Ideas review results

@dawid said:
"There is no info about the results. Is there a livestream or what?!?"

I think it's a livestream on facebook. it's driving me crazy not being able to watch it!

Pass

I'm personally disappointed, but happy for those that wanted one or both of these! At least I'll have more money for my MOCs...

Both very good designs and nice sets. Not 100% sure they will be in my buy list, shall have to see what else is released around that time. Slightly disappointed that thunderbirds didn’t get in. That would have been epic!

I am happy about the results. I wanted these two + Seven dwarf house.

Happy with the results, although I'm surprised at both the ones that got through. I was really hoping for History of flight, and I like the Anatomini too, but I can live with these two :)

Wasn’t expecting either of those but I’m happy Winnie the Pooh is getting a set as I know my mother loves the character.

Blacksmith Shop isn’t of interest to me personally but I’m sure it’ll look cool!

Shame about the office, but I knew in my heart the proposed set was asking for way too much

The blacksmith is actually very nic, but isn't it strange that his house is bigger than the average castle?

@RonnyN said:
"Meh...
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Agreed!

I like the two,

Never liked any of the Space ideas sets, except for the Space shuttle. So for once they did not choose the Nasa set :(

Hoping for a creator expert set now from that shuttle

I'm happy for the Castle fans and architecture fans who will love the Medieval Blacksmith. I'm happy for the people who will love the Winnie-the-Pooh set, and I might even get it myself. They're both nice, cheerful location builds that provide much-needed balance to the plethora of vehicles that Lego produces. I can't help but be disappointed that Thunderbirds wasn't selected, but I'm not terribly surprised. There's another really good Thunderbirds project still gathering supporters, though, so there's still hope! As an aside, I wonder what Lego plans to do for the minifigures in Sesame Street and Winnie-the-Pooh. It seems like cartoon characters generally get specialized head molds nowadays - see Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Homer Simpson, and the Trolls, for example - but those are against the rules for Ideas. Maybe those rules are changing? But then again, the Flintstones didn't get head molds and they were arguably better for it. Ho-hum, we'll see.

EDIT - After a closer look at the Pooh project, I think it'll get by just fine without new molds.

Kinda hoped that The Office would win, but happy to see Winnie the Pooh will have an actual set.

Time to build a Thunderbird 2 myself then.

Hurray for Winnie the Pooh!

For me it's a great year- 4 out of the 5 are a definitely purchase.

The Office has had multiple reviews.... why dont they just add it to the do not allow list if they wont make it...

Just moments ago when I re-read the article about the candidates I thought to myself "I would so hope to get the Medieval Blacksmith, but they will never choose that one".

I have rarely been so happy about having been proven wrong. :-)

I guess they'll put it on a standard 32x32 baseplate though.

I thought Winnie the Pooh would be selected. Such a neat little set. The Medieval Blacksmith is a fantastic surprise though! Think I backed that ages ago.

@AustinPowers said:
"I guess they'll put it on a standard 32x32 baseplate though."

Tree House had a custom base (square in the original) so I think we might get something similar, even if it's not using those round parts.

None of the sets from this review particularly interested me, but if I had to choose one it would've been the Blacksmith!

Alright picks, looking forward for the Winnie The Pooh figures

Both unexpected, and un-exciting.

Woohoo! A castle set and an-almost-castle-forestmen-set!
And of course finally no more space sets!!!

One very important question here is: will we have a new brown goat coming with the medieval blacksmith? I also do not expect the ground to be raised like this (too many parts - but it does make for a nicer setup).

I would have loved the UCS shuttle because I love "real" space items (well I also like "classic" space) but I understand that we already had the Saturn V and the ISS in the idea realm. As many others pointed out maybe they'll do a detailed shuttle in the creator line in the not too distant future (this should definitely become a theme just like modular - one real spacecraft per year).

To pursuit of flight is neat as everything JK Brickwork does but I personally believe that, of all the choices here, this is the easiest one to reproduce on your own with your own collection. As far as automatons goes I definitely prefer the Sisyphus one - the horse is also very nice.

For me, Winnie the Pooh need to have new moulds for figures but we'll see. Can anyone enlighten me onto why it is banned in China?

Do we have some sort of timeline as to when the previous 3 will be available? It seems like it was quite a while ago they were announced - I need that piano!

Disappointed that Thunderbirds didn’t make it, I like the look of the blacksmiths, bet hey ho can’t have everything.

I wanted Pursuit of flight, more money for star wars sets

Winnie the Pooh doesn't surprise me at all... I would have expected, probably, the second one to be Thunderbirds, but didn't have any particular stake in it either way; I just know they used to be very popular. Regardless, the blacksmith looks like a really nice choice - plus a non-licensed one at that! - and I look forward to seeing the finalised set ^^

Though really, I'm still holding out hope for the BIONICLE project in the next round...

Finally! Something not space related! I would have liked Snow White over the Pooh set but at least they aren't space.

Winnie the Pooh (5947) was one of our daughter's first Duplo set, so it'll be interesting to compare these minifigs to their larger cousins.

Congrats to the creators! I’ve always loved Namirob‘s work.

I'm absolutely delighted that the Winnie the Pooh set was selected!! :-D

Happy about the Blacksmith now I just hope I can afford it.

Pooh set will be hugely popular.

Great! So now I really want 4 out of the 5 Ideas projects that are in the works... just great (and expensive)! Honestly though I'm so glad we'll have a taste of Pirates and Castle again soon, with Sesame Street and Winnie the Pooh for good old childhood nostalgia thrown in to boot:)

The Blacksmith is simply beautiful, although up against the Pirate Bay and Sesame Street will be tough IMO!

The blacksmith is screaming for Cesar Soares to work on it, it's 100% his style!

Looking forward to see the final results, they both look very displayable!

Exciting!

Great selections! There were others I would have been happy with also, great offerings this review period. I saw Winnie The Pooh coming but I’m pleasantly surprised by the Medieval Blacksmith being chosen! That’s a beautiful set!

Winnie the Pooh is quite an interesting choice, however, if what people have said are correct, then that set might bring in some good profit from a certain country... Anyhow, really glad the Blacksmith passed. It was the most interesting one out of all. Could care less for the others maybe except the Pursuit of Flight, but I'm sure JKBrickworks has instructions available for it. Hopefully, these sets will still be nicely priced like the other ideas sets.

I was super thrilled and expecting Thunderbirds :(

I'm also surprise, but I like the two selected models.

I really would have liked the Thunderbirds Are Go

And why not the The Seven Dwarfs' House?

Oh boy, the blacksmith! Time to start saving.

I was hoping for Snow White, but the blacksmith and Pooh are good consolation.

Glad the Blacksmith made it!

The new Thunderbirds is only available in the US on Amazon Prime. It’s never been available on cable or satellite in the US which may be part of why it wasn’t a go. And the original series from the ‘60s is probably to old to generate much of a fan base in the US (that buy Lego)

Surprised, but ‘hell yeah!’ for the Medieval Blacksmith.

Even more surprised about Winnie the Pooh, but that ranks down with ‘Adventure Time’ as a low point for Lego Ideas (for me anyway)

It's surprising that a Winnie the Pooh project was chosen (a couple of nice words to China, if you can't take criticism of your politicians then you aren't ready to come into the 21st century) which I will be gifting my mother and that Blacksmith sure is a nice win for Castle fans.

Hurray, my favorite (the blacksmith) has won!!! I couldn't be happier :-)

Very happy Blacksmith made it, it was my favorite. Let's hope Lego doesn't change it too much in the production version.

Quite surprised Winnie the Pooh was approved, might consider it if it turns out nice and not too expensive (yeah right, I skipped Steamboat Willie mostly 'cause of its price), as said I try to avoid Disney licenses. Also shows that we need to take the self-appointed "experts" here with a grain of salt, it was pretty much the same "experts" who said Lego would never make a two-part modular again.

A little disappointed Pursuit of Flight didn't make it, it was such a nice, moderately-sized model. Someone mentioned the "war" issue, but IMO 10024 Red Baron and 7198 Indy plane attack are just as "war-themed" as this one.

@HOBBES said:
"One very important question here is: will we have a new brown goat coming with the medieval blacksmith? I also do not expect the ground to be raised like this (too many parts - but it does make for a nicer setup).

I would have loved the UCS shuttle because I love "real" space items (well I also like "classic" space) but I understand that we already had the Saturn V and the ISS in the idea realm. As many others pointed out maybe they'll do a detailed shuttle in the creator line in the not too distant future (this should definitely become a theme just like modular - one real spacecraft per year).

To pursuit of flight is neat as everything JK Brickwork does but I personally believe that, of all the choices here, this is the easiest one to reproduce on your own with your own collection. As far as automatons goes I definitely prefer the Sisyphus one - the horse is also very nice.

For me, Winnie the Pooh need to have new moulds for figures but we'll see. Can anyone enlighten me onto why it is banned in China?

Do we have some sort of timeline as to when the previous 3 will be available? It seems like it was quite a while ago they were announced - I need that piano!"

Winnie the Pooh's figures definitely need improvement. Tigger is really badly designed and Eeyore is not so good either.

@Elenoe
Some people (including Pewdiepie) said that Winnie the Pooh looks like the Chinese leader...

I'd rather see the Winnie the Pooh minifigs in a CMF series so a more buildable set could be in Ideas. People are only going to be buying the overpriced Ideas Pooh bear set for the figs anyway. (Yes, I get this is more profit for Lego but worse for customers.)

Im very happy the blacksmith was chosen! Winnie the Pooh is good too. While I really like the blacksmith, for the sake of price and fitting in my medieval display Id like it to be scaled down a tad.

I'm really happy the Medieval Blacksmith was picked. Was hoping for the Museum, Haunted Mansion and/or the Snow White Cottage with the Seven Dwarfs to maybe get chosen also. I hold out hope that a version of the Museum will eventually be made in the Creator Expert line. Likewise I would expect that eventually a version of the Haunted Mansion will join the Disney Castle & Train Station. And lastly perhaps a Snow White Cottage will be added to the Disney Princess line. All the other contestants were pretty awesome too. It would be nice if more could have been chosen. Not a fan Of Winnie the Pooh although the model was nicely done.

Very pleased that the Medieval Blacksmith got through. Hopefully the lack of a Thunderbirds are Go set will leave a space for a potentially much superior classic Thunderbirds set, which would probably appeal to the same generation that bought the Yellow Submarine!

Love the blacksmith but the wiener set is definitely a pass for me. Imo lego is trying to look for sales through nostalgia.

I like the Blacksmith and I'll probably buy it. It'll probably be redesigned from the ground up as most recent Ideas sets have been, so I don't expect it to look as it does now.

@someguy827 said:
"WOW

THE ONLY TWO PROJECTS I WANTED

THANK YOU LEGO"

Same here. I loved Winnie the Pooh as a child so I'm excited to build that and I really am happy we are getting a Castle and Pirate Idea sets coming up. Feels nice to see some older themes getting some much needed love from the community.

I seriously doubt we are going to see the goat in the blacksmith shop. LEGO isn't likely to bring back a part last used in a 2011 set just for an Ideas project (nice though it would be)

Love the Blacksmith and Winnie the Pooh is fine as yet another licensed product.

I was really hoping for Pursuit of Flight as I think we need more small sets.

Not surprised at Pooh winning what with Legos strong tie ups with Disney. Not for me but it will be popular.

Blacksmith looks interesting but it looks big. Will they downsize it?

Overall I think Ideas is in a good place. Some great proposals going through. Personally would have loved thunderbirds

@dawid said:
"Bit sad that the office failed. Seeing how well the friends performed it’s crazy that they wouldn’t make a "the office" set"

Don't know if this had an impact on it, but I saw a build-able office set made by another toy company at target the other day. Maybe it was a license issue.

If I can figure out a way to make some tweaks to turn that medieval blacksmith into the prancing pony, it might be worth buying.

I am equally stunned and thrilled.

I would’ve preferred the haunted mansion as a Disney fan but I’ve learned with ideas not to hold my breath for it to come true. I love my steamboat willie and wall-e but I was betting against them getting made as they seemed too good to be true. Going to get gutted next time when the planet express ship is rejected again for being “too adult”

@SirBrick1 said:
" @Elenoe
Some people (including Pewdiepie) said that Winnie the Pooh looks like the Chinese leader...

"
This has been a meme most of the last decade. It’s the top search on google still when typing out ‘Winnie the pooh’. But I think it’s impact has been slightly exaggerated.
My understanding is that censors blocked HBOs website in China After a critical segment that included the meme on John Oliver’s show. It was reported that the meme caused the block rather than the rest of the episode’s substance being to blame). Also, the Christopher Robbin film didn’t get a Chinese release likely due to china’s annual cap on foreign films (they are capped to 30 something films per year.). Again, this was reported as being related to the meme but I haven’t seen anything verifying it. Just media fluff.

Great news about the projects, I will buy both.

Supported 8 of the 11 they chose from, pleased with their choices. Not a fan of the repeated releases of NASA technology and the like, I'm more of a sci-fi space fan. "Suum cuique"

Quite surprised Anatomini didn't make it. Most of the projects that were reconsidered in a next round got produced in the end.

Very excited about the blacksmith though. Great to see a proper Castle set again!

The flight one seemed like a no-brainer to me, but the rest of the results are about as I expected. Black Smith is nice, and Lego already has Pooh license.

@Luthercpa said:
"The new Thunderbirds is only available in the US on Amazon Prime. It’s never been available on cable or satellite in the US which may be part of why it wasn’t a go. And the original series from the ‘60s is probably to old to generate much of a fan base in the US (that buy Lego)"

Why should that matter? These sets are sold around the world, and there is a decent following in the UK (at least, maybe elsewhere too).

Ultimately, all of these proposals have a fairly substantial potential audience, seeing as 10,000+ people have said they are interested. Although whether that translates into sales depends on the final cost.

The Thunderbirds set was the only one I would have been guaranteed to buy regardless of how much it cost (although it doesn't look that big or expensive in the designs).

The History Museum I would have been quite interested in, although that would end up being the largest and most expensive Ideas set they've put out.

Sadly, I doubt I'll be buying either of the sets they are taking forward unless there are some significant changes to them before production.

Will we get new molds is the question?

@Pekingduckman said:
" @HOBBES said: "For me, Winnie the Pooh need to have new moulds for figures but we'll see. Can anyone enlighten me onto why it is banned in China?"

It was never banned in China, it is very popular there and in fact Winnie the Pooh have an attraction in Shanghai Disneyland:

https://www.shanghaidisneyresort.com/en/attractions/adventures-winnie-pooh/

What happened is that for a while social media started to censor comparisons of the Chinese leader Xi Jinping with Winnie the Pooh due to their supposed resemblance, but due to Chinese whispers (pardon the pun) it got picked up by Western media as China outright banning Winnie the Pooh, which never happened."

The Chinese version of Kingdom Hearts replaced Pooh with a glowing orb.

On the whole Pooh banned in China matter, it is not really the case. The Shanghai Disneyland character mascot and rides still exist. It is just that social media posts about the character are heavily monitored. Also, the character was replaced by an orb in the Chinese version of Kingdom Hearts 3. No outright attempts have been made to “ban” the character though.

@Golem25 said:
"No Thunderbirds, no buy. Can't wait to completely ignore the two sets that were picked once they land on store shelves."

Cool, man.

Can't wait to see what becomes of both; in my personal opinion. The new molds for the Pooh figures (which, likely, will be in a CMF line later) and how they do the figures interest me.

If LEGO's gonna do licenses, I'm going with THunderbirds. I haven't watched an episode of it, but am familiar with the series through the early '80s line Matchbox did. LEGO's not done that before, but Pooh's been in Duplo from 1999-2011. And personally, I find the line a better fit in a Juniors/4+/Duplo theme than with Ideas.

@Thunbear:
After they opened the program up to the world, so many of the early projects that hit 10k required license deals that they supposedly imposed some sort of restriction on what they can approve. They can still approve licensed projects, but a certain percentage have to be original projects.

@TransNeonOrangeSpaceman:
Why would they need to? The five characters depicted in the project submission can all be made with existing molds.

@Ladondorf:
_That_ did _not_ happen. Once both versions had been unveiled to the public, they were very clear about the fact that they didn't actually make a single new mold for the Steamboat Willie set. They just lucked out that the CMF team had the same idea, and they could mooch off the two new hat molds. The drawback to this, however, was that the CMF team is very protective of their minifig designs, so the Ideas team had to figure out a way to make their minifigs distinct. I think they said they chose to go with silver because (aside from keeping it greyscale) the characters debuted on the "silver screen".

@karrit:
If they make the cottage under Disney Princess, it will be a lot more clunky and basic than this submission.

The Lamborghini Sian sort of looks a bit like T2 if you squint.... just as long as it's green!

WTP is a great idea for a set- I guess China was OK with it. It has perfect cross-demographic KFOL-AFOL appeal- much better than Sesame Street, IMO.

I am excited for Medieval Blacksmith. Medieval Market Village already has a blacksmith's shop, but it was eleven years ago. I hope it can be displayed alongside the Pirate Fort and the Treehouse as part of a contiguous display of old-ish buildings.

The other ideas were pretty underwhelming. The Office was incredibly unaesthetic despite being a good concept for an IP, the space shuttle is really average, the target demographic for Thunderbirds is developing Alzheimer's, Anatomini is a hard shelfwarmer that doubles as nightmare fuel, and the Red Baron would appeal to the wrong kind of people. Seven Dwarves is certainly workable and I can envision myself pressing the "add to cart" button, but WTP is a much stronger Disney IP.

Happy about the Blacksmith, but kinda surprised that Pursuit of Flight did not make it.

@TeriXeri said:
"Tree House had a custom base (square in the original) so I think we might get something similar, even if it's not using those round parts."

I would love that. Let's hope you are right.

I am very happy with these results, 2 out of 3 I liked. Surprised the space sets didn't get through... Too bad for the dwarves, since I could have used that army booster, but very happy with these

Medieval castle was definitely the best and the only one I would buy at all.

For the History Museum fans, the creator said on the Ideas page that he'll be resubmitting it with some changes. So LEGO might be interested in those types of projects, but with some restrictions. Maybe he'll lower the piece count, or the minifig count (there were a ton of them through statues), or change the design itself to be more in line with existing modulars.

A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one.

I thought they didn't own the rights to their models for a few years after submission? Or is it just the winners with their original designs? It might not be legal for him to share the instructions like this, so shortly after the results.

@CopperTablet said:
"the target demographic for Thunderbirds is developing Alzheimer's, "

Oi, less of that. Yes, the original broadcast date of the original series is a very long time ago.

But (in the UK at least), the series was widely repeated well into the 80s (which is how I picked it up as a kid), and whilst the set is appealing to fans of the original, the branding ties in with the modern reboot which is popular / backed enough to have made 3 seasons (so far).

I had two mutually exclusive wishes:
1) that Shuttle, can't have enough Real Space (TM) sets.
2) save money.
But no, they had to choose that blacksmith shop... none of my desires are becoming a reality!

So happy to see the Blacksmith's, that was one of my top two from this grouping. Just disappointed we're not gonna get a Thunderbird 2 set.

Aww, I was hoping the Thunderbirds set would win. I'd love to see LEGO's improved version of that!

I am so nostalgic for Winnie The Pooh so I'm extremely hyped for this, interested to see what they'll do for the figures. The main reason I thought they wouldn't do this (apart from china) was because I thought Lego would consider Pooh a license only babies enjoy and only deserves Duplo sets.

The Blacksmith is also a great build, interested to see what they do with that too.

Excited about both of these! Two lovely detailed fantasy houses at once - wow! I am surprised - seems they don't usually accept detailed buildings like this (other than the Fishing Store).

Thunderbirds all the way!

@Phoenixio said:
"I thought they didn't own the rights to their models for a few years after submission? Or is it just the winners with their original designs? It might not be legal for him to share the instructions like this, so shortly after the results."

According to Terms of Service, LEGO grants the submitter a limited, revocable license to make use of their Product Idea for certain non-commercial purposes, including "Posting pictures or other information about a submitted Product Idea or Contest Entry on the submitter’s own website or social media pages." The next paragraph states "You may not sell any items, physical or digital, related to either the Product Ideas or Contest Entries submitted to the platform." So I believe it's okay for him to share instructions on his website, as long as he isn't making money off it.

I've no interest in either one of these sets but would've bought Thunderbird 2 in a heartbeat much like I bought that 1989 Batmobile from the day of its release.

Great projects, I'm happy it's not space, but I would prefer other projects to be selected

LEGO is preferring licensing over creativity. I had my money on the animated planes.

I am very glad about the selection. I hoped for at least one building and now we get two, with the blacksmith being an AFOL dream. Fingers crossed they keep the end product as close to the original as possible and don't miniaturize it. Not a big Winnie the Pooh fan personally, but its a nice little building nonetheless and should appeal to the current younger audience.

Anatomini was cool. But I can see why Lego didn’t do it

I am shocked at the selection!! Both are items I will buy!

Thunderbirds are go? Thunderbirds are no. Its to bad it didn't make it.

I think it is a great shame the Anatomini was not approved. It is such a unique and educational idea

@Havok211:
There's not a blanket ban on everything Disney. The parks are off-limits, but there are a lot of other things under the Disney name that aren't. Specific characters are prohibited, but Winnie the Pooh is not listed among them. For that matter, neither are Snow White & the Seven Dwarves, nor is the Disney Princess theme as a whole (just the characters in current production).

@hackenbacker:
What the what? Someone from the UK saying "seasons" instead of "series"? Tiny victories, people. Tiny victories.

@The_Toniboeh:
Shhh! They've never specifically stated that Ideas is not allowed to produce Duplo sets!

@lentil:
Old Fishing Store is one of the primary reasons why a lot of those other detailed buildings got rejected. The same person who submitted that project got at least three more to 10k, but all three were basically more waterfront buildings of a similar design, and Ideas isn't allowed to run themes.

@doe:
*coughBlacksmithShopcough*