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I do not have Instagram, but they usually let me have a look at the newest pictures, unless they "know" something good has leaked then they will not let me in It looks like the designers have spent their time well at the home-office designing and including animals moulds

DA expansion pack was a little smaller than we where expecting this year, but looks great and it even has a owl

What is going on here now, is Disney sets giving me animal moulds I can use I had a small hope when I read sheep in the set description some time back, but it is Disney so was expecting something closer to Friends animals. However from what I can see from the small picture it looks good to go with minifigs, and the horse/rabbit is a nice bonus as well. Even a small HP set with the brown owl popped up I am starting to wonder if I am dreaming because this is almost to good to be true

The picture is so small That many? Is not the elephant the same colour in both sets?

More or less what I expected with one elephant and several lions. Make no sense with a grey lion so I think it is something strange with the picture, could it be white It definitely looks like it is has a different colour on the mane as well! It looks to be a eagle in the tree or could it be a new vulture mould? And one monkey from what I can see..

There is a big limited set and a polybag coming and you can argue that last years safari car is part of this theme however I would not hold my breath for new molds in those set Yes it most be the best 4+ set ever with all those animals

It will the some expensive B&P orders from me soon, all animals are expensive as a rule, but those elephant cows are not going to be cheep to army build Really happy to see all those animals even it is going to cost me

They all look 4+ to me, at least not fare from it, but I could not care less as long as sets are this backed with animals. Keep up the good work design-team City, what about a farm next year

Ninjago disappoint when it comes to animal moulds once again However City delivers in every set and we still have the biggest(?) set and polybag left If we get the lion cub with "spots and stipes" in a couple of variants in BAM or CMF maybe, we have gotten most of the big cats in hole families. I like that they give the elephant cow small tusks, so we can give it bigger if we want a bull or use the old one as bull, anyway we got a full family there as well And the snake looks great to, strange they only printed the eyes the first time round, but great to have some different ones to use

Sooner or later as more people have bought them they should in theory stay longer in stock at least Another small order arrived

I am not What we need is a annual set around 100$ with different buildings from DA to expand the street. I am not so sure we will get more D2C from DA: they will probably use the D2C spot for something new A D2C would make DA very expensive to complete, smaller more affordable sets would make more sense More DA sets are very high on a lot of fans wish-list, so would be odd if they do not give it to us since they have limited of locations they can make set from. However looking at this years big figs they are not running out of ideas anytime soon If we do not get a DA set next year I am losing hope for anything compatible with the D2C DA, however ninjago gardens came out now several years after the 2 other sets where for sale at Lego

I do not think that is the case for rare moulds like e.g. the goat. I assume they have one run at one factory then are either packed into sets there or shipped to other factory's that pack the sets. The rest are put into storage and if someone somewhere in Lego need goats they are shipped to them. When the mould broke, the part were probably of limits to designers so they could not include it in a set unless they had the budget to make a new mould That is right, the Ideas team tried to include the goat in the blacksmith set, but no luck because TLG assumed it would sell fine without it also. While other Ideas sets like Sesame street and Winnie the pooh get several new moulds because the sets would probably sell a lot less if they where not included. COS have not a good price per piece ratio, but that is probably because the designer used a lot of the budget on the basilisk, pixies and the new owl. If those parts where not included I guess it could have had a lot more normal bricks instead. Do not get me wrong I think they did the right decision and if I must pay extra for animals etc in sets then I will rather than less with no animal moulds, but should it really be necessary for the designer to make the choice like @Clone OPatra say:

For me personally that do not MOC I would have no interest of such a set. Animals, minifigs and other details are the most important that I miss from the lack of Castle sets not a bunch of grey bricks.. However MOC builders could find them useful, but I assume the sales would be too low for Lego. It is not possible to get grey bricks cheap from Lugbulk, B&P or BL anyway

From what I read the BL castle set could not include a saddle because they are not currently in production so the designer had to brick-build one The blacksmith set probably did not have the funds in the budget to bring it back either.. Unless we get castle, western or farm sets I think the chances for a saddle is slim

Good inclusions, how could I forget the Owlery

What are we missing from the first 4 movies since I assume we will get 3-4 or 1-4 next year if we do not get DH sets! Old sets from the 1-2 movies: The Room of the Winged Keys The Final Challenge (the parts was in the GH more or less anyway) Gringott's bank Troll on the Loose Dobby's Release Knockturn Alley Other than Gringotts and Knockturn Alley these are not very exciting and we have all the characters except the troll. Other sets we are missing? In the forbidden forest with Fang The Dursleys on the island (have every fig except the pigtail) Missing DA parts ? Old sets from the 3-4 movies: Shrieking Shack Sirius Black's Escape (have the parts in other sets mostly) Professor Lupin's Classroom (have the parts in other sets mostly) Harry and the Marauder's Map (have the parts in other sets mostly) Draco's Encounter with Buckbeak (have the parts in other sets mostly) The Durmstrang Ship Rescue from the Merpeople Other sets we are missing? the leaky cauldron the maze ferret Draco scene Moody dark arts class and office Harry in the closet with Rita Skeeter Aunt Marge balloon scene ? There are enough from 3-4 to give us a wave next year if we do not get DH then, however what I miss most are more DA sets, if they give us that I am a happy camper

From what I have heard they are a huge success They have made DH sets before and will make it again, this "too dark" I agree is stupid. However if we got DH sets this year it would feel like a end to the theme, so instead they used the 20 years as a excuse to start over. We may get DH sets next year, but would not be surprised if we must wait several years and get 3-6 first again. Except some minor parts of the COS set everything is new this year so they have a lot they can make from the 6 first movies that they skipped the first round. So maybe after 3 years covering all movies a second round they will be forced to do more remakes

I agree with this I think the set is a little bare, would be better with more devil's snare, and ad a owl or two on the roof and some chocolate frogs for better details Yes, but they are normally revealed alone later and not with the main wave

Great info to get, wish I had it for every animal mould made I wonder how many frogs there are inside the big figs

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I assume they are completely random, so if you are unlucky you can get only similar cards in a set. I think it is a fun idea and I am sure kids will love to swap them. Hope to see more cards in next year sets, maybe they will give us a book or a poster build etc where we can keep them in the future A little, but I understand that they like to keep it a surprise for now I do not see why some of you complain about the heads. To me it was a nice surprise to get 3 different heads, was not expecting more than one type. As you say just BL a couple if you only like one of them.. I am sure they will Next year maybe Another frog in the set A green one in the bottom left corner

Got 2 orders from end of last month

Except the COS and Fawkes sets these sets really seems to be lacing animal moulds and was there one thing the sets from 20 years ago was not lacing it was owls and other animals I give COS 8/10 in the animal mould department: +has a new barn owl +has a normal snowy owl +has the flying owl in pearl gold for the first time +6 frogs that is a perfect number of frogs +the basilisk looks great and the new head fantastic +get new pixies and even 2 -could have included Fawkes, but I am glad they went with the barn owl instead -could have included another owl, the Hogwarts from 2001 had 4 after all Fawkes get 6/10: +it includes Fawkes for the first time in a set since it came in the CMF last year -Hedwig last year got a new mould so the score would be higher if we got that, but was not really expecting it So far the rest of the sets looks like they are getting 0/0 or maybe I can give Flyffy 3/10 for the new head the rest 0/0! No owls when most of the sets had them 20 year ago and not even frogs in sets that give us chocolate-frog cards

Say they give us DH sets in the 2018-2020 style next year. Then they are finished with that style most likely and what do they then do in 2023 give us more set in this style or start all over with a new one? To me it makes most sense to continue with this style, because there is more sets to do, they can focus on giving us sets we have not gotten yet, but also combined with some re-releases in a new form To me it is most important that we get DA expansion sets, so hopefully we see that next year