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Talk about it enough and it'll come true. A whole year too.

Back at you

No one ever said that you couldn't. I expressed my disdain for it all and have no desire to repeat it, and for a good short while most people respectfully refrained and I am grateful for that. At no point was the word 'allowed' brought in. However I would say that if you want to carry on feel free, just don't be upset when I call it childish and boring or answer your last question with an emphatic 'yes'.

Of course it's true. Their set development is fuelled by the success of the Marvel films. Marvel is owned by Disney which also owns Star Wars - the biggest IP Lego has by a landslide. Lego clearly has a strong relationship with Disney, stronger than the one they have with Warner, who's big cash cow is Harry Potter. Potter is also incredibly popular. DC is popular but suffered from a rushed and inconsistent film series. Lego balked at making sets when there's one film that breaks $1 billion out of all of them, and many of them flopped. Lego sees far more mileage in the MCU than the DCEU, so they choose to make more sets for it.

Midgard News reckons shooting will commence this month. There doesn't seem to be any talk of delays regarding the film, but the Penguin show is running behind schedule. Whether that has any bearing on the film or not, I don't know.

Of that I am fully aware, nor do I hang on the words of social media accounts, I merely felt it interesting that the number one issue with the Mario line was actually addressed.

Along the lines of did someone throw a green shell at you? Be on the lookout out for exciting news. Now the exciting news could be nothing relevant, but they chose to answer to a post about the massive elephant in the Lego Mario room.

Someone commented on Instagram about how Lego won't make Mario minifigures, and Lego's reply was ... interesting.

Objectively none of it is needed, it's a luxury product. There are Lego sets that I would like, this being one of them. I like this set enough that the figures don't bother me that much, especially with it not being the same scale. Similarly while big, well detailed sets as you describe would be desirable to many hardcore fans, it might not be the most profitable to do.

No. He's voicing an opinion like everyone else.

This set is stunning. It captures the look of the series brilliantly. The minifigures are what they are, and the amount of stickers is annoying, but that absolutely is Gotham City skyline as seen in B:TAS. The hints and leaks were very specific about how this set would be realised yet I've seen people disappointed that they aren't actual buildings, which is odd to me because they are also complaining about the price of the set. This massive set is really expensive! Make it bigger damnit!

They go where the money is. They've tried a few themes over the years that they clearly hoped would be winners but ended up failing as a franchise. Marvel is currently on top in terms of media popularity which is why Lego is keeping the line well stocked. Nothing like SW, but not many things seem to be. Things come in waves and I wouldn't be surprised to see people bored of Marvel before long, and with any luck (at least for me, I'm not wishing doom on Marvel here) DC will pick up the ball and run.

It being a Batcave isn't enough of a selling point for me I'm afraid. The shadow box, the size, the price and the fact it is based on Batman Returns outweighed that. I regret not getting the 1966 Batcave, but this one just doesn't do it for me.

Not that long ago you only cared about Batman and couldn't give a damn about other DC characters. Honestly it's best not to get too invested in these things. I am a lifelong DC fan with over 30 years of interest. I collect Silver Age comics as well as a few later ones depending on what characters appear. I also collect Lego DC, having only a few of the original line (I was in my Dark Age then and found out too late), and most of the Super Heroes relaunch. I've managed to get hold of Superboy and Lightning Lad which wasn't easy in the UK at the time. I was there for the absolute peak that was TLBM, and the various Justice League sets before and after. This is without a doubt the most desolate the theme has been for years, but I still look to see what comes next. With any luck Lego will start to reinvest with the arrival of Superman next year, but in the meantime I'll fall back on the source material. Not having any Lego that I wanted meant that I could afford another classic title, so I can't really complain.

The villains in the Indiana Jones sets have never been explicitly Nazis. There isn't a Joker set that has him doing anything heinous. They don't go out of their way to make adult themes as sets for kids. As I said earlier, the Joker has been around long enough to have benefitted from being a character suitable for children and Lego, like other toy companies, have used that as an in. Is there anything new to discuss? In fairness it started roughly on topic but context was needed.

@legoturtlewhat are you getting at?

It's more complex than that.

A link to what? I have actual comic books with him in, those are my links.

Supposedly so, but that isn't a hard and fast rule. There are Marvel characters with a dodgy past too. The Joker has the benefit - much like a lot of Batman's earlier Rogues - of being in the TV show of the 1960s, which was family friendly. That came about because of how characters had to be portrayed during the age of the Comics Code Authority, which sanitised everything. Prior to that and after that villainous behaviour was/became worse, latterly as a reaction to the CCA. I could go deeper but this is veering away from talk of sets.

No. I don't have an interest in Marvel per se, but I am a fan of comic books and respect their history and legacy in the industry. During the Silver Age DC was known as the Distinguished Competition by those in the Marvel offices. Their cinematic output might have bested that of DC but that doesn't mean there's only room for one. They've held the fort with regards to the Super Heroes line, and when DC has a boom period they will be grateful to Marvel. On top of that wishing the demise of a company because you like a different one is childish and unrealistic.

The Judas Contract storyline occurred four years after the introduction of Deathstroke and remains a defining moment for him. Forty years later and most people who have heard of him will put that story at the forefront of his legacy. Incidentally Lego also gave us Tarantula II, noted for her rape of Nightwing having just killed the villain Blockbuster. This subject has been covered before, including several other characters that already exist in brick form.

Lego clearly wanted to make a shadow box, a set that would lend itself to being quite intricate. Batman likes shadows. They were also in the middle of doing sets for the Burton films aimed at the people who watched it at the time. Those people are adults. Saying Lego has forgotten DC is too black and white, what they have done is focused on what makes them money. Targeting kids clearly wasn't working as well as targeting adults. DC putting out films and TV shows is not a guarantee of sets.

I'm not going to engage beyond this comment because this thread isn't the place for it, but I sincerely suggest that you make use of the words nuance, context, and projection.

Is this satire?

Brontozarro incoming! Swiftly followed by Atrocitaurus and Giganta (evidently they couldn't find a dinosaur with Gigant as a prefix).