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    Premise-wise, I honestly think this topic is not much different than the one @Agent Kallus had started yesterday: Perhaps this topic should be merged with the former @Captain Nemo?
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    In a way, they're kinda like miniaturized/scaled-down D2C sets! Say, another approach such a GWP trend could follow taking after the Architecture theme could be in the form of "Cityscape/Skyline" builds rather than just MCU landmarks. For instance, how about "Cityscape" builds based upon the MCU's iterations of Asgard and Wakanda, but instead in a "cluster" format rather than a lineup, sorta like Jeff Friesen's microscale cityscape creations?
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    With both DC and Marvel SuperHeroes, I really do appreciate the liberties they take with their sets at times as so to incorporate those desirable canopy/windshield recolors. And ya know, it'd be cool if Star Wars were to do the same with at least their 4+ sets! Well, I do feel a minidoll-based Space theme could be a surefire way of obtaining further canopy/windshield recolors on the more vibrant side of the spectrum! Since we're on this topic, while I know that I've asked this before elsewhere, in what form do you feel such a theme might take shape in terms of premise and style? Would it more resemble Star Wars or Star Trek, so to speak (if I were to use that as an analogy for Space Exploration versus Space Fantasy)? ...if we are to presume their hair isn't one with their heads, if you know what I mean.
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    Nothing too spectacular, but here's another new consideration-worthy project for the index @leafan. LEGO Ideas - Medieval House by VORTEX91 I agree, but there still ought to be a certain amount of restraint. How LEGO redesigns Ideas projects into sets often depends not just on what they can or can't do in terms of costs and logistics, but also what they think it was about the original project that the most people were drawn to. If a project is so huge, complex, or elaborate that people are supporting it for those very reasons, it becomes increasingly difficult for designers to simplify it or scale it down in a way that doesn't eliminate what supporters liked about it in the first place. Kinda true, as such changes even affected Pete Reid's original submission where it lost some of it's more appealing proportions in the finalized product.
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    By the way, are you yet aware of @Itaria No Shintaku's guessing game? Plus, there's @Robert8's speculation topic for future licensed Collectable Minifigure Series! Within the medieval realm of things, I'm hoping to someday see a Sorceress archetype as a future CMF.
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    So @Jim, may we expect another chance for EB staff to potentially interview any set designers at this year's LEGO Media Fan Days?
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    If so, then Star Wars shouldn't be an inhibitor for a more sci-fi heavy Space Exploration/Adventure playtheme (the way I see it, like I said earlier, hypothetical Space Fantasy/Opera in-house playthemes would be in closer conflict with Star Wars than something more akin to Star Trek) after this City subtheme bows out, right? Subthemes like that typically stick around for only a summer for a single wave, and as far as we've seen, they return in some other form four years later. Not to mention, Star Wars: Resistance's starfighters! Those I do kinda dig!
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    With a hypothetical 1920's/1930's setting, it'd be like an urban take on Lego's Adventurers and/or Monster Fighters theme, though a little more fantastical. The sets could pit the theme's archetypical pulp heroes against mad barons, supernatural beings/monsters, crime lords, and other such nemeses straight outta a Lobster Johnson comic. Plus, the vehicular builds could be of a fantastical Decopunk/Dieselpunk aesthetic. Just think of a theme with vehicles with a look like this, but scaled down!!! Absolutely, something I'm banking my hopes upon much more strongly than for pie-in-the-sky dream themes such as the one I proposed above!
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    Come on, you must know I'm talking about in-house Space themes overall, not just stylistic retreads of Classic Space & Company. Not everyone who clamors for in-house Space themes is that stuck in the past.
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    While I do wish the "Disney" umbrella theme as far as non-D2C playsets could be much more than Princesses, it's seemingly remained as such unfortunately, so that's why @Robert8 started yet another Disney Princesses topic for 2019 back in October last year.
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    All that I think is needed for a non-conflicting Space theme is a much more colorful, less rigid aesthetic and an exploration-based premise that isn't entrenched in Star Wars' heavy good vs. evil themes and tropes. Simply put, more like Star Trek, less like Star Wars.
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    Within this teaser for the upcoming Stranger Things D2C set, there looks to be a Speed Champions scale "Smokey and the Bandit" Pontiac Trans-Am opposite Chief Hopper's truck that isn't supposed to be coming within that set. Perhaps it's going to be a part of a Speed Champions set for 2020 instead?
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    Pretty sure it's a "Smokey and the Bandit" Pontiac Trans-Am, which seems especially apparent from the front. Huh, perhaps it's an upcoming 2020 Speed Champions set?!
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    Well, for me, I'm particularly excited for the new 4x4 quarter dome brick this set introduces!
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    Personally, I feel like Nexo Knights in particular could've hypothetically been an actual Space theme if it weren't for Star Wars' seeming stake in the Space Opera realm of things. Believe me, I don't at all dislike Nexo Knights to any degree for that shortcoming (it is my favorite of the more recent System-based "big bang" playthemes), though I still strongly feel that Star Wars has to be a factor in at least inhibiting an in-house Space Fantasy/Opera-type of playtheme. For me, that unfortunately means I may never see a pulpy Space theme from Lego which would be more in the vein of Flash Gordon/Buck Rogers. But, beside that shortcoming, do you really feel pretty certain Star Wars isn't any more an all-out blockade for sci-fi heavy, in-house Space themes nowadays than it has been in the past? If so, what kinda Space theme do you feel would be able to slip past Star Wars without much overlapping conflict? Would the theme's premise, aesthetic, both, or some other element need to be the differing factor to help such an original theme help differentiate itself from Star Wars?
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    Well, maybe I'd hope for at least new hairpieces; but, how much do you wanna bet this theme's figures will all have unusable "Simpsons-style" heads? That would definitely be the best scenario we could hope for.
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    Heh, I don't know, but to me, it's just yet another random licensed acquirement. I mean, if this were rather part of a broader Dreamworks Animation umbrella theme, maybe I'd be interested. But no, as a playtheme, it'll be likely nothing more than an Angry Birds Movie 2.0, with no long-term life within Lego's portfolio beyond its throwaway purpose of promoting this movie for only a year.
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    Regarding City's next eventual "submarine" subtheme, while I'd like for it to ideally have an archaeological premise next time around, perhaps another approach could center around exploration of Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents, thereby fusing 2015's Deep Sea Explorers subtheme with 2016's Volcano Explorers subtheme in a way. Plus, such an approach could also incorporate study and observation of bizzare deep-sea marine lifeforms like Anglerfish (thereby potentially introducing new molds for such)! I myself would be totally game for this, not to mention that such a subtheme could be quite possible given that Lego has touched upon it before back in 1997! Brickset - Town: Outback
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    ^THIS^ Yes, this is what I'd love to see more of from Lego's in-house themes. I'd prefer them to do something like Adventurers, without the superhero masks and so on. If you mask-up otherwise unknown characters, they look like bad copies of the licensed properties, while overlapping with those properties. Well, in the case of Zorro and The Shadow, they been emulated by countless pulp crimefighters throughout the '30s and '40s (Batman, for instance, was inspired after BOTH), so I think the Masked Noir/Pulp Crimefighter has become an archetype unto itself as a result!
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    Holy Bricking Hell, is anyone here yet aware that Jack's hood & ballcap headgear is fused to his head?!!! Edit: Shoot, never mind me, I just realized the "leaked" head and headgear pairing I saw has a flesh-tone head, hence disproving that "fusion" of the two I reacted to so rashly.
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    Well, whoever's trilogy it may be, the least I can hope for from it is a fresh aesthetic that doesn't include tired retreads of the same ol' X-Wings, TIE Fighters, Corellian Freighter, and the such. I mean, damnit, I'd like to see something a little more colorful and pulpy from their spacecraft, kinda more in the vein of Flash Gordon and the MCU's Guardians of the Galaxy! While I know we'd never see colored canopies from Star Wars in the same capacity Lego's in-house Space themes have given us (something I care even more for from Classic Space & Company than just the minifigures those themes offer), couldn't Disney at least give us more spacecraft akin to the MCU's Milano, for instance? EXACTLY!!! So then, why does the Star Wars theme seem to be inhibiting Lego from giving us something totally fresh and different from Lucasfilm's tired old "pieces of junk" so to paraphrase Luke Skywalker? Seriously, it's getting reeeeally damn monotonous.
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    The Brick Fan - LEGO Hidden Side Official Set Images
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    A: 3 - 10 - 11 B: 6 - 7 - 8
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