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I don't think the color of the hat works and his furr looks darker than it should be. Not sure what they were going for here but it doesn't really fit the live-action or anime in regards to the color scheme.

I think it had some influence at least, we got Shadow with his bike, a Shadow & Maria tile and an SA2 inspired Biolizard set. For Sonic Movie 4 we've already got Metal Sonic who'll need a re-release in a set in 2027 and perhaps we'll get a Sonic Heroes inspired Metal Overlord set featuring Neo Metal Sonic. ---

I forgot Bogard existed in the live-action, but throw him in also for more Marine related characters xD Baratie would probably still sell due to Mihawk. They started filming in late 2025 so it's possible it gets a Summer 2027 release.

@BrickBob Studpants 2023: Sonic, Tails, Amy, Robotnik 2024: Shadow, Rouge, Knuckles, Super Sonic 2025: Metal Sonic, Super Shadow 2026: Silver I'd hope we get one more character in Summer. I think Blaze would pair well with Silver. I'd hope 2027 will give us more sets and characters, with Sonic Movie 4 releasing it'll hopefully encourage them to take more risks with characters.

Honestly, disappointed with the set list. Unless we get another part of this wave we have zero chance of getting a lot of the characters. As for guesses: $29.99 - Chopper (Small Form), Dr Hiriluk. Build would be the lab they experiment with, featuring an exploding feature. Chopper in his small form, likely requiring new molded pieces, is why I'd lean to this just being two figures. $59.99 - Luffy, Smoker, Alvida, Buggy. Build would be Smokers Bike and some Circus Stalls. $69.99 - Chopper (Reindeer Form). Build would be Chopper in his tiny form. $79.99 - Buildable Dorry, Buildable Broggy, Luffy, Usopp, Nami, Zoro, Vivi, Mr.5, Mr.3, Miss Valentine. If the giants are included then they take the piece count, if not then it'd be focused on the candle trap and a tree. $99.99 - Luffy, Chopper (Human Form), Sanjii, Vivi, Dr Kureha, Wapol, Dalton, Miss All Sunday. Build would be a Castle and Sleigh. $169.99 - Garp, Helmeppo, Koby, Smoker, Tashigi, Generic Marine, Mr.9. Build is the Marine Ship featuring prison cells containing a captured Baroque Works member - Mr.9. I feel this layout would cover the primary Baroque Works antagonists: Mr.9, Mr.5, Mr.3, Miss Valentine and Miss All Sunday. Miss Goldenweek I have left out as she didnt really fight anyone. By having Choppers three forms split over the sets it'd encourage people to get them all.

@FinlayTheFaithful Sonic Movie 4 in 2027 presumably is inspired by Sonic CD & Sonic Heroes so perfect time for a few Sonic Heroes inspired sets to give us the Chaotix probably with Neo Metal Sonic. 2028 can then be focused around whatever is inspiring the spin-off Sonic movie, which is probably Shadow, so a brick-built E-123 Omega, Black Doom, etc... @spiderfan2000 @BrickBob Studpants Throw Blaze in with Silver for 2026 as part of the 20th anniversary Sonic 06 nostalgia then end the year with Super Silver also. Mephiles would be neat as his warped Shadow The Hedgehog form would be easy for Lego to do as it's just a repaint of Shadow. I'd like Mephiles' crystal form but I think that's asking a bit much and more ideal for a CMF. I'd guess He-Man

The advert opens with demonstrating all the adult responsibilities and it ends with him actively choosing to ditch all of those responsibilities, including his work uniform, and instead meet up with his coworkers to get Lego Pokemon while someone expresses concern at his actions. Trying to insult people who acknowledge the adverts content doesn't change the adverts content. Here is a popular fan commercial by John Wikstrom that encapsulates what they were going for better, the idea of revisiting your youth while also showing the passage of time such as reading a kindle as opposed to playing a gameboy. The slogan was never intended to be a chore, it's a dream, an adventure and a journey. You can have the 'Gotta catch/build 'em all' as a slogan, but pairing it with how they handled the rest of the advert and the release it makes it feel extremely manipulative. No real time to view the sets prior, released during a working day, a GWP exclusive to the larger set and in a limited number, all of it's designed to create FOMO and rush people into spending without letting them think. Even the sets themselves which really should have been focused entirely on the Pokemon include unneccessary display areas and shove multiple Pokemon together to inflate the pricing.

I'm kinda glad honestly because I'm a massive fan of Pokemon, yet none of these appeal. The closest would be Eevee, but the head is too square when it should have been handled similar to the curved body. The three fully evolved starters, each probably about £150ish individually, being shoved into a singular set with a base and calling it £580 is insane. Especially when you can still buy the three versions of each Kanto starter from Megabloks for around £40 each. Which do you choose, Nine posable and detailed Pokemon figures for £120 OR £580 for three brickbuilt Pokemon statues with barely any movement and a base. Megabloks did this and it was pretty cool, so I dont really see why Lego couldn't do this. Perhaps a mixture of molds and mixed style building techniques. The way it is currently they are not achieving the level of accuracy needed, especially for the pricing they are asking. I think its an evil tactic to depict your target audience as focused entirely on the monotony and the only thing that can save them is buying your product. 'You should ditch your responsibilities and bills because you have to buy lego' Its not simply having a sense of fun as an adults, its neglect everything else and focus entirely on buying Lego to build them all.

Pikachu looks terrible, it's stretched and elongated in varying sectors. The pose doesn't really look good when on the stand and it's about 4x more expensive than the running Megabloks version with less posability and no features. The face is the worst part of it, which is pretty much the main thing you need to get right on Pikachu, the eyes look like they are attached to a visor instead of naturally being part of the face. The mouth bending outwards so they can get the nose looks really silly, his nose is supposed to be out, not his upper mouth. The Pokeball just isnt curved enough, it's just a box with some curved segments put on it. When the entire point of the set is for display you have to nail the visuals and this just doesn't. On the bright side it means despite being a massive Pokemon fan this is an incredibly easy skip. Still hope they can nail the designs at a smaller scale with hopefully some molded pieces.

Adding these to the existing list, that gives us: 75641: 271 pcs, $30 75642: 547 pcs, $60 75643: Tony Tony Chopper - 576 pcs, $70 75644: Giants of Elbaf - 733 pcs, $70 (Lower price?) 75645: 1063 pcs, $100 75646: Garp’s ship - 1705 pcs, $170 75645 is likely Drum Island Castle. That leaves 75641 and 75642, I'd guess one is based on Reverse Mountain. Loguetown would make the most sense for the other, but they could roll the figures from that into Garp's Ship so perhaps it's Whisky Peak. I'd guess it'd have to feature some S2 figures, otherwise it simply hasn't got a lot going for it. Probably: Garp (Repeat), Helmeppo (Repeat), Koby (Repeat), Bogard, Smoker, Tashigi, Buggy (Repeat) and a Marine Soldier. They could maybe include Mihawk again because he showed up on the ship briefly and characters like Nezumi are also possible. Interested to see how they do them at that pricing. I'm guessing they'll be handled similar to 76289's Surtur (245 pieces) as opposed to full-on constraction figures. Then maybe the Tokudai Candle Service Set with the remaining pieces.

Leaning towards the statue option then as I imagine Lego would expect Iron Man statue to sell but be a bit unsure of Captain America and Thor selling individually. Pairing them together also works thematically given Captain America holding Mjolnir for example. I've not seen the apparent Helicarrier rumors, but that's definitely overdue a remake as part of the lead into the 20th anniversary of the MCU. The only reason we might not see a Marvel Modular for a while is that they'll probably be focusing on the upcomming Avengers movies and the 20th anniversary. When they do happen, my expectations would be: The Citadel at the End of Time/Castle Doom (If featured in Doomsday/Secret Wars) Oscorp (Comic Inspired) Avengers Compound Iron Man Malibu Mansion (2028 for 20th, 15th and 10th anniversary of key aspects of MCU's Iron Man history) Baxter Building (Comic Inspired) Unless we start getting Legacy Modulars in which case Doc Ock's Hideout would be a dream.

In the leak, usual place, it states that "All summer sets are Smart Play sets" which they state would "allow the Pokemon to react to the sets and each other" so it sounds like they either include them or bricks that would interact with them - which is certainly going to be a factor in how the figures and sets are designed along with the pricing.

Not heard that passed around anywhere, but if it is, I'm down for it. Last version was in 2015 and it was something I'd previously speculated on. The previous model had a piece count of 2996, so 3057 is not much of an increase... but it could definitely be refined a lot with pieces that have released in recent years. Hopefully if it is we get printed runways this time and not stickers.

I think the most logical would be one of these: Captain America & Thor Collector's Edition - Enables you to build statues of both Captain America & Thor at a similar scale to 76344: Iron Man. Iron Man was 1297 pieces, so two of a similar scale would be 2594 with the additional 400ish pieces being used for Captain America's Shield and Thor's Hammer. Avengers: Compound - A modular based on Avengers: Endgame with the primary focus being a way to include a lot of the Endgame characters in a single set, re-using practically all the recent Endgame figures. The Hulkbuster - Either the MK1 or MK2 version, but more akin to a statue with a heavy focus on its detailing as opposed to playability. A direct counter to the complaints against the previours Hulkbuster and it'd scale similarly with the Iron Man statue but not be designed to fit it inside. Though I'd personally hope that it's the Iron Man Malibu Mansion for display/figures OR Doc Ock's Hideout from Spider-man 2 for it's design.

My guess is that they skip Whisky Peak and fold characters from those into the other sets. Spoiler tagged speculation for characters: