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StJohn:
Pictures from the trade catalogue have just been posted at Klickywelt, with the explicit warning not to share. So go there and enjoy. There is some nice stuff to be seen: 50th birthday figure, Asterix Roman camp, etc.

https://klickywelt.de/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=79335

Tiermann:
For their big 50th anniversary year I am underwhelmed. The anniversary figure is fine, a rehash really of the 35th one. Most of the series are just continuations of what we have been seeing but sticking to lower price points. Novelmore has dropped their plans and is just rehashed regular stuff without a theme of the different lands. Dino-Rise is gone which is fine, they have other dinosaurs still. One new fossil dino species, and new jellyfish with the mermaids. No Wiltopia at all in the first half, though there are more Bio-Farm and Horses of Waterfall sets.
My guess is, if there are going to be nostalgia sets referring to the past they will be in the add-ons catalog. Second half year will hopefully be better. Their reorganization and losses at the top of management are showing. Just more rehashing of existing molds and a lack of creativity.

Basie10:
Under Series 25, there is some sort of shaman type figure. I like it 8-) He also appears to have a wife in the series too. She's holding a young lamb or fawn.  And there's a female Inca 8} But no Victorian era figures. No decent soldiers to go with the new pirates :-\

playmofire:

--- Quote from: Tiermann on September 05, 2023, 22:27:52 ---For their big 50th anniversary year I am underwhelmed. The anniversary figure is fine, a rehash really of the 35th one. Most of the series are just continuations of what we have been seeing but sticking to lower price points. Novelmore has dropped their plans and is just rehashed regular stuff without a theme of the different lands. Dino-Rise is gone which is fine, they have other dinosaurs still. One new fossil dino species, and new jellyfish with the mermaids. No Wiltopia at all in the first half, though there are more Bio-Farm and Horses of Waterfall sets.
My guess is, if there are going to be nostalgia sets referring to the past they will be in the add-ons catalog. Second half year will hopefully be better. Their reorganization and losses at the top of management are showing. Just more rehashing of existing molds and a lack of creativity.

--- End quote ---

I agree, Tim, an unimaginative mish-mash, not so much a celebration feast as a rather funereal snack.

GrahamB:
Thanks for posting this, StJohn.
I hope and expect there will be more 50th anniversary offerings.
Another shiny Knight!
12 more Naruto figures.
Miraculous licensed figures (see here if like me you haven't heard of this French animated series before).
More Asterix sets.

Hopefully we will get a more complete picture soon...

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