New parts discussion

wardm

@Bumblepants
it's a new part that has been introduced as a large tile for the covers of the new Disney Storybooks! 

Bumblepants

Oh I guess I missed the storybooks having covers. I have never seem them apart from opened up.

catwrangler

These are so cute!

andhe

If you don't already, it's always worth checking out newelementary.com for new parts. It's a brilliant source of keeping up to date with any major new part releases (especially from themes that I don't collect, such as princesses above) and I always enjoy seeing what their talented writers do with the parts. You soon learn there no such thing as a useless part! 

wardm

Have these 6x6x1 window/door frames appeared somewhere else before? 

Classicsmiley

wardm said:

Have these 6x6x1 window/door frames appeared somewhere else before? 

Yes

https://brickset.com/parts/design-42205

Bumblepants

I just noticed the 1x1 flower is now Coral color in a bunch of summer sets. That is a wonderful color for that part.

Fauch

someone mentioned the 4x3 or 4x4 armor like element, most notably visible on the Ninjago rhinoceros?

Paperballpark

In the press release for Monkie Kid, it says there are twelve new elements created for the theme, listing five which are heads and hair. Looking at the photos, I can only see two others:

New Wheel Hub on the white bike

New 'lightsaber hilt' on Monkie Kid's staff and the flag holders

Anyone got any ideas as to the others?

EDIT: I've just seen on New Elementary what looks like a smaller version of the round curved brick:



EDIT: Someone in the comments there has pointed out that both the green wheel hub and the round curved brick aren't new!

pvp3020

The horns on the bull mech are new.

Paperballpark

I thought they were on a CMF figure?

Classicsmiley

The small horns have been around for a long time.  He's talking about this:

andhe

Elements might have been created for the theme but ironically used elsewhere first. Could be what they mean... 

andhe

Can't edit my comment, but what I mean by used is appear in a set that hits release first.

Paperballpark

Yeah I know what you mean :)

I didn't think those horns were new

Fauch

-Monkie kid's hair
-Light saber hilt
-Big fig body
-Bull helmet
-Pig head
-Girl in red dress's hair
-Bull Horn
-Mei's hair
-Motorbikes?
-Red son's hair
-Piece of clothes for monkey mech

Lyichir

Fauch said:

-Monkie kid's hair
-Light saber hilt
-Big fig body
-Bull helmet
-Pig head
-Girl in red dress's hair
-Bull Horn
-Mei's hair
-Motorbikes?
-Red son's hair
-Piece of clothes for monkey mech

The motorbike shell appeared in City earlier this year. And I doubt fabric/foil elements are being counted among the new molded elements—they aren't molded, for starters, just die-cut from a sheet.

The headphones around Monkie Kid's neck are new, though. And the bigfig body may be counted multiple times since it's a preassembled element (and unlike some bigfigs, both the top and bottom sections of it seem to be designed specifically for this character).

wardm

Is this a new neck attachement? And new colour for ball pin? 

Classicsmiley

The ball pin color is new, but the neck piece is not.

https://brickset.com/parts/design-15406

Paperballpark

Well! You think you know every current element, and then you realise you don't...

CCC

Isn't it just a tow ball on technic pin? There are red ones of those in the Rexcelsior.

Classicsmiley

CCC said:

Isn't it just a tow ball on technic pin? There are red ones of those in the Rexcelsior.

Ah, I stand corrected then. :)

Aanchir

Here are some interesting/exciting new parts I spotted in the latest Brickset part browser update (pulled from LEGO Customer Service)! Most of these have been spotted in pics of the assembled sets, but this gives a slightly clearer look at some of them:

New 8-wide plane nose and tail pieces:

• https://brickset.com/parts/design-67241
• https://brickset.com/parts/design-67243
• https://brickset.com/parts/design-67244
• https://brickset.com/parts/design-67245
  

Unlike the old ones, the tail elements are not combined, and have a cutout rather than a fused plate to attach the horizontal stabilizer to. This should add a lot to their versatility — for example, allowing you to mix and match nose and tail pieces for other uses like with their six-wide counterparts. The cross section also now seems like it matches up better with other wedge pieces rather than being a smooth curve from front to back.

• 2x2 pentagonal wedge curved slope: https://brickset.com/parts/design-66956
• 1x2 half cylinder panel: https://brickset.com/parts/design-68013
• Straight tube slide: https://brickset.com/parts/design-49736
• Curved tube slide: https://brickset.com/parts/design-49737
• 1x4x3 inverted slope: https://brickset.com/parts/6296773/roof-tile-1x4x3-inv-deg-60

These are just a few general-purpose parts that jumped out at me. It'll be interesting to see what other uses designers and builders find for them in the future!

maniac

Bricks and Pieces opened up to more countries today with a new look.

Still annoyingly buggy as before though.

sonatine01

@maniac thanks for the heads up but can I ask if you managed to place an order yourself ? 

Ive tried but every time I went to place the order it wouldn’t work. A 50 minute wait to speak to them on the phone (hopefully they don’t charge me for the call this time) and they just said try again later. Unfortunately they couldn’t take the order over the phone as I was after 90 parts and that’s too much for a phone order 😞

maniac

sonatine01 said:

@maniac thanks for the heads up but can I ask if you managed to place an order yourself ? 

Ive tried but every time I went to place the order it wouldn’t work. A 50 minute wait to speak to them on the phone (hopefully they don’t charge me for the call this time) and they just said try again later. Unfortunately they couldn’t take the order over the phone as I was after 90 parts and that’s too much for a phone order 😞

I managed to get an order through at about 7pm BST yesterday.

It took 3 attempts to get the order to checkout.
- I get Access Denied 'Banned' often on Lego's website where I have to wait around 20 mins (although I just used hotspot from my mobile to get around that).
- Also the good ol' one where the parts don't carry over to cart.
- Images also wont appear properly currently probably because of server load.

Lego really need to put more investment into their backend and less into making the frontend look pretty.

sonatine01

^ yeah defo, I know there’s a lot going on at the moment but the Lego site has always sucked and now it’s just a lot harder to sort any problems out. 

To be fair mine all went into the cart everything was ok just wouldn’t do the last step. It showed up at their end that I’d tried to order parts and there wasn’t any payment issues it just would’nt work. 

My wife’s just rang and they’ve said she can email them the list of parts and they’ll put the order in, not sure why they wouldn’t do that for me ? 

Mr_Cross

#43179 The new Mickey and Minnie Mouse, has what looks to be quarter circle cylinder corners  in a 2x2 size to create the hosepipe arms and legs. New Elementary highlighted the massive half radar dishes with the eyes on them.
...and hold the presses, is that the reissue classic space helmet in black for their noses?! That's the last of the original colours, just green and light bluish grey needed to round out the officially available torsos! Verrrry interesting!

Mr_Cross

Actually, looks like New Elementary has all the new parts covered:
https://www.newelementary.com/2020/06/lego-disney-43179-mickey-minnie-mouse.html?m=1
I was wrong, the hosepipe pieces are 45⁰ pieces not 90⁰!

KungFuKenny

There are also Fabuland half barrels in red for the first time since #3683 in 1988...

bmwlego

Also new mold version of the classic space helmets in black for their noses! Maybe we get black classic space figs down the road?

msanders

Also a recolour in piece (41682) that I love, now in medium nougat!

Bumblepants

So many nice recolors in the Mario sets. My favorite is the dark orange 2x2 with groove brick. Those have only existed in black and dark gray and are great for building designs.

msanders

Bumblepants said:

So many nice recolors in the Mario sets. My favorite is the dark orange 2x2 with groove brick. Those have only existed in black and dark gray and are great for building designs.

Exactly my thoughts as well! Also, some nice new pieces. I quite like the idea of using the new plate pieces in minecraft sets. The green ones will be really useful in creating grass areas. 

Classicsmiley

Bumblepants said:

So many nice recolors in the Mario sets. My favorite is the dark orange 2x2 with groove brick. Those have only existed in black and dark gray and are great for building designs.

Which set do you see that piece in?

msanders

Classicsmiley said:

Bumblepants said:

So many nice recolors in the Mario sets. My favorite is the dark orange 2x2 with groove brick. Those have only existed in black and dark gray and are great for building designs.

Which set do you see that piece in?

It forms the base of the finish flag pole in the starter set. I wish they made a 1x2 with groove as well in dark orange. Whilst they're at it, do the sand green one as well! 

Bumblepants

I'm strangely taken by the new chonky brick separator, especially since it comes in black. Should be fun to squeeze into builds.

Classicsmiley

Where did you see that?

pxchris

That was the most exciting part of the new announcement to me too @Bumblepants!

Classicsmiley

Ah, I see it now.

Bumblepants

Sadly New Elementary is reporting it won't be on Bricks and Pieces any time soon.

pxchris

Bumblepants said:

Sadly New Elementary is reporting it won't be on Bricks and Pieces any time soon.

Booooooooooooooooooo!!!

CCC

The handle seems to splay so you cannot put them next to each other in a build.

Switchfoot55

^Well, not with that attitude at least...

Bumblepants

Are the 2x6 tiles in the Nintendo set new?

benbacardi

Yep: https://twitter.com/NewElementary/status/1283014245727125504

560Heliport

Here's something I find strange... in the Monkie Kid sets, you get an extra of the teal headphones piece, but no extras of the gold piece that's similar to a lightsaber hilt. The hilt thing is also used in other colors. If you're missing one, it affects the build; if you were missing the headphones, you can still build Monkie Kid. 

560Heliport

At Bricks and Pieces, the headphones are $.88, the "handle, no. 2" is $.19 for Dark Stone Grey, $.41 for Gold Ink. I don't understand why there's spare headphones, but not "handle, no. 2." 

BrickByBrick

Because the headphones are a smaller part with less mass. The reason Lego includes extras is because they use weight based QC checks. Certain parts that are small could get through the qc checks missing one of them so Lego includes an intentional extra to guarantee that each set will have at least as many as needed. 

560Heliport

Yes, I know all that. But the "handle, no. 2" is only slightly larger than a "light sword shaft", of which I have many spares. Perhaps the weight of a light sword shaft is just under the "you get a spare" weight, and the handle, no. 2 is just over. I just feel the handle is much more essential to the build than the headphones.