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I don't think it would ever come to being this product range is for Asia, and this range is for the West. Although cultures are different, they are also different across Europe, from Europe to USA, Europe/USA to Australia and NZ, from USA to South America, and so on. Yet the same sets sell well throughout those regions. I hope they do have more regional sets (although I'd prefer them to be available worldwide) celebrating different cultures. We have Halloween and Thanksgiving sets, and they release those in the UK and Europe despite them being mainly American (although not so much Halloween these days, that has spread but Thanksgiving hasn't).

Bicklink, or LEGO's own servers.

Nice, I like the non-standard hull. But what it really needs is a shark's head coming through the water. Although then you'll need a bigger boat!

I wonder if the adults that grew up with the 1950s-60s style town sets thought that Classic Space and so on (anything that needed minifigures) was not proper LEGO and that this new fancy stuff was just for kids that don't appreciate the old proper LEGO any more ...

There is a very similar post made today on BL, with very similar language, so I assume it is the same person. https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1132238 With the PF2(new electrical system that broke the old lego paradigm) PF1 motor are no longer likely to come out anymore Imao So I'd like to make compatible motor for the PF1 electric building system myself consider the proper shapes, specifications, and placement of the wires The problem with their idea is that there are different uses for different motors. Sometimes people want a large torque and don't care too much about the speed, while other times you want speed and don't care about torque. Gears help get over this problem to some extent. Having a huge range of motors in different sizes, speeds and torques is not really a viable solution.

I think the answer has to be because they are not popular. After all, they tend to be large sets that are not that dissimilar to what LEGO has done in the past (just more parts / expensive). 2013 Castle was often criticized by AFOLs because it was too similar to the Kingdoms sets. Yet Kingdoms was somewhat similar to Fantasy Era (just different types of baddies) and didn't get criticized as much. So LEGO may have got the message that this style of Castle was not wanted. As to obvious bad guys, there were some brilliant fantasy style baddies in Nexo Knights, especially the red demon style monsters.

What shortage of motors?

It's from Voltron.

Yes. My answer was based on what must happen - it must sell. It would be awful if LEGO released a large set aimed at an adult budget in space or castle and it didn't sell. It would probably kill off any dream of getting anything aimed at an older age group in those themes again.

Galidor is obviously joked about a lot as a theme. It was clearly a change from the normal system LEGO, and not a patch on the other buildable large figures. However, I appreciate some of the larger body parts that came in the theme. I wonder how Galidor would have been seen if they had also done a range of minifigures and minifigure scale vehicles to go with it.

Nexo Knights and Legends of Chima.

Star Wars. The ships justify the scale and the number of adult fans justify the price.

Very unlikely. Given Harry's presence in the last wave of sets, and in all the 2010/11 normal retail sets, it is highly unlikely he won't be in just about every set in future too. Harry sells. I can only think of a few of the small sets from the early 2000's where he wasn't in them.

I imagine he is going in with a rather biased opinion though ... There are typically more unlicensed sets than licensed though, especially counting all the Ninjago movie / LEGO movie etc as unlicensed since LEGO has input into the creative freedom over those. So it cannot be a problem with licensed sets, and more a problem with the unlicensed sets that LEGO do create.

Or just scrub the printing off the torsos and not apply the stickers. :-)

Even then, not really, as people are interested in quite different things being available. Plus many of the interesting parts are not strictly licensed but the more general thread on B+P died while this one thrived so this has been the goto thread for all parts not just licensed. It would be good if he / users can keep it up to date with new parts added though, as that is what is really needed. Trawling through all the old parts is one of the most annoying things about buying at bricks and pieces. Knowing what had been added would be really beneficial.

It is also very surprising that they would show the Harry Potter sets at the London Toy Fair, but then not show them at the later Nuremburg Fair where photography is also not permitted. Have they ever revealed a wave of sets before at London, then hidden it at later shows? I cannot think of any. That's the thing with rumours. Fan sites pick up things written here and elsewhere, then relay the rumour. Then people here say they've read them elsewhere too, so they must be right. And the rumour becomes fact.

I do know something about it. I, and everyone else, can see you lied in at least one post about your source and have now changed your story. You also said you don't 100% believe the source, but the source was right before. Yet your source is now the London Toy Fair. Most people can guess at sets that are likely to come based on past sets from a decade ago and the recent wave. Some of the guesses will be wrong and some will be right. I imagine some of your presented ideas will eventually be shown to be right, but then most people can predict a list of 5-6 sets and some of them will be right. If any are wrong, you can just say they were changed in production. As with all leaks from unknown sources, especially new accounts set up only to promote these leaks, they should be taken with a huge pinch of salt.

You know this is all just speculation though. Someone else that likes to use the word "facts" to mean opinions. Yeah, I was just looking at 2019 so far, and counting TLM2 as non-licensed (or discounting it completely as it is somewhere in-between). Either way, there are a larger number of in-house sets and so the idea that there are more licensed sets is wrong.

I can see exactly what you wrote. You have lied in at least one post.

Something is not right here. The London toy fair was in January. Yet on 2 Feb, you were claiming you got this information from a source/friend, who you don't 100% believe. That date is AFTER the London Toy Fair. But now you claim the information you have is all from the London Toy Fair, which happened before you posted saying this was information from a source/friend and you didn't want them knowing it was you.

While that is normally true for yet to be released films, they are less strict over ones where movie spoilers are not going to be given away. I find it quite strange that they are not in a position to show the sets in much detail / finished detail, yet were willing to show a new mould when for example an Elves Pegasus-style horse with wings could have been used as a stand in.

No, Megabloks are Megabloks so not real LEGO.

It is not comprehensive at all. That is why it is called "Highlights". It is a tiny fraction of the parts available through B+P. It is also likely to be out of date, as although things tend to get added in batches, things disappear from stock daily. To compare stock, you have to do it part by part. Once you know that most torsos cost roughly the same amount at B+P, you can make approximations but need to be aware of dual molded arms or specialised hands and so on that will change the basic price. For non-minifigure parts, it is much harder to compare. You either get a feel for prices across parts you are interested in, or take ages doing the comparisons.

Not only that, but unlicensed and licensed are not mutually exclusive. It is perfectly possible to like Castle and Harry Potter, or Castle and LOTR, or Classic Space and Star Wars, and so on. I imagine there are more people that like some licensed and some unlicensed themes than there are that like all unlicensed (or all licensed) themes and hate all licensed (or all unlicensed) themes.