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Shot from a low angle like that it's hard to tell what that castle actually looks like ... I'm leaning towards this not being the 90th anniversary set, because as others have pointed out it looks like a tower from the 31120 Medieval Castle and the windmill from the Mill Village Raid are included too. Those steps and trees are certainly new though, so it's possible that the new castle would have those features. Hard to tell about the size of the castle in the video, I'm not sure if it looks like a $350 build or a $500 build.

What an excellent display. You not only show the sets themselves, but they're all posed so well in their natural environment, so to speak, and you have all that explanatory material and ancillary material to really give the whole Pirates experience. I admire your passion and persistence in collecting all that material and setting it up so splendidly.

I can imagine it coming with a few minifigures to put on display, but I can't see how you could make a minifigure scale set out of the Trench Run for only $90.

Looks like a very good set, but I wish it included the train wheels. The version with the train wheels has always been the more iconic of the two BTTF 3 versions in my opinion. That new slope piece is perfect for the hood, but I hope it gets much wider use otherwise it'll still seem like cheating. The bows on the back quarter of the Porsche no longer seem like cheating to me because they've also been used in the Typewriter, the Pickup Truck, the Titanic, and the Vespa, but if they hadn't also been used in those large sets recently I would still think poorly of them.

You know, when I was a kid over twenty years ago I wanted Lego sets more for the main model than as something to take apart and make info something else. People act like it's a new thing but it's NOT. How do you explain that it's possible to get a Galaxy Explorer from 1979 at a fairly reasonable price if not for people collecting sets as far back as 43 years ago? If everybody parted out their sets it would be impossible to get an old set - impossible to get the set your parents would never get you when you were a kid. And about waiting to see the new sets in the catalog being part of the excitement of getting a new set - web sites fill exactly that same role now. It's the 21st century. Get used to it. Excitement from seeing a new set in the catalog and waiting until you can finally get it, excitement from seeing a new set on Brickset and waiting until you can finally get it? Same thing!

^ There's always next year! I'm excited to see what the 90th Anniversary castle will be like.

Speaking of that moon base, check out those trans blue panels ... if we get a recolor in trans bright green or trans neon green all I can see is Mega Core Magnetizer, Magnetizer, MAGNETIZER! But that's just a wish that probably won't happen.

What a Space set could fulfill that wasn't covered by the Benny ship would be 1) being available in 2022, fully eight years after the Benny ship was released, 2) being part of the Adult Portfolio it should use more complex building techniques and details, whereas the Benny ship was a simpler playset aimed at kids, and 3) potentially being an intentional modernized remake of the 928 Galaxy Explorer, whereas the Benny ship was an homage with a very different suite of play features. That is, if the 90th anniversary set is Space, which we don't know.

Thanks for that link. Too bad we're probably only getting one of those spaceships in Lego, I want them all. Can't decide which I want more, the XL-01, XL-02, or XL-15. Don't much like the XL-07 though. Because the XL15 is the one featured in the biggest ($45) Mattel toy, it's probably also the one featured in the biggest ($50) Lego toy. Anyone know when the Lego sets for this will be revealed? Seems like that can't be too far away, with the movie coming in June and the Mattel action figures already revealed.

I like option B better

@Jerac You changed the wedge slope of the wings from 4 to 3, can you explain your thought process in deciding on a 4x wing slope in v1 and a 3x wing slope in v2?

The box art amuses me, especially the back of the box. It would be perfect for Space, except it's used for a twelfth-century(ish) Viking longboat.

Yes, but the $50 Naboo fighter from 2015 also came with lots of ground equipment and a whole battle pack worth of droids and Jedi. The $60 Naboo fighter from 2022 doesn't have any of that.

Dank farrik, that's fast. Fast to get the pictures out, I mean. Looks halfway decent, but in my eyes it's one ugly ship so I'm glad the set doesn't tempt me. If TLG had taken a new structural approach that would evolve the N-1 in the direction of the Inthert MOC, I might have bought the Mando N-1 just for that. As is, I prefer the clean smooth lines and bright colors of the factory fresh N-1 and for that I'm content with the 2015 set.

That's a Chiss claw craft from the old Expanded Universe. Grand Admiral Thrawn is Chiss.

Just putting this here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyroraptor

It opens them up to accusations of plagiarism. Put your idea here: https://worldbuilder.tongal.com/

The place to do that is Lego World Builder hosted by Tongal. Make a page for your idea on that. As a general rule, don't send unsolicited ideas to professional creative types. They reject them out of hand for fear of liability.

The JP T-rex set has an 18x50 baseplate, so that's pretty close to the same footprint as the Dagobah set. If the Dagobah set is as good as the JP set, I can't wait to see it!

In the mid 1990s there was a string of rollover crashes and fatalities involving that generation of Ford Explorer that were blamed on bad Firestone tires. I don't know what that would have to do with Lego. Maybe Ford hasn't been letting anyone make toys of that generation of Ford Explorer at all, just because the Firestone rollover scandal was such a debacle? But other companies have made Jurassic Park Ford Explorer toys before, so that wouldn't make sense.

Oops, 60141. My bad.

The Jurassic Park set with the Ford Explorer and the T-Rex is a must buy for sure.

I think 60341 from 2017 is the best City police station

@BrickBob Studpants: I'm not accusing anyone of an abuse of power. I was just fact-checking speculation up-thread, the way one fact-checks speculation about the designer or driving mind behind any other set. For instance, I really appreciate knowing who designed a Creator Expert set and who backed it during the design process. No accusation here, just fact-checking.

Here's a relevant quote from the comments of Matthew Ashton's Instagram post about the set. This comment is Matthew Ashton replying to brotherfromanotherbricks: matthew__ashton Verified @brotherfromanotherbricks I didn’t actually design this set, but I may have nudged someone into making it happen ;) Here's the post, if I can make the link work: https://www.instagram.com/p/CZzXcRbsslF/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet So the hunch expressed in this thread that it's a set happening because of Matthew Ashton seems to be largely correct. The conclusions you draw from that, if any, are of course up to you.