With the popularity of LEGO Modular sets with the LEGO Creator Detective’s Office (10246) becoming the latest set released this year, LEGO has announced that they are bringing back some of the more popular Modular sets including Cafe Corner (10182) and the Green Grocer (10185) with a new theme/subtheme called Revival. This weekend at LEGO Stores and Shop@Home, they’ll be selling the sets for a limited time for VIP members. The only catch is there’s no word on what the pricing for the two sets will be. Hopefully, they’ll be the same as before but considering inflation since they sets were first released, I bet they’ll be slightly higher than before.
It was also stated that LEGO is planning to release more Modular sets in the future. There’s no mentioning of which sets will be coming but for now, at least we don’t have to resort to BrickLinking parts to recreate them. Check out the full press release below as well as an image of the sets.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
LEGO Reintroducing Retired Modular Building Sets With New Theme Called Modular Revival
BILLUND, DENMARK (April 1, 2015) – For many LEGO fans, the 10185 Café Corner and 10182 Green Grocer were some of our most popular sets in the LEGO Modular Building series. For the newer LEGO fans who may have missed out on them, we’re now bringing these sets back, for a limited time, the same way that they were released in 2007 and 2008, respectively. This reintroduction of the sets will also bring a brand new theme called Revival.
To celebrate the return of 10185 Café Corner and 10182 Green Grocer, we are having a special LEGO VIP shopping event that will be one that you won’t forget! This weekend, April 3-5, we are making these two sets available in limited quantities on LEGO Brand Stores and on LEGO Shop@Home. We also have another surprise waiting for you during the checkout process but you’ll have to see what that is for yourself.
We’re aiming to roll out more retired LEGO Modular Buildings in the near future. If you tune into our social media pages in the coming months, expect to see sneak peeks, and hear our LEGO designers reintroduce these sets again in a brand new format.
Modular Revival is just getting started, so you can expect a few things to change over the coming months as we plan to roll out these exclusive sets and who knows, maybe you’ll see other themes be implemented into the Revival series.
We have a lot more to show you.
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So cool! It would be more cool if they added interior detail to the cafe corner. I can’t wait to find out what the 2016 modular will be, do you have any word os rumors about it yet?
April fool! This must be a Joke
april fools.
I really hope it’s a joke so I don’t squander another $300 this weekend on lego… then again, I secretly wish it’s not a joke so I can complete my modular collection…..
Argh, it’s a joke, snif…
This is the funniest thing I’ve heard in a while.
And the collective Brick Link community has a heart attack…
While
reading this I was thinking, well this changes my schedule today. I might
have to battle the crowds this morning (the Lego Store at Downtown Disney is 15min
from me) and go pick up a couple of these. RETIRED MODULARS! I’ll
thought I was just gonna go buy a few today! LOL!!!!!!
Now that the joke has worn off – can anyone tell me why Lego wouldn’t do something like this? Have they stated somewhere that all sets are limited runs or something? I mean, why not? Unless you possess a CC or a GG (which is the vast majority of Lego customers) you’d be thrilled. TLG are too smart to not have considered this. I would love to know their reasons for not doing it.
I would guess that it’s all about capacity, tooling, and priorities. That includes all of the logistics from the raw materials (plastics) to the storage and everything else. To be clear, these are just guesses on my part based on what I’ve read and seen about the Lego factories and their general manufacturing. I think this is part of the reason why they retire sets in general – they can’t keep the molds on the production line forever.
I see it as them getting the sets to most of the people who wanted/will want them. A new enjoyable modular will have more buyers than one from years ago. As much as I dislike collector prices, these provide the service of making almost all of LEGO’s sets ever made available to anyone who really wants them. LEGO can’t cost-effectively keep producing these.
Very true. I’d rather see Lego create new sets. IMHO, the last three (restaurant, detective and bank) have had the best detail to them (interior included), and I want to see more like them. I currently have TWO base plates open in my small Lego city for the next two NEW modulars.
I don’t know, why LEGO wouldn’t do something like this, but I wrote an E-mail to LEGO Costumer service months ago (about bringing back Green Grocer), and they told me:
“We appreciate your comments, so I’ll be passing your interest in the Green Grocer on to the design team. You never know, some of the old treasures might make a comeback!”
they prefer to focus on super high demanded sets like Chima, Ninjago….. right?
I really hoped this was true. But bringing back old sets (specially modulars) might actually make sense financially for Lego. I’m sure there’ll be a lot of demand for it and of course it will screw over all the resellers out there.
Why does this have to be a JOKE!? Why don’t LEGO actually do this!
Every true fan of LEGO immediately noticed that this press release can’t be from TLG. The Setnumbers for CC and GG have been switched 😉
Yes, like the 6285, it was became 10040.
ooooh, you got me. I was so excited :((
April 1. – Oh nooooooooo 🙁
Even though this is a joke, I suspect that Lego could make a lot of money if they did this. What is stopping them from re-releasing old sets?
April Fool’s Day jokes are lame.
Agrre.
How about a 10179 UCS Millenium Falcon revival? I guess we’ll have to wait until April 1, 2016 for that.
Heavy lobbying by resellers, which now make up 83% of all Lego sales, is preventing this from happening.
83%? Do you have data to back that up or? That does not sound possible.
That’s a stupid comment. #1. Prove the 83% isn’t a number that you just pulled out of your anal regions. If 83% of all buyers are resellers then who are we reselling to? Each other? #2. I make my living selling LEGO and I would LOVE to see the Green Grocer return. So would other resellers that I know. #3. Just like when the retro T-Bird was introduced in 2002, it did nothing but cause excitement around the original 1955. Reintroducing the Green Grocer would spur interest in the original run and do nothing but help raise their value.
Yeah, LEGO was really considering this until the value-added resellers sent a lobbyist to LEGO HQ and showed them the error of their ways (and a wad of cash).
Oh I got suckered this morning… so bad I had to blog it. lol
I quickly cleared payment for my credit card for this and realized that this news is probably fake. I DON’T FIND IT FUNNY since I deeply trust news release by thebrickfan will come as accurate and true as it should be but for the first time I got myself paying off all the card debts getting ready to grab both CC and GG to add into my sets, and eventually finding that this would be an APRIL FOOL joke. This really upset me a lot!! I STRONLY SUGGEST to remove the post right away!
But I find it very funny, i mean you clearing credit card payment, lol.
I think YOU’RE funny Lego Fan 1201!!! Cheesy bogus April fools attempts abound on the internet. THAT’S what’s not funny, clogging up the news for no good reason. Jokes so lame you don’t even crack a smile. Everyone knows what the date is. Yet the goal is to make something up, and just for a minute make people believe it’s true. And in this case, like they won the lottery, like those fake scratch off ticket gags. So this post receives a perfect score in the world of April Fool’s jokes. But in the world of Lego, this joke is epic (I wince at using that term, but here it’s appropriate). Excellent job indeed Allen T. You’re now forgiven for misspelling Lego yesterday.
And Lego Fan 1201 – you were “clearing payment” and “paying off all your card debts” getting ready to grab what? A CC and GG at maybe $400 retail (per this joke)? Wow.
The rule is, distrust any news/whatever you read on April 1. Yeah, it means a few legitimate things won’t be taken seriously, but it’s the safest policy.
Sickest April fool ever! Lol Would be great if it was true though
Wtf man! Screw u!
How about bringing back just one old set every year. Make people vote just like in the LEGO IDEAS platform. And at the end of each year the set with more votes makes a limited edition comeback.
There’s no actual joke here, plus at least for me it read “Posted on March 31, 2015” at the top of the post. If there’s no joke, and it’s not April 1st, it’s just a lie. Poor form 🙁
You guys suck! I really did think this was real. I wanted to be green grocer last summer but couldn’t justify $750. You’re not a LEGO fan but rather an asshole!
I thought that this post was real and I actually thought that I had the chance to buy some new modulars. When I discovered that this was a joke at first I was relieved because I didn’t have to spend my money and then I laughed, because this was a really funny. I think that this was a really great joke and its hard to fool people on this day and you did!
It’s all about trying to make you buy them as soon as they come out.
I’ve spoken to many lego employees including Jamie Berard and they all say lego wouldn’t do a rerelease on any old set anymore.
And why would they want to lego is all about building and if you want an old set you could always build it from scratch using bricklink and pick a brick and buying and breaking down sets hence why they put the dark blue arches in the winter village market. All of which end up lining Legos pockets….
I hope that the sets will not be rereleased.
If so, then lego can rerelease every set.
There is just a small group of fans who wants the rerelease of sets 10182, 10185 and 10190, but lego focus on a mutch mutch mutch bigger group of fans.
Also, it cost lego a lot of money, to make the malls, for the rare lego parts.
Like said, i hope that lego will not rerelease the sets, because that will be at cost of new sets.
If people really really want the sets, then they can order the parts on internet.
Hey, if poeple can buy two sets, then they can buy with that money the parts :p
It’s September and I’ve been Brick-Rolled. I was so excited that I didn’t even finish the article, and went straight to the Lego Store ready to buy. Those are the set’s I always wanted but couldn’t afford to buy at the time. When I realized it was a trick, my heart was crushed. Not cool guys,
The problem with internet is that it’s not only on the date of release people find the fora.
So I am fairly upset to find out in September that I got taking the pi** by an article written on March 31. I’d like those Building sets and would like to have them.
Add me to that list in December. It’s almost 2016 and I was googling to find the sets after reading the headline…
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I was just fooled and was dreaming they would actually rerelease more in 2016. It’s March 21, 2016.
https://shop.lego.com/it-IT/Millennium-Falcon-75192
Maybe with the Taj Mahal being re-released they will actually do this.