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For that prices I expect nothing less than printed house robes with printed medium legs for the other houses... in which house and grade is the student using a wheelchair? Could he have medium legs? It won't be short ones, which can't sit. I doubt the potion class will be the rock base for the hall. It would be too small. But I am pretty sure it will be integrated as a part of it. I don't get the Mandrake... This. 100% this... ^^' If they did the flying key challange for example with a neat little mechanic moving a bunch of keys with transparent elements it would have been a better display piece and closing a gap of the castle. It bugs me that there is only the potion class. They should do a last huge and at least somewhat complete modular system Castle... With only two sets i have no doubt it will remain severly unfinished again...

Sorry, I meant Malak ^^‘

Do you think we will see more kotor stuff? I mean revan needs a special mould and I can't imagine Lego producing one without the Intention to reuse it.

I love the A-Team's Van. All it needs is a recolour of the cmf s24 Koala keeper's hat for Murdock and a few printed elements. If Lego refuses to make it again I'll probably do it myself.

I wouldn´t expect many of them to be done. Lupins Classroom is likely. Lego could make some fun builds like the spider with roller blades or the jack in the box. Would be a really neat set. The troll in the toilet would work well, too. They could basically remake the old one. With a third reboot wave, they will 100% give us a Hagrid´s hut again, too. That could be those versions, but I doubt it. Buckbeack/ Norbert and Fang are important selling points and those versions don´t have animals, do they? Personally the one thing I´d wish to get before they retire the theme again would be the black robes for all houses with printed medium legs. At best in 3 different versions for Slytherin and 2 different versions for Ravenclaw (so Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle/ Cho and Luna don´t look to similar.)... But to be honest I lost hope on that pretty much by now :/

I thought the same. On the other hand I had the same thought about those female-looking eyelashes, too, when I looked at a Dumbledore minifigure. I think if we get Gandalfs horse it will be this one. No chance at all, I'd say. I think we will see Gondor at some point with it.

Just saw the white horse without briddle in the Avengers set... I have a strong feeling we will see it again at some point in lotr.

That isn't limited to children. I personally don't like the newer Hulks with olive green colour and cheap looking printed on pants at all for example. So my Avengers have the bright green old version with moulded pants next to them and I couldn't care less, if it is less accurate. The main point as far as I can tell is "can you still recognise the popular character and is it cool looking?/Is the unfamiliar character THAT cool, it doesn't matter that the kids don't know him". One of the reasons Iron man looks so cool in minifigure Form is that he is so shiny in his metal colours. A Comic accurate yellow-red Version would be less appealing to more than a few people. A bearded old hulk just doesn't look like children expect hulk to look. There are for sure cool things Lego could take straight from the Comics but in the end it would be pretty much the same as doing something cool without any source and throwing in popular chsracters, if the kids don't know the source anyway. I agree on the "What if?"-stuff. Never have there been cmfs with less usable pieces for me and the characters suffer from the poor quality of Diney plus shows, which fail to make them likeable, so I habe no interest in owning them.

That's the problem with market analysis and "buisness people" making decisions about products like Lego. It is no rocket science. You need something that gives the consumer positive emotions represented in an appealing set. All of those new Disney products refuse to use the heroes journey, which is pretty much the foundation making people care about the protagonist in western story telling. There could be cool new designs people will like even without caring about the movie or stuff people already love thanks to other media. If someone really thought for example the terrible grey Marvels ship including just unknown or disliked characters with boring designs, also sucking as a random space ship and coming with the terrible price tag even if it was actually a product anyone would want, this person should really not be in a decision making position... Rohirim are cool. If a good set including some pretty "Castle" figures is in "pocket money/little reward for a good grade" price range it will sell even if kids don't know about the movie.

In my opinion 2014 was the best time for Lego. There were such awesome sets for 50€ like the Ghostbusters Ecto1, Wall-E and so on. The deluxe special sets were affordable about 200€ for example the Simpsons house or Kwik-E-Mart. The best modular building, the Parisian Restaurant, was on shelves and had a great price... and those cmfs rocked so hard. Today there are great things, too. I love for example the fact that there are more and more Star Wars figures with printed arms and lots of highly specific minifigure pieces for all sorts of characters. On the other hand prices became just nuts for lots of products. There are less and less good sets like the viking village in my opinion and those are more and more often at a price point I am just not willing to join (like 400€ for Rivendell or the Castle. I can't see any reason the Castle costs more than 200€...). Also there are shady buisness methods like the cmf blind boxes I won't support, because gambling for children is highly immoral in my opinion.

You're welcome :) I don't think "each other". But Lego would bite a huge chunk out of the others. The question is if this is enough to satisfy Lego, which I doubt.

I play pen&paper on a regular basis for some years now. Lego is awesome, when it comes to making your miniatures for table top. Espeacially the option to switch gear and other parts easily is a huge benefit over resin models you glue and paint. We invested between 10 and 25 euros per player character. Stunning figurines and charming feel of ones childhood (we all grew up with Lego). The problem ist that lots of parts are ridiculously expensive (castle, lotr….). If I wasnt a lego collector in the first place the npcs would stay much less detailed tokens for sure. If Lego made larger amounts of usable figures availabe for an affortable price wargaming companies would feel it. There is a fanmade wargaming system based on Lego already, which works great and explicitly uses this benefit. I made a dwarfen army based on chinese figures combined with Lego and custom pieces. Some warhammer playing friends are planning to do the same now because it is just cool.

Thank you. Then I'll look for an older version. An olive green Hulk does not work for me ^^' I think we will get a huge d2c for Batman on a regular basis as well as a small set here and there with him and an A-tier-list villain at least. The rest will be decided by how good future DC products are. I think the Lego Batman Movie is a problem. There was very little that looks good in comparison since then... minifig scale tumbler, black recolour of the TLBM Catwoman, Ace the Bathound... I'd love to get Colossus and Cable like in the Deadpool movies. Any Chance with Deadpool 3 as Part of the MCU?

If I have to choose between "it exists, but I can't afford it anymore, because the prices increased so much partly because of my consumer decisions in the past" or "Lego never released character xyz sadly. I'll get a custom figure to fill the gap the theme left open" I choose 100% the second option.

I am thinking about getting some of the Avengers in minifigure form. Could anyone tell me, if it is just the new Hulk that has a moveable head? I really appreciate figures with more articulation... On the other hand the printed on pants look terrible compared to older versions with moulded pants... What do you guys think? Will there be a perfect version (bright green, dark green hair, movable head and moulded pants) at some point? Or will lego stick with movie accurate olive green Hulks? :/

Falconfan posted a picture with lots of characters. One of those is a gorgeous viking with a new blond beard and a really cool helmet. I don´t know anything about Fortnite, but this figue rocks.

What do you guys think? Any chanche we will get this gorgeous viking or at least his beard as a phisical figure?

They are posted on instagram golden weapon hilts, silver printing on blades, highly detailed armour. LEGO would look inferior, if they tried.

I don't believe we will see Battlepacks. Yesterday I saw new even better chinese elven minifigures. Lego could have done this 10 years ago. It would have been like printing money back then. Now it is too late. Playsets won't happen. Lotr is one of the best movie trilogies ever made. I would say it also has huge educational value. You won't find much better role models than Aragorn or Sam in most of existing media. But it is too slow and challenging for most of the younger generations, who grew up with mobiles and the MCU. I think there will be large UCS sets as long as they are successfull enough.

Well, I expect a Balrog. The new Ninjago dragon horns look too specific.

I would say what she is and what she was used for goes hand in hand. I think she was meant to be some kind of Eowyn 2.0... just without being relatable or interesting while taking a huge amount of screen time with bloated scenes without noticable character growth. I'd say it isn't only a question of bigger or lesser fans but also what type of collector you are, too. I own one (in my taste) perfect representation of each character I love. My Harry, Ron and Hermoine are a mixture of the year 1 and 2 hairpieces and faces with cmf robes, which use printed medium legs. My Batman is a Mix of the the Lego Batman movie figure with the UCS rubber Cowl and custom vambraces... My Gandalf uses the old face, new body and skirt, custom hat/hair-combo, custom sword mould and a custom staff. I am a pretty hardcore fan of things I love especially when you look into the amount of effort and money I put into each character/figure. It just feels strange to me to have multible variants of a character standing next to each other so variants like a Mordor Frodo or Legolas in robes would not make it into my collection, if I got them for free.

I love Fang and Norbert. Those will be bricklinked together with the student list and new owls. I like the fact that the hut is a closed building instead of a half one and i love the chair that can lean back. Its just not enough for that price in my opinion, especially if the few details are stickers, which they usually are in HP sets. Does Fich recycle an old torso combined with unprinted legs?

I think it is a question how you approach the hobby. There aren't any sets that 100% rock in my opinion, but there are enough gems included here and there to make something great. Printed arms for C3PO and Vader, R2 with printed back, The ATTE, which is a good foundation for a great ATTE-Model, if you put some work with Tiles, custom printed pieces and modifications into it.... Every wave there is something I really like.

Breathtaking. I am unable to follow the technique even with the pictures on your flickr-account. would it be possible to get a picture of the types of parts used?

I see hobbit merchandise on a regular basis. It is mostly the map of Erebor and Thrain's key in all kinds of variations. Smaug is popular, too. But to me it seems it's relevance is for lots of people - adults and kids as well - very much based on the book, which is still present at litterally any reading competition. Pretty much everyone liked the first hobbit movie and the parts of the second one true to the books. On the other hand I know nobody who doesn't detest Tauriel and the whole love triangle stuff with Legolas and Kili. If they make a set each for the unexpected gathering and the Erebor, it would surely work. But you are right. The licence is called lotr. There won't be a hobbit Bag End which means the minifigure selection would be boring for most people.