Lego One Piece rumors and discussion

[BrickBob Studpants]

Built the Going Merry, and it‘s a fantastic set!  Definitely my favourite LEGO pirate ship so far, but it’ll likely lose the title in September. I got the Kuro poster and fittingly, also the Luffy one, so only Arlong and Gold Roger remain. Highly doubtful I‘ll get these two in the Baratie, but we‘ll see

Speaking of the upcoming Black Pearl: kinda strange One Piece debuts the same year PotC returns, but I‘ll take it

[thebricksbear]

On 8/13/2025 at 4:32 AM, MKJoshA said:

Maybe we need to start a trading thread here on EB for Poster swaps...

Let's do it! I'm going to have to bricklink a few and that sounds like way more fun!

[BrickBob Studpants]

I just built the Baratie and got five unique posters, one even with Gold Roger, whom I was still missing! …no Arlong though, so now that‘s the only one left

The Baratie is my second-favourite set of the theme! Such a fun, non-repetitive build  And it looks awesome on display!

[brickbride]

Can I ask why you bought all the sets so early? From what I've heard they"re only exclusive to LEGO in August but will go to retailers in September which should mean some discounts at least.

[Lemerbrix]

On 8/18/2025 at 12:57 PM, brickbride said:

Can I ask why you bought all the sets so early? From what I've heard they"re only exclusive to LEGO in August but will go to retailers in September which should mean some discounts at least.

The one piece sets are available in regular stores here in the U.S, bought arlong park from target 2 weeks ago.

[brickbride]

Has anyone seen the video of Inaki at One Piece Day in Japan? Check out the giant brick-built Den Den Mushi (with the LEGO logo and everything, so it looks to be actually from LEGO) at 1:13.

(Though I do wonder where Zoro/Mackenyu was.)

 

Edited August 24 by brickbride

[brickbride]

German YouTuber Held der Steine has a review of the Baratie up that gives a side-by-side comparison to the Merry. Personally I was surprised by how huge the Merry looks in comparison given both its Canon proportions and the fact that the Merry set is already tiny for its price.

Also I still just can't with Mihawk's cowboy hat or Zoro's out-of-character smirk or Luffy's and Nami's wrong outfits. For EUR 300 I find the minifigs really underwhelming especially compared to the recent Spider-Man CMF series where LEGO went all-out on otherwise useless parts (Spiderman-printed baby/horse/werewolf mask and so on) for just EUR 4 apiece.

[BrickBob Studpants]

2 hours ago, brickbride said:

For EUR 300 I find the minifigs really underwhelming especially compared to the recent Spider-Man CMF series […]

You can’t compare any regular minifigs, even in D2C or other large sets, to CMF series. They have their own budget where everything goes into the minifigs (new pieces, new prints, recoloured pieces), while regular sets have hundreds to thousands of other parts to account for. This always requires compromises. Plus, CMF series don’t have much bearing on storage space, given their intentionally short lifespan.

Also, I heavily disagree about the Baratie minifigs being underwhelming. They basically surpassed most people’s very optimistic wishlists by including Garp, Helmeppo, and Coby, all with new prints and recoloured hairpieces, plus a new beard piece for Zeff! Apart from Mihawk’s questionable hat choice, I don’t see much room for complaints

Sidenote: HdS is annoying as hell and I cringe every time I have to hear his pompous name or see his smug face. MandR is reasonable compared to his vitriolic bile.

Edited September 7 by BrickBob Studpants

[brickbride]

4 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

This always requires compromises.

Sure but there's compromise and then there's that cowboy hat.

4 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Apart from Mihawk’s questionable hat choice, I don’t see much room for complaints

Like I've said: Nami is a simple reuse who wears the wrong top (should be bright pink instead of white and blue), Luffy's a simple reuse who wears entirely the wrong outfit (should be green dungarees with a red shirt), there's Mihawk's hat, and Zoro's another simple reuse who needed either a completely straight face or a bloodthirsty grin but not that out-of-character smirk which doesn't resemble Mackenyu's portrayal at all. YMMV but to me the lackluster figs are a definitive strike against the set. If you lock iconic scenes like the duel behind a EUR 300 paywall they had better look right; however I don't feel compelled to spend money on Cowboy Mihawk vs Smirky Zoro.

As for HdS, I'm not a big fan of his deliberately inflammatory phrasing myself, but his videos often give a good sense of how sets scale to each other. Such as the size difference between the LotR and HP book nook and how bad they look next to each other which IMO is valid and useful information. Back when we were speculating in this thread which sets hid behind the known set numbers, I said that the Baratie being the biggest set over the more popular but smaller Merry made sense so you could display them together. But between the design choices (one full ship, one dollhouse-style facade), the Baratie's oddly flat look, and the scaling I don't think they look great together - more like a mashup of products from different brick companies. 

Edited September 7 by brickbride

[BrickBob Studpants]

3 hours ago, brickbride said:

YMMV but to me the lackluster figs are a definitive strike against the set.

I see where you’re coming from, but consider this: despite the first wave only consisting of five sets, we got two or even three variants for every single main character, including multiple heads for a few of them. I can’t think of many other themes that did that  Ideally, they would’ve featured exclusive variants of some of the crew members in the Baratie as well, but to me that’s a bit nitpicky with all the exclusive prints and pieces we got.

As for the Baratie being a facade: If you look at it as a ship, yeah, it’s odd next to the Going Merry. However, it’s more of a location than a vehicle, so the open back playset style makes perfect sense to me. After all, the Baratie is a restaurant, not a transport or combat ship

[MKJoshA]

I just finished building the Going Merry and my review will be up in a week or two. But in short I found it to be an amazing set. It's a great representation of the ship, it's a good balance of scale, and it includes the full crew. I got Gold Rogers, Buggy, Arlong and Alvida for posters. I was pleasantly surprised to get 4 different ones after so many of you have shared your bad variety. 

I'll be getting the Baratie soon. But I think it works well as a location/fascade set when you consider the Netflix show. In the anime it's definitely more suitable as a ship set than a location set. But the live-action treats it more like an island/location than a ship so it works for me. 

[brickbride]

8 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

I see where you’re coming from, but consider this: despite the first wave only consisting of five sets, we got two or even three variants for every single main character, including multiple heads for a few of them. I can’t think of many other themes that did that  Ideally, they would’ve featured exclusive variants of some of the crew members in the Baratie as well, but to me that’s a bit nitpicky with all the exclusive prints and pieces we got.

YMMV but to me this "Be thankful for what we've got, it could have been worse" mentality is exactly why LEGO isn't making much of an effort anymore. You yourself pointed out several bad faceprints in the Hogsmeade set and those were reuses from other themes. Zoro's at least seems to be unique to the character so there is no reason it has to be that bad other than LEGO not caring. The other One Piece sets are much cheaper and in fact the EUR 30 one contains three exclusive characters, so I'd expect at least as much attention to detail from a EUR 300 set. But I guess then we're talking Hogsmeade all over again. 

[BrickBob Studpants]

4 hours ago, brickbride said:

You yourself pointed out several bad faceprints in the Hogsmeade set and those were reuses from other themes.

Yeah, but the point there was that better alternatives existed  I wasn’t advocating for new prints but rather more appropriate ones being used  The only One Piece minifig that reuses a pre-existing faceprint is Makino and it‘s a good fit.

All I‘m saying is that complaining about a lack of outfit variants and facial expressions is a bit nitpicky when it concerns a theme that‘s already well above average when it comes to minifig variations for the main characters ^^ 

[brickbride]

2 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

All I‘m saying is that complaining about a lack of outfit variants and facial expressions is a bit nitpicky when it concerns a theme that‘s already well above average when it comes to minifig variations for the main characters ^^ 

Again, the cost for Zoro's faceprint would have been the same whether or not they gave him an appropriate one. This just shows a lack of care for the theme. Or maybe they need Smirky McSmirkyface for another upcoming set and made the One Piece theme shoulder the cost of developing him, but that's internal budgeting and not something I as a customer have to care about.

The average customer doesn't care how many new or recoloured pieces and unique prints are in a set, or how many fig variants of main characters a theme gets compared to other themes. They care if the characters look like their TV counterparts, period.

I also don't care that much about minifig variations and would happily have accepted any versions of Zoro and Sanji in the Arlong Park set as a somewhat affordable way of getting the entire crew. (Not including them was a travesty.) But if in a EUR 300 flagship set you have to say "Oh well, about half the figs are wrong in some way but I'm sure they needed the budget elsewhere and besides, other themes have it worse" that‘s just not what I consider a premium product. Let's simply agree that our expectations differ.

Edited September 8 by brickbride

[BrickBob Studpants]

1 hour ago, brickbride said:

Or maybe they need Smirky McSmirkyface for another upcoming set […]

He does have an angry alternate facial expression though  

[MKJoshA]

I just posted my first of 5 One Piece reviews for any who might still be on the fence about these sets.