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Wow, I'm surprised how much I like the Warbird. It looks pretty sizable for $35, and I dig the big chunky guns. The colors are nice too, and accurate to boot. Still not sure I'll pick this up, but I hope the other sets are like this! Hopefully we see the rest of them soon. Any idea on where the image came from? Maybe we can have another try with the instructions...

I like the legs and the torso, but the arms are very disappointing. Why don't the main arms have elbow joints? The use of those limb pieces also makes the forearms look absurdly short too. I don't like how the hook works look with the weird asymmetry, and I suspect they're rather stiff given they're built around technic beams. Oh well, I have enough big mechs already.

Didn't realize bricksbymind had his own vid from the interview, so I looked and found it there. Thanks!

I'm currently reverse-engineering the mechs in Mecabricks and I remember seeing an image in someone's Instagram story of the underside of the upper torso of Cole's mech? It was to show of the new piece, but I can't find the pic anywhere, and I don't have a twitter account to search on there. Does anyone know where I can find it?

Not wrong. I think a lot of the IRL objects or character sets fall into that category. Why buy a less functional, worse looking ,and sometimes more expensive version of something when you can get the 'real thing' instead? As I see it, Lego is banking on the novelty of 'it's made of Lego' and the 'relaxing building experience' to entice customers. I think we can agree how good it looks is subjective, but the fact that an actual action figure would look much better is far more objective. I just don't think that's the kind of market Lego wants to target with these. Still feel this one is up to par with a lot of the other ones Lego has made, like baby Groot or that Yoda from a few years ago. Maybe I'm just not seeing what you guys are? The face has some mechanical vibes, but other than that it has good expressiveness and color blocking. Whatever, not like I'm going to buy this anyways.

Honestly, don't get all the Rocket hate. Considering what it is, I think it looks pretty good. Sad it doesn't have anything in the instructions though.

Duck Bricks said in the comments that the Ras mech is the side build of the Kai mech set, the designer misspoke. I like that these suits are explicitly mech suits, it makes sense why they look the way they do. It also works in a meta sense given that neither the Dragons Rising suits or climber suits would fit in the mechs without removing the shoulder armor, which doesn’t work with those hoods. It just makes it weirder that Sora doesn’t get one. I guess her outfit is technical enough anyways? Also, the comment about Zane’s lack of mech is intriguing, given that Nya doesn’t have one either. Maybe a future set? The comments about the Cole mech show how much effort goes into these things, with the attention to detail of including the lava arms and then the show taking that design for his stone form. It seems nothing is a throwaway to the set designers or the show runners. Also I’m glad they noticed that just getting mechs for one half of the year is disappointing, which makes me very excited to see the march sets.

I really like what I'm seeing with these sets! The $20 mechs surprise me with how substantial they are for the price, and the Master Dragon feels very unique with the hat, beard, and sword in the tail. It gives me Dark Souls vibes honestly. Of the mechs, Cole's might be my favorite, the extra bulk makes it look great. I also noticed the hammer has 2 connectors on it, but I doubt the mech can hold it in 2 hands out of the box. I noticed something very funny though. If you look, Jay's dinky mech actually has more articulation that the bigger ones, given that it has wrists and the others don't. I'm tempted to try to add that to the larger ones, at least wrist rotation.

I just saw this on Instagram, and I felt it's very pertinent to what's going on right now. Sadly, it's pretty bad news. I had forgotten about this, but turns out this year's January Star Wars sets weren't revealed until December 15th, (https://brickset.com/article/86955/2023-star-wars-sets-officially-revealed!) so it could actually be about 2 weeks until we see anything, if they don't leak beforehand, Oof.

Not in Europe, Infinity Saga sets released June 1st in the rest of the world. I'm not talking about the release anyways, I'm talking about when Lego officially revealed them. Take a look for yourself (https://brickset.com/article/59351/stop-press!-daily-bugle-revealed! Daily bugle reveal may 17th 2021, while the Wayback Machine shows the earliest Lego.com page for the Infinity Gauntlet to be May 18th 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210518170623/https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/infinity-gauntlet-76191)

Problem is, there was a reason for it. Lego wanted to reveal those sets alongside the Daily Bugle, so they delayed their reveal to line up with it. The same thing happened this year with Ninjago's summer wave and Ninjago City Markets, they were revealed later to coincide with their respective D2C. As for this wave, however, there isn't any Marvel D2C for January, so there really isn't a good reason for the long wait. Given that someone found the Rocket set, they are still set to release in January, so it truly is a mystery.

Really? I don't pay much attention to Star Wars, I guess I confused some of the spring releases for January. Why would Lego leave one theme for last? This is super weird

You're probably right on those being alien plants, but notice how some batteries use pink cylinders vs purple ones (base launchpad is the most obvious one, also station hover-bike garage), so they are distinct. Maybe it's meant to be a kind of bio-fuel?

Wow. I'm just so impressed by all these space sets! I think the idea of using a unifying banner is very interesting, but there's also some intentional connectivity between the sets.The three largest city ones all include these 'modules' using the reddish-orange frames on the ends (back of command rover, middle of ship in space base, base modules of space station) and the Friends set includes one too! (Middle of rocket) The technic sets also use those connectors, but I'm not sure how compatible those components would be with the system ones. I love the space mech, it gives me Power Miners vibes. I also noticed each color has a distinct role (green research, blue pilots, yellow construction/mining) and each also has a commander of sorts (darker color scheme, dark orange in base, dark green in station, dark blue in small ship) and then of course the captain in gold in the base. Also, all of the sets appear to use these purple cylinders as power cells, and the space base interior shows they use the purple crystals to charge them, which is an excellent attention to detail and play pattern. There's also pink ones from the pink ice cream pieces, but I'm not sure what that's supposed to be honestly. With how many themes are roped into this, I wonder which other ones will join in? Maybe Ninjago will go to space in the summer? Will Monkie Kid have another space ship set? And most importantly, will this continue past 2024?

Well, last year Marvel was one of the first and now we're the last. Lego really is unpredictable like that. I suspect we'll see them tonight, alongside the rest of Star Wars sets.