Like in previous years, LEGO will be releasing a wave of sets to celebrate the start of the New Lunar Year and today we've had official images (although not an official reveal) of some of those sets.
The Trotting Lantern is the biggest set of the wave coming in at 1,021 pieces, including 5 minifigures, and will retail for $129.99, which will probably be between £109.99 - £119.99 in the UK. Like all of the other Lunar New Year sets it will be available to buy from 1st January 2025.
Like in previous years, LEGO will be releasing a wave of sets to celebrate the start of the New Lunar Year and today we've had official images (although not an official reveal) of some of those sets.
We'll start off with the Good Fortune set (80117) which will have 1,021 pieces and will retail for $89.99, which will probably be £79.99 in the UK. Like all of the other Lunar New Year sets it will be available to buy from 1st January 2025.
One of the sets in the next wave of LEGO Botanicals has been leaked today and it's the Pretty Pink Flower Bouquet which will be released on 1st January 2025.
It has 749 pieces and will cost $59.99, presumably this will be the same price in Europe and £49.99 in the UK. From the box art this set looks really nice and we can spot at least 3 new molds and some existing molds in new colours so it will be interesting to see how these new pieces could be incorporated into MOC's.
I have to admit I've never delved into the world of Botanicals in the past but this might be set to encourage me to take the plunge.
Another new LEGO set has been leaked today and this time it's the Shackton's Lifeboat set which will be a free GWP when you purchase the new Endurance Ship set which is due to be released on Black Friday (29th November 2024).
The set is based on the lifeboat (named James Caird) that the captain of The Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton, used to obtain rescue for him and crew of The Endurance.
I feel like LEGO has really taken its GWP's to a new level recently and this will definitely entice people to buy The Endurance Ship when it's released. Shackton's Lifeboat is made up of 232 pieces and comes with 2 minifigures, one being Sir Ernest Shackleton and the other being a member of the crew. I was thinking when The Endurance was leaked that it would have been nice if it included Shackleton, so I feel like this set is a must have just for that minifigure.
The much anticipated Endurance Ship LEGO set has been leaked today with a release date of 29th November 2024 to tie in with Black Friday.
The set will consist of 3,011 pieces and will retail for £219.99 / $259.99.
The set is based on the Endurance which first set sail in 1912 and unfortunately sank while on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. It seems like LEGO has a penchant for producing sets of ships that sank. Speaking of which, this set will pair very nicely with the Titanic set which was released in 2021.
Okay I made a mistake when I said that the Botanical Garden was the last LEGO Ideas set of 2024 because another one has just leaked and it's the Books Are My Passion set.
However this set will be a GWP rather than a normal Ideas set. We don't know when it will be available but it will probably be available with a certain spend threshold rather than being tied to the purchase of a specific set or theme.
Along with the Malfoy Manor we also got unofficial images of the Diagon Alley Wizarding Shops set today which will also be released on 1st January 2025
The set will have 2,750 pieces and it is a micro scale model of Diagon alley including Gringotts which is nice. This set will be a good option for those that aren't prepared to fork out £760 / $880 to have the larger scale Diagon Alley and Gringotts Bank sets.
For a while we have known that one of the sets included in the first wave of 2025 LEGO Harry Potter sets would be the Malfoy Manor and today we have our first glimpse of that set (we apologise for the low resolution image).
The set will have 1,601 pieces and what looks to be 9 minifigures. It will release on 1st January 2025 and should be $149.99
The last Ideas set of 2024 has been teased by LEGO today on their website. The Botanical Garden as confirmed by the image above looks to be a large scale set, we're guessing it will be a similar size to the Natural History Museum which was released last year.
It also looks like it will have a pretty similar footprint to the X-Men X-Mansion set which is also due to be released on 1st November 2024. Maybe this is laziness from LEGO but it might just be coincidence but it will be interesting to see how similar they are when we get a chance to review them.
Images have been leaked of the Marvel X-MEN:X-Mansion LEGO set due to be released on 1st November 2024. The set is rumoured to contain 3,093 pieces and will retail for £279.99 / $329.99 / €329.99.
On first inspection the sets looks remarkably similar to the Natural History Museum modular that was released at the end of last year. I wouldn't be surprised if the build used similar techniques to the ones found on the Museum.
