Portal Out

Why doesn’t someone just reach out to this guy on Redbook? Ask him if he’s had any more specific One Piece dreams so that once photos get out, we can confirm if he’s got any intel. Honestly, he’ll probably just say that he’s got no information, which would clear things up even sooner. Odds are he doesn’t even know he’s got the rest of the world arguing. Who wants to break the story?

I see Bigs come up a lot in speculation, but com’on guys, no shot Lego would do a mold like that unless they’d done literally everyone else. He’s the JarJar of the Sonic franchise, and considering his size, we’d be lucky to get him with a molded head and brick built body before the theme expires. If we’re just going off patterns, Silver and Blaze seem like the next most likely to appear. Maybe Cream and Cheese since so they could reuse Cream’s head for Vanilla later. Eggman Nega could be in the pipeline too since he’s just a recolor, but he’s probably too obscure.

Call me crazy, but the buttons were always red in my mind. Looking at references, the magenta they went with is definitely accurate.So weird

Oh my gosh, the $70 set is a Gameboy! This is genuinely the best case scenario, I’m so excited. The teaser shows two purple studs really prominently, any idea what those could be for? Seeing those originally made me think it was going to be a SNES.

I feel like when it comes to Nintendo stuff, you kind of have to look past the sales figures in some cases. For example, Metroid has always been a fairly low selling franchise, but Samus and Riddley are super well know just because they've been around for so long and because of things like Smash. We're already kinda seeing Lego get this memo with Donkey Kong, whose last game still hasn't managed to crack 5 million in sales across 2 consoles and 10 years, but still got an entire wave of sets because he's a wildly popular character regardless. My hope is that this Deku Tree set is the gateway to getting annual one-off 18+ sets based of slightly smaller Nintendo IPs in the same way we get an annual Mario D2C now.

Supposedly the new Wallace and Gromit movie is premiering on Netflix later this year, maybe that release could be big enough to warrant a couple sets? I know Lego’s pretty wary of doing IP’s that aren’t globally popular, but I think it’s a fair candidate. This is kind of a long shot, but there’s also a Tomb Raider animated series coming this year on Netflix too. We don’t really know what angle they’re taking with it yet, so there’s a chance they could do a She-Ra thing and go after the tween girl demographic that these sets are supposedly targeting? Both of these are definitely stretching the info we have lol

I didn’t realize this at the time, but apparently the version of Rivendell from the survey leak actually has some differences from the final version that was released about a month later (mainly the waterfall). Since it’s been just under a year since the Deku Tree leaked and there’s still been no new pictures, I’d say that there’s a good chance it’s going to have some improvements as well. I’m pretty content with how both of the builds look already, but it’s exciting to think they might look even better by the time they’re actually revealed. Too much of a tinfoil hat theory? Maybe I’m just getting a little stir crazy waiting for more news

The Hocus Pocus Cottage released last year in July, so I think this July is a pretty safe bet for another Halloween themed Ideas release. The telephone booth from the same review wave is coming in February, so it’ll definitely be ready by then too!

Oh sweet, always fun to have a wildcard wave out there! The big 2024 movies that feel like the most likely candidates to me are probably Despicable Me 4 and that new Ghostbusters.

Neat, actual news! Let’s take this as an opportunity to move on from whatever the heck all the Nazi discourse was. Regardless, it looks like the seller is from Norway and is also selling a bunch of other one of a kind misprints; probably assembly line snags like we were seeing with Cody earlier this year. I wonder if there’s a chance of any of the figs surfacing…I secretly hope they don’t because seeing a Short Round fig that I’ll never be able to own might break my heart.

More of a Fortnite question than a Lego question, but this seems like a relevant place to ask it: Have they clarified whether any of the IP-based skins are getting the Lego treatment? I heard they're all ineligible to play with in the Lego mode for the time being, but have they outright confirmed that they're all being locked out of the mode entirely? Never played Fortnite in my life, I just need some closure on whether there's a even a minuscule chance of us seeing Metal Gear, Street Fighter, or Resident Evil minifigures. Even if they're just digital, seeing a Solid Snake minifig would make me the happiest person on the planet. Aside from Falcon Fan confirming that it won't be an early 2024 release, next to no info on the Zelda front :( Unless some news breaks in the next couple moths or we start seeing some of the other leaked sets begin to get release dates, even a summer release is beginning to feel a bit unlikely at this point (plus, they're probably going to want to give Fortnite the spotlight for a while).

How iconic, supported! Love the part usage of the hair pieces for the bushes.

Hey, did anything ever become of that Lego Gaming logo/theme leak from way back a few years ago? I don’t ever remember seeing this pop up anywhere (and we definitely didn’t get the Games them I think a lot of us were expecting), but weirdly enough I noticed recently that at a completely different logo is used in a few places on LEGO’s current website.

Haha yeah, between that mushroom cap and the new Wish star piece, we’ll be building a bootleg mushroom kingdom in no time.

At this rate they’re gonna run out of modern characters sooner or later, but I guess it really depends on the direction the theme takes from here.