New parts discussion

wardm

Are these parts from the new disney princess sets new? (The cloud/smoke part from Aurora’s cottage and the swing from Rapunzels tower)

560Heliport

The cloud piece is in #80015 Monkie Kid's Cloud Roadster (not released yet).

Astrobricks

^^ Also, are the tan 1x2 bricks to which the swing is attached new?

Paperballpark

Hard to say as the photo is terrible quality, but I suspect they're the 1x2 brick with integrated technic pin. Makes sense as it's likely a 4+ set.

Paperballpark

I found a better photo. I looks like I thought.

Astrobricks

Paperballpark said:

Hard to say as the photo is terrible quality, but I suspect they're the 1x2 brick with integrated technic pin. Makes sense as it's likely a 4+ set.

The original crappy image made me think it was a 1x1 brick initially, until I saw the two 1x8 arches.

benbacardi

Paperballpark said:

Hard to say as the photo is terrible quality, but I suspect they're the 1x2 brick with integrated technic pin. Makes sense as it's likely a 4+ set.

It's 6+ according to the box art that's leaked. 

Bumblepants

That swing looks straight outta Fabuland

KungFuKenny

Bumblepants said:

That swing looks straight outta Fabuland

Little known fact— “Straight Outta Fabuland” was N.W.A.’s first choice of title for their debut album... luckily cooler heads prevailed and the rest is history!

Paperballpark

The Art sets have this new part, presumably for enabling them to be hung on the wall:

KungFuKenny

Looks like the new Bespin set has the pitchfork in Light Blue Grey for the first time...

wardm

KungFuKenny said:

Looks like the new Bespin set has the pitchfork in Light Blue Grey for the first time...

They used this in #75222 as well!

MrJackson

Which, if I recall, they specifically mentioned in the designer video as being a perfect part and were surprised it had never been made in light gray - either old light gray or Medium Stone Gray. It's an old part, too, that's been around for years....early '80s maybe?

Bumblepants

The new City set has the forestmen hat in light gray too for a statue which is pretty cool.

andhe

Yes was just about to mention that. Will look good with the classic peasant torso I reckon. Cue 'new castle theme' rumour mill...

Crazy when the most exciting part of a $200 lego set (to me) is a recoloured hat... 😆 

KungFuKenny

wardm said:

KungFuKenny said:

Looks like the new Bespin set has the pitchfork in Light Blue Grey for the first time...

They used this in #75222 as well!

Interesting!  There are 2 part numbers - I looked at 4496 (the older pitchfork) which only showed brown and reddish brown... 

while the part used in Cloud City and now the Bespin Duel is 95345, which also comes in red in a few Monkie Kid sets this year...

Lyichir

KungFuKenny said:

wardm said:

KungFuKenny said:

Looks like the new Bespin set has the pitchfork in Light Blue Grey for the first time...

They used this in #75222 as well!

Interesting!  There are 2 part numbers - I looked at 4496 (the older pitchfork) which only showed brown and reddish brown... 

while the part used in Cloud City and now the Bespin Duel is 95345, which also comes in red in a few Monkie Kid sets this year...

Yup. Like updates of several other older parts (the 1x1x4 antenna and the classic minifig spear as just a few examples), the newer version squares off the end so that it can connect to an open stud more effectively.

madforLEGO

wardm said:

KungFuKenny said:

Looks like the new Bespin set has the pitchfork in Light Blue Grey for the first time...

They used this in #75222 as well!

I thought the grey pitchfork looked familiar, but not due to SW sets, it was also in #70840

Fodder

Does anyone know what this bird might be?
From #60271

560Heliport

Looks like the seagull to me. #21310 for instance.

Fodder

560Heliport said:

Looks like the seagull to me. #21310 for instance.

Was hoping for a new bird..

560Heliport

I'm always hoping for more Lego animals...

andhe

They need to reprint the newish white/blue bird in grey for some city pigeons. Or even a way to get those white birds in large quantities would be nice.

560Heliport

#30412 has two birds. 

madforLEGO

560Heliport said:

#30412 has two birds. 

BnP also now has the white ones available (finally, as they used to be considered 'licensed').

Astrobricks

madforLEGO said:

560Heliport said:

#30412 has two birds. 

BnP also now has the white ones available (finally, as they used to be considered 'licensed').

Good thing BirdCorp finally went bankrupt ;-)

madforLEGO

The bird is the word

Tkatt

There are 478 new parts in the database today. Lots of recolors but there are few parts I'd never seen before. Most seem to be from the NES set and the Mario Bros sets. This one stood out to me. 

The most exciting thing for me is that the new brick separator from the Art sets is available from Bricks&Pieces. 

andhe

madforLEGO said:

560Heliport said:

#30412 has two birds. 

BnP also now has the white ones available (finally, as they used to be considered 'licensed').

Thanks!

EDIT: 94p...oof! Think I'll be hanging on a while longer. 

CCC

Fodder said:

Does anyone know what this bird might be?
From #60271

It's funny what you see in new sets. I look at 60271 and see the light bluish grey forestman's hat in the statue. Nothing else.

Fodder

CCC said:

Fodder said:

Does anyone know what this bird might be?
From #60271

It's funny what you see in new sets. I look at 60271 and see the light bluish grey forestman's hat in the statue. Nothing else.

I saw the bird almost straight away, but had no idea what the comments were referring to when discussing the (not)monorail 

Astrobricks

Tkatt said:

There are 478 new parts in the database today. Lots of recolors but there are few parts I'd never seen before. Most seem to be from the NES set and the Mario Bros sets. This one stood out to me. 

The most exciting thing for me is that the new brick separator from the Art sets is available from Bricks&Pieces. 

I just noticed this in that new list:

https://brickset.com/parts/design-67440

Paperballpark

Tkatt said:

There are 478 new parts in the database today. Lots of recolors but there are few parts I'd never seen before. Most seem to be from the NES set and the Mario Bros sets. This one stood out to me. 

The most exciting thing for me is that the new brick separator from the Art sets is available from Bricks&Pieces. 

The new parts list that you link to doesn't seem to be working. It says 478 parts, but none are listed. @Huw a bug somewhere?

Paperballpark

I've worked out the problem. For some reason there was no default view! Once I selected 'gallery' they all appeared.

Astrobricks

^^ I could swear I looked through all 478 parts in that list and never found the SNOT plate with two friction pins on the back.

560Heliport

@Astrobricks If you choose Medium Stone Grey, there are 36, and it's roughly in the middle.

MrShinyAndNew

KungFuKenny said:

wardm said:

KungFuKenny said:

Looks like the new Bespin set has the pitchfork in Light Blue Grey for the first time...

They used this in #75222 as well!

Interesting!  There are 2 part numbers - I looked at 4496 (the older pitchfork) which only showed brown and reddish brown... 

while the part used in Cloud City and now the Bespin Duel is 95345, which also comes in red in a few Monkie Kid sets this year...

If I recall correctly the old pitchfork mold was lost at some point, and had to be redesigned.

andhe

Seems to have been flattened off at the end. They did that with the spear and the antenna as well. 

Astrobricks

andhe said:

Seems to have been flattened off at the end. They did that with the spear and the antenna as well. 

@Lyichir explained that above (Aug 1)

Aanchir

To those asking about the swing, it's already showing up in white in #41398! I definitely understand the Fabuland comparisons, especially with it making its debut appearance in a 4+ set. But I feel like it's a step up in versatility from its Fabuland equivalents, since the shape is kept pretty basic/utilitarian rather than overly detailed or decorative, and this new swing piece doesn't need an equally-specialized "frame".

LEGO is definitely getting pretty good at redesigning a lot of that type of stuff a little more customization friendly. Certainly, slide and stair pieces like https://brickset.com/parts/design-27976 and https://brickset.com/parts/design-28466 might rub some folks the wrong way — I myself remain frustrated the stair piece's top and bottom steps are visibly longer than the intermediate ones! But I definitely find them way more tolerable than stuff like the Fabuland slide and Fabuland spiral stairs. Likewise, I love how neatly the window, door, and wall panel elements in 4+ sets fit in neatly with the existing system of panel and window/door frame pieces. Growing up in the 90s, I encountered a frustrating number of sets where different sorts of windows and doors could be wildly inconsistent in scale due to using molds that had been introduced for specific use in radically different themes.

Cymbeline

Does anyone know what the statue in the new CITY set #60271 is supposed to represent?

Paperballpark

Robin Hood? In one of the images I think I see a pair of handcuffs clipped to his wrists, which would explain the arms being bent back.

Brainslugged

Cymbeline said:

Does anyone know what the statue in the new CITY set #60271 is supposed to represent?

I just looked it up on the Lego website to see if that gave any clues... and saw the price. £170 for that pile of randomness??????

Astrobricks

Are the big Juniors-y tram ends in #60271 new?

Classicsmiley

They look pretty similar to the one in #60197

andhe

Cymbeline said:

Does anyone know what the statue in the new CITY set #60271 is supposed to represent?

The set is based on the Lego City Adventures cartoon, so their may be some clue their. Apparently that also explains why the Mayor is in a corn costume... 🤷‍♂️

andhe

There* there*

(sorry, autocorrect...) 

560Heliport

Don't you just love when "autocorrect" "corrects" a correct word? 

Astrobricks

560Heliport said:

Don't you just love when "autocorrect" "corrects" a correct word? 

You don’t know what he originally typed :) 
To be fair, I have noticed autocorrect make proper sense of some complete gobbledygook, but also it will change a perfectly spelled actual word, correct in its context, into something insane.

560Heliport

I just assumed @andhe typed "there" and autocorrect changed it to "their".