Ideas competition winner announced

Cannot wait

This is no Autumn Snails, but I like it. ;o)

Let's hope lego doesn't feel the need to change much
remember 40786

I like this, but I'm not too sure about the sail, I still prefer the material ones.

So when will the TV nostalgia results be announced?

Oh - that is beautiful! For once, I usually don't buy whatsoever in order to get GWP, but I will have to make an exception for this!

I am glad they went with Black Knights since that was a favorite when I was a child. I don't love the shaping of the modern take, so hopefully LEGO can make some changes to that. I will likely get it either way, so it doesn't matter I guess, but I don't love it as is. But I'll keep it sealed anyway so it doesn't matter. Hopefully the threshold isn't super high. And I hope they keep a nostalgic box art style.

That is a lot of hope in my post. I guess time will tell.

@daniellesa said:
"I like this, but I'm not too sure about the sail, I still prefer the material ones.

So when will the TV nostalgia results be announced?"

The two 90s contest winners should be revealed on June 2

Great remake, I just wish that the original really served any purpose. There were a weirdly large number of boats in the castle days of the 90s and they rarely had anyone to fight, since I think they were always Black Knights, with the exception of Viking Voyager?

I had the OG, and it was basically a great battle pack.

The one I voted for! Very pleased that we get Black knights’ shields back to the production :-)

The ships scale seems off beside the figures

Less minifigs and large piece for the hull, it seems. Not good.
Anyway a desirable set, unfornutately it seems they want to provide it as a GWP.

LOVELY!
Too bad it is not a 'regular' Ideas set you can buy, instead of it being a gift with purchase.
Anyway, lovely little "classic" castle Lego set.

This looks rather good. Quite complex for a GWP so will presumably need to shrink a bit, or be a pretty high threshold.

Personally, with a few £250+ 'Lego Exclusive' sets on my wishlist I need a few higher threshold GWPs to tempt me!

Yay! I'll be able to have this and original right next to Majisto's Workshop (and original).

The original of this model was my absolute favorite Lego set when I was a child.

(I wish these would not be GWPs but just directly purchaseable... even if they were "made on demand" for only a couple months.)

Nice, it will be made available!

As a GWP

... I'll stick with what I have. I didn't want one that badly anyway :/

Unsure how to feel about this… Just hope that they are able to include all the prints/pieces/figs that made the original so iconic.

Of course castle wins.
At least maybe we will get printed shields.

Nice, was my favourite as well. Hopefully the decorations will all be prints. Zero hope for a cloth sail though.

The original is such an icon, I'm very happy that it was chosen.

Yay! Very exciting and I’ll definitely get one. More shields and hopefully three Minifigures!

@Rimefang said:
"Just tell me when the GWP for this goes live, as I will need three of them.

Or skip the GWP thing and just let us *buy* it directly as a proper set!"

I just buy them on eBay

@Librarian1976 said:
"The original was the pinnacle of LEGO Castle ships. This is a poor replica. The hull is not as nicely shaped and what's with a brick-built sail. it needs to be cloth. They did a much better job with more limited elements in 1992."

It’s just a studio rendering and you can’t do a cloth sail element on studio. Plus, Lego will spice it up a bit, although it probably won’t be a cloth sail because it’s a gwp with a limited budget which will already include multiple new printed shields as well as multiple new printed minifigure parts. For a relatively quick studio build of a set from 1992 it’s quite a good representation. It is probably the pinnacle and a worthy remake to be sure!

Sea Serpent, Black Knights, not to be confused with the black colored "Serpent Knight" (official description name) in 31168 Medieval Horse Knight Castle, or the Sea Serpent from 31161 Medieval Dragon

I voted for "Pizza to Go… or Stay", but this one is fine.

I like this (a lot) but,

1) It should be easy to replace the front red parts with some inverted slopes and getting a shape a bit more like the original. (A boat of that shape for that time period is reasonable though.)
2) There are unfortunately no suitable parts to replace the dragon from 6057 at the front of the boat. (not quite a figurehead but close).
3) Fell Beast 40693 got two pieces of cloth for the wings so cloth is not completely impossible for the sail of a GWP.
4) I hope this will come in the traditional yellow box.
5) There is a fairly high probability that these torsos will make it to PAB.
I have plenty on my wanted list to meet the requirement to get this.

@SetToBuild said:
"Yay! I got 6057 for my birthday in 1992. I'm looking forward to getting it again!"

I got also this set in my birthday from a good friend!! I want the new version too!!

This contest got me rebuilding all my old castle sets,including that one! I don't know if I'll pick it up, but I'm happy with the result.

Cool set for a re-imagination, but not sure if I like the winning attempt. The original had quite interesting shalping, which this new version competely lackes. Sea Serpent? I'd say more like a Sea Dachshund....

And obviously a shame it's gonna be a GWP again.....I sometimes get the feeling Lego is making more GWP I want than regular set I want.....

@TeriXeri said:
"Sea Serpent, Black Knights, not to be confused with the black colored "Serpent Knight" (official description name) in 31168 Medieval Horse Knight Castle, or the Sea Serpent from 31161 Medieval Dragon

"

Quite a sea of serpents they got going on right now

Lego knows what it's doing.

I never heard of this until now when it's too late to vote...
Why did Brickset not cover this contest like all the others?

Love the idea and the fan designer has done an excellent job, so congratulations to them!

I would really like to have this in my Mediaeval display.

However I'm not happy about this because it will be a GWP which means sometime in 2026 Lego will force us to buy some super expensive (presumably castle related) set, or miss out.

I wish lego would ban GWPs. Or at the very least sell them as normal sets and give them as actually free gifts with expensive purchases.

That would be a win-win because it means no one misses out and fans can also buy multiple copies (which means more profit for lego)

Definitely the best winner of the 6 competitions thus far. Can't wait to get this set! We need more reimagined castle and pirates!

If the M-Tron homage (which is what I voted for) had won, I'd definitely try to get it one way or the other. This, though... I'm not quite sure. I like it, I'm just not sure how much. And, of course, there's the question of how much it'll change on the journey from submission to final model.

@Bricknave said:
" @Nuclearxpotato said:
"Maybe one day us Rock Raiders/Power Miners fans will get our due..."

Adventurers fan here. I'm in the same boat ..."

At least we've gotten homages to the characters, but yeah, a re-imagined Adventurers set would be awesome.

@lunchladydoris said:
"Why do these small sets always need to be GWPs? I only want the small sets and have no interest in getting the behemoth sets they're attached to."

They do competitions to become GWPs under the Ideas program. Projects like this get submitted, and voted into winning. That's just the format they were submitted through. However, chances are they wouldn't get picked through the general Ideas program, as they don't want it to just become a way to shoehorn a single theme onto store shelves, and they've already approved a few related projects.

A spaceship on the water is a great concept! I love it.

While I do love this set, I was hoping the Rock Raiders one would win...
I mean, we get so many castle stuff, giving Rock Raiders a chance after over 20 years outside of small easter eggs would have been nice.

@Bricknave said:
" @Nuclearxpotato said:
"Maybe one day us Rock Raiders/Power Miners fans will get our due..."

Adventurers fan here. I'm in the same boat ..."

Funnily enough I'm both lol. I'm super happy we got a new Johnny Thunder (and Pippin and Kilroy in sets I'll never afford) just a shame they didn't revive or remaster his hat.

As happy as I am to get this (see above), I actually voted for the raft. I totally miss missed out on Adventurers and wanted a taste.

@Librarian1976 said:
"The original was the pinnacle of LEGO Castle ships."

That's a pretty low bar, to be fair.

Can't help but notice that the original had five minifigs, and this only has the three crew from the ship. Take that, Black Falcons!

@peterlmorris said:
"A spaceship on the water is a great concept! I love it. "

So...Spelljammer?

@PurpleDave said:
" @Librarian1976 said:
"The original was the pinnacle of LEGO Castle ships."

That's a pretty low bar, to be fair.

Can't help but notice that the original had five minifigs, and this only has the three crew from the ship. Take that, Black Falcons!

@peterlmorris said:
"A spaceship on the water is a great concept! I love it. "

So...Spelljammer?"

To my shame I had to look that up! I was really commenting on the fact that, through my lens everything is SPACE. Town is Space with less rockets and no air tanks for some reason. Castle is just Bkacktron Invaders that ran out of fuel and fell into the ground vertically. Fabuland has been revealed to be a prophecy of a game of Animal Crossing played by Space guys while on break, etc., etc.

Hope it's a faithful remake. The original set's RRP was $16.50, which when adjusted for inflation, should have plenty of room for improvement, like including all five minifigs.

@Brickchap said:
"I wish lego would ban GWPs. Or at the very least sell them as normal sets and give them as actually free gifts with expensive purchases.

That would be a win-win because it means no one misses out and fans can also buy multiple copies (which means more profit for lego)"

That would clearly be better for fans, but clearly worse for TLG. With the GWP way they get to rake in the profits for all the expensive sets you had to buy to get the GWP even if you didn't really want them. If they sold the gift sets, they'd only be getting the profits from those, and a smaller set means smaller profit.

@lunchladydoris said:
"Why do these small sets always need to be GWPs? I only want the small sets and have no interest in getting the behemoth sets they're attached to."

You just answered your own question. For Lego it’s much easier to make it as a gwp. Less effort, only one set without a theme, more income because you have to buy a bigger set. And of course they can do it with stickers.

@peterlmorris:
I’ve heard of the “everything is Space” philosophy before, but not taken to quite that extreme. Usually it’s phrased in terms of stuff like Castle just being a very early prequel to Space.

@TheNameWasTaken:
More to the point, GWPs are the thing that allows their direct sales to compete with their retail partners. When they publish MSRP, that basically locks them into charging that price, while any retail chain that stocks their product can sell below that price to try to monopolize the market. By offering GWPs, it allows them to increase the value you receive for the price paid, instead of reducing the cost of the product received.

If only the sail was cloth. Otherwise great set :)

@Eichinger: Complete agreement; even if the sails were a plastic/foil (like those for wind-surfboard sails), they would be better.

@chrisaw said:
"Judging by the comments I’m in the minority, but I would’ve preferred anything BUT Castle, Pirates or Space, namely Adventurers, Paradisa or Town. We already have had at least a few tribute retro sets to Pirates and Castle and Space recently, in GWP and large set form. This might have been one of the only chances to get something different."

I wouldn't think like that. We're in a boom of nostalgia for Castle, Pirates, and Space, but I believe it will pass and hopefully make way for some other themes. I'm just as frustrated as you, but we shouldn't lose heart. After all, Power Miners was the runner-up, not Space, meaning there is a nonzero interest in outside themes.

The play feature of the steerable oars is a big improvement over 6057. As for the rest, this re-imagining feels less modernized than other homage sets have. New pieces are used to good effect in several places, but they don't always evoke or improve on the classic set. Meanwhile, the classic set has several details that are an improvement over this re-make. I wonder what Lego will ultimately do with this.

Looking through the other submissions, the bouncy Yellow Castle is absolutely amazing and I think it deserved the recognition by a mile (although it should have used the rounded cap pieces on the tops of the battlements too).

The Cabana and the Pulsar Charger are also both excellent re-imaginings of classic sets which fully evoke the originals but have a modern design ethos, and they hit themes that Lego hasn't given as much nostalgia love.

@WolfpackBricksStudios said:
"Oh boy can't wait for this to sell out in thirty seconds so scalpers can sell the figs to armybuilders for $20 apiece"

Armybuilders including you?

@Nuclearxpotato said:
"Maybe one day us Rock Raiders/Power Miners fans will get our due..."

Don't forget fans of the 2014 The Lego Movie. They let the 10th anniversary go by without a single nostalgia set, much to my disappointment. Hopefully, we'll get something (perhaps the Master Builders' submarine) for the 30-year anniversary in 2044.

I hope the Moon Car doesn't end up as a gift with purchase set. I think it's a great model, but I rarely time my Legp purchases to match specific GWPs.

@BrickAnomie said:
"I hope the Moon Car doesn't end up as a gift with purchase set. I think it's a great model, but I rarely time my Legp purchases to match specific GWPs."

40786 came from the same competition, and that was an Insiders reward. Besides, the article on the competition winners (https://brickset.com/article/107183/space-themed-lego-insiders-reward-contest-winners!) says that both would be Insiders rewards.

@TheOtherMike said:
" @BrickAnomie said:
"I hope the Moon Car doesn't end up as a gift with purchase set. I think it's a great model, but I rarely time my Legp purchases to match specific GWPs."

40786 came from the same competition, and that was an Insiders reward. Besides, the article on the competition winners (https://brickset.com/article/107183/space-themed-lego-insiders-reward-contest-winners!) says that both would be Insiders rewards."

That's good to know. I'll have to save up my Insiders points.

@BrickAnomie said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
" @BrickAnomie said:
"I hope the Moon Car doesn't end up as a gift with purchase set. I think it's a great model, but I rarely time my Legp purchases to match specific GWPs."

40786 came from the same competition, and that was an Insiders reward. Besides, the article on the competition winners (https://brickset.com/article/107183/space-themed-lego-insiders-reward-contest-winners!) says that both would be Insiders rewards."

That's good to know. I'll have to save up my Insiders points."

I started saving them up the day I saw the article I linked to earlier. Even after buying 40786, I still have (checks) 7,990 points. Which might seem like overkill, but I didn't know how much they were going to cost!

well deserved win! Hope this makes LEGO see we want more (and varied) castle sets! and I hope the needs for this set to have Black Knights will give them the idea to bring the Dragon plumes back.

shame this will be a GWP. It better not be 250£ threshold !

Among the 100's of entries I really don't see the winning 'twist' part, just seems a remake with modern pieces rather than adding something clever or different into the mix, but if that's what people voted for then sure it will be popular.