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Read this on another forum, haven't seen it here but maybe I'm not looking in the right place:

The links were taken down because that info about the 2016 set names and prices was not supposed to out yet, I believe. So not a deli, not an arcade. Back to square 1 for speculation...

My "dark ages" lasted for 25 years, from the late 80s till last year when the LEGO Movie was released and my son caught the LEGO bug after watching it. We started to collect the sets from the movie (we have all but the polybags and the Seacow), and I enjoyed building them so much I got the Parisian Restaurant for myself and got back into it. I recently found some of my old LEGO in storage at my parents' house. It was handed over to my little brother when I stopped playing with it and lots of it was utterly destroyed, as in physically bent and broken. I had some trains and classic Town, including a police station, Shell Service Station, and hospital, some late classic space and early Futuron, a lot of Lion Knights/Black Falcons Castle stuff from the mid 80s, and all of the very first Pirates wave of 1989, including the Clipper and Barracuda. The remaining sails of those were ripped and cut and had drawing all over them, and any pieces that were long and thin enough to break, like masts, lances, etc. were broken. The base plates were also mostly destroyed, torn, or seemed to have big holes drilled or punctured into them (wtf, bro??). At least some of the minifigures and road plates were in decent shape. I really wish I would have kept them to myself or stored them away instead of letting my brother have at them... I also wish I had re-discovered LEGO in time for the first modulars (Pet Shop is the earliest one I will ever have), the first CMF, and great sets like Medieval Market Village, Haunted House, Creator Expert trains, Imperial Flagship, Town Plan, etc

At $35 it will probably be even smaller than last year's.

Is this the complete line up? Can't be, right? It's all vehicles and starter sets. Don't they usually have at least a couple of smaller buildings and one big-ish building?

I don't expect it to be. I remember the Designer video of the PR where Jaimie waved his hand through the open space over the balcony area, saying how they took all those bricks and put them inside the model. That continued with the DO, so I don't think the next one will have three full stories.

That looks great! I really like how it looks with the rest of your city, and how it makes the back so displayable.

My 4 year old son and I share all our LEGO. Other than the modulars and some Ideas sets, there is no LEGO that is only mine or his, and even with those, we still build them together and he gets to play with them (he did drop the Parisian Restaurant a while ago during playing, shattering it, and we spent the rest of the day re-building from scratch, which I didn't mind at all after the initial shock of horror). With themes we collect, like The Lego Movie, I make him keep the sets intact, or we put them back together after playing. He does a really good job keeping most of the other sets together as well, though there are some that got taken apart added to the big mixed bin that he just builds and plays with. Recently I've been trying to MOC, which is obviously next to impossible with this arrangement. He wants to "help", meaning adding a bunch of rainbow greeble wherever possible mid-build...

They already do that with exclusives, if I'm not mistaken, limiting them to 1 or 2 or 5 on the LEGO Shop. I don't see at all how that would be enforceable with wide release sets at retailers like Target though. They will surely be restocked several times and I'll be able to get my kid all the ones he wants. In the meantime, the Velma, Daphne, and Headless Horseman minifigs are going for more than $15 each on BrickLink...

At my local TRU and Target stores, they sold out of all but the Lighthouse. I saw a dude with 4 Mystery Machines (and about 8 or 10 of the Friends kiosk set) in his cart at the first Target I checked. Kind of lame.

these are pretty cool.