Next Ideas set revealed early by retailer!

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Polaroid OneStep SX-70 Camera

Polaroid OneStep SX-70 Camera

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Photos of 21345 Polaroid Camera have been published by a Polish retailer ahead of its official reveal.

The set, which is the 53rd one to result from the Ideas programme, is likely to be available on January 1st, despite the retailer quoting an earlier date. Its price is not stated, but given it comprises just 516 pieces, I would hope that it won't be too expensive.

View photos after the break, then let us know what you think in the comments!

Via Jay's Brick Blog.

55 comments on this article

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By in United States,

@Huw I’ve seen by Falcon Fan and Brick Clicker say it is supposed to be $80. It could be raised though, the X-Jet and Spider-Man car revealed today were rumored to be about $5 cheaper.

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By in United Kingdom,

Very intriguing! Are the photos printed on some kind of plastic board? I’m impressed that the actual functionality of the camera can be approximated too, based on the box art.

I also find it funny we’re getting two brick built cameras this year. Something something two nickels, etc.

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By in Poland,

dimensions seems very small

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By in United States,

Decent enough of a model, just not one which holds my interest.

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By in Czechia,

Imagine Lego back in the '80s or '90s producing these useless sets.. What will be next? Flushing toilet or rocking chair?

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By in Denmark,

@RUL said:
" Imagine Lego back in the '80s or '90s producing these useless sets.. What will be next? Flushing toilet or rocking chair?"

Whew, what LEGO piece did you step on today?

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By in United States,

@RUL said:
" Imagine Lego back in the '80s or '90s producing these useless sets.. What will be next? Flushing toilet or rocking chair?"

If I'm not mistaken, there was toilet Lego idea that made it 10,000 but wasn't produced, not to mention the rejected "Sewer heroes", which had a team fighting a fatberg. Also, the latest Ninjago modular has a working toilet.

So, basically, it's possible? Plus, kids love bathroom humor, and thus it sells sets. Port-o-potty's are all over CITY, and a few other themes have them too. If you don't like it, don't buy it.

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By in Canada,

Stickers on the actual camera?!

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By in United States,

I hope this isn't too expensive, I'd love to add it to my retro tech shelf.

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By in United States,

For this amount of money, wouldn’t most of us prefer an actual working Polaroid camera instead of a brick built one?

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By in Netherlands,

Looks pretty cool, too bad about those stickers though.

And at first I thought the picture on the back had a building error with that text all the way to the left, but a bit of Googling shows that both variations are actually accurate.

I've never used a Polaroid camera (closest thing was a Pogo printer) so not that much nostalgia for me, but at e decent price I might get this one.

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By in United States,

Lego's like playboy carti with how much of their stuff gets leaked/revealed early

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By in United States,

Very happy for my friend Minibrick whose project this is. I think it turned out great, even if the price is rough. Day one for me

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By in Netherlands,

@jschwarz said:
"For this amount of money, wouldn’t most of us prefer an actual working Polaroid camera instead of a brick built one?"

Hell no! Getting the camera is one thing. But unlike with digital cameras nowadays those pictures ain't free!

At some point I did get myself a film camera again, and while going back to old school photography sure has its charm, for most part it's just cumbersome and expensive.

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By in United States,

@RUL said:
" Imagine Lego back in the '80s or '90s producing these useless sets.. What will be next? Flushing toilet or rocking chair?"

I wouldnt mind a flushing toilet with 1000x 1x1 trans blue plates :P

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By in Netherlands,

@RUL said:
" Imagine Lego back in the '80s or '90s producing these useless sets.. What will be next? Flushing toilet or rocking chair?"

I actually still have a Lego ideas book from the 70s with stuff like a typewriter or a telephone. Non-functional obviously. The only difference is Lego only sold you the idea, nowadays they sell you the set.

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By in Netherlands,

I think it’s a gorgeous model. Nice colors, nice shaping. Would be nice if they let you make designs yourself online (with custom lego versions of yourself) to print out.

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By in Netherlands,

@RUL said:
" Imagine Lego back in the '80s or '90s producing these useless sets.. What will be next? Flushing toilet or rocking chair?"
Well, Lego is about building as well you know. Not only playing, besides you can play with it too! So not useless at all. Plus great looking as well!

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By in United States,

@Murdoch17 said:
" @RUL said:
" Imagine Lego back in the '80s or '90s producing these useless sets.. What will be next? Flushing toilet or rocking chair?"

If I'm not mistaken, there was toilet Lego idea that made it 10,000 but wasn't produced, not to mention the rejected "Sewer heroes", which had a team fighting a fatberg. Also, the latest Ninjago modular has a working toilet.

So, basically, it's possible? Plus, kids love bathroom humor, and thus it sells sets. Port-o-potty's are all over CITY, and a few other themes have them too. If you don't like it, don't buy it."


They did make the toilet set. 31210.

Granted, it's not in Duchamp's legendary style. But, rumour has it that he borrowed that idea anyway. ×_×

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By in United States,

This is an incredibly faithful rendition of the Polaroid One Step SX 70, and the designer deserves huge props for the result. And as great as it is, it holds little interest for me. My favorite was always the original SX-70, which was a folding SLR camera and, I believe, the first polaroid that did not require the peeling off of a cover sheet from the ejected film. It was less mod and provided far better image quality. (I am sure someone will correct me if I have misstated that.) For those who do not recall or never knew, Polaroid cameras, Land or otherwise, provided the (almost) instant gratification of digital in a film world, albeit at a substantial price premium. They were also valued for the privacy they afforded compared to film that needed to be developed by third parties.

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By in Australia,

Doesn’t really look all that substantial (or exciting). But I’m a sucker for the retro style sets so..

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By in United Kingdom,

Absolutely love this and will be one of my 1st New Year purchases. Very pleased to see includes both names. '1000' plus the US 'One Step'.

No need for the real version as I still have the original one I bought for Christmas 1979. Great fun but SO expensive to run!

I'd really love it to include a sound brick to produce the iconic sound it made when each photo ejected but I guess that's a bit too ambitious!

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By in United States,

@legomaniac said:
" @RUL said:
" Imagine Lego back in the '80s or '90s producing these useless sets.. What will be next? Flushing toilet or rocking chair?"

I wouldnt mind a flushing toilet with 1000x 1x1 trans blue plates :P "

Shouldn't there be some yellow ones in there?

@sjr60: Are they even still making sound bricks any more? But yes, that would be fun.

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By in Belgium,

Iconic an retro camera but as a Lego model dull and nothing but a coloured cube. Very easy pass.

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By in Poland,

@Brickodillo said:
" @RUL said:
" Imagine Lego back in the '80s or '90s producing these useless sets.. What will be next? Flushing toilet or rocking chair?"
Well, Lego is about building as well you know. Not only playing, besides you can play with it too! So not useless at all. Plus great looking as well!
"


I distinctly remember playing with my sets after I built them, but what do I know, I was just a stupid kid that diverted Lego's resources from placating AFOLs who wanted Ultimate Dust Collector sets after all.

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By in Netherlands,

Not really happy about this trend of putting stickers in IDEAS sets. :(
So far, stickers have been really rare for this theme. I could rationalize it for the Orient Express with all the different city names, but for this set a two small printed tiles wouldn't be a big investment. Hope this doesn't set a trend for cutting corners in the IDEAS theme.

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By in Italy,

80 Euros seems a robbery tbh
I hardly complain about Lego prices, but this seems to high of a price

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By in Malaysia,

@Tc99m said:
"Not really happy about this trend of putting stickers in IDEAS sets. :(
So far, stickers have been really rare for this theme. I could rationalize it for the Orient Express with all the different city names, but for this set a two small printed tiles wouldn't be a big investment. Hope this doesn't set a trend for cutting corners in the IDEAS theme."


The city names are printed actually. That's the reason it's still not been rectified by issuing new sticker.

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By in Malaysia,

I thought this would be an actual-sized model of the real camera. Looks like it's only half as big.

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By in United Kingdom,

@NelsonDone said:
"I thought this would be an actual-sized model of the real camera. Looks like it's only half as big."
Not half as big. The Lego one's only slightly under full size.
HxW - Lego 9 x 9cm .... Real 9.2 × 10.8cm

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By in New Zealand,

I want the box of cassettes in the lifestyle photo.

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By in United Kingdom,

@namekuji said:
"I want the box of cassettes in the lifestyle photo."
Groot will sort you out!

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By in United Kingdom,

I don't get it. Its such a niche thing. Like someone said id rather use the money towards a real camera.

I understood the typewriter because it was all about creating a mechanism that worked. This is impressive by the fact it looks remarkably close to the original, but so much so that I just see it as being a pointless dummy of the original camera that pretty much does nothing.

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By in Austria,

Not my cup of tea. If I want an "antique" polaroid I can get a real one on Ebay (and probably cheaper than the Lego set).

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By in Netherlands,

First day buy for me. Will look great besides the real one.
The photo coming out off the camera (on the box), is a lego-fied portret of Edwin Land, the inventor of the Polaroid system.

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By in United Kingdom,

I think it's a clever idea, I'm just not sure I want it. I liked the 3 in 1 camera, but the alternative creations did dissuade me from wanting the set.

The price and the novelty put me off I think.

I don't have an issue with stickers, it's interesting to note that the cites are printed on the OE, although they could send out stickers or bricks to correct the mistakes.

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By in Jordan,

It looks pretty good IMO, and the function is cool. The rumoured price kills any real interest I had for it unfortunately.

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By in Netherlands,

@Tc99m said:
"Not really happy about this trend of putting stickers in IDEAS sets. :(
So far, stickers have been really rare for this theme. I could rationalize it for the Orient Express with all the different city names, but for this set a two small printed tiles wouldn't be a big investment. Hope this doesn't set a trend for cutting corners in the IDEAS theme."


Same with Creator in the case of 31147 : Retro Camera , the set is much cheaper however, and the stickers are semi-transparent, which might be the main reason.

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By in United States,

Day one purchase for me! Love this set.

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By in United Kingdom,

@jschwarz said:
"For this amount of money, wouldn’t most of us prefer an actual working Polaroid camera instead of a brick built one?"

Here, you can buy a working used Polaroid camera for about £5 from a boot sale. Then it's about £5 per photo if you want to actually use it. It's better to gut it and stick in an ESP32CAM instead. If this LEGO one was a bit bigger, putting an ESP32CAM inside might make a fun toy camera.

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By in Netherlands,

@Zink said:
"I think it's safe to say: we do not care at all about this."
Would you have preferred a Polaroid Pogo using ZINK technology?

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By in United States,

@Metalizer7734 said:
"dimensions seems very small"

That's just because they don't sell any of the add-on sets anymore.

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By in Germany,

Looks like a 49.99 Euro/Dollar max set to me.

So it's probably going to be double that...

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By in United Kingdom,

LEGO is often about making models of the things we see around us. There’s no difference in choosing an old camera as the source material than an old train. And this is a lovely rendition of a Polaroid. It’s not quite my cup of tea, but the design and execution looks faithful and accurate at first glance. And for those fans of this genre it will surely sit well next to the Atari or the typewriter. It’s certainly no less functional than 76419, which is a lovely model of a building.

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By in Netherlands,

@AustinPowers said:
"Looks like a 49.99 Euro/Dollar max set to me.

So it's probably going to be double that... "


Almost. € 79.99. Not as funny as the X-Men jet, but still not exactly cheap.

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By in United States,

I want to see a review before deciding whether or not to buy this. It does look like a great companion for 31147 Retro Camera, though. I won't say no to it right away.

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By in United States,

Almost as cool as the MegaBlox XBox 360 I found on clearance recently. And about as useful too. ;) Imagine getting either for Christmas when you wanted the real thing.
If I am going to build and display, I prefer LEGO art. Still waiting for the release of a Jackson Pollock or a Mondrian.

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By in United States,

I used to drive by the old Polaroid factory in Waltham, Massachusetts every day on my way to work for a decade. I'm tempted...

@jschwarz said:
"For this amount of money, wouldn’t most of us prefer an actual working Polaroid camera instead of a brick built one?"

That was a valid argument for 21337 where the game didn't even really work and it was very expensive.

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By in Poland,

Stuff like this are great to see as someone moc. As a set it just becomes unnevesary dustcollector

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By in United Kingdom,

Obviously the same sort of niche item as the Atari, and predictably getting the same daft 'you can get a real one cheaper' responses. Yes, of course you can, but that wouldn't be Lego, so rather misses the whole point!

I suspect that a large proportion of those who get the Lego Polaroid already have (or had) the original, so getting another real one is of no relevance.

The Atari is owned by 3192 members, so is pretty successful for a niche item. I have a feeling this will be similarly successful, being a bit of nostalgia coming from the same era.

I personally love the fact that Lego make items that obviously won't necessarily be to everyone's taste, rather than just sticking to 'safe' items.

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By in Malaysia,

@sjr60 said:
"Not half as big. The Lego one's only slightly under full size.
HxW - Lego 9 x 9cm .... Real 9.2 × 10.8cm"


Oops, I mistakenly thought the 3.5" as centimetres. Sorry, ignore my earlier comment.

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By in United Kingdom,

The push button mechanism to return the photos looks fun at first, but then I'm not sure what to do with it.

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By in United States,

@Zink said:
"I think it's safe to say: we do not care at all about this."
I think it's safe to say that you think you speak for everyone here. Did you eve read some of the other comments?

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