It is called The Bee FARM not The Bee Keeper

LOVE the bee farm

The bee set looks great, but I question the addition of another small plain cave set like 21113 and 21141. I get that it makes a good starter set for kids and is an important part of the game, but it’s a bit repetitive. I’d love to see another dungeon spawned set

I'm not into Minecraft but some of the parts are interesting. Is the torso piece of the minifigure on the right of The Bee Keeper 21165 set a new mould? Don't think I've seen it before. Reminds me a bit of slabbies, i.e. LEGO's figures before the advent of minifigure articulation for those of you who weren't around BM (Before Minifigures).

Nice to see some of the more specialized parts in smaller sets. The slime especially is something I quite enjoy seeing. It's small, cute, can be used as a normal minifigure head, and fits in well with other MOCS surprisingly well!

The bee set is just plain cute. Love the Elytra! I actually think that could be useful for MOCS for people with wings. Nice to have some variation.

Still waiting for a Wolf/Dog bigfig

The mine looks exactly like some of the older sets. Love the elytra though!

Man I should have bought the Minecraft Mountain.

@Snazzy_Bricks
I saw it on the lego leaks hashtag.
A description for those who cant or don't want to look for it: It contains a wandering trader with a tan and a white Llama, Steve, a skeleton, a custom trading stand, and a bit of an abandoned mineshaft on a mesa, where the build is set. It looks the same size as these 2 sets and has a rotating table to reveal trades and explosive tnt feature.

not happy with the bee design... they're twice as long as they should bee, and the first yellow section takes up WAY too much of it... i'm really sad because i LOVE the bees and have been excited for this. i honestly prefer my homemade bee, he's a bit bigger but still works and looks much more accurate, even without a printed face

Nice set, but "Bee Farm"? Call it an apiary and give your customers' vocabularies a little exercise.

Sorry but Lama nuzzle is too big so it just looks awkward. Shame they still havent fixed problem on vilagers as well.
The Bees are also WAY too small. Should have been 2x2

The bee farm looks neat. Really neat, even if I haven’t played Minecraft for a few years.

The mine is just quite bland.

@xboxtravis7992 said:
"I took a look at the image to see if they were renders or photos. I am actually inclined to believe these are photos of the real sets with real pieces. It has all the injection pin marks, little shadows, etc. that renders would lack."
Have you read the article series by BrickJonas about Mecabricks a while ago?

https://brickset.com/article/52611/mecabricks-the-render-farm

Eye-opening to see what is possible with renders nowadays.

I believe LEGO has not used a single non-rendered image in their marketing material for sets for at least a couple of years. And these Minecraft set images definitely are renders too. There are so many details that are typically found only in renders that there is zero doubt about that.

I don’t know if these are actually 2020 sets. The webshop they’re found on lists them for €100 each, which is just outrageously overpriced for these. This leads me to personally believe that these are indeed 2021 sets that this store somehow got early along with the official images, and is now trying to sell for such high prices because they haven’t been released yet.

This Italian store has them listed at 24.90 Euro RRP each, which seems realistic enough:

https://bonsaglionline.it/de/produkte/lego/lego-21165-minecraft_198552/

https://bonsaglionline.it/de/produkte/lego-21166-minecraft_198553/

Listed as not in store though (which makes sense for upcoming sets).

Given the fact that Italian LEGO RRPs often are a bit higher than over here, I guess the RRP in Germany might even be 19.99 Euro which would likely translate to 19.99 Dollar in the US.

Reading the comments at first I was like, "Elytra? But bees don't have elytra."

And then I googled it and was like, "Oh, I know nothing about Minecraft."

I like both sets, but I will probably get the Abandoned Mine

These are 2021 sets. The Lego shop already has 17 new sets currently available, so difficult to know where to start with this theme especially as the secondary market also has so many past sets available. Personally, waiting for a combination of the Lego rollercoaster and an underground Minecraft mine before taking the plunge, or I'll have to build myself.

So close to getting a clear lightsaber blade yet so far.

And also the 21167 The Trading Post

So many bees in one set! usually with stuff like rabbits and bats we only get one or two in a set, but we've got a full swarm here!

That cave set looks like they're taking Minecraft back to its roots. It looks and feels so much like some of the first minifig scale sets in the lineup.

I think i want the Bee set. Very reusable wings and those bees will look good for city as well. I’d like to the wings from the back

The bees seem too long, but I like that we are finally getting an elytra!

It's got a zombie and a spider that's the size of a couch. I'd abandon that mine, too.

@Zander:
Nope. I ran across that torso design maybe about a year ago when I was researching options for making a straitjacket.

@AustinPowers:
I'm inclined to say these are actual photos. Keep in mind that the pandemic has forced a _lot_ of changes on companies, and it may be easier to just ship a copy of the set to someone with a decent studio set up at home and do it the old-fashioned way.

But in this specific instance, look at the head on the highest bee, which is cockeyed. Look at the 5-petal flowers at the base of the orange carrot stems, two of which clearly have been broken off of sprues. Look at the messy print on the villager's face. On the mine set, look at the support posts, where the bricks join together. You can see that one part is cockeyed, and the others show just a hint of flare at the base. The zombie's foot isn't firmly seated on the plate. All of these are things you expect to see in real photos, but which you'd basically have to intentionally build into a digital model if you wanted them to appear in a render. The reason we know they started doing renders is because they started cheating physics. Parts that can't bend would appear bent, parts with no articulation would be posed at an angle, etc. And we knew they were keeping it up for regular stuff because things were _too_ perfect (all 1x1 square parts are perfectly aligned, the sides of stacked parts are perfectly vertical and flow cleanly into the next part in the stack, etc.) Meccabricks allows AFOLs to tweak settings to help hide the fact that their models are renders, which is something we've seen taken to extremes in the LEGO Movie franchise where they have to sell, at an extreme scale, the idea that these come from a very used collection (hence fingerprints and bite marks). We've never seen The LEGO Company waste time on making their products look less than perfect.

@Fandabidozi:
I...actually have a couple. I got six of them about three years ago. I'd been wanting any type of silver visor for a few years so I could make Bathurst 3000, and when another guy in my LUG pointed out that they were available on Bricklink, I bought all 10. Looking through the rest of the store, I also ended up buying two red revolvers, and six clear lightsaber blades. All new parts, $55 shipped. A very tiny part of me that's been beaten senseless, trussed up, and stuffed under the bed feels a bit guilty about getting away with that.

@GSR_MataNui:
Note that there are two types. The swarm has red mouths, while the individual bees have black mouths.

@xboxtravis7992:
All the instructions are produced from digital models, so that's most of the groundwork out of the way (especially on a large model like the new UCS MF). Pose it, light it, and render it. I doubt they're using Meccabricks, as I believe they usually develop their own custom software that is not available outside of the company except in very limited circumstances (LEGOLAND parks, LEGO Certified Professsional program, etc.). I've got a friend who works at Dreamworks. Some 20 years ago, he was playing around with CGI pictures, where he'd spend weeks building the scene, and then when it came time to render a single image he'd have to let his computer sit undisturbed overnight or the entire render would be lost. Now he could probably crank out that exact same image in the time it takes to swing by the water cooler. Things are constantly changing in that world, but the reason it still takes a lot of work is because they're also constantly trying to push into new territory, and make things look more photo-realistic. There's only so much you need to do with little plastic bricks to make them look good. Their primary advancement is going to be the speed at which they can crank out digital renders of their sets, to the point where it'll be faster to actually render the image than to do all the setup work that goes into it.

@Squidkid_Belmont said:
"That cave set looks like they're taking Minecraft back to its roots. It looks and feels so much like some of the first minifig scale sets in the lineup."

Exactly my thoughts. I stopped waiting for sets of that kind last year and started to buy parts separately from bricklink. Releasing this set some month earlier would have saved me some money...

It is a shame though they used a 6x10 plate and a 2x6 plate to create a 6x12 plate for the lava. Also, I know from experience, the rails are too close to the wall fro a mine cart to pass easily and the mine is too narrow for a mine cart with minifig to pass.

Anyways: more sets like this please!

@PurpleDave

That’s awesome. Are they from an official set? As far as I know the only other ones I’m missing are the orange blades from a NEXO set. I have two of the yellow ones from the Green Lantern set and they rock.

@Fandabidozi:
They've never been released in any set, but non-production parts make it out of the factory all the time. Some of the most famous are the weird array of Darth Vader helmets in bright colors, pastel colors, etc. Two others that I specifically shopped for were a red pushbroom and a brown 1x1 plate w/ vertical clip (this was Type C, before Type D became widely available). For an upcoming project I bought a pile of trans-light blue jumper plates, and picked up a handful of clear ones just because they were available. One of the best scores I've made was to buy a bunch of the horse harnesses in clear. Some of the ones I've regrettably had to pass on were bicycles, because they're so popular that non-production colors price into the 3-digit range.

Anyways, all three of the parts I mentioned in that single order are still available on Bricklink, from different sellers than who I bought mine from. All three of them are also priced _way_ above what I paid. In particular, there's only one seller listing the trans-clear lightsaber blade in new condition, and it's priced over $100! I was paying about $6 each for mine. There's another seller who has used ones for about $12, but mine were in New condition.

I like 21165 Bee Keeper because it has a lot of new stuff from 1.15 including the Bees, angry bees, and honeycomb. Along with that there's also the first appearance of elytra, which is 1.12 but it's still a very iconic part of Minecraft, and I'm glad where finally got them in Lego. Unlike 21165 Bee Keeper, the other set 21165 The Abandoned Mineshaft is not as good. The Abandoned Mineshaft is a naturally generated structure found underground and mostly in Mesa biomes. This set has grass on the top which is incredibly inaccurate to Minecraft. Another small thing I would've like was if this would've been in a Mesa biome, we've never gotten a Mesa biome before and I would've preferred this.

@Th3_3m3rald_M1n3cart said:
"I like 21165 Bee Keeper because it has a lot of new stuff from 1.15 including the Bees, angry bees, and honeycomb. Along with that there's also the first appearance of elytra, which is 1.12 but it's still a very iconic part of Minecraft, and I'm glad where finally got them in Lego. Unlike 21165 Bee Keeper, the other set 21165 The Abandoned Mineshaft is not as good. The Abandoned Mineshaft is a naturally generated structure found underground and mostly in Mesa biomes. This set has grass on the top which is incredibly inaccurate to Minecraft. Another small thing I would've like was if this would've been in a Mesa biome, we've never gotten a Mesa biome before and I would've preferred this."

I played the game long enough to know that abandoned mines are found in almost every biome.
Also, at least set No. 21167 features a Mesa biome ;-)