Record-breaking number of projects qualify for review at LEGO Ideas

I'd be in for the Clipper and Portal sets.

I hooe that since we got a Pirates revival we het that Western set, that Naruto Shop looks neat enough.

I’d like Community, Ratatouille, Night at the Museum, Brickwest Studios, Hocus Pocus house, House from Up, Caribbean Clipper, Fast Food Corner or Fall Guys. Any of those I’d be happy with.

I think Caribbean Clipper stands a pretty good chance with the success of the last Pirates Ideas set.

Night at the museum, doggo, clipper, and Van Gough would all be awesome. I’m really hoping for Van Gough.

I feel like Community might make it because it’s so similar to the Big Bang Theory and Friends sets they released

That’s a ton of projects!

My faves:
Starry Night
Bonsai
Up House
Caribbean clipper
The safe
The calendar (unexpectedly...the little vignettes are great)
Brickwest studios

I hope for the Trabant, BMW M1, Gold Mine rollercoaster and Van Gogh's Starry Night. These four are my safest bets.

They'd better start cranking out some actual product, they've got 6 approved sets that need still need release, and who know when they might approve another bunch.
As for projects that i would like:
- windmill
- trabant
- BMW, if cool livery
- Clipper
- Safe, if functional
- Boeing
- exploratorium
- mine train
- one of the imperial fortresses
- bakery
- Temple
- ocean house
- medieval market
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My favourites in no particular order except for the first one:

House from Up
The Bakery
Mountain windmill
Temple of Hermit
Medieval Market
Ratatouille

Soooo many beautiful things around there. Too many to choose among them which could be my favorite. So much talent among AFOL designers, great job you all. Personally, I really love the Up house as we, with wife and daughter, really loved and enjoyed this sensitive movie. The bonzai is wonderful, just as the Windmill, updated imperial fortress, the Clipper, Ocean House too... Too many to choose! Now hard to tell which one(s) could pass next step too.

There are several wonderful ideas here that I'd buy (Imperial clipper & fortresses, bakery, brickwest studios) however I'm afraid none of them will become actual sets. There are a few that may even get released outside the Ideas theme in some form (because apparently Lego again already has had the idea themselves, like doggo brickheadz or the safe or the seasons in time or a classic pirates imperial fortress in a few years). My guess would be that 2 submissions will succeed - the Zen Bonsai and Fall guys (both radically redesigned, of course) and perhaps even Ichiraku Ramen Shop might have a chance when Monkey Kid, Ninjago, Overwatch and chinese new year sets can coexist.

So many beautiful sets that will never get made. I hope they surprise us by approving at least one or two of the long shots. Any guesses on how many sets they’d realistically be willing to approve in a single review?

The pawn shop in the Fast Food set is simply half of Olivander's from 10217... It's been re-colored a bit but that is quite clearly the same building. Not very original. Makes me wonder how much of the overall set was cobbled together from existing sets. Didn't look at the Ideas listing so this may have been pointed out before.

Good thing is that means the results from the last review should be here in the next month.

I like the Imperial Soldiers sets. However, wasn't there the 123 Sesame Street set that got approved last year?

I like only 2 of them: Medieval Market and Ocean House :-)

I know they’ll probably only pick Community but...

ALL OF THESE ARE BEAUTIFUL! I’m hoping for the dogs and heroes quest out of the batch!

I’m just happy to see plenty good non-licensed stuff in here!

House from Up would be an instant buy for me. I also dig the Bonzai tree and the Gold Mine Roller Coaster. The Fall Guys set is also pretty cute too lol.

That BMW M1 looks awesome!

I know that a lot of people here will hate me for saying this, but I hope that the Community idea wins. Like with Friends or Seinfeld, I have never watched this show - but when I first saw the submission I thought it looked so fun and bonkers that I immediately wanted to check out the show. I still haven't - and who knows, maybe I'll find it not to my taste - but the submission looks interesting enough, and if nothing else I would at least be able to salvage it for interesting parts and flesh-skinned minifigs.

I'm also rooting for the Portal 2 submission, if only because it is the best video game ever made (you can't convince me otherwise), and it's a shame that it didn't get its own set earlier when the whole LEGO Dimensions thing was happening.

I think I have also voted for the Bakery and Fast Food Cafe but other than that I don't really have any strong preferences. But it seems to me that they really need to make the threshold higher because with so many submissions passing every few months it seems that 10K isn't enough anymore.

Fall Guys will win for sure. The game developers themselves were promoting the project. LEGO Ideas themselves even started promoting it on Twitter when it started getting close to 10K. I’m pretty sure this set is a lock

I hope the Mountain Windmill makes it. Unique, well-detailed, and whimsical. Plus it would fit in with the original LEGO Elves series ( 41077 ). I would definitely buy it and build it with my daughter (albeit with a minor change in color palette :p )!

Brickwest Studio is clever, and I'd be tempted to pick it up as a gift for my father who started up a new career in acting. Honestly it would depend on the price point.

Zen Bonsai looks like the kind of set that the Ideas team really likes to go for. I'd be tempted, but again would depend on price point.

the Southwest 747 is a thing of beauty, but with having to secure two different licensing agreements that one is probably fighting an uphill battle.

I like to see some of the smaller sets. The calendar and the safe would go great in my office at work. Naruto brings back so many memories. Love the Temple of Hermit - would be an amazing display piece. The Bakery would go great in my Cafe Corner series display.

Licensed sets need to be reduced. Hopefully LEGO won't pick many of those.

Discworld please.

"record number of licences" more like. barf. so tired of "ideas" at this point >.<

I would only consider Ocean House and the Windmill, even then it depends on the price. Lego is getting too expensive (eg. Diagon Alley being CAD 499 but looks great... but no way I’m spending $499 on it when I can get 3+ $149 Old Fishing Store equivalent sets)

There about 10 or 20 sets I'd be happy with from this group but the one I really want to make it is Starry Night. It fits what Ideas is all about, doesn't require a licence and would be new territory for Lego to explore (buildable art masterpieces). Go Van Gogh!

I was just saying to a friend that they’re going to have to increase the target number because it’s getting too easy to reach 10k.
Some of these don’t stand a chance. Far too niche (31 minutos, naruto, whatever Fall Guys is), others are in themes they already have (modulars, and the BMW’s look like speed champs). I’d love to see Van Gogh (looks an interesting build) or some of those buildings like the windmill or brick west (I fear it’s too big though, same with explorium). The rollercoaster might be a good bet if lego don’t think they’ve saturated that topic.

I really hope that the brick west studios set gets approved.

The lego doggos look a lot like those sets lego released exclusively in Asia a couple of years ago. There were 4 breeds I think, daschund, corgi, and others I can’t remember.

@LegoDavid said:
"This is getting out of hand. 35 projects?!?!? I legitimately wonder how LEGO is gonna handle this. I think it's about time they make some drastic changes to the LEGO Ideas system (like increasing the number of required supporters in order to get to the review stage) because otherwise, the LEGO Ideas platform will become way too crowded. "
Just make us pay when we support something. Half the price based on pieces count. It will solve most issues.

lego dogs has my vote!

Wow, there are a ton of fantastic stuff here! My top three would be the BMW M1, the Bakery, and Temple of Hermit.

Calendar, Trabant, Mine rollercoaster, Safe.

No chance that another pirates set will be approved - good though these are.

Although a Lego Trabant will probably cost more than a real Trabant!!

I'm hoping for any of the Pirate themed ones, but the western themed ones would be nice too.

Anything based on a sitcom is an easy pass for me. Same goes for anything Oriental in nature. Monkie King line has no pull on me, but that Zen Bonsai looks pretty nice. I do like trees.

Most of these, yeah, not my thing. But I hope at least one of the Pirate ones makes it.

On another note, if the Van Gogh painting makes it, I could see Ideas getting flooded with other "brick Paintings", like the Mona Lisa.

Glad to see some smaller desk ideas made the list, e.g. Bonzi tree, calendar, Lego Doggo, safe etc could be useful as impulse buys for tourists. I would love another roller coaster and the film set is very well done. Fall Guys reached 10,000 really quickly, so must be lots of fans out there. There are too many buildings to choose from, I think the Exploratorium is the most original, the bakery the one I would most want to add to a modular street, and the Night at the museum likely to have the most interest.

As a display set, I hope Zen Bonsai and Seasons Calendar (both by BrentWaller) would be approved!

To be fair I'd probably buy 80% of these. Some really, really good sets here. Knowing Lego's recent form though they'd ruin them all with three sticker sheets and a hefty price tag.

I'm rooting for Avatar, Portal, and Ratatouille, but Naruto would be pretty neat too.

Fairly non-plussed by all the buildings. Quite like the Zen Bonsai.

Great batch of sets this round - and in particular some really good non-licensed ideas this time!

Would love to see some of these pass the review:
Mountain Windmill
Caribbean Clipper
Starry Night
Bonzai
Temple of Hermit
Ocean House
Medieval Market

I don't understand the "this is getting out of hand" sentiment. If they're able to review this many sets and if it potentially leads to more unique sets that might not have otherwise found a home in an existing Lego theme, I'm all for it. (I also don't understand the "there are too many D2C sets" sentiment)

Hanwasyellowfirst makes some incredibly original projects and they are really good!

Clearly there's a market for all of these sitcoms and Pirates, if every single one manages to get support on Ideas. You'd think they'd introduce a new theme or two.

I'm hoping for Night at the Museum and Ratatouille. Does anyone know how many will be chosen?

I want the Caribbean Clipper or the Seagull Bay or The Fortress, anything my Pirates of Barracuda Bay can battle with!!!

I’m sure all Pirates of Barracuda Bay owners would by more pirates related stuff.

But i love and will also buy Brickwest Studios, the The Ocean House and the Mountain Windmill.

The Pirates sets, the Southwest 737, the Fast Food shop, and the BMW M1 set are all of top interest.

I NEED those Avatar: The Last Airbender figures!

Oh my, this is really quite a bunch! And a lot of them really, really well made!
Having said that, there seem to be quite many from some series / movies etc. I haven't heard about or never watched, so not really for me. I'd like myself a Discworld, though :) And I'm always in for cars, so wouldn't mind the BMW at all (or even the Trabant). Doubt they'll make it, though. I think the Western / Sheriff Idea is rather clever, and as a display piece I really like the Bonsai. Getting the safe would be fantastic, though!
Having said all this, I never ever got any of these Ideas round right, so I'm pretty sure it'll be some other random stuff going through that I haven't mentioned :)

I would be happy with any of the three pirate sets.

I love me some medieval architecture. Too bad they never pass :D

@The_Toniboeh said:
" @DearMisterLegoBreaker said:
" @LegoDavid said:
"This is getting out of hand. 35 projects?!?!? I legitimately wonder how LEGO is gonna handle this. I think it's about time they make some drastic changes to the LEGO Ideas system (like increasing the number of required supporters in order to get to the review stage) because otherwise, the LEGO Ideas platform will become way too crowded. "
Just make us pay when we support something. Half the price based on pieces count. It will solve most issues.
"

Horrible idea"

Let me explain.

Right now it is a popularity contest and still most sets will end up dead in the water and won’t be produced.

If you vote for a set but then commit to buy it, it’s less risk for LEGO and potentially more sets coming to life.

Personally among all the sets listed today there are more than a dozen I would be happy to buy.

But that won’t happen because I mostly like buildings so I will get one at best.

I want the bakery, the ocean house, and brick west studios for my top 3. If everything fails than I want the UP house to win.

I would absolutely love the Sanderson house...if it wasn't an Ideas project. The witches would only really be done justice as minifigures if they were allowed to use new parts, so I'd rather get them in a Disney CMF series 3 than in subpar form through Ideas. I also automatically rule out submissions based on licenses LEGO already holds, so no Disney or Portal. Also, I never expect a modular to make it through since LEGO already makes their own.

I think the Starry Night set fits the LEGO Art theme's initiative pretty well, and the tone of previous Ideas projects, so I can see that happening. The Discworld set also seems like a winner and I'd want to see it even though I'm not a reader of the books. Starry Night's my strongest bet for one that's gonna be made.

Some of these surprise me for even getting qualified. Nook's Cranny seems to be a matter of timing. It's a cute set, but I don't think it would have gotten so much support if the new Animal Crossing game wasn't so popular a few months ago. 31 Minutos is a property I've never heard of, and unfortunately the submission doesn't look very impressive, so that looks like a case of a tight community and not general appeal giving it the qualification.

I haven’t seen the Starry Night submission before but it’s beautiful! That’s what I expected from the Lego Art theme.

Seasons in time is a bit odd. Why does the pine tree turn brown in autumn?

Ach, the mighty and glorious Exploratorium!
Kinda reminds of NINJAGO City, albeit in teeampunk world.
Some intertesting building techniques, the overall completness...
and reminds of Classic Spase, somehow...

@Klinton77 said:
"Well, there goes my hopes of the Schitt's Creek set seeing the light of day. That's some stiff competition. :/"

Same. I really want Schitt's Creek and Community to win, but chances are probably slim. Both shows are relatively obscure (especially compared to previous sitcom LEGO sets like Friends and TBBT), and as someone else pointed out, Schitt's Creek's name is a bit of a red flag.

I appreciate what all the designers have done, but I think there are only three that I would consider buying if they made it through to production.

So of course, none of those three will.

I think Avatar would work really well as the show is seeing a revival currently and the set wouldn’t be too expensive, maybe $60 at the most, meaning it wouldn’t be another D2C

Bricky_brick should apply for a job at LEGO. He has a lot of great designs.

Some of these ideas are quite creative, but maybe like 5 of them actually have a chance of making it through. It appears as though a number of projects seemingly gained rapid popularity due to the attractiveness of the renders (especially using Mecabricks), rather than the uniqueness, viability or sometimes even quality of the actual designs. Perhaps the threshold should be raised to 15k, or even 20k, since the number of users on the site has clearly increased significantly in recent months, to eliminate weaker projects that would not have passed review anyway and save the designers from getting their hopes up for nothing.

For those of you who were wondering, 31 Minutos is a very popular show in Chile/Latin America about a low-profile puppet news team . Definitely a bit of a niche, though.

All those new ideas and somehow all of them feels like "been there, done that".

The Bonsai is the only set, I would buy. The rest are somehow neat MOCs and all, but nothing I am eager to own.

I really want:
House from Up
Hocus Pocus
Starry Night

That’s a lot to choose from.
My personal faves:
- western
- vault
- doggos
- bonsai

Not that i would buy them, well maybe doggos :-)
(And community and Avatar because i love those shows)

Oh and Vincent van Gogh with his starry night is the best!

I really like 14 of these and would consider a few others. My wallet hopes they pick the ones I don't like but hopefully a few of the ones I prefer will make it through. My absolute favorites are Seagull Bay & The Bakery. The Calendar is awesome. The others I really like are the Exploratorium, Night at the Museum, Ratatouille, Medieval Market, Windmill, Ocean House, Gold Mine Roller Coaster, Fortress, Caribbean Clipper, Up House, Brickwest Studios.

I’d absolutely love Community to pass review! It would be one of the coolest things to be able to have a model of Greendale.

I’d also be really excited to get the bonsai, Ratatouille, Night at the Museum, Van Gogh, Brickwest Studios, and Avatar: TLA.

As for what I think will pass, I think Van Gogh, Brickwest Studios, and Avatar have the best chance!

Great sets this review to choose from!

Really hope Avatar gets chosen so we can get an updated Zuko figure. Not to mention Appa.

I really want the Brickwest Studios, House from Up, Night At the Museum, Fast Food Corner, Avatar the Last Airbender, Carribean Clipper, both Imperial Fortresses, the Medieval Market and Ratatouille, even though it's so obvious not all will get approved.

Night at the Museum, Animal Crossing, Ratatouille, and Fall Guys

"I know they’ll probably only pick Community but...

ALL OF THESE ARE BEAUTIFUL! I’m hoping for the dogs and heroes quest out of the batch!

I’m just happy to see plenty good non-licensed stuff in here!"

The comment was not necessarily suggesting otherwise, but HeroQuest is a license. My friends and I had a lot of fun playing the game 20-30 years ago. . . .

So so so many good sets, for me with out a doubt :
Gold mine rollercoaster definitely buy that.

The safe is nice if it does not get overpriced .

The rest would end up I believe to high price for my level of interest / funds /space

Love the Wild West film set and Ratatouille.

Not gonna lie, I really want that Fall Guys set§ For once, it'll give us a IDEAS set focusing on fun play features first instead of mainly keep the looks. I doubt they'll reuse the Minion body like Ash did, instead they could use parts found in Super Mario's Toads to make a frame.

I'm also interested into the Portal set, even if the license isn't super active nowadays. HeroQuest sounds like a really good idea to bring to life, as a new take on what they did with LEGO Games' Heroica. Idk if I'll buy it tho, I'm not too much into medieval/heroic fantasy.

Also yeah, no Space set ideas this time. Surprised about that?

Some great sets, but so many licensed ones... It's unfortunate that people don't appreciate "vanilla" legos anymore.

I'm quite fond of anything that could be added to the modular line, or that Western Studio: what a crafty way to bring back western, as a "movie" set!

Interesting...
Hanwasyellowfirst

for the win for me.

I like both, but ocean house is my favorite.

Ocean House, Temple, Ramen Shop, Dogs, Van Gogh, Exploratorium, the 737, Animal Crossing, Community, and the windmill are all viable choices as far as I can tell.

Some of the others are strong IPs, but weak builds. Fall Guys is something that's really exploded in popularity lately, but I'm not sure it's not flavor-of-the-month enough to justify a set, particularly since the aesthetics are kind of nil.

@Lamarider said:
"Lego need to cap this at 100.000 votes, this is just stupid."

I think 25k might be a better goal. 100k might be a little too restrictive; not enough people could get online within the approval window. But with everyone at home now, there are so many to easily reach 10k.

There are a lot of great ideas there and all the projects are impressive, but what would I actually buy? I buy small to medium sets, so most likely the calendar, the safe, the bonsai tree and/or starry nights.

I am okay with a lot of sets getting through to the review stage. If people enjoy submitting ideas and a lot of us like voting on them, I am fine with Lego having to make tough decisions. I do want an official Lego Huwbot one day. though.

Btw the aeroplane and the bmw’s are also pretty well designed!

The seasons and the bangladesh parliament are the only ones i don’t like. The bangladesh one is way too plain, and the seasons is just wrong with giving that pine tree autumn leafs

Trabant, Clipper, 737, and Doggo!

Van Gogh's Starry Night!! A true Lego masterpiece.

Wow! Some of these are really neat. Those buildings and Portal intrigue the most. I was also a fan of the Night at the Museum trilogy, but that does seem somewhat unlikely.

I'd buy Starry Night and Doggo, the latter of which is a nice smaller set after a series of giant Ideas models.

Want Discworld but it won't happen. GlenBricker's Cuusoo submission which hit 10,000 several years ago was great and this design is even more impressive. The JK Brickworks version is an excellent little model that I happily have on a bookshelf with dozens of Pratchett books.

Yip yip!

Haha there's so many good ones! I want a return of pirates, western and medieval so they are all in. The modular builds are good. If Night at the Museum let to an actual modular building style museum then I would vote for that. There's lots of unique sets which suit Lego Ideas which I would mention but there are so many good ideas here I will just say good luck to all!

The World Turtle is a brilliant set.

van Gogh is the only one that really stands out to me. Certainly time to raise the threshold to maybe 20k votes.

Maybe it’s time for the number of votes required for a project to reach review to be increased

A lot of wonderful MOCs. A few of them are good fits for Ideas

So many I want it's a shame they probably won't make them all.

I'd definitely love Night at the Museum!

I need that ATLA set!

I want the Greendale set. Sure it would have to a bottle episode, but we can hope for six seasons and a movie. I love it.

@mic27 said:
"One thing that bothers me in the Fall Guys set. That was created by someone with a big social media following. I have no problem with promoting your set on social media so it reaches more people, but it rubs me the wrong way that a set can reach 10k so quickly because you have a bunch of followers. I don't think that is the point of Lego Ideas. Also, to be fair, I'm not interested in the set because it seems like a niche fad. I'm not sure if any other sets amassed 10k in the same way, this is just the one that I saw."

I agree, but it is their project and social account. Either way, that idea reached the threshold solely because of their large following. If they didn't have a large following I doubt the idea would have reached the goal. Despite that, I wouldn't be concerned about it becoming an actual set.

I think you’ll see a record number of selections out of this round. If I were going to set the over/under in Vegas I’d say the number stands at 6.

Would you go over/under that? That’s a really, really interesting bet.

The active users who vote must have increased massively for this many sets, many of which are far from exceptional, to get through. This sort of flood of sets waters down what it should mean for a set be a finalist. Lego could easily raise the threshold of votes, but a better thing might be to have a fixed number of sets that get through each round, with at least SOME discretion by Lego. No one in their right mind would think that the Bangladesh National Parliament be made into a set, so obvious non starters like this could easily be pruned out. There are easily 10 of these that could be given the boot because the subject or IP is too obscure to become a desired product.

I thought Schitt’s Creek was rated R but after checking IMBD I’ve just found out that isn’t. There’s still no way LEGO is going to approve of a set with that as the name LMAO.

I don’t mean to insult anyone who worked on these builds since they clearly put their heart and soul in them but none of these interest me. HeroQuest is close but that’s it.

"Schitt's Creek"? Guys, really?

Most of these are nice enough sets, but there's few that I'd actually spend money on.

I do like the Seasons calendar, though. Just for the vignettes.

Holly cow! Thirty seven! How do I choose?

I will say if Fall Guys gets picked up then they should push it through development ASAP. They’ll need to strike while the iron’s hot on that, otherwise they might end up shelf warming like Overwatch.

My brief opinions on these:
1) Awesome, but unlikely
2) I'm a fan, but the show was not wildly popular. Unlikely.
3) They stopped doing games. No chance.
4) Cool movie set, but very unlikely.
5) I'd want it just for the house, but unlikely.
6) I'm not into ACNH, but I know it's hugely popular. I don't see them doing this though.
7) Oh, it's the Harry Potter car. Unlikely.
8) This movie was too long ago and not iconic. No chance.
9) I LOVE THIS, but they never go for modulars. No chance.
10) They didn't do enough with Avatar when they had it. I don't see them giving this another go.
11) I would love to see this, but if they didn't put out a Portal set during the Lego Dimensions days (like they did for Ghostbusters and Doctor Who), I don't see them re-obtaining the license. ...and the game was a LONG time ago now. No chance. :(
12) Just cars. Not exciting enough to get picked.
13) Beautiful ship. Unlikely to get picked.
14) The functionality of this is fascinating, but a combination lock isn't something exciting or interesting to most. Unlikely.
15) WTF is this? No chance. Nothing remotely interesting about this.
16) A jet, but it's branded. Southwest would love this, but this has zero chance as it has zero international appeal.
17) Pratchett fans would love this, but the Venn diagram of Lego fans and Pratchett fans has very little overlap. No chance.
18) This is neat. Potential to happen, but I'll still say unlikely.
19) This looks huge. No way is this happening. None.
20) This is a hugely popular movie, but the cottage is really just a cottage and if it didn't say "Hocus Pocus", very few people could identify it. Extremely unlikely.
21) Zero chance, but I look forward to Lego employees saying, "Schitt's"...but wouldn't be surprised if they just say "The Rosebud Motel" to avoid a name that sounds like a bad word.
22) Cool, but no. If Lego plans to continue using these roller coaster pieces for a few more years, then I'd expect they have their own roller coaster plans for when their current one is discontinued. They won't take fan coasters to compete with that.
23) This is an incredible interpretation, but I have a feeling they won't go for it because it's mostly tall and flat. Not much play value for the kids here.
24) If this ever becomes a set, they will not just dump blue pieces around the base. No way would that ever happen. This set is unlikely. Really, it's just a white castle.
25) Now THIS is how you do an Imperial fort. I like the lighthouse aspect. This has potential. (25 items on the list and I finally said one had potential!)
26) It's not a modular, but looks like a modular and I think that hurts it. In fact, it looks too much like modulars we've already had...but it's set too far back (and on a platform for no apparent reason) to be a modular. No chance.
27) Extremely limited appeal on this one. Less than zero chance.
28) Okay, this appears to be in line with what Lego typically produces and is something they haven't done before and it requires no license. I think we have a winner!
29) This is pretty cool. It has potential to get picked.
30) A new license and I don't think Lego will want to deal with the Naruto license which (as someone familiar with anime and merchandise licensing from Japanese companies) would require going through the licensees in EVERY country they have licensed Naruto to for approval. Not happening based on that alone, but also because this is too big of a set to take a risk on a new license...especially one requiring all the work that a Naruto license would require. Zero chance.
31) Nope.
32) Nope.
33) Looks cool, but nope.
34) I have no idea what Fall Guys is except that it seems to be hugely popular starting JUST NOW. Lego would have to jump on this ASAP and rush it to market. I'm actually going to reserve judgement on this because I know so little about Fall Guys (except for its sudden massive popularity) and I really don't want to have to go look it up.
35) Nope. The movie was too long ago and doesn't stand out enough to warrant a set like this.

...and yes, it's THIRTY FIVE sets, but I guarantee you that The Powers That Be will look at the list and IMMEDIATELY toss out 5 to 10 of these for various reasons with no further discussion.

I really hope Ratatouille ends up being a set. It reached 10k for a second time and quite quick, after being rejected last time.
Really nice details, well done, and can be used as a generic restaurant too. The minifigures are spot on!
Starry night is my next one. It would make a great display peace! It complements well
LEGO Art. Since TLG started the theme, they must think that there is a market for it.

Some cool builds here but very few that stand out as anything I’d consider “must buy”. Caribbean Clipper and Night at the Museum
are probably my favorites.

@samael64 said:
"The pawn shop in the Fast Food set is simply half of Olivander's from 10217... It's been re-colored a bit but that is quite clearly the same building. Not very original. Makes me wonder how much of the overall set was cobbled together from existing sets. Didn't look at the Ideas listing so this may have been pointed out before."

If you actually watch Robin Hood Bricks videos on YouTube you see the whole process he went through designing and building it. It's actually quite good. The reason it looks like olivanders is because Olivanders looks like a traditional older English shop.

Wow! That's a a lot of choices - I hope we don't just get one project made and see at least three. Would love to see the Night at the Museum, Brickwest Studios, UP house, Caribbean Clipper, the Starry Night, either of the Imperial Fortress, LEGO Doggos, Zen Bonsai or Ratatouille!

What I like: 1, 2, 4, 9, 13, 19, 22, 24, 25, 33
I hope at least 5 of the entries will pass.

@By PDelahanty
"7) Oh, it's the Harry Potter car."
No, it's not.

I really like the bonsai tree and the gold mine rollercoaster. I hope one or both of those get approved!!

Quite a few nice ones. But I won't get my hopes up for any of them and rather be happy if one of the ones I like gets approved.

My favourites are:
Ocean House
Seagull Bay
Seasons in Time
Brickwest Studios
The Mountain Windmill
Caribbean Clipper
I’m not a Naruto fan, but I think this is such a good looking build that I would buy it anyway. I like Community too, but next to all these other beautiful designs it just doesn’t stand out as impressive.

Come on, Great A'Tuin!

@jsworpin said:
"Seasons in time is a bit odd. Why does the pine tree turn brown in autumn?"
It could be a Swamp Cypress, a deciduous conifer.

I honestly don't get many of the comments here. I know what I think about these sets, which ones I might or might not buy, but most importantly, I know nobody else is interested in my personal opinion. Yet many others above go into lengths about these topics. I mean, does @randomlegolover65 really think other users want to know about their preferences and plans?

I get they are free to say so, but such amount of noise tends to drown out anything remotely interesting or insightful.

Don't ask me why but I think 9, Fast Food Corner looks like a top pick for the very sensible people at the LEGO Group.
Check out the inside details, or even the whole build process on YouTube!

Wow, these are all so wonderful and creative! And what the heck - a TRABI?! I don't have any illusions of the Trabant winning, compared to this line up, but as an historian who specializes in 20th Century Germany (and specifically East Germany), the fact that somebody made a trabant and it made it this far is just delightful!

l am pretty sick of seeing movie/TV vignettes getting this far. There are a LOT of great sets that made it to this stage but none of those are the movie/TV ones.

Van Gogh for the win!

Lego is NEVER going to make a Modular set based off an Ideas submission. It's simply never going to happen. It's about as likely as them making an X-Wing because someone on Ideas wants a new one.

Also people need to slow it down with the giant 3000-piece submissions and the licensed submissions. I want to see more smaller sets with unique ideas - some way to challenge people's creativity rather than just plucking their favourite TV show and phoning it in.

The same goes for parroting themes from previous Ideas sets, like the three substantial Pirates ones this time 'round off the back of Barracuda Bay being released. Do something new guys!

Having said that, I think most of these builds look stunning: the BMWs, the Clipper, the windmill, the ocean house, so good. So, so good.

I think they should turn the Lego Doggo submission into a set. They're cute-as, and who doesn't like cute lil puppies?

This is getting ridiculous, LEGO needs to change the rules on making the next round; clearly 10,000 votes is not enough. There's no kidding 35 sets on this list and not one of these sets would get my hard-earned money. LEGO is clearly encouraging quantity vice quality and it's sad.

Most of these are incredible. And as much as I’d like to own some of these really detailed, complex ones, my vote is for the safe, due to its elegant simplicity and unique/unexpected theme.

@historynut said:
" @samael64 said:
"The pawn shop in the Fast Food set is simply half of Olivander's from 10217... It's been re-colored a bit but that is quite clearly the same building. Not very original. Makes me wonder how much of the overall set was cobbled together from existing sets. Didn't look at the Ideas listing so this may have been pointed out before."

If you actually watch Robin Hood Bricks videos on YouTube you see the whole process he went through designing and building it. It's actually quite good. The reason it looks like olivanders is because Olivanders looks like a traditional older English shop. "

I understand that there are real buildings which were constructed in this style and that Olivander's was not designed in a vacuum. That does not change the fact that the majority of the pawn shop portion of this set is a direct copy of 10217, albeit with the use of a few different colors. Having looked at more pictures of the set in the Ideas link makes that even more clear. I have no problem with someone modifying existing sets to make something new, I'm working on something like that myself right now as I can't rationalize the cost of the X-Mas X-Wing. However, I do not think that a set should qualify for Ideas consideration when it is reliant on copying the build plan of one or more existing retail sets. Again, just to make it clear, I have nothing against the Fast Food set itself, just don't think it is appropriate for Ideas.

Lego Doggos, either as a set or polybags, I think would be a winner (I'm a corgi person and corgi people buy everything corgi-related and this would be no exception).

Mountain Windmill and Medieval Market are my favorites. This field is ridiculously competitive. Hope more than one or two get selected!

The problem with the dogs is that they are a much better fit for mainline Creator than Ideas. This is something they should be selling at Target, not as an online exclusive.

Honestly, a lot of these aren't that good.

@holdre007:
The Pirates theme has been around for decades, and has included three groups of soldiers. If it ever comes back, I have every expectation that some form of Imperial fort would be included, and any claims that they "stole" the concept from these Ideas projects would be simply ludicrous.

@kakistos:
Just based on past results, 3-4 seems likely.

@SaintJ:
Review results are announced in a fairly fixed schedule. Sometimes they have the set fully developed and ready to release by the time that date comes around, and other times there may still be a lot of design work left to do. Sesame Street _was_ announced as a project that they accepted and will produce, but we've never been given any sort of timetable on when accepted projects would become available to purchase. Even with really fast turnaround, you'd get the results announcement, and a few days or weeks later the final set would be announced out of the blue. Currently the piano is 31, and nothing that was approved before the piano is still pending (the piano, Barracuda Bay, and Sesame Street were approved in the same review session). Sesame Street (the lone holdover from 2019), a Medieval Blacksmith (which I guess kills the chances of 1 and 33) Winnie the Pooh, a typewriter, Seinfeld, and Home Alone are on the docket as 32-37.

@PixelTheDragon:
A restriction has been imposed (I think 1:1 minimum) in favor of non-licensed Ideas sets, so there's no danger of the IP-based stuff overwhelming the theme, nor has there been for quite some time.

@LegoDavid:
They have, rightfully, credited the surge in activity with the lockdowns that have been imposed worldwide due to the pandemic, and have announced that they will not make any drastic changes until they see if this trend continues forward after things have returned to normal (whenever that is). But they are looking at potential long-term changes to the format, so this is not something that they're simply oblivious to.

@Lamarider:
Sure. And shut down the Ideas department that same day, since even during pandemic lockdown, managing to net 10x as many votes is pretty much an impossibility, and anything that does manage to pull it off is almost certain to have an IP conflict that gets it rejected with zero discussion.

@shotgunchipmunk:
Oh, wow. I never even noticed that (whenever I see that image, my eyes just lock in on the brightly colored fries, my brain pegs it as "likely to be rejected for being too close to one or more existing themes), and my hand scrolls past to the next image. Yeah, that's drug use, which is on the banned topics list.

@ElephantKnight:
If Starry Night gets accepted, that may happen. However, I expect recreations of classic paintings in general will be added to the permanent restricted list, so it would largely be a waste of time to submit them.

@SolidState:
IP-based sets have a built-in advantage, because fans of the IP they're based on can be easily convinced to sign up for an Ideas account just to support a set based on the _one_ show they care about. Popular original themes that have zero presence in the current lineup also have an advantage, as fans of those themes will pretty much support anything that comes along in the hopes of either getting a single set approved, or convincing TLC that a full theme would do well. In the case of both Pirates and Castle, a single set actually has been approved (and released, in the case of Pirates), so future submissions are likely to be summarily rejected.

@Finn2187:
Minimum: 0
Maximum: 35
Likely: 3-4

@mic27:
The first set to hit 10k was Minecraft. It did so in about a day, which might still stand as the record. It did so because the person who submitted it was the guy who owned Minecraft at the time. He was able to blast it across social media and flooded the site with fans of his game. That single Ideas set has gone on to spawn one of the largest and longest running IP-based themes (DC and Marvel are the only two I can think of offhand that have it beat). The intent was that you had to market your project to get it to 10k votes, rather than just posting it and letting people vote it up as they browsed the site. If someone can pull that off with a single tweet, there's nothing wrong with that. It still has to clear the review process, and social media is no longer a factor at that point.

@jsworpin:
That...is a good point. Bright green is normal in spring, since that's how the giant shrubbery outside my door looks when it's during an annual growth phase. Snow also make sense, because it covers everything. But coniferous plants only turn brown when they die. So maybe how it would work is you start the year with Winter, through Spring and Summer, ending with Autumn and a dead tree, and then you start the next year with a chord of firewood. Or they just change the design to a deciduous tree, where the colors make more sense.

@historynut:
But if it _looks_ like a set they've already released, they may reject it out of hand because they assume someone cribbed their own set design.

@parsom:
No, but now that they've done a large Hedwig model, a Creator-scaled version of the Ford Anglia or the Knight Bus would be pretty cool.

my question is, when are we going to see the Sesame Street set.

I just think the large Ideas voter turnout will blow over in a year or less. I fear that if the number of required supporters is increased from 10,000, LEGO will never lower it (just as their prices only go up and up over time) and it will hurt the platforms longevity as it becomes harder for projects to get support.

@goalieboy82:
Sesame Street got approved during the same review as Barracuda Bay and the piano. The other two were rather ambitious designs compared to their original projects, that took a lot longer than we expected. Sesame Street could be the same way, or it could be that the person who's designing them also committed to heading up either of the other two projects and needed to get that done before moving on to something else.

@Norikins:
Hogwash. Price per piece has been in flux for the last decade, sometimes going up quite a bit, and sometimes (like Diagon Alley) falling well below our antiquated expectations. But you only hear the complaints about when it's above a price point that was established back in the 70's, and never tons of celebration when it falls so low that you're essentially getting a $100+ set thrown in for free.

I wasn't saying "LEGO sets now are overpriced," I meant that once LEGO increases a price point there seems to be no going back. There are indeed times when LEGO tries to price gouge under the guise of adjusting for inflation as in the CMF price more than doubling in the past decade. On the more positive side, the price of a regular sized modular building increasing from $140 to $180 not just due to inflation, but also with an increase in relative piece count and detail. LEGO seems unlikely to reduces prices, despite the recession, because customers are already used to the current prices.
But my main point was that the influx of many ideas approvals is probably only temporary and if measures are introduced to thin the herd the new rules would likely stay even if less people are supporting projects.

Van Gogh and the Brickwest Studios would be great to have.

Wow! These are really good MOCs. All of them. This is going to be very tough decision for TLG.

I would like to see Some non-licenced sets, there is plenty choice to do that, come on Lego!

My two cents:

!: Mountain Windmill: I love the windmill and the general look of the set.

3: Lego HeroQuest: In some ways it looks really appealing to me but then think it would be an unlikely choice. It appears to be set up as a game and LEGO games never seem to be very successful.

8.Night Museum: Cool concept and don't believe we have ever had a LEGO museum.

18.Seasons in Time: It's functional and decorative.

22.Gold Rush Mine Roller Coaster: Just tickles my fancy. Is it likely... perhaps not. Coaster pieces in another colour could never be a bad thing.

23.Vincent Van Gogh: The Starry Night: Like the concept of multi dimensional art. Maybe unlikely due to LEGO's in house art them now.

29.Zen Bonsai: Seems like a somewhat unique set. Appealing to the masses not sure but I think it would make a nice desk model although I didn't look up the size of the model.

Honestly there is so much choice. I was hoping to end up with five and here I am with seven. Realistically how many would they pick? 3-5 Hoping for at least one winner! lol

Too many 'easy' sets for LEGO this time. Starry Night, the calendar, etc. are all too perfect for them to pass up, they'll make great expensive '18+' sets to hype people up while LEGO silently pushes all the nice original ideas to the side. It's a shame.

@Baldarek said:
" @SirZed
What a bizarre thing to say. People want to share their thoughts on the submissions, and nobody is forcing you to either do the same or read all the comments. How do you define what is "noise" and what is "anything remotely interesting or insightful" anyway?"

Simple: anything that can be disassociated from the user saying it is more than noise, while everything that is only about who will buy what and who prefers what, is noise for me. See these examples and you'll see the difference for yourself:

"I'll definitely buy 3 and 6 on release day, but have no interest in 8"

"5 has genial building techniques, but the source material makes it improbable to pass review"

But yes, that is my opinion, and I'm only writing this since you asked.

@MegaLucario said:
"Too many 'easy' sets for LEGO this time. Starry Night, the calendar, etc. are all too perfect for them to pass up, they'll make great expensive '18+' sets to hype people up while LEGO silently pushes all the nice original ideas to the side. It's a shame. "

I don't understand what the "original ideas" are in your argument. Do you mean others in this group, or some that haven't been recognized? I've never seen the "desktop novelty" category accused of being the group taking slots away from better ideas, usually because they are unique and non-licensed.

@Norikins:
For CMF, you're absolutely right. But even with all these expensive D2C sets, there are still plenty of sets in the sub-$20 range. The $5 range has largely been abandoned to CMF and polybags, but they've been holding inflation at bay for over four decades and will eventually have to give in.

For Ideas specifically, you can place a lot of the blame on the voters. If people only vote in these huge projects, the Ideas team can only approve huge projects. _Some_ of them could probably be pared down to something more affordable, but most often we've seen the sets come out bigger and grander than the original project submissions. As presented, out of this entire batch of 35 projects, only 6, 10, 11, 27, and 28 look like they could possibly release for less than $50, and I'm not sure if anything besides 27 could go below $30. Maybe 28 if they give you instructions for how to build several dogs, but only enough parts to build them one at a time.

@iefdb:
They have a restriction that limits how many licensed sets they can make vs non-licensed sets under the Ideas theme, which I think is a minimum of 1:1. If they approve four of these, expect at least two of them to be non-licensed. As for the review class in general, that's up to the voters. If nobody votes for non-licensed projects, none of them can go up for review. But the whole point of the format is to produce sets based on consumer desire. We have to submit our own designs, and get people to vote for them. IP stuff just has an easier time up to the point where it goes to review.

The Clipper, mine car roller coaster, and the windmill are all pretty tempting. Most the licensed sets hold no interest for me. As much as I'd love for Lego to do an old west town, I don't see them doing a saloon, even disguised as a movie set, which is a shame, because what old west town isn't complete without one?