Earlier this morning, LEGO announced the re-release of the LEGO Creator Taj Mahal (10256) that will be coming in a few short weeks. I believe this is the fifth “re-release” set that has been announced in the past few years with the Carousel (10257), Winter Toy Shop (10249), UCS Death Star (75159) and the UCS Millennium Falcon (75192) being the first couple. This looks to be a continuing trend that LEGO is doing and it might not be a bad thing. Newer fans are now able to purchase it again, at a slightly higher retail price, but at least it won’t that scarce anymore. This might also be a move to detract resellers since LEGO sets are supposed to be built and not be a form of currency. For example, since the announcement of the new LEGO Star Wars UCS Millennium Falcon (75192), the price of a sealed copy of the original Falcon has dropped considerably on the secondary market.
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LEGO fans have been asking for re-releases of retired sets for a long time and we know that LEGO has been listening. Even LEGO designer Jamie Berard stated it in the Taj Mahal teaser video. Heck, I even did an April Fool’s joke back in 2015 about it. The wheels may have been churning for a while now and it seems that now is a great time for old sets to make a comeback keeping in mind that it’s almost been been a decade since the original set came out. The 10179 UCS Millennium Falcon was also released ten years ago.
Could this mean something to look forward to in the future or is it just a mere coincidence? If LEGO is indeed re-releasing retired sets, which set(s) are you hoping to see make a return to store shelves?
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They should re-release UCS Millennium Falcon!
Oh, wait…
So long as the Taj Mahal sells well, why wouldn’t they?
I’m totally fine with Lego re-releasing old sets as part of a “vintage” theme or something, to compartmentalize it. I can’t stand the absurd resale markets and the lack of access to many sets as collector items, so messing with people who treat Lego as an economic tool is good for me.
At the same time, with Lego’s slight economic downturn, it makes sense to release old sets that they already have all the resources and development into to the market again. It’s a low cost strategy to build profit off sets that have already proven to be desirable and sold very well.
Personally, I’d be more interested in Lego re-vamping old sets using modern technique and rules to provide a slightly upgraded or different take on an old set. It’s totally understandable why Lego went with this solution though, and I support it.
so like they’ve been doing with sets like the millennium falcon basically
I love what they’re doing with the Millennium Falcon (well, aside from failing to make enough of them for the release), but have they done that with anything else at this point?
Revamping popular sets for re-release seems like a win-win for LEGO and their fans. The only one who looses is anyone in the resale market purely for profit, and even there, if LEGO actually updates the set on re-release (as they did with the Millennium Falcon) the original is still something special. It’s just not the only option out there if you want the experience of actually building the set yourself (rather than staring at it on the shelf in a collection — not that there’s anything wrong with that either).
UCS models of the X-Wing, Snowspeeder, and the Death Star play set. Most of the small SW vehicles have seen at least one complete redesign at this point. Hogwarts, Hogwarts Express and the Knight Bus all have at least two variants. Bionicle had a line called All-Stars where they took various sets from the entire run and made new versions of them using completely redesigned parts.
They tried that once with the Legends line, and failed.
Plus we also got the winter village toyshop re released as well. I’d love to see Cafe Corner, Green Grocer, and Market Street but that seems very unlikely to me even with this new development.
Green Grocer for me! This is the only modular i don’t have :/
Looks like sets that are 10 years old are the ones to look at! The Green Grocer would be an immensely popular reboot!
They could even do what they did with the Faclon and add an interior.
They could even do what they did with the Falcon and add an interior.
There are many sets and themes that I wish to see return someday.
Classic Space, Western, Forestmen, all these were from before my time.
In the meantime, I’ll continue to work on Project Crono (Time Cruisers Reimagined) for LEGO Ideas.
I want a re release of the trade federation Mtt
Tie crawler
Mars mission
Yes! That would rock! I missed those sets when they were out, but they were really neat!
Lego city harbour
The Black Pearl and Queen Anne’s revenge
I agree. As for other sets, I would like to see Darth Vaders Star Destroyer and the Death Star II from Return of the Jedi.
Pirates of the caribbean sets are having a tough licence, it won’t happen.
But old pirate line can be refreshed, like as it was in the 2000’s with same sets.
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An emerald train would be great.
A reboot of Power Miners would be on my Must Have list!
LEGO should do this at least annually. I’m hoping for the earliest modulars, especially Market Street and Cafe Corner!
LEGO will not re-release mods. That does not stop them from making similar type buildings. However they will not re-release the mods, this comment was coming from one of LEGO’s chief designers. Now, never say never I know, but I fail to see why re-releasing two sets that are far inferior to the new sets coming out would make any sense to LEGO, especially when many of the parts made for those sets are no longer produced by LEGO. Could they do these with substitutions? Sure, but then that defeats the purpose of making a re-release of a set IMO.
The irony being it sounds like Cafe Corner is now seen as an unfinished model, and Market Street wasn’t all that popular even back when it was released (though some may have held their tongues to various degrees out of respect for the fan designer who passed away before it made it to release).
The Carousel is NOT a re-release. It is a separate model that shares part of a name with a previous model, not unlike what LEGO does with much of their themes. IMO No one should be surprised by LEGO releasing the DS and UCS MF again because LEGO already has re-released multiple sets multiple times. Really only the Toy Shop and the Taj Mahal are really re-releases that are surprising and the rumors of the Toy Shop being put back out was more necessity than wanting to do it (in that the developers did not have a model ready for Winter Village and fell back to the toy shop), so that leaves the Taj Mahal as really the only set to be put back out there that is surprising, and does not really show this is a trend at all IMO.
Good on them.
The only sector of their buyers that will complain are the speculators, and as every speculator knows – speculation is gambling.
Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.
Hope they re-release Cafe Corner (10182) and the Green Grocer (10185)