Ideas competition winners announced!

Goonies is missing from the Ideas backlog list.

Wow and Wow, Yes and Yes but they are going to be rather expensive. Best start saving now.

@Huw said:
" @Boettner_Builds said:
"Goonies is missing from the Ideas backlog list."

It's in the competition winners list."

Thank you. Guess I gotta put my good eyes on! ;)

Well, one out of two ain’t bad. And I guess this means Jose Whedon won’t be making any money off the Next Chapter contest, so at least there’s that.

I personally was hoping for the Fifth Element set, but I knew X-Files was the likely winner.

Mr. Bean was the only one that interested me.

So I guess that means I'm saving money. Nice.

Smashing ideas winners!

I really wanted the X Files, rewatching it currently, brilliant series.

And I hope the Wallace and Gromit one does not turn out anything like the awful HP set.

It's a shame Btvs didn't get there, but I think that the designs could have been a lot better than they were and it was unfair for it to be represented in both competitions.

Wallace and Gromit looks good, but I have zero interest in it. I had zero interest in it all of the second wave of 90s throwbacks. I'm looking forward to the X-Files set.

Things are getting strange - I’m starting to worry.

Just re-watched X-Files recently, it was a lot of fun and holds up pretty well (the only hard part is choosing when to stop--the "endings" get progressively worse the longer you choose to stick it out). I wouldn't mind Mulder & Scully minifigs, but not sure I'm interested in an entire set. The detail of Mulder's office is great, though.

I'm so happy. I haven't even watched the X-files, but this model is so cool. And Wallace & Grommit is for me nostalgic. I would love to build those funny clay models. This version recreated the face expressions very well! And the magnifying glasses, great NPU.

I agree @gdeligne Minifigs would win me over immediately.

@ra226 said:
"Just re-watched X-Files recently, it was a lot of fun and holds up pretty well (the only hard part is choosing when to stop--the "endings" get progressively worse the longer you choose to stick it out). I wouldn't mind Mulder & Scully minifigs, but not sure I'm interested in an entire set. The detail of Mulder's office is great, though."

I don’t know what season it’s from, but the one episode I remember trying out posited that someone was killed by being forced to produce pheromones, which humans don’t produce. Poppycock. We do produce them, but in westernized society, we’ve trained ourselves to be revolted by the smell of armpits. So I changed the channel. Also, I wasn’t fond of either of the main cast’s performances.

Cracking news, Mulder!

Wallace & Gromit is cute but I don't think I'd actually buy it. Zero interest in X-files. Good thing there are plenty of other sets that I can spend my money on.

Nice ones! I never was enough of an X-Files fan to buy this, but I doe really like what I see. But that Wallace and Gromit, even when I'm not even that huge of a fan, that seems like a sure buy for me. So please Lego, don't mess this up!

Let’s go!!!! So excited for W&G!!!

Wallace and Grommit look great. I also like the X-Files design, despite never having seen the show (I hope it aged better than Californication). I doubt it will look as good as in the pics, though, because the lighting really helps here, and we know LEGO's not going to put any lights in it.

Well, another TV interior set, but at least it's not another sitcom and the builder did something original!

Wow, my bank account has just taken a sharp intake of breath. These are both must buys for me, but I bet they’ll be pricey!!

I've seen two episodes and somehow watched the movie, even though I knew nothing about their history together.

It was the one where Mulder was living in a HOA area and there was a sewer monster attacking people if they didn't comply with the rules (I just remember him and a basketball hoop). The other was he went into a video game to defeat someone and the one person had his guns across his chest like an X because it showed no fear. Then that guy died because this is real!...

Maybe I could try to give it another shot sometime. I don't have time for tv most nights, so rewatching older stuff is tricky. Either way, I will welcome the new set and consider getting it if done right.

X-files day one purchase for me.

Here is a teaser for the X-files set:
https://youtu.be/7DeLGs_Gqjc

I should be the target demographic for this theme. Yet, these are not appealing to me. Neither of these IPs have any emotional pull for me whatsoever (my son is still deathly afraid of/emotionally scarred by W&G Wererabbit). I could possibly get them on clearance.

I wasn't watching regular TV in the 90s. I was out doing stuff. Maybe, if it was music-related or about anime?

I’m a little disappointed that that smashing Fifth Element set didn’t make it, but the Wallace and Gromit one is delightful, and I hope even more so after it’s had a sprinkling of Lego designer fairy dust. The X-Files one seems perfectly decent but I never really watched it, so unless that changes before release it isn’t a set for me. Happy for the fans, though.

@StyleCounselor said:
"I should be the target demographic for this theme. Yet, these are not appealing to me. Neither of these IPs have any emotional pull for me whatsoever (my son is still deathly afraid of/emotionally scarred by W&G Wererabbit). I could possibly get them on clearance.

I wasn't watching regular TV in the 90s. I was out doing stuff. Maybe, if it was music-related or about anime?"

Curse of the Wererabbit is indeed scary so my kids never got into it (or chicken run). I’ll try Shaun the Sheep again.

Unrelatedly, I just visited my first LEGO Discovery store and was flabbergasted to find that they had Fel Beasts and Shackleton Lifeboats. Yada Yada I now own Barad Dur and convinced them to throw in a lifeboat.

@Sethro3 said:
"Maybe I could try to give it another shot sometime. I don't have time for tv most nights, so rewatching older stuff is tricky. Either way, I will welcome the new set and consider getting it if done right."

Watch The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. instead. It’s a lot shorter a commitment, a much better show, more realistic science, and it deserves some love for taking the Friday Night Death Slot hit instead of the X-Files. Also, it has a classier theme song, which saw years of use during Olympics coverage (right up until about the time they released it on DVD and people sitting at home started wondering why they were surprised when there was no sports coverage during the show).

@ET said:
"Let's go! Lego X-Files, Star Trek, and Pokemon all in the same year?

If 10 year old me could see me now, he would cry for joy."
And if he saw the prices those sets are likely to cost he would cry for sadness of not being able to afford them (and the parents neither).

@yellowcastle said:
" @StyleCounselor said:
"I should be the target demographic for this theme. Yet, these are not appealing to me. Neither of these IPs have any emotional pull for me whatsoever (my son is still deathly afraid of/emotionally scarred by W&G Wererabbit). I could possibly get them on clearance.

I wasn't watching regular TV in the 90s. I was out doing stuff. Maybe, if it was music-related or about anime?"

Curse of the Wererabbit is indeed scary so my kids never got into it (or chicken run). I’ll try Shaun the Sheep again.

Unrelatedly, I just visited my first LEGO Discovery store and was flabbergasted to find that they had Fel Beasts and Shackleton Lifeboats. Yada Yada I now own Barad Dur and convinced them to throw in a lifeboat.
"

Grrrrrrrrrr!!!!

I was just in Boston and D.C. too!!! %^*?!!

Yay! Wallace & Gromit! About time!
I have the theme song in my head now LOL.

The fan designer did a great job, especially with Gromit considering he's completely brick-built.

I don't have interest in The X Files though a traditional alien & UFO set could be popular and it would be good if the set gives us more minifigures with regular suits.

That office build and the forest could be a good parts pack depending on the price.

Congratulations to the designers! :)

One of these days I really need to get around to watching Wallace and Gromit. The only Aardman stuff I've seen was Chicken Run, Flushed Away, ad the episode of Star Wars: Visions they did, "I am Your Mother." But I enjoyed those, so I'm sure I'd enjoy W&G.

@ET said:
"Let's go! Lego X-Files, Star Trek, and Pokemon all in the same year?

If 10 year old me could see me now, he would cry for joy."

These won't be coming out this year, the designers still have to adapt the models. There's also still a lot of other stuff in the Ideas backlog.

@TheOtherMike said:
"One of these days I really need to get around to watching Wallace and Gromit. The only Aardman stuff I've seen was Chicken Run, Flushed Away, ad the episode of Star Wars: Visions they did, "I am Your Mother." But I enjoyed those, so I'm sure I'd enjoy W&G."

No idea about the episode, but W&G feels a lot less frenetic (at least from Wallace's side) than Chicken Run or Flushed Away. The humor also feels a lot more quintessentially British. Still haven't watched the new film, but I liked the rest enough that I made minifigs of W&G and put them in my Routemaster bus.

This is the most common sense decision I've seen from Lego since I started collecting in late 1970's.
Perfection, well done.

Recolour of 76443 perhaps.

So there is X files to look forward to... besides Italian riviera and sea serpent... nice

Zero surprise the X-files set was one of the winners. Really hope they don't change much as its near perfect as is and was one of the ones I voted for.

As for Wallace and Gromit, again, zero surprise it won, though the proportions need tweaking for me.

X-Files set is cool, but that Wallace & Grommit set is one of the best translations of a non-Lego property into Lego that I have ever seen. I'm not even really a W&G fan, but I'll probably pick that up purely because of how well-made it is. It looks just like the claymation. From a distance, it almost doesn't even look like Lego. I'm blown away by how well that captures the look of the claymation.

I love 'm both!!!!

Wallace and Gromit is well done and the larger scale allows more detail which really shows off the skill of the designer. I life the UFO shaping kept distinctly vague, but I don't remember an office in X-files, although I do remember lots of secret experimentation labs which would look great if they didn't keep disappearing when people asked too many questions.

I don't know how, I don't know when, I don't know where, but that X-Files set will be mine.

Awesome!