David Mužík Excellent suggestion-- that was on our list too!

John T Great suggestions!  I think we could accommodate most of those ideas, with the possible exception of the color-changing lights inside the cabins.  The limitation there is that the color-changing lights on the market make "white" by turning on all colors, which makes a cool white light that, in our view, looks artificial.  That's why we use warm white lights-- these look much more natural.

This is turning into a great list of ideas-- thank you again for sharing!

Kris Petersen Hi Kris, yes we have been finalizing design on a new controller that will allow people to play back music through their treehouse and have the lights respond to the music.  We're also working on some ways to turn the treehouse into a night light with timer, as this has been a request from some customers.  We're still ramping back up to full speed after the Covid-19 quarantines here in Minnesota, but I hope to have more details to share soon!

Kris Petersen Hi Kris, thanks for your note.  My plan is to have looping sounds, like crickets and wind, so you could use the treehouse like a noise machine.  Also have the ability to add your own music, then have the lights in the treetops react to the music.  And of course the ability to control the lights using our remote.  In general, much more functionality than you'll find with any other kit.

Hi everyone!  Long time no update, but I wanted to share some progress and to get your feedback on an idea.  Since we first set out to make a light kit for the treehouse, I always dreamed about having lights in the tree canopy that would pulse and flash, like fireflies.  Recently I've found a new type of color-changing light that can be controlled to set color and brightness for each individual light.  This is a bit like the color-changing light strings that we sell today, but the difference is that each individual LED light color and brightness can be set.  It's a big advance over what we sell today, and as soon as I received samples of the new lights, I thought about using them for the treehouse.

Here's a quick video demonstration to show the lights in action-- this is just a test program I wrote, so the pattern you're seeing isn't the final pattern.  In fact we will be able to do anything with the colors, even synchronize them to your music.  Let me know what you think!

Rob Klingberg My main question is: would people be ok with this setup if the wires were visible when room lighting was on.  Here's what the lights look like with the room lights on:

The wires are thin and very flexible, much more so than on the other light strings we sell.  I'm also talking with the manufacturer about getting the wires in brown and green to match the canopy options in the LEGO set, so this might reduce the visibility of the wires.

let me know what you think.  Thanks as always for taking an active part in helping us design the best light and sound kits available anywhere!

Kris Petersen Thanks Kris!  We were able to get strings with both green and brown wires, so they look much better in the leaves (depending on which color leaves you decide to mount).  More pictures to come soon!

Jeremy Kemp Hi Jeremy, thanks for checking in on this kit.  Yes, the past 17 months have been a bit of a nightmare from an electronic components standpoint because of Covid and supply shortages that continue even until today.  This is impacting every industry that uses an electronic part-- we're small potatoes compared to companies like KIA and Apple, but even these large companies have been challenged.

We've used the time to work on our next generation of controllers, and we're about 90% complete with these.  Once ready, they will power this kit and all of our future kits, so it's a huge step forward for us.  We are planning a major release push for the end of 2021 with these new parts, which will have capabilities not available in any other kit.  This is the main reason for the delay on this and several other kits (Star Destroyer, Ghostbusters firehouse, Haunted House, etc.)-- maybe more detail than you needed :-) but I wanted to communicate that we're still working every day to get these kits to market so people can see what's possible with light and sound on these beautiful LEGO kits.

So, long story short, we're still very focused on this kit and the others we've been discussing on the forum, but we're just needed a couple more months to get the foundational parts ready and in-hand so we can open pre-orders.  I do plan to publish more information here when we have news to share.

Hopefully this helps with your decision regarding kits-- sorry I can't give any more specific details at present, but if you have specific questions, please ask!

Thank you.

Jeremy Kemp Thank you Jeremy for your understanding.  No idea yet on price but we will likely have a "basic" kit and then add-ons people can buy later, along with a "mega" SKU that includes all options and a discount.  Stay tuned.

Kris Petersen Yes, we're finally starting to be able to order the electronic parts we need to make this kit.  It has been a very long wait-- the lead-times on parts orders have been 54 weeks or longer until recently.  We have parts on order and are working on the new generation of controllers that will power kits like these-- hoping to have them ready for pre-order by late spring of this year.

Sharon Thank you for your note and for your interest in this kit!  It is on our list for 2022-- we're working hard to finish up this and several other kits we know people have been waiting for for a long time.  I hope to have more details to share soon!

Kris Petersen Hi Kris!  Thank you for your message and for keeping after us on this kit.  2022 continued to be challenging with electronic parts still in short supply, but the good news is that I think we're close to having the next generation of controllers ready for our kits.  The treehouse will use that controller, so the downside is that we can't resume work on it until we have the final design.  Hoping to have the controllers finished by February, and then fingers crossed that 2023 will finally be the year we can release this and so many other kits our fans have been so patient waiting for.

Thank you again for your message, and happy holidays!