Classic 2017

[CM4Sci]

There doesn't seem to be a page for this yet.

5 sets next year - 

10703 Creative Building: Basically a box of bricks, lots of windows. The idea is multiple kinds of buildings. Contains the new angled door frame.

Four colored boxes, basically different shades of each color ranging from 55-75 pieces in each. 

10706 Creative Box Blue

10707 Creative Box Red

10708 Creative Box Green

10709 Creative Box Orange

[Bricknblue]

I would be the happiest person ever if the boxes contain sand blue, sand green, and sand red. :)

[tkatt]

These sound great. With only 55-75 pieces will the Creative Boxes cost about as much as a polybag?

[deraven]

4 hours ago, tkatt said:

These sound great. With only 55-75 pieces will the Creative Boxes cost about as much as a polybag?

I think it'll be 55-75 of each color in a given hue, so the blue box would be ~65 regular blue, ~65 medium blue, ~65 sand blue, ~65 medium azure, ~65 dark azure, etc. for a box totaling 4-500 pieces.  At least I hope it's something like that, as that would be a bit different from what we're seeing now and probably pretty useful if the part selection is reasonable.  

[David Thomsen]

7 hours ago, CM4Sci said:

10703 Creative Building: Basically a box of bricks, lots of windows. The idea is multiple kinds of buildings. Contains the new angled door frame.

This actually sounds pretty cool. I haven't bought any of the Classic boxes yet because the pieces are too... generic? Kind of like the opposite of the over-specialised pieces you get in other sets. I look at them and think, if I try to construct anything meaningful with the bricks in these sets, it's going to turn into rainbow-coloured nonsense very quickly.

So getting a huge amount of semi-specialised pieces not focussed around any particular build would be pretty amazing, and maybe the most 'true' Lego set I've seen in a long time. (By my own definition of 'true' Lego)

 

[Agent 86]

Sounds good. I hope the "colour" packs include a good total number of bricks.

[tafkatb]

5 hours ago, deraven said:

I think it'll be 55-75 of each color in a given hue, so the blue box would be ~65 regular blue, ~65 medium blue, ~65 sand blue, ~65 medium azure, ~65 dark azure, etc. for a box totaling 4-500 pieces.  At least I hope it's something like that, as that would be a bit different from what we're seeing now and probably pretty useful if the part selection is reasonable.  

No, it's probably about 55-75 total - the boxes are apparently going to be around $4.99 each.

[Orange Leader]

The Creative Colour Boxes sound almost like supplemental specified bricks. If these sets have parts I can use, I would've like to buy multiples of them.

[DK_Titan]

After finding preliminary pictures of these 5 new sets, I'm not expecting to be bankrupt.

[deraven]

On 11/1/2016 at 5:22 AM, Tragic Banjo said:

No, it's probably about 55-75 total - the boxes are apparently going to be around $4.99 each.

Well, OK - that's even better in my opinion!  Hopefully the parts selection is decent!

[Redhead1982]

On 1. 11. 2016 at 2:29 AM, Bricknblue said:

I would be the happiest person ever if the boxes contain sand blue, sand green, and sand red. :)

You wouldn't be the only one. I remember my parents brought us once a box of red bricks from a trip to Germany in early 90's. I wonder what kind of parts will be included in these boxes. If the colour pallete is extended, I'm sure some of the colours would fly off the shelves.

[David Thomsen]

On 02/11/2016 at 3:26 AM, DK_Titan said:

After finding preliminary pictures of these 5 new sets, I'm not expecting to be bankrupt.

You've seen preliminary pictures? I can't find those anywhere...

Could you describe the 10703 Creative Building one? Like, how many different colours. I'd love to have something with only a couple of different colour wall pieces with matching windows, and a couple of different colours of roof tiles, so that a coherent building could be built, rather than the sort of rainbow assortment of other Classic sets.

Edited November 3, 2016 by David Thomsen

[Bricknblue]

7 hours ago, Redhead1982 said:

You wouldn't be the only one. I remember my parents brought us once a box of red bricks from a trip to Germany in early 90's. I wonder what kind of parts will be included in these boxes. If the colour pallete is extended, I'm sure some of the colours would fly off the shelves.

I never understood what happened to sand red. Sand blue and green are around, a modular in sand red brick bricks would be amazing.

[David Thomsen]

With a look at the preliminary images for 10703, I think the piece selection is optimised around a few smaller models, like most Classic sets seem to be... small yellow house with red roof tiles seems to be the most useful build, and there are some grey castle building pieces which is interesting.

I think if you got several of this set you might actually be able to build some decent, sizeable buildings.

Generic small coloured piece packs don't interest me though. I get the feeling they might be good for Secret Santa gifts at the office party.

[DK_Titan]

21 hours ago, David Thomsen said:

You've seen preliminary pictures? I can't find those anywhere...

Could you describe the 10703 Creative Building one? Like, how many different colours. I'd love to have something with only a couple of different colour wall pieces with matching windows, and a couple of different colours of roof tiles, so that a coherent building could be built, rather than the sort of rainbow assortment of other Classic sets.

I can see you found the prelim. pic.

It's a very small picture, but I think I can se the following doors and windows:

1 white corner door (from the new 10255 Assembly Square

1 blu door (Medium blue) 60623

2 or 3 door frames (maybe 60596

60592 1x2x2 window: 3 white, 2 green, 9 blu (maybe 6 sand blu and 3 dark blu) and 2 tan

60594 1x4x3 window: 3 white

60593 1x2x3 window: 2 red and 4 white

20309 1x4x1 2/3 bow window: 1 tan

30044 1x2x2 2/3 window: 2 dark green

+ glass etc to put in the windows and doors

The brick selection is mainly yellow, red, green (maybe green, bright green and dark green), blue (maybe blu, dark blue and light royal blue), grey (LBG), purple/pink (3 shades) and a few others (not many bricks).

Edited November 4, 2016 by DK_Titan
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[appiah4]

So if I were to buy a classic starter set as an introductory gift for a kid should I get the 10702 or wait for the 10703?

[The Architect]

They sound promising so far...

[Lordofdragonss]

Indeed. I love the color packs and I was thinking why it took so long!
Now give me castle one, please! :D

Edited November 7, 2016 by Lordofdragonss

[tafkatb]

[Agent 86]

I wish they'd reduced the number / variety of colours in those sets. Would it be so terrible to revert back to the ... classic red, blue, white and yellow bricks?

[Capparezza]

10703 sounds interesting, "many Doors and Windows". Even if I might discard the pink and violet parts, don't have any use for those. Might give them to my son so he can tinker around...

[Aanchir]

14 hours ago, Agent 86 said:

I wish they'd reduced the number / variety of colours in those sets. Would it be so terrible to revert back to the ... classic red, blue, white and yellow bricks?

I definitely disagree on that. When I was a kid I loved getting more varied colors in brick buckets (as well as in art supplies like crayons and colored pencils). And the broad color palette of the Classic theme is one of the things that helps establish it as one of the most gender-neutral themes, since it includes a balance of both the bright, bold primary colors that characterize themes like City and Ninjago and the more nuanced color harmonies that characterize themes like Friends and Elves.

I also think the broad color palette of the Classic theme extends its appeal with older builders, since having a more varied color palette makes them feel less like an early childhood toy for kids with limited color vocabularies, and more like a creative tool that can be useful to builders who understand the differences between blue and cyan or red and magenta. It enables and challenges builders to create models with more complex and varied color schemes, and helps ensure the bricks can supplement any kid's LEGO collection no matter what themes they enjoy and what colors those themes use.

Do we know the prices of these two sets?

[tafkatb]

7 hours ago, Aanchir said:

Do we know the prices of these two sets?

Haven't found the prices anywhere yet. The pictures were on Brickset (seems they've been there for a couple weeks now; I just hadn't bothered to look), but no further details. I definitely agree with you on the color assortment, by the way. It's nice to see that it's even used as a selling point in the official product descriptions - they all mention exactly how many different colors you get, something I don't remember ever being pointed out in the older "Bricks & More" assortments.

[makoy]

16 hours ago, Capparezza said:

10703 sounds interesting, "many Doors and Windows". Even if I might discard the pink and violet parts, don't have any use for those. Might give them to my son so he can tinker around...

Thanks for pointing that out. I didn't realise that this set is geared towards building houses and buildings.

[Digger of Bricks]

Do we have enough confidence that the Classic theme will continue for 2018, or should we wait verifiable information?

Sir Von Lego is reporting on @BrickWild's 60th Anniversary Prediction thread that there will be five sets pertaining to the anniversary across various themes, one of them a brick bucket possibly belonging to the Classic theme.