icm

The Mountain of Flowers and Fruit looks brilliant. I hope I can afford it! The Spider Queen's Arachnoid Base looks a lot better than I expected. I just can't remember the Spider Queen's role in Journey to the West - she never struck me as one of the more memorable villains. The White Horse Jet is such a SPACESHIP!!!! that I just might have to get it. Unlike the first wave, this wave has a good selection of smaller sets.

@danth, I think @Man with beard is referring to the 2009 and 2015 Pirates lines and the 2013 Castle line, not to the 2020 combo of the 3-in-1 Pirate Ship and Barracuda Bay. I agree with you that that combo is a pair of successful standalone sets, not a "short-lived reboot."

On the bright side, Shop at Home lists 75302 at $70 USD when it was previously rumored to be at $80. I don't mind 660 parts in a spaceship of that size for $70, but $80 would have been a stretch.

Yep, that's how I've thought of it for a long time. Classic Bionicle is 2001-2003, but especially 2001 when it still had the Technic label. 2004 was ok too, but I completely lost interest in 2005 when the canister sets lost their gear functions and masks as distinct from heads. I see my very limited interest in just the first couple years of Bionicle as closely analogous to my primary interest in just the first couple years of Space.

No. No subway. The entire article was a joke by Zusammengebaut, and they admitted as such deep in the comments. I don't usually read the comments on Zusammengebaut, so I took the article at face value even though it seemed a little strange. I'm sorry for posting something false. It was entirely unintentional. Gosh darnit, the 27th of January is not the 1st of April!

Edit, the joke's on me, apparently. It's not April 1, and Zusammengebaut is usually a trustworthy source. Sorry about that.

Rats, that's why I need to learn foreign languages. It's not April 1 yet!

According to Zusammengebaut's toy fair coverage, this summer will have a 3-in-1 Elephant/Rhino/something else and a 3-in-1 planet set with Earth/Uranus/Pluto. https://zusammengebaut.com/live-ticker-keine-spielwarenmesse-2021-alle-lego-neuheiten-113557/ Edit, the joke's on me, apparently. It's not April 1, and Zusammengebaut is usually a trustworthy source. Sorry about that. The entire article was a joke by Zusammengebaut, and they admitted as such deep in the comments. I don't usually read the comments on Zusammengebaut, so I took the article at face value even though it seemed a little strange. I'm sorry for posting something false. It was entirely unintentional. Gosh darnit, the 27th of January is not the 1st of April!

According to Zusammengebaut's toy fair coverage, this summer will have Friends in Space, featuring Emma's Space Shuttle and Stephanie's Moon Base. https://zusammengebaut.com/live-ticker-keine-spielwarenmesse-2021-alle-lego-neuheiten-113557/ Edit, the joke's on me, apparently. It's not April 1, and Zusammengebaut is usually a trustworthy source. Sorry about that. The entire article was a joke by Zusammengebaut, and they admitted as such deep in the comments. I don't usually read the comments on Zusammengebaut, so I took the article at face value even though it seemed a little strange. I'm sorry for posting something false. It was entirely unintentional. Gosh darnit, the 27th of January is not the 1st of April!

According to Zusammengebaut's toy fair coverage, this summer will have Friends in Space, featuring Emma's Space Shuttle and Stephanie's Moon Base. https://zusammengebaut.com/live-ticker-keine-spielwarenmesse-2021-alle-lego-neuheiten-113557/ Edit, the joke's on me, apparently. It's not April 1, and Zusammengebaut is usually a trustworthy source. Sorry about that. The entire article was a joke by Zusammengebaut, and they admitted as such deep in the comments. I don't usually read the comments on Zusammengebaut, so I took the article at face value even though it seemed a little strange. I'm sorry for posting something false. It was entirely unintentional. Gosh darnit, the 27th of January is not the 1st of April!

According to Zusammengebaut's toy fair coverage, the information for Star Wars was just a teaser picture of a big ball ... Death Star confirmed? https://zusammengebaut.com/live-ticker-keine-spielwarenmesse-2021-alle-lego-neuheiten-113557/ Edit, the joke's on me, apparently. It's not April 1, and Zusammengebaut is usually a trustworthy source. Sorry about that. The entire article was a joke by Zusammengebaut, and they admitted as such deep in the comments. I don't usually read the comments on Zusammengebaut, so I took the article at face value even though it seemed a little strange. I'm sorry for posting something false. It was entirely unintentional. Gosh darnit, the 27th of January is not the 1st of April!

According to this morning's post on Zusammengebaut, there's going to be a Marvel tower with more than 4 floors. I dunno if I read that correctly, I'm just relying on Google Translate. https://zusammengebaut.com/live-ticker-keine-spielwarenmesse-2021-alle-lego-neuheiten-113557/ Edit, the joke's on me, apparently. It's not April 1, and Zusammengebaut is usually a trustworthy source. Sorry about that. The entire article was a joke by Zusammengebaut, and they admitted as such deep in the comments. I don't usually read the comments on Zusammengebaut, so I took the article at face value even though it seemed a little strange. I'm sorry for posting something false. It was entirely unintentional. Gosh darnit, the 27th of January is not the 1st of April!

I don't know if anyone else has posted about this yet, but according to Zusammengebaut this summer will have a subway theme: a subway station with track loop and train, a subway people pack, and one other subway set. https://zusammengebaut.com/live-ticker-keine-spielwarenmesse-2021-alle-lego-neuheiten-113557/ Edit, the joke's on me, apparently. It's not April 1, and Zusammengebaut is usually a trustworthy source. Sorry about that. The entire article was a joke by Zusammengebaut, and they admitted as such deep in the comments. I don't usually read the comments on Zusammengebaut, so I took the article at face value even though it seemed a little strange. I'm sorry for posting something false. It was entirely unintentional. Gosh darnit, the 27th of January is not the 1st of April!

I don't know if anybody else has posted about this yet, but according to Zusammengebaut this summer's Hogwarts expansion will have Moaning Myrtle's bathroom and there will be a 2000+ part 2-in-1 set with Powered Up that looks like a broomstick. https://zusammengebaut.com/live-ticker-keine-spielwarenmesse-2021-alle-lego-neuheiten-113557/ Edit, the joke's on me, apparently. It's not April 1, and Zusammengebaut is usually a trustworthy source. Sorry about that. The entire article was a joke by Zusammengebaut, and they admitted as such deep in the comments. I don't usually read the comments on Zusammengebaut, so I took the article at face value even though it seemed a little strange. I'm sorry for posting something false. It was entirely unintentional. Gosh darnit, the 27th of January is not the 1st of April!

Yes, I think you are. Selling a Columbia model with a GWP of the crew of STS-107 would be a crass effort to profit off of a tragedy. Selling a Columbia model to coincide with the 40th anniversary of STS-1 would be an appropriate tribute to a magnificent technological achievement and to the 27 orbital missions that Columbia completed before the disaster. There is so much more to OV-102 Columbia's place in history than the way it ended.

You think that would be a fitting tribute to the crew; I think it would be in very poor taste. Guess we'll see if there is a GWP or not, and if so, what it is. Unrelated: Because of the anniversary it makes sense, hypothetically, for 10283 to represent Columbia as of STS-1, but I would much prefer 10283 to represent Discovery or Atlantis. Columbia was visibly different than the other Orbiters in several respects, and Discovery and Atlantis are more representative of what one generically thinks of as the Space Shuttle. Also, the white STS-1 External Tank is not representative of the iconic orange tank used for nearly every Shuttle flight thereafter.

Thanks for posting this. I took a quick look and got all the nostalgia feels. I don't have time to really dig in to these right now, but maybe later!

Yeah, I'd say that's a fair assessment. Like it or not, NASA space efforts are much more well-known and iconic in most of Lego's geographic markets than Russian, European, or Indian space efforts. The big three NASA crewed space programs are Apollo, Shuttle, and Station. Apollo is well represented by the Saturn V and the Lunar Module (although I would love to have a Command Module too), and Station has the Ideas kit. There have been a bunch of minifig playscale Shuttles in the past few years, but it's been a decade since the last D2C shuttle. In the meantime, two D2C class shuttles have made it to 10K on Ideas, and there are many AFOLs now who weren't on the scene back in 2011. After all, the Saturn V is (correct me if I'm wrong) the best-selling Ideas kit ever, and it brought a ton of people into the hobby. So between the Saturn V, the Lunar Module, and the ISS kits, a UCS style Space Shuttle is definitely missing; that is to say, it would complete the set. Then there's the anniversary - the LM tied in to the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, and the ISS to the 20th anniversary of continuous habitation of the Station. So with this year the 40th anniversary of the first flight of Columbia, the timing makes sense. What I wonder is whether 10283, if the rumors pan out, will be: a UCS Orbiter, like the UCS Space Shuttle Atlantis by Snelson42 on Ideas ($200 would be an appropriate price point for a large airplane-like model, as demonstrated by $200 UCS Star Wars sets and $200 UCS Batwing) a 1:110 Shuttle stack, like the NASA Space Shuttle (Saturn V Scale) by KingsKnight on Ideas (the same physical size as the $100 10213/10231, but with 2200+ parts in its updated form on Rebrickable, thus sitting at the $200 price point) In either case, will it be designed to be compatible with minifigs? A true minifig scale UCS Orbiter would be more realistic at a $500 price point, maybe, and a 1:110 scale Shuttle stack scales better with nanofigures, but it's easy to imagine either scale being adapted for play with minifigures. The approximate 1:110 scale already has been, with 10213/10231. Whether or not it's compatible with minifigs, will it have play features? For me, the ideal 1:110 Stack would simply be the Rebrickable version of the KingsKnight model, but I know that's not going to happen. It doesn't have "play features" per se, but the Shuttle has a lot of moving parts and cabin volume that are all well represented. A UCS Orbiter ought to have retractable landing gear, at least: that was my favorite part of the 7470 Space Shuttle Discovery, which is the largest System brick-built Orbiter released to date.

Has anyone heard of Brickcatch before? Just the site and nothing else comes up when I google it, so I'm worried it's one of those scam sites.

Classic Space, Adventurers, Lion Knights for me. Hoping for a Galaxy Explorer. Some of the options are surprising because they already have recent modern equivalents: Alpha Team = Agents and Ultra Agents Arctic has had City waves in 2014 and 2018 Divers had City waves in 2015 and 2020 Extreme Team is just Town with 4x4s and there have been plenty of City stunt vehicles, including a rumored summer wave for 2021 Model Team = Creator Expert/18+ vehicles Paradisa = Friends, but with minifigures instead of minidolls Town = City

You know, that makes a lot of sense for that price point. But who knows, we may get lucky and get a cheap Slave 1 that's just as good as the cheap X-wing and TIE Fighter - and those are great sets.

A $50 Slave One with Han Solo and Boba Fett sounds too good to be true to me. The 2019 version was amazing, but I couldn't afford it and all I really wanted were the Han and Boba figures anyway.

Sigh. Yet again, something that many people have been requesting for years is finally released as a limited-run exclusive (Comic-Con/GWP/etc) that'll sell out in five minutes, instead of being made widely available.

The next iconic Batman vehicle for a $200 D2C would seem to be the 1966 TV Batmobile, but that's just speculation on my part.

Since TLG already released a whopping three sailing ships at different price points last year ($100 Pirate Ship, $130 Destiny's Bounty, $200 Barracuda Bay) plus two other large floating vessels ($150 Marine Research Ship, $160 Monkie Kid Base), I doubt that they'll push out yet another $130 sailing ship in 2021, even if it is the much-requested Durmstrang Ship. Having bought all three of last year's ships (plus buying a second copy of Barracuda Bay for someone else as a Christmas gift) I don't know that I'd buy another one this year. But then again, I'm sure a lot of people would buy the Durmstrang ship without being interested in any of the others, due to the Harry Potter connection. And there is precedent for releasing a large number of sailing ships in a very short time span - $100 Brickbeard's Bounty (2009), $180 Imperial Flagship (2010), $100 Black Pearl (2011), $120 Queen Anne's Revenge (2011). I think it's more likely the $130 set is the next Hogwarts Castle extension, though that might be the $90 set instead.