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I guess this is the most suitable thread for this news? The pinball machine has leaked! Love the colour scheme, the sideart, and of course the new classic spaceman colour!

My copy arrived today! Still gotta build a bunch of other June sets first though I always save the best for last! As for next year: my money‘s on Helm’s Deep. It’s more iconic than Edoras, and it’d be a nice opportunity to reintroduce the Uruk-hai helmets. I’d argue it’s distinctive enough to immediately follow after Minas Tirith. Either that or a diorama with the Witch-King duel, which I’d vastly prefer. Him and Eowyn are at the top of why wishlist!

That was a wrong assumption. The leakers said an old theme would return and “P” was the only unknown theme after the other two were revealed to be Shrek and KPDH. Turns out the returning theme was SpongeBob, but as an Icons set, hence the confusion

It’s a buildable PSone

They‘ll never go back to that, and honestly I‘m glad about it. I much prefer the consistent, unified style we‘ve had since 2010 over the random mish-mash we had before

I‘m glad it‘s a regular Rayquaza since I imagine it would take forever for another version to appear in a set I see the mega stone as a nice bonus. Zinnia looks good apart from the hairpiece they picked. Even the overused Qi‘ra hairpiece would‘ve worked better!

I saw the piece, but didn‘t think of this! Good call! Fingers crossed they‘ll use it in the S3 sets next year!

Hello Kitty is rumoured to be a theme next year! Kinda surprising this hasn‘t been a thing already I wonder if it‘s gonna be a 4+ theme or something more akin to Dots.

Ok, this is not an animal piece, but I need to gush about it anyway! We‘re finally getting the classic crystal piece in trans-clear! As someone who’s been fascinated with crystals since childhood (having grown up in a tiny village known for a unique crystal mine nearby), I’ve been waiting for that piece for ages! I was very disappointed in 2017 when we thought the second TLBM CMF series Jor-El came with one, only for it to turn out to be a trans-medium blue one instead Victory, at last!

The Sagrada Familia got revealed! Looks stunning! …wait, are those crystal pieces in trans-clear?! My prayers have been answered!!

That Ditto Squirtle is bloody amazing Love the set with the Gen IX starters too!

Nope. The only moulded Pokémon this year come in the Pokéball set scheduled for October, and the rumoured list is Eevee, Pikachu, and the Kanto starters The other sets all feature buildable Pokémon.

Pics of the Smart Brick sets are out there! Some of them translated better than others (Bidoof, my beloved), but I do like the selection here, despite the heavy focus on Gen I ^^ And someone on the team must really like Gen IV I guess the other rumoured ones (Scorbunny, Croagunk etc) are the ones that come out in 2027. Looking forward to Rayquaza and Munchlax getting revealed

The Rayquaza set allegedly also comes with a minifig, with the leakers hinting at Zinnia from Omega Rubin / Alpha Sapphire! Pretty unexpected, but that sounds awesome!!

Nice surprise! I admit though, I wasn‘t familiar with the new game, and so the „oh lawd, he coming“ Warden variant got a good laugh out of me