Your dream Lego theme

[Tariq j]

Some of my ideas:

-Jurassic Park

-The magnificent Seven

-Despicable me.

[adotnamedstud]

Men in Black, RoboCop, Star Trek (Ugh Kre-o has this on though ;-;), Mission Impossible. I'd love if one of these got made...

[BrickG]

Star Trek is probably not nearly enough of a lucrative toy business for Lego to even be interested in. It's not the 90s anymore. Without a series to support them and with this last movie being split on the love I fear it won't happen.

Doctor Who too. It would do great in the UK but outside the UK there's just not much of a market.

[RelicRaider]

Star Trek is probably not nearly enough of a lucrative toy business for Lego to even be interested in. It's not the 90s anymore. Without a series to support them and with this last movie being split on the love I fear it won't happen.

Doctor Who too. It would do great in the UK but outside the UK there's just not much of a market.

yeah Character Building licensed Dr Who already, but according to reviews on amazon, it's absolutely terrible, it's like 10% of people get a decent set where the parts actually stay together! the rest just falls apart every 5 seconds, even when you're just trying to build it. I'm glad I never bought any of those.

but what I'd like to see is a Walking Dead license come to pass. I think there's a CuuSoo Walking. Dead project, but I'm not entirely sure. it would be nice to see that though.

[legofreak86]

yeah Character Building licensed Dr Who already, but according to reviews on amazon, it's absolutely terrible, it's like 10% of people get a decent set where the parts actually stay together! the rest just falls apart every 5 seconds, even when you're just trying to build it. I'm glad I never bought any of those.

but what I'd like to see is a Walking Dead license come to pass. I think there's a CuuSoo Walking. Dead project, but I'm not entirely sure. it would be nice to see that though.

Walking dead? Not really Lego's target demographic but these are dream ideas.

[gavralcraw]

• Simpsons... peh. Gimme Futurama!
  
• Ray Harryhausen inspired figures...? Looks like they are there already.
  
• Steampunk theme... tie in with the monster fighters maybe
  

Edited November 8, 2013 by gavralcraw

[BrickG]

The Character building figures are okayish.

I bought the Daleks and Cybermen. Cheap plastic. Daleks at least look believable by real Lego.

Even if Character Building lost the license I doubt Lego would bite. There's not enough of a viewership outside of the UK. While it's more popular in the US and other places than ever it is nowhere near the same level of popularity, kind of still a bit "cult"y and oddly even though it's made with kids in mind it's not really a kids show over here :P.

In the UK you can find Doctor Who toys in toy stores. Those are like... only in specialty nerd/scifi stores here and much of the time not even then.

[Faefrost]

Sadly there is so little "new" franchises to offer the needed inspiration

Pacific Rim - Possibly one of the best potential "fits" for Lego in recent years, that they have not already jumped on. Good if cardboard characters, distinctive enough for minifigs without really seeming modern Army. And a good line to do a split minifig scale scenes and Constraction style Robots and Kaiju. They are messing with this a little bit with the next Hero Factory line. But the real thing

Hellboy - Sadly the main characters name and underlying iconography probably veto's it. But it would be a great Monster Fighter type licensed theme. Classic Horror. Secret Garbage truck command center. Maybe license it as BPRD?

Wizard of Oz - After the recent Disney prequel I kinda hope they go back and revisit the full book series as movies. They would make for a decent and classical replacement for Lego's LoTR licnse when that ends and allow TLG to continue their successful literary lines. (HP, LotR)

[legofreak86]

The Character building figures are okayish.

I bought the Daleks and Cybermen. Cheap plastic. Daleks at least look believable by real Lego.

Even if Character Building lost the license I doubt Lego would bite. There's not enough of a viewership outside of the UK. While it's more popular in the US and other places than ever it is nowhere near the same level of popularity, kind of still a bit "cult"y and oddly even though it's made with kids in mind it's not really a kids show over here :P.

In the UK you can find Doctor Who toys in toy stores. Those are like... only in specialty nerd/scifi stores here and much of the time not even then.

The show celebrates its 50th anniversary with a broadcast to over 70 countries around the world plus cinema showings in lots of countries. Doctor who's overseas popularity is through the ceiling currently! I'm more than ready to see character step aside and let the pros take it from here! I'm sure this anniversary event will demonstrate to lego just how successful the show is.

[Deathleech]

I would love to see StarCraft 2 done in Lego. I can imagine it would be pretty difficult for a lot of the Zerg units as they would all need to pretty much be new molds if not brick built (and its hard to brick build organic creatures and make them look good). The Protoss might also look really odd in minifigure form. The Terran would fit right in with existing Space sets though.

[Faefrost]

I would love to see StarCraft 2 done in Lego. I can imagine it would be pretty difficult for a lot of the Zerg units as they would all need to pretty much be new molds if not brick built (and its hard to brick build organic creatures and make them look good). The Protoss might also look really odd in minifigure form. The Terran would fit right in with existing Space sets though.

Technically Megabloks has that license as part of their deal with Blizzard. I think they released a few hard to find sets. I saw one of the human battle cruisers once.

[Deathleech]

Ahh, so they do. It looks like the line is being released sometime in the future and the Battlecruiser was a Blizzcon exclusive of some sort? I wasn't sure if the license Megabloks had with Blizzard was just for WoW related stuff or encompassed all of Blizzard's properties. All well, the chances of Lego making a SC2 line would of probably been pretty slim anyways as Lego seems to shy away from video games. That's why it's just a dream...

Edited November 20, 2013 by Deathleech

[arc]

The new jurassic park movie comes out summer 2015, I would love to see sets based of the new movie and the original three.

[Ophrys]

Some of my ideas:

-Jurassic Park

-The magnificent Seven

-Despicable me.

YES.... Despicable me with potentially numerous collectible minions!

[Faefrost]

The new jurassic park movie comes out summer 2015, I would love to see sets based of the new movie and the original three.

One of the other companies just landed the JP license a few weeks back. It's why all the JP projects vanished from CuuSoo. So I figure it won't be available again for at least 2-3 years. (Seems to be a normal minimal license term).

[BrickG]

The show celebrates its 50th anniversary with a broadcast to over 70 countries around the world plus cinema showings in lots of countries. Doctor who's overseas popularity is through the ceiling currently! I'm more than ready to see character step aside and let the pros take it from here! I'm sure this anniversary event will demonstrate to lego just how successful the show is.

Nope. Numbers don't lie.

The popularity in the UK and US is not comparable. In the UK the highest ratings showed that like one in SIX people watched Doctor Who. That's ONE IN SIX.

In the USA the best they've gotten so far was about 1 in THREE HUNDRED.

In fact even though the UK has only 63 million people and the US over 300 million there's more Doctor Who viewers in the UK by a pretty large margin.

So I don't think that constitutes "through the roof".

About 16% of the UK watched Doctor Who at it's best ratings.

Compared to the US having about .3% at it's peak.

Plus Doctor Who is marketed a bit differently in the US. In the UK it's almost a kids show (but of course made for everyone). In the US it's got much less kids watching and more adults (proportions).

Usually Lego goes for franchises that are for world wide release and will sell well no matter the region. I think they'd be lucky to sell 1/10th the amount of Doctor Who Lego in the US as the UK. Whereas usually the US has most regions beat with the sales.

I'd love to see it but I just don't see it happening. :(

[BlueberryWaffles]

Rangers Apprentice book series.

[Brickity]

You know one theme I always loved to see in LEGO... Shrek :( That will always be my favorite animated movie.

[gedren_y]

You know one theme I always loved to see in LEGO... Shrek :( That will always be my favorite animated movie.

If Disney and Lego decide that Princess Fiona gets to be part of the Disney Princesses line (if it continues), you may get it produced. The question remains; if they go this route, will you want it then?

[Brickity]

If Disney and Lego decide that Princess Fiona gets to be part of the Disney Princesses line (if it continues), you may get it produced. The question remains; if they go this route, will you want it then?

If that happened, probably, but I'd only buy the set(s) as part packs because it would have the same style as these, unlike a regular licensed theme with accurate colors and features.

Edited November 22, 2013 by Otherworld

[CorneliusMurdock]

Shrek was not a Disney movie, there's no chance at all of Fiona being in the Princess line.

[gedren_y]

You're right, it's Dreamworks.

[Brickity]

That's why I said "If that happened"... leaving all the blocks aside that made it impossible.

[legofreak86]

Nope. Numbers don't lie.

The popularity in the UK and US is not comparable. In the UK the highest ratings showed that like one in SIX people watched Doctor Who. That's ONE IN SIX.

In the USA the best they've gotten so far was about 1 in THREE HUNDRED.

In fact even though the UK has only 63 million people and the US over 300 million there's more Doctor Who viewers in the UK by a pretty large margin.

So I don't think that constitutes "through the roof".

About 16% of the UK watched Doctor Who at it's best ratings.

Compared to the US having about .3% at it's peak.

Plus Doctor Who is marketed a bit differently in the US. In the UK it's almost a kids show (but of course made for everyone). In the US it's got much less kids watching and more adults (proportions).

Usually Lego goes for franchises that are for world wide release and will sell well no matter the region. I think they'd be lucky to sell 1/10th the amount of Doctor Who Lego in the US as the UK. Whereas usually the US has most regions beat with the sales.

I'd love to see it but I just don't see it happening. :(

DAY OF THE DOCTOR was Number 3 best grosser of movies in cinemas worldwide this week. Plus it broke BBC America rating records and had 10.9 million viewers overnight in the UK! Popularity is no longer an issue. besides popularity is dependent on people who like the show like the 14000+ amount people I saw in London for the excel 50th celebration convention.

[BrickG]

DAY OF THE DOCTOR was Number 3 best grosser of movies in cinemas worldwide this week. Plus it broke BBC America rating records and had 10.9 million viewers overnight in the UK! Popularity is no longer an issue. besides popularity is dependent on people who like the show like the 14000+ amount people I saw in London for the excel 50th celebration convention.

Numbers don't lie.

The UK has a population of 63 million. About 1 in 6 people in the UK watched it.

In the US the show got somewhat above 3 million (as opposed to 10 million in the UK) and the US has 313 million people, or almost 5x as many people as the UK. Meaning its popularity in the US is still not comparable. 1 in 100 watched it here.

Now you also have to consider the popularity of Doctor Who TOYS in the US. In the UK you can find them commonly. Doctor Who is very kid market friendly. Much more so over there. You can find Doctor Who toys in ToysRus and stuff over there. In the US you'll just about never see Doctor Who toys outside of specialty stores. Nope, ToysRus won't carry them. Barnes and Nobel sometimes does but it's hardly a toy store and they're whim buys often buy adults. The Doctor Who toy market in the US is barely anything. It's oddly less of a kid show over here. It's got a much much smaller toy market.

I'm not saying the show isn't growing. It went from awkward cult show most people hadn't heard of over here to a somewhat popular show. But it's still... not much. I highly doubt Doctor Who Lego would make much money Stateside. There just hasn't ever been a market and apparently there still isn't (as they're not selling Doctor Who toys here much at all :P). So what does that translate too? Less sales. Less $$$. Less interest by Lego to pick up the series. And the USA I believe is the BIGGEST Lego Market (correct me if I'm wrong). So neglecting your biggest market probably isn't wise. And there's no history at all of Doctor Who toys selling well over here outside of niche magazines and stuff. I'm just saying I highly doubt even now with Doctor Who at its peak (so far) that it's sustainable in the US. There's absolutely no evidence and the "biggest BBC" ratings in the USA isn't actually saying much (BBC ratings were never that great).

I'm not saying this because I hate Doctor Who. Star Trek and Doctor Who would be my most wanted franchises to go to Lego. I even bought those Character Building Daleks and Cybermen in a moment of weakness (usually just a Lego d00d). I'd LOVE to see it. I just don't see it being a good business choice. It would sell incredibly in the UK and stuff but the UK is a relatively small market. Giving the franchise a whole line of sets seems unrealistic until Doctor Who continues to grow in places like the US (and gets more attention from kids).

And you mention London. A lovely place I'm probably moving to in a few months :P. But that's LONDON. The popularity of Doctor Who in the bigger markets and other regions, while at an all time high, again just PALES in comparison to Doctor Who's popularity in the UK. It's literally 20x more popular in the UK than the USA. That would seem to suggest the market in the USA for Doctor Who ANYTHING (including Lego) is at least 20x smaller.

AGAIN I'd love it. But even if Character Building didn't have the license I don't see it happening. Character Building having the license is a whole other tough issue. Lego has refused Doctor Who Cuusoo Lego stuff literally saying the license belongs to a competitor and they CANNOT get it. Unless we can find out the specifics of the license like the time limit (likely YEARS) we're out of luck there. :(

Edited November 29, 2013 by BrickG