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Same here. I also thought they were earlier, so I was shocked to see the date of may 1st for last year's article.

I'm now sure what you're remembering, but that wasn't really the case for either of those years. Looking back at Brickset's news archive, in both 2020 and 2021, Ninjago summer set images came out between the last few days of april and the first few in May. Last year, Harry Potter sets were revealed in mid April, so a whole 2 weeks beforehand, while in 2020, they came one day after ninjago. Besides, I think the early Harry Potter reveal this year is meant to coincide with the release of the third Fantastic Beasts movie, so I don't think it says much about when we'll see the rest of the summer sets. The crystal king has 3 forms across the sets, as far as we know. In the temple and the golden dragon, he is a four armed minifig much like Garmadon and the legacy Overlord in the past. In the Crystal king set, he's also included as a minifig with only 2 arms, but also as a large centaur-like mech that is the main build of the set. This info comes from Promobricks, who didn't really describe what the minifig looks like beyond the 4 arms, so I'm hoping it looks great! I'm also excited to see what these sets look like, but I expect we'll be waiting another 3 or 4 weeks before we see anything.

These are meant to be used to connect the two banners included to the Ninja Dojo Temple (on the bars that protrude from the back of that set). I think it's done this way because the other sets attach the banners using some form of clip except for this one, so it ends up with the awkward 2 extra parts.

Yeah, every piece of it is a recolor. The face is from the Hobgoblin from 2016 (https://brickset.com/sets/76058-1/Spider-Man-Ghost-Rider-Team-Up) so it's 100% a fake/April fools joke.

Well, if you look closely you can tell that these pictures had watermarks on them, so maybe they were trying to avoid those? More likely, it's something like this though

Lol, these pics are so blurry that there's barely anything we can gleam from these. The mech looks to be more lanky than I expected, and the temple is more vertical than I expected too, but that's really it. Nothing looks bad from these images, the more we see of the raider the more I like it, but that's really all I have to say. Give us better images please!

Remember, the dragon build in the mech was described to look like the Empire Dragon, so I suspect it might be Unagami in his dragon form. These promobricks descriptions make this wave seem even more interesting now. I'm guessing the earlier ones were based on the prelims we saw, while these new ones are based on final images that we won't see for a while, and it seems there are actually some significant differences. Cool to see that all 4 golden weapons are getting updates, and given how the scythe looks, I'm excited to see the rest of them! The number of minifigs in this wave (29 new ones!) is honestly insane, but also makes for a very expensive wave for any minifig collectors. The two oni masks are great inclusions, I'm guessing Garmadon's is his Oni form we saw in March of the Oni, and I wonder if Lloyd's is something similar, since he's also part Oni. Another wild thing is the fact that it seems the og 4 ninja are the heads of the ultra dragon, sounds like it might look weird, but we'll have to see. About the main 4, it's also interesting to learn that they have exclusive outfits in the temple, it makes me curious as to what makes those different from the other suits. Will this be the first wave with 3 suits for most of the ninja? Now I'm really hyped to see these!

Out of these, the only one that stands out is the Crystal King, which looks fantastic! The shaping is great, with the helmet and shoulders really standing out to me. I can't wait to see the whole thing, lower torso and back legs included. Cole's racer looks like a weird mix of an off-roader with a street car, I really don't know how to feel about it. Given how busy the back looks though, I suspect it has some transformation feature. Jay's bike is the usual, not much to say. What we can see of Kai's raider looks interesting, but it's too little to make any judgment of the whole thing. The other interesting thing to note is the minifigs. The re-use of the ice armor and helmet makes sense, and it looks good too. It does seem the accessories changed from these preliminaries to the finished product (Look at the minifigs in the jet) and I'm disappointed they removed the epic battle weapons from the winged ninja, I really liked those parts and was hoping to see more of them in the future. One more thing to note, it does indeed seem that one of the samurai in the raider set is a returning villain, but I can't tell who (he seems to use the generic samurai helmet? Who could it be?) But yeah. I really want to see the other three since they seemed more interesting than the generic vehicles from the descriptions, but maybe that'll happen soon. Looks pretty good so far though.

This is probably the first wave of this theme that feels kind of meh to me, and I think it's because it feels the least 'new' of all the ones we've gotten so far. I don't really care for the Peach starter course since I'm happy with Mario and Luigi and don't really think a third character adds anything. Honestly, I would have much preferred Princess Peach be a character like Toad or E. Gadd than what we got, but I also understand why they went with this route instead. As for the set itself, it feels smaller than the other starter courses for some reason? I appreciate the more elaborate builds, but it feels more like a collection of disparate builds than a small level like the others did. I would have preferred another maker set like last years instead of another starter course. As for the other sets, I love this trend of the small $10 dollar sets, and I hope we get more in the future. The boot is a fun build, and will hopefully have some fun interactions with the characters too. Maybe next year we can get one of the koopa car? (From Super Mario Maker 2) The springy mushroom (Fuzzy and Spike sets) looks interesting, I would like to get my hands on one, but the fuzzy set isn't too interesting and the spike one is pricey, even though Spike himself looks fantastic. The Yoshi set looks fun, I wonder how Yoshi interacts with the fruit, and I appreciate the trend of including suits in bigger sets. but the ice tower doesn't do it for me. Peach's castle looks great, the trapped cake is a fun feature, and with the description mentioning some really cool features (bob-omb painting, Bowser fight, etc) I'm excited to see some different angles and videos of this set. I don't mind the reused characters. They're such classic characters (in the case of Yoshi and Bowser) that I think it's good to give more than one way of getting them, and I think these sets are different enough that it doesn't feel like a complete rehash. So yeah, I guess there's a few things I'm excited for, but not as much as the previous waves. Hopefully the next one can impress me a bit more!

Well, that's the problem. It isn't new. It's just 2 of this piece (https://brickset.com/parts/6123814/plate-1x2-w-5-9-ball-end) stacked on top of each other, which means this 'fix' givens the mechs lopsided hips. Look at the box pics, you can tell that one balljoint is lower than the other. Now, not only do they have awkwardly wide hips, but they also can't stand straight. Why don't they just go back to the previous build? What was so wrong with it? If I get any of these new ones, that's what I'm doing. About this set itself, I feel like a recolor of that spidey mech could be a really good venom mech, better than the one we already got. The green goblin mech looks fine, but I would have loved to have gotten a glider for it. Maybe I'll make one, whether I get the set or not...

It's only a matter of time guys. It seems like half the people here are convinced that since we haven't had any confirmation of any NWH sets this year, it means that we'll never get anything at all. Yes, it took us 2 years to get good endgame sets, but this Spider-man we're talking about. This guy gets entire waves every year dedicated just to him and his villains, it's going to happen, I just think it will either be in the latter half of this year, or the beginning of the next. It all depends on when Marvel handed out their info... Yeah, this year has been a mess of fake leaks so far. First it was the Raimi sets, then the fake minifig series, after that the Uncharted set, the tower of fate, this guy on Eurobricks, and sprinkle in a few fake star wars set names for good measure. I really think we, as a community, have to do something about this before this spirals more out of control than it already has.

That's true... that whole time thing really makes doing anything else with those characters hard, if not impossible. It doesn't really help that they did barely anything with the idea, other than to use it as an excuse to make the Ice Emperor seem like an ancient threat to throw out the suspicion that it was Zane (which didn't work anyways).

Honestly, part of me is expecting the non-golden suits to be repeats of the Core suits. It just seems a bit much to get that many new ninja minifigs in one wave, and since they are specifically described as 'golden', I wouldn't expect them to be 'the other suits but with wings'. That's a complete guess on my part though. I wouldn't be surprised if one of the unknown figures ends up being Akita, especially if they are including Scott in Nya's mech. She was a much more important character in the Fire Chapter than Scott was in Prime Empire. From the descriptions we have, I could see her being in either the temple (in the prison cell) or in the Crystal King (Promobricks says there may be another figure in that one). Beyond that, I'm excited for this wave! It seems fun to bring back all these villains in a more cohesive way that DotD managed to do. I'm hoping there's a few more, I could see one of the four-armed minifigs being Garmadon, and maybe one of the samurai is General Vex from the Ice Chapter (He's still alive, right?). Even if that's not the case, I loved the ice samurai, and I hope these crystal ones capture some of the same energy as those. Hopefully the crystal sword and armor piece look fantastic. The golden ninja have the potential to look great as well. As much as I liked the anniversary figs from last year, the different headgear from figure to figure didn't make for a cohesive team look, so these will probably be better in that regard. The wings will make these stand out too, and if the pieces look like the EVO wings, then they'll look pretty good. For the sets themselves, I like some of these ideas. The crystal king centaur mech sounds cool, but I'm worried that with all the extra bulk and parts needed for the lower body that it may end up being pretty short compared to the other large Ninjago mechs. The crystal temple, with all the floating platforms, is a great concept to finally see in a lego set! I know they've done some floating platforms in the elves sets, but this seems to be a larger scale attempt at the concept. All the vehicles sound meh to me, just more of the same, it's really the figures that make those stand out. I would be more excited for Lloyd's dragon if it didn't have the super low parts count, and the non-cloth wings don't help either.Maybe it looks better than it sounds? Same with the Samurai X mech, nothing about the description makes it stand out to me, at least not the way the combo mech did when we got a description of that one. I'm excited to see pictures now, but who knows when that could be. Summer sets do tend to leak more often, but nothing is a guarantee.

Those videos are mostly discussing theories and possibilities, I don't think there's really any proof of that happening. I'm sure something big will happen after this year's summer wave, given that it does seem to be 'final-battle'-ish, but I don't see any good reason to do another soft reboot, since the last one wasn't too long ago, and the show itself seems to be trying to be less complicated story-wise than it was prior. As for that particular theory, I've definitely heard it before, so it isn't even a new idea, just the resurgence of an older one, which makes it seem less likely to be true.

USED is the key work here. We haven't had a NYTF that revealed all summer sets since 2017. After that year, Lego has only shown spring sets and maybe one summer theme if were lucky (Hidden side, 2019). As such, in terms of this discussion, NYTF wouldn't have mattered anyways. I feel like every year everyone forgets the change and gets excited all over again, only to be disappointed when the date rolls around...

Well, these set names had me excited. I hadn't realized Ninjago never had any rock or crystal enemies so far, so hopefully we'll get some great minifgs out of that. The prospect of getting a massive dragon and Samurai X mech sounded amazing as well! But the leaked parts counts have dampened my excitement quite a bit. Why are they all so low? Less that 1000 pieces for $140? I suspect something is amiss, but then again, I can't remember the last time there was a mix up like this, and I don't want a repeat of MK 2020 when we all assumed info was wrong but wasn't, so now I'm prepared for disappointment. Hopefully I'm just being pessimistic, and something messed up here, or the sets still end up great despite the low part counts. Oh well.

We do though. The $10 spinjitzu training sets and the addon to the dojo temple are scheduled for March. (I'm using Promobricks as my source here: https://www.promobricks.de/lego-ninjago-2022/130707/)

Since the other sets are listed in the instructions database (no pictures sadly), we'll probably finally see them tomorrow! In terms of this set, I guess we still don't know what EVO means? The car itself looks pretty good though, like a souped-up speed champions car. I'm not sure about the box design, LEGO has done lots of experimentation over the past few years in terms of packaging layout, and I guess "more simplistic" was the result? The "painted" background looks great though! I did notice a few interesting details, however... In the front of the box image, if you look at the minifig line-up on the top side of the box, it looks like Jay includes the Island head wrap hair piece as well as the hood. Also, I have a theory as to what the "banners" are. The side of the box appears (it's hard to tell) to say "track progress rewards", which leads me to believe the banners will be scanned by an app or something and give some digital content, and that's the "EVO" part of these.

Here's the thing though: Lego has only revealed the licensed sets this early, that was the case this year, and it was last year as well. Meanwhile, Ninjago and other original themes were only added on to Lego.com at the beginning of December. The pics we got on November 20th last year were from another online retailer, and that will probably be the case this year as well. I expect to see them revealed next week as well, but not by Lego themselves. That also means we might need to wait more for Monkie Kid, since they would have to be posted on a Chinese retail page, since most other stores don't stock them, or wait for them to be added to Lego.com. Now, as to why Lego reveals the licensed themes earlier, I suspect it has to do with the license holders wanting Lego to reveal them officially rather than them just showing up on some random website. Since Lego can't really control what websites do with perfectly legal images, they just beat them to the punch and upload them before anyone else has a chance to, so they can avoid issues with the IP holders. This is just pure speculation though, but given how strict Disney is with stuff like this, it wouldn't surprise me.

This list is exactly what I was thinking, I guess great minds think alike, right? Except, in regards to the $20 dollar set, we know the piece count of 76219, and it's around 300 pieces, so it definitely isn't 4+. Also, I know Lego likes mechs and big monsters, but I don't think they would focus a $100 dollar set on sandman. I would fully expect the Statue of Liberty to be the majority of the build there. I would also hope for a repeat of MJ or Doctor Strange, but I'm not sure how many figs Lego would include for the price. I'm still not convinced 76219 isn't another mech 2-pack, since both the release date of April and the piece count would match up, but in this case, I hope I'm proven wrong. About the statue, what color do you think Lego would make it? From what I see in the trailer (I might be wrong, it's a pretty dark scene) it looks like they've polished the statue in universe back to the original bronze color, and I'm not sure how Lego could replicate that without making so many recolors into the metallic bronze color they have. Maybe using dark orange? Yes, that would be great! I love to expand my classic comic spidey villain collection. The electricity mask makes for such a great detail, I hope Lego does it justice and not just a face print like Thor's from Ragnarok.

Good news, one of the Chinese new year sets for 2022 has that piece in blue! (https://brickset.com/sets/80108-1/Lunar-New-Year-Traditions) I'm sure the piece will be available in Bricks and Pieces, so you won't have to buy the entire set for that. As for me, I think dark blue will look better, though I'll also have to change the hands of the minifig to make it work. By the way, I built this set in mecabricks, and since I got the exact parts count, I can prove two things: the belt is printed, but there is indeed no hairpeice. (fun fact: sticker sheets count as a part)

Dang, the Black Panther sets must have sold like crazy. I wouldn't have guessed this would have so many more sets than the other films. Given the rumors...

Those redesigned socket pieces are also in the rendered images of the What if? mechs, even thought the sets themselves use the old mold. However, since the irl pics of this set also have the new pieces, it looks like they'll start using them now. Like you said, hopefully they have more friction. As for EVO, I have my own theory that they are 5+ sets, like what we've seen in the city line over the past 2 years. It would line up with the fewer pieces and '4+' look that Promobricks described.

Just noticed something about the new mechs... they changes the hips of them. They no longer use that triple ballpoint technic piece now, and as such the waist rotation has been removed. Honestly, that's a bummer. I might mod my Wolverine mech to add it back in.

So... I got the Iron Man buildable figure picture to load... wow do I not like it. The head is a weird specialized piece, like that rounded shoulder armor piece used for molten man and clay face... it also looks too lanky and skinny. Maybe it looks better in person, but I'm not sure anything can fix the head. (Tell me if you can see it from this link. If not, I'll screenshot it and try to share it. https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/iron-man-figure-76206) Nevermind, it's fixed now. Even with more pics, I still don't like it.