Wolfpack

I am a bit dissapointed. The only new (plastic) part is the shield, which I think would be better triangular considering the redesigned dragon. It is funny as the new logo was clearly made with the old shield shape in mind four or five years ago, but now the new shape is used. Other than that as expected, no flag and no new torsos.

It includes a spaceship! I think it is great.

I am also surprised Royal Nest was the most voted castle. Most of the castle selections since series 6 are kinda unpredictable and dissapointing. With Vending Machine retiring next year that also means there will be no Kraken set in BDP.

Regular sets are not designed by fans and are not a part of a community project. BDP was introduced in 2021 with the motto of "follow along" or something like that and it felt like the community is included in the process (voting, seeing bars etc.) and I liked that. There was basically no reason to change that except greed. And I am not writing this only as a (potential) buyer. I am writing it foremost as a fan and a follower, someone who is interested in the process and likes to read annual reports etc. Following the progress bars was one of my favourite things about BDP. I want to know what people like, what people buy etc. and I like to operate with hard facts. If you check my other posts on the forum I always back my statements with numbers and facts and it is hard to do so if they are more and more hiding the publicly important information. It would be wonderful of course if the numbers were available for regular sets, like they are for books and similar items, but of course unrealistic.

That is my critique actually. They want me just to buy it, with hidden and hard to find percentages, so they can do their shenanigans. It is not really a type of crowdfunding I would like to participate in. btw, you can still se percanteges here: https://bldp.pl/en/8?tab=info And to be clear, I am not a reseller, I just want things to be clear and transparent, which i know cannot really be expected by lego in the last decades.

They can have all the data for the past they want, it is still just a guess. They simply cannot know if and which sets will sell out, especially if we know that they all sold more than half with more than one week left. And as a result they cannot know for how much they can raise the quota. They clearly made a mistake last time, they were offering 45.000 Alchemist Shops, but then stopped selling them at 41.000. The available numbers should never get lowered, that is my point. This is not a way how to organise a transparent crowdfunding.

I was very critical already for the last round and I still do not get their logic. They increased the Dustmark Keep to 35.000, but all the sets are selling well and might be sold out. But that is mathematically impossible, as that would amount to 155.000. It would seem that also the maximum was increased, but no, it was the same last time and then they just stopped selling them before they reacehed the limit. The system is totally flawed and needs to be changed, if they have any respecxt for the customers. If they cannot get the total production capacity over 150.000, they should just stay at 30.000 and that is it. The greed is killing them.

It is same as each year. Series 5 were scheduled at the exact same time and had the all-time record selling set of 49.000. I think this series will sell out like the last one. It might even have the opposite problem, as it has strong contenders. If all the sets will be trending fine, there might be no space for adjusting the allocations. So far there has been no correlation between sales and the calendar.

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This is maybe not the topic for it and it should go the unpopular opinions thread, but I remember one legendary designer explaining in an interview, when Star Wars came in 1999, how the designing process changed with licences and how they hated it. So I just wanted to say there is some objective difference, of course not delving into whether slop is the right word to describe it.

Yes I know that, but I think the difference would be only minor and it would be a small price to make a really premium product. It will probably not happen, but I think it is still more realistic than they all of a sudden starting to make more classic Ideas sets. That is my objection actually. It is too easy. BDP is so lazy, they are getting away with it too easy, to cheap and too good. And there is basically nothing we can do. If we buy more sets, they will say the sistem is working, everything is fine. If we do not buy them, they will say see, there is no interest in castle, pirates etc.

Not true. That never happened! So far all the sets got produced. 3000 sets is minimum and all the sets got 10.000 or more orders (Lost City had the least and that was about 10.000 as far I remember), average has been 30.000, which is not much less than some exclusive sets (unofficially some d2c sets have a production run of less than 100.000) Also you must take into account that marketing and advertisement for BDP is basically nonexistant. Despite that and despite having no new parts the sets are sold out in a week with no problem. With new parts, instructions, proper marketing and availability on the lego site the sales would be huge. Black Falcon. Yes, that is what I want. BDP should be removed and Ideas should have those unlicenced sets instead. If not all, than at least one round per year should be done this way. Lego bought BL after all, I am not a fan of that, but they should at least take the better advantage of it. They can make them limited to 50.000 or something and in one run as far as I care, if prodution capacities are the problem. BDP in current form makes no sense, it is just PAB for other people MOCs.

Both programs have their problems. I would prefer if they would take the BDP selection and make them "normal" sets like Ideas. In Ideas the last set I liked was Viking Village and even that one was selected by target not by lego! They had some thirty sets after that, but basically all licenced or some recreation of an object or an animal. In BDP I like most of the sets, but they bring nothing new (except for sticker sheet), not even instructions. Why cannot they select such sets for Ideas??? Keep BDP only as a selection process and make all sets in Ideas.

I know, it is something some people in this topic care about. You could use a new part like a saddle for both castle and western (and some other themes), that was my point. As far as torsos are concerned, the last vawe od Dreamzzz had 15 or more different torsos in five sets, so it is more than doable to make two themes with that number and that budget or even three. With a clever combining of moulds the difference in new parts and new prints would be small, but a difference in diversity would be huge. You could also do one wave in the summer and the next one next year, it would not change much, as long as more themes would be available at any time.

I would also prefer single themes, I was answering what a next best thing or a compromise would be. Single themes are of course the best as lego can then create absolutely anything they want and have no constraints.