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Wow, this is such a cool MOC! Seriously though, nicely done.

I’ve always wanted a Donald Tug Boat set! It would be absolutely stellar if Lego finally made it!

Okay, I’ve seen pictures of the sets now and I have to say that I’m pleasantly surprised Lego’s doing this! I grew up as a huge Disney fan and always wished that Lego would do a full-on Disney line. The D2Cs and CMF series we got were like I wanted but not the fullest extent. And while I hope Lego eventually branches out of making every non-D2C or non-minidoll Disney or Pixar set in the 4+ range, this at least gives us some cool stuff! I’m actually considering buying the sets and not just the minifigures. Despite their obvious simplicity, the builds actually look pretty decent and properly cartoonish. I love all the variants of Mickey and Minnie that we’re getting, plus a new version of Daisy and finally having a cheap way to get that elusive Goofy minifigure! I’m also ecstatic to see that we’re finally getting a Pluto figure! It’s a bit odd that Donald’s not included in any of these sets, but I got a bunch of duplicates of him in the first series anyway, so I’m not too bothered. Lastly, I love the new “Hidden Mickey” piece! These sets will be a nice appetizer for the next Disney CMF and D2C which will hopefully be coming out in 2022.

Whoa, could someone send me pictures of these Mickey sets as well? Smaller Disney sets without minidolls and the same type of figures as the D2C and CMFs sound amazing to me!

I’ll share my thoughts as well: 71753 Attack of the Fire Dragon: Pretty decent looking dragon. It’s not particularly unique or innovative, but it’s a nice model and I’m determined to get all of the Golden Ninja, so it’s on my buy list. 71739 Ultra Sonic Raider: It looks very ah, interesting. Not necessarily in a bad way, I’m just not used to seeing an Ultra Sonic/Stealth Raider being so small. It almost looks like a 4+ set, but it’s still a decent looking model. It looks smaller or an equivalent size to the recent X-1 Ninja Charger which is... odd. Again, I’m collecting all the Golden Ninja, so I’ll most likely get this, unless the Golden Zane ends up being inexpensive on Bricklink. 71750 Lloyd’s Hydro Mech: Meh. It’s an average looking mech with some cool pieces, but I’d probably only get it for the figures. 71752 [I forgot the name lol]: Another meh. Not necessarily a bad build, but it’s something that will get more enjoyment from the young ones. A little silly for Ninjago to have an underwater car, but Lego sorta pulled it off. Side note, but it’s weird to see Cole with some sort of tranq gun. 71754 Water Dragon: A gorgeous looking dragon! The little submarine is cool too and it seems like there will be some cool figs included! Definitely going on my want list! 71755 [Something something temple]: An amazing Atlantis-esque temple build! The big sea snake looks great and it seems like there will be some more cool figures in this set as well! 71756 Hydro Bounty: Pleasantly surprised by this set! I didn’t care much for the Land Bounty, so I sorta rolled my eyes when I read the rumor for this set. I’m happy to say that the build actually looks pretty cool and I love the chariot-looking side build. I’m just not sure if I’m gonna have room in the budget for this set, or this wave in general, but it’s definitely on the maybe list! Overall, I’m generally impressed with this wave! There are some great builds here and I look forward to seeing some of the minifigures we’ll be getting. The Legacy sets are a little lacking this time around, but the Season 14/15 sets make up for that! I’m glad to see Lego still keeping Ninjago fresh after 10 years!

Where did you find it at? I just checked Insta and didn’t see it anywhere.

The Scuttler is actually one of the few TLBM sets I actually ended up getting, but I ended up using it for parts. I still have the figures and they’re all great! I also think Gotham Knights would be a great source to make new sets off of, but we’ll see if Lego capitalizes on it. (Probably not sadly.)

I second this. I’m not a big DC fan (the only movies I’ve seen are Justice League and The Lego Batman Movie, though that will change soon) but I have been watching Batman: The Animated Series recently. It’s really good and there is so much potential for sets and minifigures from that show. Hopefully Lego takes advantage of the rumored sequel series to revamp Lego DC. In the meantime though, I’ve actually been looking into getting more of TLBM sets that I missed out on, since I skipped out on most of them when they were out. I somehow found a random Catwoman Catcycle Chase set at Walmart recently and have the Riddler set on the way, and I’m hoping to get some more sets in the near future. From what I’ve found on Bricklink, they really haven’t gone up in price that much.

I just hope the new dragon and Raider sets are different enough from what I already have in my collection. For the other Legacy 10th Anniversary sets, I could easily justify them beyond celebrating this occasion. For these two new ones, however, I already have Firstbourne and the Ultra Stealth Raider on display so I just hope these new sets are distinctive enough from what I already have. Tangent aside, I wonder what minifigures will come with these. We already got Legacy 3 Zane and are still waiting for the other ninja in their Legacy Deepstone outfits. It would be weird if we got Legacy 3 Zane a whole year before we get any of the other ninja, but then again, we never got a Legacy 2 Zane so it wouldn’t be the craziest thing. And bare with me for another tangent, but I really hope Lego dials back on the Kai centric sets next year. By the time this new Dragon comes out, we will have that, the 2020 Mech Jet, the Fire Stone Mech, the Kai Fighter, the X-1 Ninja Charger, and the new catamaran on shelves all at the same time. I’m sure it’s probably because Kai sets sell the best with the kids, and he was the original main character after all, but it’s being a little overdone at this point. That’s just a small gripe though; if anything it makes my purchasing decisions easier!

@Falconfan1414 posted on Instagram that Golden Nya is coming in a Legacy Kai’s Fire Dragon and Golden Zane will be in the Ultrasonic Raider!

That is a gorgeous display!

Okay, that’s a badass line that I’ll be using in the future! Anyway, I haven’t really been keeping up with the discussion here, so apologies if I’m just reiterating what someone else said, but I don’t understand what’s stopping Lego from just doing a set from each of the top three or four themes in this vote. I mean, yeah, that’s three or four times as many sets they have to design and release, but obviously there’s enough interest in each of them for there to be such a debate going on online. For Pirates and Classic Space in particular, AFOLs go nuts every time a set like Barracuda Bay or Benny’s Spaceship comes out, and they seemingly sell pretty well each time. (Remember how hard to find Benny’s Space Squad was when that first came out?) Why not just do one set for each of the top picks and just release them with each quarter of the year?

I struggle with both, and Lego definitely helps. Building Lego sets or sorting my bricks or changing my set displays around all help me take my mind off all of my stress and insecurities for a few hours. It may not be the most, um, cheap way of dealing with it, but it helps! With how dull and gloomy the world tends to be, putting together some colorful plastic bricks does wonders for me.

I’d say there’s a good chance of that. Lego knows that these special anniversary sets/minifigures draw people in, so I imagine we’ll get something once DC passes a certain threshold. Come to think of it, I wouldn’t be surprised if Lego does something for Marvel next year. It’s the ten year anniversary of the first Avengers film as well as Lego Marvel Super Heroes in general.

That’s a gorgeous looking mech! Nicely done!

From my understanding, the Lego Ninjago Movie sets still sold well despite their association with the underperforming film. The sets received a ton of praise from the Lego community at least, especially the larger ones like Ninjago City. They didn’t continue the Movie sub-theme because Lego Movie lines don’t last long anyway and there also just wasn’t much left to be made from the movie. I believe that Lego only wanted to do the City and Docks while the Movie was still relevant and they had a couple reasons not to release any other Ninjago City expansions, or Ninjago D2Cs in general, during 2019 or 2020: -They didn’t want to have three $200+ Ninjago sets out at the same time since the two City sets were still available in 2019. -They might not have wanted a new Ninjago D2C competing with their Lego Movie 2 D2C that would have been around the same size and price point in 2019, especially if they were to keep the Ninjago Movie branding. -They didn’t want a D2C Ninjago set competing with their aesthetically similar Monkie Kid line in 2020, which were all released as D2Cs in America. -They just figured 2021 would be the next best time to do another Ninjago D2C set since that would be the next best time to do one, seeing as how the 10 Year Anniversary gives the theme some relevancy. I definitely wouldn’t count out the possibility of future Ninjago City expansions, in fact I’d say it’s even likely if the Gardens is successful, but I wouldn’t say that all future Ninjago D2Cs necessarily have to be part of this little subtheme. There could be other large sets like the Temple of Airjitzu someday. I don’t expect these sets to be a regular thing, but I sure wouldn’t mind if they were! As for the Gardens in particular, I still think it looks great! I’ve recently rediscovered how fun Ninjago sets are to build with the new Legacy wave and look forward to building the largest Ninjago set yet. I was planning on waiting until June to get this set, but I don’t know how long I can wait to get this thing! Every review I read or watch makes me more eager to have it. The only thing stopping me is now not being a good time to build another large Lego set, since I’m going to have to temporarily move out my entire collection soon. I also need to install some new shelves so I can open up space for this behemoth!

Wow, maybe I was too harsh in my disappointment with Lego Marvel recently. The way I see it, this Korg figure can only be coming in the the D2C or one of the summer sets (which is much less likely but still on the table)), unless we’re getting some unforeseen retail exclusive. I guess we just have to wait and see at this point.

I was amazed to find a Lego Batman Movie set still out in the wild today. A beat up 70902 Catwoman Catcycle Chase was just laying on a shelf in Walmart! I’m guessing the employees must have just found the set hiding underneath a shelf or something. Very weird, but this wasn’t the first time I’ve seen or heard of somebody finding a long-discontinued Lego set at a Walmart. I tried to check its price with the Walmart app, but the set was so old that it couldn’t pull anything up for it! It ended up still being the full retail price when I brought it to self-checkout but I still got it anyway, since it was one of many TLBM sets I never ended up getting.

Whoa, I’m usually pretty accepting of Lego’s pricing, but this is ridiculous. Seriously though, I’d be happy with any Fallen Order sets at this point, let alone a whole wave. I don’t know why Lego didn’t do anything for Fallen Order on Triple Force Friday either. Tinfoil hat here, but what if that random Death Star Turret set was originally supposed to be a small Fallen Order playset? Maybe Lego caught wind of the game’s rating and and/or decided a random OT set would have been more cost effective (which didn’t really work out since the set ended up being a shelf warmer.) Lego would have had to make new molds for the Second Sister’s helmet and BD-1 after all, and maybe they couldn’t or simply didn’t want to go through with that. I guess beyond a small playset, they were pretty limited on choices. They couldn’t do a Mantis because they weren’t sure how well that would sell; they couldn’t do a TIE Interceptor because Vonreg’s was already on the market; they couldn’t do an AT-ST because they were already doing one for Mando. Maybe if The Mandalorian wasn’t coming out yet, the Razor Crest wouldn’t have been fast-tracked and we would have gotten a Mantis at that price point instead.

That’s the reasoning Lego’s designers gave and I’m not sure if I really buy it. Fallen Order’s around the same rating as Overwatch, Square Enix Avengers, the Battlefront games, and The Force Unleashed; all of those have gotten Lego sets. Lego is just very inconsistent with their logic sometimes. A Mantis would have sold well if they released one when the game was still relevant, or if they end up releasing one when Fallen Order 2 comes out, and they can just slap the ‘ol 18+ label on there if they felt like it was too graphic.

I’ve kinda already talked myself out of getting the UCS Gunship, so this meh figure selection will just make it easier for me to pass on it. I’ll either just wait for the next System-scale one or just bite the bullet and buy the 2013 version. (Or the third option, the one I hope doesn’t happen for the sake of my space and wallet, is that I end up really loving the UCS Gunship in spite of its scale and figure selection and get it anyway.)

I still just want the Mantis from Fallen Order. That game did really well and if Lego can do something super obscure like the IT-S Transport at a $100 price point, I don’t know what’s stopping them from doing something based off of what is arguably the best received Star Wars game from the last ten years. Heck, with Marvel, they’ve done a ton of sets based off the Square Enix Avengers game, which fell hard on its face. Hopefully Lego will put out a set or two to tie in with the sequel whenever that comes out. I’d be happy with just the Mantis (with Cal, BD-1, Cere, Greez, and Merrin figures) and they can just throw Trilla in with a TIE Interceptor if they ever make a new one. The High Republic has a bunch of interesting character and ships designs, and with The Acolyte coming out in the next couple years, along with rumors of an animated show and video game, I have to imagine we’ll get something Lego related eventually. Maybe if The Skywalker Saga is really successful, they could even do High Republic DLC later on, though that’s a long shot.

I hate being negative about Lego, but to quote Syndrome: “Lame, lame, LAME!” The news of a Marvel Advent Calendar is exciting, but the Christmas Iron Man figure is probably going to just be using the Square Enix helmet which is meh. The rest of the figures are what’s going to sell me on the set in the end. Confirmation of a Disney+ set is nice, but we’re only getting one set with at least four(?) shows coming out this year? A lot of Avengers sets that will most likely just be more lackluster vehicles and minifigures. I imagine one of them will be a wonky looking Quinjet, unless that ends up being the D2C. The worst part is that the designs will probably still be based off of the failed video game, yet all we have to show for the critically acclaimed Spider-Man game, and the well-received spin-off, are two Comic Con figures? (I know that the lack of sets for that probably has more to do with the merchandising rights for Spidey belonging to Disney and not Sony, but you get my point.) The most disappointing thing to me is that we only have three Spider-Man sets, and I have a feeling that the 4+ one won’t even have anything to do with the movie. I just don’t get it. Lego will do entire waves dedicated to bad Spidey sets based off nothing in particular, but when they have the chance to do a bunch of sets based off of what might be the biggest Spider-Man movie yet? We’re seemingly only getting two sets that probably won’t be anything too substantial. I really hope we end up getting more, whether that be before or after the movie comes out.

I can’t believe the disrespect the box designers have shown towards my homie Jay. (Especially because his movie redesign looks almost exactly like me if I were a Lego minifigure.) The builds for the Cole and Zane sets were pretty lacking, but I think it’s pretty cool that the trans orange/blue/gray/yellow weapons in each of the sets have the Golden Weapons molded into them. That’s precisely why I haven’t been posting on here this week. Lego is supposed to be my escape from the toxicity of real life, but this AFOL community hasn’t really filled that purpose recently. The 2021 Star Wars thread has devolved back into complaining about a regional exclusive set from last year and in this thread, there was a fascinating debate about... ladders and stairs that weren’t included in the Gardens. Anyway, The Island looks pretty interesting. It’s kinda interesting that we’re seeing the same “Ninja travel through the jungle without Wu” angle from the movie, as well as the “Misako goes missing on an expedition on a distant island” plot that @Guyon2002 pointed out, combined into this special. Most of the sets seem to be present in the trailer with the only notable omission so far being the guy with TLBM Joker’s hair in gray. Hopefully it shows up on Youtube, because Cartoon Network sure as hell won’t air it for months in the US.

This definitely is something I wasn’t expecting. I guess you could say it was a n-ice surprise. Controversy will be somewhat inevitable when it gets revealed to the general public. Including the iceberg or any characters from the famous movie would be a little on the morbid side, but I’m sure the ship itself will look fantastic. Titanic MOCs and sets from knock-off brands are so prevalent that it would be a waste for Lego not to capitalize on it at some point I suppose.