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By that logic, no sets for the Space theme were available in 1988, when the last Classic Space sets were retired. Because nothing from a previously existing subtheme was available. It's ok to like new sets and new subthemes too. But this is getting off topic from Castle.

Well, that's what I mean. I expect that in real life (as opposed to the render on the leaflet), the yellow print on white will be lousy. I would have preferred a regular yellow head.

I like the legs and feet of the robot chef because I want to use them to build a Lost in Space B-9 Robot, but I don't like the rest of the figure. I like the modern astronaut except for the head, which will probably have a really lousy print. The alien tourist is cute, and the Orion concept is executed pretty well. Most of the others don't appeal to me personally, and I think the execution of the M-Tron, Ice Planet, and Blacktron II figures is pretty bad.

Some kids do, some kids don't. YMMV. Speed Champions was one such theme. Then the designers came out and said so!

I'm alluding to the greater risk of shooting your eye out with a great big Technic siege engine than with a little spring shooter or stud shooter.

I imagine the Technic designers could have a lot of fun making medieval siege engines at a variety of price points, but the Lego lawyers might not let them!

Might want to change the title to 2025 Castle Theme [wishlist/speculation] so that people don't get confused and think we know anything.

That's a good way of looking at it - for me the new trans-black seems a lot more sci-fi and a lot less like real everyday auto glass than old trans-black/trans-brown, trans-light blue, or trans-clear, so it seems more Spacey to me than any of those - and using it is a good way to say that CS'24 (that's what I call it) is trying to be its own thing, not a callback to any previous Space or Space-adjacent subtheme.

Funny you should say that, I think that's true for most of the colored windscreens that are so essential to the Space aesthetic for so many people. I think it's awfully hard to see though trans-dark blue (Classic Space, Futuron, Spyrius, Unitron, Aquanauts, Space Police III, Alpha Team 1, Dreamzz/Space), trans-dark red (Space Police I, Alpha Team/Ogel, Galaxy Squad/alien buggoids, Monkie Kid), trans-dark green (Classic Space, Space Police II, Hydronauts, Town Jr), trans-neon orange (Ice Planet, Aquasharks, sort of Nexo Knights) ... I don't think trans-yellow, trans-light blue, trans-neon green, and trans-brown (old trans-black) are so hard to see through, but new trans-black being hard to see through is pretty much in line with most transparent colored windscreens in old Space and Space-adjacent sets, and therefore feels very Spacey to me. As a kid looking through old sets on Brickset, I actually didn't like a lot of old Space and Space-adjacent stuff because I didn't like how hard it was to see through the colored windscreens. It took a long time for those to grow on me to the point where I like some (but not all) of them as an adult.

In the US it's available from Target for the same price. I dunno about Australia.

Which is a long lived 2020 release that does not directly reference any previous Pirate ship or faction made by Lego, and it's in the Creator 3-in-1 line. So if we're being really pedantic about it, that's no more of a proper Pirates ship than this year's space vehicles and bases are proper Space sets.

The feet of the cook robot are just right for making the B-9 Robot from Lost in Space.

You can very much expect Lego's core demographic, kids, to want the new stuff. As @danth has so often reminded us, not revisiting a decades old design language is not necessarily bad business, new and fresh design ideas are not necessarily a bad thing. Barracuda Bay in 2020 and Eldorado Fortress in 2023 is not a regular release schedule, and picky Pirates fans were/are every bit as dissatisfied with those as picky Space fans are with this year's cross-theme extravaganza.

I'm positive there's an existing thread for this. Mods, can we move this to the appropriate existing thread?

You know how broad-minded I am in my definition of Space, but even I agree that's pretty disappointing. Unless the Pharrell Williams spaceship really knocks my socks off, I would much rather it have been a big Blacktron 1 spaceship. Oh well.

Dude, there's not a follow up set to the Galaxy Explorer, there's a whole follow up cross theme extravaganza. It's just not directly in the same style is all, but rather doing something new and fresh and different.

What they really need is a way to make Grogu's pram smaller so they can make a smaller BARC to scale with it. I think a generic round baby carriage would be a worthwhile new mold with applications in City, Friends, and here.

Yeah, I guess in the past I've been a bit exaggerated in my points about "sci fi zoomies." Wishing the City Space 2024 sets didn't have the City logo on them is valid, since goodness knows they aren't City in any sense of modeling something in the real world.

Good alt-build. I like this better than the set it came from, but that's mainly just because I'm not much into big robots and mechs.

They're clearly pretty much the same build, just labeled differently. Like I said, don't think too hard about it. Some Racers builds are Technic builds, some aren't. End of story.

Racers was an umbrella theme that had all kinds of builds as long as they were, well, race cars. Don't think too hard about it.

We can only hope that one of the Jedi in The Acolyte is named Bob au-Jedhi.

The leaked description of 10191 from fateful_lego says: 10391 [Moments Space] 966 pcs. $109.99 September 20 The set includes a black spaceship with a long trail for it to hang on to and keep it from falling off. The ship is almost all black, with a few gray parts and a gold cockpit in the front. On its wings are two symbols that represent exactly this spaceship and something that looks like a rainbow. The writing on the ship is "Atlantis Apts". THe spaceship's trail (which is bigger than the ship itself) consists mostly of green, orange, blue, and pink colors, with white parts at the end. The set also includes a frame with 49 headpieces with different skin colors and many new face prints. The frame says "My Phriends" and has two black and gold space helmets. The set includes 2 minifigures (with torso and leg prints): male and female. They wear gray suits and the space helmets seem to be for them. My thoughts: 10391 has so far been rumored to be an unlicensed Icons set, but it's hard to tell from Icons set numbers which are licensed and which aren't, and in any case most Icons sets are licensed. This sounds to me like a tie-in set to the Pharrell Williams film "Piece by Piece" that has a theatrical release date of October 11, 2024.

Uh, so it's definitely not a Blacktron Renegade remake then. Maybe I can take it off my wanted list.

Actually I think Mega is doing a terrific job with Pokemon, and I don't really expect Lego would do any better. I'm content to let Mega keep the Pokemon license, since they're doing such a good job with it.