Lyichir

Oh, sand blue or dark bley would look lovely!

A larger pizzeria wouldn't be bad but I'll never be upset with a small little pizza joint (having fond childhood memories of the classic Town "Pizza to Go" set).

The little office that's included has a pug calendar on the wall so I figure maybe it's the foreman's dog or something!

The new body piece in the One Piece sets is interesting! It's used on Tony Tony Chopper and Mr. 13, and is slightly bigger than the baby body (allowing for a regular head and hands to be used so that it's more compatible with standard accessories). It hasn't actually been used for any human characters yet but I could see it being very useful for toddlers.

This thread isn't very active anymore, huh... Just wanted to pop in to say I'm amazingly impressed with the first two episodes of Witch Hat Atelier, which just debuted yesterday. I'd really enjoyed the manga which is one of the most lavishly illustrated comics I've ever read, and the anime does that justice while also taking advantage of the change in medium.

I do expect they'll absolutely make a Sunny if and when the live action show gets to that point, though. For that matter, I also think that when the live action gets to Skypeia that'll be the perfect time for a "refresh" of the Going Merry set, this time with the wings and with more of the crew. It's based on the live action version, though the Baratie set did include Mihawk's coffin-shaped boat from the anime and manga which I don't think appeared in the live action show.

More than just S3 was confirmed! Lego One Piece animated special on September 29th!

These are all good suggestions (though personally if I had it my way Kaya's mansion could maybe be a slightly bigger open-backed "dollhouse style" set with a function to raise/lower the security shutters on the front windows). An additional idea: A small-ish set of the Drum Island village siege with Dalton and Kureha in her present-day outfit, along with Usopp and Sanji in their winter wear.

Some other thoughts I have now that I've been able to think about these sets some more... The Loguetown set with Smoker is surprisingly impressive, they could've easily focused on the battle and maybe the motorcycle but including multiple Loguetown scenes (including the weapon shop and fish market) makes the set so much more impressive. The new pieces for Smoker's projectile fists look cool. Dorry and Brogy look a little clunky but very cute anyway—upscaled characters are always a challenge and they seem to have done a pretty good job balancing detail and playability here. The fig selection here is great as well, wasn't expecting the Unluckies and while it's sad that Mr. 3 and Miss Valentine aren't here, at least they included both Baroque Works agents actually based on Little Garden. Mr. 3's wax house isn't included here but is a ripe subject for MOCs. The Drum Castle set looks amazing, but sadly the fig selection could be improved. It's a shame not to get Kureha (in her cool present-day fit) and Dalton, but I guess they wanted to fit as many of the Straw Hats in their cool winter outfits as they could. Chopper and Wapol look great though! The set with Hiruluk's hideout is very cute and well-suited for play. So is the buildable Chopper (love his cute cloven hooves!). Obviously Chopper is a big deal this wave, as is to be expected of a cute mascot character. Garp's battleship looks great and as the second full seaworthy ship set, will be a great complement to the Merry. I'm glad Koby and Helmeppo are here too for those of us who didn't get the Baratie. When instructions are out I'd be tempted to try to "reskin" this as Alvida's "Miss Love Duck"—both ships were built on the same base during production of season 1, and since I'm a pretty novice ship builder having a base to work with to get things like the scale and cannon arrangement right would help me to try to MOC that (I love brick built hulls but trying to make one from scratch is above my skill level!). Overall, I'm very impressed! I'm not too broken up about what isn't included—if they choose to keep this theme going even between season releases (which they hopefully might, if sales are good enough), there'll be plenty of opportunity to do some of the things they've missed (in fact, you could maybe even speculate they're planning on it—Mr. 3 and Miss Valentine's omission here makes sense if they're considering doing a Whiskey Peak set later). But in any case I'm very impressed by the execution of what they did choose to include.

Twin Titan Mechs look great! It's partly the color schemes but they feel very Exo-Force to me, which certainly isn't a bad thing! EDIT: Just noticed the new hip sheath piece on the ninja in that new set! That's a cool part.

I didn't even consider that the collectible feature would be Baroque Works' dossiers of the Straw Hats, what a fun choice! And the new torso for Chopper and Mr. 13 is great! Not sure which of these sets I'll get if any... still don't want to commit to the entirety of another licensed theme. But the marine ship looks good and includes a lot of great characters, so maybe that one? And I'd probably want to get at least one set with Chopper!

Extremely blurry picture of the Wyldfire Transforming Mech Dragon set leaked. Feels similarly chunky to the Mech Jet from last year, so I'm guessing that set was popular and they wanted to try a similar transforming function for this.

Thing that just occurred to me... wonder if Robin's Flower-Flower Fruit powers will be represented visually in any of the sets? An accessory piece to add extra arms to her or to other figs could be neat (could even potentially be done without new parts using something like the "minion arm" with Technic pin that appears in light nougat in some of this year's mini Disney Princesses).

Maybe unlikely for a theme on its way out (the BAM figs largely served as promotion for the theme so with the theme maybe ending those slots might be better used on something else). You never know, though, they could surprise us.

Don't remember if I'd ever posted this one here: I generally don't like chrome colors. For some rare things (things specifically intended to have a chrome or mirror finish), they're okay. But for most purposes that I'd want something metallic, they're WAY too shiny and gaudy. For things like coins and treasure, arms and armor, unpolished metal or mechanical detailing, I'd much rather have "pearl" or lacquered metallic colors which don't reflect their surroundings and don't clash as much with other plasticky Lego colors. Add in the fact that they show scratches and wear more easily than other colors (something I'm hyper-aware of with many of my childhood chrome parts scratched or chipped), and I have no regrets at all that Lego has largely moved away from chromed parts.