New Buzz Lightyear set!

Mr_Cross

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cbpf04_rqr1/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
What a lovely looking set.
Bonus Trans yellow windscreen!

vizzitor

It's on the Lego shop for €49.99: https://www.lego.com/en-ie/product/xl-15-spaceship-76832

I haven't seen anything related to the Buzz Lightyear series at all but this ship looks nice. Really reminds me of the Vipers from Battlestar Galactica.

There's a couple of other sets too:

https://www.lego.com/en-ie/product/zurg-battle-76831

https://www.lego.com/en-ie/product/zyclops-chase-76830

Shib

All three look pretty good from a design point - the 4+ set doesn’t even look too obviously a “juniorised” set either which is nice.

The ship definitely looks like it would make a good starting point for a Battlestar Galactica Viper MOC. 

The film is one of those that looks like it could be quite interesting or just a generic pile of crap…

sipuss

A stand and a plaque for a 50€ starship that doesn't look that overpriced? In 2022? Love it.

There's an alternate universe somewhere, where this applies to Star Wars sets and everyone lives in peace and harmony.

560Heliport

That XL-15 looks fantastic! The box art is great too. 

560Heliport

Are those new pieces at the back of the engines? They look new to me.

Mr_Cross

The exhausts are actually these:

https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?id=184827
technic differential housings.

vizzitor

Ah no wonder I'd never seen them. Largish Technic sets may as well be alien tech to me anyway.

Bumblepants

The real question, will the new Zurg set put a dent in the Construct-a-Zurg aftermarket prices?

560Heliport

I will be waiting for the store to open on April 24th!

560Heliport

Mr_Cross said:

The exhausts are actually these:

https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?id=184827
technic differential housings.

Ah! New to me. They make great jet/rocket exhausts.

Mr_Cross

Interesting... the director is an AFOL!
https://twitter.com/AngusMacLane/status/1508431010148413444
...this really made me smile.

Fizyx

I have to say, the Buzz Lightyear sets have so far hit me the same way the trailers for the movies have:  They look surprisingly and unexpectedly solid and and I expect to get/see them pretty soon after release, which is something that if you had told me I would be saying it a year ago I probably would have laughed at you.

Astrobricks

Love that XL-15 :)

SumoLego

Am I the only one kinda confused by this?  I get this movie (franchise) will make a bazillion dollars, but it's just weird to me.

Maybe we'll get a gritty western franchise starring a good-natured cowboy and his sidekicks bringing justice to a frontier town?

Fauch

I'm not up to date on Lightyear, but why would it be surprising that it looks solid ? It's Pixar and toy story movies were great.

CCC

SumoLego said:

Am I the only one kinda confused by this?  I get this movie (franchise) will make a bazillion dollars, but it's just weird to me.

Maybe we'll get a gritty western franchise starring a good-natured cowboy and his sidekicks bringing justice to a frontier town?

The Buzz of Star Command series was quite popular. The Buzz backstory is probably more interesting than Woody's plus they covered some western themes and characters in the original movies.

Shib

SumoLego said:

Am I the only one kinda confused by this?  I get this movie (franchise) will make a bazillion dollars, but it's just weird to me.

Maybe we'll get a gritty western franchise starring a good-natured cowboy and his sidekicks bringing justice to a frontier town?

As I understand it this is meant to be the movie that the Buzz Lightyear action figure was based on…which in itself had a load of potential continuity problems but kind of makes sense.

The origin of the Woody doll was already covered in Toy Story 2, so while Lightyear as a concept is a little out of line with the established Toy Story universe it’s only a little out of line. A gritty version of Woody’s Round Up would tear any continuity to pieces.

Shib

Missed the edit window but realised they could actually easily sidestep the potential continuity problems by having a post credit scene of grown up Andy watching the film and complaining about it being a gritty reboot of the old cartoon.

CCC

Shib said:

Missed the edit window but realised they could actually easily sidestep the potential continuity problems by having a post credit scene of grown up Andy watching the film and complaining about it being a gritty reboot of the old cartoon.

And then buying a $500 action figure of gritty Woody.

Modeltrainman

I only want these for the Toy Story parts. I've lost interest in modern Pixar. Last movie I saw was Cars 3.

daewoo

Shib said:

The film is one of those that looks like it could be quite interesting or just a generic pile of crap…

Based on Disney's recent history with almost everything, I'm betting it will be the latter.  Maybe one day they'll start to care again about good story-telling.

benbacardi

daewoo said:

Based on Disney's recent history with almost everything, I'm betting it will be the latter.  Maybe one day they'll start to care again about good story-telling.

Hard disagree on this… Encanto, Raya, Soul, Luca, Onward… 

Switchfoot55

Whereas I do agree with some recent hits by Disney (Encanto, Raya, Soul, Luca, Onward, Coco, etc...), I personally feel that Pixar shifted significantly in their story telling around the release of Incredibles 2 which took a hard turn from their past by including swear words (in a kids movie...really?) and introducing much darker themes/characters like Screenslaver. Though these specific themes haven't been directly repeated since Incredibles 2, I very much felt the shift in their movies as a whole at this point forward. 

I have no issue with deeper meaning in movies, even for kids. Those themes can challenge us to the core and cause us to consider our own lives in very meaningful ways. But, even as far back as Wall-E (and maybe further), the growing need to include a sub-narrative has only grown. I'm not here to say any of the messages are bad/disrespectful/controversial/etc... However, I know I enjoy movies for myself and my kids that are, at their core, just a lighthearted kids movie. 

Lightyear appears to be a visual masterpiece and will certainly be entertaining in it's own right. But even the previews give a feeling to me of that deeper sub-narrative, whatever it may be. I'll just approach it cautiously. I tend to reserve my judgement of movies until after I've seen them as knowing something first hand usually offers a greater ability to give an accurate opinion; even if only one's personal opinion that may or may not be shared by others. 

The sets look to be a fun addition to the world of LEGO at the very least!

SumoLego

CCC said:

And then buying a $500 action figure of gritty Woody.

Where can I buy this?  Or three of them, actually.

CCC

SumoLego said:

CCC said:

And then buying a $500 action figure of gritty Woody.

Where can I buy this?  Or three of them, actually.

For $500 my kids have probably got a Woody figure that has been left in a sandpit, if he's gritty enough. 

SumoLego

benbacardi said:

daewoo said:

Maybe one day they'll start to care again about good story-telling.

Hard disagree on this… Encanto, Raya, Soul, Luca, Onward… 

I don't think we can all expect every single Pixar movie to have the same quality as the first batch.  The writing teams had a decade to work and re-work good ideas, themes and stories.  Now, I'm sure observing the production schedule takes precedent.

Coco was pretty good, and Soul was an unusual departure for the current social climate.  I can't say as I disagree with the rest of the recent offerings, TS4 included.  Maybe I'm jaded because of Marvel and SW quality clearly going off of a cliff, but there is an obvious lack of good storytelling with most of the major studios nowadays.

(But I think it is unreasonable to expect TS, Monsters Inc., Up, Incredibles 1/2, Inside Out, Wall-e, etc., every time out.  The creative pool gets stretched or dries up.  Or sometimes a story just doesn't work.)

SumoLego

The Red Panda movie was also pretty novel.  For those of us that enjoy movies about the mid-'90's in Toronto... that have sometimes unreasonable Asian mothers.

panchox1

in recent releases, both Disney and Pixar, Soul has been the weakest one. the rest have all been pretty great in my opinion. 

SumoLego

I have to admit zombieing through Raya, Encanto, Luca and the like.  I didn't put much thought into whether the stories were good or my usual over-analysis.

Was there anything that happens that insults my intelligence or is obviously contrived to move a disjointed plot along?

iwybs

Encanto has a plot that fits together pretty well, the only problem is that it's hard to guess exactly how old everyone is canonically if you're trying to work out all the details of the timeline.

MaffyD

With all my kids I've seen pretty much every Pixar movie released in the last 2 decades. Probably every Disney films too, come to think of it Edit: definitely NOT every Disney film. There are hundreds of them! Ooh, actually not Luca - huh. The worst of the Pixar films are 'workmanlike' - they get you from a to b without much to amaze or involve the viewer. Onward is a bit like that, so was Finding Dory (YMMV).

But in the main they all have a good story, well-done animation, great voice acting, and the right mix of action and pathos and little nods to the grown-ups that I find them altogether entertaining. Which is pretty awesome for children's animation.

I expect this to be the same. The trailer with David Bowie music gave me goosebumps and I loved the spaceship so much. Seeing as we won't get a 90th anniversary Classic Space set this is the closest I'll get I reckon. I'll take it, thanks.

PDelahanty

I have a 3 year-old and I'm wondering what the rating of Lightyear will be.  One rumor site claims it might be PG-13...but then Lego is making #10962 ...which is a Duplo set.  So IS it appropriate or young kids or not?

iwybs

I would be very, very surprised if it was PG-13.  I expect a PG film about like The Incredibles.

Modeltrainman

Modeltrainman said:

I only want these for the Toy Story parts. I've lost interest in modern Pixar. Last movie I saw was Cars 3.

Oh, wait. I disliked Incredibles 2 so much, I forgot it existed...

Lordmoral

Lightyear sets are so great that they can be integrated in regular SW dioramas.