Honestly, I bet the minidoll from the dress set helps lessen the scale issues. I doubt it'd take much effort to make the interior compatible.

I also wonder if the minidoll was designed specifically because of this set being in the works at the time, or if it was just a coincidence?

378 pieces, only one needs printing but its a sticker, great!

@iwybs said:
"It's a big car, but it's just Batmobile-sized and we need more civilian cars in that size class to coexist with them. Since this is a villain's ride from a dark and scary piece of children's animation with an Art Deco style, it will go particularly well with the Batman: The Animated Series Batmobile from last year. I hope I can get this for half price without the minifigs, or on a good sale - I can think of several Batman villains who would love to have a sweet ride like this. Really looking forward to better pictures of the front-wheel steering, too!"

I'm getting the same impression.
Reminds me of 70911 Penguin's car from The Lego Batman Movie and 7682 Shanghai Chase, but I prefer the slightly smaller scale. Bigger cars do not fit well into my Lego Modular city, which I only started buying because of Lego Batman sets.

This set is awesome! Hands down one of the best Disney sets ever.

Very nice car at a perfectly average price.

I will probably buy it, but I'm not too happy about the overwhelming size. I was hoping for six to eight wide, so I could easily match Jasper's & Horace's van that I made. This ten wide monstrosity is going to look silly next to the 14-studs long, 6-studs wide van!

This set looks AWESOME!

She likes big rides and she cannot lie.

Cruella De Vil, Cruella De Vil
If she doesn't scare you, no evil thing will
To see her is to take a sudden chill
Cruella, Cruella
She's like a spider waiting for the kill

This is a really great looking set and a nice classic car build too! If i didn't already have the minifig from 71038-13 then I'd definitely get this! I'll keep my eye one on it for a discount down the line but i hope more of these kinds of Disney sets (with minifigures not nanofigures) appear in the future.

I remember getting 70911 for $29.99 back in the day, good times. It's unfortunate she doesn't have the cloth coat piece that the CMF had.

She’s not a villain, she’s just misunderstood. Plus it is an unlucky coincidence that her surname is similar to devil.

@iwybs said:
"It's a big car, but it's just Batmobile-sized and we need more civilian cars in that size class to coexist with them. Since this is a villain's ride from a dark and scary piece of children's animation with an Art Deco style, it will go particularly well with the Batman: The Animated Series Batmobile from last year. I hope I can get this for half price without the minifigs, or on a good sale - I can think of several Batman villains who would love to have a sweet ride like this. Really looking forward to better pictures of the front-wheel steering, too!"

It reminds me of that penguin car from the Lego Batman movie

The scale is a bit too large for my liking, but it has a dark red train window piece that i will pick up on LEGO pick a brick, as will other train enthusiasts.

Whoa, I was already marveling at how good this set looked when I noticed it had working steering! Definitely a cool feature to see in a car set like this!

Oversized+Overpriced.

So steering the spare tire will steer the front wheels?

@CapnRex101 said:
" @merman said:
"What surprises me most is that Brickset has not made a post about the really ridiculous prices of new sets lately. They do mention it in most set reviews but this new policy is getting way out of hand. This would be a €40 set to the max. Not €50. "

I am not sure what there is to say in an article. Prices have risen dramatically for a number of reasons and we realise it as highly engaged fans, but not everybody will. There are obviously external factors influencing price increases, though it may also be the case that LEGO simply believes they can charge more.

What else is there to say about price increases?"

Yet nearly every review still complains about the price.

Will there come a point were you have to accept that Lego has become more expensive (in common with an awful lot of things recently) and make your expectations more realistic - whether you like it or not?

I like this, it is a buy at some point, just not when it comes out.

Looks like this may be the new ride for Kris Kringle in Santa Town.

@Zeitgeist said:
"The sticker seems unnecessary. It could easily be replaced with the crowbar-piece, and let's face it, that would be very on brand for Cruella.

I question the usage of the whip-piece - it seems like an illegal technique, since it stresses the piece. Again though, illegal whip-techniques seem very much on brand for Cruella."

Compared to the way 75338's speeder bike uses the whip, this is nothing. And the piece is flexible enough that I din't think it would get stressed from that.

@Fan_Of_Bricks said:"I remember getting 70911 for $29.99 back in the day, good times. It's unfortunate she doesn't have the cloth coat piece that the CMF had. "

It's entirely possible (I'd even say probable) that it doesn't have that piece to keep the CMF exclusive.

Hide your dalmatians.

I can't believe she doesn't have a chauffeur.

This particular set doesn't interest me at all, but the idea of cheap(ish) minifigure-scale Disney sets certainly does! I hope they continue this.

I like it and will probably get it at some sort of discount - much like the Batmobiles - given that they are essentially Speed Champions cars at double the price.

Between the train window and the wing pieces it's too blocky in the middle

This gets a solid "meh" from me.

@CapnRex101 said:
" @merman said:
"What surprises me most is that Brickset has not made a post about the really ridiculous prices of new sets lately. They do mention it in most set reviews but this new policy is getting way out of hand. This would be a €40 set to the max. Not €50. "

I am not sure what there is to say in an article. Prices have risen dramatically for a number of reasons and we realise it as highly engaged fans, but not everybody will. There are obviously external factors influencing price increases, though it may also be the case that LEGO simply believes they can charge more.

What else is there to say about price increases?"

Thanks for the reply. You state there are ‘a number of reasons’ and I still have no clue what you are aiming at. So that may be worth an article, including the assumption Lego just want to charge more. Last time when there was a price increase it was announced by Lego. This time it has been implemented silently, another reason to dedicate an article to it including a poll what AFOLs think of this policy. Just my two cents.

Its a nice 30USD set. Well it should be that. I guess a new Ferrari must be coming out the the CEO wants...

I welcome any/all articles from Brickset related to LEGO Collecting as opposed to the more ubiquitous set reviews. I mean, what’s up with that? :o)

Not quite sure how it is in other countries but only just a couple of years ago in Canada the biggest rebate you could get on a Lego set was 15%. Nowadays, it is very easy to get up to 40% off on amazon and 20% off are plentiful - of course the selection might not be what you are after but you can still get quite a few good bargains through the year.

As @sjr60 stated, the deal of one may just be the ripoff of someone else. Perceived value is truly a personal factor. Also, everything is bigger now. Back in the days, vehicles were 4-wide i.e. 6692 at 87ish parts versus 6-wide 60440 at 1072 parts (the same is true for buildings). Probably 12 times the parts for 12 times the cost (as if no inflation whatsoever).

Personally, I hardly ever buy a set on day one (last one was 21309). I wait to see if I can get a deal on amazon or somewhere else and I usually wait for a good (to me) GWP if I buy an exclusive set directly from Lego - YMMV.

Great looking, but I wish it were 8-wide so I could display it with my Speed Champions.

This is a great looking set but the scale makes it hard to use in anything else than a highly fantasy themed layout (where scale is not really important - to a degree). This car, as a 10-wide, is dwarfing sets like 60440. This would be totally out of place in a modular layout (IMO).

Also, the axis of rotation on the steering is only attached at the top. All the pictures above are renders; expect to see important sagging on those front wheels - more likely than not to rub on the fender.

As a positive, with this recolour, train-head will now be able to build dark red engine!

I don't think my opinion matters at all, since I don't really care for licensed sets, nor for Disney. Still I feel the need to say this thing looks absolutely stupid!

@HOBBES said:
"This is a great looking set but the scale makes it hard to use in anything else than a highly fantasy themed layout (where scale is not really important - to a degree). This car, as a 10-wide, is dwarfing sets like 60440. This would be totally out of place in a modular layout (IMO)."

I don't really think that's something you can hold against it, as this is meant to be a standalone display piece.

To anyone complaining about the large size, it’s comparable to 70911, and both cars were scaled to work with the balloon panels as pontoon fenders. Want a smaller car? You need a smaller solution for the fenders. The balloon panels are already comically undersized when used on a balloon, and the other balloon panel from 41252 was even larger. Also, I’m just going to point out 7888.

@WizardOfOss said:
"Don't care for the IP but do like the car.....but that price is just atrocious.

Well, the CEO's Ferrari collection doesn't pay for itself I guess."

He hasn’t been CEO in about two decades.

@Yooha:
She doesn’t have one for the same reason Justin Bieber doesn’t. You just aren’t going to get the same thrill by demanding that your chauffeur tear through the neighborhood like a psychotic maniac.

@Aanchir:
I mean, it’s not like I ever tried to become an expert on that film, but I’d never heard about that trick. And it’s incredibly expensive, which is why the animated Lord of the Rings film got cut short after the first two books, and the follow-up Return of the King bears zero similarity beyond also being an animated feature. Even worse is if you’re combining live-action with rotoscoped animation. I watched a special on the then-new Roger Rabbit film, and Bob Hoskins mentioned having to learn to keep his fingers pressed tightly against each other when grabbing Roger by the neck, because otherwise some poor animator had to draw white in the gaps on every frame in the sequence, which was shot on 35mm film.

@garshgrang:
One of the big reasons that gets ignored by many fans is mold production. They no longer get to write off the cost of tooling. If a mold is expected to only see use in one set, that has to be factored into the cost of including that element in a set. If other set designers start using it, they’ll adjust the cost accordingly. If lots of other set designers start using it, to the point that they expect to eventually wear out the mold, pricing will fall in line with the likes of 2x4 bricks and 1x2 plates.

The other side of this equation is mold storage. They’ve stated that paying to store a mold for five years costs the same as tooling up a new mold. Molds that aren’t earning their keep get selected for purging once per year, and they keep a strict limit on the number of molds that stay in production. For one new mold to be produced, a different mold has to be eliminated. In this case, Cruella’s hairstyle was originally produced for 71038-13 two years ago, so this and 43262 might still be using the original mold, but it may also have been destroyed right after CMF production concluded. The balloon panel was just used in last year’s WV set, so that mold is probably still around. And the train window just appeared in 76446. Both parts are, however, used infrequently, so they may have inflated prices.

Another factor that doesn’t get talked about is that they explained the COVID price hike, but AFOLs expected prices to come back down immediately after. And it’s hard to tell if they ever did, but some of the reasons for the price adjustment never went away, so it wouldn’t make sense for prices to return to pre-2020 pricing if their expenses never did. it’s easy to look at themes like JP/JW, and point at hugely specialized elements (dinosaur parts) and see that they’re going to drive MSRP higher than normal, but then there are whackadoodle outliers like the Hoopty, which don’t use special one-off molds, were never expected to have mobs crawling over each other to obtain, and just don’t make sense by any metric proposed by the community.

@Andrusi:
That’s certainly not unique to AFOLs, of course. I regularly hear senior citizens complain about how such and such used to only cost whatever fraction of what it costs now. I never hear them complain about how much bigger their last paycheck was compared to their first. I just watched Tom Hanks’ Big, and he gets all excited about receiving a paycheck that was less than $150 take-home, which I’m sure was a realistic amount at the time that film released. Even if that was weekly, you couldn’t rent a small bedroom on that kind of pay.

While we all understand that Lego can't stick to the 10c/piece level forever, lately there's been too many convenient excuses to jack up prices - first the corona hysteria, then the war in Ukraine, and now Trump's shenanigans.

In addition there's the compound effect when all links in the supply chain wants to skim a little extra profit. Let's say the actual costs of mining raw materials increases 5%, leading the raw material supplier to increase their prices 7%, then the chemical companies increases 10%, the plastic manufacturer 12%, and finally Lego increases prices 15%.

Also, here in Norway the situation has been worsened by bad exchange rates. While a 100$/e set normally has translated to 1000 kr, the last years it's been more like 1400 kr - a 40% increase on top of the general increases everyone complains about. This does not show in the "equivalent price" listings (where Norway appears on par with other high-cost countries like Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Switzerland), but try looking up sets from 10-15 years ago. There the equivalent price is based on the prices back then, multiplied by today's low rates - making Norway look like an insanely cheap place to buy Lego, with prices incl. 25% VAT comparable to US/Canadian prices without it.

@PurpleDave said: "They’ve stated that paying to store a mold for five years costs the same as tooling up a new mold"

Given how I've heard that a new mold costs around $50 000 to make I find this pretty hard to believe, unless each mold needs its own apartment, or Lego needs to rent expensive self-storage space for them. It reminds me a bit of how a few years ago a large surplus of Funko-pops were destroyed (good riddance, some would say), they claimed it was cheaper to make new ones than storing them for six months to the Christmas season.

@magpie9 said:
" @Firox_5000 said:
"Needs more Dalmatian’s, otherwise it’s perfect. "

About 100 more?"

knowing lego, the other 100 will be split between like 20 sets of varying price ranges so that you have to buy every set.

Not a bad rendition, but I want to see an alternate model from the final chase where the hood has been ripped off and flames are shooting out of the engine!

@Billbuilds said:
" @magpie9 said:
" @Firox_5000 said:
"Needs more Dalmatian’s, otherwise it’s perfect. "

About 100 more?"

knowing lego, the other 100 will be split between like 20 sets of varying price ranges so that you have to buy every set. "

$5 Polybag, consisting entirely of one dalmatian element per set, random print, series of 100. Won't include this print, because then you have to buy the car to go with them.

For that price, I would've expected Pongo and Perdita's 16 puppies, or at least the henchmen

@PurpleDave said:
"On a similar note, championship shirts are usually printed up before the winner is determined, so 50% of them have to be printed with the eventual loser because there's no way to accurately predi"

Bah! Um, no way to accurately predict the outcome. Regardless of who wins, besides needing to cover the cost of manufacturing two shirts with the sale of every shirt, the manufacturer needs to also either pay for the destruction of the other shirt, or donate it to a country where people have a hard time clothing themselves. That’s pretty easy to do with t-shirts, but not so much with neckties.

@PurpleDave said:
" @PurpleDave said:
"On a similar note, championship shirts are usually printed up before the winner is determined, so 50% of them have to be printed with the eventual loser because there's no way to accurately predi"

Bah! Um, no way to accurately predict the outcome. Regardless of who wins, besides needing to cover the cost of manufacturing two shirts with the sale of every shirt, the manufacturer needs to also either pay for the destruction of the other shirt, or donate it to a country where people have a hard time clothing themselves. That’s pretty easy to do with t-shirts, but not so much with neckties."

I think it'd be fun to get my hands on one of those shirts, then tell anyone who notices that I'm from an alternate universe.

@Brickalili said:
"Have they given her an alt face that features her angry face with crazed eyes? "

It’s really hard to tell from these photos, but if you look at the box top, there are two images of the minifig. The one towards the center appears to show the same face as every other image in this article, while the one in the purple box looks like it has more teeth. If you click through to the set listing, the first lifestyle photo gives you a better view of that face.

'Tis the beast. I like it but look at the size of the wheels compared to the minifig. Must be based on a truck chassis. I prefer her British kit car from the live action movie.

@PurpleDave said:
" @Brickalili said:
"Have they given her an alt face that features her angry face with crazed eyes? "

It’s really hard to tell from these photos, but if you look at the box top, there are two images of the minifig. The one towards the center appears to show the same face as every other image in this article, while the one in the purple box looks like it has more teeth. If you click through to the set listing, the first lifestyle photo gives you a better view of that face."

Oh yeah, I see what you mean. Definitely an angry face but I’m not sure it’s quite the demonic snarl and spiralling eyes the film gives her for that brief shot

I like the set overall. They did a good job with the shaping. Obviously it is larger and more expensive than I would like, so I will have to ponder if I want it. I already have the CMF so I don't need Cruella again, but the car is pretty neat. I wonder how much I can build just the car for from my own supply.

Lego vintage car!

Damn shame about the price. That red windscreen would be very useful for my vintage/classic car and truck MOCs.
The front grille SNOT build and various pieces throughout including the retractable roof sticker will be useful.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to turn this into a 6 wide minifigure scale car?

It sucks it's so big. Those balloon pieces are some NPU (first used for Penguin's car if I recall correctly) but the wheels are way too big.
Having said that I do appreciate the use of thin (comparatively) wheels unlike the silly Indiana Jones Citroen Traction Avant that seemed to make every proportion deliberately wrong.

I have zero interest in Cruella or 101 Dalmatians but agree that given the price there shouldve been more dogs or another minifig. I think 2 or 3 dogs wouldve looked a lot better in the back rather than just 1.

@Brickchap said:
"Damn shame about the price. That red windscreen would be very useful for my vintage/classic car and truck MOCs.
The front grille SNOT build and various pieces throughout including the retractable roof sticker will be useful."

The windshield should be available on OPAB. The sticker sheet, not so much.

"Does anyone have any suggestions on how to turn this into a 6 wide minifigure scale car?"

The main issue, of course, is you need to ditch the balloon fenders and switch to something brick-built, because there's really no single-piece option that'll achieve the same look. Given how difficult it is to model pontoon fenders like that, it's unfortunate that they haven't made a dedicated part yet.

"I have zero interest in Cruella or 101 Dalmatians but agree that given the price there shouldve been more dogs or another minifig. I think 2 or 3 dogs wouldve looked a lot better in the back rather than just 1."

It's been a dog's age since I watched the film, but did she ever manage to capture more than one dog? It's fine to complain that there should be more, but maybe this is film-accurate as it is.

I'm just waiting for a CMF series featuring 16 of the 101 (with more series planned in the future, obviously).

This must be from the new Disney trope crossover movie, "101 Dalmatians and One Dwarf Furrier".

Hopefully this is a prelude to a Disney Villains subtheme

It looks out of scale and not out of scale at the same time. Cruella De Vil's physics bending car!

@Firox_5000 said:
"Needs more Dalmatian’s, otherwise it’s perfect. "

What do you think, about 100 short?