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Wow, this looks fantastic! It easily surpasses the Ideas set even!

Can’t say I expected the wall art set to feature minifigs as well, but I’m sure glad it does! Apart from Nessarose, we now have all the main characters in minifig form! Not that I know of… I hope it’s not because they didn’t want to bring back the terrier piece. They did resurrect Tin Man’s hat and there’s the new piece for the Cowardly Lion, so the theme clearly has a pretty decent budget!

Agreed! 2006: I don’t have that one one, so I can’t fully comment on it, but it looks like a solid build for the time. Gives me strong 2004 Shrieking Shack vibes ^^ 2013: Still an awesome detailed set, even if it’s rather flat. I way prefer the angles of the new one! Cool interior too. 2017: Previously my favourite version, but the new one will very likely dethrone it! Depends on the interior. 2025: Love the fact it’s on a baseplate! Kind of an amalgamation of all of its precursors. All jonkling throughout the year aside, I still think 2025 is the best year the theme had in a long time. Sure, Supes getting ignored super sucks and we only got 5 sets in total, but they’re all great with Arkham being the cherry on top

Yeah, kinda funny to think that the whole thing could leak before we get any information about the builds or minifigs For Arkham, we got a full minifig list as well as a funny recreation in Minecraft, and for the Black Pearl, we’ve had a minifig list for months now!

In some of these particular cases, arguments can be made as to why they were omitted Doomsday was likely meant to be a surprise initially (since having him in the story pretty much gave away that Soup croaks), which then got spoiled by the marketing. Since there were no further spoilery sets beyond an accessory pack, he didn’t get made. Ocean Master was likely omitted because the set already featured Black Manta as the villain. The High Evolutionary is a bit of a strange case. You could argue he was too vile of a character, torturing and mutilating animals, but other characters that have done equally heinous things did get minifigs Gamora being omitted made little sense, agreed. They easily could have featured her in the Bowie. Maybe there was no budget left for the prints she required If Doomsday will be a big enough hit, they could milk it for years afterwards, like they’re still doing with Endgame. Even 6 years later, we’re still getting new variants like the upcoming War Machine / Iron Patriot 2.0 (while admittedly still missing other characters and variants, looking at you, Kraglin and Ronin)

For me, it’s the other way round as I much prefer the hairpiece, especially the one created for TLBM At least the BTAS version still has the jester headpiece! What I find a bit strange is that the Penguin has his old top hat again, as well as a brick-built umbrella, rather than the modern counterparts. Maybe they’re going for a more oldschool look in anticipation of the upcoming anniversary? I mean, we also have the classic brick-built penguins and a very similar looking Killer Croc

No, none of the characters look like their TLBM counterparts and a set based on it 8 years later would be strange Harley’s hairpiece uses the same mould, but the colour scheme is reversed. In TLBM, the left side was red and the right black, and here it’s vice versa. That same inverted piece was also used in a 4+ set in 2022.

Kinda surreal to see all the “action pose” pieces being used in a DC set for the first time Can’t wait to see the interior! And yeah, we need more leaks recreated in Minecraft. That was fun!

Awesome! About time we get another one Kinda strange we only ever had one, but 4 Ender Dragons (if you count the microscale one)

The set leaked! Love it Finally a green-skinned Poison Ivy!

While the games do have lots of cool characters, the main selling point will be the Pokémon themselves. I can easily envision them ditching the trainers like they did with the playable villagers in Animal Crossing Besides, minifig-scale Pokémon would require a ludicrous number of new pieces, even if they tried to make them versatile. Brick-built solutions are by far the safest bet

Nah. He has a beard and a moustache, plus they’d surely make the wooden eye stick out!

I think the leaked head belongs to Marty. He has a stubble in some of the movies, doesn’t he?

The Elizabeth and Jack minifigs have leaked too, albeit with the wrong head for Jack

You forgot the most important one out of all of them, Babu Frik! But yeah, it‘s a rather impressive list! I have to eat my own words from earlier this year, where I claimed it was gonna be a year super low on new parts

Awewome! Must be due to the recent change in plastic for transparent pieces! This is also the reason why they brought back transparent plates and are now doing transparent slopes and other pieces ^^

They didn‘t! This is the first time the piece is receiving printing ^^

A new Death Star minifig leaked, namely an RA-7 protocol droid! I like the photoreceptor printing on that one

I always excused the lack of sets with DC‘s box office woes, but now that they finally catch a break, they *reduce* the output Granted, the film just came out so it takes a while for them to react, so there might be more sets next August. If there‘s still a lackluster output in next year‘s 2HY, then I will have to agree that them hating DC is a viable explanation

He wasn‘t wrong tho, since every playset has something people were asking for for years Sure, the August wave seriously lacks variety, but 327th CTs, Bly, Baraca, Galactic Marines, a new General Kenobi, a Snowspeeder canopy piece, a blue MTT, and a new CTT are all things people were clamouring for

Apparently, Maxbautde spoke positively of them in a podcast, without revealing what they are

76344 is an 18+ set with a price of $119.99 and implied to be a Spider-man set Fingers crossed it‘s a book nook!

DC is so back!!!!!! …to where we were in 2021. *sigh*

Pretty much! I don‘t expect much out of the remaining 1HY sets either, as I‘ve given up hope about them ever tackling the missing stuff.