Avatar: The Way of Water range revealed!

I wonder if James Cameron personally saw prototypes of "75579 Payakan the Tulkun & Crabsuit" with a fully brick-built 'Tulkun' and demanded custom big space whale head molds to accurately capture his auteur space whale vision.

This wave looks much better.

Sad that the Tulkun horns don’t appear to be removable - that’d be a nice blue whale.

Really like the Avatar theme, nice and colourful sets, no dreadful plain black boxes and this wave (for the most) seem decently priced too.

If you look really closely you’ll see these tiny gaps in the submarine cockpit. So tiny.

I understand the custom parts on the smaller animals but the tulkun whale is huge, I don't see why that shouldn't be brick built. What happened to "it's all about the brick", Lego?

Those are some fun sets for sure.

Has quite a bit of Subnautica game vibes, being part underwater with "alien" creatures, yet also has things like high tech sub and underwater walker.

The underwater terrain builds look superb in terms of Nice Parts Usage for the coral type details, and the submarine has a bit of Aquazone vibe.

Also like the way it continues the terrain being used as display stand.

@drussell said:
"I wonder if James Cameron personally saw prototypes of "75579 Payakan the Tulkun & Crabsuit" with a fully brick-built 'Tulkun' and demanded custom big space whale head molds to accurately capture his auteur space whale vision."

Certainly raises the bar for the nice part usage challenge with that piece.

Not overly interested in any of these builds. Kind like the sub and the alien whale, but all of the sets look far too small for their costs, meaning they all feel too expensive. That and some of the build choice are rather questionable to me... all the technic beams in the Skimwing set for instance, given they're the same bits used in the sub and crab mech, make me think its some kind of robo-fish rather then an organic creature.

Looks though we're just getting a rehash of the first movie, but with a waterworld setting.

Not feeling tempted. (relief)
My limited budget is waiting for Indiana.

"Just sprinkle parts of 10294 around your Avatar play area for the full James Cameron effect!"

I do like that crab-thingy, but I reckon I could build one at home :D

Those blue cat people with short legs look weird. Maybe those are teenagers of the species?

As for the rest... Uhm, where did all the budget go in those larger sets?
I like the use of octagonal baseplates on the hut thing to indicate a waterline. But ehm...

Forget it, these are not for me. If you love making tiny models with huge prices and no doubt tons of non-functional details, these are definitely for you!

The reef home looks really nice but still not good enough to make me pay for a movie ticket.

If 75577 were cheaper, I'd be sorely tempted. Not because of the movie, but sci-fi submarines are my jam. I'm wondering what's with the medium-legged minifigs. Are the supposed to be Na'vi kids?

@CCC said:
"Let's home the kids really like the movies. This wave is £260!"

That's always been the case if you buy an entire wave. At least with this there are entry points at £20 and £30. Something Lego haven't done recently for the SW movies or TV shows.

After poor value sets like Obi-Wan vs Darth Vader, I can't believe people moan about there being sets that suit most budgets.

Oh..no. They forgot to fully enclose the sub.

These ain't Aquanauts, that's for sure.

Is there really consumer demand for two waves of (expensive) Avatar sets? Guess we'll find out.

I like getting stuff in sand green. I guess that’s sand green on that sub?

But that sub is going to have some moisture issues in the cockpit.

I love that Manta Ray!

Most interesting thing here is the bow that can shoot.

Once again the flora is what I like the most. So much so that I would happier if they removed all the minifigures to allow more flora. I usually care about minifigures but these don't do much for me...nor did the characters in the first movie. What I like about Avatar is the world and some of the vehicles, the people are really secondary.

Anyway, space whale is super nice too.

How are we supposed to recreate our favorite moments if they forgot to include letter tile packs to reproduce the end credits?

Seriously, though, I do see several pieces that I’ll be trying to pick up through PAB for coral reefs, but zero interest in the sets.

@Brickodillo said:
"Lila carrot pieces will give us beets."
Now we're just missing LEGO Battlestar Galactica.

If I was 10-years-old-me now I would love those sets! As I am a bit older I must admit they are pricey. But they look so colorful and imaginative, I am very tempted to get the reef location, those vinyl tent pieces seem very useful for medieval and fantasy builds. And that shooting bow? Wow! Most afols seem to dislike the Avatar theme but I think it's one of the freshest that lego has put out in last 6 years.

That huge whale head makes a bit more sense if you see that it opens up in four pieces (image on the back of the box). At least the lower jaw is an existing piece.

Still, I am a it bit dissappointed that all of these look like less-believable variations of earth-animals: Let's add extra horns, wings, legs and eyes. Having said that, platypuses exist.

And yet, the Goat still hasn't come back... ;)

I suspect my apathy for the sets is at least in part rooted in apathy for the film itself. That said, the sub does look kind of neat (waterproofing issues none withstanding); always like a chunky sub, reminds me of the industrial aesthetic of Aquanauts.

@GrizBe:
I’m waiting for Avatar 3: The Way of Earth, where they ride around on giant earthworms that bore holes that are just barely large enough to fit a riderless earthworm.

@domboy:
Careful, or they’ll release a molded Pandoran goat, with eight legs or something.

I don’t know anything about the movies, but taken just as individual sets, these are aesthetically strange. The contrast is just too distracting between a few large purpose designed parts (wings, heads) and the rest of each build. The Elves theme for example did a much better job integrating things to make convincing fantasy creatures.

These look absolutely phenomenal! The design of the organic set pieces are a step up from the first wave.

Is that Fat Thor driving the sub?

@PurpleDave said:
"I’m waiting for Avatar 3: The Way of Earth, where they ride around on giant earthworms that bore holes that are just barely large enough to fit a riderless earthworm."
The trick is to irritate the Shai-Hulud just enough that it remains travelling along at the surface.

That alien whale looks AWESOME!!!

@bananaworld:
Then you probably should start by not trying to ride one on such a soggy planet. And don’t drink the Slurm. You don’t want to know where it’s been…

Whimmy wam wam wozzle!

@Binnekdamp:
>Those blue cat people with short legs look weird. Maybe those are teenagers of the species?

That's it exactly: The second movie introduces the children of Jake Sully and Neytiri -- Neteyam, Lo'ak, Tuktirey, adopted Kiri, and stranded human Spider. (Are human-bioengineered avatar bodies cross-fertile with native Na'vi? Or did the happy couple need some assistance from the RDA science contingent that stayed on Pandora after the miners were evicted? Maybe the movie will tell us.) So far as movie spoilers go, at least these sets have a lead time of only two months, rather than a full year.

Like most LEGO adaptations of media properties, there are set features and choices that don't make sense in isolation. And then there's "we designed the set from early concept art which looks nothing like the final version." --Given the prolonged development of this movie, I wonder if this theme will avoid that particular curse?

(For "why does this exist?" there's an entire "LEGO City" subtheme predicated on the characters and events of the "LEGO City Adventures" TV series (2019, in the U.S. on Nickelodeon) whose existence was easily overlooked by AFOLs. Hmm. For that matter, the media-paired themes never co-sell the TV shows on the packages -- Ninjago, Chima, Nexo Knights, etc. I wonder if there's a pan-European advertising-to-kids regulation to that effect?)

I really don't like this theme. The Na'vi look odd and creepy at the same time.
The set design also seems overly focused on just getting the organic shapes and colours in there as such.
I like the submarine but all in all a very easy pass.

@monty_bricks said:
"I understand the custom parts on the smaller animals but the tulkun whale is huge, I don't see why that shouldn't be brick built. What happened to "it's all about the brick", Lego? "

cause it looks awesome.

@Ze_Carlos said:
"Not feeling tempted. (relief)
My limited budget is waiting for Indiana."

They named the dog Indiana…

There is only one matter in these sets that concerns me.

QUARRITCH.

YOU MUSTACHE-TWIRLY CARTOONY VILLAINOUS SON OF YOUR PARENTS.

YOU HAVE RETURNED TO GRACE US ALL WITH YOUR STEREOTYPICALLY MANIACAL SATURDAY-MORNING CARTOON WAYS.

I hope and pray that submarine set has a large mug of coffee in homage of the second greatest scene in the Avatar series, where he sips his coffee and grins like a Captain Planet villain as the world burns.

The first greatest scene was the Mech Fight, which Lego has gloriously and graciously gifted us with.

WELCOME BACK, MY SON.

I've never been a huge fan of James Cameron's Avatar, but I am a huge Subnautica nerd so all these giant alien sea monsters feel cool. I especially love that whale's mouth!

@TheBrickshipyard:
If Smurfcats can breathe underwater, does that mean they’re actually…Snorkcats?