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Bubble canopy appears to be 35379, which has only been in Transparent. I think the windscreen on the front of the truck is 42504, which has been made in Transparent, Tr. Light Blue, and Tr. Brown, as well as opaque black and white.

I can see how a flashback within a prequel might be just a bit too far from the main storyline to warrant its own set, but now I'm picturing a 2-in-1 desk/dragon build that could be truly amazing! If I could pick just one scene from CoG that I'd want to see as a set, though - Circus Arcanus, hands down (with a brick-built Zouwu, of course). I was genuinely a bit surprised something like that wasn't in the August 2019 wave.

I remember reading the new Wonder Woman set will be a double points promo for May, so here's hoping it won't already be on backorder by Friday!

Probably reading too much into things, as I am wont to do, but LEGO has announced a collaboration with Universal Music Group launching next year. Maybe that Queen set isn't quite as far-fetched as we thought...

They wouldn't want to risk catching the attention of anyone who actually cares about architecture, as we're clearly not the target demographic. On a positive note, I am glad that Earth Green is once again being used for the lawn; I was never a fan of the inexplicable shift to Olive Green.

I built up the War Machine out of my spare parts as well, and I think the roller skate bit looks great. And the gun over the right shoulder doesn't stick out quite as far as I thought it would, but I think I'd still want to work out a more streamlined solution.

I haven't seen any more pictures, just the same picture reposted more.

Nope, it's a stack of three roller skates held on by a 1x1 plate with vertical clip

I don't think War Machine has any new pieces; I'm pretty sure the neck bracket is the same as what the Outriders and Iron Spider use.

Well, I otter go to bed. Owl see myself out.

Because LEGO doesn't decide these things.

I really want to try to replicate the weapons setup that the new War Machine has - I could have sworn that round black tile with the red stripe already existed somewhere, but I can't find it on Bricklink. Is that a new print?

While Harry Potter is my highest priority right now, I am still interested in DOTS too (certainly a hell of a lot more than Star Wars).

Now for an extra dose of whiplash, looks like LEGO has announced that 21037 will in fact be available through S@H starting in May!

She can change her appearance at will; they could give her literally any face print at all and it would technically be accurate.

Moreso than the Giant-Man, I'm looking at Ares from Wonder Woman Warrior Battle as a possible reference point for Grawp. What I'm really interested to see is how his hair will be done, since all the other brickfigs* have a hat or helmet - probably he'll use some of the same shaping techniques seen on BrickHeadz, with an assortment of 1x1 tiles and slopes. *I am hereby proposing brickfig, a contraction of brick-built big-fig, as the name for this style, since it's starting to become common enough that calling them "Giant-Man-style figures" every time will get too cumbersome.

I'd bet good money on Grawp's face being printed. That style of brick-built fig has appeared four times now, and while their body decorations tend to be stickered, the faces are always prints.

Definitely Tonks, if she actually is coming this year. I've kinda lost track of which rumors have come from reputable sources, but wasn't there something about her being in the Burrow?

My wife suggested her accessory could be a toilet seat

That's the same problem the Hogwarts sets face too, though, isn't it? I mean, I'm probably not the best person to analyze the business case for different approaches to Diagon Alley, since I'm the sort of turbonerd that absolutely would buy an $80 single shop every year and still be disappointed there weren't more. (That's actually the main reason I'm trying to stay out of the discussion - I know that no matter what, Diagon Alley will never be complete enough for my tastes, and I don't want to turn out like that one guy who got banned because he would never shut up about how every single set LEGO produced was a waste because it wasn't another Doctor Who set.) On a slightly different note - who do we think might be the designer for Diagon Alley? I'm hoping Wes Talbott, who did the Pop-Up Book, Bookshop, and a good chunk of the Elves theme, and who has said he'd like to do something for Harry Potter in the future.

I've skipped quite a few so far, actually - some I'm still considering, like the Hungarian Horntail and Beauxbatons Carriage, and I'm on the fence about Expecto Patronum, but The Rise of Voldemort, Quidditch Match, Grindelwald's Escape, and Aragog's Lair have all been fairly easy passes for me. Up to now my main priority has been the Hogwarts sections, but Diagon Alley is my favorite setting in the Wizarding World, so that's top of my list for this year.

Well, there was the Ninjago series that got pushed back because the movie got pushed back. But also, I'm skeptical that this is really an "upheaval" anyway, because the rumors of HP Series 2 coming out this year never exactly seemed airtight to begin with.

Unity Temple is easily in my top five Frank Lloyd Wright buildings, but a model that completely ignores the interior is really missing the point. I'm interested in Taliesin West and some of the planned future models, but won't be bothering with this. Also, the claim that smaller bricks = more detail seems plausible on the surface, but they're clearly not being used to that effect from what we've seen so far. The only thing the smaller bricks are achieving is a smaller model.

I was kinda surprised it was ever rumored for this year to begin with; a release coinciding with FB3 does make a lot more sense.

Depends on your definition of "major," but yeah, I'd say Peni, being the only remaining character from Into the Spider-Verse not seen in LEGO form yet, is a likely candidate. Other possibilities: Supaidaman, from a 1978 Japanese live-action series, who has almost nothing in common with the original Spider-Man except for the name and costume (and is reportedly slated to appear in the Spider-Verse sequel) The Spider, from the 1602 alternate universe, whose web shooters go "thwippe" and who would be an excellent excuse to trot out the collar-ruff piece Spiders-Man, who is definitely a perfectly normal human, and not at all a mass of spiders stuffed into a Spider-Man suit, and definitely didn't eat Peter Parker and collectively absorb his consciousness. Totally normal human guy, Spiders-Man.