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I think that is exactly what we will not get, and probably why we did not get a DA set this year. The HP theme designers like to experiment and give us something different every year the opposite of e.g. SW I guess they will find out when they see the sales numbers, that's what matters not what we think here I think the designers get a lot more free reins than in other themes, if one comes up with a great idea they will make it into a set I agree with this, we may not get only 2018-2020 in the coming years, but we will get a lot of great sets that and probably some every year in that style, is it better that we got DA this year and they stopped the theme I am pretty sure this set will make a lot of new AFOLs I think they do this to make something new and avoid a lot of re-releases as long as they can I have not seen that interview do to Wi-Fi trouble for 2 weeks, do you have a link? However in general Lego designers do not talk about future sets so I find it hard to belive he said we are not getting that. As long as the theme keeps on going we will see more sets from DA and DH, they scale could be different than the DA we have, but it is only a matter of time.. Exactly That what a nice way to explain it, it is a piece of Lego art in my mind Sound really unlikely since they are on the box

I remember I thought it was a stupid and highly unlikely rumour, turns out you where right after all I t was the flying one so it happened She looks fantastic! Fawkes will not look OK with this set is more right to say I think Minifigwise it is a easy pass for me, however the set look amazing especially the owl, but everything else also except maybe the point of the wand is excellent I told you it would be great no matter what it was, and even if you do not like the set you can not say with a strait face that it is a bad looking set

I bit the bullet this morning and ordered DA to get the sailboat GWP

I have said for a long time that even if the sets this year was not what people expected or wanted they are not bad. I am sure the same apply to the D2C, it may not be a DA expansion set, but it will be a great looking set whatever it is The HP designers do a fantastic job and even if we did not get DH and DA sets this year we got something original that was well made (how often can the SW fans say the same ) Maybe it is just me, but have we not had very few leaks in general lately and a D2C is a lot easier to keep a secret than a normal set. Maybe we will not see it before they reveal it this time (a leak 24 hours or less before do not count in my mind )

Yes, It will go with the wildlife sets

Me too, but I am happy we got the croc, was not expecting anything I had any use for from that series

That would money wise probably be the best solution, but I want that sailboat and with a 200$ buy in it is not going to be cheap on BL later. If I am super lucky (not likely) the DA will have double VIP points as one of two next month To shock you even more, the only HP set from 2021 I got is the DA people pack Last year I waited until black Friday before I got the wave, when it comes to waiting for Lego sets to go on sale I am rather patient yes I most pay 25% in tax to import them, so then they must be really cheap unless I am traveling abroad and not much chance of that in the near future

A nice surprise! The eyes are not perfect for a croc, but will work fine. Will probably cost a pretty penny before it surfaces somewhere else

I asked Lego and got confirmed that DA will not come for sale in other shops except directly from them at least in Norway, so then I can just wait for a decent GWP and bite the bullet

Nice, not bad for such a small set However the gull stayed behind on the island it seems so it do not get top marks because of that I wonder what to buy to get it, I have no shortage of sets on the list, but most sets are cheaper in other stores so I lose money to buy it directly from Lego. This is probably going to be a expensive GWP

My guess is that the dog breed depends on the theme it comes in. I am sure we sooner or later will see a new Fang (a boarhound, a Great Dane or most likely a Neapolitan Mastiff) and/or padfoot (black German Shepherd or Scottish Deerhound) in HP, if that is next year we will see. A new City or CMF dog could be everything, but I hope for a sheepdog, not that I have any interest in the breed other than it would most likely come with a farm theme in City or at the very least a sheep as a CMF fig. If it is not that my guess is a popular breed that is very easy to recognize

Could also be that City had used up its rather generous budget on animals already and could not afford it anyway or the part was not made in time.

You are probably right and I am not looking the gift horse in the mouth as long as we get new animal moulds I am happy no matter what themes that bring them to the party. However I prefer that the animals are not one hit wonders, but come out in different sets so they stay in production for a longer time and increase the total number of animals in sets. Yes it looks like the CMF parts have become more common outside the CMF line the last few years The Ideas GWP sailboat is rumored to come out 1 August, but with a limit of 200 euro! Should include 2 dolphins and a seagull if it stays faithful to the original submission, but we will see soon enough if that is the case..

Maybe since it is another theme The HP/FB CMF made new moulds that was used in HP/FB sets that came out even before the CMF I believe. However that was within the same theme, maybe now since they are not the Marvel one won't let City steal their thunder by including it there If that is true the juvenile animal moulds sure are of with a bang this year! Would be very surprised if the next normal CMF do not have any new juveniles as well in their ranks

A nice article in German about the new animals this year (I just let the phone translate it for those that do not read German). I think they forgot the recolored dolphin, but the rest are there in a excellent summary: https://www.stonewars.de/wissenswertes/2021-ist-das-jahr-der-lego-tiere/

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Learn something new every day Yes so the price will probably drop as times goes

Did you get that on B&P? I gave up and ordered a flock yesterday from BL since I got them for a decent price

I do not disagree that it would be a good idea to have crowdfunding for period and then make the number of sets they got orders for. However last time I believe BL packed the sets themselves and just got the parts from Lego to sort and pack, this may be different this time since they own it, if not that would be very time consuming and put a upper limit would make sense. If they were to delay other normal Lego sets so they could make more of these it would mean that they loose a lot of sales from the fact that the normal sets are not on shelf's. 5 or 10 000 is peanuts for them compared to other normal sets. We do not know the sales numbers, but we know that they made 5000 Mr Gold and that was almost impossible to find. Very few AFOLs have it to this day even if some are willing to pay a lot of money for it, because most of them ended up with random kids since they grouped together buy insane amounts of Lego. Other than the castle I do not think any of the other ones would sell much over 10 000 maybe not even that, and the castle would of course sell a lot more as a official Lego set on Ideas than a MOC on BL.

Yes, I usually keep the pc on all the time, when I do not use it it goes to "sleep", when it "wakes up" again everything is there, if you turn it of completely I probably do not work Maybe you can try on your mobile phone if you have that on 24/7 instead?

This is just a small side project Lego do for the fans, would not be a very smart business decision to postpone e.g. a police station set that sell many times that number To be fair the first round of BL sets in 2019 made 2500 sets and did not even sell them all, so 5000 now 2 years later should in theory be more than enough. 5 sets per customer was a big mistake, but other than that I think they get to much complaints and they have doubled the number of sets now with only one of each per customer. I had the castle in my shopping basked for several days with the message; back-orders accepted, so I could have ordered it with no problems long after it had sold out

2 pigs

Probably no new mould in the horse transporter, but a new colour is possible at least print

I have not heard it before now, but it would not be crazy that it had a "modular" similar building in the line. DA was that and we could get a DA expansion a lot of us a waiting for or another building like grimmauld place, ministry of magic etc