VincentLord

I have wanted Zelda sets for the majority of my lifetime and I am really pleased with what I see. Both models look really good, and the amount of prints and molds is fantastic. However, it does seem to me like LEGO threw two mutually exclusive $200 (accounting for their recent 'enthusiastic' pricing) sets into one box and decided to call $300 a deal, which I find hard to swallow. The amount of stuff you're getting here simultaneously is just too little for me to justify this, even though I am exactly the demographic for this set. It's everything I could have wanted out of a Deku Tree, and I know the price is inflated by the generous quantity of molds and prints, but I just cannot see how this is worth what they're asking for it, even compared to other current licensed sets.

Is it just me, or did they base Paul Atreides off Kyle MacLachlan from the 1984 film instead of Chalamet?

I think they look great, each highly detailed and some have made the transition to minifig particularly well. Beast looks much better than I was expecting, Wolverine is perfect aside from maybe his length, and I think Agatha looks surprisingly nice—they really nailed the colour on the effects pieces and I am super glad that the Darkhold’s included. The build-a-Sentinel not being real is a bit of a shame, but it was never going to look quite right at that scale anyway.

The Ahsoka wave is probably my favourite in ages, the Ghost looked great and these look just as good. They're a bit expensive, but for 2023 standards I'm alright with the prices. Really digging the T6 in both 'modes,' the colour distribution looks fantastic.

I am surprised that this appears to warrant an explanation but the reason why we’re not getting people’s wishlist characters in this (I’ve seen the Stealth Suit Cap suggestion especially a bunch of times now here and elsewhere) is because the CMF is a supplement so that Disney+ characters, whose projects otherwise don’t receive sets, can also be turned into minifigures. In that same vein, I highly doubt Kang was ever on the cards, nor would it make sense to put Kamala (who is already in a set this year) in there. Admittedly, this makes Wolverine a weird inclusion, but I suppose they might have wanted to include one very popular mutant to coax people into getting the full Sentinel?

This is easily my favourite set that they’ve done for the anniversary, it’s stunning in isolation as just a camera, and all of its specificities feel like a more than tasteful celebration of the company and Walt Disney’s legacy. It’s a very cleverly designed set. I can hardly believe the printed strip.

The No Way Home set being a good build with not-so-good figures was absolutely not on my bingo card. The A-Force set looks alright to me, but definitely not at this price point. This is turning out to be a surprisingly meagre year for me personally in terms of Marvel sets.

Not sure if I am personally excited for a fourth Wolverine, but I am generally happy about the inclusion of Storm and Beast. The latter is not one of my favourite X-Men (and not very visually interesting, in his TAS iteration at least) but I am excited to be getting mutants who haven’t received figures before. Kang is also a pretty big surprise for me, as he is ostensibly the only non-Disney+ character, and I’m really glad that we’re getting Agatha and especially Werewolf By Night! Solid selection overall, aside from being in the clear minority that would’ve been fine with one MK figure I would barely change a thing.

I’m as disappointed as anyone with regards to the ToD/DoD situation but I’m choosing to wait until more news comes out for both cases. I’m glad that the sets we do have are so good. The sets each look brilliant and are very reasonably priced, in my opinion. The Tomb especially has grown on me immensely since the leaked pictures. Here’s hoping for more Indy sets.

The sweat on Belloq’s back is a chef’s kiss detail, wow. The tomb set finally makes sense to me now that I see the back, definitely a lot more interested in it now.

I cannot wait to see how the interactive features work. I'm liking the look of this a lot more than I did when the diagonal half of that other picture leaked last month haha!

I really do not care that much about minifigures so I am unfussed about that aspect, but “LEGO nail the donut wings on the Bowie but mess up the fuselage” was not on my bingo list. It’s so long compared to its width and to the rest of the vehicle, I can only assume it has something to do with stability.

Considering the set budget, Carl’s House is pretty great based on these 64 pixels! I was worried how they were going to handle the balloons but I think this gets the point across quite well without chewing into the piece-count in any major ways. I’m not as into Up as I am into the rest of that era’s Pixar output but the execution on this is good enough that I’m tempted to get it anyway.

I get people’s qualms with some figures, but this is in my opinion perhaps the most gorgeous set Lego has ever produced. The colours, the detailing, the overall composition—this is the kind of product that I completely understand they’d ask €500 for. Praying that this sells well and becomes habitual rather than a one-off.

I’m going to wait for better/official pictures before I come to any conclusions, but like others I am a little befuddled at both the sheer vibrancy of the colour scheme and at how ostensibly small that boulder track (and the rest of it, really) is. It probably doesn’t help for the overall wow-factor of the set that half of the picture is black bars hahaha