2. Japanese/Anime – Could be licensed properties like Totoro and Domo, places around Japan like Shibuya station, or more generic like a Japanese garden.

3. Fairytale – Yes, I know Belville had a few Fairy-Tale sets, but let’s be serious. Little Red Riding Hood, Humpty Dumpty, Hansel and Gretel, The Three Little Pigs, etc. would be great sets that would make great companions to the Kingdoms line.

2. Something involving ghosts haunting different kind of houses and situations. Secret walls and attics, graveyards. But lots of variations on types of ghosts, lots of transparent elements and mechanisms. Ghosts and monsters as a fun and mischevious force rather than evil beings that need to be defeated by ‘Heroes’.

3. Storylines that veer away from Heroes vs Villains; remember the imaginitive potential of children. Lego has always been an incredible facilitator for creative thought and is far more capable of ideas beyond licensed products… AFOLs and kids will find ways to make their own versions of those characters they love anyway.

A return to a more generic yellow lego head. The whole success of those little heads is that they are blank symbols; you project your character onto those yourself regardless of what is printed there.

As a white person I’ve always had no difficulty in seeing legomen as race-less figures, but I’d like to know how other races perceive legomen. is there much discussion of this online?

My first suggestion would be a different approach to a Town theme: produce modular buildings (shops, houses etc) that fit either one or two per side of a straight road 32×32 baseplate providing an affordable way for children to build up a town of their own. With the buildings having one or two floors that would allow for four sizes of building and therefore four price points, with a one floor, quarter plate building being priced at the level of a bit of saved up pocket money. In addition there could be plenty of simple low price vehicles with a minifigure – perhaps inspired by the original Town theme vehicles.

Suggestion number two would be a Formula One (and/or any other racing circuit) theme with Scalextric style tracks, pit lane buildings and grandstands. The cars would have play value in their own right but would be taken to a new level with a powered track. I am not however proposing that this be a licenced theme, just generic racing cars; I think Lego should use licensed properties sparingly.

For the record I would support:
The Retro Furture City- LOVE!
The abandoned prohibition theme
Fairy Tales (I want to see a gingerbread house and Rapunzel’s tower)
Steampunk would great but may be too AFOL directed.

#1: UCS Homeworld Lego. That is all.

#2: Micro (or Midi) scale space line, sets would consist of one-two ships, and a minifig (or minifigs) of the captain of that ship (or ships). Largest sets would also have the bridge crew. overarching theme would be exploration/discovering alien species. No gimmicks.

#3: Minifig scale mecha, westen style, ala’ Mechwarrior. No gimmicks, just solid, well built sets with a great minifigure.

Oh, and when I say gimmicks, I mean flickfires, firing missiles, light bricks, sound bricks, air pumps tubes, game rules, “Really floats!!!”, and the like.

2. Robotech/Macross (see #1).

3. American history.

1. Greek Myth – like clash of the titans/ sinbad / arganauts
2. Scooby Doo
3. Doctor who

A great way to expand on say the Castle theme with something new, and could be a great army builder packs as well. And LEGO is really into games these days.

Whatever theme they try out, I’d like to see them launch it with the hope of keeping it around for more than just one or two years, providing it sells well. Any theme that runs out of steam or “interesting things to add” after one year probably wasn’t a good idea to begin with.

It wouldn’t hurt for LEGO to give us a list of between 5 and 12 possible theme ideas and let us vote. Everyone has an idea for a theme, it’s a discussion that merit repeating every now and then, but I think it would be more manageble if there we could choose from some predetermined options.

Route 66;

Classis 50s/60s cars, Googie Gas Stations, Diner, Motel, Drive In Movie, Speed Shop, Recording Studio/Radio Station, Honky Tonk/Sock Hop, Small Town Grocery, Motorcycle Customizer, Motorcycle Cop behind a billboard, Teardrop Trailer, Ice Cream Stand, “Desert Soulviniers” shop

2) Halloween

3) Marvel Comics (after Batman and Spiderman of DC Comics!)

:-))

Mercenary theme of world mabey a future world war 3 or nucular wars.