BrickBob Studpants

You judge the director of Terminator 2, Aliens, Titanic, Abyss, and Avatar by his first movie? Biased much?

First time in ages where I can‘t see a movie on day 1 because it‘s completely booked out. I have a feeling you might have to eat humble pie this weekend Never bet against James Cameron

Hm, wonder why they went back to the old broom style for the RoR set The new part is still alive as it‘s included in an upcoming Friends set, so maybe it‘s just the designer’s personal preference and the 2HY sets will use it again Can‘t wait to see the lenticular backdrops in person! Was always a big fan of lenticular cards (especially the squeaky noises they make when rubbing or scratching them). Anyone remember the Spacix cards from the mid-90s?

I’ve just realised that the Indy sets could technically be featured in the upcoming 1HY consumer catalogue since they have shown sets scheduled for April in these catalogues before, and the first four sets are not based on an upcoming movie to boot. I‘m not holding my breath, but at least a cool little teaser is not too much to ask for, innit?

Highlights for me: New face for Krum and a more fitting hairpiece They actually use the wavy Vidiyo hairpiece for the merperson as many predicted The new Grindylow Sleeping faces for Ron & Hermione Rowena Ravenclaw with a recolour of Luna‘s hairpiece The diadem being included A recolour of the Basilisk headpiece, just as I hoped! New face for Cedric! They switched to the new skin tone introduced this year for Cho Blaise being included in two sets New version of Susan Bones I think? New Ravenclaw student (Michael Corner it seems?) Where‘s Goyle though? Already burned to a crisp?

They finally fixed Krum!!

Eh, we never really see more than 5 or 6 GoF-style Death Eaters on screen at once, so an army of them isn‘t really needed Instead, I’m stil hoping for a OotP-style Death Eater! Now those have army-building potential

Once the 1HY consumer catalogue is out, we will see them anyway. So they may just as well reveal them now instead of waiting for the catalogue to inevitably drop

Renown doesn‘t strongly corrrelate with merchandise sales though, or else Godfather merch would vastly outsell Transformers toys Even under the Disney umbrella I don‘t see them dedicating an entire theme to the franchise. Not every successful movie franchise has toy potential

Thanks for letting us know! I‘m excited Hopefully they unveil all 6 sets!

The PotA franchise does not seem like a merchandise juggernaut to me. What makes you think its merch would outperform Avatar‘s? Avatar has mechs, helicopters, submarines, and all sorts of imaginative creatures. PotA has armed apes on horseback Don’t get me wrong, the recent trilogy was excellent, but there‘s nowhere near as much set potential as with other franchises

Which will probably end up warming shelves until the end of time

Of course! I need 3 more each. I'm building a coffee table out of em!

Technically, they could introduce new parts for the NWH designs which could then be repurposed for comic versions. Electro very VERY briefly sports a version of the silly classic mask made of electricity and the most important thing a bigfig Lizard needs is his tail. The face could be realised as a print for either version. So if they really wanted to, they could introduce both these parts in NWH sets. Incredibly unlikely, but not impossible

The banners are on the bottom of my list since we still have no idea what to expect there Minifig-wise, they‘ll probably be pretty boring, unless the designers conjured up some house ghosts. We already have all the relevant teachers; and named students are not something I‘m really interested in, unless it‘s someone like Lee Jordan who at least could bring a cool new hairpiece to the table. I‘ll still get them on day 1 of course, but I‘m hoping for something new to be included nonetheless

At this point, I‘m expecting a revival of the theme once Gunn & Safran set their plans into motion, so 2024 at the earliest. If they‘re successful, nothing should stand in the way of a proper return of the theme!

Since the consumer catalogue may leak any day now, what are you looking forward to see the most? For me, it has to be: The minifigs in the Second Task set, especially the merman and the Grindylow The fire snake in the RoR set. The fact it‘s our first proper DH2 set in the reboot helps too Whatever those banners are. Not expecting much minifig-wise though

Hey, at least we have that Flash set to look forward to And the two mysterious sets with adjacent set numbers that disappeared from this year‘s schedule might be DC too!

I don‘t know, I‘d rather have a bit more balance. The pattern of 3 small sets in January, 3 helmets in March, 3 dioramas in May, and a metric ton of sets in August is very unbalanced, as no things should be Wouldn’t take that much to achieve that, moving around 3 of the August sets to January would suffice in my book. There are always sets based on older material in there that can released at any time of the year, like Kenobi’s Jedi Starfighter and 4+ AT-ST this year.

…there are (at least) two helmets coming in March, plus 3 dioramas, two Mando sets, and a D2C one in May. And undoubtedly a giant wave in August again Also, this year‘s January wave was just as tiny. This theme ain‘t going anywhere

Shrek was supposed to be featured in the cancelled third year of Dimensions and TLG have a good working relation with Dreamwork’s parent company Universal, so this is definitely a possibilty! Sets based on the previous movies would be great too, even though I have no love whatsoever for Shrek the Third No idea how those two themes performed, but in these cases, less than stellar sales could easily be attributed to the pandemic. Trolls World Tour was banished to streaming and Minions got delayed by two years, neither of which was helpful. A Shrek theme wouldn’t have to deal with that

We should see pictures of the sets any day now. Since they’re released in March and aren’t based on an upcoming movie, they’re 99% featured in the 1HY consumer catalogue, which usually ends up in the hands of fans around the middle of December Last year, it was on the 11th

It’s been like this for years though Indeed, or even better, Electro! Can’t believe they finally have a good excuse to give us that ridiculous mask and still didn’t pull the trigger

Pictures of the three Spidey sets are out! Quite cute for what the are, but the amount of new characters is unexpectedly low with only two (Sandman & Black Panther). Love the silly Spider-bus though

Definitely a lot of set potential here! I hope they release at least one set next summer, but I’d prefer a smaller set or two this time round