Black Falcon

City will go back sooner or later to themes like Jungle, Arctic or Desert. It honestly was quite unrealistic that we would get tons of animals every year now, there will be better and worse years like always. Last year wasn´t all that bad, especially since we got Wolf and Fox.

As Roebuck said. I would check if they are listed in your order details and if so contact costumer care - if it is not listed there it might just ship later, or if it is a retired part, not at all. I got a split order once, I got the whole order, just two female Lions were sent seperately later. Was actually surprised when the later ordered, because when they were not with the order and were not listed either (and they took less money for the order) I just assumed they were canceled and had no idea what I had odered when I got the tracking code.

I love that one, sadly it is rather expensive, so definitely would be up for a new version of it. Well they do, just not with the System Horses. And kinda, I actually think it would probably look strange if they would add that to the blocky design of those horses.

Sadly, not. Still only have few older topics showing of in unread content.

Yeah, given how long since the first figures leaked it is really surprising we only have seen so few more of them. I guess the full Series could leak anytime now.

Well apparently there is a certain way those pieces are supposed to be put together, but not every Store seems to follow them and actually figures have been put together in a different way in the same store in different times (might be just another employee did it)

I also think D&D lends itself much more to a CMF than YuGiOh does. They have a way bigger variety on what D&D can offer compared to YuGiOh, even if we consider that aside from the main characters they would also include some Humanoid Monsters and more importantly, D&D is more suitable for people that don´t care about the franchise IMO.

In the end, if he wouldn´t get a share, it wouldn´t have been made under the ideas theme but as an Icons Set.

I haven´t done it myself either, but from the lego community you can see several reasons for people to do it: they want to build it right away they want to make sure it doesn´t get dents, which often happens due to shipping the GWP was already gone when they tried to order so they went to the store to make sure not to miss it they actually have fun going to the Store instead of ordering online and are meeting other fans there and surely a lot more... In the end just as you can´t understand how others can wait at the stores, other people probably wouldn´t understand why thousands of people stay up to order right when the set releases.

That is really interesting, would have thought it would be the same timeframe for everyone. I haven´t noticed any difference in the threads shown, so I still see some of the 2025 threads that were created early in the year and the ones started somewhere in sommer not - so of course none of the 2026 ones either. Would be fine with me. It´s all of them really.

Probably you are right, but at least as nothing of that really would need a new mould (but the head doesn´t seem to unlikely), the chances shouldn´t be to bad to get one of the dronkeys.

That won´t generate more sales though because said person was already going to get the GWPs anyways and if he/she would buy on day one, two, or three won´t play a role for Lego.

Actually surprised to see dragon there, as not sure how they would make a CMF out of it but I do hope Donkey is included with Shrek and we get one of the kids for the Dragon, though depending on how they are doing here I wouldn´t be surprised if the dragon comes on its own.

How many people would really do that? In the end only people that expect a high price for the GWP and are going to sell it off to reduce the price of the main set that way - and the buyers are mainly people who missed out on the GWP because it sold out fast. Compared to that, the amount of Sets they would have sold but didn´t because the GWP just wasn´t there anymore (or even the main Set) is far bigger than what they would be selling more to some people that don´t care about the GWP anyways. That would make even less sense because if you expect them to have the GWP avaiable for every Set sold, you would need to know how many of the Set you are ever going to produce, which is just not possible.

That would go against the whole concept of encouraging people to buy at Lego to get the GWPs though. And keeping the rest of the GWPs in logistics for another 6 months, isn´t really something a company would want to do, as that isn´t exactly cheap either. Yeah that and the Creel House GWP this year were gone quite quick. In the end it is hard to really calculate the demand of certain sets and we don´t have the numbers of Sets/GWPs produced anyways, but I would expect that there are larger numbers of GWPs produced if they expect higher demand. Just sometimes it is still not enough. I think you are missing an important point here though. They would have to keep GWPs in production to have stock to cater them to every sold set for its lifespan meaning they would also have to keep exclusive Parts in production and logistics, while if they produce them all within a short timespan and then have the capacities free for the next one. I don´t actually think that is really happening though. In the end sure if someone knows GWPs are regularly gone fast someone might be more easily ready to make a order to get a GWP. But you shouldn´t forget that with every GWP that is sold out to fast, they don´t make more money by selling the exclusive Set that it comes with. So I doubt it is actually in Legos interest to have Sets/GWPs gone within less than a half day.

Yeah, there are basically three things I would expect to be displayed in the Set: The watcher in the water with the doors of Durin The chamber of Mazarbul with Balins tomb The bridge with the Balrog

For a moment I thought the actual GWP was revealed. But yeah, that one and the Serpent for Castle will be at least two decent GWPs this year for me - last year was a bit of a disappointement for me in that departement.

Ah, I see, especially if you sell the second GWP - or use that for partout to that should be a good source, yeah. Well, but most of your problems won´t change if they do the set in 2, 3, 4 years instead of next and I just don´t see them not doing Moria at all (unless they would stop with the theme but that also seems highly unlikely to me at this point) I would definitely expect the watcher to be included, but personally I would probably prefer it on the left side of the build rather than on the back. Personally I have no idea how they would do it so it looks decent but looking at Rivendell and Minas Tirith I am pretty sure they can make it look great, as you can build some rock face and dwarven architecture - biggest question probably would be if it would have an open top as that would need a lot of pieces or come up with another idea, on what to display there.

Out of interest, two copies to display both sides of the modell? Maybe not the most likely option for the next Set, especially since I would still expect a smaller Set like Meduseld for the next Set, I don´t think that would really be a reason for them not to make it. I mean, we got different versions and attempts of the same stuff at the same time in other franchises too (Hogwarts Express, to stay with the booknooks) and I actually don´t think that many would say I got the Balrog, I don´t need Moria, as that might be a iconic part of that location, but there is just so much more to it.

Looks really great, much better than I could have imagined actually. Really like what they did with the interior too and they kinda go a new way with not only a minifig-scale interior like they did with Barad-Dûr but also locations inside of the build.

While Digimon was really a thing when I was young (the first generation series came out then) my question was if that still is a thing nowadays. I made a quick search and it seems the last series was 2023, so at least the theme isn´t completely dead, but while you see Franchises like Pokemon or Jurassic Park everywhere in toy shops, I can´t really remember seeing Digimon merch anywhere, hence my question how popular it still is nowadays.

Is that even still a thing?

If they would do that, they wouldn´t have just recently started with another Brick label, Mattel Brick Shop.

Reportedly they were holding off on sending the second version after people complained about them to Costumer Care, so definitely the thrid version.

The trailer is out, and I have to say, the whole enviroment looks more like a computer game rather than a film. And yeah, would guess the film isn´t really something for fans of franchise.