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I want to see a Snake-nado special down the line. Like a reverse concept for the tornado of creation where some obscure bad guy unleashes snake armageddon on the world and it's raining snakes

NASA and Apollo 11 want a word with you

Judging by the prices of the current beatboxes, it will propably be just one minifig in a slightly larger box built...

If it's a Quidditch minifig pack or set in August, I hope for printed legs (or ideally dual molded legs with prints but that is only realistic in a 3rd cmf). The white legs are just to plain. I had the same thought about Fawkes. He is essential to the chamber scene...

The license expiring you mentioned is plain out wrong. They had the lotr license at least till the end of the second Lego Dimensions wave (2016). The sets (2nd lotr 2013, especially Hobbit waves 2014) didn't sell all that well. Most kids (6-12) at the time just didn't like them, but I think a lot came to regret that once they watched lotr when they were older and realised what they missed. But by that time the sets were no longer available

To army build Venom,, of course^^

It's on lego.com https://www.lego.com/de-de/product/spider-man-versus-venom-and-iron-venom-40454?wgu=267995_1351375_16147062495574_a515414ea6&wgexpiry=1622482249&cmp=AFC-AFFLIATEDE-1189665-1351375-267995-0&wgclickid=267995_1351375_16147062495574_a515414ea6

New minifig set, releases april 1st

No it's the cmf series 14 mould from 2015 which is different from the monster fighter werewolf mould

They have shared nothing which could be considered useful information besides vague warnings about emotions they or we will feel. Promobricks and the catalogue leak are the sources for the information we have (june and onwards). I could also speculate about your future emotions or things you like or dislike, but I wouldn't call myself an "informant" - it's more like a Freudian psychologist. If I knew the information, kept it for myself and would read this forum from time to time, I would have fits of laughter over the hysteria my vague comments caused.

The action battle sets had a higher pppr just like usual star wars sets (> 11 ct pppr) so that is a bad comparison. Gimmicky sets like the Hogwarts moments books have also a higher pppr not a lower one like these. I think anniversary sets are more likely. And the smallest set in the August/june wave is just like any other 29.99 play set in the 2018 - 2020 wave.

Nothing in the entire Harry Potter canon and lore warrants another micro-scale set. The rest of the castle (back-side) would never be sold as a retail set, not even a D2C because it just looks not good as a stand alone set.

A slightly scaled down Fawkes could be built with a technic frame on the inside (like Grogu and Yoda) with roughly 600 pieces (for example head 100, body 200, wings and feet 150 each)

Diagon Alley has a 7.2 ct price per piece ratio and the micro Hogwarts castle has a 6.6 ct pppr. This would be 7.8 ct pppr (1673 for 129.99) so it is actually more expensive than Diagon Alley. Bigger sets usually have a better price per piece ratios (unless they rely heavily on large new moulds or recolours or prints)

Fawkes with a Golden Dumbledore. Most of the needed red,dark red, orangish yellow and black pieces are already in the production cycle right now

The 80012 monkey king warrior mech set (1629 for 129.99) has almost the identical piece count and price and it is definitely a play set. Flower fruit mountain or bigger ninjago sets also have similar ppp for their big flagship sets so it is possible for a normal play set to have this ppp (just not a Disney Star Wars or Marvel set because you have to pay the mouse toll)

76395 with 264 pieces for 29.99 is a normal play set like the horntail or forbidden forest: umbridge encounter. The 39.99 for 597 is similar to the quidditch set which also had a very good price to piece ratio (500 for 39.99) or the Hedwig brick-built owl set (630 for 39.99)

Just a guess but 75392 (876 pieces for 69.99) will propably be a wizard chess set. Promobricks did a new article concerning the history of lego chess sets and if we take the previous chess sets (with side builds and minifigs) into account, they fall exactly into this price point and piece count. It would fit well into the june wave, as well as work as a new desirable chess set for Afols

The Hogsmeade and the Polyjuice potion set also do have a ppp below 10 ct. Only the sets with new creature moulds like fluffy (~10 ct) and chamber (~12 ct) are slightly higher

The price per piece ratio on these sets looks actually very good for a licensed theme. 597 for 39,99 and even the 876 for 69.99 are better than almost every other set that we got in 2018 - 2020 if we just consider price per piece ratio.

Most rooms are "boxes" if you think about it. Also the interior is better than the whomping willow set and bigger than the clocktower classroom. Also isn't it a good thing to release locations in smaller but connectable sets instead of one 100$ set which maybe would have 2 new rooms/floors and 2-3 repeats. That way (with the smaller sets) you can buy the rooms/interiors you want and just ignore the rest. Isn' t that usually what most Afols want? Same goes for trains with waggons sold seperately.

We are talking about Falconfan, Guyon or someone giving us a list of set names (for any theme) 3-5 months before release. Even with a current property like Mandalorian my example with "Trouble on Tattooine" as a set name wouldn't spoil any story, and Tattooine as a location was shown in the promotional trailers beforehand. The pictures that were released by the Italian retailer were sent to them by Lego (as they did to thousands of others). And more than one has obviously shared these pictures (albeit not posting them online on their website) with people like Falconfan, Guyon, promobricks, other discord and telegram channels. The retailers themselves know that they are ordering a Looney Tunes cmf series at least 6 months before release for example. If Lego cracks down on "leakers", they could already go after Guyon, Falcon or KA1 to get to their sources because they told us repeatedly in this forum that they obtained information and pictures from the sets. Even when they are not sharing them with us and only give vague hints and warnings, the fact remains that by their own admission, they have received this information somehow (most likely in the eyes of Lego illegally). They could get personal data like the email and with that their real name and address. For example Guyon and Falcon have both instagram channels. Lego can claim copyright infringement on those and request Instagram to hand over personal information to resolve the copyright case...

That argument is invalid for the upcoming Harry Potter wave because none of the sets are concerning unreleased movies. As far as I can remember Philosopher's Stone and Chamber of Secrets released 20 years ago. I don't think you can call that leaking or spoiling intellectual properties. Furthermore the movies are based on a "fringe" book series that was released 10 years prior and many of the movie-goers of Prisoner of Azkaban knew that Sirius was gonna go bye-bye two films later before they ever saw him appear on screen. The whole leaks/spoiler thing is a relative new marketing gag for remake franchises, that seems to be highly effective on some subset of the population. Because how can you "spoil" or "leak" an intellectual property like Marvel movies that is entirely based on plot points that were released in the form of comic book strips for a few dollars over the last 70 years? Thanos overarching plot with the inifinity stones was obvious to comic book fans the first time he appeared on screen. His eventual defeat after his big "snap" is also more than certain because they wouldn't wipe out half their franchise permanently (money you know). The new Disney Star Wars movies or Mandalorian series can also hardly considered to be "original" or spoilable through leaks. Episode 7 and 9 are essentially just modernised remakes of 4 and 6. Mandalorian is a paint by numbers episodic space western with fan-service cameos. How could a leak of lego set like "Trouble on Tatooine" spoil such a story when all the major plot points are retreads of what was already there (e.g. "reclaiming Darksaber to become ruler of Mandalore" or "defeat evil emperor" story line that has totally never been done before)? Your brain spoils itself when you watch the first few minutes of the episode or movie just like in a crime thriller when the criminal's face and deed is shown in the opening. Most "original" and truly new intellectual properties don't get lego sets anyway (like small experimental independent films or new book releases)

The old sand green one had printing on the curved parts and head (mostly dark green and silver lbg dbg). The new head mould will have printing and some of the curved body parts might either have printing or stickers to create the scale pattern. Since the lower jaw is tan in the prelims, I suspect that they will this time implement the accurate tan belly colour. The olive green is just the base colour which will propably have accent colours like dark tan, tan, dbg etc. to create the scales. Sand green is even brighter as a colour so I think olive is the better base colour of the two