Black Feather

There’s no way to know. Depends on how high demand will be and how many LEGO produced. We don’t now either of those and LEGO only knows one for sure. So did they guess high or low? Based on what happened with the bricklink set and that they are only having this GWP for half the time a GWP is ordinarily available I would err on the side of camping out. I just hope the site doesn’t crash and it’s gone in 5 minutes with loads of angry customers who camped out and still didn’t get it. Probably won’t happen. But can’t rule it out. Would also suspect it becomes available at a later time in some form as well. But can’t assume that either. I’m camping.

You can search for 40567 on pick a brick now and get results. But none of the new stuff. They said a while back that new parts would be released after 90 days. But are there are new parts released in January then taken down never to return. Glad I bought some of those then. But makes we wonder when/if we’ll ever be able to get this stuff coming out now.

And the piece count is a little more than double 21325 and triple 31120. $300 to buy two 21325 or three 31120. Not close to $450. Inflation is not 50%. Really hoping that number is just wrong. Would be pretty bad business to leak out $350 which actually seems reasonable from piece count plus inflation. Then slap on another 30% before it even comes out. Especially when it’s targeted at adult collectors who are more likely to be closely following these things.

I wish they had given us a second forestman torso in 10305. And a brown hat. They could have simply made a green version of that new peasant torso shown in the video. They would never do those things in a GWP. But in a $350/$450 set with 20 minifigures capitalizing on the nostalgia many have for castle sets of that era, that would be a small change that would generate a lot of enthusiasm among the target audience. And then it would be a simple matter of putting the brown hat and red feather on the red forestman. And the green hat and white feather on the other forestman. And now your GWP matches the original set without even having to make a new color feather. Not saying a remake needs to match the original. I would have happy to have two different forestmen of any kind. They could make the blue and/or black easily from that red torso (which is very nice now that I can see it more clearly). But in this case it actually would be easier to match the original as the white feather is already in production and by chance the set they are remaking is the only one I can remember where there was a white feather. The main issue for me is that in the original run I can not think of a single set which included more than one forestman where they were all the same. One of the main appeals of the faction was all the variation. Four torsos. Two color hats. Five different color feathers. Would like to hope that at some point we get a modern version of all the forestmen. But the fact we have the castle and this GWP with only one makes it seem unlikely to happen soon if ever.