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The newest hulk is the only bigfig hulk to have a moveable head, unfortunately. (And a smiling one at that- hulk should be ANGRY. That's his entire thing!) I also unfortunately wouldn't put much hope into getting a comic-based bigfig hulk anytime soon. Lego very rarely does non-infinity saga/MCU, non-spider-man sets, and a bigfig is a significant portion of a set's budget, meaning we don't often see them anyway. I guess I'll ask that one more generally, since now I'm curious what people think- with the MCU starting to sink, do you think we'll see more general comic-based marvel sets beyond spider-man? Or do you think we'd see more the route of DC, where it's just a few sets a year based on older, more popular films? I think everyone'd hope for the former but I expect the latter unfortunately. We need a non-MCU avengers cartoon.

Ah, I see. My guess is there'll be female heads under both of them (I'd assume lego counts orion as male). Be cool if the Ice planet head was Dr. Kelvin, though I wouldn't mind if it was that dude with the wicked mustache I vaguely remember. Either way, both torsos and helmets are gender-neutral, which is good for building up their organizations. If only the M-tron worker had a visor part instead of a printed one so we could put whatever heads we wanted under it. I don't think so- look on the side of the legs, I'm pretty sure you can see the side, and it's all red. I'd attribute the crispness to it being both a CMF figure (which tend to do better print wise) and their display fig, meaning they likely selected the best of the batch. I'd be estatic to be wrong though, those legs would be perfect for Clone Shock Troopers. Yeah, that's disappointing. As-is, it's giving me halo vibes for some reason. I can't figure out how much of that jetpack is brick-built- I hope the majority of it, it'd be nice to have a new neck bracket/backpack element.

Always good to see Jang Yeah, this is shocking to me. There are a ton of colors in lego's palate, I would have loved a Coral Spaceman, or a Sand Blue spaceman, or whatever. What are you counting the Gray Tourist and bug thing as? (For that matter, does the man mech suit count as male? Could be female pilots) I'm not super focused on the CMFs, but have they been adhering to a 1-1 male/female ratio? I guess it makes sense population wise, but kinda hard to stick to with stuff like the buggoid that doesn't have standard gender-specifying features or clothes. My thoughts: Man mech: This one doesn't do it for me. I get the joke, but I much prefer ones that look more space-like than just... a dude with a weird head and some microfigs. Robot chef thing: I don't mean to start off so negative here, as I like a lot of this series, but this guy doesn't do it for me either. I don't get the bubble helmet and don't like whatever that leg/apron part is. Classic Spacegirl: This one's pretty cool, a nice 50s era rocketeer with good printing, colors, and a dog. I like it. M-Tron Scientist: I love it- this is exactly what I wanted from the CMF, older themes with new printing/parts. Great looking fig- just wish the legs were dual-molded, but that's a minor gripe. I'd pick one up if they were in bags. UFO guy: I swear this is the last one I don't like, but... yeah, this looks dumb. The torso and legs will be good for Spot's second form from ATSV, though. Grey Tourist: This is the best of the non-classic space ones, he's awesome. I'd 100% get the guy if these were bagged still. Insect thing: Should have been an Insectoid, but it looks pretty good as-is. I like the legs. Standard Astronaut: I dunno. This isn't really a rare design type, I kind of would have preferred a Galaxy Squad, ADU Trooper, or Futron explorer. That said, like the insect, it's well-done. Ice Planet: Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. This is getting at least 2 copies bricklinked by me, that helmet is awesome and I love that we're getting the Wrecker armor more and more commonly. Blacktron Mutate: Not bad- I would have preferred an armored troop like a commander with the jetpack- but it's good as is. The white armor with a breathing mask and mohawk reminds me of the trail cutter stormtroopers from the star wars newspaper comic all the way back after ANH came out. Orion: I don't care too much about the constellation aspect, but the fact that it's transparent almost fully is very interesting to me. I wonder if we'll see force ghosts now, just using an aqua torso or something. Space Nanny: love that Classic Space Baby has a sister now, and the actual figure is a pretty cool android with interesting leg printing.

Generally agree with all of this. There are a few areas I'd like to see improvement in (Price being the main one, and the other being the kamas. I don't agree with most of the clone nitpicks, but the printed kamas really just don't look good at all, and we've seen them in other themes this year. I agree with you in mind, but apparently not in spirit, as something broke inside me when I realized that we're overdue on our next Luke's landspeeder given the release pattern. This "insider information" stuff doesn't seem to be panning out for you, given you randomly posted in the set news thread that we'd see Live action kanan, like 6 months ago, and... yeah, no. Not in Ahsoka at any rate, and unless his ghost is haunting skeleton crew, not in anything anyone but the writers would know about at that point. Your only accurate "leak" was Paz's death in Mando S3, and since the leak was already out there all you really did was spoil it for everyone on the forum. Yes, it would. See my response to him above for more details.

I made basically the same figure and put the cape over his shoulder pads. If you do a spongy cape it should be fine. Totally agree about Shin too, though I'm not sure which head to replace hers with. Right now I think my Shin has a Jyn/Padme/Leia face just because I have some spares lying around. High praise indeed. While I loved the show, I wasn't a huge fan of how Shin's fighter is colored here (I think it's technically correct, it just feels weirdly bright), and was a little disappointed by the E-wings' role being a cameo in a single scene (why not have them be Hera's squad instead of X-wings?) so I'm hoping I can hold out until the Heir to the Empire/Mandoverse crossover movie hopefully uses the fighter in a larger capacity. Didn't help that Shin and Baylan both feel inaccurate here... I think baylan really needed a cape and/or shoulder armor to sell his imposing stature, and as others have said Shin looks weirdly old. I made purist customs of them, and I honestly feel you can do fully purist custom Baylans that look almost objectively better than the official one. That said, as a set for kids, this is pretty much perfect! Two good-size colorful starfighters of opposing factions with the three main antagonists and some spares for the NR. (Porter was good in his role, it'd be cool to see him as a wing leader in the movie's final space battle, but he doesn't stand a chance against two jedi and a nightsister)

It's not 1-1, but it's clearly meant to emulate it. The belt isn't present in-game and they use a brighter shade on part of it, but the overall design is the same (green jumpsuit with gray top and lower sides, missing a significant amount of hair, same goggle design, etc.) I'd also add- if not meant to be the PS4 design, what IS it based off? It's not the green and yellow of the classic comics, there's no labcoat, and it's clearly not based on the films or cartoons. Honestly I really think it's just the belt that's a design change. The hair is subjective but probably the best non-printed hair piece that works. The face is clearly the goggles of PS4 ock, the colors could be lego's own tendancy to add brighter shading/more color to stuff, and as for kneepads, lego doesn't often do leg printing for marvel figs that don't absolutely need it (and even many that do... sorry Cyclops)

I dunno, I feel like we'e seen comparable things in PG-13 content from marvel. I don't think violence is gonna be what determines the rating, I think it'll be lewd jokes/content and language. I still think it's most likely R-rated, but I don't think those three things you say wouldn't be doable in pg-13

If you get your hand caught in a garbage disposal, whatever your step-relatives do is the least of your concern. Your only priority is removing your hand from a device that can mangle it in seconds if someone flips the wrong light switch. Wait, what leaks? The only ones I've seen are deadpool and wolveriene fighting on the remnants of the 20th century fox logo. Like @psqidexslizer says, it's more about the optics. Deadpool showing up at all is gonna be rough, but the parents will NOT care if it's comic based or not, and the suits look too similar for them to distinguish. If there's a situation where there's a lego deadpool, might as well just do it and make the movie version. I guess another way to say that is, the parent reaction won't be different whether the fig has the MCU or comic design. But lego might be able to soften to blow if it's just deadpool in a set as opposed to a deadpool-branded set. Also, I know spider-man PS4 isn't R-rated, but I'd say it's also a good chunk more mature than most MCU movies, at least how they used to be. GOTG 3's F-bomb and Eternals's adult content are both farther than spider-man PS4 went (That excellent mod slightly altering peter's language in the final battle nonwithstanding)

They've been using PS4 Doc Ock for years now in non-game sets, so there's precedent. Especially if they want to get people movie deadpool while still trying to avoid a direct "hey, look at us, we are making a product and directly stating it is from an R-rated film" situation.

I still think this is a minor possibility given how important it's rumored to be to the setup for Secret Wars/Kang Dynasty. It does sort of seem like they'd be shooting themselves in the foot to make it PG-13 after all they've done, but it'd also be shooting themselves in the foot to, after a good number of bombs and critical flops, make one of their most important remaining movies before the crossover R-rated. Yeah, I 100% think this works. I'm almost wondering if this was intentionally designed to be later used for Mr. Sinister in the mansion. So the criteria is that the branding on the box is based on deadpool 3, not that the design is the film design?

I love it! You rarely see these sorts of more lived-in builds that go alongside bionicle figures, usually it's just vehicles. But this is pretty cool and not something we often see.

Back into the magical land of being the only one in this thread, a TLJ wave. My least favorite star wars film, I think? (At least out of live action, theatrical ones), but there's some excellent designs to adapt into sets- Microfighters: AT-M6 ($9.99): First Order AT-M6 Driver TIE Silencer vs resistance bomber ($19.99): Kylo Ren (Unmasked), Paige Tico Battle Packs: Resistance on Crait ($19.99): 2x resistance trooper (visored helmets), 1x resistance sniper (hoth style helmet with goggles), 1x resistance ski speeder pilot. Build is one of those weird dome turrets. First Order Fleet Troopers ($19.99): 3x first order stormtrooper, 1x first order naval officer. Build is a naval terminal with turret. System sets: Jedi Training ($9.99): A rocky outcropping with a slice feature and turntable, as well as a meditation rock. Comes with Rey (Jedi Training) and Jedi Master Luke Skywalker. Ski Speeder ($34.99): A more accurately sized Ski Speeder with Poe Dameron, 1x first order snowtrooper, and BB-8. Special Forces TIE Fighter ($44.99): Special Forces First Order TIE (In the style of the 2021 TIE) and the falcon's escape pod, with 2x first order special forces TIE pilot, Rey, Chewbacca, and a buildible porg. First Order AT-ST- Supremacy battle ($59.99): First Order AT-ST with a removable head, as well as the elevating hanger platform Finn fights Phasma on in the deleted scene. Comes with 1x first order AT-ST driver, Finn, Captain Phasma (battle damaged armor), BB-8, and 2x First Order Executioner. Kylo Ren's dogfight ($89.99): TIE Silencer (more in line with the most recent TIE interceptor than the original set in terms of size) and Tallie Lintra's A-wing starfighter with Kylo Ren (Unmasked), 1x first order special forces TIE pilot, 1x first order TIE pilot, Tallie Lintra, Nien Numb, and General Leia Organa. Resistance Bomber ($159.99): Larger resistance bomber with the red livery and space for the full crew. Comes with Finch Dallow (identical printing to the first figure), Paige Tico, Rose Tico, Nix Jerd, Spennie, a resistance flight engineer, and commander Poe Dameron. Midi-scale- Bomber Squadron ($79.99): 3 resistance bombers on a stand the same as the executor. Dioramas: Luke Skywalker's Last Stand ($69.99): Crait terrain with the back built up to look like the sky above the plateau. Comes with Luke Skywalker and Kylo Ren. Quote is "see you around, kid." Snoke's Throne Room ($89.99): Snoke's throne, the navigation window, and the red wall backing them. Comes with Snoke, Kylo Ren, Rey, and 4x Praetorian Guard. Quote is "I saw raw, untamed power" UCS/MBS: UCS Finalizer ($449.99): Comes with General Hux (arm printing, cloth trenchcoat) and a first order executioner (dual molded and printed arms)

I honestly would not be surprised if this happens, since they'd get a solid . Now, if the suit was clearly the film suit venomized the same way Ock and Goblin are, would @BrickBob Studpants have to eat it, is he safe, or does he have to eat the non-venomized portion only? This is true, but I think it's mainly because he's always put in opposition to Wolveriene, being the most famous villain. Assumably they have more faith in him than sabertooth, but I think we saw from the CMF that they have a good amount of faith in other members of the X-men as well. Speaking of the mechs though, unlike a lot of these (wolveriene, BP, Spider-Man, Miles, Doc Ock, Goblin, Thanos, Thanos, Hulk, rocket raccoon, ghost rider, Thor, Cap), the WM and venom mechs both kind of work in that WM having a larger suit makes sense, and venom just has a variable size. So here are some other marvel mechs that could work with semi-recognizable figures Your aforementioned Magneto- They probably won't do this, but they can fit directly into his powerset with this. Instead of a mech just looking like his suit, make a patchwork mech out of car parts and the like, as if he's giving himself armor from whatever's around him. Sort of like the bits hanging off Molten Man. Peni Parker- This might be a tad on the obscure side, but c'mon, it's RIGHT THERE! Beast- this wouldn't work as well, but I like the idea that the mech could function like the venom mech- meant to be just a large beast figure- but beast is also a character smart enough to build a mech, even if he wouldn't want to use it. Rhino- This one shocks me that we haven't had yet. I'd even take a two-pack of it with another moronic spider-man mech.

He's usually significantly bigger than a person. I think he was smaller in the cartoon (I never saw the episode, but just looking at stills), but in the comics he varies pretty wildly of course, but there's a number of covers where he seems a good 2 humans tall at least, and in some stuff (such as the iconic "but I don't WANT to cure cancer" panel"), he's pretty much on par with actual dinosaurs. Yeah what gets me the most is they spent their leg print budget there and not on Cyclops. The figure that had leg printing (and far better printing) just a few months ago needs new leg printing, not one of the other most popular x-men characters who's only ever had one figure before.

I actually was planning on doing so, but I've got the spider-man set wave I'm doing, an Ahsoka set wave, and a couple 10302 scaled transformers ahead of X-men on my priority list, so go ahead! I'm not likely to get to this stuff anytime soon, and your Titan Battle set looks excellent. -One request- if you do make these, would you be able to use the goofy sauron design with the blue shorts? DC is a different thing- The first issue is that DC really doesn't often sell well, not because they don't put enough printing on the figs, but because there aren't popular kid-centric things from DC keeping it in the limelight. The movie universe failed, no mainline cartoons but Teen Titans Go, etc. (The prices for DC are often pretty solid, too) the... the prices. We just covered that. "It's expensive toys are expensive" doesn't really work when the rate at which the price increases are hitting is significantly above the inflation rate for some of these sets. And before anyone goes "they're re-adjusting for inflation"- $1 in 2014 is $1.3 today. Not, uh, not exactly 1-1 with inflation to have basically an equivalent value product be 1.7x the price just a decade later.

$38 for the NWH set? That might be a wait for discount from me then... I was willing to take the $35 (This would have been a $30 set a year or two ago, but whatever, inflation) but the extra $3 honestly just feels like them pushing their luck. This set'll probably still sell fine- I might have to wait a bit to get it for a price that doesn't feel like lego's pushing their luck- but it's gonna crush the warbird. That set is not gonna attract kids at a $38 price. Also, minor note- Rocket is now $60 instead of $55. I am really quite upset about these price increases. The X-jet was already insane and they just what, thought it would be funny to rub it in and add another $5? The $3 increases also tick me off, the spike from $30 to $35 was already to offset inflation, you can't tell me we've had nearly 25% inflation in the past 5 years or so, even with how america's economy is doing. I might end up only getting the $10 set, just because it's the only one which has a good value for the price. (Even the goblin one- $35 sounded somewhat rational at first, but the Miles set from LAST YEAR had a car the same size and 2 figs for $25- is goblin and the glider worth $10?)

Lego saw us all complaining about the price and went "Hmm... we can stretch it more" I cannot stress enough how important it is that we don't buy these on release. I know it's the X-men but unless you want everyone paying these prices for this and any future X-men sets, just wait for discount. Mr. Sinister might be happy his chances of appearing in the mansion just went up! Does nothing for Venom Ock IMO, but I'm closer to liking venom goblin between that and the fact that the symbol covers most of the torso. You swap the arm and get him some sort of black hair/hat and you've got a mostly venomized goblin. Which sucks, because it was so close to being good, they just didn't go all the way for whatever reason. For an $85 set with 350ish parts and 4 figs you'd think they could at least retain arm printing on one of them

I don't think full venom would look good at all, given the heads aren't black. Non-venomized heads would at best just be slightly new expressions for the existing designs.

Yeah. Easy enough to remove, but still a rough choice. Why not make them shoot pumpkin bomb tiles? Why these weird lasers? The car set is a great example of lego just feeling low effort. So many things where they could have changed it to make it a little better at that same budget, but they didn't. The biggest example being that they created two new prints for each villain, but it's just venom's torso and head photoshopped onto the villains. Again, even if you wanted to do venomized varients instead of updated designs (superior octopus? Literally any non-ps4 inspired octopus? Red goblin?), you could have at least fully venomized them. When a symbiote bonds to someone, it covers them fully, it doesn't just splotch onto a third of them. Are they worried kids wouldn't be able to figure out who the characters were? Of course the images will look better than the blurry photos, but I still can't see either of these guys looking good. As others have said, this would have been a great way to get Red Goblin (I mean, I would have bought the set. Red goblin is THE spider-man villain and their fight is one of the greatest parts of all of spider-man), but even if they don't want to do that for obscurity or maturity reasons (Red goblin showed up once and it was a pretty dark arc where a major character died), why is he not fully venomized? these weird 1/3 venomized versions are really bad looking IMO. At least iron man was mostly venomized. Yup! I wonder if they'll give him a molded head or a molded helmet on top of the standard bigfig head.

100%. Some sort of wolveriene motorcycle with villain for a $10-15 set, a buildible sentinal with a couple characters at literally any price point they want (since you can have sentinals anywhere from a little larger than a human to kaiju sized), any sort of villain that would require a large build (sauron with some savage land terrain, maybe?), you could even do a stratojet if it was at a much larger or smaller price than the blackbird. It'd be easy for them to do 3 sets even without the trope you point out they'll totally use of just making wolveriene vehicles. Assuming we get 3 more x-men sets (which in itself is a pretty big if), here's what I think would be nice: Wolveriene vs Sabertooth ($9.99): Wolveriene on a small motorcyle and a snowy ramp with figs of wolveriene and sabertooth. (adds sabertooth) Sauron's Stratojet Ambush ($39.99): Buildible Sauron and a small jet with Storm, Jean Gray, and Professor X (Adds Jean Grey and professor x) Sentinal Takedown ($59.99): Large buildible sentinal with Cyclops, Gambit, Rogue, and Jubilee. (adds gambit and jubilee) What might be more likely: Wolveriene vs Sabertooth ($14.99): Wolveriene on a large, bright yellow and blue motorcycle with wolveriene and sabertooth figures. (adds sabertooth) Wolveriene's jeep attack ($34.99): Wolveriene's jeep with wolveriene, jean grey, and Venom. (adds jean grey) Wolveriene Mech vs Sentinal ($59.99): Wolveriene mech and sentinal mech with wolverine, Jubilee, Storm, and a sentinal figure (adds a sentinal figure and Jubilee)

That's a good point- say the summer wave has 4-6 more figs, then we get a more standard amount of "setup" figs. They put in a more generic x-man and x-woman torso, re-use some heads, and we get up to the bugle's fig count with only a few fully new printed figures. While I'm hoping it's more of a bugle or tower, given that they have 4-6 minifigures to use as repeats instead of the normal 12+, I think's more likely the set ends up having a fig count closer to the sanctorum. ...I knew he was in most of them, but man. You're not wrong. Do you think they look better or are you just saying you think people will say so? Because the new image of venom ock doesn't look any better IMO. Of course, but you have to realize there's stuff like this set not having as many new prints as people want, and then there's stuff like the X-jet being as overpriced as it is. I'm just sayin I don't get why we complain so much about the smaller issues when there are much bigger ones at play. Yeah that one's also pretty solid- while I'd rather pick up the war machine mech (like I said, being a hypocrite here), the venom mech is objectively better value, and doesn't look half bad either. Honestly the mechs are really good this wave, which is shocking to me. Why is the venom ock set good? For $10, this is actually really nice. TWO MINFIGURES (This is excellent for a $10 set. Kids need to be able to have that hero vs villain stuff), a bike that, I mean it's a spider-man vehicle, but it's not terribly oversized at least, and we even get that bit of city terrain, which is something I love to see in superhero sets. The biggest issue with it for me is still that Venom Ock looks dumb, but it's excellent value, and I might pick it up as I'm a big fan of these small sets with multiple figs. (Star Wars, PLEASE start doing this. Nobody wants star wars mechs)

I don't really care- a big part of minecraft is building whatever you want, and if I did buy these, my main thing would just be the generated structures and terrain being done right- but yeah, nobody I've ever played with as an adult builds this stuff, and when I was a kid we'd all build "normal" houses. My guess is the animal house sets do well, so lego keeps pumping them out because they're more exciting to the <10 year old demographic than normal homes.

Ketamine yoda minifig confirmed for 2024 2HY. All you lurkers reading this, go post it on discord/instagram/reddit as absolute fact. This is actually a good point in general. I didn't do a ton of research- finals week- but some cursory glances (the clone walker being $12 in 2009 would be $17 today) do imply a pricing increase correlation- though not one as much as lego increases the prices by- $17 obviously being less than $20, and we've seen lego's fine with nonstandard product prices given the $16 mechs and $11 sets creeping around. It all just depends on what you use as the baseline of how much lego *should* be worth, which is a lot more subjective than set prices rising faster/slower than the inflation rate. IIRC the battle packs were around $10, and had a pretty normal creep to $11, $12, $13, before the Rogue One packs upset everyone by moving to $15, where they stood until 2022's move to $20 (it's important to note that we went a full two years between standard battle packs after the last $15 ones, so while a $20 leap in two years is drastic, it's not overnight.). The 332nd price increase to $26 was never actually implemented, though it was rumored, and I have no trouble at all believing lego would try it given how well the clone battle packs are assumably doing.

Unfortunately I wouldn't put much hope in that. Big sets like the tower and bugle usually have a large number of repeated figures, and unless you want "venom and his venomized villains attack the x-mansion", we're probably going to see all 6 possible repeats. (Which in and of itself is too few, I wouldn't be surprised if spidey and a couple avengers are visiting the mansion, or it has a drastically lower figure count than the bugle and tower) But we're back at them putting in more new prints, and we again return to the fact that most MCU sets (excluding the modulars) are accurate to who was at which event. All the infinity saga sets are accurate as to what figs were were, UNLESS they can re-use inaccurate prints, or it's based on a not-yet-released film so they don't know for sure who's where. They're not going to create new prints to intentionally make a set inaccurate. This is just the "but the set would be better if it had more new prints" thing again, which everyone already agrees on. A brick-built head so it would look more fully like a large venom than venom in a mech suit- his head looks a little small for that here.

With the MCU based sets they tend to generally stick to which characters were in which scenes, at least over the last few years (excluding the tower). Also, remember this is primarily a children's set. They want Spider-man in it. Dude, back when the "venom ock" set leaked I was gonna post my prediction of what it'd look like, and as part of it I crudely edited half the current venom figure's print onto the doc ock parts.. it looked almost exactly like this, and I decided it wasn't good enough to post. This is correct- we get so much venom because he sells so well (Which is yet another reason I think it's a misstep for him to not fully cover figures- kids are gonna be more drawn in by a venom creature with four extra giant mechanical arms than doc ock spilling ink on himself, or a flying venom creature than goblin after a pumpkin bomb mishap). I'm warming up to the venom mech. It's already good value, but if it had a better head, it'd be perfect for an imsoniac venom.