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Same! It's the only reason I watch them, too They've been trying to plug those holes a lot more lately, but if stuff like the classic Jurassic Park set and it's minifigures, and the entire Infinity War line are leaking, I don't know how or why promo figures produced in the easiest-to-swipe-from factories are getting better security. It's possible that the leakers are overlooking them in favor of those bigger deals, but that's never been much of a thing before.

Here's a handful more: Robin (Earth-2) Starman (Ted Knight) Mr. America (Graves) Jonah Hex Ma Hunkel Thunder Mr. Terrific (again, but significantly better)

So the Flash movie is coming out in a month and we have still yet to see so much as a drop of our promo figure. Could this be the first one without an exclusive minifigure? Or is the official announcement being withheld to make the digital release more marketable? Although that still wouldn't explain how there've been zero leaks yet...

These are great! I don't think I've ever seen an Atom quite like that, and I'm really digging Firestorm and Huntress!

Thanks! I can't wait! The more Doom Patrol the better!

Ok, I'm actually kinda into this idea?? Like, 16 figures of the same character that are almost completely identical, but each one has a different expression on his face and printed on to his helmet (like Robin's glasses in the LBM stuff). Some people will want all 16, some people will only want one, some people will buy as many as they possibly can just to build an army...I kinda love this.

I've got a few new guys! Aquaman (90's) Terry None Golden Eagle Astral Mage Black Lightning (CW) Jakeem Thunder Manhunter

The fact that you found 15 Killer Moth variants is almost as impressive as how on board with this you've made me??

I'm not dissing him by any means, he's just not exactly a recurring or versatile character. He works wonderfully in the context of his stories, he just doesn't have a lot of them. If you haven't read Hush, it's unlikely that he means all that much to you, y'know? Meanwhile, guys like Firefly and Mad Hatter have eye-catching designs and a fair chunk of recognizability across the board, and allow for some fun set themes.

This isn't the first time we've had some brick-built figures of bigger characters here, and none of them were ever made unwelcome! Just leave it to characters who need to be big

I feel that. I'm down for whatever they'll give us, but "guy who was in one good story and then basically never seen again" isn't exactly at the top of my list.

I could be completely off base here, but I think Hush is sort of the proto-Red Hood. I think most of the Hush fans turned into Red Hood fans when he became a proper thing. That could be the dumbest thing I've ever said, I don't know.

I can't find anything on what that second season would've been. If you've got a link, I'd love to see it - that was a pretty underrated show and I love hearing about that sort of thing! That seems unlikely, especially since he's used pretty consistently in the comics. Black Mask had a 4" figure as part of the DC Multiverse line based on his appearance in Arkham Origins. Not a lot, but 4" figures like that rarely exist for collectors. Killer Moth has had a few figures in some of the general DC lines, but he also got one for 2004's The Batman. Seriously though! DC's been on such a turning-popular-villains-into-heroes kick lately and it's honestly so frustrating. They're good villains for a reason! I'm not saying it's anything so sinister, just the sort of corporate decision companies make all the time without saying outright. It's like Marvel and the X-Men/Fantastic Four stuff - sometimes they just quietly say "No, use someone else". I'd be down for that! I'd be kinda surprised if they actually went for a Floronic Man figure as opposed to a Harley Quinn or a Star Sapphire, but it would certainly be a good opportunity to re-use that new Groot head mold! That's what I'm thinking. Disney's legal team is scary, and they are really protective of their brand. If they thought for a second that a kid could see Mad Hatter as a villain, Diane Nelson would wake up next to Comet the Superhorse's severed head. There's a lot of possible answers to this one, but this seems pretty plausible. If they were holding out on Batman villains, we probably wouldn't've gotten half the figures we just did from the LEGO Batman Movie. LEGO's well aware that they've got a pretty bottomless supply of characters to choose from that we'd all foam at the mouth for. I don't know why they'd be holding back a Bat-villain - the kind of thing that is 75% tempting only to their target demographic - when they've got the Justice League, Teen Titans, Legions of both Doom and Superheroes, and the rogues gallery of every character other than Batman to pull from for years to come. Star Wars is a lot more limited in that regard than DC is. That also doesn't account for the fact that he's pretty much MIA even outside of LEGO, either. Oh no, I feel ya! I'm drowning in Batmans, Jokers, Harleys, and that same exact Superman. I wouldn't even complain if they just did new variants of some of the guys they haven't touched since the first two waves. A Jim Lee Catwoman using that new mask mold, a Bane bigfig without the rebreather and coat, a new Batgirl, all of those would be a-ok to me. They've definitely kept their new characters few and far between for the most part, and it is pretty frustrating, especially when so many of these characters could be dropped into a set without much thought, like Firestorm and Blue Beetle. Just toss in a partner character instead of a cop or a henchmen or another Harley Quinn. As for teams, that would be lovely. It's not even like the teams they have going are that far from completion. If they could just make Saturn Girl, Raven, Heatwave, Mirror Master, Grundy, Bizarro, Toyman, and Giganta, I would be completely satisfied. Heck, I could make do with just Raven and Heatwave at this point. Y'know what wave was really nice? The Suicide Squad one. We got every major character from that movie across a wide variety of sets, without any of them feeling too thematic. Why can't they do the same thing with the Legion of Doom or the Teen Titans? As for a CMF wave, I think the LBM stuff proved that they could totally do something like that for general DC. Fill half the wave with super-desirable new characters, and the other half with some fun variants of the big names (Electric Superman, Flashpoint Batman, and Jay Garrick's Flash would all be great for that) and you'd have a solid batch of figures that wouldn't interfere with their sets, because none of these guys would ever really make the cut for a set anyway.

Not even. Joker, Harley, Penguin, Riddler, Two-Face, Catwoman, Poison Ivy, Scarecrow, Bane, Mr. Freeze, Killer Croc, Clayface, Solomon Grundy, Ra's al Ghul, and Man-Bat are all pretty consistently used in this sort of stuff. Every character I just listed has either an Imaginext figure, a Funko Pop or both, and everyone but Grundy's gotten the LEGO treatment. Mad Hatter's the biggest name that's left untouched, and for some reason, he's left untouched by everyone. Every toy appearance he's had has been in lines aimed at adult collectors rather than kids, and he's the only guy that applies to. Even the likes of Black Mask and Killer Moth have had more presence in your average toy line. My god, we've even got a Tar Pit figure more recently than a Mad Hatter! Batman: BatB kept him to a handful of voiceless cameos, Beware the Batman didn't touch him, and The Batman passed him by even with their drastic redesigns and re-imaginings (and even used the likes of Wrath and Scorn, and - again - Black Mask). He effectively disappeared completely from children's media after B:tAS - a show where he lead multiple episodes. That can't just be a coincidence. Swamp Thing would be wonderful! They've given Alec a lot more attention as of late, but if that Justice League Dark movie ever actually comes to fruition, his odds of making it into a set are 100%. Depending on how that movie pans out, rating-wise, I'd say we'd at least get what we got for Suicide Squad (especially since most of the lineup they're using have been prominently featured on Justice League Action). This latest wave has been so wonderful about that, though! Six new characters in the main theme, seven in the LBM sets, and eight more in the CMF wave! 21 new characters, 9 of which are heroes! (10 if you count Killer Frost) I was really hoping we'd carry that into the summer, but 21 is nothing to scoff at, and we're at least getting brand new villains and at least one new hero in the form of Ace the Bathound! Another wave or two like this one and we'll have a pretty impressive DCU yet!

It would have to be an absolute mess of a rights issue if it is one, but if it's not that, I'd say maybe it has something to do with twisting Alice in Wonderland that they might not be okay with for the sake of the kids? Or a thought that's even more out there: maybe Disney's got a deal that keeps him from happening? It could potentially harm the brand. It's worth mentioning that Imaginext has also yet to produce a Mad Hatter toy, despite having plenty of opportunities and a cast of characters at least as wide as Lego's. He hasn't had a role bigger than a cameo in an animated project since B:tAS (excluding Batman: Bad Blood, which doesn't exactly share the same demographic as DC's other animated properties). His presence in toys is limited to very few B:tAS, Arkham City, and '66 tie-ins (and one Long Halloween figure). Not even a Funko Pop for this guy! He must be blacklisted or something, because there is literally no other way to justify such a complete dead zone for one of the biggest Batman villains.

It honestly makes me wonder if there isn't some weird licensing or legal issue that's kept him out for so long. He's one of the biggest Bat-rogues, but even the LEGO Batman Movie didn't touch him for some reason. It seems...intentional.

Ooo, nice work! The Challengers are such a wonderfully obscure pull, and you did them wonderfully! That Ka-Zar is fantastic, too! A lot of Ka-Zar figures are practically interchangeable with Kamandi, but yours is very distinctly Ka-Zar - even to someone like me who barely knows he exists!

I just uploaded a handful of new figures! Lightray Owlman (Roy Raymond Jr.) Marvin and Wendy Black Canary III (CW) Static (Milestone) Doctor Light (Kimiyo Hoshi) B'wana Beast John Constantine Static (DC) Gear For anyone who's been around here for awhile, you might remember that I pitched that Static figure all of four years ago, and have only just now got the pieces to make him myself! That old Nightwing hair is not cheap

Those are great! That hair is definitely getting a test-run on my Hal, and I know the already hungry Mad Hatter fans will have a dozen different versions of that figure going after that releases. It actually makes me wonder whether we'll see an official Mad Hatter soon, since that hat molded in that color seems awfully convenient. Those would be absolutely perfect on Black Cat, especially combined with the '66 Catwoman head and Storm's hair. The cactus guy and flower girl seem like perfect Ivy henchmen (couple them with some of the flytrap guys from the Halloween wave and you'd start to wonder how she hasn't gotten a set to herself in so long), the little boy's hair seems like a much sleeker alternative to that spy's from series 16 (getting it in brown would be perfect for Hawkeye, but I'm not too sure who could use that blond), and I definitely wanna use that cat mask to make Tomcat! The little girl's hair would be nice for Query and Echo!

Superman would be nice. I'd want something more drastic, though. I'd say Golden Age is the most similar I'd take, but something like Electric Superman or Kingdom Come Superman, or even the post-mortem solar suit. That would be a lot more tantalizing to me, anyway, and fall more in line with its predecessors (Electric Batman, Pirate Batman, Convergence Wonder Woman) I'd bet that's one of those activity books that just includes the basic minifigure, like they did with Batman, Superman, and Flash. I certainly wouldn't mind a variant if they wanted to, but the fact that the original fig is back on the market isn't small potatoes to me! Oh man, I'd buy a copy for everyone I know if it was Red Tornado in there. He's one of the biggest holes in the OG and Post-Infinite Crisis Justice League lineups, and one of my favorite characters! Any excuse for Red is an excuse I'll take! That's always the dream! Ooo, Aztek would be such a weird but wonderful choice! My only concern is that his helmet would absolutely need a new mold, and they don't tend to do those for exclusive figures.

There was actually some chatter on Twitter about that. Jason Spisak (voice of the Lego Joker and Kid Flash from Young Justice) wants it to be Vacation Joker (seemingly unaware that we basically just got that figure with the slightest of variations in the CMF line), but liked a tweet that assumed it would be Atom. Of course, he probably doesn't know any more than we do, but I thought it was interesting! Atom feels like the safest bet, but if I remember correctly, we saw the Trickster minifig long before the movie he came with, and he wasn't in the trailer. It's just as likely that it's someone we haven't even seen.

The fact that there are 100 unseen autorazr figs out there makes me feel the same way I felt when I found out that there's an entire season of Invader Zim that went unproduced. It's like knowing that your grandma just made a pie and she's saving you a piece, but when will you see her? What if your jaw is wired shut by then?? I think I'm describing an addiction to pain killers???

He was in one of the Lego Magazine comics, although new pieces have been introduced since then that would change the design up a bit.

The costume variation in superhero stuff is painfully limited in terms of adapted designs. Outside of movie-based sets, we've had exactly zero Superman variants that were more significant than a different cape material or facial print. Even Batman's had very few costumes pulled from other sources in your average set. Excluding simple color swaps and movie-based sets, we've gotten the Beware the Batman costume, the New 52 costume, and the Rebirth costume. The odds of Lego using the likes of Flashpoint Joker or Electric Superman or Parallax Green Lantern in an actual set is slim to none, because all of those costumes aren't recognizable on average. The CMF line needs a Batman, but it doesn't care if that Batman is as simple as the Brave and the Bold suit or as drastic as the Red Son suit. Some of the most sought after versions of these characters are too unrecognizable to sell a set.

To be fair, the Batman waves are mostly just doing that because A. It's kind of a running gag in the movie and B. nearly every other character was already put into a set. Lego's just learning that Batman isn't the only thing that sells, though, so that's likely to change. We're never going to escape the "every licensed wave must have some representation from the main characters" thing, but in most themes - particularly ones Lego doesn't have a finger in from inception - there are desirable variants to be had. Simpsons S2 had to have Bart, so they gave us the far more desirable and iconic Bartman. The Harry Potter wave has to give us Harry, Ron, and Hermione, but we're getting them in proper robes - something that's been sorely missed by fans in the main sets. The normal CMF line isn't restricted in that sense. None of those figures are required to be there for the sake of marketing. If Robert8 can design 11 wonderfully creative waves of non-licensed figures with so little repetition in his spare time, I don't think it's too much to ask for the designers who are paid to design them to do the same. Spacing out the time between those releases could give them enough room to hone in on and work out the fresh ideas and keep the repeats to a minimum.