LEGO Ideas: 57 projects qualify

Usually 1/2 will make it.
At least 25 stand no chance because of copyright, just made a similar set and the themes lego ignores.

Love The Old Man and the Sea

My favorites:
Bob Ross is terrific and fits with the current style of other recent sets.

The Old Man and the Sea is truly beautiful and worthy of being a set, but I'm not sure the subject matter would be marketable.

Billy the Bass would be lots of fun . . . I wonder about getting the IP though.

Junkyard is amazing but probably too big . . . or would at least need to be scaled down.

Another terrific Appa! Sadly I'm sure it will be passed over like all other Avatar, the Last Airbender submissions.

Also - I'm surprised that Pizza Planet truck isn't excluded as it is a part of a current theme (Disney/Pixar). Cool model though.

Don't feel like buying any of these to be honest. The World of Studio Ghibli and the two roman ones might be the only exceptions.

I'd like to see the look on the Boeing 737 designer's face when a Boeing 747 set was announced by Lego earlier today.

ET and either the mushrooms or the bass will be picked, feels very obvious (especially the ET)

Not sure if the sitcom sets still are an almost guaranteed pick but I bet one of the many here will have a high chance.

In short, nothing that I would like to see picked.

Love the Daft Punk and Muppets set!

Power rangers is cool too for people who missed the Voltron one . hot take: very similar ?

As y’all can tell: my choices are very minifigure driven!

Those daft helmets and power rangers are so damn cool!

As someone who flew on Nolinor's fleet of Boeing 737-200 up to the Arctic quite a few times, colour me surprised at this model making the "shortlist", given the subject's limited notoriety (I imagine that Boeing drew more votes than Nolinor here). That said, congrats to the designer!

@CCC said:
"I'm hoping that they do TWICE: FANCY. Just to see they haven't learnt from the last one.

How did Ohio State band get through? I thought they had put a stop to specific sets like that when they banned university mascots and so on."

I'm more concerned about the lack of a definite article.

Guess "Book Nook" probably hasn't got much chance, given Lego has just announced a bunch of .... book nooks. Expect they are on the phone to the lawyer right now!

Modulars will never get picked, and some odd choices lately for Ideas, so who knows.

Love Enlighten Me is something a bit different, I like E.T, The Art of Japan and even the Fresh Prince. But much as I admire her, not the Tatay house please.

Some great options here! Lego will of course pick the most boring choices, but these are still great nonetheless.

Power Rangers and Christmas Vacation! *fingers crossed*

Can we all agree that LegoTruman is a treasure?

That La Catrina is not for me, but the build is stunning. I like the clock, but Technic stuff just doesn't seem to ever pass. The brick-built face is fantastic.

Boeing 737 is the only one I'd buy.

La Catrina and the tin robot are my favorites here.

I love Coraline the movie and Henry Selick's work, and some part of me would be pleased to see a project from it finally succeed, but I wonder if LEGO would put their name and PR behind something tangentially related to Neil Gaiman. Maybe he's removed enough from the film to let it pass. For better or worse, we've seen they will work with adaptations of controversial authors' work.

As usual, the review threshold proves too easy to reach, guaranteeing the majority of these projects no hope, and there are some that don't seem to belong. Would there even be a market for the lampposts on a bench? How many Taylor Swift "Lover" house rejections will it take before fans stop voting it in? That song and video are years old by now. Do Swifties really still find that particular moment so compelling? And how did the marching band guy make it? Just some campus student campaign from the university itself?

The Minimoog is gonna be the first time the lego model is less overpriced than the real thing.

At least we only have the one Taylor Swift entry this time round instead of the four or five that have popped up at once in the past.
Rooting for the Bob Ross one, personally, as it’s just a gorgeous landscape and I’d hope they’d make slightly customisable

So many beautiful and/or creative designs here - the level of creativity and skill is amazing. La Catrina is particularly striking to me - just wow.

At the same time, the main takeaway is that Lego needs to raise the 10k vote threshold, probably to at least 20k, because I'll be surprised if more than 1 or 2 of these gets approved for production.

They could institute some kind of award system where everyone whose design reaches 10k votes gets a small Lego gift card and public recognition or something - but having dozens of sets qualify is just silly given what we know about the likelihood of production.

I love Nolinor's Boeing 732-200. One flies right above my house a few times a day and brings workers to large mines in Arctic Canada.

It’s Grand Central Terminal!!!!!!! Grand Central Station in NYC is a public library.

I’d take the Pizza Planet Truck for…reasons. Art of Japan looks really cool. And HIMYM would get me my Alyson Hannigan minifig without having to line Joss Whedon’s pockets.

Can you imagine the sticker sheet for the periodic table. That would be a boring and frustrating set, having to align all those stickers.

Since Lego likes to include flowers with every set, it has to be E.T.

Would love the RNLI Lifeboat as set. Definite buy. Would be even better if the profits went to the charity.

Also NineNine!

I need those sitcom sets! Golden Girls, Fresh Prince, Gilmore Girls (technically not a sitcom, I know), How I Met... And a Griswold family Christmas house would be awesome. We need Ernest too, to save Christmas.

Running on fumes.

Bob Ross, old man and the sea, and the junkyard are all really cool

All of these, yet the only one that interests me is studio ghibli

Whatever happened to the Tintin moon rocket?

Studio Ghibli would be my choice. Who wouldn't want a brickbuilt Totoro?

I would buy the Bob Ross one on day one.

I would love to see separate IP and non IP reviews except that in this round none of the non-IP ones are particularly fun looking.

My pick if I could choose? Another Scooby Doo set, that theme was great all the way down.

Those two lantarns on the bench look pretty cute

@dimc said:
" @8BrickMario said:
"I love Coraline the movie and Henry Selick's work, and some part of me would be pleased to see a project from it finally succeed, but I wonder if LEGO would put their name and PR behind something tangentially related to Neil Gaiman. Maybe he's removed enough from the film to let it pass. For better or worse, we've seen they will work with adaptations of controversial authors' work. "

In Lego's defense re: Harry Potter (which I think is indefensible now), she either wasn't a raging transphobe when they started making the sets, or at least it wasn't known that she was. Gaiman is a known bad person, so anything they do with his works is starting out horribly and would frankly probably keep me from buying any more Legos. "

If we can't separate the art from its makers, many of which were flawed human beings, we might as well shelve a large portion of cultural achievements of the past few centuries. Not that we shouldn't be critical of the makers, because we should, but good art, music, movies, etc., will transcend their makers.

Some very well done and nicely designed sets, but nothings really screaming for me to have it in my collection.

I do rather like Waldorf and Statlers Balcony, but can't see it getting made as I think it'll be too flimsy to be a practical key holder.

for me: 1) Art of Japan, 2) La Catrina, 3) Portal 2, 4) Roman Temple, 5) Ramen

I quite like the Roman bath and the Roman temple, as well as the Ascensor Da Bica.

Will be interesting to see what is chosen (if anything). Personally nothing here that I would probably buy unless there are significant improvements or changes to the final designs.

right off the bat, sorry but the mushrooms, smurf village, haunted house, and DNA model are going to be the first to be disqualified for similarity to new sets. Nothing against the creators. They were obviously in the works long before the reveals.

I really want to see ATLA and Portal get another chance. it's clear the people want ET and National Lampoon lol but it would be interesting to see how Lego would navigate choosing one and not the other, or both.

@Spike730 said:
"This has jumped the shark a long time ago."

How?

@ALEXDTI said:
"they definitely need to put a rule where you can't re-submit your entry for X time/years and that similar stuff can't be chosen for X time/years"

Why?

@NHBrickworks said:
"I am disappointed in the lack of non-ip sets."

Perhaps as a percentage of the total, but in terms of absolute quantity? There are well over a dozen non-IP sets here, at least sixteen, maybe more. I remember when an entire batch would have just six or seven projects in total, not so many years ago. Just the non-IP projects alone here would have been enough to make this the largest review batch ever a decade or so ago.

@NHBrickworks said:
" I feel like Lego Ideas used to have a lot more variety of cool creative sets that didn't just make it because the are from something."

Perhaps, but again, I remember Ideas’ beginnings (as LEGO CUUSOO), when for the first few years every single approved set fell into at least one of just three categories that completely defined the whole theme:

• vehicles
• scientific exploration, discovery, and research
• pop-culture entertainment properties

… with many of the early sets falling into more than one of these. Now Ideas has all of those, but it also has buildings, instruments, animals, all kinds of stuff.

@kirkbauer said:
"This is getting out of hand. They need to limit how many votes each person can cast each year because there is no reason not to vote for pretty much everything."

Why?

@CCC said:
"Can you imagine the sticker sheet for the periodic table. That would be a boring and frustrating set, having to align all those stickers."

Yeah. This is really more of a general LEGO thing than an Ideas-specific one, but I’ll be the nth person to agree I really wish they’d go to printing more of their decorated elements.

@Andrusi said:
"Has there ever been a review period where they rejected everything?"

Yeah, it’s actually happened more than once. It’s kind of rare, now, what with the batches the last several years being so huge that there’s bound to be something that can be approved, but it has indeed happened.

Megazord, please!

@NHBrickworks said:
"I am disappointed in the lack of non-ip sets. I feel like Lego Ideas used to have a lot more variety of cool creative sets that didn't just make it because the are from something. That being said I would buy both the Pizza Planet Truck and Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated."

Pretty sure you can blame fan sites for this. They pick it up & I imagine a good number of their people sign up just to vote for it without any intention to buy it.

Studio Ghibli, right at the end there, is the only thing here that particularly appeals to me. I don't expect it to get approved, given how many previous projects based on Ghibli movies have been passed over, because from what I understand, Ghibli are (understandably) well known to be cautious of who they license their properties to. That said, they must not be entirely off the table or I'm sure Ideas would have removed them from the pool of allowed IPs by now, so who knows?

In any case, I do really like that one; the way it blends together iconic characters and scenes from many different movies into one single build, and does so neatly without looking cluttered. I don't have high expectations for its approval, but I'd love to be surprised!

Honestly, I'd like to see LEGO temporarily suspend IP-related submissions and see where the chips fall. These days, it seems more and more of the same--especially large sitcom dioramas. If they used that metric, only a handful of these would even qualify.

Power Rangers wouldn't surprise me in the least, given Hasbro has decided they'd make more money off of their own brands as IP, then actually producing products themselves. A Megazord could end up pretty well done. However, my Ollie's has had quite a few Lightning Collection figures they can't shift, even at DEEP discounts.

Really, honestly surprised we have yet to see a Portal set, given Chell has a minifig.

Same goes for Statler and Waldorf, as they already have minifigs. A LEGO Muppet Theater is long overdue.

E.T. (either), junkyard, or Japan for me.

All the previous Ghibli projects never made the cut, but I really hope we can see one someday. This one looks especially nice.

I want Coraline just for the house. Don't care for the film - too creepy!

Along those same lines of creepiness is Big Mouth Billy Bass, although you wouldn't catch me dead buying that - in Lego or otherwise!

@Murdoch17 said:
"I want Coraline just for the house. Don't care for the film - too creepy!

Along those same lines of creepiness is Big Mouth Billy Bass, although you wouldn't catch me dead buying that - in Lego or otherwise!"

I ended up with no less than three as a kid when they first came out. I think my grandmother hid every single one of them. They get annoying quick.

This is a very weak wave. The only ones that are interesting are the Medieval Knight and the Art of Japan.

Just give me Daft Punk and my money is yours, Lego

Some good ideas here. I think my favorite is the Halloween House, but the Scooby-Doo, Coraline, Christmas Vacation, and Pizza Planet Truck stand out in particular as well. Sadly, if recent results are any indication, the ones that ultimately get selected will probably the most underwhelming and/or niche of the bunch.

I'm still baffled that a review period that included not one but TWO Shrek's house submissions didn't select Shrek's house to be made into a set.

Congratulations to all the creators!
My top three would be:
THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
BOOKNOOK: STORY LABORATORY
LA CATRINA

These also pique my interest
Muppets: Statler & Waldorf's Balcony Key Rack
Kinetic Tin Toy
Ancient Roman Temple

Christmas Vacation and Megazord FTW!

Mary Poppins and the lampposts in love grab my eye. I’d be in for a Bob Ross - just not that particular build.

More Scooby-Doo! It's time again to have these characters on shelves again after a decade!

@King_J said: "I don't know that I'd buy it, but it would make my inner child happy knowing that a Power Rangers set exists in the world."

We already have Voltron. It'd be awesome to have the original Megazord as well.

If only the Griswold house could become a real set… I'd recreate the legendary "Shitter was full!" scene and so many others (e.g. 'Fried pussycat')

@mkrey said:
"I would buy the Bob Ross one on day one."
Gotta make some bold decisions here...

Everyone needs a friend...

Shake off the excess - and then beat the devil out of it...

And from all of us here I'd like to wish you happy painting, and God bless, my friend...

Rest in peace Bob!

Medieval Knight and Ancient Roman Temple have great presence.

I've always wanted a Lego model of a DNA molecule but I feel the execution here is lacking. It may be a case of the subject matter being too inherently difficult to represent in a form that's stable, accurate, and attractive.

The Periodic Table is iconic, but does not play to the strengths of the medium at all, in much the same way that the 1x1 round plate/tile mosaic sets didn't. There's absolutely no way we'd get 100+ unique prints in a single set, so you'd just end up with a floor of layered plates, 100+ blank 4x4 tiles, and 100+ stickers to apply.

Bob Ross is perfect, no notes.

The Old Man and the Sea is absolutely gorgeous, great colors and depth and sense of motion.

I once dabbled with designing my own Lego model of a Minimoog, so this interests me.

Art of Japan has fantastic composition and striking color blocking.

Grand Central Station is an expert rendition of classic architectural style.

As a final note, more than a quarter of this batch are just "Minifig-scale model of mundane main location from Movie/TV Show/Music Video" with no particular artistry or appeal beyond "I recognize that from mainstream entertainment." What is this, the dozenth iteration of the Taylor Swift house to qualify? Can we say "Please no more sitcom filming sets," or at least split them off into their own separate category?

My favorites: Old Man in the Sea, Doofinschmirtz, Junkyard

@ha21 said:
"Another Ideas review batch is mostly filled with submissions that have already been rejected before. It's obvious people are just farming for free lego; it's beyond time that Lego either put a limit on resubmissions or limit the free lego for 10k votes to once per user per lifetime, with the subsequent rewards granted if the submission is actually turned into a set."

Sincerely, why?

Mostly a VERY ordinary bunch of MOC’s - better than I could do, but mostly very uninspiring, and from mostly obscure IP’s, or themes that have been done already (or done to death!)

Junkyard is really interesting and novel, as is Art of Japan - would consider buying those two.

I think we can be pretty sure that the Coraline set is going to be the first one to be rejected...

I like the Roman temple, but the Romans... what have they ever done for us eh?

@woosterlegos said:
"La Catrina, Bob Ross, Old Man and the Sea, Scooby Doo, or Mary Poppins for me, please.

Art of Japan, too!"

pretty much the same on my list, too!!! The junkyard also looks great and could have excellent play and build potential for adults and kids!

There are some REALLY interesting ones this time (especially that La Catrina!) and some other good ones you mentioned.

... and then just a bunch of TV and movie show sets...

@EvilTwin said:
"I think we can be pretty sure that the Coraline set is going to be the first one to be rejected...

I like the Roman temple, but the Romans... what have they ever done for us eh?
"

The Aquaduct?

@jrathage said:
"As a final note, more than a quarter of this batch are just "Minifig-scale model of mundane main location from Movie/TV Show/Music Video" with no particular artistry or appeal beyond "I recognize that from mainstream entertainment." What is this, the dozenth iteration of the Taylor Swift house to qualify? Can we say "Please no more sitcom filming sets," or at least split them off into their own separate category?"

Repetition of what has sold well in the past works well in their main product lines. Here's another modular building, here's another SW ship (that has probably been done before), here's another emergency vehicle that has definitely been done before. Why not another sitcom or movie set where the IP is popular enough to sell a lot of sets. If it hits a demographic other similar sets haven't then even better and they can forget about the people that won't buy it and think it looks similar to something else they didn't buy.

There are some great sets there. A shame that most of them cant be produced :(
Hats off to all of the designers here, some I wouldn't buy, but really admire how they've been put together. Actually, scrap that, I defo wouldn't buy Billy Bass. lol, nope :) The US Sitcoms are great and Fresh Prince is so well done. Love ET moon, and Lampoons. Scooby Doo mansion is epic as well, and Bob Ross is so cool, as is Japan. Well done to all creators here

I am absolutely sick of all the IP related sets that are just boring houses or film sets. It just shows a real dearth of creativity or imagination. I question how these are getting to the final stages. Some are quite ok, I like the Bob Ross one, I could get behind that IP.

The only ones I like are the funicular and the art of Japan.

@CCC said:
"I'm hoping that they do TWICE: FANCY. Just to see they haven't learnt from the last one.

How did Ohio State band get through? I thought they had put a stop to specific sets like that when they banned university mascots and so on."

I also want the TWICE one, but to buy it :D
One of the members is doing lego videos so that might work better than the BTS one.

@Ottozone said:
" @NHBrickworks said:
"I am disappointed in the lack of non-ip sets. I feel like Lego Ideas used to have a lot more variety of cool creative sets that didn't just make it because the are from something. That being said I would buy both the Pizza Planet Truck and Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated."

Completely agree. Now way too many submissions are for mediorce builds that get 10k votes solely because of the IP they are tied to. "

They should raise the number of votes needed to 15K or even 20K

It's high time the vote count was increased to 15,000 or 20,000. How many more sitcoms, songwriters, basic buildings and existing Lego IP submissions can we get before people realise they're never going to get made? It's just bloated at this point. Either that or there needs to be a rethink of the guidelines.

A few standout ones in there as usual, particularly a fan of The Art of Japan, Cookoo clock, and The Old Man and the Sea.

New vote threshold needed, 57 projects is way too many. At this point I’m not sure what TLG is getting out of keeping it at 10,000 votes, surely it just makes it harder for them to see which projects are actually most viable for a large-scale audience. It’s just a bit silly really.

@Studnotontop said:
"I’m loving the Bob Ross support in this comment section but I urge some of you to read up on his estate controversy. His family makes nothing off of all these collaborations because his former business partners made damn sure of it. Sad stuff. "
I for one know exactly what a sad story this is, and I would never buy a set that funnels more money to those greedy Kowalskis.
I merely meant to show my appreciation of Bob's work.

Why don't they up the number of supporters for review to 20,000, then it successes would fall back down to a reasonable number

Please... Please just make Coraline. We've been asking for this since the beginning of ideas. I will never ask for anything ever again. Please.

@kingalbino said:
"For the first time ever, none of these set appeal."

this!
None of these have any appeal to me...
I like looking at them, just to see what gets 10k votes, but nothing screams "buy me"
Actually, when I think about it, I have not yet bought any ideas set, ever...

The ramen set had me blown away.

Eh, maybe I'm just hungry... nah, it's great.

@kingalbino said:
"For the first time ever, none of these set appeal."

Yup, absolutely nothing of interest in that lot!

This is like the 5th time Appa has made the final vote, you'd think that would get it through as theirs clearly an interest for it.

@CCC said:
" @Nostrix said:
"It's high time the vote count was increased to 15,000 or 20,000. How many more sitcoms, songwriters, basic buildings and existing Lego IP submissions can we get before people realise they're never going to get made? It's just bloated at this point. Either that or there needs to be a rethink of the guidelines.

A few standout ones in there as usual, particularly a fan of The Art of Japan, Cookoo clock, and The Old Man and the Sea."

I imagine if the threshold increased then you would get less submissions overall passing, but that the licensed ones will still continue to pass as they have enough of an existing fan base to hit the threshold. That would mean the ratio of licensed ideas goes up."

Yup, show of hands, everyone. Who here is _legitimately_ harmed by having a large review class? I don’t mean irritated. I mean lives cut short, limbs lost, evicted, incarcerated, etc. Nobody? Nobody at all? Alright then, carry on with the complaining, I guess, since it’s not likely to stop anyways.

Lots of great MOCs. Few viable product ideas.

@EvilTwin said:
"I like the Roman temple, but the Romans... what have they ever done for us eh?
"

They created one of the world's major religions which every news outlet (even those in countries that don't have significant populations of said religion) is covering right now. Whether that's a positive or negative thing depends on your point of view but it has definitely had an impact on human civilization.

No sitcom sets for me
Ascensor da Bica, the Shannon class life boat and the MiniMoog are the ones I do like

Art of Japan for me.

I really want heartstopper, fresh prince, coraline, ascensor, scooby doo, smurfs, stonewall and mary poppins

I liked Medieval Knight and Art of Japan. They are really artistic and creative.

@MonsterFighter said:
" @sotwuser said:
" @EvilTwin said:
"I like the Roman temple, but the Romans... what have they ever done for us eh?
"

They created one of the world's major religions which every news outlet (even those in countries that don't have significant populations of said religion) is covering right now. Whether that's a positive or negative thing depends on your point of view but it has definitely had an impact on human civilization.

"

I guess you’ve not seen The Life of Brian then…"

"Romans go home!"

I like the Jellyfish build the best in this round. None of the other entries perk my interest to spend any money on.

I liked the jellyfish too...but probably not enough to buy them. Nothing else really caught my eye at all.

La Catarina looks magnificent, I just don't know where I would put an 89cm (35inch) tall sculpture like that.

Halloween House is the only one I'd have to buy, it look fantastic and reminds me of the old Monster Fighters Haunted House. Sure, there's the new 3-in-1 Haunted House, but that pales in comparison.

Grand Central Station is another gem, but I just don't see them approving a modular style building for IDEAs.

@CCC said:
" @Nostrix said:
"It's high time the vote count was increased to 15,000 or 20,000. How many more sitcoms, songwriters, basic buildings and existing Lego IP submissions can we get before people realise they're never going to get made? It's just bloated at this point. Either that or there needs to be a rethink of the guidelines.

A few standout ones in there as usual, particularly a fan of The Art of Japan, Cookoo clock, and The Old Man and the Sea."

I imagine if the threshold increased then you would get less submissions overall passing, but that the licensed ones will still continue to pass as they have enough of an existing fan base to hit the threshold. That would mean the ratio of licensed ideas goes up.

@ThatBionicleGuy said:
"The way I understand it, the problem with raising the vote threshold is that the 'bland model but for a super-popular IP' submissions, the ones that a lot of people commenting here can't stand, would still be the ones likely to reach review simply due to having the power of their fandoms behind them, while the genuinely interesting models that don't have a built-in fanbase would be the ones that have to struggle even harder to make it.

I'm not sure what the solution then is, though. I just feel like increasing the number of votes needed would be more likely to harm the prospects of the projects that AFOLs here LIKE, rather than the ones that they don't want to see.

Maybe increase the threshold only for IP-based submissions, while the threshold for non-IP models remains where it is, perhaps?"

Trying to bias the results probably won't work. Popular IPs will still get voted for. LEGO isn't forced to make any of them, so it really doesn't matter how many pass. The cost to them of large number in review is negligible. The (lost) cost of not doing something might even be higher."
Also, LEGO has actual sales figures from previous IDEAS sets and it may be that those that receive the most votes aren’t the ones that sell best. If the threshold were raised to 15K or 20K, LEGO might miss out on better sellers.

@sotwuser said:
" @EvilTwin said:
"I like the Roman temple, but the Romans... what have they ever done for us eh?
"

They created one of the world's major religions which every news outlet (even those in countries that don't have significant populations of said religion) is covering right now. Whether that's a positive or negative thing depends on your point of view but it has definitely had an impact on human civilization."
Wrong answer ;-)

The correct answers are (in the following order):
sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health.

@Murdoch17 said:
" @MonsterFighter said:
" @sotwuser said:
" @EvilTwin said:
"I like the Roman temple, but the Romans... what have they ever done for us eh?
"

They created one of the world's major religions which every news outlet (even those in countries that don't have significant populations of said religion) is covering right now. Whether that's a positive or negative thing depends on your point of view but it has definitely had an impact on human civilization.

"

I guess you’ve not seen The Life of Brian then…"

"Romans go home!""

"People called Romanes, they go the house"

Having built my own Griswold house, I don't need an official release. I don't see them doing it anyway.

I can't say I'm super jazzed about many of them. I won't make any comments on what I do like since it never lines up with what they actually make. So hope the popular ones get made and people are happy.

For my 2 picks for the next Lego Ideas sets will be the Golden Girls set and the Appa the Sky Bison set.

@sotwuser said:
" @EvilTwin said:
"I like the Roman temple, but the Romans... what have they ever done for us eh?
"

They created one of the world's major religions which every news outlet (even those in countries that don't have significant populations of said religion) is covering right now. Whether that's a positive or negative thing depends on your point of view but it has definitely had an impact on human civilization."

They did create (most of) a religion, but not that one. That one they popularized, when Emperor Constatine became a convert, but they one they created is the Roman pantheon (mostly known today by way of the names given to all the major stellar bodies in our solar system). When they conquered a new territory, they'd compare gods and say something to the effect of, "We worship Zeus, but we call him Jupiter. So you can keep worshipping him, but call him Jupiter now." Sometimes they'd just absorb new entities into their religion (Hercules was just cribbed from Heracles with a bit of rebranding). But very little of what we're familiar with today was original to the Romans.

There are some cool looking sets, but the only ones that would be a definite buy for me are the Megazord, Scooby Doo Mansion, and Art of Japan.

The junkyard! I like it.

I have never played Portal, but the Portal set has some interesting building styles.

The Story Lab looks interesting. Other than those two, most of don't strike me as anything I would look twice at (or at least not spend money on).

Remember when Ideas was about, well, ideas?

All these sitcom and pop band sets need to be thrown out once and for all.

Art of Japan
E.T.
Studio Ghibli
Bob Ross
Lamposts in Love

Another wave of dull fan based tosh and uninteresting sets.

I think that TV, film and pop stars related stuff should be removed from the Ideas process completely so that genuinely original ideas with Lego can take the foreground.

The entire Ideas range has been lacklustre for the past few years and the last time I considered a set from this was the Medieval Blacksmith back in 2021.