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I guess it would make a heck of a final trailer shot, especially since they've already used up the X-men shock factor in earlier announcements/trailers and there's no way they officially show off the opening scene cameos at this point. It's possible, but it seemed like the leakers had all started moving away from that notion towards the leaks we've been seeing in the past few months. I believe the first of the two leaks you mentioned was pretty shaky to begin with. I'll still wait until we see, but I personally hope That's correct- I mean, technically speaking It's a very slight difference, isn't it? I think there's a fairly good chance that it was just a prototype that was later changed.

Exactly. For lego-original concepts it makes a lot more sense, but licensed figs just don't appeal to me in terms of "$100 upscaled minifigure" Interesting. The designers definitely just throw that out sometimes- they said something similar about Two-Face's new hair mold in a Batman set in january 2025 implying we'd get another of that character soon... and with the 1HY leaks for that theme's 2027 we can now say that that isn't happening. But it does at least mean the designers are thinking about it. I wouldn't completely rule it out- it is AOTC's 25th after all, even if there's a bigger anniversary it shares- but you're right that it's not particularly likely now that we can confidently say two duel sets with anniversary figs in the same wave is a coincidence, not a pattern. I feel like the dioramas were moreso an example of a subline lego was trying that had to include minifigures despite their best wishes/efforts. This sounds like the first one where the focus is actively on the minifigures, rather than lego doing a diorama collection, having to include minifigures to complete the scenes, and then ending it with a figless one anyway. Hopefully. Dude, not the hat- iconic hats are clearly what give IP franchise runners their power, without his hat the brand is doomed. Nien Numb got a new mold in the skiff- and this is lego star wars at the end of the day, so I wouldn't say it's something they have to do. I think it's moreso a case of lego knowing that fig will drive sales to a set that otherwise wouldn't get ones from some of those new buyers. Unless it's actively the worst-looking Y-wing they've ever made, it's an instant buy from me. January 2027 is rapidly shaping up to have me spend more in that one day on legos than I have in the past two years. (Unless I get the sandcrawler, I suppose) Yup! This needs to do well, it has the potential to completely reshape the 18+ landscape for this theme. Those are my worries as well. I hope so. I must have missed that, congrats @icm!

Yeah, they've been doing really well recently. Unfortunately it seems we're now down to one option, being the New Avengers Tower. And at this point I'm worried that we won't even get the full Thunderbolts lineup in that one. That would be really cool looking, though tricky to pull off. Right now I just have my cyclops holding a lightsaber blade up to his eyes so it looks like he's touching the dial on the visor and firing- getting that sort of no-hands, wide-range blast would be tricky without just having it attach to a back neck bracket or terrain, which might look a bit janky from angles besides the intended one. WHAT. It doesn't NECCESARILY mean it's a doomsday set, but if it is, that's MASSIVE spoilers. Probably would be the biggest spoiler lego's ever done, I can't believe marvel would even have told them about that. Most of the more concrete leaks have been claiming Which lines up with one of the sets we know is coming later, but not the set that just leaked at all. Yeah I don't think any credible leaks have mentioned that at all. Part of me thinks it won't actually be a doomsday set given the (IIRC) different release date. I can't believe marvel would give lego concept art of something like that and we wouldn't have seen it in the leaks at all- though it'll be interesting to see which leakers immediately "leak" this info for the movie. (My favorite one of those being that after that Australian theatre chain did some marketing around their Vmax system in spider-man trailers and one leaker evidently misunderstood the trailers and immediately started "leaking" a bunch of info about the role Vmax plays in the movie.) All that to say, I am really, really hoping this is a mistake from someone seeing a black-and-red cap suit and thinking "evil cap", and it's really a confirmation that we're getting John Walker, helmet and all. This just seems like a crazy thing for marvel to have told lego about if true, and "the new avengers have a quinjet" is a much more reasonable piece of info for them to give lego- or for lego to just make up to add a build to a set.

If Cyclops is any indication they'll be pretty comic accurate. A Reed build sounds incredibly cursed but I agree that he should have the stretchy arms. Hopefully cyclops is in the $100 set I think there's a really good chance we get the Sentry alongside the other bolts in the New Avengers Tower set. If it really is real, which there've been enough people corroborating and expanding the leak for me to believe, there is 0 chance we don't see a set in May/June 2028. If lego's smart and not legally prevented from doing so, they'll already have one of their guys moccing some fig designs and a generic base up right now so they can shoot for an earlier date. I think there's a good shot they throw in steve somewhere if for no other reason than that Hopefully he's in the $100 set.

Doomsday. We did get Herbie, and we don't know what that $100 set will be. I'm not sure how many options there are aside from the F4 ship- I doubt we get a playscale tower AND a playscale X-mansion, and I'm not sure what else they'd even do here.

THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO WAY THAT (minor spoiler if true) Is getting a set. The greatest thing to grace cinema screens since morbius. (Though I believe the new leaks state that said action actually occurs during - major spoiler if true- instead) That is interesting. I hope the $109.99 set is still the Thunderbolts Tower (and comes with the bolts themselves). $99.99 set is what I assumed this would be, so now I don't know what it is. A playscale F4 ship?

I think it's minifig vignettes, like little environments for each figure. The really interesting part is it's an 18+ set in which the minifigures are the central focus, not there because the diorama wouldn't work without them or just entirely absent. I would guess they either think it was the only way to "sneak in" Malak, which I think is just objectively wrong given we got Cal in an ISD, or they think putting the fig in a non-minifig set allowed them to up the budget alloted to the figure, which is somewhat reasonable. (Though if we could have gotten a Malak in a smaller system set and he just re-used the Ultron neck bracket or something I would have been fine with that. It works for my custom Malak anyway.) WOOOOOOOO! (The TIE Avenger did cause some spectacular fireworks in the show) For me it's less about the set itself and more about what it means- it sounds like an 18+ set actively focused on minifigures, which would imply lego has finally realized that minifigs won't scare off adults from buying sets. This is a potential game changer. I think a TK trooper or other ANH concept art figs are more likely then the latter two there, like female starkiller, the uniformed vader, etc. Everything we've seen so far is from ANH concept art, I wonder if they'd want to save later films' mcquarrie designs for later. (Would be funny if 25 years from now we get a set of AOTC annivesary figs and it's just a republic commando and 5 radically different pieces of Dooku concept art) I'm starting to get worried about Ahsoka S2's potential sets. I think at this point this is the best january figure lineup of the modern era. I don't know what would even compete with it. That's exactly it. Minifig-hunters who otherwise wouldn't buy a giant buildable Luke Skywalker will now want to pick up the set anyway so they can get the mcquarrie vader. I hope that set crashes and burns so we can pick up the vader minifig for cheap later on (and because while it's entirely hypocritical, as I loved sets like the rebel scout speeder remake, the maxifigs may be my single least favorite set type lego's ever made for this theme. It feels paradoxical- I have a Luke Skywalker minifigure because I like legos as a medium and I like star wars as an IP. Something like the boba fett statue is cool because it's a boba fett made out of legos. A lego luke skywalker made out of legos feels like something that should be a niche legoland product, not taking up a mainline slot. I would- somehow- even prefer the statues to them.)

Which is presumably the intent. Like I said, it's the Malak in the R2 all over again. I think we have to get more- it's very unlikely lego brings the Lasat mold back, immediately does a round of mcquarrie figs, and ignores the Lasat in the room with it. Similarly, the Mcquarrietrooper is such a layup to get a number of uses out of the helmet mold given they've been introduced as TK troopers in canon. But it could easily be a case where there's one or two stragglers later on- the C-3PO is coming in April, so it's possible the last two get dropped into a few helmets in may and then that's that.

Mark, this is Good News. Everyone who was complaining about the Y-wing can now be satisfied that it's getting a very unique minifigure design with Luke Starkiller. Probably the actual most unique/different minifigure an ANH Y-wing could POSSIBLY get. I hope it's a fifth minifigure and didn't kill our new pilot, but if it had to, I can accept that. Still a solid lineup for one of these starfighters. The lack of the mcquarrie minifigure in the battle pack is something that doesn't bother me in general- but the fact that there's only 4 figs in a $30 pack is devastating. He can see things before they happen, it's a Sith trait. I would say given you have very strong negative feelings about the movies and yet even you brought up a vehicle that you though would be cool, it proves that there is SOME market for a few of them. Obviously I'm not saying they should get nearly as many as the OT or PT- you saw my proposed setup- but if even people who hate the films admit there are some cool designs, there's a market. A lot of people on here, me included, have mentioned despite seriously disliking TLJ, the bomber was a sick design that would be nice to get again. And a lot of people do think TFA was fairly solid, which is where a lot of the good designs come from. I mean, you could make the exact same argument about something like this year's Blue Squadron X-wing, except Poe's is a much more unique color scheme and actually does have differences in the build. FO transport ship is another good shout that would make a good set. Right now, yes- and they're doing it in the worst possible way too with those 18+ gimmick sets. Still mad there was a full collab between Top Gear and Lego and they never made actual Top Gear sets. The vignette set sounds like a lot of fun. I'm glad that Lego Star Wars is realizing adults aren't scared of minifigures. Not what I expected for "icons of star wars" but definitely something that sounds cool, and it's good that the price has gone down at least $10. Han in Mustafar we knew. Luke in the Y-wing is excellent, as I said earlier hopefully an addition so we still get the second pilot but even if it's a replacement, a steller figure lineup for it nontheless. Ship's crew- main character who hasn't been in a playset in a good half-decade- unique (and very aura-farming) fig for collectors. R2 in Bespin is fine, I'm interested to see which version this is. The standard one with a clear dome would be a bit boring, the T3-M4 version would be awesome- and if we see any new molds for it, potentially a hint? Vader in the luke maxifig is brutal. This is the "you can only get malak in the R2 set" of the mcquarrie figs. And just like Malak, as much as I want the fig, I'll pass. I hope we get at least Chewie and a Mcquarrie trooper later in the year.

It's never a sure thing, but it's amazing to be strolling through the clearance aisle and run into a big set that's like 70% off. The best moc I've ever done, my Spring Eternal freighter, pretty much cost me nothing because 90% of the parts came from two copies of the Skeleton Crew set, where I'd found the whole crate of them for $50 each. The figs actively went for more than that on bricklink, so selling them off got me thousands of parts for free. (I restrained myself to two copies so other people could run into the deal, but I did call a few of my friends who ended up grabbing ones for their own collections.) Sometimes you also get a mistake, and the store policy is just to honor it. They had a bunch of Galaxy Explorers a few years back that were supposed to be $30 off (so $70), but rang up as $30 total instead. The employee was just like "welp, enjoy the discount" when it was pointed out. IKEA is probably the closest, it's not quite the same layout wise with IKEA's showroom maze before the actual warehouse, but they both do just have active restaurants in them and an absurd variety of items. You basically don't need to go to any other store, and competitors like Target and Meijer's keep it on edge and prices low lest they slip into the top spot. It is a logistical achievement unrivaled by almost any other commercial entity. You take that back about the canned chicken, it's great. The stuff you really have to watch out for is meat they cook in-house, because if nobody buys it it could be sitting on the hot shelf for about half a day before you pick it up and you will suffer the consequences if you aren't paying attention to the time stamp. It's possible. It'll depend on what the overall layout for the year is looking like- are we getting an august wave that's just normal saga sets, and march/may will have our other 4ish anniversary sets? Or will they keep them spread out/have more than 5-6 mcquarrie figs? All duels specifically may result in 3 Vaders, but it could also just be all diorama type sets. I think if they're all dioramas in any capacity Duel of the Fates and Geonosis Duel are given, but I could see 4 and 6's entries being something like the yavin throne room or mos eisely cantina and Home One briefing room respectively.

Oof. There are certainly elements of this that look pretty good, like the way they make the armor and clasps with the ingots and shield pieces, but such a significant portion of this build is entirely depending upon giant vinyl sheets. This is such a lazy move, at this scale lego can 100% make a reasonable cloak fascimile out of pieces. I thought the Kylo Ren helmet relied too much on print detail, but this just blows it out of the water in that sense. This isn't like dragon wings where you need to keep them light, why didn't they just brick-built the hood and cape onto the bust?

Well... isn't nostalgia exactly the reason he's bringing them back? Same as Tobey and Andrew in NWH. (And only Tobey has gotten sets so far, because the ASM films aren't as well-regarded) Honestly as someone who never watched them growing up, from what I've seen of them I much prefer First Class and Days of Future Past to the original trilogy of X-men movies. But aside from that, I think if anything they would sell worse than just straight up comic X-men sets. The designs are uniform, low-color jumpsuits- like if the avengers had worn the quantum realm suits all the way from 2012 to infinity war- and most of the figs would just be 1 or 2 torso designs with a kitbashed head and hair. Your average kid would probably much rather have the ones that resemble unique superhero costumes, and I think even a lot of people with nostalgia for the X-men movies also have it for the 90s cartoon and/or the comics. I think in most cases, if the show/comic X-men sets aren't selling, there's not much of a reason for lego to assume Fox ones would. There's also really only one choice for a set (Whatever you think of them, they aren't Endgame or NWH, they can't get away with the statue of liberty's disembodied head or random rubble as the build) with the Blackbird... in which case I think it's just a safer choice to do a comic or MCU blackbird. Not to keep harping on the costumes, but as it comes to lego I do think they end up being a major factor. We all know that lego set is going to sell off Raimi Symbiote Spider-Man alone- I don't think a classic FoX-men wolverine one would, especially not compared to something like the Byrne suit or DP&W costume. Yup. Raimi Spider-Man is popular enough that they can get away with selling sets like the venom/sandman one from the start of the year, where it's a diorama for the figures as opposed to a vehicle or anything, because the characters and specific raimi designs are so popular. With the FoX-men, you don't have that aside from Hugh Jackman Wolverine, and Wolverine already gets to pop up in sets anyway. The only FoX-men set I could see them making is a Blackbird... and I'd rather just have them do a comic or MCU blackbird for the more interesting character designs.

Yeah, I didn't clarify that but of course not every new project would take up the same amount of sets. A spinoff film (which personally I believe they should just stop doing) wouldn't get as many as a trilogy film. Absolutely- the fact that you brought up a cool design that I hadn't even mentioned, with you not being much of a sequel fan either, is just more evidence of it. There are plenty of cool designs they can do. The thing is, being from different trilogies means you can have Black One and the Whisper on shelves at the same time as Red Five or an Avenger. They fulfill different niches. Man, that's like going from a 2001 Honda Civic to the newest Model Y. They've made massive strides with the X-wing over the past decade (one of the reasons I want to see a "perfect" anniversary Red Five...) That one's always interesting to me because it's something where you grow up and just don't consider it, but then you see stuff like that German gentleman who came for the World Cup just absolutely mind-blown at stuff like our gas station convenience stores. When one grows up near a Wal-Mart one does not ponder it's significance. (And yeah, a lot of things vary state-by-state too, including taxes by a good deal.) Thank you for mentioning that sticker, I hadn't seen how many funny stickers were there. I don't think it necesarily implies anything, given the same one also includes a Naboo colored N-1, Anakin's podracer, an Aayla poster and the skyhopper, but it does show that lego at least remembers that design. Though I'd still prefer the caped variant. They've already seemingly run into the wall with the smart sets, given they're all retiring early. Yup. The indiana jones sets were remarkably reasonably priced despite also being entirely owned by disney, probably in big part because that brand isn't as strong. They're good movies (I mean, a good trilogy. Could you imagine if they tried to make 4th or 5th ones?) but they aren't a universe in the same way superheroes or star wars are. This is, I believe, one of the reasons that lego tries to control leaks so much. If some of your fans' first impression of a set is a blurry prototype, they aren't going to like it as much as if they'd first seen the official reveal. I think that we can be reasonably confident that these two sets are part of the same subtheme. Now, the idea that the rest of the mcquarrie fig sets will also be duels is an extrapolation from only two sets, but I think there's at least a shot of it being true. And if it is, Yoda vs Dooku is one of the most logical choices remaining. Everybody thinks the owner's that guy who installed the roomba detector at the front door, but isn't it actually the really hairy guy who just kind of grunts at you to communicate?

I agree in general (and world building is how my GL show ended up), but I actually think you want most of the worldbuilding heavy lifting in the movies and the shows to be about B-tier characters that are clearly not "homework" for the movies. Hence why I was doing detective comics as the main one (which also lets them have much lower budgets). And yeah, not doing anything for WW or Flash is a generational fumble. I say this later on but supergirl's really illustrated the issue with the "whatever has the best script" approach- if you thought supergirl had the best script, at that point just do WW with whatever script it had and you'd make more off her being a more famous character. I think it's a great origin story for the league, especially the interactions between Hal/Batman/Superman/Flash early on. I actually WOULD want to see the Hal Jordan parademon beat down, not just because while brutal for Hal it's funny, but because him getting his arm broken and then having to rally the league is a pretty badass bit of character development for him. Hal is a character that I think the GA needs some more prodding to like, unlike the trinity or inherently likeable Flash, so putting him on the backfoot and having him step up would go a long way. Pretty solid lineup, definitely drops the audience into a wider universe from the start, but that allows you to tell a lot more stories. I think it's an inspired gamble- while there's a risk of turning people off, I think you can trust the audience to grasp the general concept of a universe already full of superheroes, and the standalone nature of a lot of those projects helps spread the risk in case one fails, or let you adapt and make sequels off the ones that become hits. The WW2 era film would be really cool, a good way to get the Justice Society their movie. I also like the idea of using Booster Gold to show us all the major companies and organizations in play. And of course, Court of Owls is a seminal batman story that I'm shocked hasn't been adapted yet. It's pretty much a guaranteed one from probably the last new villain (group) to make it big in DC. The green lantern trilogy would be a pretty cool space opera epic, I'm also impressed you were able to wait so long to put in Kyle Rayner- I was unable to restrain myself from dropping Question into phase 1. If anything the only bits I'd be unsure on are the ones you're keeping from the current DCU. (I cannot reconcile the subversion of superman's origin, and in part because I liked what they'd done with supergirl in the past, I can't get behind the Woman of Tomorrow comic. Taking her classic angelic wings and making them the result of a red-K drug overdose just feels deeply unsettling to me. I don't think it's something that would actually matter to the GA, most of whom wouldn't know she ever HAD wings, but on a personal level it just makes me feel gross) I can see your point, but I do think at this point the general audience is able to understand the concept of there being multiple versions of a superhero. Maybe differentiate it a bit by letting The Batman Part ll be R-rated and concretely cementing it as elseworlds, but I think so long as you aren't doing the same style of batman movie or releasing them in the same year, they can coexist. (Also, while I don't think The Batman was anything amazing, it blows my mind that you hated it but didn't think supergirl was bad.) Probably. But in the absurd hypothetical that they put me in control of DC studios I will assume I could stop it. I don't think you can blame Supergirl's worse-than-morbius box office on Toy Story 5, they really weren't intended for similar audiences. At least I hope not. But regardless, it illustrates the flaw with the "we'll make whatever movies have the best scripts ready" strategy rather than an overall schedule- if this is the best script ready, you might has well have just gone ahead with trinity films and made at least a little more off the bigger names. My point is just that if supergirl had been a big success, I think lego would have started putting some stuff in the works for future films. As is, like you say, their belief that only Batman sells for DC is reinforced. (Though I don't think this is true of superheroes in general, just DC. Non-spider-man marvel movies no longer are guaranteed sets, but most MCU movies still get at least one.) If supergirl had at least been likely a financial profit like Superman, I could see them cautiously watching to see if something's happening here, but given their loose superman tie in retired early and the subsequent DCU film- again- got shellacked by MORBIUS, I would say even getting another comic-based loose tie in would be a miracle. I wish, but find it unlikely. What happened to those specialized cloth cape shapes back in 2020? The glide cape and windswept cape. Those were awesome, why can't we get those instead of hard rubber capes?

I just can't get behind the rubber capes. I think this one illustrates it the most with how it fundamentally prevents you from using the arms, but why couldn't they have done this with a cloth piece? So with Supergirl performing worse than Morbius (Though, can you really blame it for doing worse than the greatest superhero movie of all time?) at the box office, I think it's safe to say that lego is not going to be looking to go all-in on the DCU. I was thinking about how the DCU could have avoided this- (I just really don't think "M-rated suicide squad parallel cartoon" - "superman" - "season 2 of an M-rated suicide squad spinoff show from the previous universe" - "supergirl" was the right move), and thought it would be interesting to ask you guys what you would have done if you'd been handed the keys, maybe in a manner that produced some projects lego might be more confident in making sets for. Here's what I would have done (in spoiler for space):