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That's a fantastic polybag. Really well done.

Yeah, obviously fake. It's from an account with literally a single post.

Wow, this just keeps getting better and better. Can't wait to hear more. Moana is an excellent addition. Wonder if Woody will use longer legs, now that they're back in the game. Well, no. That's the whole concept behind Disney Birthday Train. This set was made with this specific purpose.

*sigh* It's not an official theme. Shop@Home uses themes as categories, adding various ones that don't officially exist as themes – only as subcategories which help improve the shopping experience. Marvel, DC, Spider-Man, and Batman are four categories on Shop@Home, even tho all of them are part of the same theme – Super Heroes. The same goes for Disney, Disney Mickey and Friends, Frozen, and Disney and Pixar's Lightyear on Shop@Home. Four categories, single theme – Disney. There are also multiple instances when a single set appears in multiple "themes" on Shop@Home – but we can agree that a single set can't belong to more than a single theme, right? Technic Batman sets, licensed CMF series, licensed Duplo sets – and yes, licensed Brickheadz, like The Lord of the Ring ones. So no, The Lord of the Rings isn't back as a theme. The license is back, and they made sets based on it, but the theme itself is not (but let's hope that changes).

Just look at Promobricks stories on Instagram.

Stitch just leaked. Looks fantastic (although his feet should've been also printed on the sides).

Not how it works. For example, Super Heroes is a single theme. That's the information retailers receive in codenames. Yet on Shop@Home, it appears in various forms – Marvel, DC, Spider-Man, Batman etc. BrickHeadz is a theme. The Lord of the Rings is a category which makes buying those sets more intuitive on the website.

That definitely sounds much more likely. The image they used included four Disney Princesses – three of them included in the CMF, and the last one being mentioned in the poll (Cinderella). So... minifigure Cinderella set incoming? It does feel random tho – getting a single minifigure Disney Princesses set, with all the other ones including minidolls.

I sure hope not.

Huh, what do they mean that there's at least one more princess? A series with nineteen figures?

This is certainly an interesting list. So glad we're back to eighteen minifigures. So I guess it's basically another regular Disney series, but labeled as '100 Years of Wonder'. I really like most of the choices here. • Oswald and Wiazard Mickey are both iconic, so their inclusion is fitting for '100 Years of Wonder' (the same goes for Pinocchio and Jiminy Cricket) • it's good to see more Disney Princesses as minifigures, and the choices are great here (Tiana is a particularly good one) • Queen of Hearts is random, I don't like that inclusion (although I guess she'll go along nicely with Series 1) • Coco characters are a fantastic choice • Cruella de Vil was an absolute must (I don't really have a big connection to the original movie, but the 2021 one is probably my favourite live-action Disney movie) • don't care for Robin Hood, an understandable inclusion tho • Stitch with all of his arms sounds absolutely incredible (huge Lilo & Stitch fan here), but no Lilo yet again? • Baymax is a fantastic choice, one of the most interesting ones they could've made • Evil Queen feels random without Snow White, in the same vain as Maleficent in Series 1 (even though they're both really iconic, they'd go along nicely with the princesses)

I do hope we get regular sets down the line. A huge D2C isn't something I'm interested in, neither are BrickHeadz.

Remember that (at least for now) the actual theme has not returned. We're getting a few new sets, sure, but they are under BrickHeadz and Icons lines. It's not a separate theme, it's a part of something else.

When I buy CMF figures, I always use the same local retailer which identifies all of them, so I also don't really care.

Yeah, James Cameron has actually confirmed that he's not taking the 'Marvel approach' and doing a different villain each movie. Still, I hope the sets give us a fair amount of the Ash People.

But the problem is, them setting things up doesn't feel like it matters at all. When they set something up in Phase 2, you knew when to expect to see the fallout. Now, it's like... Kate Bishop appeared. When is she gonna appear next? Who knows. Same for Moon Knight. Same for She-Hulk. Same for Shang-Chi. Same for Eternals. Doctor Strange has a new eye, and Charlize Theron is Clea. When are we gonna see them next? Uhh... somewhere somewhen, I guess. Thor has a child, and Hercules is after him. When will we see how that continues? Before or after 2026? It's all just an incohesive mumbo-jumbo at this point. Nothing really matters, because they took a full-on quantity approach. Setting things up doesn't work anymore, because we genuinely have no idea where and when to expect any sort of continuation.

LMAO but imagine if she did. That would be so wild – out of all the characters and all the series, Zombie Wanda But to be fair, I'm barely buying LEGO Marvel anymore. Phase 4 has made me lose interest in the MCU as a whole. I just care about a single project here and there. Still haven't seen Wakanda Forever, and I'm torn about whether I should see Quantumania (Jonathan Majors is literally the only factor in my decision). Last year I bought only two sets – The Goat Boat (great set, mediocre movie) and the Advent Calendar (good set, great special). This year the only wave I'm interested in is the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 one.

No we don't I swear that if they waste one of the twelve spots on Zombie Wanda I'd never buy another LEGO Marvel set. But really, nearly everyone here complained about the fact that half of the first series was basically What If...?. Not to mention we also got two sets on top of that.

Usually complexity of LEGO sets increases with the age range, but you can find exceptions. It's 18+ because it's more of a collector's item. It's not something you'd buy asa birthday gift for a 9-year-old kid. It's supposed to be used for display purposes only, and that's why it's not suggested to children.

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I dunno, I feel like this ship is so big and complex that LEGO could easily mess it up. I mean a 150€ Benatar feels just right, and Bowie is at least twice its size.

The age ranges for sets having nothing to do with things they are based on. They indicate who they are aimed for: below 4 are Duplo, 4+ are for smaller children, 18+ are for adult collectors, and everything in between is for children in general. Of course it's just a suggestion – an adult can have fun with 4+ sets, and some children wouldn't say no to an 18+ set. TLDR: The numbers indicate how complex the sets are to build, not the properties they are based on.

That actually sounds much more likely than a 700+ pieces lake. I could totally see it happening. Yeah, exactly. The prices are off in this wave. Five sets priced between 65€ and 130€ is crazy – I mean, not even a single small set? Dobby doesn't count, nor does the Advent Calendar, and they aren't even small-small. Crazy that the smallest non-gimmick set we got this year is 45€, and we have plenty of sets. On the other hand, it's okay, because I'll just buy the Battle of Hogwarts.

An oversized Knight Bus wouldn't go along well with a regular-sized building

I'm honestly quite underwhelmed. For now, it's: 2 W's, 3 L's, and 4 "we'll sees". The Battle of Hogwarts and Gringotts sound great, but the amount of unnecessarily oversized builds (Trunk, Dobby, Knight Bus) is too high yet again. Expecto Patronum could be a DH2 set, but I don't think they'd title it that honestly. So yeah, I expected more. But I absolutely love the March sets, and I'll definitely get the Room of Requirement and the Second Task.