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But Monstrox is the main villain. For him to only show up as a hologram in the last wave is pretty suspicious. Ruina as well; she was revealed to be Clay's mother in Season 4, and there's even a poster floating around that appeared to have a Vampire Ruina figure in it. Between the two most important villains missing and the last season of the TV show being cancelled, there's enough evidence to back it up. The Forest and Water monsters were either scrapped early in the design process or were just put into the Book of Monsters book to flesh it out. The latter is not unprecedented either, as there was speculation at one point that there would be an elves faction in Castle because of an elf figure showing up in a map in the Lego Magazine, but it was reportedly only drawn in to fill up empty space. A shame, too... Finally reached 3,000 posts!

It's definitely possible. Lego has recycled designs before and, as you've said, we ended up missing out on a lot of key figures and vehicles that a summer 2018 wave would have covered. The giant spider certainly looks like a recolored Nexo Knights set. I'm not really familiar with the Spider Man extended universe, but the resemblance is striking. What I really want to know is, if there truly was a summer wave, why did it get cancelled?

I think if there isn't a Castle series next year, we'll definitely get some historical figures in the next series. I don't think it's possible for next year to be any worse than this year for us historic fans.

This thread will be kept alive for the next two years because the magazine refuses to die

Where did you see this?

Looks like you're making good progress! Can't wait to see how the castle itself turns out.

It's pretty much a part for part rerelease, not much to see in that regard. When the best part of a $200 set is an eco-friendly spruce tree, there's a problem. Next!

Good points. You're right about the "initial hype" fading, but that really only happens to me with the summer sets. Even then, those sets are officially revealed at NYTF in February, so we'd have to wait 4-6 months at least to get the sets being shown regardless. The winter sets are really only about two months: The January prelims tend to leak in mid-late September, and the sets themselves often come out in early December, as I imagine would be the case with TLM2 I might be in the minority here, but to me that's exactly what makes it exciting. It turns out to be disappointing most of the time, but I like putting together every little detail and predicting what a theme will turn out to be.

Is it though? There's something exciting about seeing stuff that isn't supposed to be seen yet. There's been an argument over this topic ever since EB started. The obvious cons are Lepin stealing designs or whatever, but that doesn't affect me nor does it affect anyone on these boards. The pros are that leaks aren't exactly nuclear weapon plans and are almost exclusively shared by Lego fans who intend to spend money on the sets and would like to plan out what they want to get in advance. For example, I'd like to see at least a set list for the TLM2 sets so I can set aside money if there's something I want to get. Lepin can't copy designs solely from a set list and that type of "leak" is pretty much harmless. Without leaks, news topics have become stale and hard to read with little productive discussion going on, IMHO.

Amazing how these set are coming out in January yet we know almost nothing about them. Part of that is due to this being the most boring "leak season" in a very long time, but still.

He said it'll probably be the jewelry line that has been rumored.

No. There aren't any minifigure parts in any of the bags.

So according to a frequently cited IG user, the theme is called "Dots". There will be nineteen sets in total.

Alright, that's pretty cool. He'll probably have a hard time standing up though.

What do you mean by that? Moving the whole site to a new server possibly? I'm not really familiar with how that works.