From time to time, I’ve seen Fascinations / Metal Earth ask on their various social medias for suggestions for models, and I’ve seen a lot of good ideas. But I wonder how much interest there is in each idea / genre. So I thought that – seeing as I now have a blog – I could try gathering answers to that question on my own. Of course if I make it open-ended, it would end up with the same results: everyone adding their own ideas, ideas being duplicated, and not much of a view into the level of interest in any specific ideas. So I decided to put together a list of models / model genres in a cheeky sort of way. I’ve tried to capture as many of the most common items I’ve seen suggested (or suggested myself). Apologies if I haven’t covered your top-interest items in the list.

I may even share the results of this poll with the little birdie I know on the inside (or they may see it on their own). Who knows, maybe it might help some of the underdogs get considered. Keep in mind, though, that when it comes to making a model a reality, licensing can be the biggest obstacle, so even if there’s a huge amount of support for an idea, if the owner of the source material is not open to licensing it, then it’s not going to happen.

What Metal Earth / ICONX models do you want to see in the future? (pick up to 10) Can we get some more Star Trek models? Reboot the line and bring us a Voyager, DS9 or Discovery!

You can't take the sky from me. I wanna build the Serenity.

Robots! I want robots! Johnny Five, Wall-E. The robot from Lost In Space (old or new).

Bring that Terminator model over from Piececool! I want an ICONX Terminator model

DRAGONS! MOAR DRAGONS!

Why did they only do Black Panther? We need more full-body Marvel characters!

I've got Cap's Shield and Mjolnir. How's about making a Stormbreaker, or Hawkeye's Bow, or an Infinity Gauntlet, or Star Lord's blasters, or ...

You know, Star Wars has TV series, too, right? Let's see some models from The Mandalorian, Clone Wars, or Rebels!

The helmets are cool, but what I'd really like is some full-body Star Wars characters. You know which ones!

I need a Hogwarts Castle to go with my Hagrid's Hut and Weasley Burrow!

Metal Earth needs to go to Middle Earth, please!

Cool it with all that pop-culture and sci-fi, we need more real-world architecture models! How about something from South America or Africa?

Falcon 9! James Webb Telescope! Gimme more real-world space exploration stuff, please!

Take me on a deep dive in history, I want to see some medieval siege weapons and stuff like that.

I love the bird models! How about some more animals, like maybe a tiger?

You sunk my battleship, cause I need a bigger fleet. Let's see more naval vessels, like an ICONX submarine!

Gimme more old school planes, like a Tri-Wing or something

No, I want modern planes, maybe one with VTOL capabilities or something cool like that

ICONX Tanks. 'Nuff said.

Let's put it in overdrive and crank out a Corvette, Tesla Roadster, or other modern cars!

I like the new colored version of the Model T. Can we get more classic models revisited with color?

Not to get too gender-stereotypey, but there are female builders, too! Let's get some roses, cottages, carriages, maybe even a dollhouse theme?

My band needs more instruments! How about some horns? VoteResults

And just in case you are worried, I’m not going to use this information for anything nefarious. I’m just curious about the spread of interest in the community.

UPDATE (Nov 12, 2019): Well, we’ve got 73 votes so far! Makes me really want either 2 or 27 more votes. haha. Anyways, I enjoy visualizing data sometimes, and also experimenting with my JavaScript skills, so I’ve thrown together this Voting Visualization Page that attempts to give a visual representation of how the voting ebbed and flowed with respects to the rankings of the responses. Oddly, for the animation, it turned out better to have the winner at the bottom of the list, so that’s kinda weird, but that’s what it is. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work off live data, so I just have to update the results every once in a while. But since things have slowed down, that shouldn’t be an issue.