Black Falcon

Timewise of course, but if you expect a higher demand you can produce more displays and sell them off within the four months they are avaiable. At least the CMF was avaiable on more places here than other series and also seemed to get exchanged quite often with a new display in the shops. The only other series that I saw avaiable at so many places was the F1 one, just that that one didn´t seem to sell aswell.

Well tan of course would make sense for desert enviroment, but I really don´t see them replacing it again, I mean if anything having desert, ice, grass and desert on the shelves on the same time would make more sense and all in all ice seems like the least viable of the existing ones.

I would guess, they expected more sales for it, after all Castle related minifigs are usually among the ones with the highest demand of a series and it also seemed that there were more of them avaiable. And yeah, some time passed since then now and I would totally expect another series in the near future (but of course there are so many other licenses they can do aswell).

But then all Baseplates should retire not only the blue one. On the other side, would make more sense to me to retire the white one instead of the blue one, so who knows.

There are still so many options they could do, that I actually think this doesn´t have to be the case here. There is potential for several more series within the franchise, especially since you could easily do repeats (or recolours like @Lacdaran mentioned) with different combinations of race/class and just different design. In the end DnD is a series full of Figures that are constantly the most sought-after figures in CMF-Series. And personally another DnD and a Castle one would be my favourites if asked which Series I would hope for next.

Not going to say it would be likely, but I would love to get a Raya minifigure... But in the end I will stay with D&D as my guess.

What Lego has done does look completely different (aside from beeing based on the same characters of course) from Megablocks desgin, so that comparism is way off IMO. Which of both you like better is a matter of taste in the end and for me neither of them is doing it. Making them more blocky, especially in this size is understandable I think, as it would be quite hard to do them justice with bricks and at the same time keeping them stable enough with play. Mega choose to make more special moulds to build them, but in the end they are not doing much with those, the figures look at the same time horrible but not like they were made out of bricks, so you could just buy better action figs/models of them.

Was this for Designers or overall Staff? Overall, there are still plenty Designers left that love the classic themes and actually I am under the age of 38 too and had one or more sets from Space, Castle, Western and Adventurers, I mean Castle ended just 2013 so not long enough that anyone had to grow up without it - but sure sets changed with the time and themes did too, like many Bionicle Fans are adults now, but Fortnite and co. are IMO on shelves simply because they are popular right now.

Given it is probably the most iconic Pokemon thanks to the series and I would expect the license to last a while, it is very likely to happen after the actual one retires I think.

I still think very low if we are talking about a big Set, the only thing I could imagine is a Display set.

Maybe some come next month, because January wave usually is pretty big so a lot new parts are getting added aswell.

Ah, well I guess some discussion about these has been mixed in when the city sets were revealed and I thought it would be new birds.

Yeah, stores with those stations get a bigger variety of accessories. The two January birds, yes, but wasn´t there a mention about brids in the city sets too?

Did they have only BAM or also a station to print your own torsos? Also, we are at 4 new birds for this year now, did anyone manage to find hi-res pics of them where you can get a good look on them?

Well, in the end the limit is Set and while sure it would be nice to say, hey its just one cent you get it anyways, but I don´t think the store actually has any influence on that. In the end when you get it for pne cent less the next one will just miss it for one cent again - and like already mentioned above it should be really easy to find a figure or something else to reach the threshold. As far as I am aware, that is how it is supposed to be, but of course there can be stores that just decide to not be so strict on it.