Super Dog is awesome, the woman next to the dog is.... odd.

So what's up with the Nixels? :D

The smaller three sets seem to be much better than the bigger three. They have a self-sufficient style with them.

Certainly will pick up a few of these and possibly source a few of the other characters on Bricklink. Loving Batgirl's Batjet. The other set I like in Wonder Woman's Dorm. They all look pretty fun really I just think I'll be wanting to spend Lego money elsewhere. We shall see.

@xboxtravis7992: According to http://www.revelist.com/pop-culture/lego-super-hero-girls-announcement/5109/, they're called Kryptomites.

I really love the Wonder Woman set! Great colors and lots of playability! And the Lashina set has a LEGO Krypto! In general these sets are very well designed. Plus, they offer some great pieces.

the best thing is the transparent motorbike

The sets look pretty well designed, but really, just cause it's meant for girls they have to use the doll figs?
Really, they barely have any mobility. And honestly, why does everything have to be brightly colored. Other than that, well made.

Blech!! These look disgusting! Terrible sets with a few great pieces thrown in. The minidolls ruin the whole line.

The bright colours are one thing I like about the Friends-style sets. A lot of the other superhero sets look rather drab and dark to me.

I had to laugh when I saw yet another helicopter, but it's a VERY cute one! Nice little sets on the whole, and I may succumb to this theme at some point...

Awww! More awesomeness! Love them! I'm so going to collect all the characters, and some of the sets too! :D

Mini-doll haters, you already got your regular minifig Super Heroes. Why can't us, who like the mini-dolls, have our share? It's not like the DC Super Hero Girls franchise is going to threaten the regular Super Hero sets. And you can always just swap out the mini-dolls to regular minifigs if you like the sets themselves.

It seems like that some people feel like if they don't like something nobody else should like them or have them. But I'm fairly certain that minifigs and mini-dolls can coexist peacefully, and there is something for everyone. Friends, Elves, and Disney Princess are doing just fine with plenty of fans of all ages. And if someone hates mini-dolls so much, just donate them to someone who likes them.

Elves could have been the best castle theme since Fantasy if it had minifigs instead of minidolls, and if the sets had been designed with EVERYONE in mind (instead of just girls). Nexo Knights also went too much in another direction.

The last wave or so of Disney Princess has started to blend too much with the Juniors theme in terms of style and building technique. A shame, as that theme has so much potential.

@akunthita, well said! Personally these aren't for me, but that invisible motorcycle is awesome!

Eh..................

Wow, these are really bad!

I think the Super Heroes in this line look better than their minifigure counterparts. Same with the minimills in the Elves line, they are amazing. Oddly the Friends minimills I take the hair off and throw them in a random cup.

Eh, perhaps not quite as impressive as the first 3 sets revealed, but they still look decent. I'm quite liking Bumblebee's Helicopter - while I usually roll my eyes whenever I see another promotional Little Bird or go kart, this one is nice and unique. Loving Wonder Woman's Dorm as well, especially that (somewhat impractical) invisible bike. Not so sure about Lashina's Action Rider, but other than that this range is shaping up well.

I don't like minidolls because they're needlessly less compatible. That's all.

@The Green Brick Giant: the Revelist link that @Aanchir points out has this caption for The Lashina Tank: "Would you ever in your life have imagined that Lashina would get a toy marketed to 10-year-old girls, fellow DC nerds? Well, she is — although she does have to share her LEGO set with Krupto [sic] the Wonder Dog. There are worse fates, I suppose."

Why not take the number of pieces on BB vehicle (she can fly) and either remove it or use them to build a bigger baddie.

I honestly prefer these to the Lego Batman Movie sets that have been previewed. I like the character design of the DC Super Hero Girls, and Lego translated them very well into these sets. I love that, for instance, Wonder Woman comes with tools to repair her motorcycle in addition to a wardrobe. I see a lot of play value with these sets.

The batjet is 25$! I think I will be getting the Mr. Freeze set instead.

people, people. After 5 years now, can we quit on the whole "why minidolls, minifigs would be better" stuff? it's been discussed to death, and at this point you just come off as the prototypical "get off my lawn" grumpy old (wo)man.

LEGO did their homework. Their target market loves the minidolls and the bright colors. The sales figures for the minidoll lines backs that up. THEY AREN'T DESIGNED FOR YOU!

Move on already...

So in England we've got to wait till January. Bummer. Might sulk a bit now. But HOW MUCH DO I WANT THE WONDER WOMAN SET... answer is lots!

I'm a HUGE DC comics nerd and I've never heard of Lashina.

But the sets look good. :-P

@kumasawa: Elves is easily still the best Castle theme since fantasy even with mini-dolls — in fact, I'd go so far as to say it's a better theme with mini-dolls than it would be with minifigures, because its figures have lots of fantastic details that would not have been anywhere near as feasible with classic minifigures.

And what changes would designing them "with EVERYONE" in mind" entail? Because in my eyes, a lot of the things that make LEGO Elves so great came about BECAUSE it's aimed at girls, who tend to be very appreciative of its charming design choices.

Really, the fact that so many people consider lines like City or Fantasy-Era Castle more gender-neutral than Friends or Elves, despite being designed for and overwhelmingly preferred by boys, reveals a lot of the problem with how people think about toys and gender. Society has a bad habit of treating things boys like as cool, wholesome, and empowering for anyone, while the things girls like are uncool, frivolous, or degrading.

@akunthita : Who's keeping you from getting your Minidolls? They still come with these kinds of sets and LEGO doesn't make decisions based on comments on Brickset message boards. But if you're trying to get real LEGO fans to stop hating Minidolls, don't hold your breath. Everyone's entitled to their opinion, and I always try to remember that people love LEGO differently and for different reasons, but Minidolls are an abomination and they are forbidden in my house. I still buy the sets they come in, but they are immediately thrown in the trash so that they don't infect the rest of our LEGO collection.

INVISIBLE! BIKE!

Dang...I might have to get that Wonder Woman set :D

As far as all the talk about the sets having dolls instead of minifigures, I think minidolls should completely end. Minifigures have been the standard for more than 30 years and it kind of makes the friends, princess, elves, and dc girls sets isolated from all the other themes because the character design being so different. Plus, for me, as someone who does a lot of stop-motion, I frown at the fact that the minidolls legs don't move separately. Standard minifigures are just simply designed a lot better than minidolls and lets be honest. What's better than a Lego minifigure?

I don't mind one way or the other if other people like minidolls, but that's not going to change my opinion that I think they're awful. And it seems weird that girls get the figures that are inferior to the figures that the boys get. Why the split? Can't everybody have the same figures? Isn't that what we did in the 80s and 90s? Did anyone die because of that?

Having said all that ... I really want that Krypto figure, and I'm not too proud to admit that. Anyway.

@OhioBricker, I don't know if you are serious or trolling. I hope it's the latter. You seem to imply that you try to be open to people enjoying LEGO differently, but then you also indicate that people who like the mini-dolls are somehow inferior and not real LEGO fans. I can assure you that I'm a life-long, real LEGO fan, and I like minifigs and mini-dolls equally.

It's sad that people have to explain and defend themselves when they like cute, girly, artistic things. Like somehow they don't have an inherent right to exists or be taken seriously. Thankfully, LEGO has done their homework and took the time to listen, and thus so many new fans were brought to the hobby, specifically because of the mini-dolls and the sets and themes centered around them.

Aanchir's comment above is beautifully said and worth repeating: "...the fact that so many people consider lines like City or Fantasy-Era Castle more gender-neutral than Friends or Elves, despite being designed for and overwhelmingly preferred by boys, reveals a lot of the problem with how people think about toys and gender. Society has a bad habit of treating things boys like as cool, wholesome, and empowering for anyone, while the things girls like are uncool, frivolous, or degrading."

Wonder Woman's bike is so awesome!!!

Zordboy and others,

Did anyone die because in the 80s and 90s boys and girls were expected to play with the minifigure? No, but the girl LEGO customer was on life support for over two decades until the introduction of the minidoll. Now today, Friends is one of the top-selling themes with girls excitedly talking about the LEGO product.

I am also not understanding the independent legs and wrists argument either. Minidolls are inferior because of this? True, for stop-motion and display, but those are not the intend of TLG for their figures. Minidolls and minifigures main purpose is play. They were designed for play. I have never nor have I ever seen a child make a minifigure walk by independently moving each leg. Minifigures are just hopped about. When a child wants a minifigure to kick something, I have never seen that child line up the figure and bend one leg upwards. The child just lunges the figure in an upward sweep at the target. For play minidolls and minifigures are equal.

"I have never nor have I ever seen a child make a minifigure walk by independently moving each leg. Minifigures are just hopped about. When a child wants a minifigure to kick something, I have never seen that child line up the figure and bend one leg upwards. The child just lunges the figure in an upward sweep at the target. For play minidolls and minifigures are equal."

Then you should've been hanging out with me and my cousins and my friends in the 90s, because we did all those things, all the time. That's how you played with them. Hell, one day my main character in my Lego city environment broke his leg after a particularly gruelling fight with some dastardly villain, so I kept the leg at a 90 degree angle for a month or so and used one of those four-stud-tall antenna pieces as a crutch for the guy. Did nobody else have storylines like that with their toys? Really? For play value, they're not equal, which was the point. Good lord, you can barely even sit minidolls down without a very specific piece to hold them in place, so they don't fall over or roll away. How could that possibly *increase* play value? No, I don't understand how you can say that.

"Did anyone die because in the 80s and 90s boys and girls were expected to play with the minifigure?"

Also, way to phrase that in a specific context. All the girls I knew *wanted* to play with minifigures, because it was Lego and they liked playing with Lego. It was that simple. And for all the accusations of people over-thinking how adults and kids look at toys, well, you are too.

I would also point out that in some aspects, minidolls are superior - not inferior - to minifigures. yes, they are inferior from leg posability and wrist rotation, but they are generally more detailed and certainly more anthropomorphic. Those are both characteristics that girls generally care about

Sets in this style have their perks, and definitely cater to their target market. I'd say they're a breakthrough in that regard, given the theme and foundation of the original Super Hero Girls line. However, I also understand (and mostly side with) those who would rather have more gender-neutral sets sets with minifigs since they're more like the classic representations of the depicted characters, and are typically more appealing to the gender and age groups themes like this typically cater to (which is generally a wider audience than what these SHG sets are attempting to cater to).

That said, I guess it is nice to see something new even if it's not something I'd personally like. My money's going to the Lego Batman Movie sets instead, anyway--best to talk with your wallet!

Zordboy,

So, if I take a minidoll and have it fight a gruelling fight against a dastardly villain (by hopping the figures around and lunging them at each other because even if they did have independantly moving legs that would be the most ridiculously slow battle to worry about move each leg), my storytelling and play is inferior because I can't bend a leg to show that it's "hurt"?

Can't I just use my imagination?

People keep referring to regular minifigs as gender-neutral. They are not. That was the whole point about what LEGO discovered through their extensive research. The majority of girls wanted characters that look more like real people, not little unrealistic and unnatural square guys with big heads, short legs, and a waistline that indicates severe obesity.

Those of us who grew up with minifigs are so used to them that we look at them as normal, and we consider them as charming and cute. We don't even see how unnatural looking they are. But I know a number of kids and adults who much prefer mini action figures (like those by Mega Bloks) and mini-dolls, because they are more realistic. They just can't relate to minifigs because of their strange shape.

LEGO minifigs are clearly iconic, popular, and will hopefully stay around forever. But it doesn't mean that they are the most neutral representation of the human form that everyone can relate to. Those who prefer minifigs will see mini-dolls as inferior because they look different from what they are used to, and those who prefer mini-dolls will see minifigs as inferior because of the unnatural shape.

Of course there is going to be overlap, and there will be girls who prefer minifigs and boys who prefer mini-dolls, witch is perfectly fine and normal. But in general, the result of LEGO's research was that the majority of girls could not relate to minifigs and clearly preferred mini-dolls. And the sales of LEGO Friends and other mini-doll sets backs this up as well. For LEGO as a for-profit company, it would be foolish to ignore the preferences of half of the population.

It would be very interesting to see if during their research perhaps LEGO first tried slightly change regular minifigs to see if girls would like them better? Like for example by making a curvy waist (like LEGO customizer Arealight has done) or by adding prettier hairpieces and facial features. It would have certainly been easier, cheaper and less risky. Or did LEGO just threw a bunch of different prototypes in front of girls to see how they react and which one they choose?

With the exception of that "cafe" mess, these are wonderful. I will definitely be grabbing wonder woman and probably a some others.

Akunthita is right - as much as I love minifigs, they look in fact very unnatural and we just got used to it. Look at how how difficult it is to portray women characters due to shape of head and torso (Sabine and older Ahsoka are very good examples).

I just wish TLG could enhance the minifgs with better shape and retain independent wrists and legs...

I really like the WonderWoman wardrobe set. My son wants the bat-jet and maybe the school, but then I showed him the new Batman ones so Markham Asylum takes priority over the school (I raised him well ;) ).

Still, pretty impressive sets, I wasn't familiar with the source-material but after looking through some pics I think Lego has done a pretty good job.

The last time I saw this much girls vs. boys in a Brickset comments section, I had to put a baby's head on a spike... It makes me sad that there are a lot of very vocal people who think things can only be one way or the other, rather than being able to have both. I see this a lot in videogame fandoms, and the only comfort I can take here is that Lego fans haven't gone quite so far off the deep end... yet. Remember, the existence of things aimed at people other than you is no bad thing :) You'll still get stuff you like too.

@OhioBricker I hope you don't actually throw any minidolls in 'the trash'. I sure there are some charities or homeless shelters that would appreciate unwanted toys for children who have nothing.

"they are immediately thrown in the trash so that they don't infect the rest of our LEGO collection"

This reminded me of Calvin and Hobbes. You know, how Calvin insists girls have cooties.

@akunthita : Minidolls are available now and, as far as I know, there are no plans for LEGO to get rid of them. Nothing you or I say will make the slightest bit of difference. I accept that. As I said, I still buy the sets they come in.
But you don't seem satisfied with simply collecting your Minidolls; you are driven to change the minds of those who hate Minidolls. I don't mind that you love Minidolls. Why do you care if people hate them?

@bookmum : I think you should donate your LEGOs to charities. That sounds like a good idea.

I still keep the hair (since it's compatible with real Minifigs) and any accessories. Donating hairless Minidolls would be like Elaine trying to donate muffin stumps. I do give away Minifigs when I have multiples. (We had like 20 Captain Americas, for some reason.)

I also hate stickers. I wish they were all printed pieces. I accept that it's not possible, but I still hate stickers and instead of applying them, I keep them in the instruction booklet. And I swap out pink and purple pieces from Friends sets with other colors.

That's how I do LEGO. Everybody does LEGO differently and I accept that, but I won't apologize for hating Minidolls.

@OhioBricker I donate an awful lot to charity. What I don't do is buy something I don't want just to throw it away. Although ok I understand your point about how you do keep the hair therefore the dolls are bald so wouldn't make great toys - but do you have plastic recycling where you live? I hope you recycle them.

@OhioBricker also I wasn't having a go at you. It was a suggestion. In the UK, where I am it is just the normal thing to do if you have unwanted toys to pass them on to charity shops. Books and clothing too. No one I know just throws toys away unless they are broken beyond repair. In fact a very good time to get some great cheap toys or dvds or books or clothes is two weeks after Xmas when the charity shops are full of unwanted Xmas gifts. And money goes to charity. It's great.

@OhioBricker, I have no intentions to make people like mini-dolls, and there are a lot of grades of emotion between hate and like that don't require such extreme investment of emotional energy in either way. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary: hate is "intense hostility and aversion usually deriving from fear, anger, or sense of injury" and "extreme dislike or antipathy". I would not want to see anyone in such distress over something. But yeah, sure, if someone insists on enveloping themselves in powerful negative emotions over a toy, that's their choice. By the way, mini-doll parts sell very well on BrickLink, so even if you keep the hairpieces, you can still squeeze some money out of those little buggers as revenge. It might be more satisfying and rewarding than just throwing them in the garbage. ;)

A couple of things: This is a message board about LEGO, a toy, so maybe people shouldn't take themselves (and these discussions) so seriously (or literally.) This isn't a debate or a social sciences course. It is a (sometimes lively) discussion about toys.
I collect/build/play with LEGOs because it makes me happy. I actually find glee in throwing away the heads, torsos, and legs of Minidolls. To me, it is VERY satisfying. In the same way that someone destroying someone else's Trump 2016 yard sign might be...except that I have every right to discard the Minidolls I buy.
Again, if other people love/prefer Minidolls, that is just fine with me. It doesn't bother me the slightest bit. Isn't there ANYTHING in the world that you love to hate? For me, one of those things is Minidolls.

@bookmum: you're alright. Keep doing what you do.

Thanks @OhioBricker. Actually I remember a few years ago clearing out some old music tapes that we wouldn't have been able to give away (sound had gone bad, some were homemade) and my daughter, then a toddler starting pulling out the actual tape. And I decided to join in. It was weirdly great fun and satisfying. I will mourn for your bald dolls but I will also laugh.

@Aanchir Thank you for your comments. I appreciate the points that you made. Hopefully, you will see this comment even though this thread is over a day old already.

I am all about compatibility. Elves cannot be considered "the best Castle theme since Fantasy even with minidolls" because minidolls make the Elves sets incompatible with all previous Castle theme sets (and also the Castle minifigs from the CMF series). Also, the scale of the Elves sets is slightly off because of the height difference. Just for the record, I am also disappointed that the Hobbit / Lord of the Rings sets aren't totally compatible with Castle because of the "flesh" colored minifigs. I wonder if the Hobbit/LOTR themes would have done better if they had gone against the trend of using "flesh" colors for licensed themes (same with POTC and Pirates).

I am fine with some themes using minidolls: Friends and Disney Princess... even these DC Super Hero Girls sets are fine with minidolls. I even think the Disney CMF line should have been minidolls. It irks me that Jasmine is a minidoll while Alladin and Genie are minifigs, Sleeping Beauty is a minidoll and Malificent is a minifig. At least there are both minifig and minidoll versions of Ariel.

Minifigs ARE gender neutral. That is why they are used in Creator and the CMF series, and the early waves of Juniors showed how Lego could produce GREAT sets designed for girls using minifigs. Girls and women buy those sets. I will grant you that the Elves minidolls have fantastic details, but I would argue that the CMF series has proved you can have fantastic details in minifigs.

Elves could have been designed "with EVERYONE" in mind first by using minifigs instead of minidolls so that it could be compatible with decades of released Castle sets and CMF minifigs. I would have liked to have seen some sets in the theme targeted towards boys, some towards girls and some more gender neutral. When seen together, the sets could all be recognizable as part of the same theme, even if the ones "for girls" incorporated more of the colors and "charming design choices" associated with girls toys.

I agree with you that City, Fantasy-era Castle and Nexo Knights are NOT gender neutral. I would have liked to have seen Lego take a chance with Elves and develop a fantasy theme targeted at both genders. Let boys and girls play TOGETHER, not separately.

@kumasawa: But I think you're missing the point. Creating the Elves sets with traditional minifigures would not be "designing them with everyone in mind". In particular, it would leave out the huge market of girls (and probably some boys as well) who prefer the mini-doll—some of whom probably already had a fair collection of those thanks to the Friends theme. And after the proven success of Friends, it wouldn't make any sense to pretend that standard minifigures would do a better job of filling the niche that Lego hoped to fill with the Elves theme (that is to say, a fantasy adventure theme aimed at slightly older girls), or that it would make the theme more successful.

Also, Elves arguably DOES have some sets that are aimed at boys (or at least, moreso than Friends or Disney Princess). Each year of the theme so far has included one set that only features a male mini-doll (Farran and the Crystal Hollow last year and Elvendale School of Dragons this year). Of course, those sets do feature female animal characters and are most likely still aimed mostly at girls like the other sets in the theme, but the existence of sets that focus on male characters seems to suggest that Lego was aware of the potential appeal that sets like that could provide for a periphery demographic of boys.

@Lyichir: Yes, I realize that Elves is "a fantasy adventure theme aimed at slightly older girls" who prefer minidolls over minifigs. I wish Elves was a fantasy adventure theme aimed at BOTH girls AND boys who prefer minifigs over minidolls, while also being compatible with over 3 decades of Castle sets and CMF minifigs. When was the last time Lego tried to produce a minifig theme for girls? Paradisa? I would have liked them to at least TRY to produce a theme like Elves for a wider audience rather than target it for a narrow demographic.

If you go to the Lego store, you see just as many girls as boys at the "build a minifig" kiosk. The Lego Movie wasn't so popular and successful just because of boys. Yes, there are girls who will only play with minidolls and not minifigs. But what about the girls who like minifigs? Where is their fantasy theme? What about the boys and girls (siblings?) who want to play together?

I'm slowly putting together a "Build-a-Minidoll" kiosk in the landfill south of Columbus. ;-)

Why can't boys play with minidolls?

The only "answer" that I can come up with is that ignornant adults have taught them that minidolls are for girls.

@ericjohn: Of course boys can play with minidolls if they want to. Are you saying that Lego executives are "ignorant adults" for only putting minidolls in their themes aimed towards girls?

LEGO executives are not the ignornant adults. It their job to make money and marketing minidolls towards girls does that for them--they are completely the opposite of ignorant. The ignorance comes when society cannot look passed marketing and realize that just because something is marketed towards girls does not mean that it excludes boys.

You are asking for a fantasy theme that is for both boys and girls. Why can't Elves be for boys?

@ericjohn: The Elves theme can definitely be for boys if they like minidolls and don't mind that the characters have a different shape, height and "look" than the ones in their Castle sets and CMF series.

I'm still wondering who Lashina is.........

@BrickyMcBrick: Lashina is one of the Female Furies, underlings of Granny Goodness and Darkseid.

There is a firepost on kryptos thing. Ummm

I'll be getting Wonder Woman and Batgirl sets for my kiddo. Looks great!!