LEGO City 2020 - Rumors, Speculation, and Discussion

[The Island Chronicles]

15 minutes ago, Salix said:

Yvonne is a female name btw. ;)

Who said females couldn't be dudes? LOL

But you're right though. 

[Klaus-Dieter]

A review (not mine) of the Main Square is up on youtube. I must honestly say that the more detailed pictures I see, the less attractive this set seems to me - apart from the heavily overpricing:

- in total only four seats for passengers in the tram (the 2010 one had six, the 2015 one even eight)

- although the limo is that long and there's so much space inside, there's only one seat in the huge compartment in the back

- the park looks absolutely strange, like the front was planned and built, but for the back part the bricks went out (tiles in the front, but none around the fountain + three different colors of the railing + a sable instead of a sword for the Robin Hood statue + the small leafs on the trees aren't hold by plates so they will easily fall off)

- only two new torsos and one new head, but useage of extremely old torsos

Edited August 28, 2020 by Klaus-Dieter

[The Island Chronicles]

@Klaus-Dieter What about the diner and town hall?

[Powered by Bricks]

On 8/27/2020 at 5:31 PM, Brandon Pea said:

Yeah! Someone put up on the 2021 Lego City page that the next wave is Jungle Police. We had to remove it for false information. I'm waiting till official info comes. 

For official info we don t have nothing, in the last year the information of this year's sets was revealed in the Middle of the summer but this summer os ending and we don't have any information !?

[The Island Chronicles]

5 hours ago, Powered by Bricks said:

For official info we don t have nothing, in the last year the information of this year's sets was revealed in the Middle of the summer but this summer os ending and we don't have any information !?

Last year.....there was no Covid. Thats why. 

[Klaus-Dieter]

On 8/28/2020 at 9:29 PM, Brandon Pea said:

@Klaus-Dieter What about the diner and town hall?

I built up the most parts of the set yesterday (I don't build up all, so I didn't make a review):

• Although it's very small (only 8x16 baseplate), the City Diner looks very realistic. I esp. like how much interior there's included to make it looking as closly as a real burger restaurant. Neat detail: There's even the big pot inside the cupboard! BUT since we got a burger stall already last year and since shops are extremely rare in Lego City anyway, I would have prefered a shop instead.
• I think that you've already seen enough pics showing that there is almost no interior downstairs in the town hall - and the one that is makes it more looking like a museum than a town hall. BUT the mayor's office upstairs is nicely done. And except for the green colored doors and that there aren't arches over these half-circle windows, I'm fascinated by the exterior: The architectual design is stunning and the building is much bigger in broadness (not deepness!) than I'd have awaited.

[Powered by Bricks]

I want a City set like the new diagon alley from Lego harry Potter @Klaus-Dieter

[kermit]

The new diagon alley set does raise a new question or idea for city / modular buildings. Do modular buildings really need to have a back? If you place the buildings in a city and want to play then you will have to remove each floor, but without a back you don't have to plus the price of the building can be cut down substantially. I am pretty sure kids too find it tedious to lift off sections to play inside when they have their city. Maybe this is a direction that Lego needs to go in just like how they create their buildings in the city theme without a back but with just more depth.

Edited September 5, 2020 by kermit

[TeriXeri]

6 hours ago, kermit said:

The new diagon alley set does raise a new question or idea for city / modular buildings. Do modular buildings really need to have a back? If you place the buildings in a city and want to play then you will have to remove each floor, but without a back you don't have to plus the price of the building can be cut down substantially. I am pretty sure kids too find it tedious to lift off sections to play inside when they have their city. Maybe this is a direction that Lego needs to go in just like how they create their buildings in the city theme without a back but with just more depth.

I am personally 100% fine with the style of Creator / City / Friends houses with open backs.

Hinges are nice but sometimes made 1 side of a wall really thin interior (like a few studs on Corner Deli's top floor), so if a building is hinged, I'd rather see it 50/50 in terms of depth instead of just a hinged thin wall.

Even in the Creator 3-in-1 theme, LEGO made lots of variations on houses, from previously fully enclosed houses on baseplates, to hinged, to "modular" 16x8 and 8x8 sections with removable windows/walls, to the most recent Pet/Toy Shops with open backs and some sidewalks that connect with technic pins.

In the last 3 years, I collected 3-in-1 buildings over modulars, even while the price of a modular usually is better per piece/volume on paper, smaller sets tend to get larger discounts.

But when it comes to City, most buildings look a bit too simple , especially 2020 examples like the Service Station or Main Square town hall, but that might have something to do with the 5+ direction.

I do hope 3-in-1 buildings will settle on the current design and expand on it, instead of swapping styles 3 times in 4 years as they did from 2017-2019.

Edited September 5, 2020 by TeriXeri

[LegoManiac25]

Does anyone know when the Elite Police line comes out in North America?

[The Island Chronicles]

58 minutes ago, LegoManiac25 said:

Does anyone know when the Elite Police line comes out in North America?

I've been kinda wondering that myself. 

[Powered by Bricks]

@kermit I want a city d2c set with shops, not modular buildings , the new diagon alley has only shops, thats why I Said that I want a set like the new diagon alley

[toopizza13]

ok, now with just2good starting rumors about the elite police sets, my brother works for lego. the elite police sets have been delayed, and will eventually release officially, but their names have been changed from elite police to just regular police, lego doesn't want to release new elite police sets during all the protests.

[The Island Chronicles]

@toopizza13 Yeah! I saw that video. Looking at how by now, they are likely beginning the final phase of the 2021 wave (which is to make their plans a reality), I'm going to assume that if they havent released them here now - they won't be released at all. 

 

If it were up to me, I would've saved Elite Police for winter 2021. Nice little anual police wave there. 

[MAB]

I was watching my kids build houses over the past few weeks. They manage to build decent builds on 8 deep plates, with the front wall at the edge. So 7 studs interior deep. They find that is deep enough for play, enough to fit in beds, desks, tables, chairs, etc. They can easily get their hands in and out for play. Go much deeper than that and they tend to knock bits as they try to get things in and out. They seem to prefer higher shallow houses (with more floors) than lower and deeper (with fewer floors).

[The Island Chronicles]

9 minutes ago, MAB said:

I was watching my kids build houses over the past few weeks. They manage to build decent builds on 8 deep plates, with the front wall at the edge. So 7 studs interior deep. They find that is deep enough for play, enough to fit in beds, desks, tables, chairs, etc. They can easily get their hands in and out for play. Go much deeper than that and they tend to knock bits as they try to get things in and out. They seem to prefer higher shallow houses (with more floors) than lower and deeper (with fewer floors).

Higher and shallow. You mean, like this?

[LegoManiac25]

If they won't release them in the U.S. Can't they just release them in Canada?

[kermit]

5 hours ago, MAB said:

I was watching my kids build houses over the past few weeks. They manage to build decent builds on 8 deep plates, with the front wall at the edge. So 7 studs interior deep. They find that is deep enough for play, enough to fit in beds, desks, tables, chairs, etc. They can easily get their hands in and out for play. Go much deeper than that and they tend to knock bits as they try to get things in and out. They seem to prefer higher shallow houses (with more floors) than lower and deeper (with fewer floors).

exactly buildings deep enough for there to be an interior and play BUT with an open back.

[MAB]

14 hours ago, kermit said:

exactly buildings deep enough for there to be an interior and play BUT with an open back.

My daughter has the Grand Hotel from Friends. I think that is where she got the 8-deep technique from, and has always stuck with it. I bought her (and my son) a load of 8x16 plates too, which probably helps. My son tends to build castles that are hinged, so about 16x16 overall, but often these end up as opened out 8-deep display castles.

[TeriXeri]

8 deep (7 studs with 1 stud wall) is my favorite for 3-in-1 scale buildings, also was used in recent sets.

Hinges usually have to compromise depth unless done 50/50 like Emmet's Dream House which was 16x16 so 8x32 when hinged open.

6 deep is used in City/Friends builds, but that's about the absolute minimum to not be a facade imo.

32 is also able to be divided by 16 or 8 , so would be compatible with something like a Road plate for a sidewalk, so using 8x8 or 8x16 plates for buildings can be fairly "modular".

The recent Main Square town hall just looks too shallow, and basic, overall that set has some nice points but as far as builds go in large sets, I think the Hotel from Capital City looked more charming, I'll stick with Creator 3-in-1 for buildings, or some Friends sets.

The 2019 and 2020 Creator 3-in-1 sets aren't on 8 deep plates but overall still maintain the scale with 8-10 deep buildings with 2-4 studs of sidewalk.

Edited September 8, 2020 by TeriXeri

[toopizza13]

first 2021 leak. new baseplates, 16 x 16 with printed tiles

*road baseplates

[Toastie]

20 minutes ago, toopizza13 said:

2021 leak.

Shouldn't that go in the "LEGO City 2021 - Rumors, Speculation, and Discussion" thread - not yet existing, but wouldn't it make more sense?

In case it makes sense to speculate at all, because - wait, what did he say - "it is what it is" - but well - it becomes what it becomes. And we can speculate what we want, but TLG does what TLG wants.

Best
Thorsten

[The Island Chronicles]

1 hour ago, toopizza13 said:

first 2021 leak. new baseplates, 16 x 16 with printed tiles

*road baseplates

Perhaps you should announce that here. 

 

[Roebuck]

Hope the tractor set comes with at least one farm animal

[Bornin1980something]

On 9/7/2020 at 4:55 PM, MAB said:

I was watching my kids build houses over the past few weeks. They manage to build decent builds on 8 deep plates, with the front wall at the edge. So 7 studs interior deep. They find that is deep enough for play, enough to fit in beds, desks, tables, chairs, etc. They can easily get their hands in and out for play. Go much deeper than that and they tend to knock bits as they try to get things in and out. They seem to prefer higher shallow houses (with more floors) than lower and deeper (with fewer floors).

How do they get the bricks for their houses?