What new licensed theme should LEGO produce next?

These are not listed but Thundercats, MOTU, captain scarlett, Gi joe, stingray, wacky races & the jetsons..

Zelda, HTTYD and Warcraft. But i picked Zelda!

All of these are pretty boring, but I think Astérix is the one who would translate better into a LEGO line.

Narnia, Warcraft.

Warcraft

Gravity falls got my vote. I would love a $200 mystery shack in a similar style to the Simpsons sets

I voted Star Trek even though I am certain it will never happen. Mega has the licence and has produced some awesome sets. TNG and DS9 would be my favorite era and that has never been done, but it is also so far in the past that chances are even more remote - the new Picard series notwithstanding.

I'd love Star Trek and HTTYD (I've seen some sweet MOCs of Toothless), but I voted for Thunderbirds as I have this as a project on Lego Ideas right now :D
https://ideas.lego.com/projects/6e7946e4-9da4-4195-af68-a93615c398b1

I’d love to see both the Legend of Zelda and Gravity Falls properties explored in brick form!

gravity falls

I couldn't not to vote for Studio Ghibli!

And I am glad, that "my another choice" gets so many votes!

I've voted for Asterix but Thunderbirds deserved mine as well.

I could never grasp the appeal of Zelda thing... but would be pleased with Asterix (imagine all the main characters plus your army of Roman soldiers!).
Also Tintin would be amazing.

While I'd love to see Transformers, that ain't happening... Transformers is a Hasbro brand, which is a direct competitor of LEGO.

Since that won't happen (apart from some industry-shaking company acquisition), my next preference is Thunderbirds. Both the concept (rescue missions in a "near" future) and the toyetic potential are totally in line with the LEGO values. I just wish the recent Ideas flunk is due to an already ongoing licensing deal to bring Thunderbirds to LEGO.

Hard to choose between Thunderbirds and Discworld, but decided I would love to see a CMF of Discworld characters, unlikely as it is :)
But in all honestly, i would rather Lego just slowed down a bit, and concentrated on what they have atm, instead of rushing a new theme out every few months and only doing maybe a couple of sets for it, then moving onto to the next theme

Tintin and motu!

I know that Nintendo and Lego just announced a partnership. There's rumors floating around about potential sets, but the focus is Mario. Some of these rumors are saying that there could be sets from other Nintendo properties besides just the Mario series. We could be getting Zelda and Pokemon sets. Also, there is a rumor CMF series that I'm super excited about.

BATTLETECH!

Narnia was an easy choice for me

If I'm being brutally honest everything apart from one doesn't interest me in the slightest, the only one I would actually like to see is Futurama. Don't even know half of them, and the other half I do know I couldn't care less about tbh.

@Lego_lord said:
"Think about the red rocket!"

PHRASING

Where is Indiana Jones?

@SolidState said:
"Pokemon is being handled extremely well by MEGA right now. The purists need to look past the brand name if they want a good Pokemon theme. It's already out there."

This. That goes double for star trek and Motu. Have you seen the mega castle grayskull? It's an amazing set. Actually a full castle, and not just a wall or facade.

I also picked up the Mega Enterprise, and it is a fantastic display piece

With no Darkwing Duck, Babylon 5, or Muppets on the list, that pretty much nailed Futurama as my vote. Here's hoping for the Futurama Ideas project to get approved!

@jaredhinton:
Um...what? The Dork from New York had a run of sets from 2002-2004, based on the first two Sam Raimi/Tobey MacGuire movies. Then the best superhero got his run from 2006-2008. DC Superheroes was next with two SDCC minifigs in 2011, which were teamed up with a stock Superman minifig at NYCC a few months later, and followed by the first retail sets in 2012. Marvel Superheroes also came out in 2012, with two NYTF exclusive minifigs, preceding the first wave of retail sets. So, that's three years of only Marvel, a gap year, three years of only DC, two more gap years, one year of a hint of DC, and then both Superheroes themes kicked off in the same year.

Could we have a redo and get to choose our top 3 choices?

Zelda for the win! I mean, who, who has played breath of the wild, would chose any other theme? It’s clearly the best for massive structures and beasts, let alone some awesome minifigs.

YES! Give us the opportunity to vote for two... :-)

But "Asterix & Co." would be a best seller.... there is so much fun to be had with Romans, Gauls and endless of crazy minifigs.

None of them.
Use your own imagination and build anything you like from non-licensed parts.
Compare 10266 with 367 which is 45 years older yet very recognizeable.

Asterix, Futurama, Discworld - Treehouses, funky spaceships, medieval towns :)

Indiana Jones and Back to the Future please.

Between how to train your dragon and gravity falls for me. Very good choices there! Would love futurama as well

There's some good themes that I don't think would work well as Lego

Hard to choose between How To Train Your Dragon (chose it), Gravity Falls, Godzilla and The Legend of Zelda.

I don't think that any of these will be good themes, maybe a one-set like "Strangers Things" or "Flinstones" Ideas, but not a line. Just like Trolls and Minions are pretty bad. Lego already licensed the super-brands. IDK, Maybe Zelda ? but even that is a stretch.

I voted for Warcraft but wouldn't be unhappy with Star Trek or Zelda. Guess I have a penchant for pointy ears!

Funny thing is I've never played WoW or Zelda. I just like the look of them.

@elangab said:
"I don't think that any of these will be good themes, maybe a one-set like "Strangers Things" or "Flinstones" Ideas, but not a line.

Warcraft Mega Bloks did exist and even that was a very limited range of what the theme could be, could easily be a line of LEGO sets, as there are many many games, books, even a movie to based on, and a huge base of lore on par with Harry Potter or LotR.

Literally hundreds of characters, creatures, locations, weapons, magic spells.

I really hesitate between Asterix and Miyasaki fantastic worlds and characters. I don't know if Asterix is as popular in your country as it is here in France, but I guess both could sell well. As a beta and first era player I would certainly get WoW sets if they were released, but its all about factions and war or battles and thus does not fit Lego in my opinion, which is first for kids, and as we already have many themes of the kind, conflict between good and evil. Asterix is more on the comic side of it, and Miyazaki, who talks a lot about war too in some of his movies, mixes it with much fantasy. And just imagine a Totoro or Ponyo figurine !

I voted for Asterix. I can see how LEGO can adapt this. I grew up with Asterix even here in the United States.

WoW would be limitless potential. But no kids would get it :<

Im super happy to see Tintin and Thunderbirds up there! I didnt even think of Tintin! I was only thinking of that great film (not to mention the great original comics) the other day!

A Karabujuan with seaplane catapult would be a pretty awesome set! Plus the crane battle from the film would be very popular with kids.

A small $10-15 set could be Tintin and Cpt. Haddock in the red jeep with the bazooka.

My inner child would also love to have the rocket as someone mentioned, thats a classic.

LOL professor Calculus and Thompson and Thompson would be hilarious (good excuse to create a walking stick/cane piece) Plus green hair would be popular. (I forget if that was from Land of Black Gold or the Space ones)

It would be interesting to see an Arab headgear mould if they did Land of the Black Gold.

Sadly Marlinspike Hall would probably be too big for a set. Maybe a scaled down D2C? Like the front entrance (a full enclosed building MF haunted house style just with the Classical architecture at the front and the all important haddock, as opposed including the wings of the building)

Tintin would be an awesome theme, I finally get old cars and aircraft plus pirate & classic space fans could be happy with the Golden Unicorn ship and that rocket! This MUST become a theme!!

I would prefer a "none of the above" option but that's just me.

Out of those? Gravity Falls got my vote. It was a pretty big disappointment when the Ideas Mystery Shack was disqualified (did we ever learn why that was?), so my support goes fully behind seeing that realised in the brick form officially.

Studio Ghibli was the other serious contender for my vote: mostly because Howl's Moving Castle captured in Lego would be a fantastic set to see. And How to Train Your Dragon in Lego is absolutely something I wouldn't say no to - though I know the license for that one is elsewhere, so...? *shrugs*

Totally up for a new Castle theme, It's been awhile (Nexo knights not included XD). Though as always, LEGO should re-release LOTR and the Hobbit again.

It's stunning for how many years now we all wanted The LEGO Legend of Zelda and even now it leads in the survey. On the other hand, now that LEGO teamed up with Nintendo for Mario, this dream might be closer than ever.

Only one is cruel... my choice was Pokémon, but The Legend of Zelda, Grafity Falls, Studio Ghibli and Transformers would be welcome too.

People still expecting Lego to return to the 80s and do Space, Pirates and Castle, oh my... blind nostalgia can be so funny sometimes.

I can’t say I have some special attachment to the brand itself, but I think Transformers would provide some interesting sets.

I just realized I should've suggested a MAD MAX line!
Man that'd be a great line with all those vehicles!

Yeah, I heard the Mega Bloks Star Trek didn't sell well. Not sure but I heard.
I even picked up their large USS Enterprise that retailed for $250-, for only $80 bucks at BestBuy like a year plus back.

I voted earlier today, and it wasn’t doing this before, but for some reason, it is giving me the voting screen again without telling me that I already voted. I wanted to check up on how the results are doing (probably about the same as they were a few hours ago), but I don’t want to have to vote a second time to do it, as I feel that voting twice would be unfair.

All of them. Make all of those themes asap please. :)

@tarnizhed_bricks said:
" @TeriXeri said:
" @elangab said:
"I don't think that any of these will be good themes, maybe a one-set like "Strangers Things" or "Flinstones" Ideas, but not a line.

Warcraft Mega Bloks did exist and even that was a very limited range of what the theme could be, could easily be a line of LEGO sets, as there are many many games, books, even a movie to based on, and a huge base of lore on par with Harry Potter or LotR.

Literally hundreds of characters, creatures, locations, weapons, magic spells.
"

Hi! They have already made a Stranger Things set, in fact! It's based on the first episode, and you can get it on Lego.com. It is a bit pricey, though, so maybe look out for a second hand one(although TBH I'm not sure anyone would want to sell theirs!!!) Hope this helped ;]"

Clearly, @elangab already knows that a Stranger Things set exists. That is why he references it as an example of a franchise with a single set, not a range.

@Brickchap said:
"Im super happy to see Tintin and Thunderbirds up there! I didnt even think of Tintin! I was only thinking of that great film (not to mention the great original comics) the other day!

A Karabujuan with seaplane catapult would be a pretty awesome set! Plus the crane battle from the film would be very popular with kids.

A small $10-15 set could be Tintin and Cpt. Haddock in the red jeep with the bazooka.

My inner child would also love to have the rocket as someone mentioned, thats a classic.

LOL professor Calculus and Thompson and Thompson would be hilarious (good excuse to create a walking stick/cane piece) Plus green hair would be popular. (I forget if that was from Land of Black Gold or the Space ones)

It would be interesting to see an Arab headgear mould if they did Land of the Black Gold.

Sadly Marlinspike Hall would probably be too big for a set. Maybe a scaled down D2C? Like the front entrance (a full enclosed building MF haunted house style just with the Classical architecture at the front and the all important haddock, as opposed including the wings of the building)

Tintin would be an awesome theme, I finally get old cars and aircraft plus pirate & classic space fans could be happy with the Golden Unicorn ship and that rocket! This MUST become a theme!! "

Thank you for communicating articulately what I feel would be an incredible Theme! So much potential as each of Herge's books provide a wonderful world of rich characters, settings and vehicles. What a treasure trove of inspiration for our Lego Master Builders! I've already filled the study at home and will need to take over the rumpus room if this happens as I hope!

No more licences!

Looking at that list I'd say lego is good where its at. woof.

I wanted Pokemon, but honestly, transformers sets that actually function to alternate between the car version and the robot version without changing pieces would be crazy cool!

Okay, whatever the problem was, it stopped.

Wish G.I. Joe made it to the board, would’ve gotten my vote.

Interesting to see the mix of votes at the top of the leaderboard, I do question the kid-compatibility of many of the options but Ideas is likely there to stretch that.

Godzilla is my vote, but if they do a toku series, it had better be Ultraman. Either for the live shows or a few sets for the Netflix adaption of the ULTRAMAN manga.

N O N !
Lego already has to many, barly one of them are good

Kinda sad Discworld doesn’t have more votes, there is pretty much an unlimited supply of creative ideas you could pull from that series ??

There’s a strong chance Indiana Jones sets will be released in 2021 with release of the new movie.

@Lukefluke said:
"Kinda sad Discworld doesn’t have more votes, there is pretty much an unlimited supply of creative ideas you could pull from that series ??"

I would kill for a Death’s domain or Watch House set. And of course a CMF series with all the insane characters.

@Brick_t_:
As with most things in the world, you can find a few people who have encountered it and enjoy it. Generally speaking, though, you're more likely to be corrected on your spelling of "asterisk". If the minifigs are interesting enough, it might sell better on that basis than on name recognition. For that reason, I don't think they're likely to ever do this as a theme. Even an Ideas set is a long shot, since the current trend for licensed IP is to only produce those that have some sort of fan base in the US.

@BionicleJedi:
There were two projects that were disqualified for undisclosed reasons during the same review period. I've read that at least one of the two designers (by their own admission) was employed at a LEGO Store, and there's a strict "no employees" rule. The question, then, is if too much time will have passed before a new project can be submitted, voted up to 10k (which may be a lot harder if people think they already voted for it), and sent to review.

A lot of these themes wouldn't really fit great into Lego. I mean how many Narnia sets could be made? And then others would be interesting, Tintin or Star Trek (although unlikely on that one) would be really cool themes. But I personally voted for Transformers because I feel that would be the most interesting new subject in the craft of Lego. There are lots of cool Transformers type mocs and mocmakers (IXRolloutIX, M1ndxbend3r, aranobilis98, etc. for some examples of good builders). But I'd love to see that brought into a more official space, where I could just go to the store and buy instead of parts sourcing through the web and building on my own

Ghibli. Obviously. A great way to show respect LEGO lovers from Asia. I'd love to see some of those fantastic and colourful constructions done in LEGO. And a LEGO Totoro would be wonderful if they did it well.

Honestly, where were Animal Crossing or literally any other Nintendo franchise other than Zelda?

Discworld should be special.

@PurpleDave said:
" @Brick_t_:
As with most things in the world, you can find a few people who have encountered it and enjoy it. Generally speaking, though, you're more likely to be corrected on your spelling of "asterisk". If the minifigs are interesting enough, it might sell better on that basis than on name recognition. For that reason, I don't think they're likely to ever do this as a theme. Even an Ideas set is a long shot, since the current trend for licensed IP is to only produce those that have some sort of fan base in the US.

Thank you for your answer :)

No CW series?? :(

@icey said:
"YES! Give us the opportunity to vote for two... :-)

But "Asterix & Co." would be a best seller.... there is so much fun to be had with Romans, Gauls and endless of crazy minifigs."

I just think it would be too violent by Lego standards ;-)

Had to choose Star Trek, but would love Pokemon too!

I would also love to see Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, Assassins Creed and the Golden Girls.

I know the Golden Girls Ideas set didn’t win and they probably won’t ever do Assassins Creed, but with the Disney license they could look at Kingdom Hearts then Final Fantasy!!

I absolutely loves the recent 10k Thunderbirds Ideas submission. If Lego could do those vehicles then yes please

@thor96 said:
"I think Startrek is a useless option because Lego is so deeply connected with Star Wars which is like an arch enemy of Startrek business wise. It's like Coke and Pepsi, no way that will happen.

Lego have both Marvel and DC so why not Star Wars and Star Trek.

I was going to say that they should focus on original content, until I saw Tin Tin and now I really want Tin Tin Lego please.

Futurama baby

None
Lego has been trying way too hard with all the tie-ins, bring back the down to earth basic themes, ie pirates, castles, space, etc. Does Lego not have enough public appeal to survive anymore without delving into endless, weak and uncreative licensing?

Avatar license is coming. :o

@andyh1984 said:

"Lego have both Marvel and DC so why not Star Wars and Star Trek."

Yes, but Marvel and DC had collaborated on numerous occasions, unlike SW and ST.

No Power Rangers, no vote from me. I can't see myself investing in the rest.

From the options here, I went with Thunderbirds. To bad Splatoon isn't on here, it would work well as a Lego theme. It also has a big fan base so it could bring a lot of gamers into the Lego world.

I would love World of Warcraft (even though I don't play yet) because of the new prints and pieces that would result. A close second would be Studio Ghibli, but only if they did a large-scale Totoro in the spirit of the big Star Wars BB-8 or Porg.

I selected Godzilla from this list as that would be something I'd be interested in, BUT when ever this topic comes up I will also suggest Wizard of Oz. I probably sound like a broken record but I think Oz would be a great theme.

I wish Lego would go back to basics. Bring back Fabuland, Space, Castle, Pirates, studded Technic sets especially Universal Sets with the ability to build multiple models in each set, a return of Technic Maxi figures, 9v Trains, and most importantly of all, a return to a proper, comprehensive Town series. Also, Lego never used to have girl specific themes like Friends, Lego used to be for everyone. When I was a boy my first set was the Shell Petrol Pumps with a Lego Girl. I didnt care the character was female. Saying that, all these themes deserve sets at affordable price points in all sizes as they used to do. Legos reliance on over-pricing and licences isn't as creatively stimulating as it used to be.

Can TLG just invent a time machine so I can go back and get all the cool sets I missed out on previously? That would solve the problem going forward as well, since it wouldn't matter if they did licensed or original themes - I could just go back at anytime and get pristine new sets at the then current price of whatever tickles my fancy!

@BrickerRalph:
Hundreds? No, seriously, the books are rich with different fantastical settings, creatures, and characters. One of the huge advantages it would have over other fantasy themes is that the core characters slowly cycle out as the series progresses, so you'd never really get a pile of redundant minifigs the way you people did with the original Harry Potter run. I'd say it has more potential for a LEGO theme than LotR did, strictly in terms of the variety of sets that could be made. LotR wins hands down on the strength of sales, though.

Several of those are off the table as I believe Megablox already has the license. I'd say Zelda is the obvious choice--even if it weren't a disirable theme, no one else is doing it and Lego and Nintendo have already worked together extensively. Kind of a no-brainer.

I hope you take the opportunity to highlight some ideas projects based on these themes. There's tons of great ones for many of these themes.

I mean, if 14% of voters supported one, that could be 1,000+.

I love Transformers. I would love to see Transformers a Lego Theme.

Honestly, all of them are great ideas but Zelda just edges out the competition for my vote, but not much. Very hard to choose!

I should've requested Steven Universe

I like Transformers an Star Trek the most along with a number of the others mentioned on this list! I really wanted FORTNITE and HELLO KITTY to be considered for future LEGO themes, please include them in a future poll!

@SolidState said:
"Pokemon is being handled extremely well by MEGA right now. The purists need to look past the brand name if they want a good Pokemon theme. It's already out there."

Yes and no. I have bought a lot of the Mega Construx Pokemon sets and they are inferior in every way. I have had two sets missing a piece, the instructions are woeful and the sets are more expensive than Lego! Lastly the fitment of bricks as well is totally inferior as well. I bought them as I wanted to check out other building block products and I love Pokemon but really, really wish Lego got and hopefully get the license and do it justice.

What could they do with Godzilla?

It's not listed here, but what I'd really love to see are some sets based on Zootopia (AKA Zootropolis).

I want Fast and Furious sets I think they could cross over well with Speed Champions and I know we got the dodge set but it would still be great

With the Super Warrior in the latest wave of collectable minifigures they could easily do Power Rangers. However what I would really like to see is for LEGO to redo/update the Indiana Jones line of sets.

As cool as some of the other options (e.g. Star Trek) might be if done properly, I went with Tintin since that has so much potential for awesome sets.

The difficulty with this would be that a lot of these we can just forget about. Sadly, most of this list is items that are nice to wish for, but from a business perspective are non-starters for a global corporation.

Pokemon and Star Trek are with Mega- never mind any perceived or demonstrable difference of quality, there are long term contracts in place. HTTYD has been passed around with limited success- Kreo and Mega both had it, dropped it in two years, and now it is a Playmobile. I'm seeing people say Power Rangers- they are a Bandai property, might as well try to get Hasbro to license Transformers to TLG. Odds of that is somewhat less than zero.

(The fact that Mega took a bath on Despicable Me/Minions and TLG picked it up tells me someone at TLG isn't paying attention.

Asterix would be neat, but it has no significant market base in the US and probably not in Asia Tintin has more fanbase globally, but it isn't going to work in the US due to lack of awareness. Likewise, Gravity Falls and other Cartoon Network and Nickelodian based properties that don't have the same depth of market penetration in the EU and Asia. Any one of those would be too niche.

Futurama has a drunken robotic sociopath for a major character and too many sex jokes for TLG. This is part of a problem I keep on seeing, that TLG can't decide if it is making toys for kids or curios for adults.

Thunderbirds would be a weak maybe as they are niche one offs. Nostalgia sells a little, but it has very finite capacity. You need an IP that has been globally successful within the past few years. That isn't Thunderbirds. It would sell like Stranger Things- too expensive, too few potential sets, and odds are we'll be finding that one set on clearance in a couple years.

Anything that is novels only, like Discworld, is likewise probably too limited in fanbase. Yes, even Discworld. Or Wheel of Time. Too limited, not worth tooling up for.

I DID vote for HTTYD, but that's based on my wish. For available IPs that haven't flopped, though... Ghibli, although I'm not sure about the playability and it would probably be things like a brickbuilt Totoro who looks like a UCS Porg. Godzilla has the same problem.

From this list, that leaves us with WoW and Zelda. Mario is still Nintendo's mascot IP. They're going to wait to see how this partnership goes. I'm not sure that Nintendo is going to be happy with this deal long term, but if they are, maybe TLG will get other properties.

TLG already has a similiar deal with Blizzard for Overwatch. WoW might get there, but OW hasn't exactly been flying off the shelf from what I can see.

Star Wars saved LEGO, along with Bionicle. I think they're trying to capture the same lightening in a bottle a second time. I'm not sure that is possible. A successful property would sell by the truck load in all three major markets (US, EU and China), be part of the cultural conscious and subconscious in all three, recent enough to have residual hype, sell equally well to kids and adults, and isn't already tied in with existing licenses. I honestly can't think of a single property right now that could do that that TLG doesn't already have access to.

Sad to see Godzilla falling so far behind. For what it's worth, those sets would probably sell really well with the legendary series picking up steam and kids recognizing the monsters. Would've loved to see Biollante or MechaGodzilla.
I really hope the X-Files show up in the unlikely for LEGO poll. I want the minifigs more than the sets, honestly.

Forget about these new themes. BRING BACK PIRATES!

My vote would be for Brooklyn 99!!

Hard one, if any of these were released I probably wouldn't buy them. I was hoping for Mega Man or Sonic The Hedgehog, since a Mario line with Minifigs is probably coming soon.

They should make a standalone set for the animated short film Cliffside

wreck it ralph and the loud house and rwby and steven universe

@VerMonster:
Keep in mind that at least two other companies had the Batman license before TLC picked it up. Then they ran it three years before giving up on it, right when it was primed to take off (2008 sets were nearly impossible to find because The Dark Knight released and everyone hoovered them up). Give it a few years, and they did very well with the launch of DC Superheroes. Someone else also had the TMNT license before the LEGO theme came out, and that also did well. Someone else took the Spiderman license away, had a total flop with Marvel, and now Marvel is one of their top sellers.

Just because another company can't figure out how to be successful doesn't mean that every licensed IP they got their hands on is at fault. Even some of TLC's most successful themes have had sets that were total duds.

Would loved to have seen a Discworld series, but only three votes so far, so I doubt it will happen. Not on the list, but a Firefly set would be amazing too. Of the options left, it would have to be Star Trek of course, I could see that happening at some point, surprised it hasn't already.

I agree, plenty of set options, like the City/Night Watch, the Witches and the Wizards, (the Nac Mac Feegles could be those micro characters!) and many individual characters. Not many votes at the moment though, which is a shame.

Brickset, please don't forget to give us the poll on returning licenses so we can vote for Indy!