Black Falcon

The Jade rabbit also was release mid-year, though probably not everyone would count him towards the rest. No idea how the theme is officially called as it is just placed under "other" in their shop, so probably it isn´t even an own theme officially. Brickset lists them under Seasonals as Chinese Traditional Festival, probably better than listing them as Chinese new year but probably not completely hitting the nail either.

It only comes in a 250€ Set, so I fear the price will not be the lowest for the next time. If the theme goes on, he might appear in a smaller set too I hope.

No, a new Chinese Seasonal one.

Basically calf is the right term for reindeer, same as bull and cow are used for the adult ones. In the end there are many names used for deer based on size (not of the individual but the species) but also on age of an animal. In the end I think we all understand what is meant whether you call it calf or fawn and the adults, stag, bull, buck, doe, cow and so on.

To me it is the best Set of the series they have done for a long time. I like the more historical aproach of it, rather than a modern scene.

Pretty sure it is the later. In the end it is logical he doesn´t run around with his jacket all the time, when he is in the factory or his office. Can also understand that they still decided to include a christmas Santa, though of course Santa is basically the figure I am least excited about - elves you can use multiple of, but I have enough Santas sitting around aready. Winter village would be a likely choice, or any other Christmas related set of course. But aside from that, I don´t think the Advent Calendar can´t get a new mould, in the end it is probably just a matter of how the budget is used, which I think just goes to prints and recolours normally.

Do we even have a reveal date leaked yet? I mean aside from the leak from the greek shop, the HP leak we got now is the usual "short before reveal" leak, which is said to be tomorrow.

In the end consumers decided what they would buy and what not, so if people wouldn´t have bought Star Wars but Space instead, guess what we would have on shelves now. That list is not complete though.

There are like 400 to 600 Submissions for one round, of course not all are getting as far as crowdfunding. There is a peoples vote on all designs, after which the designs are choosen by the team (so not 5 castle sets make it for instance) and those 5 are getting refined by the fan designers with the help from Lego. And those 5 are going to crowdfunding, so there is no other round inbetween.

Lost City was a bit over 8k Sets, not 10k, but that was the only one that didn´t make it to that benchmark. However the average can´t be 30k, since just few sets went over that point and there are several that just made it to about10k and others that didn´t reach the maximum either. The only series that was actually selling almost the maximum of the 150k Sets in total was the last one, there are some that just sold about 70% of the Sets avaiable so the avarage should be more about 25k Sets. About how many Sets are made for normal ones I can´t say much, as Lego won´t tell anyways, but if you say a production run has less than 100k you shouldn´t forget that there is not just one production run, as not all sets are produced at the same time, let alone the same factory. But as those numbers are pure speculation there isn´t much to compare there anyways IMO. Well, the target for those Sets are AFOLs and people learn about them through online blogs, forums (like this one) and marketing emails from Lego + the bricklink team beeing there and showing them live on lego events. Aside of that, of course you are right that sales would be a lot higher if those would be normal sets with higher avaiability, especially to normal consumers. But at the same time production, logistics and overall effort and costs would increase too. I would disagree here. BDP fills a niche. And that it is done the way it is done has a reason, sure you want new stuff and all and I can understand that, in the end everyone would love it. But in the end everything they would change and especially having new moulds, parts, prints etc for it will increase costs and while as it is Lego can just make those sets without much risk and can easily produce sets that they otherwise wouldn´t do. So instead of wishing for BDP sets to show up in ideas, you could just aswell wish that they would just make more classic ideas sets - though I don´t see much more chance for that happening either honestly.

Yes. The thing about BDP is that they can just produce it in one go, so they basically have to make sure all the parts are produced beforehand that they need and put together their sets. If you would make an own theme out of it you would need budget for the parts etc as all of it needs storage and a higher production capacity, which is just not there. On the same time it would basically remove all differences between the BDP and Ideas and make the bdp sets ideas ones, so in the end, you would have ideas and essentially just remove the bdp completely.

Aside from maybe Orthanc all of them have been playsets, that are not really suited to display along the newer Sets honestly. Not to mention the Moria set only featured the tomb of Balin, so there is still a huge part of it missing - and I don´t think Lego really considers those old sets to much anyways, since it has been a lot time since then and how many people that would be potential buyers for the LotR sets really own them?

Moria is no major location to you? Or you´re fine with the booknook?

Exactly. I am well aware of that. In the end I wonder what the point actually is in blocking someone, if they let him return with another account again and again. I mean how many did we have now? 4? 5? You basically can throw all the rules overboard if noone has to follow them anyways... Well it is the usual clickbait trash, and yeah not even clicking on it is the best you can do.

The GWP would still be exclusive, it isn´t like it would be a direct remake of that one, I wouldn´t even expect that the Fell beast itself would be a direct copy of the one from the GWP. That beeing said, no, direct copies of a GWP were used in a set but similar things often enough.