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One of the sets leaked. Minifigures yall!

I feel conflicted about this set. At 60cm I just have no interest in the ship, it's too much space and I hate when there are minifigures but no way for them to inhabit the build or interact with it. At the same time, I really want the minifigures. I'm tempted to just wait and see if they do other sets down the line. I think the deciding factor for me will be the GWP. If it's a minifigure compatible shuttle (and actually looks good) then I'll buy the set to get the minifigures and GWP and then sell the main ship secondhand. Really I would prefer they do a line of midi scale ships and then minifigure playsets for the interiors and planets. I really don't like that they went UCS, but I guess it makes sense if this ends up being a one and done sort of franchise for Lego.

The new broom handle is used in Privet Drive for the downspout too, recolored to black.

Looking at Peter's apartment more, I'm noticing there's a black element on the roof that appears to be the balcony that can be attached over the front door for if you attach the apartment to the bodega.

I'm thinking there's an attachment that goes on the studs on either side to make it a balcony. I really like the builds for the Spider-man sets, but the minifigures are a bit of a mixed bag. The Goblins and Doc Ock are pretty amazing, I love how they turned out. MJ is pretty good, I'm wondering if her look is inspired by her appearance in the Spider Man 2 video game. Jameson and May are okay, but the torsos aren't great. I'm disappointed by the reuses for Spider-Gwen/Woman, Miles.

I love the Wario build. I really would like them to make brickbuilt versions of Mario, Luigi and Peach (I hate the digifigs).

I like the set overall, but it's a shame that the Fantasticar didn't make it in. My main criticism is Mr. Fantastic. Why not just use the Avatar legs, why go brickbuilt?

Fluffy just leaked, the new molds are surprising, i really expected them to at least reuse the head from the 2021 version, it's shocking to see a new head mold and a new body mould. And despite the new molds, there's still a brick built portion. It's like a weird combo of the first two versions. I definitely like this one the best of the three, they even managed to include a collar. This makes me really excited to see the rest of the tower. Edit: someone on reddit mentioned the mouths opening. Looking at the image closer, it does seem possible, but I can't tell for certain.

New Elementary dropped their review for the BATB castle and it included a designer interview. Belle's blue dress was cut for budget reasons, the wardrobe was originally designed to reveal her yellow dress.

It's so utterly bizarre for them to include a feature to store Belles dress, but not include a change of clothes. Side note, my new head canon is that the real reason the townies think Belle is so peculiar is because she's been caught hiding in random wardrobes lol. I'm holding out some hope that the blue dress will appear elsewhere. The new dress piece in the Shire set would be perfect for Belle's blue dress. Speaking of that new dress piece, I hope Lego gives us a new version of Alice using that piece (and in general just give us Alice in Wonderland sets), as well as Cinderella's peasant outfit. Come on Lego, make it happen.

There appears to be a new skirt piece in the Shire set, it's similar to the Disney skirt piece but a bit longer and falls down straighter. It would be great to see this recolored and used for the female Hogwarts uniform.

If you look at the side there's a window piece, so there's a hollow space at least 2 studs deep behind her.

I really like these sets. The new velociraptor mold is excellent and I can't wait to get more recolors of it so I can replace my JP raptors. The minifigure pieces are nice, a lot of variety in clothing and faces and a lot of printed shorts. I think i might be able to use the tan shorts to upgrade Muldoon. The builds are pretty good too. I'm glad that this lineup isn't just vehicles and not much else. They seem to have balanced out the theme better this go around.

The wardrobe is connected to a hinge so it can swing out the entire thing like a door. It's hiding something, it's just a matter of what.

When they released the Diagon Alley set a few years back they included a Harry variant that wasn't advertised on the box, so it's definitely something they've done before. Admittedly, it's a longshot, but I like to dream.