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  2. Posted

    4 minutes ago, Moon_Knight said:

    How the hell is anybody going to afford this year??
     

    • Visitor Center: Attack of the T-Rex $119.99
    • The Discovery of the Brachiosaurus $79.99
    • The Dilophosaurus Ambush $19.99
    • DC's Batcave $449.99
    • Marvel's Avengers Tower or Hulkbuster Mark XLVIII :wink: $524.99
    • Rivendell - $499.99
    • Indiana Jones The Temple Escape $169.99

     

    Too many fantastic sets! This is gonna be a rough year for my wallet. :pir-murder:

    Yeah it's gonna be a rough one budget-wise. I'm going to try and wait until the end of the year for some sales, since inevitably most of the non-D2C will end up ~20% off at some point :)

  3. Posted

    Promobricks has posted a great article with some minor updates to what we already know from yesterday: https://www.promobricks.de/lego-jurassic-world-2023-vorschau/152912/

    Sounds like we'll indeed be getting open/closed top variants of the Jeep, and the Ford Explorer will be largely the same as in the diorama set! I bet the whole fleet will look amazing together on display.

    The Brachiosaurus can also stand on its hind legs, which I think will look awesome. Plus, looks like we are getting an East Dock sign with Nedry's Jeep set!

    It seems Gennaro is confirmed to not be included, which is a bummer, but there's still hope for Muldoon. 

  4. Posted

    Very excited to see the Brachiosaurus! Overall these descriptions sound good, it'll be interesting to see what the visitor's centre looks like considering it sounds like much more of an interior playset split between the different rooms (remember there's still possibilities open in the future for an 18+ style diorama of the building exterior).

    I can see that they've aimed on the low side for minifigures in most of these sets (i.e. the previous Dominion triceratops set had 4 minifigs and it sounds like this one will have just 2). I hope all the builds look as good as we're imagining to justify some of the prices.

  5. Posted

    19 minutes ago, Legofan2001 said:

    Hopefully Bly+2 327th troopers+Ayala! Otherwise it doesn’t make much sense to not just sell it as a battlepack.

    I'm really hoping this is what we get, it would be such a win for the summer wave and give us a fantastic army builder considering today's prices. It definitely isn't guaranteed, unfortunately, but it makes sense if we imagine them as trying to sell a battle pack for an extra $5 by making the figures a big draw (à la the new $15 Mando N-1 microfighter).

  8. Posted

    2 hours ago, FoggyFate said:

    Even if they knew most of the sets it could be they don’t know what numbers/prices they belong to, kind of like what happened with the AT-TE last year.

    That's totally fair, but it's still pretty crazy to compare the information we had by this time last year to what we know now for Summer 2023.

    We at least had basic info on the Justifier, 4+ AT-ST, Obi-Wan's Starfighter, and BD-1. Not to mention near-confirmations for the AT-TE and N-1 Starfighter.

    So far this year we don't have a single solid rumor for August sets besides "probably stuff from new Disney+ shows." I think at this point a lot of us would be satisfied by even a single set confirmation, but here's hoping.

  9. Posted

    10 hours ago, Time Dragon said:

    Well I tried to scale down the one from the game and it's been a while since I made it. Your measurement fits pretty well to my cardboard one. the 10 in x 3 ft x 3 ft / 25.4 cm x 91.44 cm x 91.44 cm is more a rough guess based on trying to measure the one in game.

    But to be honest it's hard to be sure on something like this.

    I'm very much hoping we get the fully moulded Brachi, even if it's likely to be somewhat downsized from what would be "accurate minifig scale". The piece count doesn't really hint at this, but here's how I think they COULD do it:

    Brachiosaurus being ~8ish pieces

    Let's say 4 minifigs at ~20 pieces total (includes Hammond with his cane)

    Park jeep at ~150 pieces

    Out of 512 pieces, that leaves ~334, which is a lot considering much of the set's budget will inevitably go towards the big dino.

    What they might do here is a simple but detailed tree build, for the Brachi to eat from. Picture a very skinny, tall tree with a lot of foliage at the top and some basic terrain/grass at the bottom (as seen in the movie). This would go well with a vertical box style like they've done recently with the Star Wars Hoth AT-ST, and I think would round out the set visually.

    The reason I think that could work from a budget perspective is that a set like the Icons Bonsai Tree is nearly 900 pieces and just $50, so if you rearranged something like that to be one third the mass, you could build a ~300 piece reasonably detailed tree for under $20 (again much taller and narrower to match the trees in the movie).

    This is my hope, but I'm interested to see if anyone else thinks it's realistic?

  10. Posted

    I think there's a solid chance we do get the Ford Explorer in the Triceratops set. Lego loves doing dino/vehicle combo sets, and they probably expect the tour vehicles are a pretty popular design for kids and adults alike, especially given how well the 2022 diorama was received. They may not want to include the Jeep here as that is likely to be in two other sets already (dilophosaurus and brachiosaurus).

    If we use the Dominion triceratops set as a reference - since it has a similar price tag - I think it's fair to expect a 238 piece tour vehicle alongside the trike, and probably 4ish minifigs. Since that leaves about 20 pieces or so, my guess would be a tiny sidebuild, maybe some foliage/fencing/accessories.