What's happening to LEGO modulars?
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- Опубликовано: 7 авг 2023
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A total of three different LEGO modular buildings are now scheduled to retire by the end of 2023, including a relatively recent addition to the line-up.
At the moment, five different LEGO modular buildings are available to buy online and in-store: 10255 Assembly Square, 10270 Bookshop, 10278 Police Station, 10297 Boutique Hotel and the newly-released 10312 Jazz Club. But by the end of this year, only two of those will remain - as the rest are currently all scheduled to leave production within the next 11 months.
According to Brick Fanatics’ sources, 10255 Assembly Square, 10270 Bookshop and 10278 Police Station are all heading for the exit in 2023. That’s a slight change from just a month ago, when only 10255 Assembly Square and 10270 Bookshop were on the chopping block. 10278 Police Station originally launched in January 2021, so will have lasted just under three years on shelves if it does retire by December 2023.
I think it would be interesting to see lego create modular ‘addons’ eg: a small park, an alleyway, or a kiosk and a small section of paving.
it kinda sucks if your a new lego fan that wants to start a lego modular city because it’ll be almost impossible with how a lot of them are retiring and never being able to get old modulars
to anyone who is in a similar boat as I was, if you want to add the Sanctum Sanctorum your modular city but feel like it doesnt fit super well, make it into the back half of the Boutique Hotel and dress it up as an active film set. The colors are close enough and a film crew and equipment is easy enough to make. Add a few heroes with masks off around the set, throw in some food trucks/the coffee cart (if you've got them) and traffic cones nearby and boom, its perfect.
I think that while the regular sets are good enough for a once a year release, it would be nice if they also released several small modular sets. Smaller buildings, little parks, things like that.
Lego is clearing running out of original building ideas for their modular series, considering Lego's latest offering is a "Jazz Club". A few offerings still not used would be a hardware store, Chinese restaurant/take out, coffee shop, or a bike shop. Especially since they need to keep the buildings smaller to reduce cost, large buildings such as a hospital would never happen.
Splitting a few modulars into half-size mini-modulars wouldn't be the worst thing in the world, you could pick and choose from the ones you like and create more variety in a display. The lower price would make the range more accessible for people who haven't quite gotten hooked on plastic crack yet.
Inflation is not as bad as corporations are making it out to be. Lego found out during covid they can charge people whatever they want and they will still get it. They wont decrease prices until sales on expensive sets are greatly reduced.
What we really need is stuff like the Pet Store or the Bookshop where it’s 2 separate buildings in 1 set, but, hear me out, because Modulars are so expensive, we need sets that come with 1 building in a 16x32 baseplate that would come around $100, I’d pay for those types of Modulars any day
The Modular series dragged me out of my dark ages and I was able to start collecting right from the beginning with Cafe Corner at its original price. I would hate for there to be any major change or shrinkflation made to the line.
Wouldn't it be nice to get proper hospital, kindergarten, shopping mall, natural history museum or something from everyday life. Or just an apartment building with an elevator and garage for tenants? 😂 I don't personally own any modular except home alone which is modular in a way and upside down which could be modular and I am glad I didn't go through that rabbit hole😅. Money is tight😐.
I’m hopeful the modular buildings remain the same standard as it has been since the first set of this line came out. I recently got both the police station and bookshop modulars and while the price for them was slightly hard to swallow their value and charm make up for the price. I just hope that next year we get something good for the modular line like another restaurant or something
Very informative update… I see many LEGO fans being on the edge of their sets for what’s next
if you lumped in the Sanctum Santorum, you should've included the Daily Bugle, which is modular and has the clips to snap in with other modular.
Last month , Lego store in Indonesia gave discount 30 % for buy 3 items ( Lego modular Jazz Club + Boutique Hotel + Police station ).
Couple of corrections - the only two sets that were built as separable halves are Pet Shop and Bookshop. Although all the earliest modulars come on two half-baseplates, only Market Street is separable, but the one half isn't a building, just a street with almost no detail on the side. Modular buildings are released on 1 Jan every year and are revealed sometime in December.
I'm not personally concerned about three modulars being retired at once. Last year they didn't retire any modulars, so this was bound to happen. A few years ago, the Parisian Restaurant stuck around, & the Detective's Office which was a year newer retired. Also that year, the Brick Bank retired, even though it was two years newer than the Parisian Restaurant, but back then these retiring websites didn't exist, & most people never got their hands on the Brick Bank at the last moment, because it literally appeared on Black Friday, & in most cases was gone from stores at the end of the day. I got it for 30% off msrp of $169.99, within a few weeks was already selling for $300. I don't anticipate the same incremental jump for the Police Station, because of websites like this announcing well in advance, but nonetheless it should still see a noticeable jump shortly after retirement.
I think Assembly Square stuck around for too long. Lego isn't going to do anything new with Modulars. They only release one a year. So, from that perspective if the only Lego you buy is Modulars you only buy one set a year. Lego can use this reasoning to in fact increase the price of Modulars. After all it was only $150 once a year. Now $200 once a year. Next only $250 once a year. Only $300 once a year... and so on.
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I do like the half building idea to make it a bit cheaper. I would have been happy just to get the bookshop on its own, if it made it more affordable. I have given up wishing for the really big sets - like Titanic etc. I just can't justify spending that much on Lego, and want to be a bit more selective with what I choose and how I spend my money. So am choosing to enjoy some of the smaller sets like the Tranquil Garden, the Star Wars Diahormas and even some of the Friends sets.
It will be insane if they DON’T do the Ghostbusters fire station and car this year for the new movie