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The bumper is black, the grey "stripes" (not sure what to call them) have been lowered and the greebling between them, which was mostly done with stickers on the official set, is brickbuilt. I believe that's all the changes.

But on the flip-side they also added scenes that neither advance the plot or involve character development and in some cases, like GoF's Horntail chase and HBP's attack on the Burrow, are just dumb filler completely devoid of logic

Most AP's have at least 1 new print. The Potter student pack for example had Cho's alt face and the Marauders Map, the DA pack had the green skirt/dress and Dumbledore's Army sign-up list.

The Death Eaters in the restaurant were indeed Dolohov and Rowle. As for Macnair he appeared in the graveyard in GoF, took part in the Battle of the Department of Mysteries (he's the guy who grabbed Luna) and could be seen in Voldemorts "victory parade" during the Battle of Hogwarts (although he was recast). Yaxley should definitely be saved for a future MoM set.

Molly/Helga for Figg, Loki/Bruce Wayne for Mundungus, Wheatley/Fudge for Doge, some reused torso's. Sounds perfect to me

In a perfect world we'd get a Death Eater pack with like 2 generic OotP Death Eaters and 2 "obscure" (to kids) named ones like Macnair, Dolohov, Rookwood, Rowle, Travers, etc.

Additional Hulkbuster D2C details from Promobricks: - It will cost $200-250 and contain roughly 2500 pieces - It will be 50-60 cm high so twice as tall as the 2018 version - It's based on the Mark 48 from Infinity War - The only additional build is a plaque - Just 1 exclusive figure which will be either Tony or Bruce Yeah this is a very hard and easy pass, what a joke

Same, I have no interest in Quidditch figures other than some potential new faceprints so I'd prefer Death Eaters, Diagon Alley pack 2, Hogwarts students (robes), etc.

I may be in the minority on this but an updated Ultron in an expensive D2C nobody wants is worse than no updated Ultron

Hello there! Thank you for taking a look at the modifications I made to the Great Protector build from set 76177 - Battle at the Ancient Village. I personally find 76177 to be one of the most unique sets LEGO Marvel Superheroes has produced in the last few years and had a lot of fun building it. I did however think the Great Protector build could've been done better, which is why I decided to jump into Stud.io and take a crack at modifying this fantastic looking dragon. I started with the most important and defining part of the Great Protector's design: her head. I tried to make it a little bit bigger, give it more shape, add more (dark) red, show more teeth, have more prominent horns and make sure there are visible nostrils. Here is the end result: After completing the head it was time to continue with her body, I had originally planned to build this part of the model from scratch as well but as I actually quite liked the organic looking shape of the original model I decided to use it as a blueprint for some (occasionally heavy) modding. I tried to do the following: - Keep the basic shape the same. - Make the body a lot smoother. - Remove gaps between body-sections wherever possible. - Redesign the claws. - Redesign the lower section of the tail. - Keep the colorscheme to white, dark red and light aqua and cover up the "ugly" colors where possible. And this is the final model: And finally a comparison to the original set, alongside some images I used as reference during the design/modification process: Thanks for reading! Thoughts and feedback are more then welcome so feel free to leave them down below NOTE: when build physically the dark red spikes will be swapped out for the ones used in the original set. Those shown above were used because Stud.io hasn't added these fairly new parts yet.

Made some small changes to the head and legs: - Replaced the 1x1 cheese slope with Yondu's fin to better fit the shape of her "goatee". - Smoothed out the topmost section of the body to line up better with the shaping of her head. - Played around with the colors of the claws and legs for better accuracy. Thanks! Thank you! There are currently no specific attachment points for Shang-Chi and/or Xialing but they should be very easy to add

If that happens they better not all be huge oversized vehicles like the DC D2C's

So yeah.... after that horrendous Hulkbuster we got in 2018 it's safe to say they couldn't possibly have f*cked up this D2C worse. This is just sad

I think we'll get all four, especially if you take the NWH Sanctum set and Wanda's CMF fig in mind: 1. Strange - only needs a new torso and legs, head/hair/Cloak can be reused from NWH 2. Wong - only needs a new torso and legs, head/hair can be reused from NWH 3. America Chavez - all new 4. Wanda - CMF figure with fully dark red arms, flesh hands and the hairpiece recolored to brown (going off the comic-like wrapping gift we saw months ago)

Possible very light Doctor Strange spoilers:

It turned out to be an event (only in the UK), just passed off as "something big" for clicks.

Really looking forward to seeing Pomfrey, the Skele-Gro bottle and the stickersheets but other than that I personally don't think there's much to be excited for in this wave

I've honestly grown a bit indifferent to Hogwarts' future in the past few months. As much as I dislike this new system it did make me realise I'm fairly satisfied with my castle as is. I guess as long as the figs, creatures, accessories, stickers etc continue to be interesting I don't really care what LEGO does with future Hogwarts sets, though I would of course prefer a return to the '18-'20 style. I'll just Bricklink the stuff I like and all the money not spent on some bad looking and barely recognisable "Hogwarts" sets will just be spend on other themes or Potter sets that actually look good

Don't really see the point to 2 figures, just a hairpiece and the Ant-Man helmet would be fine imo (I didn't like the idea either at first but looking at cm4sci's Raimi sets it actually works really well). We'd honestly be lucky to get a new faceprint to begin with, considering LEGO loves reusing faces that don't fit a character/actor.

If you slightly adjust the placing of the light it doesn't actually look bad, definitely way better than a 2D stickered light imo. Here are 3 builds with different variations to the main build of the bike's front:

Ideally Ock would look something like this: But he wouldn't be that playable so I don't see it happening.

I've got no issue with part reuses, I'm just tired of LEGO retroactively retconning more and more snake (or snake-like) factions into the story. We started out with 5 unique and very interesting tribes but since then we also got snake-cultists, a snake pirate, the Vermillion, the Pyro Vipers, the Maaray Guards and now probably either a repeat of the Pyro's or yet another new tribe. LEGO has proven time and time again that Ninjago can be almost everything you can think of, we've gone from "classical" sets to steampunk, swamps, dungeons and most recently even underwater. The creative freedom this theme has is virtually endlesss so it just becomes annoying how often they return to the concept of evil snakes. It's time for something new.

It does make the front a little less sleek but if you really want to get rid of that blockiness it would also really help to replace the stickered light with a brickbuilt one, roughly like this:

Might be misremembering things but the name "Hydro Whipper" was never used in any official material right? They're called Maaray Guards so I assume Maaray is the name of their species, which is really just a lame way to try and justify the head reuse without them literally being yet another group of snakes.