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For me, in no particular order (more than ten): Star Hawk II (Unitron) Galactic Mediator (Space Police II) Cosmic Fleet Voyager (Classic Space) FX Star Patroller (Classic Space) Gamma-V Laser Craft (Classic Space) Xenon X-Craft (Classic Space) Island Racer (Adventurers) Island Hopper (Adventurers) Pontoon Plane (Adventurers) Solar Explorer (Life on Mars) Deep Reef Refuge (Town, Divers) Amazon Crossing (Town, Outback)

I really like the number eight modern astronaut. I might want to get several of those as army builders for Apollo and Shuttle crews. I have less than zero interest in any of the others though.

Number eight sounds good. I'll pass on the rest.

Sure the car isn't Speed Champions, but it looks like a pretty good companion to the Morb-mobile to me.

If Lego had done licenses at the time (which they didn't, so it's not like Model Team was specially creative for being unlicensed), I'm dead sure the yellow jeep would have been a licensed Jeep, and the big red and black semi truck would have been a Peterbilt (or a Mack, or a Kenworth, or a Freightliner - I don't know enough about semi trucks to pinpoint the inspiration for 5571). Creator Expert/Icons has featured some original/unlicensed vehicles, like the 10290 Pickup Truck and the double-decker London bus. Both of those have identifiable real-world inspirations, but neither carries a license from a manufacturer or operator of the real thing. (The bus was not a genuine Routemaster that carried a license from the bus manufacturer and the London public transit authority, but rather a generic red Routemaster-style London bus.) Icons got a large aircraft just this year, the Concorde. Two years ago it got the Space Shuttle Discovery. I wouldn't be surprised to see a large semi truck sometime in the future, since they've already done such a large vehicle as the double-decker London bus. But yeah, Lego doesn't do B-models anymore outside of Creator 3-in-1, which is a real shame. It's great that we have Rebrickable, but it would be nice if Lego itself did back-of-the-box builds. However, the Icons vehicles team does make an effort to include some options for customization, as in the Land Rover, the Corvette, the BTTF Time Machine, the Camaro, the VW T2 Camper Van (though it's only stickers there), the Porsche 911, and the Mustang. Back to the topic, it's no coincidence that Lego is referring to the old Model Team semi truck here. They've previously referred to it in the Apocalypseburg D2C set for TLM2. It's quite common for modern Lego sets to feature easter eggs that refer to old sets and lines. They rarely tease forthcoming products. In short, I don't think this is "Lego's careful attempt to bring Model Team back."

Model Team is Creator Expert/Icons vehicles, and Creator Expert/Icons vehicles are Model Team. Full stop. The only function that Model Team ever had was steering. Now that steering comes standard in Creator Expert/Icons vehicles, there is no reason to pine after Model Team as being something different and better.

Wow. I like the Hoopty. I like the X-Jet. But those prices are abominable.

@danth: This little spaceship bears a startling resemblance to a tiny little Mega Bloks spaceship from the year 2001; https://bricker.info/osets/MEGABLOKS/9182/

I think that's a pretty solid starfighter for $35. It's a good size, it looks sturdy and chunky, it's got excellent color blocking, and it integrates the spring-shooter and six-shooter parts really well into the places where its weapons ought to be. It looks much better value than baby Rocket's ship from 2023, and personally I think it looks better too.

Excellent work as always!

Most of these are really nice sets in the Friends style. The Mars base with rocket is pretty fun. The shopping mall has an inviting facade and a good variety of shops in the back. The electric car and solar charger doesn't look as good as the electric car and windmill charger from a few years ago, but it's nice that it has a frunk. The hospital elevator is cool. I hope those parts appear in many multistory building sets for many years. Olly and Paisley's family homes are really good examples of attractive modern architecture with clean, efficient builds and smart use of space and details. I think they're up there with the best small playscale houses Lego has ever made. The mansion - wow, that is bonkers Malibu excess with a bonkers Malibu car. It makes my eyes bleed a little, but it's such a great piece of Lego building! It would totally go in my Lego city if I had a Lego city. But, no tabletop city, no Lego room, no Friends Malibu Mansion. Oh well!

The dragon is cute. The microscale truck with helicopter looks pretty good. Most of these are nicely executed and cute little models of real-world things. The giraffe in particular is a nice model.

I'm not posting about the City Space sets here, only the other ones - The 4+ race car is surprisingly good. I wanted to get the previous 4+ race car but it was a low priority, so I didn't. This one is better than that one. Maybe buy. The go-karts are a good little set for the price point but not that interesting to me. Pass. The construction steamroller is a very good set for the price point, but I'm not that into construction equipment. Pass. The monster truck is a surprisingly good little set and probably at a decent price point, considering the price of the wheels. I might buy this, but I might just go back and get the 2018 monster truck instead. Maybe buy, maybe pass. The 4+ emergency ambulance is alright. Pass. The burger van is a fun and funky little build and I think it's smart that the burger kitchen can be separated and played with as a standalone burger shack. Pass. The emergency rescue helicopter is very good. It's one of the most realistic helicopter shapes Lego has done in years, it has a nice hi-vis color scheme, and the windscreen is a new mold that I want to get my hands on. Maybe buy. The race car and car carrier truck is very good at being what it wants to be, but that's not my style. Pass. The 4+ fire rescue motorcycle looks like a good size for the price. Pass. The fire rescue helicopter is a simple vanilla little helicopter with nothing special to make it unique. Pass. The 4x4 fire engine with rescue boat is an excellent example of the 4x4 + trailer + payload set type. I want it. Buy. The fire rescue plane is a perfectly passable, generic City plane. Pass. The box art of the fire station with fire engine makes the fire engine look so small! But it isn't, really. It's no smaller than any other fire engine of the past several years. Why does it look so large? Is that because of the hulking massive architecture of the station? Is it because the heavy use of black and trans dark blue in this year's fire sets makes them look smaller than they are, rather than larger? I really like the brick-built numbering on the bay doors, but overall I don't like the set, and I don't have any other fire engines or fire stations to pair it with. Pass. The police car and muscle chase is fresh and unusual, with its crocodile car and sci-fi police car, but I don't feel the need to add that to my collection of 6w police cars. Pass. The black and dark blue colors and 8w, faceted shape of the police mobile crime lab truck make me think City is going back to the dreary, depressing, dangerous days of the turn of the century. The social order of Lego Town collapsed in the dot-com bust and after 9/11, leading to the grimdark years of World City and early City. It took Lego City years to lift itself up out of that hellscape and convert its high crime rate into a respectable game of cops and robbers that could be enjoyed as entertainment by any ordinary citizen. Why are those dark days returning? Why? Why? Why? - - - The set itself looks like a nice complex, feature-rich, detailed build, but it doesn't interest me. Pass. Prison island - don't really like the colors or the rigid inflatable hull boat, but the lower level underneath the jail and the exercise yard is nice. Pass.

I wonder why the Marvel sets haven't been revealed yet? I hope the Rocket Raccoon's Warbird is good.

I don't buy a lot of CMFs, but I like the updated Basil the Batlord. I may get that one.

Well, that may be Space but it's certainly not City! It's not surprising Brickset has these listed as a subtheme of City, since that's what's on the box, but in design and in spirit this is clearly the first full-on unlicensed Space theme since Galaxy Squad in 2013! (And since a great big Space logo is on the box, just as prominent as the City logo, an argument could be made to Brickset to list these as a subtheme of Space instead...although it would be a stretch to apply that to the other Creator, Dreamzz, Friends, and Technic sets with the same Space logo on the box.) Heck, it even looks a lot more like Galaxy Squad than like City, what with the helmet molds, helmet colors, curvy white sleek shapes of the rovers, and the little green aliens. That's it. In my headcanon, this is a prequel to Galaxy Squad. Don't touch those cute little green alien plant things, they'll grow into great big green Space bugs that want to eat you! I like the purposeful color-coding of the minifigs and I'm intrigued by the new backpack piece. I'm not sure what all the connections are but they look interesting. I appreciate the use of the Icons space shuttle cargo bay door in trans-clear for large windows throughout City and Friends. On the whole I don’t like the orange colors. I’d rather have shades of blue. But that’s just me. The little space motorcycle polybag is, like most polybags, just an excuse to get a minifig at a cheap price. I'd prefer if it was wedge-shaped, but that's not a big deal. Pass. The little space construction mech is fine for what it is. I like the crystals and the little robot. The minifig reminds me of the CMF space miner from several years ago. I'm not big into mechs, though, so the only little mechs out right now that interest me are the Monkie Kid combo mech and the Boba Fett mech. Pass. The 4+ spaceship and asteroid discovery is honestly not bad for the price point, considering it's a 4+ set. It has two minifigures with different colored helmets, two big boulders, a little alien, a pretty substantial base and crane (by 4+ standards) and a swooshy spaceship that's reasonably large. But the spaceship makes very poor use of the 4+ Big Ugly Space Hull introduced for TLM2. Pass. The Interstellar Spaceship is a nice swooshy 918-class courier/fighter ship that is far from the best example of the 918-class courier genre, but it's got a fun gimmick. The way the back flares open when you press the button on top is pretty cool. It's the fourth use of that canopy, but the first use of it for a wholly original in-house spaceship. (The Lightyear ship is from a movie, the Blacktron Cruiser is a faithful remake of a set from 1987 rather than being a new spaceship design, and the Pirate Snubfighter is from a TV show.) I think I'll go ahead and get it. Swoosh, swoosh! I wish the pilot was blue rather than dark blue though. It's overpriced at $30, but I have $10 in coupons right now so I'll get it for $20. Buy. The Space Rover Explorer is a pretty nice midsize rover with a lot of interior space and some pretty good suspension. Considering the size of those wheels, the PPP isn't shocking. The front suspension is pretty cool and the aliens are cute. I like it, but it doesn't make me want to rush out and buy it. Maybe buy. The Command Rover is a great big Turbo Tank of a rover, which is pretty cool. It's certainly a valid successor to the tradition of great big Space rovers. I like the Portal-style robot. I need to wait for more pictures of the interior and features before making a buying decision, but big rovers aren’t really my thing. Pass. The Modular Space Station is an interesting idea. It looks like the Endurance in Interstellar and like the ring of Jupiter spaceships in the third season of Lost in Space (Netflix version). The space train on the back of the box is fun. But like all Lego space stations, it has piddling small solar panels, and the insides of the modules don’t look very interesting. Also, the ring shape looks both overengineered and underutilized. I would rather have another modular space station like the 2019 version than a ring station that doesn’t make effective use of the ring concept. Pass. The Space Base and Rocket Launchpad is intriguing but not yet convincing. I like the idea of a big glass control tower and a big solid hatch on the front of the base. But the colors clash terribly, and I need more pictures of the spaceship, the launch pad, and the base interior. The rover reminds me of the pickup truck from Lightyear, which at the time I wanted as a Lego set, but the build looks awkward and cramped. I like the way the base opens and I think the integration of a rotating crane beneath the control tower is clever. Maybe pass. The Friends Mars Base and Rocket is a bit of a mixed bag. I like the new windscreen mold, but I don’t like the colors. The Friends Space Camp set from 2022 had a building that was all pinks and purples, but the space shuttle in that set only had a thin stripe of pink along each side and was otherwise normally colored. There’s nothing wrong with the Friends Mars Base and Rocket being all pinks and purples, but it’s not my jam. (Except blackberry jam, which is very purple and very tasty.) I want to wait for more pictures of the features and interiors of the base and ship. If I get this, it’ll primarily be out of completionism rather than positively wanting the set. Now that we’ve had Friends in Spaaace, can we get Ninjas in Spaaaace next year? Maybe pass. I was hoping for something like a stylized Apollo lunar rover from the Dreamzz space car, so I’m disappointed that it’s a simple yellow car with some Space wheels and a robot arm bolted on. To my eyes, its rover mode looks fragile and its spaceship mode looks contrived. On the other hand, the Dreamzz Spacebus has been growing on me since the summer, and I might end up getting that one after all. Pass. The buildable astronaut figure from Creator is pretty realistic and it’s a pretty good example of that style of buildable figure, but I’m not really into those figures. I bought the Peter Parker Spider-Man set and haven’t felt a need to buy any of the others. The astronaut is pretty realistic, but not at the level of detail and accuracy that would compel me to buy it, and the B and C models aren’t interesting. Pass. The Technic polybag of the Perseverance Mars rover is ok, but it’s just a tiny little polybag. Pass. The Technic orrery is very cool. It’s got nice prints for the globe and I’m glad the guts are left open so you can see the gears moving around. I’m not really into Technic but I might get it. Maybe buy. The Technic Surface Space Loader is pretty cool. It reminds me of the T-3 Trike from Life on Mars and the other trike from Mars Mission, except it has four wheels instead of three. I like the changing ride height for the front cabin. Ultimately Technic isn’t my thing, so I won’t get it. Pass. The Technic Mars Crew Exploration Rover is very cool. I want to see more pictures of the functions and the interior. At first glance it reminds me of the Arocs, but of course it’s much smaller and has a fraction of the part count, so it can’t be nearly as feature-rich as that paragon of Technic. It’ll be nice to have a big Technic movie-Watney rover after the 2019 City movie-Watney rover and the 2020 Creator book-Watney rover. Maybe buy. The Technic VTOL Heavy Cargo Spaceship is pretty cool. The functions of the lowering cargo box, the rotating engines, and the retractable landing gear are pretty cool. The design is something fresh and new for Technic, and it looks like something out of a video game. The price point is pretty good too. But the spaceship design doesn’t strike my fancy and I’m not big into Technic, so I won’t get it. Pass. It’s not a set with the Space banner on the right side of the box, but it is a swooshy 924-size courier/shuttle - I refer to the Crimson Firehawk from Star Wars. This one has a nice big printed windscreen in transparent light blue and it makes good use of the existing 2019 Big Ugly Space Hull and a new one special for it. On the whole, though, it’s a very mediocre spaceship in design and execution. Pass. It’s not a set with the Space banner on the right side of the box, but the Dune ornithopter from Icons is extremely impressive, and it comes from a sci-fi franchise that could well work as a Space-adjacent subtheme if you filed off the serial numbers. I’d love to get it but I can’t afford it. Pass. It’s not a set with the Space banner on the right side of the box, but it is a swooshy 918-size courier/fighter - I refer to Rocket Raccoon’s Warbird, which has not been revealed yet. Still waiting on that. The 10341 licensed Icons Space set, rumored for this spring, should be very interesting. Maybe buy. The 10391 black spaceship from Icons, rumored for April, should be very interesting. Maybe buy. The rumored Technic Apollo Lunar Rover, rumored for about $250 this summer, should be very interesting. But on the other hand, I probably can’t afford it, and I haven’t bought the 2022 Technic Perseverance Mars Rover yet. Maybe buy, maybe pass. On the whole, I'm enormously pleased by the quality and quantity of intentional Space offerings for 2024, where Lego outright says "this is a Space set" rather than just making Space-like swooshies as in any other action and adventure theme. Even so, I don't think I'll get more than a few of them. My wanted list is so large, and most of these just don't compete with things I want more. I bought the entire 2019 and 2022 City Space lines because they were exactly the kind of realistic NASA space I wanted, and I'd find a way to buy an entire line of Classic Space in the style of 10497. This falls into the middle ground of yay, all this Space! / Meh, it's not actually everything I want Space to be. But that's just the problem with all fan communities and franchise extensions, you can't please everyone. I'm sure many kids will be very happy with all the Space this year.

Sorry, I didn't look that closely.

I hope there's another wave of Speed Champions movie cars later in the year, because I think this wave is pretty disappointing. The price increase from $25 to $27 is annoying when inflation has been cooling and the cars haven't improved, and especially annoying since the 8w SC cars started at $20 in 2020. I was really looking forward to the Mustang, but it's a lot more of a brick than I hoped it would be, and I'm very disappointed to see that the distinctive Mustang taillights are stickers instead of brick-built. The BMW cars are absolutely plastered with stickers that'll be a huge pain to apply, and the most interesting thing in their bodywork is a couple of new slopes on the back of the single-seat racer that will surely show up in many other new 2024 sets. I should have expected that the electric Audi would be plastered with stickers too, but I don't see any new building solutions that would make it worthwhile to wade through the stickers. The curved slopes underneath the stickered headlights are nice, but it's a shame that they had to go back to stickered headlights with those. I'll wait for those parts to show up in another theme.

This looks very good. It's probably going to be the one Technic set I buy this year - I probably can't afford the big crewed Mars rover. I'm impressed by the printing on the Earth globe and I'm glad they tilted the axis of the Earth. However, it doesn't look like they managed to make the Earth spin as it goes around the Sun. I wonder how close the gear ratio between the movement of the Earth around the Sun and the movement of the Moon around the Earth is to the authentic 365/28 ~ 13:1 ratio?

With high-res pics of the Space banner, I don't mind it as much. There's some nice bluish-purplish outlining on the lettering, the letters themselves aren't quite as boring as they looked before, and the background is more of a silvery color than a plain boring gray. I wouldn't call the VTOL Heavy Cargo Spaceship something from the Artemis/NASA concept route. It looks more like the aesthetic of the Alien universe or any number of video games. It's not my style, but I'm glad Technic is doing something new and unusual and conceptually creative. The smaller rover with four wheels is a really cool upscaled Technic version of the old Life on Mars and Mars Mission three-wheeled rovers. The big rover with six wheels is a really cool "Watney rover" with a good amount of functions and some nice interior and exterior detail. However, it's clearly going for form over function - the mechanical functionality is simple and limited. I can't wait for pictures of the Space sets from City, Creator, and Friends. I hope they come out by tomorrow.

I'm not interested in the owlery, boathouse, or forest sets, but the hut and the car are fantastic. At first glance there isn't anything much to differentiate the car from the 2018 and 2020 versions, but the B pillar is different and it uses a full 6x6 tile for the roof. More importantly, they've redesigned the chassis to allow two minifigures to stand side by side in the car. The 2010, 2018, and 2020 versions weren't designed for that, and it was a non-trivial mod to allow that. I could squeeze two minifigures side by side in the 2018 and 2020 versions without modification, but it was a bad fit. So that's a real solid improvement. Hagrid's Hut is perfect. I like the way the roof is built and the way it lifts off, and I like the way the back quarters of the fully enclosed hut open. The furniture is all great, and the minifigure selection is really solid.

This model looks really neat, that's for sure. But what about the functions? It looks like the main function is extending the wheelbase - is that controlled by a gear and knob, or do you just pull on it and it slides open? It looks like all three axles are live axles without springs - can anyone see any springs on this? It doesn't look like it has a drivetrain or internal function gearbox, and the crane on the back is small and weak. As far as looks go, and new parts in new colors, this set is a showstopper. But unlike with System themes, I mainly approach Technic for the functions, and I don't see any functions here that the Arocs didn't already do better, except for the extending wheelbase. Edit - Of course, the Arocs isn't really a fair comparison, since it has more than twice as many parts.

This motorcycle is a pretty model, but does it have any features that the 42107 Ducati doesn't besides a kickstand? It looks like it has only a single spring for rear suspension like the Ducati. Like the Ducati, it has a working 2-speed gearbox, but does it use the same wave shifter part for that gearbox, or does it use a new element for that?

The orrery and motorcycle look fantastic. I'll have to wait for more pictures of the space rover.

Hagrid's Hut is great. I want it. The flying car is ok, but not a major change from the last two. I'd like to pick it up, but the fact that it's only different in the B pillars and the roof tile make it seem less exciting than it could be. Still, it's nice to see it as a standalone set at a good price.