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I thought the usual place was r/legoleak now and they aren't there. I completely missed the leak yesterday. :P Instagram is completely unfeasable, unless there is a specific account I don't know about which I'm supposed to be following.

Hey, did we ever figure out what that "Batman 8-in-1" set is supposed to be? I completely forgot about that until I saw it on a list at the bottom of an article about this new Batmobile.

Another thing which might be worth noting: the DC branding is more prominent, and there's a picture of Batman underneath it. Could be a good sign of something for at least Superman next year. My guess is an action figure, a mech, or his cape as a buildable object. :P

I think the UFO costume's new piece is the collar, not the helmet.

I'm really happy that Mr. Freeze got a new helmet! The Mysterio globe just wasn't going to cut it. His torso looks pretty flat, but maybe there is an armor piece out there that can bulk up his shoulders a bit. Also, I might be misremembering, but shouldn't he have blue hips? It looks like the legs are solid black. I know his boots were lilac too, but maybe the CMF Sinestro's legs will look good here.... Batman's cape does look weird. But maybe I need higher quality images to judge it. I don't like that it seems to have less presence than the cloth capes or the 89 piece. I love that the Batmobile is dark blue. That's some much welcome variety! It lends interest to the model, which is otherwise very flat. Oh, and that's one of the most atrocious set names of all time. The mech is bland. Batman's cape sticking out is kind of funny. I think Batman's torso might be updated (the logo looks a little bigger?) but it's not enough to sell the set. But again, maybe better images will show that something's missing. The Batpod doesn't interest me at all, not that I expected it too. I like Lego action figures and I find these to be overpriced and mostly the same. I have Miles Morales and that has been enough. But somebody must be buying these.

Guys, you can block users whose content you don't like. Then the only problem is people responding to bad content and not ignoring it. :P

I wasn't a big fan of that piece when I saw it last week, but I like this idea. I'll keep an eye out in it for other colors. It seems fairly likely it will come in black at least, maybe in next year's winter wave. edit: It does come in black in the C-Rex! I'll put that piece on my BnP watchlist. Right now I'm using a fur collar piece and graduate's cloth robe, which is fine, but I'm not a big fan of the robe as a trench coat.

I'm happy that this is the 66 Batmobile. I love that show. With the BTAS art set I'll probably hold off on it for a while if I get it at all. Robin should be included. I have the 66 Batcave and love the classic Robin figure there. I wish he were more widely available! I wonder if Batman will use a printed head and the Black Panther ear piece. I think that would be a better fit than the short-eared cowl. (Is that part even still in production now that we have the one with molded white lenses?) That would make him a little bit more unique so that he might be more of a draw than otherwise since he came in a $30 not that long ago, but only for die-hard collectors. But really Robin should be here with him. And maybe Batgirl. They could have reintroduced or redesigned her mold and shared it with the Juniors Batcave....

It's probably true that those have more lasting influence than a lot of MCU properties. Batman Returns gets a nice big set for its 30th anniversary, probably not a lot of later Marvel movies will. But yeah, not really the point. It does mean that DC (and Batman in particular) can always make a comeback though since it has contributed to pop culture in a lasting way! I tend to think a true comeback won't happen until sometime after the current shared universe/multiverse fad goes away and superheroes have some time to rest and come back refreshed, but we'll see. I'll take what I can get in the meantime. And I like all of those Batman properties, so I'm glad we are still getting those at least, as much as I would like more comic book and JL stuff. The Marvel mech suits always have unique minifigures these days except for the Venom one which included a second Miles Morales figure to compensate for the reuse. It's not a sure thing, but I'm expecting that Batman will have a new torso at least. Some kind of armored variant would make sense. But if it is a reuse, we might at least get another figure thrown in. (Probably Joker, unless it's a figure from the Batcave. But who knows.)

I mean, if Marvel plummets so badly that the newest MCU movies are less culturally relevant than Batman 89, 66, and TAS then there might be some truth to that? Oh, and if everyone on earth forgets that Spider-Man exists. Hm, when I say type it out loud that's likely totally for sure in all probability going to really happen by this time next year. Especially if we keep harping on it week after week.

Not a big fan of this series. The only two that really do it for me are the Retro Space Girl and Orion, though the Human Suit is growing on me. A lot of the others are just okay, and it's mostly in the execution I think. Some even feel really close to being great, like the Ice Planet woman, but just have something missing. (In her case it is definitely trans orange, and maybe skis like someone said). But the Brickfantatics images do show a lot of interesting stuff I had missed before, so I may appreciate these more in-hand. The M-Tron mechanical arm for instance--is that hose a separate piece from the clamp? If it is, I can think of a few uses for the hose, even if it isn't flexible. The purple coloring for the branding of this series is really nice.

Is the $200 set definitely a "black box" D2C set? We have never had two for DC in the same year before, and we aren't even guaranteed one every year. Harry Potter is getting a mainline $200 Great Hall playset this year. $200 doesn't go as far as it used to; even small non-licensed modulars are a bit more now. The Burton Batwing went for that in 2020, and the first Tumbler was $200 in 2014. I don't expect a mainline DC playset at this price point, but who knows. And even then the only things that I could see at a price point like this would be a largish vehicle or two at play scale (the BAT vs Bane's Tumbler? I can't think of anything else from well-liked movies which would be iconic and "large scale" enough) or a location like Joker's amusement park, ACE chemicals, Iceberg Lounge, or Arkham Asylum are possible (and could all be BTAS/TNBA based since they are so allergic to the comics now), but those are all too interesting for what we usually get, and there aren't likely to be many minifigures. A new Batcave would compete with the shadowbox, even if that's going to have a short life. Even if the price seems relatively low to me I think a bat vehicle is a very good guess. The last one was the Tumbler remake in 2021, so there hasn't been a new one since the Burton Batwing. The BAT should scale with the Tumbler, and the 66 Batmobile is somewhat complex, so either of those being done for $200 present day seems unlikely to me. But I could maybe see the BtAS Batmobile being done at that price point, since it is a lot sleeker than other vehicles and a larger model might actually make it look plain and boring, and that's the price they sell the BTTF DeLorean for. But even then it's still weird not just that we are just getting two large DC sets in the same year, but that they would both be based on the same incarnation of Batman.... Who knows though. The weirdness should make speculation more fun, even if we are guessing the worst possible scenario. And I'm happy with the skyline so anything else is just a bonus. Especially since I wouldn't be likely to get a bat vehicle. If this is a bat vehicle I think it would be great if they returned to the tradition of the Burton sets and include three minifigures. The idea that Phantasm was moved to a D2C Batmobile makes some sense, but she's not very iconic so I can't see her paired with a reused Batman creating much interest. But with Robin or Two-Face as a third figure that might help. Similarly, I think that the BAT could use Bane alongside Batman and Catwoman (especially since Batman might be reused from The Tumbler). And while I am sure a new 66 Robin would interest people and Joker would be too tempting for Lego not to include, the only desirable character from the Adam West series Lego hasn't made at all is Batgirl. An Eartha Kitt Catwoman would also be neat, but that's a deep cut! The only other thing I could see would be some kind of Batman memorabilia with buildable objects like a batarang, Joker card, Ivy's carnivorous plant, a vial of fear toxin, etc. But who would want that? :P edit: while speculating, if this isn't a D2C set (which I realize it very likely is, I just can't keep up with rumors as well as I used to) if they are keeping with the BTAS theme they probably could do a playset with the Batwing and a GCPD blimp. Throw in Robin, one or two of the police characters (Gordin/Bullock/Montoya), and a couple of villains (there is always Joker, but I also remember Scarecrow hijacking a blimp in one episode, and Man-Bat would also make sense, but they can really include whoever they want) and that would be...too interesting to be realistic. :P

Yes, thank you! I played a bit of DnD in high school but I couldn't remember any of the races beyond the normal fantasy ones. (Humans, halflings, dwarves, elves, etc.) Official images of the set are out on the Legoleak reddit.

The minifigures look really good. Can anyone more familiar with DnD remind me what each one is supposed to be? I can't find the original list.

Plus Lock-Up for villains, then Montoya, Bullock, and Summer for supporting characters. They aren't likely, but the Orient Express has a torso which looks like Summer if anyone cared enough to make her.