Comments on: Comic-Con 2009 wrap up: LEGO themes that never were & exclusive set revealed

By: Ryan H.

Ryan H. — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:30:49 +0000

Does anyone have any pictures of the other unreleased theme slides?

By: BHHfilms

BHHfilms — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:17:05 +0000

Thanks for posting what’s inside that mysterious lego box from comic con!

By: Nolnet

Nolnet — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 06:37:25 +0000

@ thanel: If you don’t mind your cars being primary coloured, fabuland offers a wide variety of stuff… like these curved roofs :-)
http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=4086

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:31:36 +0000

^ You sir, may have a winner (though that’s not the direction we’d been heading for BrickCon ’10). :-D

By: legomason

legomason — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:23:54 +0000

I can see this being the next theme after Apocafest.

By: dover

dover — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:42:14 +0000

that barber shop reminds me of the cafe corner.

I’d like to see that scene recreated using sets that have actually existed since then.

shanghai chase, adventurers vehicles, western buildings, all look very similar

By: Jai

Jai — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:54:53 +0000

Is that a bonnet? Some of those headgear pieces (From the Prohibition slide) look really neat. Sigh. :)

By: skippy_magoo

skippy_magoo — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:25:23 +0000

a Lego speak-easy would be cool

By: Thanel

Thanel — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:16:22 +0000

@ kunert: hmm, that reminds me of something on my hit-list for blogging.

@ the . . . badger: One element that Mark pointed out that hasn’t completed come out in a later themes was the coupe type car cab. They had a curved cab piece developed just for the gangland theme, but was nixed when the theme was nixed. A similar cloth-top shows up in Shanghai Chase.

By: the enigma that is badger

the enigma that is badger — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:44:43 +0000

Thanks for the great Comic-Con wrap up! A future Brothers-Brick article on those System themes that weren’t to be would be amazing, if it’s at all possible.

As for the classic Prohibition/gangland theme, it’s interesting to note that LEGO eventually produced all of the elements that we’d associate with that genre via the Indy (fedora, suits) and Batman (firearm that resembles a Tommy Gun) lines. If anything, with all those parts available, something more loosely based on crime of the 20s that’s more age-appropriate, perhaps something based on the Dick Tracy model with a larger than life police detective and colorful, exotic villains, could be fun and similar to how LEGO approached action-adventuring spying with the Agents line. I LOVE what TLG did in terms of character design for Agents, and a slightly-less-then-hard-boiled detective facing off against some wild criminals could be fun.

By: legomason

legomason — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:32:39 +0000

Whoops.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/40926962@N04/3766942364

By: legomason

legomason — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:31:36 +0000

I've enhanced this. Lots of interesting details.

By: kunert

kunert — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:09:15 +0000

Bathtub gin LEGO would rule!

By: Cassidy Arch

Cassidy Arch — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:34:13 +0000

I was at Comic-Con, and saw the Brickjournal presentation. The slides of never released themes were REALLY cool. Do you have a shot of that early undersea theme? It was all done in Blacktron I colors. And they had those big quarter dome space station windows in opaque black. Crazy stuff!

I’d love some scanned instruction for that exclusive set. Anyone know where I can get some?

By: Tananavalley

Tananavalley — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:26:54 +0000

I don’t think so. I could see a theme around the twenties and thirties, but prohibition? I think Mark was having some fun because if not now I understand why TLG was going into the crapper.