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  1. TeriXeri
    I think the price increase already is calculated, it was first rumored to retail at €/$350, many of the sets above €200/$200 will go up a flat $50 regardless of % (not really fair but that's the way it is) $200 Tree House 👉 $250 €300 Ninjago Gardens 👉 €350 €400 Ferrari 👉 €450 $800 Falcon 👉 $850
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    Agree, and then there are the comments about a lack of king. On one hand I can understand the question, there are 2 King's Castles this is partly based on , at least the gatehouse/portcullis and being from the original 1984 , set 6080 Faction (and 2010 King's Castle clearly being a modern inspiration of said gatehouse). And then there could be "reasons" like King Richard Lionheart (the original named king from back then), being away on a crusade. (same faction being named Crusaders) Or there's another possibility, if a Queen is the ruler, there's only a Prince, not a King (see Queen Elizabeth II and the late Prince Philip) Overall nothing wrong with desire for a King figure, in such a big set though. For me, the main negative about the figures is the lack of Wizard printing, like nothing at all. On the other hand, an unprinted blue dress/robe can be used for many other figures, even for the Queen with some head swaps, or just the blue skirt part, if you want a pseudo knight-king from just this set, the Wizard minifig face could be an old king. (just speaking of the simplest but perhaps not ideal solutions if you just consider this 1 set)
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    Very long term I want to change my 3-in-1/City scale buildings into 100% custom but it's an ever ongoing process. 100% custom also doesn't need to be full of Creator Expert modular buildings to be interesting, small custom buildings can be very interesting as well, of course there are many factors involved. Nothing wrong with big or small scales, especially the 100% custom stuff you can choose a certain scale instead of adding onto a series of sets.
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    I like seeing custom Cities as well, regardless of scale, Town, City, Modular, 3-in-1, Friends etc. Those are some nice custom buildings, even the 2012 version. Personally I don't mind the brighter "classic" colors for buildings, 2019 LEGO Movie 2 Emmet's house was one of my favorite recent house sets just due how classic and colorful it is.
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    Just received this set, mainly as an expansion/parts pack, especially in combination with the Police mission which adds more tails/engines, and the "boat" can be turned into a 6 wide spaceship bottom. I love this concept of type of set, and the no-instruction / app thing doesn't bother me. Those builds are nice, and show what can be done.
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    Got the Temple + King sets with discount before the August/September increases, the only 2 sets from Crystalized I'm interested in. Have not built yet but I love how the crystal parts look, and those 2 sets will fit well with 2020 Dungeon (master of mountain) season
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    True, overall it's a bit weird page anyway , missing a lot of things AFOL love, Night Lord Castle and MMV are good picks but there could've been better picks for the other instead of year 2000 junior castle, 2004 jelly knights etc. , better choices would've been something Black Knights, Dragon Knights, Royal Knights, or the 2010 King Castle for example. Fortrex is even more out of place, even 1998 Ninja would've been a better choice. Sorry bit of a needless rant about some pages/pictures (not trying to start a nexo debate here)
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    I see the images. Looks like a fun idea as well.
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    Interesting that the instructions have a reference to Nexo Knight as part of LEGO Castle history, in LEGO's view at least, that means the gap between castle sets was much smaller. 2014-2021 if you consider LEGO movie 1 70806: Castle Cavalry as the last castle retail set. 2017-2021 if they consider a set like Knighton Castle. (they show Fortrex from 2016)
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    While I truly love the set , I don't think 31120 3-in-1 would really fit in the list, the build is very good but the overall fit, the figure selection is low. I don't have first hand experience with any of those listed sets, so I chose the 2007 set as it was the first of 3 recent modern castles, in an era after Knight's Kingdom 2 , the modularity, and dragon at the time makes it feel a bit different. 2010 looks like a great castle throwback to the original days of 80s, the gatehouse certainly has a 6080 throwback, with a Black Falcon side tower, and the certainly fits well with 2012 Joust. 2013 looks again a simplified version of 2007 with a year 2000 looking siege weapon, and more of a "repeat" of concepts of 2007. I picked 1995 6090: Royal Knight's Castle as my favorite Castle (+year/wave), it's clear it took its inspiration from the design of 6086: Black Knight's Castle (same designer even), some things give it a little edge, like the heraldry being my favorite, the king's horse barding, the baseplate is 50% bigger and not dominated by a big ramp taking 1/3th of the interior (it has a studded courtyard and smaller plate ramp inside), and the way you can enter to the jail/dungeon via a different passage is interesting, and while the set lacks a clear front-drawbridge (it has a smaller side one still), there's also the Royal Drawbridge set from the same year Year 2000/2006 version of raised baseplate castle was a huge step back of the same concept of a raised baseplate castle. If expanding to Fantasy sets , I'd say 2009 7097: Trolls' Mountain Fortress is a high contender for best fantasy villain castle , and could even fit together with 2020 71722: Skull Sorcerer's Dungeons Skull sorcerer Dungeon isn't a Castle per se, but still a worthy set, and could serve as a modern variant to 7093: Skeleton Tower , especially with the skeleton Dragon of the same wave, and small journey expansion sets to make a bigger landscape.
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    I love LEGO "math", those angled stairs indeed look very clever.
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    Reviews, and parts pictures, certainly make this one of my favorite sets in a long time. Rebuilding the original one with old original era worn,discolored and played with parts in 2015 did play a role in my return to LEGO after 16 years, and this set has a lot I wished for if they'd update it, it keeps the plate-built wings, but at double-thickness, there's retractable landing gear, an airlock, and a lot of space, great new computer tiles and other prints, but still really remains very reasonably priced at such a big size. Also after seeing the parts individually laid out, really shows it has huge potential as parts pack as well, so many grey wedges, instead of just big wings, the tail section is the only section that could've been a bit more sophisticated instead of just dropping those blue big railway crossing ramps there, but I can understand the more modern studless, slightly sloped look it gives to the set I know grey angled plates likely aren't exciting, there are dozens of star destroyer and falcon sets, but as someone who does not collect Star Wars I do still look forward to the parts.
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    Currently listed retirement dates for Seinfeld, Queer Eye, and Central Perk will be December 2022, that'll be 3 tv show sets out of 4 current sets retiring. Then there's the 10292: The Friends Apartments , with a TBA exit date and The Office at some point.
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    Seeing a movie, playing a game , LEGO releasing a galaxy explorer before, etc, a remake/replay/rewatch will never have the same new feeling as it's subconsciously stored in the brain somewhere, especially in a time of internet. LEGO would need to do something entirely new to get less "boring" , however, the opposite is mostly going on, LEGO drawing more and more to existing designs, real life movies/cars, licensed cartoon/game characters. I see this set had to abide to some rules like appealing to enough people, new and old, stay within a budget, and be classic, yet different from a complete 100% remake. I don't think a Neo classic version or completely studless variant would sell better, but I can 100% understand people like the many MOC variants of the 928/497. Especially Space currently for 2022 is heavily saturated across many themes with City, Monkie Kid, Friends playsets, IDEAS Saturn V, ISS still on the market, Creator Expert, and 3-in-1 , Shuttle, and this Icons remake, even Classic has a Space-themed brick box this year. The current way LEGO is going, it just feels nearly impossible imagining LEGO going back to the 80s-2010s original lines of sets , 2015 Pirates was the last time there was a theme simply called that, Pirates, no extras like apps or tv shows. Now, this effect of bigger bigger bigger isn't always true, as seen in a few "iconic" Star Wars vehicles gotten a bit smaller (going from €90 x-wings to €50) , I do think LEGO needs to realise that small things can be appreciated as well. (see benny's space squad).
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    Looks great and recognizable.
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    That's a great use of a print to make something completely different from an envelope, and it looks nice.. For the extra stained glass look, I wonder how it'll look with a white plate and some light behind it.
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    That's a cool new part, and the context it's used it, it's a clear upgrade to the set it's found in. The 4+ 2020 71701: Kai's Fire Dragon Dragon had only rotation around a technic pin, which kinda limited the pose/playability. The newer set 71759: Ninja Dragon Temple with this part, which acts like a spacer so the head can move in many directions around the small ball joint, so the head can look in many directions. Overall, with the extra length of the bar, it gives more space for larger rotation angles. Compatbility with parts like this is also interesting for certain builds.
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    For the online part of LEGO.com, some (semi) exclusive sets that were supposed to retire at the end of 2021 (some brickheadz, Vidiyo, brick sketches) are currently sold at 30-40% off.
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    NL indeed went to €270, some country still show the lower prices, but I assume it'll probably gets adjusted before it can be bought. Here's an archived page from 7 july with the old price : https://web.archive.org/web/20220707223814/https://www.lego.com/nl-nl/product/the-mighty-bowser-71411
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    For boxes I keep after building , which are few, like Barracuda Bay, I prefer taped. The other boxes I keep are of an entirely different type and mostly open up like a chest, so those are kept for function, not for looks.
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    Love this info, recent yesterday discussion was about how Forestmen/Vrijbuiters/Forest People/Robin Hood names were used for the same theme , and this Richard Lionheart thing is very interesting as well. I already made a link between the 2 lion factions as being the same in my personal imagination, but this Sir Richard, and then King Richard is quite interesting. I don't have a lot of old Castle sets, biggest was Royal Drawbridge + the King set from 1995, royal knights still has one of my favorite shield logos.
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    Quite a weird pricing going on around Europe for this set : Checked the various LEGO.com Euro currency countries: €230 in Netherlands , Luxembourg, Portugal, Estonia €240 in Finland, Slovenia, Slovakia €270 in Germany, Belgium, France, Italy, Ireland, Austria, Greece, Spain, Latvia, Lithuania
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    Agree, and especially the 80s, 90s themes/sets were very regionally different in names given. and the small catalogs had no names listed. This is how I imagine it, nothing canon but just based on various different regional names and such : I'd like to imagine that the first Crusader/Lion Knight are related to the 1995 knights as one an the same faction, maybe a split-off from a group that sailed/rowed off in the various boats. Also the early links to Vikings with their boats named differently in various country catalogs. The Black Falcons were called Black Knights in some catalogs as well (before 1989), which makes sense on some of their figures and bardings, I'd like to imagine that there was some split-off into Black monarch that started their own faction. And then 1993 Dragon Knights use a very similar heraldry and helm plumes as the Black Knights, either in a fantasy universe with dragons/wizards, or just as a successor/crossover (1995 Royal Drawbridge has a dragon knight that uses a blue-printed Black Knight shield).
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    I only looked it up now, but in a UK 1995 and 1996 catalog on brickset, that king is named King Richard the Lion Heart. LEGO wise, the first lion knights were sometimes called Crusaders, and the first castle after yellow Castle was King's Castle / Castle Lion. 1995 lion knights were called Royal Knights, and in real life King Richard 1 did indeed go on a Crusade when he was a King, and his legacy of the 3 lions is still there today in the Royal arms of england, and the national soccer team etc.
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    I'm going a bit off topic, but yeah , LEGO loves cross-references, themes like Hidden Side, Monkie Kid referenced themes like Bionicle, Znap etc as well, City had multiple Ninjago video games as video game-screens in more recent sets, Friends and City trains and airplanes have HLC-LCI / LCC-HLC destinations , City Stuntz has Rocket Racer from LEGO racers video game etc.
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