Renny The Spaceman

This is great, love how seamlessly they fold into each other

Okay, glad I'm not going insane here with this take, it is fun assigning roles to them but I feel it's akin to trying to come to a definitive answer for Doctor Who's age, they'll all be contradicted by something so it's not a good idea to take anything as 100% accurate My headcanon is that they mean nothing, the CS astronauts run purely off vibes and chose these colours just because they each individual one's favourite colours, they make up these justifications for them to seem more structured and professional when speaking to any alien life or other space factions they encounter :P

Anyone else think that the official colour meanings don't make much sense? Every og colour pilot in at least one set acts as a pilot, explorer and scientist and why do they even have spies? What benefit could they have to a faction that clearly only focus is basic scientific research and exploration?

Cool, this does make me think though, at this point are the classic space astronauts just sorta a permanent fixture of LEGO from here on out? Probably a dumb thought but just sorta what my brain goes to seeing such a large pallet of newly printed ones, currently there are 3 (and a half) of them in production and since 2019 there's been a steady stream of official, dedicated (by which I mean merch solely based on CS, not just references in other sets) stuff with them.

"However, when a malicious AI from within the present escapes" That's a jump, just heard of this premise and this sounds weird I think it is interesting to think about how far they'll choose to put distance between this one and the original, LEGO is so tied to certain things from the first film that are still generally used as key parts of their brand image (see: Everything is Awesome)

That'd be nice, depending on how TLM2 sets that might be possible, likely under icons. Off the top of my head the 2 potential sets that seem to of had the most impact coming out of the film and would likely draw the most attention and sales would be the Double Decker Couch and Benny's Spaceship but both are remakes, maybe a large D2C version of the Master Builder sub? It includes the former and the whole main crew, given the scenes it's in if LEGO wanted to they could also throw in some other noteable characters like Bad Cop or Superman

Maybe the 100% Sony stuff is in a weird legal limbo LEGO can't touch? outside of the disney co-production films since 2004 LEGO has never had a full set for something Spider-man related made by them, just a couple promotional figures for TASM2

Yes, that's him. Honestly a shame, tbh I miss LEGO themes having a shared world, now everything needs to be segregated into it's own continuity's which is much less fun, even when there is a crossover like nexo knights and chima that version of the chima characters is apparently an entirely separate continuity to the chima that crossed over with ninjago

Did Denny actually apear in the show or was that one of the show to set disparities?

A good point I've never actually considered, well said

I feel the figs will be the updated style akin to barracuda bay or the castle remakes, I think LEGO considers Classic Space unique in how they try to update it's figures as little as possible (probably as unlike with castle and pirates they still make new figures intended to fit with the OG sets for it so it'd be weird if they also did modernised ones for the Galaxy Explorer)

People get that, the problem is that is an insane waste of parts for a feature with such a minimal benefit that is not worth whatever price hike it caused

What? Anyone else find it hard to believe any of these ideas focus tested well?

I'm still assuming classic characters, correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think Sega has ever okayed any merch with modern sonic and the death egg robot Yeah, that's a good point of comparison

Hope so too, it'd be nice to actually get a mania set I believe generally the trend with sonic merch nowadays is they do the classic characters first then expand into the modern cast. I prefer the classic designs so I'm happy but I'm sure they'll do the modern cast soon enough, it would just make sense to have a set with shadow out next year

Nothing major but I swear at some point in the opening there's a shot of them manning a cannon or something

So weird they're doing a whole event just to show more of the same, minus the two most popular and interesting types of set in the theme

Maybe I'm looking at it wrong but I also think that a big part of it is Clones probably work best, just as a toy. Like there are so many different variants making them collectable, the new pack having the various accessories to customise troopers and all the recent crop of them have been in bright, eye-catching colours. If I were a kid just looking for a toy with no era preference I'd gravitate towards the clones, especially as they work as both good guys and bad guys making them more versatile for play.

Didn't we get one literally last year?

I really doubt that, internet discourse is not reality. LEGO is a company if there's measurable interest in a specific subtheme of Star Wars they'll make it, they do not care if it leads to a grown adult screaming about it. The closest comparison to the current situation with sequel sets is how prequel era sets were treated, but despite the much worse response to those films there's never been a year since those films came out without a prequel set on shelves, even during the era where they were struggling to keep up with the sets for all 28 movies they released in the span of 4 years. The simple issue I think they're is with sequel content is it's just based on diminishing returns. A prequel set is very distinct from it's OT equivalent if it even has one. If LEGO wants to make a TIE, X-wing, Star Destroyer, etc why go with the version that exists solely to call back to how much people loved to OT versions when you can just cut out the middle man and do the universally loved version. Also why I doubt we'll get the clone wars Y-wing again, the only way they'll do these derivative models instead of the old favourites is if there's relevant tie in media to support it. I don't think we're ever gonna get a minifig scale (or larger) X-wing without Luke unless media supports it or if in coming years there's a massive resurgence in interest in Poe Dameron because as it is any general consumer looking for an X-wing probably wants Luke to pilot it.

I assume the rational is that they were set on making them distinct so they chose phase 1 Cody because it shares the visor of phase 2 Rex so they go better together than phase 1 Rex and Phase 2 COdy would

Hope we get an actual Mania set now

TBF both Spider-man and Spider-man are in the title of the new Spider-man film, so they could probably get by even if Civil war was counted as a team up

Have there been MCU sets based on non-team up movies that didn't come with the lead character?

Yeah, TBF just give any previous LEGO Sandman a flat top and it's pretty perfect