As much as love Lilo & Stitch, I really should get around to watching that series. Maybe if I'd seen it, 43257 would interest me more. Even so, I do think it's cool that Lego is paying attention, not just to the original movie and/or its live-action remake, but to its more-than-twenty-year-old spinoff series.

@TheOtherMike said:
"As much as love Lilo & Stitch, I really should get around to watching that series. Maybe if I'd seen it, 43257 would interest me more. Even so, I do think it's cool that Lego is paying attention, not just to the original movie and/or its live-action remake, but to its more-than-twenty-year-old spinoff series."

Angel is almost as popular as Stitch to be honest.

@Ridgeheart said:
"So the goal here is to buy enough copies of 43269 to fashion into a coat, I guess?"

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@thor96 said:
" @Ridgeheart said:
"So the goal here is to buy enough copies of 43269 to fashion into a coat, I guess?"

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lol

@MegaBlocks said:
"This is going to be expensive as I will have to buy 101 43269 sets."

Probably more than that, because building Pongo and Perdita (in scale with the puppies) would take a lot more than one set each!

@Ridgeheart said:
"So the goal here is to buy enough copies of 43269 to fashion into a coat, I guess?"

It may be part of the next wave of Disney dresses to go with 43266 and 43262!

Another set I'm never gonna be able to afford, but I love those puppies; they're perfect! :D

Nice to see Penny getting some attention since she's only a very minor role in the movie - though I guess she is the most in-focus girl puppy so it makes some sense that she gets more merchandise than her minimal screentime might otherwise warrant - but it puzzles me that the third puppy design after her and Patch seems to be someone completely random. I would have expected Lucky to get the third build (since he's the other most prominent puppy in the movie and also was the star of the 1997 TV show spinoff too) - or else one of the several other named puppies. I guess maybe the curved piece used for the puppy's back here would get in the way of being able to build Lucky's namesake horseshoe marking, though, which might be why he was passed over.

As on the minifigure-scale version of him in 71038-13, I find it curious that this is the design of Patch from the 2002 direct-to-video sequel "Patch's London Adventure" instead of the one from the original movie: the main give-away is that the colour of his ears are different between movies (in the original, his right ear is black and his left is while: the sequel switches them), but also the puppies don't get the tags on their collars until that sequel either.

That said, sequel!Patch is the design most commonly used on merchandise for him these days, especially on "Disney Animal Friends" products, so I'm not hugely surprised that it's the one they use here too? It's just interesting that it keeps popping up, since otherwise Disney so rarely acknowledge anything from their DTV sequels (some of which, though, I enjoy a lot so I'm always happy to see them get a reference like this!).

Cute.

The dalmatian puppy is really cute. It doesn't say '3-in-1' on the box, but it looks like it has several options:

1. Tongue in or out
2. Swap the front / back legs between sitting or ducking pose
3. Collar red or blue
4. One black eye or both white ( I guess you could build the black eye on either side)
5. One black ear or both white (pictures show the black ear on either side)

So multiplied up, you've got 72 different options in total! Not quite 101 (or strictly the 99 Disney puppies; 98 if you're more a fan of the book), and I'm not sure how many of those relate to individually identifiable puppies from the animation. Really you've only 9 different black / white patch combinations, 18 if you do them all again with each of the two collar colours. Presumably there's nothing to stop you moving the spots on the legs around as well!

So who's going to be the first to buy 101 copies of the set? And how many sets do you need to make adult Pongo, Perdita and (keep an option on) Missis?

Dang, that "play" feature on the 101 Dalmations puppy is cool.

@Joefish said:
"The dalmatian puppy is really cute. It doesn't say '3-in-1' on the box, but it looks like it has several options:

1. Tongue in or out
2. Swap the front / back legs between sitting or ducking pose
3. Collar red or blue
4. One black eye or both white ( I guess you could build the black eye on either side)
5. One black ear or both white (pictures show the black ear on either side)

So multiplied up, you've got 72 different options in total! Not quite 101 (or strictly the 99 Disney puppies; 98 if you're more a fan of the book), and I'm not sure how many of those relate to individually identifiable puppies from the animation. Really you've only 9 different black / white patch combinations, 18 if you do them all again with each of the two collar colours. Presumably there's nothing to stop you moving the spots on the legs around as well!

So who's going to be the first to buy 101 copies of the set? And how many sets do you need to make adult Pongo, Perdita and (keep an option on) Missis?"

Thanks for breaking out the differences, though I think 2^5 is only 32 instead of 72. You might also be able to choose between spotted or plain white ear and between star or Penny dog tag, though I don't see that variant on the set page or the Lego page. I looked at the box and could only see two builds, one sitting and one playing. I still feel like there are only two builds, just with several ways to customize.

@Ridgeheart said:
"So the goal here is to buy enough copies of 43269 to fashion into a coat, I guess?"

And I was wondering if they’d include instructions for how to rebuild it into every puppy from the movie.

@TheOtherMike said:
"As much as love Lilo & Stitch, I really should get around to watching that series. Maybe if I'd seen it, 43257 would interest me more. Even so, I do think it's cool that Lego is paying attention, not just to the original movie and/or its live-action remake, but to its more-than-twenty-year-old spinoff series."

them making an Angel set is not really indicative of them paying attention to The Series? Disney makes a TON of Angel merch purely because she's Girl Stitch™. they don't care about any of the other dozens of experiments from the series or the sequel movies. i'd do anything for a Shortstuff set but that'll never happen

@DoonsterBuildsLego said:
"Puppy looks good. That's a 3-in-1 from the photos. But at 1700 pieces, it's going to be very pricey to build all 3, let alone the full complement "

3-in-1? It had better be 101-in-1!

@HAL_9001 said:
" @DoonsterBuildsLego said:
"Puppy looks good. That's a 3-in-1 from the photos. But at 1700 pieces, it's going to be very pricey to build all 3, let alone the full complement "

3-in-1? It had better be 101-in-1!"

lots sets have had different versions of same model but no one said 2 in 1 ect...
just an ear piece model different ways, eye patch...
10-20 pieces extra............ not 3-1 in my opinion...
but if you want to display all 3 go for it $400 later

I think lego is stretching the 3-1....