I couldn't agree more! I really hope that Tales of the Space Age is not heavily modified, and that the Orient Express actually runs on LEGO track pieces.
Running it on track might not even work because it's driving wheels aren't even flanged meaning they can't grab on to the rails only the front and And back small wheels can do it
I think the picks make sense to fit their existing product lines. The space set is like a Lego Art set. The Polaroid Camera is similar to the Typewriter as you point out. It's also nostalgic which a lot of their adult sets are. The insects will go well with the Botanical as you also point out. And the train fits with other Lego trains. Wish they had picked the Steampunk ship though.
Because the Polar Express is tied to an IP, a better way for it to have a chance of winning is for it to be submitted not as “The Polar Express” but as the Pere Marquette 1225. That way is doesn’t have a copyright weighing down its chances.
I 100% agree, Lego need to respect the designs and not stray too far. We voted for them on the basis of how they looked in the original submission. If they stay true I will defo be buying the bugs, camera and space ones though. They are brilliant.
As a photographer, I'm very happy about the Polaroid being approved. The train and space age sets are awesome also. Lego did two amazing things this round: they approved four! sets, and two of them are affordable. Hopefully lego will stay as close as possible to the original designs
What got me in to the Ideas theme was the awesome and eclectic builds that could be put out at a really affordable price point, things like Tron, Ecto 1, Dinosaur skeletons, Big Bang Theory, Ship in a bottle, Flintstones etc all for under £100, sometimes well under £100. This meant you could get a really nice collection together without breaking the bank. Now we have Typewriter, Home Alone, Lighthouse, Grand Piano, Globe, Treehouse, Table Football and more all over £200 each, some well over! So while it's good that these insects and space images etc look to be back to the lower price point, the Orient Express is another that looks to be over £200. Basically I'd just like to see them go back to smaller affordable sets and stay there.
The sets won't be out for awhile, so there's plenty of time for the dust to settle on the Hogwarts Express set. I agree that the scale should match the original build, rather than being a huge detailed replica.
Birds was an early ideas favourite of mine and insects feels similar in terms of theme. It makes me a little sad that the sea creatures didn’t get through in the target vote as I thought they looked fantastic.
I agree. I've been disappointed in a lot of the recent design choices by the Lego designers. I still haven't forgiven them for what they did Jazz Quartet -- The first time I saw the woman piano player I saw E.T.
I. Am. Screaming. I’ve wanted LEGO bugs for a LONG time, and as a fan of the botanical sets I agree that they’ll look fantastic together. Definitely a day 1 purchase for me if the end result looks even half as good as the fan design.
I'm sorry but that space one is a terrible pick. Lego will probably sell them for $50. Why the hell would anyone waste money on that when you can just build the damn thing just by looking at it yourself.
As a Lego train fan I 100% agree on what you said. Personally I would have preferred the Polar Express. But if they make this orient express as big as the new Hogwarts one I'll be completely priced out. Also I love the space designs and if Lego doesn't stay true to them and makes a worse model I might just go and buy the necessary pieces on bricklink and build them myself.
As a guy who absolutely loves trains, the Orient Express set looks amazing. HOWEVER, the problem I think it will have is being able to be turned into an operating piece. By the looks of it, the drive wheels are not real and are just fake. To me it doesn't look like it would be a functional model aside from putting either a 9v motor on the tender (coal car if you don't know the proper term) or trying to fit some sort of remote control system in the tender either. The thing LEGO needs to understand about their train line of sets is there genuinely is a market out there for realistic but also functional sets. Brick Model Railroader and other groups have made fantastic looking models, though they cost quite a lot of money due to their brick count (some being over $2,000 by the end of it). The other thing about their models is they use non-LEGO parts in various places to compensate for official parts not actually existing. A perfect example of a failed set to me was the Emerald Night set they released so long ago now. Why do I say it failed? Well the 1st problem was it didn't even come with Power Functions to begin with and that had to be purchased separately. Not to mention adding it ruined the overall aesthetic of the locomotive. The other was the side rod issue with them constantly jamming, then owners having to refit the loco quite a bit so it would work properly and not constantly get stuck. The Polar Express set to me seems to have a similar design issue with using Technic parts as the side rods...unless that problem could be solved somehow, it would probably have the same issue. What I DO hope LEGO does with this Orient Express set is make it so it can run of LEGO track, either by having the drivers functional or a hideable way to put remote control in it. The BMR people have done exactly this, even with their larger models, and they use a 8 stud wide standard. They took the 40 stud radius curves into consideration with most of them and worked around that limit. Yes, there are quite a few of their models that can only operate on larger radius curves, but generally I think LEGO themselves would benefit from actually making official track like that. Train guys would eat it up I'm sure. Link to Brick Model Railroader Vid at train show: th-cam.com/video/y2MBLhm3syI/w-d-xo.html The other sets in the lineup are rather creative and genuinely fit well as there is something for many kinds of collectors to buy. They did well with selecting them.
As a railfan I find the inclusion of a steam locomotive interesting, The one on my pfp is CNJ 833 which was a Pacific built by Baldwin for Passenger use first on the Blue Comet then later saw service in Eastern PA during World War II and into the 1950s.
Not sure if TH-cam auto named the chapters when you mouse over the timebar, but Lego ''Insects' makes waaaaay more sense than I thought was going to be covered :D
True. I was actually thinking of doing this myself. However, I hope the simplicity means that Tales of the Space Age releases soon, and is relatively affordable.
@@kentslocum I doubt it will be affordable. I feel like lego ideas should be sets that I can’t easily make using a lego creators set. Don’t get me wrong it’s a beautiful design but it will literally cost lego nothing and they’ll charge an arm and a leg for it. Love the design though.
As a fan of Lego Space, I’m excited for the Space set because it’s a nice small model & not something ridiculously expensive as I’ve seen with some other ideas sets recently.
Absolutely agree. I cannot wait for the lego train idea being a fan. I love the emerald night train set and wish they went with that route more. So I hope the success of this will motivate them
Depending on the final product the Orient Express might be my first Lego train. But worried it'll be priced over $300, which would become more than I'm will to spend. Also concerned about the color, as the room I display Lego in has dark walls, so darker sets aren't super visible. As much as I love the UCS 1989 Batmobile set, I can't see it that well in this space.
What if you display the train in front of something like a photo? You could find a print of the kind of landscape the Orient Express would’ve traveled through and put it in a frame, with the train displayed in front of it. That way you have a background for the train to contrast against, as well as a pretty picture, so it’s like a little diorama.
I'm just happy to see some more original builds not just another old TV show set. For a while Ideas lost the fun unique builds that made it special and was drifting towards only making large expensive sets. Hopefully this is a sign they still want to have a larger variety
I'm a bit disappointed about the selection. I hoped the Sherlock Holmes Baker Street building was picked, but not this time... Maybe through the BrickLink designer program then.
I'm not very excited about this round. I'll be definitely getting insects, but not the other 3. The Orient Express is nice, but I don't have space to have a running train & don't want a purely display piece. I would have preferred if it had a few minifigures in period attire
It feels like each of the selections fit within a current Lego theme as well. As you said, the bugs look like something that would fit with the Botanical theme. The camera seems like an Icon set. Tales from the Space Age feels like an art piece, similar to the popular Starry Night set. The Orient Express falls into the display vehicles theme, just like the Titanic and Hogwarts Express sets. All four were great picks, and I'm glad they didn't do an IP set this time.
The hopeful thing with the Orient Express set is that the Lego Designer team has explicitly stated in an article online that they will not be returning to the large scale of the Hogwarts Express set anytime soon. I pray this is the truth. Can't wait to see what they come up with for these!
Tales of a space age i got a couple or so months ago as a display piece and omg its so amazing i love it! I want this stuff too because im getting back into lego again after many years sense i was a child i loved Legos. Im 19, now but im gettkng back into them because their apart of my childhood and im trying to revisit my childhood
oh my god they finally listened to us?!?! they made lego sets actually affordable instead of being over-expensive and for the rich?!?!?!? no...? oh... well i havent been able to pick up a decently sized set for a genuinely sane price since 2013 and i guess itll remain that way.
Interesting. I personally feel in most cases they improved the design. One exception for me was the Jazz Quartet, but for example Typewriter, or Pirates of Barracuda Bay were majorly improved in my view. Of course these things are subjective.
@@Jonathan-fu5hx Totally agree. The pianist was certainly improved. I did buy it too and still love it, but there was an elegance in the original that was lost in the redesign.
I love the essential idea of LEGO IDEAS, but sometimes I wonder what makes them think that certain sets are worth to be produced and to be sold. Look at the table football - a failure and waaaaayyy overprised. How can the house from Hocus Pocus win against Ichirakus ramen restaurant from Naruto or the Soyuz rocket (finally some not NASA affiliated space set)...?! Same thing goes out to the Polaroid - just no! It's going to fail as miserably as the Atari. How did the Orient Express actually won against the Concorde? So Warner Bros will be quiet about Lego bringing a train in the same size of a Hogwarts Express for ~100 € less? I doubt.
I wish lego had more medium styled sets like the newer built styles for medium builds. Lego has $10-40 sets with around 100-500 pieces. There’s also $50-$150 sets with 800 -1200 pieces. I wish we had more detailed scales builds for $200 like the UCS A wing. Lego won’t make sets that are worth the price anymore. Look at the last 10 adult sets they’re all massive over $300 builds
I think there were better options for 3. I do like the orient express as long as they dont ruin it. I can't see the others aside from the Polaroid camera being big sellers.
I might get the insect set; it can fit the Botanical collection as you said, and the birds set if you have it. The polaroid is interesting but don't care for it. The Arty space set looks cool could be used as bookends and is kept to the fan material as the movement with the shapes is really well done.
I've looked at a couple of theses detailed train models and I believe it was usually the case that the train would fit a straight track, but couldn't make turns on a curved track (because it was too long). So I'm not sure if even the original design of the Orient Express would work with city tracks.
Ok, this is from the author "The curve of the standard LEGO tracks is much too tight... ", so no, the original design would not be compatible with city tracks. We'll see what Lego chooses - design compromise and track compatible or detailed accurate display model.
I’ve had a highly detailed long Polar Express built and it’s definitely possible to design the train to run on city track. I’m hoping this is the direction they go with.
I've seen MOCs of the famous Big Boy locomotive that can work on the CITY tracks, and that's a very long train. But in honesty, what Lego really just needs to do is make different sizes of the tracks. One gauge for larger trains and one for the smaller CITY theme trains and trams.
@@BriQFoundation I actually do like the train and love trains in general. My issue is I don't have space to run a lego train. And why do I think this will be really expensive. PS, on a side note. I ordered this 3D printed Lego round train support that fits on a Christmas tree from Etsy. Will allow me to run a motorized HP train. (The smaller Target exclusive one.) Hope it works!
If the train fits on LEGO track then it’s a day one purchase for me. If it doesn’t fit on track then it’s probably gonna miss out on being added to my collection.
As much as I love the design of the Orient Express, it looks like the fan designer already made it to the scale of the Hogwarts Express and put it on a similar hand built track. So despite the description saying he wanted to create something akin to the "Crocodile Locomotive", the design itself seems to say the opposite and looks like another giant and expensive display piece. So I hope the designer and LEGO really take the feedback they received about the Hogwarts Express from the community and finally deliver another practical and desirable locomotive that can be motorized.
I liked the selection but was disappointed to see Castle of Brickwood Forest not succeed. I know we Castle fans have been luckily but this is a fantastic addition to the designers other set, Castle in the Forest.
Who would want to buy a brick model of a Polaroid camera, when the real, fully functional thing is (again) easily available and even cheaper?! Plus you cannot use SX-70 film packs in a 600 series camera. Bummer. "Ideas" are not enough, sometimes thinking is required.
Lego: Oh you like this movie and want a train set based on it? The people: YES!!!! I'm so excited this will go great with my other trains in my.. Lego: it'll be a display set The people: .... Lego: yeah best we can do really it won't run at all
As a massive Lego train fan, I truly hope that it can run on Lego train track, and that it is the UCS style (like the crocodile locomotive), but also I’m a bit sad that we didn’t get the Concorde or Boeing 747 cockpit.
We were never getting the cockpit, and we never will. It's much too niche and it goes against the Lego philosophy of having "complete builds" in their sets.
To each their own, but the "art" sets the Ideas team always seems to gravitate towards bore me to tears, as do the buildable to-scale (or near-scale) versions of real life objects. Apparently they're allergic to actually cool, interesting ideas like modular buildings or steampunk airships. *Occasionally* they throw us who like more conventional subjects for LEGO sets a bone like Barracuda Bay or the Blacksmith, but that's about it.
I’ve had to stop buying Lego for now. Sucks. Just don’t have the extra budget these days. I’ve been taking apart the 3 in 1 kits and doing the alt builds. Been fun
I know it's an unpopular opinion, but I love the scale of the most recent Hogwarts Express. Bumping it up made it look so much better than the previous iteration.
I completely understand. I do believe its a beautiful set. Like I’ve always said… It would a appeal to a small portion of the LEGO community. However, if LEGO wanted to sell a ton… Make the train fit on tracks.
Hey ik this like 11 months old but the train is now confirmed to be able to fit on the lego train track and definitely looks like its gona be able to be powered up as well!
Hi I just can’t get the logic of Lego to take a Train from Lego Ideas Contest? What was wrong just to make a Lego Train without connecting it to Ideas and select something more creative set for Ideas Line… Im happy for train fans and I also ok with this, but still…
I couldn't agree more! I really hope that Tales of the Space Age is not heavily modified, and that the Orient Express actually runs on LEGO track pieces.
Lego track pieces are really restrictive in a scale sense
@@tencents49 I agree. So they should make larger track, or better yet, a system of flexible rails that can be made to whatever scale is necessary.
Running it on track might not even work because it's driving wheels aren't even flanged meaning they can't grab on to the rails only the front and And back small wheels can do it
I think the picks make sense to fit their existing product lines.
The space set is like a Lego Art set.
The Polaroid Camera is similar to the Typewriter as you point out. It's also nostalgic which a lot of their adult sets are.
The insects will go well with the Botanical as you also point out.
And the train fits with other Lego trains.
Wish they had picked the Steampunk ship though.
Because the Polar Express is tied to an IP, a better way for it to have a chance of winning is for it to be submitted not as “The Polar Express” but as the Pere Marquette 1225. That way is doesn’t have a copyright weighing down its chances.
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8 studs wide for the Orient Express would be the best fit for many actual static model collectors. It would fit well!
Here’s hoping for a beautiful train!
Here's hoping it isn't 500 dollars also lol
@@macdaddy2344 yeahhhh
Its 10 studs wide
@@macdaddy2344 if it is. Let’s hope it have two-three cars
I 100% agree, Lego need to respect the designs and not stray too far. We voted for them on the basis of how they looked in the original submission. If they stay true I will defo be buying the bugs, camera and space ones though. They are brilliant.
Thank you for watching Laura! Here’s hoping for some great LEGO ideas sets in the future!
I’m more concerned about they copying existing fans’ designs.
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As a photographer, I'm very happy about the Polaroid being approved. The train and space age sets are awesome also.
Lego did two amazing things this round: they approved four! sets, and two of them are affordable.
Hopefully lego will stay as close as possible to the original designs
YES!!! My thoughts exactly with the Orient Express. I can't wait for it but I REALLY hope they keep it regular train scale
What got me in to the Ideas theme was the awesome and eclectic builds that could be put out at a really affordable price point, things like Tron, Ecto 1, Dinosaur skeletons, Big Bang Theory, Ship in a bottle, Flintstones etc all for under £100, sometimes well under £100. This meant you could get a really nice collection together without breaking the bank. Now we have Typewriter, Home Alone, Lighthouse, Grand Piano, Globe, Treehouse, Table Football and more all over £200 each, some well over! So while it's good that these insects and space images etc look to be back to the lower price point, the Orient Express is another that looks to be over £200. Basically I'd just like to see them go back to smaller affordable sets and stay there.
The orient express needs to be able to go on Lego track but stay bigger
I will be immensely disappointed if the train won't fit on a standard track.. please don't mess this up LEGO..
The train pick actually surprised me, especially after the Hogwarts Express was just released. Hopefully it doesn’t end up being as expensive.
The sets won't be out for awhile, so there's plenty of time for the dust to settle on the Hogwarts Express set. I agree that the scale should match the original build, rather than being a huge detailed replica.
@@jardex2275 that’s a good point, could easily be quite awhile until it gets released.
Birds was an early ideas favourite of mine and insects feels similar in terms of theme. It makes me a little sad that the sea creatures didn’t get through in the target vote as I thought they looked fantastic.
Does anybody know when we will get to see the GWP's/promo's for November?
I agree. I've been disappointed in a lot of the recent design choices by the Lego designers. I still haven't forgiven them for what they did Jazz Quartet -- The first time I saw the woman piano player I saw E.T.
Very true. I was disappointed they didn't include a phone piece as an accessory.
I. Am. Screaming. I’ve wanted LEGO bugs for a LONG time, and as a fan of the botanical sets I agree that they’ll look fantastic together. Definitely a day 1 purchase for me if the end result looks even half as good as the fan design.
The steam train in the thumbnail I love that
I'm sorry but that space one is a terrible pick. Lego will probably sell them for $50. Why the hell would anyone waste money on that when you can just build the damn thing just by looking at it yourself.
There are many sets LEGO sell that you can build by just looking at them.
I am Hoping in the next round we get minifigure scale sets, like goonies.
I hate these LEGO cameras, consoles etc
was super concerned when the boxes were blacked out and the video section was titled "lego and sex"
I think they are going to murder it on the Orient Express design…
Sad the steampunk airship didn't make it. that would be awesome
As a Lego train fan I 100% agree on what you said. Personally I would have preferred the Polar Express. But if they make this orient express as big as the new Hogwarts one I'll be completely priced out.
Also I love the space designs and if Lego doesn't stay true to them and makes a worse model I might just go and buy the necessary pieces on bricklink and build them myself.
As a guy who absolutely loves trains, the Orient Express set looks amazing. HOWEVER, the problem I think it will have is being able to be turned into an operating piece. By the looks of it, the drive wheels are not real and are just fake. To me it doesn't look like it would be a functional model aside from putting either a 9v motor on the tender (coal car if you don't know the proper term) or trying to fit some sort of remote control system in the tender either. The thing LEGO needs to understand about their train line of sets is there genuinely is a market out there for realistic but also functional sets.
Brick Model Railroader and other groups have made fantastic looking models, though they cost quite a lot of money due to their brick count (some being over $2,000 by the end of it). The other thing about their models is they use non-LEGO parts in various places to compensate for official parts not actually existing. A perfect example of a failed set to me was the Emerald Night set they released so long ago now. Why do I say it failed? Well the 1st problem was it didn't even come with Power Functions to begin with and that had to be purchased separately. Not to mention adding it ruined the overall aesthetic of the locomotive. The other was the side rod issue with them constantly jamming, then owners having to refit the loco quite a bit so it would work properly and not constantly get stuck. The Polar Express set to me seems to have a similar design issue with using Technic parts as the side rods...unless that problem could be solved somehow, it would probably have the same issue. What I DO hope LEGO does with this Orient Express set is make it so it can run of LEGO track, either by having the drivers functional or a hideable way to put remote control in it.
The BMR people have done exactly this, even with their larger models, and they use a 8 stud wide standard. They took the 40 stud radius curves into consideration with most of them and worked around that limit. Yes, there are quite a few of their models that can only operate on larger radius curves, but generally I think LEGO themselves would benefit from actually making official track like that. Train guys would eat it up I'm sure.
Link to Brick Model Railroader Vid at train show: th-cam.com/video/y2MBLhm3syI/w-d-xo.html
The other sets in the lineup are rather creative and genuinely fit well as there is something for many kinds of collectors to buy. They did well with selecting them.
As a railfan I find the inclusion of a steam locomotive interesting, The one on my pfp is CNJ 833 which was a Pacific built by Baldwin for Passenger use first on the Blue Comet then later saw service in Eastern PA during World War II and into the 1950s.
Not sure if TH-cam auto named the chapters when you mouse over the timebar, but Lego ''Insects' makes waaaaay more sense than I thought was going to be covered :D
Tales of the Space Age can be made using pieces bought at the LEGO store or Bricklink for pretty cheap IMO
True. I was actually thinking of doing this myself. However, I hope the simplicity means that Tales of the Space Age releases soon, and is relatively affordable.
@@kentslocum I doubt it will be affordable. I feel like lego ideas should be sets that I can’t easily make using a lego creators set. Don’t get me wrong it’s a beautiful design but it will literally cost lego nothing and they’ll charge an arm and a leg for it. Love the design though.
@@shadowclawclaw3 I suppose you're right. It's been years since "LEGO" and "Affordable" appeared in the same sentence together.
Hope they keep the sets the way the designers made them. Looks like the fans know more about creating builds.
That’s definitely the sentiment that most people have been feeling lately
if the train is standard 8 stud, fitting lego track then i'm getting multiples.
Exactly how I feel!
The heck... The 2nd chapter is called "lego and sex" rather than "lego insects" lmao...
As a fan of Lego Space, I’m excited for the Space set because it’s a nice small model & not something ridiculously expensive as I’ve seen with some other ideas sets recently.
I'm worried Lego is going to up the complexity of the space set to reach a higher price point. Its nearly perfect as is.
Exactly!
Absolutely agree. I cannot wait for the lego train idea being a fan. I love the emerald night train set and wish they went with that route more. So I hope the success of this will motivate them
Depending on the final product the Orient Express might be my first Lego train. But worried it'll be priced over $300, which would become more than I'm will to spend. Also concerned about the color, as the room I display Lego in has dark walls, so darker sets aren't super visible. As much as I love the UCS 1989 Batmobile set, I can't see it that well in this space.
What if you display the train in front of something like a photo? You could find a print of the kind of landscape the Orient Express would’ve traveled through and put it in a frame, with the train displayed in front of it. That way you have a background for the train to contrast against, as well as a pretty picture, so it’s like a little diorama.
The problems with the orient would probably be
-the buffers being problematic when considering cross compatibility
-price
-side rods
Still no word on the November VIP/GWP?
FULL LEGO PROMO CALENDAR RELEASING TONIGHT!
ALL TRAINS ARE 6 WIDE, SO I WOULDNT EVEN CONSIDER THE TRAIN. HOW WOULD IT RUN ON THOSE TIGHT TRAIN CORNERS ??
The tracks are 6 wide… Not specifically the train.
I'm just happy to see some more original builds not just another old TV show set.
For a while Ideas lost the fun unique builds that made it special and was drifting towards only making large expensive sets.
Hopefully this is a sign they still want to have a larger variety
Yo Marc! November is next week! Time for Upcoming November sets video! BriQFolks needs to strategize! Cheers!
Loving the Polaroid camera and Orient Express!
I'm a bit disappointed about the selection. I hoped the Sherlock Holmes Baker Street building was picked, but not this time... Maybe through the BrickLink designer program then.
I'm not very excited about this round. I'll be definitely getting insects, but not the other 3. The Orient Express is nice, but I don't have space to have a running train & don't want a purely display piece. I would have preferred if it had a few minifigures in period attire
It feels like each of the selections fit within a current Lego theme as well. As you said, the bugs look like something that would fit with the Botanical theme. The camera seems like an Icon set. Tales from the Space Age feels like an art piece, similar to the popular Starry Night set. The Orient Express falls into the display vehicles theme, just like the Titanic and Hogwarts Express sets. All four were great picks, and I'm glad they didn't do an IP set this time.
I thought IP and licensing fees were spread across all Lego products, rather than the licensed sets?
Macintosh 1 would be cool
a Lego mural of Steve would be nice but it would be ungodly expensive
The hopeful thing with the Orient Express set is that the Lego Designer team has explicitly stated in an article online that they will not be returning to the large scale of the Hogwarts Express set anytime soon. I pray this is the truth. Can't wait to see what they come up with for these!
Tales of a space age i got a couple or so months ago as a display piece and omg its so amazing i love it! I want this stuff too because im getting back into lego again after many years sense i was a child i loved Legos. Im 19, now but im gettkng back into them because their apart of my childhood and im trying to revisit my childhood
I love the space design and the camera, depending on how they turn out i'd strongly consider buying them.
Hoping to pick up Castle of Brickwood Forest in a future Bricklink designer's program.
I'm not tryna see another foosball table disaster
oh my god they finally listened to us?!?! they made lego sets actually affordable instead of being over-expensive and for the rich?!?!?!?
no...?
oh... well i havent been able to pick up a decently sized set for a genuinely sane price since 2013 and i guess itll remain that way.
Interesting. I personally feel in most cases they improved the design. One exception for me was the Jazz Quartet, but for example Typewriter, or Pirates of Barracuda Bay were majorly improved in my view. Of course these things are subjective.
I agree with you about Pirates of Barracuda Bay
I did like the pianist design in the updated jazz quartet. The stage upgrade was the worst though. Still bought it though!
@@Jonathan-fu5hx Totally agree. The pianist was certainly improved. I did buy it too and still love it, but there was an elegance in the original that was lost in the redesign.
I love the essential idea of LEGO IDEAS, but sometimes I wonder what makes them think that certain sets are worth to be produced and to be sold. Look at the table football - a failure and waaaaayyy overprised. How can the house from Hocus Pocus win against Ichirakus ramen restaurant from Naruto or the Soyuz rocket (finally some not NASA affiliated space set)...?! Same thing goes out to the Polaroid - just no! It's going to fail as miserably as the Atari. How did the Orient Express actually won against the Concorde? So Warner Bros will be quiet about Lego bringing a train in the same size of a Hogwarts Express for ~100 € less? I doubt.
Are you doing a November promo calendar soon???
I wish lego had more medium styled sets like the newer built styles for medium builds. Lego has $10-40 sets with around 100-500 pieces. There’s also $50-$150 sets with 800 -1200 pieces. I wish we had more detailed scales builds for $200 like the UCS A wing. Lego won’t make sets that are worth the price anymore. Look at the last 10 adult sets they’re all massive over $300 builds
I think there were better options for 3. I do like the orient express as long as they dont ruin it. I can't see the others aside from the Polaroid camera being big sellers.
I might get the insect set; it can fit the Botanical collection as you said, and the birds set if you have it. The polaroid is interesting but don't care for it. The Arty space set looks cool could be used as bookends and is kept to the fan material as the movement with the shapes is really well done.
I really like the space "paintings" 3:01
Oh man I want that camera!!! Takes me back to my childhood.
I've looked at a couple of theses detailed train models and I believe it was usually the case that the train would fit a straight track, but couldn't make turns on a curved track (because it was too long). So I'm not sure if even the original design of the Orient Express would work with city tracks.
Ok, this is from the author "The curve of the standard LEGO tracks is much too tight... ", so no, the original design would not be compatible with city tracks. We'll see what Lego chooses - design compromise and track compatible or detailed accurate display model.
I’ve had a highly detailed long Polar Express built and it’s definitely possible to design the train to run on city track. I’m hoping this is the direction they go with.
I've seen MOCs of the famous Big Boy locomotive that can work on the CITY tracks, and that's a very long train. But in honesty, what Lego really just needs to do is make different sizes of the tracks. One gauge for larger trains and one for the smaller CITY theme trains and trams.
Extremely disappointed with these choices. None of interest at all to me. I guess it’s great to save cash lol. Were so many better choices though
Damnit! Why was the Lancia Delta not approved?!
Not a bad choice of what got approved. But the Concorde was a missed opportunity!!!!
Lionel owns the Polar Express locomotive production rights. They'd have to wait until that contract is up to make a polar express set I think.
Ngl I would love to see a lego Flying Scotsman as a lego ideas set in the future
All very well done but none overly excite me sadly.
The train definitely has me excited but the others seem they might be great small build sellers.
@@BriQFoundation I actually do like the train and love trains in general. My issue is I don't have space to run a lego train. And why do I think this will be really expensive. PS, on a side note. I ordered this 3D printed Lego round train support that fits on a Christmas tree from Etsy. Will allow me to run a motorized HP train. (The smaller Target exclusive one.) Hope it works!
You mention about liking Lego Space. Are you aware of the new Blacktron set coming out early next year?
Tales of the space age 7 months ago: Idk guys, they may ruin it.
Tales of the space age now: So far the best set of 2023
They turned down the polar express WHY it looks good how many times has it been turned down
If the train fits on LEGO track then it’s a day one purchase for me. If it doesn’t fit on track then it’s probably gonna miss out on being added to my collection.
As much as I love the design of the Orient Express, it looks like the fan designer already made it to the scale of the Hogwarts Express and put it on a similar hand built track. So despite the description saying he wanted to create something akin to the "Crocodile Locomotive", the design itself seems to say the opposite and looks like another giant and expensive display piece. So I hope the designer and LEGO really take the feedback they received about the Hogwarts Express from the community and finally deliver another practical and desirable locomotive that can be motorized.
A Polaroid camera and a blue butterfly? Life is strange Lego set
So funny story...
It's a year later and he had every reason to be worried for the Orient Express
I liked the selection but was disappointed to see Castle of Brickwood Forest not succeed. I know we Castle fans have been luckily but this is a fantastic addition to the designers other set, Castle in the Forest.
I’m just sad that the Lego Thomas set didn’t survive the last few rounds
Who would want to buy a brick model of a Polaroid camera, when the real, fully functional thing is (again) easily available and even cheaper?! Plus you cannot use SX-70 film packs in a 600 series camera. Bummer. "Ideas" are not enough, sometimes thinking is required.
Lego: Oh you like this movie and want a train set based on it?
The people: YES!!!! I'm so excited this will go great with my other trains in my..
Lego: it'll be a display set
The people: ....
Lego: yeah best we can do really it won't run at all
As a massive Lego train fan, I truly hope that it can run on Lego train track, and that it is the UCS style (like the crocodile locomotive), but also I’m a bit sad that we didn’t get the Concorde or Boeing 747 cockpit.
We were never getting the cockpit, and we never will.
It's much too niche and it goes against the Lego philosophy of having "complete builds" in their sets.
@@VitZ9 I know, but one can always hope.
There’s no way those space builds won’t be changed.
I'm still waiting for realistic Union Pacific Big Boy.
HOLD ON, I NEED THE TALES OF SPACE AGE ASAP.
I so badly wanted the pneumatic steam engine, but I'm still exited for the Polaroid camera.
Look they did two Friends sets. All I'm asking for is another tron legacy ideas set
I don't understand how the orient express got through, but the big boy didn't.
To each their own, but the "art" sets the Ideas team always seems to gravitate towards bore me to tears, as do the buildable to-scale (or near-scale) versions of real life objects. Apparently they're allergic to actually cool, interesting ideas like modular buildings or steampunk airships. *Occasionally* they throw us who like more conventional subjects for LEGO sets a bone like Barracuda Bay or the Blacksmith, but that's about it.
I’ve had to stop buying Lego for now. Sucks. Just don’t have the extra budget these days. I’ve been taking apart the 3 in 1 kits and doing the alt builds. Been fun
If you love space and train, have you gotten Astrotrain?
I know it's an unpopular opinion, but I love the scale of the most recent Hogwarts Express. Bumping it up made it look so much better than the previous iteration.
I completely understand. I do believe its a beautiful set. Like I’ve always said… It would a appeal to a small portion of the LEGO community. However, if LEGO wanted to sell a ton… Make the train fit on tracks.
I agree. Would look better at Hogwarts Express scale
The Polaroid Camera and Space Art is pretty cool!
I feel the same!
Hey ik this like 11 months old but the train is now confirmed to be able to fit on the lego train track and definitely looks like its gona be able to be powered up as well!
It can’t be powered up with the instructions but you can probably mod it
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I just can’t get the logic of Lego to take a Train from Lego Ideas Contest? What was wrong just to make a Lego Train without connecting it to Ideas and select something more creative set for Ideas Line… Im happy for train fans and I also ok with this, but still…
Sucks that the Lancia Delta Integrale didn't get the nod.
I love the insects, im glad that he got one of his ideas to become a set. I love watching his videos
Still wish they had released the rammstein stage. Got through so quick and then got canned even though rammstein were on board
if the train doesn’t run on lego tracks, i’m just not buying it.
Sadly I don’t care about any of these 4 sets
I feel you… I’ve felt that way with many prior LEGO Ideas selections
Im still mad about the James Webb space telescope
My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
Lego promised us a decent train every year. Maybe they are being true to their word (finally).
I would LOVE a lego polar express and would absolutely want it
Great vid, i agree with you, Marc. Lego - please stay true to the design, and many will want to motorize the orient express.
Yes! Motorize!