Topic: INSIDE LOOK at 2013 Lego releases of the future
Okay, I get inside information on retail-level (non-specialty) Lego sets before they are released, and have just seen the book featuring the entire 2013 line. In the near future, I'll be posting images of upcoming sets. Some of the images I've seen are confidential, and I will not post them out of respect to the Lego Group (I'll type TLG for that from here on). But some sets yet to be released are non-classified, and I'll give people a glimpse of those. Here are a few observations on future Lego sets, from various series. I'll present these in no particular order, but I'll start with my absolute favorite lego series first: LEGO FRIENDS
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DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER UNLESS YOU WANT TO MAKE YOUSELF IMPATIENT FOR ANYTHING THAT FOLLOWS!
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LEGO FRIENDS
Friends introduces new mini-doll characters, and finally, boys (Andrew, Matthew). Shop owners are extra characters. so is a teacher, Ms. Stevens. We learn that the girls are in high school. Animals are prominent, reinforcing a nurturing theme.
Animal mini package assortments 2 & 3 (May & Oct, respectively)
Series 2 features a hedgehog, poodle, & bunny. Poodle has medium blue 4x4 round plates and other rare parts in this color. Bows' colors are recycled colors from series 1.
Series 3 features a fawn, parrot & puppy. Fawn features a novelty: dark purple cherry piece (I think officially called "Wild Berry" by TLG). Parrot has 4x4 round bricks! Images I saw for srs 3 are confidential & are shown with sketchy preliminary art.
August 2013:
Andrea's Bedroom. Lots of accessrories in medium azure. Buy quickly. Andrea's Bunny House was released August Last year and was pulled by January.
Olivia's beach buggy. Deep purple. Olivia spends a lot of time on the beach.
Emma's Sports car. Now she can drag race illegally with Stephanie.
Downtown bakery. A corner shop (Like Grand Emporium is). Lots of accessories! New chaacter: Danielle (Brunette)
Heartlake High. Woah! An entire building made from blonde-wig-yellow bricks! Features the male character Matthew, Stephanie, and Ms. Stevens. The fact that they're just learning to identify the parts of the owl's body in high school is a testiment to the deterioration of the public school system.
Dolphin Cruiser, 612 pieces. Awesome HUGE yacht. Accessorized to the max! Includes a boy, Andrew. Also has a girl, Maya (new), and Mia. This set comes with 2 differently colored dolphins, and is such a luxurious boat that non-friends fans may buy this anyway.
Advent calendar. New character: Lily (black hair).
WON'T BE AROUND FOR LONG... GET WHILE THEY'RE AVAILABLE: Mia's Bedroom & Stephanie's Cool Convertible.
TLG is not saying this to consumers, but there will be 2 Lgeo Friends DVDs and a Lego Friends "club" magazine.
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CITY
The standout set is the Grand Prix truck, with a green scheme, available in August. Lots of planes & cargo vehicles, and Coast Guard come out in the fall. I'm partial to the Coast Guard sets.
Mining sets will be eliminated by the end of the spring.
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SUPER HEROES
3 Iron man & 3 superman kits will be released. 91-418 pcs. No further information is provided. No images are provided.
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MYSTERY MINIFIGURES
Series 10 features a gold minifigure. Only 5000 produced. No word if these 5000 have their own bump codes, or what he looks like. I assume it's a male, since MMFs are disproportionately (and unfairly) male-dominated.
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CASTLE
Castle is back, with 5 sets. Tower raid looks cool. Of course it comes with a princess who is imprisoned and must be rescued, since girls are helpless and need a guy's help for everything. A new dragon mold has been designed for this series. A prominent character is the White King. One set features a carraige, one a tower under seige by a red dragon, and one is a gray castle.
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CREATOR
Treehouse, 356 pcs, Aviation Adventures, Family house (756 pcs). Family house is an awesome modern beach-style home. White with hodgepodge of red shades roof. Recommended. This is the first Creator set to include a female minifigure. Aviation adventures is also very cool, with a vintage jet as the primary build, and features the same blonde/republic blue/regular blue color scheme seen in Heartlake High (See friends)
Apple Tree house will be discontinued at the end of spring.
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GALAXY SQUAD
4 new sets, one (Galactic Titan) over 1000 pcs! only one under 400 pcs. The 1000+ pc set is stellar! All four of these are pleasing visually, and appear to have lots of special features built in. New sets for Fall: Crater Creeper, Eradicator Mech (looks like it may tansform into a jet), Hive Crawler, Galactic Titan.
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LONE RANGER
April
I thought this was a joke going around the forum. But it's for real. It's also a Disney movie for 2013. Now I get it. There is a nice republic green train set, a mine set, a set with teepee of what appears to be a cloth or vinyl part, and a stagecoach set.
Standout set: Colby City Showdown
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STAR WARS
March: 3 new planets: Kamino, Coruscant & Asteroid Field (Ok, last one not a planet, but edgy design on part of TLG)
August planets: Hoth, Endor & Alderaan
Also in August:
Tank Droid
Mandalorian Speeder
Spider Droid w/ Dwarf Spider Droid
Geonosis Duel w/ Count Dooku, Yoda, Poggle the Lesser.
Jek-14's Starfighter
AT-TE (ep II)
return of the republic Gunship (1175 pcs)
Jabba's Sail Barge.... With.... MAX REBO!!!!!!! (and Ree-Yees, a Weequay warrior, Leia, and Jabba, of course.) The Gunship is much cooler than the clone wars version from a few years ago because it doesn't have minifigures with the "cartoony" eyes. Gunship features Anakin, The Cute ep 2 Padme, Obi Wan Kenobi, clones & Separatist droids.
Recommended: Republic Gunship & Jabba's Sail Barge. I love the fact that the last year or so are ep II and Ep 6 heavy in the Star wars models. My favorite is ep 5, followed by 2, but I've been getting the ep 6 sets a lot, trying to collect all the sets from Return of the Jedi.
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HOBBIT / LOTR
So many cool sets, but I recommend THE COUNCIL OF ELROND. And every other set.
One of the sets features a whopping NINE minifigues! These sets really have to be seen to appreciate.
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MONSTER FIGHTERS
Lego will cease shipping all monster fighter sets by the end of the spring. Buy them now if you are a materialistic fan.
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CHIMA
A can not care less about Chima.
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ACTION FIGURE (hero factory types)
Chima characters (August). TLG is really has a lot invested in these things. They even have a #$%^& LEGO GAME on the way!!!!!
Hero factory: Something about brain attacks. August sees FROST BEAST, with a color that is one of my favorites, and extremely are, TEAL! Goes well with white. Stormer is a complimentary figure with teal/white, but teal where Frost Beast is white and vice versa.
August: Jet Rocka. I'm not into hero fatory, but fans will surely love this one!
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Well, I haven't gotten too descriptive in some of these, but lmk if you have qs. I'll also post some images of the non-classified sets on Youtube, & let you know when I do 
"None practice tolerance less frequently than those who most loudly preach it."
Some of these sets are... incredible.
