BrickBob Studpants

The user is crikital.hit. All of their „rumours“ are hilariously fake To my surprise, none of the reposters have picked them up yet. Maybe they‘re too obvious, even for them I agree, it does get better with multiple viewings. It‘s still needlessly convoluted, but the story flows a bit better

Just a heads-up: a new fake leaker has decided to haunt IG, posting incredibly stupid lists for many themes, including a HP set (CoS). Right now, it’s just them, but beware of the regurgitators who will surely uncritically repost that nonsense once they catch wind of it

Two are rumoured, 80106 for $80 and 80107 for $120

I think it's tricky either way. If they enter production alongside the other 1HY Marvel sets, they will have to store them until next fall like the missing Minions sets, which won't be cheap, as you say. Plus there's the VERY high risk of sets or parts leaking, which Marvel wouldn't be happy about, considering we don't even have a trailer and barely any promotional material. LEGO has been known as a good source for movie spoilers (not necessarily plot-wise, but design-wise) in many fandoms for a long time, but this would be on an entirely new level Postponing the production might be costly too though, depending on the state of pre-production. I'm no expert, but I imagine they can't just reschedule the machines at the factories to produce other parts that quickly (or maybe I'm wrong and they are this flexible).

Bricklink has listed a couple of Dots I haven’t seen before, are these from 2021 sets or have I missed something? https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=24246pb006#T=C&C=1

Personal preferences I guess For me it's just easier to get my mind off something I haven't seen yet compared to something that's "out there" which I can't get my hands on for what feels like an eternity

I’m sort of glad nothing from the Eternals sets has leaked. Imagine seeing leaks of cool sets and/or minifigs, only for them to get pushed back an entire year It’s frustrating either way, but at least this is the less annoying option IMO

Yeah, this sucks. I wonder why Shang-Chi and Eternals switched positions

Thanks I need to rewatch the film at some point, it’s been a while since I’ve last seen it

Joker’s great, but I’m gutted it’s not Bob after all Who’s this doofus? Can’t recall him from the movie Exactly

Called it Let’s see if Bob reuses the Butch Cavendish hair/hatpiece, like I predicted Of course, he’s our number one guy!

The description mentions a “sand pedestal”, so it’s either a direct reissue of the 2018 version or at least very similar to it. Even if it’s a different piece (e.g. the Hidden Side ghost effect piece), chances are it’s going to be a sandy torso

The Batman vs Joker set is 4+, according to promobricks: https://www.promobricks.de/lego-super-heroes-2021-neuheiten/109095/ So not a single regular set so far I hope this means they have a lot of sets planned for The Batman

More info, courtesy of promobricks: https://www.promobricks.de/lego-super-heroes-2021-neuheiten/109095/ The Iron Man vs Thanos and Spidey vs Sandman sets will be 4+ Missed opportunity for a Thanoscopter right there

Looks like you’ve joined the dark side Time to push YOU down the stairs and pry some 501st Clones from your cold, dead hands

I’m not sure if this has been brought up before, but what are the chances the X-Wing minifigs are placeholders too? It just strikes me as odd that they would use placeholders for a set that most likely won’t introduce completely new minifigs anyway, yet use the proper minifigs for another set Is this a new strategy to throw us off? Another nail in the leak coffin, if so

I hope that someone isn’t me I wouldn’t mind it, but only after they’ve done everything else we absolutely need to get out of this theme I wonder how they would approach some of the characters though if we were to get sets. Maybe I’m wrong, but the trailer gave me the impression that the main character is customisable and that there are divergent story paths based on your decisions. Limits set potential a bit IMO

Well, that’s a twist... Still doesn’t explain the SW set number discrepancy. Or was that a different leaker (or a would-be one) altogether?

That source isn’t trustworthy though, grains of salt are advised

That we shouldn’t trust people who spew obvious Kre-o on instagram? I mean the same people also claim that Bionicle is coming back, how more blatant can they get

And even that’s excessive IMO. Benny’s Spaceship was a commonly available set, so why is that piece in particular this ridiculously expensive? Sometimes I really don’t get the aftermarket

Can we finally stop paying attention to would-be leakers with 0 posts beforehand? Ignore them, and they’ll go away.

This seems incredibly suspicious, and I’m not talking about the set number discrepancy. Plus, one of the “leakers” involved has stolen @Falconfan1414’s IG profile picture, probably in an attempt to boost their credibility, so these “leaks” are safe to ignore. Why does this keep happening?!

How about leaving the cape off entirely? His torso print is quite detailed after all

Thankfully, the scalpers’ lucky streak is pretty much over when it comes to regular and D2C sets (convention exclusives, not so much). Sure, most sets still get more expensive on the aftermarket once they reach their EOL, but not as ludicrously expensive as 10 years ago. The scalpers’ greed was their own undoing: after they’ve struck gold with sets like the AT-OT, other people’s attention was caught and the lucrativeness of “LEGO investment” (*shudder*) was no longer a secret. Now, everyone and their grandma are horting sets in the hopes of excessive resale values in the future but that won’t happen again so quickly