Camp Nou stadium teaser video
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LEGO has posted a teaser video that provides further proof that a model of FC Barcelona's football stadium, Camp Nou, is set to be revealed, and perhaps released, imminently.
Watch the video after the break and stay tuned for more information!
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Meh
Stadiums just seem... underwhelming.
@Yorick said:
"Stadiums just seem... underwhelming."
I don't know about that. I, for one, would like to see some classic American stadiums like Wrigley Field, Soldier Field, or the LA Coliseum.
@Yorick said:
"Stadiums just seem... underwhelming."
right, but that just means they're not intended to appeal to you. Or me.
@rljf311 said:
" @Yorick said:
"Stadiums just seem... underwhelming."
I don't know about that. I, for one, would like to see some classic American stadiums like Wrigley Field, Soldier Field, or the LA Coliseum."
The LA Colloseum would be the only one I would buy. It’s more classical architecture than other stadiums
I'm surprised LEGO is making another stadium. From what I heard, the Old Trafford set wasn't a big seller. It makes me wonder if LEGO will eventually make other stadiums from different sports (i.e. Wrigley Field, Fenway Park, etc.)
@rljf311:
If they did the baseball stadium where a radio station once blew up a pile of disco albums, and it included a scene of the radio station blowing up a pile of disco albums, I might be tempted...
@TheEpicLuke:
The problem in the US is that, while many people would love to see _a_ football/baseball stadium, or basketball court, nobody will agree on which one should be made. And nobody outside the US is likely to care about any of them. In some ways, it might be a safer bet to make models of important Olympics venues, like the Aquatics Center where Michael Phelps won eight golds.
@rljf311 said:
" @Yorick said:
"Stadiums just seem... underwhelming."
I don't know about that. I, for one, would like to see some classic American stadiums like Wrigley Field, Soldier Field, or the LA Coliseum."
Fenway Park or GTFO!
Seriously though, I find it hard to believe that the Manchester stadium sold well enough that they're doing a second stadium. This seems REALLY niche since you're targeting just ONE team of ONE SPORT...and the set is not inexpensive. It's not like some casual Lego fans are going to just impulse buy the stadium like they might for a set of minifigures in the team uniform.
...but a second stadium? I guess it did sell well enough? ...or maybe it came close to breaking even and that's good enough for Lego? No idea.
I certainly wouldn't mind Lego testing the waters for a US stadium by offering a model of the oldest active ballpark in Major League Baseball. Fenway Park certainly has a unique architecture that would be very interesting to re-create in Lego and provide some unique building opportunities. Jamie Berard is from Massachusetts, so it seems like it would be a great project for him to be involved with!
Like others, I find it difficult to believe that 10272 Old Trafford performed well enough to justify an annual LEGO stadium. However, I doubt that was the primary intention. Instead, these sets may draw new fans to LEGO, hopefully purchasing not only the stadium of their favourite football club but potentially other products too.
I think the club selections point in this direction too. Manchester United and Barcelona are considered the third and second most-supported football clubs in the world, following Real Madrid. Since the Bernabéu is undergoing renovation, skipping that in favour of Old Trafford and Camp Nou seems sensible.
On that basis, Juventus would be the next club of choice, although I am not certain that the Juventus Stadium is particularly recognisable.
Excellent for everyone that loves repetitive builds...
... and FC Barcelona could use all the support available right now.
We need a St James Park.
After Star Wars, that is the theme I don't care for the most, but unlike Star Wars I wonder how many customers will actually buy these. For newcomers it's not a cheap intro.
@windjammer said:
"We need a St James Park.
"
NUFC could do with some league points first
I'm very disappointed seeing that the first set related to Barcelona is the ugly FC Barcelona Stadium.
We have tons of other buildings and monuments in Barcelona much more interesting and where designers could apply new and interesting building techniques than this piece of concrete.
But seems that football (probably the dirtiest sport in the earth, where the important is to cheat without being detected by the referee) drives the world.
I was born in Barcelona and I'm citizen of the city, and I'm not happy.
They should make the New York Stadium as a set to celebrate our glorious lads in Rotherham! ComeOnYouMillers
This will be another example of far to many stickers to purchase when will Lego just charge us extra for printed bricks. Such a shame
@CapnRex101 said:
"On that basis, Juventus would be the next club of choice, although I am not certain that the Juventus Stadium is particularly recognisable."
As Italian, I say that San Siro stadium (the main football stadium for Milan and Inter, even though these two teams are less popular than Juventus FC) is far more recognizeable than the Juventus Stadium.
I think the stadium models are actually really neat, but I'm not a fan of soccer (pronounced FOOOOOOOHT-bowl). If they did a microscale Formula 1 track I'd be all over it. IDK HOW they would do that, exactly, but I can dream...
@WemWem said:
"I think the stadium models are actually really neat, but I'm not a fan of soccer (pronounced FOOOOOOOHT-bowl). If they did a microscale Formula 1 track I'd be all over it. IDK HOW they would do that, exactly, but I can dream..."
I've never understood why Americans have an issue with calling football by it's actual name... Instead they decided to name a sport in which a foot only very occasionally touches a ball after the most widely played sport on the planet... Odd decision.
Something like this could work as a collectible in a smaller scale, because you could make a few big fans of a sport really happy and also big fans of a particular team. At this size, you are a bit more constrained in that regard. The collectors might get one, but most of the single team fans are left out.
A problem with stadiums is, that fundamentally they are all kinda the same and at some point they blend together and Lego's palette becomes oversaturated --> most people wo bought one, won't buy another (especially at the ginormous size of those things).
People may complain about the choices of the first two stadia developed and released by LEGO, but if they are going by following, then they've picked the correct two clubs to back- certainly two of the three most followed sporting teams on the planet (the other one being Real Madrid, whose stadium is under major reconstruction, so wouldn't be a good choice).
There's also an argument for the San Siro, as that is the stadium of AC Milan and Inter Milan, so by combined fans it'd be up there... The issue is that it is due to demolished soon!
@Johnny__Thunder97 said:
" @WemWem said:
"I think the stadium models are actually really neat, but I'm not a fan of soccer (pronounced FOOOOOOOHT-bowl). If they did a microscale Formula 1 track I'd be all over it. IDK HOW they would do that, exactly, but I can dream..."
I've never understood why Americans have an issue with calling football by it's actual name... Instead they decided to name a sport in which a foot only very occasionally touches a ball after the most widely played sport on the planet... Odd decision."
As an American, I very much agree
@windjammer said:
"We need a St James Park.
"
That's never going to happen. It needs to be a team with global support and branding.
@Johnny__Thunder97 said:
" @WemWem said:
"I think the stadium models are actually really neat, but I'm not a fan of soccer (pronounced FOOOOOOOHT-bowl). If they did a microscale Formula 1 track I'd be all over it. IDK HOW they would do that, exactly, but I can dream..."
I've never understood why Americans have an issue with calling football by it's actual name... Instead they decided to name a sport in which a foot only very occasionally touches a ball after the most widely played sport on the planet... Odd decision."
Association football (aka soccer, derived from the word "association") and gridiron football (of which NFL-rules football is an example) are both part of the same family tree of sport, along with rugby. These games are all "football" sports.
This isn't a law, but the most popular version of football in a given region will naturally be called by the more general term of football, and the less popular versions get modifiers. Gridiron football is the most popular form of football in the US, so...
Probably being released to stop Barcelona going bankrupt! If there are stadiums, maybe Olympic ones that are neutral and cover a variety of sports
The only sports arena I would ever buy a Lego version of would be Lambeau Field. Luckily, if Lego ever decides to produce an NFL stadium, Lambeau would likely be at the top of the list. Here's hoping.
@CCC said:
" @jdm said:
" @windjammer said:
"We need a St James Park.
"
NUFC could do with some league points first
"
They play at St James' Park, not St James Park. Which English team plays football at St James Park? That's a classic pub quiz question that most people get wrong."
There should be no apostrophe because it doesn't belong to St James.
The Metro station has no apostrophe also.
@PurpleDave said:
" @rljf311:
If they did the baseball stadium where a radio station once blew up a pile of disco albums, and it included a scene of the radio station blowing up a pile of disco albums, I might be tempted...
I wouldn't mind a set of old Comiskey. I'd be really interested to see that pinwheel scoreboard represented in LEGO."
@Johnny__Thunder97 said:
" @WemWem said:
"I think the stadium models are actually really neat, but I'm not a fan of soccer (pronounced FOOOOOOOHT-bowl). If they did a microscale Formula 1 track I'd be all over it. IDK HOW they would do that, exactly, but I can dream..."
I've never understood why Americans have an issue with calling football by it's actual name... Instead they decided to name a sport in which a foot only very occasionally touches a ball after the most widely played sport on the planet... Odd decision."
I've heard taht gridiron football is named that way because the "ball" is a foot long. I can't however find a source for that, so that might just be fake news. What boggles my mind thought is that the thing they rarely even kick isn't even.... ball shaped!
Really we should all call it american/canadian hand-ovoid to avoid any confusion with proper football.
Make a set off Feyenoord Stadium and I will buy it. Funny note: Camp Nou"s design was based on Feyenoord Stadium. When you look at old pictures before they added the third tier you will see the likeness between the two stadiums.
Wait, isn't this like the second large-scale stadium released in the SAME YEAR? Would that not horribly eat away at each others sales?
I mean, I know that for fans there would be a big difference, but for the casual buyer? Does lego even expect non-fans to buy these stadiums?
EDIT: So it turns out that the Manchester stadium was released in 2020. I could swear it was this year, but ah well. Time sure moved weirdly the last year and a half.
In that case... would they still be on the shelves at the same time at least?
@Binnekamp said:
"In that case... would they still be on the shelves at the same time at least?"
If the new "Retiring on" info is to be trusted, Old Trafford is here to stay for 2 more years. So, yes.
Can we get the MCG soon?
@CapnRex101 said:
"Like others, I find it difficult to believe that 10272 Old Trafford performed well enough to justify an annual LEGO stadium. However, I doubt that was the primary intention. Instead, these sets may draw new fans to LEGO, hopefully purchasing not only the stadium of their favourite football club but potentially other products too."
If the reason for these stadiums is to draw in new fans, maybe they should be branching out to other sports before moving on to another team in the same sport. They could do football/soccer, baseball, hockey, basketball, American football, and back to football/soccer. (Some stadiums do double-duty too...so that's double the prospective buyers, but perhaps double the licensing to include team logos.)
Well I heard on the grapevine that the 18+ department has decided to make another stadium set just to annoy all the AFOLs who hated the Manchester United one. TLG have stopped caring about making money and have decided to focus on making AFOLs angry.
(Obviously that's just nonsense I made up. I'm not interested in this set, but I'm ok with that because I'm an adult and I don't have to love everything made by a brand that I'm a fan of.)
@rljf311 said:
" @Yorick said:
"Stadiums just seem... underwhelming."
I don't know about that. I, for one, would like to see some classic American stadiums like Wrigley Field, Soldier Field, or the LA Coliseum."
Absolutely agree. I imagine soccer is the only sport with enough world wide following to make big sets for though, unfortunately.
This new set is really boring and I can’t see many lego fans wanting this except collectors and fans of the team
@ChromedCat said:
"This new set is really boring and I can’t see many lego fans wanting this except collectors and fans of the team"
Fans of the team? So over 200 million people?
@Snaz said:
" @Snazzy101 said:
" @ChromedCat said:
"This new set is really boring and I can’t see many lego fans wanting this except collectors and fans of the team"
Fans of the team? So over 200 million people? "
Yeah, but how many of the 200 million are actually going to buy one of these, especially if it's as expensive as Old Trafford?"
If it only attracts one-tenth of one percent of that fan base that is still over 200,000 potential customers. I sense LEGO would be happy with that.
@rljf311 said:
" @Yorick said:
"Stadiums just seem... underwhelming."
I don't know about that. I, for one, would like to see some classic American stadiums like Wrigley Field, Soldier Field, or the LA Coliseum."
They already have a Soldier Field set, just buy the Colloseum and put a UCS Falcon on top of it. Of course, they should probably hold off on releasing those sets as a combo pack until the Arlington Heights Bears get a new stadium.
Quite honestly, besides the fact that we f-ed up Soldier Field, football stadiums just aren’t interesting because they are round and mostly symmetrical.
Of course I would buy Wrigley in a heartbeat although I’d prefer a classic pre-video scoreboard design, and it would definitely benefit from the rooftops and the L.
Fenway would also be a good choice, but beyond these two, even ballparks would be too symmetrical and boring.
@PurpleDave said:
" @rljf311:
If they did the baseball stadium where a radio station once blew up a pile of disco albums, and it included a scene of the radio station blowing up a pile of disco albums, I might be tempted..."
Well I would probably have to boycott Lego if they made a set honoring Chicago’s greatest disaster (and I’m not talking about the fire). But I suppose since Disco Demolition Night resulted in a forfeit, I would be able to forgive them.
@Johnny__Thunder97 said:
" @WemWem said:
"I think the stadium models are actually really neat, but I'm not a fan of soccer (pronounced FOOOOOOOHT-bowl). If they did a microscale Formula 1 track I'd be all over it. IDK HOW they would do that, exactly, but I can dream..."
I've never understood why Americans have an issue with calling football by it's actual name... Instead they decided to name a sport in which a foot only very occasionally touches a ball after the most widely played sport on the planet... Odd decision."
I never understand how the British can complain about Americans calling the game soccer, after all, it was the British who gave it that name.
That’s right, we are using a British term to describe this sorry excuse for a sport. And since you gave it this name, it freed up the name football for a real sport.
@TheWackyWookiee said:
"Can we get the MCG soon?"
They’d have to create a brick built four n twenty for the GWP.
@alfred_the_buttler said:
" @Johnny__Thunder97 said:
" @WemWem said:
"I think the stadium models are actually really neat, but I'm not a fan of soccer (pronounced FOOOOOOOHT-bowl). If they did a microscale Formula 1 track I'd be all over it. IDK HOW they would do that, exactly, but I can dream..."
I've never understood why Americans have an issue with calling football by it's actual name... Instead they decided to name a sport in which a foot only very occasionally touches a ball after the most widely played sport on the planet... Odd decision."
I never understand how the British can complain about Americans calling the game soccer, after all, it was the British who gave it that name.
That’s right, we are using a British term to describe this sorry excuse for a sport. And since you gave it this name, it freed up the name football for a real sport. "
Playful joke or over compensating insecurity? ??
@CCC said:
" @windjammer said:
" @CCC said:
" @jdm said:
" @windjammer said:
"We need a St James Park.
"
NUFC could do with some league points first
"
They play at St James' Park, not St James Park. Which English team plays football at St James Park? That's a classic pub quiz question that most people get wrong."
There should be no apostrophe because it doesn't belong to St James.
The Metro station has no apostrophe also.
"
So contact NUFC and tell them they have been wrong for the past 140 years. Take a look here...
https://www.nufc.co.uk/news/
https://www.nufc.co.uk/stadium/
"
While they excel at football, I would relegate their English to the first division. It is true that this a controversial topic though. It's complicated further that locals pronounce it "St James's Park".
But we don't write "Tyne's Bridge" or "English's Channel".
I want a Nürburgring in minifig scale. And a huge basement btw.
@windjammer said:
"We need a St James Park.
"
Somebody has got it already, even if it's not so official set.
https://www.brickthis.co.uk/gallery/lego-st-james-park
Well, if someone had let me choose, I would also have preferred that the first official Lego landmark set of my city, Barcelona -Barna, we locals say- would be something else (*).
But despite on the futbol (soccer) controversy, the Camp Nou dacaying situation, and other sad things, the Club is somthing very deep in the heart of many Barça fans, and as a Barna native and AFOL myself, I'm glad that now "we" have a flagship Lego set.
Why not, let's give the designer team the benefit of doubt and wait to see the Thing for real, I hope that in LEGO bricks it will be more beautiful than the real one... and a Camp Nou is better than nothing and puts the City on the map of the LEGO World, at last.
(*) something else, for example, one of the many Gaudí buildings that we have in the city: Sagrada Familia, la Pedrera, Güell palce, and so on and on, despite it's a turists cliché, all are awesome. Or a contemporany buildig: AGBAR Tower, Encants market, Arenes, Sta Caternia market, MCBA, to say a few, cause Barcelona doesn't end with art neveau, the gothic district and such. Or even some other loved places by many catalans near the city, let's say randomly, the Motmeló racing Circuit .. ;)
Boring Stadium. Looks like Collosseum which is also boring. I want a San Siro.