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Is there any chance that the third CMF series this year could be Pokemon themed? The 30th anniversary video games come out in autumn 2026, so a tie-in CMF series would make sense, and CMFs typically have more budget for new molds like minifig-scale animals (or pokemons).

I'm sure we'll get another piece of Hogwarts or two this summer for the front of the Long Gallery and the viaduct to complete the classic layout of Hogwarts as seen in the big Hogwarts D2C #71043. But given that some of the key pieces of the current modular castle are retiring soon (the Great Hall and the Boathouse) I doubt we'll get anymore big pieces in this collection in future, because having some of the key pieces out of production would prohibit any late-comers from starting the collection. I hope I'm wrong; I'd love to get the PoA Clocktower, the Astronomy Tower, and so much more, and it would be a nice way to distinguish movie-inspired sets for nostalgic adults from any more child-friendly sets for the upcoming TV show, but trying to predict Lego's future plans is a skill beyond even Professor Trelawney's crystal ball...

Some Lego fans collect mis-prints and other examples of production errors, but even they won't want to have so much to collect from the flagship set of a brand-new theme. I'm glad the plaque is hidden away inside the set out of sight, but it's still ridiculous that Lego messed this up not once but twice!

LotR has had a few other sets in recent years in addition to the one big D2C per year, in the form of a Book Nook and some Brickheadz. Star Trek isn't a literary series (no offence, Peter David's New Frontier) but if Lego follows a similar pattern we might get some diorama sets, and a few Brickheadz too. I'd personally love some playset locations (DS9's promenade would be a dream come true), but most Star Trek merchandise focuses on the starships for obvious reasons. Due to budget restrictions, there aren't that many non-ship locations which I would consider particularly iconic. Starfleet Academy, possibly, or maybe the Klingon High Council chamber, but I would expect most Lego sets to be either a big starship D2C or a diorama-style smaller set like the bridge, possibly with some Brickheadz packs for some iconic duos. Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock, Captain Picard and the Borg Queen, Worf and Jadzia... I'm hoping that the sell-out success of the Ent-D so far means we might get more than just big D2Cs going forward.

They might, but knowing our luck they'll spell it "baldly going" next time. Where's that meme of Picard with his head in his hand when we need it?!

Whatever the sets are, I'm sure they'll have a mix of popular Pokémon from across the generations. Probably the Gen 1 starters plus Pikachu and Eevee, possibly the new Gen 10 and/or Z-A starters, and then various fan favourites from across all the generations. (I'm hoping for Mimikyu, personally.) There's no way they'd avoid favourites like Lucario or Greninja for too long, regardless of which generation games they debuted in.

The TV series will have around 6 hours of runtime in its first season, so there will definitely be scope for more characters & scenes than the first movie could ever fit in, but that doesn't guarantee that we'll get more content / missing characters in Lego sets. Since the TV series is meant to attract new (and usually younger) viewers to HP, I would expect most tie-in sets to be smaller pocket-money-sized sets compared to the larger movie-based sets for adults with disposable income. Looking back at the original 2001 sets, I wouldn't be surprised to see Lego make equivalent sets for the TV show, albeit not quite as many.

I'm hoping that if this set sells well we might get the Ent-D bridge as its own minifig scale set later, but that might impact ongoing sales of the Enterprise if the exclusive minifigs became available in a cheaper set, so who knows. Maybe it'll happen if they did a set with some uniform variants instead, such as Picard's later-seasons jacket & Troi in an actual Starfleet uniform, to keep the BrickLink scalpers happy (grrr). I'd quite like to see a Star Trek CMF at some point, if only as a means of introducing lots of aliens. Give us a "baddies of Star Trek" series of iconic villains and/or army builders; Klingons, Romulans, Borg, Jem'Hadar, Ferengi, Cardassians, Gorn... they could make something both to make Trekkies happy AND have lots of interesting "monster" designs for general Lego fans.

Loving the minifigs, the Enterprise itself... less so, I hope it'll look better in high-res pictures, but the Galaxy class was always going to be a challenge to recreate with Lego bricks. But why so many tan pieces? I get that they might have wanted to break up the monotony of light grey pieces, but it looks weird to me.

The TV series is due in 2027, so I expect one more year of the current "most accurate Hogwarts ever" design, and hopefully the last few characters that we haven't yet gotten, and then probably a mix of larger collector pieces based on the movies for adults and smaller child-friendly sets based on the TV show. WB / HBO / Max / whatever their called this week are gonna want to promote the heck out of the new TV series as a means of promoting their streaming service going global, but the movies still hold a lot of nostalgia for some adults, so I expect that Lego will want to cover both markets.

I wonder if Lego might release sets covering both Supergirl AND Superman next year, both to make up for skipping 'Superman' this year and to use Superman's greater popularity to help promote Supergirl. Yes I'm grasping at straws here, but Lego has repeatedly shown that it's willing to make sets based upon movies no longer in cinemas if they think there's a market for it (albeit usually a Batman movie or Avengers: Endgame).

Since we're getting the full ship AND minifigures, it sounds like we're getting the best of both worlds. I'm sure fans will be making their own bridges (or the whole ship, if I can get enough bricks!), but I expect that the display model of the complete ship should sell better than a playset of the bridge. If the ship does well, I hope we might get further sets such as playsets, but if this ends up being a one-off at least we're getting a good mix of minifigures out of it.

I guess that nostalgia adults who fondly remember the old Batman movies are currently buying more Lego DC stuff than kids interested in "proper playsets". It's a shame, but hopefully 'Superman' will get children excited for DC again, and Lego will have time to bring out something for next year's 'Supergirl'. We might even get a 'Superman' set (belatedly) to go along with any 'Supergirl' set(s), since having Clark alongside Kara on shelves might help sales when Supergirl isn't as big of a name as her cousin. This is all dependent upon Lego finally remembering that they're supposed to make Lego sets of the properties they have the licence for, obviously.

A comic cubby. Something similar to the Sherlock Holmes book nook would be good for comic books, only with a NYC street instead of Victorian London.

The OsCorp set side buildings also seems to be modular, so it will be possible to mix up the Spider-Verse bodega and Peter's apartment with it in various ways.