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You complain about the high prices and buy them anyway? Yes, you got him for like 40% of the regular price but that you are willing to pay nine times as much as the fig is worth is astounding. You are just proving the scalpers in their believes that they can sell them for fantasy prices.

Sounds like something LEGO would do. Step 1: Release Wolverine without mask Step 2: Release Wolverine in another set years later with mask Step 3: PROFIT!!! But if the talks about S@H exclusive X-Men set are true he will probably don´t get a mask since they don´t make new molds for those sets. USM and ASM would affect sales the same way Clone Wars affects Star Wars: Nothing at all. But I can see LEGO canceling USM in favor of ASM if they still have to work with those tiny set waves. ASM would probably more viable since the movie only takes a week at most to get in the cinemas of other countries while the show has a delay of an entire year. 1. The GL movie was so bad it made every toy makers cancel their GL related lines, even lines for GLTAS, the show that was in a completely different canon, had a strong fanbase and did well in its airings. 2. TDKR was a guaranteed money maker regardless of the actual quality of the movie while GL was a new, daring (and depending on how far in advance LEGO planned their products and exclusive figs) and unpopular film which makes their plan understandable. 3. The GL fig came out in the same summer the movie was released, the ASM fig is coming out a year before the movie is released, you can´t compare this situation with GL. 4. People like ASM and don´t like GL. 5. I think only people were pissed off about it that didn´t realize it was only the movie GL. Until a few months ago I also thought the Comic-Con fig and the one from LEGO Batman 2 were the same. Basketball texture, eyes, spider-logo and everything else lines up with the ASM2 costume. It´s a sure thing it´s ASM, the whole Basketball texture thing began with him and MOS.

The ASMan confirms it for me. Nice turn of events. It looks like LEGO left themselves a better window open with this years figs. Spider-Man would be more movie accurate with blue legs and red printing, it´s like the TDKR thing only that the better fig can be put in a set. Maybe they would need to do a double print with red that it doesn´t look like dark red and that´s why the legs are red plastic with blue printing but even then I can´t see LEGO just skipping ASM sets. Black Superman ist pretty useless and a one scene character anyway. Green Arrow with his New 52 costume I never expected to make it in a set anyway, LEGO is more interested in the classic Super Friends or the movie style anyway. Spider-Woman is a pretty obscure character with no appearances in shows and movies and seeing how she has near to no details on the torso they could just make changes there and call it different. It looks like this is LEGOs way of telling us exclusive Comic-Con figs aren´t exclusive at all and they just don´t want to make sets with those characters (right now). Now we can take our attention away from LEGO making this figures absurdly expensive and put it on complaining about LEGO still not having released all 9000 characters and their costume variations in sets.

Safari Belloq = White suit Belloq ??? But still they used the 2006 Mr. Freeze, Penguin and Scarecrow for LEGO Batman 2 when the new versions released at the same time as Aquaman. It´s more of a guessing game like Blakstone said but the discussion here sounds like FF is confirmed when the stuff that is previewed in the games is still off by 80%. Sure mate? The hook hand was made in transparent colors back for Alpha Team and it doesn´t look like it was overly brittle. They can make every piece in trans colors, it´s just that two trans pieces that go together are harder to take apart which prompts LEGO to avoid those combinations. Trans hands could be made but it wouldn´t look that good IMO and it looks like LEGO doesn´t like to produce hands in too many colors and prefers to reuse hands in existing colors even when they don´t fit with the rest of the detailed designs (black hands on the fully red Imperial Royal Guards, dark grey hands on the babyblue Aayla Secura, purple hands on Chitauri). The Batman wave came about because of TDKR coming out in the same year and the general cry-out for Batman sets after they cancelled the 2006 line only months after The Dark Knight. At least that´s how I explain the 1:1 adaptions of sets of the 2006 line. Also you have to know that DC (and by extension LEGO and Marvel, but DC moreso) is downright retarded and makes rash and nonsensical decisions based on very vague lines of thought. DC wanted to do a Green Lantern trilogy starting in 2011, making it another popular fantasy universe like Harry Potter. They announced three movies, filmed a crap movie that emphasized the worst parts of GL and had a general crap story. This made everything GL related toxic to them and caused the cancelation of GLTAS that was actually doing well on tv. Now they played it safe with Man of Steel and didn´t want to make the same mistakes so they made the movie and wanted to wait for the movie to come out to confirm the sequels. DISREGARD THAT, a week before release they announce MOS 2, even though a premiere screening isn´t really meaningful for a movie in the long run. And this is the story all about how Batman is the only thing that DC thinks is monetarily viable and LEGO doesn´t want to do FF sets. The FF have no stable media presence, relying on cameos in other shows. Toy manufacturers only believe in something if it guarantees them sales and they think only movies and shows guarantee them sales and if the movie or show go south they back out with their toys and a show or movie about another character gets made. Those people don´t care about conventions and what the children in their neighborhood like for characters, what do you think they want to do? Sell toys to kids? The fig designs also aren´t off that far. Doom has a weird head and Spidey should have had a red torso with blue printing and boot printing but otherwise it´s probably the best we can get. Spider-Man Animated from the 90s will probably never see the light of day and Amazing Spider-Man (if it goes to LEGO) would only give us movie style redesigns. Thor toys sold very badly when he had his movie. The Iron Man 2 line of Hasbro also didn´t sell as good as expected and led to the crappy quality and selection of Iron Man 3 action figures. A popular movie doesn´t necessarily translate to good merchandise sales (but admittedly Hasbros expectations for IM2 sales were way too high). It depends on what direction GOTG is taking. Kid friendly Star Wars tone = I can see sets for it Overly serious tone = Pure fan service for the few people that like the comic And then it depends on LEGO increasing the yearly line-up to more than six sets. Captain America 2, Thor 2, GOTG, Ultimate Spider-Man and maybe even Amazing Spider-Man. What are they going to do? One set per movie? GOTG is probably first in line to get no LEGO coverage in this situation. No it´s not. For all we know it can be just because some executive wants to push them, like how Cyborg is part of the Justice League in everything since New 52 (even in the LEGO game and JL:Doom) and does nothing of note except making DC less worrying about coming off as racist by having no black person on their main team. I heard GOTG was some title in the 80s, was cancelled because of low sales and now suddenly got a reboot around the time of the Marvel buy-out. Sounds like an executive pushing their needs without regards.

In a completely different outfit or with very different designs.

Are you all forgetting Rule One of LEGO games? They are never produced to announce something that will be released later. I am still waiting for that Nien Numb and when they finally released Kit Fisto he had this stupid rubber head instead of his tentacle wig. Especially with how Human Torch couldn´t look like in the game because transparent figs still aren´t able to be produced (and a mix and match out of red and trans.red pieces would look bad) and how they never put Chrome figs in sets which cancels out the Surfer. Designs are always too different from what actually gets released if it gets released at all. Also, them being on the cover means nothing. LEGO Indiana Jones had Belloq, Mola Ram and Short Round and LOTR had Ringwraith with armor, that girl knight, different kinds of soldiers, Nazgul and war elephants, all without releases. I don´t know how they molded him exactly but I assume Hulk has a huge, non LEGOy hole in his head so they can put on that wig in a way that it is not removable, which makes the mold only useable for Hulk and Red Hulk (and for Red they would still need another hair mold). Even if he isn´t released in the winter wave and there is no Hulk 2 on the to-do-list of the MCU filmmakers, he will stay in the Avengers movies at the very least which guarantees us a release of the fig in a different (and most certainly better) set in two years at most. Don´t go and give LEGO money for this blatant rip-off set, just wait another year or two and you can buy him with Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch or whoever new heroes he punches aliens in the face with in the next Avengers film.

It looks exactly like the fig and some people have really weird definitions for the word used, he probably declared it that because it doesn´t have real packaging anymore. http://www.ebay.de/itm/Lego-new-super-heroe-iron-patriot-2013-/400522809281?nma=true&si=DwbsXkurmnCEFA9ItnSJEwSVvkM%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 That´s only because LEGO has suddenly decided to use cheekbones to represent actresses with smooth faces and actresses with cheekbones get heads with only the mouth and eyes printed on. You see that in the past and for Lego men it was always the other way around. Nobody cares for that film. Everyone tries their hardest to pretend like it doesn´t exist. Also, as a rule of thumb: sets get at least two months prior to release an announcement, blurry catalogue pics or some other kind of sign that they exist. I heard Mega Blocks did a Barbie or Polly Pocket line with permission from Mattel. Collaborations between toy companies aren´t unheard of but still extremely rare and unlikely. That´s my main problem. We get a handfull of cheap sets released in the span of three or four months, a few months later comic-con pics and then nothing for most of the year. I hope they realized in time for 2014 or 15 that they could make Superheroes their next LEGO Star Wars with 20 sets per year, per brand. The suits in the game were more a parody of the action figures with gimmicky special weapons and attacks. I am surprised that people like those things that much, let alone that LEGO preferred to make a Batman in a useless costume instead of some villain or other fig that was prominent in the game or popular with the comics crowd. Wishing for a popular character that is already hard to do as a custom to be wasted as an exclusive for greedy Ebay hoarders and other soulless neckbeard scum. You make me feel ashamed. This. Yes. But there is no direction that can be taken out of what LEGO is doing with the license right now. LEGO cancelled their Batman line in 2008, right when the stuff became hugely popular all over the world and just started trying to get licenses for cape films in 2011. They aren´t fast learners, that all that can be taken out of it.

I think Sonys and Fox´ contracts are the same save for the amount of years that can pass between each movie of an IP (Sony has five or less and Fox seemingly around 10). For Spider-Man movie sets LEGO needs the rights of Sony and for Amazing Spider-Man 1 Sony sold the license to Mega Blocks.

Besides that we already have the maximum of S@H sets for this year announced and the earliest time to get to know S@H sets for next year would be around October, LEGO never announced a S@H exclusive at Comic-Con. Or any set at all beside the Rancor Pit and Hobbit set last year and the TIE Fighter the year before. We will probably get the figs for the Winter wave sets like the last two years, no more no less. Implying it makes a difference if they are parted out or sold as a single set. If we don´t get them in a tie-in set for the 2015 reboot film it will probably never happen anyway. For casuals and children the Fantastic Four are probably the least interesting heroes, I can only see them do a comic based set when the movie is in cinema and even then I would find it weird of them to do it as the Thing needs a whole new body (supposing LEGO doesn´t see that they could just do molds for a regular LEGO fig only bigger and use that for every somewhat bigger characters that may come up instead of doing highly specialized molds for every single giant), Human Torch would have to be two figures (flame on and off mode) which is very rare in todays sets to see the same named character twice in a kit even with different costumes and I have no idea how they could do Reed Richards with his deformable body since that would require new parts that can barely be posed differently. I said they will probably branch out in 2015 because of contracts or whatever is keeping them from doing it. Or how well does the Super Heroes line do? The line went from S@H exclusive in Germany for 2012 to available everywhere this year (in relation, the last waves of Spider-Man and Batman became also S@H exclusive because the first sets were shelf-warmers). There is a yearly promo fig like with the Star Wars line. It seems like the line is going very well. Either LEGO is forced to the six sets limit by the contract or were planning the sets too far in advance that their first chance to adapt to the popularity is in 2014 or 2015. This, so much. Main characters are a must and characters that aren´t easy to make without modifications or new pieces like Power Armor Lex and big figs should be a priority. LEGO can make sets based on everything except the movie versions of Spider-Man, X-Men, Fantastic Four and all the movies that came before and were made by a different company than Disney (for example all Hulk films and the MCU films before Avengers). Also LEGO can make sets based on all DC movies as DC and WB are part of the same company and had no rights sold to other people, which would mean they could do Green Lantern, Flash and Shazam sets if the last two had actually movies made about them and Green Lantern would have been a success.

I don´t understand why you are so defiant of the obvious plan of LEGO only to release sets tying in with current movies or shows. Looking at all the releases every set on Marvels side is a tie-in except for Deadpools chopper which was made because of Wolverines, Magnetos and Deadpools general popularity and because the only movie released that year was Avengers. Looking at Marvels plan to do two movies every year and seeing how there won´t be Thor 2 based sets this year (even if it is an August released exclusive, we would at least know the name and set number by now) LEGO either has to produce more sets (which there is no indication right now they want to do or even are able to do). I am not saying this is how I want it to be, this is just the system how they are choosing set choices. And anyway, the inevitable S@H exclusive 100+ set Marvel is owed for the release of DCs Arkham Asylum Breakout will probably be X-Men related to tie in with the new film and because something based on their current movies would probably have to be available in every store, not just exclusive to LEGOs internet shop. Also, the contracts with Marvel and DC are for a three year period. I am certain when the contracts will be renewed we will see more than just 6 set per company each year. Maybe even a separate line for comic based sets without the movie likenesses. But certainly some Fantastic Four set for their movie in 2015. I would buy ANY DC minifigs that aren´t different versions of Batman and his villains we already got in the last few sets and lines.

People always hate those exclusive figs that they either never get or will have to pay 200 bucks for at least. The really bad part about last year was that those were rather essential characters and not just meaningless variations that only a small fraction would really want, like Green Lantern Hal Jordan in style of the movie everybody hates and Nolanman in a black suit instead of dark grey. Shazam, Phoenix, Bizarro and Black Suit Spider-Man are all rather important characters. But seeing how Black suit Spidey is identical with Venom save the head it remains to be seen if these figs are really exclusive. I could see them just giving Shazam a cape that looks actually like the one in the comics and Bizarro without the sign on his torso could be legitimately called a variation. But that would probably piss off the people that waited an eternity in lines or paid that much on Ebay for a fig from a 26€ set.

I think the hood is easily replaceable with the piece used in the submitted model. Apart from that they took everything that looked not quite right in the submitted model and made it more prominent. I think modding the hood could make the model work but without figs the set is missing the biggest reason for me to buy it. The way the design is now I would just have to get the wheels and could build it with my own parts collection.

There was somebody who said we either get him in a set in 2014 or the polybag will be reused for a wider (or worldwide) promo campaign.

The MCU and USM cartoon cover the whole Marvel line up save for that one X-Men set. What do we have on the DC front right now? The Nolanman films aren´t viable because they are sooo violent and scary for children, which means we get only one set (I don´t get this logic either). Except that we have Man of Steel. Nobody cares about the direct to dvd films. The last two cartoons (GL and Young Justice) were canceled because of low merchandise sales and are currently being replaced. Even after the replacements air we only get Beware the Batman and Teen Titans Go, of which TTG is a crappy choice for an action theme because most of the episodes they are just sitting around in their home and we all know LEGO hates buildings. That´s 5 (and growing) themes against 2. The general public also likes some themes that are right now entirely comic based like X-Men, Hulk and Justice League in form of the DCAU and the Superfriends cartoon, so it would make sense for LEGO to expand to a JL line but as you know LEGO always makes crappy choices with their DC lines.

That brings me to another problem. Western Town was rejected because Lone Ranger is currently on shelves. Everyone knows that Lone Ranger will be out of production and from the shelves next summer or even at the end of the year. Even when they release a sequel they won´t start doing sets until a few years later, those tie-in lines are only available during the movies cinema-run. So why did they just scrap the Western Town project entirely and didn´t say "this project will be produced in the forseeable future"?

When we aren´t even allowed to take LEGO seriously on a LEGO forum, then where can we else go to? But if that is the case I have no problem with it. Preferably put him in a smaller set so that we can easier armybuild a squad of Battlefront style ARC troopers. But seeing how they rerelease everything Geonosis related the only thing left to produce from that battle would either be the Hailfire Droid or the Geonosis arena. Any idea if the person who this person was exactly? When he isn´t working for LEGO, and regular visitors shouldn´t know about this who was he that you can take his claim seriously? I feel quite the same. Hoth Han Solo was already stupid but this could be the cherry on top of this year with relatively mediocre to crap sets that are only made somewhat relevant because of figures. I mostly care about figs but if the sets now aren´t even good or useful if parted out there is no point to it. I could as well just stop buying LEGO for a while and buy myself instead a printer for chrome colored decals and some other stuff to do my own molds. Of course you care less about stuff you don´t collect. But really, the colored clones they released this year are all perfect for some SW Battlefront themed mocs. Now keeping one of them from the masses for some very small local event would be just silly.

That would be especially lazy and look nothing like the character. This is something LEGO would have done in 2002 or 2005. I don´t think it´s too late for them to do a fitting hairmold with some other CMF, either this or next year. It´s not relevant if the mold will debut with the BTTF set or not, if they can use the mold multiple times there should not be a problem with getting a fitting one. I have a new problem. The fall results are in and Cuusoo just... I don´t know how to describe this. They talk about the Sandcrawler that he is too ludicrously big, which would be a fine reason to not accept the model on its own, but then they say they can´t produce it because they already have licensing agreements with Lucasfilm. What? Wouldn´t existing agreements not make the production easier? What is this crap? Does that mean they can´t just take one of the fan designs and ask Lucasfilm/WB/Disney if they can´t just use that? You would think that is easier than talking with the actors from BTTF, the production company and the car manufacturer for a single set. But the Portal set was in that batch too, so what is the final decision at the end of the review? Production or no production? Of course the only answer is that they are still doing test results aren´t finished yet... ????????????? I thought the point of this batch system is that we know the final fate of each set at a certain date? And now they just say "Oh, that still isn´t decided on"? I guess this is because they are nearly a year behind their original schedule and they want to catch up but what is keeping them from just throwing the 15 or so sets from the last 4 batches into one review, so that we can finally get decisions? Right now it takes 9 months for them to end a cycle, can´t they just speed it up a little? Otherwise we won´t see results for that female minifigs set project before 2022, when LEGO can already have a new girls theme in production. It´s not like the lawyers, designers or whoever is responsible for the reviews can´t handle more than three sets at a time.

That´s usual business in Germany. LEGO Batman 2 and LOTR had their figs exclusive to a collectors edition only available at Amazon.de and only for the PS3. I like it because now I am not excluded from the fig but I still would have preferred that everyone gets him and that I don´t have to pay full price for a LEGO game again. Or that the fig would have been in a regular set in the first place. I got my Lex for 12€ on Ebay a few weeks ago. Still feel dirty about paying that much for a fig but better than nothing I guess. I think video game toys depend on the licenseholder / licensed title / etc. That they allowed Robin could either mean that they aren´t opposed to game figs but it can also mean that they don´t care about how LEGO uses the pieces, since the Robin torso clearly isn´t Arkham City based and would be more in line with DCAU Tim Drake Robin. Doesn´t exist. There is a myth that LEGO designed a Flying Dutchman for POTC and cancelled it but the pics were all from a MOC someone made and the Flying Dutchman set was actually from the Spongebob line the whole time and got released.

From the 60 different clones they could have made exclusive without a problem they relegate the best one to an even more exclusive exclusive fig that you are legally only allowed to own 3 of as far as I understand? HHHHHHHHHNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGG My hopes that we get him in a set after the AOTC summer wave were already near to zero, seeing how this wave was only made for a movie rerelease that doesn´t happen, but making him exclusive instead is like a giant middle finger. If one of those figs had to be made exclusive they should have chosen the green one. You don´t even see the green one outside of that one promo image that FBTB linked and the Jet Trooper Character class from the Star Wars Battlefront games. I am glad that they didn´t choose the green one because now I like that class too, but what exactly did prevent them from doing another fig like Commander Fox Phase 2, one of the three other Commander Wolffes or whoever else was included in TCW as a background character?

The set will obviously be more based on the ending of ROTJ with the big dance party. The village will be a baseplate with some huts in the background. The main attraction will be the great number of minifigs they put in like with the Death Star playset. The maincast (Luke, Leia, Han, Lando, Chewie, R2, 3PO), a couple of Ewoks (maybe three or four plus and Ewok baby that may or may not be a new mold or just a printed 1x1 round piece), the force ghosts (if LEGO reworked the transparent plastic or they just make the figs out of trans and regular plastic) and maybe even some rebels (Landos co-pilot, Mon Calamari, rebel soldier, rebel pilot / Wedge Antilles).* If they are having a problem with not enough villains they could include some different imperial soldiers (Stormie, Navy, Scout) and a thousandth speeder bike. The helmets could even be co-used by the Ewok drums, saving some production cost. I don´t think an AT-ST will be an option. Enough time has passed IMO but it would retract too much from the set if they don´t include one of the traps as a counter measure from the rebels and when they would include that the set will probably end up around 300+ again. *I don´t expect 20+ figures for the 250€ set. I think at that price points they would have to make the huts basically a cardboard cut-out wall. The figs are just the pool I think they will choose from.

The game was announced for a 2006 release and took several years to finally come out which makes this the game makers fault. Or do we finally know what was the cause? Aquamans design was probably included because it was an already finished design. At least I find it strange that they go with the ball haircut when every incarnation that I know of has either short hair pointing upwards or a Thor-like mane. Normally they don´t include designs from future products. The way Wonder Woman and Aquaman were included as damsels in distress I don´t think their main goal was to have someone for the real heroes to save and not to give us the whole Justice League. But then again, they could also have used Nightwing and Batgirl if they had wanted to. But then those aren´t as popular as the League characters, I guess. UCS sets are models of starships that don´t fit into the minifig scale. What would you think how they do a 250€ Ewok village? A baseplate with a bunch of those trees? And even then, a set with a 10XXX setnumber is a S@H exclusive regardless of any undercategory they make up for it, and with the sets that were released already and the new announcements we already got 8 for this year. There was never a year with more. The post was about the themes set line-up and release schedule. For Marvel at least you have the universe summed up in movies with identifiable setpieces, too. But they seem to have to design the sets too far in advance that they can´t include any of the actual vehicles or buildings. If they had more planning time and bigger pricepoints the could base some great sets around every movie. Like the Chitauri Space Dragon ships, some houses like the café of Caps waitress or the diner and shop from Iron Man 3 (with some cars to throw around for the villains), the Shield helicarrier in a similar design to the big 100€+ Star Wars cruisers, the harbor from Iron Man 3 with the crane, little house, containers and some rubble or the Air Force One plane which I could accept in the same size as the Indiana Jones 4 plane. It´s not really that hard. For the comic based sets I would also prefer more setpieces like they do in the shows and films. Just take some real life location randomly like a construction site, a park, a school, a bank, your neighborhood, throw some action feature like collapsing walls and huge things for the characters to grab and use as weapons and you have it. But I agree, DC and Marvel are probably the idiots who came up with all those weird rules. It feels like they told LEGO to make the sets mainly like their actionfigure merchandise in both size and price points which obviously isn´t fitting for a building toy that has far greater possibilities than cars, planes and bikes. That can be true but Superhero films just began getting popular in 2008, the time when LEGO was acting out their planned out cancelation of the line. The 2008 sets were disappearing from the shelves four months after their release at best and at worst earlier. LEGO should have gotten a better look at the situation if this is really the reason they lay the line safe.

Well, even without a Marvel set we already got eight S@H sets for this year announced, I don´t think there was ever a year with more than that.

We knew about the Star Wars sets on January 3rd and I am certain the Spider-Man set was just a few weeks behind that, March at most. Pictures for the sets are a completely different story. I´m sure we know the line-up of the entire year. I expect new Hobbit sets in december and now those three S@H exclusive sets. I wouldn´t expect a Thor wave. Movie toys always come out some months in advance and Thor 2 comes out at Halloween in some countries. September or october waves would be revealed at this point and even if they would do a november wave I would have no idea how they could handle the DC side. 2 or 3 Thor sets and 2 or 3 Beware the Batman sets? That would be a whole wave again and very near to the release of Captain America 2 that would also need some sets. I wouldn´t take Thor sets for granted anyway. Thor was the worst selling toyline from Hasbros movie tie-ins of the Phase One films. Though, probably because they had so many different editions of Thor instead of different characters but I can see LEGO only looking at the sales numbers and using those to judge the situation. At best we get a single, wimpy set as part of the winter wave after Christmas. I am interested in how LEGO will handle the situation in 2014 anyway. That´s three films LEGO has to cover plus Ultimate Spider-Man (they did a different main team member for every set, tiger lady and Power Man sets are inevitable). At two sets for each film/show (which would be a very sad count) that already makes 8 sets, more than they did this and last year. And then there is the nightmare what LEGO will do with DC that apparently gets the same amount of sets as Marvel. Will they focus on the two cartoons DC has on air of which only one has actual conflict and could fit into the action theme LEGO is selling? Will they backtrack and release some more Man of Steel sets? Do they realize we finally need some comic/DCAU based Justice League and give us some awesome variation in heroes instead of Batman in different colors? Will they still only do Batman themed sets but mix it up a little with Nightwing/Batgirl and some more obscure villains they couldn´t do in the last line? AAAAGGGHHH MY HEAD! I really hate this line. It´s the most interesting theme for me right now because of it´s potential but they always shoot their load in the first four months and then come six to eight months of complete silence, except for the Comic-Con that only reveals some figures. With the reveal of the new S@H sets I am certain Marvel gets its S@H set in January and DC has one set less in 2014. Maybe they had different plans and wanted to release two S@Hs per year but then settled on one S@H per year. Who said there would be more X-Men anyway? Was it some designer or executive? I have no idea what you tried to say. I guess S@H exclusives this year are going bi-monthly with the beginning and end receiving two sets. January - Horizon Express / Arkham Asylum March - Palace Cinema May - X-Wing July - Orthanc September - Opera House November - Ewok Village / Winter market The Marvel exclusive (which is very certain to be released) will be a 2014 set. January could work as a date but July would also be a good time with the summer promotions coming around during those months and a tie-in movies release if it is a X-Men themed set.

LEGO releases for both companies the same amount of sets/promo figs. Right now the Arkham Asylum set has no counterpart from Marvel so that means we will get a S@H exclusive either this fall or in January. Either X-Men Mansion which would also be a good tie-in for the "Days of Future past" movie or a Thor 2 set which I think will use the same concept as Harry Potters third Hogwarts set for order of the Phoenix which included only a single building but around a dozen relevant characters from the entire movie. The Mansion can obviously not be based on the film as LEGO doesn´t have the rights but a Sentinel in style of Orthancs Treebeard with a bunch of Comic/90s X-Men show style figs could work.

Hopefully you are right. Man of Steel will certainly be received well enough for the release of a Justice League movie in 2015 which leads to a cinematic universe for DC. If they are going this route DC will have all its set slots have taken up by sets for the movies and maybe the shows, like Marvel already, and we won´t get comic based figures unless LEGO starts to make more or bigger sets. And I have this feeling that next year will be all about Beware the Batman and Teen Titans Go. This feeling when we will never get Justice League Unlimited Style Flash and Green Lantern. This feeling when the only comic based figures will be Comic-Con exclusive. I should really start learning how to make Decals and mold my own parts.