I like this! I guess they ran out of "variations on a theme" for St. Augustine. This looks like a great bird-stone situation...there's still a piece for the event like (a bit too) usual, but it's satisfying the collectors too.

I like this "compromise." HL(/we) gets the St. Auggie piece, and we get the first order lens we've always wanted. It looks like a good situation of "the new HL" listening to both our complaints and desires and putting them together in a way that pleases all.

I also totally dig the huge pedestal. If you're doing a 1st Order, you gotta do it all the way!

Even though I know I'm not going to be buying one, I'm satisfied with the way this satisfied a lot of the desires expressed on the CF/collecting community. It's gotten to the time where LHM is beyond any Y&A "leftover plans" and have started developing the collection themselves. If this is a precursor of things to come, I think there might be a few more collector wishes coming true in the next few years.