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  1. Lyichir
    Oh! Lego posted a teaser for the Mario Kart 8 D2C, and while it has a brick-built Luigi as reported it also seems to have the Mach 8 kart with Slim tires instead of the Standard Kart that some of the rumors assumed. Should make for a much more interesting set (a Standard Bike could've been another cool iconic option, but presumably because it's another kart Mario and Luigi can be swappable since they'd be in the same seated position).
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    Having watched the show now it's a little bit of a shame what didn't make it to sets. I get why they chose the sets they did (it's a nice range of subject matter and price points and nails a ton of the most important scenes), but I can't help but wish some of the gorgeous live-action set design like Alvida's ship the Miss Love Duck, Kaya's mansion, Axe Hand Morgan's Marine outpost, or Garp's Marine ship didn't make it into any of the Lego sets. Obviously for a long-running series there's still time for some of that stuff to appear (having started the manga and read through the end of the arc Season 2 is based on, I hope maybe we get an Alvida minifigure since her design in the wanted poster looks great). But it doesn't look like they're doing sets based on any of the earlier episodes so unless certain subjects reappear in later chapters, we might not see them. Of course, there's always MOCs. I'm very tempted to try MOCing the Miss Love Duck (how cool would a bright pink pirate ship be in Lego?), but sadly my MOCing skills are kind of atrophied and I haven't done anything as big as a pirate ship that I've been happy with in years (even less so with a detailed brick-built hull like this theme tends to favor). Apparently there's an artbook detailing the making of the first two seasons of the show coming out this summer, and I'm tempted to try to pick that up for more inspiration. This is all despite not even having any of the actual One Piece sets myself—I love the designs but I'm not sure there's room in my budget for another licensed theme right now.
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    Very late to the party, but I recently finally watched the Netflix series after hemming and hawing for a while about whether it'd be more appropriate to start with the long-running manga or anime. Really impressed, gives me a new appreciation for the set and fig designs Lego came up with. Hoping they do just as good a job with Season 2.
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    Pretty sure it's regular orange (with reddish orange used for the lava on the stand underneath). The triple axle connectors on the wings are definitely new, the other two seem to be more common. Pikachu also has the ball joint with through hole in yellow.
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    Just was looking at the new Pokémon sets and Blastoise introduces 7241 in Reddish Brown, which could be useful if you wanted to add a removable lower hull like that in the recent Black Pearl set to a ship with a reddish brown hull.
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    Yeah, Pikachu sadly looks a bit disappointing, with some rough shaping and a fixed pose that looks a bit awkward when removed from the stand. Eevee looks fantastic, though! And the badge set looks like a very nice GWP. The three evolved Kanto starters all look excellent and the very impressive display stand does partly explain the choice to do them as a single set instead of separately. Still don't know whether I'll get any of these, though... I'm less into Pokémon than I used to be and while I still enjoy the games here and there, I'm less confident about buying huge display pieces like these for it.
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    Is that the new Warm Pink color for the brick costume fig? Cool to get arms and legs in that color if so, the legs will be especially useful.
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    Luigi is definitely cool to get if these rumors are true, though another standard kart is less exciting than if it had been a different kart or bike. Still curious whether there will be any Mario Galaxy related sets to tie in with the movie putting it back in the spotlight. A Comet Observatory set could be very cool.
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    "Nuked"? It's always frustrating to see this kind of hyperbole and insult-slinging about something as absolutely benign as a handful of visible studs. You've automatically jumped to the conclusion that the designer was forced by corporate meddling to include studs as opposed to... just wanting them to be there (there's plenty of logical reasons to do so, including making the scale of a model like this more evident so people don't mistake it for the sorts of simpler, more basic Cars sets of the past).
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    Make that 6: https://www.instagram.com/p/DTIoxgqEUKx/?img_index=2 ZX-style Nya definitely wasn't on my bingo card, but is certainly a cool addition to the lineup.
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    Eh... I don't know if making the Oni Titan set bigger would necessarily make it a more interesting build or anything. Compared to something like a mech or creature that has more defined features to focus on and enhance, the Oni Titan is mostly a big guy made of stone. I guess they could maybe make one that's impressively naturalistic looking (sort of like the nice rockwork in recent sets like the blacksmith and old town), but I'm still not sure it'd be the most interesting choice.
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    A Technic Tumbler, eh? It'd be interesting if they found a way to integrate the way the front wheels separate and fold out to become the Batpod (something every Lego version of it so far lacks). Don't know if that's particularly likely, though, even at a large Technic scale—mechanically it would be hard to do while also making the wheelbase sturdy enough and could interfere with other functionality they might want to include.
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    Don't know how likely it is but an updated Great Devourer could be very cool and iconic. Main issue is I don't know if any Serpentine parts are still around to go with it (but it's not impossible, given that they brought back the ice armor for one of the sets).
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    Instructions for most of the Dreamzzz sets are up online but the links to the Tiger Shark Tank ones seem to be broken. Bit of a shame, since I like looking at the instructions to these sets and building them digitally to get a better feel for both builds in each set. The Nightmare Scorpion Digger is a bit unusual for the theme in that the main build differs completely between the two builds—only Cooper's small mech and the crystal egg for the treasure creature are shared between the two builds.
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    Not really—been doing more of my shopping online recently, except when I make trips to my local Lego store (which rarely has issues with inventory regardless of theme). In terms of online discounts I haven't noticed too many deep discounts on Dreamzzz compared to other themes (usually discounts mostly on older sets, and mostly smaller discounts instead of larger ones that might suggest excessive inventory left over). The biggest exception I can think of was the Castle Nocturnia set, which saw 30-40% discounts near its retirement, possibly suggesting that as a much more expensive D2C set it might not have sold as much as forecast (which could also explain the cancellation of last year's planned D2C set for the theme, the very cool-looking Game Island Tower). But a theme perhaps not being able to sustain a $200 D2C set doesn't necessarily mean that the theme as a whole was unsuccessful.
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    I don't really have anecdotes about sales—and even if I did they'd be fairly irrelevant for Monkie Kid in particular, which was aimed primarily at success in the Chinese market with other regions secondary to that. Because of that particular positioning, it's hard to say whether there will be a direct replacement for Monkie Kid. I would not be surprised if there is a new theme to replace Dreamzzz though—possibly in the second half of 2026 or near the start of 2027. I certainly don't think Lego has lost faith in the idea of original themes, but "Big Bang" themes (themes like Ninjago, Chima, Nexo Knights, and Dreamzz designed with a major media and promotional push out of the gate) take time to develop and bring to market, so it's entirely possible that the next big thing isn't quite ready yet.
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    I don't know if I'd say that experienced designers make better modulars. I think it might sometimes be almost the opposite—that people are inherently more critical toward modulars when they're coming from a designer they haven't heard of, and are less willing to view differences between those new designs and the ones they're used to as anything but bad. Give people something easy to blame their initial reactions on, and it becomes easier for them to reinforce those reactions instead of approaching with a more open mind. Of course, designers don't get experienced except by getting to design sets in the first place—listening to fans it'd be easy to forget that the Café Corner was one of Jamie Berard's first set designs, and that he wouldn't have gotten to work on the later, better modulars of his career if he had not started there. And especially for a series as high-profile as the Modular Buildings series, newer designers don't get to be tasked with one unless their ideas are selected and approved by those more experienced senior designers. But of course, the backseat designers in the fan community like to think they know best, and cry out repeatedly for their favorite designers to do all the work themselves instead of trusting and fostering newer talent and letting their unique ideas and perspectives leave a mark on the series. None of these discussions are new. Ever since Jamie Berard stopped designing every single modular himself fans have been whining and complaining that the series is on the decline (heck, even before that, people were complaining about the Fire Brigade being the worst modular ever). But usually those discussions soften once people start to get the new set in hand and whiners who made a big stink about the set before even having it in hand become outnumbered by people who did get it and decided it's pretty cool, actually.
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    Other LAN sites like New Elementary, Brothers Brick, as well as several YouTubers have reviewed the set, so it's probably not a case where an embargo hasn't been reached. It's probably just a matter of time and scheduling. Not every site always has time to drop everything already in progress to prioritize an upcoming set, even a highly anticipated one like this.
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    As a fan of how the Mario theme has handled things I feel the opposite. I think "minifig-scale" would largely be a suboptimal approach to Pokémon, allowing for less detail and articulation for most Pokémon (excepting those big enough that they could be brick-built anyway). Even if a Pokémon theme does end up needing specialized molds for certain features those are still likely to be more versatile and useful for MOCing than something like a solid single-piece Pikachu would have been. This approach would also make it easier to build additional Pokémon or customize the ones that come in sets, instead of being constantly reliant on an inherently limited range of molded figures to add to your collection. Things like locations and human characters might sometimes work better with minifigures, but I don't know if that would be worth it if the buildability/playability of the Pokémon themselves suffer for it. Ultimately they're more of a draw and more of the focus of the franchise than locations or human trainers are.
  20. Lyichir
    1. Not sure whether there will be a Season 4... hopefully there will be but it's not uncommon for themes on the way out to get less media and promotion. 2. From what we've heard, yes. 3. I'm not quite sure what you mean by this... I think the Dreamzzz theme's variety and adaptability to different subject matter is a feature, not a bug. Being able to represent the childlike interests of different characters means the theme isn't limited to any sense of realism or any one aesthetic/style. 4. Agree to disagree, I love colorful transparent parts and I think the ones in this new wave are really used well in various color schemes. The trans pink on the villains is especially cool to me, adding vibrancy and energy to their otherwise dark color schemes. 5. This is gonna be a matter of individual taste but at least it seems like there aren't any issues where stickers are used in one build but not others (an issue with the Z-Blob mech last year). 6. Agreed, though I'm disappointed by the issue with the crystal egg piece described in the New Elementary review. That seemed like a really cool part but not being able to attach them back to back and connect them by the studs on top is a bummer.
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    Something that occurred to me recently when buying gifts for family is that, while Lego has gotten a little more into sets for adults, there's very little to speak of in their catalog that appeals broadly to teens in their edgy/angsty phases. There's a little bit in licensed fare (Wednesday's goth-adjacent aesthetic, Stranger Things' coming-of-age/horror blend), but less when you get into unlicensed stuff (which mostly either trends colorful and cartoony for kids or prestigious and stately for adults). I ended up getting my young cousin the Wednesday Black Dahlia set, but I can't help but wonder if there's a market for an original theme for that age—something slightly spooky, edgy, or countercultural, but one that doesn't have to lean on fandom for existing pop culture. I guess pseudo-horror themes like Monster Fighters and Hidden Side sort of filled that niche before they went away, and a theme in that vein could do so again in the future, but there's not much in the current catalog of themes that fits the bill.
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    I guess it's no more or less likely than any other possible outcome, I was talking about the specific possibility of a better falcon appearing in Ninjago at some point so I don't really know why the broad possibility of it appearing in a CMF series in the future is relevant.
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    I don't think that's particularly likely, there's rumors of a minifigure of Lloyd in that series but the falcon from Ninjago is more closely associated with Zane and his father.
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    Just watched an interview with the designer behind the Ninjago Old Town set and he made clear that if he could have used the newer falcon mold he would have—the character he's with was decided late in the set design process and he couldn't arrange to put the newer falcon mold back into production in time to lock in the final design of the set. With that context I think it's a pretty fine compromise and hopefully if the falcon appears in a future Ninjago set they can use the proper mold.
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    Story-wise if you interpret it as being crafted from Izzie's Mr. Sharkyjaw plush (which is yellow-orangeish before being transformed into the Nightmare Shark Ship in season one) the colors also work as a more colorful, "uncorrupted" version of the character.
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