Now we know who ate all the cookies!

No winter village addition this year?? Or are they directing us to the huge and expensive Hogsmeade Village??

These look cool, but I wonder why 40809 is a regular set and not a GWP? Did they make the model too large and change their minds? As a regular set, it's pretty uninteresting; I wouldn't buy it separately.
I guess this means whatever we do get as GWPs this winter will be unimpressive, unimaginative tripe. So the usual.

I'll buy the first two I like them!

Nice shaping with Santa’s beard.
These will pair nicely with Ginger-AT-AT-Bread.

I think the gingerbread house is excellent. This will be the first time I buy one of these explicitly "seasonal" sets outside of the occasional advent calendar, although the sleigh which is retiring this year has consistently tempted me... oh dear.

I do love the Up-Scaled MiniFigures... the only decision is whether to just buy one for myself and lend it to my dad or buy him his own....

@Heriol said:
"I think the gingerbread house is excellent. This will be the first time I buy one of these explicitly "seasonal" sets outside of the occasional advent calendar, although the sleigh which is retiring this year has consistently tempted me... oh dear."

Santa's sleigh is awesome. Since I own it, it's become the center piece of my Winter Village.

I also like the Gingerbread House. It's not incredibly special, and I would've liked if they included a proper Mrs. Claus in this set, an elf, or one of the gingerbread minifigs, but it's cute and christmassy nonetheless.

I like the snowman's glasses. At first glance, I thought those were https://brickset.com/parts/design-35365, but upon closer inspection, I see that they're https://brickset.com/parts/design-35485. Still pretty cute.

@supervir2 said:
"This might actually be my favorite of the big minifigure builds so far - at least until next year’s rumored spaceman. "

That one I'll definitely be getting. Santa... I'm not sure. The belt issue that @Boettner_Builds is sort of turning me off, even if I can see and understand why they probably did that.

@GrizBe said:
" @Boettner_Builds said:
"Why on earth does Santa’s belt not go to the edge of the torso like the white trim underneath does? Looks absolutely silly…"

Exactly... I'd have to take a black marker pen to the set to finish off edging the belt properly. Looks like they messed up the printing as it is. "

Crying out for some nice stickers.

Big Santa looks great for most part, particularly the beard....but I can't help but feel that the combination of printed and brick built belt and that white stuff (my English is failing me here....) ruins it all. Guess they wanted to keep the flat printed minifig torso look, but it just doesn't work here. And they didn't stick to that anyway with 40504 either, so why now?

@xoddam said:
"I feel like upscaled santa might sell quite well with the normies"

Not if the AFOLs get there first!

Big Santa will be mine.

@edmi said:
"No winter village addition this year?? Or are they directing us to the huge and expensive Hogsmeade Village??"

Later. Not sure why they didn't announce it here, but I guess Winter Village is deserving of its own Press Release instead of sharing it with the other Seasonal sets? I think it's meant to be a train or something this year but I may be misremembering.

Mon choix se portera certainement vers la maison en pain d'épice. Pour agrémenter le Winter Village.

@Boettner_Builds said:
"Why on earth does Santa’s belt not go to the edge of the torso like the white trim underneath does? Looks absolutely silly…"

Wide belt loops at the corners. You can see that the belt continues under the arm, but only the buckle section is printed, while the rest is brickbuilt. Corners are castle slopes, so there’s a wide patch that would need print to show more belt.

Hoho ho....

All three are on my to buy list. :)

A bit of trimmed black insulation tape will fix the Santa belt issue.

The up-scaled Santa looks exactly like the minifigure!

Giant Santa is great. The gingerbread looks a lot better open than closed. It's not at the free-99 level 40139.

The ornaments look a bit goofy. May wait for the inevitable clearance for those.

@AllanSmith said:
"All three are on my to buy list. :)

A bit of trimmed black insulation tape will fix the Santa belt issue."

Self-made stickers! Good idea!

@ShinyBidoof said:
" @GrizBe said:
" @Boettner_Builds said:
"Why on earth does Santa’s belt not go to the edge of the torso like the white trim underneath does? Looks absolutely silly…"

Exactly... I'd have to take a black marker pen to the set to finish off edging the belt properly. Looks like they messed up the printing as it is. "

Crying out for some nice stickers."

Or a piece of black electrical tape!

When they do a giant Halloween minifigure, I'm in. Maybe even a giant skeleton minifigure!

I also feel like the target for the gingerbread house. It's the perfect little model for LEGO's gingerbread people. I love that it can unfold for a display of two houses in a street while also being a charming little single house. I'll just chuck Santa out and omit the mail sticker on the door.

It's odd that we have a normal flesh-and-blood Santa living in the Gingerbread House rather than a gingerbread person. Does he plan to lure in children to cook and eat?

@gylman said:
"Love the upscaled Santa minifig. Will definitely be buying that, maybe in multiples.

But we need a Johnny Thunder scaled minifig. I've been waiting for that for 2 years now since they started doing these. "

He'd probably be a Lego House exclusive, like Redbeard. but yes, that would be awesome.

@Boettner_Builds said:
"Why on earth does Santa’s belt not go to the edge of the torso like the white trim underneath does? Looks absolutely silly…"

Because of the parts used.

I love that gingerbread house. That's a day-one purchase.

It seems this year is going to be better then last year when it comes to Christmas sets. I already added the gingerbread AT-AT to my wish list and now the festive gingerbread house.
I am still not sure about the santa giant minifig and I will have to think about it.
Hope we will seen get to see the winter village set fo 2025 wich is rumored to be a train (once again).
And let's hope on a good Christmas GWP .

@edmi said:
"No winter village addition this year?? Or are they directing us to the huge and expensive Hogsmeade Village??"

will be a train set

Santa should be a good display model and I like the pose-able motion. The fold out gingerbread house is the best way to display, although missing a Christmas tree as the green ice-cream scoop doesn't really work at mini-fig scale.

@Crux said:
" @xoddam said:
"I feel like upscaled santa might sell quite well with the normies"

Your fandom is Lego. You really aren't the cultured edgelord you might think yourself to be."

You're inferring a lot from my use of the word normies. You think I consider myself to be better than the normal people who just see it in a shop and buy it because they like it? You and I are the freaks commenting on an announcement article for a large brick built version of a toy santa minifigure that we're probably not even going to buy!
And you're calling me an edgelord? In what way am I trying to be edgy? You're spending too much time on the internet if you're calling someone an edgelord and attaching that much baggage to the word 'normies'

Normie soyboy: *buys 40820 Up-Scaled Santa Minifigure*

Me, an intellectual: *buys 40809 Festive Gingerbread House and 40812 Snowman Ornaments*

@Huw maybe there should be a tag for Up-Scaled Minifigures. I collect them and it would be easier to spot the ones I missed this way.

My bad, there is one already :)

Last edit : 40767, 40504 and 76393 are missing the tag.

Santa is great. The gingerbread house rules the wave - so much fun play to be had with that. I really appreciate that it can open up to display two buildings together. I was really tempted by the gingerbreat AT-AT but the house wins on value.

Santa is great. The gingerbread house rules the wave - so much fun play to be had with that. I really appreciate that it can open up to display two buildings together. I was really tempted by the gingerbread AT-AT but the house wins on value.

@edmi said:
"No winter village addition this year?? Or are they directing us to the huge and expensive Hogsmeade Village??"

Hopefully it is being announced separately since they've been categorized as Icon sets in the past. Not technically seasonal.

I need that giant Santa to attack my town, in classic '50s B-movie / Godzilla fashion. I'll either call it 'Attack of the 50-foot Santa Claus', or 'Santa Claus is coming to town'. The tagline for this would be something like:
'He knows when you are sleeping, he knows when you're awake, so you better be good for goodness sake - or ELSE!'

(And no, this wouldn't be the first Sci-fi film from that era to feature Santa! There really was a film about Santa Vs. Martians from the '50s, and it was about as bad as one could expect.)

Oh, and I want to add another floor to the gingerbread house. It almost looks like a stereotypical English rowhouse if you replace the gingerbread-related stuff with regular parts.

@TheOtherMike said:
" @gylman said:
"Love the upscaled Santa minifig. Will definitely be buying that, maybe in multiples.

But we need a Johnny Thunder scaled minifig. I've been waiting for that for 2 years now since they started doing these. "

He'd probably be a Lego House exclusive, like Redbeard. but yes, that would be awesome."

I certainly hope that it’s gonna be available anywhere, but if that’s not the case, we should delegate some people of the BS community to make a trip to Denmark.
Or it’s gonna be the reason for my first visit there!

@DearMisterLegoBreaker said:
" @Huw maybe there should be a tag for Up-Scaled Minifigures. I collect them and it would be easier to spot the ones I missed this way.

My bad, there is one already :)

Last edit : 40767, 40504 and 76393 are missing the tag."

Unless you're talking about a different tag from https://brickset.com/sets/tag-6X-Scale-Minifigure, no, they're not.

@Murdoch17 said:"I need that giant Santa to attack my town, in classic '50s B-movie / Godzilla fashion. I'll either call it 'Attack of the 50-foot Santa Claus', or 'Santa Claus is coming to town'. The tagline for this would be something like:
'He knows when you are sleeping, he knows when you're awake, so you better be good for goodness sake - or ELSE!'

(And no, this wouldn't be the first Sci-fi film from that era to feature Santa! There really was a film about Santa Vs. Martians from the '50s, and it was about as bad as one could expect.)"

As a longtime Mystery Science Theater 3000 fan, I'm well aware of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. "You spell it S-A-N-T-A C-L-A-U-S, hooray for Santy Claus!"

I will buy the house...it is so nice!

If I had more space for storage I’d definitely want the upscaled Father Christmas (although my partner has registered a strong objection on the basis of Mrs Claus’ absence and is not interested in my arguments that a lone Father Christmas is a grand statement against American cultural imperialism, possibly because it’s obvious when I’m making shit up). But as tis the little adorable gingerbread house and the bigger adorable gingerbread AT-AT, not to mention my longstanding longing for the soon-to-be-retired sleigh kit (which I may or may not talk myself into before it goes) and the old already-retired Winter Village much bigger gingerbread house (I poke ebay occasionally), are already going to tax my seasonal decorations storage limits sadly, so I suppose I will have to let domestic harmony win this time.

Boooooring. Being meta was kinda fun once but, oh this is underwhelming at best.

@Jackthenipper said:
"At last… a Santa mech
"

You reminded me Futurama.

@MusiMus said:
" @Jackthenipper said:
"At last… a Santa mech
"

You reminded me Futurama."

"You've all been ver naughty! Except you, Dr. Zoidberg, this is for you."

@edmi said:
"No winter village addition this year?? Or are they directing us to the huge and expensive Hogsmeade Village??"

Of course it will. Set number 10361 Christmas Train, 956pcs

@edmi said:
"No winter village addition this year?? Or are they directing us to the huge and expensive Hogsmeade Village??"

Set 10361 is going to be this years Winter Village set once it's announced

I like Santa Claus! Must have!