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I only just noticed on my third look that there seems to be a running theme of the Never-Witch sealing entire Realms into bottles. I noticed the Sandman tower in the C-Rex, but if you look at the Nightmare Raven, there are three bottles with different designs in them so it looks like there’s going to be an entire plotline about her trying to steal entire realms and seal them away for some reason. That’s exciting! And terrifying.

The Raven and Knight Z-blob are so gorgeous. Knight might be my favourite LEGO mech ever in terms of appearance for the sheer Gundam-looking aesthetic, it’s gorgeous and I can’t wait to get it. The Raven is just as good, even if I was really hoping it would be more of an evil Kaiju for Z-Blob to fight. I’m disappointed by the C-Rex, though . . like, the design is good, but the chaotic colours and rusty junkyard aesthetic kind of just ruin it for me. I like my mechs clean, and this looks like it’s reused from TLM2 Apocalypseburg concept art. I’ll reserve judgment until I see reviews, though. The new looks for the main heroes, and the Dark versions of them, are all super clean though, I’m excited. ^^

I am genuinely annoyed that the White Classic Spaceman, the only one to have been in more than a single set in the last ten years, is being used a third time here. Pink and Yellow were exclusive to the Benny pack, Red was exclusive to Galaxy Explorer, Green hasn’t been seen since the Mech set, Purple and Gray required assembly, Brown was a CMF and Orange was exclusive to that book . . but no, White gets three sets. That doesn’t even make sense, Red and Yellow were the originals and Blue is the most iconic because Benny and also Classic Space’s inherent blue/grey/trans-yellow aesthetic. (Relatedly, how has it been ten years since TLM and we still don’t have a non-scratched up version of Benny’s torso print?) While I’m soapboxing, can we please get a reissue of the Black Classic Spaceman? It’s the only one I don’t have (even managed to find an old but pristine Blue torso to use with the helmet from Gamers’ Market, so I’m fine for Blue, but for everyone else’s sake they should still make new Blue and Black).

I have serious questions about the light post, it really feels like they were just trying to inflate the part count there. For a second I thought it could be used as a display stand, with the speeder attached to it on an angle at the top, but I think that was just a trick of the art and now I’m annoyed. Still going to get it because I’m a sucker for exclusive Jedi and army-building the 501st. Hopefully it’ll go on sale, but I’m not too optimistic.

One thing I’m noticing that I really love is that none of the outfits have any skin showing on them, so you could easily swap around the heads to change the composition of the party . . well, except for the halfling probably but it’s still very much appreciated.

“Z-Blob The Knight”? With a piece count like that, could we expect a Titan Mech style robo scale version of Z-blob? That sounds exciting. I’m also stoked for the C-Rex. Car-Rex, maybe? I’m hoping for a Truckosaurus vibe. Also quite curious about the ‘Northern Crow’ - sounds sort of like it might be a bad guys base build, finally, maybe hopefully? Or else some kind of giant nightmare monster, which would also be awesome. Intrigued by the fact that the Never-Witch seems to be replacing the Nightmare King as the main villain, and hopefully will be in more sets. Kind of surprised in all honesty, she didn’t really seem like main villain material, but neither did the Spider Queen at first I guess. Bit disappointed that NK was only in two sets after all that . .

I was really hoping this would be a bunch of Minifigure scale buildings, all connected together. Something I could put in my city. Sigh. Easy skip for me, then.

Pictures of the Space Science Lab are officially out and I love it! It’s like a terrarium! It’s gorgeous! And they’ve finally, on their third try, done a building with two airlocks, so that we can actually attach it to the City and Friends bases as an expansion! Definitely getting this! https://lego.bricksmegastore.com/products/lego-city-space-science-lab?utm_source=Klaviyo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NEW VIP PRE-ORDER SETS <AU>02.03.24 (01HQW31M2EC2NRTSZN2G0YG8F3)&amp;_kx=0N9rxmExFA0eGmVsA3dCJEJkGcskkYCwbpM4kppZlrDxfItMLcV2GwwXtNcro4Ao.UYvNsm There is a little alien who’s been recruited and given his own little space suit, it’s adorable! And a disabled spaceman with a hover bike that’s built to accomodate his wheelchair? Weird but interesting!

The Friends Mars Rover looks gorgeous, I love it. Trying to figure out how it connects to the airlock system, though, it looks like the main body of the rover detaches from the wheels and then splits in half? I really wish they’d done some kind of ‘hub’ set, because there are a lot of attachment points but not a lot of things to attach them to. I want to put everything together into a giant space base, dang it.

This is literally my first time buying a set on day 1; I always wait for sales, but Big W in my area somehow managed to get the Isabelle/Fauna and Bunni sets out and available for pretty good prices, so I picked both of them up. They are adorable and I really hope this theme succeeds because I will buy every set they put out. Fauna’s House in particular is going to be a great addition to the suburbs of my LEGO city. The other three sets are less generously priced, so I’m probably going to wait until the Easter sales, but definitely looking forward to having them!

I was genuinely disappointed to learn that the wolves were just masked humans, because I thought that we’d get a whole tribe of Ras-alikes. If this happens I am so down for it.

The $80 set is a Battle Bus with ten minifigures apparently? That can’t possibly be correct, right? Sounds way too good to be true.

I expect Thing to be represented by this part either way, honestly, that hand doesn’t look very necessarily minidoll-ish. I am wondering if we might get a version of the ‘power blast’ minifig hand attachment piece with an anti stud instead of a stud though, that would be interesting and let him walk around.

Has anyone come up with any creative ideas regarding what to do with these torsos and their gorgeous variant on the Classic Space logo? https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=973pb5500c01&amp;idColor=153#T=C&amp;C=153 Or, for that matter, any of the surprisingly wide diversity of variants on Classic Space we’ve been getting recently. From different colours thereof, to Mr. Oz’ Dreamchaser variant in DREAMzzz, we even got a harness with a ‘space mining’ variant ages ago.

I can’t quite tell from the pictures; how offset is Brick Cross Station from the baseplate of the Modular? I have a line of track running behind some Modulars with three studs of overlap. If I can’t make that work I have no interest, but if I can then I’m excited.