No, I got it. I disagree. I think we've had this discussion before? Or maybe I discussed it with someone else, I dunno. Anyway, I find TMoT to be largely a bland album by Avantasia standards. It pretty much does what the last three album did, except with lower-tier vocalists, less inspired songwriting, and most egregiously, no Jorn Lande. I really like Sleepwalking, and Black Orchid is good, but that's about it. The solo on The Watchmaker's Dream is good, but the rest of it where you have to listen to the guy painfully fail to hit the notes really isn't.
I'm probably coming across as overly harsh here. I definitely don't hate the album, it's a nice enough listen, but overall it feels like Tobi took the meat of Avantasia and replaced it with some tofu-based substitute, like in some weird alternate universe where Avantasia albums are cheeseburgers, TMoT was that lousy 'veggie-burger' that vegans would eat and pretend that they somehow actually liked it.
And I really loved Ghostlights. Might be my favorite. It's pretty close to The Wicked Symphony, anyway.