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There was no historical human vs. human-playtheme with existing fractions (and one of them being clearly the evil ones). Desert expedition was about a scientist, a journalist and an adventurer with evil treasure hunters as enemies and depicted nothing from ancient Egypt but graves and loose inspired temple ruins. Surely something like that would work well with Roman ruins, too, but that isn't what you want or am i wrong? With the second adventurers theme including maschineguns and so on they completely went the fantasy way with undead monsters chasing the heroes, which won't work with Romans because there isn't the generic mummy Pop culture horror stuff. Lego Playthemes are always good vs. bad. There isn't much of that in history and even then you are on thin ice with depicting it that way. Lego made vikings a fantasy theme with horned helmets and fighting evil dragons and werewolfs. They are clearly pop culture vikings, not historically accurate ones. That works. I could imagine them do this with Greek mythological creatures and generic hoplits, too (and honestly hope they will do one day). Roman Legions were just an army. There are no myths about a handfull of roman soldiers making a journey like the hoplits around Jason and the Argo. There is no other pop culture Image about them fighting monters. Who would be the "barbarians", which only means "those with the strange language"? The design will tell who they are depicting or at least from wich enemy the Designer took inspiration. Hannibal could maybe be used as a villain without offending too many people with Carthago being completely erased after the Punic wars, but Lego would never put a war elefant on shelves in a time when animal rights are such a hot topic... Vercingetorix, who is still a national hero in France, used as a cartoonish villain with a face like the series 15-evil knight could trigger some negative reactions, too. Or will we just stay with fictional halfnaked savages from Germania, a country and culture completely invented by Ceasar? I am only proud about who I became by my own work. My nationality really couldn't mean less to me and i'd in fact be happy with every usefull Castle print or accessory we get from such a line. But there are enough people that think very different about that and I can't imagine Lego taking that risk of offending them, if there are other potential themes to make sets. No. The cmf offers potential for every character depicting a certain group of people being a good guy. There is no bloodthirsty looking savage Eagle Warrior in series 7 and no plundering greedy Spanish Conquistador with angry face in series 8. In a playtheme one side would have to be evil. Thats the difference. To make it more specific: why don't we have a butcher like from series 6 in City sets? Because of that stuff like a realistic Viking will stay a cmf or just appear in a museum city set.

I think Beleg is right with the real-life aspect. Castle works as a fantasy world. There are pesants, but it is fine for everyone to stay with the well established romantic fantasy picture of happy ordinary people defended by honorfull knights (of wich some are even females) and ruled by a righteous king who leads them into battle against dragons or evil knights. There is no problem as long as they aren't depicting a real kingdom from history... It isn't possible to do such sets with Romans. They were real. Slavery, their few on human rights, sexuality, women, religion... i think "City sets" in an ancient Roman world would produce touble for Lego one way or another. Some will say rewriting history is bad, if they make it a Skyrim-like fantasy empire without slaves and with female soldiers, some will complain about the bad rolemodels, if they keep it at least mildly accurate to reality. If the theme was more about military like castle there would be the question who they would fight. Which real nation would be the villains? I am 100% sure we will see more ancient Cmfs. They have so much potential. But i doubt there will ever be sets.

God, I love that tree with teeth. Reminds me very much of Marcus Heitz' "Dwarfes"-Books, when the land turns evil :) the cactus is the perfect combination of creepy and funny :'D

Love that, too. Can anyone say if it is a cloth Material or mould? I am going to bricklink it. Can anyone tell which blue nightwing uses? I'd like to give him sinestros printed arms. Harley is pretty but i own a better version. The rest is quite dissapointing :/ i don't get why Bronze Tiger was chosen and on top of that he looks insanely bland. the fact we are getting a bat-Truck and still don't have a single proper Wayne manor, gcpd, clock tower and so much more hurts

Oh, man... that monkey mould is even more adorable than the original one Getting none is now even more frustrating if the Ninjago one had at least not that stupid metallic colour in the body, i could bricklink it and switch arms... But monkeys are popular... i think there are chances we will see another one in the future. At least i am used to it by now. Lego never released a flawless set, that didn't have to be improved except maybe the Parisian Restaurant and Wall-E after the update. It is going to be annoying to get sails with prints on both sides. At this point I am used to custom print stuff that is done by stickers and even making own custom accessoires... I really hoped Lego wouldn't find new challenges anymore :/

I'll bricklink a few of the new lightsaber hilts. I am happy for everyone who likes the theme, but i don't get it.

Wow. Just wow. Does it have interieur inside?

Please stop writing such things... someone working in the company could read it...

I agree with you that this is a usefull piece but it could have been also used for example in a good "player 2"-gamergirl including the Streamer-guys-controller. Then it would lhave looked a bit more like a 4€-cmf and a bunch of people want a girlfriend for series 12 gamer guy... the best thing would be that we would have a free spot for a historical figure like Leonardo da Vinci, a greek philosopher, Roman nobel lady or Marie Antonette... I'd also love to get a well made Einstein...

Brickwarriors mask and hat in the series 17 higway man and you have a great one ;)

I think that depends on how you define lazy or wasted spot. To me roller scater girl or series 19 mountain biker, Robot Programmer and Firefighter are completely wasted spots because they should have been in regular city sets just like that. The cmf moulding budget should be used for special stuff. A new helm/hat-hair Combo for female City figures should be in the City budget. The female Police officer got her hat/hair-combo from that budget back then, too. Cmfs are in my opinion there to give us stuff like the myrmillo- or viking-Helmet or Suit headgears and tailpieces... special music Instruments and so on. Things you would not produce anyways in that year. The HP series introduced as far as i can tell every new piece in the HP licence. With that and all the used stickers the sets should be even cheaper. I agree on that... Metamorpho If you mean Simpsons 2 I can say "me". I love the Simpsons. Of course the family outfits were not the best choice. Of course there were stupid choices like including Fallout Boy but not Skinner. Still we got great representations of many popular characters and the fact that the Simpsons are yellow makes them even usefull for people who dont like them. The hairy arms of Willie are easily one of my favourite parts of that year. In general there were tons of cool dual moulded arms and tripple moulded short legs. If we see how unique the moulded heads were the value seems to be much higher than for example with HP, where every single new mould was reused in other sets.

Looks very pretty :) could you please tell me how you made the wooden triangle structure? That looks stunning.

Disney had definitely the potential for 4 waves or more, but i can´t imagine this happen after the selection Lego did until now. Nobody wants Wendy without Peter Pan, Lilo without Stich... Phil and Meg without Hercules... This way they made so many potential figures impossible that I can´t imagine how a 4th series should be filled. I think that will be the case, if Lego gets the licence... and i am also sure, that it will be done with about that interesting figures like the ones you described... Cool characters with printed arms and so on are the main selling point for terrible stuff like cloud city. I can´t imagine lego giving us Jango Fett with printed arms or stuff like that for 4€ separately. Sadly it looks that way. Regular figures don´t sell as good as before since the ridiculous price explosion. Giving cmfs incredible popular licences seems to compensate that at least a bit.

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Of course they sell. Red letter media put it in words very well: Lucas is more a salesman than a movie maker. The prequel trilogy was all about extra profit after the OT´s success. Every single ship or character design was made to sell action figures and models while he cared little about the movies from a story perspective. Even as a child I saw a difference to the OT. The PT had a boring story, which worked just for bringing you from one stunning aesthetics and some cool action scenes to the next. I didn´t watch them very often, but loved the toys and read a lot of books that had better stories in this world. The ST has the same aesthetics and great action scenes in terms of special effects but with it´s extreme plot holes and inconsistencies I wasn´t able to enjoy it even a bit when i saw them. The question is what a true fan is. I guess if you are just interested in cool spacebattles and making out with your girlfriend or checking your whatsapp messages in the dialogue sceenes you´ll probably enjoy all the movies just the same. This. Giving Vader a castle is cool. He is a bad guy and villains need their fortress or hideout. You can combine it with Kylo Ren´s black shuttle and use Kylo and the Knights of Ren as his unnamed hench men. Works well for child´s play. When I was a child Vader and Maul worked together to conquer my room, too. It´s not like children would just play the accurate story of the films again and again.

Sure. The successfull Battlepacks ... A) ... include generic characters for army builders who buy dozens of them (like the one with 4 generic clones that had a walker even usefull if you get multibles of it) or B) ... have such great figures that many people want them (new mandalorian battlepack) If you want an Uruk-hai army that outnumbers your Rohan soldiers and runs against your Helm's deep like the sea, it isn't very usefull to get extra Rohirim and a large piece of extra wall with each additional Uruk... that concept was stupid and it didnd't help that it was on top overpriced for what you get. On top of that Rohirim are terrible for army building in general. Each one looks different. It doesn't work like clone troopers. On top of that one of the two is Eomer, a named character... If there were 4 completely different ones with parts you can all combine well to make completely different looking ones (maybe even with different printed viking helmets like in series 20 that can be combined with other beards), than a Rohan battlepack would have real potential. Gondor soldiers on the other hand wear uniforms. Give them 4 different faces and maybe 2 facial expressions and it will sell well. Faramir should be included in a Minas Tirith set.

Oh... than i got that wrong. thank you :) that´s even better for the project i have in mind :D

The golden tiles will be great for dwarfen halls... with golden roof and silver floor and runes of power upon the door gonna be a long evening until Durin's Song is out of my head Jokes aside: i love the wonder woman set. While i don't have any interest in wonder woman the helmet is gorgeous and the white hair is a great piece for a Witcher. I would have never expected a super hero set to be so usefull for fantasy projects

This. When i started with collecting there was maybe one figure i bought for completion. I loved the rest. Series 18 and 19 had more of such figures and with the care bear the first minifigure i hate. It looks like a recycling product with plain leftover parts. 20 has only 4 figures i'd like to have (Viking, Knight, Lama, Sleepy girl and a few i'd like to have parts from like the pirate hat with hair or the turtle). That's more than bad.

I thought exactly the same. Revan, Bastila and Malak would be great figures. Kotor is a mile stone in videogame history. A Wookie-Jedi would be such a cute and funny figure that it would be popular even if you don't know the books. Delta-Squad-Commandos yould sell well... Now there will be probably stuff like Kylo in Leggins without shirt...

It seems like this is going to be a really strong year with the mandalorian and Clonewars sets :) Do we have any Information, if the AAT will be classic tan? Any chances we will see a (non-ucs) Gunship in the close future?

Ok, I can´t imagine that, but would like to see the result :) I can´t see the body be usefull for classic fantasy because of the asian symbols on the robe. For a plague doctor I have the brickwarrior custom mask and hat for that combined with the Series 17 Highway man. Looks perfect. Lots of fighters. You already made a good argument with budget cuts. Plate armor is expensive and if your left side is anyways well hidden behind a shield it makes sense from a financial perspective to save costs only armoring your head and right side. Depending on what you are doing it´s good to keep the weight as low as possible. The most famous example of a warrior with such equipment is a murmillo or retiarius gladiator, who´s style of fighting was often compared to dancing. For a more modern example you can take the bulletproof iron armors from Ned Kelly and his fellow bush-rangers. They didn´t cover the legs because they were meant to be used for shooting down from a hill, so the legs were out of danger. Combined with a tower shield and spear this new armor piece works great for guards or elite infantry in my opinion.

Yes. I think we all see that there won´t be an unlicenced castle cmf. Even if it sells well, an additional Disney or Potter-cmf will bring more money... A HTTDYD-cmf could be a chance. I think if there were a few sets with some of the most important dragons and some weaker versions of the characters, the series would sell well delivering missing characters or more popular outfits with dual moulding and stuff like that.

You´re welcome... I hope so... ^^´ I think Ninjago can do that, too, as long as there are parts, you can use in another theme. The new ninjago wave has a great orc in sand green like the old fantasy trolls. That whole figure is perfect. The purple one is ok, too. Maybe a bit coloufull but it´s still fine. The new armor for the heroes is great. the gold/black silver/black one is really usefull unlike the nexo knights headgear assembly in transparent colours. When I wrote my ironic comment only the magic villain was leaked, which has not a single usefull part for generic castle. Now i am really looking forward to the new sets.

No problem :) Oh, I´d love that... I was just old enough to get classic western sets back then. A ranch in nice colours with a bunch of animals like sheep, pigs, horses and cattle would sell crazy.