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Yes, especially that hospital!

Maybe Lego really is 'squatting' on the license and needs to come up with a release, albeit small, every so often. Just a random guess.

I'm with you on more molded Pokemon in minifig scale!!! But I think Lego is perhaps testing the waters since the theme is still new???

As long as they don't pull a Disney. (Lego released a Main Street ~ really thin/ shallow, open-back, for US$400!!!) Hopefully it is substantial enough that only a few parts would be needed to MOC it into a full modular.

Do we know all of the movies that Lego plans to make into those 6x8 tiles? Looking at the leaks out there, it seems we only have Ep. 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, and Rogue One accounted for. And Ep. 4 appears twice? Will they make an Episode 3 tile??? Completely agree!! It should have been a full modular!!! This would be a missed opportunity ~ the Palace Cinema has long been discontinued and making a theater based out of the Grauman Chinese Theater would get modular fans buying this and making various MOCs on RB! I think perhaps they were keeping this to a 'smaller' size to keep it within budget?

I think there have been several zombies in the CMF line that kinda represents mashup between some traditional Lego themes. And a beached pirate shipwreck would be great for the zombie pirate! (Series 14) Perfect for the Monster Hunter from Series 29... hunting vampires and zombies!

1) Ooooh, a fairy village would sell well... look at Jonas Kramm's collections! 2) DDLM is within the season. I am secretly hoping for something easy to MOC for a couple of Disney CMFs.

One thing that immediately came to mind is that there are other 'holidays' or seasonal traditions that Lego celebrates such as Easter. I have to admit, it is harder to come up with a long list of buildings that could be populated by minifigs for that line, but they could always get creative. At any rate, I'm hoping that with the "Christmas/ Winter" and "Halloween" themes, that there will be more! They could possibly even look towards other Halloween traditions like Dia de los Muertos for inspiration for some of these vignettes and buildings.

Looks like Minas Tirith temporarily sold out. Did it go on backorder since release? Comparing the previous sets, I think Rivendell went on "backorder" and "sold out" several times. I think Barad-dur may have gone on "backorder" but I don't remember it selling out.

Those are just amazing especially with the lighting!

Agree. Self-fulfilling prophecy from the Lego Disney team.

This! This! This!!! The irony! They could possibly have rotated castles/ locations one after another. The anniversary castle had a good selection of minifigs but not great. I remember when it came out, rumors were "at least" 8 figs but it was released with "ONLY" 8 minifigs! And then the early retirement, being replaced by the smaller set that they feared would steal the limelight. Also, didn't the cinderella cottage go on backorder several times? And yet it retired (maybe because the movie it was trying to tie in with was quite controversial. ). At any rate, it seems Lego is 'lost' with its Disney castle/ minifig strategy. Good for them the buildables are selling well, supposedly but not for me.

Are these buildables populating Disney stores in place of a flagship castle? Currently, it is just that stunted BATB castle, together with Main Street (which is obviously a non-castle), as the big 'flagship' sets.

I think they could probably release a small-ish set with many figs engaged in a battle. Oh, that would sell well! Wonder if the tan feather making an appearance might mean something for LOTR? Or they just badly needed that part in that color for the technic line?

The vignettes on that Pokeball look really good and I want them and the minifigs, but not really that massive build!

Bummer that Lego didn't give us more orcs to go with those GWP siege towers, and the orcs from Barad-dur are now quite pricey to army-build!

Lego has a long 'policy' of not making modular buildings other than for the actual modular line (except maybe for some Marvel or Ninjago D2C's). But they seem to realize that if they release a "dollhouse" (i.e., open-back) buildings, fans will be alright with it since someone will modularize it into a MOC.

That would be one way to salvage the series. Although I imagine it would just be drivers with different heads and torso/ helmet prints, maybe even legs. (But who in the minifig world needs legs if you have a fast car? ). All 'figs' with same design. Boring. Monotonous. Except for if you are a true F1 aficionado. But if the aforementioned variation is true, then this series way better than the F1 minifig series that did not contain any actual minifigs.

More X-Men minifigs coming in a rumored set: Nightcrawler, Mystique, Magneto, among others.

Some people were complaining on Reddit about the Pikachu and Eevee minifigs but on BrickClickers videos, they actually look good. I am looking forward to that set!

Hopefully, Lego 'compensates' us next year by making some interesting BAM items. One can only hope. Yes! Exactly! These types of releases gives the consumers a feeling of 'unpredictability' for the theme.

If AFOLs are put off by this series, will there be enough sales from kids ???

I feel like the decision to offer more minifigs with Rivendell was more a marketing thing... here we are now expecting/ wanting more! That was the least that they could do.

Is there a secret sheikh or king who is a fan of this and commissioned Lego to make them, and the general sales are icing on the cake? That or someone in their product planning department is just not doing their job? That hurts. Longer wait time for the next meaningful series for us fans.

Chicken and egg. They ought to make the minifig sets good enough for fans to buy. So many missed opportunities with the choices Lego has made for the castles and D2Cs. Ditto.