Disney Properties 2023 - Rumors & Discussion

[RedHoodPug]

5 hours ago, Lemerbrix said:

What is that 1×1 tile that cruella has supposed to represent, though I haven't seen 101 Dalmatians in a while, so I guess that's why I'm so confused

It's a vintage handbag made from the fur of something, which looking at the tails I'd guess at ermine/stoat.

[JeanGreyForever]

Figaro is in the Duplo castle. I wonder if we might be able to get a version of him in one of the other sets to match the minifigures, especially since Cleo comes with Pinocchio.

[BrickFit26]

Why doesn't Tiana have the same dress piece as the queen of hearts?

[Gorilla94]

12 hours ago, Chris10 said:

Looks like Robin Hood has a tail piece of some sort? Can’t see the tail in the picture but there seems to be a piece between the torso and legs?

There is 100% something between legs and torso :D Now he has real potential to become my favourite Disney Minifigure :)

[Frizzlefry25]

Man are that Minnie and Mickey going to be exclusive to a Duplo set? That would be a shame! There are non Duplo versions coming of those in something right?

Edited March 2, 2023 by Frizzlefry25

[Brickity]

1 hour ago, BrickFit26 said:

Why doesn't Tiana have the same dress piece as the queen of hearts?

Wondering the same thing. Could’ve been a less boring figure.

Ernesto is incredibly detailed! Definitely my favorite fig.

[JeanGreyForever]

26 minutes ago, Frizzlefry25 said:

Man are that Minnie and Mickey going to be exclusive to a Duplo set? That would be a shame! There are non Duplo versions coming of those in something right?

Doesn't the leaked image of Mickey in a gray suit somewhat resemble the Duplo figure?

[BenderBrau]

My quick thoughts (quick to read that is, but ages to write down) now that the series has been officially revealed:

Incredibly Baymax doesn't look as bad on the high-res pictures. Still the weakest in this series, but I actually wouldn't mind him on display.

Ernesto, what a fabulous figure! The printing detail all around is incredible, honestly this might be my favourite minifig out of all 3 Disney Series

Miguel, really well done, Dante not so much. A bit of a shame they didn't include his normal head, but there's probably one in Lego's catalogue that resembles Miguel's face, and the very common hair 62810 will work just fine

Sorcerer Mickey, finally! Kind of a relief it's not an exclusive in a D2C, even though I wouldn't miss a minifigure scale Disney D2C. The figure looks great but I really wish they would've made an exclusive piece for the broom resembling the iconic walking pose. Maybe in next series with Yensid? (yeah, wishful thinking )

Oswald, another good looking fig. I'm not really that familiar with the character, I don't think I've ever seen a full cartoon with him, but I certainly get why he's included and I do not mind that inclusion.

Aurora - looks properly princess-y but it is just her stock image, I would've preferred her on-screen appearance.

Pocahontas - my thoughts haven't changed, Lego has not conveyed the cartoon style in the slightest and it's bothering me a bit. Still need her as it's likely the only chance we will ever get her in Lego form

Mulan - looks pretty good, maybe they could've added that single hair that's almost always on her face? Small detail It really seems to complete her look, but I'm aware Lego has stopped adding hair detail on heads long ago. Last time was what, Speed Racer? But I'm thinking of the 2007 Snape where it looked great, and it would've worked well on Mulan, too.

Tiana - In general I'm not really a fan of this dress - what, because she was a frog for a while and wandered around a swamp the dress needs to be leaf themed? Again on-screen appearance would make more sense - and I'm talking about her blue dress she wore when kissing frog Naveen. Also a new frog mould would be nice.

Facilier - same, inevitable issue as Skellington, part of the character is lost when squashed down to minifigure dimensions. Also I think the outfit should be dark red, not reddish brown. Overall a bit of a letdown, but at least the face is properly expressive.

Pinocchio - almost perfect, but I really think they should've given him the large cartoony eyes like Jiminy's, especially since it's the depiction of his puppet form.

Jiminy - again, since he's not humanoid, the head should've been a custom mould. It doesn't look bad as it is, but it could've been better. I do like the inclusion of the collar, though, really useful piece.

Robin Hood - simply delightful, wonderful rendition. Really great to see the tail piece with printed sides, a detail which was sorely missed on Speedy.

Prince John - another great one, slightly worse than Robin because it could use some whiskers, but I understand if printing on the sides on the snout was not possible.

Stitch - now that I'm OK with Baymax, I wish it was Lilo instead, especially since Lego didn't bother to make a new mould for the head with antennas. Not a deal breaker, as a big fan of the film I do want it, but Lilo is much more needed.

Queen of Hearts - zero complaints here, one of the best of this series. And is that a red heart tile I see? About bloody time! It's such an obvious colour for this piece, but weirdly it hasn't been made yet.

Evil Queen - pretty good, but she doesn't look evil enough. Another instance of Lego style head not working very well for a cartoon character. The mirror is excellent, though

Cruella de Vil - great face and hair, but similarly to dr Facilier, part of the character is lost when the fur lays flatly on a minifigure body, and the collar doesn't really help much. I'm still really glad we can have her in minifigure form

[Clone OPatra]

1 hour ago, Gorilla94 said:

There is 100% something between legs and torso :D Now he has real potential to become my favourite Disney Minifigure :)

The tail is clearly visible in the 360 spin, and it looks like they've printed the front AND sides of the piece green so it really blends in well.

Missed opportunity with Pocahontas to include a couple of action stand pieces in order to set up the leaves actually blowing in the wind. Also weird that they haven't printed the red tattoo on her right arm.

2 minutes ago, BenderBrau said:

Mulan - looks pretty good, maybe they could've added that single hair that's almost always on her face? Small detail It really seems to complete her look, but I'm aware Lego has stopped adding hair detail on heads long ago. Last time was what, Speed Racer? But I'm thinking of the 2007 Snape where it looked great, and it would've worked well on Mulan, too.

That American minister of magic woman from 2018 has printed hair on her head. Nothing's ever really gone.

[hikouki]

Weakest of the lot is Baymax. Really looks emaciated.

Something is not right with Cruella - the overcoat is not quite right. Great headpiece though.

Stitch is nice but I still maintain he is a waste of a slot here. They could have just given that slot to Lilo, or to a character from Fantasia like the Hippo ballerina.

[JeanGreyForever]

40 minutes ago, Clone OPatra said:

Missed opportunity with Pocahontas to include a couple of action stand pieces in order to set up the leaves actually blowing in the wind. Also weird that they haven't printed the red tattoo on her right arm.

In one of the solo images of her, you can see a bit of the red printing on her right arm so she does have a tattoo, we just haven't had a really good angle to see it fully. I'm more annoyed by the fact that her belt is red. Although in some other pics, it comes across as brown which is more accurate. The promo pics tend to be oversaturated in color so I'm hoping that also explains why Aurora's dress suddenly looks more purple than pink.

46 minutes ago, BenderBrau said:

Incredibly Baymax doesn't look as bad on the high-res pictures. Still the weakest in this series, but I actually wouldn't mind him on display.

Miguel, really well done, Dante not so much. A bit of a shame they didn't include his normal head, but there's probably one in Lego's catalogue that resembles Miguel's face, and the very common hair 62810 will work just fine

Aurora - looks properly princess-y but it is just her stock image, I would've preferred her on-screen appearance.

Stitch - now that I'm OK with Baymax, I wish it was Lilo instead, especially since Lego didn't bother to make a new mould for the head with antennas. Not a deal breaker, as a big fan of the film I do want it, but Lilo is much more needed.

Baymax shocked me too because I didn't like his minifigure at all from the leaks but he looks highly improved now. I think the weakest minifigure is either Stitch for the lack of antenna or Aurora in just about every choice they made for her, which means Lilo really should have been included in some shape or form instead.

I took for granted that Miguel would come with an alternate normal face and a hairpiece so it shocked me when I finally noticed that his head was black and would only be able to show his painted on skeletal face. But you're right that least he has a generic enough appearance that you could easily find other parts to use instead.

Like you, my issue with Aurora is that they based her minifigure on her stock image used in merchandise rather than her movie appearance. The purplish pink for her dress was even used for her lips, which is even more pesky since the movie goes out of its way to describe her as having "lips that shame the red, red rose." The annoying glitter aside, the details and accents on her dress are gold which is too flashy imo. You couldn't even use her torso and dress for a Castle MOC because they'd look too vibrant and out of place. I'm just hoping that if they ever do some some Disney castle set that features a few princess minfiigs, we can get another shot at Aurora because what we're getting now is a complete mess.

 

Something I also noticed from one of the images that shows Mulan laying on her side, is that she has really long hair which doesn't suit her appearance in the movie at all. I think this is the hairpiece used in the Friends sets for the Asian minidoll, and while this hair length works for Mulan in the beginning of the movie, it's definitely not the short hair she sports for the rest of it including when she wears the blue dress. There hasn't been any image yet to show what Aurora's hairpiece looks like from the back but it could very well be that Mulan's hair is longer than Aurora's, which is plain bizarre. I'm not sure why they didn't give her a short hairpiece. And Mulan's skin tone isn't accurate either. She's got tanned/olive skin in the movie, not the pale skin she always sports in merchandise. The new skin tone used for the Shang-Chi characters would have been perfect for her. I'm not sure why Mulan got the opposite treatment of Cho Chang, since Cho actually does have fair skin but is given a much darker shade whereas Mulan's skin has been lightened. 

[BrickFit26]

2 hours ago, Otherworld said:

Wondering the same thing. Could’ve been a less boring figure.

Ernesto is incredibly detailed! Definitely my favorite fig.

Exactly. I see why the evil queen and Aurora had the regular dress dress piece? But Tiana's dress is much bigger and the that big dress piece would've been perfect.

[Clone OPatra]

29 minutes ago, JeanGreyForever said:

In one of the solo images of her, you can see a bit of the red printing on her right arm so she does have a tattoo, we just haven't had a really good angle to see it fully.

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There hasn't been any image yet to show what Aurora's hairpiece looks like from the back...

Oh interesting, on the 360 spin it really looked to me like there was no arm printing.

You can see the back of Aurora's hair on the 360. It's pretty long.

[JeanGreyForever]

57 minutes ago, Clone OPatra said:

Oh interesting, on the 360 spin it really looked to me like there was no arm printing.

You can see the back of Aurora's hair on the 360. It's pretty long.

I didn't see that was available until now. You're right, Aurora's hair is pretty long so that's one thing they did right. It's a wonderful new piece along with Pocahontas' windswept hair. I can't see the arm printing on Pocahontas in the 360 spin either, but the solo still of her does slightly show it. Annoyingly enough, most angles of her show off her other arm instead or the compass covers it so we haven't really gotten a good look at it yet.

I'm still not sure why they gave the long hair to Mulan. Between that and the legs instead of a dress piece, it feels like they sort of combined different elements of Mulan that don't quite go together for the outfit they chose. I think someone else mentioned a while back that even the sword they chose doesn't quite fit with the blue dress.

[hikouki]

2 hours ago, JeanGreyForever said:

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Like you, my issue with Aurora is that they based her minifigure on her stock image used in merchandise rather than her movie appearance. The purplish pink for her dress was even used for her lips, which is even more pesky since the movie goes out of its way to describe her as having "lips that shame the red, red rose." The annoying glitter aside, the details and accents on her dress are gold which is too flashy imo. You couldn't even use her torso and dress for a Castle MOC because they'd look too vibrant and out of place. I'm just hoping that if they ever do some some Disney castle set that features a few princess minfiigs, we can get another shot at Aurora because what we're getting now is a complete mess.

 

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Yes, Briar Rose goes with that owl, and Blue-dress Aurora goes well with either Prince Philip or featured as the sleeping version. This CMF therefore looks like a mishmash! LOL But I think ultimately they may have based it on promotional materials where she is shown with Maleficent. I am hoping we eventually get the blue dress version with the Prince or with the three fairies...

The designer of this CMF may have confused Sleeping Beauty with Princess Peach! LOL

But anyway, Disney will have to make several Sleeping Beauty sets to correct this...

[hikouki]

12 hours ago, DisneyLego said:

Who is everyone’s go-to for case preorders?

For the life of me I can’t recall who I ordered my series 2 cases from

I would typically buy complete sets from this particular eBay seller, and he used to give me discounts for being a repeat customer, and for the occasional multiple set order. But now, he said no more discounts! I think he is smelling the demand for this. His excuse is that he has to hire staff to feel the blind bags, because he ordered 100+ cases. Sigh.

I will have to scout around for another seller. 

Some minifigure display frame sellers out there also sell CMF sets. Might try them.

Edited March 2, 2023 by hikouki

[JeanGreyForever]

51 minutes ago, hikouki said:

Yes, Briar Rose goes with that owl, and Blue-dress Aurora goes well with either Prince Philip or featured as the sleeping version. This CMF therefore looks like a mishmash! LOL But I think ultimately they may have based it on promotional materials where she is shown with Maleficent. I am hoping we eventually get the blue dress version with the Prince or with the three fairies...

The designer of this CMF may have confused Sleeping Beauty with Princess Peach! LOL

But anyway, Disney will have to make several Sleeping Beauty sets to correct this...

The Prince Phillip in the Maleficent set is him in his forest outfit with cape, sword, and shield so it would totally be feasible to introduce Phillip in his formal outfit from the end of the film in a set with blue dress Aurora. If we do get a Sleeping Beauty Castle set, I do hope they'd feature one or both of them like this rather than just Mickey and his gang in new outfits. The three good fairies would hopefully be included too since it doesn't seem like they're in the Maleficent set.

Ever since we got the first look at her, I've seen so many comparisons to Princess Peach. Especially now with the high-resolution pics available, it's easy to see why people would think that. The minifigure looks more like Peach than it does the Aurora from the movie.

If not blue dress Aurora, I'd at least like to see her Briar Rose version especially since a lot of the issues I have with the Aurora minifigure probably won't be improved even if she's in a blue variant. Unless they completely changed the design. I know a lot of people online have been grumbling about her crown for example

[hikouki]

35 minutes ago, JeanGreyForever said:

The Prince Phillip in the Maleficent set is him in his forest outfit with cape, sword, and shield so it would totally be feasible to introduce Phillip in his formal outfit from the end of the film in a set with blue dress Aurora. If we do get a Sleeping Beauty Castle set, I do hope they'd feature one or both of them like this rather than just Mickey and his gang in new outfits. The three good fairies would hopefully be included too since it doesn't seem like they're in the Maleficent set.

Ever since we got the first look at her, I've seen so many comparisons to Princess Peach. Especially now with the high-resolution pics available, it's easy to see why people would think that. The minifigure looks more like Peach than it does the Aurora from the movie.

If not blue dress Aurora, I'd at least like to see her Briar Rose version especially since a lot of the issues I have with the Aurora minifigure probably won't be improved even if she's in a blue variant. Unless they completely changed the design. I know a lot of people online have been grumbling about her crown for example

Apart from the "Philip fighting the (Maleficent) Dragon", they could possibly do an "Aurora sleeping, and being tucked in by the fairies." She could feature inside the castle while Mickey and friends wave from the outside. LOL.

For Briar Rose, they would have to have here "dancing with her animal friends". Hmmm...

On the CMF, they glittered her pink dress I guess to differentiate her from Princess Peach! LOL I know there are versions of Aurora with those sparkles but it does not seem to be the most common one. She gets weirder and weirder the more I look at it. (I'm probably still gonna get her though for the same of completing the lineup for my display.)

By the way, which Princesses, especially those made into minidolls, are still unaccounted for as minifigs?

Snow White - she has to be featured in a rumored Snow White Cottage

Rapunzel - ???

Cinderella - ???

Belle/ Beauty - will she be featured with Beast???

Merida - at least she made it as a Bricheadz. LOL

Those are still pretty big gaps... anyone else missing?

Edited March 2, 2023 by hikouki

[BrickBob Studpants]

5 hours ago, BenderBrau said:

Miguel, really well done, Dante not so much. A bit of a shame they didn't include his normal head, but there's probably one in Lego's catalogue that resembles Miguel's face, and the very common hair 62810 will work just fine

A „normal“ faceprint and that exact hairpiece are actually included! There were blurry pictures of that on IG recently

[JeanGreyForever]

48 minutes ago, hikouki said:

Apart from the "Philip fighting the (Maleficent) Dragon", they could possibly do an "Aurora sleeping, and being tucked in by the fairies." She could feature inside the castle while Mickey and friends wave from the outside. LOL.

For Briar Rose, they would have to have here "dancing with her animal friends". Hmmm...

On the CMF, they glittered her pink dress I guess to differentiate her from Princess Peach! LOL I know there are versions of Aurora with those sparkles but it does not seem to be the most common one. She gets weirder and weirder the more I look at it. (I'm probably still gonna get her though for the same of completing the lineup for my display.)

By the way, which Princesses, especially those made into minidolls, are still unaccounted for as minifigs?

Snow White - she has to be featured in a rumored Snow White Cottage

Rapunzel - ???

Cinderella - ???

Belle/ Beauty - will she be featured with Beast???

Merida - at least she made it as a Bricheadz. LOL

Those are still pretty big gaps... anyone else missing?

That also makes me wonder if this Aurora's alternate face is her sleeping. Your idea that they have a sleeping Aurora (with fairies also) present in a Sleeping Beauty castle set sounds wonderful. It would make sense to have pink Aurora in the CMF series because the general public associates her with pink. Meanwhile, the more prestigious Aurora, in blue, would be associated with the castle set as an exclusive figure plus she'd fit in the bedroom if they include a bed. The fact that the Cinderella castle featured very little minifigures makes me wary, but then again that was Lego's introduction to the Disney sets. This year they're really going all out with different characters so I feel like they wouldn't make such an expensive castle set and not include a whole plethora of minifigures. Wouldn't it look really bad if that parade train set had 6 minifigures and a Sleeping Beauty castle set, worth way more, only had 5?

They already have the owl for Briar Rose although they could always make a new one wearing Phillip's hat and cape.

The glitter looks really cheap to me, like this is a minidoll directly converted to a minifigure. It'll look even more jarring when you put her next to other princesses like Ariel and Jasmine and eventually Snow White (praying they don't throw glitter on her as well. Her colors were also very inaccurate which I made a point of mentioning in the survey). I'll begrudgingly get Aurora because she's a classic Disney character and one of my favorites but I'm very disappointed in her overall.

All the ones you listed are the remaining princesses left, but I've heard that Raya is an official Disney Princess now. However, I've never seen any merchandise of her as one but you could maybe throw her name in too. Esmeralda also used to be a Disney Princess when the franchise first launched, alongside Tinker Bell, so you could include her since we already have Tinker Bell. And while Wendy was never an official Disney Princess, the fact that we'll have a minidoll of her live-action remake version but no minifigure of the classic version seems strange to me.

Snow White will probably pop up in the cottage set. 
Rapunzel I can see maybe getting her tower as a set, although watch them include a minidoll version of her instead of a minifigure like they did with the Frozen Ice Castle set. 
Cinderella could maybe appear in a set with her pumpkin coach, unless they include her in the potential Sleeping Beauty castle set. 
There's a reliable user who confirmed that we're getting Belle and Gaston. Nothing was said about the Beast. I could maybe see Belle in a Sleeping Beauty castle set as well, but Gaston being in that would be weird. The only thing I can think of that would include both Belle and Gaston, but not the Beast, is a set of Belle's village especially since you can visit it at Disney World and also at Tokyo Disneyland. They could easily include her father's cottage, the bridge leading up to the rest of the village, the fountain where Belle reads to the sheep, the baker's, the bookshop, and Gaston's tavern. Maybe even one of Maurice's crazy inventions. 
I feel like Merida will probably pop up in a future CMF series. They include Pixar in every series and they don't have a whole lot of human characters let who could work for Series 4 but Merida is one.

[BrickBob Studpants]

13 hours ago, DisneyLego said:

Who is everyone’s go-to for case preorders?

For the life of me I can’t recall who I ordered my series 2 cases from

I can highly recommend minifiguremaddness  Excellent prices and service! The only drawback to me is that you can‘t order just one box, it‘s always two because that‘s how TLG ships them (as a result of the switch from 60- to 36-pack boxes)

[Gorilla94]

6 hours ago, hikouki said:

Stitch is nice but I still maintain he is a waste of a slot here. They could have just given that slot to Lilo, or to a character from Fantasia like the Hippo ballerina.

That's the problem I already talked about when there came Disney series 1. Lego did too much cherry picking. Stitch is more interesting to most of the people than Lilo. She won't be made separately without him. Zero chance. Megara and Phil would have been great, but with Hercules and Hades in Series 2 we won't get them and so on. I would have preferered to get less different movies per series but then all of the most important characters. 

Edited March 2, 2023 by Gorilla94

[Jarreth2]

The leaked pic of the Evil Queen with the printed minifigure base shows the crown as having a domed head piece in the middle, kinda like the balk hair piece has the scalp showing through so you don’t see the stud on the top of the head. I think this is my favourite from this series. Love how the Slave in the Magic Mirror is depicted as a minifigure head. 😁 

@JeanGreyForever I agree with you with the line down the torso, it just isn’t there in the film, I may try and get rid of it. I have some ideas on customising her already with official Lego parts and also the addition of one or two others 🍎🍷😁

Edited March 2, 2023 by Jarreth2

[Lemerbrix]

Just noticed the red heart tile on the queen or Hearts, do we get a spare? Need one for my undertale moc

[PGBQW]

Okay, in case any of you wanted to know, here's my breakdown of the characters:
 

Mickey Mouse: I mantain he should've gotten mid legs in order to be more size accurate, but I've long accepted it's too late to go back. Nevertheless, I do like it and will definetly get one.

Pinocchio: What could I say about the best Disney movie? Of course I'm going to get this one. Could definetly use bigger eyes, but I'm not too concerned about it. He looks cute, in a way.

Jiminy Cricket: He looks extremely ugly, I love it. I think he should've come as a microfigure alongside Pinocchio, but having him as a regular minifigure is very cool, as he is pretty much in 1:1 scale with the real deal.

Stitch: Don't particularly care for him? He looks alright, but I don't think we needed another one, specially with the lack of Lilo.

Pocahontas: I have not seen the movie, but I think she looks alright. I'm just glad we're getting more skin tones for customs.

Cruella: It's insane how much better she looks with the cloth piece. I'm getting 2 of those, one to keep as Cruella and another one to make a custom Frank-N-Further.

Ernesto de la Cruz: One of the best looking miniifigures I've ever seen. I love it so much. Just perfect.

Oswald: I get he's important and everything, but I don't see why he deserves CMF treatment. It's just dualmolded legs and a printed torso, nothing we couldn't get in a regular set. Granted, the head is a new mould but meh.

Robin Hood: Extremely cute, will go great to display on the Lion Knights castle alongisde...

Prince John: Such a minimalistic face, yet it works perfectly. The body itself is also perfectto make curstom figures. Can't complain about those two.

Tiana: Man, I Love Frogs.

Dr Faciller: He looks pretty good! Would've liked a better cane, but I still like it. Would've also liked to get the skeleton mask, tho.

Queen of hearts: This is probably the only one I don't like, but the heart piece in red looks very good.

Aurora: You guys are on crack, she looks amazing. If you don't like her just pretend she's peach or something. I'm definetly getting her.

Baymax: Still haven't seen the movie, but he looks cute. I won't actively hunt for him, but if I find one I'll probably buy it.

Mulan: Could've done with another straw of hair covering part of her face, like in the movie, but still lovely.

Miguel: The dog looks like a hyena, but besides that I really like it. Very minimalistic.

Evil Queen: She looks perfect. No way the printed version looks as good, but I hope she does. I also love the dual side cape, we should get more of those.