I think the monastery is a great idea BUT i cannot see how this will equal larger scale volumes of sales for playmobil. The sets being sold today are clearly of a certain appeal to Kids and each set pretty much ' tells a story' and associates loosely with movies and recent trends - that is i suppose the marketing catch and there are lots of examples in current sets, such as the modified sports cars etc .
Such sets would appeal to a limited number of collectors only i think and i doubt ( unfortunatelly ) that they would even be considered by playmobil.
On the otehr hand , the rumors that the bakery DS special has been sold out , might prove a good reason for playmobil to bring back some otehr steck sets from the past and probably ' produce a bigger batch / quantity ' of the bakery and/or other steck sets.
Looking at the current mediaval sets i dont see how a mediaval monastery would fit in ...
.. so the only option for us is a custom one !!!
There are some really great ideas in this thread for sets , doubt these will be produced , BUT a great set of ideas for customs etc etc