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"MonsterFighter" attraction. It'll be ready for next season... Not sure how that piece of info fits this talk, but still. :-)
Having said that, we added a corn field with scarecrow, pumpkin field and carrot field. I used two fo the fall sets and created a mini fall forest scene, and added a fawn, hedgehog. Then we have out the Thanksgiving table. It is not quite the Halloween set, but it definitely adds a bit of 'fall' touch with just the few items out from this year.
It's a shame to see it go, I hope it's a theme we see again in the future in one way or another. Does anyone know how popular it was? how well the theme did in general?
They are already gone from the shelf plans of LEGO stores ( and have been since the summer ).
Is Halloween not celebrated in Europe like it is in the US?
http://www.brickset.com/parts/?part=4511895
Also, if they continued the theme, how about a set featuring some freaky blonde vacant-expression school children! wowoowoooooooooh. :oP
They know aawwwl yor secrets!
http://brickset.com/browse/themes/?theme=Seasonal&subtheme=Halloween
Sigh...
Small seasonal sets (be they seasons or holiday sets such as Easter and Thanksgiving) are great for a small gift.
It will be interesting what happens when Lego expands into Asia. Will there be more Asian holiday sets? We have the Year of the Snake already. I hope to see more of those style sets in the coming years.
We have already seen Spartans, Romans and Samurai in CMF, as well as knights and vikings, but I can imagine ancient Chinese warriors, Mongolian horsemen, and so on.
I think your Mongolian warrior idea would probably sell better, though a Camel fur portable police and fire station complete with colourful rugs and AK47s would add an interesting twist to the City line.
And it doesn't have to be (and imho, shouldn't be) a MF set--it can be a stand alone much like we have for Christmas (this year's carousel; last year's village; etc.).
Some of the items are still in stock, the train, HH, and werewolf, with a few others sold out or "call to check" tags.
Either they are trying to clear out the rest of it, or perhaps they'll keep some of it website only for awhile, who knows...
I would have been happy seeing a cool $40-$60 set.
There really are a ton of cool Fall/Halloween sets they could have done.
I would think there's a great market for annual sets in the range of the initial Winter Village sets ~$60. There are lots of possibilities that have already been noted, my favorite being the Headless Horseman set with Ichabod and the covered bridge.
It is interesting, because everyone reads things different ways.
I never read the implication of a set like HH.
In fact, my reading this
"I figured TLG could capitalize on the popularity of Halloween and do a different "haunted" set every year in October (as they do around Christmas)."
indicated to me the OP was originally talking about a set in that $50-$100 range.
If the reply was in reference to the thread in general, there was still this comment, it also indicated to me a small set than the HH.
"And it doesn't have to be (and imho, shouldn't be) a MF set--it can be a stand alone much like we have for Christmas (this year's carousel; last year's village; etc.)."
In anycase, I think we had different readings. *shrug*
Why do a medium set for Halloween, when that is the time they will be advertising winter sets? Because you advertise it earlier. Advertise it 2-3 months earlier like they do the winter sets.
I do think the larger issue, though, is simply that Halloween is a far more 'American' market and it doesn't have that global element. In addition, there is a far better known business for "holiday town displays" than there are "Halloween displays". When you add in that MF did need to be clearanced off some, then overall a yearly Halloween display they probably never saw as viable. I am just happy they at least made the HH.
The Winter Village sets are designed with usefulness as display pieces in mind. They can be a part of your elaborate Christmas decor. But the majority of Halloween decorations are designed for outdoors, meaning a LEGO set would not be ideal for that function.
A holiday that is celebrated more like Christmas in the U.S. is Thanksgiving. But Thanksgiving is not a global holiday, and even the countries that have their own Thanksgiving holiday celebrate it at different times of the year depending on what they mean to commemorate and how it lines up with other national holidays. Plus, American Thanksgiving is close enough to Christmas that the market might not be able to bear another major holiday set so near the release of their Christmas offerings. The best the LEGO Group can do for holidays like Halloween and Thanksgiving is to release small impulse sets that they can clear out quickly and efficiently.