Portal Out

There’s a new Godzilla movie coming at the end of the year, a Kaiju cmf would be so cool. Street Fighter series would work ridiculously well too, but I’m not sure if that’s the type of thing Lego would do. I think all the games are rated T though, so I guess it’s not impossible. Plus Megaman was almost in Dimensions way back when

I finally predicted something correctly! Really crossing my fingers we get a Ganondorf minifigure; double crossed that he has the Avatar arms and legs to make him tall. I feel they could technically get away with not including him, but come on! That would be a certified “only the best is good enough” moment. Getting Link in a red tunic would be cool too since I feel like most people just wear that outfit until the end of the game once they unlock it, but I guess it would be pretty frustrating for people who don’t have the green Link from the Deku Tree.

A build of the final Ganon fight from the end of OoT that has a base with the ruins of Hyrule Castle and a bunch of flames would be a really good ~1000 piece set. If they included adult Link, adult Zelda, and Ganondorf, they wouldn’t need to make any new molds either.

Honestly I feel like Wind Waker has been one of the more heavily merchandised Zelda games in recent years. Like I barely see any Twilight Princess merch and certainly never see any Skyward Sword stuff, but just about every game stop I’ve been to has tons of toon Link plushies those World of Nintendo play sets. If/when we get another set, I still feel like getting something else from Oot or BotW is the most likely, but I wouldn’t rule Wind Waker out. I do wonder if Nintendo has given Lego any info on what the next Zelda is though. Probably not seeing as Lego leaked their big collab over a year early, but still interesting to speculate about.

Excited to see we’re getting close. Hopefully those prices haven’t been nudged too much.

Nicely done, you were just about spot on! Total mandela effect lol, for some reason I remembered them showing up there at the end of the live-action series.

Since we're making predictions: 301 Pieces - Buggy's Circus Tent Luffy, Zoro, Buggy Buggy is confirmed, but I can't really think of any substantial builds that he could come with, so I'm just guessing they'll throw him in the cheapest set. 573 Pieces - Kaya's Mansion Luffy, Usopp, Kaya, Kuro, Sham, Buchi The build is the interior of the mansion with some play features. Maybe there can be a bit of the exterior garden with the well. 926 Pieces - Arlong Park Arlong, Luffy, Nami, a few fishmen, Garp, Kobi The build is a shallow dollhouse type playset of the big pagoda and a few side builds. 1376 Pieces - The Baratie Luffy, Zoro, Usopp, Sanji, Nami, Zeff, Mihawk, a few chefs or pirates If one side is left open, they could definitely do the Batatie justice at this piece count. Mihawk's ship would also be nice to get in this set. 3402 Pieces - Going Merry Luffy, Zoro, Usopp, Sanji, Nami, Chopper, Nico Robin, Shanks Lego doesn't make sets above ~$250 for this kind of license unless they're based something extremely recognizable in general. I think the Merry is the only thing from the property that reaches that threshold. I'm shooting for the moon on this one and guessing it'll be based on the anime/manga. Oda is involved, and there's a bit of language in the press release that alludes to the anime specifically. Plus, Lego could hide a lot more references and easter eggs in a set based on the anime (which they love to do in their big sets). Most importantly, this set will almost definitely stay on shelves longer than the rest of the wave, and the Merry is the only thing not specifically tied to the first season of the live-action show. I kinda went crazy with the fig inclusions here and getting anything based on the anime is a stretch (no pun intended), but I'm going to lock in my guesses before we get any more leaks.

I feel like the mutant is a lock. Lego hasn’t missed one of these gimmick dinosaurs yet, and I don’t see any reason why they would this time. I’m personally not a big fan of the design though. They teased that it was inspired by the rancor and xenomorph… and it’s literally just a rancor with a xenomorph’s head. Let’s just hope its inevitable inclusion doesn’t push out one of the other newcomers. Either way, I’m super optimistic about this wave! There’s some great playset potential for sure.

Very nice, I really love a lot of the techniques you're using! Make sure to show us some glamor shots when you're done.

Yes, but I kinda just assume it’s non-lego since the OP clearly has other One Piece merch. Since we’re confirmed to be getting a Buggy set, I really hope we get a Cabaji fig. I don’t care about the character that much, but a unicycle piece would be awesome. Beast Tamer would be even cooler (especially if he had Richie), but he was barely in the live action show so that’s kind of a stretch.

Maybe it could be from a GWP or a polybag? Last year, Animal Crossing got a polybag with an exclusive character that had a new print and a new head mold recolor, so it wouldn’t be too far fetched. The only other option I can think of is that bar they show in a bunch of the flashbacks, and I don’t think they’d do that for obvious reasons.

Found it on Xitter, it was a pic of a Luffy figurine holding two of the straw hat/hair combos, one of which was red. Seemed legit to me, I figured anyone with unreleased pieces probably wouldn’t have any reason to photoshop it or anything.

Do you think an Animal Crossing D2C is in the cards for this year? The 72037 Mario D2C is coming in July and the Gameboy is coming in October (making the year already pretty full), but I feel like they’re definitely leaving money by not doing at least a small to medium sized 18+ set.

A hair/hat combo for Shanks leaked, glad to see he’ll be included somewhere. I feel like if any main side character were to be cut for space, it would’ve been him.

I hope the biggest set is the Baratie, that would be pretty perfect at ~1300 pieces. The leaked piece counts on all these are super substantial, so I've definitely got high hopes. The level of detail we've already seen for the figs is pretty exceptional and the prices seem almost too good to be true, so we honestly might have an all-timer on our hands. That little illustration from Eiichiro Oda implies that the sets are just based on the Netflix show, but the official press release specifically mentions anime, so I'd say it's like 50/50 that the D2C or something is anime based. There's no way they'd keep any of the main cast exclusive to the D2C, but it would also be lame for a 3500 piece set to have no exclusive minifigure; so including figs based on the designs from the anime in the D2C would be a pretty good solution imao. Brickheadz might also be a good way to include some representation from the anime, and I'd say Brickheadz are pretty likely from this theme.