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Oh nice. I've got to start checking my local Kmarts then. How much were they?

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To clarify what I meant about cohesion a little bit, I certainly don't expect waves all revolving around one film/show in Star Wars - that'd be ridiculous given the wealth of new and old material to draw from! LEGO hasn't done that in years (besides when it was for a new film), but what they did used to very commonly do is pair sets within fully fledged waves. For the past couple of years, we haven't gotten many fully fledged waves like I already touched on, AND sets are often random and one-offs for their source material. Looking back over the last few years of releases, 2020 was the last year to have that traditional type of fully fledged wave I'm talking about, with internal pairings of things. In Jan '20 we had two RoS microfighters and a VS 2-pack, two battlepacks (not paired but ok), two small battle-in-a-box sets that don't really need pairings, two ANH sets, and two RoS ships. Without commenting on the quality or desirability of all those individual sets, that's a full wave right there covering a variety of Star Wars content while also pairing some sets. The non-playset stuff in 2020 came out in April as its own wave, which makes sense since it's different. The August wave didn't have everything paired and did have some weird stuff like the I-TS transport, though at least was a full wave with a variety of mostly higher pricepoints, as was traditional for summer/August waves. 2021 was where things started shifting toward what they are now. It did have a legitimately great August "Disney+" range that released together, though the Mando forge released a month later for no understandable reason. Which is fine, but weird. The January 2021 wave did have a pair of sets (X-Wing and TIE), but a standalone Mando set, and then other scattershot sets releasing in March. Also, some of the non-playset stuff started releasing at the same time as playsets, with both the Meditation Chamber and UCS Gunship releasing on August 1st. In 2022 for January, sure there was some Hoth Stuff, but also Episode II Clones that go with nothing else, and a Mando microfighter by itself. March had two Disney+ sets and helmet. Dioramas came out in April along with... the random non-canon Fighter Tank (which I like, it just goes with nothing else releasing around the same time). August had a full wave I guess, though some of the choices do feel quite random and just have little else to go with them. Now, I'm not reading into this any more than what it is. They could go back to the old model in the future. They could knock us out with some awesome waves. I'm not predicting anything. But what they are doing right now, last year and this year, just generates way less excitement in me as a fan than what they used to do for many years, and makes for a pretty random-looking shelf display in stores.

No ponchos. Boo. I'll stick with my Shuttle Tyderium version of Leia, one of the best. I was watching a store walk through from an independent store here in Australia recently and it really struck me how not cohesive the Star Wars assortment is now and how that kind of sucks from a fan excitement perspective. I used to love waiting to see a the cheaper January wave and then big glorious summer wave each year, with all the same packaging design, and often some theme tying some sets together (a film wave, Clone Wars, Rebels, etc), and even though I haven't bought a lot of Star Wars in years, it looked awesome on a shelf. Now it's just weird dribs and drabs. Sets releasing at all different times, a lot of the black boxes mixed with other stuff. There's no shelf appeal to the Star Wars lineup anymore since it's all so disparate.

True, it was on two 2022 Minifigures, but in the Jurassic Park one's 2023 appearance he now has the Emmett hair. I'm sure they could always pull it out for nostalgic purposes, but it really feels like they're phasing it out. New hair is always cool with me though, and I hope it'll be more easily available than just through this set (be that PaB, a cheaper set, or whatever).

Or Pick-a-Brick? I guess this means the old classic male hair is well and truly retired? RotJ Luke was like the last figure still using it, although the last hood-less ANH Obi-Wan had it too. Personally, I like these dioramas a lot. They make a lot more sense to me as little slices of scenes to me to display than the Trash Compactor and Yoda's Hut (as nice as that one looks, it's just kind of a weird scene for the format because it isn't one iconic scene), but yeah no way I will actually pay the price. I don't think the discount will ever be deep enough for me to accept it, unless I find them at a lucky price on Facebook Marketplace or something like that. That big window looks like a big new piece to me?

New Mola Ram helmet.

Yeah, JB's reviews are great because they give such an early glimpse, but they're not entirely thorough. Like in this one with the Queen of Hearts, you can almost see that there's a second face, but then he doesn't adequately flip down her collar and keeps his finger over the face the whole time! Oh well...

A bit sad this thread died off. Maybe people rarely go in this section anymore. I've gotten some good finds on Facebook Marketplace over the last year or so: - that Jurassic World T-Rex skeleton set for $10 (AUD) - Nexo Knights 72002 and 72003 for $30 - and elsewhere, Ninjago Temple of the Endless Sea brand new for $60 (Australian RRP was originally $180 I believe)

Nobody has mentioned JB Spielwaren's video of the CMF, or have I missed it? My key takeaways: - Pinocchio indeed has a standard Minifigure head with a moulded nose, and the hat hair is separate - Pocahontas has arm printing (as I'd previously missed) - The kid from Coco has an alternate head and hair, very confirmed. He also has arm printing (not sure if that was previously known or not) - I love Tiana's hair even more! Wonderful little curls down either side. - I don't like either of Milan's faces. There's just something quite off about them. Mulan is one of my favourite Disney movies though, so I'll probably still get her and replace the head. - Excellent sleepy face on Aurora

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Ha ha. That looks nothing like LEGO even. I'll delete the image not because it's a leak, but because it's obnoxious.

Alright, this is getting into a straight up MCU discussion and not a LEGO discussion. Let's drop it now please.

Ooh Merida's orange wig recolour of the Sigourney Weaver Ghostbusters hair has finally been added! (OOS for now) I've been wanting that piece for a long time and always bummed it wasn't available for purchase.

People like this? I see a couple of good figures with a big grey blob for a heck of a lot of money. That darksaber piece is a completely weak effort - hard to be conclusively sure but it looks to me like the white rim line is just lighting, and this pieces should have had some crackling white printing or dual moulding along it. I also call complete BS on LEGO continuing to use the standard lightsaber hilt here, as the darksaber hilt looks nothing like any other lightsaber. They may claim "it's charming for all LEGO lightsabers to have the classic part" - except of course Dooku and Ventress, whose hilts, just like the darksaber, look nothing like and are a different shape from other hilts.

What do you mean? People have been talking about these sets for a long time, including the sets turning up on shelves. Sets found/bought legitimately in a store don't constitute leaks, if that's what you mean.

While most people are concerned discussing the sets that haven't been or aren't going to be revealed or released, the lost tomb set has a legitimately fantastic price - even in Australia, it's only $60 RRP!! With a typical 20% sale (and more if you want longer), that a real steal. I'm looking forward to picking that one up.

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It's definitely happened here in Australia before that a store mixes up the prices for two new releases. Our Australian Kmart did that when they first added the Beauxbatons Carriage and Graveyard Duel sets from Harry Potter - $29 for the Carriage and $79 or whatever it was for the Duel.

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Has it been marked as In Warehouse the whole time? If so, that means they've packed the order, likely within days of you placing it, but are just waiting to bulk ship it. That's my understanding anyway.

Yes they were. But they're there, and that's exciting.

New parts dropped! Rest of the Football Table stuff! Yes!

There's something about the gaudy colour scheme and general art design of the packaging that I feel like is doing a disservice to the actual sets here. I bet they'll look a lot better in person / in the lifestyle images. Do I see two or three different heads for Ellie? Weird that she doesn't include the dual moulded boots in any set though, when the part already exists. It surely can't add THAT much to LEGO's costs when it isn't even new.