2018 City Sets - Rumours and Discussion

[x105Black]

2 hours ago, Legocityfan1998 said:

What all themes do you like? I use to get Star Wars sets all the time but just one day decided to quit buying them. I guess I just didn't have much use for them anymore. Besides I feel like they're recycled these days. Like they make the same sets over and over every so many years. 

That's true.

I mostly collect and build in the Castle theme, so I am constantly looking for parts that will be useful for my builds and minifigures.  Star Wars is actually a good one for this.  City is as well, with all of the nice animals they have been releasing.

But I am a LEGO fan in general as well, and I like to suggest things that align with my worldview.  That's why I suggested green energy sources rather than fossil fuels.  I would like LEGO to continue their work towards smarter policies, whether it is in practice (they are looking into alternative plastics that will be more environmentally friendly) or in purpose (like creating sets that feature recycling, science, female representation, or other such things to help educate young children).

[Legocityfan1998]

1 hour ago, x105Black said:

That's true.

I mostly collect and build in the Castle theme, so I am constantly looking for parts that will be useful for my builds and minifigures.  Star Wars is actually a good one for this.  City is as well, with all of the nice animals they have been releasing.

But I am a LEGO fan in general as well, and I like to suggest things that align with my worldview.  That's why I suggested green energy sources rather than fossil fuels.  I would like LEGO to continue their work towards smarter policies, whether it is in practice (they are looking into alternative plastics that will be more environmentally friendly) or in purpose (like creating sets that feature recycling, science, female representation, or other such things to help educate young children).

Castle was one of my favorite themes when it was out. I also liked the Indiana Jones theme a lot too.

[LEGOFANNER]

I'm waiting for some 2018 Creator news... What do you think?

Edited August 4, 2017 by LEGOFANNER

[LEGOFANNER]

For the summer wave of 2018, I think it's sure there will be some train sets, they are in every fourth years ('06, '10, '14). I know that there is also a train set from 2015 but it is only one, not 3-4. But back to the gist... I hope new train sets, a new exploration theme, a Fun in/on/at the ... set, one or two real city sets and an advent calendar.

[Digger of Bricks]

17 minutes ago, LEGOFANNER said:

But I'm waiting for some 2018 Creator news... What do you think?

Same here! 

The theme is probably my most anticipated one, since I have hopeful expectations for it in light of the many anniversaries coinciding with 2018. But I do expect to see similar nods to those events in the City theme also.

Fingers crossed! 

[Sir von Lego]

On 8/4/2017 at 5:42 PM, LEGOFANNER said:

 

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[Hoth Rebel]

4 minutes ago, Sir von Lego said:

City summer will be arctic.

Meh. Even the older arctic sets are on the shelves here. Don't understand why they would release that subtheme in the summer while mountain police / mining gets a winter release. 

[Digger of Bricks]

19 minutes ago, Sir von Lego said:

City summer will be arctic and new trains.

Great, trains confirmed! 

Now as far as the return of Arctic goes, I'm kind of disappointed that we won't instead be seeing an all new exploration subtheme, but perhaps a four year recycle is the way they are going to play this out. 

 

[AntiKragle]

14 minutes ago, Sir von Lego said:

City summer will be arctic and new trains.

Wow, thanks for this. An early return to Arctic is a surprise - I hope they have a new angle and it's not just cracking ice blocks for crystals. Maybe Antarctic with penguins/seals/whales?! 

Any details on special non-theme sets like the minifigure collections or gas station/cargo terminal/bus station sets that we have seen in the last 2 years?

 

[jdubbs]

I'm happy for arctic because I never bought the previous wave and I haven't wanted to spend eBay prices on it.

[LEGOFANNER]

11 hours ago, Sir von Lego said:

City summer will be arctic and new trains.

I'm absolutely happy about this annoucing!  These subthemes are my favourites - and volcano and jungle.

Edited August 5, 2017 by LEGOFANNER

[Digger of Bricks]

56 minutes ago, AntiKragle said:

Wow, thanks for this. An early return to Arctic is a surprise - I hope they have a new angle and it's not just cracking ice blocks for crystals. Maybe Antarctic with penguins/seals/whales?! 

I didn't think about the potential for new animal molds, that's something @Roebuck would be most interested in. 

[K_Tiger]

1 hour ago, Digger of Bricks said:

I didn't think about the potential for new animal molds, that's something @Roebuck would be most interested in. 

That would be only upside to Arctic Exploration 2: Subzero Boogaloo. At the very least they can hit us with the polar bear again.

[Agent 86]

Oh well. Maybe a hospital / medical theme for Lego City in 2019! It did seem unlikely that Lego City would get a hospital so soon after Lego Friends released one.

[Sir von Lego]

On 8/4/2017 at 11:36 PM, AntiKragle said:

 

 

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[Roebuck]

7 hours ago, Digger of Bricks said:

I didn't think about the potential for new animal molds, that's something @Roebuck would be most interested in. 

I sure would

3 minutes ago, Sir von Lego said:

There is an orca whale in the big set..

Whales now The animal-mould-team in the Lege group are really working hard this days! Keep up the good work guys
The killer whale must be eating something; penguins, seals...?
I had hoped for a return of farm and dreamed about a zoo theme, but Arctic( and trains) are fine as long as they bring new animal moulds
Hope they go too Antarctica this time, I have plenty of polar bears, but do not mind some more penguins 
The killer whale are in both the Arctic and Antarctic so it could go either way....

[LEGOFANNER]

3 hours ago, Sir von Lego said:

There is an orca whale in the big set..

Can you write down the full sets list of 2HY2018 City sets?

[Sir von Lego]

1 hour ago, LEGOFANNER said:

Can you write down the full sets list of 2HY2018 City sets?

Sorry, but I can't. It is too early to do that/ know that.

[LEGOFANNER]

2 minutes ago, Sir von Lego said:

Sorry, but I can't. It is too early to do that/ know that.

But can you tell some more informations about it, for example, how many sets are there?

[Brickviller V2]

Nice! New trains are always welcome, hopefully the passenger train won't be white with a red stripe (again). The return of the Arctic subtheme is a nice suprise as well, since I missed most of the first release of the subtheme a couple of years back. 

[LEGOFANNER]

I'm hoping for a new styled train station, a passanger train, a cargo train with a terminal and maybe a store exclusive. For Arctic, I'm hoping it's grey and blue, and the sets are a little vehicle, a bigger vehicle, a base, a helicopter, an other set and a store exclusive. What do you think?

Edited August 5, 2017 by LEGOFANNER

[AntiKragle]

32 minutes ago, LEGOFANNER said:

I'm hoping for a new styled train station, a passanger train, a cargo train with a terminal and maybe a store exclusive. For Arctic, I'm hoping it's grey and blue, and the sets are a little vehicle, a bigger vehicle, a base, a helicopter, an other set and a store exclusive. What do you think?

I think you can readily predict that we will get all of those types of sets. Colour scheme for Arctic will probably be orange/blue as before.  What I really would like to see is more brick built snow/ice scenery, new animal moulds and an igloo would be great.  

[K_Tiger]

7 hours ago, Sir von Lego said:

There is an orca whale in the big set..

Brick-built like Lighthouse Point, an actual new mold animal or to preliminary to tell? This actually kind of exciting news.

Edited August 5, 2017 by K_Tiger

[LEGOFANNER]

25 minutes ago, AntiKragle said:

I think you can readily predict that we will get all of those types of sets. Colour scheme for Arctic will probably be orange/blue as before.  What I really would like to see is more brick built snow/ice scenery, new animal moulds and an igloo would be great.  

I wanted to write the igloo...

[Digger of Bricks]

8 hours ago, Sir von Lego said:

There is an orca whale in the big set..

An Orca? That's got to be one big animal mold.  I'd imagine it would feature an opening mouth like Lego sharks do.

By the way, do you know of any "Fun at the (insert here)" people packs for summer next year, and perhaps do you also know how many sets there are for the train subtheme?