Thanks for doing this, it makes catching up a lot easier!

Speaking of CMF, new UK retail price is £3.50

The only sets I really want are the Jay Arcade Pod, Iron Man Mech, Sith Troopers Battle Pack, Safari Jeep, Gamers Market, and the DC cmfs. Everything else is meh

Kenobi Hut, 2019 SW sets (AT-ST) and yeah that about sums it up. I love the Arcade parts in the Ninjago packs and the balloon pieces on the Trolls theme but 2020 is a cheap year so far.

@paulrothwell wheres this info coming from?

Speed Champions for me, particularly the Audi (probably by 2 or 3 of that)

Any word on the the next Modular? For me Star Wars isn't off to a great start in 2020

So far the standouts for me are the Star Wars Microfighters and Battle Pack. Though I really want the Leia hologram piece, so probably eventually Obi Wan's hut too.

The Star Wars tax is too high. There were no Star Wars sets I bought in 2019 and none (so far) interest me in 2020. Most look to me to be a couple of action figures with a small number of bricks to build a bare bones scene or mini spaceship (neither of which I care about). Lego should do a Star Wars collectible minifigure release instead.

To each their own excitement, those are good news to have. But the real news start when they finally show the next Modular. I can't wait!

I have had them on pre-order from Lego since October. I have retail stores

@mrkey

They can’t do a Star Wars CMF because it would cause a licensing conflict with Hasbro for some reason.

Hidden Side Portal and Ninjago Kai’s Fire Dragon. Already planned mods of both.

Looking forwards to seeing the DC CMFs.

Still waiting for new Architecture - do we know what they will be yet? I'm hoping for a Tokyo skyline.

@kolaxanthe

https://www.promobricks.de/lego-architecture-tokio-dubai-skyline-2020/87276

The stunt plane looks almost like a Creator set. Might get that.

My wallet is already thanking LEGO for this year. So far, only a few Technic sets, the new Speed Champions cars, and basically, that's it. I might get the Creator toy shop/townhouse and the Hidden Side biplane as well, but they don't really fit into my interests.

I’m not plugged in to the rumor mill so I have no idea if there’s news but I’d be excited to see a new Creator Expert set.

Just the Speed Champions sets for me, but if the Tokyo Skyline set looks good I’ll most likely pick that up too

Can’t wait for modular building. Maybe a police station? Or a pharmacy would be great. Especially considering it would be consistent with the time of the previous modulars. Also looking forward to the CMS.

Hidden Side and the Ninjago Arcade Pods have caught my eye so far! And of course the legendary Burger Truck

I haven't been too impressed with hardly anything from the 2020 range, so far. I like the Creator Toy shop and Townhouse, and two Ninjago sets look pretty good ... but everything else, so far, has been a write-off.

I'll probably be a bit more interested when the non-fire and police City sets start showing up.

I'm concerned by the designs, namely the Town street sweeper (its chassis), and the 'trailer' for the speed/drag boat. The City Monster truck (not the monster truck burger stand) 'chassis' is a bit laughable too. It looks like designers were told to use a basic build pack for their design palette to save money. It basically looks like many sets could be mistaken for a 4+ and up set. I shouldn't worry though about LEGO's future though, as I'm sure prices have risen appropriately. :-\

The 3in1 toyshop/condo combo Creator set, Creator Monster truck burger shop, and the town ice cream truck are interesting looking (likely getting the ice cream truck), but it looks like the designers were given a pass, or restricted from many detailed designs, this go around for many of these sets, at least for town.
The plus side is it saves me money this year on buying many of these sets.

I don't understand LEGO's obsession with monster trucks this coming year as there have been no fewer than FOUR different monster trucks unveiled across City and Creator. Anyone know what's going on, or if it's just something they've projected (with research or otherwise) that kids would be into this coming year?

But I wonder if AFOLs need to start learning to just ignore the police and fire sets that turn up first before the others do, because I myself am getting fed up with hearing all the moaning about how City is going downhill and why they keep making the same tired sets as if kids aren't being born every day... you know what would be a great way to get them to stop making police and fire sets? If people stopped committing crimes and things stopped catching fire.

I agree regarding the Jack Stone vibes that this coming year's police and fire sets have been channeling though, lol. But my memories of Jack Stone, perhaps unlike others', are unequivocally positive — even though I didn't own any sets myself, I liked it enough that I recommended it to my younger cousin back in the day.

Glad I am not only one that sees how weak start of 2020 is...

My wallet is staring to Bricklink now... Might buy the new parts ASAP there to analyze them (and as novelty), rather than buying the full sets.

I'm an AFOL and my son is a big fan of City.

My problem is not with the fact that we have new Police and Fire sets each year but with the degrading quality and playmobilization.

Getting Light & Sound back - great.
Hideous water cannon - awful.

Getting Magnet back - awesome.
Magnet being humongous - dreadful.

3 piece helicopter - not Lego.

I get that they try to cover every single age group but I see minor difference between 4+ and 5+
Why get rid of Juniors?

Anyway, let's hope TLG is right and I'm wrong - for me it's time to bricklink and ebay for old and great sets to expand our city.

@csiramokus: Definitely agree that the juniorization of City seems to be noticeably heavier now than before. It looks like even within City's target demographic there's a clear difference between the kids who enjoy police and fire sets, and those who enjoy the rest.

When do these sets go on sale?

I have to say, I don't agree with TLG making parts like the cue for the new friends pods. And the new helicopters for City? IMHO, Lego is shifting too far into toys that you can get at the arcade.