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  1. Posted

    4 hours ago, Soupperson1 said:

    Here’s the four new sets: https://bouwsteentjes.info/lego-disney-2024-sets/

    Im guessing Rapunzel’s Tower is a retail exclusive or not a January release after all. :P 

    Thank you :) Probably an exclusive to certain retailers in each country I'd say.

    Not much to interest me, but the new baby reindeer looks adorable. I just picked up the last one, but going to have to get this one for my Disney minifigure display case. And is that a different Bruni? He looks to be sitting up?

  2. Posted · Edited by BacktoBricks

    Ford Anglia: Lovely little set for display if you don't own one already. A great little set for kids also with a cheaper pricepoint and playability.

    Magical Creatures: Really dissappointed with this one. I wasn't expecting much from the build, just the usual tree or two as filler fluff, but from the leaks that Buckbeak was going to be in it I thought the Hermione and Ron minifigures were certain to be from Prisoner of Azkaban and Hagrid's lesson in the forest. So that being said I thought we would get student versions for the minifigures and Hermione might be the usual combo of reusued Gryffindor robes and plain legs, but I was also hoping we might get a new torso print for Ron with his scruffy white open shirt look. The CMF Ron comes close but he has his black robes on still. For the set to instead include little Hermione and Ron is extremely dissappointing because that just doesn't make sense canoically as they hadn't met Buckbeak yet in either the films or the books. Of course for kids I'm sure this will still be fun and if you don't have a Buckbeak, baby thestral, pixie yet etc then this is a good set for that, but I see no reason for the minifigure choices. I would rather of had a new torso print than a winking pixie.

    Owlery: Pleasantly suprised by this one and love the new owl colours. The snowy rocks really capture the movie vibe, but dissappointing to see plain legs on Flich. He has printed legs in the first iteration of this figure with this torso print, so Lego can do better and it feels nothing but money corner cutting not to include printed legs. 

    Boathouse: Again pleasantly suprised. Minifigures are as expected and the build was never going to be wonderful, but it's cute and compact.

    Hedwig: Not my cup of tea at all and the bird looks far too big for the sign, but I'm sure it will make a nice desk warmer for some. Can't fault whoever had to design the set for the pricepoint they did an admirable job.

    Overall I'm getting low budget vibes from this wave, with sets chosen because minifigures can mostly be reuses and instead the odd printed part and another gimmick being used to try to sell the sets. All the sets are cute and some sets clearly have had the budget spent on them, such as Hagrid's Hut getting all the new figs, the printed mitten, Fang etc, but if that means that Filch can't even get printed legs in another set it seems pretty tight. Will be interesting to see how the Summer wave turns out. Maybe sometimes less would be more?

  3. Posted

    34 minutes ago, thebricksbear said:

    I think all examples of "X's so and so" set names are part of the princess theme. I'd love some Tangled figs without shelling out $400 as well but I doubt this is it. Especially for a tower and a building for $60.

    Whilst I the pricepoint and piece count makes me think it will be minidolls, we do have a 'X's ...' that isn't: Peter Pan and Wendy's Flight Over London.

  7. Posted

    1 hour ago, Accio Lego said:

    Honestly, I know I’ll be accused of fear-mongering, but why hasn’t anyone brought up the very real possibility that the advent calendar could be stocked with the pint sized minidolls lego uses in the storybook sets? All of the named characters bar Moana have been made in that form before and they use normal minidoll heads and hair so it would be perfectly feasible budget-wise to do a new body for Moana + an exclusive new holiday special inspired one for one or two of the others. Not saying I think it would be the best idea, but clearly the storybooks do well enough with the target audience for them to keep making them year after year and lego have made stupider decisions regarding advent calendars in the past. 

    To be honest I think the pint sized ones are cuter, so if it isn't minifigures then I say go for it. :laugh_hard:

  8. Posted · Edited by BacktoBricks

    9 hours ago, Lion King said:

    I don’t care if calendar has some junk, I WANT DISNEY MINIFIGURES IN IT! Ahem, excuse me. No minidolls, please.

    I generally dislike the minidolls, but 43215 The Enchanted Treehouse (aka Disney Princess minidoll battle pack) is reduced on Amazon today and I'm ridiculously tempted. There's something about a minidoll battle pack with characters never seen in minidoll form before that tempts me; probably the idea that it will be pretty much a one and done thing when it comes to getting all of the princesses. It's not like I haven't even got all the princesses they have done in minifigure form. Why brain? Why? :facepalm:

  12. Posted

    Some new 2024 info leaks via terminalvideo and Falconbricks (apologies if wrong sources quoted):

     

    Disney Classic 43249 Buildable Stitch - 729 pieces - $64.99 US - 1st March 2024

    Disney Classic 43239 Mirabel Photo Holder and Jewellery Box - 334 pieces - $29.99 US - 1st March 2024 (comes under the Disney Classic branding, but no minifigure/s confirmed to be included)

  15. Posted

    8 minutes ago, Darth Shadowthrone said:

    Oh wow the Tantive comes with SEVEN minifigures! For around 55 dollars! That’s going to be an insanely popular set for AFOLs I imagine.

    Is it possible all the anniversary figures known about so far only come in the March sets? So no special minifigures in the Clone battlepack or Firehawk set. 

    R2-D2 is scheduled for a May release so it's not just March sets.

  18. Posted · Edited by BacktoBricks

    If we look at the anniversaries that have been hinted at we have 20th anniversaries of both the Clone Wars and KOTOR. So if Revan and Fives were related to those, then we still have the 25th anniversaries for both TPM and Lego Star Wars itself.

    For TPM a Shmi minifigure would be cool seeing as I can't see us getting her any other way, but at the same time another Queen Amidala minifigure would be good as that minifigure is ridiculously expensive now.

    As for LSW itself well the possibilities really depend if they stick to the core characters or use the opportunity to give us characters we'd never get otherwise.

  19. Posted

    1 hour ago, MKJoshA said:

    @Mandalorianknight and anyone else who wants to jump in.

    Can you explain the appeal of Abeloth? The Thrawn stories are great. I enjoyed the Yuuzong Vong books. I like the Fel Empire. But the Abeloth tangent seemed silly. Why are people wanting her to make a live action appearance? (And, to keep it on track, to then make a Lego appearance) 

    I can't explain the appeal of Abeloth herself as a character; to me she just seems like another conveniently overpowered big bad. As someone who grew up reading Legends and the Yuuzhan Vong stories, their threat felt more realistic due to the collective threat of their insidious gradual invasion. That being said, neither story feels very original, but you can't really expect any story to be truly original these days. So now I think it's more about how people combine elements of what are essentially all previously done stories and how characters are developed. Filoni is arguably skilled at both, so I'm guessing the appeal of Abeloth is a mix of nostalgia and the excitement of people believing they realised what Filoni has set up with the Ahsoka show (what he might literally be pointing too), not necessarily the appeal of the character herself. I'm sure there is also an appreciation for how all these years later he is managing to weave together all his ideas and build on what he set up in the Clone Wars that seemed like no more than a, rather fantastical and somewhat irrelevant I think, side story at the time.

    As for Lego, if she did make a live action appearance, I would have thought she'd make a pretty unique looking minifigure. Not one I personally care for, but if you do love her from Legends then I can see why the thought that she might make it into itty bitty plastic form would appeal.

    None of this really has anything to do with 2023 sets though so I'll leave it there. :sceptic:

  20. Posted

    2 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

    How would you rank the 1HY wave in terms of how much you‘re looking forward to them?

    7) Sorting Hat - I can see the designers doing a good job with the source material and it looking half decent, but this is a novelty set for me and I have no interest in buying or displaying such as set or paying a premium for the sound brick.

    6) Hedwig - I have nothing against our feathery heroine, but we've had enough iterations already for a while. Again, sure it will look fine and appeal as desk decoration for some, but just not one for me.

    5) Boathouse - As I don't collect the new castle modules anymore to combine I highly doubt I will care for the build presuming it will be rather plain as with the other modules. If we get some new students that would be great, but I'm expecting a repeat McGonagall and students made up of previously released school robes and parts so potentially nothing of value here for me. Which I fine with in some ways as it lowers the wave budget!

    4) Owlery - As with the boathouse I can't see the build being of interest, but I'm hoping we will at least get new Cho and Harry prints. If it also gives us a HP variant of the new tiny owl that would be great.

    3) Ford Anglia - this one is kind of tied with the Owlery as a set with potentially a couple of new characters variants, but it just beats is as it will be significantly cheaper. If I ever thought about downsizing my collection the vehicles like the Ford Anglia and Knight Bus would probably also be the last thing to go besides minifigures because they are such little builds for display purposes. The car will also always give me nostalgic Chamber of Secrets book cover vibes. As a kid the vehicles were also the parts of the set I gravitated towards purely because of their manoeuvrability so I can see this being a good buy for kids. It will be nice to have a other small set on shelves.

    2) I'm guessing this is based on the Care of Magical Creatures scene in the forest from Prisoner of Azkaban and I'd love to get the scruffy white shirt variant of Ron. Potential new minifigures aside, I'm hoping this will be a good creature pack regardless.

    1) You just can't beat a good displayable location playset and I can't see how we won't get at least new variants of the trio not to mention Norbert(a) and Fang. Add in the potential for Hagrid with his pinny (please Lego!) and you couldn't really ask for more from a Philosopher's Stone Hagrid's Hut other than the build is a good display piece and I can't see the designers letting us down in that respect. 

  21. Posted

    @NostalgicBricks The Durmstrang Ship and Borgin and Burkes are the sets I would really like and feel notably absent from this reboot to me, whilst I would like minifigures of Karkaroff and Narcissa Malfoy primarily. The Second Task set this year gave me the merperson minifigure I always wanted and with the new Rita the theme is starting to feel pretty well covered. I wouldn't mind a small set with a Quirrell this summer though as he hadn't been on shelves for a while.

  23. Posted

    53 minutes ago, NostalgicBricks said:

    Discourse around this theme has turned extremely toxic recently. I'm just going to keep enjoying what Lego puts out and hope they continue to put it out. 

    I'm pretty happy with the winter wave. I like the fact that the novelty sets hopefully won't be ones with exclusive minifigures and so will be skippable, unlike the books or banners. They had they're market sure, but after half a decade of this theme being back I'm not fond of having to continually buy sets I don't want for figures or source them on a pretty expensive secondary market. Yes the minifigures don't sound all that exciting, but the forest set sounds like a potentially cheap way to get Buckbeak and maybe some more pixies or pigmypuffs, maybe even a niffler if we are extremely lucky, and we've just had quite a few new characters in the last year so it can't all be new. I'm sure kids will appreciated that set if it does contain a good selection of creatures. The castle sections seem like ones people have been asking for and the Hagrid's Hut Philosopher's Stone remake with Fang has definitely been a requested set. For me, the winter wave has always been the appetiser for the big summer wave so I never expect the great playsets in this wave. I'm equating the Hagrid's Hut set with this year's Second Task set as being the standout winter playset, if rather more expensive, but it's the summer I expect the playsets from.

    There are only two things that annoy / worry me about this wave: 1) They are all March so don't really feel like a winter wave anymore and the winter and summer waves are feeling very close together, and (2) it's a large winter wave and I just hope they don't oversaturate the market with HP and kill the golden goose so to speak. Too much of a good thing and all that.

  24. Posted

    Thank you @Yaxley. Apologies for taking any info with a large pile of salt until further confirmation, but the set descriptions do seem to match up with the prices and piece counts we have already been told e.g. 76432 only having 172 pieces but being $29.99 meaning a large moulded animal would make sense, whilst 76425 supposedly has 337 pieces but will only coat $19.99 suggesting a bunch of smaller pieces like in the Dobby statue.