jonwil

Not sure about a set but we did get keychains.

I don't get how this set is any different (based on the available pictures/info) to any of the 9 or so City sets on Brickset that are tagged with "Crooks Hideout". Everything I see in this set has been done before. Crooks have used dynamite in LEGO City many times. Crooks have driven in (possibly stolen) red sports cars many times. Crooks have been busted by cops with helicopters and police vans and dogs before. What makes this set different to all the others released in the past? Or is LEGO pandering to the "PC" brigade who have somehow deemed police toys as "evil" and "bad" in 2021 for whatever reason?

More variety in food in LEGO City would be great. It seems to be all hot dogs, chicken wings and pizza, no wonder the minifigs are so fat for their height :)

The closest they come to a 1x6x5 with window is either https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=60808 or https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=15627

Leaks are suggesting that the Typewriter is the next Ideas set and landing in June with the Seinfeld set being after that and landing in August.

I think if they did a postie again they should be on a pushbike (a modern version of https://brickset.com/sets/6420-1/Mail-Carrier or so, maybe even bring back the yellow bicycle) rather than a scooter. I have watched a lot of train videos on YouTube and one thing I see in these videos are what is basically a flatcar with the trailer part of a big-rig tractor trailer unit on the back. One of those (with a matching big-rig truck) would be an intersting thing to include in a future cargo train set. Or maybe a refrigerated boxcar (they could do one branded with Vita Rush branding similar to the real-world boxcars with Tropicana Juice branding).

I could see Foghorn getting a piece like Big Bird from the Sesame Street set where it has a molded head that also extends down over the torso to make a belly.

The non-B&P parts of my last order (one Vidiyo blind box to get free shipping and some Vidiyo stickers) have all arrived and totally completed. The B&P is still "in warehouse" though.

Forget steampunk, I want some cyberpunk stuff. We got the Tron set of course and there are a few things that have a bit of a cyberpunk vibe to them (such as Terabyte from Ultra Agents with that torso design and the neat helmet he wears) but we have never had much beyond that to the best of my knowledge.

How long do B&P orders (especially big ones) seem to be taking to go from placing the order to "shipped" these days?

The restriction on where they will ship to may have to do with different rules and laws in different countries (both in regards to the actual shipping and in regards to any laws that might apply to crowdfunding).

You should always compare B&P prices to BL prices before buying, sometimes parts are cheaper on Bricklink by enough that its not worth ordering on B&P and sometimes they are super-expensive on BL compared to B&P (like the small legs in teal that I paid A$0.41 for on B&P and that would have cost me a lot more to buy from any of the BL shops I actually buy from)

One of the round bases also appeared in last year's Main Square set.

Been seeing TV ads for Vidiyo here in Australia, LEGO is clearly trying to push this line hard.

Technically there are minidoll chickens in the form of https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=28586pb02 and https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=28586pb01 :)

That plant element first appeared in the Sesame Street set.

A Winter Village police station is something we haven't seen, maybe we might get one of those.

The order appears in "my orders" now and after comparing the price I had noted down in my notes as the B&P price and the price listed in the order summary, there are a lot of parts who's price is different (mostly by a few cents one way or the other). After doing the math, it looks like its 20c cheaper going off the order summary prices as they stand right now (hopefully they don't change further in a way that disadvantages me) so not worth caring or complaining about. The biggest jump was a $1.69 price decrease (from $2 to 31c) on the trans-orange sundae/cocktail glass.

It took a while and a number of parts went out of stock in the process (including the cloth/fabric map from the 2019 underwater rescue friends sets, the police sweater and 1x1 $ tile from last years City Advent Calendar and some others I was interested in) but I finally finished my latest B&P order. Or at least hopefully I have (right now all I have is the "thank you, your order xxx has been placed" screen and nothing in "my orders" or my email) Some nice parts in this order for sure including the torso/legs from the guy in the new Monkie Kid sets with the lab coat and ID badge, the mayor torso, hearing aid head and head with coffee/drink spill from the 2020 Main Square set, the new fire helmet, the watermelon head, a bunch of re-designed parts (control panels, computers, stuff like that), the elephant picture from the new Tree House, the ice-cream seller torso from Ninjago Gardens, the black and orange smartphone tiles and both fish tiles from the Chinese New Year gardens set, the bike helmet/hair combo in purple, the new red wheelchair and green wheels, the trans-orange sundae/cocktail glass, the perl gold kayak, the titanium metallic scuba breathing thing from last year's AIM agents, the titanium metallic beehive, small legs in teal, old-time dial telephone and typewriter from the police station, sand green surfboard, dark tan roller skates, cool yellow flippers, white handcuffs, 1x4x6 door with 4 panes in dark red, dark green and bright light yellow, 1x4x6 door in lime, 1x1 round Vita Rush brick, new 1x1 milk carton brick, green wheelbarrow, white bar with clip, pink frog, bright green dirt bike helmet, blue high-vis jacket torso from the Town Centre set, pink game controller and drawer from the Heartlake Shopping Mall, yellow technic peg, the red top piece from the fire hydrant in the city shopping street, the grey jumper from the other CNY set (I already had the overpriced dark blue jumper thanks to buying a build-a-fig xmas pack last year), torsos from the female cop and scuba diver in the new city police boat, the fire helmet/hair combo in white, the orange zipper jacket from last year's Monkie Kid sets, the orange jacket torso from the city house, the 1x1 round dumpling/rice ball/whatever from the Lantern Festival and the green "cloud" part from the Super Mario toad set from last year. Threw in a blind-box Vidiyo figure just to get free shipping :)

The instructions for the molding machine isn't available anywhere that I can see so there is no point trying to snag all the parts IMO. Unless they are available somewhere and I can't find them...

The police sweater from last year's City advent calendar has gone out of stock again :(

The new large fire piece is showing as "available" for me here in Australia. Time to see which items on my wish list are for sale and narrow it down to an actual order :)

Looks like a lot of the neat parts from Diagon Alley are finally available including the owl with wings, the rat, the lavender 1x4 "brick" brick, various hair and hats, all colors of the 1x6x5 door with panes, The only parts that are "not for sale at all" seem to be the inverse arch in lavender, the legs in lavender, the brown owl and whatever parts aren't even showing up at all (the ones that would return "no results" if you put their part # in) Looking at some City sets, the only parts in the main square set from last year that aren't for sale are the police short sleeve torso, the dark brown pigtail wig, the 3-blade propeller and the 2x2 round plate in tan. In last years City advent calendar, the only part not for sale is the 2x2 plate with wheels holder/ In the city town centre set, the only not-for-sale parts are the dark bley technic connector, red 1x2 plate with bow, dark brown pigtail wig and light bley 2x2 wheel holder plate. In the shopping street, the only not-for-sale parts are the white 2x2 inverted slope and the black 2x2 wheel holder plate. In the family house, the only not-for-sale part is the game controller. In the police boat, the only not-for-sale part is the net. In the big fire truck, the only not-for-sale part is the 4x4 click hinge plate. In the skate park, everything that's listed in the inventory is for sale. In the tractor, the only not-for-sale part is the light bley technic connector. The beach rescue ATV and road plates have no "not for sale" parts. And the roadwork truck only has the 4x4 cluck hinge plate as not-for-sale. The sheet music from the Grand Piano is for sale but the LEGO logo tile is not unfortunately. In Ninjago City Gardens, the not-for-sale parts are the green 1x1 curved brick with 1x1 plate, the pink 1x1 cone, the game controller, 2 of the heads, the dark green 1x2 plate with clip on top, the 4x4 click hinge plate and the black 1x2 wheel holder. In the police station, the only not-for-sale parts are the 1x2 plate with bow in white and light bley. The not-for-sale parts in the Blacksmith are the green 1x1 curved brick with 1x1 plate and the black 2x2 wheel holder plate. In the chinese garden, the not-for-sale is the plastic banners and the 2x4 plate with 2 studs in white No not-for-sale parts in the other CNY set or the bonsai tree. In the flowers set, the pink 1x1 cone, dark grey technic connector, tan 1x2 plate with bow and the orange and nougat 3x4 curved plates with 1x2 stud area are not-for-sale. In the surfer house, the green 1x1 curved brick with 1x1 plate and the tan 2x2 round plate are not-for-sale. No out of stock parts in the treehouse (even the neat printed 2x2 safari tile is available) or in the BrickHeadz fish. Even the bar with clip in white (from that one Mario set) is now for sale. Although all of the Vidiyo figure parts and tiles now show "no results" (including that neat anchor guitar which was available previously I think) Obviously this represents what I am seeing, your mileage may vary depending on your location etc (and this reflects "not for sale at all" rather than just "out of stock with a price") Might be time to make an order I think (funds permitting of course :) EDIT: You can also get the parts for the Amelia Earhart figure and plane (although without the sticker sheet its not all that great)

Is wrestling of that sort something LEGO would be OK with putting in a set?

Given that orders for the entire world come from the same warehouse its bizarre that what's available in one country is different to what's available in another country.