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Hm... Tahu minifigure could be neat. It's always been a little sad that among the Bionicle minifigures (which were all varying levels of awkward), the original six Toa never got minifig-scale versions. Of course, my preference would've been for figs sort of like the Hero Factory Invasion From Below figs (which looked great and had good articulation and customizability while being more robotic looking than standard minifigures), and I don't expect that from a CMF (which as a rule tend to stick to the classic head-body-legs customization). But hopefully we'll still get a good-looking mask, weapon, and maybe a torso armor piece for some added texture.

My little brother is very excited for this one since he's been a fan of the real-life car since before it had won the IMSA championship. He even said he wished it could be at the even bigger, more premium scale like the biggest supercar sets. As less of a Technic-head myself I am interested in those headlight pieces...

I don't know if there's a single prescribed "story" to the set (instead just the elements to tell one with the various elements involved). The helicopter pilot can be trying to steal the car, the safe, or both, and free the inmate. But yeah, the female criminal in the helicopter seems to be the same one from the other set. Personally, rather than "factions" I interpreted it as various criminals working together to pull off the heist. Maybe even the imprisoned one on the train car tracking the train's movements from the inside. With the train's location known (and with it, the safe and impounded car that could be evidence from a previous case), the crooks make their move, using the helicopter to bust their comrade out, drop down a getway driver to escort him away in the impounded car, and airlift the safe away. By splitting up (with one group escaping by land and one by air) they hope to have a better chance of making a clean getaway!

Saw a blurry leaked pic of the Old Town... looks decent and hard to pick out many details but for me personally I'm a little worried about the size. Seems to be like a large ring arrangement (sort of reminiscent of sets like Sentai Fortress or Fort Legoredo), which is a perfectly fine layout except I'm not sure it'll fit on many of my usual shelves (unlike with a more horizontal arrangement like the Ninjago City sets). May have to figure out somewhere new to display it.

By the way, someone mentioned the Black Falcon insignia on Mr. Oz's new torso in the Dreamzzz sets, but I thought I'd mention that Zoey and Izzie's new torso/leg prints could also work well in a fantasy setting (both being armored designs lacking modern features like zippers). There's also an armor pauldron piece in trans colors (trans orange, opalescent clear, trans bright green, and trans light blue) a new large fantasy sword mold in various colors (opalescent clear with a gold hilt, trans bright green with a gold hilt, trans light blue with a silver hilt, and trans pink with a black hilt), fantasy energy creatures in trans colors (trans bright green, opalescent clear, trans orange, and trans light blue) and crystal halves that can contain them in trans light blue and trans pink. Obviously most of this is of no use for actual historic builders, but for fantasy fans a lot of this could be useful. This wave is giving me some major Elves vibes which as a huge fan of that theme, is absolutely not a bad thing!

Sorry, I said treasure "creatures" and crystal eggs. That's what the set descriptions call the new translucent animals and the crystals that they emerge from in all of the different sets.

Been looking over these sets more finely. One of my (extremely minor) issues with Dreamzzz is that because most of the set pictures are focused on showing off the alternate builds, there's usually fewer pictures focused on showing off play features, interiors and whatnot, so until we get reviews there's always the potential for stuff we aren't seeing. I'm trying to compile some of my more in-depth thoughts here, forgive me for rambling a little. One thing I noticed about the shark tank is that there's a bar connection at the base of the tail behind the dark blue "hull"—the same connection type used for modular attachments in a lot this year's sets. Since those connections don't seem to be used in either build, I'm curious if the middle section is actually removable—if so, those two unused connections could be used to reposition the two fins to make a build that's just the shark itself without all the sci-fi adornments. The top fin would also have to be moved forward or back but there looks like there's a space for it to attach on the top of the head or tail as well. While I'm happy that we're getting most of the main cast in new outfits, it is a little bit of a shame that some of the supporting cast didn't make it (such as Astrid, Albert, and Mrs. Castillo/Lumia). The latter echoes how disappointing it was that she didn't get a release this year after the game island tower set was cancelled, and I similarly doubt there are any additional sets for this final wave waiting in the wings to include the final couple characters—but if there were, I'd certainly be pleasantly surprised. Maybe they'll surprise me and do BAM figures again, though that probably wouldn't help with most of these characters since Mrs. Castillo and Albert don't fit the head-body-legs assembly of typical figs and I don't think they typically have large multi-part accessories like wheelchairs in the BAM stations. Several aspects of these sets feel like a throwback to earlier sets. Cooper's two dino vehicles he can build remind me of the C-Rex, the crocodile submarine sort of calls back to Logan's beastcrafted version of Cooper's sports car from year one, and of course the shark tank (possibly an uncorrupted Mr. Sharkyjaw?) calls back to the Nightmare Shark Ship. If this weren't the final wave, these sorts of retreads would feel a little unoriginal, but with the context that this is probably the "grand finale" I find it kind of fitting that they're bringing things full circle like this. A bit of a shame that Bunchu and Z-Blob don't really get builds of their own this time (Z-Blob appears but doesn't actually get a build this time). Zoey (who I feel the theme often struggled to find a consistent concept/tone for in terms of builds) doesn't really get anything either, but the eagle alt build of the crocodile submarine might be intended to sort of give some of the winged theming of Zian or the Time Owl to the set she comes in. The Scorpion Digger is the only build fully themed around the bad guys (seemingly an upgraded Nightmare King and Arika, who could either be an underling or scheming chessmaster manipulating the Nightmare King). But it definitely impresses in both the scorpion and wasp builds. Parts-wise, I really like the treasure creatures and crystal eggs. They definitely give me Elves vibes, which is the opposite of a bad thing! The crystal halves are also used to good effect in several of the builds.The new swords shared by the heroes and the Nightmare Emperor are cool (I like the variety of colors, which are more varied than the "hourglass hilts" used for several of the weapons these past two years which only came in two colors). The new claw/flame/wing piece used for several of the models is suitable for varied purposes and comes in a lot of colors, like a lot of the "energy effect" pieces this theme has offered. I'm not sure how many of the sets I'll get. The most "skippable" sets, figure-wise, are the Fox Guardian Mech and either the Scorpion Digger and Dino Jet (either has the orange treasure creature and a variant of Cooper with either a hood or a hat/hair). But the thing is... I really like all these sets! They're all really cool builds, and even the sets without unique figs have cool recolors of some of the new parts. So I might just end up getting all of them, which would be the first time I collected all the Dreamzzz sets in a year. Again, it's rare for me to do that with any theme with Elves being the main exception, which is a testament to how much I like this wave!

That's just a "lightsaber blade" piece inserted through the grip (much like you can do with some other circular or ovoid shield castle shield pieces, to mount them on poles or spears or whatnot).

Not a new element, it originated back in 2011 in the Star Wars theme (printed, in transparent purple). Has appeared in many other themes since then (Chima, Ultra Agents, Dimensions, as well as the shield of Orion from the space CMFs), but it wasn't until this year that it appeared in grey (in the Enterprise set).

Relatively new it seems! Looking at his Instagram, he's worked on the Retro Radio, French Café, Smeagol and Deagol GWP, and Leonardo DaVinci's Flying Machine.

Looks lovely. I imagine it's not easy to come up with a layout as unique as this after almost 15 years of modulars. EDIT: New Elementary has their review up with a good look at the parts (including the return of sand green 1x8 bricks and 1x2 bricks with slot), as well as a good look at those lovely lovely angles.

Very cute GWP, can't wait for the full modular reveal (hopefully later this morning?).

I was able to get a second Blacktron Renegade on sale and just finished building the alternate model. Despite how divisive it seems to have been, I really enjoyed that set. Ought to give MOCing with some of those leftover parts (and others from my collection)—it'd be nice to make a base for them, especially if I get the Blacktron fig from that recent book to act as a commander.

The purple tricorne will nicely complement the purple bicorne from the Botanicals sets.

More sets have been revealed, Brick Fanatics has the most comprehensive coverage I've seen so far: www.brickfanatics.com/lego-friends-back-with-bang-in-january-2026/ That Garden Restaurant is GORGEOUS! EDIT: brickmerge.de is starting to catch up with pics including plenty of alt pics of the sets, including better looks at the interior of the garden restaurant and clubhouse.

New mold, New E has an article on the City molds: https://www.newelementary.com/2025/12/new-lego-city-january-2026-moulds.html

The frog is nice, I'd kind of been expecting them to do a Friends-style frog with a printed face for years—it'd be perfect for if they wanted to do a "Princess and the Frog" set with Tiana and/or Naveen transformed, since the classic Lego frog, as iconic as it is, doesn't exactly have much personality.

The rest of the Dreamzzz sets! https://www.thebrickfan.com/lego-dreamzzz-2026-sets-officially-announced/ I'm gonna be honest, this might be some of my favorite of how the theme has ever looked. I'm getting major Elves vibes from some of it and the sets all look awesome in both builds.

Nah, it's on Lego.com now with more: https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/lianns-family-house-42687

Friends style axolotl in the recently revealed Liann's House! Very cute!

First official reveal for next year: Liann's House! https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/lianns-family-house-42687 It looks great! I love the way it uses the new warm pink and bluish violet, and the axolotl is super cute!

I don't think the nose (speed champions windscreen) comes in sand blue but you might be able to substitute some other wedges for it.

I love Technic but my preferences for sets tend to fall more in the fantasy/sci-fi realms, and Technic sees a fair bit of use (both structurally and functionally) in some of the "action themes" I like to collect. One of the standouts even over a decade later is Power Miners, in which pretty much every set had some sort of Technic-based action feature, but it's also used heavily in themes like Ninjago. Usually those sorts of sets tend to use Technic for things like transforming functions, moving weapons or traps, and so forth instead of common mechanical functions like faux engines, gearboxes, and transmissions, but it's still super satisfying to me.

OMG it looks great! Puts to rest any worries that this last wave of Dreamzzz sets would feel like any sort of afterthought. I see several cool new molds and the vehicle itself looks stellar. Story-wise... is this Mr. Sharkyjaw? Having a "good guy" vehicle formed around him would be a great way to bring things full circle.

It's possible, though I don't know if I'd expect it. I think I've seen other non-Lego Fortnite merch that offers redeemable codes like that, whereas that's not really a "thing" for non-Lego Pokémon merch. And the incentives for doing so with Fortnite (a free to play game available across pc, mobile, and consoles) are probably higher than with Pokémon (a game series that's mainly on mobile and one console and costs money on console, meaning a potentially lower install base to market freebies toward). For that matter, the fact that Pokémon is "split" between multiple games and versions might be an issue if they were to do mystery gift codes, since I think mystery gift codes are typically game specific (i.e. a code for Legends Z-A could only be redeemed on that game, leaving people who only have Scarlet/Violet in the lurch). Fortnite is more "centralized" in a sense, so codes for that can be redeemed by anyone with that game and rewards can be used across various "modes" like Lego Fortnite.