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Just saw an email from last night from Marvel Entertainment. It is the 30th Anniversary of Deadpool. Fingers crossed for an updated fig.

Some catalog pages leaked on IG for a little bit (they're gone now). One of the pics was of a Disney themed space set, 10774. It seems more of a space exploration set, but it has a non-minifig scale brick built rocket done like pulp sci-fi.

The pics are being deleted from IG, but there's a Disney space set.

The upcoming Ninjago seems to be underwater. The images are all preliminary, with a lot of stand-ins, but one of the parts used looks like a white printed version of the old manta ray. The image is for 71756. As I write this, the pics have been deleted from IG. Edit: saw a different pic. It might be the new mold after all.

The pics are gone now. Deleted from the IG leaker's page.

The Brothers Brick have an official reveal write-up.

The Beatbox containers seem to be comprised of at least three new molds (plus a mold only currently available in one Friends set), the interior stage two more, and the figs seem to get 1-2 new molds each. Add to that a number of unique printed tiles for each figure, and the price doesn't seem unreasonable to me.

Twitter-verse strikes again. Yet another reason I'm glad I never bothered with it. I just checked on something. Lego doesn't do sets based on non-MCU Sony Marvel movies. What they do instead is cartoon/comic Spider-Man sets featuring the characters from that set of franchises. Morbius isn't currently slated to release until 2022, but one of it's previous delay release dates was March 5, this year. Given this, I could see a set based on part of the Morbius storyline (ideally including Blade) having been developed for release this year. This is pure speculation based on no real Lego data, just another plausibility hanging out there because of Falcon's allusion about the upcoming Spider-Man sets.

That is no longer the case. Harry Potter series 2 and Series 21 were both $4.99 this past Wednesday. Series 20 got scanned the same as the DC series, which was priced at $3.44.

Not surprising given the new 2x2x2/3 part in both tan and black appearing in that set.

An image of the back of the Bandmates box shows a QR code, like on the Super Mario sets. There were three boxes in the image, but only one reverse shown, so I cannot be sure the codes are different. It does leave open the possibility, though.

Two words: Spider Slayers.

Has anyone considered the town of New Asgard as the D2C? Then Korg would make absolute sense.

If Lego intends to capitalize on nostalgia, I think we could get a ghost instead of a skeleton. The 80's/90's themes had ghosts more often than skeletons. I would also be expecting a lot of black parts, as well as ingots in light bley. A redesigned Majisto could be in the offering as well.

To be fair, the monkey is actually scaled well to the figs. I've also seen a couple of the parts off of this in some MOCs, but as a set on it's own, it is quite weak.

Referring to Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr. The original Lego goat would not have worked, and from the discussion on the animal mold thread in Special Themes, the mold no longer exists.

That's why I used "IMHO" in the first X-Men reply. Box office numbers are one thing, satisfying existing fans is quite another. The X-Jet set, which is what started this, was based largely existing cartoon material, meaning part of the target audience was existing fans. And I think you are vastly underestimating comics readership.

I've been trying not to prognosticate, but something occurred to me. Someone postulated earlier that Korg could be from a set based a Bro Thor scene, but it got shot down because a headphones piece wouldn't work with that headgear. The neckwear headphones from Monkie Kid would, though. It would open up all kinds of possibilities. Now I need to rewatch Endgame.

Actually it does. Lego could have had notice of returning characters well before then, and would have needed that much lead time to develop the mold we've seen before the original release schedule. Even if there were costume changes for the Korg character, the make-up appliance is unlikely to have changed enough for scaling down to Lego proportions, so for the shape alone information from the previous movies appearance would have been enough.

Agreed on the X-Men front. Lego could easily source sets from the Marvel Adventures graphic novels, which are written for an age group consistent with Lego's core demographic. A while back I posited the idea of a large Uatu build, but understand how unlikely that would be. Stan Lee in any form would make a lot of Marvel fans happy, but I think there may be some likeness licensing issues with his estate, otherwise we should have had him as a fig by now. Real news will probably take some time. I don't expect it until after much until such time as the Disney+ shows won't be spoiled.

Most of your points are quite valid, but to me DOFP was a travesty of rewriting an iconic X-Men storyline. Fox had already failed to give Kitty Pryde her proper due as the character who most lived up to Xavier's ideal, but then to give her powers she never had, and after doing that remove her important contribution to the rest of the story, makes it the worst to me. Even Apocalypse, for all it's problems, got the importance of Warren Worthington III, and tried to address some of Storm's Shadow King history.

There were a number of factors that could have gone into the failure of that Blackbird set. One of which might have been, IMHO, the worst of Fox's X-Men movies coming out that year. Add to that the poor choice of Cyclops design, the very weak Sentinel, and the Blackbird herself wasn't well photographed for the box art. The Blackbird build is probably as close as could have been gotten with the parts available at the time. More recent parts would undoubtedly contribute to a superior version, if/when Lego revisits the X-Men.

As I speculated on the Vidiyo thread, it is entirely possible the app that is supposed to go with this theme could identify the figs, It would be an incentive for the download.

Since this theme is intended to be used with a pattern recognition type app, these could be identified with it. Incentive to download the app would be key to the success of the intent behind the idea.

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