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Yup, and that bigfig Rhino from one of the other newspaper prints. But considering how all the figures were either leftovers from other sets, cobbled together civilians, or new figures with no new molds, they couldn't have been on the list anyways.

They explained it in this short, not the first name I'd go with but then again, I'm not the intended audience lol. Oh it 1000% is. Lego has been dangling the idea of a classic Electro in our faces ever since the preliminary leaks of the Spider-Trike set from 2014 that showed a green/yellow Electro minifigure...only to end up getting the Ultimate version in the final set (probably as a TASM 2 tie-in even though we got that Electro as a polybag afterwards). And after the designers included this newspaper print in the Bugle, they just seem to be getting off on our misery at this point.

But if you're in a generous hint giving mood...is there any chance of finally getting a symbiote Spider-Man next year? The possibility of Lego making minifigures from the Spider-Man 2 game like how they put Doc Ock and the classic red/blue suit from the 2018 game in the 2021/22 sets is the only thing stopping me from ordering a spare Venom torso along with a couple Anya Corazon Spider-Girl heads off of Bricklink and erasing the mouth.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who's never felt comfortable with taking the legs off of a minifigure (in my past experience, reattaching them always made the legs super loose and were basically ruined). But unfortunately, a combination of yellow hips with blue legs don't exist according to the "Hips and Blue Legs" page on Bricklink. There are 5 sellers who seem to be selling that combination, but they're all in Used condition...and I suspect that's because it was a custom job they made themselves instead of being an official piece. I'm personally going to use the blue legs with the dual molded yellow boots for now. I wish they had a yellow hip piece to complete the look, but there's not much I can do about that at this point. I'm definitely changing the hair piece to the Mutt Williams hair in reddish brown too, mainly because that was the hair piece used for Scott in the first Lego Marvel game (which is what this figure SHOULD have looked like with all that printing detail ) and it looks way better over the hair piece they went with. I do hope that Cyclops gets a second chance though and is given a redo in the X-Mansion set with the proper amount of detail for one of his most iconic costumes, because right now he looks pathetic next to the X-Men figures from the CMF. He especially looks like a 4+ figure when you compare him to Wolverine.

And now after seeing the latest story on tandnbricks's IG, time to set aside some money.

I feel like they knew from the beginning of the Marvel Super Heroes theme, which is why they made it a coveted SDCC figure. As for the head, I've been having the same problem for making my own purist version up till now. I've tried those heads you mentioned as possible replacements, but they each have some kind of problem holding them back from working as the perfect substitute. The Black Panther head would've been a great choice...if the eyes were a lot bigger, big white eyes is like one of the symbiote suit's defining physical characteristics. The Mighty Micros Magneto head was practically perfect, if not for the fact that the eyes aren't symmetrical and the giant glaring issue of the Magneto face print on the back of it. However, I think I've found one solution that is easily the best one yet from lego.jimbo.909 on IG. He used the Anya Corazon Spider-Girl head from 2020 with the mouth printing erased, and it looks absolutely perfect. If the odds of getting a black suit Spider-Man currently weren't the highest they've ever been, I was feeling really tempted to go this route (I didn't though because I was worried about ruining the head by erasing too much of it).

You guys are talking about wanting a bigfig Venom, meanwhile I'm over here wondering if Lego can FINALLY give us a new symbiote Spider-Man minifigure now that Spider-Man 2 is out (or at the very least a black Spider-Man head with big white eyes and no additional web printing so that you could make it yourself with a spare Venom torso). Lego might've made the first Advanced suit as an SDCC 2019 exclusive, but they did put minifigures of the Classic suit from the beginning of the game and the game version of Doc Ock in regular sets for the past few years. I feel like they can do the exact same with the black suit from the second game, maybe even throwing him in a set with a new Kraven as we haven't seen him since 2016. It would be really nice to finally get a wide release minifigure of Spider-Man's most iconic alternate costume over letting it be stuck behind an SDCC paywall for the past decade (do not look up how much the SDCC 2012 figure is going for on BrickLink if you don't want to go into cardiac arrest). With the black suit returning in a major piece of Spider-Man media again, Lego doesn't have any excuse to avoid it anymore and come up with random suits like this knockoff Scarlet Spider design instead.

So I guess I can possibly get my hopes up for potentially getting an updated black/white Two-Face minifigure after almost 18 years...before getting BTAS Joker shoved in every set instead.

Anyone know if 'tandnbricks' on IG has been a reliable leaker in the past? Because they just did a Q&A about 5 hours ago and mentioned that the BTAS Gotham art set "isn't the only animated series set coming". BTAS Batmobile, here we come?

After seeing both of these side-by-side, I don't think I can definitively say that one is better than the other. The standalone version has a few better details like more accurate looking side air intakes, 1 x 2 slope grille pieces to represent those exhausts things that are next to the cockpit, hubcaps, as well as a bonus feature of a trunk. However, the Batcave version has the better angled fins and interior design. I think if you were to modify the 50 dollar version with a few details from the Batcave design, you could end up with the best of both worlds (besides the biggest glaring issue of not being a two seater).

This probably won't help since I'm your upstairs Canadian neighbor, but I managed to find a bunch of them the day they went on sale on June 5th at my nearest Toys R Us, where they were mixed in a bin with the other recent polybags. I'm lucky I managed to grab a few that day because afterwards I noticed that they set a limit of 2 per customer...which was kind of pointless because it's been over a month now and it's been sold out ever since. I check the Toys R Us website every couple days and it still says "Out of Stock" for the TRU I went to as well as any other nearby locations. I'm starting to think it might be exclusive to Toys R Us in Canada because I've yet to find them at any Walmart, the only Super Heroes polybag I've seen there is the Doctor Strange portal one. Side-note, the new Batman face print is easily my favorite modern Batman head by far. It's like Lego took the 2006 head/my personal favorite Batman face print and updated it for today. Comparing it side by side with the 2006 head/cowl (thanks to these pics from lego.boy95's IG), it looks like the spiritual successor to the '06 version to me, and just for that I'm going to need a few more of them. I just hope Lego doesn't retire this head so soon after introducing the new cowl that renders one side of the head obsolete...

After seeing the movie, it baffles me that Lego's first idea for a Flash tie-in set was the 1989 Batmobile over the new Batwing. I get that the '89 Batmobile is one of the most iconic versions of the car, and it's easily the most well known/beloved vehicle that Keaton Batman has... The new Batwing on the other hand was practically begging to be turned into a Lego set with the features that it had. The ejection seat drop function where the entire cockpit area lowers itself, the weapons, and a rotating gyroscopic cockpit. Throw in one more feature of allowing it to fit 3 minifigures with main Barry, young Barry, Batman in his new suit, and Supergirl flying on the side like Iron Man in the updated Avengers 1 Quinjet set and there you go.

I'm also curious to know if any fellow Canadian has seen the 1992 polybag in the wild yet (Toys R Us is usually the one that manages to come through, though my local Walmarts did have the Doctor Strange polybag recently). And after seeing a few reviews of the Batcave, I can't believe it took me this long to realize that the machine gun builds on the Batmobile also double as some of the exposed piston details that are on the sides of the car. It's a neat touch, but I'm still removing the gear function for it once I get my hands on the cheaper 76224 set. The machine guns were only used once in the '89 movie for maybe 3 seconds and then never seen again, so they're not that important to me. I've also been tinkering in Stud.io with the rear afterburner build since it's been bugging me for weeks that the binocular pieces used for the exhausts were placed a little too high for my liking. I didn't think it would work, but lowering them by one stud makes it look a lot better (to me) now. Left is my modification, right is the official build:

I really didn't think we needed another 1989 Batwing since I thought the one from the 2019 Riddler set looked pretty much perfect. After seeing this new one though, boy was I wrong. The new version blows the 2019 one out of the water, especially in terms of the shaping with the curves. It literally looks like a shrunken version of the UCS set, it even has the same feature where you can hang it on a wall. I think the designers did a better job with this one than the Batmobile, but those stud launchers are definitely getting replaced with more accurate looking rockets. I'm curious to see if someone is going to end up modifying this into the new Batwing design from The Flash since that one shares a lot of its DNA with the original '89 design, just with longer wings in the front. That would make me want to buy two copies of this set for sure. The '89 Batman is the same as the one from the Batmobile, so no new thoughts there (though Lego is definitely using the new cowl to their advantage by using the Kaz/Shang-Chi head underneath it, which was also used for the 2019 Bruce Wayne figure from the Batcave so I guess there's one bit of accidental continuity). The Joker figure got the purple fedora in this set as we all expected, even though this would've been the perfect chance to use the new Indiana Jones hair/hat combo in a new color. But I really want to know how Lego managed to ignore the most iconic part of this scene and NOT give Joker his giant pistol. The one time that Lego could've given Joker a comically oversized gun that was actually from the movie...and they leave it out. It's super easy to make a custom one, but it still doesn't change the fact that the setup was right there and they didn't go for it.

Just seeing new minifigures from the Raimi movies after nearly 20 years is like a dream come true. Growing up as a kid in the 2000s, the dark blue Spider-Man 2 figure was the only Spider-Man minifigure I used to constantly see in stopmotion videos on Youtube, so finally getting an updated version instantly makes this a day 1 buy, no matter what the price is. I can't wait to see the alternate Tobey Maguire Peter Parker head. Doc Ock is a little odd looking since he definitely wears a dark green coat in the movie, so I don't know why Lego went with dark grey. I love how he still has the exact same arm build from the 2004 sets just to keep that little bit of continuity. The new Green Goblin on the other hand...is a letdown. The original figure from the Spider-Man 1 sets had leg printing, how does a figure from 20 years later not have any at all?! I wish they included his helmet as well, but that mould was no doubt destroyed years ago, it makes me glad I have some of the original 2002/3 sets. At least we finally have a flesh tone Willem Dafoe Norman Osborn head so it's not a complete loss. The MCU figures mean nothing to me, I would've easily sacrificed Ned/MJ to get a TASM Lizard and a regular Flint Marko figure from Spider-Man 3 seeing as how we never got sets from that movie. And the cherry on top of all this is the Garfield Spider-Man figure that won't cost an arm and a leg to get anymore.