Coming Soon from Pantasy: The Vacations Series Kicks Off with an Italian Street Corner

Pantasy recently announced a new theme called Vacations, and the first set releases in September. The concept is a collectible series where each release is anchored to a different spot on the map. Travel, music, festivals, etc.

The Italian Street Corner #85062 is the debut. No piece count or price yet, but the promo shot alone makes the case. It's a modular corner made from two neighboring buildings sharing a wall. One leans classic European storefront, and the other is unmistakably Italian, yellow with a pizza shop on the ground floor, a cafe above it, and grapevines climbing to the roof. A small fountain sits in the corner, and a handful of minifigs are scattered around bringing the scene to life. What I like most is that it doesn't read as a single isolated building. It reads as a piece of a street, which is a smart way to open a modular series meant to grow.

Pantasy's own copy for the theme is worth quoting. They describe stepping into an Italian town bathed in sunlight, smelling ice cream in the morning, hearing records in a cafe in the afternoon, and waiting for the sunset on a grapevine rooftop. This tells you where Pantasy's head is at with the theme. They want you to feel like you're somewhere.

More stops in the series have already been teased. Pantasy's launch imagery includes small previews of additional destinations scattered across a world map, so the Italian Street Corner is clearly the first stop rather than the only one. Nothing beyond September has been officially announced yet with a set number or release date, but the teasers make it obvious that more locations are on the way.

What this signals. Pantasy already knows how to build atmospheric locations. The Bavarian Beer Hall proved that. What Vacations does is turn that instinct into a repeatable format: pick a place, commit to it, then move on to the next. If they keep the same level of care as the series expands, this could end up being their most ambitious line to date.

The Italian Street Corner releases in September. In the meantime, you can browse the Pantasy catalog at pantasy.com.

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