While not quite what many of us were hoping it could be, it is I think roughly the equivalent of what most of us actually expected.
Personally I'm quite pleased in fact, while I have an almost complete CII collection, I currently still only have 1 base set of tiles so with the 20 new tiles this is definitely on my want to buy list. Though I will also be keeping an eye out for the "further announcements" just in case there is an even more limited/special set that might be of interest.
Well said Willem
We may want to consider bundling a shipment to the UK
Yes please. I'll put myself down for two copies!
If this happens I'd really like to be in on that too please!
...all tiles are adorned with UV-print...
This bit intrigued me, although as far as I can tell after some quick googling they are essentially referring to the printing technique.
What it does though is give me another idea for quick tile sorting that makes my previous ideas - while still cool - seem well over engineered
The new idea simply requires some clear/invisible UV/Black light ink, a UV/Black light torch (so far so good I already have on of those and the ink not difficult to get) and - for the best look - around 35 to 40ish custom rubber stamps in the shape of the expansion icons (natch
but maybe the cost of them could be off set by offering a stamping service or hiring them out
) ). That way to quickly pick out the expansion tiles that do not stand out on their own for whatever reason you simply need to shine the UV torch over the tiles!
This is something HiG could potentially do quite easily if they wanted, pre-print the invisible-unless-under-UV expansion icons on the tiles and recommend a UV torch or even include a little one in a future Big Box bundle. Of course if they did that now I do hope they'd credit me accordingly - despite their public disclaimer to the contrary!