LegendaryArticuno

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.

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.

Is the subway set considered an epic moment set? If so more of those please.

Honestly, Megablocks did a really good job in designing their Pokemon sets. I don't see LEGO surpassing let alone meeting MEGABLOKS in terms of design quality. Also Lego is going to be significantly more expensive than Megabloks.

Took a fairly long hiatus from Lego, and honestly it was really healthy for my mental health. Amazon Black Friday deals caused me to relapse, and now I'm buying sets that I want but don't have the room to display/store. Lego is an incurable addiction/disease, also doesn't help that prices are have skyrocketed and price per piece has doubled if not tripled in some cases .

I found F4 to be super overrated as a movie, I honestly regret spending the money to watch in theatres. Felt like a generic and formulaic movie written by AI. The only good part of the movie was the space flight scenes that reminded me of Interstellar. I found the movie to be so mid that it completely killed any hype I had for any of the overpriced F4 lego sets. I would rather spend on the overpriced Spiderverse sets tbh.

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.

Marvel GWPs have been absolutely terrible. I'd rather get the VIP parts pack.

Instead of another modular next year, I hope we get a UCS Sentinel instead with minifigs posed around it and a small wreckage or danger room build to supplement it.

Lego x Addidas was/is a stupid partnership, and so is Lego x Nike.

Everyone has a price, I wouldn't be surprised if the family goes public or even sells the company if given enough billions.

When it comes to Marvel, Lego is very reactive... if we do get sets for Rivals, it will be years after the hype has already died out.

Think this is also a lesson on using storage units as valuable storage, seen a lot of Youtubers store unopened sets worth thousands in them. These units aren't vaults, they're not that secure.

By now everyone is bored and sick of the endless MCU Avengers sets, I can't imagine the designers also want to push out another overpriced, generic and uninspired set either. Hopefully, there's an internal push for flexibility on the R-rating whether that's actually making good use of the 18+ Adults Welcome brand for once, or leveraging the comics to bypass it. I'd also settle for more X-Men as well, which IMO would be even more R-rated by Western standards since there's quite a bit of sex in the X-Men comics. This is all to say that Lego's blanket approach on R-rated IPs is performative and simply virtue signaling. They need to focus on the actual message and themes of the IP, i.e. Cyberpunk is about the pitfalls capitalism, Mad Max environmentalism, and DP&W is ultimately connection. I didn't get to read it, but I imagine it's about the American approach to "protecting kids", i.e. banning books, having metal detectors at schools instead of doing something about gun violence even after Sandyhook and Uvalde.

A set where you pay more than double the cost, get no printed pieces, and cut costs on minifigs X-Jet is a 10/10 on design, but a 1/10 on cost.

Boo, well maybe we'll get a comic version of Deadpool then similar to Dare Devil. At it's core DP&W is a movie about family and friendship, it forced the "R-Rating" with some jokes about cocaine and a bit of gore, otherwise it's family friendly as it gets.