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Scarecrow's van is the GWP, not included in the set.

Well that assumes that we'd get the fields outside Minas Tirith, and not just the topmost level with the Tree and the Houses of Healing. I mean the last set was called "The Shire" and it consisted of a single Hobbit hole. Just saying.

Wouldn't EUR 60 be too little for a Baxter Building? Oscorp was like EUR 130 if I remember correctly and even if you forego the sidebuilds that one had, EUR 50 these days gets you one small bodega and a car, or alternatively Peter's apartment. Definitely not a skyscraper!

The UCS Hogwarts Express over at HP also had several versions of several characters: 20 figs total, 4 of which were Harry, 2 of which were Ron, and 2 of which were Hermione, so that's almost half the figure count taken up by only three characters. Though that set wasn't well-received and retired pretty early, the figure selection wasn't the worst aspect of it. (Or rather, many people wished we'd gotten adult Ron and Hermione as well, which would have meant 10 slots spent on only 3 characters.)

I think you were joking, but finally getting Ronin in a set - any set - would actually make a lot of Marvel fans very happy. We somehow never seem to see eye to eye on any topic, but I can assure you I feel the same (not necessarily about DC but about my own preferred themes and LEGO in general). Why can't we have just one hobby that doesn't require an app?

And maybe we could combine it with LEGO Marvel's Venom obsession and have a Venomized Gingerbread Dumbledore? Hard pass for me. In other news, the EUR 1000 Death Star (or Death Disc really) has a GWP (TIE Fighter) that's clearly meant to be part of the set, it's on product photos and everything. Do you think that's the future of set-specific GWPs - day one buyers get to complete their sets at the cost of foregoing any discounts, and everyone else (including those day one buyers who didn't manage to snag a GWP due to availability issues) effectively has an incomplete set? The Gringotts set had a vault that could be added to it, but it didn't feel incomplete without it. Whereas with the Death Star, there's a space clearly set aside for the GWP to be added that otherwise remains empty.

Again, the cost for Zoro's faceprint would have been the same whether or not they gave him an appropriate one. This just shows a lack of care for the theme. Or maybe they need Smirky McSmirkyface for another upcoming set and made the One Piece theme shoulder the cost of developing him, but that's internal budgeting and not something I as a customer have to care about. The average customer doesn't care how many new or recoloured pieces and unique prints are in a set, or how many fig variants of main characters a theme gets compared to other themes. They care if the characters look like their TV counterparts, period. I also don't care that much about minifig variations and would happily have accepted any versions of Zoro and Sanji in the Arlong Park set as a somewhat affordable way of getting the entire crew. (Not including them was a travesty.) But if in a EUR 300 flagship set you have to say "Oh well, about half the figs are wrong in some way but I'm sure they needed the budget elsewhere and besides, other themes have it worse" that‘s just not what I consider a premium product. Let's simply agree that our expectations differ.

YMMV but to me this "Be thankful for what we've got, it could have been worse" mentality is exactly why LEGO isn't making much of an effort anymore. You yourself pointed out several bad faceprints in the Hogsmeade set and those were reuses from other themes. Zoro's at least seems to be unique to the character so there is no reason it has to be that bad other than LEGO not caring. The other One Piece sets are much cheaper and in fact the EUR 30 one contains three exclusive characters, so I'd expect at least as much attention to detail from a EUR 300 set. But I guess then we're talking Hogsmeade all over again.

Sure but there's compromise and then there's that cowboy hat. Like I've said: Nami is a simple reuse who wears the wrong top (should be bright pink instead of white and blue), Luffy's a simple reuse who wears entirely the wrong outfit (should be green dungarees with a red shirt), there's Mihawk's hat, and Zoro's another simple reuse who needed either a completely straight face or a bloodthirsty grin but not that out-of-character smirk which doesn't resemble Mackenyu's portrayal at all. YMMV but to me the lackluster figs are a definitive strike against the set. If you lock iconic scenes like the duel behind a EUR 300 paywall they had better look right; however I don't feel compelled to spend money on Cowboy Mihawk vs Smirky Zoro. As for HdS, I'm not a big fan of his deliberately inflammatory phrasing myself, but his videos often give a good sense of how sets scale to each other. Such as the size difference between the LotR and HP book nook and how bad they look next to each other which IMO is valid and useful information. Back when we were speculating in this thread which sets hid behind the known set numbers, I said that the Baratie being the biggest set over the more popular but smaller Merry made sense so you could display them together. But between the design choices (one full ship, one dollhouse-style facade), the Baratie's oddly flat look, and the scaling I don't think they look great together - more like a mashup of products from different brick companies.

German YouTuber Held der Steine has a review of the Baratie up that gives a side-by-side comparison to the Merry. Personally I was surprised by how huge the Merry looks in comparison given both its Canon proportions and the fact that the Merry set is already tiny for its price. Also I still just can't with Mihawk's cowboy hat or Zoro's out-of-character smirk or Luffy's and Nami's wrong outfits. For EUR 300 I find the minifigs really underwhelming especially compared to the recent Spider-Man CMF series where LEGO went all-out on otherwise useless parts (Spiderman-printed baby/horse/werewolf mask and so on) for just EUR 4 apiece.

I know and I've actually pointed this out on this very thread before but I still found it worth noting.

Here's the set numbers according to Brick Fanatics: 72462, 14+ (this is a weird one because it comes before several of the January 2026 numbers) 76469, 8+ 76471, 8+ 76473, 10+ 76474, 14+ Speculation: 8+ sets - if these are the only two we'll get in June, I'm expecting one to be another smaller (possibly interiors-only) Hogwarts Castle expansion and the other to be the latest Diagon Alley entry. 10+ set - if that's the only 9+ or 10+ set we'll get in June, I'm expecting a larger Hogwarts Castle expansion. 14+ sets - I'm currently leaning towards buildable creatures/objects. There's a skipped or missing number, 76472, possibly next year's AC? Also has anyone else seen the leak about "Smart Play" being meant to play a large role across several LEGO theme in the future? Between the likely pricing (look at the Sorting Hat and some Star Wars leaks!) and the fact that I'd like for both myself and the kids to retain at least one hobby that doesn't involve an app, I'm not sure I'm looking forward to that.

Called it. The high US price might be due to tariffs but they sure didn't waste a chance to jack up the EUR price while they were at it.

That would be a lot, I can't see that. The LotR book nook had one minifig and the HP one had two. The Sherlock Holmes one had five but no licence, and Marvel seems to be on the higher-priced end of licenced themes. I'd therefore expect one or two figs maximum.

Has anyone seen the video of Inaki at One Piece Day in Japan? Check out the giant brick-built Den Den Mushi (with the LEGO logo and everything, so it looks to be actually from LEGO) at 1:13. (Though I do wonder where Zoro/Mackenyu was.)

Let's hope that alleyway has actual walls for him to swing from/to. As the LEGO LotR book nook shows, even that much is not a given.

I like Endgame Thor. I hated the quippy, short-haired Ragnarok version but I could get behind Bro Thor as a plausible bit of character development. Of course then they ruined it all with the utterly unwatchable Taiki movie. To be fair that's quite literally what Wanda tried in MoM and apparently we're still to think well of her. That was my point, though. I don't expect any of the old guard to have a large role but I do expect Marvel to play up their appearances in the marketing and mech. It's not just that characters like Loki and Strange (and their actors) are charismatic enough to make Falconcap look even more worden, it's also that they're massively overpowered compared to him. Strange can do magic spells that affect the entire world; all Falconcap can do is flap his horrendously fake-looking CGI wings and get beaten up by both Ant-Man and an elderly Hulk. If he's supposed to be the main hero everyone else needs to be written out for most of the movie.

The Owlery had five owls, though, which must be pricey given how stingy LEGO is with them (the Owl Post Office with WWW had only two, one of which was the shop sign, and the Owl Post Office with UCS Hogsmeade had none at all unless you count Hedwig). And larger sets having better PPP ratios than smaller ones should be the norm, not a laudable exception. Anyway I just tried to find a comparable set from the new modular system for the Hospital Wing, and like I've said the Flying Lesson seems to fit the bill.

While I would personally find that hilarious (LEGO outright making you pay for empty rooms which you then have to fill with additional sets), I don't think they’ll go this far. I'm expecting another crappy filler module or two, though. As for a comparison, the Flying Lesson was EUR 80. With LEGOflation it would probably be EUR 90 if released in 2026. And it’s partially exclusive and thus probably somewhat more reasonably priced, as LEGO seem to already factor in market discounts. I'd therefore expect the Hospital Wing to be around the same size.

But shouldn't we compare HP to HP feom a few years ago instead? If prices keep skyrocketing and the quality keeps going down that's a legitimate complaint. That the decline may be even worse in other themes is hardly cause to celebrate.

Can I ask why you bought all the sets so early? From what I've heard they"re only exclusive to LEGO in August but will go to retailers in September which should mean some discounts at least.

Stick with Falconcap (who they inexplicably like no matter how little he manages to engage the audience) and in the marketing and merch play up all the appearances from actually well-liked characters (Spidey, Star-Lord, Thor, Loki, Strange?) no matter how small those might be.

Hogsmeade which was initially rumoured to be USD 380 ended up being EUR 380 but USD 400. Given that I doubt we'll see the Pearl having as large a price difference across markets as USD 380/EUR 330. Maybe something like USD 380/EUR 360?

I think it's less the comparison with DA that's bothering people and more the comparison with the playset (Hogsmeade Village Visit). McGonagall had skirt printing then but doesn't now, and the playset included both Mr and Mrs Flume whereas we now only get the latter. That's an obvious decline in quality unworthy of a so-called collectors' edition. The figs in Malfoy Manor also weren't good, especially Narcissa compared to her previous version.

What do we think are the sets for the Summer 2026 wave? Some slots seem to already be taken: - a large (think EUR 200+) expansion for the Hogwarts system (I'd guess Chamber of Secrets) - at least one or two mid-size expansions for the Hogwarts system, possibly one inside and one outside the castle proper - at least one interior-only expansion for the Hogwarts system - another playset Diagon Alley entry (I'm expecting Flourish and Blotts and a price of at least EUR 100) Anything else?