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I generally dislike the minidolls, but 43215 The Enchanted Treehouse (aka Disney Princess minidoll battle pack) is reduced on Amazon today and I'm ridiculously tempted. There's something about a minidoll battle pack with characters never seen in minidoll form before that tempts me; probably the idea that it will be pretty much a one and done thing when it comes to getting all of the princesses. It's not like I haven't even got all the princesses they have done in minifigure form. Why brain? Why?

Haha better start #buildthebookend

Has anybody bought a second Villain Icons set and added to the first or done an alternate build? I would love Lego to do a 'Heroes' set and do the opposite bookend so to speak, but that probably won't happen.

Wonder if that one will have another sound brick.

Some new 2024 info leaks via terminalvideo and Falconbricks (apologies if wrong sources quoted): Disney Classic 43249 Buildable Stitch - 729 pieces - $64.99 US - 1st March 2024 Disney Classic 43239 Mirabel Photo Holder and Jewellery Box - 334 pieces - $29.99 US - 1st March 2024 (comes under the Disney Classic branding, but no minifigure/s confirmed to be included)

According to tandnbricks IG Q&A, 'Snitches get a couple of stitches' in 2024, a comment they posted with a picture of Stitch and one of Luisa, Mirabel and Isabela from Encanto. We've already heard about the buildable Stitch, but I believe the Encanto hint is new.

I'm seeing 24 minifigures max in the picture including the Ant Man microfig so either the leaks were wrong or there's 7 more figs squirrelled away inside.

R2-D2 is scheduled for a May release so it's not just March sets.

Antilles in the hallway just made that set so much more appealing. And a midi scale Invisible Hand is great to see. Midi scale ships aren't my thing, but so glad there's some PT representation in the midi scale lineup. It almost seems too good at that pricepoint and with Fives!

It is, but I think Lego are just kind of running with it at the moment after all the clamour for more clones.

If we look at the anniversaries that have been hinted at we have 20th anniversaries of both the Clone Wars and KOTOR. So if Revan and Fives were related to those, then we still have the 25th anniversaries for both TPM and Lego Star Wars itself. For TPM a Shmi minifigure would be cool seeing as I can't see us getting her any other way, but at the same time another Queen Amidala minifigure would be good as that minifigure is ridiculously expensive now. As for LSW itself well the possibilities really depend if they stick to the core characters or use the opportunity to give us characters we'd never get otherwise.

I can't explain the appeal of Abeloth herself as a character; to me she just seems like another conveniently overpowered big bad. As someone who grew up reading Legends and the Yuuzhan Vong stories, their threat felt more realistic due to the collective threat of their insidious gradual invasion. That being said, neither story feels very original, but you can't really expect any story to be truly original these days. So now I think it's more about how people combine elements of what are essentially all previously done stories and how characters are developed. Filoni is arguably skilled at both, so I'm guessing the appeal of Abeloth is a mix of nostalgia and the excitement of people believing they realised what Filoni has set up with the Ahsoka show (what he might literally be pointing too), not necessarily the appeal of the character herself. I'm sure there is also an appreciation for how all these years later he is managing to weave together all his ideas and build on what he set up in the Clone Wars that seemed like no more than a, rather fantastical and somewhat irrelevant I think, side story at the time. As for Lego, if she did make a live action appearance, I would have thought she'd make a pretty unique looking minifigure. Not one I personally care for, but if you do love her from Legends then I can see why the thought that she might make it into itty bitty plastic form would appeal. None of this really has anything to do with 2023 sets though so I'll leave it there.

7) Sorting Hat - I can see the designers doing a good job with the source material and it looking half decent, but this is a novelty set for me and I have no interest in buying or displaying such as set or paying a premium for the sound brick. 6) Hedwig - I have nothing against our feathery heroine, but we've had enough iterations already for a while. Again, sure it will look fine and appeal as desk decoration for some, but just not one for me. 5) Boathouse - As I don't collect the new castle modules anymore to combine I highly doubt I will care for the build presuming it will be rather plain as with the other modules. If we get some new students that would be great, but I'm expecting a repeat McGonagall and students made up of previously released school robes and parts so potentially nothing of value here for me. Which I fine with in some ways as it lowers the wave budget! 4) Owlery - As with the boathouse I can't see the build being of interest, but I'm hoping we will at least get new Cho and Harry prints. If it also gives us a HP variant of the new tiny owl that would be great. 3) Ford Anglia - this one is kind of tied with the Owlery as a set with potentially a couple of new characters variants, but it just beats is as it will be significantly cheaper. If I ever thought about downsizing my collection the vehicles like the Ford Anglia and Knight Bus would probably also be the last thing to go besides minifigures because they are such little builds for display purposes. The car will also always give me nostalgic Chamber of Secrets book cover vibes. As a kid the vehicles were also the parts of the set I gravitated towards purely because of their manoeuvrability so I can see this being a good buy for kids. It will be nice to have a other small set on shelves. 2) I'm guessing this is based on the Care of Magical Creatures scene in the forest from Prisoner of Azkaban and I'd love to get the scruffy white shirt variant of Ron. Potential new minifigures aside, I'm hoping this will be a good creature pack regardless. 1) You just can't beat a good displayable location playset and I can't see how we won't get at least new variants of the trio not to mention Norbert(a) and Fang. Add in the potential for Hagrid with his pinny (please Lego!) and you couldn't really ask for more from a Philosopher's Stone Hagrid's Hut other than the build is a good display piece and I can't see the designers letting us down in that respect.

@NostalgicBricks The Durmstrang Ship and Borgin and Burkes are the sets I would really like and feel notably absent from this reboot to me, whilst I would like minifigures of Karkaroff and Narcissa Malfoy primarily. The Second Task set this year gave me the merperson minifigure I always wanted and with the new Rita the theme is starting to feel pretty well covered. I wouldn't mind a small set with a Quirrell this summer though as he hadn't been on shelves for a while.

Hagrid with his pinny would be a great variant. We can hope.

I'm pretty happy with the winter wave. I like the fact that the novelty sets hopefully won't be ones with exclusive minifigures and so will be skippable, unlike the books or banners. They had they're market sure, but after half a decade of this theme being back I'm not fond of having to continually buy sets I don't want for figures or source them on a pretty expensive secondary market. Yes the minifigures don't sound all that exciting, but the forest set sounds like a potentially cheap way to get Buckbeak and maybe some more pixies or pigmypuffs, maybe even a niffler if we are extremely lucky, and we've just had quite a few new characters in the last year so it can't all be new. I'm sure kids will appreciated that set if it does contain a good selection of creatures. The castle sections seem like ones people have been asking for and the Hagrid's Hut Philosopher's Stone remake with Fang has definitely been a requested set. For me, the winter wave has always been the appetiser for the big summer wave so I never expect the great playsets in this wave. I'm equating the Hagrid's Hut set with this year's Second Task set as being the standout winter playset, if rather more expensive, but it's the summer I expect the playsets from. There are only two things that annoy / worry me about this wave: 1) They are all March so don't really feel like a winter wave anymore and the winter and summer waves are feeling very close together, and (2) it's a large winter wave and I just hope they don't oversaturate the market with HP and kill the golden goose so to speak. Too much of a good thing and all that.

Thank you @Yaxley. Apologies for taking any info with a large pile of salt until further confirmation, but the set descriptions do seem to match up with the prices and piece counts we have already been told e.g. 76432 only having 172 pieces but being $29.99 meaning a large moulded animal would make sense, whilst 76425 supposedly has 337 pieces but will only coat $19.99 suggesting a bunch of smaller pieces like in the Dobby statue.

Any update on when we might get set names @Brick Clicker?

Thank you I love that they show Gringotts at the end of DA as an actual alley. It might only be a brief glimpse, but I feel like they actually get it!

I would have thought if set names were known then we would know the content of Hagrid's Hut as Lego has got vey fond of using the colon in their Harry Potter set names. We had Hagrid's Hut: Buckbeak's Rescue so I would have thought we will be getting Hagrid's Hut: Norbert's Hatching or Hagrid's Hut: Farewell Aragog or such like. So I'm guessing maybe some people have seen blurry/ preliminary images of sets only. Either way I can't wait to get some more info on the March wave, particularly for the smaller sets.

I managed to place an order this morning after other life stuff got in the way yesterday. I settled on WWW for the figs and extra joke shop item as that's a Lego and Argos exclusive her in the UK so seemed like a good time and then I also got the discounted Shrieking Shack to get me over the promo threshold. Might wait until other GWPs to get Gringotts now as I have the promo.

Nope, nothing in bag. Glad you got yours. I'm going to give up now. I've got to get to bed.

Items are now in bag, but haven't checked out yet. Good luck! Edit: Items gone from bag again. What a joke.

Can't do anything. Add items to bag and they show in the top corner of the screen as in bag, but then I go to bag and there's nothing there. Logged in and out, changed browser, cleared cookies but nothing works. Anyone else getting this?

I feel like we do this a lot though don't we. I'm sure it will be all good stuff relatively speaking, although I do feel like we can sense there has been a change of design lead. Granted they are having to follow on from someone who had a fresh slate to that does put them at a certain disadvantage.