Neoriceisgood

Can I ask what makes the Sky Diver a maybe for you ? Seems like an odd one out on your list.

I don't pay a lot of attention to City sets, but aren't they largely composed of firemen/policemen and once in a blue moon a doctor or austronaut? With any other person essentially being a very plain civilian. Because to me it seems like something like the librarian/geek girl is too "designed" and unique to ever imagine her being some sort of casual civilian in a city-theme set. Out of the parts revealed here I don't see any character that looks more like a "regular set" type of thing, all of em look very distinctly like CMF designs.

I think it's really easy for Lego to make new robots, especially because every robot they produce can technically just have an "evil" alteration. Robot -> Evil Robot Mech -> Evil Mech Android -> Evil Android. It's one out of 3 big groups that can really represent the sci-fi line in the minifig series, (1. space travelers 2. aliens 3. robots) so it's not that surprising. As for the "Dinner waitress", maybe one of them is more of a fancy restaurant type, and the other a snackbar type waiter?

So LotR sets have been confirmed for March 2013? If so that's pretty cool.

That's a really unexpected selection, no idea how something like the mummy made it through a popularity poll.

I got myself the Medieval Market Village today, really glad I managed to find it!

Here in Leeuwarden (Also the Netherlands) there seem to be quite a few around, most stores I've seen have at least the mid-sized sets (outpost attack, the catapult, horse carriage etc) and with one exception all of them have the Dragon tower. The only one that seems to be available at only one store is the Castle & I've only seen the impulse sets in two places.

Four ... hahah, I wish I had the proper animals to do the Musicians of Hameln. This will have to do; 4 horses, 2 ostriches, 3 scorpions and 1 gator. 4 animal types, hahah.

Personally I wished Castle would get the City treatment where it wouldn't just be one medieval/knightly theme per year. As much as I don't like playmobil, I can't help but feel a bit jealous over the fact that they get like ... 3 different castle-ish themes at the same time. (regular knight guys, interior castle stuff for girls and some "dragon's kingdom" fantasy set) But I guess Lego probably has good reasons why City has so many sets and Castle tends to keep it to one subtheme per year ... right?

Half the enemies in the Heroica boardgame didn't have printing or anything yet, though, it kinda feels like they could still change some stuff around. That being said, they are quite obviously just display models in this set, so I wouldn't expect a lot of changes to them for the sake of Kingdoms On the subject of Heroica: Whenever I see the weapons from this set, it's always the exact same number of each type shown together. I kinda feel like the mold for these guys is grouped with one of each included. (Like the ring-shaped mold we've seen for the little dragons to put on helmets) If this is actually how they're set up, it probably explains the kinda rough look they have in parts.