Disney Properties 2024 - Rumors & Discussion

[JeanGreyForever]

The Thieves of Tortuga set, which was just revealed as one of the Bricklink Designer program sets, should be perfect for Pirates of the Caribbean fans.

[OttoRiver]

It's so pretty. Having missed Brick Cross Station, I'm going to have to keep an eye on that one.

[Aramar]

On 8/3/2024 at 6:03 PM, Aramar said:

Apparently, the new Jane doll can only be sold at Disneyland in California due to the copyright issues. I don't really understand the situation about the rights (especially considering that Tarzan is now on the public domain) and why they can sell merchandising on Disneyland but not on the D23 expo next door or any other Disney parks. Therefore, if this is true, I don't think we'll get any Tarzan lego figures sadly.

  

Well today Tarzan merchandising also appeared at Disneyland Paris, so it seems Disney can sell Tarzan merchandising outside California too. I don't know if it is limited to Disney Parks though. 

https://x.com/InsideDlpCastle/status/1826204776297828385

 

[JeanGreyForever]

16 hours ago, Aramar said:

Well today Tarzan merchandising also appeared at Disneyland Paris, so it seems Disney can sell Tarzan merchandising outside California too. I don't know if it is limited to Disney Parks though. 

https://x.com/InsideDlpCastle/status/1826204776297828385

 

Maybe the rules are different internationally. That's promising to hear even if it doesn't mean we can get a Lego Tarzan or Jane.

[BrickBob Studpants]

3 hours ago, JeanGreyForever said:

Maybe the rules are different internationally. That's promising to hear even if it doesn't mean we can get a Lego Tarzan or Jane.

Reminds me of that fake list for the first (or was it the second?) CMF series, which was pretty quickly debunked after people pointed out that Tarzan merch wasn‘t possible  Whoops.

Still, I’d definitely like to see Tarzan and Jane feature in a potential CMF S4. Maybe once the final stories enter the public domain?

[OttoRiver]

https://www.brickfanatics.com/lego-nightmare-before-christmas-minifigures/

Really interesting look into the NBC set. Turns out Sally's old hair piece mold doesn't exist anymore so they had to pick one that looked close enough, hence the Dumbledore hairpiece used. Same goes for Jack's bow tie thought they've done a good job of replicating it. No word on Oogie Boogie's potential though.

[Clone OPatra]

7 minutes ago, OttoRiver said:

Really interesting look into the NBC set. Turns out Sally's old hair piece mold doesn't exist anymore so they had to pick one that looked close enough, hence the Dumbledore hairpiece used.

That's just not true, and if the designer truly thinks that and it's not just really weird PR spin, that's terrible internal communication at LEGO. Whether or not it's the exact same mould, that same hair shape absolutely still exists, and given they had to colour change the Dumbledore hair to Dark Red, they could've colour changed the correct hair to Dark Red (given it's not currently in print in that colour).

They have the weirdest excuses for why things aren't as good as they can be sometimes.

[jonwil]

The Sally hair does come in a 2024 set in white but the set in question is retiring at the end of 2024 whereas the Nightmare Before Xmas set is going to be on shelves a lot longer.

It may be possible that the Sally hair is going to retire along with the set its in.

 

[hikouki]

Why did Rapunzel 'disappear' from BL???

There are only a few retailers left with this minifig, but the rest of the castle minifigs are available? and I thought she was not accurate?

[TheFriedChimken]

38 minutes ago, hikouki said:

Why did Rapunzel 'disappear' from BL???

There are only a few retailers left with this minifig, but the rest of the castle minifigs are available? and I thought she was not accurate?

Wow yeah there's only like 5 new ones available and 1 used... Not even being sold on Brick Owl...

What was inaccurate about her design? Asking out of curiosity as I didn't take notice of anything out of sorts.

[OttoRiver]

50 minutes ago, TheFriedChimken said:

What was inaccurate about her design? Asking out of curiosity as I didn't take notice of anything out of sorts.

Namely the torso. Sparkles where there are none (but that's an issue with Snow White as well) The ribbon on her corset is gold rather than pink, and the lace/frills on her corset are gold instead of white and pink as in the film. Similarly, gold printing on the trim of her skirt where it would be pink/purple. We could also bring up her hair being shorter than Jasmine's but I think that a fancy new mold price I don't have the budgetary access to fully comment on.

Edited August 29, 2024 by OttoRiver

[JeanGreyForever]

4 hours ago, OttoRiver said:

Namely the torso. Sparkles where there are none (but that's an issue with Snow White as well) The ribbon on her corset is gold rather than pink, and the lace/frills on her corset are gold instead of white and pink as in the film. Similarly, gold printing on the trim of her skirt where it would be pink/purple. We could also bring up her hair being shorter than Jasmine's but I think that a fancy new mold price I don't have the budgetary access to fully comment on.

The hair thing is really annoying. Rapunzel's whole shtick is that she has long hair but her minifig has a braid length that could work for any female character. Aurora's hair was also too short for my taste. Alice's hairpiece is longer than Aurora's if you put them together. And Rapunzel whose hair is supposed to be golden has bright light yellow hair, the same as Elsa and Tinker Bell. Meanwhile Aurora, whose golden hair actually is light-colored in her movie, gets the golden hairpiece.

All of the new princess minifigs last year suffered from not being accurate enough. Way too many sparkles (Rapunzel, Aurora, Snow White) and inaccurate colors (Cinderella in light blue and her hair being too light blonde, Snow White's torso not as dark as it should be, Aurora's pink being too light). This is why I'm not too upset about not getting Belle yet because we would have gotten something similar to these girls lathered in sparkles. They did a better job with the princess minifigs made before Series 3, like Ariel, Jasmine, Elsa, and Anna who seem to actually be based off of their respective movies rather than the Disney Princess merchandise.

[TheFriedChimken]

8 hours ago, OttoRiver said:

Namely the torso. Sparkles where there are none (but that's an issue with Snow White as well) The ribbon on her corset is gold rather than pink, and the lace/frills on her corset are gold instead of white and pink as in the film. Similarly, gold printing on the trim of her skirt where it would be pink/purple. We could also bring up her hair being shorter than Jasmine's but I think that a fancy new mold price I don't have the budgetary access to fully comment on.

Yeah that's pretty inaccurate - thank you for explaining. I was just so excited to get minifigure Disney characters that I didn't really notice what went wrong with her finer details. The hair did bother me but I figured the dress piece would be too obstructive to go any further down without having to make the braid curve. I think Lego made that a no-go as it would make the hairpiece sit weirdly on any other minfigure.

3 hours ago, JeanGreyForever said:

And Rapunzel whose hair is supposed to be golden has bright light yellow hair, the same as Elsa and Tinker Bell. Meanwhile Aurora, whose golden hair actually is light-colored in her movie, gets the golden hairpiece.

All of the new princess minifigs last year suffered from not being accurate enough. Way too many sparkles (Rapunzel, Aurora, Snow White) and inaccurate colors (Cinderella in light blue and her hair being too light blonde, Snow White's torso not as dark as it should be, Aurora's pink being too light).

Yeah the overall colouring was the one thing I really noticed. I was introduced to the princess characters before they were "assigned" to colours, so their designs today have always thrown me off. Was used to Cinderella being silver (mind you, she also had the line detailing going on with the dress which was absent) and hair more strawberry/gold blonde, Snow White's dress not being as saturated, Aurora when barely shown in pink in film had a dress that was more saturated - so on and so on. I think you best captured these details perfectly already. But yes, the colours were overall what I considered inaccurate. Thought it was just me and my nostalgia, but nice to see others agree.

I also think another reason why I didn't take notice of Rapunzel's inaccuracies was due to not have the same exposure to her as I did other characters. By that point, my siblings and I had pretty much grown up, and therefore weren't as keen to exhaustingly repeating to watch the same Disney films as we did as kids 😆

[JeanGreyForever]

3 hours ago, TheFriedChimken said:

Yeah that's pretty inaccurate - thank you for explaining. I was just so excited to get minifigure Disney characters that I didn't really notice what went wrong with her finer details. The hair did bother me but I figured the dress piece would be too obstructive to go any further down without having to make the braid curve. I think Lego made that a no-go as it would make the hairpiece sit weirdly on any other minfigure.

Yeah the overall colouring was the one thing I really noticed. I was introduced to the princess characters before they were "assigned" to colours, so their designs today have always thrown me off. Was used to Cinderella being silver (mind you, she also had the line detailing going on with the dress which was absent) and hair more strawberry/gold blonde, Snow White's dress not being as saturated, Aurora when barely shown in pink in film had a dress that was more saturated - so on and so on. I think you best captured these details perfectly already. But yes, the colours were overall what I considered inaccurate. Thought it was just me and my nostalgia, but nice to see others agree.

I also think another reason why I didn't take notice of Rapunzel's inaccuracies was due to not have the same exposure to her as I did other characters. By that point, my siblings and I had pretty much grown up, and therefore weren't as keen to exhaustingly repeating to watch the same Disney films as we did as kids 😆

Cinderella's really supposed to have dark blonde hair, a golden brown color, in comparison to Aurora who's a light blonde but most merchandise gives Aurora almost orange-gold hair and Cinderella a light or bright yellow hair color. And good point that Cinderella's dress should also have some line detailing down the middle which is missing on the minifigure's skirt piece. It's funny that they wouldn't include that but they want out of their way to give Aurora some unnecessary back printing portraying a sort of corset which she definitely doesn't have in the movie. I'm wondering if the shorter hairpiece they gave her was also done in order to display some of that back printing.

And of course Aurora really should have been wearing blue rather than pink. Even her collar, which is typically portrayed as white, is actually a very pale blue or pale pink in the movie. 

Rapunzel's movie was also after my era so I don't have a strong attachment to her, or the Disney version of her anyway. When I first saw her minifigure, I made the same mistake you did and thought she was very movie accurate unlike the other princesses. But it was posts here that made me realize that she's also got some issues like the gold detailing and of course the hair length. I did BL her minifig anyway though because I thought she could work well as a generic princess since the hair really doesn't scream Rapunzel from any angle.

[TheFriedChimken]

11 minutes ago, JeanGreyForever said:

Cinderella's really supposed to have dark blonde hair, a golden brown color, in comparison to Aurora who's a light blonde but most merchandise gives Aurora almost orange-gold hair and Cinderella a light or bright yellow hair color. And good point that Cinderella's dress should also have some line detailing down the middle which is missing on the minifigure's skirt piece. It's funny that they wouldn't include that but they want out of their way to give Aurora some unnecessary back printing portraying a sort of corset which she definitely doesn't have in the movie. I'm wondering if the shorter hairpiece they gave her was also done in order to display some of that back printing.

And of course Aurora really should have been wearing blue rather than pink. Even her collar, which is typically portrayed as white, is actually a very pale blue or pale pink in the movie. 

Rapunzel's movie was also after my era so I don't have a strong attachment to her, or the Disney version of her anyway. When I first saw her minifigure, I made the same mistake you did and thought she was very movie accurate unlike the other princesses. But it was posts here that made me realize that she's also got some issues like the gold detailing and of course the hair length. I did BL her minifig anyway though because I thought she could work well as a generic princess since the hair really doesn't scream Rapunzel from any angle.

Yes the hair colouring between Cinderella and Aurora has always been a perplexing situation in mind 😆 I just can't move past how it should be the other way round when seeing any Disney merchandise.

Another inaccuracy I noticed after having looked at my minifigures is that Cinderella's neck-choker thingo is silver instead of traditional black or modern day dark navy blue. I also think they should have given her the bigger dress piece, same with Tiana.

As for Aurora's back printing, I assume it's a result of the hair needing to be perfectly flat towards the torso area to stop her minifigure from slipping off the castle bed. I think having to continue the length of the hair to where it would be accurate would look so odd with how absolutely flat the lower part would need to remain. I guess they sacrificed length and back torso coverage for her to be able to lay down - and with so much of the back torso able to be seen, they possibly came up with the corset to 'maintain detail'. I think you could have just done a seam line and it would have been fine in my opinion. 

I like the sleeping feature, but at the same time I would have loved a hair piece with voluminous curls.

As for Rapunzel and her hair piece, I ocassionaly swap it out for the tousled hair piece used for Ron but in reddish brown. It doesn't have the accurate fringe swoop, but it's an alternative nonetheless.

[hikouki]

21 hours ago, TheFriedChimken said:

Wow yeah there's only like 5 new ones available and 1 used... Not even being sold on Brick Owl...

What was inaccurate about her design? Asking out of curiosity as I didn't take notice of anything out of sorts.

Perhaps sellers are hoarding? 

How many hundreds of Cinderella are there for sale and only 5 Rapunzel??? Perhaps the Rapunzel figure was slightly more expensive than the rest at the beginning and many sellers saw the opportunity so they hoarded those minifigs.

Even after the castle release, I have very seldom seen a seller with a full roster. They are always missing a minifig or two. Perhaps keeping it for later sale.

[TheFriedChimken]

37 minutes ago, hikouki said:

Perhaps sellers are hoarding? 

How many hundreds of Cinderella are there for sale and only 5 Rapunzel??? Perhaps the Rapunzel figure was slightly more expensive than the rest at the beginning and many sellers saw the opportunity so they hoarded those minifigs.

Even after the castle release, I have very seldom seen a seller with a full roster. They are always missing a minifig or two. Perhaps keeping it for later sale.

Quite possible. Even when the castle first released, I didn't really see Rapunzel nor Snow White being sold individually. Snow White eventually started to but Rapunzel was quite rare to come across on her own. She was often bought up too quickly or too expensive so I resorted to having the buy the minifigures in a bundle on ebay when looking for spares (I have a weird quirk for needing a least one spare after having my entire collection of figs destroyed 😮‍💨).

I would like to know myself why Rapunzel is the hard to find one. Like you said, there are heaps of Cinderella - I've also found some going for as cheaps as $20-30.

[JeanGreyForever]

18 hours ago, TheFriedChimken said:

Yes the hair colouring between Cinderella and Aurora has always been a perplexing situation in mind 😆 I just can't move past how it should be the other way round when seeing any Disney merchandise.

Another inaccuracy I noticed after having looked at my minifigures is that Cinderella's neck-choker thingo is silver instead of traditional black or modern day dark navy blue. I also think they should have given her the bigger dress piece, same with Tiana.

As for Aurora's back printing, I assume it's a result of the hair needing to be perfectly flat towards the torso area to stop her minifigure from slipping off the castle bed. I think having to continue the length of the hair to where it would be accurate would look so odd with how absolutely flat the lower part would need to remain. I guess they sacrificed length and back torso coverage for her to be able to lay down - and with so much of the back torso able to be seen, they possibly came up with the corset to 'maintain detail'. I think you could have just done a seam line and it would have been fine in my opinion. 

I like the sleeping feature, but at the same time I would have loved a hair piece with voluminous curls.

As for Rapunzel and her hair piece, I ocassionaly swap it out for the tousled hair piece used for Ron but in reddish brown. It doesn't have the accurate fringe swoop, but it's an alternative nonetheless.

I think they give Aurora darker hair because her hair is described as gold so it's easy to make it more orange and bright. Cinderella is the most popular princess so they give her basic blonde hair, which tends to be lighter, especially in her dolls where her hair is almost platinum blonde at times. 

Good catch, I noticed that too that her choker is silver instead of black. They used the same silver used for her sparkles and other detailing. I thought she might get a bigger dress piece since they brought that back for the Queen of Hearts, but maybe they're keeping that piece exclusive to the CMF.

That makes a lot of sense that Aurora's hair couldn't be too long so she could lie down on a bed. Although I still hope that in the future, we can get a hairpiece which is longer in length and also has a molded crown instead of the generic crown you can insert. The Evil Queen and Queen of Hearts both got exclusive molded crowns so I'd like to see Aurora get one too since the five point crown she currently has doesn't really look accurate.

That's a great alternative. Rapunzel's short hair is a lot easier to replicate than her long blonde hair.

11 hours ago, hikouki said:

Perhaps sellers are hoarding? 

How many hundreds of Cinderella are there for sale and only 5 Rapunzel??? Perhaps the Rapunzel figure was slightly more expensive than the rest at the beginning and many sellers saw the opportunity so they hoarded those minifigs.

Even after the castle release, I have very seldom seen a seller with a full roster. They are always missing a minifig or two. Perhaps keeping it for later sale.

I used Ebay to get Snow White, Cinderella, Rapunzel, and their princes about a year ago. At the time Cinderella was the cheapest and I got her for about $25. Rapunzel and Snow White were the most expensive, both above $50. This was before the Snow White cottage set was officially announced so while I knew she'd end up in that set, I was feeling too impatient to wait until March to get her so I coughed up the money for her minifig as well. And had no idea then that Florian would also end up in the Snow White set so I bought him individually too.

Snow White being available in another set must have made her a lot cheaper now. Cinderella seems like she was always really cheap, so for some reason, Rapunzel is the hard one to get. I didn't see a whole lot of full minifigure rosters then either. I bought these minifigs all individually, especially since I wasn't interested in all of them in the first place.

[JohnTPT17]

Maybe I'm just not a huge Disney super-fan, but I still like all of the Disney princess minifigs. Yeah, they're not perfect, but I still think they look pretty good. Frankly, my biggest issue is with Mulan, with the gigantic medal printed on her torso - I would have preferred that to either be a separate piece, or just not included at all. That, and I'd like a dress of Ariel and for Belle to exist at all - or, some non-dress outfits.

And, as far as reselling goes, I wouldn't be shocked if it was a combination of only certain minifigs "leaking" from factories in large quantities (how else would one seller have 73 of them?), and/or a small number or resellers hoarding, or at least not listing, certain minifigs to drive up the prices. 

38 minutes ago, JeanGreyForever said:

I thought she might get a bigger dress piece since they brought that back for the Queen of Hearts, but maybe they're keeping that piece exclusive to the CMF.

It's been used in other places - it was in a Build a Minifig at Lego stores recently, and it'll be with the Harry Potter advent calendar this year. And, oddly enough, they used that piece in the Disney camera image of her and the Godmother, so they may wait and do that variant later, maybe in some $60 carriage with her, the Fairy Godmother, and the pumpkin carriage. 

[TheFriedChimken]

1 hour ago, JohnTPT17 said:

Maybe I'm just not a huge Disney super-fan, but I still like all of the Disney princess minifigs. Yeah, they're not perfect, but I still think they look pretty good. 

Yeah that's somewhat me. I'm weirdly all over the place on it. There are things that other people might like that I'm not to crazy about, there are things that other's don't like and I like - and then there's my nostalgia in the mix.

Like I do like the sparkle effect even though yes they are not accurate - my reason being that the princesses with gold sparkles compliment the 50th anniversary styled castle with its gold accents. Like yes it is Cinderella's castle but she is silver in terms of her sparkles, and I find that the sparkle effect connects her with the other princesses who instead have gold, and the gold connects them all to the castle. That's my crazed opinion to try and make the style castle and Cinderella feel connect 😆

Colour wise for outfits and so forth do bother me, which I won't get into again haha. Also, like JeanGreyForever stated, I agree with wanting a better hair mold and crown for Aurora and that both Cinderella and Tiana should have gotten bigger dresses seeing it did appear with the Queen of Hearts.

1 hour ago, JohnTPT17 said:

It's been used in other places - it was in a Build a Minifig at Lego stores recently, and it'll be with the Harry Potter advent calendar this year. And, oddly enough, they used that piece in the Disney camera image of her and the Godmother, so they may wait and do that variant later, maybe in some $60 carriage with her, the Fairy Godmother, and the pumpkin carriage. 

Yes I noticed that in the film reel! Equally has excited me yet bummed me out. Would make sense to use the piece in a variant to get people to buy such a set, though at the same time I feel very uncertain they will continue the Disney minifigures after what happened to the Maleficient set.

[OttoRiver]

I wouldn't be too put out by the Maleficent set. The fact a Lilo & Stitch minifigure set is being planned for next year means that Disney is at least entertaining the idea of making more minifigure sets in the future, not to mention a possible CMF series as well. I think we can all agree that Disney is the only IP that would break the 2 waves curse and still have steam to keep going.

[TheFriedChimken]

59 minutes ago, OttoRiver said:

I wouldn't be too put out by the Maleficent set. The fact a Lilo & Stitch minifigure set is being planned for next year means that Disney is at least entertaining the idea of making more minifigure sets in the future, not to mention a possible CMF series as well. I think we can all agree that Disney is the only IP that would break the 2 waves curse and still have steam to keep going.

That's actually a very valid point! In an ideal world, I'd be keen for future sets based off what we saw in the Disney camera sets. Quite a few characters and movies left unexplored. Fingers crossed that Lego sticks to the whole minifigure-based sets in general though!

[Jarreth2]

Regarding Rapunzel, over the last 6 months there were 76 of them sold on bricklink. It’s an expensive figure and also an expensive set to ‘part out’ my guess is the supply is just going through a dry spell for now.

I have a thought on Belle and the Beast .. I wondered if when the new Disney Castle retires ( and yes I realise it will be a long while yet ) would they do the Beast’s Castle, obviously include Beast in both forms, Belle in more than one outfit, the objects ( new moulds please ) and also their human forms. One of the main rooms would be the ball room .. with doors tat open to reveal the dance floor, with a facility yo make them dance together, perhaps motoriseable with hidden magnets somewhere ? 

When you google the pictures of Beuaty and the Beast Castle Tokyo Disney .. its a beautiful design 😁

[TheFriedChimken]

Just now, Jarreth2 said:

I have a thought on Belle and the Beast .. I wondered if when the new Disney Castle retires ( and yes I realise it will be a long while yet ) would they do the Beast’s Castle, obviously include Beast in both forms, Belle in more than one outfit, the objects ( new moulds please ) and also their human forms. One of the main rooms would be the ball room .. with doors tat open to reveal the dance floor, with a facility yo make them dance together, perhaps motoriseable with hidden magnets somewhere ? 

When you google the pictures of Beuaty and the Beast Castle Tokyo Disney .. its a beautiful design 😁

I absolutely adore this idea!!! Would certainly make a perfect set!

Hopefully though, at this point in time, Beast and Belle make an appearance in the Disney Magic set.

[BrickBob Studpants]

54 minutes ago, TheFriedChimken said:

Hopefully though, at this point in time, Beast and Belle make an appearance in the Disney Magic set.

One can only hope. The set would definitely be very popular if they did that!

Given it’s getting released in a month and some change, I assume leaks are imminent