Level 9: The World Builds Anew - The Infinitely Modular Classical Temple Building Set (Strategic Re-Launch 2014)

Ultimately, it will have 7 main temple models in total, including three Greek models: The Oracle of Delphi representing Archaic Greece, The Parthenon of Athens representing Classical Greece, and the Halls of Olympus representing Mythological Greece. Plus three Roman models: The Forum of the Old Republic representing Early Rome, the Forum of Trajan representing Classical Rome, and the Pantheon of Rome representing the Imperial Age. Plus a model paying tribute to the Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment for the first time in an official Lego set. Wow, it's like Greco-Roman World never fell!

As a bonus, it is also very easy to add instructions to create smaller versions of each of the main temples, simply by truncating them neatly at a certain point behind the facade to create a partial version. This will be a benefit to builders who want a smaller structure that will fit neatly on a shelf, or one that fits more neatly into the grid of an existing Lego City layout. And naturally, by creating facade versions of various temples, or by creating partially-ruined versions of various temples, it means that you can build more of them at the same time with all the pieces included. Only the best is good enough!

The vibrant mosaic floor can also be rearranged to build and play seven authentic Ancient and Medieval games, including Mancala from Africa, Senet from Ancient Egypt, Pachesi from Ancient India, the game of Go from Ancient China and Japan, Backgammon from the Byzantine Empire, Patolli from the Aztecs, and Chess from Ancient Persia and Medieval Europe. Plus, if you're eagle-eyed, you'll see that all of the major civs in my sets have enough minifigs to play as one side of the Chess board, with a King, a Queen, two cultural figures as Bishops, two soldiers as Knights, and unique banners to mark the Rooks!

If you are daring, you can also build boards for The Royal Game of Ur from Mesopotamia, the game of Ludus Duodecim Scriptorum from Ancient Rome, and several Hnefatafl games from The Viking Age, even though the rules for them have been obscured in the mists of time... Will you be the one to solve the mystery? With seven full temples, seven partial temples, and more than seven games, this will be the Lego set with the most alternate models ever produced. You can imagine it will be an eye-popping set to display and sell at the Lego Stores at the mall as well as major Museum Gift Shops in the future!

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THE CREATOR'S NOTES:

You can see the Flickr slideshow of hi-res images and concept art for the whole series.

These sets have been in the making for 36 years now. In sum, this is the fruit of the input of over a hundred archaeologists, scientists, and historians from six continents, most of whom have 4-to-8-year-olds of their own now. And when they see this, all of them are all asking the exact same question... "Why hasn't Lego done this years ago?!"

All of the temples and all of the fortifications in my sets can come apart into neat modular sections, based on an 8x8 grid... And so they can all be rearranged in multiple ways, they can all be expanded and redesigned easily, and they can all be connected together for maximum modular possibilities! There is also great potential to do expansion sets with additional wall segments for each unique civ.

If sets like this are a success, it could lead to many new things. For starters, I know that there is tremendous potential to sell beautiful and educational sets like these in major museum gift shops around the world, as they already do with the Architecture Theme, which would boost Lego's overall brand awareness and reputation with parents from all over the world.

For the future, they could easily branch out into sets for the Aztecs, the Mayans, Africa, India, China and Japan. And it could be expanded into the Medieval, Renaissance, Napoleonic, Steampunk, Modern, and Futuristic Eras. Plus it could inspire them to add more historical details and more educational value into Castle, Pirates, and Indiana Jones-style Adventurers sets. Will it be as popular as Batman, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Ninjago, Chima, Zelda, or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? Only one way to find out...! If they make a few new prints, they can keep using them again and again for the next 10,000 years...! Let's do this! =D

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