LegendaryArticuno

That's true, and generally I've been holding off on Lego Marvel unless I do see a set that I do like. That said, I will probably buy sets I don't like or want if they do go on sale, i.e. Venomized Wolverine, Temu Daily Bugle for Venomized Captain America and Rhino, etc. I just wish it wasn't that way, and we would see Lego Marvel sets on the quality and design level of LotR and Zelda.

If you dislike prints because you cant "reuse" the piece. Then you lack basic engineering and design thought process to simply invert the printed piece or hide it within the build so its a non-issue.

It's too late and costly to switch over to a new theme, once you're in deep you can't get out that easily.

Agreed, focus groups significantly jacks up the price and set budget. See any 4+ set that is essentially extortion on young parents. Common sense from the designer is less restrictive and most important cheaper. This is unpopular opinions, not illogical opinions.

I regret going all-in on Marvel Lego, LOTR is just more classy and sygnergizes really well with both Zelda or Medieval. Ninjago is overall way more creative and innovative as well. That said I don't regret dropping Starwars or never getting into Harry Potter. We need more quality Marvel sets, tbh I havent really enjoyed any recent Marvel sets since Daily Bugle, Sanctum or the Quinjet, there are some outliers here and there like the Subway scene but otherwise the mini-modulars and playsets are overpriced trash.

Man Jean looking really basic. Coping hard that she'll be in the next CMF. We need a dedicated X-Men CMF, I don't care for any of the filler characters like Kate, Hawkeye, She-Hulk, Echo, Mr. Knight, etc. Last CMF had too much filler.

100% agree with this, competition can only improve the product, encourage innovation, and ultimately be better for us consumers. It's why every country has anti-trust laws.

Get the X-Jet instead... both are ridiculously overpriced, but the X-Jet is actually really well designed and way more iconic.

I'll take venomized X over buildable figures or mechs any day. Venomized Groot was actually a really good set.

Oh yeah that's a good point, X-Mansion comes out "soon". My problem is that I keep comparing Avenger's Tower to the Daily Bugle. Avenger's Tower has a lot less space to pose minifigs, while you can fill up the entire front facade of the Daily Bugle with minifigs.

The real answer is cost cutting, given economies of scale (millions of produced bricks) the less amount of plastic used represents significant savings without impacting the structural integrity of the piece in a material way.

Got my Zelda preorder today... thinking of returning it for further credit to go towards Avenger's Tower instead. Lol someone convince me otherwise XD, is Avenger's Tower an overrated set?

The black base for the Great Deku Tree 2-1 set is a design failure; it's lazy and antithetical to Zelda's overall aesthetics. There's so many better colours Lego could've used instead of black, i.e. olive, tan, pearl gold, or various greens/yellows/browns.

Oops I meant endgame, the white suit Hulk. Hate the newest Infinity War/Avengers Tower Hulk.

The older Hulk bigfigs looks a lot better than the newest ones. Best Hulk fig has to be the Infinity War one.