Pre-production design

[Archosaurus]

Regarding the Vikings prototypes... While the added accessories are cool, the creatures themselves are the main issues. Compared to the final products, they are ugly!! They have no composition or fluency... Especially that very first Midgard Serpent... It's literally nothing but a tube of dinosaur torso parts. However, it is interesting to see that a couple of the protoypes had and ogre and a kraken instead of dragons. I wonder why LEGO decided to replace everything with dragons, and why the Fenris wolf was the only non-dragon creature that made the final cut?

[Bison]

Sorry to bring this back from the graveyard, but I e-mailed LEGO a year ago and they said that "all prototypes are kept in company control." So this means that all of the prototypes that LEGO ever made are all still made, so made there is a room of prototypes.

Edited May 13, 2014 by Bison

[Rick]

Sorry to bring this back from the graveyard, but I e-mailed LEGO a year ago and they said that "all prototypes are kept in company control." So this means that all of the prototypes that LEGO ever made are all still made, so made there is a room of prototypes.

I'm pretty sure it means that prototypes of sets or images of those prototypes are not or only rarely released publicly, not that all prototypes are still available in physical form. Most sets go through several rounds of prototyping, so it would not be feasible to store them all somewhere.

[mechamike]

For what I understood when having the opportunity to met set designers, most prototypes goes to the bin and gets recycled to new bricks.

Some sits for a while in the designers desk before they to eventually goes in the bin as well, When it comes to preliminary boxes I have no clue, but I never spotted any in the vault visitors are allowed into. But I guess they trash them to, no need of keeping them or the builds after taking pictures of them i guess.

[Dr Leg O Brick]

Wow, some great stuff on here. Credit goes to FBTB and jpog on Flickr for these pics of the figs:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/65451543@N04/5958816683/in/photostream/

Prototype Marvel figs

https://www.flickr.com/photos/fbtbnet/6866143335/in/photostream/

Prototype Hawkeye

https://www.flickr.com/photos/fbtbnet/6866140057/in/photostream/

Prototype Hulk and Loki

https://www.flickr.com/photos/fbtbnet/6866279475/in/photostream/

Black Widow, Iron Man, Thor

The sets are more or less the same, though on this:

http://www.forevergeek.com/wp-content/media/2012/02/avengers_captainamericasavengingcycle.jpg

The stickers are different and Cap's heads closer to the exclusive Barnes Cap.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/65451543@N04/5959378784/in/photostream/

DC fig Prototypes

Hope I've helped!

[just2good]

Interesting Reddit post with pictures and info on the new Fairground Mixer set prototype.

[danny316p]

Interesting Reddit post with pictures and info on the new Fairground Mixer set prototype.

The source for that information being Jamie Berard's appearance at BrickFair New England - I was there and able to get even more photos, including close-ups of his prototypes and photos of most of Jamie's slides. They're mixed in with the rest of my BFNE photos (his presentation was near the beginning of the event but I got more photos later on): https://www.flickr.c...57644658603741/

...presumably he's bringing the same goodies on his upcoming trip to BrickFete.

[Transparency for Effect]

Quite interesting, this calendar features a Halloween creation very similar to what would later be released as the 850487 Halloween Accessory Set:

[glendo]

prototype Modular Green Grocer on the Presentation. I think they used some of this for the Parisian Restaurant

[Master_Data]

prototype Modular Green Grocer on the Presentation. I think they used some of this for the Parisian Restaurant

I actually prefer the prototype to the finished product.

Edited June 29, 2014 by Master_Data

[CM4Sci]

I have a whole folder of preliminary photos but most of them have watermarks.

Here's one that doesn't, it's the preliminary Fortrex set from Nexo Knights!

[Vorkosigan]

I've seen some version of that before, the incredibly rough Merlok 2.0 sketch always cracks me up.

[PicnicBasketSam]

Ooh, I haven't seen that before! Time to go digging for more. Also, I find it funny that the designers' mockups for new pieces are EXACTLY what I used when I was building these sets in LDD before the 3/14 update.

[LegoRomania]

Here are some Chima concept arts:

http://images.bricki...danimalk001.jpg

http://cache.lego.co....r2=-1849499271

http://cache.lego.co...l.r2=1608665758

http://cache.lego.co....r2=-1074382387

http://cache.lego.co...l.r2=1820742400

http://cache.lego.co...l.r2=1220757970

http://cache.lego.co...l.r2=1208784259

http://cache.lego.co....r2=-1597619975

http://cache.lego.co...l.r2=-235876053

http://cache.lego.co...l.r2=1224027041

I think they look better than what we got.

Edited August 5, 2016 by LegoRomania

[xboxtravis7992]

On 11/5/2006 at 1:10 PM, Freddie said:

 

 

Sorry to necropost this thread, but that SW10 prototype is giving me a laugh (and a sincere wish it had also been actually produced just for that UNION PACIFIC print to be in Lego...). The SW10's were built not far from where I live too, and I have seen a few of them around; so it definitely is a strange sight to see it in Lego. The shocking thing is, I don't think this engine has ever been made in any modeling railroad scale in plastic... so Lego would have actually been the first had they released this!

[Ronan]

On 6/11/2006 at 3:25 AM, bdd said:

Vikings...

HP. I have others but they look the same as the real thing.

Spider-Man, much different than what we got.

Not really a prototype of a real set because the real set was never made.

Am I the only one that thinks that the prototype sets are better than what we got?

Is that longbottom Head an existing piece?

Also are images of preliminary homecoming sets avaiable?

[CCarmichael89]

On 1/20/2009 at 3:18 PM, Freddie said:

I posted some prototype trains a few pages back, but that's a while ago (and I've since cleared my attached files) so I'll re-post them. These are from the 80s, with a pair of prototype 9V trains, as well of two prototype 12V trains. Notice the use of parts that were never released, such as the nosepiece on the red loco, the 34 studs long baseplate for the car it's pulling, and the 1x3x5 doors on the brown crocodile locomotive.

<- This eventually became the legendary 4558 Euro Express aka. Metroliner.

These pictures were actually released on to LEGO's train site, as part of a interview with a train designer, and as such were available to the public!

Looks like the "Crocodile" locomotive might just see the light of day as Creator Expert set (now the 18+ range) 10277 if the following article is to be beleived:

https://www.promobricks.de/lego-eisenbahn-krokodil-10277/101499/

Apologies if this has already been discussed.

Edited June 1, 2020 by CCarmichael89

[leg]

Is this thread dead?

But here are the prototypes of 21168, 21169

https://brickipedia.fandom.com/wiki/File:Moobloom.png

https://brickipedia.fandom.com/wiki/File:Poglin.png

Edited March 25, 2022 by leg
Forgot the images

[Alexandrina]

Maybe it's just my PC, but those links aren't working for me