spiderfan2000

Current thoughts: Bat-Mech: Pass, assuming the minifigure isn't anything special 4+ Batcave: At most, I'd be interested in the minifigures, assuming they are BTAS versions Bat-Pod: Pass Batmobile: I'll probably pick it up at some point, but I'll be waiting for a sale. I won't entirely rule out the mystery D2C being something like Arkham, considering the piece count isn't that far off from the 2013 and 2017 Arkham sets, but otherwise, this wave isn't as interesting as I was hoping it to be. Plus I'm annoyed at the lack of the Phantasm, the minifigure from the original Skyline set leak that I had been most excited for.

The 8-in-1 set is set 40748 with 325 pieces, with an apparently unknown price, so definitely not the $70 set (76273)

If the $70 set isn't the Batcave, I wonder what else it could be. A Bat-vehicle vs. a villain vehicle? A different location build?

Looks like my guess on the two new characters coming in the summer were accurate. Hopefully we can get both Bill and Charlie in autumn.

My guess is that the $15 set has the Batcycle and either a villain bike or the Redbird, the $40 set is a 4+ Batmobile, the $60 set is a standard Batmobile, and the $70 set is the Batcave.

I wouldn't rule out LEGO finding ways to incorporate stuff from the Arkham games. I mean, an Arkham Knight version of Batman did somehow manage to sneak into the 2018 wave...

The $60 set, with its piece count of 435, seems like it has a good chance of being a Batmobile, if a rather expensive one. Hopefully it'd have more than two minifigures like many of the previous Batmobile sets over the past few years had. The TLBM Batmobile was $60 and had five minifigures, though I doubt we'll be seeing that level of generosity. The $40 set is a 4+ set with 180 pieces, so I'm not expecting much from the build. Maybe it could contribute a unique minifigure or two. The $70 set is what interests me the most, as it seems like it has the most potential for a strong build and minifigure selection.

Maybe it could be a buildable Batman figure that has swappable parts to make 8 different variants? (Not sure if specific movie/comic/show/game variants could be featured) The buildable Batman from last year had 275 pieces, while the 8 in 1 figure apparently has 325 pieces. Unless it's a Brickheadz set.

I'm pretty sure the Batmobile from The LEGO Batman Movie was also $60, so there's some precedent for a Batmobile at that price point, though that one had 581 pieces.

A Batcave could be a possibility, assuming that LEGO doesn't have any issues with having two big 18+ Batcaves available at the same time.

According to Falconfan, the summer wave consists of: 76270 $14.99 6+ (140 pieces) June 2024 76271 Batman: the Animated Series Gotham City $299.99 18+ (4208 pieces) April 2024 76272 $39.99 4+ (180 pieces) June 2024 76273 $69.99 12+ (713 pieces) June 2024 76274 $59.99 8+ (435 pieces) June 2024

I'm hoping it's something minifigure scale at least. The piece count of 1822 makes me wonder if it could be a BTAS Arkham Asylum. That isn't too far off from the piece counts of the 2013 Arkham (1619) or the 2017 TLBM Arkham (1628), and we haven't gotten a non-4+ Arkham since then. Plus, some minifigures from the summer wave could probably be reused.

Meanwhile, Falconfan is posting about set 76328, an 18+ Super Heroes set with 1822 pieces releasing in October, according to brickmerge. Another big Marvel set, or something for DC? I'm very curious to find out what it might be.

According to Falconfan, there will be some sort of 18+ Super Heroes set releasing in October with 1822 pieces, under the set number 76328. I wonder if this mystery set could be for DC, considering the X-Mansion already has a different set number and piece count attached to it.

Looking at the previous two Marvel sets at a $24.99 price, the Deviant Ambush had three minifigures, one of which, Gilgamesh, was exclusive and had three new prints that were not used elsewhere in the wave. Both of the minifigures in the Miles Morales vs. Morbius set were exclusive, with Miles having one new print and Morbius having two new prints, for a total of three. So three new prints total for the minfigure selection in the Surtur set sounds reasonable if the pattern continues. If it is based on the beginning of Ragnarok, maybe a head and torso print for a Fire Demon and a new torso print for Thor?

If Deadpool is included in the X-Mansion, they could potentially reference his very brief depictions in the original 90s X-Men show, which is pretty much the comic version, and similar to the 2012 minifigure.

Also, maybe any potential version of Madam Maxine included with the new Carriage could use long arms now that those have been reintroduced. That would be an easy way to improve from the 2019 minifigures.

If that set manages to get released during the summer, Bill would be a pretty good prediction. I wasn't sure if it was assumed to be a Fall 2024 release.

At least 2 this summer? Interesting. Karkaroff seems like a no-brainer for the Durmstrang Ship. My best guess for the second would be Barty Crouch Sr. in the same set, unless one of the Hogwarts sets turns out to include Katie, Cormac, or Ernie. Maybe even Peeves.

I feel like we're eventually bound to get another Hogsmeade set similar in structure and pricing to the 2021 set, but with the Hog's Head and Zonko's. That'd be the best way to "soft reboot" Hogsmeade when the 2021 set retires without actually repeating anything from that set.

For $220, I'd expect to get a decent number of minifigures in the Great Hall (ideally some professors/students/ghosts we haven't gotten yet) I'm hoping that any versions of Fleur and Gabrielle that are included with 76440 are the Black Lake variants instead of the same variations that we got in the last Beauxbatons Carriage. I wonder if Fang will be included with the Aragog set, or if he'll be kept exclusive to Hagrid's Hut.

I'm really hoping that Groot and Ultimate Ultron would both have long arms and legs.

According to Falconfan, 76294 should be a D2C X-Mansion

I had thought that the bigger issue with 76193 was that Drax and the relevant versions of Gamora and Nebula had last appeared in 2017-2018, and were no longer available by the time 76193 came out. In this new case, the Warbird with Ravager Rocket and Ronan only just came out, and should remain available for at least most of the Milano's lifecycle. Cap and Black Widow appearing in the Final Battle set seems a bit more plausible to me, as 76260 will have already been out for a bit longer at that point, though I could see that set sticking around for another year or so to be used as an expansion. It should also be kept in mind that Age of Ultron Hulk would need to be a new variation with different pants, whereas the cheaper set can just reuse the Avengers Tower Hulk. I had thought even the 7 minifigures and 1 bigfig I proposed seemed like quite a bit when compared to the likes of 76266.

My predictions for the minifigure lineup: Iron Legion vs. Ultron Bots: Iron Legion (x2), Ultron Sentry (x2) Surtur Battle: Thor, Fire Demon, brickbuilt Surtur Avengers Battle: Hulk, Hawkeye, 2 Chitauri, brickbuilt Leviathan Avengers: Age of Ultron – Final Battle: Iron Man Mk. 45, Hulk, Hawkeye, Thor, Vision (with solid legs?), Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, Ultimate Ultron Milano: Groot (minifigure with long arms and legs), Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax, Rocket (main outfits, though they could also end up doing the Ravager outfits and likely leave out Rocket), maybe some number of the following: Yondu, Korath, Nebula, Sakaaran