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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.

There's still a slight chance that series Shrek will be a minifig but set Shrek will be a Hagrid-like bigfig. I'm a bit torn. Shrek's head just doesn't look quite right. Farquad is fun though.

Not going to lie, I bought her just for the clownfish. The figure doesn't interest me in the slightest, even the new hairpiece, and she could easily come in a city set. The actual chocolatier figure was agonisingly boring to me (though if the dragon had had printed eyes to be both a chocolate and a real dragon, I would've bought it). Similarly the footballer. I honestly can't see gameshow host with check, flower shop lady or lady with corgi will actually be good figures themselves, but I'd also be happy to be pleasantly surprised. I'll buy the corgi one for the dog regardless, and the shower lady for the towel headgear, but these choices still don't excite me. There have been some series without as many ultra generic (even if well detailed) contemporary figures.

Some of the City figures sound very "Series 4" level. Back in the low numbers, it was awesome to get more specific and detailed City figures with cool new animal moulds, because the actual City line didn't provide that stuff. These days City is chock full of detailed civilian figs and animals, so it's annoying when those take up CMF slots. At least there a few historical / fantasy things here, but definitely too many costumes and too many modern day people.

very good. Yeah the builds should be the stars, but some nice minifig treats never hurt. The ornithopter itself was also the star, and the generous fig lineup made it better.

I've got several - do you want reddish brown, light bluish grey or red? That older Ezra head for Stilgar is a good shout.

Whoops, sounds like we riot.

The treasure creatures have never been on PaB. The arctic foxes were, but perhaps have been removed.

Well Warner Bros won't even exist by 2027, so we'll see what happens. This one can count as a Supergirl tie in anyway. Because F us that's why. And because the team is busy making 4+ Spidey dinosaurs and pirates.

I was wracking my brain as to how LEGO could end up claiming they'd made something Superman related so WB could include LEGO as a list of merchandising partners for Supes again. There it is. Brickheadz.

A surprising set to exist IMO, and an even more surprising rumoured price for the piece count (though I can't imagine how many will be those little horns for teeth). I only recently got the Ornithopter and I hope this has a good figure lineup to complement it, though I'll set my expectations low.

Not that I recall. Only the Nazgul torsos.

Yeah it's funky. I'm just pleased to get another non-grey or white beard. We need more light and dark brown options though tbh.

They have said they'll post those missing parts out Here's my latest photographed (sans those two parts): https://www.instagram.com/p/DZPrWogJES1/?igsh=MWZwdWxsbDNuemZuMA==

I think I have seen something about LEGO using Amazon as a shipping / delivery partner in the US now, but don't know to what extent.

Well my latest parts order arrived, and they'd thrown in duplicates of a bunch of parts (like some unprinted shields and the two small birds that I'd only ordered one each of), but left out the glass of milk and beret hat hair, which total over $4 AUD. Annoying.

It actually looks very little like Jolteon in general. The collar spikes are wayyyy too small so as to be unrecognisable. Smart Tumor, that'll be the latest evolution.

Yup. Look, maybe it's just me. I was definitely called an "old soul" as a kid. But I definitely cared deeply about aesthetics and would've hated how these look with the silly bricks slapped on their fronts so brazenly. Especially because we know from all the people testing the SW ones in hand that the bricks don't need to be out in the open to sense each other, or even have any external light for their light sensors to work! I partially get what they're going for - the bricks are supposed to be easily swappable, and perhaps more importantly, kids need to be able to easily rip them off to pop on the charger when they run out of battery in 40 minutes or less (or don't wake up when shaken after one play session despite supposedly still having charge). But goodness, what a strange and ugly integration they've cooked up. Also makes me wonder where the bricks go on the Pokemon "smart play compatible" sets, since those builds look complete without smart holes.

A Smart Play all in one set has been leaked. What I find fascinating (and I'd say definitely deliberate) is that the box doesn't actually show what the two Pokemon will look like with their Smart Bricks without graphics obscuring them. You can kind of see on Jolteon, but not really on Charizard. And will they include extra parts for covering the Smart Holes if/when you take the bricks out?? They better.

Do we have confirmed prices for these yet? Personally, maybe it's because I'm not a Pokemon fan, but these looks really cute and recognisable to me. They've clearly chosen a design direction rather than just trying to replicate the characters as closely as possible, and that's working for me. Perhaps I was primed for this by the Mario stuff, which took me some time to warm up to, but I ultimately did. I can completely see why they're moving away from the Mario system now though, because overall these are very similar and it would be risky to have both on shelves.

Finally got around to posting my January Pick a Brick order (combined with a bunch of parts I found in a BaM in Sydney): https://www.instagram.com/p/DYZufcJp0ur/?igsh=MWIydjZvbDF3YTljYQ== At the time a couple of the leg pieces for the knights were out of stock, but that will be rectified in my May.

Lucky ducks! I also ordered on the 11th and it's In Warehouse, but they probably wait for more orders to pile up to Australia before they send them off.