Algernon

More Power Miners over the summer? Really? Is this confirmed?

The Galactic Enforcer is what I'm excited about. Hopefully it'll be better than the Hypersonic Operations Aircraft.

You are being quite stuck-up and rude.

As I said, I think it's unlikely that Blacktron will be involved as anything more than a backstory. But, if they are, the name kind of eliminates the possibility of white parts, as well as the obvious "evil" theme...

People are complaining about the rock monsters? Personally I think they look great, especially compared to the MM jellies.

I think we're all pretty much just waiting for pics. :D

I hope these are out for Christmas.

Sand? Cool. Now this really reminds me of Throwbots.

Castle sets sounds pretty promising... looking forward to the troll fortress.

The 4-Wheeling thing sounds less intriguing to me than the robo attack and aerial defense unit, since it's hard to guess what those are. I'm so pumped for pics!

It's great to see Space getting a little more personality. I'm personally really excited for Space. Castle, Agents, and Bionicle look great too! I'm liking 2009 better than 2008 so far.

I'm really eager for pics... the second half of 2009 seems to have a lot of interesting sets!

Sadly that's about as good a guess as any. Nothing to do but wait and see.

There'll definitely be stickers and probably some kind for shooting function on all the sets, but Mars Mission sort of subdued me to that fact and now I'm more concerned with the quality of the construction and design. Yes, about the color scheme, after Power Miners I'm a little nervous about that. Space Police II had such an awesome color scheme, I'd really like to see Space Patrol follow suit... but I don't have my hopes too high. "Cautiously optimistic" is a very good way to put it, danth. The set names sound intriguing, but the low piece count has me nervous and after the huge disappointment of Power Miners, I'm not gonna get my hopes up too high. No matter how these turn out, though, I will definitely buy the Galactic Enforcer, as any true Space fan should.

I hope we get modular prison cells... I wouldn't put it beyond LEGO to leave them out.

I suppose that's true... but still, it made it sound like Blacktron was defeated, which kind of seems like a way to set the stage for new villains. Sounds more like a backstory than a set description, especially if you look at the context. Also, if Blacktron was a major player in these sets, you'd think we'd have at least SOME mention of them in the names... I think it's much more likely we'll just get totally random alien badguys, like Agents. I actually prefer this. Blacktron would work better as it's own theme, not a subfaction, and I'm always up for new alien minifigs.

Nothing's being proven, this is ALL speculation.

Let me know when you're done spouting unsubstantiated opinions so I can start taking you seriously.

My my, quite apt for disagreement today aren't you? The 'V' thing doesn't really mean anything, people, and frankly most of those names don't sound like vehicles to me at all. I love Bio-vehicles (they're the only Bionicle sets I bought this year) but I wouldn't mind something more interesting.

I think it's pretty obvious that these descriptions aren't official. Call me a pessimist, but at this point I think it's really unlikely, and frankly I always doubted it.

Aerial Defense and Robo Attack sounds the most interesting, but I'll wait for pics before I judge. (an Agents robot could be awesome, though)

I'd love some new vehicles.

Or realistic. Things like Squidman escape and Freeze Ray Frenzy make me think that Blacktron is a thing of the past, especially since in that description they used a past-tense mention of Blacktron.

Safe to say Blacktron won't be in Space Patrol, then.

Bionicle, Space, and Agents are all sounding very interesting!