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I'm sure we'll see more than the current rumors, Leia at the very least. I could see 2025 lego just forgetting to include a major character generally, but lego's been big on putting diversity into sets the past half-decade or so and there isn't a single "smart" female minifigure in the leaks, which seems unlikely. The only potential flaw in your logic is that you're assuming a new "smart" falcon WOULD do everything the 2019 model can. We've already seen what they did to the X-wing to make it "smart", I wouldn't at all be shocked to see them dismantle their progress on the falcon in the same way. All depends on your preferred Mara design. I like a more reddish shade of hair- they mention a few times in the books that her hair is extremely red- and very few illustrations of her that I've seen have that asymmetrical front part the piece used has. As any REAL clone fan will tell you, every single clone trooper sucks except for like two minifigures in 2014. You can only be a REAL fan of lego clone troopers if you hate almost every single lego clone trooper. Responding to the discussion about what writing styles signify AI with a bulleted list containing long dashes, the "it isn't ___, it's ___", etc is really funny. I can't tell for sure if AI was used to make this, but if not it was certainly written to emulate it or poke fun at it- it's definitely different from your standard writing style. Bionicle Cody has plenty of holes- I think the torso alone has a ton of pin holes- but I don't believe the helmet has any through holes. The cup of the balljoint has a blind hole in it, but if we're counting blind holes literally every clone helmet has holes since there's one to fit the head inside.

Summer sets? You think we're getting multiple summer sets? I would say they definitely are- aside from the motto, which DC killed off anyway. Superman's hardly the only hero to be heavily used in wartime stuff. And again, not only is captain america objectively tied to america a lot more strongly than superman, and his films do just fine internationally, but the last solo superman film did SIGNIFICANTLY better internationally than this one. "Superman didn't make as much money at the international box office bc non-americans think he represents 'merica and aren't interested" just can't be true if the Captain AMERICA movies do well internationally and the last solo superman movie- before DC went all-in on trying to remove any connections to his country- did better internationally than this new one. It's just not an excuse that holds any water.

I meant moreso that chatgpt has a tendency to just create information that's not real- and then when you ask for a source go "whoops yeah I just totally made that up", but these sets ideas are amazing. Part of me wants to MOC these, especially the "every dark side adjective speeder" with TIE apprentices and whatever a "revolving flame module" is, but I'm already so far behind on my mocs... If lego really cared about their fans, even moreso than removing all studs, they'd need to radically fix the figure design. These guys have trapezoidal torsos, claw hands, that's not accurate to clones? They should create a new set of molds much closer to actual clone trooper physiques, maybe unique ones for every figure they do, and they should be larger to have more detail. To keep cost done, just remove the builds, it won't matter, and don't bother with this connectivity stuff at all, just make them one piece with articulated points. They might face some lawsuits over still calling them building sets, so what if we used a different name? Something about... they're figures... they're used to play (or sit on a shelf) in an action setting... what would we call them...?

"C'mon Dee, we're just wearing funny armor, how's anybody gonna get hurt?" *title card - The Gang participates in the siege of mandalore* The leaks say the whole march wave has "smart" integration, and while only a few sets are confirmed to have smart bricks, given the number of figures the leaks say are "smart" we can assume most sets will include at the very least smart figures. (and that one of them is a cantina, one of them's likely the falcon, one of them is yoda's hut, etc) So mara's less than 25% black widow... less even, since that doesn't really fit the color or style of her hair in most of her appearances. The phase 1 troopers having had helmet holes since 2008 is one of the funniest things to me about the complaints- paradoxically the helmet holes must be emblematic of some recent horrific issue at lego, either due to laziness or some sort of prequel-sabotage goal, but they were prominent on phase 1 clones in what those same arguments will call the golden age that lego needs to return to. It's amazing logic. Using dashes like that is a pretty common sentence structure in both articles, books, and even posts here by me and other users since long before chat AI was a common thing. You might not remember it off the top of your head but if you read articles and/or books on any sort of even semiregular basis you'd have to have seen it before. Plus if Swordy was AI he'd be including "it's not a ____, it's a ____", bullet points in every comment, and referencing sources or sets that just don't exist.

Why is this on sale everywhere but sites and stores near me? Still can't find it for under retail anywhere, despite having already found Jango's Slave One at 15% off and the 327th pack at 20% off. It is a shock trooper mech, allegedly fives's head leaked (But, you know... the same print as the one in the 2024 set) and I think people were joking that it was a mech of fives disguised as a shock trooper, but it's a shock trooper mech. There's a Vader bust and midi-scale AT-AT as well, but those two sets have one figure between them (I mean, maybe zero, the marvel mechs do come with twice as many minifigures as the star wars ones after all so there's no guarantee the vader bust has vader)

I think these are important issues, but this may be overly pessimistic for the state of superhero movies (but not overly pessimistic for the DCU's chances): While superhero fatigue is real, it's not unstoppable. Marvel's still had multiple billion-plus movies since endgame, one of them being R-rated, by relying on the characters people actually care about and have goodwill for. For the second one, again, while a trend, we've still seen plenty of theatrical releases that were big hits in the past few years. People still will show up if you give them a good movie. As for this one, in respect to superman it's actually an odd phenomenon. Despite DC doing everything possible to remove superman's connections to america over the interim, down to changing his motto, Man of Steel actually made significantly more internationally than Superman 2025 despite superman 2025 having (before adjusting for inflation) a higher domestic haul. So I don't know that "superman is an american character" is why this movie didn't make much internationally. (Plus, characters like Spider-Man and Optimus Prime are also heavily tied to american culture in that way, and of course, so is Captain America. Superheroes in general are kind of an American-created cultural thing.) SuMC never got off the ground, lol. Something to do with (not having) spider-man, I think. But other universes doing worse doesn't change the fact that the DCU is in somewhat dire straits. If Supergirl flops (I doubt Clayface makes much but unless they gave it a disgusting budget it shouldn't need to. Being R-rated I doubt it'll factor in much to the wider success of the universe either way), I could see some of those later movies not happening. I mean, sure, more people know her than the thunderbolts, but despite thunderbolts being the best superhero movie since infinity war I wouldn't exactly say it's a good metric for financial success. She's also not exactly one of the main DC heroes. When Superman himself is no sure hit, name-recognition is definitely not something you can rely on for supergirl.

@CloneCommando99 you gotta do the "Open the window, luthor" meme with Mara flying above the sponge We'll have to see, but I thought the Indiana Jones feeling of the trailer was a good sign. TMAG doesn't need to be peak cinema to draw fans back in, it just needs to be a fun, non-controversial adventure movie that makes the general audience feel a bit less harsh on star wars. (Of course, I still think the best move would have been a complete 3-5 year pause on any live-action content and then doing a KOTOR trilogy, but that was never going to happen.) Part of that is unlike star wars, which is overflowing with vehicles, 90% of harry potter takes place in one castle and there are, like 2-3 vehicles more casual fans would recognize. But the sets seem to be doing just fine for a franchise that hasn't had any tv or movies for a solid length of time now. Day Owls, if you will. (Nite Bats? Death Bats? Death Bats sounds more like something they would call themselves in universe but I think Day Owls is better for the joke) Mauldalorians look fine for what they are, weird silver visors aside. I find the 332nd trooper leak hilarious as while yeah, sure, the mauldalorians prove that those are probably the ones from the set, anybody could have leaked the 332nd troopers. It's accurate to the show but it does always irk me that we can barely ever get any red on mandalorian figures. These guys basically just look like gunmetal mandos with a bit of blood on them. Color-wise blue is obviously very saturated in a good number of shades, and we've had a fair bit of green between different Bobas and the female mando from the 2020 pack. The 2020 pack also gave us some orange and yet more blue, and with Mando himself you can make silver/brown ones without much trouble. White is expensive but doable. I really wish we could get a new version of that 2020 pack with some mandos in red, some in yellow, maybe a purple one.

I'm 50/50- they could re-use either the print from the spider-man 2 set or from the last bugle, but any suit torso would work for a "new" JJJ. Same, except if it's a good sandman build I'll get it regardless- I have a mini spider-man vs the Sinister Six (and morbius) diorama on my TV stand, and sandman's currently just represented by that hand from the NWH final battle set, so it'd be nice to get a full-sized one on there. I do think overall this is still a pretty solid january wave. Sure, there's some wolverized venomarines, but we're also getting a continuation of the mini-modular/skyline line, which is the single best thing to happen to superheroes sets ever, a $10 price point Ghost Rider bike, etc. And it has the potential to be one of the best- if this is our first comic Rhino or armored-detailing Rhino, that's a HUGE win. Mysterio's good no matter what.

We sure will, lego loves to put out Hall of Armors and they tend to use exclusive armors to draw in collectors. That said, our most recent one didn't even do that... I assume figure wise Rhino is meant to be the main figure draw for the set, but we'll see, maybe he's just a generic kitbash in a rhino mech. No Agent Venom and Symbiote Spidey are likely due to lego's weird thing about not wanting to tread on comic-con figure toes and thinking they're too close to the 2011 symbiote spider-man. No Big Fig venom is likely because lego seems to want to limit bigfigs wherever possible, given how often Hulk, Thanos, and now even Red Hulk have been showing up as minifigures instead of bigfigs. We only seem to get bigfigs for some movie-based sets nowadays, which is ironic because the hulk-like figures tend to be close in size to normal humans there than many of their comic depictions. Spider-man and ghost rider in the $10 bike is fine, though it is a little annoying that, even worse than my concern that seeing only those two in the set would have kids thinking GR is a bad guy, lego seems to outright say it's a vs set in the description. Only spider-man and wolverine in the car set isn't awful either given the price of these cars has reduced from $35 to $20. It is funny that we're back to Spider-Man within 2 years despite Spider-Gwen never getting her car, just Miles/Spidey/Venom. And even Miles's car was CLEARLY meant to be the morbmobile originally.

I mean, I was responding to a completely different guy when I said two-face wasn't in the DCEU- namely the guy the response was under the quote "I thought that was referencing two-face" of, so I'm not sure why you think I was saying you said Two-face was present. My point is that you were saying Batfleck kills goons but lets the named villains go, when in both the films he's actually a star of he does try to help kill the named villains. The only time we see him lock them up instead is, what, one flashback scene in suicide squad? We don't even know at what point he started killing, so at that point "well it's possible he was killing goons at the same time that he was letting the joker go a bunch" might as well be answered with "there's a theory joker is robin so therefore he just couldn't bring himself to kill him", because I don't believe we ever actually see proof of either onscreen. IIRC BvS even states that some of the more murdery and tortury stuff batman's up to is a pretty recent development.

I mean, it's definitely not off to the strongest start. I know there's varying arguments as to how much Superman actually turned out in terms of profit, but the fact that it's at the very least as close as it was is proof enough that it wasn't the hit they needed, and it's doing worse on streaming than Black Adam did. Peacemaker S2 sounds to have been pretty divisive, especially the ending, and did NOT do well in terms of viewership, Warner Bros is for sale, and Gunn himself has implied that at the very least, HIS future with the DCU isn't a sure thing anymore. I don't think it's an unreasonable conclusion to draw that things aren't going so well.

Correct me if I'm wrong here but we never saw Two-Face in the DCEU, though. A number of the batmen you mentioned also kill generic goons, but as for batfleck I'll point out the main final-battle antagonists of his movies were Doomsday- who he's definitely trying to kill, and Darkseid/Steppenwolf, who he obviously has no chance to actually murder but you can't tell me with a straight face he would have stopped the other leagures from doing so. The literal only thing you can get him on is, what, not killing joker in suicide squad? And plenty of other batmen have let some of their costumed foes live as well. Raimi Goblin's more "man with severe DID who clearly doesn't want his evil half to go around killing people", but yeah, no, Venom was literally praying for god to kill who he believed to be just... some guy, he absolutely deserved it.

I still feel confident that it's a high republic character, and given you've outlined what makes a good figure for you, probably one with an interesting mold. I'd guess Venestra Rho, Machiron Ro, the trandoshan high republic jed, either of the wookiee high republic jedi, Loden Greatstone, but maybe it is an acolyte one like Osha or Mae. I suppose it could be one of the cantina aliens or Jabba's palace denizens, maybe Yuzzum, Sny Snootles, or the amanaman since he's in TMAG. Darn, yeah, see, you got me, this is why the game wouldn't have worked.

If this had happened a few months ago, Babu Frik, easy, but now that he's out on shelves... it's tougher, but not impossible. Era clue and previous posts imply it's a High Republic character, I'd assume from Acolyte. We'll start with Sol, Quimir/Qimir/The Stranger or whatever his name is, and... Yord and Jecki? Those are the only names I remember off the top of my head. If I'm right, the new PFP will be a representation of the iconic "open the window, Luthor" panel with Spongebob in Luthor's place and the heroes replaced by Mara, Batfleck, one of the Ninja Turtles, and a fourth character I haven't chosen yet. You will kneel at the shrine of Mara Jade. I'd do the game as well but I think everyone would know who it is.

Obviously we never got to actually see this, but the theory I'd heard for awhile is that batman did in fact kill the original joker, and Jared Leto's joker is a robin who was tortured into becoming like Joker a la Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker. There's that BvS line about "how many good guys are left, how many stayed that way?", for example, which heavily implies that someone batman worked with turned evil. Most DC heroes haven't shown up yet at that point, so the only one we know was around before BvS that it could apply to was robin, who we know something horrible happened to. And again, he's not the first movie batman who's killed plenty of goons but let his big-name opponents live. No no no, hold on, how are you dunking on Batfleck for him using guns in what even you state is a nightmare sequence about how far they've fallen and ignoring Keaton Batman in not-alternate-reality-future sending the batmobile to shoot up a factory and blowing it up, explicitly killing a whole batch of goons? That's not exactly logically consistent, is it? Is the argument that batman killing a bunch of guys by essentially drone strike not as bad as alternate-future batman? Does the gun have to be in batman's hand for him killing people to be an issue?

Ah, no, you're right, they totally would do something like that. They're allergic to fully venomizing anything, it has to be this weird partially venomized mix. If anything it'll be the normal Cap helmet with venom's head and a torso with some black blobs on the AoU suit despite it being a comic set.

Hopefully it's not the standard mech style, because that just doesn't work for Rhino. But if it's an actual rhino-shaped mech with a new mechanized Rhino minifigure, massive win. I know he tends to be just a big guy in rhino pajamas, and it would be nice to get one of those at some point, but personally getting a mechanical looking one would be cooler for me. Now obviously we don't know what it'll be, we don't even know if the mech is for Rhino. It could be the LBG pajamas, it could be a Paul Giamatti figure, you never know, but we'll see. As someone pointed out, the Venom Cap is likely to get us a black Captain America helmet, which will be super helpful for US Agent figures because you KNOW the helmet isn't getting printing.

That's true. And for something like the $1000 death star, which unlike the 2008/2016 ones is clearly not meant with kids in mind, I guess they don't expect people to put figs anywhere but the designated spots anyway. There's no way this is accurate. The MBS sets would have been absolutely disgusting prices if that was the case, not to mention, how would they even count this? Does the 501st specialist pack come with three different clones to license, or just one "501st trooper"? If the former, why would they make it in the first place rather than just any other legion with four duplicates? For battle packs as a whole, why would so many have the 2:1:1 or 2:2 ratio rather than the 4-of-the-same-fig many fans were asking for if the ratios lego does cost twice to four times as much in licensing?

I'd first want to point out that those are by no means the only three options. Amazon springs to mind as an obvious one, but there are others. Sony, perhaps. Netflix is possible, but personally I just don't see it happening. Disney would not be permitted to purchase warner bros. As for Paramount, the majority of CEOs are at the very least big donors to one administration or another, it means nothing. They're in it for profit, Paramount certainly isn't putting out partisan content at the moment, it's not like owning DC would change that. Universal would definitely be interesting. I have some terrible news for you.

You know what? it's not great, but not terrible. The usual spider-trio being included is annoying, JJJ is good but obviously was going to be present, but as for the other three: Comic Mysterio isn't the same as the new Kraven or Hobgoblin last year, but it's certainly not unwelcome. He hasn't been in a set since 2021, and while the Bugle's been on shelves the whole time, it's also $350. This'll be nice for kids or fans who got into the hobby in the last half-decade. Again, not amazing, but not bad at all. Certainly better than one of the three symbiotes we've been getting or Ock or Goblin or something. Rhino: Now this is excellent. I assume based on the inclusion of a mech that this'll be a mechanical Rhino rather than a bigfig, but so long as it's actually got a guy in a rhino suit in there and not the Paul Giamatti figure from 2016, it'll be a huge win. I know we technically had a rhino in that one 4+ set back in 2020, but if this is a comic-accurate LBG minifigure OR a mechanically armored minifigure (as seems more likely), it's excellent news. Venomized captain america... if this is just a random design, fine, whatever. Better than a repeat, I guess. But you know what media just had a venomized captain america release back in may or june? That's a bit of a coincidence... this could be our first Rivals figure, which would be an odd choice over any of the default designs, but so long as the gate is open I will NOT be complaining. That has to be a mistranslation. No way a $50 system set only has two minifigures, and ESPECIALLY no way they have a ~400 piece hulkbuster fighting a minifigure hulk.

That's insane to me (Guns are the weapon used, killing people is the, you know, murdery part. Batman doesn't have issues with Jason because he uses guns, he has issues with jason because he kills people with those guns), but it's once again not something BvS batman specifically is guilty of, which kind of proves my point that it's hypocritical for people to hyperfocus on the one who the movie actively shows us is in the wrong. 1989 batman sends his batmobile to shoot up a factory- with guns, I might add- and kills a room full of henchmen, there's no problem there?

I waited to look at these until making my own live-action show list, but these are very nice. I do think your TBOBF set is more realistic than the one I came up with. I haven't read this comic, but it's nice to see that the Lady Luck is now canon and that Pillio returns. Always surprised me that we never got another defender or a reaper. You'd assume TIE variants will always do generally well due to the design scheme being uniform and the iconicity of the main variants. Live-action (but not Mando or Ahsoka) Wave- this one was actually pretty hard to fill up. Obi-Wan vs Darth Vader ($9.99): From the final duel of the show, comes with buildable rocks and functions to launch them to crush your opponent. Includes Obi-Wan Kenobi (final duel) and Vader (damaged mask) The Scythe Microfighter ($12.99): Comes with the Grand Inquisitor Boba Fett Mech ($14.99): Built more like a samurai than an extension of boba's armor like the 2023 mech, with a skirt and more samurai-like armor. Imperial Army Battle Pack ($19.99): Imperial patrol speeder with 2x Stormtrooper and 2x Army Trooper Darksaber Training ($34.99): Halo-ring-world catwalks with Mando, The Armorer, and Paz Vizla. Luke's Jedi Temple ($54.99): Luke skywalker's temple with the surrounding nature, including a feature to make baby yoda "jump", and two construction droids. Includes Luke Skywalker, Ahsoka Tano, R2-D2, Mando, and Grogu. TIE Avenger ($69.99): Comes with Cassian Andor (pilot) and two Range Troopers. The Battle of Mos Espa ($129.99): Comes with two large scorponek droids, a buildible rancor, the freetown transport, two of those dumb scooters, and a few building facades with destroy features. Comes with Boba Fett, Cad Bane, The Mandalorian, Fennec Shand, Black Krrsantan, the Weequay Bartender, Drash, Skad, and 4x Pyke Soldier Fortress Inquisitorius ($169.99): Comes with interrogation room, hanger bay, hallways with window-exploding features, conference room, and security checkpoint. Includes Obi-Wan Kenobi, Young Leia, Tala, the Fourth Sister, Grand Inquisitor, Fifth Brother, Third Sister, 2x Stormtrooper, and 3x Purge Trooper, UCS The Fondor ($239.99): Sort of a pseudo UCS, at the 18+ branding, detailing/build methods, and availability but not too much larger than the last falcon. Comes with Luthen Rael, a mannequin with his wig and robe, Kleya, Dedra Meero, and 2x Tactical trooper. Helmet: Fennec Shand's helmet ($69.99) Diorama: Luthen's Sacrifice ($69.99): Coruscant underworld backdrop, elevator, and Catwalk with Lonni and Luthen. Quote is "What is my sacrifice? Calm, kindness, kinship, love. I've given up all chance at inner peace, made my mind a sunless space... I share my dreams with ghosts. Midi-scale: Fondor Haulcraft ($79.99):

I agree in terms of the tiers but not who is in what tier, and with the caveat that within 3, plenty of heroes will go for killshots on enemy goons that don't really stand a chance against them. As for 1, I think every hero has killed at some point, at least counting all the main-continuity comics. Batman certainly has, Daredevil's at least attempted to, spider-man as you say has attempted to. I would also say superman might belong in 3 and wonder woman DEFINITELY does. Superman doesn't often kill simply because he's so powerful that he's usually able to defeat the enemy nonfatally without civilians dying as a result, but we know that with someone like Joker he'd probably kill even outside an immediate "I kill this guy or he kills civilians" situation, which I think would put him more in 3 than two. That said, I could see a case being made for 2 as well. But wonder woman- I mean I guess she doesn't kill normal people super often, but there's a reason she often runs around with a sword, something that's kind of hard to use in a nonlethal manner. She's also definitely the most willing of the three to murder when it comes down to it. Yeah. It's weird to me that people make such a big deal out of him killing when he's one of two batman wherein the movies actually treat him murdering people as an issue. (I'll let Battinson off here as well since he doesn't canonically kill anyone, even if realistically plenty of people are dead after the stuff he pulls)

These never made sense to me. Now to clarify I'm not a BvS fan, but that movie makes very clear that we aren't supposed to think Man's actions are right. Most movie batmen kill, but for some reason because BvS, the one with an explicitly fallen and bitter Man, we're gonna complain about it there? But not Burton and Kilmer murdering people and the movie either not even acknowledging it or outright applauding it? It's hypocritical. As for Soup killing, this is part of the whole sanitization of superheroes and collective gaslighting into thinking most of them don't kill. Superman absolutely does kill his enemies when necessary. As he famously says to joker, he doesn't have a rule against it, he just doesn't make a habit of it. The majority of superheroes for most of their history do kill- it was Batman, Spider-Man, and Daredevil who had the no-kill rules. You can even see this within continuities- in the early MCU iron man's smoking terrorists left and right and Captain America guns down mind-controlled Shield Agents, but by post-endgame we're all-in on the "heroes don't kill people" trope. This actually works pretty well. Turtle was the OG, RiddlerDC was the exact same personality because the show realized they messed up by getting rid of him - or because Turtle couldn't stay away, Imposter went the other way and was super different- not even staying in the same themes- and Dolor is similar, but with some cosmetic and stylistic differences (no colored text instead of an accent).

This is something that needs to be talked about more, as it's one of the ways larger lego sets increasingly feel like MOCs. Sure, a tiled floor might look better, but it drastically reduces where you can place minifigures unless you go buy a bunch of plates or jumpers. Wedge was originally played by two different guys in ANH because the first one got fired but they inexplicably left his "that's impossible, even for a computer" bit in. To resolve this, the Wedge piloting the X-wing was obviously the "real" Wedge, so the guy in the conference room must be "Fake Wedge", canonized as Col Takbright, a guy who hated that he resembled wedge and then after watching most of the trench run pilots he knew get shot down, has a change of heart and becomes friends with him, being one of the few to go welcome Wedge back to base instead of Luke. But the TIE Advanced is seemingly reasonably priced despite assumably including a "smart" figure at the very least. While consistent with the 327th pack, the may set is definitely not a reasonable price. It's unlikely, since march seems to be the "smart" wave, but I wouldn't rule it out entirely based on price alone. I would honestly be OK with a brick built Swole Rotta, I think Hutts are definitely large enough to capture the necessary details with bricks. Dang I wish the Night Trooper pack got discounted around me. But I agree overall that battle packs are getting too expensive and that's hurting lego's sales.