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Netflix has (finally!) announced the release date for One Piece Season 2: March 10, 2026. In other news, given how much I love this theme I'm kind of surprised myself by how indifferent I have become to the sets. I've recently seen all of them, including the Baratie, in a local store and just gone "Yeah, no". The Arlong Park set was on sale for like EUR 51 on Amazon lately and I was briefly tempted, but with it having just three of the East Blue Crew instead of the required five (and my favourite missing) it just feels so incomplete. And I refuse to get either the Merry or the Baratie because both are out of my budget and a ship doesn't fit in with the rest of my stuff (also because I refuse to humour LEGO's cash-grabbing and because of my numerous other issues with the Baratie especially). I'd hope they'd do a better job with season 2 sets but I don't really expect it. On the plus side, since I don't care about the only new crewmember from that season I won't have to be as annoyed about getting an incomplete crew in a set. On the other hand there's a bunch of new characters which will surely be spaced out in such a way that there's even less chance of an affordable set having the ones I want. And One Piece is primarily about the Straw Hats, so unless your favourite happens to be someone else (but Law and Ace probably won't be introduced for a while and I don't think anyone other than them is this popular) it seems kind of pointless to me to collect them as minifigs while missing out on the main characters. Luckily there's a ton of One Piece merch (mostly manga & anime but that's fine with me as well) available other than LEGO. But it's still baffling to me how LEGO could turn me off something that combines two of my favourite interests so quickly. If there's a decent and (very) cheap set coming with just Usopp and Sanji I might get that and the Buggy the Clown one, but again that would actually be a customer-friendly move so I doubt it.

Wasn't the last one half based on FB? I can't imagine it sold all that well and if it didn't, that would probably discourage them from giving HP another series. 'Cause let's be real, LEGO don't care whether there's cool figs (such as the Snape boggart) that have not yet been updated and/or were only ever available in a very limited way. All they care about with a CMF series is that there's a large enough target group for the individual figs. A lot of casual viewers would not know what the Snape boggart represents and would be like "Huh, a male Hogwarts professor in women's clothes. Do I need this? I guess not" I think quite a few of the recent CMF series might not have lived up to their sales targets (the Space one got a mixed reception despite a lot of pre-hype, the F1 one seems to be pretty universally considered a dud and as much as some people over at Eurobricks Marvel balk at hearing it, the Spiderman animated movies are fairly niche - only the D&D one got an overwhelmingly positive reception). I'd except them to bank on safer prospects (i.e. a second D&D series) going forward. That's of course based on the current status of the theme. If the HBO series comes, if it does well, if it devotes like an entire episode to the boggart thing so that even casual viewers can instantly recognise the Snape boggart then that would be different. But at the moment I cannot see it. LEGO aren't interested in what children would like these days. Not including Pomfrey here and then including her in another module would be yet another blatant cash-grab. Like having Quirrell in the Great Hall (where he's not that necessary) but not having him in the Main Tower with all the Challenges, including the Mirror. Or all the crappy slide-out placeholders which are then to be replaced by proper modules. They don't want you to be able to pick and chose which sets you buy, they want you to feel like you have to buy them all otherwise they'll remain incomplete. Same with the GWPs lately - those used to be a fun but not necessary addition to the main set, but these days they're more like parts taken out of the main set that you need in order to complete it.

Hahahahahahaha I'll give you a free preview of the polybag figs for the next five years right now: Ron, Harry, Harry, Draco, Harry or Ron. (Okay, that's maybe a bit mean but I don't think I'll be 100% wrong either.)

The official description says "Join Penelope Clearwater and the Grey Lady in the Ravenclaw Common Room", that's why I put her there. Though yes, they might count her as one of the mystery "patients" at the same time.

Thank you, that actually makes sense. I was thinking of them in terms of descriptions written by people for people, not by AI for SEO and data mining purposes, and I just found them really, really bad. Though of course they'll still show up on LEGO's own shop and everywhere else just like that. I think Harry and Ron at least are supposed to be part of the DADA lesson (with Harry's boggart being the Dementor and Ron's being the spider). And Hermione on her own in the Hospital Wing would make little sense, she should be with them. But then we'd have five figs for DADA (and there's no way one of those crappy slide-out modules holds five figs), two for Ravenclaw, and none for the Hospital Wing. Which makes little sense as well, especially for a set called the Hospital Wing. And the official description talks of "patients" in the hospital wing (in plural). So I honestly don't know.

I meant in terms of displayability. The set came with Pomfrey and her little cart but with the way the beds were arranged there was nowhere to actually put either of them in the set. The pics show them in front of it but If you stack up your modules the way you're meant to that's not an option either. None of the other sets had that problem except the Chamber of Secrets, but that was supposed to be a base module so it didn't matter. In other news, is it just me or do those official set descriptions sound kind of desperate? All the assuring us how much fun we could be having with the app (if we liked playing around with digital bricks why would we buy the sets? We could do that way more cheaply!) and all the awkward "highlights": the first ever brick-built Hedwig with closed wings, the first 1:1 scale model of a pixie, and so on. You can put the pixie on its stand but you can also take it off the stand! You can put Hagrid on Hagrid's motorbike! The Sorting Hat references a set that's 24 years old and which surely none of the grade schoolers this one is allegedly aimed at care about! Most of it reads like a parody to me but unfortunately I think it's the real deal. New things we've learned: - The DADA lesson in the Hospital Wing is probably the boggart one (Ron's spider and a Dementor). So there's pretty much zero chance of us actually getting the Snape boggart in this system. Again, they went for the lamest possible iteration especially with the spider. - Yes, DADA now takes place in the dungeons ("the rocky foundations"). Whyever not. - The Ford Anglia has brick-built Ron and Harry and also Hedwig (no mention of Scabbers). Cause what we really need is another awful-looking, brick-built Hedwig or Harry. (Or Ron but at least he hasn't been done before.) The only set I'm somewhat considering getting is the motorcycle for the figs. And only if that one truly is listed at EUR 20 (I'll believe it when I see it) and comes with a decent discount. As for the rest, just no.

I'm a little late to the newest set description and also, like most of you, underwhelmed. I did say that at EUR 100 we probably wouldn't get much of an addition to the Most Expensive Hogwarts Ever, but this? The Hospital Wing giving the set its name yet only making up a third of it. And the last one was already quite cramped and really needed an office for Pomfrey or storage facilities, so this sounds like a distinct downgrade. No Pomfrey but another random student to keep baiting the collectors instead. Sure, the last version would be hard to top, but that's not what "most complete" means. The lamest possible iteration of the DADA classroom: no Snape boggart, no Lockhart and no pixies, no Moody - and while we might get some of those eventually, I think we can pretty much rule out the Snape boggart for this system since they're not likely to release another Lupin's Class for it. The Ravenclaw Common Room on top is so much lamer than the genuinely cool clocktower build from the last system. And if it's a slide-out it will probably look a lot more like the Hufflepuff Common Room than like the Gryffindor Common Room, i.e. crappy. Also now I'm wondering if we'll ever get a proper Astronomy Tower (where the Ravenclaw Common Room should be). If this is true it sounds very disappointing.

But then your Most Complete Hogwarts Ever won't be complete! /s Not that it would anyway unless you want to cram all the Great Hall add-ons into the Great Hall at the same time, but I guess for LEGO it's the thought that counts or something.

Well downparing things is what LEGO do these days, so that fits.At least it's going to be significantly cheaper than its predecessor - not like, say, Hogsmeade which costs almost as much as Diagon Alley but you only get a fraction of its value.

Thanks for thinking of me! 😉 That said four figs in a EUR 15 set sounds like wishful thinking, I'll believe that when I see it. Again, EUR 20 list price and four figs, one of which is Hagrid? I'll believe that when I see it. Quoting myself because if this is true then HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

That's a lot of in-story detail. I doubt your average grandparent buying a HP set for their grandchild would know or care about any of it. The kid wants "that Hogwarts set with the really tall tower", so "Hogwarts Castle: The Main Tower" it is. Anything more complicated would, again, IMO only lead to customer confusion.

I kind of doubt that since it would lead to customer confusion if the "Main Tower" isn't the tallest one. But yes, you never know.

To be fair, the MCU would like to be able to manage that too.

I'd say that calling it "Luna Lovegood's House" without including Luna makes even less sense. But then again over at DC we've just had a "Batman vs. Superman Batmobile" without Superman and a "Batman and Robin Batmobile" without Robin revealed, so who knows. 1) I didn't say that girls would only like sets where girls are included. But I know a lot of girls who like HP, and none of them like cars, or motorbikes, or spiders. All of them like unicorns. I'm not saying that no girl ever would buy one of the current sets (in fact many would buy them because, you know, they like HP and there's nothing else), but that's the problem. Girls deserve representation, too, and right now they aren't getting it. The cheapest available HP set with even one female character is EUR 20, and that's Hermione in the Charms Class with two male characters to accompany her. The cheapest available HP set with two female characters is the boathouse at EUR 38 (again, two female and three male characters). (For comparison: One male character is currently EUR 4, two are EUR 15.) I'm not even sure there are ANY current HP sets with an equal number of male and female characters, or with more females than males. Boy-centric really is the norm here. The last gender-balanced HP set I can recall was the Thestral Carriage you mention, and that's from a few years ago. 2) As for Friends, again, the old theme did have boys, so your argument doesn't track. However, the boys weren't the main characters. Girls are pretty much never the main characters in any LEGO theme (the last gender-balanced one was Hidden Side, otherwise it's mostly a token girl or two in a group of boys) but again, that's the norm and we're supposed to accept it without question. Whereas boys not being the main characters is presented as a huge unfairness that needs to be rectified. The new Friends theme has eight main characters, three of which are boys, which is actually fairly close to a 50:50 ratio. (And again that used to be the ONLY girl-centric theme. It's not longer even close to that!) Moreover the nice thing about the old Friends was that, due to having an all-girls main cast, it wasn't given to stereotyping. For example, Stephanie was the group's baker and gymnast but also played soccer. Emma was the artsy girl who did karate and ran a tuning shop. It really did tell girls that they could be and do everything they wanted. Now we have the martial arts and soccer and general daredevilry all assigned to male characters Zac and (in the case of soccer) Leo, reinforcing once again that those are "boy" pursuits. Whereas girls now get to identify with the shy, insecure singer (Paisley) or the good, helpful student (Aaliya), which IMO is a huge step backwards in terms of avoiding stereotypes.

This year had four sets plus the D2C, and that was with the Superman movie! I wouldn't expect double that for 2026. Unless the remaining sets are more movie tie-in Batmobiles.

@Virginia_BricksThank you! I'm so sick of hearing "Girls should just like everything that's tailored to boys, and if you don't think so you are sexist". There's a reason Hermione is more popular with girls than Harry or Ron! And it's especially hypocritical to bring that argument in the context of LEGO, given that LEGO even rebooted the Friends theme - their SOLE in-house theme where girls weren't marginalized - in order to include more boys. Because there were boys in the old Friends theme but they for once weren't the main characters so that needed to ve changed in the name of "fairness". Every other in-house theme gets aa token female character or two and that's it. Catering to boys is LEGO's default even though girls should make up 50 percent of its target group.

I've been advocating for an allowance-friendly unicorn set for ages, but LEGO refuse to make small sets girls would like. It's all Harry, Ron, Harry, Ron, Hagrid, Harry, spider-car-bike.

Over at LEGO HP, Diagon Alley came out in 2020 and Gringotts came out in 2023. Those sets are actually meant to connect, but they clearly waited with giving us Gringotts until they were satisfied that Diagon Alley was doing well. So about three years seems realistic to me. Meaning we could see an Arkham successor in 2028. Of course Gringotts had never before been done in that format (and neither has the Daily Planet). LEGO probably have a couple of things for each theme which they consider lower-risk due to popular demand being there, such as Arkham and the Batcave for DC. Meaning another D2C Batcave might be in the cards earlier, like 2027 or even 2026 (in addition to a Marvel D2C).

Oscorp. Given the state of DC and LEGO's lack of faith in anything that's not a Batmobile, I wouldn't expect another DC modular unless they have reliable sales data for Arkham. Next year is probably too soon.

No rumours but many people suspect Oscorp: had a recent playset, a bunch of ready minifigs currently in production, replacing the Bugle with another Spidey modular since he's easily the SH theme's most popular character...

I think the logo looks better than the Marvel one. You decide whether I think it's that great or the Marvel one was just worse. Otherwise this wave looks depressing as hell, it makes even Star Wars look colourful! To think LEGO Marvel skipped the Thunderbolts movie entirely, probably at least in part because of the drab colour scheme, and then LEGO DC gives us an entire wave of nothing but this. Even a single other minifig per set such as, say, SUPERMAN or ROBIN, would have made a huge difference. Batman is still huge with kids but between a logo and three different cars from non-kid-friendly older movies I don't see anything here for kids. EDIT: LEGO have always fostered a certain "Collect 'em all" mentality (i.e. modular Hogwarts Castle going back as far as 2001, collectible tiles in different sets of the same wave, CMF series...) but lately the things we're supposed to collect are all basically the same thing: an entire wave of F1 Speed Champions, an entire CMF series of barely distinguishable F1 cars, and now three Batmobiles in a single wave. Is that going to be a continuing trend? What do you think?

Yeah, I don't think Agatha's going to be the MCU's next leading lady. For one thing there's what happens to her at the end of her show (I won't spoiler it). For another she doesn't fit the template - one thing I really liked about her show was that it wasn't about hot young assassin babes but about older, less attractive, down-on-their-luck women. I was more using her as an example in that Marvel for once did things right the way the introduced her. They got a great actress (I don't find Shang-Chi's actor unattractive but I do think he was probably cast more for his excellent martial arts skills than for his emoting), they gave her a plot that was personal, fun and quirky, yet also had serious stakes ("Agatha All Along" might even be the MCU's most violent show if you put the number of character deaths in relation to how few characters there are in it in the first place). Shang-Chi's movie ticked many of the same boxes. And so did the Thunderbolts'. I think the latter just came too late. Bucky's audience goodwill had mostly evaporated after TFATWS and his short appearance in BNW, Yelena wasn't exactly a household name either, and after a slew of not-great MCU movies culminating in BNW people just weren't going to bother with one whose cast consisted of has-beens and unknowns. But again it had some good acting, it was fun and quirky yet serious at the same time, and it was personal. A message like "Protect the innocent" or "Be there for your friends" is something not many audience members are going to disagree with. The problem is that with their designated new leading man, Falconcap, Marvel keep ignoring all of these points. I don't think Anthony Mackie is all that great an actor, much like Shang-Chi's actor - except Shang-Chi at least had great martial arts skills (the bus fight stands out) while Falconcap's fighting scenes are awful, fake-looking CGI-fests. His material isn't personal either; all we ever get with him is politics, a divisive topic which makes it very easy to disagree with his stances and opinions. If, like you say, both Agatha and the Thunderbolts are done due to a lack of viewership then the same should hold true for him after BNW tanked at the box office. But presumably they're going to stick with him regardless, which sucks.

The 2023 ones were bad but didn't they have to scramble because of Ezra, since one of them would have had The Flash? Are those movie titles going to be part of the set name? As a casual customer, if I buy a "Batman vs. Superman Batmobile" I'd at least expect it to come with Supetman. The same for "Batman and Robin". It's Batman. Brooding alone in his cave is what he does. The fact that LEGO has him celebrate his birthday year with a gold statue of himself but no guests seems unintentionally hilarious to me. Much like Red Guardian telling the Thunderbolts that they can be the next team with the little kiddie toys, and LEGO not giving their movie even one set.

I think Venom, Carnage, or Star-Lord might be the most likely since all of them have got helmet sets already. The Venom and Carnage ones are a couple of years old and LEGO loves Venom, so I'd expect him at the very least. Other than that, Captain America (Steve, that is)? Yes he's not fully masked but I think hair is the real challenge to build with LEGO bricks (Thor is probably out of the question solely because of that), so displaying him with the helmet and the lower half of his face might work. Falconcap might be doable too since he has very short hair, but he's not popular enough, I think they'd want to stick to the classics. Black Panther would be another option since the same bust could represent either T'Calla or Shuri, so between the two of them the character might have enough of an audience to count, and they already did a Black Panther bust so clearly they think it's doable and will look good. On the other hand the previous set failed so I don't know. Hulk might be yet another option as he's very recognisable (for the colour if nothing else) and has short enough hair for it to work. But then we'd run into a scaling problem since a Hulk bust really should not be the size of the other busts. Of course that hasn't stopped LEGO from giving us Hulk minifigs all the time. I can't think of any option that would rival the popularity of the Spidey/Iron-Man combo, though.

I can't see Disney going for that. Those "Phase 4 rejects" between themselves have a bunch of movies and series about them all available for streaming on Disney+. Featuring the characters in Doomsday (even in a small role as long as they get a few good lines or a noteworthy feat) might generate interest in them and lead to more streaming revenue; killing them all off would kill off any interest in them and thus reduce revenue. It's probably as simple as that.