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The bots. They're learning. Thanks to the people who reported. I've scrubbed said bot, so now this conversation no longer makes sense. Funny how easy it is to spot AI-written language though. Eventually it'll probably get seamless.

Don't forget the darkest of all, Nahdar Vebb, a minor who came in a set with his murderer! Good one LEGO!

I hope so, and that's a fair premise! I'd really love to see them introduce yet another owl in actual flight mode with its head facing forward and a clip for feet coming down to hold a letter. The current spread-wing one is just kind of goofy, being basically a perched owl with its wings out. I don't expect them to do that for this set though.

It's certainly possible, though looking all the way back to 2019 when CMF production shifted in part to Europe, the only animal-like part they've reused in the exact same colour was the stuffed rabbit. That doesn't mean it couldn't happen, but they've seemed pretty committed to changing the colour of animal moulds introduced in CMF in recent times. Prior to that the skunk and chihuahua did end up reappearing in sets, so anything is possible.

Perhaps we'll at least see the baby owl from the Marvel CMF in a new colour in the owlery? Surely that'd be a great, natural fit for the part.

Capes from the Disney Castle and Hocus Pocus set have shown up OOS. I wonder what other minifigure parts from those sets we might see. I'd like the light grey classic skellie heads from Hocus Pocus personally.

I guess I struck a nerve with that rhetorical question Though it's no surprise that people reading a topic about Adventurers in a fan forum would indeed like an adult-oriented Adventurers set. Still, I'd be surprised to see one any time soon. LEGO's classic Space, Castle and Pirates themes have broader appeal and extra decades of fans built up. I think sprinkling Adventurers nods around other sets is a clever strategy on LEGO's part.

Because it's really just a nostalgia thing anyway, and do people really want some big 18+ extra detailed Adventurers set, which is what it would be? Peppering these Minifigures around are really just glorified easter eggs, similar to the ones LEGO has put in Ninjago City and the Monkie Kid City of Lanterns set referencing older themes, in my opinion.

Oh I thought everyone already knew this from the get go that it wasn't fan speculation, given all of the LAN outlets immediately reported it along with the set reveal. I would've actually been more surprised if fans has come up with the connection themselves, because the figure is so not reminiscent of Gail/Pippin

Mateo's hair exists in black and is available on Pick a Brick. It comes in that set celebrating women's football/soccer. EDIT: sorry, I see that that was already stated. Maybe the Harry Potter team just didn't know about it in time, or something like that. It's great to get both hairpieces in black though, as you said. I'd still like to see the Mateo piece in plain reddish brown without the green print.

I'm not seeing it either. While Johnny was very Johnny and Dr Kilroy has the face and colours to match his Himalayas appearance, this figure doesn't match any Pippin Reed/Gail Storm attire. You could argue it's sort of trying for the Jungle appearance with green swapped for teal and red swapped for dark red, but in that appearance she didn't have the red neckerchief. I don't mind the use of the hat and I love getting that in a new colour combo, but they should've at least gone with standard green for the jacket. Plus if that figure is supposed to be Pippin, the guy in brown with the moustache might as well be Harry Cane.

Thanks for the review. To me this set doesn't have enough going for it apart from the otters, so I opted for the BaP otter option, spending just the couple of bucks and avoiding more parts that would've wound up in a (neglected) parts bin anyway. The seal set packs a lot more value with two different animal moulds and better minifigure parts, in my opinion.

Excellent review answering life's existential questions. I loved the detail you pointed out about the box saying that the models don't float and then showing the models floating on the back This set was an absolute no brainer for me, and I picked it up straight away from Kmart Australia who priced it at $10 AUD from the get go, around $6.50 USD. Two new seals, recoloured hairpiece and backpack plus cool Minifigure prints generally - it's a great package, never mind the rest of the parts! The one feature you didn't display though is that the baby and adult are designed so that the baby fits on the adult's back. It's a very good and important design feature.

I don't have the old version so I have no personal connection to it, but after watching MandR's comparison video I've got to say I feel your favourable opinion toward the old one might be a bit of nostalgia talking. The cockpit size is certainly better for play than on this one, though it could only technically seat 2 (not 4), but apart from that the proportions and exterior detail on the new one are way better. The old version's mid section was stubby and pretty much lacked detail altogether - which is totally fine, but the new one shows how far LEGO has come with some aspects of greebling and design in official sets. The old one also didn't have any pattern on the underside of the wings, just blocky red around the edge, which doesn't excuse the new one's lack of pattern, but doesn't elevate the old one by comparison either. Agreed. Even if the new one's cockpit feels like roughly the right size proportionally for the model, it's a big shame that you can't throw at least Ahsoka and Huyang in the ship together at all to go off adventuring. Thank you!

Same! What a good deal! The Yoshi set is quite good at $10 too, for those of us who don't yet have those Yoshis.

While in the context of how much we feel like LEGO should be charging some of these feel bad, in the context of how much people are charging on Bricklink, these Dreamzzz parts' prices look much more favourable. Take the Nightmare King for instance. Lowest BL price in the US is $17. On PaB all up he's about $6.30. Night Hunter's lowest US price on BL is $13, and roughly the same at Nightmare King on PaB. That's still not "good", but it's better than when viewed out of context.

Oof some of these prices are incredibly rough. Over $2 each for the cool swords!? And what's with Bo-Katan's hair being over $2 as well? I'm used to that meaning it's going to be a limited mould (like that Wonder Woman villain's hair in the WW84 set, which was quite expensive), but haven't we already seen the mould recoloured in upcoming Chinese Festival sets?

Fair. I suppose we have very different standards for something on display. Personally I've never been into the adult-oriented and very detailed sets, and I like to display playscale sets as long as they look decent. I currently have the Mandalorian Starfighter and Bad Batch Shuttle on display flying above stuff like the latest Fighter Tank (which I'll admit itself looks pretty bad, but covering it in clones hides it), if that says anything about my taste. To me, the T-6 is perfectly decent to put on my shelf as I'm not looking for something big or very greebly, though it is much more detailed than the previous version, for instance. My litmus test is really just "does it look cool", and for me, this satisfies that test.

Now that the dust and the hype have settled a bit on the Ahsoka show, is the current version of the T-6 shuttle worth picking up? Read on as I take a look, and compare it to the closest analogue I had on my shelf: 2021's 75316 Mandalorian Starfighter. SET INFORMATIONNumber: 75362Name: Ahsoka Tano's T-6 Jedi ShuttleTheme: Star WarsReleased: 2023Part Count: 601Minifigures: 4Set Price (RRP): 74.99 EUR / 64.99 GBP / 109.99 AUD / 79.99 USD / 99.99 CADLinks: Brickset Bricklink Flickr set INTRODUCTION Every year there are one or two Star Wars sets that really tickle my fancy. This year, it was this one; it's a cool ship in universe, I never had the original one, the details looked good and it finally has a new piece for Ahsoka's montrals after the pretty poor use of the Shaak Ti one. It's never good to set high expectations, but will the set live up to mine anyway? To give fair warning, I have watched the Ahsoka show, so I'll be referencing how the ship compares to its on-screen counterpart here and there, but I won't needlessly dive into spoilers. Thank you to LEGO for providing this set at Eurobricks' request. THE BUILDLast year I derided the Scythe for having a box that did a terrible job selling the set. There's no such issue here, with a front of box that pops, and a back that shows off all of the set's features (though Sabine is just kind of jumping into nowhere...typical Sabine). The model thankfully requires only four stickers, and the major decorated part, the cockpit, is printed - thank the maker! They have cruelly stickered that part too many times. You can view full bag contents pictures in the Flickr album for this review. Here I'll just point out a few things. The build launches right into the centre bulk of the ship, and interestingly includes two cool minifigures right in the first bag. I'll never understand why LEGO doesn't either parcel the figures out over the entire build, or else go back to throwing all of them in the first bag. Perhaps they want to let kids start roleplaying straight away? Bag 2 feels like a hallmark contemporary ship build: lots of SNOT, fiddly bits and sub-assemblies that don't yet look like anything. Bag 3 gives us our baddie and already completes the entire middle section, which now looks like something. Bag 4 delivers the final minifigure, and builds the first of the wings. The instructions have you put down the sticker on the 6x12 plate with reduced studs before adding the dark red parts overtop, but I thought that would be a pretty bad way to go given that the sticker is supposed to fill the gaps of the red diagonal red stripe created by the plates. I put down the plates first and used them as a guide for placing the sticker instead. Bag 5 feels like mirrored deja vu. And bag 6 caps things off with the smaller but no less important cockpit, which easily slots on, and could be pulled off again to use as an escape pod in an unofficial play feature. THE MINIFIGURESThere's no denying that the set packs a fantastic complement of figures: four named characters detailed from head quite literally to toe, with three new moulds to boot. At a glance, they look superb, though fear not: I will have nitpicks. Detail of course continues around the back. The orange print fidelity on Ahsoka looks fairly decent, if not a perfect match for the orange plastic. Huyang has a printed 1x1 on a neck bracket to weakly represent his back protrusion with extra arms. This doesn't have the effect of conveying his arms, and I've seen the arguments that he's both the wrong colour and could/should have been a multi-part moulded droid like 2-1B medical droids and commando droids. While the colour issue is undeniable, for playability and customising's sake I prefer him in this form as a minifigure. Unfortunately I do have three issues with the Ahsoka figure, who should've been perfect. For one, her main expression looks rather expressionless, which yes, arguably matches her demeanor for at least half of the series, but doesn't make for a compelling face nonetheless. Second, while printed arms are cool, the effect doesn't really work because of the resulting large amount of orange. Her arms are completely wrapped all the way up to above her biceps in this costume. They really needed to be dual moulded with dark blue lower arms and either grey upper arms and orange printing, or maybe orange upper arms and grey printing. Lacking that, entire grey or dark blue arms with the orange shoulders printed would have been more accurate. This print on orange arms just doesn't do it. Ahsoka's angry face also looks a bit strange, but I must say that Sabine is pretty perfect, especially her smiling face in the image above which excellently captures Natasha Liu Bordizzo's portrayal of Sabine. My final issue with Ahsoka is her new montral piece, which isn't as perfect as it could be. Back in 2008 LEGO created a perfect montral piece incorporating moulding and gapless printing that seamlessly replicated Ahsoka's look. Using the Shaak Ti piece with high up printing alluding to Ahsoka's Season 7 headband was a very weak effort, but even this new piece has gone the route of Scarlet Witch with a moulded area for printing that's noticeably larger than the actual print. If LEGO could get it right in 2008, they could create a piece with no noticeable white between the headband and her head, but here we are. Marrok the man of green mist-ery meanwhile has a pretty cool helmet for medieval figures. The figures come with an appropriate amount of accessories: lightsabers for Marrok and Ahsoka, a choice between a lightsaber and blasters for Sabine, and a wrench for Huyang. THE T-6 SHUTTLEThe completed shuttle looks pretty flash. The colour scheme works well, and the shaping and proportions all feel right. The rear engine section also looks quite good all around. Of course, the ship gets even more fun once picked up (stand not included), and that look from the back is just excellent. With big hands it's not easy finding a place to hold it that allows you to spin the wings around, though the build is sturdy enough to be gripped in the following position, which did leave just enough room for the wings to clear my hand. Spinning the wings around reveals the elephant in the room: the totally bare other side. It's an eyesore without a doubt, and one that LEGO sneakily hides in almost all official materials. The designers would have evidently run into trouble trying to fully mirror the dark red striping if they tried at all, given that plates don't exist to match the 90-degree triangular tiles used on the top. Nonetheless, the total blank grey slate does reek a bit of giving up. While that's significant, it really is the only flaw in the look of the model. SHUTTLE FEATURES & A NOTE ON SCALEI wouldn't be the first person to point out that the shuttle feels kind of... small. It's dense but looks and feels small in hand for a USD $80 set, and is of course also quite small next to minifigures compared to the source material. Those round stickers on the sides of the top fin for instance? Those represent doors to the interior. Good luck Sabine! Now, people don't usually level the same criticism at playscale ships like the Millennium Falcon or Ghost, which are also very undersized, but I suppose a key difference is that with those types of sets you can replicate most of the key scenes you'd want out of those ships. You can't put four or six figures in the Falcon cockpit, but you can put two. The interior isn't as large compared to figures as it would be if it was to scale, but you've still got the seating area and storage areas inside, and then some. We see a lot of scenes in the interior of the T-6 in the show, but on the model you can't even get a single minifigure inside the middle of the ship. The side flaps lift up just for some storage areas. The cockpit, meanwhile, has the scale of a starfighter cockpit, and disappointingly can't even fit Huyang, who often pilots the T-6 in the show. All that said, I'm not sure how much the scale bothers me personally. Yes, if LEGO had allocated this a roughly USD $150 spot, it could've been big enough to have some interior, which would've been great. As it is, it's a fantastic model to display that you can also shove a minifigure into to pilot and generally swoosh around, which might not be what you want if you're trying to re-enact all the types of scenes from the show, but does work as both a display piece and a toy. COMPARISON WITH 75316 MANDALORIAN STARFIGHTERWith only around 60 more parts though costing USD $20 more, Ahsoka's T-6 seems pretty comparable to another twisty-wing ship from recent memory: Bo-Katan's Mandalorian Starfighter. Though the T-6 is quite dense as I mentioned. 75316 is a fair bit longer than this set and slightly wider as well. The T-6 looks practically stubby by comparison. In fact, the Mandalorian Starfigher has arguably more shelf presence altogether, what with its larger overall profile and more striking colour scheme. That said, the T-6 still looks good from this view. CONCLUSION 75362 Ahsoka Tano's T-6 Jedi Shuttle packs a lovely, displayable model (bar the underside) and four highly detailed, though not perfect, exclusive minifigures. The ship does feel like it's on the small size for the price, though it would be fair to feel negatively about its size compared to the show as well, given it can't capture any interior at this scale. For me, it succeeds as a display model that can also be played with, and its scale makes it easy and fun to swoosh around, provided you find a good spot in which to grip it. All in all, how you'd feel about the set depends heavily on what you want out of it: a small-scale nearly exterior-only model of a T-6, or a set that captures all of the T-6's features from the Ahsoka show? From my perspective, appreciating it as the former, here are my ratings: SCOREHow do I rate this set? 8 MINIFIGURES The minifigure lineup is excellent overall, but the design flaws on Ahsoka bug me enough to bump it down a couple of points. 8 PIECES I didn't see anything particularly interesting, and the piece count feels slightly low for the price, though it's great the cockpit is printed. 9 Design The ship has a great design overall, though the bare back is a disappointment. 7 Playability It's hard to rate the playability, since it has all the external playability you'd want from a ship, but is sorely lacking interior playability. 7 Price It easily could and should have been at least USD $10 cheaper, as the price feels a tad high for the size of the model and number of parts. 7.8 OVERALL - Not a top score from me, though overall still quite a decent set. Was I too soft or too harsh? Let me know what you think.

I'm keen to see the Hagrid's Hut set generally. It's been a very long time since the last one based on the PS/CoS version and all previous ones had an "opening up" gimmick/function that was in theory good for play but totally ruined the aesthetic of the interior, so it'll be cool to see how they interpret it this time. I'm also hoping they give us an appropriate different outfit for Hagrid himself. As for the rest, yeah... just the animals.

As somebody that doesn't own a Bowser or any Yoshis, I'm quite happy with both of these. Super Mario sets always go on incredible discount here in Australia, so these will be great buys after not too much time.

Oh, that would be frustrating if it's bright green!

It's going to be a loooong wait for those green neo classic space helmets in the new Monkie Kid set to hit PaB, but then again, I've basically been waiting for such a thing since the exo suit - which might have been the reason I made my first Bricks & Pieces order in the first place!

I'm keeping an eye on this discussion. Insults and rude attitudes won't be tolerated. Talking box office predictions / tracking / presales of a film as they may or may not relate to the success of a set is fair game here as long as it stays focussed on the LEGO. These numbers aren't mere guesswork or total speculation, though some guesswork factors into the science of them. Regardless, they can still tell us a thing or two about how a film might perform (which is obviously impacted by a number of factors, though public interest in the film factors heavily for sure). We can only speculate when it comes to how particular sets perform, but when I see the very good Eternals sets languish on discount long after their release, and they're tied to a not particularly popular film, there's a fair conclusion to draw there that has nothing to do with personal bias about the movie.

I haven't seen the reverse face yet, but the main face is a big part of what isn't doing it for me about this figure. It's just so bland and generic of an expression, when Rogue really has a lot of snark and personality. The solution for the legs is pretty weak too though.