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I don't mind it, partially because it's not going to be accurate to anything anyway since it's another spider-man car, but it's at least a nice lore connection since spidey normally wears gold-in comics and movies both- when associated/sponsored by Iron Man or more recently Norman Osborn, which is the only time he'd have resources to be rolling around in a sports car instead of taking the subway. In a way, although luckily Mysterio and Rhino are both new exclusive figs. Yeah, I don't think they're generally looking much at new comics for comic minifigures. Aside from Nu-ultimate goblin, I can't remember the last time we got a minifigure based off a comic design that was only a few years old at the time. Turtle's dramatic entrance to the thread with that oscorp link made me realize Kraven has Dr. Strange's head, which is laughable. That entire $140 set has four new prints. Compare that to the bugle, which has almost as many pieces, is $40 cheaper, and while it has one less minifigure, has nine new prints. (Mysterio head/torso/legs, rhino torso, venom cap helmet/head/torso/legs, miles torso)

Oh, easily. Even with the direct comparisons like the one you draw between the $10 sets. Honestly even though we haven't seen the mechs yet we can also make a judgement there given those are cheaper and yet have two minifigures instead of one. I'm not even going to give them that credit. The body is fine but the head is awful even for a 4+ set. Entirely wrong shape. I think the latter part is more likely. They just for whatever reason think the 501st and it's sublegion sell best. 4+ Grogu (I totally called buildable grogu forever ago and am glad to be vindicated after the homestead rumors) is unfortunately just one more miss in a full wave of misses. I understand the constraints of the building system, but the head and ears are just entirely wrong. The brickheadz looks better than this.

This one really gets me. It's so much larger than it needs to be but somehow also lacks shaping that could have been done accurately at half the size. I get that it's oversized so they can sell the set for $30, but I'd at least have hoped the designers could use that extra size to make a better shape- as is it just doesn't look good. I guess it's possible, and I'm sure it's part of why we haven't seen Cody in anything else, but I just can't see enough people army-building a $140 set for lego to think they wouldn't be able to squeeze any money out of a 212th pack without cannibalizing sales. Especially when they're fine having a revolving door where there's always 501st and 332nd battle packs on shelves. Hit the nail on the head with both of these. Mando's speeder and the barricade aren't just bad, they're atrocious. It's insane. They did the mando speeder at the same size for the same audience with the same rough piece count a half-decade ago and it looked so much better. I don't understand how they messed it up so badly. The barricade is also an absurd side build, and I need to know what that third side build is because it legitimately seems to just be a stack of two 2x3 bricks like you'd see as a side build for a polybag in the 90s. I just don't understand what happened here, did they beam some designers in from 2003?

Actual audio recording from lego headquarters. I don't think it's likely they just drop the N-1 entirely. Mando has a safe base of operations now, it's just like having a sports car and minivan. Sometimes you use the faster one, sometimes you use the one that can fit buff slug Jeremy Allen-White inside. He can probably afford it given his job and that I assume Greef doesn't have him paying property taxes or a mortgage. He'll have to use the crest when transporting Rotta, but I'm sure we'll get at least one scene of him smoking TIEs in the N-1 at either the start or end of the film. Mando's N-1 is a good choice for the may UCS. Ties in with the movie, a popular vehicle, and just something that will look good on display. I don't think I'll pick it up, but it was a good move and something I think a lot of us predicted. These render leaks are so rough part of me wants to believe they're fake: 2010 speeder bike the designers found in a prototype bin: How did we evolve backwards on this? You did a much better job five years ago for the same rough piece count! It legitimately looks like a set that would have been designed 10-20 years ago. The one possible redeeming quality is if it really does feature UCS razor crest Mando, which would be completely inaccurate for the speeder but at least it would give the set something of value The duality of mandos: A perfect encapsulation of the divide within the theme. The speeder itself is fine- actually a pretty solid battle pack build. But that barricade looks like something out of the early 2000s lego design philosophy. What happened? And there's what I hope is just a new crate piece but kind of appears to be a stack of 2x3 bricks in the corner of the image? Why? It's really funny to me that out of the builds in the set, the mandos get a pretty cool looking speeder and the clones have a 2003 era side build. It's like seeing the clone battle pack effect within the set itself. Unjustified: The General Grevious's Combat Speeder of this decade. Excellent minifigures with an oversized speeder for an overcharged price. At least it came down from $35 to $30, bringing us from "genuinely insane" to merely "pretty rough". The build is an ok representation of the vehicle, but the scale is too large- it'll be funny to put this next to the mando speeder in the same wave, when Cobb's speeder shouldn't be much larger than it in-universe. Also, it's weirdly blocky for how big it is- that entire main engine is supposed to be round, and while I get they can't make it a perfect circle there's no attempt to slope it at all on the lower sides- it's actually THICKER On the bottom than in the middle. This should have been a $20 battle pack with a much smaller build and two tuskens or something thrown in. How is this the defining set of the wave: As far as the mechs go this is a fairly solid build, I like the shins. It's difficult to tell but the blaster appears to have a new stud shooter piece, which is interesting. And of course, it really is a shock trooper in the mech, which is a little bit of a strange choice- a 212th trooper probably would have sold best given that outside the regions who got the magazine, it's never been army-buildable, or a Galactic Marine would also have done well- but it's not as bad as if it was a 501st or 332nd trooper.

I don't think there's much more on the horizon this year (or at all..). DC was frontloaded in 1HY this year as well, the overall number of sets revealed so far is consistent with what we've been getting from the theme, and Marvel has both a spider-man and an avengers movie releasing this year. The quality of doomsday as a film (or lack thereof) won't change the fact that it's going to eat up a lot of budget. To be fair this is them respecting the source material, in 1993 Joker destroyed the concept of January to mess with Bruce Wayne's new years party and the DC universe has lived with 11 months in the year ever since.

Either they figured out whatever supply-distribution thing they were worried about, legos are covered by the USMCA, or both, so they can't use it as an excuse to jack up prices. A chunk of the Star Wars US prices went down too for 2026. I can't speak to why the bugle's LESS in USD then EUR though. I vaguely remember there being past times when a single set in a wave had a weird price in some regions compared to others, maybe it's that? Especially if the Bugle's the only one that has that issue. Because this wave is too peak to be sullied by the mechs. (I think there actually is precedent for the mechs being revealed at a different time than the rest of the wave, I vaguely remember the initial Iron Man/BP/non-wolverized venomarine sets being revealed by themselves initially, before the whole "we have to re-do all three mechs because they have illegal connections so they're being delayed four months" thing. And I'm pretty confident that at least one of the two previous spidey-and-villain mech two-packs was revealed by itself.) No, I think there was a guy not saying he wished it was a raimi set but actually saying he was confident it would be a raimi set. I'll have to go back and look at some point. I'm pretty confident lego actually does run some sort of SEO term search through the forum. It would also explain why they don't realize nobody actually wants stuff like wolverized venomarine- all they see is the engine telling them it's been mentioned 500 times. Kaine, Daredevil, Moon Knight, Luna Snow being in Oscorp. You know what, this last wave has been so good that if they keep it up I'm confident we can squeeze four more specific variants into 2HY, let's go Jon Bernthal Punisher (trenchcoat), MCU John Walker (helmet), Rivals devil 2099, and Rivals Psylocke (the default ancient japan one, not the viral alt skin) It's a cruel joke in a largely excellent wave that they decided to make the single best Cap figure they've ever done and them spill black paint onto it. I think it's supposed to represent the Penance stare, of which I think it does a good job. The black helmet would be even better for USAgent customs if they hadn't, in accordance with their cmf-level detailing on this figure for no reason, printed venom tendrils on it... Hopefully it is the same Rhino minifigure in that 4+ set. Though unfortunately I don't think we'll get to see Bloody Skull Mysterio from the bugle appear in a 4+ set anytime soon...

You know what, the Chicken Jockeys are justified, that's preemptive self-defense for any theatre employees nearby I envy you that she only defrosts in November in the UK. We've been hearing her since mid-september over here in some stores. I don't think it's as concerning as those two specific sets would lead you to believe. They're trying to make this $10 price point work, and choosing a set with the unequivocally two most popular characters of the disney era is a smart move. I'm confident we'll see new figures in later sets, star wars tends to have a much higher budget than superheroes. It's just that for this particular set, there wasn't much of a reason to make new prints. Completely agree. A sloped front, too. It should be possible with 2025 techniques to incorporate the 2016 model's detail onto something the size of the 2009 one. Exactly. Cobb's speeder is either going to be extremely, laughably overpriced or just hilariously large for how big the speeder's supposed to be in-universe. Or both- a spiritual successor to grievous's combat speeder. I don't think I've seen anyone mention it but the TIE Advanced polybag got revealed. Not that there's much to say, they couldn't even be bothered to put a cockpit print onto the transparent dish at the front like they used to.

Alright. Who was it who kept saying it was Raimi based. I've never been so happy to be wrong. 90% of this wave actually looks incredible: Nicholas's Cagemobile: My first, horrified thought was "oh dear god, they've venomized him", but upon closer inspection that's actually just fire streaming out of his eyes and it looks sick. Amazing figure overall, I love those new fire fists with stud connections on the ends. The bike is a $10 marvel set, it's fine, I like the flaming skull at the front. Immediate buy even if it's going to confuse a generation of kids into thinking Ghost Rider is a bad guy, I can finally complete my Midnight Sons diorama that currently just has a flaming chain coming out of a strange portal. Also great to see the $10 price point continue. 9/10 "Throughout heaven and earth, I alone am the Wolverized Venomarine": This is a dumb concept in every way and something the theme is doomed to have, but I'll thank them for constraining it to just one set this wave. There are some little bits in here I like, such as the integrated-suit style for the car, which fits well, or the long-prophesized Wolverized venomarine including a plain black cowl and a nice Feral Wolverine expression. It's not something I think anybody here but completionists will bother picking up, but given how solid the rest of the wave is, I'm inclined to let it go. 6.5/10. Oh, and for $20, it's whatever. Not a great price but for 2025 lego not bad. "Sir, they've venomized set 76280": I've never been so happy to be wrong, this mini-diorama looks amazing. Very well done and I'm glad to see 18+ style, minifigure sets at affordable price points. Minifigures are solid as well- it'll be great to have another Tobey, and he even keeps his dual-molded legs, sandman looks great, and Venom has the legitimately creepiest head print I've ever seen on an official figure. (It is funny how close this is to the last sandman diorama though, I'm not joking when I call it venomized 76280, it literally includes the same build for the yellow triangular girder/antenna as that set but in black.) This is another day one buy, and at $25, a great deal. 10/10. Gotosleepgotosleepgotosleepgotosleep: Any of you feeling silly over complaining over getting another hulkbuster? A similarly incredible showing. The best-looking hulkbuster we've ever seen at this scale, and while it's still oversized compared to hulk, it's not nearly as oversized as they'd been getting. The diorama element and base are excellent touches as well. To top it all off, hulk has an incredible new scarlet-witch-induced-rage expression, and IRON MAN HAS ARM PRINTING? WHAT?!?!?! The price is also not too bad, it's not as good as some of the other sets here, but seeing as it includes a bigfig it's nothing terrible. I'll even forgive the lack of knees and elbows since it's not meant as a playset. I shouldn't buy this, but I'll be hard-pressed not to. 8/10. That menace and his friends are harass an innocent journalist at his place of work whilst a hundred-year-old war veteran is possessed: MYSTERIO? DUDE? Alright, alright, build first. The bugle is solid, no notes. Some good architecture on the front, the fire escape adds lots of room for kids to play with the figures around, and I'll be honest, I unironically love the rhino mech, it's fun. Figure-wise, I CAN'T WAIT ANY LONGER, THAT MYSTERIO FIGURE IS INSANE AND I'LL HAPPILY SUFFER THE TWO VENOMIZED CHARACTERS THIS WAVE TO OBTAIN IT. Nice to see him get leg printing, but that skull head print is so metal, I love it. I'm gonna need this figure one way or another. Rhino's great as well, and our first non-4+ costumed rhino. There are some odd budget choices- miles appears to have a new torso for some reason, and the fact that Venom Cap has CMF-level detailing is such a strange move. The design underneath actually does look really good and I almost wish they just did a normal cap figure in this set. And unfortunately, while the helmet is black it has venomized printing, so it can't be used for John Walker unless you make the semi-purist move of erasing it. But if Venom Cap is the price of admission for Mortal Kombat Mysterio, I'll take two tickets please. The price is probably the worst value of the wave, it could use another figure, but it's nowhere near as bad as half the sets in the last few waves, still an overall improvement. If I didn't have the modular, this would be an instant buy, and even with owning the modular I'll be hard-pressed to stay away. 8.5/10 I'm not seeking penance for the sets I've bought, I'm asking forgiveness for the set I'm about to buy: No. I can't do it. They... they made a good buildable figure. Did they finally give up and hire Ransom Fern? The shaping of the lower legs, the posability of the upper body, the way the pieces mesh together to make a humanoid form, the part usage of 3x3 dishes for those circular bits on the sides of the suit's hips, or the ninjago piece for the abs....against all odds, they made a good buildable figure. And the iron man figure has arm printing and a new head print... lego, please, don't make me do it, don't make me buy a buildable figure... oh, it's $130. Ok. I'm safe. That's not the worst price, but it's high enough and feels a little overpriced enough in comparison to the rest of this wave that I can safely avoid purchasing it. 8/10... how am I saying that about a buildable figure. All in all, this isn't just the best january wave as far back as I can remember, but probably one of the single best waves the theme has ever had. They gave us a glimpse of what would be a really cool "comic" cap design for these spidey sets and then the graphic designer accidentally spilled digital black ink on the design and they had to go with the venomized angle because the files autosaved before he could fix it.

I don't mind the inquisitors, because they existed in an era where the sith were the ones in power, they tended to be weaker in the force and more reliant on numbers and tech, and because they made sense in the lore. (Your average padawan is going to be pretty good at evading stormtroopers, but you can't have Vader personally respond to every force-user in the galaxy, so the inquisitors are a good in-between as low-level dark jedi.) I also did like the Dark Jedi concept from legends, something that Baylan and Shin seem to embody- you don't have to be a Sith Lord or beholden to their ideology to be an antagonist force-wielder. You can just be a jedi who goes crazy like C'boath, or isn't beholden to the order/republic/whatever like Baylan and Shin. Don't fall for it, those aren't real zombies! There's a reason they're all so short! I think we'll get some form of recognition for Rogue one, even if it's just an 18+ gimmick or something, but unfortunately Zero Company is unlikely. It's not impossible, I could see the ship popping up in the august wave, but lego really tends to steer clear from even proven-success games like the Fallen order series. I don't see them taking a risk on Zero Company, even if the design process for the game seemed to be rivals-style "how cool can we make the characters look" and it includes one of lego's favorite character type. Yup. Things like the Inquisitors or Ventress don't bother me as much, it's the idea that Kylo's gang has been around for centuries that annoys me because rather than just a single dark side apprentice or a group created by the dominant sith of the era, it's just a gang of not exceedingly smart or strong dark siders that the jedi totally failed to notice for centuries and Palpatine never bothered to wipe out or recruit even when they actively fought against him. The face is flat on the 2009 one as well. While it wasn't as blocky as the 2007 one, it also has some issues the 2016 one doesn't, such as some pretty rough feet, an inability to pose the legs, and a fully DBG roof that leads to some really strange color-blocking. I agree that the 2016 one is too large, though. (However, while you could say waste of money in terms of the AT-ST didn't need to be big enough to cost $40 in 2016 dollars, I would say the set we got was good value for money.)

Through Oscorp all villains are possible. Somebody's got to crawl out of that vat of eels. The legs on that figure have spots on the sides as well, which would be a nice upgrade. Yeah. It's hard to judge the mech in the open-cockpit, weird pose it's doing, but the figure inside looks good. It is a mech-suit rhino (I mean, the figure, obviously the figure is also IN a mech suit) rather than a onesie one too, like I'd guessed. Same here. New mysterio doesn't have arm or leg printing, or the smoke cloud base thing the 2021 one had in that one set, but it does seem to be a new design with more yellow/gold for the torso, which is something. Yeah, this looks a lot better than oscorp. If it goes on sale I wouldn't mind adding it to my marvel skyline, removing the DB logo in the front and just having it be some office building. I do find it fun for the build how they really took "mini-modular" to the next level and while it is a colorswap (to the prototype D2C bugle colors, actually), it shares a lot of design similarities with the D2C and does act as a mini version of that specific set. As for the figures... it's not a total wash, but it's pretty rough. The three spiders aren't any worse than the leaked figure list would have led us to believe, but it's still extremely absurd that both Oscorp and the Bugle have Miles and Gwen. Should have been one in each- even if the figures that replaced them were re-uses from other sets, it would have been an improvement on having two companion sets with 40% of the figures identical. JJJ is fine but they did him dirty with that hairline, I don't think I've ever seen him portrayed as balding. Mysterio is a solid B-tier choice, he's not a huge draw but it's his first set in a half-decade so it's good to keep him on shelves and make him availible to kids. It's excellent to get a new Rhino, and it really is Rhino and not Paul Giamatti in a mech. Venom cap... man, I'm glad it was pointed out that it would likely be this dumb half-venomized version beforehand, because yeah this is a stupid design. An absurd amount of the set's budget went into this- he has a dual-molded leg that's also printed? Why is this the figure you go all-out on? A fully venomized design like the Captain Klyntar skin in Rivals would have been much cooler and wouldn't have needed printed, dual-molded legs to capture the character. The one and only possible glimmer of light this figure has is that I can't tell from the lighting whether or not the helmet's black, and if it is, all is forgiven for they've finally made US-Agent viable as a purist custom. Alas, I doubt it, as Venom Goblin and Venom Ock both had normal hair/hats. I'd say the design is like an 8/10, and the figures are a 6-7/10 with some high highs, low lows, and extremely strange budgetary choices. If I didn't have the modular, I'd probably pick it up, but as is I'd want to wait for a sale, and instead will most likely probably just buy Rhino's helmet (currently $2 on bricklink) and slap it on the angry clone head and an ultron Sentry torso. Unless of course the Venom Cap helmet is black in which case I will need to find some way to obtain it.

It's a neat elseworld but I do find it funny that the point was supposed to be a grounded batman who isn't rich with sci-fi level tech, and yet he's performing feats that would make mainline batman look like a normal human. The ancient Tibeten Monk "Double the number of eyes you have" technique, yes, I've heard of it. Yeah, I couldn't get into it. I get the idea, it's a good jumping-on point and a neat elseworld, but at the end of the day it changes too many things that I'd view central to the characters for me to enjoy it long-term. There are some versions where this would actually work for the cowl. I honestly don't think it'd be any less accurate than the others they've used for Battinson He's figured it out. Welcome to the Aslume. The DC theme isn't real, it's just Batman. (Who luckily, does not fly like a bee)

Glad they axed that, I always preferred the idea that they were a fringe group Kylo recently brought about. Their role in the galactic civil war is weird enough to me, the idea that they existed for like two hundred years alongside the jedi order and the Jedi were just like "yeah sure whatever" just doesn't sit right with me. The dark side clouds everything and whatnot, but that would be a new level- the KoR weren't exactly the masters at hiding the Sith were. "Weakest R1 set" is like saying "Weakest world champion weightlifter", at least for that initial wave of sets, but I guess I agree just on the line that the other four are such absolute masterclasses at representing their vehicles that the AT-ST, which is merely excellent rather than perfect, lags behind. Still, though, it was the first system-scale one to get the head geometry even close to correct, rather than the blocky look of it's predecessors. It still requires improvement and downsizing, but I think it was the best we got.

. There's no handshake emote. I don't know why we're invisibly shaking our other hands with the air. I think some sort of D2Cmobile later in the year isn't impossible- I think we've had a DC D2C every year since 2019- but yeah, I guess the Pattmobile would make more sense for 2027. (though by that same metric, so would the system one, although assumably they were planning for the game and movie to release around the same time and therefore in a bit of a pickle when it got delayed so much) I don't really know what else they would even do, though. Maybe the BVS mobile, but that's a stretch, same with the other TDK trilogy vehicles. MAYBE the TDK batcycle? I mean, honestly, I wouldn't say it's impossible we get some sort of absolute batman recognition- they've done a figure for the marvel version of Absolute- so, you never know. Obviously probably wouldn't start out with a UCS set, but still. 18+, $250 modular deadpool mech. It's the same size as a normal mech, but deadpool makes a joke about the set being overpriced on the box, so it's ok. Just by typing this, you've singlehandedly killed four non-batman DC sets that were in the works so lego can put the type 5 cowl into production (the dual-molding was too expensive so it'll just be the type 4 cowl with holes in the eyes- helmet holes, if you will- where the white plastic was) Actually, ironically, for how movie-focused they've been, that would be a good cowl mold to invest in... which means we're not getting it. Foiled again, John L. Ego really thought of everything.

They aren't mutually exclusive, but we keep shifting what the argument is, and it stands to reason that if both factors were at play, the american movies with superman/especially the one with a captain america would be the ones at the bottom of the barrel, not F4. As for this, I've already said I'm sure it could have had some minor bit in areas such as canada or parts of europe, but I think blaming it's failure internationally on that is a pretty big cop-out, especially since China, which to my knowledge is the only one actually organizing boycotts of these movies, has rates that aren't all that inconsistent with how it's been going for superhero films there. (which goes for the third point as well, only one of the three MCU movies released this year did any more abysmally in china than you'd expect, and it was the one least connected to the US). And once again, the fact that CA4 did just fine internationally (I mean, in terms of %international vs %domestic.) would imply that that isn't the issue. You would assume however tied to america Superman is, Captain America would be more tied to it. My apologies. Though I'm unsure how you don't get why calling my government a "regime" and repeatedly implying it's more or less a dictatorship in a lego forum would be aggravating to me. That seems pretty straightforward, I'm honestly not even sure what I would need to add to it to explain further. Right, so realistically the mature thing to do would be not dignify this with a response because of how off the rail's it's gotten from the thread, but I will leave my answer in a spoiler to show that I do HAVE answers for all of these. It's the last I'll speak on it, clearly the mods have not been monitoring this thread so it's on us to end it. I think we're similarly pedantic so if you also have to have a last word probably smart to also put it in spoilers. If you want, don't read this one, or I can not read yours, and then it's done. But again, none of this has anything to do with the lego DC thread. Sure. If the US government comes in and forces Gunn to change Man of Tomorrow, I'll join you in condemning it. (I might be being a bit vague here, like obviously if the MPAA tells him that the movie is going to be rated R unless he cuts the graphic Superman/Lex romance scene, that wouldn't count, but you get the spirit of it) But that's the point, this is a lego dc thread, why would I come in and make accusations against the swiss government? I didn't say it's not fair game, I said I'm not the one who brought it up. I have no issue with psqdi's comments, like I've said I don't think they're a good answer to why the movie did poorly, but there's a difference between "sentiment against america is impacting this movie" and accusing my government of being a regime or [redacted]. I dunno, I'd go from the multiple comments in which he states it's accurate and proceeds to reaffirm his belief that it's some sort of proto-dictatorship that it's not just a flippant joke. And I only respond to this stuff about half the time people start doing it- whether I do or not, once somebody brings it up certain other people escalate it regardless, if I remember right last time I ignored "regime" type comments it escalated for well over a page into accusations of [redacted] or other crimes against multiple heads of state. As for russia and china, it's good you bring that up because if I remember right the last time russia was brought up the mods said we shouldn't be discussing politics, but even aside from that you have to admit those three aren't exactly the same, no? Like just the fact that I'm able to see what brickbob accuses my government of would imply that it's maybe not quite the same level as china, right? And once again, I'm still not sure why we're all pretending to be confused as to why someone wouldn't like going onto a lego forum and seeing people call their democratically elected government a dictatorship or their head of state a [redacted] or whatever. This isn't a generalized social media platform, this is a lego forum. There's no reason for that to be here. Again, I'll extend the same thing I did to brickbob, this is a lego forum and the mods don't seem to be monitoring it, let's let it go. I still think the march wave is probably all the system sets we get in 2026, but @CloneCommando99's mech theory does hold a bit of water with the point about only two of the gimmick mech sets this year. Not sure what the next D2C would be, maybe a UCS pattmobile.

I mean, guys, come on, how is nobody talking about the 2016 one? It might be oversized, but it's the best it's ever looked. The entire rogue one wave had the designers operating in top form. The only people in contact were the graphic designers. Palpatine left explicit instructions in operation cinder for them to not tell anyone else, because he wanted to keep the surprise but knew it was extremely important that the Final Order was immediately identifiable as just the First Order with red. (This is actually what the terms mean. First Order was rushed so they only sent out the EP1s that hadn't had paint yet, whereas by the 2nd- and final- order they had the paint ready.) That would be a great symbolic element, unfortunately all we got was a B1 and a hyperspace-capable imperial TIE. I do wish we got more of those random EU pulls. Aw, man, even I didn't know this one. Are they just having a guy from the story group come in and throw random sequel terms into these shows?

Don't even joke about that. Lego could be combing the forum with a SEO tool and by giving them the idea you've just made her replace comic Electro in the bugle. But no the venomization is weird, and what really gets me is that they're never fully venomized. An extrembiote Iron Man, Captain Klyntar, Red Goblin, etc would all have been cool figures, but all they do is splash black goop printing across the characters' torsos and some eyes and teeth on their faces. At the VERY LEAST, if we're gonna get venomized characters, could they actually be venomized and not in some weird in-flux shrodinger's symbiote?

So we're entirely done with "superman failed internationally because superman as a character is so linked to America"? If we're saying it's just all american movies, superman being associated with america doesn't really make sense to single out anymore, especially when the worst-performing in china of major superhero movies this year was the one I think everybody would agree is less associated with america than superman or BNW. (Also I'll point out the comment I was quoting was talking specifically about BNW- I don't keep up with chinese social media, but I'll take your word for it that there were boycott attempts on all three). MCU movies haven't been doing well there for years- not all recent outings have even been allowed to be shown in china, but while some movies like Guardians 3 or Quantumania did well in china, others like Wakanda Forever did just as bad as BNW or Thunderbolts in china despite making twice as much overall. Even DP&W, a huge success, has about the same percentage of it's total gross from china as those movies (about 4%). The failure of superhero movies this year in china isn't much of a departure from how they've been doing in china for years now. I really don't you can blame superman's performance on anti-american sentiment to any statistically significant level. You try to avoid that topic as much as you can, yet you call my government -that's administration came in via winning an election, unless you also want to say my country's holding sham elections- a regime with the sole prompting of "is superman not doing as well internationally because the character tends to be more strongly tied to america?", and then proceed to all but call it a dictatorship. Doesn't seem like you're trying that hard to avoid it. I don't know how much focus on US conlaw you guys have in Sweden, because, like, assumably you'd have more focus on Swedish conlaw, but constant judicial challenges to the executive branch's actions has been a thing for as long as I can remember. I've been personally part of one (we won and they said the executive branch couldn't do the thing), trust me, I know this well. It goes through the system and the supreme court eventually determines whether or not it's allowed, a precedent gets set, and to this day the only president to do something after the judicial branch explicitly set the precedent that he couldn't was Andrew Jackson. In ever other instance- of which there have been many, for many decades- either the precedent is followed in future actions or the initial action eventually gets reversed. But this has LITERALLY nothing to do with the performance of superman internationally or anything else this thread could remotely cover. So maybe instead of calling my government a regime and implying some pretty awful stuff about it, you should get back to that. I don't come here trying to dunk on your country- and yes, we do get news about Sweden here, there's actually been a big story about it in our news cycle this week, but I don't come in and comment on it because this is a lego thread. Was I? In any way? I didn't bring up the idea that superman did poorly internationally due to association with america, and didn't bring up anything political in my response, just saying that I didn't think he was any more associated with america than some other characters. I wasn't the one who brought up politics, I simply responded to someone else calling my democratically elected government a regime. In what way was I the one who switched the tracks? I've never been the one to bring these things up, because I don't like to talk about these things in relation to lego, but I also don't sit by and let stuff continue one-sided. Hell, I wasn't even the one who brought up whether or not the DCU was doing well in the first place. We're on the same page then, the box office generally isn't an end-all-be-all of film quality. My argument would be that unless it bombed so hard that they shut down the universe off that alone, there was always going to be a sequel. It's not like Peacemaker where the character's not exactly in the big three so you can shuffle him off the board without dramatically impacting the cinematic universe.

Good point, you could be right. Though I really don't think lego's looking at the TV-MA show or the cartoon (which I presume is also Adult Swim like MAWS was?) It's possible there's a Doom mech but I assume we'll just be getting movie doom, and I don't think we've ever had an MCU mech. (Even if one of the iron man mechs includes a suit clearly meant to represent mk42) Nah you're copium baiting me with this one, I can't hope for either of them in such a cheap set. Or John at all, honestly- there are just too many characters and we know he's part of the half the thunderbolts who are getting sidelined. I think Sentry has a shot given he sort of broke out and had a wider internet presence than the rest of the film, but I feel like he's probably going to be packaged in the largest set. I thought he meant TellTale Game batmobile (my fault for posting right after the new Dispatch- another superhero IP that will never get sets), Teen Titans Go batmobile with only batman would be the best possible timeline. I'm just saying, someone calling my government a "regime" while simultaneously discussing china- especially china's box office (and what is and isn't allowed there) is ironic.

I'm not a huge fan of the paint job but I have absolutely no issues with them bringing it back, the ship was destroyed too early on. It's the same issue, though. It creates a situation in which some of the accessories meant to fit the mando/clone helmets would no longer work on one of the clone helmets. If anything, it makes it worse by creating two near-identical helmets, but where some accessories only work on one. It would prevent a kid from, for example, putting a visor on Rex or any other clone with that new helmet type. At that point, if you're creating a new mold with the "holes in the correct place for regs and antenna clones", why not create a holeless one for regs and an asymmetrical one for clones with antennas? It's only one more mold proposed than your version, after all. Do you see the issue this makes in terms of compatibility? That design is sick. I assume the lucrehulk-core looking thing would have held the superlaser, which is still absurd powerscaling to minimize the size of a death star laser that much, but would at least have been a better visual signifier than "we put a big gun on the bottom of the ISD"

The issue is if you change things you ruin compatibility between the different helmets that use those accessories, and I assume lego (rightfully in my view) would rather keep it so you can swap them around between the three than create specialized molds for P2 troopers with a different set for mandos and P1 troopers. At the end of the day lego is a building system, and ensuring the pieces fit together in situations like this is more important than perfect accuracy. If you want your clone troopers to be more focused on accuracy than compatibility with the building system, action figures better fit those criteria. That's not to say lego shouldn't try to make sure their clones are accurate within the constraints of the system, or that things like printing light colors on dark pieces aren't an issue, but with things like the helmet holes at a certain point you have to step back and remember that these are lego minifigures and they need to be compatible with the other lego minifigures because, you know, they're legos. How dare you put the razor crest up there, it's the single best ship design of the disney era. I'll give you that the TIE Dagger is erratic (It's not awful but it's odd) and the xyston's downright sloppy, though.

I think there's a fair chance, the set has 4-5 repeat characters (depending on if mysterio is new or not), I can't imagine Captain Klyntar being the only exclusive minifigure in the set. It's possible, though given we never got harry at all, were getting a comic aunt may wildly inconsistent with the MCU one, etc, I really think for Flash it was just a case of the superheroes sets not giving us generic civilians much and preferring to do aunt may when they did put them in. (Again with the bugle being the first time we got Gwen). As for who's retired in the comics or not, I don't think lego actually pays much attention to that. Eddie Brock's Carnage in the comics at the moment, and Venom is MJ. I'm confident we don't see either of those. I think you're right about them liking to tie into the movies, but with the comics I don't think anyone on the superheroes dev team could even tell you whether or not Agent Venom was retired. Beyond getting the occasional design they see art of, such as Nu-Ultimate goblin, the vast majority of figures are based on generic sort of "evergreen" designs. Even within the 2016 period, I think quality varied wildly. The Bridge Battle was great, but it wasn't emblematic of the theme as a whole at that time.

They totally could! Pretty much any batmobile in visual media is on the table. I wouldn't be shocked if they did a $30 dump-truck with absolute batman. Yeah, no chance of a daily planet mini modular. I think the odds are pretty low of getting any non-batman set. It's possible, but I assume it would also have been set for january or march and we'd know about it by now. The superheroes theme usually does all their gimmick mechs in 1HY. I think you're conflating discussing how much money it made with how good it is. I'm not saying it's bad because it didn't do that well (I thought it was mid. Not terrible, but not great.). I'm saying it wasn't the hit the DCU needed. This is a conflation a lot of people make, believing that they have to defend the performance of a movie because they liked it. My two favorite movies of the past few years, Transformers: ONE and Thunderbolts, both failed spectacularly at the box office. I'm not going to try to rationalize to myself that they were big hits- the chips fell, we got the full picture and they bombed, it doesn't impact the quality of the movies. I wouldn't put a ton of stock in the guy who hates the current administration so much he wrote a TV show season he says compares them to nazis blaming that administration for the movie he made and had a lot riding on not doing as well. As for BNW bombing in china (you want to call someone's government a "regime", there's one), the boycott did literally nothing. Thunderbolts had a similar box office both in china, domestically, and overall. Fantastic Four, despite making 20% more than the other two overall, only made a third of the money the other two did in china. Is The Thing just so patriotic china correlated him to america more strongly than the captain america movie?

Oh, right, ok, I thought this was something about international box office over time or whatever, but ok, "regime". So this is just political digging. We're not even... we have a joke in the states, one that usually changes syntax every time the administration changes (the most recent three presidents have had "this is ____'s america", "____ derangement syndrome", and "Thanks, ____" respectively), relating to the idea that people are so wrapped up that everything has to be the fault of the president. "Superman didn't do well because I don't like the US president" fits along those lines, and I mean, come on, we're gonna pretend THAT was the issue with Brave New World? That sounds parodical even for that joke. Are we going to pretend the lens the average non-crazy person looks through when going to watch a movie is "could this movie in some way be tied to the current US president?"? Most people IN THE US, where, you know, the US administration tends to have more of an impact, don't do that, and even if someone WAS wrapped up so much in US politics that they would refuse to watch a movie because the character was tied to america, there's a fair chance they'd also have seen how vocal the director is about disliking the current administration. (I mean, this is the guy who wrote a whole season of a TV show about a nazi america universe and makes comments about how he thinks it's relevant.) You could MAYBE say that under a different administration the movie would have preformed just slightly better in canada and select western european countries, but the idea that Superman's box office issues are in any statistically significantly way the fault of the US president to even a FRACTION of the lowered performance between MoS and Superman 2025, is hilarious. And trying to tie in Brave New World just makes the whole argument laughable. Of all the problems that movie had... But it's probably wise to get back to actual DC set discussion. Fair counterpoint, I hadn't considered that. I still think it's likely all that's left for the year is a D2C batmobile and maybe, at best, a summer set in the vein of the forever batmobile, but they did set up a new subline here and it's possible they go full steam ahead with some more. Though I still think January 2027 is the more likely release date for "Legendary Batmobile Collection wave 2" and it's Keatonmobile, Tumbler, and some sort of animation batmobile.

This is the gist of what I was going to say as well. The bridge battle is excellent but also the only set at that price point from that era of the theme. It can't really be used as a standard because it was an outlier even in it's own time. Again, I don't even think Oscorp is particularly good, but comparing it to the bridge battle is like comparing the average marvel movie to Logan- sure, phases 4 and 5 of the MCU might not have been as good as the older ones, but even what people would consider it's peak doesn't compare to Logan.

Rhino and Mysterio are both characters that in any capacity will be good additions, but have the potential to be EXCELLENT. Rhino all depends on him either being comic based, or if the mech is his, made up so that the minfigure appears to be wearing mechanized rhino armor a la the PS4 game rather than just Paul Giamatti like the 20...15? 16? set. A straight repeat of mysterio would be just fine, given it'll have been 5 years since his last set, but some leg printing wouldn't be unappreciated and arm printing, while as you say unlikely, would be spectacular. Yeah that was more of a guess on my part, I just couldn't think of another reason why they'd avoid him. Though I will say Flash not getting a minifigure is probably just more because we don't get many of spidey's civilian friends- discounting movie minifigures, the bugle's the only thing that's ever given us more than Mary Jane. The only time we've gotten characters like Betty or a non-spidered Gwen was in the bugle, and we still don't have a Harry Osborn minifigure from the superheroes line- just the raimi ones in 2004. Same. I love the mini-modulars as a concept and and want to both support them and add to my marvel skyline, but Oscorp just doesn't look good to me, and the Bugle doesn't really make sense to get if you're buying the skyline sets to display with the modular bugle. I'll just hold out hope that Kraven, Rhino, and Nu-ultimate Goblin show up in what has to be a coming Oscorp Modular. (Alongside, of course, Kaine, Daredevil, Moon Knight, and Luna Snow) As for the stud shooters I'm not very concerned, I assumed something like that would be on the GR bike but they should be easy enough to remove without compromising the look of the bike.