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Absolutely agree with this. PS and PR are my top 2 modulars. I somewhat agree with your comment about the necessary change in direction with Detective Office. Personally, I tried to but could not like the DO as a whole. Yes, there is clever use of elements, the details is stunning, but I cannot find the elegance that PS and PR had. Hell, I even find the boring Town Hall to look better than this one. As a similar type of building, Green Grocer still seems more appealing to me, despite the lack of interior details. I probably focus too much on the outerior. I don't know, this one feels like a showcase of techniques, or the designer's ability to to make use of strange elements, rather than a well thought out design. At times, it feels like 4 people design the rooms seperately then put them together. The rooms don't feel connected to me, maybe it is too ... modular? (PS: Just my opinion. I am sorry in advance if someone find this too negative, or in any way insulting to the designer.)

I think it's also because the sets look bad, and look even worse on the box. I am a Tolkien fan as well as an AFOL, but I had no intention to buy any LoTR Lego. I though Helm's Deep was too expensive for what it was and Black Gate, no way I would buy it for $90. Then I got a second hand Helm's Deep and realised that it's actually very impressive and then I wanted to collect all of them. But to start with, the boxes on the shelf are not attractive at all compared with other themes. Put ot this way, this is an adult theme, so if they had released mostly big set like Orthanc, 3000 piece Helm's Deep/Minas Tirith they could expect them to sell like the modular series, maybe a bit less but that would have been a better direction.

^agree, when we reach 1000 we should contact TLG straight away. There's little benefit in waiting for too long, what if we don't get to say 5000 soon enough.

What's the current signature number?

They could have at least told us that it was ended.