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21177 Creeper Ambush $10
21178 The Fox Lodge $20
21179 The Mushroom House $20
21180 The Guardian Duel $20
21181 The Rabbit Ranch $30
21183 The Training Ground $60
So it looks like the Minecraft team is making some of the rarer and expensive mobs available for significantly cheaper. I am very happy to see rabbits return after missing out on them. If they include axolotls in 21180 that will definitely be a bestseller.
The price points are all very low, so it will be interesting to see what each comprises. I'm struggling to see what kind of "Lodge" or "House" you could get for $20, or even "Ranch" for $30.
#21171 The Horse Stable
#21165 The Bee Farm
#21158 The Panda Nursery
#21133 The Witch Hut
#21129 The Mushroom Island
#21121 The Desert Outpost
#21115 The First Night
#21114 The Farm
I think that's the main sets that I can see. Anything missed?
http://bricksfanz.com/lego-minecraft-magazine-coming-soon/
https://www.thebrickpost.com/news/lego-minecraft-magazine-on-its-way/
For purely personal reasons, I do hope this is a one-off, as I'll find it difficult keeping up with all the polybags, for theme completeness' sake!
Apparently, 8 Brickset members own this polybag (#662101). Anyone here care to add any more details?
As I revealed a number of weeks ago, LEGO Minicraft will be joining the LEGO Magazines line-up. There will be a one-off issue available in December before the magazine becomes a permanent addition to the range in 2022.
http://bricksfanz.com/lego-magazines-october-round-up-5/
I do like the look of all the sets and will, of course, be getting them all, but a couple of comments on each:
#21177 Creeper Ambush - No idea what that Creeper is meant to be! It's not a Dungeons-branded set, so your guess is as good as mine!
#21178 The Fox Lodge - Baby Fox, Snow Fox, a Fox-themed player skin, a map and another Drowned. All nice.
#21179 The Mushroom House - Nothing too exciting here. The spider has an attachment for a Skeleton Jockey.
#21180 The Guardian Duel - Probably my favourite set from the wave. Elder Guardian, Guardian, 3 different-coloured Axolotls! Plus a new Glow Squid and a player skin. I really like this set.
#21181 The Rabbit Ranch - The Sunflowers are nice, plus another player skin.
#21183 The Training Ground - A very "Ninja"-inspired set, with 2 player skins, a "dojo", some nice trees and foliage and a bat.
They do seem to be keen on these animal-themed "player-built" structures! By my totting up we have ones themed as follows:
Fox
Rabbit
Pig
Sheep
Creeper
Chicken
I wonder what they'll do next! A Cow, Wolf, Horse? Or another monster-related one?
It definitely looks as if you're going for a Lush Cave biome here, with the Spore Blossom, Cave Vines, Dripleaf plants etc. I'll expect to see an Azalea Tree on the surface soon. Can't wait to see the end result, as I've really enjoyed your previous MOCs and have built most of them so far. :-)
I've already created a BL wanted list and will try to get round to getting the parts and building this in the New Year at some point.
Regarding the Mushroom House and Fox Lodge not having backs, I can't comment from a place of authority about the Fox Lodge, though from pictures it definitely looks like it only has three sides and is open, but I do have the Mushroom House and it is definitely enclosed all the way round. I am with you and am a little disappointed with this development.
Edited to add: It looks as if #21181 The Rabbit Ranch and #21183 The Training Grounds are also open at the back. Boo!!
With the amount of additional content being added into the core game, I'm sure we're going to have a few more years for the theme! :-)
I have been very pleasantly surprised by where Lego have taken the Minecraft theme overall, with a few minor caveats:
- I do still prefer sets to be lifted up by a brick, rather than on just a flat plate. I think it gave the sets a very distinctive look. I get why they have moved away from doing so, likely due to them being rather "wasted" parts. It's no major hassle to add a few 2x2 and 2x4 bricks myself, so no biggie...
- Agreeing with what you perhaps alluded to above, I'm still not 100% taken by the sheer number of "mob houses" that we have got, with more to come, I am sure! They are all very nice, but we'll end up with a whole village of the damn things! ;-)
- The recent trend for "backless" buildings is also a shame.
I'm not 100% sure about your "Minecraft BURP" idea, but would certainly help with building larger mountains and the like, so I wouldn't be totally averse to one!I really enjoyed this one! Nice and colourful, lots of different elements. I especially like the Cave Vines with Glow Berries and the Spore Blossom. Other new elements you can see are Small and Large Dripleaves, Moss Blocks and Azalea Bushes. On the surface is an Azalea Tree.
My only slight criticisms are: Firstly, that the Azalea Tree should have a lot more flowers in it (https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Azalea_tree). It's far too green! I'll probably add some more flower blocks into it myself at some point. Secondly, there are a couple of semi-loose ore blocks which, to keep in line with usual practise, should be on 2x2 jumpers, to allow them to be more easily "mined". I have already made that very tiny modification. As I say, really small criticisms of a really great-looking MOC! Thanks @veyniac!
Firstly, I picked up #21183 The Training Grounds the other day and, I have to say, I far prefer your version @veyniac of the Azalea Tree (lack of flowers notwithstanding!) and, especially, your Cave Vines with Glow Berries. I think your Azalea Bushes are also better.
The leaf part that you used isn't a staple of the Minecraft theme, so makes sense that TLG went with a simpler-looking build, I suppose.
Secondly, I picked up a rather nice little polybag from eBay, #30432 The Turtle Beach, which I hadn't seen before. A cheap way to get another Turtle and some Turtle Eggs.
I'm waiting for the Lego Minecraft magazine to make it to the UK, so that I can grab #662102 TNT Launcher and Skeleton.
#21184 The Bakery - Love the new Goat, "Baker" and Player skin. Also, is that a new piece for a loaf of Bread?
#21185 The Nether Bastion - A nice bit of Nether scenery, with a new Piglin, some Netherite ingots, Netherite items, a new Strider and a Magma Cube. Plus a new Player skin.
#21186 The Ice Castle - Another two new Player skins (these seem to be coming thick and fast!) a Shield and an interesting-looking structure. Will need to see more pics to make out more details.
#21188 The Llama Village - The Llama structure does look really impressive, but how many player-built structures of this size do we need? We also get some new Villagers, Illagers / Pillagers, two Llamas a pink Baby Sheep and another two Player skins. Also a Well and a couple of other small side-builds.
They all look great, but I am starting to get a little disappointed that the largest sets that we are getting from Minecraft are now a high percentage "player-built" structures, which don't add very much to the modularity of the sets overall. It strikes me that the designers are running out of ideas! I do like them but, perhaps, not quite so many!
#21185 The Nether Bastion - The new Piglin looks like it is a Piglin Brute.
Again, I would prefer less Player-built structures overall and more focus on in-game structures and areas that can be used to adventure in, but I guess they are selling well, hence their proliferation. There are any number of areas that TLG could create sets for, that have not yet been produced yet, for example:
End City
Revisit the Nether Fortress in some way
Buried Treasure - a small set with some sand, a hidden chest and a map, plus some surface detail, for interest
A proper representation of a Pillager Outpost. #21159 The Pillager Outpost had some nice features, but was underwhelming (very) , as a structure.
Ocean Ruins
Conduit
Geode
A proper representation of a Lush Cave, rather than the underwhelming afterthought in #21183 The Training Grounds
Dripstone Cave
What I do like, overall, is that TLG are definitely bringing us "stuff" from the new game updates, so a thumbs-up from me on that! :-)
It might be cool to combine the ocean ruins with a conduit. Maybe a couple normal ruins and then one ruin the player has rebuilt into a base, with a nearby conduit, kelp farm, etc.
I feel like there's a lack of pine/spruce forest representation, but I might have missed an appearance somewhere. Maybe a couple village houses with mossy boulders and tall pines. There hasn't yet been an abandoned village; that might be an interesting option for a taiga biome.
I guess there hasn't yet been a desert temple or woodland mansion, but the temple might be too plain to be marketable and the mansion would be difficult to do justice at a reasonable size.
Desert Temple / Woodland Mansion sets have been talked about at various times but, as you say, probably wouldn't make great sets for various reasons.
This makes the chest look far closer to the in-game representation and is a great change! I'm going to get a ton of these, so that I can replace the lids on all my chests. Does anyone want a load of old lids? ;-)
I'm going to have to leave out the Dolphin in the Coral Reef, as the printed eye bricks are just not available from BL in the UK. I'll just re-use the one I have from #21152 Pirate Ship.
Looking forward to seeing what you come up with for the Ancient City. I've never seen one in game but, having checked on the Minecraft Wiki, wow! In the words of Nigel Tufnel, "It's like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is none — none more black." ;-)
https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/File:Ancient_City_NW.png