Wolfpack

With 600 entries it is not easy to inspect them all, but there are some entries I like. From fantasy there are Elven Academy, Dark Village and Skeleton Fortress. Those kind of sets I would buy, but I doubt they will be chosen. Western is strong again, especially Fort Huck and there are also some smaller builds like The Barber & the Photographer. The station is also back. Pirates have The Volcano Hideout and Last Stand, beatiful builds, but I doubt the set with this size will be chosen again. Paradisa has some nice smaller builds utilising the new torso, especially Ice cream truck. Of buildings I must mention Empire Station by jazlecraz. Also some winter villagesque sets might have a chance, I like Santa workshop. I love ancient roman warship, but I wish such sets would be put in the history/period category, which is again very small and mostly dissapointing. There are some nice castles (no suprise there), but I like the most The Joust, The Training Ground and Ambush. Hydra Shipyard is also back. Maybe there is finally time for a classic space set, there are some nice submissions. My favourite would be Lunar Cargo train. In the end I most mention Polar Nomads. Not the technically best build out there, but it is like watching old Arctic sets from 2000 catalogues. I would not say the overall quality is "lesser", but the palette is limited and we already had nine series. It is not easy to impress. If they want to utilise the new torsos from the vending machine, this is probably the last chance to do it.

Those are probably parts for Outlaw Forest Den (and other BDP sets). Currently there is no evidence for a 2026 castle set yet: https://brickset.com/sets/theme-Icons/page-5 11370 is licenced set, 11371 is modular and others are smaller sets (40913 is a GWP for the first set).

This is not a merger at all! People with lego.com accounts can login on bricklink, but we with bricklink accounts cannot login neither here not there and our accounts will be deleted in December. It is such an insidious move.

BDP 9 palette is released and it has new torsos. So no more Lion Knights, Wolfpack etc.

It looks like they changed the rules. They added the exceptions and the classic heads can be used again!

Around 1990. LEGO still had the status of the best and favourite toy, but the new sets were not that great at the time. From the year 2000 I liked football, Adventurers and RC car. I remember I was dissapointed about most themes. KK was probably the worst line in castle until that time and Town was really terrible compared to before. Pirates were not even there if I am not mistaken. I have noticed It is almost only city and licences now. When HP and SW came out I was appaled. That was not LEGO for me, no creativity, only brick models of some other toys/films and total collapse of the LEGO universe. Imagine if the next Star Wars would include Emmet Joseph Brickowski as the main character or a Harry Potter movie about Harry getting a monorail for his birthsday. The builds and techniques have improved a lot, but the most sets have no creativity, there is imagination and fantasy lacking in the (most) themes. There are no alternative builds at the back (of course not, if it is a licenced model) and everything is so boringly structured, all characters are different and have names and stories etc. Yes, there are some great sets in Ideas and Icons, but you really have to be into LEGO to even find them, usual sets on the shelfs are so boring and repetitive. If someone does not like city, than there is not much to choose from. Especially in countries where American culture is not that strong, LEGO became a toy with very little appeal for the most part. There are no historic themes, although the possibilities are limitless. They are focusing on quantity, but it is mostly the quantitiy of licences and remakes. Designwise yes, as the builds in the early 2000s were mostly clunky and weird, but everything else is worse now. Even the best design does not help, if there are no new ideas to design from.

1. Raven 2. Lizard 3. Unicorn 4. Pelican 5. Wolf

Again...

Great! This is one of the best themes after time cruisers.

I have one simple qestion for heroica, that i dont find in the rules. If you stand on one place (e.g. before the magic door in waldurk) and you don't roll the "shiled", can you stay on that place or you have to move? And second, if you pass the door you have to move on "next free place", what if there is a monster behind the dood, you move one more behind the monster? Do you have to fight and where do you move if you loose, one place further on or back behind the door?

I'd like to see those barbarians from lego battles:

I doubt that. The theme name Kingdoms presupposes a King, so i think there will be no place for any egalitarian forestmen/wolfpack like factions.

Yes, it should be without black mane.

One of best sets ever. I believe you have a wrong horse though.

So you don't know who is the prisoner in 6077? http://peeron.com/scans/6077-2/6/ I like your faction though. You might just change arms to green.