The Island Chronicles

When is that info gonna come?

Oh nah! I agree with you there. When I said bendy bus, I meant a standalone one for the GV lineup. Then I'd get a few of those for my town. That's one thing I miss about the HEY generation of City sets. Almost all of the waves were made primarily up of standalone vehicles. GV only came because they started including turning their standalone emergency vehicles into vehicle packs beginning in 2011.

I didn't say they were they're own sets.

Yeah! Like Lego has done every type of bus imagaineable. 2009 - Transit Bus 2010 - Motor Coach 2013 - Transit Bus 2 2017 - Hybrid Electric Transit Bus 2018 - Tour Bus 2022 - School Bus 2022 - Transit Bus 3 2023 - Automated Shuttle Bus 2024 - Tour Bus 2 But not a bendy bus though.

Consdiering that one of this year's GVs was a tour bus, I'm rooting for a bendy bus next year. Though they'll probably just call it a transit/urban city bus.

He's saying they should exist. Just not under City. My guess is merely for the fact that they take place in the wilderness or in a Star Trek universe in comparison to a realistic city life.

I have to agree with you there.

Yeah! 6 stud wide is as far as I'm willing to go.

Oh I was about to say. Lord, I hope they don't make them 8-stud wide.

My thing is the vehicles. Personally I prefer the vehicles that were made pre-2024. The 2024 vehicles are too close to Speed Champions and don't really feel unique anymore. That is likely because the guy who did Speed Champions is now with City. I also liked how during the early 2020s, 6 stud wide vehicles were the thing, but at the same time, 4 stud wide wasn't dead as shown with the car wash, 2022 cargo train and many others. The cons of City now is that they seem to be borderlining 8 stud wide territory, which I'm not happy about. City needs to go back to their unique design of vehicle. Starting with the splasher pieces.

No it hasn't. Some recent sets still have 4 stud wide cars. They're rare. But they have them.

My hope is that the f1 cars look like the one in this set only in different colors.

Well.....I guess this counts for an official Lego 2025 leak.

I don't speak for everyone, but No Limits feels like its geared more towards teens and adolescents in contrary to LCA, which is obviously made for kids.

Uh.......proof?

Bro, F1 cars can literally co-exist alongside explorers sets. The natural history museum and detectives office were modulars under the Creator theme. They weren't City.

Don't see why the out-of-the-city sets are a big deal when they can easily be ignored. If you don't want them, simply don't buy. But Lego is going to continue producing them because animal molds are up there with emergency based sets as being subjects that make City a popular theme. Now if you want authentic town related sets, look at the 2021, 2022 and summer 2023 and summer 2024 waves. Buy some of those.

Of course you don't. You love them animal molds.

Their argument is the fact that it is called City, but its set roster consists of large ranges of sets that DON'T take place in the city. I wouldn't say its stupid. I'd say its pointless to even argue about it as Lego has been doing it for a decade and doesn't show any signs of stopping anytime soon.

Since 2014 with the Arctic theme revival I believe.....

Well.....apparently Lego doesn't think so.

I think people say that they should be in their own themes because a lot of those sets are made and they take up space in the City theme (no pun intended) and there is no room to explore other aspects of City life. While I partially agree with them, I also look at it from a child's perspective as being a theme that educates kids on the awesome jobs you can have when you grow up; police officers, firefighters, airplane pilots, sailors, train drivers, race car drivers, astronauts, explorers and doctors. The theme in fact is mostly about real careers that you can't see by simply walking outside your door (i.e. sanitation workers or taxi drivers) and the explorers sets as a whole still hold true to that. I think if anything, the explorers subthemes helped City to evolve rather than go against the initial point of the theme. The trick is to look past the word "CITY" as its not 100% city life.

Its been that way since the 2010s. Then they took a break from 2020 - 2022 while promoting Lego City Adventures. Then it became a mess again. With that being said, LCA kept it together.

DUDE!!!!! I was psyched when I saw the pictures of the tour bus. When I heard there was tour bus set, I was like...."Nah! It'll just be a way of selling another town accessory set!". Lo and behold, when the pictures were revealed this past May, it was a standalone bus set - like something that is part of the Great Vehicles lineup, something I have been asking for for ages now. Thanks to that, I now have hope of seeing a standalone bendy bus. To make matters better, the set came to US shelves in June so I was able to get it on release day. I got that set and the ATV, which is the only jungle set I'm buying. Glad Lego made it easy to snag a Johnny Thunder without having to play the CMF game of trying to hunt him down. Could happen! They'll probably do that alongside space. Yeah! Car wash, I got first. That downtown set broke my town budget, but I needed pieces of it (such as the barber shop, comic store and electronics dept. I also got the ice cream shop and the apartment on clearance. I never got the house or the skate park though. I actually wanted to get a few of those small houses to make a neighborhood in my town, but they were so rare AND I was kinda short on money this past year. I'm kinda on a budget as far as my town is concerned. One of my plans was to grab the modular museum, which Johnny Thunder owns in my town. But I'm a little tight on funds. The urban skate park is another piece I wish to add to my town. I only got five sets this year so far; burger truck, go karts, prison island, tour bus and Johnny Thunder's ATV. I plan to get the auto transport for the cars.

I'll give props to Lego, the City theme hasn't been oversaturated with police every wave like it was during the late 2010s. They seem to have piped down on them a bit.