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  1. icm
    Congratulations! I kept hoping one of your ships would be selected. Now my main question is, will I be able to afford this when it's finally up for crowdfunding?
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    Nah, that steering wheel has been around for ages.
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    Also, the available supply on Bricklink is much smaller than we really think it is. If every mom or dad who wanted to get the OT cast for their kids went to Bricklink after not finding them in available retail sets in the toy aisle, the remaining supply on Bricklink would plummet and prices for the remaining supply would skyrocket. That's the inherent nature of the secondary market.
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    Sure, but what if you want Lego figures? Action figures don't scale very well with Lego when you just want to play with Lego. And that's not the regular retail market anyway. Mom and Pop in the toy aisle aren't going to know to go to Bricklink to get secondhand Lego minifigures outside of the sets they came in.
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    See, that's nostalgia for you. I first got into Lego at that time, and even when I was the target age I wasn't very impressed by Town Jr sets when I saw them in the mail order catalog.
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    Not just divided with colors. One seating class has seat back entertainment, the other doesn't.
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    I think the 2023 passenger airplane did a pretty good job of having two separate classes of seating and a trolley for the flight attendants.
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    Adam Grabowski seems to do pretty much all the cars and trucks in Super Heroes (and occasionally other themes: he did the truck in the Twilight house, the little Land Rover Defender, and the City recycling truck). I think he does a pretty good job with that. He also did the 2024 X-men jet (which is really a fantastic build that looks great and is tremendously swooshable, it's just horribly overpriced), the 2019 Captain Marvel Quadjet, and the 2019 Batwing. Mark Stafford and Chris Perron seem to split the spaceships and Quinjets between them, and I think they do a good job with those. Mark Stafford did the 2023 Quinjet, which is one of my favorite Super Heroes sets and overall airplane sets ever. He also did the 2024 Hoopty, which is actually a pretty good spaceship and a pretty decent build, it's just horribly overpriced. Chris Perron did the big Benatar, the Bowie, the big Milano, baby Rocket's ship, and Rocket's Warbird, and I think those are all really good. He's also done most of the Marvel character cars for the past three years, and I think those are good builds and fun sets, if overpriced. He did the 2019 Endgame Quinjet, which was my favorite Quinjet at the time but has since been completely surpassed by the 2023 Quinjet in every way. Chris Perron also did the Lightyear spaceship, the Monkie Kid Galactic Explorer, and the Monkie Kid White Horse Dragon Jet, but those are outside Super Heroes.
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    Just out of curiosity I counted the number of non space buildings in Town in 1995. Just three! Five in 1990, seven in 1985, five in 1980.
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    I think a $100 school would work really well. The last two City hospitals were really good at $100 and $120. I think a standalone airport terminal would also be really good at $100. Really, I think $100-$120 is the sweet spot for a large standalone City building with one or two small vehicles to go with it.
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    Yeah, the recent downsized Police and Fire stations haven't been a really successful experiment. The small buildings with road plates were a good idea that needed to stick around a few more years for more development.
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    I think we can all agree with that, but that's not specific to City or Town. Personally, I think 60104 is the best City airport terminal, but that's just me.
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    Just as a random sample, I count four or five buildings in the 2009 City release lineup. That's not really any different than what I've counted in the 2023 or 2024 lineups. Can't count 2025 yet because the year isn't even half over. I think if you went through and counted the number of buildings in each year of City between 2005 and 2024 it would be about the same from year to year, although you might be looser or stricter than I am in what you count as a building instead of a vehicle.
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    Alright, now we're getting to the real point of your complaint. You want buildings and City hasn't had a lot of small standalone main street type buildings recently. That's a fair complaint. In my Lego collecting, I've found that it really helps to broaden my horizons by not limiting myself to a specific theme. Are there any buildings in other themes that interest you right now? For instance, I'm more interested in vehicles than in buildings, and in 2025 the nice new everyday kind of police car is found with a small everyday main street type building in the Super Heroes theme. I was able to get just the car and driver for fifteen bucks off eBay. You could probably get the set without the super hero minifigs for a pretty good price.
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    By the same logic where you say that the ski slope in 2023 wasn't a new idea because there was a little snowboard halfpipe side build in a ski resort set in 2019.
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    Obviously. But that means it won't be taking a lot of City slots next year.
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    If it's like the cargo center in the eighties, it's a long overdue remake, not an entirely new idea. Same with the post office. A nice standalone park set would genuinely be a new idea for City or Town. How big would a theme park set be compared to a park attraction set? If not every parent can buy a $100 airplane for their child, even fewer will be able to buy a $300 theme park that represents the whole park, not just a park attraction. A lighthouse is not a new idea. A factory of some kind would genuinely be a new idea, but it would be tricky to get right.
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    "So many buildings that City still doesn't have" isn't a specific idea for something new that's never been done before in City or Town, whether as a small part of a larger set or as a standalone set or, apparently, as a magazine gift. The Formula 1 line in City is presumably for 2025 only, and City has had a wide variety of racing vehicles since its inception. So, for that matter, did Town.
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    So, are any of the things you just listed new ideas?
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    Magazine gifts don't count, they're not general-release sets. Soapbox racers are related to Stuntz, but they're not the same thing. That's like saying soapbox racers are the same thing as F1 cars - they're both things on four wheels used in some kind of race, but that's where the similarity ends. The first proper longnose semi truck with a box trailer, not used as a vehicle transporter. Standalone car wash. Standalone skate park. We're talking about City, not Friends. Ski resort buildings != ski slope. The other family house and electric car was also pretty recent. People pack + coast guard starter set without the beach terrain isn't the same idea.
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    Recent new ideas in City, or at least ideas with a long remake interval: 2025 City Formula 1 line: First playscale F1 sets since 2017 (Speed Champions), since 2013 (City), since 2009 (Racers). First full playscale F1 line in Town/City since 1996. Scrapyard. That's a new idea. Stuntz - first expansion of monster trucks into an arena-style carnie stunt subtheme ever. Soapbox racers - that's a new idea. There have been actual fire trucks in 60462, 60414, 77944, 60214, 60216. Food trucks are a pretty recent idea that's been continuing for several years. The construction steamroller from 2024 is the first since 2009. The construction excavator from 2024 is the first since 2005. The double decker bus from 2024 is a new idea. The robot world roller coaster is a new idea. The cargo ship from 2024 is the first in Town/City since 2011. The gorillas in the jungle sets are fun and new, and the big helicopter is the first chinook-style helicopter since 2016. The Lego delivery truck is the first real proper American-style longnose semi truck since 2011. The carwash in 2023 was the first standalone Town/City carwash since 2007 or even 1999. The skate parks in 2023 and 2021 were a new idea. How about the school in 2022? The ice cream shop in 2023? The apartment building in 2023? The ski slope in 2023? The family house and electric car in 2023? The beach lifeguard station in 2022? If they were now repeating traditional Police, Fire, and Coast Guard subthemes more to your liking, where would the new ideas be in those? There's lots of innovative building in City in the last few years, and a fair amount of new ideas and new buildings. It's just not the blend of content areas that you want it to be.
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    I think City has been doing pretty well the last few years. The vehicles especially have been great. I don't think it's necessary to have any 20-year-anniversary branding for City. The gimmick era of Police and Fire is now several years in the past, and more recent Police and Fire sets have had innovative and interesting builds at good prices. It's not necessary to have every subtheme on a firm rotating schedule, because that doesn't leave any room in the calendar to introduce new ideas or new subthemes. Including smaller sets from some subthemes/content areas within a more varied yearly release calendar keeps content available without risking too much on a large wave that may have some sets that just don't ever seem to sell.
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    I think the 2020 and 2023 passenger airliners were pretty good sets. I wonder if the reason Lego only released the large passenger airplane set in those years without a larger Airport line is the same as the reason why Lego has only released single pirate ships, castles, and trains without larger Pirates, Castle, and Trains lines in recent years: the large set (the big passenger jet, the big pirate ship, the big castle, and the complete train set) outsells the smaller sets by such a large margin that it's not worth the effort to make the rest of the line.
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    I'm not interested in that car, but I can't wait to get more of that windscreen piece in other cars.
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    The posing for the green dragon and the box art for the red mech remind me of the posing and box art on some Sluban mechs. The transforming green jet is pretty cool, but it's not as convincing in jet form as I'd like it to be. It still basically looks like a big robot with rocket boots. I wasn't interested in the idea of a rumored Dark Bounty like the Dark Fountain, but the Temple Bounty that we're actually getting is very impressive. I hope I can buy it for myself sometime.
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