Mr Spielbrick

A great pity, but thank you so much for all the work you’ve done over the years, WhiteFang. Your reviews were always the best, in my opinion. If I wanted to know what any of the individual parts of a figure looked like, yours were the pictures to check.

As a theme park fan, I am very, very pleasantly surprised by the inclusion of the Galaxy’s Edge set. Wow! It works well with the Star Wars line AND it’s a decent fit with the two massive D2C Disney parks sets (even though it’s on a smaller scale). The inclusion of Vi, Bek and that astromech elevate it to something that Galaxy’s Edge lovers like me will want to grab right away!

Thanks! Good to know. The side of me that has to grade academic papers for a day job appreciates your mentioning of two reliable sources.

So, just to check... Do we actually really, properly know a 400-dollar Harry Potter D2C set is coming this year? Like, backed up by someone like Falconfan? And what about that elusive System-scale set, that according to King No-Know was an underground something? Apart from what it is, do we know there will be an additional set?

It wasn’t LEGO, but Mini Mates. But it’s a while ago, and around the time that LEGO Batman began. So it’s an easy mistake. That is, I’m assuming you mean the video below?

Wow, thanks so much for this advice! I’m feeling very lucky to be living in the Netherlands right now. Also good news regarding JWD not being the last film in the franchise, I think. More films = more moments for LEGO to turn into sets. Think of all the dinosaurs we could get...! The whole idea of dinosaurs in LEGO has appealed to me since they started with the green T-Rex. The Jurassic franchise seems to have helped it develop further and further. Fantastic!

Wow! You’re in the Netherlands, aren’t you? Is that deal still available somewhere? I love that there are now other baby dinosaurs than raptors. Both the new plant-eating dinosaur infants are cute as anything! The Gyrosphere station is such a wonderful addition to a proper park... Seeing that we’re going to get this one, made me buy the Triceratops set from last year. Now I’m really hoping they’re gonna do more of these type of sets.

To the people wondering what those mustaches are doing there - weren’t mustaches typical features of the classic pirate minifigures? Looks to me like they want to honour that with these new XL ‘staches.

Oh my Jolly Roger! While it’s quite different from the original submission, I love this thing equally! The concept that it can be turned into a ship (and not just any ship) is a wonderful addition. All the callbacks to the Pirates themes of old are lovely. Whatever this turns out to cost (200? Ouch!), I cannot let this one sail away from me. I am suddenly obsessed with treasure...

What are we thinking of the CMF 2 bag “leak”? Real? Fake? Something seems off to me, even though I would adore all of the figures in that picture.

As far as I’m aware, the ‘surprise’ refers simply to the way in which casual buyers obtain the figures: in blind bags. Therefore, they should be surprised as to what figure they’re actually getting.

That baby triceratops is so cute! I love what they’re doing with these sets. Here’s hoping there’s a second new dinosaur in the wave. Based on previous waves, that seems a reasonable number.

These are available in the LEGO Store in Utrecht, the Netherlands, too. Picked up the ice dude, the elephant lady and I must admit, more than one penguin. Love the Santa hat in all white as well.

Not trying to get anyone’s hopes up, but... Considering the island is made up of a bunch of shipwrecks, perhaps it would be possible to reverse-engineer a(n almost) complete ship out of those parts?

Great model! Having been to Speedy’s, I can say you’ve captured it very well!