Black Falcon

Third (and fourth) are from 60026 Town Square BTW, if you want to see more pictures: My Lego City. A small layout for childs play - LEGO Town - Eurobricks Forums (since the Pinterest post linked there anyways)

Well we will be getting that already:

I would assume it does, but I wouldn´t bet on it.

It would have been, if he kept dreaming at least lol.

It does seem likely to me, that if they want to include the Falcon in a set, they might just produce all of them in china and ship them over rather than making moulds for other factories aswell. So IMO it will come for sure, the question is just, when and where :). While I would wish we would get some more diversity for animals, I don´t have the feeling we will see that happening in this set. Well aside from the goat ofc, since that one is not produced now anyways ;).

Most of the GWPs have leaked rather late towards their release. As soon as they are shiped to the stores we will see leakes obviously + there will be some certified stores advertising them. But I would actually think we might get more information soon. Right now we don´t even know for sure, which set it has, if there is a horse etc. Also we don´t have information about the required order value yet.

Doors, Windows and the tree trunk

The Halloween one was only supposed to be handed out till yesterday.

I would count it towards the historical themes. I mean, it basically is licensed but Lord of the Rings is here aswell, so... ;). And in the end both Lord of the Rings and Dungeons and Dragons fit together with Castles Fantasy Era, so it would actually make sense to have Fantasy and Medival etc. in this section. I really liked the fan model, so the set will likely attract me too. I kinda wish we would get yellow colored minifigures though, but that would be very unlikely ;) As for the minifigs, I would bet on one Rogue, one Fighter, one Wizard and one Ranger. Maybe a Bard as fifth?

The redish brown one is in a serious play set, so that is why it is still around - no idea why they don´t put it in a normal set though. Anyway kinda sad they have 5 different horses for friends (I mean I can understand why, just not why we can´t have more too) but only three for system. Or had 3 on pick a brick, the reddish brown one just disappeared for me.

Ah yeah, forgot about that. Well, the others don´t have much printing either and as long as it has eyes, which it does it is enough for me.

It wouldn´t have surprised me if the crook would have just been a forestmen, but in the survey pic it doesn´t look like that, although he is wearing the head. Could be a dark forest forestmen though. And yeah, I already disliked that they used that torso for the child in the medieval castle. Actually does, yeah. I forgot about that one. Well the survey pic had a Dark Orange one, but actually would hope for a new interpretation of the horse from the Mill Set. Though I don´t see that happening honestly. So yeah, with Dark Orange and Tan already in the castle, reddish brown would make most sense. Or the white one you mentioned, though I missed that one, which set is it in?

Well, I heard one person mentioning it here. But honestly, I just don´t see it in the pictures. For me it looks like there are just two adult sheeps as we had them in the farm. Which actually surpised me is, that there is no lamb in the set. Anyways, the second sheep just stands in a slightly different angle, with a watermark covering most of the black colour of its head. I think most of the budged for the set will go to the goat, hopefully new shields and also hopefully to the minifigs. I expect there to be no stickers in the set, so I also would think a nice shield for the tavern at least. Maybe an other for the shield smith? I also hope, that they don´t reuse all the civilian parts from the Castle. Knight and Forestmen are fine, but I really hope for some more diversity in civilian designs.

It was first rumoured to cost 350€, so yeah, that price would have been much better. For me it kinda feels like now that the overall prices went back down again a bit, the Lego sets coming now do seem better priced again (with some exceptions of course). But yeah, especially with the increased price its quite sad the Wizard didn´t got any print at all. However the explanation from Brick Clicker seems unlikely to me. Because usually, as the $ "costs" more than the € and so the US Price should be the higher one, not the €. The thing is I don´t think the survey works like how much would you pay for this set? And then they will sell it for that. More likely they would say, oh yeah, for that they would like to have it. So that´s the budged. I really hope they didn´t remove any minifig or animal from it due to the results from that. Just imagine you would read an designer interview some time after the release of the set, and a designer is asked about the goat there and says: "Oh, we actually had it in there, but after a survey made for the price point, they cut the budged of the set by 10€, so we had to let the goat go". ;) Agreed, I mean at this price point the 15 Euro isn´t that much anyways. So as long as the animals included are worth it, I am fine with that.

You sure it is like that for whole Europe? I still have one pending so might see it "soon" anyways. But If I remember right, the last one wasn´t shipped from denmark.

For what the rumours/leaks say we are getting with this set, 229€ already seemed quite low, so 215€ seem kinda unlikely. But however, if they are true I´m not going to complain. I just hope we still get many animals like they had in the survey.

Sets are coming from belgium. Now that I think about it, might be that it was bestseller from poland and standard pieces from czech republik. But anyways never got an order from Denmark.

Aren´t they usually coming from a warehous in belgium?

I´d rather have two sets than one combined. Well there are actually 3 reasons why I think the Village will belong to the Lion Knights I think this set will be an extension for the Lion Knights castle, where we already got some villagers and animals. On the survey images was a red and yellow flag on the tower, which are the colours of the Lion Knights The Building with the tower seems like a reinterpretation of the Guarded in, which also was an Lion Knights set. However we can still see a knight from another faction in the set, like we did with the Black Falcons in their castle.

I know you didn´t meant that this set would become mid-priced set, it was just an example because you wrote everything under 100$ could become a GWP, which just seems to high to me. However I still can see them making it a 80€ Set, if they want. But I also can see them doing it bigger. I would have thought more like 170€-220€, although 250€ does still seem possible. Kinda hard to tell without Pictures. But I don´t think it will be more than 250.

I could see them making the Forestmen or Wolfpack Sets for 120€ but not much more than that, else it would be to far from the original, but I actually would still think they would be less than 100€ Well, while I agree with that for sets they would sell for up to 40€ I think Sets above that would be sold directly. I mean lets say they remake the Wolfpack Tower and it would be sold for 80€. Then as a GWP they would ask 400€ for that. It is just unlikely. and to much. While of course there would be people still getting it and Lego has enough big sets in this Price range. But still the rant would be big. I have to disagree here. While of course they are aiming for people with enough money with sets like the Lion knights castle, there are many people that would love to get it and just can´t (or could but it is just not reasonable to do it at this price point). Other might get it because it is just awesome, but surely can´t afford to buy such sets on a regular basis. So it is more a one time thing for them. While on the other hand if we are coming back to the example above, the Wolfpack Tower for 80 or even 120€ more people would buy it. Give them a matching GWP for 150€ or so, and they will add something else to reach that. In the end the number buying that would be way bigger than for a 400€+ Set.

Yeah, I kinda thought about them starting at 100€ but then I wasn´t sure wheter that isn´t that big today anymore. On the other side, I would still count sets like the Viking Village and the Galaxy Explorer towards the "big" ones. Maybe Small, Medium and Big just don´t do it anymore ;). Yeah, they could make it in the range I mentioned but also build it bigger if they want. Kinda both things would work. But I still kinda feel like we are going to see a Castle set for less than 100€ this year.

The back of the set doesn´t look that good IMO. It´s still a nice set with nice parts used, with a fair required order value. I will see whether I am going to get it.

Well, what is a big set? I think they will make different sizes. If we are really seeing an other castle set this year I would expect it to be a medium sized one. I could see them doing a 6075 Wolfpack Tower, 6077 Forestmen's River Fortress or 6071 Forestmen's Crossing, although a Forestmen seems more likely now, as they don´t need to make a new faction for that now. They clould make those sets as 50-80€ Sets if they want (ofc they also could make them bigger). And I think it wouldn´t be bad to get some lower prized sets like that for people that still would love to get those retro sets but just can´t afford them. However I think little sets will all be gwps. Since the Tavern looks like a reimagination of the 6067 Guarded Inn we could get an new version of the maiden included in that one.

I would love to see a new interpretation of the Black Knights castle, which is my favourite one of all the old castles. Though, I wouldn´t expect them doing a new castle with a new faction so soon after the last one. Especially when we are getting an other big castle set this year already. But, well If they do it in a few years it would still be great. And anyways those sets are not that cheap, so I am kinda happy if they don´t introduce to many at once lol