The creator space shuttle is just vastly inferior to 31066.

I see some system pieces on that Batcycle. Is that allowed? I thought Technic sets were supposed to be all technic parts.

I love City beach themed sets, but that camper I will pass. Old one is better

Yay, original Lego Racers era Rocket Racer to go with the LR2 version.

That ford GT looks even better than I thought it would in those images. I only have 2 technic sets, but this one may make a third.

@Yardsale19X said:
"The beach camper van looks like a really nice update to the Sunshine Surfer Van, 31079.

I like this idealised version of camper vans. In reality, in my experience, it rains the whole time and nobody gets any sleep. Maybe I should just stop going on holiday in Wales. "

Agree 37079 is a fave set but this looks like a lovely upgrade

10 bucks for the unicorn and the space shuttle (6-7 on discount), yep, count me in on these!

And I do like 60359 Dunk Stunt Ramp Challenge, I get Power Ranger vibes from that bike and the green helmet.

31138 Beach Camper Van looks fun. I'm especially drawn to that vintage look of the changing rooms, but the van itself is also really neat.

31139 Cosy House feels very reasonably priced. I like it a lot.

I am not into technic sets but I kinda love the firefighter plane.

Oh dang it, NOW they make a classic Rocket Racer? Couldn't *he* have been the one in the individual bike, rather than in the big expensive set???

I mean. I'm still happy with the one of him I've got. But still, this is definitely an even more appealing version of the classic character, and I'd just have waited if I'd known they were making this one of him too. Might have to Bricklink him at some point, nostalgia for him is strong...

Nice to note that the adorable dogs are also affordable dogs! I was expecting something like £50 for that set, so at half that price definitely cements for me the intention to buy them at some point! Not often that a non-minifigure set is the most appealing thing to me in an article, but... I love dogs :D

What is the quad snake thing in Cozy House?
Unicorn looks great and well worth a pickup.
Parrot 3-in-1 looks excellent, love the frog build too.
I really want to see someone try the Ferrari with a 2-wide yellow stripe rather than stickers.

Thanks for the images.

Oh just get over with the stunt line already, I feel like it overstayed its welcome.

A lot of really nice sets that I'll certainly pick up once they're the standard 20-30% under RRP (40-50% in the case of Stuntz).

Camper Van, Parrot and Dogs look particularly good.
I also really like the Ford GT, which is surprising as Technic stuff that appeals to me is usually the more rugged stuff, like 4x4s and heavy plant machinery.

@Zordboy said:
"No, but seriously, did anyone else read the name of 60359 and think it was "Drunk" Stunt Ramp Challenge?"

You are DEFINITELY not the only on who thought that!

Here's hoping the Ford GT fits on the technic car tronsporter. My own is starting to fill out nicely now..........

Some interesting ones for sure, but the prices need some serious discounts before I am tempted to actually buy any of them.

The Harry Potter sets seem to include quite a few characters that haven't been available in minifigure form before, no? At least to me several of the names (Angelina Johnson, Pansy Parkinson, Blaise Zabini, Michael Corner, Hannah Abbott, Susan Bones) seemed new, or at least reasonably uncommon.

@Binary_Code said:
" @dimc said:
"What is the quad snake thing in Cozy House?"

That would be the squid from 8061
"

Oh and there's a Rock Raiders set too! What else can be positively identified as a reference?

Rocket Racer strikes back!

Brickset admins: Could you make the "main image" for these kind of posts, etc, the box art when we have it? I had no idea, until reading the comments, that some of these other sets were 3-in-1 builds, since they just had the "main build" image there.

@jh84007 said:
"Here's hoping the Ford GT fits on the technic car tronsporter. My own is starting to fill out nicely now.........."

Looks too big. In the past, it's been the $49 sets (like the new Nascar Camaro) that fit on the transporter.

It's really weird to see the McLaren set cheaper in the US than in the UK and Europe, confirmed it on the website. Hopefully it's not a typo that gets "corrected" when it goes on sale. At only $10 more than the single-car sets that are $5 more than last year, it seems like a no-brainer to get in the US.

My word, those Stuntz sets are overpriced. I won't be adding them to my boy's City collection.

@Koentinius:
I’ve noticed hardcore Technic fans seem to think TLG should pay them a disposal fee based on the number of pins included in each set, on top of not factoring them into the MSRP for that set.

@Wolpertinger:
I can’t believe everyone seems to have forgotten that they raised prices pretty much across the board due to excessive inflation.

@AustinPowers:
Hannah Abbot and Susan Bones were just released in the past couple years, but I think only once each (and in expensive sets). Blaise Zabini is in _two_ sets this wave, which feels like cheating.

These sets are very underwhelming

@TomKazutara said:
"110€ for the fire plane must have been a joke "

Which one was this? Must have missed the announcement

The Harry Potter banner sets apparently have "3D images", according to the box art. eg 76409 looks like it has a 3D image of Dumbledore. I wonder what that actually is / how it's done...

@Huw said:
" @LegoBoi69 said:
"McLaren set uk price looks incorrect. Is more expensive than US"

The US price seems to be the anomaly: normally it's 1:1 with the Euro price but for some reason it's $10 less than the € price."

If it really is $35 then that is a STEAL to the extent that it feels like an error on Lego's part. Only $10 more than a single car? That's bonkers.

31139 is a bit too cozy for its own good. It is clear that we have lost something going back to 5891. I would have liked to see not so many microbuilds (if I saw a snail the size of a Schnauzer on my house I would crap my actual pants) and the depth of the house extended by 1 stud back.

City? What kind of city is that?

Say what you will about the stuntz line, but those minifigures are fantastic! I still won't pick any sets up, but the figures are great. It's also nice to see purple airtanks again.

@NickF22:
Assume it’s a lenticular sticker. You know, those thick, plastic-coated stickers that are ribbed, for viewing pleasure?

@CopperTablet:
The largest land snail is the African Land Snail, which maxes out at about 8” in length. However, if you’re Aquaman or SpongeBob, the largest snail you might find crawling on your house is the Australian Trumpet, which can reach 3’ in length and 40 pounds!

That Stunt Truck is awesomely ridiculous! I love it!

As for the small space shuttle, I like it! And doesn't seem like a bad deal for €10 bucks. As for some of the comments, I'm pretty sure the as someone called it "Stupid" comment that it isn't as good as the huge 10283 was a joke. Why do so many people have no sense of humor anymore?

As for the other Creator sets, I do like most of them (especially the Vintage Motorcycle), but I can't help but feel Creator is getting a bit pricey. Not dramatically so, but it used to be better value compared to other themes.

The price of the McLaren set is a huge letdown, especially since I'm only interested in the F1, not the Solus. And I don't get the difference between the US and Europe.

As for Technic, prices here seem to get a bit better after some of the absurd prices of last year. Especially that Ford. Still not entirely sold on the design, it feels more like a classic GT40 than the modern car, but both in design and price it seems infinitely better than that horrid flex-Ferrari. The other prices aren't terrible either, and considering discounts of about 30% seem to have become the norm for Technic....

How come 31135 has 16 less pieces than 31134, but costs $5.00 more?

Fun to see LEGO mixing up minifigures across the different 3-in-1 builds. Helps combat the 'girl hair'/'boy hair' assignments given to certain hairpieces!

all harry potter sets
Only harry potter sets

@shedjed said:
" @lszlsmn said:
"Oh just get over with the stunt line already, I feel like it overstayed its welcome."

Oh no!

A line not specifically developed and catered toward you.

The actual target audience, kids... they are toys after all... love them. The ones I know think it is the best of all the city lines. And I agree. Their playability is exceptional. I would like to see more."
The kids you know are completely different from the ones I know. These had several of the sets, played with them for a couple of days, then got frustrated by the boring functions that didn't even work properly from the get-go. In the end the sets went to a yard sale faster than anything else.

And what playability are you talking about anyway? Other than those flywheel bikes that never go where they should and hardly manage to clear the ramps, let alone jump properly, what else is there? Nothing that normal City sets don't offer in spades.

@shedjed said:
" @lszlsmn said:
"Oh just get over with the stunt line already, I feel like it overstayed its welcome."

Oh no!

A line not specifically developed and catered toward you.

The actual target audience, kids... they are toys after all... love them. The ones I know think it is the best of all the city lines. And I agree. Their playability is exceptional. I would like to see more."

It is a one trick pony. A gimmick line. Not open ended play. Something that will end at the bottom of the drawer as soon as the magic fades. I am ok having the already existing 9-10 full blown sets on the shelves, but why do we need 4 new ones in addition - that are already rehashing the previous concepts? Truck with flames (2021)? Yaaay. Truck with flames (2023)? Thanks but no thanks.

I thought the Guardians of the galaxy Vol 3 sets would come out March.

Not a great deal here for me. But do want the Parrot and a few copies of the Cosy House at discount of course. That Raptor bike is cute. Shame the rest of that set is unusable purple.

@AHYL88 said:
" @Jackthenipper said:
" @AHYL88 said:
" @kyrodes said:
"People complaining about the space shuttle, but it's finally a space shuttle I can afford. I think I even have enough bricks to mod the tank and boosters. Maybe a launchpad too."

I saw the complaints and to be very blunt, both comments are really stupid; one of them said it's inferior to the massive 10283 Discovery Space Shuttle and the other said it's inferior to the Creator 3-in1 31066.

I mean I don't know what were they expecting. This tiny but rather respectable looking Space Shuttle is only £9/$10/10 Euros; comparisons to the others was ridiculous to begin with and not everyone is flush with cash or wants to splash out three figures on the big one. Yes The Discovery is drastically bigger and superior, but it's also drastically more expensive by around TWENTY TIMES the price. And the 2017 3-in-1 version is still quite expensive today on the second hand market as it's long since retired."

Well, at least 9 people share my somewhat silly sense of humour!

"

Sorry, I didn't know it's a joke; it's just rubs me the wrong way when comments like that crop up from people who are actual elitists who you know, whine and claim that things are worse when they are say downsized and made affordable for more of us, like those who actually said that in the article of downsized Star Wars sets."

No worries! I try to keep my comments on the lighter side as I enjoy my hobby and hope the others here do too - I tend to read the comments for the sillier responses and am usually beaten to the punchline!

Is that ball in the dogs set too small for GBC?

@Jackthenipper said:
"The creator space shuttle is just vastly inferior to 10283 ."

And VASTLY surperior to 31091 : Shuttle Transporter if you just want a microscale shuttle.

31091 : Shuttle Transporter was a bit larger compared to 31134 : Space Shuttle , but both still have the sat-launch feature, and both cannot fit minifigs, so functionally almost the same, yet €25 vs €10 , because of the Truck builds.

Which made 31066 : Space Shuttle Explorer at €30 from before it look even greater value as it fits minifig, and then of course 31117 : Space Shuttle Adventure was released , which is €50, but also the most detailed 3-in-1 shuttle thus far with landing gear and a great lunar lander build.

@kyrodes said:
"People complaining about the space shuttle, but it's finally a space shuttle I can afford. I think I even have enough bricks to mod the tank and boosters. Maybe a launchpad too."

Certainly nicer value to the previous microscale shuttle, which is only a few studs bulkier, but came with a truck at 2.5x the set price.

@StyleCounselor said:
"I see some system pieces on that Batcycle. Is that allowed? I thought Technic sets were supposed to be all technic parts."
There’s no law against it as far as I know!!!

A noteworthy Classic set this wave is 11030 Lots of Bricks. 1000 of just 1x1, 1x2, 2x2, 1x4, 2x4 and 2x6 bricks evenly distributed into 10 different colors. Medium nougat seems to be a staple in this year's Classic sets, I wonder why.

@LegoSonicBoy said:
"A noteworthy Classic set this wave is 11030 Lots of Bricks. 1000 of just 1x1, 1x2, 2x2, 1x4, 2x4 and 2x6 bricks evenly distributed into 10 different colors. Medium nougat seems to be a staple in this year's Classic sets, I wonder why."

Hopefuilly it'll lead to a variant of this set with greys, greens, brown, tan, like something you'd expect from Creator or Minecraft set color scheme.

Or a variant with just slopes / inverted slopes.

Or just a box with 100% transparent colors, after 11013: Creative Transparent Bricks retires.

@Maladar:
Sure, Chicken Little histrionics are protected speech under our 1st Amendment. Rant away. Nobody can stop you. I mean, a bag of chicken went up 20% last year. Kids eat chicken. I guess Tyson is preying on kids too?

@AustinPowers:
I got the bathtub bike and put a naked Ernie in it. You would not believe how many comments such a stupid, five-minute MOC gets at public displays. Totally worth what it cost to pull it off.

@Wolpertinger:
They managed to keep prices flat at about $0.10/pc four four decades. That’s longer than many Brickset readers have been alive. It goes back to the dawn of the Minifig Age. For the past two decades, I’ve been saying price increases were absolutely going to happen at some point, _and_ debunked several claims that it already had happened, or that licensed sets automatically had their prices hiked to pay for the licensing costs.

And I’m only aware of one blanket price hike. It included sets that had been out a few years, as well as announced sets that were due to release soon after. Since then, any new sets that have been announced did not go through a visible price increase because any changes were baked in when they announced their MSRP, and is clearly all part of that one big price adjustment. We just didn’t hear about them back then because we hadn’t had any official announcements for these sets at that time.

@ozbrickcreator:
Disney probably took payment from some major media outlet in exchange for exclusive rights to announce product tie-ins, and TLG wouldn’t be able to even confirm they’re planning any sets until the other company publishes first.

@tm76:
GBC needs a ball that’s just shy of two studs in diameter. The only balls that fit that criteria are soccer balls and basketballs. I can see in at least one of the More Images photos that the red ball does not have the soccer ball groove pattern (Beach Vader came with a solid white soccer ball, so I recently got to see the pattern up close and in person). It may be a Zamor Sphere, which are actually just a little larger than two studs in diameter, and will plug up many GBC modules that have chutes or channels that are precisely two studs wide. However, the difference is so minimal that you really need to check the ball against a two-stud opening to know for sure. The only other way you could really identify one in a photo of a product that’s not already known to come with one or more Zamor Spheres is if you can spot the weird little hole that’s located in one side, but they probably make a point of angling that away from the camera in any real photos, and I have no idea if it’s present in their computer model of the part.

@PurpleDave said:
" @AustinPowers:
I got the bathtub bike and put a naked Ernie in it. You would not believe how many comments such a stupid, five-minute MOC gets at public displays. Totally worth what it cost to pull it off."
I can absolutely believe that.
But you don't need a full-blown theme of extremely overpriced sets that each contain just the bare minimum of parts, in order to achieve that. A couple of those bikes, maybe with diverse crazy additions like the bathtub, plus a "Stuntz accessory pack" with a couple of ramps, hoops and other filler would have been more than enough imho.

@AustinPowers:
The problem with accessory packs is they’re difficult to track down. Michigan is over 70% of the size of Germany, and we have _ONE_ LEGO Store, and one LLDC, which are only 45 minutes apart over in the lower right corner of the state. For many residents, it’s upwards of three hours one-way to visit a LEGO Store, and that’s assuming they even carry that accessory pack. In terms of regular retail, after how poorly My Own Train performed, I think most would rather stick to self-contained sets over accessory packs. I’ve seen the new brick-built road system, but no Xtras packs.

Is that a mini Rock Raiders granite grinder in the creator house set?

@TomKazutara said:
" @Koentinius said:
" @Yorick said:
" @TomKazutara said:
"110€ for the fire plane must have been a joke "

Seems fairly priced for a larger technic set with 1134 pieces... "

I've noticed people have a really hard time grasping the scale of sets from pictures. The plane seems huge to me."

But is it tho ?
Not really if look at the wide, wheels, rotors and panels.
This is a huge one 42025 (Plus electric)"

Adjusted for inflation that set cost $167 instead of $99

@Maladar said:
" @CCC said:
" @Maladar said:
"I'm sorry but Lego have lost the plot with their pricing. You can't register profits year after year and then come up with some BS excuse that you need to increase prices. It's greedy and unethical. "

The point of most businesses is to make a profit.

Customers may not like the prices, but making a profit is not unethical. Customers have a choice to not buy at all, or only buy when discounted. "

I know very well how business works, I have several and I love making profits but unlike billion dollar corporations I don't prey on children. If you can't understand how Lego have turned from a company meant to do good to one focused solely on profits over the past 5 years alone then I don't know what to tell you. Making profits alone is not unethical but the manner in which a corporation chooses to do business can be called whichever way consumers deem it to. If you're the type that would be ok with Lego 5 years from now to charge $50 for a set they used to charge $9.99 then good for you, but you're not doing anyone any favors.

Clearly you're not a parent."

Clearly you don't operate international business with long term multi-billion goals that needs to forecast prices of raw materials and energy. All those things have registered unprecedented raises in last two years. If you want to be on top as lego is you have to think ahead. I get that you wish you can pay little for premium toys for your kids but lego never was cheap and is always willing to position themselves as a premium toy. I'm the type that's OK to buy cheaper brands if my budget gets low. And 'praying on children' is so damn absurd. It's the parents role to set boundaries and explain to kids that they cannot have everything they want. For real nobody NEEDS lego, it's just a toy. You, a customer, are not obliged to buy these products.

The 42154 2022 Ford GT Technic set is just beautiful….. wish it was built at the same scale as 42143 Ferrari Daytona SP3 etc

Might buy the unicorn ironically.

Why does the motorcycle cost 5 EUR/USD/ETC more than the space shuttle and the unicorn

@Koentinius said:
" @kyrodes said:
"People complaining about the space shuttle, but it's finally a space shuttle I can afford. I think I even have enough bricks to mod the tank and boosters. Maybe a launchpad too."

Never mind a space shuttle I can afford, a space shuttle I can display and play with. I'm not made of house."

Glad to have confirmation you aren't just a leftover gingerbread man :)

@PurpleDave: I didn't mean that an accessory pack needs to be sold only at an official LEGO store.
Over here, accessory packs to all kinds of toys are sold at every standard toy store.

@Resistian said:
"The creator space shuttle is just vastly inferior to 31066."

Different scale, and yet the new set looks more like the real-world space shuttle orbiter that we all know and love. Better *and* cheaper.

And I'll wager every penny I have that Jackthenipper was joking re 10283, in light of the above comment. Pretty obvious.

@AustinPowers:
Over here, retailers tend to skip the accessory packs, which makes them not only difficult to source, but easy to be unaware that they even exist. There are sets that I’ve only been able to locate on LEGO.com by searching for a set number that I already knew. I haven’t been able to find them through the By Theme or By Interest listings, so I’m not sure where they’re cataloged internally.

@Jackthenipper said:
"The creator space shuttle is just vastly inferior to 10283 ."

It's not a fair comparison. Totally different scale and quality.

10283 was a spectacular set, among the best I have ever built in 20 years of LEGO life.

I'm just gonna say that all other Lego space shuttles are inferior to 8480.
Just my opinion! :)

@gylman said:
" @Jackthenipper said:
"The creator space shuttle is just vastly inferior to 10283 ."

It's not a fair comparison. Totally different scale and quality.

10283 was a spectacular set, among the best I have ever built in 20 years of LEGO life. "

Dude, seriously. It was a joke.

So, of all the Shuttles being discussed here, which one is the best scale fit for the ISS set 21321 ?

@sgllama:
I would assume the one that’s included in 21321 would be most correctly scaled to 21321.

@Ridgeheart:
Ooh, I hadn’t noticed that. Kodos and Kang are my favorite Simpsons characters. Maybe I can PAB the parts for just that portion.