Okay this is epic.

Awesome!! I always wanted and never got this the first time around, but a friend had it. I would love to get this, and have Forestmen come back in general...

Hard to determine with the blurry pic, but that possible female minifig may just be a male with long hair. Kinda looks like it has facial hair or long sideburns.

@Kostur said:
"It's beautiful. However, I'm super frustrated for this being a GWP. Given I'm saving for the upcoming anniversary Castle and Galaxy Explorer sets, I fear I'll need to pass on this.

I kind of feel cheated by Lego for doing this cheesy promo way before they release those 90 years sets, thus not rewarding AFOLs that will be paying ludicrous price of $350 for the Lion King's (Queen's) Castle."

I'm expecting another GWP with the Castle. That set not having a GWP will be more annoying than this additional GWP set.

Doesn't interest me but does bode well for future anniversary sets.

Will those shield pieces be printed or stickered?

If this is true, it's going to be my first purchase directly from lego.com.

Looks beautiful, this makes me even more excited for the anniversary sets!

Wait, so this won’t be out at the same time as the Castle?

That typography "Forst Hideout" looks all wrong ... wrong color, definitely wrong typeface, no capital letters, wrong category of content (theme vs. name) ... very uncanny valley between "we want to be retro" and "we don't really really care".

The model ... oh well, maybe if it comes with the castle. i won't buy another set from lego directly just for this.

Awesome news!
Pleasantly surprised! Tallneck, Transformer, Jedi Fallen Order, Vikings, Castle, James Bond car, now this, what is going on? :)

@Arnoldos said:
"If this is true, it's going to be my first purchase directly from lego.com."

Of course it's true. Why would you think otherwise?

@LegoSonicBoy:
Looks like it. The upper branch has an abrupt change in diameter that’s a pretty close match to the base and trunk of the old conifers.

@TeriXeri:
It seems weird until you factor in two things. The first is that brown spears signify wooden shafts, which makes more sense in historical settings…which have not had a lot of shelf space in the last 15 years. The second and more significant thing is that they introduced a better dual-molded spear with the S2 Spartan, and that has more commonly shown up in those few historical themes when spears were needed.

@stepwise:
I did get the original version of this set, but wanted the Camoflaged Outpost more than any other Forestmen set, so I had the same thought. However, this is the smallest set of substance in the theme, and I don’t want to imagine what the spend would be for a CO GWP.

I can get people being miffed at this being a GWP to begin with - people would easily be interested in buying multiples of this set to build out a new Forestfolk village or army. That really won’t be feasible for most people - heck, the current GWP thresholds aren’t feasible for MANY people.

Seems like GWPs are best left for standalone models, or something relatively generic that you could build from a standard collection of parts. Who has a ton of Forestfolk shields lying around?

@Shadowcloner said:
" @saltytbone said:
"How quickly we go from "Lego prices are ridiculous" into the "Why is this a GWP? I want to pay for it!" arguments. "

Part of it is that yes, apart from the false dichotomy. I want to pay $25 for it instead of $150. The other part is availability - if they just outright sell it, I can get the model outside of a literal *fifteen* day window, without paying resellers. "

What are you talking about 15 day windows? We'll be lucky if this lasts the morning. Remember the latest Bricklink offering; everybody was saying: "like a lot but these sets are so expensive". Results: Lego sold I believe $17.2 millions worth of these 5 sets in a few hours (10000 of each).

If this is available from 15th to 30th of June, then there is plenty of new stuff to get it (Transformer, Harry Potter, City farm sets, Technic Ferrari, Art, Architecture, and many many more - most themes in fact)

I like this and will try to get it - I want the farm sets and a few HP but it will not be a big deal if I do not get it.

On other news, the USS cardboard has been extended which probably means either: (1) not enough good stuff to buy at the time of the promotion or (2) spending threshold too high for what it is. Seeing this set will not help because buyers will most likely delay their purchases until this set is available - I certainly will. In fact, I hardly ever buy a Lego set (directly from Lego) until there is a very good promotion to go with it (sole exception: Saturn V)

If you send a dark brown tree to Lego as an Idea submission, they will return it as a light brown tree - because dark brown is too dark and Lego is all about whimsical vibrancy and unspoiled innocence but black trees are fine, they are not too dark.

Finally, there is one more thing to notice: the hole/center of the 0 in the 90 year of play. In this case, it is the head of a forest man, on the classic set it is a 2x4 brick. How many variety will we get???

This is one of my old sets that i still keep on display. I love it so much that i fear that i don’t really care for the updated one. I do like that they chose this set though, instant trip to memory lane.

Oh I know a lot of people will love this.

Neat surprise and love it. Clever to have as a gift!

@Shadowcloner:
People want GWPs at different spend thresholds. If everything is a $5 polybag, buyers will feel like they’re getting shortchanged when they buy $250+ sets that can’t be broken up into multiple purchases that net multiple copies of any GWP on offer.

@HOBBES:
But this tree is from the Black Forest, where they grow hams. Also, it’s a direct reference to a set that predated widespread use of brown (one barrels with lid, 3x spears, 2x shields, one bow, one quiver, and one hat are all you get in 6054), and there isn’t a single brown tree fortress in the entire Forestmen subtheme. I think Dark Forest’s 6079 may have been the first.

@PurpleDave said:
" @Shadowcloner:
People want GWPs at different spend thresholds. If everything is a $5 polybag, buyers will feel like they’re getting shortchanged when they buy $250+ sets that can’t be broken up into multiple purchases that net multiple copies of any GWP on offer.

@HOBBES:
But this tree is from the Black Forest, where they grow hams. Also, it’s a direct reference to a set that predated widespread use of brown (one barrels with lid, 3x spears, 2x shields, one bow, one quiver, and one hat are all you get in 6054), and there isn’t a single brown tree fortress in the entire Forestmen subtheme. I think Dark Forest’s 6079 may have been the first."

Yeah, I know. I had put some HTML signage with /sarc (sarcasm) in it but I assume the forum API/UI automatically removed them to avoid some form of piracy.

Hams that grow in Black Forest are the best!

WANT.

Oh! We better be able to get this here!

I've always wanted to get my hands on a Forestmen set, and have been planning on parting out Castle in the Forest for a while now, so this is a dream come true!

@HOBBES:
“/s” usually works. “/sarcasm” if you want to make sure you get the point across. Plain text is safest, if you’re not absolutely certain it will play nice with the site software, and it’s less likely to cause problems down the road if an update changes things.

As for Classic Space, I believe I determined that less than 25% of all official CS sets used the blue color scheme, and that it’s not even the most common one. None of the CS sets my brother and I got used the blue color scheme. The first set I got like that used light-bley and came with Benny (which is the first time a blue Classic Spaceman came with a blue spaceship).

Regarding the popularity, sure, those themes were 1980’s popular. Star Wars kinda raised the bar on that, and now the vintage themes are fighting above their weight class. Kids just don’t care about them, and AFOLs don’t buy enough to make up the difference.

And there’s a difference between resellers and scalpers. The latter try to scoop up as much as they can with the sole intent of flipping it for a huge markup. Resellers covers those who sit on their copy for years before selling it, or sell off stuff they acquire by coincidence of timing, or even buying up Used lots to separate into individual sets to unload. If someone already plans to buy something, and happens to land a GWP in the process, I don’t see any problem with selling it. I’m even a tiny bit sympathetic to those who scooped up the Ulysses to cover the expense of the Discovery, if they couldn’t otherwise afford to buy the Shuttle. But if the goal of any purchase is just to line their pockets with money, I’m not going to shed any tears if their packages are misdirected. Or rained on.

Looks great! Looks like I need to do a little shopping.

@PurpleDave

I am pretty sure the situation I faced (removal of /sarc) was because I used "less than" and "greater than" characters chr$(60) and chr$(62) as used in a HTML tag. These characters are usually a big no-no when you are validating user input. If needed in the future I'll just use "/sarc" as I can see now that it works.

As far as classic space goes, I probably have a much narrower view on it than most people. To me, Classic Space goes from 1978 to 1982 inclusively. The theme had a few consistent items for many years afterward but it seems they tried to be different as well and the clear break took place in 1987 when they released dual colours torso (Futurons I believe). Fundamentally (to me), every theme that has its own name is not Classic Space (my opinion only). While I love Blacktron I, this is not Classic Space. I also very much like M-Tron vehicles but definitely not the minifigs (I like one-colour spaceman). Lots of great subthemes in there but again (to me) Classic is just the first few years of Space. I understand that a great many people will dispute this - I'm no authority on this, this is just my view of it. For those 4 years, the spacemen are monochromatic and only two (enclosed) spacecraft were not blue with trans-yellow windows (6929 and 6890 and borderline not Classic to me). For such a narrow tranche there can only be so many people born in the years where these would have been available and fitting with their age. That is why I understand that Lego might not be interested to produce a set for such a group - keeping my fingers crossed for 10497.

I am no longer selling Lego. I offloaded a few extra sets maybe 7-8 years ago but got burned so badly by eBay that I ceased all activities as I was so frustrated/enraged/flabbergasted by their behaviour - I'm more careful with what I buy so I don't have to sell it later.

Could this possibly mean that we will get the new castle set next month? Or does it just mean that I’ll have to preorder all the new Star Wars sets next month.

I’ve never had a forestmen set, I only ever had 6080 and 6041. However I got the new Bricklink set and I think this would look great alongside it.

Absolutely love it. Not many sets left in the $200 threshold I want, so hopefully Optimus doesn't sell out too quickly.
Spoiler alert; it will

@HOBBES:
Oh, I meant exclusively sets featuring pre-Futuron Spacemen. Everything that followed is Space, but not Classic Space. But Classic Space never really nailed down a consistent aesthetic like Futuron and everything that followed. It had something similar to Futuron in sets like 6980. Sure, that follows your restrictive era, but even from the first year there were a lot of sets that were just light-grey with no blue. Yes, they do technically fit within the blue color scheme, but they lean a lot closer to the aesthetic of 6891 than 497/928. So the four basic divisions were what is commonly assumed to be _all_ of Classic Space (blue with light-grey accents and trans-yellow canopies), what probably fed into Futuron (white with black accents and trans-blue canopies), the forgotten color scheme (light-grey, occasionally with trans-green canopies, but usually with none at all), and “miscellaneous” (random mixes of all three of these color schemes).

But consider the following:
462/897 from 1978
442/891, 452/894, 885, 886, and 889 from 1979
6821, 6841, 6861, and 6901 from 1980
6801, 6822, 6842, 6870, and 6929 from 1981
6880 and 6890 from 1982

None of these sets fits the stereotypical CS color scheme. Most don’t have any blue or trans-yellow, and a few of the later ones have white and trans-blue, sometimes mixed with light-grey.

I had so much fun with the original; I'll have to try to get this. And I agree with @NeilJam in that the long-haired Forestpeep looks to have a beard.

The icing on the cake would be a hinged lid to reveal a window with main parts.

I love that this appears to have a mushroom from the little forest child in the CMF series. This might be an ideal place to add him to a scene!

Oh I'm going to get a lot of these . . .

Time to finally get 21325 or 31120.

I hope there’s a good GWP with the castle in August. I can’t justify making a big purchase in June/July for this and then again in August :(

Aaaaaahhhhhh! Whew. This was the only location-based Forestmen set that I did not acquire back in the day, and it has always been a gaping hole in my collection. Between this, Optimus Prime, the expected Super Castle, the Viking boat(s), new farm sets and a Lamborghini Countach, 2022 is already a good year for LEGO.

Nice to see some comeback on Castle, let's hope we'll see more.

@thor96:
Look up the pieces of stag shields and say that again.

@Anak said:
"Will those shield pieces be printed or stickered?"

My money is on prints

@Binnekamp said:
"…And yes, I know the 'bring back castle' sentiment is not as big as people would like to believe…."

If this ‘lack’ of sentiment is the reason TLC does not produce Castle sets I would like to see some hardcore data. Most Idea sets target a very small niche compared to the total of LEGO consumers. I am willing to bet the fanbase for a revival of the Castle theme (or pirates for that matter) is a lot bigger than for most of the Idea sets.

Anyhow I love this new set. I got the original as a kid, so the both of them next to each other should be an excellent display.

@kmvk83:
They don’t really hand out hard data like that, but they did let the community know Legends was a flop, when many AFOLs would have sworn it was the best thing since sliced bread. They’ve also done new Space, Castle, and Pirate themes since Star Wars launched, and several of the designers have expressed fondness for the vintage themes. So, either you believe with all your heart that they are just withholding these themes to spite you, or you accept that they have looked at those hard numbers and concluded the market just isn’t there. At least not enough to warrant opening a spot (or several) in their product lineup.

If they'll make Space Police 2 set, I'll buy it no questions asked.

I think I want this....but aybe I should wait to see if they do a space related thing instead.

Waiting for it to be available!!

Looks fantastic. A shame it'll be trapped behind a hefty spend amount.

Oh please please please don't go out if stock in 5 seconds...

@thor96

I don't believe for a second this one will be sold with a small markup. You are right about the other GWPs, but this one will be the exception... This will be a very costly one!

What would have been really epic if Lego had made the mini-plumes in black. The price for originals is outrageous.

It kind of goes nice with that updated Version of 6012 that was a GWP some years ago... Pretty similar in concept.

Can I get several by dividing my purchases?

@Captain_Soybeard: If you order enough, sure.

As grand as this looks, I'ld be happier if I had the original right about now.

@Captain_Soybeard:
If you try, be aware that they are supposedly limiting choice GWPs to one per household. If you place orders qualifying for extra copies, they might strip the GWPs off any orders past the first. If you go to a physical store, the rules are supposed to be one per customer per day. If you can hit multiple stores each day, one per customer per store per day (for however long they last).