Some Unreleased LEGO Themes

[ticketstoloservile]

Hello fellow RRUers!

 

I have found some information about some unreleased LEGO themes that had interesting ideas. 

 

This theme was called Mafia Gangsters: 

This theme was intended to be in the Gangster era in the 1930s. Besides it's culture and bad history, this theme was cancelled in early production. 

 

This final unreleased theme was called Europa: (Really original)

This theme setting was in the 18th Century, featuring cannon-forts, towns, bridges and transportation. Possibility of including Witches, Bridge Trolls and also it is the time of Dracula. Alternatively the theme could include historically correct soldiers of the Scotch, Russian, Dutch armies etc. with ships, hot-air balloons and the like. This is also the colonial era. This theme was cancelled in late production.  

 

So yeah, let me know if this is quite interesting and have a great time reading this. Cheers. 

 

 

[lol username]

Ah yeah, I've seen these, fun stuff. 

 

Here's a higher res version of the gangsters image:

 

 

Also some misc other stuff:

 

 

There's also a bunch of castle and space prototype images that come to mind... I'd embed them all but meh, they've all been re-uploaded here:

 

http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/Prototype

 

Just browse around there, lotsa neat things.

[The Ace Railgun]

Oooh, this is one of those that I wish became an actual theme. I love the designs of some of those buildings and those trains.

[Ostoya]

I knew about Europa, but never heard of Gangsters. Holy cow this looks awesome. Must have been too awesome to release.

I'm digging these cars. And the boat looks unique too.

[Pranciblad]

It always amazes me how long Lego were kicking around the idea for Aquazone before it finally made it to shelves. I also noticed that those lattice column pieces got a lot more use in prototypes than actual sets.

[Zed]

I found these pages in one of Pereki's magazine scans a while ago. Not sure if all those cancelled pre-release designs can count as a theme/subtheme, but either way, they're pretty neat!

 

[aidenpons]

On 14/08/2016 at 11:55 AM, Terrev said:

There's also a bunch of castle and space prototype images that come to mind... I'd embed them all but meh, they've all been re-uploaded here:

 

http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/Prototype

 

Just browse around there, lotsa neat things.

If I may make a long post detailing what I found really interesting:

 

http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/File:8115-teal.jpg

TEAL parts? TEAL PARTS? Can I haz?

 

http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/File:SPIII_Prototype_II.jpg

This looks like it's the wrong way up

 

http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/File:7019_Prototype.jpg

Dragon? You call that a... dragon?

 

http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/File:Atlantis_Prototype_Minifigure3.png

is this guy on drugs

 

http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/File:Prototype_Jaller_Inika.png

That is a bleedingly large amount of red

 

http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/File:PrelimChimaCrocs.png

that makes Chima look even worse

 

 

I'm... really happy that these remained as prototypes.

 

 

Also, can someone explain why most of the prototype parts are in red?

[Arthuriel]

And finally we know the true story behind the following cartoon, because it is actually forgotten concept art, that shows us the REAL reason, why it was cancelled :

 

@aidenpons: You have forgotten to mention some other gems like the Creeper prototypes (which is even more hilarious, when you take into account, that the Minecraft Creeper is based on a botched up prototype for the pig, if I remember it correctly) or CYBOTS .

[Dazzgracefulmoon]

http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/File:Creepy.jpg here's probably the funniest prototype I've seen

[ticketstoloservile]

As I was looking for more unreleased LEGO stuff, I found this:                                       It's the same Snake Train from the Ninjago TV show. Just a quick reminder though, this was prototype set and it was cancelled in production. 

[Dazzgracefulmoon]

I can see why it was canceled. the engine itself looks pretty good but the cabs look ugly lol

[Fush]

INEEEDIT

 

Wonder if I can recreate it using existing bricks....

[The Ace Railgun]

On 8/27/2016 at 0:47 AM, TheSerwithedToa said:

Snake Train

 

 

 

On a serious note, Snake train looks great, I kinda wanna build one too.

 

[ticketstoloservile]

As for I was looking for some unreleased LEGO sets, I found this: 

It's a unreleased Geonisis Arena set from 2002. It was cancelled because the designers thought that "the set wouldn't sell well".

 

If you look closely, you'll see a prototype version of the Republic Swamp Speeder in the back. And if you look closely at bottom right corner, you'll see a early Clone Walker. 

[Dazzgracefulmoon]

somewhere in the same showcase you can see an early set for count dooku's space sail. pretty cool stuff

[emily]

Just came across this cool post on Eurobricks that explains what happened to the missing vehicle #13 from Power Miners.

[ursus]

Hi!

Is it possible to get real hi-res image of unreleased gangster sheme? 

The one available on imgur is not hi-res, at least here in 2017

[lol username]

It's the best we've got, sorry.

[TalonCard]

It's a shame that more prototype theme images haven't surfaced over the years. I'd love to see earlier incarnations of Adventurers and Pirates. I think someone said Mark Stafford used these in a presentation; I wonder if he could be persuaded to post more from the archives, given that much of it is over 30 years old at this point. (That being said, I see there are still some things slowly coming out of these prototypes--I doubt the machine guns we ultimately got are descended from the gangster theme, but the Europa wigs and highwaymen look pretty close to what we eventually got in the CMF line...)

 

TC