Chinese New Year Sets - Rumors and Discussion

[Klaus-Dieter]

It's strange - Brickmerge lists four CNY sets for next year:

80118 Chinese New Year – 80 Euros (December 2025)

80119 Chinese New Year – 100 Euros (December 2025)

80120 Chinese New Year – ? Euros (May 2026)

80121 Chinese New Year – ? Euros (May 2026)

I didn't buy any CNY set this year since there had only been display sets. So I hope that 2026 will see minimum one big nice building to add to your (Chinese) town.

What are your thoughts?

[RichardGoring]

I imagine the other two are small little trinkets like the calendar and the GWP last year. 

I only got the lantern recently when it went on sale, and not so much for the set itself but the parts, which were crazy expensive on PAB.

I hope the next batch are more tempting.

[Lyichir]

11 hours ago, Klaus-Dieter said:

It's strange - Brickmerge lists four CNY sets for next year:

80118 Chinese New Year – 80 Euros (December 2025)

 

80119 Chinese New Year – 100 Euros (December 2025)

80120 Chinese New Year – ? Euros (May 2026)

 

80121 Chinese New Year – ? Euros (May 2026)

 

I didn't buy any CNY set this year since there had only been display sets. So I hope that 2026 will see minimum one big nice building to add to your (Chinese) town.

What are your thoughts?

The latter two of these are likely related to a separate Chinese festival (the "official" name of these sets has been Chinese Traditional Festivals and while most are related to Chinese New Year in late winter, there have been a handful related to other celebrations like the Dragon Boat Festival in late Spring).

I have slightly less to look forward to at the start of next year thanks to the end of the Monkie Kid theme, so hopefully some of these will impress and help to fill that niche in my collection.

 

[RichardGoring]

9 hours ago, Lyichir said:

The latter two of these are likely related to a separate Chinese festival (the "official" name of these sets has been Chinese Traditional Festivals and while most are related to Chinese New Year in late winter, there have been a handful related to other celebrations like the Dragon Boat Festival in late Spring).

I have slightly less to look forward to at the start of next year thanks to the end of the Monkie Kid theme, so hopefully some of these will impress and help to fill that niche in my collection.

 

Oh, that's a good point, I didn't pay attention to the dates. Hopefully it means they are also of decent quality.

[Robert8]

So 2026 is year of the horse on the chinese horoscope

 

New mask piece or reuse of the S13 Unicorn one?

Place your bets...

[RichardGoring]

8 hours ago, Robert8 said:

So 2026 is year of the horse on the chinese horoscope

New mask piece or reuse of the S13 Unicorn one?

Place your bets...

The lantern may not have sold well, judging by a 30% discount directly from LEGO, but that's not a firm indicator. They also sold the snake head piece for $11 on PAB, which was outrageous. If these are lower volume sets and they have to charge more due to unique moulds, I'd by happy with a reuse if it means a more interesting, better value set.

[hikouki]

I think people really want buildings and sceneries with minifigs.

The display items are really nice, but people who don’t celebrate CNY cannot really relate to them. Plants however seem to be a different thing.