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I never liked this idea, personally. Star Wars, for instance, can be immortal because it's more about the world than any specific character. Indiana Jones is a pretty standard world aside from, well, Indiana Jones. And Harrison Ford IS Indiana Jones. I don't think you can have one without the other, nor do I think they should try. (Though they will.... I gurantee you we're less than a decade out from a reboot) Just make an original adventure movie. I dunno if it was just the release, I saw PLENTY of marketing. People who hadn't seen the first four were asking me if they should go see it. I think the movie itself just wasn't as good as people were expecting. No. First of all, a working ornithopter as an official set is incredible (and what were you expecting the set to be, if your issue is that it's one vehicle? Did you want multiple, worse ornithopters? The much less iconic larger ships?). Second, Dune really skirts the edge of what lego can do maturity wise. While the movie skirts around some of the sexual references regarding the baron's interests, it's still a much darker and more mature film than your average marvel or star wars movie. And maybe a bigger difference than that, it's not a fun action or adventure movie. Dune is a tragedy. And when people are killed, it's generally not blasters or lightsabers. It's knives. I'm pleasantly surprised we managed to get even an icons set. Yes, they were both terrible groups. No one is disputing that. (I mean... no one here, anyway. I've met a good number of people who deluded themselves into disputing the latter group and I know there are some who somehow dispute the former). But I don't think there's anything wrong with them showing up as villains in animated shows (Obviously not preschooler shows, but you get the point).

Yes.... in general. Not necessarily this year, as renown says, and I really don't think so in this case. The MTT is so much more well known for the brown color scheme than the blue/grey. Lego tends to go with the main color scheme of a vehicle, even when a different one may be more "exciting", unless it's part of a new project, or in the gunship's case, the UCS version is currently on shelves in the main color scheme. The question is who the non-b1 figures would be, or if we'll see the MTT at all. Either way, if it's coming, it's almost certainly going to be brown. Totally agree. It feels like we almost never get play features beyond stud/spring shooters anymore either.

This looks awesome! That's an excellent Balrog!

Baby Groot made some sense as it's supposed to scale with the rocket fig (even though it doesn't)- I can't see them putting a goblin minifigure with a goblin buildible figure. The $35 buildible spider-man is what's getting me- even if it has iron spider arms, I can't see a $10 price increase in two years off an already pretty highly priced fig for what it is. It's definitely not this, but it'd be funny if it was the Osborn Tech spider-man from the comics where Norman tries to help him, and he's got the spider glider, spider-bombs, etc.

That's a, what, 14 pc side build wherein the main build shares it's color scheme. This would be a $160-170 set. Color is substantially more important when the item goes from "A little thing in a $30 set" to "the largest non-UCS set of the year" I'd put money down that if we get an MTT, it's brown. I'm also reasonably confident we'd still see clones- perhaps the 87th legion, though I think in a set with 24 battle droids or something, they may opt to go for the more direct TPM figure selection and hope that not putting clones in EVERY set won't cause them to lose money.

If it is dual-molded, it would be a new mold. And if it is a new mold, I highly doubt they'd make one just for a calendar, so I wonder if more endor sets may be coming. (Where's that Bunker/Village MBS?) My thoughts here are that lego may want to simultaneously use clones and the more iconic brown MTT, and there is an option- Battlefront 2 prominently featured the brown MTT on naboo fighting a clone legion. As for the N-1, I'm wondering if a different color scheme, smaller size, and being part of a 2-pack would be enough to differentiate it from Mando's. It feels like it should be, but this is the same company that doesn't like putting out system versions of a set if the UCS version is already on shelves unless it's about to retire.

That's a lot of praise, thank you so much! I'll be on the lookout for the predator mk ll. Yeah, we definitely have too many BARCs, but I'd done a crab droid as the build for a battle pack more recently than my last BARC battle pack. That said, an AT-RT would probably have been the best choice here, I don't think I've ever posted my downscaled one. I agree about the executor diorama, it's too many figs needed for the scene. I do have some hope we'll see the mustafar diorama next year for ROTS's 20th, though, since lego seems to be anniversary-crazed with this theme now.

Sorry I missed these, thank you both! I am pretty happy with the lightning effects on the Flash diorama, I want to try making it in real life at some point.

I found the Sunbird for like $25 at walmart the other day. I was really tempted to get it as a parts pack, but I think I ended up deciding even at $25 I didn't need it. I agree. The best we're gonna get is a D2C of a location featured in both the anime movie and original trilogy featuring figures from both. I think you're missing when he's saying. He's saying he'd rather they made sets based off the original trilogy that feature the same locations as those in the War of the Rohirrim.

Don't get me wrong- Hachiroku24 does some great work- his transformers mocs and the way he does bigfigs like Lizard and Venom are both miles upon miles beyond anything I could do- but I can't see lego putting that model out as an official set in 2023. It's an excellent MOC, but I think it shows why lego hasn't done an official set of this ship yet- aside from all the curvature, it's entirely monochrome, and lego is not a fan of that. As others have said, I think the most we could see is an 18+ midi-scale one. I don't know why we're all taking the TPM label to mean a royal starship anyway. I feel like the MTT fits so much better in a variety of ways- it's a combat vehicle, the CIS uses it and we've been saying for a year or two now there isn't enough big CIS stuff, it's able to fit in a variety of situations from the era, etc. If you ask a standard kid if they'd rather have a massive rolling tank that unleashes a legion of droids, or a diplomatic cruiser that may be slightly shiny in some areas, 99.9% of them are going with the tank. I could also see a remake of naboo starfighter and vulture droid. It's been 9 years since the last yellow naboo fighter, and 10 since the last vulture droid. Lego used to love releasing the naboo fighter every 4 years or so, and it's probably the most iconic ship out of TPM. It's also another 2-pack of opposing starfighters, and lego seems to be a fan of that set style right now.

I don't know the exact rating of this film, but I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt in my mind that it will not be the animation style of the disney preschool cartoons, nor will it be for that age range. My evidence is A: it's lord of the rings, and B: the title is "War of the Rohirrim", which isn't exactly "Frodo and friends" or "Hobbit tales" or something. And this is the big issue- lego has to be sure the source material is popular enough for them to sell sets for. Notice that for Indy, ALL sets were based on the more well-liked films, with nothing for the new one, and a good chunk of the avatar sets were off the first film as well. Star wars gets a couple sets at most for the new shows- Ahsoka was an outlier with a whopping THREE sets, just so we can see how drastic the situation is- until lego can gauge the success of it and whether or not to make more sets. (Notice stuff like TBOBF, Kenobi, and even the critically-loved-but-100%-not-for-kids Andor haven't had anything since their first runs and have no rumors of any new sets on the horizon). They got burned in the mid-2010s with tie-ins that didn't do well. Angry Birds, Rebels (at the time), the Hobbit, etc, and now they're cautious- perhaps overly so- about making more tie in material. Given that War of the Rohirrim is an animated film aimed at older audiences, which is generally not the largest demo, I'd be shocked if we saw any sets for it, even if I do have some faith the film will be good.

Yeah, we're not getting a Jonathan Majors Kang figure ever. I hope we get a recast, but I feel like studios are allergic to them now, which is really dumb. On the bright side, the few times we do get recasts seem to be when the actor is charged with something so the studio isn't worried about being "disrespectful" by recasting, so hopefully we do see Kang, maybe a variant that's actually an intimidating conqueror for once. (I liked Loki's Kang, but he wasn't kang the conqueror, he was basically immortus.) Also- and this is even more off topic but I feel the need to remind everyone whenever news about other actors comes up- Ezra Miller still hasn't been convicted for any of his many, many crimes, which is terrifying. Honestly this is a pretty solid polybag, being a venomized version of spider-man's bike from the $10 set, and not as hilariously oversized as most marvel bikes are. This is just the venomized wolveriene and wolverized venomarine thing again, and I'm here for it.

I don't know that they're planning on using the rainbow set as a template, I thought the colors there were just what the ones on the big flag were at the time. I think as others have said it's more likely we get a color that doesn't seem as much like a shade of an existing color. A sort of copper colored spaceman- whether actually more metallic or just a dark orange- could be cool. Black and Blue would both be perfect as crewers for another classic space set, like a moonbase or different type of ship. Totally agree with this, and I'm surprised the gold classic space astronaut hasn't shown up yet. I did a space module ideas set back when the explorer came out, and the included "special" astronaut was a brown spaceman, which we did end up getting! But I remember I'd done a couple renders of different colors, and there was some interest in the gold astronaut specifically. This would have been a perfect figure for the CMF, though I'm not sure there'll be any good opportunities to put it in sets. I don't think the UFO theme itself will get a full set anytime soon, so we'd have to hope for the commander fig showing up somewhere else. Maybe a space police icons set with various older themes' villains in cells?

I don't know if this is a translation error, but yes, I'd say his 2020 figure is smiling a great deal. On the topic of anniversaries, lego's recently become a big fan of them. It used to be that the only anniversary stuff would be little decals on the side of the box for ANH and ESB, but now every star wars movie gets a decal, the clone wars gets an ambiguous decal, the lego star wars theme itself gets actual anniversary figures, ninjago and HP both got anniversary figures, and the tower is meant to be for the MCU's 15th, right?

Interesting concept- I love the idea that a character's power is proportionate to their base radius. It could be a cool mechanic to have each player only able to use a set number of studs total for the bases, making them have to choose between a larger number of lower-radius characters or a smaller number of more powerful characters. i.e. Batman is worth around 11 security guards, Deathstroke is worth 3 standard rogues, etc.

Jeez... hulk hasn't been truly angry since 2017.I knew the last two were happy, but I'd forgotten the endgame hulk was happy. Even the professor hulk is more of a closed-mouth annoyed than grimacing in rage. I mean look at the expressions: 2012-2017- varying shades of rage 2019- a calm grin. 2019 professor- mildly upset 2020- positively BEAMING 2023- trying really hard to use the bathroom (Personally my favorite is the 2017 comic hulk. I know the shade is lighter than it'd normally be, but something about it just looks excellent.)

I mean, we have a ton of lego marvel figs in fortnite, so definitely not marvel.

Glad to see the Gray Tourist is doing so well- he might be my favorite design here too. That said, I'm surprised there's not more love for the Ice Planet Explorer given how cool it looks. The new visored helmet, the wrecker armor, the neon chainsaw, etc. I think I agree with @legoturtle here. This is definitely a step above the normal city space. Color-coded suits, armor, encountering aliens and new power sources, not to mention some sort of gold leader.

I can't find a picture of that build- which version of it is it? The older one or the new one? Also, is one of the days literally only because that's completely absurd. Advent calendars should have something for you to BUILD, even if it's just a few parts.

Agreed with you on that, Bumblebee. The Ninja Turtles are a very odd license to add when the other licensed skins mainly fall into the disney camp, and it's not something like Mr. Beast where all they had to do was ask one guy "hey do you wanna be in lego fortnite". They had to negotiate with a whole other company, one that at least recently was having another company make it's building sets. I don't think we'll see lego Mr. Beast or any of the other smaller license groups soon, but lego ninja turtles does seem like it's potentially in the works here.

The way I've always thought they'd do an MBS is like this- A semicircle or third-of-a-circle shape for the stands, broken up by a main arena gate and the balcony seating segment where the main villains sit. The stands themselves would not be THE most interesting thing, but they would be hollow, and as such wouldn't take up as much of the part count of the set as I think people think. Another element of them could easily be making that hollow interior of the stands geonosian catacombs- allowing you to fit in something like the scene where Obi-Wan spies on the separatists, or where Dooku holds him in captivity. Obviously we'd have the three posts and three (brick built) beasts, and I think we'd also likely see a midi-scale gunship, maybe ~300 pcs- giving you the spaceship you mention being needed. (and as for the last duel doing badly, I gurantee you that if it was anything other than a gray slab mainline set based on a lot of people's least favorite star wars disney+ show, it'd have done better. Don't think it was due to being a duel.). As for people complaining about it not having a billion new molds or including their favorite random jedi- they do that with everything. Look at the clones as an example. At first it was not enough clones, and now it's every other set and people are still complaining that x clone isn't out or that the helmet holes are bad or they don't like the printing style. (I feel like the Kamas being printed instead of cloth is a more legitimate gripe, but it also affects more than just clones, so I'm leaving it out.). Pentaki would be no different than any other set in that way.

He's certainly tall, but he's a lot ganglier than thanos and hulk. At best, he could have used the 3 long arms and legs instead of the traditional 2 long ones.

Also note that they included like 20 1x1 tiles to try and inflate the part count a little more (If I'm wrong and these are actually meant to be something other than ammo, please let me know). They know full well what they're doing and are just banking on enough people liking the X-men, and enough kids being drawn in by the show, that they can get away with it.

Yeah, in 2021. I don't think we have confirmation that the sail barge is 2024, either, but it would make sense. We know one was in development at one point- there are prototypes of the beasts. I wonder why they didn't end up doing it.

I totally agree. It probably isn't possible just off how long it's been, but given they're putting the same rex as in the venator into a $13 microfighter, I think they are in their "let's screw over the scalpers" phase, which is fun. Totally agree on the latter part, too. It's nuts how many clone sets we have and it feels like the seppies have nothing in comparison. Not to mention it's been over a decade since Dooku. Rise of Skywalker wave- this'll be a toughie, but everyone and their mother's suggested Exogol, so that'll be there- Microfighters: Knights of Ren Transport ($9.99): Vicrul TIE Dagger vs Poe Dameron's X-wing ($19.99): Poe Dameron (pilot) and Final Order technician. Battle Packs: Resistance Forces ($19.99): 2x resistance trooper (human), 1x resistance heavy (Boolio's species), 1x resistance Orback Rider. Comes with a buildible Orback and a P-tower turret. The Final Order ($19.99): 2x sith trooper, 1x sith jet trooper, and 1x first order stormtrooper. Build is a weapon rack and console. System sets: Kjimi Duel ($9.99): A small build with snowy terrain on one side and kylo's trophy room (with vader helmet) on the other. There's a small function to slide the figures from one side to the other. Comes with Rey and Kylo Ren. Turbolaser Attack ($29.99): A large turbolaser turret and a buildible orback with Finn, Jannah, BB-8, and a sith jet trooper. TIE Whisper ($44.99): Kylo Ren's TIE Whisper (with a printed pathfinder relic thing) with Kylo Ren (unmasked), 2x sovereign protector, and a small build for the Omnic Harness with a Palpatine (zombified) figure. Resistance B-wing starfighter ($79.99): Resistence B-wing (smaller than earlier versions) with a small control center build and a maintenance cart. Comes with Aftab Ackbar, Rose Tico, Lando Calrissian (old), Klaud, and Poe Dameron (flight suit) Night Buzzard ($99.99): The Knights of Ren's transport (with room for all of them) with Kylo Ren (hood over a printed helmet), Aple'k, Vircul, Trudgen, Cardo, Kuruk, and Ushar. Final Order Star Destroyer ($159.99): Xyston-class destroyer with interior bridge, holding cell, conference room, and hanger bay. Comes with Kylo Ren, General Hux, General Pryde, 1x first order officer, 2x sith troopers, and 2x final order crewers. Midi-scale: The Finalizer ($79.99): First Order (not the xyston class) star destroyer with stand. Dioramas: Exogol Duel ($69.99): Sith Throne with Palpatine (reborn), Rey, and Ben Solo. Quote is "I am ALL THE SITH!" The Sith Fleet ($79.99): Icy surface with small star destroyer builds breaking out of the ice or floating above in the air on transparent bricks. Quote is "The might of the Final Order will soon be ready." UCS/MBS: UCS TIE Dagger ($239.99): Comes with Sith Trooper (arm printing, side leg printing) and General Pryde (dual-molded legs)