Black Falcon

Noone questioned Sesame Street CMFs, but the ones for the Fraggles. And Downtown Abbey isn´t an Netflix series, but a british itv one, which you could watch in free tv, but also stream on several places, including Netflix but also DIsney + for instance. Way more people have access to this series than to the Fraggles and still I wouldn´t say Downtown Abbey would be iconic enough for a CMF series either. On a side note, I would think a Fraggles set would be way more likely than a CMF series too. Though not sure how likely really because it is hard to predict demand for it.

Wasn´t even mentioned on the german wikipedia, and I would still say it is to niche, especially for a CMF. Apple TV is at least compared to Netflix, Amazon and Disney+ a smaller streaming service, so the viewership for that show seems also quite limited to me.

I doubt that the second one is really well known enough to ever become a CMF. Maybe some adults know it from their childhood but unless Sesame Street I don´t think many kids nowadays do. I actually even had to google it, because I never heard about it at all.

You missed one of the bots down in the media and event subforums - and sadly still new ones are coming up. As a short fix, as all of them are advertising the same shop, maybe it would be possible to filter new posts containing the shops name out?

It sounds unlikely to me that it accidentally was included in another bag - though no idea why they wouldn´t include that in the same bag as the other dino parts.

Well if you only buy Dinosaurs, and the Dinosaur was in a bag with other parts originally,then it would have been a guess that the seller forgot it. Sealed bags sounded to me like they were still originally sealed - though they usually sealed those dinosaurs in extra bags, but no idea how they handle that now that they use the paper ones.

On reddit it is especially mentioned that it would be that line, so nothing really interesting for castle fans in genereal I guess, though I wonder what exactly it will look like and what it makes look "medieval".

I still think that the production capacity of that theme went towards Pokemon, so I don´t think we will see a direct theme coming after it - but with Dreamzzz likely retiring too and them building new factories or increasing capacity on others, there should be more room for another theme once they are done at least. Of course they could aswell just expand other lines or make more smaller licensed themes but I would prefer if they make a new own theme again, where they can unleash their full creativity on. Doesn´t have to be a permanent theme, if they plan with 3 year themes or so like before would be fine too - unless of course the theme turns out so great that I would wish for it to stay around ;).

Blasphemy! I actually think Minifigures without studs just look totally creepy. Just remember when the Pharell Williams trailer came out and all minifigures there had no studs on their heads, it looked just so bad.

Well I would guess just noone here built that Set yet. But you can look in the instructions and based on that it should be in the same bag as the other dinosaur parts and the helicopter parts. You doublechecked the bags to see if there is any part left? With the paper bags it happens quite often that a part is stuck in a corner, and since they aren´t transparent anymore you can easily miss them now..

Well it is in production now, so they can use it - though I don´t actually think the old one was actually that bad, but I would probably prefer the one she had in the old Burrow Set from those three.

That doesn´t mean they can´t have both. Not to mention, Bluerays often sit in bookshelves too, and the booknook just works better between books/dvds/bluerays or VHS is you have ;) rather than in a Lego shelf IMO.

Very certain I would say. We´ve had rumours before, but now the info comes from reliable sources, so while of course you can never be 100% sure, the chances are very good.

Well, basically you can use every great hall set, just use the table there, put Draco and Harry on it, a small snake and Snape and Lockhart next to it - so you can play it using that system, but I wouldn´t say it was featured in this set, because neither did you get Malfoy, nor Snape. I doubt we will getting more than one Addon next year for the great Hall, and actually I think the most important things (beeing the Dueling Club and Sorting Hat) have been featured, I wouldn´t know what else they could do for this part at least. Adventscalendar of course could feature something you can include in that, but aside of that all I could think of is a decoration pack of sorts - but even that doesn´t seem that likely to me. Anyways, since most of the films play in the castle itself there is enough they can include in there that they woudn´t struggle to fill a castle twice the size, so obviously not everything can´t be included.

Door 1 x 3 x 6 Curved Top : Part 2554 | BrickLink would have been perfect for the doors IMO, but sadly they have been long discontinued. Other than that all other doors that are still in production are to big, given you would want to use double doors there. The spears and cones are again a question of taste and accuracy. Spears are actually way to long, and actually even the cones still are, but I think still the better choice. It certainly would stand out, personally I wouldn´t mind if they include it or not, though it could be considered to stand out to much when you look at it from the backside.

That is actually not correct. They included both of them in the 2018 Microscale Hogwarts. And I don´t actually think that it matters that both is the head masters office, since both are still different rooms. So I wouldn´t say it is unlikely they could include her office, though it isn´t an must have either. First of all, they never claimed it to be the most complete or anything but the most detailed. And yes, it is way more detailed than the versions we had previously. Aside from that I also disagree that this version of Hogwarts would have to include everything the last two systems had. We will likely get more than what the last two systems included, but if they would want to include everything made in those system, it also limits them in their ability to make new stuff. Well, first of all we don´t even know yet how big that module will be or what other sets they are going to make. So it is hard to tell how much room we can expect from it. If the bathroom is there only for the entrance scene of the chamber, they could aswell omit the polyjuice scene. Not going to say it won´t apear, but we just don´t know. But yeah, Slytherin Common Room, Chamber and Polyjuice potion in one Set makes a lot sense actually, but I can also understand if it is not in the ground section of the set and actually would prefer if they use the whole ground section for the chamber instead of splitting it between the chamber and the slytherin common room. And honestly, which set we got so far should have included the slythering common room instead? Great Hall Hufflepuff was more fitting actually, the main Tower would have probably had to be the set that included it but already had to include the gryffindor one and hospital wing wouldn´t make more sense to include two of those either. Your Minifig Lineup sounds plausible, and the other two sets had ten and twelve minifigures. Other minifigs that could be included are Filch and Pomfrey but in the end ot also depends on what else will be included. Honestly, when I first saw it, I thought the same. And it still looks quite small and especially inside there isn´t much room. But when I look at the old one now, it doesn´t actually look all that great as I had it in mind anymore, and if I compare both of them, the new one is definitely the more accurate one, both in shape and dimensions.

Looks like Titanium Metallic to me. Nice catch, wouldn´t have recognized this, because the torso is usually hidden behind the beard - but even without that, very likely not.

I don´t really think that many expect multiple DADA classes, just everyone would prefer something else depicted and overall wishes what is included is different from expectations. We will never get all that stuff within one system, and I doubt even your minimum. The Chamber of secrets and the bathroom is something I would expect, but the prefects bathroom wouldn´t be the first thing that would come to my mind, that should be included in a Hogwarts Castle. Overall the new systems seems to be doing quite well and I don´t see any reason that lets me think otherwise - including sales, as I don´t see any unusual sales compared to other themes either. And sure, people reacted towards the new system with another one, and yet many that said previously they wouldn´t buy it have done so - including people from this threat ;). I have no doubt that a new system will have smaller sets again, since Lego would likely want people that didn´t buy this version because of the price to buy the next one - but there is just no way we will see that version for 2027 unless it was planned already, after all setting up a new system also needs time and as far as I remember they start quite earlier working on that.

I am not so sure about that actually. Harry Potter was quite some time ago and I would actually think that since than overall interest for this kind of figures has spiked, not only by normal costumers but also there are way more resellers out there nowadays. The D&D series has been avaiable on way more places than those series, and also some where no other series was avaiable here. On an other note, those series are a one off production and then they are getting sold without any reproduction based on the demand - that beeing said, the F1 series might not be doing that bad, especially given that I saw a lot displays out there on even more places than the D&D series. So it might aswell be that one having the most sales, but as mentioned above, as they are not produced based on demand (at best estimated one) I probably wouldn´t base success on sales numbers here, since everything gets sold with the right discounts.

I was thinking more about this ones Hose, Flexible 8.5L with Black Tabless Ends Fixed : Part 73590c03b | BrickLink come also closer to the ones the original Renegade used.

Hmm, well to me it has a different effect. I am actually surprised you didn´t try to remove more black parts there too and instead used yellow hoses instead of the black ones.

The place the greenhouses are placed in your picture though, are not really something we are expecting to get in the sets, so the question where they will place them in their final model stays.

Yeah, I wonder where the greenhouses will be placed in the final, complete model, since they don´t include a underground section.Probably it will just be placed "down the hill" since I can´t imagine the big modul of the summer wave will have a place for it included.

For that I find @pinar´s Article quite usefull: LEGO Dog Figures - Buka Bricks

The biggest difference is the colour change though, aside from the antennas you hardly spot the rest on first sight, so wouldn´t change your first impression.