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Yeah sorry I should've specified, I meant here in Australia where four of the five major retailers run 20% off sales on a regular basis, and the fifth sells things below full RRP from the start. Those patient in Australia can always do better than 20% off too, for non-LEGO exclusives.

You should include at least two Licensed IPs meeting, but beyond that you can use non-licensed figures too.

We are lucky with the discounts we have here in Aus. I haven't been following the prices of these because I'm personally not interested, but for anything I do want, I always wait for good sales. And yeah, the pricetag says D2C, but on the other hand the plus of them not being D2C is that they're available at all stores and thus will be on good sale.

Frankly I find the prices of the latest system rather incredible. I get that LEGO is committed to rebooting Hogwarts and had to do something different, but this time around it's Hogwarts for the wealthy and just wearing that openly. I know there's a lot of wealth in the world and LEGO has "always been an expensive luxury", but I feel for the average families with a kid who is into Harry Potter and LEGO because I'd imagine that this version of Hogwarts would be well out of reach. It's only the second year and the system is already over $600 USD all up, or nearly $500 for just the two big buildings (in the US with tax anyway).

The first Petunia face was pretty good for Petunia, but not Maarva.

Privet Drive is objectively better than the last one (besides Petunia's face), and I liked the last one. But if it's really $90 USD RRP? Woof. Yes it's a very commonly reused head.

Wow I love the Wario. Might just have to get that one for my little LEGO Mario collection, and since I don't already have any Boo, it's a win win.

Face looks like the young Han Solo face (which they used for Cedric way back in the Clocktower set) and the hair is just Clone Wars Anakin hair. Nothing new st all, and baffling they'd revert to those bad options when they've used much better ones since.

Wow I love the Spider-Man 2 set and am so glad they're revisiting stuff like this. Never mind that half the figures don't "belong in the scene" because it's a great little homage to the film, and they (astonishingly) did it all right! Shame if it will really be $50 USD RRP (making that $70 or $80 AUD??) but patience is a virtue.

Yes they're a new single-piece mould. The Dreamlings piece is a small body on which to attach Minifigure (or bigfig) heads.

The backlash to Last Jedi was absolutely immense. So immense that Disney quickly changed course on their series. But it's different. People were clamoring for and wondering about new Star Wars for 15 years when Phantom Menace released, and it was the Star Wars creator himself delivering odd and clunky ideas with slow pacing where zippy inventive fun and relatable characters had once reigned. People were very excited for the sequels, but still approaching it with some trepidation now that it was Big Corporate running the show. I remember the rumours of Force Awakens starting with Luke's hand floating through space and thinking, ok, we'll wait and see. "Half the excitement, .5 the letdown" - Count Dooku.

Personally I think there's more to it than that, which partially comes down to whether or not Disney keeps the characters and general timeline of the sequels alive or not. Apart from some pivots surrounding the backlash to Jar Jar, George always stood by his choices/films and, like I said, kept the Prequel timeline alive with new material like the Clone Wars show. Disney set out to do all they could to distance themselves from the prequels, yet had obviously lost faith in their own new trilogy by the end of it, and now have done all they can to focus on anything but the sequels. People having seen and liked the films as kids isn't enough alone. Some (good) Rey movies to keep it going would help.

People keep saying this, but I really don't see it, to the same extent. The prequels are clunky films with some relatively interesting ideas, plus a lot of new memorable iconography (ships, droids, characters, etc). The sequels are slick films with relatively uninteresting ideas that devolve as they go along, and besides a few trooper designs and Kylo Ren, a minor amount of memorable iconography that isn't just something slightly modified from the OT. George also kept building on the Prequels with Clone Wars debuting only a few years after RotS, feeding into a generation of fondness for the era, whereas here we are six years after Rise of Skywalker and Disney is yet to set anything during the actual sequel timeline or with sequel characters (partially because the sequel timeline is so condensed). So no, I don't think there's going to be a rush of admiration for the sequels unless they can get a Rey movie/trilogy off the ground that actually builds on the sequels and helps anyone like them retrospectively. As for LEGO, the company should really prioritise filling the remaining prequel gaps before they do more sequel material, IMO. Insane we still haven't gotten Shmi and Boss Nass after all these years.

Those Friends baby heads are insanity! $9.83 in Australia! And once again I don't understand why they have been withholding so many Ninjago Minifigure prints from the service. The unique helmets and those little dragons and stuff are there, but not some heads, torsos and legs.

Correct, unless it gets revealed while the contest is still running.