Black Falcon

Which moulds do you mean? Animals can come in other themes, the only mould that comes to mind right now is the civilian headgear - and many printed pieces ofc.

Not random at all. If people think about the book in the film, they will likely remember two scenes. When Harry opens it in the Leaky Cauldron and when Neville gets attacked by it on their way to their lesson - and I take Neville (hopefully with ripped clothes) over another Harry for sure. Yeah, actually happy about this, so we can indeed place the greenhous at the ouside of Hogwarts (likely on next years big expansion. Given that they will prbably use big frames with glass, I would assume that they will just exclude the glass in one of them for the trees to go through.

Well, I hope we will get a moulded Fluffy this time, but new mould could also just mean a new moulded head. I wonder if it is really Flint, because then I would asume the other three houses won´t get a random student either but also named characters. Otherwise would seem like a strange choice to me.

They should for the whole line. And for the Main tower I would actually expect more of them included than in the great hall. Though for sure there will also be a lot stickers included for the staircase portraits

Many have said the same about Rivendell though, and, though sure some were complaining about it not beeing rivendell, but just a part of it, overall the Set seems to be very well received.

I never doubted the office would be included, the top of the tower is just the perfect place for it and since the stairs wouldn´t go all the way up there anyways, including something else would have been a strange decision IMO. Where has he been shown anyways? At least on reddit he wasn´t inlcluded with the other pics that featured Kettleburn Yeah, though we will have to see how it really looks, because based on the describtion, I could also see it beeing made so you can use it as an room that you can open, but probably could also added on the outside of a future set in it´s opened form - though for that it is probably missing some kind of roof.

Normal GWPs usually don´t leak that early, so sadly no. I just wait and see and then decide whether the GWP is worth ordering something with it.

I would at least have waited for a nice GWP to order them (and not all at once anyways. Aside from that, there is no such thing as having to many Falcon Knights - though they surely demand a big castle for them now ;).

You´re two days to late with this.

I would just take it as marketing talk. It was the third big Set in the Icons theme and someone from their marketing team probably thought that it would be fitting. I think the question will more be how it will sell in the future, if it does well on release but afterwards the sales are bad, that won´t help the theme - but aside from that, just one bad selling Set doesn´t have to mean they will shut the theme down, if Rivendell and Barad Dûr did really well.

Well there are a lot locations, they could do for a smaller set, but like the weathertop those aren´t really sets I would consider to be made a big D2C set. Well, we didn´t really expect something else, though.

Well, at least this gives the chance for another inhouse theme, to take over the spot, which could basically be everything. Well, you can´t really say they tried this with Nexo-Knights, since it was especially mentioned to be a traditional, less modernized fantasy castle setting, while Nexoknights, is exactly the opposite. What would actually come closer to what he was talking about would be Knights Kingdom II, where each of the knights had a certain ability, though they weren´t exactly magic users.

Actually, when I was writing the comment above, I was thinking about which other smaller Sets they could do, and this was exactly the thing that came to mind. All the other most Iconic (and most likely) Sets they could make would very likely be in a higher range.

Well, I think whether it would be playsets or big sets, castle locations usually have both named characters and generic knights. And main characters like Frodo, Gandalf, Aragorn of course will happen to be included in several Sets over time - but there will also be characters only included in a certain set. This, and also I think they probably wanted a less expensive Set in between, instead of just having a bigger, more expensive set each time. Whether we will get a big and expensive Set next time again, we will have to see, but I would say the chances are good, since I think the most likely options all seem to need "some" more bricks than the shire.

I would have been happy, if they would just have redone those two for the set actually. Especially the 2018 Mammoth looks really bad compared to todays standards, and while the sabre-tooth looks similar to what modern moulds look like, I would still like to get a new version of it.

Yeah, had to look the set up, to see what was meant, because a dove/pigeon mould in that set is something I thought I would remember. I would just see them as birds there.

As a non native speaker, isn´t Pigeon and Dove the same thing?

The thing is all the confirmations are just for the time after the release of Star Wars, while the evidence shows that those agreements changed with time.

We´ve had that before actually, and to me the biggest issue is still the ears.

It would really surprise me if it is anything than two. Sure they could also try to make a half Balrog only, coming out of the dark, but I highly doubt that. Yeah, and this is also the reason why I wasn´t happy about the announcement, in the end it will just be a diorama, which already use tons of bricks for the base, just with even more bricks for the sides. However, I could see them doing half-open sides, but kinda doubt they are completely open.

Well then you are lucky, since most of those shop owners nowadays know Bricklink, their prices are quite similar to those online. Well, one can never haven enough different Knight factions ;).

Ah, ok, on reddit there was no mention aside from the Piece count, release date and that it is supposed to be Hogsmeade Well, who knows, but if you are right and the buildings are indeed modular Style, they will for sure not be able to include all the most famous locations, which would be: Zonko´s Hog´s Head Three Broomsticks Honeydukes Shrieking Shak With the 3228 Pieces I am wondering if we get only three, or actually four of those included in the Set. I would say Zonko´s, The three Broomsticks and Honeydukes are granted. I still don´t see a reason why they should skip the plants trial, as that one should be quite easy to include aswell. The chess one take up way more space, even if they use 1x1 plates for the field. If they include that, I am curious how they will build the figures.

Yeah, especially at this price point, I kinda can´t imagine them not including a Polar bear.

Unfortunately, there is only a Flag for the Lion Knights, since those were included in the Lions Knights castle (if you buy those, there are both flags and the queens cape included, since those three come in a multipack). The Black falcons were only using the normal Lego flags, you can find those searching for the word streamer. On a side note, if you go one step back from Pick a Brick to the Bricks and Pieces Mainpage you can also directly browse different categories like Medieval, Vikings etc., though there might be fitting pieces missing (the Big Flag is missing for instance)

A buildable figure would have been a strange choice for an exclusive set anyways, however I would think it isn´t part of Hogwarts (at least the castle itself) but rather something either from the grounds (whomping willow for instance) or located elsewhere. Might as well be they plan to make another Hogsmeade Set in the future, which features other buildings. Also, we can´t be sure if they will be Modular like the DA buildings, which would need more pieces and could feature less buildings like if they would make them more like the old Hogsmeade set. I wouldn´t call it unexpected, I mean we´ve speculated about Fluffy or the challanges included before. I would be surprised if he isn´t. I´ve said it somewhere before in this thread, that I could see them doing Fluffy with a trap door, the plants underneath and the key challange too, since those don´t need that much space IMO, though of course if you want to have space for all three main characters to play there, you already need more. Not sure if they will include the chess challange, since that one would need the most space IMO. As for Dumbledores Office, I just don´t see them not including it, but who knows.