Thurston introduced $\si_d$-invariant laminations (where $\si_d(z)$ coincides
with $z^d:\ucirc\to \ucirc$, $d\ge 2$). He defined \emph{wandering $k$-gons} as
sets $\T\subset \ucirc$ such that $\si_d^n(\T)$ consists of $k\ge 3$ distinct
points for all $n\ge 0$ and the convex hulls of all the sets $\si_d^n(\T)$ in
the plane are pairwise disjoint. Thurston proved that $\si_2$ has no wandering
$k$-gons and posed the problem of their existence for $\si_d$,\, $d\ge 3$. Call
a lamination with wandering $k$-gons a \emph{WT-lamination}. Denote the set of
cubic critical portraits by $\A_3$.
Let $P$ be a polynomial of degree $d$ with Julia set $J_P$. Let $\widetilde
N$ be the number of non-repelling cycles of $P$. By the famous Fatou-Shishikura
inequality $\widetilde N\le d-1$. The goal of the paper is to improve this
bound. The new count includes \emph{wandering collections of non-precritical
branch continua}, i.e., collections of continua or points $Q_i\subset J_P$
\emph{all} of whose images are pairwise disjoint, contain no critical points,
and contain the limit sets of $\eval(Q_i)\ge 3$ external rays.