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Pure speculation based on previous years. Townhouse Toy Store sounds good, hopefully in a similar style of the 2019 Townhouse, built on a 12x12 base, with around 3-4 studs of sidewalk, so 8x12 building/2nd floor. (technic pin connectors side of the walls to add more buildings side by side) Even the alternate builds on the 2019 set use a similar scale + sidewalk and technic pin connectors, so multiple sets with alternate builds = large street system. And the alternate builds also focused on different businesses (Bank, Barber, Dentist), and hotdog vendor became fruit juice vendor. I do think continuing this system has good potential when alternate builds use the same scale/style and connectivity as the main builds. Monster Burger Truck sounds odd, but a brick built burger on a food truck could be a cool concept, 499 parts sounds like more then enough to work with. Sport car might be the followup to 2017 Green Cruiser (122 pieces), as in an open top car with room for a minifig (smaller then 2019 sunset racer) Fire Dragon is similar in part count to the 2018 Mythical Creatures dragon (223 pieces), and there have been other red dragon sets before that. Propellor Plane, and Rocket Truck might be microscale, similar to 2019 Helicopter Adventure and Spaceshuttle Transport, Rocket Truck might also be a car like the 2018 Rocket Rally car however. Monster Truck could be a similar in style of the monster truck in the 2018 Stunt Show.

Same notice and country selection on the NL site.

LEGO recently had that set on display at Brickworld. https://brickset.com/article/44278 The 2019 Fire station also gave me a bit of that set's feeling with the dockside which you can expand with the other small fireboat set.

Probably wrong thread, but this is the most recent active Bionicle discussion. Lego "Leaf" sets 71360 - 71373. 2016 Bionicle ended at 71300-71316 , but then we got some 2017 Dimension sets from 71340-71349. I am just guessing here based on set numbers what those 14 sets might be , Bionicle and Dimensions set numbers are just very similar for 2016. I can't find any other set numbers used from 713xx-72000 however (72001-72006 is the small 2018 Nexo Knights wave)

10 in a year doesn't surprise me for Hidden Side. Nexo Knights had 18 boxed sets in it's first year (excluding Polybags and Ultimate sets, which would make it 32), and right now this seems to be somewhat the replacement for that (interactive action theme with a phone app). 2019 was a Lego Movie 2 year, and 2020 I don't see any other big non-licensed theme yet beside Hidden Side. Besides that, this theme has also a lot of versatility with City or Creator sets in a Town/City setup, as each set and it's figures could easily be built without the spooky features so could appeal to a wide audience even outside the app. I do hope they still will have mostly location sets in 2020 as well, sets like the Diner, Graveyard, School and Lab have little to no vehicles which isn't always a bad thing.

I'd like single cars without too much extras/race tracks, but it's going to be tough to fit 2 cars within 250 or 275 parts unless we get something unexpected. The smallest parts count in a retail Speed Champion set has been 151 (with 10 of those used in a flag sidebuild) I don't have parts count for each individual vehicle however. Of course LEGO did make 1 formula 1 car promo set that used 120 parts, and we also seen smaller car models like a Mini, so things are still possible. Outside of Speed Champion, LEGO has made decent cars below 100 parts before. (2019 police car has 92 parts) I agree with you, on rather seeing 2 (smaller/simpler) cars in a 250-300 part set, instead of 1 car and a sidebuild. I'd love a Classic Mini in another Speed Champion set, doesn't have to be a rally version so some parts could be saved there, other small popular cars could be interesting as well I'd also love to see a 1983 VW Golf 1 GTI.

Those piece counts between 250-300 likely contain just 1 car, with some smaller side builds (garage/podium/racetrack bits) , or wheel accesoires or extra customization like the F40. However maybe they'll bump the price too

Since the helicopter + helicopter transporter are seperate sets, I have hope that most parts likely go into the building. Ps, I purely go by the names and piece count from the video, the rest is pure guessing what it contains, based on piece count and previous years. Dog Unit - 67 pieces (either 4+ or €10 set) Police Highway Arrest - 185 pieces (usually is a red sportscar + police car ?) Police Helicopter chase - 212 pieces (small helicopter? + criminal quad/motorbike or something) Police Helicopter Transport - 317 pieces (possibly a deep-loader truck, maybe some small command post?, or a second helicopter) Police Monster Truck Heist - 362 pieces (police armored car + monster truck?, or a small bank building with money to steal, as in attach chain to wall, to pull out wall/safe/ATM with monster truck?), certainly stealing involved as the word Heist is used. Police Station - 743 pieces. (hopefully focused on the building, office/prison/garage, with some truck, maybe a drone instead of a helicopter?, maybe a small pier/jetski like the 2019 Fire station, or prison being a seperate part to act like a small "Island") Sounds like enough vehicles to have less in the actual Station set. Fire : Forest Fire set 84 pieces (either 4+ or €10 set ?), hopefully includes a small animal like a skunk/owl/eagle or the new deer mold. Fire Helicopter Rescue (93 pieces , €10 set?, hopefully it's something like saving a Cat from a tree, as it has "rescue" in the name. Speculation : Also some of those sets could contain "named" characters as we saw in 2019. (Police Chief was shown in episode 1) As for missing sets. Police and Fire Boats , but that can always come in Summer still.

Sounds great so far, Police was surely expected as followup to 2017 City-Police, still multiple smaller sets beside the ~743 piece Station, so hoping it's similar to the style of the 2019 Fire Station. (helicopter+helicopter transporter are seperate sets) Ice Cream Truck seems like the followup to the 2017 Pizza Van . (one of my favorite vehicle sets in modern City) Construction Bulldozer possibly the followup to 2019 Construction Loader. (one of the best €10 City sets of 2019) Service station only around 350 pieces, hopefully not a 4+ , and also not grossly overpriced like the 2016 one. Tuning Workshop is the big set with almost 900 pieces, possibly something like the 2009 7642 Garage (almost same piece count and 10-year gap.

I agree it's a good move foward , but now if only they can fix the availability, that'd be great. It was sold out within like 1 month in March, and now I see on the US site, it's on backorder September 26 shipping date, no word for EU however.

Are you using uBlock Origin or some other adblocker? Since that causes it to endless buffer for me unless i pause it for that specific page (https://rewards.lego.com)

Xtra is the closest we got in recent times to official LEGO sticker sheets, the last official ideas books with stickers were over 20 years ago (1997 and 1990) It only contains 12 LEGO parts and 5 sticker sheets, overall it's the best we have right now, sadly sold out for months now on European Shop@Home. (I hope they'll return) I can fully understand why LEGO put a few parts into their sticker pack, as a starting point. More of those "sets" are always welcome, and I hope the Xtra theme continues to expand. https://rebrickable.com/sets/853921-1/brick-stickers/#parts

That the Lando set was only a part of the process. It might have been a set where he was one of the first dark skin toned figures among yellow figures, but LEGO moved along with the NBA team figures, and 2004 Star Wars/Harry Potter lines, where yellow was a thing of the past since 2004. Anyway, comparing a 2003 set with a 2019 current policy is kinda pointless as I do not know LEGO's policy during the early 2000s, LEGO was clearly into some structural changes during that time and trying to get out of a financial bubble which is another subject matter on it's own. Yes I can see sports had some "neutral" sets even past 2003, and I figure the NBA license was more focused around the USA market, while the generic sets might have been wider produced. Still was the first theme to introduce flesh toned characters beside the 1 Lando figure in 2003. If this set was made in 2004 instead of 2000, Zidane might have had flesh toned skin. I can see they made a similar kind of adidas promotional set in 2007, but the player was just called generic "Superstar" instead.

2003 was a year where they started to change. Star Wars just wasn't the first theme to introduce pink skin figures first. 2003 Basketball is the one theme within the same year where the change is clearly visible. https://brickset.com/sets/theme-Sports/subtheme-Basketball/year-2003 For example those 2 sets are nearly identical but from the same year and only 1 set number difference, basicly going from generic NBA characters towards actual existing players from licensed themes. Now I don't know what months those sets released, but I imagine the 3432 set was earlier in the year and 3433 was a later release.

The subject at hand was minifigs and their skin color, not finances, so I didn't adress that.

Lando isn't a character created by LEGO however, during 2003, figures started to get skin tones (Cloud City Lando and NBA Basketball sets based on real people/actors), in 2004 Harry Potter figured changed from yellow to flesh color. However I do think if LEGO minifigs designed today, they wouldn't be yellow (See Friends/Elves minidolls), but that could have other reasons as well, since Belville even had flesh toned dolls in 1994. For minifigs, I think LEGO is sticking to their yellow figures, LEGO Movie 1 (2014), could have been a big swing point to change minifigures, but they didn't, but LEGO Movie 2 sets did start to mix flesh/yellow figures and minidolls into sets, and CMF series. (the flesh figures were still limited to characters not made by LEGO however, like Batman, Green Lantern, Dorothy) Of course things can change in the future, but we're almost 2020 now, that's a long time since 2003/2004.

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Even if all Licensed themes would be instantly stopped now, I think they'd still use yellow minifigs. Friends minidolls will still use flesh tones, as we also saw with Elves / Lego Movie 2. Long term (10+ years from now) I have absolutely no idea. This is LEGO's own reasoning (for minifgures at least) : https://www.lego.com/en-AU/service/help-topics/fun-for-fans/behind-the-scenes/brick-facts/why-are-minifigures-yellow https://www.lego.com/en-us/service/help/bricks-building/brick-facts/why-some-minifigures-are-different-colors-408100000007856

Same can be said about Creator 3-in-1 sets, most talk have been about Expert instead. I don't think it's a particular lack of interest, but possibly a smaller AFOL following and less to discuss. I think the new sets are great, however there's just so many sets in a given year I gotta set Friends not as my #1 priority, but it's certainly not anywhere near last either.

My only experience with rock monsters were Nexo Knight's stone wave, technically the Lava monsters were stone monsters as well, but that's mostly depicted on the larger monsters and builds, but minifigs like Moltor, Flama, Whipparella minifigs certainly helped with the stone/lava theme. I know the use of purple/medium blue has been criticized but they can always adjust that for more earthy tones or lava/icy tones instead of purple. (unless it's like an Amethyst crystal monster, and even then it'd be transparent purple) And while I never had any Rock Raider or Power Miner sets, I feel Minifigs and Brick-Built monsters can work well as a LEGO toy instead of big-figs if they ever make another rock creature fantasy theme. Even if it ups the parts counts with brick-built monsters, it allows more customization and LEGO has added a lot more smaller movable parts since 1999/2009. Especially on the hinges/joints and curved/angled/snot parts department. For me Insectoids (1998-1999) sets were a lot more interesting when Rock Raiders was around, and I can't say much about Power Miners as I wasn't into LEGO during the 2000s at all so I only learned about the theme years after it retired.

I agree LEGO should stick to yellow figures for their in-house sets. It makes sense for Licensed themes to have human skin tones as they are often based on actors/characters outside of LEGO's origin, but in-house themes should just stick to yellow. In the context of the 2019 Chinese New Year sets, yellow figures are fine, as they are in-house sets. I know prefences of minifig skin tones differ and people use flesh toned minifigs even for things like non-licensed historic/pirates/space MOCS and that's 100% fine, I think choice is good, be it yellow figures, flesh tones, or minidolls etc.

Amazon in Europe is a lot more localized and spread across many countries individual websites, each with their own Prime programs which are seperate. Each also has their different shipping rules to countries. For The Netherlands, Amazon.de will often offer free shipping over €29, but UK, FR, IT, etc won't. If Amazon Prime had 1 subscription for the European sites it'd be a lot better value then what it offers now.

VIP still not working for me either. I wonder if they are delaying the Tree House announcement a bit due to this. (as the set is already sold in some countries/stores otherwise). I can understand LEGO waiting a bit instead of having people hyped and sent to a broken site (which affects some accounts during the transfer/conversion)

I wonder if the set is being delayed a bit because of the LEGO.com VIP account issue taking longer then forseen. My account seems to be one of those with 0 points still right now.

A haunted Castle, or Pirate Ship could work as the big set of the wave. Of course I prefer a real Castle or Pirate theme but, those are still locations known to have ghosts in many stories, movies, video games. Possesed knights or pirate figures could be nice. Depending how they move the theme forward, could maybe even have objects possesed, like a knight's armor suit or spectral swords.