GoldenNinja3000

I’ve been off of Eurobricks for a while, and I’ve really missed everyone’s theories about upcoming sets! The spider lair looks good in the HD images although still too expensive and we really didn’t need another Iron Spider. I love the little references to the PS4 game, Fantastic Four suit, and the Daily Bugle! Regarding Holland’s third movie, a scooper has confirmed that all of the villains will have new designs. I hope that we get more than 3 sets because then we have a better chance of getting as many new minifigures as possible. I definitely want to see a figure of Emma Stone’s Gwen Stacy and easily obtainable Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire Spider-Man figures! Is there any more information about the Super Heroes D2C set next year? Do we know when it releases? I almost forgot it existed!

I love that we’re getting a Marvel D2C next year, but I’m also sobbing because with how expensive Harry Potter is going to be, I have no idea how I’m going to afford both of these themes! I can’t even think about what this D2C would be - I’d be guessing Avengers Tower if we hadn’t just gotten one a few months ago, and I really want to see a UCS Quinjet or Milano, but I can’t see those costing $300 (they seem more like $200 sets). Hopefully it’s based on Infinity War or Endgame, or it’s a 10 year anniversary set even though it’s been 13 years. I hope we get some more info soon.

A $250 Ninjago City Docks-style expansion to Diagon Alley with Gringotts and a couple other shops like Madam Malkin’s and Eeylops would be perfect to me. Personally, I think it’s too early for Hogsmeade and I’m hoping that’s not the D2C. I’m shocked we’re getting another one so soon at all, and kind of worried about how expensive HP is looking next year! The Monster Book GWP looks cool, it’s just such an odd choice for a free gift to me. Hopefully the play feature is interesting.

This new set looks incredible, but I’m so pissed off at LEGO’s decision to include two exclusive minifigures in the SDCC Marvel sets for two years in a row now. Yes, it’ll probably be available to a much larger number of people now, which is great, but for everyone in other countries it’ll still be hard to get. I like it best when LEGO does exclusive sets like the Wonder Woman one- repeated minifigures with a unique build and an exclusive print. I really hope this is available on Shop@Home in the US, and at least aftermarket prices for people in other countries will hopefully be closer to $100 than $300. I totally get how irritating these sets being exclusive to the US is, but seeing as how they were meant to be exclusive to an event in one city before this I’m glad they’re more widely available at all.

That sounds awesome, I was hoping we’d get a big weird spaceship with these sets! I really can’t wait to see them, I think they’ll be very unique. With WandaVision confirmed for 2020 I hope we’ll also see a retail exclusive set that isn’t delayed, but I think I’m getting my hopes up.

Yeah, MODOK was in Paul Rudd’s script which definitely isn’t the final script for the movie. However, they’ve been considering bringing in MODOK for a while, and Agents of SHIELD was going to use him as the villain for Season 7 but the writers said Marvel took him away from them after they had already started developing it. Why would Marvel take MODOK away from the TV team unless they want to use him in a movie? I think MODOK may be the main villain and Kang will be a larger threat being set up for Avengers 5. It’s also possible that Majors was cast so early because he’ll be appearing in Loki. The 2021 sets sound okay but not great. A new Ghost Rider is awesome (hope it’s Robbie!), a Spider-Man hideout could maybe be like the Spidercave thing in Into the Spider-verse, and Iron Man vs Thanos could be a cool little set. A Carnage “helmet”, though? Very odd choice. Why would they make organic creatures for a helmet line when there’s plenty of other helmets they could do before him, like War Machine, Rescue, Black Panther, or Captain Marvel? And if you’re going to do a symbiote, why Carnage before Venom? And what ever happened to the Hulk bust we were supposedly getting in 2020? There’s a lot of potential in these 18+ sets for Marvel but I don’t think these helmets are being done well so far.

Well, it’s embarrassing that I own that set and forgot how many prints it had! It’s still 11 prints vs like 24 stickers, but it’s all just added detail. Regardless, I doubt the HP sets will have as many prints. They seem to be aimed for a slightly older audience if they’re $10 more expensive and contain actual minifigures. The storybook sets remind me of Juniors ones due to the large molded pieces and high price, and I don’t think the HP books will be quite the same.

Those book sets are absolutely drowned in stickers. There are only two printed elements in each one, one half of the book base and then the princess design on the cover. Some sets have extra printed elements like the sheet music in Ariel’s book, but all of the decoration around the sides and on the base of the book are (optional) stickers, which is definitely how I’m expecting these books to be.

It’s interesting that we’re getting winter sets! These books sound like a great new concept, and I’m excited to see how they turn out. I’m expecting them to be more sophisticated versions of the Disney ones. The mosaic is also awesome, I adore the Art line and I can’t believe they’re making one for Harry Potter. I’m confused about what it is, though- can you build one house crest at once and they encourage you to buy 4 copies to combine into a large Hogwarts crest build, or is it just the Hogwarts crest? The first option makes the most sense to me since it follows the path of the other mosaics where LEGO wants you to buy multiples, but you’d end up with so many extra pieces in different colors for the different house crests- much more than the 800-900 leftover studs/tiles in the current sets. It’ll also be very expensive but I’d definitely save up and get 4 of them. 2021 is looking much more expensive than I had anticipated already. Has anyone in the US/Canada ordered their box of minifigures from Minifigure Maddness? I was charged €31 for VAT even though it’s being shipped to Canada and the VAT cost shouldn’t be applicable to me, but they told me it was for “duties and taxes”. Now that the item has been shipped, DHL is charging me a further $27 CAD for more duties and taxes. I don’t understand why I’m paying twice the tax- when I ordered the summer sets from BRICKshop.nl the VAT amount didn’t apply to me, so I’d like to know if anyone else is experiencing this issue as well!

I’m sure we’ll get one next year or in 2022 for her Disney+ series or Captain Marvel 2. Of course it’ll be MCU-based as opposed to comic or game based but I’m still excited to get a new figure of her!

Not always. Black Panther and Captain Marvel got January sets for a February/March release, and on the other end you’ve got outliers like Aquaman which got a set in August for a December release.

The 1989 Batmobile is one of my favorite sets and I think it’s one of the best-designed ever, and I’m really excited for this Batwing, but I’m also kind of mystified and annoyed. First of all I really dislike how we don’t know about D2Cs in advance anymore because it makes it really hard to save up for them. I also never expected a Batwing set to release just a year after the Batmobile! I wasn’t sure we would ever get one, honestly. It looks great and I hadn’t even thought about the possible minifigures yet but I’m expecting a repeat of the 1989 Batman and really hoping for a Pfeiffer Catwoman even if this vehicle wasn’t in Batman Returns. I hope we see more images and get more information soon- it seems strangely early for an instruction manual to leak for a November set.

Oh, what I’ve been doing is first building it with all the studs and then taking a picture of the completed mosaic before building the frame and swapping out the studs for the tile for it to be hung!

Awesome to hear, I loved the original Possession wave!

So I’m building the Iron Man mosaic, and for each one you can put studs in the bottom right corner or put the printed Iron Man tile. However, for the Hulkbuster image, it says you should use 6 dark red studs to fill the space but I only have 1 left. Did anyone else experience this issue? I went through the instructions but can’t find any mistakes I made. It’s my third copy of the set so I can easily grab extras from another but it’s just very strange to me.

I think it’ll be very hard to make other sets like this since the line is being sold as helmets (not busts), and I can’t think of any other Marvel characters that have a fully enclosed helmet. Maybe Ant-Man? I’d love to see Rescue and War Machine done in this way though.

The set is incredible! I love that we’re getting Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff Quidditch robes and I’m sure they’ll appear in a cheaper set next year. I agree that 14 figures seems a bit low, but I was always expecting 10-15 anyway. Sure, other licensed D2Cs have had more figures, but they’re also overpriced. Does anyone here really think Cloud City is worth $350 or the Death Star is worth $500? I certainly don’t, and I’d much rather have LEGO invest in the build than in the figures. It’s nice to get Molly, Lockhart, and Lucius even if they’ve got some drawbacks. I’m also curious about the missing Harry, though.

5685 pieces apparently. That’s absolutely insane to me, that in the span of 5 months we’re getting 3 LEGO sets with 5000+ pieces while only 4 have existed at all before 2020.

I really hope this rumor is true- the original Ninjago City sets are two of my favorites, and I never thought we’d get another expansion! There’s a lot of detail in Promobricks’ description and it’s awesome to see a silhouette of it. I haven’t heard about it being Legacy or not, but I do think it would be weird to randomly drop a giant Ninjago Movie set 2.5 years after the last one released. I’m not complaining, though. And I’m glad we know about it so far in advance so I have time to save up

Yeah, I’m sure it’ll be made (I previously assumed as the interior dragon escape scene but given its absence from DA it’ll probably be the exterior too), but it’s just going to be annoying for a year because A) LEGO won’t confirm it this far in advance, and B) when it does release, there’s no guarantee that it’ll have the same amount of detail as the rest of the buildings in the D2C. Well, if it was in the set it would be mentioned in the description as every other shop was called out by name.

I feel like that would be a waste of space in the D2C since both sets would be minifigure scale, but they could’ve just released Gringotts this year or done Diagon Alley next year.

Exactly. Absolutely no one is denying that LEGO stands to make more money by selling Gringotts as a standalone set. What we’re saying is that we don’t like how there’s a $400 set coming out with most of the Alley, and then customers who will purchase the $400 set and the inevitable Gringotts set (like myself) have to wait an entire year to complete their Diagon Alley. This would make a lot more sense if they released alongside each other in the same season instead of a year apart, and we don’t even know for sure that a Gringotts set is coming even though it’s a likely possibility, and it’s not like LEGO will say “if you want to complete your Alley, look out for the $100 Gringotts set coming summer 2021”. I stopped by my local LEGO Store today to pick up the Iron Man mosaic, and the employee told me that he’s not sure when CMF Series 2 will release. He said to expect it on either August 24th or September 1st.

Yeah I didn’t mean it was another Patronus, I just thought it was interesting since it’s the first time one of these new Patronus molds have been recolored into being an actual animal. It looks great, I also expect that it’s for the Elves Winter Village set.

I agree on the price. I hope the Gringotts set next year is over $100, because I want an exterior detailed enough to fit in with the D2C and we know the dragon will be the equivalent of a $20-30 set on its own. I don’t believe the October release date, though. As @Falconfan1414 said, that’s the release date for Mos Eisley and LEGO wouldn’t release two large licensed D2C sets of the same price on the same day.

Someone (I think @Azani) just posted on Instagram that Diagon Alley will be $350 USD and release in October or possibly sooner. That’s a lower price than we’ve heard before and I’m quite surprised to hear it considering the piece count. If the price was incorrect I would’ve expected it to be $50 more, not $50 less! Also, it looks like a recolored version of the Stag Patronus piece has appeared! It’s a proper animal this time around and looks fantastic.