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Thanks for sharing your collection! If you could embed a few of the pictures so people can see it right here on Eurobricks and only click through if they want to see more. Given they're already online, perhaps you can right click and "copy image address" to paste them in here. This topic does come close to a sales post, but you have framed it as sharing your collection, so it's ok. We obviously do not allow selling in any of the discussion forums and keep that restricted to Buy/Sell/Swap, or else the site would become very unfun.

Hi @JB07! I've moved your topic to Special Themes since it seems a bit in line with what we discuss in there. This sounds really cool, but please embed some pictures here on Eurobricks so people can see it in your topic and discuss. We do allow an Ideas link, but people must still be able to view your MOC right here on EB.

Hello @Venturcian! Welcome to Eurobricks and thanks for sharing your MOC! As per our guidelines, posts should be an English. We understand that not everyone speaks English and we're an international site, so it's totally fine for you to run your text through a translator and copy paste what it gives you. Thanks!

I ogree with you, but then I find myself thinking we'll, I want Donkey, and if I have Fiona albeit not a great figure, shouldn't I get Shrek too even if he looks bad... So all in all I think I'll end up buying all of them apart from Dragon (because oof no), Wolf (who is good but I don't care for that character) and maybe Pinocchio (who is a perfect representation but I also don't care about much). Standouts for me are definitely Thelonious, Merlin and Prince Charming (despite lackluster accessories), followed by Fairy Godmother and Farquad.

It seems like the angle of this series is "what would this character look like as a standard Minifigure?" rather than trying to make any of them for together proportionally, except for the odd ones out of Puss and Farquad that they have given short legs. The new ones we hadn't seen before are looking good. Merlin's accessories look weak unless there's something that isn't shown in the group shot, but still a good actual figure. I expected kind of weak accessories because that's always what happens when there are a lot of new intricate moulds for characters. The only really bad one to me is dragon. A few others like Shrek and Fiona are questionable, but only Dragon has me saying "what were they thinking".

Are any of the faces new prints apart from Spock and Uhura? McCoy, Chekov and Sulu I definitely recognise, Scotty I think is existing, Chapel in not sure and Kirk looks a bit like a Fortnite character but perhaps it is new. I love that McCoy is using the standard OG LEGO man hair, and I think in a new colour! As for the set itself, it looks good! It would've been fun if it had a play feature to rock the chairs a little bit to simulate corny battle, but I get why it doesn't.

I think of what we've seen, some are excellent, some are fine and a couple aren't great - like most series! I am curious what exactly people don't like for those saying generally that they're horrible. Executioner and Merlin look super. Farquad, Gingy, Puss, Shrek and Fiona all look decent, though the ogre head moulds are a little off or strange I guess. Dragon is the one to me where I go "what were they thinking?" and does look more like something a bootleg company would do. Donkey doesn't look perfect either but it does appear that his head and body are separate at least? And they'll be a standing body version in the set?

Personally, all of the old versions of the Pineapple house were ok but pretty weak. I have the last one - 3818 - which is a fun set and all, but really it's quite basic. The good thing is that that set exists and can still be bought used on BL at around $120 USD (plus shipping) if that's your cup of tea. While I'm usually in the camp of not liking how they do things at such expensive price points, I see it differently here since they've done this theme before, so those old sets exist and aren't super in demand (for now) on the secondary market. For the new one, they're taking it to another level of design and detail. It annoys me more when they do a brand new license, but it's all locked into very pricey sets.

I'm a pretty big complainer but that looks excellent. The builds look excellent and I'm curious to see the new SpongeBob upper half piece in more detail. Still not sold on the new Patrick piece, but overall, well done.

I'm well aware of all the good stuff they continue to do for HP, but a cut corner is still a cut corner and it's made worse when a. the correct parts already exist (no R&D necessary) and b. it's a massive over-priced adult/collector-oriented set. Letting them off the hook because it's been a while since they used the mould is just apologetics. They brought back Bullseye for the 2026 Toy Story 5 set, last seen in 2010. Simpsons moulds had a gap from 2015 to 2025. Fleur's hat had a gap from 2019 to 2024. Magneto's helmet had a gap from 2017 to 2024. Just a few examples off the top of my head. For Dumbledore they felt like they could get away with it, but it's still fully inaccurate to the costume and scene.

That Gambledore is truly a shame and goes to show no corner is safe from being cut. The rest are... fine Voldy looks a little goofy.

I don't think being Batman-focused for some of the good years makes it bad revival. It was a revival of a full Batman theme after all, and it was better for longer than the original theme existed! I've also had a look through BL to refresh myself. Personally, 2019 was still fine - the sets revolved around Bats but still included other characters and constituted a decent wave of remakes moving back to regular style after the LEGO Batman Movie stuff. 2020 had the awesome (poorly selling) figure series and a few ok playsets, 2021 had the movie ties ins, which were fine. I'd say honestly you could count a second revival as 2023- onwards. 2022 was essentially dead, and since 2023 the theme has been just some media-tie in Batman vehicles each year, some ok in their own rights, but poor as a theme.

Fun topic! You forgot Mickey Mouse and friends which was originally that Fabuland-style theme and more recently came back as 4+. Not sure which is better though... Best, definitely both iterations of HP revival for me. The 2010-11 stuff was awesome at the time and as someone who had been getting the sets since '01, it was fantastic to see it brought back after it trailed off with just the one castle set for OOtP. Obviously the newer revival is much better though and really sets the gold standard for how a Licensed property can be covered. In just a few short years LEGO had given us pretty much everything, and has just been filling small gaps or iterating ever since. Amazing. I dream of if LEGO covered Star Wars (especially the prequels) the way they have with HP. There are still important characters missing from Phantom Menace after 27 years! But I digress. I hear both sides of the IJ debate. The new sets were fantastic, but as an overall revival it was so limited in scope that it felt like having a door slammed in your face right after it was opened. On the flipside, while out of my price range the LotR revival shows an interesting way of doing things that I can't fault. Big sets released with a consistent schedule and given some love - an ok pattern for an adult-skewing theme. Personally I don't think it's fair to put DC in worst unless you identify a more recent point where they cut over to just Batmobiles. It was a good revival in 2012 and has lasted ever since, but has more recently gone way downhill.

RH_Temporary is an interesting choice of name, and yes we restrict newbies from posting in Buy Sell to try and not have people join just to sell or unknowns potentially scam people. However, this auction looks legit and you're not selling the stuff directly, so there isn't much risk as I see it. I will move it to Buy Sell. Best of luck!

Not exactly the same, but whole waves of sets have been cancelled with new pieces pretty far in production. Take Vidiyo for example. Just because something is unusual or unexpected doesn't mean it can't happen. We're working with a pretty small set of data. There's no way to know for sure that they didn't ultimately decide to pivot to a Minifigure version for the final set until we see the final set. It's also unusual to have two different representations of the same character releasing at the same time, though perhaps that has happened too.