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Weird they chose a Picnicker instead of Blue or even the more recently added Green. Pikachu looks a little awkward from the front, but it works, wondering if we'll get an all-fours running variant eventually. Eevee's tuffs of hair turning into Machop style head fins is a weird choice, but Eevee feels like the better of the two in regards to detailing and it's pose is more applicable for varying battles or posing with Trainer. Hopefully we get a set eventually with molded Bulbasaur, Blastoise and Charmander. Would be fine just getting them and having those 5 as molded Pokemon if that's all we are getting.

Legacy Raimi sets presumably will be complete in Q1 2027, we'll have all the core versions of characters except for possibly Harry Osborn/New Goblin, which we may not get. Though if we got something like this I'd buy a bunch for the printed board pieces and Pumpkin Bomb wall. Completing the Raimi sets should open the door to them shifting to other Legacy movies and I think you could pretty much do the TASM franchise in a singular TASM2 'Final Battle' style set. So at that point, where do they go from there? Knowing the Q1 2027 sets so far reported on, personally the core things I'd like now are: Doc Ock Hideout: Doc Ock, Mary Jane, Spider-man, John Jameson (If we're not getting Harry Osborn) TASM2 Final Battle: Spider-man, Electro, Green Goblin, Rhino, Gwen Stacy, Captain Stacy Iron Man Malibu Mansion: Tony Stark, Maya Hansen, MK1, MK2 (Rhodey Head), MK3, MK4, MK5, MK6, MK7, MK42 (Pepper Potts Head), MK21 (Works as a 20th Anniversary suit) It looks alright, other than the face and the hood piece/cape being plastic rather than cloth resulting in odd angles in the material. I wonder if Ultron will be next given how they handled the face would probably be transplantable for Ultron. Guess we're just waiting for the last handful of set reveals, potentially all for Doomsday, and that'll be it for this year. It's more a combination of timing and what seems like the most logical option: Avengers Doomsday/Secret Wars bringing back Fox-Verse characters means any new molds/facial prints could be re-used. 2027-2029 will be when Fox-Verse X-Men are most in peoples mind along with X-Men in general (Avengers Doomsday/Secret Wars, Season 3/4 of X-Men 97', MCU X-Men film). Limited detailing on Fox-Verse outfits, mostly black with minimal printing, could keep costs low. X-Men Mansion currently scheduled to retire in December 2026, could be extended, but would leave the door open to new X-Men sets to fill the void.

I think people are over-thinking how to adapt the Fox-Verse movies. X-Men 1 Build: Statue of Liberty Head & Torch, similar to the 76261 9 Figures: Wolverine, Storm, Cyclops, Jean Grey, Rogue, Magneto, Mystique, Toad, Sabertooth Notes: To vary from prior sets the Statue of Liberty head would have more stone-like colours and rather than scaffolding, those pieces would be put towards the 'torch' mechanism where Rogue was held captive. X-Men 2 Build: X-Jet 6 Figures: Prof.X, Wolverine, Ice Man, Nightcrawler, William Stryker, Lady Deathstrike Note: Rather than have this based on a specific scene this features characters from X-Men 2 and is a way to get the Fox-Verse version of the X-Jet X-Men 3 Build: A portion of the Golden Gate Bridge and a small turret with a battle damaged expanse between, similar in design to 76291. 10 Figures: Wolverine, Colossus, Beast, Kitty Pryde, Jean Grey, Angel, Magneto, Juggernaut, Pyro, Callisto Notes: By making the focal point as the Golden Gate Bridge segment you don't really need to put any focus on the location itself, just a random battlefield next to a moved Golden Gate Bridge. Angel had a lot of focus in the marketing so I've included him here. Overall: X-Men (10) - Prof X, Wolverine, Cyclops, Storm, Colossus, Ice Man, Nightcrawler, Rogue, Kitty Pryde, Jean Grey Magneto's Brotherhood & Villains (9) - Magneto, Sabertooth, Toad, Juggernaut, Pyro, Callisto, Mystique, William Stryker, Lady Deathstrike Entering Avengers: Doomsday set reveal month then, really missing when we used to get more leaks though. Feels like a lot of waiting for reveals. Hopefully they are good sets.

Probably not a wave of sets, but I could see us getting one more set in mid/late 2027 that covers the final battle. I think Lego have shot themselves in the foot if they truly intend to exclude Punisher though. Lego have been skipping antagonists and with how much the marketing is trying to obscure a main antagonist I think there's potential that they would not have supplied Lego with concept art of the main antagonist out of concern of it leaking. I would imagine if we do get an additional set it may not even include such an antagonist, but instead give us Spider-man, Sadie Sink, Hand Ninja, Michelle and probably re-using Scorpion as he's only available in the larger set.

I think they could skip them to include them in a potential wave 2 in 2027, or even later releases based on other scenes or moments with those characters. They have popularity enough to potentially sell another set and the scene described does not appear to have them and would probably sell without their inclusion. We have to remember also that Secret Wars in 2027 (I'm still expecting it to be pushed back to May 2028) is coming along with the 20th anniversary of the MCU in 2028 so they'll probably throw MCU characters, legacy sets and nostalgic revisits of older sets at us over 2027 & 2028 that should cover any figures that are not included in the Doomsday wave. Though my hope still lies in them finally just giving us the Iron Man Malibu Mansion and wrapping up the Iron Man Armor collection. I think the Doomsday sets in 2026 will cover at minimum Shuri, Namor, The Fantastic Four, the main members of the Thunderbolts and the main Avengers members. Any leftover characters will likely be back for Secret Wars or would be featured in a 'Wave 2'/Spoiler Wave. The only MCU characters I don't think we'll ever get anytime soon will be those tied to the r-rating which is really just Deadpool and maybe Wesley Snipe's Blade. They'll probably even wind up revisiting the villains they missed from Phase 4 at some point and comic variants of any they feel are difficult to adapt.

Was really hoping that the Epic Moments set would continue the ongoing aspect of them being legacy focused, I think having them focused around upcoming movies risks inaccurate detailing as they'd presumably be working on concept art. Most the 2027 sets sound awesome because they are either comic-inspired or legacy themed, it's nice to have a break from the MCU and it's a bit unfortunate that the subtheme of 'Epic Moments' is going to be relegated to new movies also, didn't we already have the 'Final Battle' style sets for that? If accurate then: 40880 - 'Avengers: Doomsday Brickheadz' 76345 - 'Avengers: Doomsday Doctor Doom Bust', 379 pieces, $49.99 76347 - 'Avengers: Doomsday Vehicle set' - 433 Pieces, $59.99 76348 - 'Avengers: Doomsday Epic Moments Set' - 846 pieces, $99.99 76352 - 'Avengers: Doomsday Avengers Tower', 954 pieces, $109.99 Spoilers due to speculation on figures following some leaked visuals, teasers, public cast list, etc:

Yeah, that could work also, they have the mold for the mask so they should probably just repaint it and throw it in a promotional set. That or just recolour the mask and have it included in varying sets, whichever includes a gold recolour would likely sell really well. Yeah, until the theme proves itself viable again to Lego, I'm also of the view that we won't get a full CMF for Bionicle unless it had a full theme again. I can see them doing Takanuva for the anniversary of Mask of Light in 2028 and given his popularity it could be a test bed for measuring interest for a potential G3 in the 2030's as a figure focused theme of small sets that stick around the cheaper 'character vs mech' pricing range. Maybe a handful of sets a year, with the enemies sometimes being figures with vehicles/mechs or sometimes brick-built. At the moment though unless they already planned to throw a CMF Bionicle character in future waves similar to costumed characters, the earliest we'd see another is 2028 once they've had time to look at the sales results and interest from this wave and react accordingly.

If the designers feel they've 'cracked the code' by making them cosplayers for the CMF, then I don't really see anything holding them back at this point. There's clearly lots of interest so they can just release the rest as cosplayers, keeps Bionicle fans happy and it clearly sells well so it'd be simple enough to do. Bionicle sets are probably about 5 years away realistically as they'd need to confirm the level of demand via at least one or two more Bionicle Cosplayers in a CMF series and they'd need to figure out how they intend to do Bionicle in set form, which sadly I feel may be tied to the electronics as they'd want Bionicle figures to have 'functions'. I think the most likely option is that they give us Takanuva in 2028. This gives them two years from now to have decided to do another Bionicle Cosplayer, figure out a design and get it on shelves for September 2028 which would be the 25th anniversary of Bionicle: Mask of Light which was the first Bionicle movie. The first movie featured Takanuva prominently in marketing, he's pretty much the primary focus of the poster and plot of the film. I'd also go with Takanuva as opposed to any of the other Toa Mata because Lego were confident enough in Takanuva that he was going to be in The Lego Movie 2. In Lego's view Takanuva would be the second most popular and iconic Toa behind Tahu, a perfect way to continue testing interest in the brand. He'd arguably be the easiest budget wise: No need for dual molded legs so reduces cost Leg detailing could just be a copy of Tahu's Re-Used shoulder pad piece, in gold this time Like Tahu probably wouldn’t have arm printing His weapon can just be the same as Cole's Scythe from Ninjago Torso would just be Tahu's recoloured but with a golden armour piece design covering most of the finer detailing New mask is required, but it's a similar style to Tahu's so they could use Tahu's mask as a basis Takanuva did not come in a canister, so no need to include that which again reduces cost With the budget saved, how about including a recolour, the Tahu mask in Yellow to represent Jala/Jaller from Bionicle: Mask of Light.

In order for a 2028 release, Season 4 would need to begin production this year. One Piece Day this year is August 22nd/23rd so if they are going to announce a Season 4 then it makes the most sense to be then with production officially getting announced in November. E.g. 2026 - August - Announce Season 4 2026 - November - Season 4 production begins 2027 - February - First Look at Season 3 (Season 2's First Look was 6 months prior to release) 2027 - June - One Piece Season 4 enters post-production 2027 - June - Official Teaser for Season 3 (Season 2's Official teaser was 2 months prior to release) 2027 - July - Official Trailer for Season 3 (Season 2's Official trailer was 1 month prior to release) 2027 - August 1st - Season 3 Lego Sets release 2027 - August 23rd - Final Trailer for Season 3 (Season 2's Final trailer was a week before release) 2027 - August 31st - One Piece Season 3 releases I would imagine Season 5 would break the pattern and start filming in 2028 for a 2030 release due to a mixture of release schedules and letting them judge the reception to Season 3 before green-lighting Season 5 and likely Season 6 at the same time given the source material those seasons would adapt.

Bucky's torso seems accurate while also being generic enough that it'd work with other characters if desired, which is good for army building. The most glaring omission is the lack of the 'star' symbol on his other arm though, as seen in the post-credits of Thunderbolts.

I'm expecting Blaze the Cat (To pair with Silver) and Neo Metal Sonic perhaps in a game-inspired Metal Overlord set in 2027, so the remaining would be: Mephiles The Dark, Crystal Version (Shadow Repaint) Chaos (Printed, not translucent) Cream The Rabbit with Cheese the Chao Big the Cat with Froggy (Big would use the Shrek Body) Vector Espio Charmy Tikal (Using Knuckles Head) Emerl Jet the Hawk Wave the Swallow Storm the Albatross (Using the Robotnik Body) My hope is that due to Sonic X Shadow Generations and Sonic Movie 3 that it would have convinced them to do a Metal Overlord set with Neo Metal Sonic for our August 2027 set, probably looking something like this with a new head piece. As for January, Blaze the Cat makes the most sense given we had Silver being released this year. IF we did get another then I could see them just repainting the existing Shadow The Hedgehog as either of Mephiles' forms.

The 'authentic sounds' are nonsense, Lego has lied. It's not Pokemon sounds, they even claim to have been unable to replicate the original sounds despite those being 8-bit sounds on less complex devices than the slop brick. They need to be sued for false advertising. This is illegal.

The forced tech brick being placed in the crotch resulting in sounds/lights emanating from that region and requiring you to have characters whack their crotches together, or faces into crotches, is just really stupid. I don't see how anyone in the design process could think that anyone who is a fan of Pokemon wouldn’t act out the noises or actions if desired. It speaks of a design team completely divorced from reality likely mandated to include more tech by out of touch individuals at the company. The style of the figures is not consistent which makes it more evident that they were not going for a specific chibi style but instead were forced to adapt once they were mandated to include the tech bricks. Characters like Garchomp for example have good shaping, except for their crotches being made more bulky to accommodate the slop. There's a few that survive the slopification primarily because of the bulk of the characters being easier to hide the inclusion though a lot of the figures end up just becoming square/rectangular blocks as opposed to accommodating their actual features. I'll probably just buy the applicable printed pieces and make my own versions of the Pokemon I'm interested in. I do not intend to supporting the inserting of forced tech into Lego as it will almost certainly spread like a cancer onto future themes if allowed to.

Why would you be motivated to get the Lego versions here unless you really enjoy the electronic technology gimmick which also increases the costs? Everything done here was done better by Megabloxs for cheaper with more playability, accuracy, effort, detailing and focus especially given they were a lot more focused on allowing you to play with the characters as opposed to Lego's approach of just having the characters be stationary while you shoot discs or move the character closer so you get a garbled sound clip. In regards to the Lego sets for several the arms can only move up and down; so no Geodude punching, Charmander scratching, Gengar's surprise pose or Jigglypuff actually being able to hold the microphone infront of itself. These small aspects would have helped to add life to the characters. Feels a lot like they've damaged the appeal of the Pokemon in favour of electronic and environmental features. When people thought of Lego Pokemon they almost certainly wanted Pokemon you could pose, move, display and interact with and I don't feel this captures that desire at all. It's curious how the Cubone Vs Gengar set with the massive waste of pieces that forms the graveyard segment so that the Ghost Pokemon can fall over... includes an Ultra Ball. I would not be surprised if these variant Pokeballs are scattered through some of the more expensive sets because even if you dislike the sets people would likely want to have the varying Pokeballs collected to display. I think the rumored Mewtwo's lab is still the only set that I'm curious about from the electronic slop wave of sets because I've always liked Mewtwo's design but I've lost faith in them doing Mewtwo justice in Lego form at that tier. Maybe we'll get an adult-focused Mewtwo set in 2027 but with how irratic these theme is I'm curious how they expect it to survive with stuff like this, it's a lot of expensive sets, forced technology inclusion and a ton of prints... how long can they afford that?

I like the jet, mech set is a letdown especially seeing as Lego themselves revealed the premliminary design had articulation and we just aren't getting that with the final version. Yeah, I guess that makes sense.