I’ll take a couple dozen of the new figs. New visor! Looks like an opaque grey Ice Planet visor minus antennae. Awesome. Power miner tic-tac-toe please!

Are these posted anywhere else?

Regardless, I am underwhelmed by the new Power Miners presentations on the whole. The joy of Power Miners, IMHO, was the extent to which is held tight to an understanding of color scheme and coordination. The new sets, particularly the recently MIA jail cell, look like rainbow warriors and not well coordinated and well designed sets.

Atlantis looks like it might be promising, although I have a feeling I’ll need to see them in-the-brick to appreciate the color scheme, as was true with PMs.

I can understand the need to revamp and rotate through different offerings in the City line, as new consumers are constantly coming of age, but I was hoping for more sets akin to the seaplane, and fewer designs in the vein of the new jumbo-jet.

PoP is meh for me, chiefly because of the fleshie figs. Toy Story looks promising, but not something I’ll need to collect all of or indeed need more than one of a particular set.

All-in-all, I’m underwhelmed. I’m looking forward to what we get for S@H exclusives, though, as these are the bulk of my inspiration and set-purchasing these days.

Ok, enough of my negative nancy…

I hate to add to negativity but that airport and helicopter are major steps backwards. Seriously… to even consider juniorization is just shocking. Have all the marketing people from the 90’s retired or taken other jobs? Does this company keep records? Add my voice to the inevitable multitudes that will shout out against juniorization. The market will speak out against this, as it has in the past.

However, I really don’t know what to say about the other stuff, other than what I think is Ben 10 looks like a cross between Galidor and Bionicle…