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I don't mind new starter courses so long as the figures look better, hopefully less blocky.

I'm really excited for this theme. Honestly, I love the idea of a goth minidoll theme, and I think the characters from the show will translate really well to the minidoll style. The show features all of the Addams family, so there's definitely a possibility that they could all make an appearance, but I'm guessing these sets will likely lean toward the Wednesday characters. Outside of Wednesday, I expect we'll get Enid, the principal, Eugene, Ms. Thornhill and the Hyde at the very least. My guess for the sets is that both will be parts of Nevermore Academy and they'll combine together in some way. I expect that we'll see Wednesday and Enid's dorm, the principals office, the conservatory and maybe the quad. I also expect one of these sets will recreate the school ball and we'll get Wednesday's outfit from the dance.

Some Instagram leakers are saying it's minidolls (for Wednesday too). Honestly, I'm okay if this turns out to be the case. I think Lego has managed to dial in on a good design style in the last couple of years for the minidoll printing and hair pieces and I've grown to appreciate them now.

It's not completely finished yet, but I think the exterior is close to final. I decided to forgo the more modern looking gas pumps and use the more retro inspired design from the Corner Garage set. The rest of the building I kept pretty similar to the original design. I'm going to work on the garage interior next (I have a decent idea of what I want it to look like), but I'm unsure about what I want to put in the store part of the gas station. I originally thought about making it more of a convenience store, but I think that clashes with the Super Store too much (for so few residents it doesn't make sense to have so many food options). So I'm thinking about making it into an automotive supply shop. Since my first post I've been working a bit more on the landscaping rather than the buildings. Nubby's is about 60-70% done and the Information Center is about 50% there (I keep going back and forth on how to do the tower, with the new elevator system introduced last year I tried to incorporate it into the build, but it pretty much ate up most of the floor space so I think I'm going to go back to the drawing board on that). I've been busy with work, so progress is slow, but I think the East side of the island is coming along nicely. I've hit 10K on pieces and Stud.io is still chugging along.

Oh wow, $300? I don't know if I can justify a model of the Deku tree for $300.

Me too. I'm really hoping Lego introduces something that properly replaces the original palm tree pieces. I just miss how it could be posed. I do like the new leaf they introduced last year though, I like how full I was able to make it look. I probably will mess around with her design a little more, and I'd like to create a new design for Papa's torso too. I had forgotten about Mama's black hair, I think my Lego Island 2 nostalgia subconsciously won out. Thanks for the kind words everyone! I'm glad you all like it!

Over the last few weeks, I kept finding myself watching playthroughs of Lego Island on YouTube. It's a nostalgic favorite of mine, one of the first PC games I ever owned. My nostalgia rabbit hole got me thinking about what the Island would look like today in the style of current Lego, so I decided to start building it in Stud.io. Of course, I needed to pick a starting point for this project and decided, to begin with the Pizzeria: I started with the original model and kind of just tinkered with different parts until I felt satisfied with the results. Here's the interior: The updated Brickolini family: The Pizzeria is one of my favorite buildings on the island and it was a lot of fun revamping it for the modern age. In fact, I was so happy with the results, I decided to submit it to Lego Ideas:https://ideas.lego.com/projects/fda5bce0-ad10-46db-80ef-fceccba6577d And here it is in it's new home on my Lego Island layout: Eventually I plan on redoing the entirety of the island, but it's a pretty big island, so who knows how long it will take. In fact, here's my progress so far: I've worked a lot on the gas station and super store, but I'm not satisfied with them yet, so I won't post any closeups yet. More updates to come, eventually.

I like both the grey and sand green, but my preference is a mix. The roofs in the film tend to look a bit grimy/mossy, so I don't like when they go with one solid color.

I really like that they've included a wheelchair. Disabilities aren't really portrayed in this franchise often, so it's cool of Lego to add some visibility for wheelchair users (it seems like many kids were pleased to see a character with a limb difference in the Friends sets, so hopefully this will be similarly inspiring for children). Really looking forward to the Great Hall. My issue with previous incarnations has always been the scale, so I'm pleased to see the increased size. I'm hoping they include the architects statue and the kitchens with a couple of house elves. House ghosts would be great too, particularly I'd like to see the bloody baron and the original gray lady. It would be nice to have various seasonal decorations included, it would be great to have the option to decorate it for Halloween or Christmas. I hope they make the staircase tower a separate set entirely so that can get the proper scale and detail it deserves.

Jbspielwaren showed the instruction booklet from the new sets on Instagram and it shows how the Owlry and Boathouse fit into the new Hogwarts. If that image represents the true scale of the new Hogwarts, it might be pretty massive.

Ideas isn't accepting Indiana Jones set ideas currently.

Toy Fairs are for retailers, they see plenty of prototypes and things that never see release. It's a preview of a product, not a guarantee of what will actually be made. I'm betting their sources information was just out of date. I think those sets probably were planned at one point and then eventually scrapped and that the leaker had only part of that information. After all, we know that internally stuff gets scrapped all the time in the planning phase.

Lego didn't make a mistake though. They made a handful of sets to take advantage of the movie coming out and that's it. They never promised an evergreen theme, no promise was broken. We only even know about the TOD set because of leakers, and when they canceled it they gave us a statement even though we weren't owed it in any way.

It's like there's a gas leak in this thread... To think, if we didn't have leakers we wouldn't have had 50 pages of talking in circles about why the worst Indy film in the original trilogy had its set cancelled. The original set was a better design than the remake anyways, so it's not like we really lost out.

I would be fine with a $200 Great Hall so long as it includes the courtyard, kitchens, Filch's office and the walkway around the tower.

Nobody is saying it won't ever come back, just that the theme is discontinued currently. Of course new interest in the franchise could revive it, but until that happens, the theme is done.

In fairness to Lego, it was likely Disney's fault the theme ended as abruptly as it did. They did very little merchandising across the board and they cancelled all other Indy projects so that Lucasfilm could focus exclusively on fixing Star Wars. And Disney's mishandling of Dial of Destiny's release pretty much doomed any chance it had of doing well at the box office. Once that underperformed there was pretty much no chance of any additional sets.

I feel very meh about most of them. I think they're all okay, but I don't feel like the designs are good enough to warrant CMF prices. I love the robot, very 1960s, the parts are perfect for a purist Lost in Space Robot (might have to get back to designing a Jupiter 2 moc). The UFO headgear looks pretty interesting too.

Hagrid's Hut is my favorite of this wave, it really captures the energy of the early films. I really appreciate that they didn't retread too much from the previous iteration and went with a different build style, it really makes it feel like it's worthwhile to get even if you have the previous version. All the minifigures and creatures are great too. Seeing the back of the box with the wooden floor pattern makes me wish they had found a way to give the floor that look. My second favorite set is the boathouse. Yes, we get some retreads on the minifigures, but I really enjoy the build, it's simple but effective and I actually really enjoy the brick built boats (though the lantern build feels kind of meh to me). I like the exterior of the Owlery, but really dislike the interior, very much a mixed bag for me. I will likely wait for a sale on that one. I actually really like the look of the Forbidden Forest, the color palette really appeals to me and I like how they captured the look of terrain of the forest (though the build could be a bit smoother). Honestly, had they included a unicorn rather than Buckbeak, this would have been a slam dunk to me. The Flying Ford Anglia seems to be a minor improvement over the previous version. It's a solid little set and if I didn't have two other variations of this car I'd be tempted to buy it. Hedwig looks pretty bad. The accessories are pretty boring too. A definite skip for me. As winter waves go I actually like it overall. It's a bit less gimmick heavy than some of the previous years, and they managed to give us a couple of new locations, so I can't complain too much. Seeing the Hogwarts components built on rocks makes me hope that the next incarnation of Hogwarts is built up on a base a little bit more.

I assume for Fortnite they'd just use the Overwatch gun piece with different elements attached, so they don't even have to create new gun molds.

Lego already did Overwatch, which is a first person shooter, I think the rules really only apply when the intended sales audience is children.

It feels weird to me. Designing/customizing your player and house is a core component of the franchise. I mean, if the idea is that the builder is the player, it's kind of strange that if you go into Nook's store you can't buy the furniture for your house, if they add a Able Sisters shop you can't buy the clothes for yourself, if they add the salon you can't do your own hair and so on. Having a player minifigure gives you the ability to interact with all these things in the same way as the games, it acts as your avatar for roleplay. Too, the player designs are fairly iconic in their own right, so it just makes it even weirder that they're not present. I hope they add it in a following wave, the theme just feels incomplete to me without it.

I can understand them holding off on the player for now. The animals all have specific designs, with basic hat and torso variations, so it's easier to start with them. The player on the other hand is meant to be completely customizable, and if they go with molded heads to match the animals then they're basically committing to putting out a plethora of new parts (heads in all the skin tones, new hair pieces with color variations). I wouldn't be surprised if they saved the player for a cmf series as that would be a good way to provide a decent selection of options to customize your player avatar.

They just revealed the sets! New window and door pieces!

I'm really hoping that they capture the customization element of the games. It would be great if the set that introduces the player character could have a selection of parts to make your own basic villager to start off with (like the part selections in the Hogwarts and Quidditch trunk sets) and then other sets could increase the range of customization options. I'd love to also see expansion sets to upgrade your house, maybe a cmf with furniture sets, costumes, etc. I'm super stoked that they're building everything on baseplates so you can make your own island.