Beauty and the Beast BrickHeadz

This news bodes really well for the future of Brickheads :D

Okay, let's see how Darth Vader looks in one of these.

though similar. I actually prefer the CubeDudes style over these BrickHeads

Glad they're going with the classic ones, especially considering the fact the live action adaptation's coming out in a month, don't think those designs would translate that well into LEGO.

@shaase: I really liked CubeDudes back in the day, but I gotta say I prefer the BrickHeadz. CubeDude faces often had a sort of odd, chiseled look that undercut their cuteness, their limbs felt kinda scrawny, and they were sometimes fragile or hard to balance. By comparison, BrickHeadz are still angular (as you'd expect from LEGO bricks), but have sturdier, more balanced builds and a pudgier look that sort of resembles a plush toy. The BrickHeadz also have somewhat more advanced designs with their greater emphasis on sideways building.

I'm really impressed with the Beast's sharp teeth and the stud reversal for his little beard! He's a great demonstration of what less human-like BrickHeadz can achieve. Belle's sleeves are also great, and both models have great colors. Don't really have any plans to get these but I have a feeling they'll be quite popular.

These are very cute!

Am I the only one who hates these? They're LEGO Funko pops! LEGO shouldn't be made to sit on a shelf collecting dust.

@welshysensei - I'm sure there are kids out there who will line these up for carpet-based battles sometime soon. :P

Quite honestly, I love the idea of BrickHeads but they don't really have any characters that catch my interest. I know MegaBloks has their Kubros line (or whatever they call it) and they had a figure of Master Chief from Halo. I remember staring at it and wishing Lego would just take over that IP.

Ah well, maybe they'll make some Ninjago BrickHeads and I can empty my wallet for those :P

I agree with Lordmoral; I want to see BrickHeadz Vader!

I prefer blue apron Belle, but I see why they went this route. Promising indeed.

Damn, I kind of like these two. I'd been planning on bypassing BrickHeadz entirely. (and it pains me having to write that stupid z in the name).

These are great. Sounds very similar to funko pop vinyls. If so, this is going to be an exciting new range

I don't understand why they mention the dimensions of the base plate in the first place but specifically the height, 'under 1" (1cm) high', what's up with that?!

Still, I'm sold on the buildable rose! See if I can Bricklink it... ;-)

2" high and 1" square really doesn't sound like much for a £10 set. I'm gonna have to roughly build one of these as I'm thinking they must be a lot smaller than they look in the images.

I also notice the orientation of the black bases is different on the two sets above. That's gotta twang at the OCD of collectors. Although presumably pretty easy to fix.

This Brickheadz theme looks very promising.

Wish these were available for valentine's day, my girlfriend would find a his and hers set super cute!

@welshysensei
With Funko pops being so big at the moment it's a shrewdly designed line, and if you get fed up with it when the aesthetics moment has passed you have some lovely bricks to do something with rather than a bunch of statues. They are not my sort of thing but I could see myself buying them for someone else as a present rather than a Funko Pop, and the price point is not too bad for that sort of thing.

These are so cute!

This opens the door to some fun Beauty & the Beast stuff... I'd love to see Cogsworth & Lumiere Brickheadz as well!

I bet everyone sooooo much money that they are going to make star wars ones!

Hoping they make Ninjago ones for the movie!

These also look great but I'm not interested in Disney that much

I love these! I love these so much! Fave Disney movie in Lego's version of Funko Pops! Sold!

This is a painfully bad line from LEGO.
An inconceivable level of fail.
So many great SD-style MOCs have been made in LEGO over the years, and every single one I've seen is at least 10x better than what LEGO came up with. Sad.

How is a 4x6 plate or a 6x8 plate square?

Seems like some nice parts in nice colors over the whole range so far!!!

Why is there a cube head and a bubble with "1" on each baseplate?

^Yeah, but it seems to be the same baseplate for all the figures. So what is it good for, if it's the same for all?

And what on earth is a "Funko Pop" anyway? Sounds like an extremely unhealthy drink.
Might go well with "Monster Munch", which UK kids in the Eighties seemed to love even though they were really bad for your health.
Just can't warm up to these BrickHeadz. Especially the Belle set. It's described as "beautiful". WTF? What's beautiful about it? For a start it hasn't got a face, just two eyes slapped on a flat unicoloured nothing. At least the Beast's face has a few of its characteristic features to make it at least vaguely recongnisable. That Belle could be anything from Miss Piggy to Hello Kitty if it were not for the hair.

THESE LOOK SO GOOD! I can't wait to see what other characters get made into brickheads.

@AustinPowers Funko Pop is a vinyl figure line. All the characters used all have squared-off heads, no mouths, and beady eyes, but they have tons of vintage and modern licenses for it, too.

These aren't my cup of tea but that means there is Disney Lego I actually do not need to get :)

@ZootyCutie: thanks for the info. Had never heard of such a thing. Certainly not my cup of tea either.

whats with the pricing! £9.99, $9.99, €9.99 even with the pound being poor its not 1 to 1!

UK customers getting screwed as per usual