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I think so, too. I actually wonder why they didn’t just do that, in fact - the Old Fishing Store has now already been out several months anyway, and it would have been several more between the time they announced these results and whenever they finally released the set, especially given that they’re still waiting to release the Voltron set and could then have released the Pop-Up Book as the next after that. I suspect another building could even have coexisted with the Old Fishing Store on shelves anyway. It’s not like there aren’t several different modular buildings out at once right now, or several different Star Wars UCS sets. But of course I’m not privy to LEGO’s sales data, and I think they also tend to be more cautious and conservative in how much they’ll release at once, given the troubles they’ve undergone at certain times in the past; companies can have long institutional memories. (And it’s also possible the Old Fishing Store just hasn’t sold well, but that they don’t want to publicly reveal that.)

You and many others.

Nah, it’s in the following batch (the First 2018 batch), with nine other projects that aren’t these.

Not many have answered the poll yet, but it appears a pretty solid consensus is already emerging that The Flintstones is likeliest from this batch. Aw, thanks!

Oh, I think it’ll be quite a bit more, as it’ll probably have lots of pieces. In the announcement video they talk quite a bit about its customizability, and also show the box size it’ll get (!), so I’m thinking it’ll have quite a lot of extra parts for multiple builds.

There is always that chance; indeed, they’ve approved multiple projects to become sets in the same review on no fewer than five separate occasions already - the Birds and The Big Bang Theory projects were approved simultaneously, as were the Doctor Who and WALL•E ones, the Caterham and Adventure Time ones, the Yellow Submarine and Apollo Saturn V ones, and the Ship in a Bottle and Voltron ones. Quite a few of us were hoping they’d approve multiple projects from this last batch, in fact. I think lots of us were both expecting and hoping for the Pop-Up Book, and several of its supporters (such as myself) were hoping they’d also approve some of the others, such as another one of RobenAnne’s marine buildings. I’d have been delighted if they’d just gone ahead and approved everything, really.

Well, you can already know what the possibilities are...

I love it, but part of me is very upset with myself over my procrastination. I’ve had a couple different pop-up books percolating in my mind for literally years, and was planning on submitting them to Ideas. This will be the second Ideas set made from an idea I’ve had myself but didn’t submit (the first being the Beatles’ Yellow Submarine). That said, I’m sure it’ll be a great set, and I’m looking forward to seeing the final product.

Done!

I went ahead and voted for all four of the four I think likeliest. That’s just to say I think whatever is approved will most likely come from those four, not that I actually think all four of them will (but wouldn’t that be cool if it happened?).

Now that the results are known, I’ve created a poll for the next review batch. Let those guesses fly! You nailed it, right out of the gate!

So... what do we think?

Okay, now that the last results are known and there’s no carryover, I’ll do it. :)

Well, so much for what I know (for the nth time!)... Very nice (if wholly expected) to see the Pop-up Book approved. Big congrats to Grant and Jason, and especially for Jason joining the ultra-exclusive club of people with multiple Ideas sets. But I have to say I’m a little surprised as well as disappointed Robert didn’t get to join that club as well. But I’m sure he’ll get another chance (or two, or three...).

LEGO Ideas’ Facebook presence just teased an upcoming video to be shown st 9am EST, with Darryl and Dimitry. Since they only just finished the interviews for the review batch on Monday, three days ago, it surely isn’t the review results (which I assume are coming next Monday), and I presume one of the two gentlemen is a model builder and the other a graphic designer (can anyone confirm? I don’t know all of TLG’s designers by name / face). Surely this has to be the Voltron set reveal.

It does indeed, thanks! Leave it to Microsoft to make things as incompatible as possible... Does anyone know about my Avatar question? (Edit in March, 2021: I hadn’t realized back when I first posted this almost three years ago that each successive XBox is almost entirely backwards-compatible with the games for previous generations; in light of that, my comment about Microsoft making things as incompatible as possible seems pretty unfair. That said, it still seems weird they needed separate Toy Pads for each of their two versions, while not only could Sony’s consoles share one but Nintendo’s WiiU could use the same one as well. Still, apologies for my earlier remark...)

In the areas I shop it’s clear the game is on its last legs in the market; most stores I’ve visited lately that carried it have sold out entirely, or are close to it. I still see a few packs around here and there, though. _____________________________ I have another question or two. I know the LD Toy Pads for the Wii U, PS3, and PS4 are identical and interchangeable (so that one can use the pad from a Wii U copy of the game with a PS4, for example, and vice versa). I also know that this is not the case for at least one of the two versions for XBox platforms, and possibly both. Can anyone here tell me whether a) either one of the XBox versions (360 or One) uses the same Toy Pad as the PS3, PS4, and Wii U, or are they both incompatible; and b) if they’re both incompatible with those three, are they also incompatible with each other, or do the two XBox versions at least share a Toy Pad with each other, while the Wii U and the two PS versions all share theirs? Also, does anyone here know the answer to my previous question below: ?

(Classic) Space, Adventurers, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, LEGO Ideas, LEGO Dimensions, Minifigures, Mindstorms, The LEGO Movie / LEGO Cinematic Universe (LEGO Batman, Ninjago, etc movies), LEGO Universe, Winter Village...

Tom Baker holds a special place in my Whovian heart as well. I think they can do the TARDIS more than once, just as Hogwarts, the Millennium Falcon, the Batcave, etc. have all been done multiple times. The TARDIS is particularly fitting for this treatment, since while the exterior changes little, the interior changes quite a bit. There’s also Bessie, various UNIT and Dalek things, and so on. Obviously there’s no way Doctor Who will ever be a huge theme à la Star Wars, but there’s certainly room for more than what they’ve done. If nothing else, I can easily imagine them doing Brickheadz. Sure, but by that standard, hardly any LEGO ever sells well, since most mass-market sets get discounted at some point or another.

Agreed, that would have been awesome. Well, that’s pretty much what they did with the previous Indy theme... and with Toy Story, and even with Star Wars for that matter (and also with The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, if one considers them as one big “Middle-Earth” theme). Each of those was a classic entertainment franchise that had been around for years without ever having had LEGO sets, and for which LEGO used the occasion of new installments years after the previous ones to launch new themes based on them. In each case, they started with a launchwave, released months before the new movie, consisting of sets based on the previous installments, and followed it with a “new movie wave” consisting of sets from the new release. Some licensed themes they’ve handled differently, but this seems to be a frequent approach of theirs (and other toy companies as well, I believe).

I actually don’t see why we can’t consider Pharaoh’s Quest a de facto Adventurers subtheme itself. While Johnny Thunder isn’t in it, the name “Jake Raines” was clearly chosen as a sly reference to the character names from the original theme, and it could easily be considered just another set of characters from the same universe. The general milieu is pretty much the same as in the original, Egypt-focused Adventurers line. _______________________ Of course, it’s likely LEGO Indiana Jones will return when the character hits the big screen again in a couple years. I certainly hope so...

The City subthemes appear to reflect not only real-world exploration, but very contemporary stylings of it, while Johnny Thunder and his adventures are more Indiana Jones-esque, not only in the more fantastical story elements, but also in their temporal setting; they harken back to a different era, when much less of the world was known (at least to the western world). Johnny isn’t really connected to the Arctic and Jungle City subthemes the same way. I think Dino was also, while obviously fantastical, more rooted in contemporary times (and contemporaneously-set science fiction and fantasy) than the more romanticized era of Indy’s “high adventure years” or Johnny’s prior exploits - more Jurassic Park than The Lost World (the latter meaning the Doyle story or its movie adaptation rather than the sequel to the former). Pharaoh’s Quest, though, is much more a Johnny Thunder sort of milieu, and he would make sense there - but indeed, he had a spiritual heir in Jake Raines. Even the character names in Pharaoh’s Quest seem to reference the earlier Adventurers lines, enough that I for one like to consider it kind of an extension of them.

I meant to follow up on this earlier, but let it slip. But anyway, they’ve done three of the interviews for this batch now (with the first back on Monday, April 30th, and the others following a week apart), and have... two left to go, since three of the remaining projects are by a single contributor (!). If they maintain the usual pattern of interviews a week apart and then reveal the review results a week after the final interview, that would put the review results announcement on Monday, June 4, two weeks and a day after this post. So... just a couple weeks to go! And unlike with most of the reviews (especially this far before the announcement), this time we already know at least one project has been approved. I’m guessing it’ll be the Pop-Up Book, and I’m also hoping for more than one. Note that RobenAnne has not one, not two, but three of his lovely maritime coastal buildings in this review, the most projects any one Ideas submitter has ever had in a single batch. Since the presence of multiple similar projects in a review can be considered by LEGO to be an indicator of particular interest in the subject matter, I’d say it’s not entirely out of the question that we get one more of his projects approved, to complement the Old Fishing Store (just so long as that earlier set has sold well). There’s no telling and no guarantee, obviously, but with three in a single review, I think this is the best opportunity and likeliest chance there’ll ever be for a companion piece to the OFS to be approved.

I’ll second (third, fourth, fifth?) Trollhunters and Star Trek. I’ll also agree Doctor Who should have more of a theme than an Ideas set and a small number of LEGO Dimensions packs, and add that the same is true of Adventure Time. Same with Back to the Future, for that matter - but that is indeed getting at least one new set. Perhaps we can look forward to Adventure Time and Doctor Who BrickHeadz? For extant but dormant full-blown themes, Indiana Jones is at the top of my list. I think it actually has a strong chance of returning in 2020 when the franchise gets its next screen installment; the others here are less certain, but you never know... Oh, and I do also think Sesame Street and The Muppets would be great, as well.

I think it depends on the show. Certainly anything tied to, say, the MCU Netflix stuff is adult-focused, but I think things like the current Supergirl and Flash series can have stuff for kids. But I don’t know what’s actually out there. Hmmm... not there for me either (on the home page, anyway). But it’s only one of five projects officially currently In Review that don’t show up, along with the Boat House Diner, LEGO Mystery Science Theater 3000, the Acclamator Class Assault Ship, and I am Amelia Earhart. I’m not sure, but I think it’s just a matter of there being seventeen projects currently in review while the review carousel on the home page maxes out at twelve.