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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).

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.

I'm disappointed at the lack of the Helen Parr / Kamala Khan torso for Reed, and the Thing highlights the need for something between minifig and bigfig scale, but overall not too bad. I'm shocked that they didn't include the cute robot HERBIE!

The HP logo would be great, maybe with some clouds to fill the gaps between the letters (like the black greebling on the Star Wars logo) to give it a solid base to rest on.

I guess Lego has learned its lesson after the giant Black Panther bust warmed shelves for so long, and has done them at a better scale. I'd love to see BP and Wolverine busts in future!