GoldenNinja3000

I've definitely noticed a decrease in quality over the last two years in particular. 7 of the minifigure heads in my copy of Diagon Alley were visibly smudged and for some reason sticker sheets are never cut correctly anymore? My DA set had so many stickers whose edges were cut off, and I received three replacement sticker sheets before getting one that was cut properly. That's just ridiculous for a $400 USD set and I've noticed it in many other ones as well, most recently the 1966 Batmobile. I don't have a huge problem with stickers but at the very least I expect them to look the way they're supposed to.

Finished the Bugle last night! It's pretty amazing when it's all complete. I particularly love Firestar's display area up by the antenna, and the little acton posing pieces elsewhere are great too. It fits in better than I expected with the modulars and I can't wait to put it in my city!

Same here. I'm disappointed about Monica being included if that lineup is accurate. I love Monica as a character, but she's going to be one of the co-leads in a movie next year and her figure's printing would just be a white shirt and black pants. We don't know when/if Agatha is returning and even if she is in Doctor Strange 2, I highly doubt there would be space to put her in a set. And unlike Monica, her costume is detailed enough to warrant the budget of a CMF figure. I can't believe LEGO is missing out on making Zemo again, too. I don't like that the Marvel series is only going to have 12 figures. If it had 16, we could get pretty much every main character from these four Disney+ shows.

I didn't bother trying to have the tower rise up from a building when I modified mine because I thought it would be too big. I just made the ground floor a bit longer and built a revolving door, as if the lobby is open to the public for visits. I've got a little hand scanner in the front and used to have Avengers suits lining the walls, and the lobby terminates in an electronic door that flips open to let authorized people up to the living spaces above and then the rest of the tower.

I just finished bag 2 and I'm blown away by the newspaper prints. They're so thick and glossy, and were packaged in a separate little bag! I think these are the highest quality prints I've ever seen from LEGO, and I really want to pick up duplicates.

I'll probably swap out my modified one for the official one if LEGO ever makes an Avengers Tower this size! I never thought they'd do a modular-compatible building as tall as the Bugle, which is why I thought my 3-foot Avengers Tower would be safe. I'm excited to see how they look together, though.

I ordered an extra copy online as a backup in case my store sold out and it was sold out online by the time I made it there. Not sure what I'll do with it now, either just return it or keep it as an investment. I'd love to open it and add more floors but I don't have the space for something that high, and I don't want any building in my city to be taller than my Avengers Tower.

Ordered my backup Bugle online, I'm building the Friends set right now, and I'm ready to pick up my actual one tomorrow morning at the store! I'm really excited, I didn't even realize that it's been two years since I went to the store for a D2C on release day.

Nope, large sets often sell out quickly and it's been more common over the past year due to production issues caused by COVID. The Ninjago City Gardens set sold out in a couple of days back in January and as far as I know hasn't been steadily in stock again, although it might have come back for a few hours or days. I don't think the Bugle will sell out in minutes, but I fully expect it to be sold out in the 11 hours between it going up online and my local store opening, which is why I'm ordering online as a backup in case the store sells out.

I always try to be there by opening time if possible. Haven't gone to a store on release day since summer 2019 (I think), but I called ahead and the employee told me that lots of people were calling about the Bugle and she predicted they would sell out quickly.

Awesome! I'm gonna order one online and go in store tomorrow. Don't want to risk the store being sold out since they only have 20 sets.

As someone who follows leaks up to about three months before a movie premieres, I don't understand why others can't just be courteous to the people who don't read those leaks. If someone is just watching the trailers and staying away from leaks, no, they do not want to hear that "the plot is weak". Even though it's not a specific spoiler it's still too much information for some people and invites discussion of plot-related spoilers, and as others have said, someone could slip up and say a spoiler without tagging it. And if the spoilers relate to set discussion, then what's the need to say stuff about the plot? At that point it's just movie discussion even if it's a throwaway comment. I loved the Eternals trailer and I think that the figures were translated pretty well into minifigure form, but it's a shame we didn't get a new mold for Ajak's crown. I also think Thena needs a better hairpiece since her hair looks a decent bit longer than the overused over-the-shoulder piece. I was surprised at how flat the spaceship is compared to the set and I don't love the huge proportion difference, but if LEGO made something that wide at a $90 pricepoint it would probably barely have any room for minifigures inside. Hopefully we see a couple shots of the Deviants and Celestials in the next trailer so we can compare those builds!

Thanks for this article! Can't wait to arrange my own configuration.

Eternals looks incredible. I wish the sets would hurry up and release! That final team shot does have me wishing that LEGO had shelled out and made a new mold for Ajak's crown, though.

I'm finally getting around to building the Spider-Man sets from earlier this year, and I'm very pleasantly surprised by a couple of builds. Doc Ock's mech is probably my favorite of all the new mechs and looks great. Ghost Rider's car seemed like a very boring build from the box but it was actually super interesting with the upside-down front and rear sections, and I didn't expect LEGO to supply extra pieces so you can remove the fiery bits! Now let's see if the Spider-Man monster truck can exceed my expectations...

Ouch, that Final Battle price is absolutely ridiculous. I'm glad it's $70 in the US since that actually seems like a decent price and not as overpriced as other bigfig sets, but 90 Euro??? That's crazy. This has to be one of the worst price conversions for a LEGO set in different regions.

I'm finally pulling the trigger on that Spider-Helicopter set from 2014 so I can get Mary Jane and Power Man. I'm just going to add more characters to the display and have it be a very chaotic corner of my city, which is better than my original city display from a couple years ago that had supervillains running amok and causing destruction everywhere. I'm not sure if I'll modify any characters, though. I'll probably swap in the original Carnage and maybe the full Sandman figure since I prefer those variants, and Gwen could use some modifying but I might as well whip up a whole new purist custom out of recycled parts for her.

I honestly don't get all the complaining about the reused figures. We're getting 25 figures in a $300 licensed building with 3800 pieces that's nearly 3 feet tall and modular compatible. I never expected a set like this to be made, and I definitely wasn't expecting any more than 10-15 figures. 10 of the 25 are reused but we have a good number of exclusive characters and a great number of civilians/employees. The reused figures are just great extra additions to me, and it's not like there are any other recent Spider-Man minifigures that I would've liked to see reused here instead, except maybe Spider-Man Noir. As for new minifigures, I would've loved a civilian Miles to accompany the other two and a new comic-based MJ, but I don't think the set suffers from their absence. Compare this to a set like Diagon Alley and I definitely think the Daily Bugle has a better minifigure selection. I would've loved some more civilians in a set like that even if they didn't use any new prints.

I love the Daily Bugle! Not a huge fan of the color since I expected a tan building and not a modern steel and glass skyscraper, but it's an incredible build. I didn't think LEGO would ever make a building this tall - it's almost the height of my 10-story modified Avengers Tower, which was meant to be the only gigantic building in my city display. Getting 25 minifigures is insane and I love how many civilians and employees we're getting. A couple of the reused faces (Rey and Tina Goldstein's) annoy me, but I don't mind most of the other reuses. Can't wait to get this and I really hope we see more Marvel modulars in the coming years!

Wow, this news is absolutely insane! I’m so happy to see LEGO going back and redoing sets from earlier movies. I’m really hoping the $150 set is something awesome like the Sanctuary II, but I also love the idea of it being Asgard. I’m hoping for a couple more figures in the Endgame set. My wanted figures list for Endgame includes Cap, Hawkeye, Widow, Iron Patriot MK II, Scarlet Witch, Captain Marvel, and a proper Thanos. I think we could see Rhodey in this one but then again, maybe not because I don’t know if there’s a good armor piece that already exists for his suit and that would be a highly detailed figure in a set that already has a (hopefully new) bigfig and a new mold for Korg. I’m guessing that the CMF is MCU-based for sure now, and that it’ll supplement these movie sets. I still can’t believe this is all happening for LEGO Marvel in a single year!!

I had to come back here to talk about the Korg piece! I didn’t think we’d be getting a figure of him out of nowhere now. I think it makes sense to be from the D2C, but I can’t see the Statesman being made (especially not at $350) and while I really want it to be the Sanctuary II I think it would be a hard shape to capture in LEGO, we haven’t really seen the interior as someone else pointed out, and again $350 seems a bit big for a ship like that. I also doubt the D2C is Avengers Tower because we just got one (although I’d love a giant one). I guess it could be a proper Avengers HQ, but once again $350 for a location build like that seems insanely high. I really don’t know where else Korg could show up though. I like the Shang-Chi theory but until we find out what the D2C is I’m not ruling anything out. Hopefully we get more info soon!

If it’s MCU based, I definitely want proper Endgame versions of Cap, Black Widow, and Hawkeye. I’d also like one or two new Iron Man variants (but not a ton), villains like Ego and Zemo, and I’d really love to get black and white versions of Wanda and Vision. If it’s comic based I want classic versions of the main six Avengers and others like Scarlet Witch and Vision, but I also want some new characters like the X-Men or Fantastic Four, and if the series is only 12 minifigures then it would fill up really quickly with just comic versions of MCU characters. I hope the series is at least 16 minifigures (although I really want it to be 20).

I really want comic versions of Vision and Scarlet Witch. I hope we do see some Disney+ sets in the summer because I think they could be pretty cool concepts and builds, especially if they come out after the series so there’s no risk of spoiling anything.

I can’t believe we’re actually getting a Marvel CMF series! This is a dream come true. I really hope we get more than 12 figures, though. I’m also holding out hope that the $40 summer set is for WandaVision. Are those prices for Marvel only or both themes?

I can’t wait for Season 15 of Ninjago! I think the sets are going to be really awesome and from what I’ve seen it’s going to be my favorite Ninjago season in years. Nadakhan isn’t the villain as far as I know, but I’d love to see him return because he was a great character.