On 5/4/2023 at 10:36 PM, Gorilla94 said:

I love how well they printed the evil queen's face. I would have never expected this level of quality in printing after the disgusting Mercy from the Overwatch sets a while ago, which was so bad, that there are custom printed heads available to replace it.

Robin Hood and King John rock so hard. Oh, boy, what i would give for Sir Hiss, Maid Marian and Little John...^^'

I'm more disappointed with Mickey. His pupils are so big they take up almost all the space of his eyes. Previous Mickey and Minnie minifigures had pupils only half the height of his eyes. It not only makes Mickey inconsistent with any Minnie or other Mickeys but also makes him look like one of the Chinese knockoff figures.

Edited May 4, 20231 yr by JeanGreyForever

I know we would have rumored Caste set but weren’t there rumors regarding Maleficent the Dragon and the Dwarves’ Cotage sets?

  On 5/4/2023 at 9:02 PM, CDM said:

My Xwing was delivered today, shipped separately from the GWP items, which are set to arrive next week. That's the first time I've ever had that happen.

I've only had it happen with brick and pieces/pick-a-brick orders.

  On 5/4/2023 at 9:38 PM, BacktoBricks said:

Interesting thank you (hope the dentist wasn't too bad!).

I presume Technic and Speed Champions won't necessarily get any Disney coverage. Buildable figures is kind of the Disney Duo set, but if the leaked concept set art from that survey is to be believed then larger buildable figures is clearly something they are thinking about and could appear this year or next. But I'm not sure they will go into Busts and the new castle D2C is basically the equivalent of the Star Wars UCS.

Therefore they seem to have covered most bases and I'm really hoping that what is left is more traditional system scaled stuff.

Anybody care to try and work out what coverage we've had from the different Disney animation eras e.g. Golden, Package, Silver, Transition, Bronze, Renaissance, Post-Renaissance, Revival, Streaming. 

 

I’d be all for a technic (or even speed champions) pizza planet truck 🤔

I feel like I'm going crazy - been visiting all those Lego leak sites multiple times a day in the hopes of a Disney castle leak. Ugh.

  On 5/4/2023 at 4:59 PM, BacktoBricks said:

So when do we think we will get news of the rest of this year's sets? As far as I can tell we still know nothing of:

43223 Disney Animation 6 $19.99

43224 Disney Animation 7 $99.99

43230 Disney Animation 5 $119.99

43231 Disney Animation 11 $49.99

43232 Disney Animation 6 $59.99

I'm hoping for more sets in the style of the UP house. Displayable builds that give us some of the minifigures, princesses and princes that are so glaringly missing from this year's line up.

As @DisneyLego mentioned, it would be easier to narrow down if we knew the whole lineup for the castle.

I think it is possible the last four may not be princess couples, but some standalone characters. Or anniversary Mickey and friends. In which case, Belle and Beast should have their own set!!!

  On 5/4/2023 at 5:14 PM, BacktoBricks said:

I wouldn't mind that if it's a 'Goodies' bookend to the Villains set. A detailed Rapunzel's Tower could maybe also work at that price point, but there's just so much material it's kind of wide open to guesses really.

I feel like the main protagonists deserve their own sets? Perhaps main supporting characters like the Sultan from Aladdin, etc.

  On 5/4/2023 at 6:04 PM, Aramar said:

I think I read before that 43223, 43224 and 43231 have an October release date, so they could be sets to promote Wish, with the first one being a minibook. Maybe the others are 1 minidoll and 1 minifigure sets (same pattern as they have done with the new Little Mermaid film). Although maybe the Wish sets come in November to be closer to the release of the film. 

 

 

Three sets for another movie and three less for the Disney 100? I feel like Lego should really feature the 100th anniversary left, right, and center.

  On 5/4/2023 at 9:20 PM, OttoRiver said:

Home from the dentist on novocaine so I did a quick run through

BrickHeadz - Disney BrickHeadz

Duplo - 3 in 1 Magical Castle

4+ - Celebration Train

System - UP House

CMF - Disney 100 CMF

Lego Icons - Villain Icons

Creator - Disney Duos

D2C - Disney Castle

Minidoll - Enchanted Treehouse

Dots/Brick Sketches - Disney Animation Icons

Architecture - Micro Agrabah

What I can see them missing is Technic, Speed Champions, Busts, UCS, buildable figures. Anything else? 

MODULAR!!! Lol

What about Main street with a series of modulars?

How about a Christmas themed Disney parade or street?

They should have also included an Ideas set during this year of celebrations!!!

Edited May 5, 20231 yr by hikouki

That's true. Wonder if the Wreck-It Ralph or Monster's Inc would lend itself to modular well.

As for Ideas, we do have the Hocus Pocus set coming this year and the Ideas contest looks to be set to release before the 100 year is up so both are set there.

Monsters, Inc. is one of the sets currently pending for approval in the latest batch that was just announced. Out of all the Pixar films, it's the most major one not to have any Lego representation so far since we already have Toy Story, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars, WALL-E, Up, Brave, and Coco all in some shape or form.

Ratatouille is the other major omission.

  On 5/4/2023 at 11:57 PM, Lion King said:

I know we would have rumored Caste set but weren’t there rumors regarding Maleficent the Dragon and the Dwarves’ Cotage sets?

Those came from a survey (@JeanGreyForever leaked them) and are unlikely to refer to 2023, though an earlier release would make some sense for the two you mentioned for reasons outlined below.

Promobricks covered them here: https://www.promobricks.de/lego-leak-umfrage-2023/157463/

Google translation of the parts of the article referring to Disney:

Snow White House
As we speculated in our article on the LEGO 71038 Disney Minifigures leased list, there is indeed a Snow White house (or rather the house of the 7 dwarfs) in development at LEGO. The house is similar to the rejected LEGO Ideas design, but is slightly more compact at 25cm high, 20cm wide and 30cm deep. In contrast to the Ideas design, the roof is not yellow, but dark orange.
Next to the house there is a small sidebuild with a fountain and three birch trees. Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs are of course included as minifigures and thus perfectly complement the Evil Queen from the Disney Collectible Figures Series 3. For this reason, the Snow White house is also our favorite when it comes to an early release. We can well imagine that the set will also be released to celebrate Disney's 100th anniversary in the coming months.

    Parts: 2500
    Price range: $200 to $325
    Most Likely Price: $250

Maleficent & the Dragon
A set based on the Disney classic Sleeping Beauty from 1959 also made it into this LEGO leak. Taking the form of one of the dioramas with a black border and a tile printed with a quote, the battle between Prince Phillip and the evil fairy Maleficent is depicted in her dragon form on the bridge.
The dragon is built from different LEGO bricks and does not consist of large molded parts. The wings are pieces of fabric. A greenish flame shoots out of the dragon's mouth. Both Prince Phillip and his white horse minifigure are included, as well as Maleficent himself again.
The dragon is fully articulated and can also be removed from the diorama for play. We can also imagine an early release for this set, because Princess Aurora (Sleeping Beauty) should also be part of the Disney minifigure series for the 100th anniversary in May.

    Parts: 1250
    Price range: $80 to $130
    Most Likely Price: $100

Simba from The Lion King
One of the most famous Disney characters is the young lion Simba from the movie The Lion King. Simba is also implemented in the form of a separate set in the latest LEGO Leak. The little lion is built from LEGO bricks in a sitting form, the head can apparently be moved and the mouth can be opened. A brown LEGO bush is installed as the tail tip, which was first released in January in 76243 Rocket Mech. Simba is 30 cm high, 16 cm wide and 25 cm deep.

    Parts: 1353
    Price range: $80 to $130
    Most Likely Price: $100

Donald Duck
Another built Disney character is Donald Duck in this LEGO leak. Donald is standing on a built base wearing his blue sailor suit. The figure is 30 cm high, 16 cm wide and 19 cm deep.

    Parts: 1000
    Price range: $80 to $130
    Most Likely Price: $100

 

Edited May 5, 20231 yr by brickbride

  On 5/4/2023 at 11:44 PM, JeanGreyForever said:

 

I'm more disappointed with Mickey. His pupils are so big they take up almost all the space of his eyes. Previous Mickey and Minnie minifigures had pupils only half the height of his eyes. It not only makes Mickey inconsistent with any Minnie or other Mickeys but also makes him look like one of the Chinese knockoff figures.

Wow, I did not notice this at first.

In my opinion there are some gorgeous minifigures.

Robin Hood is one of the best figures ever made in my opinion. I also love how they even made the crown too large for Prince John's head, so it rests on his ears like in the movie. Only thing sad about him is his tail missing.

Some could be a bit better, but are ok like Cruella.

Some Choices are odd, like Crickett bring as large as Pinocchio. Pocahontas should come with John smith. Even the sceene referenced with the leaves includes him. Mad Hatter would have been cool and also interesting for DC Fans. The Queen of hearts looks lonely. Mulan without Mushu feels incomplete and the Sword mould is a terrible choice as well as the little Bug printed on the 1x1 brick without bars, which isn't even recognisable as the little cage knowing what it is supposed to be...

After all I am satisfied with my last series. If it isn't Simpsons of Lotr I won't buy boxes.

 

 

  On 5/5/2023 at 10:48 AM, Gorilla94 said:

Wow, I did not notice this at first.

In my opinion there are some gorgeous minifigures.

Robin Hood is one of the best figures ever made in my opinion. I also love how they even made the crown too large for Prince John's head, so it rests on his ears like in the movie. Only thing sad about him is his tail missing.

Some could be a bit better, but are ok like Cruella.

Some Choices are odd, like Crickett bring as large as Pinocchio. Pocahontas should come with John smith. Even the scene referenced with the leaves includes him. Mad Hatter would have been cool and also interesting for DC Fans. The Queen of hearts looks lonely. Mulan without Mushu feels incomplete and the Sword mould is a terrible choice as well as the little Bug printed on the 1x1 brick without bars, which isn't even recognisable as the little cage knowing what it is supposed to be...

After all I am satisfied with my last series. If it isn't Simpsons of Lotr I won't buy boxes.

 

The odd choices you mentioned is what is driving a lot of speculation as to the other sets. The Queen of Hearts is odd on her own but makes more sense if a Mad Tea Party set with Mad Hatter, March Hare, White Rabbit, and Alice pops up later in the line. We've already seen the new Maleficent pop up for Aurora and the Disney Castle and Old Hag have given more purpose to the Evil Queen being included in the CMF.

  On 5/5/2023 at 12:24 PM, OttoRiver said:

The odd choices you mentioned is what is driving a lot of speculation as to the other sets. The Queen of Hearts is odd on her own 

I figured the Queen of Hearts isn't such an odd choice when you now consider the Villains Icons set; the Queen of Hearts card is featured in the set, but her minifigure isn't unlike the other Villains. When I get the Villains set I will be displaying the Queen of Hearts next to her card and this may be the only intention Lego has for including her in the CMF. Again there is reference to Ursula in the set, but she has a minifigure in another set. Not that I wouldn't mind a Alice set. 

Edited May 5, 20231 yr by BacktoBricks

  On 5/4/2023 at 11:44 PM, JeanGreyForever said:

 

I'm more disappointed with Mickey. His pupils are so big they take up almost all the space of his eyes. Previous Mickey and Minnie minifigures had pupils only half the height of his eyes. It not only makes Mickey inconsistent with any Minnie or other Mickeys but also makes him look like one of the Chinese knockoff figures.

Big time. Also wish they would have went with brown shoes instead of the bright yellow. I compared it against the one I threw together a few years back and the difference is much more obvious side by side.

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cr3Uer3u7lC/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= (2nd & 3rd pics)

Edited May 5, 20231 yr by DisneyLego

I think they keep experimenting with different mickey eyes to see what fits best. He's different in the mini castle set as well, albeit that Mickey costume did look different irl (WDW grand opening)

His pupils look like Sorcerer Mickey is experimenting with alchemy x'D Somehow I like it :'D

I hope we will see more sets like the Winnie Pooh set. Just a neat little sceene with all of the most important characters.

Edited May 5, 20231 yr by Gorilla94

  On 5/5/2023 at 1:21 PM, BacktoBricks said:

I figured the Queen of Hearts isn't such an odd choice when you now consider the Villains Icons set; the Queen of Hearts card is featured in the set, but her minifigure isn't unlike the other Villains. When I get the Villains set I will be displaying the Queen of Hearts next to her card and this may be the only intention Lego has for including her in the CMF. Again there is reference to Ursula in the set, but she has a minifigure in another set. Not that I wouldn't mind a Alice set. 

To be fair Alice & Cheshire Cat were in series 1 so the queen of hearts is really rounding them off as a true villain (and now accompanying the villains set) so I don’t see her as being too odd of a choice.

IMO, the only minifig that seems odd is Stitch since there’s still no Lilo

  On 5/5/2023 at 2:18 PM, doclord said:

I think they keep experimenting with different mickey eyes to see what fits best. He's different in the mini castle set as well, albeit that Mickey costume did look different irl (WDW grand opening)

Very true, forgot he has eyebrows in the mini castle

  On 5/5/2023 at 2:20 PM, Gorilla94 said:

His pupils look like Sorcerer Mickey is experimenting with alchemy x'D Somehow I like it :'D

I hope we will see more sets like the Winnie Pooh set. Just a neat little sceene with all of the most important characters.

Agree, the Winnie the Pooh set is such a nice set. Very displayable yet still “playable”

 

  On 5/5/2023 at 2:14 PM, DisneyLego said:

Big time. Also wish they would have went with brown shoes instead of the bright yellow. I compared it against the one I threw together a few years back and the difference is much more obvious side by side.

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cr3Uer3u7lC/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= (2nd & 3rd pics)

Very good point. I love the MOC figure you made btw! I think they went with yellow because in the parks and some merchandise he has yellow/golden shoes which might also explain the sparkles, something else I didn't care for since while his hat may be magical, his robes are not. I also thought the printing of the yellow on his shoes was abysmal. Compare him to the Mickey from the first CMF series where the yellow is nice and smoothly rounded around the front and sides of his legs. For the new Sorcerer Mickey figure, you can see the black edges that break up the yellow printing.

While some characters have been done really well in this new series (ex. the Robin Hood characters, Pinocchio, Pocahontas, Queen of Hearts, etc.), the others just have a lot of weird changes or bad quality control. I felt the first two Disney CMF series were a lot more consistent in quality and more movie accurate. 

I haven't seen anyone bring up Mulan but there are several weird choices for her as well. In the movie, she has very tanned/olive skin which is even more obvious when she's wearing the white face paint to contrast against her neck and hands. The new Asian skin tone used in the Shang-Chi sets and the Cho Chang polybag would have been perfect for Mulan but they opted for the lighter, more inaccurate skin tone. Then the black hairpiece they used would be a great fit for Mulan...at the beginning of the movie. She has short, shoulder-length hair by the end when she's wearing her blue dress but they just recycled the long hair piece they've been using for her minidolls. Then there's also the fact that her blue dress should have a skirt piece, but they opted for regular legs instead. If they wanted to give her legs so she could be posable for action poses, they should have used one of her army looks instead. In fact, it's symbolic that she saves China wearing a dress and using a fan instead of a sword, since both were symbols of femininity, but that emphasis is robbed by giving her regular legs here. Even the minidoll made sure to give her a dress in her blue outfit.

  On 5/5/2023 at 10:48 AM, Gorilla94 said:

Wow, I did not notice this at first.

In my opinion there are some gorgeous minifigures.

Robin Hood is one of the best figures ever made in my opinion. I also love how they even made the crown too large for Prince John's head, so it rests on his ears like in the movie. Only thing sad about him is his tail missing.

Some could be a bit better, but are ok like Cruella.

Some Choices are odd, like Crickett bring as large as Pinocchio. Pocahontas should come with John smith. Even the sceene referenced with the leaves includes him. Mad Hatter would have been cool and also interesting for DC Fans. The Queen of hearts looks lonely. Mulan without Mushu feels incomplete and the Sword mould is a terrible choice as well as the little Bug printed on the 1x1 brick without bars, which isn't even recognisable as the little cage knowing what it is supposed to be...

After all I am satisfied with my last series. If it isn't Simpsons of Lotr I won't buy boxes.

I agree with you about Robin Hood. I think with Prince John, the fact that the tail should come out from under his robes is why they couldn't implement it but I think even in the movie, his tail is not very visible most of the time unlike Robin Hood's. 

Jiminy's size doesn't bother me because they did the same thing for Chip 'n' Dale as well as Tweety in the Looney Tunes series. Jiminy is also a full-size character who walks around in the Disney Parks (like Chip 'n' Dale). I agree that John Smith should have been included with Pocahontas especially since if the other princesses are getting their princes, she should get hers too. I've heard a lot of people complaining about Mulan's sword as well. The lantern piece they used for Cri-Kee in the Princess minidoll set actually would have been a more accurate choice, but in a reddish brown color, than the strange contraption they came up with.

  On 5/5/2023 at 3:13 PM, DisneyLego said:

IMO, the only minifig that seems odd is Stitch since there’s still no Lilo

Very true, forgot he has eyebrows in the mini castle

Personally I would rather have seen Lilo than Moana in the Disney Train set. 

Mickey in the microscale set is specifically based off of his vintage look in the Disney Parks so it makes sense that he would look different there. For Sorcerer Mickey, I even went back to Fantasia to see if maybe the animation drew him with larger pupils but that wasn't the case. It's even more ironic because his look in Fantasia was when Mickey was redesigned into the appearance we know him best for having today so if any minifigure should have gotten his look right, it should have been this one.

  On 5/4/2023 at 11:57 PM, Lion King said:

I know we would have rumored Caste set but weren’t there rumors regarding Maleficent the Dragon and the Dwarves’ Cotage sets?

So…anyone?

  On 5/6/2023 at 1:45 PM, Lion King said:

So…anyone?

Part of a leak, not expected for this year.

I can't remember if anyone has commented on the sparkle pattern on Sorcerer Mickey's robe, but it makes me wonder if it's actually intended to represent the character as he appears in the Fantasmic! show at the theme parks, rather than in Fantasia.

Just a heads up for my u.s friends, I went to target yesterday and the Disney 100 cmf is street dated for June 18th for some reason

Is that why I haven't seen them? Been popping into my Target all week but they aren't on the shelves. Oddly enough, they had about 12 of the Muppets CMF near the check out.

Found 15 of the 18 Disney 100 CMF's at Joann's fabrics today. Checked B&N and Best Buy as well - neither had any. In Texas, DFW area.

I got mine in Target weeks ago.  Weird thay they now have them street dated for June 18.  They are selling the 6 pack boxes online now at Target.com.  Just picked up the ones I still needed duplicates of in Walmart on Friday so I'm done with this Series already.

I found a bunch at my local Walmart last Thursday. I went back the next day and they were completely sold out. I think this series is going to be pretty popular with both adults and kids.