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it was purchased directly from the LEGO official website from pick a brick section in March of this year. So I guess the problem remains for lego.

The way they did this set reminds me of the Medieval Village from the Fantasy Era subtheme.

my friends know, it is a good thing, because i had a friend give me his entire lego collection from when he used to play in his childhood. That's like free lego for me !!! heheh Also my gf got me a lego heart for valentines day =)

quality of lego is definitely decreasing!!.. i bought over 100 black slopes (4x3) to use as roofs for my custom building of a house, and those pieces couldn't even be used next to my existing same pieces as the paint is soooooo off !!! it is a cheap smooth shiny look instead of a clean rough matt look, and clearly there is a lack of quality assurance in this particular piece !!!!.

They have an elf in one of the collectable minifigs series. And also there are 4 new kingdoms sets released this year. (one of them being the Mill Village Raid). I too, like many here, preferred the Fantasy Era theme. Although having said that the kingdoms theme if you look at the soldier's colors reminds me of the fantasy era soldiers but instead of blue they used red. Perhaps in 2012 we would see a new theme "Fantasy Era II" with a mixture of both red and blue soldiers as well as other fantasy opponents such as elves and ghosts and giants. I would also like to see a people pack with like 5 or 6 minifigs. So we can buy 100 of those packs and build ourselves an entire army of soldiers instantly!! ^^ I myself is waiting for a realistic castle theme, where the soldiers were grey/white with a red cross on their torso and shield. Like a real life templar colored minifig. And i would like the opponents to be Arabian soldiers. We have had crusaders in the past with the gold lion emblem. Their enemies were mainly the forest men (robin hood), or the Falcon (Eagle) soldiers. But what they have not introduced yet is Arabian soldiers for opponents. About the 2 year lifespan, Medievil Market is still on sale in the Lego store. Also if you look at the Starwars' X-Wing set. it has been in the shops since 2006, and it is still in the shops today in 2011 !!! that is a 5 year lifespan and still continuing !!! There is literally people buying these sets almost every single day for the past few years. If you looked at the Best Sellers section on the lego website (which updates daily), you will on almost every occasion see the medievil village and the xwing in there !!! Final note, now days most lego castles are pretty ugly and incomplete looking. In the olden days castles would be fully complete and would look good from all angles. Now days, castles only look good from the front view, if you look at them from side or rear view you will notice all the holes and gaps.