How do the stunt bikes work?

I’d seen the Duplo set, the Hogwarts polybag, and the Mythica one, maybe the Scarecrow, too, but probably not. After I got one for Easter I’ve had kind of a soft spot for the Stuntz sets, sure there’s almost no appeal if you’re not interested in the play feature or Minifigure but I found it surprisingly enjoyable, I might even MOC some configurations similar to the bigger sets. The alien monster ride also has a design that appeals to me, but as always it depends on how much they’re trying to sell it for as to whether I’ll get it or not.

My favourites of the sets revealed yesterday on Brickset aren’t among those shown above. The ones that catch my eye are the City and Mission ones with lots of System animals as well as the thestral cart from the HP releases. Question is how I’m going to afford them. It’s OK if I sell some of my family members into slavery, right?

@Maxximus said:
"How do the stunt bikes work? "
I don’t have any but I believe they use a flywheel.

@LegoSonicBoy said:
"30510 90th anniversary polybag!

31130 NEW UNDERWATER CREATOR 3-IN-1 SET WITH AN OCTOPUS!!! Looks to be basically a grown-up version of 60090, which I do have. It looks really substantial and so it probably won't be super affordable but it could be a day one buy for me!"

The minifig in the sub set reminds me of the figs from the OG agents sets.

I'd like to see if 60313 folds up.

Around a nice year. It seems like they release more sets with free-build options than before. Nice trend.

Personally I go for the 31132 Viking ship and 31130 Sunken treasure.

OMG THESE ARE SO COOL!!!!

@lippidp said:
"I'd like to see if 60313 folds up."

It does. I was looking at a bunch of pics in the LEGO Instructions App this morning. It looks much more like a transport vehicle than the Stuntz truck, which doesn’t have some of that “time to move on” vibe when not in action mode.

I have much fear for the cost on this one.

@lippidp
It does; but you have to dismantle it a bit: detach each half circle of track and attach them on the orange brackets provided; put one car on each side of the cactus and apparently the booth goes on top of the cactus.

There are 2 more Friends sets as well 41721 Organic Farm and 41722 Horse Show Trailer

The fig with the bathtub has a speedo!

Yup, totally missed the Hogwarts polybag. Not a huge HP fan, but that looks fun and it'd be cool to have a mini Hogwarts castle. Only problem is I'd end up with multiple Dumbledores.

Great polybag sets. I didn't know I needed a bathtub on wheels, but now I do! =-)

Thank you for the article. There was so much new to see that it was easy to miss some of the highlights, especially in the smaller sets or in themes you may not be interested in.

All of the choices are spot on to take a second look at.

You're quite right. I did miss a couple and it is two I'm likely to buy. The Duplo set looks absolutely perfect and the Scarecrow looks like a lovely addition to go with the City farm sets.

So far, 2022 is looking amazing. My poor wallet.

@B_Space_Man:
I don’t think there is any real strategy. For boxed sets, they’re split up into four basic groups, including general retail (everyone can order them), D2C (the big fancy sets that other retailers will usually only offer through online sales, and often with a delayed release), true LEGO exclusives (usually small, in lightweight yellow boxes), and “shared exclusives”. The latter sets are designed with limited production in mind, compared to the regular retail sets. Retailers in each market will be allowed to pick from the range (how this is handled, I don’t know), and will have exclusive rights to sell that set in that retail market with the exception of LEGO Brand Retail and LEGOLAND stores, which will be allowed to sell the entire range*.

Polybags get messy. For starters, very few are ever directly sold by LEGO Brand Retail, with 30387 being the only exception I can think of in recent years. LEGOLAND sometimes does sell polybags that LBR doesn’t carry. As far as I could determine, they were the only source for 30211 in the US. The vast majority of polybags are offered to other retailers for sale. Presence at one store does not indicate exclusivity. You can sometimes find a polybag at two stores simultaneously, or they could even sell them a year apart. Some may be sold at retail, and also pop up as a GWP through LBR, as is the case with both 30495 and 30417 right now.

Your two best bets are as follows:
1. “Cost is no object” - Buy them on the secondary market as they turn up. It absolutely will get expensive (expect to spend no less than $10 each for $5 polybags, once you factor in resale profit margin and shipping), but the Brickset database can help you keep track of what is available, and what you’re still missing. As they pop up on resale sites, scoop them up and don’t worry about missing any.

2. “I’m willing to work for them” - Frequent key areas of key retailers. I can only speak to my experience in Michigan, which won’t even fully apply to other states in the US. Walmart, Target, and Meijer each run seasonal sections, and a lot of these polybags will show up in those for Easter and Christmas (some individual locations may stock them to the LEGO aisle, and others may split them between Seasonal and Toys). There was an attempt to get them into Seasonal for Halloween, but they probably came across as treats for the ultra-wealthy to hand out, rather than decor for your own house. Target also sells polybags year-round in their checkout lanes, while Walmart has a wire bin hanging from a shelf in the LEGO aisle, and Meijer usually has them in a wire bin endcap in the toy section in general.

With this solution, costs will be as manageable as possible, but there is an element of risk. I’m not aware of either 30072 or 30073 being sold anywhere in the US, and by the time I realized they existed and concluded I wouldn’t be able to pick them up locally, there was a single Bricklink store in the UK that had a single copy of one, and two copies of the other. I ended up paying over $50 to get those last two TS3 sets, which would have retailed here for $10…but I kinda made up for it by scoring dozens of 30070 for free or half off with a few promos that TRU ran at the time they were carrying that set.

* One notable exception is 7848, which was only ever sold at TRU, for obvious reasons.

For what we're seeing in Duplo and Friends, we have some nice indications of new molds of animals about to come in the future City sets. And if LEGO is teasing us with Minecraft and Marvel goats, i guess we'll be getting real ones either. I agree, 41711 is a must have.

Looks like the Book of Monsters finally added some wheels to the Bathtub in 70323 : Jestro's Volcano Lair

Rubber duckling logo on fire, with bubbles, must be some lava lair bath right ;)

I was scanning through the list yesterday and noticed that the last few sets on one page became the first few sets on the next page, tipping me off that stuff was still being added to the middle of the list. The only one of these that I missed is the scarecrow polybag (doesn’t look like Batman will have too much trouble with that one). The tiny Hogwarts is the only one of this batch that really interests me, and it kinda looks like three copies will combine to form the entire castle (kinda like 30526).

@CCC:
Where else will they use any of those molds? The stunt bike fairings are not compatible with any regular motorcycle chassis, so the familiar fairings like the dirt bike are actually new molds designed to look like older versions. The initial wave had the frame and three fairings based on existing standard fairings (more or less), and the second wave has three more fairings (bathtub, plane, and 60331). I think between the two design sessions, someone realized it didn’t really matter what they produced for this subtheme, and decided to throw the book in the blender. Judging by the comments, it’ll be successful.

@HOBBES:
There’s a significant amount of landmass in the northern hemisphere, with several geographic divisions. Asia is already represented here, but they could do North America, Europe and Middle East to cover the rest of the northern hemisphere, and Oceania would pick up the major omission from the southern hemisphere.

@Adrian_Vanhof:
Must be a never-nude.

@TeriXeri:
Wait, do you mean the molten Sarlaac? That’s supposed to be a bathtub?

My eyes are mostly on the Mythica set; I took a trip to Legoland last year to revisit old nostalgia - because we always used to visit the park for my birthday when I was a kid, so it was a fun adventure to go back there as an adult - and Flight of the Sky Lion was ABSOLUTELY one of the biggest highlights. I thought it was odd, then, that there was nothing Mythica-related to buy because Maximus the Sky Lion seemed such an inherently merchandisable character; so seeing a set version of him has me excited!

I wonder if it'll be available by the time my gf and I visit the park in the not-too-distant future...?

Am I seeing this right? Do we finally get inverted 2 x 1 x 2 slopes? Like in CREATOR set 31130 Sunken Treasure Mission. If I'm correct I'm spotting 4 of them in dark bluish gray: 2 on each side of the submarine, right underneath the ends of a big wheel arch piece 62361 (that nicely encloses the canopy part. Well done LEGO!)

(If this inverted slope piece has already been pointed out in another thread, please forgive me for being late at the party.)

@PurpleDave said:
" @TeriXeri :
Wait, do you mean the molten Sarlaac? That’s supposed to be a bathtub?"

No, there's an actual bathtub with a yellow frog and golden faucet in the set on the 2nd(3rd USA) floor in the back tower, not shown on the brickset pictures.

Use Brickset 3d view, and it's visible.

@HOBBES said:
"One of the best set they could make would be like 10975 Wild animals of the world but a 'System' version instead of a Duplo version. They also released Wild animal of Africa 10971, Wild Animal of the oceans 10972, wild animals of the South America 10973, wild animals of Asia 10974 - all of them made into the 'System' format would be great. And while they are at it, they could also make wild animals of the Northern Hemisphere (bear, wolf, racoon, badger, fox, skunk, squirrel, moose, beaver, deer, hedgehog/porcupine, etc) many have already been made, just making them accessible would be great. One can only dream...

There is a 'Friends' version of a giraffe 41717 but it is not all that 'Friends-y' and could potentially be used in a System setting.
"

That's exactly what I thought when I saw it. They ought to have a regular Lego set just like that Duplo one. Some substantial vegetation builds and a ton of animals.

@Adrian_Vanhof said:
"The fig with the bathtub has a speedo!"

Don’t look at the back!!!

@GrizBe said:
"Okay.. I never knew I wanted a bath tub that was also a stunt bike, with a rubber duck until I saw it. That set is legen... wait for it... dary!"

Will the bath tub stunt bike be able to do the double loop? That’s the question.

I didn't expect strong support for Stuntz still. I'm glad to see more sets in the line, although it does make for a lot of bikes in the end.

@Phoenixio said:
"I didn't expect strong support for Stuntz still. I'm glad to see more sets in the line, although it does make for a lot of bikes in the end."

I think the concept of the €20 is fine,some have cool parts like glow in the dark stars even, but those loop sets seem very expensive but ultimately, they are probably better judged in a video review anyway.

I was never really a fan of Lego Friends when it debuted, mostly because of the lack of a true minifigure, but I think during the past year or two they are actually overtaking City sets. For one ,they are more visually appealing to me, and two, they offer more value. I can't believe some of the recent prices for City themed sets, and that alone has kept me from buying more. I love Emma's Art School, and I know once it is released that someone (myself included) will easily convert this over to a modular.

@PurpleDave thanks for the reply, I always appreciate it. We obviously have Walmart and Target here in Missouri, but Meijer was a new one to me.

The unicorn-something in 40556 is almost exactly the same as in the small celebratory set they've made a few years ago.

I'm liking 30584, I like retro trains, I like Creator polybags, so I'll have to pick that one up. Not sure if I'll get 41705, I already have a (much larger) Friends pizzeria, but that sign is killing it and I love Olivia's chef's-hat-and-hair piece. Not planning to get 43204, but I love that Olaf's arms are posable now! Loving the retro vibe to 60331, especially the mustache. Speaking of Stuntz, as an aviation buff,I love the bike in 60338.

@TeriXeri:
Couldn’t get it to load, but I was able to pull up a review that showed it. I think any resemblance is purely coincidental, since white bathtubs aren’t exactly rare in our world. The rubber duck instead of a frog makes it seem unlikely, even though the rubber duck didn’t show up until three years after this set was released. Sesame Street had a white tub with a golden faucet and a yellow rubber duckie, so it’s closer in design to this, so maybe Super Grover is the one who hot-rodded Ernie’s tub.

@B_Space_Man:
Meijer is based out of Grand Rapids, Michigan, and is the origin of the format used by Walmart, and, to a lesser extent, Target (Meijer has a much bigger grocery department, including a butcher, a bakery, and they even used to sell live lobster). They’re my preferred store because, pre-pandemic, they were open 24/7, 363-1/2 days a year. I think they would close at 6pm on Christmas Eve, and reopen at 6am on the 26th. They also have one of the best LEGO selections, now that TRU is gone. But they mostly only exist in the Great Lakes area, so much of the US has never seen one.

Agreed on the Duplo set. It would be great if we got a regular version, even if it's with Friends (which is releasing a zebra and giraffe, which are, unfortunately, stylized a bit). Education seems to have slacked off on their "massive people packs" they did during my peak LEGO years about a decade ago.

I'm a big fan of microscale, so the Build Your Own Hogarts castle looks awesome! And it includes a Dumbledore figure.

The scarecrow is probably my favorite out of the new farm wave. Cheap, and it contains plenty of nice bits for the price--among them the rake, rabbit, pumpkin, and carrots, as well as the crate. \

Not really familiar with the subject matter, but the Mythica set does look nice.

Friends has been knocking it out of the park lately, and Emma's Art School is no exception. It's almost as good as a Modular. If only City would start keeping up.

The Space Ride truck is, FINALLY, something fresh for City. My only complaint is the race tires on the truck. They have almost no sidewall.

Bathtub Stunt Bike is hilarious!

There is also a Tusken Raider coming up in some of the magazine sets. I am sure that will be popular as an army builder. For those of you in Europe, it seems the magazines are about equal to the fig's Bricklink value. But probably not here, as the magazines have always been $10. There have been several items, both LEGO and Playmobil Klickys in them that I wanted, but it wasn't worth double.

@PurpleDave said:
" @TeriXeri :
Couldn’t get it to load, but I was able to pull up a review that showed it. I think any resemblance is purely coincidental, since white bathtubs aren’t exactly rare in our world. "

It was more meant as a joke, with the flaming ducky, orange colors (lava) and the lava lair having a batthub, and book of monster spawning all sorts of weird things.

I never meant it as a comparison of what it's based on, bathtubs are too common for that :D

@PurpleDave said:
" @B_Space_Man:
Meijer is based out of Grand Rapids, Michigan, and is the origin of the format used by Walmart, and, to a lesser extent, Target (Meijer has a much bigger grocery department, including a butcher, a bakery, and they even used to sell live lobster). They’re my preferred store because, pre-pandemic, they were open 24/7, 363-1/2 days a year. I think they would close at 6pm on Christmas Eve, and reopen at 6am on the 26th. They also have one of the best LEGO selections, now that TRU is gone. But they mostly only exist in the Great Lakes area, so much of the US has never seen one."

I wish we had them around here. I think the closest to me are in Ohio and Central Kentucky. They carry a lot of diecast brands we don't get here either. I've noticed that Menard's and Rural King are two Midwestern chains that have expanded into West Virginia and (to a lesser extent) here in Southwest Virginia. We have a Rural King about a half-hour from me, and a Menard's about 2 1/2 hours away. Hoping it's only a matter of time before Meijer decides to expand into here.

@TeriXeri:
Nonetheless, I stand by my Super Grover theory. It seems exactly like the sort of thing he’d do.

@PurpleDave said:
" @TeriXeri:
Nonetheless, I stand by my Super Grover theory. It seems exactly like the sort of thing he’d do."

Yeah a stunt grover on a bath bike would work.

Alien Conquest is back! Sort of!

@CCC said:
"The art school looks great, aside from the huge pencil and brush.

The bath-bike is a bit bonkers. They made a mould for that ... where else will they use it?"

That's my favourite part of the art school!
Bathtub bike is so ridiculous it's a must have.
Would love a few scarecrow polybags but as others have said I never know where to get them.
Like the purple truck as well.

@mafon2 said:
"The unicorn-something in 40556 is almost exactly the same as in the small celebratory set they've made a few years ago."

Good spot, it's basicly the unicorn from 10401 : Rainbow Fun in somehow weird colors but there must be some LEGOLAND explanation for that.

@Bengh_Zeran said:
"Am I seeing this right? Do we finally get inverted 2 x 1 x 2 slopes? Like in CREATOR set 31130 Sunken Treasure Mission. If I'm correct I'm spotting 4 of them in dark bluish gray: 2 on each side of the submarine, right underneath the ends of a big wheel arch piece 62361 (that nicely encloses the canopy part. Well done LEGO!)

(If this inverted slope piece has already been pointed out in another thread, please forgive me for being late at the party.)
"

Looks like it's a regular 2x1x2 slope snotted with a nipple brick and clip, unfortunately.

60333 is basically John Freeman's motorcycle from Half-Life: Full Life Consequences, but as an official LEGO set.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHxyZaZlaOs

Seeing this tub on the main page made me think of a certain old 50's rock-n-roll song. I modified it, of course:

"Splish-splash I was driving my bath, late last Saturday night..."

@B_Space_Man said:
"The polybags are cool. But I have yet to figure out the strategy behind where polybags will be sold. There are certain ones that come and go (I see them in the Brickset database but that’s it) and others that are piled up for months in a bin at Walmart. "

I hear that. Wish they'd put them in their stores and online.

@Capybara554321 said:
" @B_Space_Man said:
"The polybags are cool. But I have yet to figure out the strategy behind where polybags will be sold. There are certain ones that come and go (I see them in the Brickset database but that’s it) and others that are piled up for months in a bin at Walmart. "

I hear that. Wish they'd put them in their stores and online. "

I still have yet to see either of the Technic polybags in a store in the States, and I think most were bundled with a magazine in Europe.

I feel like that bathtub set would be a perfect match for Sesame Street's Ernie.

@SJPlego: Hopefully, it won't get pulled over by any headcrab zombies.
@urdoch17: "Rub-a-dub dub, just cruising in the tub..."
@brick_me: Exactly what I was just thinking.

@brick_me said:
"I feel like that bathtub set would be a perfect match for Sesame Street's Ernie. "

Rubber ducky, you're the one
You make bath time lots of fun.
Rubber ducky, you're one of a kind... yeah!

@honbushu said:
" @GrizBe said:
"Okay.. I never knew I wanted a bath tub that was also a stunt bike, with a rubber duck until I saw it. That set is legen... wait for it... dary!"

Will the bath tub stunt bike be able to do the double loop? That’s the question."

Challenge Accepted!

@ThatBionicleGuy said:
" @TeriXeri said:
" @mafon2 said:
"The unicorn-something in 40556 is almost exactly the same as in the small celebratory set they've made a few years ago."

Good spot, it's basicly the unicorn from 10401: Rainbow Fun in somehow weird colors but there must be some LEGOLAND explanation for that."

That's Bitsandbobs! In essence, the overall concept of the Mythica world at Legoland is that it's a place where every original creature that has been built out of Lego over the years all exist and come to life; Bobs is a flying donkey-unicorn-thing who, as his name implies, was made to evoke the look of something built out of just leftover Lego pieces, which is the reason behind his wild colours. He kind of serves as the 'assistant' in the pre-ride safety video."

Thanks for the insight.

@ThatBionicleGuy:
So…Cloud Cuckoo Land, but they don’t have to pay royalties to WB due to the shared nature of that IP?

@PurpleDave said:
" @ThatBionicleGuy:
So…Cloud Cuckoo Land, but they don’t have to pay royalties to WB due to the shared nature of that IP?"

I'd say not entirely; it's specifically animal creations, most of which are mythical in nature - like the flying lion, as well as a fire-and-ice bird, a hydra-type creature, etc. On the Sky Lion ride in particular, it kinda feels like the ultimate nature preserve for Lego-built fantastical creatures, as much as anything else.

I wonder if you could build Maximus in dark and light brown to make King Moonraiser from Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

@Huw, can you give us more info about those new 'Mission' sets with extra (?) parts? When you'll knew something more

@ThatBionicleGuy:
Well, what I meant was, the lion looks very much like it was planned out in advance, maybe with concept art to go by, but the unicorn looks straight out of the Unikitty animated series.

@Huw:
I kinda got the impression that, between those three sets and 41712, they were delivering a heavy-handed message about recycling.

60353: Rescue the animals from the pile of trash!
60354: Explore the pile of trash!
60355: Deduce who left this pile of trash!

@PurpleDave said:
RE the polybags available in LBR, don't forget about one of the last three-digit holdouts still active, 630-3

@Galaxy12_Import:
How did that even happen? 4-digit numbers were in effect when that “set” came out, and the “-3” proves they didn’t even pick an unused number.

@PurpleDave said:
" @Galaxy12_Import:
How did that even happen? 4-digit numbers were in effect when that “set” came out, and the “-3” proves they didn’t even pick an unused number."
This appears to have been intended to supplant 630-1, the old green separator. What I don't understand is why the "-1" was assigned to the green separator while "-2" went to the Samsonite Diplomat set. Are the suffixes user-defined and perhaps the Diplomat set was added to the database later than the separator?

@LegoSonicBoy:
There was no internet when the earliest sets were released, and it would be decades before TLG started maintaining an online database that would allow @Huw to automate things. Suffixes may have been carried over from Peeron or Bricklink, but suffixes were likely assigned sequentially on a first-come-first-served basis by someone. The more obscure a set is, the longer it probably took for someone to report its existence.

@LegoSonicBoy said:
" @PurpleDave said:
" @Galaxy12_Import:
How did that even happen? 4-digit numbers were in effect when that “set” came out, and the “-3” proves they didn’t even pick an unused number."
This appears to have been intended to supplant 630-1, the old green separator. What I don't understand is why the "-1" was assigned to the green separator while "-2" went to the Samsonite Diplomat set. Are the suffixes user-defined and perhaps the Diplomat set was added to the database later than the separator?"

I ... did not know that the humble brick separator dated all the way back to (at least?) 1996! I guess that was technically just around the start of my "dark ages." Thanks for the knowledge.

@ForestMenOfEndor:
Bricklink lists the old style as first appearing in 1990. I could swear I first saw one at a friend’s house in the mid-80’s, because I didn’t figure out what it was until years later (I was thinking maybe a badly designed boarding ramp).

@PurpleDave said:
" @ForestMenOfEndor:
Bricklink lists the old style as first appearing in 1990. I could swear I first saw one at a friend’s house in the mid-80’s, because I didn’t figure out what it was until years later (I was thinking maybe a badly designed boarding ramp)."
Yeah, my oldest brick separator was from 1881, from 1991. I thought it was a doorstop. I have two more, from 4162 and 4101 respectively.

@LegoSonicBoy said:
" @PurpleDave said:
" @ForestMenOfEndor:
Bricklink lists the old style as first appearing in 1990. I could swear I first saw one at a friend’s house in the mid-80’s, because I didn’t figure out what it was until years later (I was thinking maybe a badly designed boarding ramp)."
Yeah, my oldest brick separator was from 1881..."
1881! 19th century brick separators from before there were LEGO bricks to separate. Who would imagine that? :~P

@Zander said:
" @LegoSonicBoy said:
" @PurpleDave said:
" @ForestMenOfEndor:
Bricklink lists the old style as first appearing in 1990. I could swear I first saw one at a friend’s house in the mid-80’s, because I didn’t figure out what it was until years later (I was thinking maybe a badly designed boarding ramp)."
Yeah, my oldest brick separator was from 1881..."
1881! 19th century brick separators from before there were LEGO bricks to separate. Who would imagine that? :~P"
Hence my theory they really were repurposed doorstops. The one we know and love was patented in 1878.

@Maxximus said:
"How do the stunt bikes work? "

probably like the others. push it forward to charge the rear wheel and let it go. it has a little inertia wheel.