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After all the leaked images they have to keep some things a mystery.

In colours like blue and grey and green. Last thing anyone wants is a million red wheelbarrows like the hand trolley and bicycle.

How large is large? In considering hospital design myself I elected to keep floors to a 16 wide by 32 long size and build an atrium or courtyard in the centre. wards and corridors surrounding the space looking onto the courtyard with garden space. I based this design on the Hospitals I've visited over the years. Also many hospitals have large double doors along corridors so that could be used to help support ceilings with a lintel beam atop the doors. waiting rooms or areas like main reception could use pillars provided there's plenty of space between them for the movement of hospital beds and gurneys.

I was lying in bed the other night thinking about my own Lego city/town and realised that there has never been a canal in Lego town. Or any canal boats/barges. So in light of that I'd like Lego to rectify this with a narrowboat (never call them a barge), butty barge (cargo transport), tourist cruise boat and a shorter sporty personal canal cruiser. After all canals have been and still are an important part of many countries histories. It would also make a nice change in the boat theme instead of police and fire boats or cargo hauliers. Canal boats are flat bottomed so creating a canal cutting wouldn't mean having to build up steep banks like a river would. a single brick height is as high as anyone would need to go for a cutting. blue, or green (dirty canal) plates for water. it could very easily be achieved. I also think a covered outdoor market would fit nicely in many town set ups. Just a roof held up by pillars or stanchions with a variety of stalls beneath. It could be historic looking or modern but it should be a covered area. Make use of the many types of accessories Lego makes and technically it wouldn't use too many parts so for quite a large set would be reasonably priced. plus being open on all sides little hands could really get in there and play 'shop'.

Too messy. I'd rather just buy genuine Lego. I was just messing about and did some recolouring to see how other colours might look alongside existing colours. I love some of these and now feel like Lego should retire the red bike completely and do a new colour every time a bike is included in a set. So many colours in the Lego palette and they're still shoving red bikes in sets. Insanity!

I'm loving the new site header. Seriously classy.

I can't help feeling medium dark flesh would have been a better colour choice instead of dark orange. the dark orange seems to overwhelm the entire building. Almost making it seem threatening rather than welcoming. I also don't think this will look right unless you combine two sets. Giving it the depth and number of rooms you'd expect in a town hall. Maybe that's just my perfectionist side coming out. I'd want to have two elevators and a much larger auditorium. a wedding registry office with room for guests. And a staircase. the front portico I'd bring forward with a bigger balcony atop. I'd also have a births and deaths registry office. and a security guard at a reception desk. then with a bigger footprint I'd lower the ground floor ceiling. It's an interesting building though. Some very nice touches. I don't think it's a girly building though. The other members of the design team would have had input and therefore it's really gender neutral.

this building seems really bloated. kinda suits fat cat bankers but perhaps you could consider swapping the roof segments for a darker colour and dropping the height of each floor one brick. also and this is just a nitpick, the city bank sign is dark blue so perhaps adding more of that colour might help slim the building down. is there a reason for the 'chimney'? if it's to break up the flat roof space can I suggest a 2x2 brick with a 2x2 turntable base tile on top might work as a small air con vent. the chimney looks a little odd without a chimney stack and fireplaces inside. I do like the upper floor exterior though. the awning works really well with the arches. and the curved roof is nice.

I hope for a silver bike. Metallic silver. Nice and neutral but with its own form of glitz. Metallic blue or green would be good too.

Lordy! I wish I had the funds for pics 1, 3 and 5. Pic 6 is pretty much all I do. I think the missing picture is a person endlessly trawling bricklink pages.

more bricks means more plastic used which means higher cost. Sadly unless someone finds a new way to make plastics that doesn't use oil the cost of plastic will continue to increase and there will be more large parts using less plastic. That sounds odd but if you look at the new garage set that uses tall three sided pillars instead of brick built columns you can see where less plastic is used but the pillar part does the same job. It's down to economics really.

I know, he's a real media whore lol. If I want to know what he's up to I google him. I'll try and get in touch with him for some pictures. I'd love some of those bricks myself. One can never have enough tan.

for every one person complaining that Lego aint what it used to be there are probably ten more people quite happy with the way Lego has evolved. My 68 year old Mother informed me the other day that she wants 10193 Medieval Market Village and wants me to take her to the local Lego store. Lego must be doing something right if they have enthusiasts from all age groups.

I don't see much of him these days but my big brother Tony Priestman of The Brickish Association has been in the news again and I have to say I'm quite proud and impressed with his latest ambitious project - BBC news article.

I Like the cars, I like the stickers, but hate the set. It looks amateur and flimsy. Also its annoying me that that other set is being called a hospital when quite clearly its nothing of the sort. With the small van having the heart monitor blip motif and the helicopter its obviously a trauma clinic. In all honesty though I feel city buildings are getting worse not better. whoever worked on these and the city harbour and marina needs to up their game or stand aside. It's like being back in last century. The Gold mine sets are sub par too. Almost as if all the licensed themes and new themes were 'more fun' and no-one could be bothered to work on what is effectively the mainstay of the Lego company - Town/City. I'm seriously disappointed and let down. I'd rather there were no city sets this year than these lacklustre efforts.

OH MY! Is that conflict in this thread?

Of course, I forgot about Captain Nemo a Victorian sea Captain who likes life nice and quiet aboard the Nautilus his gothic submarine. A set of the monster fighter team and the captain battling a monster squid would be quite cool now that I think about it. The steampunk boat idea also sounds good but maybe pit that against Sirens or Harpies instead of the Kraken?

MF could go on for a while if sales were good and Lego were prepared to go on. There's loads of monsters from various places they could tap into: Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde, The invisible man, Fu Manchu, Chupacabra, The Jersey devil, Bigfoot, Mothman, The Yeti, The Fly, The Phantom of the Opera, She wolf, Troglodyte brute, Medusa, Giant squid, Gremlins (twilight zone type not the movie 'gremlins'), Hobgoblin, bridge Troll, Mole people, Golems, Quasimodo, giant insects, cyclops, cobra woman, changeling. Sadly I think one wave is all we'll get.

Have I missed something? Ann Lee, Jack McHammer and Dr. Rodney? Has Lego released the backstory and character biogs?

Ooh blue bike, blue skis and poles, blue surf board, red bucket, red kitchen utensils, pink luggage trolley. Thuper!

The new flower stem will look best plugged into a round 1x1 brick used as a vase. *Edit* Ooh now I'm a knight. Hooray!

Tried really hard to pull details out but couldn't with such grainy screencaps. Anyhoo, thought I'd post views of the manbat. WOO!

rumours suggested a multi-storey car park if memory serves me. I imagine it'd have an elevator platform and stackable levels. And use this piece for the ramps. A Multi-storey cark would fit in well with both regular city and the modular series.

Thank you. Much obliged. :) So Skales is the weakest of them and Pythor the strongest. Fangtom, Skallidor and Pythor are the ones I want. The most interesting looking. A bunch of Skallidors would look quite cool in a MOC.

I think given the expense of the Dinosaur moulds we won't have seen the last of them. The Dino hunters and their vehicles probably won't be seen again. I reckon we'll see a wave of Dinosaurs and vehicles when the next Jurassic park movie comes out. Mr. Spielberg is a fan of Lego and will presumably be milking the merchandise deals for all he can get. His pals George and Peter are raking it in with Lego products themed around their franchises. Lego Jurassic park would sell like a new Apple© iProduct©.