Black Falcon

Well I guess no Lord of the Rings Minifigure Series then.

I don´t think it matters in any way how many boats in other themes exist, when it comes to whether they would do the durmstrang ship or not. However with how they are starting now, and likely would make more sets for the first films now, I would guess we will see it in 2025. Given how unpleased you are with the second Hogwarts Line (if we are only counting the ones after they brought the theme back), you should be actually happy to get a new system and that one disappearing from the shelfes over time. However, you should keep in mind that tastes are different and what you consider a bad design, might be a good one for someone else. Honestly, when I saw the first pictures of the Chamber of Secrets when it was released, for me that was a big downgrade compared to the other one. However there were people that liked it a lot - and I have to admit, when the pictures of the full Hogwarts using most of the sets of that line showed up, I was actually surprised how good it looked. That beeing said, with one same hogwarts system always staying around, some people would never get what they liked since we were stuck with the same version with only minor changes. Like it is now, more people get the chance to buy a hogwarts they really like. Who decides what needs a redesign and what not? I actually like that they made that ford to a small set of its own instead of adding it to an other set like they did before. That way everyone that already had one can easily skip it and it is easy to obtain for those who want - and actually a great present for a low price.

The problem is not the availability but more the price that is asked for those.

I would actually love to get a wolf, but however I kinda fear how they would make it (it should clearly look like a wolf and not like a dog)

My guess would be that it will be either Brooklyn 99, E.T., the Owl House, or the Sea Turtle. Last one would actually be my favourite ( well aside from Star Gate, but that is just not gonna happen)

Well in the end most people won´t have room for 3 Hogwart´s (or 5 actually if we count the two microscale ones) anyways. So you might have to decide what to keep/buy and what not unless you have some storage room anyways. However I understand it will be hard to resist to buy the new hogwarts again especially since I am sure they will include cool new stuff again (actually the portraits already would be some) and surely we will also get a minifigure we haven´t had before. That beeing said, I still think it was a very smart move to release the Owlery and the Boathouse as the first two sets along with Hagrits Hut - the Modular Hogwarts we have right now had neither of those so you can easily buy and include them there even if you are not planning to start another hogwarts. With the Weasley Store released, and also given how it was named, I would be surprised if they wouldn´t make more that kind. Also, would be surprised if we wouldn´t get one big Set each year for a while, which they could make some of those locations. And actually, although it seems unlikely we will get that anytime soon, maybe we will also get a Ministry of Magic in a proper size - but for now we will see if we will get the Burrow this year. A Durmstrang ship does also seem likely to get soon to me, since it seems to be quite recommended among fans - however I wonder which price-range that one would have. They could make a playset, which would likely not please adults that much or they could make a bigger one but that would be likely in the price range between 200 and 250€ While there were a lot repeats, naturally, for the sets depicting the same castle, they were quite different though. In the end when you look at other themes such as castle you always have repeats there also. You have castles, ambushes, siege - but then you also got sets that are just standing out. Howevery Castle of course is still more open in what they can show, since the castle can look however they like to have it. I guess what I want to say is even if there are often repeats, that kinda makes the sets standing out and beeing unique more interesting in the end. Agreed. So far the sets we got look quite good, so I wouldn´t get my hopes to high there. Personally I hope for a lot nice details in the sets as Lego is already advertising it to be the most detailed Hogwarts yet.

Well was there really any rumour stating it would be march? As far as I remember we were only speculating it would come then because Rivendell was released at that time last year.

I wouldn´t say that. We got the sign of the Blacksmith, the shields for the black falcons, one new part, the Black Falcons Torso and legs, the blacksmiths torso, some recoloured or returning parts. And most important, we got a new Horse ;).

6971 Inter-Galactic Command Base would be a Set I would love to see remade (thought they shouldn´t stay to close to the original here) We would get a base, with a little Starship, a ground vehicle and a rocket and additionally a blue, a black and a yellow spacemen Sounds like something they would either make as part of a jubilee set - or a gwp.

I don´t remember anything ever broke from my Sets - however might be that I just forgot, but I guess I handled my Lego always good even as a child

Hm, not that I know of. I only ever heard that with Star Wars.

Ah well then I would go with that date, it is quite specific, so I would just belive them for now lol

I ordered some bestseller parts when they had the double Insider Points (the one befor black friday) and that ones were there very quick. Though, I live in Germany, so no idea how it is in the US. But more than a month for bestseller parts sounds quite long to me. Maybe you should ask Support about it?

Yes, the describtion of the Owlery and Boathouse say something like they are part of the most detailed Hogwarts yet - and well the roof colour speaks for itself anyways. A great hall would be to expect I think, howevery might be they split it with the underground section this time (great hall one set, Chamber of Secrets another - I guess it will depend on how detailed they are really going to go). But I kinda feel like in this case they still would release both at the same time

Make any series you want and you will find some who disagree ;). Most interesting for me would likely be either an other Harry Potter Series or a Lord of the Rings one. Aside from that I can only think of themes that are very unlikely to get.

Let me Quote myself from the starting post ;) So the guy in the Manor von Barron is indeed the Barron from the Desert Series - but the Sam Sinister of the later Sets. Don´t ask me how they came to that decision, but I would actually be very interesting to find out lol. A wild guess would be that they just mixed them up doing the Dino Island Series, because I can´t think of a better explanation - but I actually think that they relalised it later on, which is why they kinda made a mixed figure out of both of them in the Orient Expedition Series.

The Pig wasn´t new, but I am actually surprised it really was that chicken. Would have bet that it would have already existed lol. However the Chicken also was introduced in another set, so they might have shared the budget (although, it is a quite small set, but who knows). And yeah, since we got no stickers in the Lion Knights Castle, the Galaxy Explorer and the Eldorado Fortess, I actually expect to have no stickers there either - everything else would be a huge disappointement. You can´t really base a guess on a release date with when we got the first leaks. Just compare the leaks from the Minifigure-Series 25 with the ones from the Space Series - and we even got Pics from that one. I am still quite certain that it will be April, and if not than March, since that is what different sources stated. However I wouldn´t be urprised if we get more information about the sets soon - such as number of minifigures and animals.

I can only talk about my personal impression of your posts, but I think you really got nothing to fear there. On the contrary I would say you are definitely one of the persons that add more towards a conversation, than others do - and I also didn´t got the impression you wanted to shut someone (or someones opinion) down.

There is no shutdown. You can´t order new parts, but they are still handling orders they already got - although likely over the christmas days a lot of their employees will likely have holidays so it will take more time for them to handle the orders.

Well I knew in the US they had non working ones (here we only know the ones you can shoot with) - I actually thought that might still be the case? Baron was Mr Hates, and Sam Sinister was Sly Boots - GB had different names than that and US had others again - though for Orient Express I think they were the same for every country, however for some Minifigures they seem to have taken the English Version and for others the American one. However, Brickset lists some Sets that were included in Japanese Sweets, with Sinister called Sly Boots (The same name as in Germany) but Johnny Thunder is called Jones there. Nice catch, I didn´t know they were actually similar themes.

While that is possible for the modules of the space station, I have my doubts about the ring, not to mention the ground station. I mean there is nothing that could even carry the disassembled ring, not to mention assemble it.

I would think the same. The boathouse and the Owlery both would make me think that we will see rocks under the rest of the sets - and in the end I would also think we will see the chamber of secrets again, which would be easy to place there - then potion class. And for the rest of Hogwarts it wouldn´t be that hard to find something too, which lego wouldn´t have to necessarily place on the right space - some of the rooms from stone of wisdom for instance.

Interesting, I didn´t know that. However I´ve read that in GB Johnny Thunder was called Sam Grant, but even in Desert the Set names state Johnny Thunder. In the end, it doesn´t even make sense to me that they have different names. I mean US and GB share (basically) the same Language, and even in Germany they had (new, different) English names.

One obviously beeing the Goat, which one is the second new mould they made for it? Anyways I hope they add some good stuff to it like a printed shield for the inn (and hoepfully no stickers at all), many nice prints for the minifigures and maybe some interesting shields. In the end we don´t know what else they added but when I look back at the Medieval Blacksmith, where they stated that they didn´t had the budget for the goat, I wouldn´t get my hopes to much up - rather get positively surprised rather than disapointed like with the Majisto Set - where we got "leaks" beforehand stating it would be two knights and a horse in there. ;).

While kids surely wouldn´t care if they would do that, when the span between both is long enough, since they would have finished their hogwarts at some point - and then would likely have other interests anyways, from an Adult perspective, that would be pretty boring IMO. I mean there are still many adults out there collecting them, and bringing the same set out over and over again, even with smaller changes, wouldn´t be very intersting. In the end everyone can decide which of the different imaginations of Hogwarts suids you the most and just buy and keep that one.