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Yeah I will use either the new Madam Rosmerta hair piece or the Elizabeth Swan hair piece on her. At least the eye brows show that the designers consider her hair a lighter colour but the recolour of the hair was probably not approved.

Is that listing on a Dutch online shop? As you know the € prices can vary greatly from country to country

Theoretically I would prefer the robe torso, but since we have to face the real possibility of no leg printing and certainly no dualmolding on the arms/legs or side-leg printing, I have to go with topless. Because if they just went for a torso print, topless Thor would look better and more screen accurate than any version of the robe Thor we could possibly get

Stop fat-shaming Chris Hemsworth. Actually it is quite fitting for a character like Thor, who alway struggles with his "worthiness" to face depression arrive at a low-point and to show how he overcomes these obstacles. If he were a perfect being from his childhood till the moment he becomes All-father, there would be no character development or story really.

Let me give you a crash course in corporate finance: Let's say TLC chooses to invest $ 50 million into the development of new moulds and prints across all themes. Then each theme gets an allocated part of the overall R & D money (the budget for that theme). In a simplified example Marvel gets $ 15 million and Vidiyo $ 35 million. Me saying "that budget went into vidiyo figures" means that the decision to give the Vidiyo designers more money, meant that the Marvel designers got less (in that year). If Vidiyo didn't exist that budget could literally have been split onto all other themes (including Marvel). Also the themes all share the overall production capacity and are produced on the same machines. There is not a dedicated Marvel injection moulding machine that is only ever used for Marvel moulds. The machines can be equipped with different injection mould tools which are changed every other day or week to produce different parts. Same with the printing and automated sorting machines. Depending on their release certain themes book those machines for their production cycle. Now during the time all the Vidiyo figures were produced those machines were unable to create arm or leg printing for Marvel figures. From the perspective of ressource management Vidiyo took those opportunities from Marvel. Now you could argue that the designers never would have used arm or leg printing on Marvel anyway even if Vidiyo never existed because a subpar figure with the Marvel name will still sell enough. But then that still is a choice by the company to give us this instead of what they are clearly able to do with other themes.

Yes that budget went into the Vidiyo figures. I don't hate the Thor figure. As I said I like getting the recolour for the hair because it is a nice and useful hair piece. But it is disappointing once you realise they could make it better, but actively choose not to do it. They could have done one new mould for final battle Thor (dual-moulded one piece combination of his accurate hair with the bun, beard and front belly armour with printing like they did for Bombur almost 10 years ago). Right now the only new moulds that are introduced in this wave that we know of are Korgs "hat" piece and Rocket Racoons head (which can be turned now because they got rid of the shoulder armor). The hope is that at least the Thanos figure got a nice treatment, but so far, most figs that we have seen are just updated torso and head prints.

Yes that's why it folds differently

Yes, but you have to imagine that design with plain grey legs and arms. Because it will only have a head and torso print

Speaking about tradition in the Lego Marvel theme: When has the build acutally ever been a bigger draw than the possible exclusive figure? I hope that they prove me wrong but hoping for great builds seems even more outlandish considering the past releases of this theme. I can count the good builds on one hand: Both Sanctum sets, 76057: Spider-Man: Web Warriors Ultimate Bridge Battle and the 76109: Quantum Realm Explorers

Just as they did in 2003? They didn't have Chinese and other competitors at the level they do have now back then, because the markets were less globalized and more protected, but they still managed to go nearly bankrupt. Nowadays the quality overseas is constantly increasing at an evermore competitive price. A worldwide recession and depression could further decrease sales or make customers shift to competitors if the product seems to give less value for a higher price than the competition. That is the problem they are facing right now

Those questions are actually answered by the pic. Both no with 100 % certainty

Yes I can. This wave is not 10 years old. It is released the same year as the in-house theme. The price per part ratio for the sets is even comparable. Both have licenses (Vidiyo has the universal music license). This Marvel wave is released after the commercial success of movie and merchandise sales. Lego has the chance to fix the abhorrent initial waves and do it right. They have the opportunity to show that they can do the figs just as detailed and with as much care to accuracy as some of the Chinese bootleg figs. Vidiyo is a pipe-dream that is already discounted up to 40% at retailers in my country. But I guess that's where the big dollars lay hidden. On the clearance aisle with 50% discount...

Vidiyo got at least 9 new moulds and prints gallore (arm-printing,legs, printed accessories) in its first wave. Compare that to a wave for two of the most successful movies of all time and we are getting a handful of new torso and face prints and have to grasp for the last bit of hope for a new beard mould and two new moulds for Thanos (which we should have gotten from the start)

Sadly I don't have the cantina yet but I compared the hood with the hair. Gap-wise almost the same - the hair might be a tiny bit narrower. If they did a beard mould it would be funny because to be accurate it would have to look almost the same as the bootleg (although dark tan)

Unagami's beard works with the Fili/Kili hair piece. But neither of them exist in the same colour

Yes but Lego's quality standards would most likely prohibit them from making such a thin beard piece. It could possibly work if they use the rubbery plastic

No the gap is too small and I don't think it will have a beard mould. We would see it on the pic because of the head thickness it would have to be bulkier than the side bangs

Yes you can check it out on my instagram story (meta_bricks)

It's not side-on but the correct way for that piece. It goes down in the front and in the back. The curls that are visible match with the length and curvature/relief structure of that piece. I am certain it is the Aquaman hair piece. I compared it with one in my hand right now. The side of the hair piece on the neck and the front front are identical with the moulding structure. The longer backside is obscured by the cloak but it is evident that the hair piece goes deeper down on the back because the cloak is tightly pressed against the torso.

Honestly it looks like the new Aquaman hair in dark tan to me. Which would mean the beard is printed... It's a nice recolour but would not be entirely accurate

I mentioned them already once we saw the prelims in February. They are not completely new, just a recolour in reddish brown. They appeared already in white in this year's Friends January wave. It is a nice new part but sadly not yet added to Stud.io (that's why xcube and textorix had to use a substitute part in their renders). The golden candle holder is much more interesting, because it will be used for Lumière in the 2021 Disney D2C

I think the dome could be done differently and cheaper than buying the sand green tail piece 14 times. The sand green half dome from the star wars planet series (https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=99199pb01&idColor=48#T=S&C=48&O={"color":48,"pi":"2","iconly":0} ) is actually quite cheap on bricklink and it looks better because it forms a solid dome. You could integrate it with slight modifications

Yeah sry didn't look at all the pics. Some choices in these sets are great and others are outright moronic. Why would anyone think this hybrid asleep/awake is displayable (unless you point the camera in these exact angles). They went with a brick-built model and the production cost would be downright negligble to just add two additional heads with the same printing

Fluffy has 6 printed heads in the set. 3 different growling and 3 sleeping Sry you're right and it sucks. The other negative is the colour blocked mixel joints that look jarring

Do the legs on the Fawkes Dumbledore look dual-moulded to anyone else?