Renny The Spaceman

Alright, makes sense. I think it's also worth noting until no way home I buy them simply not thinking to as they weren't aware of the relevance but that still leaves the question of why they did nothing and next to nothing for spider verse and tasm2 Right but the quantity they do of them, especially in marvel, is quite a lot of the amount of sets they do nowadays. So much of their brand now is built on recreations of nostalgic properties and how insanely ravenous the fandoms for those films are LEGO would be kinda dumb to not do them. Doesn't mean they will, at all but those old Spider-Man films a relevant now as all Spider-Man media now exists to constantly reference older stories so they're actively in consumers minds, relevant with kids, nostalgic adults are at the right time to spend money on this stuff and so on. I'm sure you've all had this conversation numerous times.

It's accurate to his original comic look, not the Tom Taylor version we know now. Most of the Z listers in TLBM are pretty spot on in terms of translation. They made all the actually notable ones goofier but the Eraser, Kite-man, Mime, Clock King, Zodiac Master and so on very much match their original appearance as well as if they were in a normal Batman set. The only real exception to my memory is Polka dot man but his design is honestly the character's best imo I don't think LEGO would do Kyle, they've never been limited by who makes sense to have a mech before. If a GL gets one it'll be Hal, John or Guy. You're right though, CBR don't know anything, Kyle looks great. If they went full Daily Bugle with it it'd be great. I stand corrected, didn't even consider his white lantern form. Green, white and blue you could paint a landscape with all the colours of ring he's worn

That'd be cool. My tastes are weird, I don't really care about anything Marvel related anymore with the exception of the Original Spider-man film trilogy and Ben Reilly so that's one of two ways LEGO could get my money with this theme. Since I'm here may as well ask, is there any legal reason why LEGO doesn't do sets based off the wholly Sony movies or is that just happenstance? I'd imagine with the Spider-verse set coming even if they couldn't before something's been worked out, wouldn't be surprised if that leads to a black box set of the train scene or something (Or even better, Matt Smith's house set from Morbius)

There is no way in hell they do a Kyle Rayner next year, I think we've all become far too optimistic about this theme from a single Superman mech. Shame really, I like Kyle the most of the GL's but he's never even been in one of the Lego video games or crappy dvd movies, I think we would only get him if he's in a movie. Yeah, I think we're all in agreement here we'd have accepted the shift of the theme from DC to Batman if they actually went all in with it and made actual waves of regular sets and new characters at any point in the past few years Yeah I realised right after posting, kinda airheaded of me. Turtle proved that either you die a hero or you live long enough to become the villain then die anyways Oh also my vote for @THELEGOBATMAN is the suicide squad joker bootleg, it's by far the funniest looking, if we're gonna do these bets on a thing happening or not the "prize" for it happening should be an image that'd make anyone coming into the forum think we're insane On that note if the Demolition Dummy ever gets a rerelease or piece of merch like so many other CMFs do I'll change my pfp to the worst Lego bootleg my fellow inmates can find

WHAT? Either I must have missed that or my fears about dementia have been justified. is it still on the thread Not even just that, imagine him trying to justify why bigoted comments were actually fine?

Speaking of democracy, here are all the joker suggestions, we should set up a poll to decide

What got him banned? I can't remember what he said last Exactly,a warden exists to control us, if we truly want to stay as we are we must work together. The aslume is all of us and we are all one

The mighty micros one maybe?

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I find it hard to care myself, I generally do prefer when they have actors dye their hair to match but don't really feel strongly either way. It's always very telling characters who keep the red hair like Batgirl or Ariel are still counted as Gingercide when the actor isn't white. While your position is totally valid here nothing I really said is relevant to it. Ginger characters are probably changed at a higher rate, though I don't really know how you'd reliably quantify that, I was only commenting on the fact that next to no-one who mentions that is talking about hair colour. As evidenced by Barbara in the show being ginger! No redheads have been lost here, this show doesn't contribute to that trend at all UNLESS you're issue isn't the character being ginger. Someone is free to think that characters should always be the same race as their original appearance, I think it's an arbitrary line to draw but if someone was going to they could at least be honest about it. No-one is saying that, but the difference between opinion and bias is when it's applied selectively. If you think characters should always have the same hair colour as the comics all three versions of Barbara people complain about don't apply. Exactly, people don't need to be fans but adaptation requires knowledge of the original. An adapter doesn't even need to like the original (see starship troopers or the Flintstones comic) but they need to understand how the original ticks as you need to know the rules before you break them. What is a ginger woman but ginger? Barbara is ginger in that show. Like if you want everyone to look exactly how they do in the comics that is your opinion but this isn't consistent. If you're not a fan of replacing redheads tdk should be an issue and this show wouldn't be in the conversation. I don't like being that guy but this is objectively an inconsistency Also I am confused at the "you notice how these changes, that matter so little, never happen in reverse" of it all. Are you aware of what whitewashing is? It happens all the time with real history and used to be all the rage in blockbusters. just over a decade ago we had Johnny Depp in darkened skin as a native American and Jake Gyllenhall as a Persian. A week ago Marvel announced a prominently Romani character would be played by Robert Downey Junior and the same for Scarlet witch. The less said about most versions of Jesus the better. It happens significantly less in the modern day in blockbusters because studios want minorities money too and the reason it rarely happens in reverse is there are a lot more white characters in franchises because all mainstream media now is based around franchises made decades ago. There are more white characters to change that is why more white characters are changed. It's sorta like saying it's weird that so many people who drive a car wind up becoming construction workers. Most people drive cars so more likely than not if someone is going to become a construction worker they drove a care before For the record I will say, like thelegobatman, I'm not aiming any accusations at anyone. I don't know the beliefs of who I'm talking about and am replying only to their arguments. We are all inmates in the same aslume and that is, of course a bond closer than brothers. However there are inconsistencies in what the post I responded to said that imply to me either I am missing something about their perspective or they are perhaps missing some context about broader trends in media

Yeah, it's pure medieval peasant brain, no matter how hard you tug at the logic people who have decided that their holy war will be over star wars will not buy anything that ultimately shows how little the layperson gives a shit To be completely clear I hate most of the modern streaming franchise slop, but this is just how most branded entertainment is now because corporations realised as long as character you recognise shows up in something money will be made, they don't need to put in effort. It has nothing to do with wokeness or an anti white agenda or Brie Larson. Yeah, maybe I was being a little unfair with looping Peacemaker in with the Deadpool 3s and Rise of Skywalkers of the world. I personally think it's got issues but it is something driven by an artist having something to say about a character with actual filmmaking competency shown throughout. Episode 4 is also really megablocking good I guess I should say because I don't think I articulated it all too well art made by hardcore fans can be great, I think Gunn's The Suicide Squad is the only adaptation that gets the original Ostrander run and by doing so it does actually say things and has some gorgeous cinematography, it's something I'd consider a good movie generally and not just a good superhero movie. But I think what makes good movie requires fandom being second to telling a cohesive story with something to say.

Right but have you considered the gingercide going on? No, I'm never mad when ginger characters are played by people like Gary Oldman or Charlie Cox and I've never said a word about the new Jimmy Olsen actor but I'm really concerned about the erasure of ginger characters. It's just I only vocalise it when they're replaced by someone who looks "modern" even if they have red hair in whatever media I'm mad about like with the Little Mermaid remake or the cancelled Batgirl film. This is a very serious issue though, I care about it so deeply just please don't ask why I never bring it up when the character's not white Yeah, it's got literally nothing to do with the topic of modernising the past because it's set in present day. There's literally only one way you could consider it relevant to the topic of caped crusader 'changing history' and it doesn't really make the person who said that look good No it's the most reliable source of the general audiences opinion on any piece of art. Just look at how many reviews appeared a couple months back on the 2008 movie Acolytes talking about how it ruined star wars. Finally the people stuck it to that film that really fell off after episode 3 I think it's one of the most anti-art takes to be completely honest, while it's good if an artist has a respect for the source material when this stuff is made by people who self identify as fans first you get stuff like the Rise of Skywalker where it's just vapidly jerking off IP while having characters say old lines they said before while the score stops for the audience to applause. From all aspects of production it doesn't matter if someone is a fan. Robert Pattinson wasn't massive fanboy, neither was Christopher Nolan, they had a respect for the source material, read up on it to understand what angle they'd take the character and were willing to bring their own spin to it. Not that fans can't make good work, I like James Gunn a fair bit, plenty of talent comes from a childhood love of these stories but would anyone here argue they prefer Peacemaker to The Dark Knight? Or Deadpool 3, or Spiderman no way home? If you want media to only appeal to fanboy desires you get Chewbacca getting his medal

Oh it all adds up, it might also have given the regular sea life smaller changes + a slightly higher level of sapience explaining why modern LEGO sharks have eyebrows and are always angry now

Oh it all adds up, do we still believe Blacktron is organising the other forces? Definitely means the idea of a temporary truce with the Black hole gang is off the books. Despite the fact Blacktron will betray them in the end they'll support them. Leopards eating face party and all that. They've been bidding their time for years, making a small fortune off bounty hunting gigs, growing stronger through experimentations with cybernetic and biological augmentations. I believe the son is called Godtfred. I think you might be on to something if so the Bob being the quintessential classic minifigure has to be Ole. BRICKHEADZ Joker is obviously the avatar of Turtle, his meticulous planning and the way he played all of us seals it. As for Hank I think he's a potential wildcard. Corn-cob is likely funding his endless supply of dynamite, crowbars and getaway cars but through a Proxy (perhaps Forrest Blackwell?) I believe him disconnecting servers comes from him not wanting people discussing his own crimes, unaware of the bigger plan. Corn-cob keeps him around to keep the citizens fearful and wanting to keep the LCPD around but him not being clued in might lead to him in the pursuit of his own criminal endgame undermining Blacktron's plans. He needs to be investigated further Blacktron so far has sent one recon ship in recent years, the Galaxy Explorer crew reported it so we don't know if they have a full invasion fleet ready Exactly, he is the most powerful weapon we have, the question is if we can get him in without alerting Corn-cob We don't know how he was stopped the first time he tried to disassemble the city, they need to cover him to stand a chance, all of the LCPD will go after him

Yeah, I think a general thing with most superhero universes is a lot of characters are going to overlap, a good chunk of the most notable characters were all developed when crossovers were mainly limited to covers and even those who weren't most comics are done by different teams with little communication past company mandated events. On the other side of the fence Iron Man, Thor, Hulk are all pretty informed by daddy issues (and 2 out of 3 of those translated into the cinematic versions). It's because Daddy issues are such a broad subject. Hell if we want to go there Cyborg, Batman, Superman and the Flash all had their main conflicts come from 'daddy issues' in the previous DC cinematic Universe, that's most of the justice league. I don't know much about the Creature Commandos so I can't really speak there but is it really a Gunn trend to make everything a Task force X thing when he did that with the one movie based on that comic and the direct spin-off show where we follow a member of Task Force X who hasn't worked of their sentence yet so is still doing missions? This is the only time he's done this and from the little I do know of them working for government organisations isn't out of left field for them. Though tbf I don't know if they've been shown as criminals in anything else as the implication in the trailer is that they were non-human inmates of Belle Reve

If you don't want to see something just reply to the posts not talking about and they'll fizzle out. I think everyone's a little guilty of this sometimes but too often we focus our attention on trying to get everyone to do something at once and that leads to no-one ever doing it. If we just talk about our important LEGO Lore and tune out the people arguing over the Penguin it'll fade out in a couple days Anyways back on topic, while in Billund the to scientists of the anti-corncob resistance have been brewing an ultimate weapon, while the Dummy had almost deconstructed the city on his own before we can't take any risks, especially if any of Brickheadz Joker's forces could strike, so they have developed their ultimate trump card, the Mega-Dummy... Now the question is, how can they get it into the city undetected

Oh ofc, that all makes sense. The Eurobricks moderators don't let people stray off topic so they don't find the truth. The fact this thread is up though tells me Clone O'patra is a mole for the resistance and is keeping our posts secret from the other mods Not enough Pornbots and nazis, maybe it's more like a YouTube comment section. We don't know how much the people know TBF. The fear is ofc even if they don't know, when they're told the truth some of them may have developed a taste for it and be willing to kill to taste it again. My theory though is since that old pizza piece was phased out in 2014/15 that that was one of the things the ultra agents did to put them on Corn-cob's radar, they started a pizza company that sells real pizzas made of normal ingredients that are currently more popular than the cannibal ones. This is why all those minifigure meat ones are being sold in Luigi's pizza as the people of the city don't take to them anymore. This could be why BRICKHEADZ Joker is ramping up his plans now as he's beginning to lose control of the people Though is that a risk we're willing to take in trusting the people, do we have any evidence they did know? If so it may well be time to release the ultimate weapon...

Ofc, Brickheadz Joker, the greatest villain of all That's a good point, no-one here's considered that. We should assume that the discontinuation of that piece implies that's no-longer what Pizza's are made of. Also I've found something interesting in the character Bio for the CMF version of Alpha team's Dash it says he saved Solomon Blaze during his Galaxy Squad days before disappearing, do we think he's in hiding or did Corn-cob get him?

Glad you feel differently, enjoy it :)

You make a good point, it is a city beyond saving. The Dummy is our last hope A terrifying possibility, though I must sadly raise another. We all know about the discrimination and ghettoisation of the monster community, with them unable to live in LEGO city. What if they weren't the only group crushed under heal by Corn-cob. Consider, back in the day pupil-less minifigures lived as the indigenous population of LEGO Town, in time the city got bigger and was renamed LEGO City and became gentrified to accommodate all the minifigures with pupils who came from the LEGO world city. For a brief period in the early 2000s they lived in harmony with both the indigenous and new types of minifigures both being featured in City sets. But then Corn-Cob took power and the Pupil-less minifigures were pushed from the city itself, only the rich amongst them were able to find housing on the world renowned modular street with a great many of these figures couldn't find homes again, likely due to their income, Corn-cob would bring a few of them in for anniversaries, parade them around for a few months then quickly dispose of them quietly behind the scenes. To make matters even worse in 2018, after years of campaigning he managed to push all pupil-less minifigures out of any forms of employment making them unable to afford housing and shortly after they all either had no form of housing, needing to sleep in their miniature trains or giant mechs or move into the LEGO Space program as it's the one place that still accepts all minifigures equally as it is no longer funded by the state but instead a coalition of friendly aliens (lead by the series 22 space creature) who want to allow humans opportunities to escape Corn-cob's rule. We can't allow this horrible system to continue though the LEGO people's must be free and equal, Corn-cob must be stopped!

The Police state theory does explain the fire brigade, arson is one of the big crimes yet we've never once seen one in LEGO city linked to any casualties. 70% of them wouldn't fit or make sense to have figures there. We've never once seen evidence of plain clothes civilians causing fires as any seen with them are always terrified of the flames. It's also worth noting that I believe only the skellies with classic skeleton head are the remains of minifigures, the other ones are always alive if I'm correct. I believe they come from the land of the monsters. LEGO rarely if implies skeletons, zombies or ghosts are actually deceased figs. I think you raise a good point in the poverty argument but we must also consider that there are wealthy in LEGO city, if a society is truly equal there cannot be an upper class who drives in Limos and such. I think the more positive view on the criminals is unlikely, if we look at various LEGO media the police always treat crime waves as serious threats, Chase MCcain is nearl killed multiple times and surely they wouldn't risk their lives to stop crimes which where so petty. Apparently Jack Fury tries blow up civilian buildings too. And just because something is not seen doesn't mean it doesn't exist, we know courthouses exist yet aside from one minifigure judge there is no other evidence If the criminals are all non issues it still casts a rather poor image on the LCPD. Chase McCain commits many crimes and steals so much from innocent people for nothing? It still would reflect poorly on the over spending too While yes LEGO figures can build houses bricks seem to be another of currency in the LEGO world, otherwise why would Pepper need to work for his in LEGO Island 2. Not every minifigure has equal access to bricks and the police get an exorbitant amount compared to basic necessities

No but there is a difference, it's not qualitative but it's there. LEGO's brand image now is based around the Funko Pop model of luring in adults with a bunch of popular brands done in the same simplistic artstyle, yes while if someone just really doesn't like one of these brands they won't buy it there are plenty of people who wouldn't self identify as Simpsons fans, or disney fans or so on but do have generally positive memories from watching something from that series as a kid and thus is will buy a couple packs casually because it's two things they recognise put together and that has a much broader appeal to the public than a bunch of classes from a game you know of/played a bit of as a teenager. I think something a lot of us struggle to get is a lot of the consumption of pop culture iconography now aren't based on any particularly strong fandom, most funko collectors don't have a particularly strong connection to everything they get, but by the fact they know a character is significant to pop culture. Yes it's not for 'everyone' the unlicensed CMF's aren't for everyone, nothing is for everyone but such a big part of the current cultural moment we are in is vapidly consuming products because they stimulate us with characters we vaguely recognise, that has a broader appeal than a bunch of generic characters for a game that, while it's name is synonymous with fantasy and is has had a big resurgence in popularity in the internet age, by it's design a pretty significant portion of the people casually aware of it/play it have no visual designs that will mean anything to them as it's a game based on making up your own characters and how they look really only stays with you. I'm not complaining or saying that the D &D CMF is "derailing" anything (I don't like 90% of the licenced themes, I'm riding high of the fact we got 2 non-licensed ones this year) but as someone who is interested in looking at how LEGO evolves this series is different, it is the first time a Licenced CMF clearly isn't playing by the same game as the others. I think there is a clear hop in broad appeal and recognisability between the other licences and this and interesting and might help explain why the rumour is that next year will have a full F1 series. And yes I know there are millions who don't know those brands but there are billions and billions who do because Mickey Mouse, Harry Potter, Bugs Bunny Homer Simpson, Spiderman, Batman and Superman are some of the single most commercialised characters in human history, everyone in the western world at least knows of them and a good portion of those outside it do because the western world enforces their preferences everywhere else, I'm not trying to be antagonistic here but there is a clear difference between them and the mind flayer or anything about D&D bar the name and base concept in terms of cultural osmosis. Also, unrelated, while I'm happy for people who feel different I don't see the particular usefulness of these parts for adding onto LEGO castle as most of the figures, even if you did swapped the heads feel like they have a pretty distinct aesthetic from LEGO's own brand stuff, with the line up being made up mainly of figures already done a good amount of times like Dwarves, elves, witches or ones so tied to D&D like the Mind Flayer that while you can put them in a moc it feels a little like seeing a stormtrooper minifigure and saying it'll be great for generic Sci-fi MOC. Just my two cents here though. Please don't take this as me telling you you're wrong for liking it, I just don't personally see what you do. And at the end I'll reiterate, nothing I said here or in the previous post was an insult, I'm not upset they did this, I like people being happy, if you enjoy it great. I don't think LEGO making a series that isn't just a bunch of things I recognise is an issue but there is a clear difference in approach when you compare this licence to every other one that has gotten a regular series. I just think it's a little silly to act like it isn't different when it clearly is. There are people who won't like every series, yes, but this is the first time one of these isn't about brand synergy or a collection of highly recognisable pop icons and that IS a fundamental change that does make the appeal less broad. Not a bad change but it is one.

A very terrifying fact, however I believe this intelligence is what caused him to start his campaign by harvesting the Martian power Crystals, perhaps the colonising aliens from Mars Mission are henchmen he created from kryptonite It all depends on if Superman's mech wins enough of the council of batmen's approval to get them to fund him reconstructing all the Leaguer's Brickheadz Joker destroyed. If not the only chance would be if he, upon hearing the Demolition Dummy's warning to the DC heroes, went into hiding somewhere no-one could ever find. Just like how legends say Wonder Woman, shortly after the purge began, managed to hide within something, with two of her former foes and whatever she is in was so undesirable to all who walk the earth that it still lays undisturbed in the backs of warehouses and the shelves of small toy stores. The only other DC hero who could have possible done this as well is Aquaman, believed to have managed to save two of his Atlantean guards in the process

Disagree with the ones for the LEGO Movies, those were full of characters who could have just been regular CMFs. I think the only leap between d&d and the other licenses is all the other Licenses have been based on evergreen pop culture characters everyone knows (the one exception there being the Marvel ones as they're based more on corporate synergy and which characters are in this fiscal years crop of streaming shows, though even those have Spider-man and the X-men who escape that) d&d though isn't something where the average person knows any of it's characters whereas with all the other random licenses everyone who'd buy LEGO at least knows of Homer Simpson, Harry Potter, Mickey Mouse, Spiderman, Batman, Wolverine, Bugs Bunny, Kermit the Frog and so on. There is at least one character in all the non-LEGO movie licenses that most everyone on earth could recognise. There is a clear difference there between the two. Doesn't make the d&d cmf bad, but there is an inherent difference in broad appeal between a series featuring at least one of the most famous pop culture icons in it and one based around the classes and a small group of named characters from a series which is only really known by non-fans for how it allows the player to make their own fantasy characters

The main thing I took away is how gorgeous the animation is compared to what I was expecting, it moves so much smoother than I thought it would, superhero shows so often wind up feeling really rigid because the focus is on detailed, semi realistic designs that lend themselves poorly to being animated. I love how styled and angled everyone here is. Worried about the refusal to use voice actors for brand synergy reasons though, I've got a gut feeling David Arbour won't be great at, no idea why I imagine he keeps prisoners in those cramped Space Police Cells, probably has them all lining his office so he can hear them cry and moan as he works I wonder who else is hiding in plain sights in modern sets, such a shame to see the mighty fall I don't mind losing the old one, it was pretty forgettable