The Island Chronicles
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Welp! After seeing the new Lego City tower, I can confirm that Lego has gone downhill.
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Well.....it is called Dream Lego Licensed Themes and I get it may compete with City, but how about a theme based on one of my favorite TV serieses of all time; The Chicago Series.
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4 hours ago, SpacePolice89 said:
If Town is included the worst period was 1997 to 2000 with the junio rized sets (although the Res-Q, Extreme Team and Arctic subthemes were not junior ized and were very nice).
Personally, I think those were some of the best times for Lego town-based sets. For sales and from a business standpoint, it was probably one of the worst time periods. But for those who grew up with those sets and have nostaligic memories from that time period (myself included), I can confirm that it was one of Lego's best times.
Btw, You also forgot about the Divers and Paradisa - and my personal favorite, Race, btw.
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2 hours ago, icm said:
The double decker bus from 2024 is a new idea
I'd point out the one from the 2018 Capital City set, but I just realized that you're talking about the fact that it's a standalone bus. Tbh, I hope we see more of standalone buses in the future. So far, the tour bus is my favorite great vehicle. Cmon City! Give us a bendy bus already.
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It's definitely different now. From 2024 onwards, it seems like the only redeeming quality about City right now happens to be the great vehicles.
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On 3/8/2025 at 3:26 PM, Powered by Bricks said:
ALSO also any opinions on what the 2026 could have? Any personal ideas for what would you like to see on a upcoming train?
For 2026, I hope they bring the designer of Friends sets to assist with making the sets centered around the buildings in City. I don't mean actually make the sets centered around girls. But I mean upgrade the detail. I love what the designer of Speed Champions did with the vehicles. Now the buildings need an upgrade. For 2026, I want a post office!
As far as trains are concerned, I think they should abolish the trains subtheme and spread the trains accross subthemes. For example, police and fire trains do exist, even if we don't see them often - they're mainly prominent in Europe. Hospital trains were pretty prominent in the past, especially during the dark ages of the US Army (.i.e the first and second world wars). Perhaps a modern day rail-going ambulance anyone? There are also breakdown trains which tow broken down engines and even construction trains are pretty prominent. Of course, we can have the passenger and freight trains that come every 2-3 years, but those can easily be put into the cargo and a potential public transportation subthemes.
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9 hours ago, Lemerbrix said:
I recently bought the ambulance and the mountain truck, both were pretty solid builds!
edit: the ambulance was the first set I’ve seen to have paper bags!
Oh wow! I had plastic bags in the one I brought. I agree, both of those are definately solid builds. I brought the ambulance as part of a vehicle haul along with the lifeguard truck, camper and mobile doughnut shop. That ambulance fits right into my town.
13 hours ago, TeriXeri said:Oh I agree the removable "shop" part is cute for the donut and burger trucks, and handy, with no big focus on City buildings right now as the 8x8 / 8x16 system seems to have stopped at the moment.
Friends does have some real nice food carts and shops as well, in particular this year's Candy Store would make a very colorful Candy truck.
Then there was the tour bus from 2024, which was my favorite vehicle of that year.
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41 minutes ago, TeriXeri said:
I think I got that torso from 2849 Helicopter , which also was released as 1068 Air Patrol
I got the Green one from the 1996 train , was an awesome figure, especially at the time green regular parts were still quite rare.
Up until the 2016 service center, I have only owned the blue "Oil" torso along with some of the white racing torsos. I still have a lot of my old town worker torsos in my collection. The Blue Oil one is my favorite.
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12 minutes ago, TeriXeri said:
60448 Sports Car is probably my favorite small set of 2025 so far, really impressive model and amazing shaping , and looks better then many similar 6 wide speed champions of the past.
My favorite 2025 great vehicles has to be the mobile doughnut shop. I always thought it was kinda cool how from 2024 onwards, food trucks can be either a stationary shop or a food truck, which started with the burger truck. I hope that is actually a permanent thing because I think its kinda neat.
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7 hours ago, SpacePolice89 said:
It is indeed strange that blue Octan torso didn't appear in Lego Island.
It appeared, but race car driver Rhoda Hogg was the one wearing it, but it had red sleeves. I was just surprised that Nubby wasn't wearing it as that was the blue Octan torso was what mechanics wore. Gas Station attendants wore it too.
7 hours ago, SpacePolice89 said:It is also one of my favorite Octan torsos but my very favorite is the white one with an Octan logo and text.
The white Octan torso is still pretty prominent as well. That one was also updated a few times too. There was also a rare green one that had minor appearances in some Town Jr/City sets and made appearances in the LEGO LOCO game. I often called that one, Nubby Stevens in an alternate universe.
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I think of all the Octan torsos, the blue ones are my favorite, including the one from the 2016 gas station and onwards. Considering that the blue Octan torso was around at the time, I'm surprised that they never used that torso on Nubby Stevens from Lego Island. In Lego Island, he wears a construction workers uniform despite being a mechanic for the Octan Corporation.
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16 minutes ago, Rune Haako said:
Make a dinosaur park, either live animals or statues/animatronics.
Funny I just thought of that after I asked the question. Lol
But yeah, I could use them as animatronics and I may use the baby dino for a statue.
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I saw some new Jurassic World sets on IG. I think I can actually use some of those for my town. So far I've seen a few vehicles and a building that could be useful. I don't know what I'd use the dinosaurs for though. Any recommendations?
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9 hours ago, Powered by Bricks said:
Well there are a few designers that have been in the team for quite some time. And there is one designer that works on both City and Friends. If 2026 disappoints. We definitely (but partially, gotta remember this is for kids and tested with children) need new designers.
One thing they can definitely change without a doubt is the default type of wheels we've seen in every single vehicle this year, that isn't either 4+ or an offroader.
If anything, do what they did way back with creator. We had 3in1 and Expert. City could have more range as a theme. City Diorama projects are everywhere nowadays and many people look for sets they could add to their city. If city ever does a "City Expert" line they would have great sucess!
Yeah I'll admit that I am not a fan of the new splashes on City vehicles. My preference goes to the older ones from the mid 2000s to the early 2020s. I do wish they got a better design team.
8 hours ago, LCP said:Anyway, the Friends series designer contributed to producing some of the sets of the City series. His name is David Tauzia.
Was he behind the civilian set crazes or 2021 and 2022?
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2 minutes ago, Powered by Bricks said:
First they bring the Speed Champions ace designer and they let hell loose! Vehicles vehicles vehicles.
Yeah that was kinda dumb of them. Don't get me wrong, I love the way the vehicles look. But I kinda miss the former designer for City sets because we got more buildings.
What do you think about them bringing in designers of Friends and Creator 3in1 to help this guy out?
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1 hour ago, Powered by Bricks said:
Don't Waste Your Potential LEGO!
Too late! They did a lot of that during the 2010s and they're doing it right now. Lol
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13 hours ago, Klaus-Dieter said:
Since there won't be any civilian set (which is really disappointing) in this year's regular summer wave, this is really good news! 👍
Yes it is. So far, the only two summer sets I'm excited to see are the heavy duty tow truck and the tower.
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10 hours ago, Murdoch17 said:
yes, they did.
Yeah! Instead of a base set, they had a mobile unit that could be taken from place to place in the arctic instead of being stationary - which imo, feels more realistic that the base from 2014.
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7 minutes ago, Yoggington said:
Just to throw this out there, has anyone considered this is an 'overland train'? i.e. not running on tracks.
Yeah....didn't they have something like that for the 2018 arctic wave?
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3 hours ago, Powered by Bricks said:
That reminds me more of the 2014 one
The 2014 one reminds me of one of those ICE trains that runs through Europe. I wish I didn't miss that one because I really love the design.
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2 hours ago, Powered by Bricks said:
I actually wrote the question a bit poorly. What i was trying to say was. How about include a dummy locomotive to function the same way as this set?
Its okay! I knew what you meant actually. You meant a locomotive with no motor like the Emerald Night, TGV and the old Hogwarts Express.
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7 hours ago, Powered by Bricks said:
Extra Edit: What would you say if instead of a bus, taxi or maintenance vehicle, the future train stations could include a dummy locomotive? I think it would be better for play value and gives you a better reason to collect the sets for kids. And now the trains just include 2 carriages!
I wouldn't mind one of those to be honest, but considering that trains can already be converted into dummy locomotives with no motors - Lego probably thinks that idea would be pretty pointless. Its likely that they have already thought of doing that. The downtown tram is somewhat of a dummy train as its one that you push along.
2 hours ago, lifeinplastic said:I was lucky enough to grow up in the era of the Metroliner and the separate Club Car when there were quite a number of rail-related sets available like track variety, signal box, station, etc. would be nice to have that again with collectors able to build up a good model railway via multiple sets. For example, bridges, multiple carriages, etc
The 2014 train was ok and probably one of the best since. I really dislike the stickered frontage that completely spoiled the 2018 train and I thought the 2022 version was a lime green monstrosity!
Ooooooh how I wish we could go back to that era where we had an entire theme of trains equipment (i.e. standalone stations, train cars, rails, sheds and even engines). The My Own Train theme was shortlived, but I tell you, that theme will be missed. As far as the 2022 passenger train is concerned, I'm there with you.
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3 minutes ago, lifeinplastic said:
I would very much like a Passenger train, as the last few have not looked particularly good, in my view.
I will continue to take my stance on this - the 2014 and 2018 passenger trains were the best passenger trains to grace the City theme.
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4 minutes ago, Lyichir said:
Realistically, I don't see something like the F1 sets' licensing happening in a ton of other scenarios. In this case, Lego licensed with Formula One and every team, in part for the already heavily licensed Speed Champions/Technic lines, and to get their money's worth out of the deal and not leave out consumer segments they expanded that to City (aimed at lower age ranges like 4- to 6-year olds) and Duplo (for 2- to 3-year-olds). In cases where there's not a big picture, overarching licensing initiative like that, I doubt Lego would bother with that much licensing in the City theme—not only does it cost more but younger kids are unlikely to have much major "brand loyalty/fandom" for more everyday subject matter compared to what they might have for a motorsports team.
I don't get it.
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