Wont use those castle parts. They arent really an accurate part of anything. just a little bit of a reference. It's a cute set and all but not worth displaying. I really like the willow itself though!
i might make the quad int he future, but for now i like having that area open to display the clock tower in between. Keeping the pieces i want ti display fairly neatly collected.
Depending on what the figure is i might need duplicates.
Here is my plan when i get the new set. the great hall and tower ready from 2018.
so just adding the rock base to the viaduct entrance and the viaduct itself. Adding one extra level to the astronomy tower.
the d2c Hogwarts has 36 uniquely printed pieces. if the Diagon alley has the same thats (36 divided by 3. Head torso legs.) 12 brand new Minifigures.
Lego isn't perfect math by any means but something to think about.
some reused figures. some figures without printed legs. maybe some printed store pieces (signs, big wealsey face) still ends up with the possibility of a load of new ones.
Cloud city had 20 minifigures total (including r2d2 and that bounty droid) 7? that were new prints?
but the budget still stand even if they start producing it some months ealier.
its not about whats introduced its about how long to keep pieces in production.
so you can't just introduce soemthing and keep it around for 2 years normally. then it is no longer part of the cmf budget.
coveres the RND though.
last year we got confirmation middle of july concerning 2020 sets.
Its likely about production capacity. if the Bellatrix face was going to stay in production for the length of a set, that would take up the spot of something else.
Otherwise they could have just started production on that face earlier for the set to later use in the cmf.
i do wonder if this increasing cross contamination between sets and cmf means the cmf isnt all exclsuively produced in china anymore. (at least that seemed to be the case before)
I hope we don't get that cmf/jurassic face for Lucius.
yeah I'd like to see someone try that before ordering a piece. the colro sure is right, and it would help that figure out a bit. but im unsure about the volume of it
In addition to m other issues with the hair, it would have been nice if Arthur and Molly had plain orange hair, as their hair is much lighter than the rest of the family in the films due to their age.
it's also a very pleasant shade. =]