2025/26 Castle [wishlist/speculation]

[GreenhouseBricker]

6 hours ago, Roebuck said:

I hope you are right, but so far not a whisper in that regard so have not high hopes for anything (other that the GWP and maybe 1 CMF)

I hope I am too but it could also be a 2027 thing. LEGO may want to give a little more time between the Lion Knights Castle / MTS retiring and releasing a new large set so that Castle fans are ready to buy again. Even though is has been a long time since the LKC was first released.

[Black Falcon]

17 hours ago, zoth33 said:

Same thing happened with the BF's, lion knights, forestmen and wolfpack when they first came out.  They will restock and the same thing will happen as it did with those figs and eventually the stock will be available at a normal rate.  

He was talking about the tax collector and that one won´t restock, unless they find some leftover parts. But at this point even that seems unlikely.

14 hours ago, RichardGoring said:

That's quite frustrating that they release a palette of parts to use and then change some of them, especially so for a part that sets the theme of the set.

Having said that, getting a base for the snake knights with the shields available may end up being to the benefit of the set, but it's very lucky that they have a fine purple stripe and that snakes are associated with the desert. Otherwise it would be poorly matched or need a lot of redesign.

Well, of course it is, but in the end that is how BDP works, Sets may have to be changed according to production plan changes. And on the other side, Sets were also allowed to use some parts that were not in the palete when the designers polish their models.

Edited January 16 by Black Falcon

[Roebuck]

5 hours ago, GreenhouseBricker said:

I hope I am too but it could also be a 2027 thing. LEGO may want to give a little more time between the Lion Knights Castle / MTS retiring and releasing a new large set so that Castle fans are ready to buy again. Even though is has been a long time since the LKC was first released.

I do not think there is a advantage to have a gap between sets, normally the more successful a set/line is the longer the set stays on shelf’s e.g. the modular line with several sets at all times. It could of course be that MTS was suppose to stay a lot longer on shelf so they did not have time to release the next set before that retired and its in the works now. However it do not bode well for retro sets that everyone has retired before they suppose to except the LKC lately 

[GreenhouseBricker]

21 minutes ago, Roebuck said:

I do not think there is a advantage to have a gap between sets, normally the more successful a set/line is the longer the set stays on shelf’s e.g. the modular line with several sets at all times. It could of course be that MTS was suppose to stay a lot longer on shelf so they did not have time to release the next set before that retired and its in the works now. However it do not bode well for retro sets that everyone has retired before they suppose to except the LKC lately 

That makes sense. Yes It doesn't look great when the Black Tron Renegade and the MTS both got pulled off shelves early.

(Speculation) I have a feeling most of the sales for those retro inspired sets were soon after release. Then sales died of quickly after the fans got their copy. Maybe LEGO anticipated they would preform better with the casual LEGO audience than they did.

[Black Falcon]

20 minutes ago, Roebuck said:

I do not think there is a advantage to have a gap between sets, normally the more successful a set/line is the longer the set stays on shelf’s e.g. the modular line with several sets at all times. It could of course be that MTS was suppose to stay a lot longer on shelf so they did not have time to release the next set before that retired and its in the works now. However it do not bode well for retro sets that everyone has retired before they suppose to except the LKC lately 

Retiring earlier doesn´t have to mean they won´t make more Sets though, actually they still had normal shelf lives, even if they were supposed to last longer (Renegade lasted one year and the Town Square almost two years), and actually there are also more factors for them to decide whether a set will be retired or not, and Medieval Town Square had a lot parts that were unique to this set (especially the minifig torsos, the shield), also including parts it would have to keep in production because of the retiring LKC.

3 minutes ago, GreenhouseBricker said:

(Speculation) I have a feeling most of the sales for those retro inspired sets were soon after release. Then sales died of quickly after the fans got their copy. Maybe LEGO anticipated they would preform better with the casual LEGO audience than they did.

That is definitely what I think was the case for the Blacktron Renegade, maybe not as much for the Town Square, but in the end only Lego really knows of course. But that could also mean that those Sets can have good overall sales that make it worth to keep doing them,  but also to not keep them on the shelves for a longer period.