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I have to admit, from what I've seen so far, I will not be buying much this year. Which could be a blessing in disguise - considering the (bad) state of my credit card ! ! !

Sorry guys - to ruin a good quote: I came, I saw, I was not impressed. And as for who wouldn't buy a $20 dollar Batmobile ? I guess the line starts behind me.

I got two copies of the fort, I used the second one to lengthen the side walls, with the side walls being longer, I moved the small tower to one end of the center section and put a small tower from the second set at the other end of the center section. Any spare log parts left over I intend to use to build the jail/cage contraption into a wooden keep, I might even get a third one to make sure I have enough log parts. When it's all finshed, the "barbarian" Bull knights will finally have a castle,

Which ridiculous helmets were you refering to mister_phes ? If it was the helmets worn by the jelly-beans, then I'd agree, but if it was the helmets worn by Vladek's troops, then I'd have to disagree, those ones grow on you after a while.

I want to see the HAMMER that was in the prototype pictures, also, seeing as these are NOT historically correct figures, I would like to see winged helmets, possibly a modified fright knight bat winged helmet but with different plug in wings (maybe even be able to plug in the horns ?) if LEGO added wings, they should not stick out from the side but be angled toward the back of the helmet. Also include a viking flag, some kind of raven banner.

I suppose the answer now is, try to design something containing the parts that you want (subject to availability of course). The main problem now is, what parts will be available ?

All of this information is very interesting, but I thought people taking these tours agreed to a non-disclosure agreement. If they have broken that agreement, then I would not be surprised if Lego excluded certain parts of the tour in the future. Also, I personally do not think very highly of someone who can give their word and then break it so easily.

Set 4990 - Rock Raiders HQ. It was produced in 1999.

Hi mister_phes you mentioned you were looking for the base similar to the one in the Dragon Fortress, but without the yellow brick pattern. If I remember correctly it first appeared (minus yellow bricks) in the Rockraiders series.

At first glance it looks interesting - mainly for parts though. I will wait until there is a parts list on Peeron before deciding if it's worth getting, I am mainly a castle person, so my purchases are all based on what I can use for castle building and detailing.

So I guess you don't get much time to sleep then :-0

Mister_Phes, the pictures were available in one of the reports from one of the toy fairs in the past couple of months, they might have been linked from an earlier post here somewhere or from Lugnet (I don't visit many other sites) Now for something off topic, with the amount of posts you've made, do you ever get any time to actually build with LEGO :-) ? ? ?

The window grill looks more like the new copper colour than gold. Other than that, there were other pictures around earlier showing the interior of the rear cabin. I haven't seen anything else about a "below decks" option. One thing that seems to be missing is some gold accents on the end of the tan reverse arch pieces (this is the only set so far to have tan reverse arches). I suppose it's another of those wait and see sets. Now comes a little plea, can anyone buying any new sets attempt to post a parts list on Peeron for those (like me) wondering what is in a set.

Thanks for the review Bloody Jay, any chance you can post a complete parts list on Peeron so everyone can see what they are getting for their money ?

quote from Bloody Jay " A LOTR LEGO theme would have sold well during the movie releases, when people of all ages, genders, and ethnicities were seeing and loving the movies. That fad's over, LEGO's lost the opportunity. Too bad. " Yes LOTR LEGO would have sold well, but, and it's a damn BIG but, LEGO did NOT get the license to make LOTR sets, that license was awarded to some other company who totally screwed it up. I can't remember who they were now, but what sets they did release were worse than Megablox, with very few individual parts, and I'm not sure, they might even have had some very basic light/sound effects on them. So, unfortunately I very much doubt LOTR will not be released by LEGO even from a book point of view, the original license may very well contain clauses restricting any other kind of construction toy approach. Having said that, think about all of the opportunities that could come from a mythology range, with the added benefit that there would not be licensing problems involved.