Predictions about 2013-2014 sets

[Pynedor]

The saddest part about the lighthouse is that it would have been really easy for them to make the tower cylinder infinitely attachable... 

That's true, and it would have made that set really great, but the lighthouse is a bit small for a tower. When you mentioned that, I was envisioning a larger one (or at least a wider one so more than one figure can stand in it).

[Baron Marshall]

but for a toy... just having enough room for one figure and a lighthouse taller than the boat would have been nice 

[Pynedor]

but for a toy... just having enough room for one figure and a lighthouse taller than the boat would have been nice 

That's true, but the tower in the Lion Knights castle is bigger (and better) than the lighthouse in that regard already. But it isn't separable either.

[Rasputin]

i would not have cared if the light house was the same height but as long as your could take it apart to make it taller by adding two or three or 6 to make it a  larger diameter with larger floor space. even better if it fit other building systems and even better if it fit both. get those engineers to work for their salaries damn it

[Pynedor]

i would not have cared if the light house was the same height but as long as your could take it apart to make it taller by adding two or three or 6 to make it a  larger diameter with larger floor space. even better if it fit other building systems and even better if it fit both. get those engineers to work for their salaries damn it

Unfortunately, I think that with some of the newer designs the customisation potential has been severely curved by the lack of building flexibility. Like you say, there is no way to really attach anything to anything other than what it is "supposed" to be attached to. Even the new castles have angled parts and such that only really seem to work with the other parts in that specific set.

For the lighthouse in particular, it seems that the little island it is on and the extension to the side are essential to its design. I wish that I could "predict" that more flexible designs would be released in the future, but I think the trend seems to be moving away from this. The Steck system and earlier System X sets seem to have been much better in this regard. It's unfortunate that it seems everything must be made "simpler", "cheaper", and "more efficiently" nowadays, though when doing so a bit of the genuineness of it all is lost.

 

[Bolingbroke]

Aren't 3665-like cylicindrical  steck structures fit for your purposes?

[Baron Marshall]

The cylinder steck would work fine for the most part... but there is a certain derth of 4-way connectors that make it hard to build a realistic lighthouse... and a lighthouse would probably need a different tower top too   but yeah, they could have made a steck lighthouse and we wouldn't even be having this discussion... probably just another one about how they should make steck pieces in a smooth non-stone or wood variety for modern building and/or marble... hm... you know what... they should do that 

[Rasputin]

Unfortunately, I think that with some of the newer designs the customisation potential has been severely curved by the lack of building flexibility. Like you say, there is no way to really attach anything to anything other than what it is "supposed" to be attached to. Even the new castles have angled parts and such that only really seem to work with the other parts in that specific set.

For the lighthouse in particular, it seems that the little island it is on and the extension to the side are essential to its design. I wish that I could "predict" that more flexible designs would be released in the future, but I think the trend seems to be moving away from this. The Steck system and earlier System X sets seem to have been much better in this regard. It's unfortunate that it seems everything must be made "simpler", "cheaper", and "more efficiently" nowadays, though when doing so a bit of the genuineness of it all is lost.

 

Go apply for a job at geobra, please

The cylinder steck would work fine for the most part... but there is a certain derth of 4-way connectors that make it hard to build a realistic lighthouse... and a lighthouse would probably need a different tower top too   but yeah, they could have made a steck lighthouse and we wouldn't even be having this discussion... probably just another one about how they should make steck pieces in a smooth non-stone or wood variety for modern building and/or marble... hm... you know what... they should do that 

Yes we would but its all from love of the steck system, like in the old Geobra philosophy, it all fits together in one system 

[Pynedor]

Aren't 3665-like cylicindrical  steck structures fit for your purposes?

Those tower pieces do seem nice, but Steck is harder to get now. I'd like to have some newer and more available designs that are as good as these older ones. Of course, they could just re-release some of the older sets or parts too.

Go apply for a job at geobra, please   

'Tis not a bad idea. Thanks.

[Toni]

I would love to see more Romans, especially civilians. Ancient Greeks would be brilliant too (I'm into Classical history!), especially the Trojan Horse, some Spartans, and perhaps Greek/Roman gods and goddesses and figures from myths. Phoebus Apollo in his chariot of the sun would be awesome, and Medusa with snakes for hair would be a great idea for a Fi?ure. Maybe Norse gods too - Odin and his raven, Thor and his thunderbolts.