LEGO licensed sets: What is left to do?

Star Fox!

Game of Thrones would be cool, but seeing as LEGO doesn't seem to want to make LOTR into a regular theme with normal playsets I don't exactly hold out much hope for a Game of Thrones theme.

Some one-off (and presumably very expensive) Icons sets don't seem unrealistic though. UCS Iron Throne, maybe?

I would really love a Gravity Falls license, or other similar shows, like Phineas and Ferb (especially with its new revival). Lego already has Disney sets, so I don't see it being impossible.

I couldn’t begin to describe how stoked I would be for Chronicles of Narnia sets based on the Walden Trilogy. There are so many opportunities for playsets, display sets, dioramas, battle packs, and more! The minifigures would be incredible, too.

@EtudeTheBadger said:
"Star Fox!"
Great Rolling Stones track....

About NO to all of these. Terrible ideas, just plain terrible.

I honestly think they are missing a huge opportunity to have licensed characters appear in the Fortnite sets. I would love to have figs of their designs for the ninja turtles and avatar characters!

Lego Bassmasters

Think a few Disney Channel animated shows (especially the Mystery Shack from Gravity Falls) might be cool as sets but I don’t think they’ll happen for another few years at the very least.

i'd kill for Cinnamoroll and Lloromannic minifigs, but if LEGO Sanrio ever comes along, i'll probably only get Cinnamoroll out of it at best

I'd go for No Man's Sky sets. Its a creative and imaginative exploration game. Even some of the ships look like they can be made of LEGO easily :)

@jsutton said:
"Ninjago has produced a more imaginative and creative range of sets than any licensed theme. And what started life as the Cafe Corner and grew into modular buildings has been wildly popular with fans of all ages. Do I need to even mention botanicals as another example? Licensed themes are only a distraction from what LEGO can achieve."

Add in the long running City and Creative lines and it seems like they've got the balance about right.

That said if we're going to chuck in suggestions that will never happen - Fallout and Only Fools & Horses. A crossover line would be even better.

Hello Kitty sets are already being made. I think it's Brickcraft that has them. So that license would have to be lost and then gained. Which is possible as it happened with Pokemon.

More Dungeons & Dragons (a lot more) (a large buildable beholder would be awesome)

World Of Warcraft would be awesome

I'd love more deep dives into 80s properties like Voltron & Scooby-Doo did: Herculoids, Gatchaman, Starblazers, Space Ghost, stuff like that

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles return
Percy Jackson
Legend Of Vox Machina (pipe dream, i know)

I like original themes the most, but if I had a wish for a licenced theme, it proabably would be a Shonen Jump theme with sets from series that ran in the magazine. Dragon Ball, Naruto, (actual) One Piece, Bleach, Saint Seiya, Fist of the North Star, Gintama, Eyeshield 21 etc.

I must be an outlier in the sense that I have zero interest in licensed themes.

Can we get a Classic Ninjago line? Would that count as licensed at this point? Current Ninjago is so far off the rails, you could have a whole product line remaking sets/scenes from the early years and they'd look like they came from another theme entirely.

On a slightly more realistic note: more Nintendo IPs would be great. I honestly would go for a Super Smash Bros-inspired line, just to get a sampling from a wide array of games. I'm not sure how such a line would work; either just make the fighters with some iconic local from their games, or make the Smash stages themselves (in which case LEGO would have to work in some kind of play gimmick)? In any case we're missing some of the bigger Nintendo IPs still, like Kirby, Metroid, and Pikmin (IMO). Now, would Kirby sets look awful in LEGO, and would a brick-built Kirby be a hideous nightmare due to LEGO's current design philosophy? Yes; cf. UCS Pikachu. However, do I want a UCS Dedede to go next to my UCS Bowser? Also yes. That would be Dededelightful.

But really, I just want Xenoblade sets. I've seen Metal Face MOCs out there; it's possible. Give me my Monado Boy, LEGO! Oh, and some affordable Lord of the Rings sets, while you're at it.

I would buy well done Ghibli related sets. But TBH, I have a hard time imagining something that would be good enough. What I currently see on Ideas is not good enough. Maybe a detailed model of the inn from Spirited Away. But overall it seems hard to realize in LEGO form.

I think a selection of James Bond related cars, from different movies, could be cool. I loved the Aston Martin.

(By PaddyNE in United Kingdom, 18 Jan 2026 18:47 Unfortunately, there will never be Ghibli sets, as the company has a cap as to how much money it can make to stop it going corrupt.)

I don't think this is true. The proliferation of Donguri Republic stores tells me they are trying to milk their IP for all its worth.

Snoopy, more than the IDEAS set, Herbie,as Speed Champions, and other way classic Disney, (vault deep),more licensed trains(Polar Express)hmmm.

@troynos said:
"More Dungeons & Dragons (a lot more) (a large buildable beholder would be awesome)"

Yes, they are. I’ve built 21 myself. Technically 22, since I made two copies of the Death Tyrant. One is loose in my Bag of Beholdering, and the other is in my Shrine of the Beholder scene.

@Goujon said:
"I fear im one of the few remaining holdouts for lego thunderbirds.... one can dream. "

It's reached the review stage of Ideas more than once, and Anderson Entertainment are reasonably keen, so clearly LEGO are not interested. Their focus is on wasting millions of Euros and many years, on gimmicks such as Smart Bricks, rather than making sets people actually want.

@troynos said:
"Hello Kitty sets are already being made. I think it's Brickcraft that has them. So that license would have to be lost and then gained. Which is possible as it happened with Pokemon.

More Dungeons & Dragons (a lot more) (a large buildable beholder would be awesome)

World Of Warcraft would be awesome

I'd love more deep dives into 80s properties like Voltron & Scooby-Doo did: Herculoids, Gatchaman, Starblazers, Space Ghost, stuff like that

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles return
Percy Jackson
Legend Of Vox Machina (pipe dream, i know)

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I hate to be that guy, but Scooby-Doo started in 1969.
Also, to all those who want anime sets: If we're going to do anything anime, we should revisit the first anime to make it big outside Japan - Speed Racer!

Dragonball Z would be great…as a CMF series. I mean there’s a handful of locations that could be done, but it’s mostly just landscapes.

But what they should do(or maybe shouldn’t………..) is Gundam. With what they’ve done with Ninjago & MK lately they could absolutely kill with a Gundam theme. Preferably Wing or G. Or to a lesser extent, Iron Blooded Orphans.

@Murdoch17 said:
"I hate to be that guy, but Scooby-Doo started in 1969."

I infer from that comment that you place a time limit upon how long anything is popular for. If that is true why are they continually making new versions of Agatha Christie, Dickens and Shakespeare? I know the majority of people I know would rather watch Scooby Doo than Shakespeare.

I rather like the idea of a series of James Bond related minifigures - various iterations of Bond himself, some of the classic/noteworthy Bond girls and, of course, the superb Villains and their henchmen. This need not be related to larger sets, although building some of the villainous lairs might be a possibility, or the vehicles. A couple of minifigure sets focusing on Bond characters (a la Doctor Who, Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, etc) would, I think, be best sellers.

I will sell my soul to LEGO for Dragon Ball. Would like Digimon too. Definetly up for more of Avatar The Last Airbender since I didnt get any last time.

I would like to see Lego Avatar: The Last Airbender sets.

I was surprised that Disney's "Phineas and Ferb" didn't make it to this list. "Phineas and Ferb projects perennially appear on Lego Ideas, but are always rejected. Presumably, Lego doesn't want the trouble and expense of creating new molds for the characters' stylized cartoon heads.

Given how poorly 21339 was received, Lego can be forgiven for not courting KPop Demon Hunters.

Wacky Races would be rather good too!

Avatar 3 sets?

@Doctor_Hugh said:
"Their focus is on wasting millions of Euros and many years, on gimmicks such as Smart Bricks, rather than making sets people actually want."

Which, of course, is exactly the way they look at it.

Studio Ghibli Lego would be cool....but will it ever happen?

DBZ on the other hand.....rather old franchise. And while far from forgotten, would there still be that much interest? So in that regard, I just don't see it happen.

Some other (granted, also old) anime-licenses I would love to see but doubt will ever happen: Neon Genesis Evangelion (it's just kids in cool robots, right?), Gundam (more kids in robots...), Cowboy Bebop (Spaceship! Spaceship! SPACESHIP!), and Akira.

As for more recent franchises.....I kinda have a feeling most of the those are more about the characters than locations or vehichles, which limits the options for sets. I mean, Demon Slayer is huge, but apart from some minifigs, what else could they do with that? Same with like JJK or Chainsaw Man.

Oh, and we need Yuru Camp Lego. I don't care what, but I want it.

Y’know, generally speaking I like exaggeration for jokey effect, but the problem is that both prices per piece and size-within-size-specific-themes have (mostly) stayed pretty steady, so it looks silly to claim a Brickheadz kit with less than half the number of pieces it should have and several times the price. It isn’t skewering anything that Lego are actually doing, it’s just wrong. A better version would be gradually more ridiculously *huge* sets with the accompanying price to match the number of pieces.

If you wanted to play to the anti-base bit of the playerbase you could probs do something with that, too, maybe even with the Brickheadz - the next five set comes with a huge built base and an equally huge price. And also mention a set-linked GWP or one with an enormous threshold. Stuff like that.

@sjr60 said:
"Wacky Races would be rather good too!"

Oh, Wacky Races kits would be *extremely* fun if the Mario Kart line is anything to judge by.

@Doctor_Hugh said:
" @sjr60 said:
"Would still love a Gerry Anderson licenced theme....
Supercar, Fireball, Stingray and Thunderbirds at least!"

Quite. This is an ideal partnership for LEGO. The licence is modest compared the likes of Pokemon and the various brands owned by Disney so cost isn't an issue. Anderson Entertainment are not adverse to the partnership either. The range of craft included across the programmes is significant, many still iconic 60 years later, and several designs are unsurpassed to this day. Large display models could be released for the largely adult fanbase, and playsets would appeal to youngsters because they look cool, even if they have never seen the programmes they originate from."

A Lego Eagle Transporter would be a day one purchase for me, regardless of price.

@sjr60 said:
"Wacky Races would be rather good too!"

I would buy the heck out of that!

Propper Donald Duckverse sets. Its only thing I want now from licences.
To be honest I just want figures as I already moced most of stuff i wanted.
Give me:
>Classic Magica De Spell
>Scrooge's butler
>3 Beagleboys (or just one head)
>Donald's COusins.

Futurama is still a biggie, especially considering Lego does/did the Simpsons and there is a new (if bad) Hulu series.

Personally I'd love a M.A.S.K series. Could be similar to the Transformers theme.
Or some other 80s classics like Inspector Gadget

I like the recent silent launch of "cars from movies" as a "Speed Champions" sub-theme, so I hope they will do more of these.

And I think exploring video games should be the next steps.

But, I fear that every new IP will be display sets only for $$$.

Stargate SG1, or the relaunching SG series from Amazon. Should of been one of the IPs in dimensions at the time as the pad was essentially a stargate.

Doubt they would ever go near the Warhammer universe anytime soon.

Non licensed thematic sets.

What we really need: "Spaceballs: The LEGO Set", featuring Lone Starr's Winnebago and Spaceballs One! This would tie in perfectly with "Spaceballs: The Search for More Money" when it releases. However, Mel Brooks was allowed by George Lucas to shoot this parody on the condition he wouldn't sell any Spaceballs-related merchandise. I wonder if the situation has changed now Disney owns Star Wars, though…

More TRON sets (without any ARES based sets)

Bring back TMNT and Scooby Doo.
Add Speed Racer to the Speed Champions series.
Since Lego loves doing these mech sets, then get the Gundam or Macross/Robotech licenses.
Keep going back to the 80's cartoon nostalgia, make Thundercats, He-Man, and GI Joe sets.
For video game licenses, Mega Man, Castlevania, and Metroid.
For movies, Aliens.

Area-X has done a great Krusty Krab set and nice 16x16 vignettes with acrylic display cubes. The figures are styled similar to the Mega Bloks line. Much better approach for that series than minifigures in my opinion.
Area-X having the license might be a local thing restricted to Asia, so it may prevent LEGO from getting it or maybe not.

Studio Ghibli sets will never happen, the studio limits how much merchandise gets made in a way that would be incompatible with a LEGO release (even a limited LEGO release)

Red Dead Redemption, Halo, Stargate, Blade Runner, Cyberpunk, Witcher, Tomb Raider and Fallout are a bit on the violent side for LEGO. Stargate for example goes even more military than Avatar and Fallout involves literal nuclear bombs.

GI Joe is even more military again so that's never happening. Aliens is again too violent

As for Spaceballs, I believe there was a deal done that prohibits Spaceballs merchandise of any kind from being made.

I would just like to see more James Cameron Avatar sets, honestly just one 18+ set for each movie would be good since most of the creatures are covered currently

I continue to wait with bated breath for the "Condorman's Condormobile vs Morovich's Modified Porsche 935" Speed Champions set that has seemed obvious since the line started. It even ties in with the Remix sets: a truck that turns into a race car that turns into a boat!

Surely it will be announced any day now.

I think I’d prefer to just have more castles. I’m also still waiting for the bantha as they are in the Lego TTgames.

@Modeltrainman said:
"Snoopy, more than the IDEAS set, Herbie,as Speed Champions, and other way classic Disney, (vault deep),more licensed trains(Polar Express)hmmm."

I’ve actually built Snoopy on his doghouse fighting the Red Baron (couldn’t manage a decent head, but hiding it under the aviator cap works), and I’ve got a little scene with Charlie Brown, Linus, and the Christmas tree right after they hang the red ornament in it. The doghouse I’d only built once, but the tree scene I had three copies of so I could put them out at different shows during the holiday season. I wanted to build two more doghouses…and realized I’d designed it using 4x the Piece of Resistance, which of course is no longer in production. But in the years since I built it, they created the 1x1-1x1 up bracket! So I was able to redesign it with pieces that are all currently available on OPAB.

Licence ideas pale in the absence of the main theme gaps e.g a decent City school, bakery or modular hospital etc etc
I feel less is more in that landscape builders don’t want their theme flooded with incompatible craziness. The personalised builds win out with a couple of supporting famous characters rather than ‘van damme, judge dread, face down in snoopy’s bed.’

@ELH2806 said:
"Lego Red Dead Redemtion. It's time to use that 18+ rating for more than just price gouging "

I'm getting very tired of licenses, but I'd save up on an Assault on Braithwaite Manor set (5200 pcs / 499,99 €) as quickly as humanly possible. Similarly, I'd go crazy for one The Last of Us set for both games, but I guess that a hospital killing spree or a golf match as intense as that may be a step too far for LEGO even if they decided to make something for RDR.

Expand DC. They only do Batman. They don't even do Nightwing sets! Also expand Ideas.

Would love to see Discworld as a theme. Also Asterix would be potentially cool.
Otherwise:
Thunderbirds
Trap Door
Magic Roundabout
Star Fleet
A Team
Airwolf
Red Dwarf
Sharpe

Yes I know some of these have been on Ideas but lets keep trying (if the model is worthy)

@TheOtherMike said:
" @Doctor_Hugh said:" @Goujon said:"I fear im one of the few remaining holdouts for lego thunderbirds.... one can dream."

It's reached the review stage of Ideas more than once, and Anderson Entertainment are reasonably keen, so clearly LEGO are not interested. Their focus is on wasting millions of Euros and many years, on gimmicks such as Smart Bricks, rather than making sets people actually want."

Yes, they became the biggest toy company on the planet by wasting money. The Smart Brick sets aren't even in stores yet; you don't know how they'll do."

It's because they are such a large company that they can take risks and write-off failures. It most certainly does not mean they don't make mistakes, both small and large. To have faith in everything they do simple because of their size would be incredibly naive.

@derekthetree said:
"Futurama is still a biggie, especially considering Lego does/did the Simpsons and there is a new (if bad) Hulu series.

Personally I'd love a M.A.S.K series. Could be similar to the Transformers theme.
Or some other 80s classics like Inspector Gadget "

Get brickraft Futurama sets, they are great quality

For me, the answer is simple. I would love to see an official Bjarke Ingles Group (https://big.dk/) range of Architecture sets.

The Museum of Architecture in Copenhagen has a model of the BIG power station found in the city (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bjarke-ingels-group_formgiving-lego90years-worldplayday-activity-6967560267312336896-xEtO/?originalSubdomain=tr).

BIG designed the Lego House in Billund and Lego made a set of it.

Bjarke Ingels shows appreciation to Lego builders who try to replicate his visions. To do it officially would be magic.

The pieces fit. The market is already confirmed. City builders, architecture fans, collectors, and many more would engage with a BIG.dk series of releases. And after the latest modular; a Lego version of The 8 House (https://big.dk/projects/8-house-2021), even if it was seriously scaled down, would be epic.

How about ThunderCats or Masters of the Universe?

Lego Tomb Raider would be fantastic. Can envision so many scenes packed with secrets and danger. If Indy works, TR works.

The main license I'm surprised Lego has never had, is Shrek.

I'd love Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern, but besides the dragons and their riders, there's not much that lends itself to Lego sets.
Maybe Weyrs and Holds done in microscale, with the trophy figures and the current Ninjago little dragons, the ones that fit on the back of a minifig.

@Doctor_Hugh said:
" @Goujon said:
"I fear im one of the few remaining holdouts for lego thunderbirds.... one can dream. "

It's reached the review stage of Ideas more than once, and Anderson Entertainment are reasonably keen, so clearly LEGO are not interested. Their focus is on wasting millions of Euros and many years, on gimmicks such as Smart Bricks, rather than making sets people actually want."
Of the four IPs mentioned, Thunderbirds is the only one I've even heard of, and I have to tell you that I see zero Thunderbirds merch in physical stores, and it shows up only rarely online. The market for such a theme is likely to be miniscule at best. It's the sort of thing that might do best under the Bricklink program...which it's not eligible for because it would require licensing the IP.

@derekthetree:
Futurama is owned by another brand right now. It causes pangs in my soul everytime I walk down the LEGO aisle and see sets of Bessie, Bender, and Zoidberg. Futurama is one that I'd love, along with Darkwing Duck and Babylon 5.

@essel:
The way I heard it, Brooks _offered_ to not make any Spaceballs merch, and so kinda painted himself into a corner on that one. I don't think Lucasfilm would have had much chance of winning a lawsuit against what is clearly a work of parody, and thus protected under the 1st Amendment. But Disney owning both Fox and Lucasfilm (and 40% of Hollywood), and the impending release of Spaceballs 2, could change things. For one thing, it does put them all under the same umbrella, but Brooks also promised not to make any Spaceballs merch. He never promised to not make any Spaceballs 2 merch.

@rainstorm26:
Ares had, by far, the best visuals of the three films. Yes, the plot was a little on the weak side, but the Legacy de-aging was painfully bad. I like all three films for different reasons, and I would really like to have a full set of lightcycles. I will, of course, probably mod all of them, like I did for the two Legacy bikes.

@DrSchlepenstein:
I'd like more TMNT, but I think I'm good with what we got for Scooby-Doo. I really don't put anything out on display besides my modded Mystery Machine as it is.

@TheOtherMike:
I have a good vintage Beetle, but the thing preventing me from making Herbie is that I need 1x1 rail plates for the racing stripes.

@ELH2806 said:
"Lego Red Dead Redemtion. It's time to use that 18+ rating for more than just price gouging "

And give them an excuse to make a new Western range, much like Lone Ranger was the last big Western line LEGO had.

But, if Rockstar is anything like I've heard, it'll never happen. Apparently, they virtually refuse to have any licensed products. It's the same reason there aren't any figures other than the obscenely pricey Sadie Adler and Arthur Morgan in 1:6.

@Andrusi said:
"Not to toot my own horn, but I think my new original story, Andrusi Stabs Everyone Who Responds To "What X Would You Like To See?" Discussions With Diatribes About How They Aren't Interested In X, would make a good licensed theme.

Barring that... hard to say. Most of the actually new stuff I'd be personally into (as opposed to "more Star Trek," etc.) is stuff that would actually be pretty unsuitable to Lego due to extremely low desirable-build-to-corresponding-desirable-minifig ratios."

Feel free to toot that horn. Nobody else will ever do it for you.

@ScholtzTKO said:
"If you have seen the leaks....
Goku Mech 215pcs $79.99
Hello Kitty Brickheadz 76 pcs $44.99
The Krusty Krab 8,601 pcs $1,389.99
KPop Concert Stage 994 pcs $279.99
Again not 100% confirmed but by the supposed metrics these look likely. "

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@NeptuneIce said:
"How about ThunderCats or Masters of the Universe?"

MotU is Mattel, isn't it? They bought one of the competing block brands, and while they clearly tried to lean into the LEGO brand with their "Let's Go!" Hot Wheels die-cast car, the subsequent "compatible" cars sometimes weren't fully compatible with LEGO minifigs, and always showed the competing style of figure on the cardback.

@560heliport:
Some of the books have really interesting visuals that would make great fodder for sets. Renegades, in particular, has the caravan of traders' wagons, and those crazy trees. There are sailing vessels that could be done, and Robinton's little resort on Southern would be popular. I don't think they'd be able to compete against SW, but there's a fair amount of visual material that could be turned into sets.

@Sean_TheBrickmaster2006:
Sarcasm.

I'm was wondering about Spongebob, given Five Below stores have small sets from some other brand on the shelves.

Given I swear I just saw some MEGA Pokemon stuff, and with LEGO now having that license, who knows what's next.

Honestly, I'm really curious--seems like there's been some major shakeups in the toy licensing world lately. DC's license returning to Mattel (though personally, Spin Master was doing great at great prices), Playmates losing the TMNT license (even though they were the first ones), and well Blokees becoming yet another brand that can deliver great quality at decent prices.

@Crux said:
" @Andrusi said:
"Not to toot my own horn, but I think my new original story, Andrusi Stabs Everyone Who Responds To "What X Would You Like To See?" Discussions With Diatribes About How They Aren't Interested In X, would make a good licensed theme.

Barring that... hard to say. Most of the actually new stuff I'd be personally into (as opposed to "more Star Trek," etc.) is stuff that would actually be pretty unsuitable to Lego due to extremely low desirable-build-to-corresponding-desirable-minifig ratios."

Feel free to toot that horn. Nobody else will ever do it for you."

I'm in a committed relationship, actually.

@BobBill911 said:
"Scooby-Doo should make a comeback, 1 wave was too short. But I would much rather have non-licensed themes like castle and space return."

We just got a whole Futuron-esque subtheme.

The only feasible partnership was Nickelodeon. If not, stick out generic original theme (i.e. based on own perspective).

@Sean_TheBrickmaster2006 said:
" @ScholtzTKO said:
"If you have seen the leaks....
Goku Mech 215pcs $79.99
Hello Kitty Brickheadz 76 pcs $44.99
The Krusty Krab 8,601 pcs $1,389.99
KPop Concert Stage 994 pcs $279.99
Again not 100% confirmed but by the supposed metrics these look likely. "

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I made it up

My two dream themes would be: Breaking Bad and Mad Max. Any of them, I would buy all the sets.

Brickset deleted my comment, the first one on this article :(

@merman said:
"How about less licenses? It makes Lego more and more expensive"

And less and less imaginative. Wish there was a designated limited on how many licensed themes run at a time.

Need Macross, Gundam, Evangelion sets and Malaysian IPs like Upin & Ipin, Mechamato and Ejen Ali

@sjr60 said:
"Would still love a Gerry Anderson licenced theme....
Supercar, Fireball, Stingray and Thunderbirds at least!"

If we can have Gerry Anderson, I'd like UFO. The tracked vehicle, the submarine/jet, the interceptor spacecraft, the moon hopper even maybe the flying saucer - and minifigs with purple hair and silver miniskirt! Thunderbirds would be fine as well but I prefer something minifig scale.

Thunderbirds Lego would be everything I've ever dreamed of since the age of seven. But that's only because I watched it at my uncle's house, and he's the one who grew up with it on TV when it was new. Otherwise I would probably never have heard about it except for that one lame movie from 2004 that we all just ignore. (I do like its designs for Thunderbirds 1 through 4, though.)

My thoughts would be something like "Whatever, so long as it gets yellow minifigs and reasonably-priced sets."

@pedro_lego said:
"My two dream themes would be: Breaking Bad and Mad Max. Any of them, I would buy all the sets."

I feel like Breaking Bad is too "not family friendly" enough on topic. Mad Max, I'd prefer they do their own unlicensed take on it. Clearly inspired by and total riff on theme, but LEGO's own set design and minifigs. I'd wager you could even find enough models to say "here!" from existing stuff. (Have you looked at Dreamzzz?, especially the Season 3 minifigs?)

@PurpleDave I'd be happy with just dragons and their riders.

M.A.S.K. Would be awesome!
The loyal subjects company just revived the old hasbro theme with 4 sets: Thunderhawk, Rhino, Condor and Switchblade. Maybe Lego can too?

I want Nexo Knights to return.

At this point, the only things left on my bucket list are Thomas the tank engine and Thunderbirds.

@merman said:
"How about less licenses? It makes Lego more and more expensive"

I agree 100% and Lego's own themes are also much better than the licensed ones.

Megs, with gun mode. Or tank mode, but with suspiciously-professional alt-mode instructions turning up at launch...

I still want a full Mythology theme. Not really a license, but still, that's the dream. I think the issues with making sets based on religions past and present are likely to prevent this from happening beyond the odd nod in the CMF line, but imagine how cool it could be.

The main IP I'd want is Kamen Rider but it's too niche to ever get a set. Frustrating, as Kamen Rider helmets are so specific that they're essentially impossible to make as purist minifigures. The CMF Super Warrior is the closest we're ever likely to get.

@emQ said:
" @pedro_lego said:
"My two dream themes would be: Breaking Bad and Mad Max. Any of them, I would buy all the sets."

I feel like Breaking Bad is too "not family friendly" enough on topic. Mad Max, I'd prefer they do their own unlicensed take on it. Clearly inspired by and total riff on theme, but LEGO's own set design and minifigs. I'd wager you could even find enough models to say "here!" from existing stuff. (Have you looked at Dreamzzz?, especially the Season 3 minifigs?)"
Yeah, LEGO's version of Mad Max was Ninjago Season 9, Hunted: https://brickset.com/sets/theme-Ninjago/subtheme-Hunted specifically 70654.

@560heliport said:
" @PurpleDave I'd be happy with just dragons and their riders."
Dragons and riders? Ack, now you've got me thinking about Eragon sets. A proper-sized Saphira, Glaedr, and Thorn (with appropriate riders) would be cool.

Nvidia - brick built GPU
Gaz company- just add a sticker on vehicle sets and increase them by 10$
Meta - Botox filled brickeadz with a selfie stick
Rolex or Timex- for minifig with printed watches.
Starbucks: coffee shop, mug, play set of employees trying to unionize while the ceo has a private jet
Insurance company- probably not exciting sets from this theme.
IKEA: black and white instructions; new parts like 8x16 brick without studs with holes in corners

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_series

It's crazy that Lego have made sets for 19 of the 20 highest grossing film series, with only Shrek missing and there are hints around a CMF series in September. Hunger Games will also rejoin the top 20 when the next film comes out and it has some idea proposals in review at the moment.

@ScholtzTKO said:
" @Sean_TheBrickmaster2006 said:
" @ScholtzTKO said:
"If you have seen the leaks....
Goku Mech 215pcs $79.99
Hello Kitty Brickheadz 76 pcs $44.99
The Krusty Krab 8,601 pcs $1,389.99
KPop Concert Stage 994 pcs $279.99
Again not 100% confirmed but by the supposed metrics these look likely. "

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I made it up "

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6boHCSOcC8

While I love and adore Dragonriders of Pern, I think the way dragon mating works is likely a permanent nix on Lego kits. Not, um, v kid-friendly. Or adult-friendly if you think about it too hard or have also read the Iskerne books. Even if I started reading them when I was eight or so.

Some Ninjago minifigs have been extremely Mad Max adjacent.

ETA Now *Temeraire* would work great, on the people who ride dragons front, but the scale would be nigh impossible and that Peter Jackson film option never actually got made, more’s the pity. (Aside from the hoo boy not for kids aspect I’m p sure the lack of film is just as much of a problem for Pern.)

More anime properties would be great.

Expanding Animal Crossing into a CMF is logical with it's large selection of characters.

@ra226 said:"Megs, with gun mode. Or tank mode, but with suspiciously-professional alt-mode instructions turning up at launch..."

Even leaving aside the fact that Lego isn't likely do do even the tank mode, I don't see how the gun mode could be done without having to be at least partially dismantled between modes, unless you were fine with it looking like the original toy in robot mode. If you look at the descriptions of the two Masterpiece Megatrons on TFWuiki (https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Megatron_(G1)/toys), they're both described as having very complex transformations.

@BLProductions said:
" @emQ said:
" @pedro_lego said:
"My two dream themes would be: Breaking Bad and Mad Max. Any of them, I would buy all the sets."

I feel like Breaking Bad is too "not family friendly" enough on topic. Mad Max, I'd prefer they do their own unlicensed take on it. Clearly inspired by and total riff on theme, but LEGO's own set design and minifigs. I'd wager you could even find enough models to say "here!" from existing stuff. (Have you looked at Dreamzzz?, especially the Season 3 minifigs?)"
Yeah, LEGO's version of Mad Max was Ninjago Season 9, Hunted: https://brickset.com/sets/theme-Ninjago/subtheme-Hunted specifically 70654."

And 70840 crossed Mad Max over with Planet of the Apes. But really, the only Mad Max thing I think that they're likely to do is one Speed Champions set. Which I would buy in an instant, if they did it.

Smokey and the Bandit!

@560heliport said:
" @Hiratha said:
"While I love and adore Dragonriders of Pern, I think the way dragon mating works is likely a permanent nix on Lego kits. Not, um, v kid-friendly. Or adult-friendly if you think about it too hard or have also read the Iskerne books. Even if I started reading them when I was eight or so.

Some Ninjago minifigs have been extremely Mad Max adjacent.

ETA Now *Temeraire* would work great, on the people who ride dragons front, but the scale would be nigh impossible and that Peter Jackson film option never actually got made, more’s the pity. (Aside from the hoo boy not for kids aspect I’m p sure the lack of film is just as much of a problem for Pern.)"

Lego has never depicted humans mating, so why would dragons be any different? "

I'm not entirely up to spec with Avatar-lore, but don't the main characters have their genitals on full display, proudly flapping in the breeze?

Perhaps I should specify which Avatar-property I mean, but I don't want to rob you of such joyful imagery.

@560heliport said:
" @Hiratha said:
"While I love and adore Dragonriders of Pern, I think the way dragon mating works is likely a permanent nix on Lego kits. Not, um, v kid-friendly. Or adult-friendly if you think about it too hard or have also read the Iskerne books. Even if I started reading them when I was eight or so.

Some Ninjago minifigs have been extremely Mad Max adjacent.

ETA Now *Temeraire* would work great, on the people who ride dragons front, but the scale would be nigh impossible and that Peter Jackson film option never actually got made, more’s the pity. (Aside from the hoo boy not for kids aspect I’m p sure the lack of film is just as much of a problem for Pern.)"

Lego has never depicted humans mating, so why would dragons be any different? "

That isn’t the problem - the problem is that in the Pern books the dragons are telepathically bonded with their riders, and when the female dragons go into heat and are caught by whichever male dragon the riders of those dragons are forced to also have sex with each other. Whether they would otherwise want to or even like each other or not - they can’t say no, they can’t even consider it in the moment. Lego doesn’t usually go anywhere near properties with regular occurrences of anything so close to rape built into the worldbuilding, regardless of whether it would be depicted.

(The books are good, to be clear, and I don’t want to put people off reading them, but the inclusion of this particular trope is extremely Of Its Time and is not the only Of Its Time aspect of the writing so I guess, uh, content warning.)

Thunderbirds would be a good one, so many options.

I would love one off sets based off the various Nintendo Properties. Metroid, Splatoon, Kirby, Star Fox would sell really well. I think Splatoon would work really well in Lego, it would probably sell really well in Japan. I know Fire Emblem has moved up in popularity over the years, it would work better as a CMF series since almost every game has new characters

It seems Lego looked at both polls and made them their todo list...

@TheOtherMike said:
"And 70840 crossed Mad Max over with Planet of the Apes. But really, the only Mad Max thing I think that they're likely to do is one Speed Champions set. Which I would buy in an instant, if they did it."

Ooo, that made me think of a demolition derby year for Speed Champions with car models designed with intentionally weak outer bits (lots of single stud connections) to pop off when you run them into each other.

Scooby Doo and The Muppets should both return :)

@560heliport said:
" @PurpleDave I'd be happy with just dragons and their riders."
I wouldn't object to that, but I'm just saying there's more material that could be tapped for sets if things ever reach that point. And you know if they ever did get the license, they'd absolutely have to do a Menolly's Firelizards Battle Pack.

But just doing dragons kinda limits them. They'd really only be able to do six sets before it'd get extremely repetitive, since all dragons basically have the same features, and there's not really any variation within a color group beyond size.

@moishe11:
They already did Thomas. Good luck with the aftermarket prices.

@Jack_Rizzo:
They made Monkie Kid, which is based on a book that the Chinese government would like everyone to believe is purely ancient mythology (in truth, _many_ Chinese still practice some variant of the religion). I think they could easily produce sets based on both Greco-Roman and Norse mythology. Anything beyond that, most people wouldn't be familiar with the stories, but I tore through every book of ancient mythology I could find at my local library growing up, so I'd be down for anything.

@Hiratha:
They made two James Bond sets, including one with a minifig. They never once touched on the fact that he sleeps with just about every woman he encounters, or that half of them wind up dead shortly afterwards. There's absolutely no reason they'd need to actually address the mating practices of Dragonriders and their steeds.

Also, regarding the other thing you got into (which I'll tiptoe around in case your comment gets deleted), I wouldn't say it's that cut and dried. When two drunk strangers wake up together, which one is at fault? Regret after the fact doesn't automatically mean you aren't equally responsible. Dragons and their riders share a bond. It's not that the dragon decides and the rider is dragged along against their will. The rider is part of the equation, and can influence the outcome.

And I've never heard of these Iskerne books you referred to, but if it appears in a book that doesn't have at least one MacCaffrey credited on the cover, then it's not part of Pern canon.

@emQ said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
"And 70840 crossed Mad Max over with Planet of the Apes. But really, the only Mad Max thing I think that they're likely to do is one Speed Champions set. Which I would buy in an instant, if they did it."

Ooo, that made me think of a demolition derby year for Speed Champions with car models designed with intentionally weak outer bits (lots of single stud connections) to pop off when you run them into each other."

Given how parts-dense SC models are, incorporating such a feature would be very difficult to do without seriously compromising the way the vehicles look. I'd be all behind the doing such a thing in a City subtheme, though.

@PurpleDave I accept that Dragonriders is unlikely from Lego, but I can dream.
And hell yeah! to a Menolly's Firelizards Battle Pack.

Edit: "Feeding Time", nine firelizards, Menolly, Piemur, and Camu.

@PurpleDave

Iskryne (wouldn’t it have been great if I’d checked the spelling first, urgh) isn’t trying to be part of Pern canon - they’re using and interrogating the trope Pern established/codified/popularised and was then happily taken up in much of the 80s fantasy era, not doing fanfic. Viking era and psychic wolves fighting trolls, not far future genetically engineered dragons fighting thread on a distant world. They’re by Elizabeth Bear & Sarah Monette (more recently known as Katherine Addison for The Goblin Emperor, which is both excellent and requires far fewer content notes than her work under the Monette name).

Not that they need to be Pern canon to make it clear exactly how some of the dragonriders in Pern feel about it, that’s alluded to in the very first Pern book.

I imagine if Pern sets were minifig scaled then the pieces in 71822 would come in very handy for firelizards, but otherwise a big display piece could be quite cute.

… and if they *were* going to do Pern the Menolly books *are* the obvious choice because they’re basically YA and they don’t get into any of the more questionable bits. But even aside from those I don’t think we’re likely to get a book-only-no-adaptation* fandom, otherwise I’d push an awful lot harder for Temeraire. Or the cats from McCaffrey’s Talent books, actually, although their actual breed name might be a dealbreaker there. At least Redwall had a reasonably successful animated adaptation so there’s *some* hope.

*Yes, I know there were games, no, they didn’t have enough cultural impact.

I would like to see Fraggle Rock sets.

And a new Muppets cmf series with the essential missing characters.

A kaiju theme would be cool as wel. With all kind of small city builds like some of the architecture and postcard line

@Hiratha:
Yeah, “Iskerne” is “ice core” in Danish(?), so all I was finding was pages that had to be translated and explained how Arctic cores are easier to read, while Antarctic cores cover a longer span of history.

Anyways, two different people can take the same concept in wildly different ways, so again, Iskryne is its own canon, and not Pern canon. And Dragonflight is…complicated. I say this as someone who has been cursed with the habit if picking up the second book of a trilogy (through a program called RIF, I got Dragonquest, The Two Towers, and the second Bunnicula book, and years later I bought the second book from an OOP Robin Hood trilogy). My first Pern book was the second Pern book, and when I finally got my hands on a copy of Dragonflight, it was like something from a completely different IP. The first book is dark and gritty, with almost a post-apocalyptic feel to it, and the books that followed have a much brighter tone. I include Dragonflight in Pern canon with a big fat asterisk (the events may be canon, but it’s the one book I wish an author had gone back and rewritten to better fit with the rest of the series), the same way I have a problem with the uncharacteristic heel turn of a certain Lord Holder later in the series.

They could use those parts for firelizards, but they really don’t match the established look from decades of cover art. The head is too broad and the wings are too short. That’s just from a quick glance, so I don’t even know if they have four legs or two, or if the tail is even in the ballpark. As unlikely as it is that Pern will get licensed (the real author has been dead for several years, and nothing new has been written since her passing, not even to wrap up unfinished storylines), I think the estate would still insist that the dragon and firelizard elements would have to match the book art. MacCaffrey was pretty insistent on that with the fandom.

@Brickodillo said:
"I would like…a new Muppets cmf series with the essential missing characters."

That is a messy kettle of worms. Exactly who would you consider to be “essential” characters? For me, I’d want Gonzo in his suit, Rizzo, Gonzo and Rizzo from Muppet Christmas Carol, the rest of the Electric Mayhem, Pigs In Space, and Veterinarian’s Hospital. Beyond that, it’s all good in my book. But I doubt you’d find many Muppets fans who would be perfectly content with just what I listed. Actually, I could happily take a full series of just Muppets Christmas Carol, another series of Muppets Treasure Island, and yet another series just from the original Muppet Show.

@moishe11 said:
"At this point, the only things left on my bucket list are Thomas the tank engine and Thunderbirds."
I'd love to see Thomas the Tank Engine but I'd need it to have a Johnny Morris sound brick... no Ringo Starr nonsense!

Lego needs a new currency theme- and make it really, exclusively expensive.

@PurpleDave

… y’know, there are certainly times an author has clearly rethought worldbuilding from a first book and if not retconned at least quietly ignored it later on - Redwall has horses and the implied but not seen presence of humans in Redwall-the-book and then never again - but Dragonriders of Pern isn’t one of them. McCaffrey doesn’t even change it when she clearly became much, much more uncomfortable with the gay sex bit of green dragon mating later on. It’s never altered, and there are elements that say exactly the same problems with consent still exist in later books (most notably but not solely: Brekke and Wirenth), if still dealt with in a decidedly of-the-time way. Tone isn’t really a good enough reason to handwave canon out of existence as an argument in general, even if it’s perfectly fine to hold it as personal headcanon, but it certainly isn’t when the canon is repeated after the change.

They’re hardly the only books from the late 60s and 70s that have things in them which we wouldn’t understand the same way today as they did at the time (and are in fact much better about the portrayal of women than many of their contemporaries in sf/f), and they’re still books I enjoy and very much hold dear in my personal reading canon, but none of that changes that there are elements that would make some people very uncomfortable and aren’t especially Lego-friendly. Even aside from the book-only aspect making it vanishingly unlikely.

@Brickeric said:
"Nvidia - brick built GPU
Gaz company- just add a sticker on vehicle sets and increase them by 10$
Meta - Botox filled brickeadz with a selfie stick
Rolex or Timex- for minifig with printed watches.
Starbucks: coffee shop, mug, play set of employees trying to unionize while the ceo has a private jet
Insurance company- probably not exciting sets from this theme.
IKEA: black and white instructions; new parts like 8x16 brick without studs with holes in corners
"

LEGO probably wouldn't want to pay for brick built RAM.