Lego One Piece rumors and discussion

[Shiva]

Nice sets and even better minifigs!

[brickbride]

Some more observations on the sets:

Little Garden: Dorry's axe looks completely wonky, the blade is nearly as long as the handle, wtf is that about? And does Zoro not have Wado? You can see Kitetsu on the front picture and both Kitetsu and Yubashiri on the back of the box, but no white sword. I also don't like the giants' faces (although they're much, much better than the faces HP got for such abominations like Hagrid's Motorbike Accident and the new Flying Ford, but that's a very low bar.) The cloaks for the giants are a nice touch, though. Also this might be the only set in which the Zoro minifig's terrible smirky faceprint is actually sort of appropriate (although then he should still have yellow paint on his pant leg, and not be wielding his swords).

Drum Island: I'd like to see the castle from the back because I suspect it's pretty much a facade (like the Arlong Park pagoda). Nice fig selection, though Vivi's and Luffy's coats now look like shirts because of no leg printing. (Not that LEGO would know how to properly print bright light orange on dark blue.)

Marine Ship: That scene did so not happen in the live action but for a marine ship it's the best possible choice - giving us Garp's iconic ship, the Zoro vs Tashigi duel (in which he used only one sword not the three he's shown using on the box), and the rest of the missing straw hats from the Loguetown set. Of course now I'm truly annoyed that this particular cash grab by LEGO means you can't complete Loguetown without buying a completely unnecessary marine ship. Nope, I'm not going to start collecting this theme.

Loguetown: This is actually the set I'd like the most but see above. It just feels so incomplete and includes none of my favourite characters. If they'd just split up Loguetown into two sets (say, Sanji/Luffy/Smoker/Dragon with the bike and a fish market build, and Zoro/Tashigi/Nami/Usopp with the sword store, map seller, and phone booth) so you could make your own Loguetown mini modular with all the characters I might be sorely tempted. But there's no way I'm buying a butt-ugly marine ship (not LEGO's fault, it just looks like that in Canon) I don't need in order to complete Loguetown so no Loguetown it is.

Buildable Chopper: desperately trying to be cute IMO and absolutely uninteresting to me. You know what that face looks like? Not Chopper. Instead it looks like one of those buildable store signs for Friends. Check out 41691 (Doggy Day Care) and tell me I'm wrong.

Chopper's Hideout: definitely the best set overall in terms of design and minifig selection. It's just that I don't care for either of these people all that much so I'd have no use for it. But hey, now your kids can play "Chopper poisons his father figure with deadly mushrooms and Kureha is left to pick up the pieces" with all the participants of the scene! (I'm not really joking because it's not as if Kureha would hang out there in any other circumstances.)

 

 

Edited 3 hours ago by brickbride