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You better have lived long enough to see yourself become the villain on day #451. Or maybe 452 if you want to make a Fahrenheit 451 reference about lego burning instruction manuals in favor of the digital ones tomorrow. (I assume the title stays the same even in Celsius countries) Not necessarily, vader is a major character and more of a draw for most people. Yes. We're in dire need of a stormtrooper battle pack. Yup, there aren't really any scenes you could do without him besides the first meeting with Lando, and the build for that would just be a landing pad. Maybe a small playset of the droid scrapping room. Yes, they have the budget to be pretty good about this most of the time. Which makes the constant mando all the more puzzling- he doesn't need to be in sets like the shuttle. I assume cloud city (not duel) will connect to the bottom of the duel set, right? And then if it's "tall", it probably ends with the area represented in the 2020 exclusive set.

True, I didn't see that. It would make sense. I don't think that necessarily means they aren't. Vader is an integral part of pretty much every cloud city scene that involves conflict besides the escape at the end, which would just be a bunch of hallways. I imagine they could have one repeated fig and still be compatible. Ultimately I think the movie and series "count" as one thing- brickset and bricklink certainly consider them as one- but yes, both the movie and show feature these designs for the characters and ship. The other executor hunters leaked, and for the life of me I can't tell if they're different from the previous versions of those figures. (Aside from 4-Lom's neck bracket and this guy having Zuckuss's skirt backwards.) Not that that's bad- it just speaks to how well the previous versions were done. I would say hopefully Zuckuss's secondhand price decreases, but coming in a set so expensive probably won't lower that $30-40 price tag much.

I think the thing that hit me the most was the swapping of price points for Sentinel Battle and Quinjet. Went from a day 1 buy and likely purchase to two likely skips. I love the thunderbolts and will probably end up getting that set even with John and Ava missing, but the other two are probable skips from me now. A $60 quinjet won't be very good, and the figures don't interest me (aside from Cyclops, who much like in the last jet he was in I'll just pick up by himself later on). And at $100, that's a paltry figure selection for an epic moments set, and with the epic moment sets the figs are a major factor. Like that lego star wars special they put out a year or two ago where Ahsoka just is a brickheadz hanging out with the main cast of minifigs. Some of the spider-man music has come out, including some expected Giacchino work (Suite New Day, which is pretty solid) and in what was a total shock to me at least, the Frieren OP songwriters from japan releasing Brand New. It's not really related to lego, but I'd check out the translation of Brand New's lyrics because they pretty much describe what I imagine the thematic core of the movie is.

They have yellow cockpits in the 2008 TCW show but black ones in the 2003 CW show. So definitely all 2008 TCW based, and I was just correlating them in my mind as both having originated from the 03 show (along with clone armor Obi-Wan, albiet- like ventress and the ship- a different design for the concept). Though to be fair, it wouldn't be the first time lego's randomly done a clone wars 03 set. I think Dooku's odds are increasing with every new update we get about the coming sets. It really seems like lego is giving this anniversary the celebration it deserves, so so long as we can get one geonosis set or some sort of clone trooper vehicle, he's got a shot. Sword'ied again, this is all very well put. I think those extra 83 pieces are a fair trade-off for the set being down a fig compared to Paz vs Gideon, and they'll certainly make a much more substantial build than the 2020 set's 200 pieces. I am going to lose my entire wallet in 2027. I'm going to have to rob a lego store or something. With only 3 figs in the $40 duel set I would hope they give Anakin and Obi-Wan both some needed updates, but I suppose the $45 ahsoka fighter really only had one new fig they went all-out on, and presumably mustafar's most detailed fig will be Concept Han. Hopefully they splurge a little more on the fig budget for these- I feel like a lot of the 2024 sets had figure count/budgets that were already reasonable before adding the anniversary fig. I'm going to make a prediction on that cloud city set- given the figures included and the figure count, it's going to be one of those $55ish playsets like Peridea or Boarding the Tantive, and will primarily be a build of the dining room.

They're mocking us. Gambit and Thing over Cyclops and Reed is an interesting choice, you think they'd go with the leaders of each faction. Thing is defintiely more popular, and I suppose you could say gambit's more popular than cyclops, but in the latter case why not give him a minifig in the wave? He could easily have been slotted into that $100 epic moments set that comes with a paltry 6 minifigures. Tbf is it not a common criticism that almost every MCU character is a quippy action hero in situations not befitting of it?

Is everyone forgetting Bigger Luke comes with an anniversary fig too? For whatever reason the statues get figs, I guess. Looking at the figure count, I bet it combines with Bespin Duel! This is (mostly) excellent news: Female Luke is a good choice for the maxifig Luke- it's a novel figure, but it's not one of THE designs people think of, at least for me. You can still have a "full set" of mcquarrie figs without picking up the maxifig. Vader being moved to the bespin duel is excellent as well, as is the confirmation chewie is coming- even if it's in a yoda statue. This is definitely looking like an expensive January. I'm 100% buying at least the duel and the Y-wing, and I may pick up Mustafar as well if the build is good. I share @CloneCommando99's hopes that we just got bad info on the Endor set and it's actually got more figs or something, because right now in terms of the normal playsets it sounds like we have 5 hydrogen bombs and an overpriced coughing baby, so to speak.

This year we're getting the New Avengers Tower as a doomsday set for $110. It will include Doom, Human Torch (flame-on), Bucky Barnes, The Sentry, Yelena Belova, and the Red Guardian. Unfortunately no John Walker or Ghost. In January 2027 we will get Strange Supreme's Sanctum (814 pieces) with Strange Supreme, Spider-Man, and zombie Thor, zombie Iron Man, zombie Namor, and zombie Wanda. Eyebrow color fits too... not a bad idea to pick up.

Perhaps when you consider the number of sets, but not when you look at what sets they are. 4 in a $60 vehicle set isn't bad but it's nothing special. But this is a SIGNIFICANTLY lower figure count than we tend to get in the $100 epic moment sets, and the $110 set also has a figure count that skews lower than average for the size/cost. The Ant-Man/Peter Parker head has expressions that work pretty well for Bob- goofy smile and panic- so clearly it won't be that one. My guess is Shang Chi/Bruce Wayne.

I suppose it's possible, but I don't think it's particularly likely. (Technically speaking the Gambit in the mansion doesn't count either way as he would have been developed before the movie released and even if WE knew he was going to be in it earlier, lego wouldn't have.) He was in the movie but not particularly inappropriate himself or with particularly much screen time, and one of a huge chunk of X-men characters. While in an R-rated project he's also been a major part of the X-men cartoon and Rivals game. I think he's safe. Thank you. How do you swordy me on my own Literally Me? Yeah. $60 quinjet has no chance. I'm somewhat optimistic that the $100 price tag means that Sentinel will be our biggest yet and a pretty nice build... but even if it IS a great build, this is by far the worst epic moments set in terms of fig count for the cost. Very disappointing. Seeing as a number of the characters in the scene would only need one new print (Reed torso, Steve head, Shang-Chi torso) and others like CapFalc and Doom are/can be re-uses, this should have been a 10 minifig set. You pull Samcap and Cyclops here, add in Shang-Chi and Steve, and then maybe we could have gotten Ava and John in the Quinjet. (And add Sue to the tower regardless- for $110 that should also have a fig that would only require one new print) The build for this one needs to be stellar or I'm not even looking at it. $110 with six figs and it doesn't even include the full Bolts team? Unfair. This is 100% how they were able to give him that level of detail- he eats the cost of four figs. I would easily have taken one with unprinted arms and the existing hold mold if it meant we could have finished the bolts and/or F4 and/or X-men. Ah, as I told you when you brought up almost wanting the beret- I can swap the beret for an unprinted venom cap helmet- I can't manifest head and torso prints. Thing is, he's in the $60 bust. I think at the very least he should be absent from either the tower or the sentinel battle, if not both. The fact that there's only 6 minifigures in that $100 set, and that the other two members of the F4 included in the wave are the "powered up" versions makes me think it almost has to be bendy torso reed. I'm pleasantly surprised to see how many people both here and elsewhere are lamenting the loss of John. There are a LOT of comments everywhere about it, even the top comment on the reddit post about the sets laments the lack of a Walker fig. Reddit was not a place that I expected to be full of John Walker appreciators. Hopefully lego sees this and manages to slot him into a set coming next year. *Insert that meme of Peter Griffin saying "but I want it NOW!" and destroying his TV* Also everyone just a heads up there are starting to be major, reliable "saw the final cut of the movie" leaks for spider-man, so watch out if you don't want spoilers. I haven't seen any major plot synopses yet but the post-credits scene and another scene I never would have guessed would be in the film have both leaked.

Alright, so going through the teams. Some compositions may be off, I'm only going off characters we know for sure are in the film. They could be less accurate on teams like the X-men, but I wouldn't blame them since if it's a character we don't know is coming lego probably wouldn't know either. Fantastic 4: 75% complete: Missing Sue Storm (Also uniformed Johnny and Ben, but that's not bad.) I assume the logic here was that Reed is needed bc he's Doom's rival- hopefully- and then Johnny and Ben probably only snuck in because we didn't get shirtless thing or flame on johnny in the F4 sets. Thunderbolts: 66% complete: Missing John Walker and Ava. Presumably because this is because they, like RG, won't be joining the other three on the big mission. My guess is RG made it in simply because he's the most colorful of the three characters. X-men: 66% complete: Missing Professor X and Gambit. Professor X's exclusion is obvious- he's by far the least interesting of them and probably isn't in the sentinel fight. Gambit is a shocking exclusion given how popular he's become in recent years- I feel like he would make or break an entire set for a lot of peple. Falcon Cap's dregs: 16% complete: Missing Falcon ll, Ant-Man, Shang-Chi, Shuri, and Namor. By far the most reasonable exclusions. All of these characters have had minifigures within the past few years, seemingly have largely consistent designs, and aren't very popular. Ressurected Trinity: 66% complete: Missing Steve Rogers. My assumption is lego simply wasn't given concept art. While he's not a very interesting design, Steve is one of the main characters of the movie and it's shocking he's not in any sets. On average, we're only pulling 2/3rds of these teams. This wave really needed another set or two. The teams being split up is dumb but a standard "if you want any one full team you must buy multiple sets" move, but let's say we got one more set- The F4 ship- with 6 figs: Doom (because he seemingly must be in every set), Sue Storm, John Walker, Ghost, Gambit, and Steve Rogers. It would finish almost every team. What's so frustrating is that feels like just the type of set that we'd get a month or two after the movie, but we KNOW the 1HY marvel sets, and we're only getting one new doomsday character- a spoiler one I haven't mentioned at all.

Oh man, I didn't even think about

"I LIVED MY LIFE BY YOUR INSTRUCTIONS! I dedicated my life to your instructions! I only ever built what you asked of me, what you told me to build and trained me to do, and I did it! And I did it well." - John Blocker RED GUARDIAN BUT NO JOHN? Lego you better give me John and Ava. You can't do this to me. I started this Thunderbolts demand. You know how much my wallet's sacrificed? Also, only 6 figures in a $110 building for a movie with a billion characters, and one of them is still a repeat. I blame everybody who was complaining when it seemed possible Doom would only be in the bust. The fact that we don't even get a single full team is legitimately insane. And you look at the missing characters- it's some of the most popular ones (Steve, Gambit), or ones that we know have more significant roles than some of the included (Sue, Shang-Chi, Ant-Man). This is absurd. Yeah, exactly! Like Drax in infinity war and endgame. I can't wait for the blister pack coming out alongside these that includes John Walker, Ghost, and Gambit. *rocks back and forth in straitjacket*

I'm actually becoming delusional, I've decided the leakers are wrong and "Hydra cap" refer's to Moon Knight's henchman, the ex-hydra goon Soldier, and that the doomsday wave is actually a moon knight wave of sets. I can't wait for that $110 midnight mission set with Tigra, Hunter's Moon, 8-Ball, Zodiac, and the like, or the $100 Khonshu Battle set with all the previous Hands of Khonshu, or the $60 mooncopter with MK, black spectre, vermin, and funeral dress Thing. But as for my actual thoughts, now that I've had time to organize them better, I think a picture is worth a thousand words: I can't get more specific than this without spoiling, but about the x-men discussion

Just when you think it's safe to go back to the lego aisle... come on. We were all so excited about that Sentinel battle set, and now we're getting our legs cut out from under us with it actually being $40 more? There better be more figs and that sentinel better be ninjago mech-level huge. Agh. 433 pieces is not enough for a quinjet, and that's a pitiful figure count. Much like with the last jet that included him, I'll just wait and bricklink or ebay cyclops once his price goes down. Doom presumably will be in other sets and I have no interest in minifig thing or captain falcon. (And mind you, when they first made him captain falcon in endgame, I was excited. I made my own lego captain falcon using the pentagonal tiles from the endgame cap motorcycle for the wings. But it's like morbius came in and sucked all the charisma out of anthony mackie- and the dialogue they've given him doesn't help either. You gotta do better, marvel!) I will say, props to them for letting Thing pilot something. All hope now rests on the Watchtower, but with one set to include 6 bolts, and notable more-marketed missing characters like Sue, Shang-Chi, and Ant-man... forget the helmet vs beret, I don't think we get John. I'm starting to worry whether or not we get SENTRY is in question. I could easily see that set's lineup being Doom, baby Franklin, Steve, Sue, Ant-Man, Shang-Chi, Shuri, and Johnny. It's thundover. The absolute gall to build the watchtower with pretty much no chance we get the team that inhabits it... Unfortunately after these new leaks there's no chance we get Gambit. Sentry is possible but we certainly won't get much of his team with him- I doubt we get John, and Ghost and RG have worse odds than Gambit. Welp, monkey's paw about cyclops. I'm blaming you for this quinjet. That would be really funny to be honest. If only we'd gotten a Thunderbolts set with the actual Sentry so we could have had a kitbash bathrobe Bob in a doomsday set as a low-budget extra fig. Luckily that one's easy to swap out. We're probably not getting any daredevil ancillaries unless they're in modulars at this point. Silver Surfer I think has a chance- if Doomsday gives some popularity to the F4 maybe lego throws us a bone with a comic set. Yup. :/. Of course. They give us the worst option. So are the MCU and comic sets just different designers? Is it a two-face situation? How come so many of the comic and Raimi sets are perfect, but then our scant coverage for the MCU sets always ends up being a random smattering of figures in weirdly sized and overpriced builds?

Welp- we should be getting Doomsday set images by the end of next week. I think there's a lot for them to clear up with them. Here are my final guesses, definitely more on the optimistic side but going off the one set we do have an excellent figure count for: New Avengerz tower: Comes with Doom, Steve Rogers, Captain Falcon, Shang-Chi, Gambit, Cyclops, Sentry, Yelena, Bucky, and Invisible Woman. $100 vehicle set: Brickheadz 5-pack: Doom, Thor, Reed, Cyclops, Yelena.

Oh yeah I didn't mean that there wouldn't be any more projects, I just meant that the universe would be cancelled. Sort of like that last weird in between period after The Batman 1 where we got stuff like blue beetle and that one that changed the hierarchy of power in the DC universe. Honestly I think if Lanterns doesn't get the numbers they want there's a good chance Gunn is voluntold to just be the superman movie guy and somebody else steps in to fast-track batman and wonder woman DCU movies. Superman is really the only thing they have going for them in terms of the GA, I think if MOT were to bomb (which again, I don't think it will) they scrap the DCU the same weird trickle way they did with the DCEU.

I haven't watched the original ones in full, but your description of Professor X is largely accurate to the comics aside from the fact that there are often major story arcs along the lines of that Magneto quote, where the X-men get tired of him keeping secrets and the like. Sometimes he is shown legitimately as a good teacher and father figure, but he fails often and his students call him out for his behavior when he does. Again I haven't watched the originals in full and from what I've seen of them cyclops comes across more as Professor X's stooge than his protege, but in the comics he's generally the field leader of the X-men (or, of their main team, sometimes there's like 5 teams). He is a hero who very keenly feels that the weight of his subspecies is on his shoulders and that his actions determine the future of his people (which has led to some worse stories for him where he ends up deciding his people's survival is more important than humanities, but for the character in general it's why he's so by-the-book- he knows the actions of him and his team will be scrutinized, he knows that Wolverine running around like an animal is not going to help the X-men's public image). About the female heroes in the MCU, I feel like it ultimately comes down to a lot of separate, smaller things that affect some of the individual characters who would otherwise have been in the movie. It's difficult to explain without spoilers, but I think there's a very obvious reason that has nothing to do with her sex, and at this point it's pretty clear characters like are in the movie and just being kept secret. The only one that I think really isn't in the movie and has no obvious reason to be excluded is Storm. You've also got to remember that a lot of other heroes are weirdly absent- star-lord, vision, war machine, moon knight (the comic version you could easily just say would get powerscaled, but show moon knight isn't exactly netflix daredevil), Strange, Spider-Man, Hulk, Hawkeye, Nick Fury, etc. Much like with the female heroes, some of these have reasons (hawkeye is probably retired for good, and at least one of the people I mentioned is 100% in the movie and being kept secret like one of the female heroes), but some of them just... aren't here. I think a lot of this comes down to the failure to set up any sort of Samvengers team. Right now, it looks like his team is literally Sam, Falcon Junior, and Shang-Chi, which is just nothing. And I would hazard a bet Shang-Chi would have been left off too had it not been for DDC directing the previous iteration of this film and seemingly lobbying hard for the character. I second that- it's great to see him in a real suit. Plus we've seen from the sonic movies of all things that James Marsden can actually emote as an actor (even alongside CGI constructs), so I really don't blame him for how he comes off in what I've seen him in as Cyclops.

The MCU is their exception to the rule- I don't know why they skipped Thunderbolts but generally every movie gets a set. DC is in a radically different state but they still gave superman a loose tie-in, which... retired early. Not good news. :( I still don't understand how Brave New World beat it. Hopefully they get some good screen time in Doomsday and everyone can see that they're the best super team around since endgame. With The Battinson ll now being a 2028 movie, there is a nonzero chance that the film's development outlasts the entire DCU. I don't think it's particularly LIKELY- I imagine MoT does about as well as Soup, which would probably keep it alive- but if that movie underperforms and Paramount pulls the plug a few months later, there's a nonzero chance that an entire cinematic universe occurs between the first and second battinsons.

At least we're getting a pretty X-centric set in the Doomsday wave, but even that one's missing Cyclops, who was the money shot of their doomsday teaser. Hopefully Doomsday gets kids hyped for the X-men so we can start getting some stuff. It got my younger brother to start reading up on Cyclops and Magneto, at the least. Couldn't have said it better myself. Magneto sounds like he's going to go WILD in this movie, though like you I would have preferred Fassbender. And while I doubt they'll give him nearly as much screen time as his fan-favoritism should get him, "literal gods fighting to destroy universes and only-slightly-stronger-than-human John Walker is set up against insurmountable odds" is a great situation to drop the character (and thunderbolts as a whole) into. If marvel knew what they were doing, they'd parallel the endgame Steve-against-the-odds moment with the taco shield. I will say I'm interested to see Cyclops, Loki, Thor, and the other bolts again too. Generally agreed. Steve here is a half-measure of them wanting Chris Evens back to get people in seats but not wanting to admit Falconcap didn't work. I didn't hate the F4 movie but Reed especially didn't work for me, and that's pretty much the one you need to get right if you're going to pit them against Doom. I think the Russos are bringing back the good version of Thor but he was definitely marred by the last movie, and I never particularly cared about Ant-Man. Professor X is a character you're often meant to dislike- I imagine if they're doing Time Runs Out it'll be the same here with him intentionally destroying other universes to keep his doomed one alive a little longer- but at this point I think Patrick Stewart really needs to be done with the role. They already cashed the nostalgia ticket on his wasted role in Dr Strange 2 anyway. Only one I disagree on is Cyclops. From what I've seen of the movies they haven't done him justice- much like a number of the recent comics- but he's supposed to be THE X-man. If anything, it'd have been better if Professor X had died before this point in the timeline and Cyclops and Magneto now lead the remainder of the X-men in the Time Runs Out scenario. Putting him into the position of being the new leader of the X-men as the world literally crumbles around them would be an opportunity to make him shine.

I haven't watched him in awhile- I don't dislike him, but I stopped specifically because it felt like every other video had him claiming something was coming or theorizing we'd get something off of ridiculous stretches. He also brought up the minifigs in fortnite a lot, because IIRC he's a huge fan of the game, but those have never hinted at actual upcoming licensed figures. Yeah. If the most Soup (2025) got was a mech, Soup 2 isn't getting one. You can argue the specifics on how well Soup did as a movie, but it certainly wasn't a smash-hit against it's budget. Peacemaker and Creature Commandos would never get sets, and from what I've heard the ending of the former was pretty controversial. Supergirl performed worse than morbius. Lanterns is shaping up to be a monumentally poor adaption of the mythos- so much so that one of the comic artists dunked on it himself- and regardless, the rating means it also would never get sets. So lego's looking at a sequel to a movie where their loose tie-in retired early, and a universe where every other project was R-rated, a massive flop, or both. There is zero incentive for them to make sets, especially when they seem to have data that claims at the moment batman is their only seller. Given the huge names they've been attaching to this thing and yet it STILL can't get off the ground I'm starting to wonder if it's some Roger Corman F4 esque scheme where they don't actually intend to release this movie and are just going to pay off some of the people involved.

And legs! I hope we get a remake of 75167 or something soon. Even if the versions in it aren't quite as good as the executor ones, it's been quite awhile since the last time most of these hunters were readily availible. Zuckuss has never been easy to get ahold of.

Honestly at the end of the day I wouldn't really blame lego for it given it seems to be his doomsday. I can suck it up, buy the venom cap helmet and take some nail polish remover to it. This is all on marvel for ruining one of the few good phase 4 designs they've adapted. But don't worry, I will absolutely make a post hyperbolically melting down over the minifigure's headpiece if it ends up being a beret, or hyping up lego if it's a helmet. Same. As much as I'm fighting my hype and lowering my expectations for the movie, I'm freely letting myself be hyped for the sets. The one set we have the full figure list for is one where the literal only character from it I already own is Thor. Even without the Thunderbolts or other characters I'm hoping for like Gambit/Cyclops/Doom's Cabal/(spoiler characters we won't get this wave), I'm still 100% buying at least one set, which is a big improvement from... any set tying in with a new release since NWH. And come on. Two nice big chances to get the Thunderbolts. One of the two has to pan out.

It is excellent, although unfortunately they seem to count giant minifigure Luke as a 'normal' set. Well, I guess we're on track, now we just have to hope we get some Ahsoka sets alongside it. With almost a year before May, is it too much to ask that in the next few weeks we'll find out Jedi 3 is a May 2027 release date and get another Triple Force Friday? It'd be poetic for the Fallen Order series to start alongside the end of the sequel era and end at the start of the new era (and unfortunately more likely than not, get ignored in both triple force fridays.) Honestly I don't even blame lego for this one, $200 to $230 for a "standard" one is actually less dramatic than it would be going off inflation. But regardless, yeah, tack a star wars tax onto it and there's no way we get a $200 modular in 2027. Where coincidentally, Morbius did get a minifig while many MCU villains didn't. Though no Loxius Crown, or Lorbius as he should be called. Three sets for starfighter could be OK if they're actual normal sets and not a giant buildable Ryan Gosling's droid/alien sidekick. My optimistic guess will be that it's 3 of the following 4: Drive (2027) ($30): the landspeeder from the promos with Ryan Starfighter, Human Child, and a generic criminal goon. Mia Goth Starfighter ($70): Mia Goth, and either two criminal goons, or if there's no larger ship, one criminal goon and Matt Smith. The Gosfighter ($80): Ryan Starfighter, Human Child, droid/alien sidekick, and Other Good Guy #1. Non-Starfighter Ship ($150-180): Matt Smith, Mia Goth, 2-3 criminal crew, Ryan Starfighter, and Other Good Guy #2.

This is where I would mark it as well. You can't make a fully clean cut- 2021 had a lot of stuff based on older batman films, and 2022 technically did have the 4+ set and the art set- but you have a year without any normal batman/DC sets, and when it returns in 2023, it's fully in the form of batman sets for older films. I believe that's about the time Lego themselves started branding it specifically as lego batman again, too.

But definitely smaller than a modular. Even without accounting for licensing or the increased number of new prints the figures will have, I can't remember the last modular that was $200 if you account for inflation.