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I mean, not sure what gives you the impression that nobody is talking about it, but speaking anecdotally I saw a lot of discussion, fan art, and posts about it on Twitter and Tumblr both before and following its release. To be honest, it gets harder and harder to take perspectives like "it's bad because it's too different" seriously when they've been common reactions among AFOLs for well over a decade at this point. I mean, look at the comments in this article: https://brickset.com/article/1595/ninjago-takes-a-new-direction-in-2012 Perspectives on the earliest set reveals for the Ninjago theme here on Eurobricks were often just as vitriolic, and it took years before AFOLs in general seemed ready to acknowledge that Ninjago was a lasting hit and not a short-lived fad that LEGO was dragging out for no reason. Likewise, while I certainly recognize that German buyers are a significant audience for LEGO, it's hard for me to know what anecdotal insights about that market's preferences are really reliably accurate. As recently as 2017, LEGO was still the top selling toy brand in Germany by far, earning over more revenue than the next two top-selling manufacturers (Brandstätter and Ravensburger) COMBINED. It's hard to reconcile that with many of the anecdotal claims about German buyers' LEGO theme preferences (not yours specifically, mind you), which often seem to align a little too neatly with the AFOL community's general preferences for classic themes (trains, castle, pirates, space, etc) over newer or more "different" ones.

Well put! I'm sorry if this is a bit blunt, but the number of whiny men in the LEGO fan community — and in society at large —who are repulsed by the very idea of "girliness", or consider it uncool or frivolous, is exactly why movies like this one were so needed. We've already had three LEGO movies in a row that were with few exceptions inspired by masculine-coded storytelling tropes, visual cues, and LEGO themes. Besides Unikitty and Cloud Cuckoo Land, how much was there in those first three movies that felt especially "girly"? And is this theme really as girly as some people make it sound? So far, in The LEGO Movie 2 theme, these sets could be said to focus mostly on feminine-coded (cute/beautiful) design cues: https://brickset.com/sets/70822-1/Unikitty-s-Sweetest-Friends-EVER! https://brickset.com/sets/70824-1/Introducing-Queen-Watevra-Wa-Nabi https://brickset.com/sets/70825-1/Queen-Watevra-s-Build-Whatever-Box! https://brickset.com/sets/70828-1/Pop-Up-Party-Bus https://brickset.com/sets/70830-1/Sweet-Mayhem-s-Systar-Starship! https://brickset.com/sets/70833-1/Lucy-s-Builder-Box! https://brickset.com/sets/70837-1/Shimmer-Shine-Sparkle-Spa! https://brickset.com/sets/70838-1/Queen-Watevra-s-‘So-Not-Evil-Space-Palace For comparison, THESE ones could be said to focus mostly on masculine-coded (tough/intense) design cues: https://brickset.com/sets/70821-1/Emmet-and-Benny-s-Build-and-Fix-Workshop! https://brickset.com/sets/70823-1/Emmet-s-Thricycle! https://brickset.com/sets/70826-1/Rex-s-Rex-treme-Offroader! https://brickset.com/sets/70827-1/Ultrakatty-Warrior-Lucy! https://brickset.com/sets/70829-1/Emmet-and-Lucy-s-Escape-Buggy! https://brickset.com/sets/70832-1/Emmet-s-Builder-Box! https://brickset.com/sets/70834-1/MetalBeard-s-Heavy-Metal-Motor-Trike! https://brickset.com/sets/70835-1/Rex-s-Rexplorer! https://brickset.com/sets/70836-1/Battle-Ready-Batman-and-MetalBeard https://brickset.com/sets/70839-1/The-Rexcelsior! https://brickset.com/sets/70840-1/Welcome-to-Apocalypseburg! https://brickset.com/sets/70841-1/Benny-s-Space-Squad https://brickset.com/sets/70842-1/Emmet-s-Triple-Decker-Couch-Mech Notice how the second list is noticeably longer than the first? A lot of the strength of The LEGO Movie theme compared to the themes for the two spin-offs, to hear many people tell it, was that it brought together and celebrated such a diverse range of themes. So it boggles my mind that a lot of people think the rather modest number of "girly"-looking sets for this movie is more egregious than the overwhelming emphasis on "boyish"-looking sets for the previous three LEGO movies. In general, disdain or lack of enthusiasm among AFOLs is probably one of the least reliable predictors for a theme's likelihood of selling well. It's not as though AFOLs welcomed themes like Bionicle, Power Miners, Atlantis, Ninjago, Friends, Legends of Chima, or Nexo Knights with open arms. And yet every one of those themes managed to become successful in their own right, with several becoming long-lasting hits. It's extremely doubtful that The LEGO Movie 2 theme will make it into the top 5 for this year, but I'm not sure what you think that would prove, since that's been true of ALL the LEGO Movie themes. Even the top 5 themes named by LEGO in their 2014 annual results press conference were City, Star Wars, Friends, Creator, and Duplo. And that shouldn't be surprising, since one of the things that made 2014 such a good year for LEGO was not just the LEGO Movie theme's own sales, but the halo effect the movie's popularity had on other themes — including the themes that tend to be contenders for the top 5 by default.

Sorry, I may have phrased my post poorly… I'm not really complaining about the way the terrain is built so much as how it's almost always focused on the same sort of terrain… e.g. rocky ground, mountains, or plateaus. In other words, while Space themes can be vastly different in terms of how their factions look, most of their settings represent more or less the same biomes, differentiated at most by the color of the planet surface. Which is a lot different from many space adventure franchises like Star Wars or Star Trek where part of what makes their extraterrestrial settings interesting is how many different biomes are represented by the various planets.

Honestly it's sometimes interesting to think back and realize how few Space themes have had much in the way of extraterrestrial landscapes besides mountain bricks, raised baseplates, and crater plates. I suppose part of this is how outside of a more story-driven theme like Star Wars, it's hard to make many types of environments (volcanic, oceanic, forested, stormy, etc) seem recognizably "spacey". Most people's idea of "space" is cold, rocky, and desolate, as has been the case with most of our nearest celestial neighbors.

In general, no, I don't think so. For one, of creative media, LEGO is probably one of the easier ones to reverse-engineer without instructions. While you might not be able to recreate your favorite MOCs exactly, it's generally possible to closely approximate them at least as far as their outward appearance is concerned. Additionally, creating instructions, particularly easy-to-follow ones, is hard work, and I guarantee you that if everybody who built amazing MOCs had to put in the time and effort to make instructions of every one they end up sharing online or at conventions, they wouldn't have nearly as much time or creative energy to put into creating new MOCs. A lot of old-school LEGO fans lament the loss of the "inspiration models" that used to be on the back of almost all set boxes showing other things you could build with the pieces, but I think the disappearance of those illustrates the potential cost of expecting instructions for every model. The main reason LEGO stopped putting those on the back of boxes is that they would get lots of customer service calls and e–mails from builders and parents asking for instructions for those models, which in most cases didn't exist. And in general, not only would having to create building instructions for every inspiration model pull resources away from creating new sets, but it would also require a lot more time and care to be put into the design of those "inspiration models", since they were often not designed for other people to build and play with the way the actual sets were. In a lot of cases, they were fragile or unstable in a way that was below the quality standards people expected of a high-quality LEGO model. The same can be said for many AFOL creations. In some cases, even my own creations have fiddly areas that will only really hold together if attached at a very particular angle that would be difficult to illustrate in a picture or even a 3D render — building those models myself involved fiddling with the angle of those pieces until I got them to stay put, a trial-and-error process you can't possibly guide people through step by step. Many more advanced builders employ even more connections like this that require intense fine-tuning to stay together, as I've seen when watching other builders set up their partially disassembled creations for display at fan conventions. A great-looking photo of a build can certainly make it SEEM like something you'd want to build it in real life, but doesn't necessarily reveal all those sorts of practical weaknesses that would make the actual building experience or owning a copy of the finished model frustrating or underwhelming.

As far as I can tell the suit in that set is Light Royal Blue (BrickLink's Bright Light Blue/the color of a lot of recent City police uniforms) rather than Sand Blue. That's a very light color, so you're probably right about it being lighter than these examples, but from what I've seen the Apollo and MOL suits were still closer to Sand Blue or Medium Blue than to any sort of dark blue. That may be on me for not linking to better photos. By the way, I hope I don't sound like a know-it-all — a lot of this is stuff I only just learned while trying to satisfy my own curiosity about what LEGO might've based some of this stuff on! Usually my interests are in fantasy so I'm not much of an expert on real-life technology whether it's modern or historical. As an example, I just found this site that explains the differences between what orange and white spacesuits are used for: https://www.scoopwhoop.com/reason-for-astronauts-white-and-orange-suits/ Apparently orange is for launch and re-entry while white is for spacewalks. Both are partly aimed at maintaining high visibility, though white is also meant to reflect more sunlight.

I guess maybe it only shows up in alternate photos for some of the sets and not the main photos? Or maybe it's just not in any of the pics they chose to upload? Or maybe it's just that now that we're 5 months into the year, a lot of the sets it has appeared in are no longer featured in the Shop site's "New" category. In any case, it appears in these 9 sets according to Brickset (which pulls its inventories from the LEGO Customer Service site): https://brickset.com/sets/containing-part-6254100 Besides the rocket transport, other upcoming sets for which we've seen official pics showing this brick separator color include Hogwarts Clock Tower, Dual Rotor Helicopter, Heartlake City Fairground Pier, Heartlake City Restaurant, Rescue Center Lighthouse, Rescue Boat, Deep Space Rocket and Launch Control, and Castle of the Forsaken Emperor. I'm sure we'll see even more of it as time goes on!

I doubt they're the only thing. And the number of costumed figs in Series 18 seemed to be less about that being the only thing kids cared about, and more about trying to create a unifying "party" theme (much like Series 14's unifying "monsters theme) to tie in with the minifigure's 40th anniversary. Costume parties simply happen to be the type of party that allowed for the largest variety of minifigure designs/themes. It certainly wound up being less repetitive than if they'd based it on, say, a pajama party or dance party. Anyway, even if you don't care much for costumed character minifigures, I think it's worth keeping in mind that several of them can provide parts that are useful for later minifigures that don't fall within that category. Just as an example, I could easily see the wings from the Butterfly Girl reused on a Fairy Queen minifigure in the future.

@grohl is a designer on the LEGO Technic team who has an AMAZING gift for coming up with alternate builds to released sets from all sorts of themes. You can see a lot more cool alternate builds on his Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/grohld Among them are a lot of other alternate builds for Nexo Knights sets, including three more for 70351, three for 72004, four for 72003, four for 70356, two for 70355, and TWELVE for 70312! He really shows his expertise with LEGO Technic when it comes to creating cool functions for some of these models. It definitely debunks the non-FOL cliche that "LEGO sets these days are all specific parts that are only good for building what's on the box" (paraphrased).

It's not green but teal (Bright Bluish Green/Dark Turquoise), which is a new color for the brick separator as of this year. It's been in 9 or 10 of the sets released so far. Yeah, if Friends can manage to include not one but two pirate ships in this year's sets (one as an underwater shipwreck and one as an amusement park attraction), City could probably manage either of those things about as easily. In general, I don't see much likelihood of these types of sets standing in the way of more fantasy, historic, or sci-fi oriented themes, particularly since most City subthemes besides Police, Town, and Great Vehicles only get a full wave of sets every three or four years at the very most. Plus, it's not as though in the past we've seen a strong indication of most of these themes being ruled out by similar subject matter in other themes. Alien Conquest launched the same year as the FIRST incarnation of LEGO City's Space subtheme. The 2013 Castle sets came out the same year as other castles in themes like The Hobbit and Legends of Chima. Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if overlap between themes might sometimes give LEGO even more options when they reintroduce classic themes. For example, the 2015 LEGO Pirates revival was able to make use of the redesigned LEGO shark, sawfish, and crocodile pieces that first appeared in the 2014 and 2015 Coast Guard, Deep Sea Explorers, and Swamp Police subthemes of City, as well as the redesigned rowboat piece that first appeared in one of the previous year's Disney Princess sets.

Honestly I’m going to take these rumors about cancellations with a grain of salt… I don’t know whether this site’s been a reliable for such rumors in the past, and while they at least allude to unnamed dealers as sources, I can’t help but be reminded of that completely unfounded rumor about Nexo Knights ending in 2017 and possibly even having its summer 2017 wave cancelled. Loads of people and websites were discussing and reporting on that unsourced claim as a credible rumor until an actual set designer commented on Brickset to let people know it was nonsense. Notably, Zusamnengebaut’s reporting from Nuremberg Toy Fair conformed these sets not for summer, but for the second half of the year. Also, the information they received at that event included the names of the Space Palace, Rexcelsior, and Sparkle Spa, but not the other three, which is a pretty strong indication that the plan at that point was for those three sets to be formally announced and released later than the rest.

I mean, I don't intend to imply that ALL Classic Castle fans will hate whatever comes next, but I have yet to see any Castle theme (or any theme at all, really) that hasn't had a good portion of old-school AFOLs moaning about it being horrible/rubbish/childish/making them want to vomit upon being revealed. As shocking as it might seem today, some of the comments about themes that today seem to be fondly remembered like Fantasy Era and Kingdoms can be just as vicious and ornery as many of those made about themes like Legends of Chima, Elves, and Nexo Knights in more recent years. I think this is part of the answer to the often-asked question of why LEGO doesn't listen to AFOLs — even when they do get loud feedback, it's often full of mixed messages that make it very difficult to turn into a substantive action plan. Plus, as designers have discovered, a lot of the time the initial outrage about a new set or theme is just a knee-jerk reaction that mellows out before long — I've lately been hearing a LOT of Power Miners nostalgia among AFOLs lately, even though ten years ago many people here on Eurobricks saw it as kiddy nonsense that summed up everything wrong with modern LEGO. And as Jamie Berard points out here, the Fire Brigade (another standout product from 10 years ago) generated about as much vitriol as the Downtown Diner did, despite being one of the most beloved Modular Buildings to date and one of the ones that was the most current modular building collectors' first taste of the series. In general, especially when people have spent a lot of time speculating and wishing for what they want to see in a future theme, it can take time for people to let go of some of the very specific expectations they built up enough to recognize the strengths of a theme that does NOT fulfill all those particular criteria. So a negative initial reaction is rarely a strong indicator of how a theme will end up being remembered.

I don't really see what's any more awesome and exciting about a Light Royal Blue spacesuit than the Bright Orange spacesuits with Dark Orange printing worn by the astronauts in several of these sets. After all, these are the first primarily orange spacesuits in any theme besides Ideas and Galaxy Squad, despite orange being a fairly common spacesuit color both in real life and fiction. What's more, the choice of the blue color seems to be based on the various blue suits NASA has used for training versions of spacesuits, such the ones from the Apollo program, the 70s Manned Orbiting Laboratory program, and the recently cancelled Constellation program. The most significant difference between these and the versions actually used in or intended for use in space missions is that they lack the protective outer layer which typically gives NASA extravehicular spacesuits their final white or orange color. As such, it makes sense that this suit shows up in a set specifically featuring other Earth-based training equipment. I'll grant you that Transparent Bright Orange is a more unique visor color, though! And probably a closer approximation of the brownish or gold reflective coating that real space helmet visors often have to protect the wearer's eyesight. Side note, I probably just wasn't paying close enough attention before, but I just first noticed that the new white space helmets worn by both the Light Royal Blue suited and Bright Orange suited astronaut figures are 2K (two-component) molds with a black stripe near the back of the neck. Neat!

Sometimes this is just coincidence when the theme a color or mold is primarily developed for happens to have a later release date than another set taking advantage of that color. For example, I heard in an interview with one of the Creator Expert designers that the Elves team was responsible for pushing for the return of Teal (Bright Bluish Green), and that the Creator Expert team simply took advantage of it for the Diner once they knew it would be available. Similarly, of the six colors suggested by the LEGO Friends team ahead of that theme's launch (Dark Azur, Medium Azur, Aqua, Medium Lavender, Lavender, and Spring Yellowish Green), the majority of them showed up in other themes like Alien Conquest, SpongeBob SquarePants, Cars, Minifigures, and Duplo prior to showing up in Friends. And Medium Nougat showed up in Toy Story prior to its much wider use in Harry Potter and Prince of Persia later that same year. I think it's just an indication of how a lot of themes tend to be in development at the same time even if they actually get released months or years apart.

I think if anything they simply concentrate the same amount of effort in different areas of the build. When you compare, say, https://brickset.com/sets/60204-1/City-Hospital with https://brickset.com/sets/41318-1/Heartlake-Hospital, their weights, piece counts, price tags, and target age are fairly similar, yet the City version has: cool, dynamic shapes with bold colors more figures a more complex architectural layout (in terms of its right-angle arrangement) less interior space and detail Whereas the Friends version has: cute, bubbly shapes with gentle colors fewer figures a pretty straightforward dollhouse-style modular structure more interior space and detail Of course you do see areas where sets of the same subject are much more different, but that's often because these areas of emphasis are suited to different price points. For example, with regard to cabin cruisers/motor yachts, City ones like https://brickset.com/sets/4642-1/Fishing-Boat and https://brickset.com/sets/60221-1/Diving-Yacht are usually at a $20 price point because they don't bother with much interior detail besides, at most, a bed or desk. Whereas Friends cabin cruisers/motor yachts like https://brickset.com/sets/41015-1/Dolphin-Cruiser and https://brickset.com/sets/41317-1/Sunshine-Catamaran tend towards a $70 price point (same as most LEGO Friends houses) because they want to pack in enough interior detail for a reasonably comfortable overnight outing: twin beds, a toilet, a shower, a kitchenette, a living room/lounge, etc. If LEGO were to make a Pirates-equivalent theme for girls, I suspect some changes they might make from traditional Pirates sets besides colors/aesthetics would include: More animals… and not strictly of the might-kill-you variety like sharks and alligators. More places to cook/eat besides over a campfire. I know that Imperial Flagship had a galley kitchen, but most non-D2C Pirates sets do not. Places to sleep, particularly since LEGO has now already had hammock pieces in other themes. Nowadays even in LEGO City most jail/prison sets include beds, if uncomfortable looking ones, so it wouldn't be unreasonable to do so in a Pirates theme More female characters, including a female pirate captain. There were several famous ones in real life, so this wouldn't be a difficult or unbelievable change. More emphasis on natural scenery. Not that Pirates doesn't have any of this already, but it's usually been pretty sparse compared to man-made structures like shacks and forts, and rarely included stuff like detailed animal habitats. More interior play features in forts/outposts so they seem like a place where people live and work, not just structures to defend Possibly more civilian port towns rather than just naval fortifications. More fantasy stuff like mermaids, sea monsters and magical treasures. Fewer figures per set, but with more detailed characterization, some of which will be apparent not just in story media but in the figure designs and the sets that contextualize them. That said, I don't mean to imply this as an immediate possibility/likelihood. Not sure how trendy pirates are with preteen girls at this point in time.

Nexo Knights is already discontinued for all intents and purposes. As successful as it was, it was neither expected nor intended to last forever. I suspect Classic Castle fans will still find something to complain about with whatever comes next, though, regardless of what it looks like. They always have.

Oh yeah, absolutely. After all, the Collectible Minifigures not only don't typically need to fit into a larger story with a clearly defined conflict, but also tend to have bios that make even their less existentially terrifying monsters like werewolves and vampires feel silly or lovable rather than extraordinarily fearsome. I could easily see a Lovecraftian horror monster reusing some of the molds introduced for Hidden Side like the clawed, torn wing pieces used in the high school or the tentacle pieces used in the boat. Possibly the CMF Faun legs as well. Thanks! I wish I had more time/energy/patience to create MOCs like that these days.

To be honest, I was not necessarily expecting any new installments after the docks. For one thing, The LEGO Ninjago Movie branding wouldn't really be so relevant with the movie being less and less "current"… none of the LEGO movies so far have gotten more than one year's worth of sets unless you count LEGO Movie branded Dimensions packs. Also, it's very rare for sets as big as those (bulkier and pricier than even most Star Wars Ultimate Collector Series sets or Creator Expert Modular Buildings) to show up every year without fail. People often need time to save up money for sets that big, and releasing them too often might make it feel impossible for many people to keep up. If we do see a new Ninjago City expansion at any point, I suspect it will be whenever LEGO thinks the theme is due for another D2C set, and it would probably be a slight departure from the previous two since it would most likely be designed to tie in with core LEGO Ninjago brand rather than The LEGO Ninjago Movie.

Have you thought about browsing the Heavy Equipment page on Wikipedia?

Nifty build. A part of me wishes that her midriff didn't seem so flat on the front, but I know how difficult making lifelike forms with bricks can be. It's neat how you constructed her navel, and the texture of her skirt is cool as well. Are her shoulders articulated or are they fixed at that angle?

Well, for what it’s worth, one of the main foes in LEGO Ninjago Season Five, the Preeminent, was fairly Lovecratian in a conceptual sense, even if the season as a whole didn’t adhere to the tone and themes of Lovecraft’s stories. Same can be said for the Shadow Creature in LEGO Elves: Secrets of Elvendale. But I don’t know if a theme based around Lovecraftian horror could work all that well by virtue of the fact that the main purpose of most villains, monsters, or adversaries in a LEGO theme is to let kids role-play good-vs-evil conflicts. The “monsters” in Lovecraftian horror are characterized by being as unfathomable as they are malevolent. Role-playing as a villain is difficult when they lack any comprehensible motivations for their actions. And true Lovecraftian horror often presents its heroes as utterly hopeless/helpless in the face of these dark unknowns, making it difficult to craft any kind of play scenario where the heroes can achieve any sort of meaningful victory. So while the aesthetics and some of the concepts associated with, say, the Cthulhu mythos are certainly a viable source of inspiration for sets and MOCs (truly, my “Rise of the Dread Colossus” MOC I build for a contest on this very site back in 2011 drew on such inspiration), the storytelling genre associated with them doesn’t make a particularly effective premise for a play theme.

Unfortunately I saw a Brickset news comment a month or so ago from a UK independent toy store owner who received an e–mail from LEGO was not releasing Dots this year due to discovering an unexpected quality issue with the new material they intended to use. It's not clear from his comments whether the e–mail gave any clarity about whether the theme was merely postponed or cancelled entirely. Just a couple days ago, the patent application for the LEGO Dots snap bracelets was published. Inside the Trafalgar Square set from LEGO Architecture, you can see at least two 1x1 rainbow tile patterns that were, as far as I can tell, originally intended for LEGO Dots. So at least some of those parts might still make their way to us via other sets regardless of what the theme's ultimate fate turns out to be.

I would personally love to see some kind of dinosaur, dragon, or other type of creature set similar to https://brickset.com/sets/4958-1/Monster-Dino or the dinosaur model from https://brickset.com/sets/8485-1/Control-Centre-II, but with a more advanced building level and more varied and refined functions (probably using Technic Control+). As much as I love many of the ways Technic has evolved over the years, and understand why many of the "weirder" sets and subthemes from my childhood in the late 90s and early 2000s are unpopular with many AFOLs, there's something about articulated robot and creature models that's much more exciting to me than vehicles. That's one of the things that drew me to themes/subthemes like Mindstorms, Throwbots, Cyber-Slam, and Bionicle shortly after I first started buying LEGO Technic. Maybe it's that there's more fantasy appeal to seeing something that's NOT a machine in real life represented as one, or my general fascination with nature and how human and animal bodies work, or just that I prefer functions that involve dynamic movement on the outside and not just on the inside. Not to diminish my admiration for the types of elaborate gear shift and steering functions that show up in many Technic models, but I think a model that "walks" will always be more exciting to me than one that rolls! While as a child I never fulfilled my insanely ambitious dream of making a fully articulated, life size humanoid Mindstorms robot (and probably couldn't manage to do so even today, seeing as neither mechanical engineering nor programming has ever been my strong suit), there's still a part of me that would love to see LEGO dabble in more of this type of lifeform-inspired build in their more function-heavy themes. Another possibility that I would find just as exciting would be a Technic model inspired by either Robonaut 2 or Valkyrie (R5), which I'm happy to see have inspired a minifigure in this year's City sets! More info on these robots here: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/fs_space_robotics_150908.pdf

I suspect that it will share at least some of its motor and sensor elements with Spike Prime, but that the Spike Prime software and Smart Hub may remain specific to Education sets same as has been the case with the WeDo and WeDo 2.0 software and Smart Hubs. Since the Liebherr excavator set's Smart Hub has a different amount of input/output ports than the Spike Prime Smart Hub, that version is probably the one more likely to show up in other Technic Control+ sets going forward.

Really? I loved the Octopus Carousel! The octopus and smaller animal builds are all so cute and silly, and the function seems to work in a pretty creative way. But my favorite aspect is probably how the knob to spin the ride it is styled to resemble a little top hat! If there's anything about that set I'm underwhelmed by, it's the ticket stand, which is pretty flat — but overall it's a nifty little build that nicely reinforces the whole park's aquatic theme and stands out nicely from past LEGO Friends amusement park sets as well as the other current ones.