No, it definitely wasn't generated by an AI.

AI can't even generate human hands — not to mention complex 1500-pieces LEGO models 

Something did happen to this image tho, but I think it's real.

Man I genuinely don't like that speculation has come to this... Seeing if an image is actually computer generated or not, using something as dangerous as AI for "fun".
Having said that, this image does look tempered with, but not generated, in my opinion.

I mean, technically, you could train an algorithm to create LEGO models. But that requires feeding it with a TON of data and defining which pieces can and cannot be connected in what ways. This is incredibly complex, even if you just use 2x4 bricks, let alone brackets, slopes, wedges, axles and so on. 

And even if you have all that, you need to somehow map that to a prompt, which is a whole other issue

So yeah, that can be ruled out. My guess is someone took a really crappy picture at the toy fair in Nuremberg and used an AI tool to smooth it out, leading to the patchwork we‘re seeing here

34 minuti fa, BrickBob Studpants ha detto:

Quindi sì, questo può essere escluso. La mia ipotesi è che qualcuno abbia scattato una foto davvero schifosa alla fiera dei giocattoli di Norimberga e abbia usato uno strumento di intelligenza artificiale per lisciarla, portando al patchwork che stiamo vedendo qui

As far as we know the set has been ready for sale for a year, the fair ended yesterday and it should still be out in two months: is it possible that they have brought a model to an embryonic state???

I swear the conspiracies get more surreal each passing day.

48 minutes ago, PGBQW said:

I swear the conspiracies get more surreal each passing day.

What's gonna be next? Aliens fabricating LEGO leaks to study the minds of adult LEGO enthusiasts? 

I just saw the picture and yeah, parts of it do look AI generated, which at first made me think someone prompted one of those AI to extend the original set. 

But looking at it more closely, there is actual detail in there, especially round the idol, some with fairly modern pieces, and I can't find any peoples MOCs featuring those. There's also the white figures in this set, and the characters final design seemingly not being ready to be there yet, so they just put them on a card to the side.

In conclusion, this is real, but whosever phone took this picture, had some crappy AI sharpening software that ruined it.

As to my thoughts on the set, more disappointment, but I think I'll hold off to further judgment until we get better pictures, considering just how bad this one is.    

Edited February 6, 20232 yr by Alegrispa

Whatever it is, it's not the final model. It's either a prototype that someone has put through an AI for some bizarre reason. Or it's a MOC that has been through an AI. Or it's all just AI generated with lots of prompts of what to include. I suspect that if you put the leaked description through an AI and added one or two extra bits (person behind, figures on a card, white figures in the set), then you could get this image.

Either way, it's not very different to what I imagined it would be with the description. And there is no decent detail that you can accurately believe. 

Also, it's definitely not aliens. It's interdimensional beings that have generated it...

2 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

My guess is someone took a really crappy picture at the toy fair in Nuremberg and used an AI tool to smooth it out, leading to the patchwork we‘re seeing here

Oh- I should really start reading some of y'alls thoughts before rushing in and sharing my own.

Yeah, I'm going with "blurry leak with bad AI sharpening" as my hypothesis, but all I know for sure is that staring at that leak gave me the heebie-jeebies.

I'm honestly not too fussed over it. Assuming it is real, it's clearly a prototype model (like the 2018 Great Hall at NYTF, but potentially even earlier in production than that was), and the picture quality is too disturbingly inconsistent to make out significant detail.

Boulder looks small tho :(

5 minutes ago, Retro Brick Reviews said:

Boulder looks small tho :(

Totally. It would be an easy fix at with my own pieces, but I really shouldn't have to fix it in a €150+ set!

1 hour ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

What's gonna be next? Aliens fabricating LEGO leaks to study the minds of adult LEGO enthusiasts? 

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

I think it’s real but someone tried taking a panorama type shot and kinda botched it. But I’m really liking what I see here. 

Edited February 6, 20232 yr by RODDY

26 minutes ago, PGBQW said:

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

The movie you are referencing doesn't exist. (or, at least the final 1/3 of it doesn't. Maybe it got nuked and the fridge wasn't lead-lined? )

Anyway, I am leaning towards the AI-sharpened Toy-fair image out look on this mystery set.

31 minutes ago, Murdoch17 said:

The movie you are referencing doesn't exist. (or, at least the final 1/3 of it doesn't. Maybe it got nuked and the fridge wasn't lead-lined? )

...Wiped clean by the wrath of God.

1 hour ago, PGBQW said:

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

What's that? Some obscure novel or game?

IIRC, there are 3 indiana jones films, with a fourth slated for release this june that may or may not end up existing.

Not sure if it’s already been talked about, but there’s only one Indiana Jones set that I really want: the holy grail. Last Crusade is imo, easily the best one and I absolutely hate that lego has never released a set on the main part of that movie. Even now they chose to do the fighter plane over it. I’d love for them to do a diorama set for the last crusade where you have the 3 trials leading to the grail room. Hopefully we’ll see a set like that soon.

2 minutes ago, Nylock said:

I’d love for them to do a diorama set for the last crusade where you have the 3 trials leading to the grail room. Hopefully we’ll see a set like that soon.

I think it‘d be pretty tough to fit all of that into a single set! The three trials are all substantial structures in the movie with a corridor, a large pit, and then that bridge. I‘d rather just have the grail room

2 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

I think it‘d be pretty tough to fit all of that into a single set! The three trials are all substantial structures in the movie with a corridor, a large pit, and then that bridge. I‘d rather just have the grail room

Idk, that seems pretty boring. Just a room filled with a bunch of cups and some old dude hanging around? The trials would be a really cool set.

26 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

What's that? Some obscure novel or game?

IIRC, there are 3 indiana jones films, with a fourth slated for release this june that may or may not end up existing.

I'm all for ignoring Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, but you guys are tripping balls if you think it's worse than Temple of Doom.

As far as I'm aware, the franchise constitutes of: Raiders of the lost ark (pretty good), The last crusade (the best one by far) and the cartoons (true kino)

25 minutes ago, Nylock said:

Not sure if it’s already been talked about, but there’s only one Indiana Jones set that I really want: the holy grail. Last Crusade is imo, easily the best one and I absolutely hate that lego has never released a set on the main part of that movie. Even now they chose to do the fighter plane over it. I’d love for them to do a diorama set for the last crusade where you have the 3 trials leading to the grail room. Hopefully we’ll see a set like that soon.

Finally someone who truly understands fine cinema!

15 minutes ago, Alegrispa said:

Idk, that seems pretty boring. Just a room filled with a bunch of cups and some old dude hanging around?

They can give him a golf kart or something!

38 minutes ago, Nylock said:

Not sure if it’s already been talked about, but there’s only one Indiana Jones set that I really want: the holy grail. Last Crusade is imo, easily the best one and I absolutely hate that lego has never released a set on the main part of that movie. Even now they chose to do the fighter plane over it. I’d love for them to do a diorama set for the last crusade where you have the 3 trials leading to the grail room. Hopefully we’ll see a set like that soon.

If you look at the temple set for the Prince of Persia (7572)  there was a lot of speculation at the time that it was a hastily-reworked version of exactly what you’re suggesting.

The last time I checked, this was the LEGO Indy thread, not the „let‘s dunk on KotCS like it‘s 2008“ thread

34 minutes ago, Alegrispa said:

Idk, that seems pretty boring. Just a room filled with a bunch of cups and some old dude hanging around? The trials would be a really cool set.

You call Donovan agonizingly aging to death in seconds boring?  Include that as a play feature and voilà! That’s a cool 30-40$ set right there

13 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

You call Donovan agonizingly aging to death in seconds boring?  Include that as a play feature and voilà! That’s a cool 30-40$ set right there

Like Batman changing in the Batcave 

2 hours ago, williejm said:

If you look at the temple set for the Prince of Persia (7572)  there was a lot of speculation at the time that it was a hastily-reworked version of exactly what you’re suggesting.

Huh, I've never heard that before, but looking at it again, I can totally see it.  I've never seen the movie, so I don't know how accurate the traps and stuff are to the actual scenes, but it's kind of crazy how much stuff overlaps.  You've got the spinning saw wheel coming from the top, there's the lion heads on either side, and the gear mechanism visible on the ground.  It also would sort of line up time-wise (no pun intended), because if I remember right, Indy was rumored to be returning in 2010, but I distinctly remember seeing some stuff saying it was "placed on hold" as a theme (which, I guess technically that's correct, it just lasted almost fifteen years). 

2 hours ago, PGBQW said:

I'm all for ignoring Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, but you guys are tripping balls if you think it's worse than Temple of Doom.

So nice knowing someone shares this opinion. KOTCS for all its flaws, is still better than Temple of Doom. 

2 hours ago, williejm said:

If you look at the temple set for the Prince of Persia (7572)  there was a lot of speculation at the time that it was a hastily-reworked version of exactly what you’re suggesting.

I own this set and never really thought of that before. The first part does seem a bit similar.