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Not yet but Blue and Rexy are all but confirmed. Giganotosaurus and Atrociraptor are highly likely.

*visible confusion*

I think this question answers itself

1. Yes there's more, haven't exactly been keeping quiet on that front 2. For the list in question I was more referring to it being called "complete" despite missing a lot of info that's been public for ages.

A pretty simple answer actually: a lot of leakers/reposters don't care enough about this theme to get their facts straight, the "complete" list posted by exabrickslegogo is by no means even close to being complete. This is also why more substantial rumors for Jurassic are rarer than they are for themes like Harry Potter or Marvel.

This also applies to Hogwarts Icons so this D2C could still go in several directions.

I'll split your comment in a few separate quotes to make my answers a bit easier to follow. For me, personally, the Harry Potter movies don't resonate as much with me as the Fantastic Beasts ones. With Potter I find them to be thoroughly enjoyable but a little voice in the back of my brain is constantly gnawing away at my viewing experience by comparing everything to the books I so adore (which is also why I modify my figures and builds to better resemble my book-based imagination instead of going for movie accuracy like I usually do). Fantastic Beasts' story on the other (or should I say otter? ) hand is fresh and has a brilliant and relatable main character, not to mention that as a design student I can greatly appreciate and admire the work that went into designing all these beautiful new creatures and locations without existing descriptions and art to base them off. I honestly don't really mind what they do, though the Portkey-like object in the Room of Requirement is a design that could look quite neat in LEGO form. As for minifigures I guess I would just go with the trailers and say Newt, Dumbledore, Theseus, Jacob, Bunty and Eulalie. I simply don't believe we'll get another CMF anytime soon. As for the sets I regrettably have to look at the facts and admit the Fantastic Beasts sets didn't sell that well. So with Fantastic Beasts having barely been covered already and the chances for more sets not being high I guess I'm just following the mantra of "something is better than nothing".

Wendy's is bringing the fire:

That's true for older fans but there are also a lot of fans who started collecting later than 2012 and have thus missed out on all these variants.

I have to disagree. The Avengers (I assume you're referring to them) absolutely need to be updated as they haven't been made on shelves for a decade and some of their designs look pretty outdated.

Given that 2022 is the 10th anniversary of The Avengers, one of the most important movies of the early MCU and the movie that launched this theme, I would be very surprised if this isn't based on the MCU. If it's based on The Avengers they could include missing characters like Selvig and maybe even pull Pierce, Sitwell and Rumlow from Endgame.

It's definitely very hopeful (probably too much so sadly) but I would absolutely love to get a set based on the battle at what could potentially be Castelobruxo(?). Though admittedly I would be happy to get literally anything Fantastic Beasts related, even one of those crappy new Hogwarts segments with Dumbledore, Newt, Theseus, etc.

As long as they get revealed a respectable amount of time before release I honestly really don't give a crap about how they do it

Never underestimate LEGO's ability to consistently make their online services worse

The changes themselves don't necessarily sound bad to me but, like @Maple said, literally every single time LEGO decided to change something about S@H it only made everything worse. UI changes on S@H? The site gets increasingly harder and more frustrating to use. Changes to the VIP system? I now have to use a calculator every time because it's just overly complicated for no reason whatsoever. These changes sound alright on paper but I'm sure LEGO will screw up on the execution as they always do.

The show is based on the sets, not the other way around.

Can't really be bothered making a brand new topic when this thread is so starved of content so I'll just drop this in here:

While I collected most of the 2018-2020 sets and even bought multiples of some of them LEGO's new approach at the franchise really kicked my interest in the theme down a few pegs. I'm still very much in love with everything LEGO produced in the theme's first 3 years, even the poorer sets like the Horntail, but I just find very little enjoyment in this lackluster and poorly designed new Hogwarts system. Last year I only bought the sets I liked (Accessory Pack, Hogsmeade and the poorly designed but decently priced Bathroom) and resorted to Bricklink for the rest of the figs, creatures, stickers, prints, etc I found worth getting and will do the same this year. As long as the theme stays in the state it's in now it's on the backburner for me and I'll be shifting my budget to Jurassic World, Marvel and MOC building.

Ikr? "Most anticipated movie of 2022" my megablocks

Accessory packs never have that many new prints. I'm personally expecting 1 new figure and some reuses.

The sets, as all waves for new movies, are most likely going to be a mix of things from concept art Universal provided and a fair amount of creative liberty on the designers' part. Some of the builds will surely be based on or loosely inspired by something from the movie but there's bound to be a lot of non-movie stuff in there as well.

It couldn't possibly have been more obvious.

Probably about time they tackled the Vengestone buyer and whatever evil scheme he/she is cooking up.

Because if you look at the amount of sets LEGO produces for this theme there's just not a whole lot of room for any D+ shows to be covered and the chances of LEGO skipping these shows are highly unlikely. Further, Series 1 was a hit so LEGO knows a Marvel D+ series can sell really well.

My issue with the What If...? figures wasn't necessarily how many there were but which characters they chose. Gamora could've easily been in the Sakaarbuster set and those 2 What If... Zombies? figures were just completely and utterly irrelevant to the show as a whole. Keeping the same amount of figures the perfect lineup for What If...? would've been: - Hydra Stomper / Captain Carter (stealth), Steve, Red Skull - Sakaarbuster / Tony, Gamora, Watcher - CMF / Captain Carter, T'Challa Star-Lord, Strange Supreme, Party Thor, Infinity Ultron