Modular Building Sets - Rumours and Discussion

[Lion King]

2 hours ago, Pirate_King_1982 said:

My favourite Modulars are Corner Garage, Brick Bank and Detectives office. Funnily enough they’ were all released around the same time.

Sorry what? Waht do you mean by “about the same time”?

[Pauolo]

3 hours ago, Lion King said:

Sorry what? Waht do you mean by “about the same time”?

I think they meant they were all released within 4-5 years. 

[Pirate_King_1982]

On 5/8/2026 at 11:41 PM, Pauolo said:

I think they meant they were all released within 4-5 years. 

Yeah that is what I meant.

[Pauolo]

Btw, for those interested in building the Green Grocer, the 1x8 sand green brick and 1x2 sand green brick with grove have been added to Lego's Pick-a-Brick as of this month. That said, there's already a shortage of 1x8 brick both for Europe and US PaB.

 

@Pirate_King_1982 I'm guessing you prefer modulars with US architecture style?

Edited May 11 by Pauolo

[hikouki]

I know BL and even Lego mainline likes to avoid modulars to protect the actual modular line, but here are some notable ones for themes/ building we have been clamoring for the past years:

Finally, a hospital! https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/series-11/4813/Red-Rose-Hospital

Another hospital: https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/series-11/4430/Greenfield-Hospital

And a general hospital: https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/series-11/5063/General-Hospital

A theater!!! https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/series-11/4826/BRICKSBURG-THEATER

A gym for the minifigs to stay fit! https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/series-11/4687/Brick-Fit-Recreation-Center

Highschool: https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/series-11/5072/BRICKSTON-HIGH-–-Your-Modern-City-School

This arcade would be nice in the city: https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/series-11/4953/CORNER-PASSAGE-ARCADE

There is also a courthouse and grand central station. Honestly, Red Rose hospital, theater, and gym are at the top of my list!!!

There are also a couple of small builds for a pizza, lemonade, and flower store that would be great features near a park or vacant lot in the Lego city.

 

Some Asian/ Japanese inspired buildings that would go well with the upcoming release: https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/series-11/4969/Tranquil-Market

... and https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/series-11/5010/Ramen-Shop-&-Tea-House

Korean: https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/series-11/4682/Hanok-Corner-Shops

Would go well with the Parisian street: https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/series-11/4584/The-Toy-Shoppe

 

Some nice European locations:

Greece: https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/series-11/4586/Greek-Street

Tuscany: https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/series-11/4659/Tuscan-Villa

 

And for art deco lovers:

https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/series-11/4663/Empire-Station---Elevated-Railway

https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/series-11/4784/Paradisa-Hotel

[Pauolo]

I guess it's that time of the year where the contestants for BDP flood and spam r/legomodular... I understand why though, there's so many submissions each year very few voters will go through the whole list to leave a like. I'm just not a fan of how Bricklink manages the event, for a limited run of sets that are even more overpriced than Ideas sets.

[Lion King]

Those hopsitals look very nice that Lego could do as an offical set. Leog is not full of idiots giviing us grim and unpleasant builds like hospital. 

EDIT: I want to clarify - Lego will NOT give us grim and unpleasant buildings like hopsital. They would find a creative way to make hopsital more colorful and fun, like those ones @hikouki’s post above.

Edited May 12 by Lion King

[Elysiumfountain]

4 hours ago, Pauolo said:

I guess it's that time of the year where the contestants for BDP flood and spam r/legomodular... I understand why though, there's so many submissions each year very few voters will go through the whole list to leave a like. I'm just not a fan of how Bricklink manages the event, for a limited run of sets that are even more overpriced than Ideas sets.

I'm so burnt out on BDP (I've entered every series except one), I'm not even promoting my submissions this round lol. I submitted a hunk of junk when submission opened and was like welp, gonna check the results in two months, I don't even care  . Not even going to check the comments this time. But it's pretty cool seeing what other people come up with! 

[RichardGoring]

1 hour ago, Elysiumfountain said:

I'm so burnt out on BDP (I've entered every series except one), I'm not even promoting my submissions this round lol. I submitted a hunk of junk when submission opened and was like welp, gonna check the results in two months, I don't even care  . Not even going to check the comments this time. But it's pretty cool seeing what other people come up with! 

I can imagine, especially if you're doing such amazing mansions each time! I'd love one of them to have come through.

[Pauolo]

6 hours ago, Elysiumfountain said:

I'm so burnt out on BDP (I've entered every series except one), I'm not even promoting my submissions this round lol. I submitted a hunk of junk when submission opened and was like welp, gonna check the results in two months, I don't even care  . Not even going to check the comments this time. But it's pretty cool seeing what other people come up with! 

For sure, most if not all of the ones hikouki showed are cool. I also would not dream of making some of those myself. But yeah, it does feel like a hopeless battle for a lot of them. I'm also guessing there's more chance in getting your BDP submission accepted than with Ideas, which gets more and more sets in the same review phases for not so much selected ones by the Lego group. And too many licensed submissions to my own taste...

 

6 hours ago, Lion King said:

EDIT: I want to clarify - Lego will NOT give us grim and unpleasant buildings like hopsital. They would find a creative way to make hopsital more colorful and fun, like those ones @hikouki’s post above.

This, exactly. And they have done general hospitals in the past for the City theme. Just not as often as the countless police stations and fire brigades.

[Lion King]

11 minutes ago, Pauolo said:

This, exactly. And they have done general hospitals in the past for the City theme. Just not as often as the countless police stations and fire brigades.

Yeah. It would be very nice to ahve a modular hopsital for our cities and it’s on top of our lists here and other platoons, such as Reddit. Medical, police and fire are the three pillars that cities heavily reply on. I’m glad Lego has done general hopsitals for the City theme but it’s a really long overdue for Modualr Building Collection. I hope Lego is listening….

[hikouki]

12 hours ago, Elysiumfountain said:

I'm so burnt out on BDP (I've entered every series except one), I'm not even promoting my submissions this round lol. I submitted a hunk of junk when submission opened and was like welp, gonna check the results in two months, I don't even care  . Not even going to check the comments this time. But it's pretty cool seeing what other people come up with! 

 

5 hours ago, Pauolo said:

For sure, most if not all of the ones hikouki showed are cool. I also would not dream of making some of those myself. But yeah, it does feel like a hopeless battle for a lot of them. I'm also guessing there's more chance in getting your BDP submission accepted than with Ideas, which gets more and more sets in the same review phases for not so much selected ones by the Lego group. And too many licensed submissions to my own taste...

 

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Personally, I would really like for many of the runners-up to have instructions available to the general public.

Every time I see a MOC that I like on BDP, and most especially on IDEAS, I actually grieve that it wouldn't make it out as a set and would actually be "locked away" forever.

I really prefer seeing them on Rebrickable (and the creators get a steady source of royalties with every download).

[HibiscusDrive]

15 hours ago, hikouki said:

 

Personally, I would really like for many of the runners-up to have instructions available to the general public.

Every time I see a MOC that I like on BDP, and most especially on IDEAS, I actually grieve that it wouldn't make it out as a set and would actually be "locked away" forever.

I really prefer seeing them on Rebrickable (and the creators get a steady source of royalties with every download).

I agree with this wholeheartedly. I hate how it seems like every Ideas submission is a tv show/music video or something that moves. I rarely even look at ideas anymore. I do like BDP,  and plan to get my first BDP set nexr month, the University of Science.  I was pleasantly surprised to see it cost "only" $360 in the US. Was expecting $450-500.

[Lyichir]

In terms of BDP projects that could go well with modulars, I was quite fond of Le Petit Bouquet when I was browsing the ones currently up for support! I don't know if I would usually have the interest to go for a full building-sized modular (The Museum of Science, for instance, is lovely, but I'm not devoted enough to have room for something that huge and expensive on my modular street). But I really like this little street diorama with a florist's truck and kiosk as well as an advertising post and subway entrance inspired by Paris. I feel like even if your street is less French-inspired (Parisian Restaurant notwithstanding), the truck feels like it'd complement any modular street well much like the various GWP kiosks and vehicles there have been over the years.

I feel like in general I would love if more builders tried to promote smaller BDP projects instead of massive, maximalist ones. Small builds that complement other themes/sets are a lot more affordable than large ones, and high detail and advanced techniques like the ones you see in sets like modular buildings are things you only rarely see in small official sets (since smaller sets, by and large, tend to be targeted more at younger builders).

 

[hikouki]

8 hours ago, HibiscusDrive said:

I agree with this wholeheartedly. I hate how it seems like every Ideas submission is a tv show/music video or something that moves. I rarely even look at ideas anymore. I do like BDP,  and plan to get my first BDP set nexr month, the University of Science.  I was pleasantly surprised to see it cost "only" $360 in the US. Was expecting $450-500.

As subjective as IDEAS is, there is a bit of transparency there. You see which MOCs get to 10K votes. And as much as Lego keeps rejecting a 10K project, at some point they will consider it.

BDP is ultra-subjective in my opinion. I don't believe votes are published. And I even think they turn a blind eye to the frontrunners in many cases. Case in point, they announced last round or two rounds ago that they don't want Castles to be featured every time. On the one hand, I do agree with them that they should not cater to only one group. But on the other hand, what if that is what the consumers also want?

So I think if a MOC gets a LOT of votes, but they don't want to pick it, then instructions should be supported/ made available for purchase at some point.

8 hours ago, Lyichir said:

In terms of BDP projects that could go well with modulars, I was quite fond of Le Petit Bouquet when I was browsing the ones currently up for support! I don't know if I would usually have the interest to go for a full building-sized modular (The Museum of Science, for instance, is lovely, but I'm not devoted enough to have room for something that huge and expensive on my modular street). But I really like this little street diorama with a florist's truck and kiosk as well as an advertising post and subway entrance inspired by Paris. I feel like even if your street is less French-inspired (Parisian Restaurant notwithstanding), the truck feels like it'd complement any modular street well much like the various GWP kiosks and vehicles there have been over the years.

I feel like in general I would love if more builders tried to promote smaller BDP projects instead of massive, maximalist ones. Small builds that complement other themes/sets are a lot more affordable than large ones, and high detail and advanced techniques like the ones you see in sets like modular buildings are things you only rarely see in small official sets (since smaller sets, by and large, tend to be targeted more at younger builders).

 

Oh, I loooove that one too! I do think the small builds during this round would go well with a lot of modulars.

[Elysiumfountain]

On 5/13/2026 at 7:04 PM, hikouki said:

As subjective as IDEAS is, there is a bit of transparency there. You see which MOCs get to 10K votes. And as much as Lego keeps rejecting a 10K project, at some point they will consider it.

BDP is ultra-subjective in my opinion. I don't believe votes are published. And I even think they turn a blind eye to the frontrunners in many cases. Case in point, they announced last round or two rounds ago that they don't want Castles to be featured every time. On the one hand, I do agree with them that they should not cater to only one group. But on the other hand, what if that is what the consumers also want?

So I think if a MOC gets a LOT of votes, but they don't want to pick it, then instructions should be supported/ made available for purchase at some point.

Oh, I loooove that one too! I do think the small builds during this round would go well with a lot of modulars.

BDP is so strange too, in that sometimes the winners are obvious from the beginning, like they have dozens of comments, you see them on all the Youtubers' reviews, it's no surprise, and then some just come out of left field like that was not the choice I thought they were going to make. And then the BDP team on the next webinar does the whole spin on "oh just try harder next time, you need to predict what things are going to be popular and build that beforehand. But also don't, you don't need to enter every series, you're gonna burn out lol".  Ideas you can at least somewhat guess the pattern

Edited May 17 by Elysiumfountain

[Pauolo]

On 5/13/2026 at 3:18 AM, hikouki said:

Personally, I would really like for many of the runners-up to have instructions available to the general public.

Every time I see a MOC that I like on BDP, and most especially on IDEAS, I actually grieve that it wouldn't make it out as a set and would actually be "locked away" forever.

I really prefer seeing them on Rebrickable (and the creators get a steady source of royalties with every download).

I don't think either Ideas nor BDP require for runner-ups to make instructions for their set propositions. But sure, if those runner-ups could still profit from Rebrickable by selling their instructions there, why not?

There are several issues though: some do submit again their propositions for a second round of review. I don't think either Lego or Bricklink would approve of a runner-up who is already making profit from their submission. Second, some off-brand manufacturers do sell sets based on Rebrickable MOCs without consent of nor paying the makers of these plans. So I can understand if those who failed to get their set approved don't want to make their instructions available to the public, even for a price. Granted though, some initial Ideas submissions do get sold as sets by off-brand manufacturers, despite these submissions leading to released sets. I think I saw that both for the Botanical Gardens and the Orient Express.

 

On 5/14/2026 at 4:04 AM, hikouki said:

As subjective as IDEAS is, there is a bit of transparency there. You see which MOCs get to 10K votes. And as much as Lego keeps rejecting a 10K project, at some point they will consider it.

BDP is ultra-subjective in my opinion. I don't believe votes are published. And I even think they turn a blind eye to the frontrunners in many cases. Case in point, they announced last round or two rounds ago that they don't want Castles to be featured every time. On the one hand, I do agree with them that they should not cater to only one group. But on the other hand, what if that is what the consumers also want?

Exactly, but I'll push this further. BDP caters to a niche audience, while Lego is running a business. Yeah sure, sometimes you have Ideas sets that feel like they're set to fail to meet large sales numbers. On the other hand, you have so many licensed Ideas sets that Lego knows are going to sell even to buyers who are not into building bricks, but are very much into movies, TV series, etc...

That's also why there are so many BDP submissions of classic Castle/Pirate/Space sets, because Lego won't approve them as Ideas submissions. They're too niche, or Lego designers would rather make such sets themselves once per year.

[Lion King]

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. 

[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. 

I think that set is going to be a booknook, or micro-scaled. It's listed as having only 1420 parts, which brings it to scale with the Sherlock Holmes booknook.

[Lion King]

11 hours ago, Pauolo said:

I think that set is going to be a booknook, or micro-scaled. It's listed as having only 1420 parts, which brings it to scale with the Sherlock Holmes booknook.

For some reasons, I can’t see Haunted House as a booknook as I took snooker look at Sherlock Holmes one. The Holmes booknook’s price is way higher than Haunted House’s rumored price - no matter how colors their piece counts. Plus, the rumored set name says “Spooky Haunted House”, not a specific, licensed name.  I also took another look at Winter Village. Those sets like Alpine Lodge, Holidary Express, and others have have same price, yet thier piece buying vary. I think Haunted House might be a part of its own lineup.

Of course, mirco-scale sets are more potential. Just not sure about the example of mircoscale Disney’s Haunted Manison. 

[Pauolo]

On 5/22/2026 at 12:29 PM, Lion King said:

For some reasons, I can’t see Haunted House as a booknook as I took snooker look at Sherlock Holmes one. The Holmes booknook’s price is way higher than Haunted House’s rumored price - no matter how colors their piece counts. Plus, the rumored set name says “Spooky Haunted House”, not a specific, licensed name.  I also took another look at Winter Village. Those sets like Alpine Lodge, Holidary Express, and others have have same price, yet thier piece buying vary. I think Haunted House might be a part of its own lineup.

Of course, mirco-scale sets are more potential. Just not sure about the example of mircoscale Disney’s Haunted Manison. 

The price that was leaked was only 10€ below than Sherlock Holmes booknook's. Also, it was leaked alongside a confirmed unlicensed booknook, which makes me guess this haunted house is one too.

But then, they do make a lot of unlicensed display sets nowadays, so it could be anything. The Kingfisher, the series of gardens of the world, the recent "French café" façade that seems to be part of a series too.

The one thing that is strange, is that usually these kind of seasonal sets are not sold as part of Icons / 18+ (with the exception of the fairgrounds one). Although you can argue that Botanicals got a Poinsettia and a Christmas wreath sets.

[Lion King]

1 hour ago, Pauolo said:

The price that was leaked was only 10€ below than Sherlock Holmes booknook's. Also, it was leaked alongside a confirmed unlicensed booknook, which makes me guess this haunted house is one too.

But then, they do make a lot of unlicensed display sets nowadays, so it could be anything. The Kingfisher, the series of gardens of the world, the recent "French café" façade that seems to be part of a series too.

The one thing that is strange, is that usually these kind of seasonal sets are not sold as part of Icons / 18+ (with the exception of the fairgrounds one). Although you can argue that Botanicals got a Poinsettia and a Christmas wreath sets.

That’s fair. But if Lego wants to do a booknook series after Sherlock Holmes, I think it’a very strange to mix series with licensed and non-licensed. If there is an extra $10 to the 18+, I think it’s because of san green pieces? If i remember correclty, sand green pens are expansive to make.  I would underhand that they add a few extra parts to make a haunted hosue more detailed. A bit larger than Creator 3-n-1 “Haunted Manison”. Also we ahve another licensed cookhouse and it’s Harry Potter set. 

i agree with you that it’s very strange that seasonal sets are not part of Icons / 18+ series. I do think Halloween is a very popular holiday, jsut right behind Christmas. There are so many people out there who love spooky and horror stuffs around the world I’m still not sure why Chinese Traditoanl Festiviaes are not part of Icons tho. My opinion might be unpopular but I always love to see seasonal Modular Buildings like Christmas, Halloween, Chinese festival, Day of the Dead, and more. 

[Pauolo]

38 minutes ago, Lion King said:

That’s fair. But if Lego wants to do a booknook series after Sherlock Holmes, I think it’a very strange to mix series with licensed and non-licensed. If there is an extra $10 to the 18+, I think it’s because of san green pieces? If i remember correclty, sand green pens are expansive to make.  I would underhand that they add a few extra parts to make a haunted hosue more detailed. A bit larger than Creator 3-n-1 “Haunted Manison”. Also we ahve another licensed cookhouse and it’s Harry Potter set. 

i agree with you that it’s very strange that seasonal sets are not part of Icons / 18+ series. I do think Halloween is a very popular holiday, jsut right behind Christmas. There are so many people out there who love spooky and horror stuffs around the world I’m still not sure why Chinese Traditoanl Festiviaes are not part of Icons tho. My opinion might be unpopular but I always love to see seasonal Modular Buildings like Christmas, Halloween, Chinese festival, Day of the Dead, and more. 

Sand green parts are not more expensive than other plain colors, at least not on Pick a Brick. The minifigs however can drive the set's price up, especially if they have exclusive printed parts.

I think the Chinese festival sets are kept apart from Icons for marketing reasons. The theme started up as a Chinese market exclusive when Lego was expanding operations over there. That aside, I wish for more themed-sets of other festival in other countries. Holi and India-themed sets would be interesting.

[hikouki]

3 hours ago, Pauolo said:

Sand green parts are not more expensive than other plain colors, at least not on Pick a Brick. The minifigs however can drive the set's price up, especially if they have exclusive printed parts.

I think the Chinese festival sets are kept apart from Icons for marketing reasons. The theme started up as a Chinese market exclusive when Lego was expanding operations over there. That aside, I wish for more themed-sets of other festival in other countries. Holi and India-themed sets would be interesting.

I have been hoping for this for quite some time!!!

I do think perhaps Lego is very gradually warming up to this idea (or maybe pure coincidence?)... At least for gardens of the world, they made that Japanese, then Spanish one.

[Lion King]

9 hours ago, Pauolo said:

Sand green parts are not more expensive than other plain colors, at least not on Pick a Brick. The minifigs however can drive the set's price up, especially if they have exclusive printed parts.

I think the Chinese festival sets are kept apart from Icons for marketing reasons. The theme started up as a Chinese market exclusive when Lego was expanding operations over there. That aside, I wish for more themed-sets of other festival in other countries. Holi and India-themed sets would be interesting.

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. Yes, minifigures, like ghsot, witch, werewolf, Frankenstein’s monster, zombie, woudl be little exuberant if they are exclusively to that set. I’m still not convinced that “Haunted House” would be a booknook as I read some leaks. It said “”and”. It makes me think there  could be two seperate sets. Regardless what I said, I will be happpy to be wrong in a few months from now. 

I feel like Spring Lantern Festival is only a set that can fit into Modualr Building Collection easily but the rest of its theme is more kid-auidnece. I guess Lego wants Chinese kids to get into  the former’s brand over other rival brands no matter how competitive the Asian market is. Holi is a cool idea. 

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