Digger of Bricks

Don't forget Nexo Knights, and with Hidden Side arriving here soon... Well, I'm pretty certain we'll still have City, Friends, Creator, Technic, and maybe Ninjago (depending) throughout the next ten years; but, as for further in-house Action/Adventure themes, I somewhat feel TLG will continue to primarily pursue the next "big-bang" when exploring future possibilities for such.

Unless this is another variant you're seeing, he should be from this book: LEGO Shop - LEGO® DC Super Heroes Visual Dictionary

But Nintendo owns the Pokémon franchise, not Mattel, right?

Speaking of such, should this really deserve a topic of its own? If it will indeed be a D2C set, I guess this topic will act as the press release topic come then?

BrickFanz - LEGO Mickey Mouse Steamboat Willie Set Teased

And it's not just preexisting in-house subthemes, as even up until recently, many projects based upon IPs Lego had themes for at the time were accepted, managed to achieve support, and subsequently rejected only to have a very similar set not under the Ideas portfolio released shortly afterwards. * * The 2014 UCS Sandcrawler and 2015 UCS Helicarrier are two such suspicious examples for instance.

Oh, yeah, I forgot about that one.

Well then, I'll be seeing y'all around 2029/2030 for a Favorite 2020's Action/Adventure Themes poll! Here's to hoping there'll be many surprises and exciting in-house playthemes in the next ten years ahead of us!

Well, as according to the context of this subforum we're under... Yeah, discussion of Racers has all historically taken place in the Special LEGO Themes subforum, so hence why it isn't here.

Cool! That's the first ever recolor of that hairpiece!

...if only we could have Thomas the Tank Engine. MATTEL OWNS THE FRANCHISE NOW!!!

Generally, given that a Flash Gordon/Buck Rogers/Raypunk-type of theme is more in the vein of Sci-Fi/Space rather than Action/Adventure, this would be one such topic for discussion and idea-sharing: For other pulpy genres that aren't set in Space, @Peppermint_M's Future Action and Adventure Themes, @Commander Keller's Next "Adventurers" Theme Ideas, and @Perry the Platypus's Ideas for New Action Themes topics are all great for such pontification!

PREACH IT BROTHER!!!

I just want to see either a physical build of it, or the digitally rendered 3D model they utilized cinematically.

I know it's most likely not to be a set, but I do wish Lego could provide a better look at that JL Javelin starcraft seen briefly during Lucy's narration sequence:

I'd like to see them recolor the Twelfth Doctor's hairpiece (part no. 21268) in some shade of green for a Joker figure.

Heh, I like how clean-cut his torso design is, as it somewhat reminds me of prints used for Town figures from the '90s.

Well, despite not being a part of the poll, I think it's perfectly fine to discuss Indiana Jones or other comparable licensed themes respective to their similar in-house counterparts in the topic discussion, namely the in-house lines that fall under the context of this subforum.

I guess using RPG miniatures wasn't the best example to use on my part, as my knowledge of that market as a whole is very limited. But, the specific examples of such I did have in mind I discovered Pinteresting about online. Particularly, Hydra Miniatures' Retro Raygun and War Rocket lines are based upon more archetypical notions of the Flash Gordon/Buck Rogers/Raypunk brand of early Twentieth Century Science Fiction:

The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part (to which I shared my thoughts here), Mortal Engines, and the 2005 animated film Robots.

Alright, thanks! I must ask though, how do you find the idea odd? Does it still seem too closely tied to the Rocketeer for you to consider it an archetype?

Well, so I finally got around to seeing the sequel... ...and honestly, I can best analogize it in the same way I would generally judge a Lego playset. For me, a great many parts of this movies I really, really loved, much in the same way I'll dig the bulk of some random set's parted-out pieces (I'll elaborate on all of that part-by-part in the Spoiler topic some time soon here). As I whole though, I still kinda prefer the first film to this sequel, but the novel, creative direction this follow-up took as a collective whole seriously impressed me as I figured it would! I guess where I prefer the first film is in comparing their focal-points, as the The Lego Movie embodied so much about Lego in spirit, whereas The Second Part had a heavier focus on approaching the philosophy of playtime (lightly that is). Besides that, while I somewhat felt the events near the end of the movie were concluded rather hastily, I was perfectly alright with the rest of the pacing preceding that. So all in all, despite those small issues, I find it to be a most worthy sequel!

That comparison has always been relevant to me, though Ninjago is a little too distinct from its "Sentai" forebearers for me to consider it a straightforward example of such. While I don't personally care for the genre, I'd still much rather see a more generic representation of the genre as a playtheme, much like in the same way various lines of RPG miniatures don't stray to far from the genre they aspire after. For me, Aquazone also encompasses the Aqua Raiders and Atlantis themes, not just merely the various subthemes of the 1990's. Also, as for whether or not they can be considered archetypical, Aquazone to me simply denotes a collection of various Action/Adventure themes that all fall into the "fantastical ocean exploration" description, much like Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, thereby falling into what I see to be a well seated trope.

Well, during the hypothetical entry phase, I don't think Lego should publish all of the submissions themselves, but rather they should discreetly accept them while allowing the fans/artists to publish their entries elsewhere (if those fans/artists wish to do so) as a means of promoting both the contest and their own artwork. That way, fans need only lament the rejected submissions they're aware of.