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The monochrome geodes were only in those SMART Play test sets. I was shocked when they showed up on PAB and made sure to order some of them immediately along with the animals. I don't think the monochrome geodes ever got restocked. Took forever to be able to get all the Infinity Stones too. I remember the first round of the dual colored geodes a few years back the green crystal color was only in the minifig blister pack and the blue crystal color was only in a handful of regular sets. Ordered them all when they were available on PAB but the green crystal color retired almost immediately & the blue crystal one lasted maybe another year or two. The one with the pink inside is the only one they still have on PAB along with the new one they just added that's orange inside. When the Red Spaceman torsos were available I was trying to put together an order with some other parts that kept going in & out of stock. Had them in my cart for about a week when they went out of stock for good so I never got them. The latest retirements were a big problem for us in the US because of the whole tariff nonsense. We missed out on a lot of stuff because of that situation. I was travelling for a LEGO Convention and wasn't able to get an order in before everything got frozen. I really wanted some extra of what were then current spacesuit torsos from the recent sets but due to them being "standard" parts for us they were long gone due to retirement by the time we got unfrozen. Luckily I got some good deals on some of the retiring City Space sets so was able supplement my supply for the Space collab I'm involved with. I'm not too worried about the vending machine minifig parts yet, but considering there seemed to be an issue with them not wanting to even put them on PAB part of me thinks some might only get a restock or two before disappearing. I have a little bit of hope since they seem to plan to use them in some upcoming BDP sets.

Yes, I do the same. I think I was only able to get a few of those Tax Collector parts that have been mentioned in another thread. I'm really peeved the new style flasks that were in the Potions Class for HP got retired so quickly. I was really hoping they'd make those in some other colors eventually. Took me forever to get both parts of the Orca and I never was able to get extra Elephants. At least with the minifigs one can always use plain legs if the specialized ones disappear to soon. But the Torsos are tough if they don't make enough and then don't restock.

Plenty of the polys that come with books are specific to those books and don't get sold separately. Unfortunately it seems a lot if not all of these will be packaged with DK books which are always a bit expensive. So they won't be a cheap way to get the included animals. I think the lowest I've ever paid for any of these books is about $8 and maybe $10-12 if it was a DK book.

I wasn't referring specifically to the castle figs in my original post. I just happened to list some of what I had ordered including parts of some of the other minifigs that were available when I placed my order. There were quite a few other parts in my order. I try to order a few of each part I'm interested in when they first get released because too much never ends up getting restocked once it runs out the first time. Geodes are rocks, not animals. If you blinked you missed out on those. And I only listed two animals along with the geodes & the spaceman torso.

I like the idea of it. I fear the portraits will be stickers though.

Tell that to the Black Squirrels, the red, purple, blue, green, & yellow geodes and the reddish brown retriever dog and the recent Red Spaceman torso.

I don’t trust that some of the new parts might not be available for long. So I went ahead and ordered some of what I want that is available now. Will hope to be able to get some of the currently out of stock newness when/if it gets restocked. I ordered the legs for the kraken & griffin knights already as well as the spacemen legs, helmets & airtanks and the Pirate torsos.

Yes, few years back they said they'd be standardizing the prices for different colors of the same part but obviously that hasn't happened. For example, Wig, No. 95 in Bright Red is $2.38 while the same part in Brick Yellow is only $0.82.

Wrong colors for Mardi Gras. Should be Purple, Green & Yellow or Gold for Mardi Gras. I wish they had chosen different colors than a light blue & pink combo. Looks like Coral to me. I think they are red. Wish they would make them in reddish-orange already. Even the midi legs are out of stock in reddish-orange which I would have bought to match the Bricksuit.

Was in my local Walmart earlier today. No sign of Series 28 but they still had lots of the F1 & Spiderman series.

Glad they will finally be letting us order again. Too bad they will likely suspend ordering for the end of the year shortly after thus leaving orders in limbo for several months just like every other year. Probably will get hung up in customs too once they arrive in this country.

I wish they had given us the retriever mold in more colors rather than just the two, one of which didn't even last a year. I have little use for the ones with the vest.

My local Walgreens finally started getting in the series 27 CMF's. Couldn't be bothered to scan them to see if any of them were the desired ones since they want $6.99 for them. I'll probably get a set of the series 28 Costumed ones since most of them are pretty decent but I doubt I'll buy extras of any. Looking forward to seeing what they actually do for Series 29. I'm not too intrigued with any of the guesses for the next licensed series that people have been speculating here. The licensed ones need to be of interest to me or have a lot of usable parts for creating other minifigs for me. Totally skipped the Spider verse ones and the F1 was a total was of a slot as far as I'm concerned. Spent the CMF budget on BAM figures this year.

I'm fortunate that mine actually got shipped out right away. Sorry for those of you who are still waiting. Probably another victim of the tariff debacle.

These are interesting sets but not for me. I too prefered the location building sets rather than these decorative object sets. Hopefully will eventually be able to grab some of those new torso prints they have in the Firecracker set.