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In more seriousness than my previous comment, a few thoughts. 1. I cannot fathom the business decision to launch this theme WITHOUT something like this second wave. Yes these are just as colourful, weird and out of left-field, but there's actually something LEGO about them. Why would they start the theme off without actual sets? 2. The release structure makes me feel like this theme has always been engineered for short tik tok attention spans (oh no the kids are bored of the first round - give them more immediatly or they'll drop the app!) - which also makes me wonder how long this has planned for? They can't keep up the barrage of new material to this degree for long. On the other hand maybe it's almost like a two-stage rollout and then they'll wait and see how these have done. 3. Do those bears remind anyone else of Gummibär? That was my instant thought.

Now THESE are sets I'd definitely consider getting on deep discount.

I can't recall a set where capes of the same material have been packed separately.

Yeah that's not really relevant to LEGO at the moment. Personally I'm unsure how that's something spoilable or not - oh wow the next Jurassic film has a big dino? I'm shocked

Buuuut I thought they said even they didn't know what's inside the packets, and it's a surprise? Have they got a worker x-raying them now?

Somehow nobody's mentioned it but I don't think they'll ever do a Trade Federation Control ship at any sort of scale for minifigures (i.e. excluding the Advent Calendar one). Too many curves, or would have to be too large to fit any minifigure space inside and thus be too risky a proposition. They'll never do a whole lot of stuff from Clone Wars because it's not "relevant", but especially not that Jedi shuttle from later seasons with a completely round and clear bubble canopy. Any Naboo Royal starship also seems highly unlikely once again given the curves, shaping, and scale that would be needed to fit any minifigures inside.

Fun review @makoy! I've been waiting a long time for them to do Aunt Beru in the Star Wars line, and what with the extra parts, this set generously includes two copies of her! In more seriousness, this is a cute scene nicely pulled off. Everything is instantly recognisable, and it looks like a polished little display. This is what a gift with purchase should be in my opinion: not a super desirable that necessitates a purchase to get it, but a pleasing gift like this, with your purchase.

Our review Makoy has reviewed the upcoming Star Wars Gift With Purchase set: [REVIEW] 40451 Tatooine Homestead. You don't want to miss this - featuring the first ever LEGO Aunt Beru! (But don't get too excited). Click through to read Makoy's review.

I don't know how it ended up looking like you were quoting/replying to me, since that text was from Guyon, which I was replying to in the first place! I personally am not so harsh on the Moments sets, they just don't interest me besides the single McGonagall figure, her head and hair-hat specifically. The Snape figure does look a bit odd with his open coat, but maybe in person it'd look different.

With the release of official pictures for the June 2021 Harry Potter lineup unveiling a new modular system for Hogwarts, a question on everyone's mind has been: how well can these new Hogwarts sets be combined with the ones from the previous three years? Well, Eurobricks member @Textorix has whipped them up in Stud.io and shared his findings in our Harry Potter discussion topic. He presents several variants, including with and without the rocky Chamber of Secrets. Click through to see all of Textorix' images combining the Hogwarts sets, and join the discussion! The findings are pretty conclusive. Can they be combined well? Yes!

I feel sure I read it in an interview with the Minifigures team but I'd have to go digging to find it. I'll see why I can turn up. EDIT: yes embedded within this article: https://www.brickfanatics.com/why-are-lego-collectible-minifigures-down-from-16-to-12/ Of course they can always decide to change again, but from their statements at the time of Series 21 they came down pretty firmly on 12 figures and three equal sets.

Yes it is all the same person being discussed here: The banning methods that remove all posts and clean up the forum mess do not remove the spammers from your followers list. So, unfortunately it's popularity but of the wrong kind!

Yeah these are the most widely available and easily obtainable LEGO item I've ever seen since moving to Oz!

That's a lot of Earheads! Another thing I didn't know what available when I placed my latest order, but I'm looking forward to those hoods.

Somehow I missed this Bob! It looks fantastic. Already a good-looking set now even more impressive and slick.

Well this CMF got weird. Still holding out hope for cool new pieces and prints useful out of the strictly MCU context!

No (wasn't going to purchase the Chamber of Secrets or Forbidden Corridor anyway), but it does inhibit playability and displayability, severely reducing the amount of places where you can stick down and pose figures and other objects. It also doesn't make sense from a play standpoint in all of the dark tan sections: why are there holes in the floor of Hogwarts? Holes in the Chamber of Secrets floor is ok.

I agree with you in general, but will add that Marvin's legs (if you don't mind cartoony shoes) and Lola's legs and torso work. Marvin might be the one I get in this whole series.

This is corporate greed 101. I am glad LEGO as a company is now financially managed well and has great profits - obviously without that we wouldn't be getting much of this stuff or any at all if they tanked and folded. BUT... From the designer's perspective, I get it. They're most often given fairly strict budgets and they so they have to make tough choices. But really, on the corporate side you're telling me that the few pennies different for a regular plate vs a grill plate would be so detrimental to the bottom line? LEGO is such a high ticket luxury toy as it is. It's just like the designers' response when people ask for a goat: "we can't do a goat because the mould broke". You make new moulds all the time! What they mean is, they've never been able to present a good enough business case to the budgeting side, or something like that. A fairly minor point to be sure, but when the budget constraints imposed on the designers for a high-priced luxury toy are felt obviously in the finished product, it does get to be a problem.

Or a Hoth set with a Tauntaun it seems - about the only reason I'd ever hope for another Hoth set

B&P is only for parts that are in production because they're in current sets. So your gripe is really that they haven't included a saddle in any sets in quite a while! A set like the Blacksmith shop definitely should've included a saddle or two as an alternate option.

I didn't mean to dive back into the missing minifigure discussion as it's been well covered, but yes we need Percy and he could've been in one of these sets for sure! The rest you listed aren't in the films covered in this particular wave. My point was mainly that, while there are plenty of fair criticisms to be had with these sets, stringing us along for characters and minifigure parts isn't one of them in my opinion. This theme has provided us with SO many of the characters already in such a short time, and fairly accurately to boot. I've had my gripes with some figures along the way but overall this theme excels at delivering in that department, especially when compared to its previous iterations and to other ongoing Licensed themes that fall short on breadth/accuracy of characters and leave off important ones for 20+ years of continuous releases (looking at you SW)!

As some others have detailed, there actually aren't all that many more important characters left to go, and besides Pomfrey and Lee Jordan, most missing ones are from later films not being covered in this wave. This wave is giving us Crabbe and Goyle with new faceprints at least! And a good new Hooch. I also don't personally mind when faces are reused for unimportant side characters like those in Hogsmeade, but it's annoying when important mains have reused faces. You're definitely right that LEGO is leaning on the interiors, but they didn't go quite all the way: the box fronts still show the exterior side of the Castle, besides the Bathroom set. However, while it's your opinion that the 2021 aren't better or worse because they're different, in my opinion they're worse. Two out of four Hogwarts sets here have some good interior: the Chamber of Secrets/Great Hall set and the Bathroom. Quidditch and Forbidden Corridor have basic or empty interiors, and like I've said Forbidden Corridor's interior doesn't even properly work on its own (without leaving a turret off by itself). Even the Great Hall set: the Chamber is a statue, some bones and a slide, the Hall is a severely scaled down and pared back version compared to the 2018 one, but Lockhart's two rooms are very good. Add to that the problem of them using the 8x8 grill pieces instead of 8x8 plates, and yeah, I'm going to say in my personal opinion these are different... and worse.

I like the Clock Tower personally but the "Hospital Wing" was shoehorned awkwardly around the (fairly useless) clock mechanism, and Dumbledore's Sticker Office was downright terrible. The way the instructions had it for the office left barely any room for figures in front of his desk, and lots of useless inaccessible room behind! IMO on the interior as-built the Clock Tower was definitely the weakest of the 2018-20 bunch, but for me personally MOD-ing interiors with small detail builds is a lot more in my wheelhouse than building nice big accurate exteriors, so I'll take the good exteriors and "blank canvas" interiors over the opposite of that.

I also gave them a miss for pretty much what Guyon said: My one point of difference would be that their Flitwick minifigure didn't really remind me of the original Flitwick design anyway, so I could skip him as well. I recently ordered McGonagall's hair-hat piece off B&P (especially now that her face is coming in Hogsmeade, which I plan on getting), and that's all I felt I needed from the whole Moments line thus far.