Earlier today, LEGO announced that no projects passed the LEGO Ideas Second 2017 Review Stage. LEGO gave a pretty thorough explanation of some of the criteria they look at to see if a project meets that requirement. One of the criteria listed was New (and confidential) products currently being developed internally. Hasan also talked about it a little more in the video below and at 2:20, he says something that’s censored out.
If a project, let’s call it “X,” is not approved in the review because it is too similar to a product that’s been developed internally, then naturually we wouldn’t be able to share that news with everyone that “X” has not been approved due to the giant (bleep) that’s coming out.
Hasan also says the censored words again at 2:29 as the camera zooms in a little. I don’t know about you but these are major hints at something that’s coming out soon. If you look at the projects that qualified for review, one of the projects is I Am Your Father which is the scene where Darth Vader reveals to Luke Skywalker that he is his father. Now going back to the video, to me it appears that Hasan says either “Bespin City” or “Bespin set” and it has been rumored that there is a D2C set (75222) that is reported to be the UCS Cloud City. Given that the project scene is from Cloud City, I would say that it matches up nicely.
Whether or not there is a Bespin set coming soon, I’m just doing my analysis and connecting the dots to what has been shown in the LEGO Ideas video and rumors that have been floating around. Again, this is just conjecture and should be taken with a grain of salt until officially announced by LEGO. What do you think are the censored word(s) that Hasan said in the video?
**The image above is the original Cloud City set from 2003.**
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I certainly hope you’re right! I’ve been waiting for another Cloud City set ever since 10123 sold out.
Hopefully we’ll get to have one
I dont know.. to me it sounds like (new) “Space Shuttle”. if you look very closely at max full screen obviously the first word consists of two syllables.. to me the second word doesnt “sound” (look like) “set”.. it takes him a little bit more to “swallow that one down”. before continuing in the sentence. It looks to me more like a “city” or “shuttle”.. but hey! If anyone has around some deaf person who can read from the lips – try that with him w/o telling him the possibilites and all is clear! 🙂
When you click in you tube on the settings icon and choose speed 0.5 or 0.25 of the original speed and look closely on his mouth, he definately pronounces 4 syllables.
Yes please.
I don’t doubt that a Cloud City set is coming this year, but I imagine in the case of the “I am your father” submission, the main reason for it not being chosen would be the fact that it’s based on a licensed intellectual property for which LEGO already has an active theme.
That’s certainly _a_ reason that it would have been turned down, but not necessarily the only one. In this case, it seems pretty obvious that they’re trying to distract people from the total lack of approved projects by throwing out a major teaser and get people focused on trying to figure out what he said when his lips mouth the words “Bespin playset”.
In my mind this is an intentional early leak of a UCS Bespin Set. He’s saying Bespin Set.
Definitely looks like he is saying “City”, but not cloud. What other cities are there? New York City? Gotham City?
Luke’s Diner is certainly in _a_ city, but it would never be recognizable in one of the Architecture cityscapes. Then there are two vehicles (not cities), a launch platform that’s probably a fair distance away from any cities (Safety First!), and something that’s representative more of an entire country. Forgot that the possibilities are limited to the six projects that just got rejected?
And he said “Bespin playset”.
What do the rejected projects have to do with my previous comment?
I agree it looks like playset rather than city, but not Bespin.
He’s talking about _why_ a project was rejected. Hence, whatever he’s talking about has to be related to a project that was rejected. There’s nothing Batman-related, so Gotham is out. There’s nothing New York-related, so that’s out as well. There was something Bespin-related, and “Bespin playset” appears to match his lip movements.
Yes, there is a hair’s-width chance that he’s talking about any previously rejected project, but it makes more sense that they’d be dropping a hint related to a project in that review session.
Well, if you want to take it that way. I took it to mean that “x” really was a fake set but that the bleep was just hinting at a future project as Lego’s way of winking..
“Supreme playset”
Bespin. Playset.
CALLED IT!!!! Lol