Mandalorianknight

I agree, it's just that summer 2025-January 2026 is too small of a turnaround. A SM3 final battle and likely some sort of Green Goblin set seem likely for 2027, though. An unreleased SDCC exclusive Sandman attack set just leaked. It's a fun giveaway, solid build for Sandman's hand, uses the 2021 standard spider-man, and didn't include any exclusive parts. I wish they'd done something at least slightly interesting with the packaging, but I'd prefer these SDCC exclusives to be re-used parts with no exclusive packaging rather than nice packaging and a figure 99% of us would never be able to get.

Lego always goes all-out on their new movie/show lines. I'm not familiar with One Piece, but this is an excellent set. The QC issues are an important thing to bring up as well. Buying a new set shouldn't feel the same as buying used parts off bricklink. Especially with the prices they now charge, it's going to lead to more and more people just buying secondhand anyway. I've bought significantly less than in previous years- aside from a CMF fig and one of the marvel $15 mechs for the figures, the only purchase I made was two copies of the Skeleton Crew ship on a deal that was too good to pass up, to keep the parts and sell off the figs to get an essentially free 2000ish parts. Plenty of the parts had more-obvious-than-in-past-years mold marks, and one of the Jod figures had a scratched torso. With the prices lego charges, QC needs to be a LOT better than it is.

Tarkin would be the best realistic addition, Spacetroopers would be the hail Mary. Though if we're not getting spacetroopers in the $1000 Death Slice, I think lego just doesn't know they're in the movie. I mean, respectfully, why follow a discussion forum if you don't like it when people discuss half the things about a set? Figure detailing, how much we actually have to pay for the set, and what we want or expect to see all seem like pretty fair topics. Man you've really kept out of that thread, then. I'm not sure what you'd classify as "modular", like obviously it wouldn't be on a 32x32 baseplate and fit on the assembly square street (though I doubt anyone's asking for that), but some form of figure-compatible modular-sized Minas Tirith is coming. If all he did was post "TIE AVENGER DAY ___" or something I'd agree, but clonecommando tends to find a unique way to put it such as lyrics or quotes and/or puts actual discussion in the same comment. The thing is whether or not lego's actually cowtowing to them, the clone bros think they now have lego's ear. Five years ago we never would have had the onslaught of complains we do now about how lego had a single wave with multiple new clone legions but it didn't include the particular vehicular glup shitto four people wanted. I guess you could say the specific Kenner variant with the A-wing fins was never technically part of the legends continuity since the toyline was rejected, but if anything that's MORE obscure. And either way, non-canon content pre-disney acquisition is generally folded into legends. (And Wookiepedia counts it as legends as well). As you say, Malek has never been in canon content. There are other examples too- there were a number of January 2015 legends sets, but you could make the argument those were in development before Canon/Legends became a thing. Legends material is pretty uncommon to get, but the fact that it HAS happened as recently as last year implies there's no mandate against it. Canon has concretely made these LBG, but especially for anniversary sets or ones based explicitly on the OT films, I really wouldn't complain if they threw sand blue in there. Might shut up some of the "LSW is just blobs of grey and black" comments too.

I'm not sure- personally I haven't seen much of it in the wild or on social media, or heard anybody hyped about it or buying it in-person, but that's all anecdotal. That said, no harm in just waiting and seeing- Black Friday's not much more than a month away.

True, but as far as the lego themes go, spider-man and stuff based off the infinity saga avengers still does well with kids regardless of whatever slop gets pumped out on disney+. I don't think DC's had a financially successful, marketable-to-kids movie since... the first wonder woman, maybe? For $30 I maintain it shouldn't have been an either-or. The Speed Champions set proves this. Sure, Marty and Doc don't have leg printing or dual-molding (though Marty has a puffy jacket mold), but come on. The set's $2 cheaper, has another figure, and between 27 and A HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN more parts than the more expensive batmobiles. Unless BTTF charges a tiny licensing fee and DC charges more than disney, there's no scenario where this is equivalent value.

The issue is that in those two scenarios (Assuming the rumor of the 212th AT-TE having originally been AOTC based before being swapped to accommodate P2 Cody was correct), they did. Listening to the fans is all well and good- and certainly something the MCU and Lucasfilm are both learning that they need to do- but if you succumb to the 501st social media campaign, you can't be surprised when the people you gave an inch to try and take a mile. Absolutely no rule against old EU stuff, otherwise we wouldn't have gotten Malek last year or the Sandspeeder in 2018 or what have you. They do occasionally throw that sort of thing out there. I'm sure we'll see him by 2027, I could easily see him either being in the UCS Tantive IV or a GWP alongside it (And I'd be shocked if 2027 didn't bring us a new UCS Tantive IV) I always saw it as more orange than red. Like lego's tomato soup color they just added. The Thrawn Trilogy books are probably my favorite star wars content outside the original films. Zahn perfectly understood both the existing characters and how to create engaging new ones that fit the lore like Thrawn, the Noghri, Mara, Karrde, C'Baoth, Pelleaon, Ferrier, etc. Plus they adhered to the old legends "stormtroopers are the shock troops, army troops are used as generic guards and grunts" standard that I prefer to the "stormtroopers are generic talentless goons" one that later legends and canon have used. I think Mara would do just fine- I don't think she'd sell a set as well as Revan or anything but she'd certainly have done better than Young Leia for instance.

AND it's licensed. I'm going to hold on the BvS batmobile until I see a sale. I'd argue most adults were probably turned off by the cartoony batman buildable figure. An actual branded and marketed 18+ batcycle would do about as well as some of these other vehicles, I imagine.

By orders of magnitude, too. The number of people who would be upset about their SDCC figs from a decade or two ago no longer being exclusive could easily be a single-digit number of people. It's not even like the Rex situation where thousands of people had him and their precious value was affected- I guarantee you that they could release near-identical versions of the SDCC spiders and the prices for the comic-con variants would stay the same. I still think that's a comic-based set anyway. I think it's more likely a big sand monster than something like the armored truck fight or a buildable sewer.

85% from the absolute all-time max back in january? Sure. That's how video games work- "games journalists" may have put out a report on it a week ago, but it's been around that mark for some time now. It still has ~100,000 players active at any given time on steam alone, to say nothing of consoles. To put it into perspective, Rivals' minimum on steam is almost four times as high as the 2020 Avengers game's maximum-ever player count. Obviously that game underperformed, but not THAT drastically. Rivals still has plenty of players and interest in the popular culture. Yup. It is odd- I doubt anyone would be all that upset over it nowadays. Maybe back when they came out, but it's been some time since they stopped, and we know it's not an ironclad rule- if a character shows up in the movies, such as TASM2 Spider-Man or Shazam, we get their figure regardless of whether or not they were a comic-con exclusive. Hell, "All-new" Falcon Cap got a book fig a year or two ago that's clearly based on the same design as the old comic-con figure. Yup- it may have been branded as '97 but that was essentially a comic X-men modular.

Legendary Batmobile Collection will be the end of the theme unless the DCU somehow manages to not just get it's act together but start pumping out Infinity War-level successful films. The stage is set. Whether it's summer 2026 or sometime in 2027, the next wave of DC sets will be something like: Legendary Batmobile: Batman Returns with Micheal Keaton Batman Legendary Batmobile: The Tumbler with Christian Bale Batman Legendary Batmobile: 1960's with Adam West Batman I'll add that the next two D2Cs are probably a UCS Pattinson Batmobile and a UCS "The Bat" or batcycle.

"John Walker is chosen as the Fist of Khonshu" would be an incredibly sic What If. Plenty of parallels between him and Marc and how the establishment heroes view them. It's just such an odd decision- like you say, it's an art set blown up to a too-large scale. It should have been $350-400, smaller, and able to be mounted to walls. The concept is too odd for the flagship of the theme. The amount of times they've leaked on the actual date of thanksgiving almost feels like they're doing it intentionally. It's definitely a welcome tradition. Guessing the minifigure lists for the sets we know the identities of: The Mandalorian and Grogu's Speeder Bike: Mando and Grogu, of course TIE Advanced: Vader, Tarkin, TIE Pilot "Smart" X-wing: Luke Skywalker "Smart figure", Darth Vader "Smart Figure", R2-D2 "Smart figure", stormtrooper "Smart figure" Cobb Vanth's Speeder: Cobb Vanth, Cad Bane, and I'm gonna guess we also get a Tusken Raider Grogu's Homestead: The Mandalorian, Grogu And then obviously we know who's in the clone shock trooper mech and SoM battle pack already.

I think the Insomniac or the Red/black would both be excellent new wave standards. He's got a nice red/black suit in the comics right now... except apparently that's a heroic Norman and Peter is stuck eating rats in space... my god, editors, give peter a win, please? Like at this point him finding a quarter on the ground would do it, just give him SOMETHING. Yup. Lego's 100% still holding the exclusivity of those minifigures. Which is funny to me because at this point the design langauge has changed so much since that era that Spider-Woman, symbiote suit, and Phoenix minifigures would all be pretty different nowadays anyway. (Except maybe symbiote spider-man, but even when it came out it was just a different head on Venom's body.) I think this only worked because the X-mansion as a concept has been requested for so long, it was branded as an X-men '97 set but really people just wanted it as an X-men set. Now the same could be true of a CMF, but with the previous CMF, the modular, and sets like the jet, I think it wouldn't do as well as most of the desirable characters have been made availible recently and we know that as you say half the list would be re-does of those characters. My vote's still for Rivals- not only is it very popular and has a ton of iconic designs, but it requires CMF-level detailing to accurately translate those designs.

Using the minifigure packs for commanders is a great idea and would do well. Though don't think I missed that Phasma spelling. Rebels wave: Ezra's speeder bike ($9.99): Ezra Bridger (S1), Sabine Wren (S1, pink helmet) Chimera Star Destroyer Microfighter ($12.99): Grand Admiral Thrawn Grand Inquisitor mech ($14.99): The Grand Inquisitor (Removable helmet, but no armor piece- he's not a bulky character) Lothal Stormtrooper Battle Pack ($19.99): Imperial Speeder Bike and supply crate with 1x Imperial Combat Driver, 1x Stormtrooper Officer (removable black pauldron), and 2x Stormtrooper Phantom l ($37.99): Phantom (fits 1 plot and ~3 inside) with Hera, C1-10P, Zeb, and a Stormtrooper Sargent (removable white pauldron) Imperial Troop Transporter ($54.99): Comes with 1x Imperial Combat Driver, 1x Stormtrooper, Governor Pryce, Agent Kallus, and Lieutenant List TIE Defender vs Phantom ll ($109.99): TIE Defender and Phantom 2 with Vult Skerris, Grand Admiral Thrawn, Rukh, Ezra (S4), Sabine (S4), and C1-10P Twilight of the Apprentice ($129.99): Large Sith Temple build (dollhouse-style half pyramid) with midi-scale TIE advanced. Build includes a "statue garden" on the bottom floor, a middle floor with the holocron room including sliding door functions and a feature to launch ezra across a small pit, and a top floor that can have the capstone lifted up on trans-clear technic beams to open up with the superweapon control at the center. Comes with Darth Vader, Seventh Sister, Eighth Brother, Fifth Brother, Just Maul, Kanan (Jedi temple guard helmet), Ahsoka, and Ezra Bridger. The Ghost ($179.99): Ghost, somewhat larger than both previous versions. includes interior 2-seater cockpit, a small cargo bay, and 4 small rooms (Zeb/Ezra's, Sabine's, Hera's, and Kanan's). Comes with (all in season 4 outfits), Kanan, Hera, C1-10P, Zeb, Sabine, Ezra, Alexsander Kallus, and AP-5. UCS Ghost ($799.99- the Clone Wars venator opened the doors to this IMO): Massive Ghost with full interior. 4-Seater cockpit, central hallway with all four quarters, interior kitchen and gameboard room, gunwells, and a large cargo bay with room for speeder bikes and crates. (Set includes Kanan's speeder bike and two brown melurun crates, as well as a buildable puffer pig). Comes with- using arm and leg printing as needed- the season 4 versions of Hera, Kanan, C1-10P, Zeb, Sabine, and Ezra. Helmet: Graffitied Stormtrooper ($69.99): Rebels-style stormtrooper with swappable portion containing a rebel starbird Diorama: Grand Inquisitor Duel ($69.99): Reactor control and catwalks (two levels of catwalk) with The Grand Inquisitor, Kanan Jarrus, and Ezra Bridger. Midi-scale: Interdictor Cruiser ($59.99): comes with an Imperial Commander minifigure (Brom Titus)

It's treason, then. We better meet up and find some tea. This is really interesting to me, you'd think anything even remotely close to this size would be using technic. This thing would shatter like glass- and the shape lends itself to doing so just as well. The Falcon has a low center of gravity and large footprint, whereas this thing has a much higher center of gravity and smaller footprint. The shape of the falcon makes it harder to nudge off a table and impossible to tip over- this thing will topple if your elbow bumps it from the wrong side. It limits display options. I don't know about Age of Smart Brick (aside from ultron being a smart brick), but if you're adding members to the roster, I wouldn't mind being made to rise and live again as the Khonshu's fiist of vengance Mara's Hand of Judgement, mando knight. That said, especially since you've treasonously given Steve's moniker to a european, it's my patriotic duty to weld that shield together in my garage, save that busload of noncombatants from the "not-terrorists", and join the New (tie) Avengers. We usually get image leaks at or before Thanksgiving (end of november), so minifig lists and better descriptions should be any day now.

Rivals, praise be to the one above all, PLEASE let it be rivals. Lego you would fund enough to offset a thousand black panther busts and a thousand more UCS hulkbusters, if you'd only make one of these. The issue is, with 43 characters now in the roster and only 12 slots for the series, we've got to choose wisely. Here's my guess, based on some of the characters promoted by rivals, the characters we've seen in other merch, and lego's own criteria: 1. Spider-Man with a white power blast and a molded Jeff 2. Venom with a new molded "armor" piece that has stud attachments for four tendrils on the back (Crazy that lego loves giving venoms four tendrils, and yet the only one who consistently has them out hasn't gotten a figure) 3. Luna Snow with a new hair piece, microphone, blue power blast, and a small stage build representing her ult 4. Magneto with a new armor piece and a sword accessory 5. Magik with a new dual-molded hair/those black thingies in her hair piece and a multi-piece sword 6. Iron Fist with a new hair piece and two power blasts in green 7. Squirrel Girl with a new hair/ear piece, a new tail piece, and Tippy-toe and a slingshot as accessories 8. Captain America with a new shoulder armor piece 9. Moon Knight with an Ankh and crescent dart 10. Iron Man with a buildable Maximum Pulse ray. 11. Psylocke with a sword and new butterfly wing piece that attaches at the neck bracket 12. Dagger with Cloak's head/hood/cloak on a 4l trans-clear antenna, as well as a dagger piece in trans-light-blue.

I think it's lego- disney/marvel doesn't seem to have an issue venomizing spider-man, as they did it in the 2017 cartoon and PLENTY of games and comics since the buyout. My guess is this is lego's classic aversion to producing new versions of SDCC figures. Only happens if the figure shows up in the movies (Falcon Cap, Amazing spider-man, shazam). I would say if you like the netflix series, it's actively denigrating the series to watch Born Again. It's like watching someone pee on the show's grave. There's one really solid scene- a conversation between Matt and Frank in the fourth episode- and other than that it's a nonsensical, character-assassinating mess. Personally I just never got that vibe. It would be nice, as would a more detailed Mysterio. Here's my guess for the figure makeup of each set. I'm trying to be realistic, but not pessimistic: Ghost Rider Bike: Ghost Rider, Spider-man (Ideally a new wave standard, but in either case the generic spider-man for the year) Venomized Wolverine with Spider-Man car: Spider-man (Wave standard), wolverized venomarine Sandman: Spider-man, a new Sandman Miles Morales Mech: We've already heard it's miles and 2099, which is good because my guess would have been miles and carnage Spider-Man vs Doc Ock Mech: Spider-man, Doc Ock (the version from the bugle and other sets) Daily Bugle: Spider-Man, 2099, JJJ, Peter Parker, Doctor Octopus, Scorpion, Carnage, and either another spider-hero or another new villain. The sheer number of spider-men make me thing there is either a new wave standard coming, or some of the cheaper sets include either a variant or another character.

Respectfully, this is aslume-level insanity. With the big marvel movies coming out, if anything, they'd want to capitalize on that. If DC's lucky, we'll get a UCS version of one of the three 2026 batmobiles. If we're not, nothing. Brother, we're IN Arkham. We're all insane. Yup. Everything points to Oscorp. They've been systematically planting the necessary figures in sets. The Bugle's retiring. Next year is a big one for spider-man. Oscorp is coming. This is an excellent point as well, Arkham was clearly testing the waters to see if people wanted anything besides batmobiles. 2027 would be the earliest we could see the results of that.

I can't remember the exact circumstances but I'm pretty sure West commits manslaughter at some point. Bale and Batfleck actually have it best IMO. Bale kills one man to save an innocent child and immediately retires (I'm sure he also commits plenty of vehicular manslaughter, but I think every batman's batmobile has a higher "that probably killed someone" count than the man outside the car, as hollywood seems to think car crashes have a 100% survival rate). Batfleck is the only one people ever seem to care about mentioning being a killer, but his movies also hammer home for you that this is a fallen batman who is absolutely not acting in the right here. Battinson's not bad, I can't remember him explicitly killing anyone, so it's all hollywood survivable even if realistically those guys are dead now. Keaton batman has some straight up vicious murders (and also sends the batmobile to shoot up a factory full of workers, if I remember right?) that are played for laughs, and the movie applauds Kilmer for using a mentally ill man's illness against him to trick him into killing himself. Again I'm fairly confident West commits manslaughter at some point, but he's also playing essentially a completely different character than all the others, who has weapons canonically powerful enough to tear open the fabric of reality. He's not really comparable to anyone else. Finally, I think Clooney's the only one who never does anything that would have killed someone, but I feel confident saying that he absolutely was killing people offscreen and the snapshot of his life we got is just one where he happened not to.

Their DC liaison is just some guy who went to the dentist when batman 1989 was on in the lobby once. "A plane? No, batman drives cars, doesn't he? I know I saw him drive a car in a movie once." To be fair, I think most of these batmen murder people in the movies. Even the Pattmobile delivered a hit to penguin's vehicle that could easily have killed penguin. This cracks me up. Batwing has this cowl with blue eyes, so they created a new recolor to make Batfleck LESS accurate.

I'm taking this as confirmation of my theory that it's a hastily modified keaton batwing set. The designers planned on putting a batwing in the legendary bat-vehicle collection, designed it, and then some exec said "can we get a logo instead"? Heartbroken, the designer didn't want to make an entirely new set, so he quickly slapdashed greebles onto it, removed the cockpit and engines, and threw in a Gold Batman figure. But seriously, how simple would it have been for them to just copy the star wars and marvel logo styles? Smooth version of this black shape with a yellow oval background. Keep Goldbat on a plaque, or do the marvel function of having him and 4 other characters pop out.

Hopefully that info is coming soon. Three- you're forgetting that one of the batmans is Bruce Wayne's iconic nemesis, Gold Batman. If the Bugle includes Venomized JJJ, immediate best year of the theme.

I have been Oscorp's strongest warrior for years now (Obligatory Kaine, Daredevil, Moon Knight, Luna Snow reference for the algorithm), and it really does seem like the stage is set. There has never been a better chance than now for it to receive it's modular. Of course, this does come at DC's expense, but a follow up so soon after Arkham was already unlikely. My guess would be a modular cave- likely one with the ability to hold some batmobiles- has a rough model made and if Arkham does well we'll see it in 2027. We appear to have a new shoulder armor mold for Batfleck, somehow. Yup, $80. Though I'll say I think even if it was reasonably priced it's a bad set. It needed a yellow oval to stand out more, and the greebles make it really ugly.

This is unironically probably going to be the 2027 lineup- well, not exactly, since we just had a tumbler and kilmer mobile. My guess would be: Batman Returns Batmobile: Micheal Keaton batman, now with fabric cape Classic TV series Batmobile: Adam West batman with a horribly mangled print attempt on the current helmet mold Justice League Unlimited Batmobile: this is dark blue and our difference-in-color-one. Comes with JLU Batman. I have completely the same thoughts on all four sets, except I would probably have preferred Riddler to Gordon just because it's a cool design. The box art is intentional and actually speaks to a concerning trend- DC sets at this point are more or less exclusively aimed at adult collectors. We know the designers prefer marvel, but I can't imagine they're actively this stupid and unresponsive to feedback. This has to be some sort of decision from higher-ups from some form of market research. This goes extremely hard and I just wanted to make sure that was pointed out.

Oh man, oh man, the logo is $80. That's perfect, that's the perfect cherry on top. I legitimately thought it was $60. $80 is amazing. The Marvel Logo has a better PPP AND 5 minifigures, 4 of which were exclusive. This one has a worse PPP and 2 minifigs, one of which is exclusive. Like to put this into perspective, the marvel logo- the one with disney licensing- is $20 more expensive for 253 more pieces and 3 more exclusive minifigures. And it's not like the bat symbol isn't chock-full of tiny greeble pieces. The star wars one- again with disney licensing- doesn't have those two figures and is only a few more pieces... for $20 less. The batman logo being hilariously bad value is perfect. This might actually beat out the black panther bust and hulkbuster, because at least Ransom Fern showed that the parts within the set could be used to make something that looks worth the cost. I don't think there's anything he could do for this thing.

That's what had initially leaked- I agree on both of these, though the GR set including a villain instead of spidey would be nice. I could see most of these, but with a few caveats: I don't think we'd get Peter, Spider-Man, AND an Iron Spider meant to be Peter. I would also be surprised if this theme had to kitbash a comic based lizard. My guess would be: JJJ, Peter Parker, Miles (No hoodie/jacket), Spider-man, Venom, Doc Ock, a new/long-off-shelves villain such as scorpion (who will be used in a potential Oscorp later this year), and a new/long-off-shelves spider character. The apartment had Hobgoblin, Oscorp had a new goblin and Kraven, I'd be surprised if the bugle didn't get us someone like Scorpion or Electro. Essentially, yes. They also do a hilarious thing where DD stops being daredevil because he almost kills a guy by dropping him off a roof, but the second he's back to daredevil he's trying to strangle and garrotte people and makes multiple attempts to kill muse, and the show never acknowledges the fact that he's immediately back to homicidal rage. His default does, yes, but he's got a couple clean-shaven ones as well. I thought the joke was that he was just the legitimate head of a foreign nation (with the more normal looking suit and just going by Harvey whatever), which I thought was funny. I don't remember him vlogging or anything. It is sad that they can't get surfer right. A new part to use for characters like him and Osborn would be nice, but I'm not expecting it. I'd be OK with the finn hair in brown or the widow's peak hair, especially if they give him a solid head and not the stupid angry clone one.