Lighting kit boxes on display in Copenhagen

Were there set numbers for these by chance?

I've been pondering dipping my foot into lighting kits for some models, Disney Castle, Disney Train, Ghostbusters HQ spring to mind and I had been looking at Light my Bricks to buy my first kit.

I might hold off and see what an official kit looks like in comparison.

Hope someone will be able to actually buy a set there and show how it works.

i-Brix??

@CCC The lamp post interests me too - its the only part that I've needed to use non-Lego for to light up a couple of modulars so far so it would be the key to the purist approach!

@chaosderek said:
"Hoping one will be available for darth vaders castle!"

That is a big one as well the UCS Millenium Falcon.

The headlights and taillights of the Diner's convertible seem to be lit. I haven't built that set so I don't know how much space the car has for wires and lights. Also it would be odd to have wires going from the building to the car. Makes me wonder if there are batteries involved somehow.

I tried to buy two of them, but they are not for sale. They are just testing waters and are asking people who show interest in them, to participate in a survey.

I believe the price for the Ford Mustang one was 329 DKK and for the Downtown Diner 619 DKK.

Expansion Boards? What are they supposed to be?

If they do this in a proper way, I would definitely like to buy some. Most certainly for the Mustang and the Diner.

I am hugely in favour of this and would buy pretty much every lighting kit they produced. I have wanted Lego to do an official lighting solution for such a long time!

As someone who buys an expensive collector’s set maybe once every two years, I’d love these. I’d absolutely upgrade to make the model feel even more “special.”

Yes please!!!! I would LOVE to be able to light up all my modular sets (I have all of the buildings) especially, and other sets as well. I would hope that LEGO could get the price down compared to 3rd party makers of these types of things due to bulk production. I've only bought 1 lighting kit because they're all so expensive, many of them costing just as much if not more than the LEGO set itself.

I'm all for official versions of lighting kits. Price will determine how many sets I light up. Can't wait to learn more.

I'm all for official versions as well. Would love to light up the modulars.

I’d be interested in a LEGO solution. Would it be compatible with power functions or powered up?

I think expansion packs not tied to a specific set would be good for those who MOC.

These look pretty good! Hopefully they are released and eventually they release general kits that can be incorporated into MOCs!

As a purist, I'm looking forward to the commercial release of these Light Kits, for these and for many more Sets! I've refused any other solution to have light in my Lego Sets.

This is amazing, I would love to buy the Hogwarts one. I'm hoping it's not too much money, however. Great idea though!

Those would be awesome!!!!
I do my own but take a long time to figure out optimal placement of LEDs. It would be great If someone else would do the engineering and just provides the LEDs with instructions :) Leaves more time to build more sets :)

Make Lego (city) bright again!
The only reason I haven’t stocked up all my 21 modulars (all the originals and some MOCs) with third party vendors’ light kits, is because of the norwegian tax system (import tax) which makes everything almost twice as expensive due to tax fees.
If I can, and I surely will, order directly from Lego, I will avoid the extra tax fee and that alone will make the price acceptable, but don’t strech it too much Lego! :) We have a long backlog to buy!

I can't waiting for those sets to add to my modular buidings, and maybe also for the fairground sets!

Umm, yes please! That's pretty exciting! I just hope they are aware of the many aftermarket (w/varying cost levels) available and these official products are not priced exorbitantly.

I’d definitely be interested in official light elements like this!

I’m not sure that producing kits specifically for certain models is the best long-term strategy for the business. I’d rather see a variety of lighting kits that Lego can keep on the shelves indefinitely.

That said, my Disney Castle + Train and UCS Millennium Falcon are begging to be illuminated. :-)

Jan! Take my money!!!! lol

would love if they made ones for the architecture series

I own Hogwarts castle and 3rd party lighting cost around 190 eur+shipping so its quite expensive, if lego do it for reasonable price I am looking forward. Also it could looks great with combining with UCS models for future or some higher price models available from lego.com

It's probably a combination of wired and wireless, with maybe a wireless/induction pad recharge system. The mock-up for the some of the sets show cars with lights, so either tiny little batteries for each vehicle, or each light is its own independent power/supply and lamp. Question is - since the models were not designed for lamps, can these sets be designed to be used retroactively, or will only new sets have illumination kits going forward? Obvious retro-deployment would be anything in the Monster Hunters theme, Haunted Mansion, and UCS Star Wars sets.

I'm interested but would want to know more. Would also want to see if they would cater for MOCs by offering a sort of a-la-carte menu so you can pick and choose the parts you need for your own designs.

Certainly looks awesome. I want this to succeed so it be implemented on favorite sets but the pricing might be tough to justify for some. As in I could light up this model, or I could buy something else that looks cool.

@kecia said:
"I believe the price for the Ford Mustang one was 329 DKK and for the Downtown Diner 619 DKK."

Thanks for clarifying the prices are DKK! So prices don't look to bad after all.With tax the dinner would be about £70 in UK right?

After udpate 2: I am curious how the solution proposed by the Lego User Lab works? Is it complete wireless or just wires connected to boards? Despite I already have spend a lot to light all my modulars I would be very interested on a Lego official solution, if that comes soon enought.

I wonder if any of these can be used in Bionicle mocs. If so, I may pick one of these up.

I'm well up for some decent official lights.
While the PF lights are expensive, and the PoweredUp lights are taking the p1$$, they're both difficult to integrate into a minifig scaled model. I integrated 70 or 80 sets of PF lights into my last build, so I know a few tricks.
Making streetlights is close to impossible, for example.

Great idea, just make them flexible and not more than $15 per pack

The idea is basically good, the pricing however is ridiculous. Somewhere between 25 and 50% of the suggested price would be fair

Lego about to destroy lego-compatible light brands

Oh man! I am so in. I know the price may seem steep to some but to get a legit LEGO lighting set, it matters not to me! I am thinking a lot of work went into designing these. Generally with LEGO, you get what you pay for. I know some of y'all pay insane prices for retired sets (a la Green Grocer or MAERSK train) so not sure what the price complaints are all about :)

Please LEGO, if you are really listening (or reading!) make these available ASAP!

Cheers!

Fantastic!

Yes, yes, and yes! Sign me up for all the modular light kits

I would purchase these. The third party ones are nice, but I haven’t pulled the trigger due to potential issues (failure causing damage to expensive sets). If Lego releases these, I’m all in. Likely 2-3 per year.

I would love some of these, but only at the right price. As others have said, it would also likely depend on the details of how they work and how they integrate with the existing builds.

It's more than interesting, but not at a high price.
If you're not afraid to crimp/solder some dupont connectors and figure out how to drive cables inside your model, you can do it for a few euros. The key difference is that these kits would save you some time... but this is a hobby and we love to spend time on it ;)

I've bought light kits for all my modulars and a few other sets so I'd be super happy to see LEGO offering theirs as well.

It’s about time LEGO did this! I’d be very interested in lighting kits for the Disney castle and train! Hopefully the prices won’t be much higher than third party ones.

Seems really cool! Lighting up any LEGO Model tends to be expensive, and it can be annoying finding all the right sizes of bulbs and lengths of wires. A LEGO Official version would at least cut out the measuring part. As a LEGO purist this'll also give me more of an excuse to use lights, would love a Ninjago City kit.

@djcbs said:
"I hope so but not at those prices.
194€ for the Hogwarts kit is ridiculous... It's almost half the price of the set itself."

194 euroooo???? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!

Definitely a buyer if these things are not extremely overpriced. I think anything over $50 is too much

Love the idea. Love the 'Night Mode' proposed product name. The classic 4.5V/9V light sets were some of my favorites as a child. I would really like to see something like this from LEGO.

This is nice. I would pay the "Premium" if they came with the professional Instructions that come with all LEGO sets. I bought an inexpensive Kit off Amazon for the corner garage, and the instructions were hard to follow. And then when I did get it all set, it was a jumble of cables coming out of the set. It did light up well, and looked great, but it was frustrating to get to that point. So if this comes along, I hope that they have great replacement instructions.

Another suggestion... and this would have to come from the designers. But have adding "wire" portals to the design would help, and maybe even creating a specific electrical box add-on for the buildings, like we have here in the US. To hide and give one entry point for the wires. I believe that would justify a "premium" price as well. At least for the Module Buildings.

Those are my opinions. The packaging and branding looks good.

These kits are from Light My Bricks. A copy of Brickstuff. Brickstuff is in my opinion more versatile. Ok expensive, true, but quality comes at a price!

As cool as official lighting kits would be, I can’t see myself paying nearly half the price of the actual set more to do so. This is gonna be for a very specific group of people if they bother at all.

Part of me is also curious where this R&D money could go in the grand scheme to better the product they already produce, especially with the ramp-up of instruction errors, and sub-par minifigure quality in recent years.

I would love this for the Disney Castle 71040!
I've been looking at unofficial stuff, but it's either extremely expensive and gorgeous, hideous but cheap or a possible fire hazard. Sometimes a combination of two.

OMG yes please Lego!!!

I’ve been a fan of the Modulare since they started and have most of them. They remind of when my dad got my sister a doll house for Christmas one year and then slowly over time added furniture and lights and she used to play with it for hours. I had a few of the light and sound Legos back in the 80s and always wished Lego had done more lighting. I love the light up bricks but not enough. I’ve bought a few of the 3rd party light sets and love them. Especially ones with blinking lights for say the theater. If done tastefully.

Please LEGO make this a reality. I know Starwars would love it for the larger models too!

Good odea. Way overdue. Hope the price isnt LEGOFIED

I like this idea. I have been interested in the third party ones for a while, but hesitant to get them because of a few reasons. If TLG releases a line that is comparable in price to the ones that exist, and integrate smoothly I would be on board to buy some for some of my key sets.

If they make one for the Disney castle, it’s a case of “shut up & take my money!”

Reflecting comments above, being a purist, I’d be all for these at a reasonable price - but, like krysto2002 ^ says, some kind of “universal” set-up would be better surely??

Sounds ridiculous now I’m writing it, but if I ever want to light anything up at the moment, I use the lights/transformer etc from sets 7864, 7866 and 7745! It does look a bit of a mess with wires but there are white and red lights! That’s how much of a purist I want to be... perhaps shouldn’t have confessed to this ha ha...

I would be interested specifically for some modulars and the Hogwarts castle. However I can only imagine what LEGO will want to charge for a single kit which will likely prohibit me from purchasing any. In the end I'd rather buy bricks than LEGO which are already pricey in themselves.

"if lego do it for reasonable price I am looking forward"

You can be sure that Lego will offer nothing that you would consider reasonable.

Just asking for "reasonable" prices show that Lego is not for you.

This would be fantastic news for AFOLs. I purchased the a third party lighting kit for my Disney Castle. It looks fantastic, but the quality is a little lacking. I am sure that LEGO would crack that puzzle and make a high quality lighting kit for certain select sets. Here is my list:

UCS Millennium Falcon
Death Star
All Modular Creator Sets
Monster Hunters Haunted Mansion

I am very interested in this official product, however, not so much at those prices. The Tree House lighting kit is priced at almost half the price of the set itself (as that's the only one I have, I didn't do the math for the others...)

I've always wanted to light my modular buildings. I just haven't had the right push to do it. If LEGO does make these, I don't think I could resist. Using the Power Functions/ Powered UP capabilities will be a plus. I could add motion and lights to my sets.

Interesting
and interested
But subject to price - other third party providers already doing a good job, so please don’t expect it to a success TLG if you charge more than others do for a quality product.
Would consider the Treehouse lights
And for each of the Winter Village sets...

I’d probably buy at least one, to see what it’s all about. I’m a LEGO brand purist, so would never consider any of the aftermarket options, so for me, this is nice.

If the price is right I’ll certainly buy the Diner set!

Light!!! Yes I would pick this up day one. Please make this official. It would look so good on all the Creator sets. If my whole Lego creator street could light up that would look fantastic.

a Vader's castle set would be a must-buy, especially if the lava lights can flicker

As they are now this is a solid "NO" for me. I've no interest in buying bespoke lighting kits for each set, certainly not at the prices I'm seeing in the comments.

That being said, I could see myself spending $60 - $100 or so, depending on the tech used, on a lighting kit with say $10 - $20 expansion packs that I could use to light up any build I want, official or MOC.

There’s a picture on instagram that shows the kit they have used on the mustang is from ‘light my bricks’.

I like the idea of official kits as long as they are not over priced. An option to buy separate components so you can make your own kits would be cool. This is is what I do with the light my bricks stuff.

Only chiming in to say "omg, yes please, so excited" but "at a much lower price than what I am reading." With so many decent off-brand lighting kits, those prices are just silly.

It would be great if it was a simple system that could be used in any set no matter the size. You purchase as much or as little (lol) as you need. It would definitely get some of my older sets out of storage and back on display. I can see myself getting very busy building (buying) again.

Sorry wallet

Might be interesting, but I'd need to see the actual parts. What is an expansion board? What is an NC Push board?

This seems like a great idea, however:

Third party sellers have been doing it for a while, this wouldn't be cool towards them

They're also super overpriced, the third party ones arent this expensive.

I'd rather just see a general "night mode" theme that sells general lightning bricks, rather than set specific bricks.

I've always wanted lights for my LEGO sets, but never wanted to deal with the hassle of finding the right ones on eBay. Therefore, I am in full support of this becoming a reality, so long as it's reasonably priced!

I realize that they'll only do this for sets currently being sold, but a light kit for Destiny's Bounty (TLNM) would be much appreciated.

I would certainly be interested in official LEGO lighting kits. I have come so close so many times to ordering a third party light kit for my Disney castle, but talked myself out of it every time due to the cost and not being an official licensed product. I would love to add lights and maybe even sounds to my Disney castle, Ghostbusters headquarters and UCS Millennium Falcon at the very least. If your going to spend the money to buy the big show stopping sets, spend a bit more money to take them to the next level!

Need something like this for the Monster Fighters Haunted House and all the seasonal Winter Village sets! (Yes, I'm aware of third-party lighting.)

Would love to see PU/PF compatible wireless kit!

I really like the idea of these. Based on the prices of the 3rd party options already out there I doubt I would actually end up purchasing any official Lego ones as I expect they will be cost prohibitive.

Just look at the Hogwarts' boats. Defenitly this lights are
tiny and self-powered which is very pleasing.

Official light kits sound amazing. Are they displaying suggested pricing as well? Anyone know what that may be?

I have purchased 3rd party offerings for all the Winter Village sets. They look spectacular during Christmas ??. I would purchase official light kits, especially if I can control them using the latest Powered Up or Control+ bricks.

As an adult collector who only uses my LEGO models for display the light kits would be a MUST BUY!!! As long as the price is responsible that is.

I would love if they started doing this for all their larger sets. I just wish they had done it sooner for my Ninjago City.

If only they would make something like this retro compatible with the Power Functions rechargeable battery so that brightness can be manipulated with the built-in rotating switch. I own a few of the Power Functions light modules and would be a good compliment for experimentation.

Serious question. Does @theJang sleep?

This looks epic! I would buy the treehouse one fast!

Yes, please! I'll take them all!

Take my $$$ please... but not too much of it. ;)

Lighting Directly with LEGO! YES! I would buy all of these!
Wireless lighting like i-Brix would be awesome too if LEGO bought them out, but any type of lighting is welcomed at this point and I look forward to the future of LEGO + LED Lighting!

What's this? LEGO making a legitimate cool add-on to there sets??? I don't know about y'all but I think this is great. It's about time LEGO made lighting kits for there sets. I hope the "testing" phase does well so it'll be a more global release. Oh the possibilities with MOC's as well...

If this is what LEGO meant by "embracing our AFOLs more", then YES PLEASE!

I love the way lighting kits look, and would welcome this add-on (at the right price, of course).

WOW I really like the Idea!
I don't know why but I allays prefer LEGO Branded things over 3rd Party Stuff.
This would definitely be a reason for me to buy this.

My biggest concern though would be a over inflated price because it's "From LEGO".
In my opinion it would lose the appeal if the LED Kit would cost more than the Set it self.
I don't know why but I would rather buy a Set twice than pay for some lights.
But I can definitely see a marked for it especially if it's easy to install and has a way to plug it into a wall socket so you don't need to have batteries.

I would hope that it's compatible with LEGO Electronics in a way that we can control the lights.
That would be very cool!

I'm quite surprised by how many people are interested in this. I thought the community of AFOLs who lit up their sets was relatively small, but it appears I was wrong! Personally, I have no interest in adding lights to my sets. Lights, power functions, Bluetooth, apps, etc. takes some of the imagination out of LEGO, in my opinion. This is not to say that those who feel differently are wrong; I just thought I'd add my two cents to the conversation.

YES PLEASE! Have been investigating all the other options for lighting my sets, but if actual LEGO kits can be purchased to do this that is first choice. No questioning it, would very much like to see this be added to their line and would most certainly add the light kit(if available) whenever shopping for new sets.

If there are a lot of wires involved, count me out.

So what are the prices on these then? I would expect them to be REALLY expensive.

Wow this looks great! I really hope they do release them. I would love to light up Hogwarts. Also being able to light up the modulars on my ‘street’ would be amazing. Fingers crossed these become available soon.

It's always a bummer when something small becomes large due to unprecedented ingenuity but then reaches that point where it's completely run out of new ideas and everything just becomes an obvious cash grab.

This looks “Lit” ;)

Would LOVE these for the Winter Village sets, but it would all depend on pricing. The third party options today are far, far too expensive to be worth it for me.

Definitely interested. Major asks from me are the large buildings (modulars, haunted house, tower bridge, etc.), Large vehicles (harley, mustang, london bus, saturn v), diorama type sets (ewok village, winter village, hogwarts), and some sort of modular option, so we can custom chain them together for moc builds and any sets that are not specifically sold by Lego.

My experience with third party lights is not good. Very poor instructions, zero support, etc. And mostly overpriced.

Also, how are Lego powering these? Daisy chained usb power would be great. Battery powered is great for standalones but a lifetime of swapping out batteries is a pain. Basically, anything I can feed into the back of my detolfs and control through my alexa works fine by me...

OMG! I would love it if Lego produced lighting for models. I'm definitely after the Modulars, Treehouse, Hogwarts, Ninjago City and docks! Please Lego produce these!

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already have all the lights years ago
guess lego want the share of this business as well

check out our instructions.. see if you still think the same. www.blingbrick.com

If there were Lego lighting kits for the Winter Village sets, I would buy them immediately, all of them. At the very least, we need shining street lamps. Please!

I would buy several of these. Not for sets, but for MOCs.

There will be a lot more sold if there are generic sets with the compoents for people to do their own thing. The components are relatively cheap, so perhaps the economies of scale that would be realised by LEGO producing the sets might make them cheaper than the small third party companies doing these kits today. Fingers crossed that is the case. I've got a few large displays that would really benefit from lighting.

This is definitely a great idea. I’ve always wanted to light up my sets.

this is an amazing idea and should be an an official lego line. I would buy most of these.

Is the Hogwarts image flipped? Might be interested in that, but it is definitely expensive - haven't even bought the castle itself yet due to the cost.

160 Euro or Pound or whatever for lights? No way. Even 20 € would have been steep. That's not worth it. And as we all know, it was possible for cheap prices in the eighties. So nowadays it should be included in those sets from the beginning.

I would be interested in kits for the Modular Buildings, larger SW ships and a sort of diy kit that can be customised for many sets, but ONLY if the price was acceptable.

I would like to see non set specific kits. A how to implement book/kit starter with more kits (without the book) to be available. While I like premade sets, I don't plan on lighting these models.

While I have interest in the idea, the amount of control I would have on each light is most important to me. If it's uniform, I might just get another set instead

Unless the kits are universal, for example, a 'mustang kit' works on a beetle or your own moc vehicle, or a 'diner kit' works on a brick bank or other modular then I doubt this will be for me.
I think there is clearly a market for these, I just want more from a lighting kit. I want it to enhance the potential of my own builds. Personally, I have no interest in something that is limited to use on/in just one set.

Yes! Yes! Yes! But please make the pricing better than some of the kits out there. This will be sad for those people, as most of their business will disappear, but most Lego fans will buy this.

I really like the look of these especially if lighting kits don't require external battery boxes or USB connections. LEGO is starting to look at what else they can offer to make the modular/creator/large building sets that much better....as long as the lighting kits aren't that expensive.

@ryanameek said:
"Definitely a buyer if these things are not extremely overpriced. I think anything over $50 is too much
"

Agreed

Basically any light kit for the technic and expert vehicles released, I would instantly buy. The tree house looks excellent too.

Please, Lego - - - leave lighting kits to the aftermarket. Stick to what you're best at, which is making building sets. Everything else is just a distraction. Be the hedgehog, not the fox.

The introduction of sets like these will please the purists, like myself. General lighting kits (not customized for specific sets) would also be welcomed.

Will these be added to the database?

Yes please and thank you! It's about time.
And thank you Huw for the updates. I was in Copenhagen when I first saw the news and almost headed directly to the event to get the Mustang kit :D

Depending on the price, I’d definitely get any lighting systems for the annual modular sets. It’s something I haven’t really considered before, but if it’s an official Lego lighting kit then I’m on board!

Hmmmm, official LEGO lighting kits? Yes please!

Come to think of it, I might end up buying lighting kits for sets I don’t even have and then buying the corresponding set to go with it. I don’t have the tree house, and wasn’t really going to buy it, but I’d probably jump for it if I could light it up and display it at night.

Like everyone above has said, its mainly down to the price of the lights. I would honestly love to see the Bugatti getting lights but also and I know this is probably not going to happen but an windscreen for the bigger cars! Again the Bugatti feels incomplete without it!

I like the sound of it. Just a little worried about price.

Also will there be kits not tied to a specific set?

Absolutely amazing. They need to bring these to market!!!

Sure it depends on price. But if these are indeed wireless (either photoshopped 'lighting' on those pictures, or photoshopped out the wires on the lightpost behind the diner), and it includes that many 'boards' and new electronics, the price is justified. If it is ONLY battery powered, and no option to connect to power, wifi, app/timer, those batteries will be running out quick. Still, wireless in the cars is much nicer than wired options. Bring it on, and provide a generic light kit for our other sets!

EDIT: not wireless

This is super exciting! I'd love to see these become available.

please oh please Lego make stuff like this for your set's

This would be great if it is using BrickStuff or i-Brix! At the very least it needs to support small form-factor plugs and lights like BrickStuff.

Is this a new record of comments on a single article? This is number 195.

CR2032 Battery is a 3V Lithium Coin Cell 2032 Watch Battery (20 mm diameter (3/4 inch), 3.2 mm height), so these kits are likely wired and self contained as long as you can fit the battery pack with two cells inside the model.

Expansion boards would allow for wire runs and I hope the additional 'assorted LEGO pieces for assembly' include modified lamp posts already wired or with the ability to run the wire up thru the post.

NC Push Board is the switch for turning the lights on or off. All lights connected to the OUT port of the board are controlled together - no dimming, no flashing mode as far as I'm aware.

From the image showing the Mustang kit on the shelf and the price in DDK, 329.00 DDK converts to $48 US dollars. I wouldn't pay more than $25 for that particular kit given it's wired and without knowing if there's a USB power option but battery powered only.

Much like power function motors it would be nice if Lego provided another OPTIONAL kit that enhances the builds. The modular series certainly deserves lighting kits and other large builds like UCS Falcon and Hogwarts. Pricing will be pretty high. Maybe there could be tier kits? Smaller light kits for modest lighting and larger kits for builders who want to go all out.

iBrix seems interested to work with Lego. JANGbricks recently reviewed a AquaBrixle water based hydraulic system for Lego. There are a lot of innovators out there working outside the Lego brand. Might be the next step for the company to search out ideas and people that can benefit the brick building experience

We need it, we definitely do.

Would buy the Hogwarts one as it looks amazing. definitely more but these are more for collectors not your average child. Price could be a sticking point.

There is an opportunity for Lego to rerelease some legacy sets with this system, no new set development costs , I believe they have previously sold the same set both with and without power functions, imagine a re-issued special edition modular or Even better classic space or castle with this included a low part count by modern standards would offset the lighting costs a lit up galaxy explorer for about £100 would fly off the shelves.

So lego's plan is show up late, take an idea many others have already implemented and charge more for it?

I'll agree that the some of the existing kits could do with an improvement to their directions and some cleaner wiring would be nice too so I hope lego can do better in that regard. Maybe if they work out better pricing, I'll consider this. I just hope it doesn't lead to them threatening to sue other kit makers.

Yes please! I'd buy an official set much more than any third party ones. I tried ordering iBrix, but so far I received nothing and it feels like a scam.

Oh man, if they do actually release a light kit for the Downtown Diner I will probably break down and buy both the diner and the kit. I stopped collecting the modulars line some years back (and sold the ones I had) as I couldn't afford to keep that collection going, but this particular one has really tempted me to buy as a standalone.

I think official light kits from Lego would be great!

Great idea but it needs an affordable price. How about a test run for the UCS Millennium Falcon for members of the black VIP card? Other wise this card was pretty useless. A shame as there have been some missed opportunities.

I think this is an interesting idea and would like to see the price point. Additionally, will LEGO be making these for older sets such as the modular buildings and other large adult oriented ones, or only going forward?

I would love to have the Lego official Light Sets back. I miss them since their retirement at the end of the 80s. And these new boxes look great, but please consider a fair price. I'm an AFOL brickbuilder who builds for conventions and i have a full town and fairground (all Creator expert sets up to date) and I have lit all my lamps and houses and attractions with leds (do it yourself style) and all my equipment i use cost me as a sum about 120-150 €. But that is for 19 Creator sets. And my whole town is lit. you can turn them of and on individualy or dim them, etc. Anyway in short I find the new ideas awesome but prices that are almost have the original sets for a few leds and cables and a few extra stones is way too pricy, especially when AFOL set releases will continously grow like they do nowadays in numbers/per year and furthermore our wallets if we try to keep up collecting all of them. There will not be enough money left to buy the lights too if they are as expensive as stated.

@AllanSmith said:
"Sad to see how LEGO stole the idea."

By that logic, it's sad how LEGO stole the idea of Star Wars ships and characters. Shame on LEGO for making brickheadz. I bet they copied the exact design of the other lighting kits third hand sellers have made and sold. Shame on LEGO for trying to make a profit.

Need it to be wireless, otherwise don’t bother until it’s done right. Hopefully not too expensive. Amazing for the likes of Mustang, Destiny’s Bounty, The Tumblr & 1989 Batmobile. Would love an official solution

I would definitely buy these kits for all the modular city blocks I have... and the treehouse and the old fishing store too :)

I’d love to see these. I know there are plenty of third party ones, but official branded ones would be awesome, and a definite buy for me.

Strange that none of the examples are UCS sets; many of them seem like obvious candidates, and I’d love to have a lighting kit for the Star Destroyer.

I would love to light up my entire winter village, modulars and MOC buildings, and any other sizeable display set. However, if it is all based on wires then I fear it would be too difficult to rearrange / rebuild buildings and to me that is most of the fun of Lego. I have loved the idea of i-brix and my current plan is to save and buy those once they become properly available. (I couldn’t afford it at the time of the crowdfunding campaign).

Please Lego, I would love for you to partner with i-brix and bring their innovative and highly useful product into the mainstream.

Please do a Upside Down Stranger Things one

Do we think this is this what was going by the 'Zebra' codename in the leaks?

I would like to just see packs of lights that can be used on any set you'd care to, with information on what you would need to light up certain sets. Like a booklet that says "for set X, you'd need Y qty of Z lights, and A qty of B lights, here, here and here."

Modulars need light kits but the price is a huge concern. LEGO will probably want 2-3x what's currently available.

Oh man! I'd be so interested in these for my Modulars! I've often thought about getting some lighting kits, but I've seen so many reviews of them saying how poor quality the non-Lego bricks are that they use. It'd be cool to have official ones like this!

Definitely would be a step in the right direction. For me personally I would love to see a lighting kit that would be compatible with various different layouts/ MOCs as it would be extremely useful for stop motion animation.

Love the idea of lights, but price is paramount, some good diy kits out there already, I would buy some but price has to be right.

I want this!

I thought the third-party kits were overpriced, then TLG go & do this? Yeah, I think if I even decide to add lighting to my sets (cost is the biggest issue turning me off the idea), I'll just go to Jaycar & figure it out from there.

For one of my works (a detailed replica of a public square in my hometown), I replicated 125 real lights by drilling and installing wires under the "sidewalk" because I respected the scale.

It cost me 100 euro + 1 week of work.

I welcome any product coming from LEGO that help us having some "life" in our sets.

But do not dream about having lights for every set and lights in all LEGO parts you wish, or having generic kits with lights that will fit in any set you want.

If they use wires, first they must be able to have a hole for the wire in that part (in a lamp post for example).

After this you must have space for all wires and if inside of a Technic car or in an Expert house you can have space, for other sets like Star Wars or in lamps on the Modular sidewalk it is a nightmare to replace tens of parts to have space for wires.
Somebody asked for lights in Architecture, without thinking about scale and narrow space.

Instructions would also be a nightmare for generic kits to fit for more official sets, so probably they will offer some online.
Probably the lights are wireless because looking in the left side balcony of the Downtown Dinner they have a light going thru on some 5 narrow parts in Medium Stone Grey and it is a real problem to modify so many parts (produce them with a hole inside).

Or it is an ugly wire they don't show in the picture going outside of the parts.

It is a good thing some people will have the chance even for great costs, to buy this kits, but let's not hope for lights for older sets or for all big new sets that we have in mind.
And nothing on reasonable price because in this world, improving your normal product means paying way more like a tax on luxury.

If they are asking 80 euros for a Powered Up 88006 in the era of smartphones, smartwatches and others...what can I add?

I suspect that a reasonable price would be about 20% of the price of the set - so about £70 for a large kit like the Hogwarts Castle, and about £30 for a modular building kit. That seems reasonable to me, and anything more would seem overpriced.

Yes please. I'll take one for the UCS Falcon, the CX Mustang, Galaxy Explorer, and I'm sure lots of others!

Would LOVE to light up my Mustang!

That's interesting... The description and contents of the Ford Mustang kit is exactly the same as the kit that Light My Bricks sell.

Could this be a partnership?

https://www.lightmybricks.com.au/products/lego-ford-mustang-gt-10265-light-kit

ABSOLUTELY !!! With the current interest in Lego, and with the Fox “Lego Masters” show it only adds to the popularity of the brand. It would only make sense that adding lighting to lego’s would come from lego! And the addition could easily be incorporated into the base set instructions as a download, or the paper set included with the light kit would have numbered “insert” pages to be used in conjunction with the main instructions.
One of the current lighting suppliers instructions leave a lot to be desired, and interpreted.

With Lego doing this “in-house”, there would be no questions when integrating the light addition.

Hope they proceed with this! And add one for “Cafe Corner”!

I’m in. I wish they’d do more with glow in the dark.

A very interesting idea, though I think it would work better as bulk packs ot boards and LEDs, rather than a small range aimed at specific current sets (better for MOC-ing and adding to older sets).

Did anyone else notice that Hogwarts is backwards on the box art?

@John_Rhodes Which merchants do you recommend/not recommend?

This would be a great idea! I hope this really does become a product which will lead to other sets :)

I'd be interested if the wires were self contained within the brick or wireless even. Especially if they were released generically and not specifically for any particular set because if i'm gonna drop big money on this for a wireless or self contained bricks rather than the envisioned sets i want to use them on any set they could possibly fit on rather than just one.

Since he's rumoured to be reading these comments... I'm not sure how I feel about this. I feel like the official lights will end up being expensive for what they are. I paid $120 CAD through LightMyBricks for the Diner light set. I would imagine LEGO's being the same price but being less in features; already I can tell there is no blinking jukebox and a general smaller amount of lights.

As a purist however, I am impressed it's something the company is exploring. Colour me intrigued.

Yes I just say yes

I want these so bad! That looks so cool!

Holy Hell!? Yes PLEASE!

Yes please.

In relation to concerns over copying. I hope they are using aftermarket kits to demo the functionality and would then create / partner with whoever....

Claims of copying are very strong when it is a test of customer demand and not an actual product in production?

Also didn’t LEGO create their own lights a couple of decades ago? Improvement and seeing other ways to implement are all parts of progress. See mobile phones and any modern tv

Peace

If these are priced as the same insanely high prices of the 3rd parts sets I will pass. Hopefully they are economical enough.

The cost/benefit ratio doesn't justify it to me unless it's $20 or below.

I would definitely be interested in obtaining official lighting kits for some of the bigger models. I did end up using a few different third party ones to get lights on my 42099 4x4 offroader, 10254 winter holiday train set, as well as for the 75060 UCS lego star wars Slave I.

I keep reading all those comments above and in my opinion they fall into the following three groups:
1) Those that have no knowledge of basic electronics: These are willing to pay a premium to see their sets lighting,
2) those who have basic knowledge of electronics: They can do the same at a fraction of the aofementioned prices and
3) those that no matter their knowledge, are purists and sorely want TLG products on their LEGO sets (totally valid).

Whith all the above, TLG is catering to those 2 out of 3 categories so I think they will go ahead and produce their idea (which will be popular nevertheless). I still believe that they wil be done wireless though a-la-zigbee with each LED chip acting as both a receiver and a transmitter. At least that's what I see judging from the car at the Dinner modular. However the case, lighting a set is indeed captivating. Just mind the overheating of the transformers and the LED chips if of dubious quality.

I'm quite baffled to see the response to this. 250+ comments almost all in support, almost double what the results from Ideas gathered this week. For a very expensive and niche product too.

I think I'll use my electronics skills to do it at a fraction of the cost, if the envy ever takes me, and as stated by the above poster...

I have been hoping that LEGO would start to make lighting kits and will definitely be interested in buying some. In fact, I am building the diner right now.

Genuine Lego lighting kits... where do I send the cheque

This would be a day one buy!!

I've been looking at the hobby kits but they don't have the numbers scale and are expensive and, most importantly, I don't know how good (quality) they are to justify the price and the LEGO brand gives me that comfort.

I would love to put lights in my modular buildings but I would only do it if the lighting system is wireless. For me, seeing cables all over the models (with bricks slightly off to let the cables through) would truly ruin the experience of lighting them up...

This takes me back to my childhood, when I illuminated some of my LEGO space stations using Christmas lighting.

Plus, there was the awesome Light&Sound system of old with those plates that had metal inlays to carry a current along a brick-built path. Pity they got rid of that idea. It worked so well and still does. I have still got all my pieces from those sets back then (Police, Fire Engine, Space Police, etc.)

Oooh, I’d love lighting kits for my modular buildings. Especially if they were generic enough to also put in my older ones (Cafe Corner etc)
And if there was a USB powered option, to save on batteries, enabling one switch to turn on the whole series, it’d look great.

No time to read all the comments, but apparently, this isn't a real product yet... It's just a marketing test with mockup boxes. What do you think ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0_HpmkHjl0

Seems plausible since I don't think the sets were designed with these lights in mind.
Would surprise me if special holes and cavities were integrated by design...

I'd appreciate wireless lights for my Modular Building street display. If the price is reasonable that is.

Hogwarts Castle lighting kit? YES PLEASE!!!!!!!!

It’d be great if LEGO did Light Kits for all the Modular buildings!! I was just looking at mine the other day wishing they had interior lights.

Finally, LEGO is investing in lighting for their sets.

I would definitely but lighting kits for my modulars and fairground buildings!!!! Great idea if the price is right! (I’m thinking like the Christmas Lemax models)

Now they need to bring back remote controlled road crossing and lightning standards like 7866 and 67 from 1983 for the trains. That would be awesome.

I think it's smart for Lego to get into this arena. There's definitely a huge demand among AFOLs. And I'm sure there are others that feel a little safer or reassured buying an actual LEGO product to partner with their LEGO models, despite the 3rd party products being well thought out and from my experience trustworthy. There's just something to be said about it being all LEGO. Purist viewpoint maybe.

When I was young I had some 4.5volt light bricks from set 816. Hours of fun lighting stuff up. And they were the same connectors as the Technic motors and battery packs.

They also had the same connectors as the 12v lighting bricks that came with the 12v trains - I was never sure they were safe to use the 12v transformer but nothing caught fire ;-)

My only recent experience with lights was on 10268. The wires felt a bit bulky but the light bricks themselves were pretty small and looked good.

I've lighted many of my own Modular, Harry Potter and Winter Village buildings using battery- and USB-powered dewdrop LED light sets that cost less than $10 per 30. (Most of my sets have been purchased at 50-75% off on after-Christmas clearance sales.)

I wouldn't buy an official set unless:
a) it had special integrated elements that made installing them faster or easier. (Which isn't THAT hard with DIY sets to make them fit in pretty nicely.)
b) had improved central/master battery boxes with better timing, cross-communicating and light-sensing features. (Most common sets are 6-hours on/18-off—not that bad, but more customization would be cool; and adjusting rechargeable batteries in each battery box separately does get a little old.)
c) had custom lighting programs allowing color-changing, color-customizing or other software-driven features.

I just hope these are safer than some of the third-party branded LEGO lighting kits. I've seen many complaints of overheating pieces and faulty wires, which have immensely put me off from getting the unofficial ones.

I have to say that if The LEGO Group is truly not interested in working with the i-Brix team, I’m baffled. What’s not to like? You build your model as you normally would, but with special light bricks where you want them. You then set it on a base that’s plugged into the wall and it magically lights up. I mean, how cool is that? No wires snaking all over your model, no battery boxes to hide and no batteries to constantly replace. With the right resources, it even sounds like lighting effects like strobing and flickering can be achieved.

Will the i-Brix system meet all lighting needs or wants? No, but it would certainly be very easy for TLG’s traditional core demographic (children) to safely and easily light up a model. I’d even venture to say that it would find wide-ranging appeal for a large segment of the AFOL community. Why fiddle with battery boxes and wires for a model built primarily for display rather than play? No, your model won’t be lit up while swooshing it around the room, but if that’s the goal then a different battery operated wired system would be more appropriate. Either way, it’s clear that people want the ability to light up their models. From my point of view, a wireless light brick is the only solution that fits seamlessly with the LEGO System of Play, and the i-Brix people have the technology to make that happen.

As stated in an earlier comment, I am an i-Brix project backer. No, I have not yet received what I’ve paid for, but I have no doubt that I will eventually get what is owed to me. At the time I backed the project, I was well aware of the risks of doing so. Taking a product from concept to reality is no easy task even for companies with well established infrastructures. To do it as a team of one or two is quite honestly near impossible. The fact that the i-Brix team is still plugging away and slowly shipping product to backers is a testament to their passion for the product they’ve created. For TLG to not want a part of this just seems astounding to me.

This looks amazing. I had plans build some lights in my modulars because there is so much going on inside them, but you almost never get the chance to see it. Unfortunately I never took the time to actually do it. But with a kit lake that I'm sure I will! And it looks fantastic on the Mustang as well.

I'll be glad to have them available but maybe not at twice the current prices that are currently available from third party.

Love this idea. I have one after market light set and it’s great! Adds so much life in the evenings. I would like to get lights for the rest of my buildings and connect them to an automatic timer to come on for an hour or two each night

That would be great!! Sets look awesome, maybe selling lightning parts separately to put it into any model would be greater. Many friends shopping lightning parts to lego from china and that is a gap, where money flow away from LEGO.
Definitely YES please!

Cool! I always wanted LEGO to make proper lighting kits so I wouldn't have to buy expensive, hand made modified lego pieces from second party lighting kits. (like brick loot or light my bricks) I really hope these get made into real products! I'll definitely buy 1 kit for every set I have. Maybe LEGO could also develop a make your own thing like brick loot's light linx.

Hope the downtown diner will be released

I would love LEGO to make lighting kits, possibly some that could be used or customized for multiple sets (Star Wars X-Wings or Tie Fighters for example). All larger sets deserve good lighting kits, and I would 100% purchase all of them for sets that I (we) own (my wife has authorized me to say this and is fully supportive).

@wwward said:
"I might want the hogwarts one, and hope they make a disney castle one as well! "

Disney Castle here
https://www.lightmybricks.com/products/disney-castle-71040-lego-light-kit

Were they doing something like the "I-Brix" thingy, except with batteries?
And the expansion boards it just confuses me.
But this is interesting :)

It is about time LEGO did this form of "add-on" but it would also be good to have them make the lighting flexible so that we could buy "kits" with various LEDs, cables and so forth.

Having been playing with NeoPixel LEDs, I have found these "intelligent LEDs" versatile and fun to use (I've got to look at adding them to a model). They allow you to have full colour (RGB and RGBW) through a very large range. The RGBW add a 'white' LED that gives you a single LED for white light, but it could be combined with the RGB to give "pale" colours as well.

If LEGO added NeoPixel style controllable LEDs, these and a way to control using a 3 wire (GrouND, PoWeR & ConTroL), we could then light our creations in any way, and control the lighting remotely using microcontrollers with an associated App.

Could you imagine having a LEGO Pixel (I'm claiming that one) that you could clip onto a model to provide a dot of remotely controlled light?

I would totally buy this! OMG!!