9f635148

[Lion King]

4 hours ago, Pauolo said:

Well, they did make a Christmas-themed one, but only for employees. Also it's smaller than the Bookshop and Pet Shop modulars, but more in scale with regular Winter Village sets. A lot of stickers too, with reproductions of boxes from legacy sets.

 

Btw, since they released 60506 Classic Beach Tram, I wish Lego would make a tram station or bus stop as or integrated in a modular. So far, public transportation was not represented in the modular collection (not sure the vintage taxi GWP counts as such).

Another concept I'd like to see is a construction site like the BDP set, where the many jobs of construction workers would be represented. Similar to that concept, house/building renovation work: https://ideas.lego.com/product-ideas/97df3bc8-a062-4d4d-9302-3fbd9f635148

 

I mean… I know there is A Christmas -gift employee-only gift. That festive modualr buidling looks excellent and I wish Lego could release that Christmas-themed modular (in an you does need some more pieces) to to a wider disincentive. That would appeal to both Winter Village fans and Halloween enthuasts/future Midnight Village collectors.  You and I know employee-only gifts come with icky stickers… Also, 16x32 modular buildings are very popular across MOCers and Lego had created (indirectlly) both Bookshop and Pet store sets. 

Let’s not forget - Lego has released add-on 16x32 “modualr” off PAB. They are very basic but I like the idea of that. There is a Winter Park add-on and it’s quite festive for Winter Village and Modular Building. 

I agree with you on tram and bus station/stop. There are so many benches. We have Vintage Taxi as a public transportation but no modular buildings yet. I have read some of fans wishing for a train station but I can’t see how it works for modular city. 

As I metieond about add-on modular buldigns, there is a construction site. But I feel it’s not enough for my expection. I would love to see more advanced building techiques for it, rather than the PAB add-on ones. 

[RichardGoring]

I like to keep all my modulars in a 1950s time period (I have the Downtown Diner and another 50s SEC and like the vintage car GWP which was 50s too), but I caved and got the City tourist bus as it scales pretty well and didn't seem horribly out of place.

I like the City food trucks as the core is a 30s-50s style truck - same with the moving truck from Jazz Club and the hot dog van from NHM.

[Pauolo]

22 hours ago, Lion King said:

As I metieond about add-on modular buldigns, there is a construction site. But I feel it’s not enough for my expection. I would love to see more advanced building techiques for it, rather than the PAB add-on ones. 

Yeah, those 3 PAB modulars are really just street fillers. I've seen MOCers being creative with half baseplates, like using them for city gardens or small power stations. But, as nice as fuller buildings on a half-baseplate modulars are (Market Street, the Pet Shop and the Bookshop), I can easily see why the current Lego designers do not make any. They need all the space they can get out of a 32x32 baseplate for those new angle technics, or just to have enough width for the central building of a modular (like the Police Station and Jazz Club for example).

[Lion King]

1 hour ago, Pauolo said:

Yeah, those 3 PAB modulars are really just street fillers. I've seen MOCers being creative with half baseplates, like using them for city gardens or small power stations. But, as nice as fuller buildings on a half-baseplate modulars are (Market Street, the Pet Shop and the Bookshop), I can easily see why the current Lego designers do not make any. They need all the space they can get out of a 32x32 baseplate for those new angle technics, or just to have enough width for the central building of a modular (like the Police Station and Jazz Club for example).

Yeah, three PAB add-ima are very basic and little strange. Who wanted a wig when there is a wig stand? And a see-through  portable toilet in back of construction site?  I think those add-ons were designed by interns if I remember correctly?  Regardless what I said, I really like the idea of half-baseplate street fillers like those 3 ones (fart need a bit more details).

I feel like the current desgiierns are not fully aware taht there modular buidlings on half-baseplate are popular across MOC community. I think maybe designers need to break habit of using full baseplates and be more open-braced to half baseplates? Ideally, release half-baseplate Modualr Building during summer while full-baseplates ones hitting shelves in winter. It’s always fun to customize your own city layout. Urban garden, travel agency, Japanese restaurant, Mexican pottery store, Victorian house, haunted rundown manor with ghost hunters, daycare, psychologist’s office, apartment, Adventures’ HQ (I saw that cool MOC somewhere here), Christmas toy store, antique store, and more. I think designers should take on new challenges themselves.