Bricknblue Posted February 3, 2015 Posted February 3, 2015 Yep, And road plates too. The pictures of the Town Square from the toy show look nice, because Lego has the set sitting on a mat with roads and tram rails drawn onto it. You take that away, and I suspect the set is going to look very empty and disjointed. It's a bunch of little structures and vehicles with nothing to hold them together. Lego really needs new road plates with different layouts. Something like the early town plates. Road plates will never ever be made with sets again, the last sets with baseplates were police and fire stations and now even they are gone. But they can't make road plates and act like City is Town, they aren't the same. Town had some sense of size, City is just whatever size LEGO wants to make a truck. I love the snowplow, but it's MASSIVE and barely fit on a plate. Quote
lightningtiger Posted February 3, 2015 Posted February 3, 2015 Road plates will never ever be made with sets again, the last sets with baseplates were police and fire stations and now even they are gone. But they can't make road plates and act like City is Town, they aren't the same. Town had some sense of size, City is just whatever size LEGO wants to make a truck. I love the snowplow, but it's MASSIVE and barely fit on a plate. I guess it was save on the cost of producing sets by not to including road plates of some sort. Quote
BrickJagger Posted February 3, 2015 Posted February 3, 2015 (edited) I personally think that the new diver sets are great, an added bonus is the homage to the old sets using the red color scheme and the insane amounts of undersea animals. Does 70095 set a record for most sharks in a single set? I'll probably buy all of them except the helicopter, as it looks to generic to me and it doesn't really fit the pattern the rest of the sets are following. Space isn't as good, they look to <insert that tiresome argument> to me. I'll probably just get the starter set for the astronauts. Edited February 3, 2015 by BrickJagger Quote
Retroshift Posted February 3, 2015 Posted February 3, 2015 If the Lego Company will continue to increase its set prices and keep the set variation limited, I'm afraid people will soon buy themselves a 3D-printer and mold their own bricks... Price is everything for the average toy customer. Quote
Joebot Posted February 3, 2015 Posted February 3, 2015 I guess it was save on the cost of producing sets by not to including road plates of some sort. I suppose so. I'd love to pose that question to Lego and see what the official story there is. Other than the modular buildings, does any Lego set come with baseplates anymore?? I can't think of anything else off the top of my head. Quote
tedbeard Posted February 3, 2015 Posted February 3, 2015 ... you end up with either either heaps of curves or four way intersections that you find very few uses for ! I have little use for curves but I LOVE the four-way intersections. I use two-plate sidewalks so the intersections can be anything: 4-way, T-junction or straight (with or without a parking spot/bus stop). Quote
Bricknblue Posted February 3, 2015 Posted February 3, 2015 If the Lego Company will continue to increase its set prices and keep the set variation limited, I'm afraid people will soon buy themselves a 3D-printer and mold their own bricks... Price is everything for the average toy customer. LEGO will have that issue in about 10-20 years when 3D printing is so easy and cheap. They can't continue selling 250 piece City sets for like $40-$50USD (Nevermind Euro tax). I got all the latest Aqua Raider sets for half off (Besides the base) and they are all better than this wave. 7774 is one of the best looking subs LEGO has made. I was hoping for something like that, or the Agents sub. Heck set 7776 is the perfect example of what the new sets should be. Nice sub, a shipwreck, some divers. Quote
Vorkosigan Posted February 3, 2015 Posted February 3, 2015 I don't know that 3D printing will ever be that easy. Think of all the spools of wire you'd need for the colors, or some kind of sophisticated process to dye the plastic as its injected. Without a revolutionary technology leap I don't think printing a real set will be cheap or simple enough for anybody but the most die hard hobbyists. Quote
m0dulo Posted February 3, 2015 Posted February 3, 2015 (edited) I don't know that 3D printing will ever be that easy. Think of all the spools of wire you'd need for the colors, or some kind of sophisticated process to dye the plastic as its injected. Without a revolutionary technology leap I don't think printing a real set will be cheap or simple enough for anybody but the most die hard hobbyists. I deal with 3D printing / rapid prototyping for work from time to time. I think LEGO clutch precision is farther out than a lot of other types of products, but it is coming. Actually, it is already here for some applications: LEGO search on thingiverse.com There will continue to be leaps. Less than ten years ago a printer was the size of a large refrigerator and cost as much as a car. Now you can put something better on your desk for under $500. There are even spools of conductive material — yes, you can actually print circuitry on these same machines. Higher end machines can already print in multiple colors. Just think of the music industry. Anyone with a laptop can use software that costs as much as what an hour used to cost in a six-figure studio. Many products are already being sold and distributed the way music is now, a file. Edited February 3, 2015 by m0dulo Quote
lightningtiger Posted February 4, 2015 Posted February 4, 2015 Just remember even with the advances in technology people still want to do things old school........point to note is music.......lots of people have iPod's and still lots of people have record players and tape decks. So Lego shouldn't be worried about 3-D printers......heck, they might use them in the prototyping of new parts. I also wonder if Lego is going to release a large scale city set either once a year or every two years......if so are they going to get even larger ? Quote
Vorkosigan Posted February 4, 2015 Posted February 4, 2015 Modulo I get the leaps that technology has made. I have experience with 3D printing and running a CNC. While 3D printing is great for hobbyists and engineering, I think it is a long long way from being competitive with buying a set off the shelf. You know the old joke "If cars had developed like computers we could buy a $25 car that got 1000 miles to the gallon"? I think 3D printers are closer to cars than computers, because the hard aspects are more of a materials problem than an electronic or software one. More people will own 3D printers, but just like people don't regularly print their own books just because they have a laser printer, average consumers won't be printing full LEGO sets any time soon. Quote
Bricknblue Posted February 4, 2015 Posted February 4, 2015 Just remember even with the advances in technology people still want to do things old school........point to note is music.......lots of people have iPod's and still lots of people have record players and tape decks. So Lego shouldn't be worried about 3-D printers......heck, they might use them in the prototyping of new parts. It's well known that LEGO use them for new parts. But LEGO should be worried. If the same amount of people who listen to music on a record player are the same as buy LEGO then LEGO would go broke in a week. Quote
m0dulo Posted February 4, 2015 Posted February 4, 2015 While 3D printing is great for hobbyists and engineering, I think it is a long long way from being competitive with buying a set off the shelf. I agree. It won't be soon. I think LEGO quality is a huge bar to reach. Quote
LegoSjaak Posted February 4, 2015 Posted February 4, 2015 It's well known that LEGO use them for new parts. But LEGO should be worried. If the same amount of people who listen to music on a record player are the same as buy LEGO then LEGO would go broke in a week. Vinyl is getting more popular every day here in Holland...... Quote
Rick Posted February 4, 2015 Author Posted February 4, 2015 While the discussion about 3D printing is interesting, it's not really a subject that should be discussed in this thread. See these threads for more information about the subject. Quote
XAxles Posted February 4, 2015 Posted February 4, 2015 You're right, Rick. Now onto shark news... Quote
Vorkosigan Posted February 4, 2015 Posted February 4, 2015 I'm glad to see sea animals in every divers set, but I was kinda hoping for a return of the manta ray from 6442. One thing I would've liked to see in the arctic sets is more polar bears, or penguins for the small sets. Quote
Joebot Posted February 4, 2015 Posted February 4, 2015 I'm glad to see sea animals in every divers set, but I was kinda hoping for a return of the manta ray from 6442. One thing I would've liked to see in the arctic sets is more polar bears, or penguins for the small sets. Penguins don't live in the Arctic. They live in the Antarctic. That being said, I agree with the sentiment. I'd love a mini-fig scale penguin. Lego has made Duplo penguins and of course the cutsey little Friends penguin. Something in between those two would be great. I need some more animals for my zoo. Quote
Bricknblue Posted February 4, 2015 Posted February 4, 2015 I like the cute ones from the Friends line. Just repaint them a little better and you have a System penguin. Quote
Roebuck Posted February 5, 2015 Posted February 5, 2015 Penguins don't live in the Arctic. They live in the Antarctic. That being said, I agree with the sentiment. I'd love a mini-fig scale penguin. Lego has made Duplo penguins and of course the cutsey little Friends penguin. Something in between those two would be great. I need some more animals for my zoo. I agree and you are right, but if LEGO would give us a real treat, they could have included moulded reindeer in the sets! They live in the Arctic :) I like the cute ones from the Friends line. Just repaint them a little better and you have a System penguin. I am a hopeless painter so I will just wait and hope LEGO make a system penguin Quote
TheNerdyOne_ Posted February 6, 2015 Posted February 6, 2015 Penguins don't live in the Arctic. They live in the Antarctic. That being said, I agree with the sentiment. I'd love a mini-fig scale penguin. Lego has made Duplo penguins and of course the cutsey little Friends penguin. Something in between those two would be great. I need some more animals for my zoo. I really hope that LEGO continues these exploration-themed sets, and that we eventually get a Safari line. We could at least get Zebras out of it, and maybe they bring back the old Elephant molds as well. A new big cat mold would fit right in as well. Quote
Boettner Builds Posted February 6, 2015 Posted February 6, 2015 Man a safari line would be so frackin cool!!!! Quote
Robert8 Posted February 6, 2015 Posted February 6, 2015 A safari theme would be cool, but the term "safari" could be controversial because is related to hunting Quote
jonwil Posted February 6, 2015 Posted February 6, 2015 (edited) I suspect any safari or zoo type sets that get made will end up in Duplo, see http://brickset.com/sets/theme-Duplo/subtheme-Zoo Oh and LEGO have used the term Safari before in set names (including one of the aformentioned Duplo items). Edited February 6, 2015 by jonwil Quote
SMC Posted February 6, 2015 Posted February 6, 2015 Safari would be very cool and something afol have wanted for a long time. My zoo is looking a little light at the moment. Quote
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