Clone OPatra

This thread is locked until I can clean out the political discussion that doesn't belong. Doesn't matter that it's adjacent to a Marvel movie, and tangentially to a figure in a LEGO set. It doesn't belong here on Eurobricks. Back open for business. anyone carrying on further political discussion is on notice and will have a timeout.

Yes Series 26 has large codes so far in Europe and the US. Australia got exclusively small codes for Series 25.

I hope the larger, useful codes make their way to Australia this time. It will be interesting to see if people still find a mix of large and small codes elsewhere as these start to pop up. Our releases down under have been a month later ever since 2020.

I'm definitely most curious to see the style and system of the Great Hall, and what's included, though it's too expensive for me. Also looking forward to seeing the new potions parts, and I wish they take a stab at overhauling the design of Snape, who is just getting overdone at this point and needs a shakeup. I really like elements of the 2007 one with the printed hair strands and sinister look. While I don't care much for ships, I'm curious to see the scale of both the Durmstrang Ship and the Beauxbatons Carriage, and to see the new/redone Minifigures in that one. Everything else, not too jazzed about, but it's always fun poring over new HP set pictures when they come out.

I explained already. See quoted post above.

The black headwrap doesn't show up as the newest. It's back a bit, and out of stock last I checked, but it hadn't been there before at all from what I remember.

I see the black headwrap from the Orient Express has shown up! Still no sign of the hat-hair from "Pippin" though.

Pics of the gorilla and red panda parts are out! They all look pretty great. Of course it would be nicer if LEGO could develop a system to give larger animals more articulation, but it's good that the adult gorilla's arms can move at least, and the overall walking pose is more dynamic than a sitting one would have been. The red panda is adorable.

They do have an internally consistent thought process behind it. When it's representing a baby, like here and the blue one from Series 24 (reused in a set), it has eye gleam and the more cartoony mouth. In the GWP, the idea was to use the baby mould not as a baby but as a micro version of the figures, hence the classic smile print.

Oh I've seen the leaflet pic but couldn't tell there were screwheads. That would make sense.

Like for a lot of people it seems, this series isn't really doing it for me. I suppose it's better than a costume series for instance and I like seeing zany and different ideas (like the UFO head guy, the robot chef, Orion) - but most of them just don't appeal to me personally. I do like the Alien Tourist, and the M-Tron and Ice Planet ones are pretty good, though I think M-Tron needs a little something red on the arms to balance with the detailed legs. Of course I'd like the pink space baby too, but there's nothing else about that figure that I like. They could've at least done a new colour for that bottle, which has still only ever been available in light aqua! Why does the Human Imposter have odd little toe printing? Seems like an unnecessary print.

Category A - Pirate Crew Piranauts and Imperatrons by Ross Fisher The Heterogeneous by Barbarbrick Space Pirates and Space Armada by the Inventor Category B - Sailing the river of time King Kahuka's Surface Hopper by kritch Renegade Voidrunner by The Librarian Space Armada Sentry by the Inventor Category C - Rum for everybody! Kahuka-1 by Yatkuu The Rusty Sailor by n8walker Space Station 41c -piratified! by jansued

They just did that for three years...

I have no connection with the source material but I love these very expressive characters you've built.

I could've sworn it was, but actually I have the second Rocket Racer head with the open mouth smile. Are you sure it wasn't just listed earlier on since that head actually released in 2021?