Next theme??

[Tary Allen]

Yes, pretty sure it is a revamp of the old themes, new vics and trads most likely, with open plans, I would love smaller logs also. 

 

[Love Zhaoying]

Perhaps they will re-theme old LH regions 1 at a time, as they are found to be "unoccupied" (all LH homes in the region abandoned).

 

[DemeraraGirl]

My guess is that old themes will be updated, which I would love. I'm in hope for open plans for Traditionals. The option to repaint walls and change the wood of baseboard and trim would be great too.

[Fay Starlight]

Not sure I want an open floorplan? I guess it will be a boon for add-on creators though! 

I would prefer all new houses for the older themes, or 2048 prims on the older themes, lol.

Would be a big improvement in the trads to get rid of the roll blinds and replace with the in the glass blinds like the newer themes....

 

[Lyric Demina]

2 hours ago, Fay Starlight said:

 

I would prefer all new houses for the older themes, or 2048 prims on the older themes, lol.

Would be a big improvement in the trads to get rid of the roll blinds and replace with the in the glass blinds like the newer themes....

 

me too and me too and me too!  yes please

2048s with campers, oh the beautiful possibilities ❤️

[PJBear Bitey]

So, Back to the Future, set in 1950s & 1980s.

This is what they imaged a home of the future would look like, in the 1950s (the round glass one).

Actual home of the 1950s (ranch style home). 

1980s home of the future (the third one).

Actual home of the 1980s (multistory home). 

But, yeah, it's probably remodeling of Traditionals &/or Victorians.

 

Edited October 16, 2022 by PJBear

[Nika Talaj]

Number 3, per favore.

[Cinnamon Mistwood]

No, number 1, alsjeblieft!!!

[Hedy Heartsong]

On 10/14/2022 at 8:24 PM, AzureWaves said:

This is a huge clue!

Seventeen-year-old Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time from October 26, 1985, to November 5, 1955, in a time machine.

Theme drop on October 26.

Or between Oct 26 and Nov 5th.  Can't ever nail Linden's down on a date

[Hedy Heartsong]

On 10/15/2022 at 10:32 AM, Fay Starlight said:

Not sure I want an open floorplan? I guess it will be a boon for add-on creators though! 

I would prefer all new houses for the older themes, or 2048 prims on the older themes, lol.

Would be a big improvement in the trads to get rid of the roll blinds and replace with the in the glass blinds like the newer themes....

 

New floor plans for older themes yes!  

[Raspberry Crystal]

Maybe it is just a Halloween picture.

[Frigga Freidman]

3 hours ago, Raspberry Crystal said:

Maybe it is just a Halloween picture.

He has put it in his Linden Homes album though.

[Evangeline Arcadia]

I don't think the image is referring to a new theme, I think it's perhaps something like the unveiling of the new community regions (which you can see up in the SSP areas on the map), or other additions or updates. I would love to see another theme though before the end of the year. Maybe we'll see something at the Christmas Expo.

[Raspberry Crystal]

14 hours ago, Frigga Freidman said:

He has put it in his Linden Homes album though.

I had a look through that album, and it is mixed in the content, with some seasonal images which simply feature LH content rather than being actual teasers.

[Paulsian]

21 hours ago, Evangeline Arcadia said:

I don't think the image is referring to a new theme, I think it's perhaps something like the unveiling of the new community regions (which you can see up in the SSP areas on the map), or other additions or updates. I would love to see another theme though before the end of the year. Maybe we'll see something at the Christmas Expo.

Mole Hill Valley? 

[Paulsian]

place No.	1885	1955	1985	Alternate 1985	2015
1	Hill Valley Courthouse and Clock Tower (under construction)	Hill Valley Courthouse	Department of Social Services	Biff Tannen's Pleasure Paradise Casino & Hotel The Biff Tannen Museum	Hill Valley Courthouse Mall
2	Nothing	Town Theater (showing "The Atomic Kid")	Town Theater (as the Assembly of Christ Church)	Biffco Toxic Waste Reclamation Plant	Hill Valley Museum of Art A Bellman Retrospective
3	Nothing	Holt's Diner	Elmo's Rib Cafe	(part of Biffco)	(part of the Hill Valley Museum)
4	Honest Joe Statler's Fine Horses (in different location — this spot actually empty)	Statler Studebaker	Statler Toyota	PIG Mart	Pontiac Sales and Hover Conversions
5	Nothing	Ruth's Frock Shop	Goodwill Industries	Tanya Exotic Sex Goddess	Hyatas All Natural Earth-Grown Fruits
6	Nothing	Jacobson & Field Attorneys at Law	Loans	Bad Rap Bail Bonds	Simulex
7	Building under construction	Western Auto Stores	Empty Store (displaying Re-Elect Mayor Goldie Wilson signage)	Bondage	Hill Valley Gifts / The Hydroponic Gardner
8	Wells Fargo & Co	Bluebird Motel	Al's Tattoo Art (out of business, for sale)	Video Nude Hardcore Movies Pawn Shop	Sight Sound and Mind
9	Nothing	Elite Barber Shop	Empty Store (Sign on window saying "We Moved to Twin Pines Mall")	Bangkok Sauna & Asian Massage	Mr. Perfect All-Natural Steroids
10	Nothing	Hill Valley Stationers	Cupid's Adult Book Store	Hell Hole XXX	Eclipse — Contemporary & Traditional Lighting Store
11	Nothing	Zale's Jewelers	Abrams Brokerage Corporation	Hardcore X	Pizza Hut
12	Unknown	J.D. Armstrong Realty	Loans	Peeparama	True Blues
13	Unknown	Ask Mr. Foster Travel Service	Ask Mr. Foster Travel Service	Naughty and Naked	Uniglobe Travel
14	Marshal's Office	Bank of America	Bank of America	Naughty XXX	Hill Valley Transit bus stop (Second floor advertising Goldie Wilson Hover Conversions and Major League Baseball World Series Sports-Flash news on a holographic billboard sign)
15	Palace Saloon (setting before Lou's Cafe)	Lou's Cafe	Lou's Fitness Aerobics Center (originally Lou's Cafe in 1955)	War Zone Bar	Cafe 80's (originally Lou's Cafe in 1955 and Lou's Fitness Center in 1985)
16	Barber shop	Roy's Record Store	The Third Eye	Time to Shoot Photo Store	Blast From The Past Antique Store
17	Docs Blacksmith shop (different building)	Texaco full-service station	Texaco gas station/food mart	(area cluttered with piles of junk furniture and other garbage)	7-Eleven (first floor) and Texaco automated Havoline station (second floor)
18	Unknown	Hal's Bike Shop	Hog Heaven	French Fantasies	The Bot Shoppe
19	Livery and Feed Stable	Lawrence Building	Broadway Florist	French Fantasies	Hill Valley Surrogate Parenting Center
20	Building under construction	Essex Theater (as a mainstream movie house showing Cattle Queen of Montana)	Essex Theater (as an adult movie house showing Orgy, American Style XXX)	Hill Valley Theater of Live Sex Acts	Holomax Theater (Now showing) Jaws 19 "this time its really really personal"
21	Hill Valley Telegraph	Building with Sherwin-Williams Paint billboard sign	Building with Sherwin-Williams Paint billboard sign	Toxic Waste Reclamation Plant	Unknown (office building displaying Skyway Information)
22	Nothing	Lyon Estates (under development)	Lyon Estates (middle-class neighborhood)	Lyon Estates (rough neighborhood)	Lyon Estates Parkland
23	Empty land near Shonash Ravine	Farmland near Clayton Ravine	Hilldale, a new housing development near Clayton/Eastwood Ravine with 1980s-style homes and described as being a rather affluent part of Hill Valley	Unknown	Hilldale, now a rough neighborhood
24	Hill Valley School (in different building than later schools)	Hill Valley High School	Hill Valley High School	Remains of Hill Valley High School (burned down in 1979)	Hill Valley High School
25	Unknown	Gaynor's Hideaway Bar	Gaynor's Hideaway Bar	Dee Dee's Delight Bar	Fusion Bar
26	McFly Farm	Twin Pines Ranch	Twin Pines Mall (Lone Pine Mall upon return from the timeline of events Marty McFly created in 1955)	Lone Pine Mall	Unknown
27	Nothing	Brown Mansion	Doc Brown's garage/Burger King	Doc Brown's garage	Unknown

[Paulsian]

[Paulsian]

Could just be a halloween costume. 

[Marianne Little]

The largest Traditional house is the size of the smallest Newbrooke house? I know many want small houses, but the mix of Newbrooke's small and large houses in the mailboxes is very good. It reduces the need to buy add-ons.

"Need"? Well yes, I needed it. It was good for those who makes a business of selling add-ons too. The downside is having to use land impact on add-ons.

It would be fun to have some new models to try out. And it could go both ways. Many said the Log homes is too big. Themes with only 4 options could get more models added to them.

I think it would create a new interest in the older themes.

But I do not have much hope, it would be too much to ask for. Open plan houses, and options to tint walls, is probably what we get - anything more will shock me.

[Paulsian]

Larger camper parcels would be cool too. 

[Lydia Amethyst]

9 hours ago, Marianne Little said:

The largest Traditional house is the size of the smallest Newbrooke house? I know many want small houses, but the mix of Newbrooke's small and large houses in the mailboxes is very good. It reduces the need to buy add-ons.

"Need"? Well yes, I needed it. It was good for those who makes a business of selling add-ons too. The downside is having to use land impact on add-ons.

It would be fun to have some new models to try out. And it could go both ways. Many said the Log homes is too big. Themes with only 4 options could get more models added to them.

I think it would create a new interest in the older themes.

But I do not have much hope, it would be too much to ask for. Open plan houses, and options to tint walls, is probably what we get - anything more will shock me.

I want smaller houses so I can actually fill it and use decent furniture to make it look nice, personally. So I would love a revisit to traditionals as mine is in a pristine spot and I refuse to move.
Fingers crossed for a couple new houses to go with it, since all the following themes past victorian got way more than we did!

[Nika Talaj]

Quote

Second Life’s VP of Product, Grumpity Linden, and VP of Product Operations, Patch Linden will be live on Lab Gab on Friday, October 21st at 10am PT. They will make a few announcements about upcoming features and will also take some time to answer any questions from the community. 

[Nika Talaj]

So I listened to the Lab Gab ... there was an interruption to the stream, which resumed on a new URL.  The LH segment starts around 5:40 on this URL.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jZrWrU6f

Patch spoke of LH time frames in relative terms, so as to avoid people being disappointed if a specific day isn't hit.  There will be improvements to existing homes starting "almost immediately", with more to follow before the end of the year.  The only improvement he specifically mentioned was new floor plans.  To me, the flickr pic he posted was about new Traditional and Vic community regions, which might be the immediate improvements he mentioned.  Then new floorplans will show up, and either before or after that it sounds like there would be other features that were mentioned in other interviews, like 'my colors', before the end of the year.

Patch stated that Premium Plus ranch homes are on track for release right after the existing home improvements.  That puts them RIGHT at the end of the year (at the earliest) or at the start of 2023.   Patch did not mention anything about when they would be introduced, but if they are targeted for release January-ish, an introduction at the Christmas Expo seems quite likely.  [BTW, by "ranch homes" I assume Patch means 1950's/60's ranch style homes in suburban settings, not 'home on the range' decor].

So improvements to existing homes will roll out incrementally between now and the end of the year.  Personally, it seems to me that there are 3 different types of development that could roll out separately.  But this is my own way of thinking about them.

• New community regions for Traditionals and Vics
• New floorplans in older theme parcel controllers
• New features in home control panels, like 'my colors', but Patch did not share anything about those in this interview.

 Patch DID say there will be 'more themes', but said nothing about how many or when.

There was a lot of news about cool stuff like puppetry, new avatars, inworld mirrors, and a 'data store' (news to me!), I'm looking forward to Inara Pey's writeup.

Edited October 21, 2022 by Nika Talaj

[Tary Allen]

I was listening too, some great news there, besides the new floor plans for old themes, new themes (although I didn't catch if the new would be only for P+, but hopefully not).

P+ homes I understood that would be out by early 2023, but I guess we will have a sneak peak around Christmas time 

[Trinity Blakewell]

I'm just glad to hear the the project is going to continue and there will be new themes (in addition to PP) as well as improvements to existing themes.