Mr Spielbrick

That baby triceratops is so cute! I love what they’re doing with these sets. Here’s hoping there’s a second new dinosaur in the wave. Based on previous waves, that seems a reasonable number.

These are available in the LEGO Store in Utrecht, the Netherlands, too. Picked up the ice dude, the elephant lady and I must admit, more than one penguin. Love the Santa hat in all white as well.

Not trying to get anyone’s hopes up, but... Considering the island is made up of a bunch of shipwrecks, perhaps it would be possible to reverse-engineer a(n almost) complete ship out of those parts?

Great model! Having been to Speedy’s, I can say you’ve captured it very well!

Oh, be still my beating heart... The ‘architecture’ looks amazing. I hope there will be useful, unique minifigure elements. The original design is certainly wonderful. This should make for a fitting present for the 30th anniversary of LEGO Pirates. A present? A treasure!

Guess I’ll be the one who asks the standard question for when something looks this amazingly awesome: ...we’re sure it’s not a fake, right? Because Michael Keaton / Tim Burton Batman? OH YEAH! This will go verrry nicely with the LEGO Batman Movie Penguin who seemed to have come straight out of Batman Returns.

Instagram alert! It looks like the chameleon is included with someone who looks A LOT like Johnny Thunder. As for fans of the dachshund - you’ll be enjoying the person who takes care of two dogs and their, uh, dropping...

It’s very unlikely they’ll include the cars. If they had licensing issues with the car manufacturers for the D2C, best not get our hopes up for other sets in the near future. Considering there’s no Jurassic World film coming soon, I’m guessing it’ll be more Legend of Isla Nublar stuff. Fine by me, those sets are quite fun and - here’s the best bit - actually include zoo/themepark related builds! Personally, I got my fingers crossed for another new dino. When are you gonna give us that brachiosaurus, LEGO? Or the stegosaurus?

Same here. Bricklink gave me the answer: that very design of a lion on blue is also on torsos of some Castle knights from the 1980s. The keys, as far as I can tell, are a new addition.

+1 for the potential sheep! Big, big fan of LEGO animals. The chameleon is an unexpected but very welcome addition, I think. Also: not a rumour, just a totally personal wish on my part - I’m hoping for one new pirate character in this 30th anniversary year. So far, thanks to the CMF series, we already have a captain, a zombie captain, a crew member, a Conquistador, an ‘islander’ and - arguably - a bluecoat (the American soldier with the wig). Maybe a cartographer this time? A blacksmith? Merchant? Rum runner? Ship’s cook? Another generic crew member, perhaps female this time?

I think there was a ‘tavern’ in the Pirates of the Caribbean theme. The Captain’s Daughter or a name like that. So, maybe?

Good question. I don’t know. Would they be allowed to talk about it, though? (I’m assuming that’s why you’re wondering?)

Yes! You win the internet today! Now any potential second CMF series will have this to live up to. Oh, boy. 😄

After some careful looking and zooming in (I’ve made screenshots on my phone), it looks to me like it’s Vitruvius’s beard. The beard looks thinner than it is, because there’s a golden conepiece in front of it that mingles with the torso because of the low image quality. The advent calender is even better than I expected. Awesome! And like Falconfan1414 said: it’s cool to hear the theme has been doing well. Hurray for Harry!

This is a forum. Surely, this should be a safe place to discuss and express opinions, even if those opinions are negative. That doesn’t automatically mean that people are “moping and whining”. As for me, I’m very surprised by the shape this set has taken. Especially with the Rex, it seems more in line with the James Bond D2C than with the Stranger Things, Batman 1966 kind of approach. Because we’ve had minifigure scale playsets for Jurassic so far, I think it was a completely fair assumption from a lot of us that this set would be that, too.