Arkham Aslume: The Soupfire Gala... by far the stupidest MOC I've ever made.

[THELEGOBATMAN]

24 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Post it here if you do end up building it, a physical Aslume set would go crazy

Exactly one month until the official LEGO® Dedra Meero blesses my collection. The apple of my eye, the pearl among a sea of plastic garbage in the form of small bricks.

Then, I need to Bricklink a lifetime supply of her minifigures. For my kitchen. In my backpack. Next to my toothbrush. Each of those will have one (1) official LEGO® Dedra Meero minifigure to make the mundane 💕 truly special 💕.

Only then will I build an altar to our love. Also, I'll need to make a perfect hybrid of Man, Soup and Jonkler—to represent how my split personalities have been united by our love for her. I'm thinking... Jonkler's face, Soup's suit, Man's cape and utility belt? I'll need to see how that looks.

[Swordy]

14 hours ago, Agent Kallus said:

The Lego DC villains game is your only exposure to Arkham?!

I mean I don't think there anything wrong with that but you've been in several DC thread and Arkham is kinda a big deal so I just Assumed!!

7 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

We're gonna ignore the fact that the only time you've seen Arkham is in lego DC supervillains and just continue-

Yeah, I haven’t gotten into that much DC content. For films, it’s come down to convenience of availability, although I do look forward to seeing Superman later this year and using it as a spring-board into DC on film. For games, I only have/need a Switch, and the only LEGO DC game is LDCSV. (Playing Jedi Knight Academy and dying over and over again has scared me off non-LEGO games, lol.) For comics… I didn’t have the chance to grow up on them, and I’m not too keen to jump into them beyond the Silver Age comics.

I was invited ordered to join the Aslume, and I stayed for the LEGO Omniverse lore. I only jump in on DC discussions when I think I know of which I speak—at least I know Martian Manhunter from Marvin the Martian.

14 hours ago, Agent Kallus said:

So you're the one that prevented any non-YJA star wars The High Republic sets... I might have to sic the ISB on you.

We both know the best we’d get these days would be a buildable disrobed Qumir. 

7 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Apologies, in a weird way Police Leader Police actually does feel like it makes more sense than Police Commander Police.

Yeah, that way there’s less consonants to break it up. I also don’t think the word “Commander” ever crossed my mind until I was much older.

7 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

2009: The story that we just unnecessarily complicated is getting too unnecessarily complicated for kids to catch up... (Proceeds to drop like three years worth of lore in one year.)

Oh my word—here I thought LotR would be a hard read. I’m gonna stay as far away from that mess as possible. 

[Murdoch17]

25 minutes ago, Swordy said:

...at least I know Martian Manhunter from Marvin the Martian.

Wait. Those are two separate characters? Mind. Blown.

[Mandalorianknight]

5 hours ago, Swordy said:

Yeah, I haven’t gotten into that much DC content. For films, it’s come down to convenience of availability, although I do look forward to seeing Superman later this year and using it as a spring-board into DC on film. For games, I only have/need a Switch, and the only LEGO DC game is LDCSV. (Playing Jedi Knight Academy and dying over and over again has scared me off non-LEGO games, lol.) For comics… I didn’t have the chance to grow up on them, and I’m not too keen to jump into them beyond the Silver Age comics.

Oh my word—here I thought LotR would be a hard read. I’m gonna stay as far away from that mess as possible. 

I mean that's totally fair- I absorb franchise lore really easily, but I haven't read a ton of comics and I've only seen a scattering of the DC movies. These aren't DC but if you're getting into comics, I'd reccomend Invincible (the only superhero comic I've ever read that actually let's it's main character grow and evolve and age and the story actually ends rather than marvel and dc where the characters always have to return to the status quo) or the Moon Knight run that started in 2021, which is a good entrance to those "new start point but it's still the same guy from the 80s" stories, a good mix of wackiness, grounded violence, and emotional weight, and with some nice visuals to go with it. (Plus moon knight's one of my favorites, so I always have to represent. As much as I like Daredevil from the netflix show and some of the earlier comics, his comics of the past few decades don't do it for me.)

Well then, just a quick lore dump on some of the craziness that is bionicle:

There are three major interpretations from the creators: Purely Sci-Fi, a more religious/spiritual one, and one in which the Toa represent medication and the Makuta represent cancer cells. Lego officially ended up confirming the sci fi interpretation towards the end of the story, making some of the more mystical elements like the Red Star into sci-fi concepts (The Red Star, a sort of omen earlier in the story, is revealed to be a space station that can revive the dead. Because the story remains unfinished, my favorite character ends up trapped up there with zombies at the canonical conclusion of the story and it's never resolved.)

There is a scene in 2007 commonly known as "bionicle Jesus dies on the cross" as it reads like a direct parallel to the biblical event. (Not exactly, but it's a very similar situation in which a jesus like character sacrifices himself for the soul of his species, dying but sort of also ascending to godhood.)

There are a number of extremely brutal deaths excused by the characters looking robotic, but in the story series people are torn in half, shattered, I think get their spines ripped out, etc. There's a scene in which Makuta, ascended to godhood, kills a number of the most powerful characters in the lore. These were people who weren't necessarily allies, from all corners of the universe, but because their universe's devil become god, they all teamed up sort of like in the Infinity Gauntlet when the Elders of the Universe all try to kill Thanos. While most of the others are more graphic, the one that always stuck with me is one guy gets turned into a painting, which isn't all that graphic but the idea of the bad guy just turning you into a piece of art in an instant spooked me back when I first read it.

[Murdoch17]

7 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I mean that's totally fair- I absorb franchise lore really easily, but I haven't read a ton of comics and I've only seen a scattering of the DC movies. These aren't DC but if you're getting into comics, I'd reccomend Invincible (the only superhero comic I've ever read that actually let's it's main character grow and evolve and age and the story actually ends rather than marvel and dc where the characters always have to return to the status quo) or the Moon Knight run that started in 2021, which is a good entrance to those "new start point but it's still the same guy from the 80s" stories, a good mix of wackiness, grounded violence, and emotional weight, and with some nice visuals to go with it. (Plus moon knight's one of my favorites, so I always have to represent. As much as I like Daredevil from the netflix show and some of the earlier comics, his comics of the past few decades don't do it for me.)

Well then, just a quick lore dump on some of the craziness that is bionicle:

There are three major interpretations from the creators: Purely Sci-Fi, a more religious/spiritual one, and one in which the Toa represent medication and the Makuta represent cancer cells. Lego officially ended up confirming the sci fi interpretation towards the end of the story, making some of the more mystical elements like the Red Star into sci-fi concepts (The Red Star, a sort of omen earlier in the story, is revealed to be a space station that can revive the dead. Because the story remains unfinished, my favorite character ends up trapped up there with zombies at the canonical conclusion of the story and it's never resolved.)

There is a scene in 2007 commonly known as "bionicle Jesus dies on the cross" as it reads like a direct parallel to the biblical event. (Not exactly, but it's a very similar situation in which a jesus like character sacrifices himself for the soul of his species, dying but sort of also ascending to godhood.)

There are a number of extremely brutal deaths excused by the characters looking robotic, but in the story series people are torn in half, shattered, I think get their spines ripped out, etc. There's a scene in which Makuta, ascended to godhood, kills a number of the most powerful characters in the lore. These were people who weren't necessarily allies, from all corners of the universe, but because their universe's devil become god, they all teamed up sort of like in the Infinity Gauntlet when the Elders of the Universe all try to kill Thanos. While most of the others are more graphic, the one that always stuck with me is one guy gets turned into a painting, which isn't all that graphic but the idea of the bad guy just turning you into a piece of art in an instant spooked me back when I first read it.

RE: Violent Deaths: Don't forget Makuta Icarax, who had his atoms spread throughout the Matoran Universe by a teleportation mask power run amok!

Edited April 2 by Murdoch17

[ARC2149Nova]

On 3/31/2025 at 4:41 PM, imposter said:

There is one major problem in this MOC. The Green colour. It should be violet. Different variations of Earth Blue, violet, even purple. 

Bro, why!?  I really thought you were someone new.

@Mandalorianknight I am honored to have been invited to the Soupfire Gala, really nice MOC. My favorite part is the disco ball, specifically, the Batman holding it. All the side builds are great, special mention goes to the Dummy shrine. 

I am curious about the grey statues, though. Who are they/what do they represent?

[Mandalorianknight]

3 hours ago, Murdoch17 said:

RE: Violent Deaths: Don't forget Makuta Icarax, who had his atoms spread throughout the Matoran Universe by a teleportation mask power run amok!

Oh man, yeah, pretty much everyone who dies at the end of the Ignition Trilogy goes out in pretty visceral ways, but Icarax's was particularly brutal. No coming back from that one.

1 hour ago, ARC2149Nova said:

Bro, why!?  I really thought you were someone new.

@Mandalorianknight I am honored to have been invited to the Soupfire Gala, really nice MOC. My favorite part is the disco ball, specifically, the Batman holding it. All the side builds are great, special mention goes to the Dummy shrine. 

I am curious about the grey statues, though. Who are they/what do they represent?

Dread it, run from it, turtle arrives all the same.

Thank you!

They're meant to each be a figure from all the characters we were talking about in the aslume thread- for each poster who was involved, we've got Samaritan, Police Leader Police, Womp Rat, and a member of Mudhorn Company.