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It IS just "watermark", it was confirmed by the original poster on FB...so keep calm and enjoy new 16 minifigs.

...and I disagree. As an AFOL, I don´t know why should I see some storytelling in this set. What I see? Iconic T-Rex...brick built T-Rex with great shape and even movable. Iconic JP gate. Finally not some down-scaled version of gate. I could live without those scene-vignettes in the back of the gate, but I take them as some kind of homage to the original Jurassic Park film. They are not meant to play with them. They are just there to remind us the original Jurassic Park film, full of mystery, adventure and fun. This set should be displayed on shelf, it´s not targeted on kids, I really don´t get all that disappointment (or even "frustration"...come on!). As i said above, I would be more happier, if they included Ford Explorer and the minifigs/display stand had more accurate JP logos on them, but I really like this set.

(+) Brick-built T-Rex is great! I mean - it´s LEGO, after all. It´s large D2C set and it´s labelled as 16+. If you want molded dinosaurs, there are plenty of sets with smaller molded T-Rexes and other dinos. (+) The gate! It´s not oversized. Just take a look on the gate in JP - it is really big. (+) nostalgia (-) Jurassic World logo on display stand. I understand, that the whole franchise goes under the JW licence, so there is JW logo on box, but on display stand should be JP logo! (-) Nedry and Arnold have wrong version of JP logo on their torsos. They should have yellow version of JP logo instead of the red. In the set for 250 USD I would expect more focus on details like that. They could also give Hammond that bald headgear piece, instead of hat. http:// (-) No Ford Explorer.

I bought few boxes (in sealed boxes) and ended up with 0 Anna (!) and army of Ednas so yes, it is possible to buy hundreds of minifigures in original boxes without getting at least one complete collection of 18 :/ I´ve opened plenty of CMF boxes to this day, but something like this never happened before, until now. Something went wrooong in the factory...

Great compilation! There will be at least one another version of Tony Stark/Iron Man in 2019: https://brickset.com/article/42599/avengers-tower-gwp-revealed-in-spain

They reused them for Geonosis Clone Troopers, but in different color with different print.

Well, they did it with the 75166 battle pack too (TFA Stormies x TLJ Stormies)...but this change is bigger. Strange move from Lego.

Well, they are very similar, so it does fit, IMHO. And it´s movie-accurate, after all. I just take it as a slightly different design of FO Stormie helmet - I can live with that.

New mold? I think that they´ve used mold for Mimban Stormtrooper helmet.

It´s not as simple as that. We do not know what exactly was in the licence contract. Maybe just 2 LotR + 2 The Hobbit waves were planned, but this has to be changed after The Hobbit became trilogy, so they did 3 Hobbit waves instead.

Are there some official sources for this? All I´ve found are just some speculations and AFOLs opinions. I think that there still is a chance for one or few big exclusive sets of iconic builds/locations (like micro Hogwarts) with the most famous/desirable characters.

I would say proper dwarf feet, because hobbits are shorter than dwarves. So we finally can have all 3 kinds of legs for hobbits (short), dwarves (medium) and humans/elves/etc. (standard). http://static.alfabetajuega.com/abj_public_files/multimedia/imagenes/201303/35035.infografia_hobbit_recorte.jpg

They do. e.g. 79009.

Are those updated FO stormtroopers really from the FO speeder BP? Because this could be easily done with brasso aplicated on FO Executioner helmet. It would be nice to see some recent unboxing video as a proof.

"New FO Stormtroopers in the speeder battlepack" - what battlepack do you mean?

The torso is also slightly different.

...and I saw this and that Weathertop on Aukro.cz :) Was it created by you or you just bought it?

That shield is great piece. There is my custom Mordor Orc.

JakeChambers: My last hope were the Dimensions sets. Instead of updated Gimli and Legolas they could bring us some of the most desired characters - Sauron, Éowyn and generic Gondor Soldier.

I don´t think that there will be some return of the LotR/Hobbit theme. But we can create some MOCs with the existing pieces. And some new pieces are very interesting, like this new shield from LEGO Elves:

Maybe because of this:

And this is perfect for Morannon Orcs:

It was popular, but IMHO mainly among minifig collectors/LotR-Hobbit fans and AFOLS, not kids. And many AFOLS were dissapointed with the 2nd Lotr wave.It existed just for a couple of years because of the Hobbit trilogy. And about high prices - the prices of the retired products rise up... ...I´m still missing Blue Coat Bilbo from Blu-Ray...59€

Well, even the first pirates had smiley faced heads (with some additional prints - beard, moustache...) and I think that everybody will agree that they were "bad guys". For me, the Dragon Masters are separated "rebel" sub-faction of Black Knights.