First glimpse of Creator 10247 Ferris Wheel

Looks interesting! I do hope it's motorized...

Holy...

Should have used baseplates instead.

I'm excited and disappointed at the same time. I'd really hoped for a fairground series that each set owned up into trucks. This fills that same theme niche but is way to big to do the truck thing.

Most likely will get it to make a whole carnival in my city.

Yes yes yes! I have been waiting to see this for ages! :D

Excited for this one :)
but scared for the price...

Cool! And you spelled "first" wrong.

It looks pretty good but I'm worried by the possible price...

So, they've recently made the mixer, a carousel, and now a Ferris wheel. I hope this means that next year we'll see a Lego rendition of the zipper or a roller coaster, but I think we're gonna get another carousel before that happens, because the mixer came out last year but the carousel came out back in 2009

What is going on with that tree? I wanna know what kind of technique they used for that.

The whole set looks awesome and I'll be sure to pick this one up, income permitting.

I gasped when I saw that picture. LEGO take my money, all of it. Oh my god, this looks freaking cool.

Guess that will be over 200€, hope I'm wrong. (Please let me be wrong...)

I'm actually glad it *doesn't* fold up into a truck, or at least doesn't appear to from that image. I thought that really compromised the design of the Mixer, making it less a successor to the Grand Carousel and more of a City set or a transformer or something. Although fairground rides do fold up to be hauled away by trucks, I'm fine with not including that bit of realism in these sets. The City theme is already loaded with trucks, and it's nice that part of the piece count won't be dedicated to yet another one.

Most of all, I'm really delighted that this indicates fairground rides will be a recurring sub-theme. Their movement and cheerfulness seem a perfect fit for LEGO. Maybe we'll even get a motorized roller coaster like the one on Ideas someday.

I agree with Modok, I feel the mixer set wasn't up to the price tag because they wasted so many pieces to get a truck into the set.

And rumor is $200 USD so yikes, but looks nice-ish. I don't really like the blue, it doesn't fit.

So yeah, basically what everyone else said...
Looks great, looks expensive, and yay, it doesn't fold into a truck. :P

At the same time though, the green slopes on the base (to represent a grassy hill I guess) look terrible, and by themselves make the Ferris Wheel as a whole look like a set from 10 years ago.

But still, all those round parts used on the wheel's "cars" and everything else looks worth the money...

I didn't really like it at first, but looking at the image in more detail, I'm starting to like it a bit more. Still, it's very... interesting looking?

Holy...

It's huge. The color scheme hurts my eyeballs. It's full of minifigures, details, and quite possibly motorized.

Probably costs in the range of two hundred dollars.

That's the most mind-bogglingly awesome LEGO set I've seen all day, Technic Crawler Crane included.

I was planning on building a ferris wheel for Ideas. Glad I didn't waste my time. Mine was going to be like the Disneyland Wonder Wheel with a big Mickey Mouse on it and the rolling cabins. Surprised they didn't go this route. Disneyland fans will buy anything and at any price!

I'm fairly certain it won't be motorised, as you can see the manual crank towards the back of the set, much like the one in the Mixer.

Looks a lot like the previous one. I was hoping for something a bit more "finished". No doubt there will be instruction to motorise. Had to adjust the last one as it was a bit jerky when it went around.

Huh... Not sure I like it. Too bad, I was excited for this one to go along with the Mixer

Looking forward to adding this to my collection, using as part of a county fair set up with a couple of the farm sets and some MOCs.

I was kinda expecting it to be a 60% technic set, so I am not far from being wrong. Still, I would get this to be placed together with my Grand Carousel cos they are of comparable size.

I think it's great that it doesn't roll up onto a truck cos I REALLY HATE THAT! lol ^^

oh man...excited, but as JPod said, worried about the price, hoping it's not $199. Either way pretty much have to have it, glad I've been working a lot of overtime so I can afford it.

For 199.99 USD, it should be motorized. Maybe that is being being elitist, but I think it makes far more sense to be motorized at 199.99 USD

THIS LOOKS SO GOOD!

Hinge plates on the outer stability legs is a questionable choice. I like the rest.

Don't really understand the positive responses, it looks a bit of a mess. Like somebody mentioned, the colors are all over the place. I find it too bad if this shouldn't fit on a trailer(s) like the mixer. And next to the grand carousel (although that was a disaster from a build perspective), it completely misses the grandeur of that set.

In the MOC community there are far better models of ferriswheels than this. And most of them take the European Fairground rides as an example, which, to my opinion, look way better than the more traditional American kind. But nothing against that style though, I just find it poorly executed here.

The gondola's look good, simple but effective ideas in there. But that's about all I like, judging from this photograph. I had to alter my opinion of sets in the past when I saw them in real life, let's hope this one does the same cause I was soooo looking forward to this.

Not too sure about it. The blue beams break up the colour scheme and so do the purple gondolas. The orange/yellow star-shaped applications in the middle would have made more of an impression if the colour scheme was consistent.

The color scheme actually reminds me of the ferris wheel at the Oktoberfest in Munich.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/Oktoberfest_2005_-_Riesenrad.jpg
Blue Beams, yellow/orange sun in the center.
I really like it, and on May 13th, this set is mine. I think it retails for 180€ in Germany, but I'm not sure.

i so want this for my lego fairground, I have the carousel and the mixer. I would have like others preferred if it went on the back of a truck but hey its LEGO and its Awesome and it looks good. Little more updated from the creator set a few years back but similar in style. It will probably retail around £169 or £179 here in the UK. still worth getting. The mixer was great as it came with lots of mini figures hope this set does too! Also I think there will be an option like the mixer to motorise it.

Love it, love it, love it! Glad that's it's so big and I wouldn't want it to fold up on a truck - the fairground mixer is clever folding up on, and from the truck, but not for a ferris wheel. I suspect that like the mixer, you'll be able to use a motor. I think it will be about the same price as the Simpsons products - in Australia that's $329. It's a must have!!!

Interesting drive mechanism. It looks like you have rubber-band suspesioned wheels mounted on two of the legs on the right side (when standing in front of the Ferris Wheel). One of theese wheels are conected with a drive shaft coming from under the floor of the construction. Underneath the floor you also see a drive shaft going from left to right in the picture. I suspect you will find a manually drive-machanism on the back side of the Ferris Wheel. Most likely the wheel can be motorized with a separate motor. I have the same feeling as when I first saw the Fairground Mixer: I am not sure what to think about this. Knowing myself and Lego I am pretty confident that after seing the release-video and more pictures this will turn out as a great model.

Scared by the possible price.

Want want want!

Is that a baseplate I see? (and in the old baseplate green as well!)

^ It looks more like a couple of green standard plates. Otherwise there would be no break in the front of the base.

Oh no, another must have. That is 4th set this year together with Detective Office, Kwik E Mart and new Winter Village set. And we have Hoth exclusive and possibly Dr. Who and BBT Ideas coming. I feel so sorry for my wallet.

If you have a look at the box art for the Fairground Mixer, it shows a silhouette of what might be a Swing-Boat ride, and a Roller-Coaster. Does this mean we get a Roller-Coaster or a Swing-Boat ride next year? Will a silhouette of the Fairground Mixer be shown on the Ferris Wheel's box art?

Could LEGO be starting a long Creator Expert Fairground sub-theme? It would make sense.

Why this must use trucks?I saw some videos and there must be at least four heavy load trucks with one fully dissasemble ferris wheel.Another cost for some childish play factor without zero usage.

I don't know what you mean by 'Up there with...' - the Mixer was great, but the Grand Carousel was a malfunctioning mess.

This one has some neat technical design features - the wheel structure and the angled supports. But the scale looks a bit off - the wheel is a bit small for those pod-like cars, and then has to raise them a long way up so they don't hit the ground. They better suit that colossal Oktoberfest style of wheel.

Finally, the price is terrifying. Not LEGO trying to bleed a theme dry again by ramping up the price?

I feel inclined to steal a few design ideas, but build my own of the tilting-couch type.

what - some people really thought the ferris wheel would fold into a truck? what would be next - a modular building folding into a plane?

@Joefish Yes, the scale is off. When I was going to build a minifig scale replica of the Disney Wonder Wheel I calculated it would need to be 4 feet tall. Of course, not all ferris wheels are the same size.

I'm going to be controversial, but I think it looks like a Knex set! It is only one photo, so I might be persuaded later, but not at the moment.

Looks to me like a fine companion for the Mixer. Yes, although a Ferris Wheel should be able to be broken down for transport it takes more than one (or even two) trucks to move one, so I'm not surprised the trucks don't seem to be included this time. I'll be curious to see if it's built in sections similar to the "real thing" so people can mod the trucks needed to turn it into a completely portable fair attraction.

I'm not going to buy it on day one (I never seem to do that any more) but I'm pretty sure this will be joining my collection soon!

@AndyPol: Why is that supposed to be controversial? Structurally, K'nex rods and connectors are a lot like what any decent Ferris Wheel set SHOULD look like.

Comparing things to another toy just because that other toy has a reputation for producing a decent likeness of the subject isn't exactly an insult. It'd be like saying a LEGO log cabin looks too much like Lincoln Logs, or that a Technic crane looks too much like Erector/Meccano, or that a LEGO dump truck looks too much like Tonka. As long as LEGO isn't introducing new, specialized parts simply to imitate that subject (like Mega Bloks often does), then saying they're able to depict it as well as a toy that's specifically designed for that purpose seems like a compliment.

I'm not convinced it's for real yet! Something's not right.....

I'm not a fan of the color scheme and uncover the Ferris wheel seems really cluttered.

@Huw, why are some posters griping about the Grand Carousel? It's a great set in my opinion.......

Because they don't share your opinion!