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Last year the shopping site libreriarayuela listed a bunch of summer Disney sets, but we only got two. The prices were also a bit off. I believe for other themes they were more accurate though and some of the sets listed were Raya ones, which presumably got delayed. So what might be in store? It looks like 43200 and 43201 are €20 sets for 5+ which might mean more storybooks! 43202 doesn’t seem to be connected as it’s 6+ and is rumored to be €50. The other prices connect to sets that have been rumoured with piece counts. 43193 with 131 pieces for €30 43194 with 154 pieces for €40 43195 with 239 pieces for €55 43196 with 505 pieces for €100 Either those prices (which are all adjusted as Liberia prices up their sets) all seem way too much for the rumored piece counts. Hopefully we’ll get set more info including names soon to prove these right or wrong.

Ooh thanks so much! There was a fortune teller and circus in the 2013 LEGO Friends Videogame too. I doubt they’ll be any nods to that as everyone has seemed to forget that game. :( I wonder what we’ll get bar the big top and Ferris wheel? I imagine they’ll steer clear of animals such as elephants because of the controversies, but they did include white tigers in the jungle. XP I hope we get some more special mini dolls other than the fortune teller, a clown would be hilarious!

If anyone is able to scan instructions we’d probably get better quality pictures of the March sets bar the mall, which isn’t in the back of any. I assume that the March sets were intended to be January releases (which would explain why the vet helicopter is out now) and the mall was supposed to be a summer one.

The two Rayas are actually different, the one in the small set is barefoot and the one in the palace has brown boots.

Both sets look really fun! Sisu looks like a decent build. Too much medium azure probably but I’m glad it’s at least based on the final design and not the pink D23 concept art. Her head mould really evokes feelings of Elves! I’m shocked this set gets two decent sized side builds as usually Disney Princess sets are expensive but these builds make the price seem fair. The gate seems to connect to the palace too! I always like when lego does stuff like that. The worst part of this set is definitely the minidolls - it’s only the same Raya from the palace for €30. :( The boat set seems ridiculously overpriced for €50, but I do like it. Both build colours are consistent (opposed to something like Jasmine’s and Aladdin’s castle that changed colour on a whim) and from what we can make out look like decent builds. The boat uses little to no pink or purple which is great for this line too! I also really like the fact the canoe/kayak piece comes in golden now! I can imagine people making some funky looking trophies or statues with it. XD The figures here are @Fenghuang0296 Boun (who should be using a micro doll’s body, as he’s a little boy) and Sisu in her human form. I’m really glad Sisu has lavender hair, as some toys have depicted it as white. It seems to be Gal Gadot Wonder Woman’s hair in lavender, which makes it same as the one in the 2021 mall. What’s most exciting about the figure’s is we’re getting a Disney Princess set without the lead heroine in the set! That’s never happened beyond things like Palace Pets and those lego.com exclusive minidoll-less dressing rooms. Oh and the more nougat figures the better! I’m shocked all three Ognis are included in this set as they all seem to have unique moulds. I probably will get all three sets now! But I’ll have to get at least the boat on discount. :P

Have any new pieces been added since the animals on Wednesday?

Accounts on Instagram such as https://www.instagram.com/mmdisney200/ have been posting pictures of Raya toys that have already been released. I think these should give us some clues about what the two other sets will look like and who they’ll come with.

I’m really excited about the Amelia Earhart set! I hope the promo ends up being in March rather than February though as there’s a lot of sets releasing March 1st I’m interested in.

I really don’t understand why people still think actual musicians will be used. Wouldn’t it be bizzare to have Taylor Swift or ABBA in one set and then a Llama in sunglasses with maracas in the other? :P Plus Swift and ABBA are child friendly examples if they wouldn’t fit how are someone like Ariana Grande or Donna Summer supposed to? :P

I believe they’re adding by category as most new animals appear to be up. :)

Have parts other than the cart dropped in price before?

The Mermaid, Ice Cream (and Adventure) bracelets were all supposed to release last summer, but we’re delayed until today. Oddly the 1x1 printed rounds of the Adventure set aren’t available. XP Speaking of DOTs I wonder why the printed 1x1 quarter tile pieces are so much more expensive than other printed 1x1s on Bricks and Pieces?

The only new pieces I see available so far are the ones from the three delayed DOTs bracelets. :P

I believe that the figure advertised at the back of the Captain Marvel magazine is just a geared up regular Batman? Looks like that magazine company skipped the UK and Ireland for Shazam.

I actually can’t tell what’s on the TV. :P It looks like a big top circus tent? @LegoMyMamma

You mentioned a lot of potential sets @Rambo260! I hope we don’t have to wait two years for another Merida though. ;P It’s the 30th anniversary for Beauty and the Beast next year, maybe we’ll get another a summer set to celebrate? :3 We’re still waiting on Belle’s different outfits and having a Gaston (and Microdoll LouFou? :o) on shelves to tie in with The Beauty and The Beast prequel series seems like a good idea to me.

Has anyone from the UK/Ireland seen the magazine with Shazam (https://brickset.com/sets/212012-1/Shazam!) anywhere yet? It’s seemingly been every other country that usually gets these magazines but here and Britain. :S

Full images of the polybag @MissRapunzel mentioned can be found on promobricks: https://www.promobricks.de/lego-polybags-2021/113341/ I agree that scene would’ve made for a great smaller priced set with a bigger boat, pier, small town scene, more lanterns and Eugene. At least this polybag will the more casual fans an easier way to get the new Rapunzel and Pascal though. New Tiana and Moana shows are coming to Disney + in 2023! Even if we don’t get sets centred around those shows specifically like we did for the Tangled show, it seems like it be a good business opportunity to release sets based off the original movies around that time. All the books bar Mulan’s (which is being replaced by the Nokk book) are continuing to be sold until at least June. $20 sets rarely last longer than a year on shelves so I think this is a good sign we might get more! If we’re lucky they might even be summer releases. :3 Also I noticed today the fact that Raya has three sets based of her movie means that 11/15 princesses/heroines this theme focuses on has at least three boxed sets where she is the main character. I know Cinderella, Ariel and Elsa get more but this is a nice statistic especially compared to my other favourite licensed theme DC is doing leading character wise at the moment. XP

A new Friends flower cart polybag with Stephanie and Liz can be found here: https://www.promobricks.de/lego-polybags-2021/113341/ The colours of the flower cart are really nice and the design is neat too. I really like how Liz is included as it’s nice she comes in a set that’s cheaper than Andrea’s House. I wish Stephanie had a different outfit to the one she wears in the house as repeating both figures from the same set makes this polybag feel like it’s a worse value than it actually is. I hope this is one of those polybags that can be bought in European shops too as I’d love to get one. :)

The fun at the park set also had a person in a wheelchair, but I totally get the point you’re trying to make. I think it is indeed nice for kids to see people from different walks of life in their toys and I just love Savannah’s inclusion. :) Also I forgot to mention this before but Andrea’s House has a lot of call backs to the Friends theme pre reboot. There’s a poster of Livi in her bedroom, a record signed by Livi and a picture of the girls in their current designs in their old default outfits. I hope these hint at Livi’s return (the 2015 hairdresser had a magazine of Livi hinting the pop star wave, the 2016 supermarket had an advertisement on its wall hinting at the amusement park wave and the 2017 Friendship house had a tv screen showing go karting which turned out to be that year’s sub theme) and the old outfits for the girls returning. At the very least it be nice to get Olivia’s. :)

What a big March wave! I wonder if the one summer will be smaller as a result? Doggy daycare - I think the old one was much better. This one isn’t awful and there’s obviously a lot more too it than a City build, but it feels kind of plain. A lot of the interior builds are stickers and I think the only clever build is the water slide tube as a tube for a dog to run through. That’s not really a build though. :P I like the idea of a medium lavender and dark purple building, but the white at the bottom ruins it. Also the rainbow awning is really garish. I think it would’ve looked better if they did an actual rainbow but the colours are really random. Some are pastel and some aren’t. It just looks bad. I also think too many pieces went into the sign, especially when there’s a very similar one in the vet. :S The last thing I don’t like about it is that the inside o the shop extends to the garden area. That just feels lazy. Why is one dog sleeping outside? XP I’m glad they invested in a new print for the poodle’s scarf, but I think that dog has convinced me that collecting every unique friends animal was always a silly idea. :P The new puppy looks great too, but he’s also in he vet. I think it’s weird that both girls are in skirts, but at least both outfits are rather rare in this theme. I’m glad that Roxy is reappearing. This wave had an overwhelming amount of new characters and it’s nice to give kids (and adults) who collect a break. :P Vet Helicopter - The majority of the build for the vehicle is really nice, but I really don’t like the propellers. I also don’t like how much space the cockpit leaves when closed and there’s no controls for Stephanie! :S On a positive I like the colours and look a new dome piece, where is Friends stealing this budget from? XD The little island is a nice build, but it doesn’t really look like the bunny is in that much danger from the crab. :P The pier build is a rather generous size considering this set is 20 bucks! Neither minidoll is exclusive, nor are the three animals. Stephanie’s outfit is new though. I think they succeeded in making a vet outfit that could also double as a casual outfit for kids who wanted both. I would’ve liked the magenta to be coral, as it would’ve felt more special as we have so many magenta clothes already. Water is now medium azure, neat? The Mall - Eh. I’m confuzzled. Part of me really likes this set and another part doesn’t. I think it’s a really good set for young girls getting into Friends and while the set is expensive I think there’s enough in it to keep kids occupied for weeks of play. The set also feels more like a mall then the last one which really just felt like a shopping street with a plain building plopped in the middle. The good thing about the shopping street angle though is the last mall goes with all the other friends shops and restaurants, this one would look too out of place. I think I will get it though as I have enough parts to modify the individual shops, especially when all of them are new bar one. Let’s go one by one and I’ll try not to keep you too long. XD Most of these shops could’ve been a stand alone set, but the music one is the one that should’ve been one most. There’s so many more instruments they could’ve included! There’s only drums, a keyboard, headphones, a record and then a gold instrument which I can’t quite make out. I know there’s stickers of more items on all of the walls, but that always feels like a cop out. I’m also not able to see individual cash registers in these shops, which would be a really weird design choice. :S I can now talk about the exterior of all the shops as they’re all the same. There’s medium azure, yellow, pink stripes at the bottom and then white for the rest bar the medium azure doors and transparent windows. All shops have curved transparent windows too, as otherwise they literally would’ve been flat. Friends is really good at having different signs but all of these have the same 3x3 round white tile with their shop’s logo. Not a single shop has a brick built embellishment. :/ The accessory store is are only repeat and I’m really confused. Why did they recolour the Gal Gadot hair for an accessory shop when it can’t hold accessories. :S Im very happy with the other recolour of the cat ears in purple though! The video game (?) shop has a nice robot build, a gaming computer (which I hope people claim references Mr. Cavill’s attempt to get people care about him playing Superman) and a pink controller! I also think that might be an arcade machine in the corner. :o The logo suggests a general science shop which this doesn’t seem to be, odd. The sweet shop looks great as it stole that technique from TLNM. I don’t think o have any of those pastel 1x1s either. :3 I hope there’s more included than just the four lollipops we can see. I think stickers on 1x2s of different boxes of sweets would be really nice and cost effective, but LEGO seems reluctant to give useful stickers like those. :P The toy shop has the CMF bunny (yay), a fire truck and doll house. Again where’s the stickers of lego sets? :( Maybe there’s some more surprises in store but I’m doubtful. I like the slide into the ball pit, but that would’ve looked so much better if it was inside. I do like how the colour of the slide matches the stairs on the other side. Those awful 2017 stairs seemingly have been discontinued and I’m thrilled to see the classic ones back. :3 The builds upstairs are really lackluster. They’re so tiny! Two bubble teas, two brick built sushis and a cookie jar (which might have new cookies as they appear to be dark orange) are all that’s for sale. An entire floor for that! :P I do like the idea of different cultures in a food court but neither gets enough pieces to get justice served! :P Oh I also don’t like how the centre piece has a tea set when there’s nowhere to buy it from. Why are there only three seats too? :( The centre sign is weird too. It’s a nice idea to have a heart shaped shopping bag but I think the execution was poorly done. The Mall part 2 - I’ll talk about everything else from the mall here as that got too long. xD Most of this is positive, yay! The gold balconies are great, but they’ll be almost impossible for kids to replicate even in different colours if they wanted to expand this mall. I like how the floor plates go in a gradient of purple, that’s really neat. The escalator is also beautiful! I can’t wait to see it in use. The cherry blossom trees are also nice, but I don’t think they really fit well. The fashion show area has been reduced to a turntable, but I guess it’s nice it’s there at all. :P I guess there’s not really any fashions to display bar hair accessories and that one skirt they refuse to put in a different colour. I love the photo section! I found it shocking it took them 5 years after the hot dog van to do another one. :P A cat, flower and unicorn seems like a weird choice but maybe they’re doing that intentionally to foster creativity or something? :P Oh I like the pram build too! Now for figures - mostly yay. I always wanted that Olivia skirt but it’s only come in sets I didn’t want. I’m so happy I’ll finally be able to get it. :3 I already have her torso though and I’m sure most Friends fans have it too as it appeared in at least 5 of Olivia’s sets already. For some reason Olivia and Mia don’t get new outfits, while Emma and Andrea get them left right and centre. Speaking of which Emma has a new outfit here. It looks visually distinct from all her other outfits but still keeps in her in Korean fashion which I’ve always liked. The colours are really nice too. Emma’s whole family is in this set too! On the one hand I’m really glad as all the girls families bar Olivia’s have appeared from 2019 - 2021, but on the other there’s no employees for these shops! :S Maybe they’re raiding? :P Emma’s dad looks nothing like her step dad from the show, so I hope this is expressing some designer’s personal belief about divorced parents having to be civil or something. :P I’m glad we’re getting more creased eyes but they really need to stop reusing that hair for minidolls, I continue to think it looks bad. :P His torso is nice but I find it weird he shares legs with Emma’s love interest. Emma’s mother looks fantastic and all her four pieces are new! Her top also looks Korean to me. :3 Henry being reused here has convinced me not to get the park and I’m. It mad about that. Sophie’s cool yellow wrap is new too. :D The most bizzare thing is the naming of Emma’s siblings comes from Olivia’s Aunt and Uncle pre reboot. Why would designers name them after a romantic couple? :S I think I’ll wait until I get this set at a large enough discount, but I’ll definitely get it at some stage. Vet - This I love. I really like everything about the main build. The fact it’s two floors, the angled roof, the arch over the stables, the brick built sign and the colours look amazing together! I’m very excited to see the interior too! Thankfully the great build comes with great figures! Savannah gets four new pieces including Aurora’s hair in black! Apart from Anna’s Coronation hair, Friends has been avoiding reusing Disney Princess hairs recently so I’m thrilled that has come to a stop. I assume kids want hairs you can put accessories in. :P The colours in her outfit are distinct from Olivia which wasn’t true for Nina, the first other girl of their skin tone. Yay. I thought her sunglasses were a weird choice, but looking further she actually appears to be blind with a cane. Neat. The rest of you noticed this too which hopefully means so will kids! Andrea’s mother is a vet in the show so it’s great to see her in here, I assumed they’d chose some white character instead. I don’t like how her outfit is so similar to Doctor Maria’s from last year. The legs should’ve been medium azure. :S Also I find it funny they had to change her hair to Emma’s mother to fit the vet cap. :P Mia has Stephanie’s new vet torso but she reuses her purple shorts which must’ve come in 20 sets by now. :S One bad piece doesn’t ruin the minifigure selection though! :P There’s so many animals here too at five, including two exclusives! I don’t like the shaping of the mane and tail on the new horse, but maybe it will grow on me. I never really liked the old horse mould and this is definitely an improvement. The guide dog is new too! A male Labrador with brown eyes just like mine! :D I think he has a coral neckerchief though, if only it was a blue collar. :P I wasn’t planning on getting the sets with the dark orange kitten or light brown puppy so I’m delighted I can get them here. It’ll be nice to get those moulds in normal colours. :P The turtle crossing road seems silly without a vehicle, but at least not to many pieces were used and it’s a new rescue scenario. I stopped getting sets day one a while ago, as I used to wait for a sale but during the pandemic I didn’t mind buying sets full price. I also wasn’t that mad at myself when the sets I bought did reduce in price as at least I can say I helped the Irish economy. :P I think I might actually get this day 1 if it is indeed €40. Bakery - For a 4+ set this is pretty good. I like the lavender bricks and magenta awning over the transparent blue window. The colours in general are pretty nice. I like the drive through function as well and putting the ice cream pieces in that fence is genius part usage. I definitely won’t get this set but I’m excited to see a better look at the prints! The figures here are lame, but I think it’s important that little kids are able to get all five girls in a cost effective way. I just wish they’d give Olivia a wider variety of skirts, that cool yellow one must’ve appeared in 20 sets. :S Buggy - For 10 bucks this is excellent. You get a complete looking vehicle with consistent colours that go together, a nice sizeable bit of nice looking foliage, a decent play feature, a lovely picnic mat print, the new baby Dalmatian, a new Stephanie and exclusive Andrea. I would’ve definitely got this set last year, but I think I have too many 2021 sets on my wishlist to get this one. :P My only nitpick is it would’ve been nice if Andrea’s outfit matched the ones worn by Stephanie, Emma and Mia. It’s weird they’re all matching and she’s not. Vet Cinic Ambulance - While Andrea’s torso doesn’t match, the designers didn’t even bother with Olivia. She reuses the top from the mall and those 5 other sets. XP Lame. Lamer she reuses that darn cool yellow skirt. Emma’s skirt might’ve appeared in too many sets by now too, but at least it’s colours match huge vet accessories? There’s two new cats here - an adult tan one and a baby sand blue one which is the same colour as Emma’s cat. Neat. The more baby bunnies we get the better I say! That’s one chunky ambulance. XD I like the colours and the opening window doubling as a stand to treat the animals though. There seems to be an interior and a wheel the girls can actually hold too. Finally. I have no idea what’s going on with the side build. It’s a very generous size for this sets price though and the colours used for the tree are all nice. I wonder if there will be any interior? Besides the tree I’m also excited to see better angles of the gears representing a whirlpool!

Each of the recent accessory sets have had one exclusive figure so I think you guys are right about the dark grey batsuit. An exclusive character would’ve obviously been better, but I guess this will appeal to more casual fans. I skipped the Harley and Penguin sets from June so I’m glad I’ll be able to get them here. :)

I imagine the new puppy and kitten moulds from Friends will appeal to some of you guys who don’t normally like Friends animals. Friends has released some great looking baby animals with minifigure style eye prints in general. The only thing you need to get past is the hole for accessories, except for the baby dolphin where a hole would be there anyway. :P

I’m glad everyone else is so happy but I really don’t like this series. I don’t think there’s been an unlicensed series I’ve enjoyed since series 18. :/ I agree with @Robert8 that the lack of four figures just makes all the bad figures look even worse. One thing I really can’t stand is that CMFs used to be a great way to get new hair recolours and this series reuses three colours of hairpieces that were previously in a CMF and one that’ll be in a set next year anyway.

The secondary figure from 43181 Raya and the Dragon set has hair that would look perfectly on Cara Dune!