It's true of the past couple of years.. They are trying to hold the price of the lighthouses and the price of the materials to produced them have skyrocketed in China, so they are a little smaller sculptures.

I agree that the current size really helps in allow for more to fit in the cabinets, while I love some of the larger early pieces, their footprints just eat up cabinet space. The detail in the recent releases more than mkes up for the smaller size.