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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.

I know, which is why I'm saying that I'm pleased that they didn't keep it that way as a fetch quest, and are instead apparently releasing the whole figure so people who didn't get the torsos in BAM or the tanks in the set or PaB can get it in one go. That's pro-consumer, as opposed to the way they dripped out the purple and dark blue parts. They also haven't rereleased the regular green torso and tanks, the black torso, or the blue torso with a non-faded logo, all of which I really think they should do. I myself have them, but it'd be nice if everyday people could access them directly from LEGO without having to go to the secondary market. That's a cool theory about them going for all of the colours in Everyone is Awesome though. The green torso released what feels like so long ago at this point. I was quick to get some on Bricks and Pieces back then, but I never would've imagined that they'd do a redux of the classic space helmet, nor so many new colours. LEGO has gotten quite different in the past decade though.

It's good to hear they are making that one available in its entirety and not making it another fetch quest or keeping the torso locked behind BAM, which isn't readily accessible to everyone. I'm confused why they keep doing blue hues though. It's making the rainbow quite imbalanced! I'd like some more red/orange/yellow adjacent colour (the highlighter yellow or new reddish orange could be snazzy), and would also like a pearl silver to complement the pearl gold, along with a proper light or dark grey one.

Perhaps Zusammengebaut's formatting would work better for you (using translation if you don't speak German, although the link click throughs are mainly just numbers and prices)? Not sure, just thought I'd suggest it in case: https://zusammengebaut.com/lego-pick-a-brick-mai-update-fast-950-neue-teile-angekuendigt-225745/ Yes the Dreamzzz creatures weren't added sadly and strangely. The animals are primarily a bunch of Friends ones, along with the white pigeon, the dark tan little bird and two variants of the sand blue little bird, with and without orange on the chest.

I sorted by "new" and found pretty much everything new that I thought I wanted. Some stupidly high prices on a few hairpieces, like (in AUD) $4.08 for the two hair moulds exclusive to the Creel House, and $6.66 for the Friends hair with sun visor parts. No surprise the new Dreamzzz swords are the very high $5.32 a piece here. Those prices made those parts a pass from me. The tandem bicycle coming in at $5.32 surprised me honestly, as it's not dual moulded or anything. Seemed like a lot but I still went for one of those, as it'll fit in one of my displays (and I have fond memories of riding a tandem as a kid). The bird prices are about in line with my expectations and not ridiculous. What are people most looking forward to grabbing?