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Just for the sake of variety, I wouldn't mind swapping out to a different one. Nothing drastic, but sort of like how the 2012 suit was based on the USM cartoon, or how the 2019 suit was based on Worldwide. I'd be happy to see a standard like a 90s Mcfarlane design, or a more classic style like the one Norman wears in the 2024 ASM run. Oh, it's more than that since there's the bugle too, I was just talking about this whole "nearly one set with the same spider man per $5 increment" thing. According to the leakers spider-man is in the ghost rider bike set, and the marvel $10 sets in the past have all had two figures, so I'd be more surprised if we only got one. Although I do hope it's a villain and not spider-man, since this will 100% make kids think that ghost rider is a villain.

Oh, yeah, don't get me wrong, I don't think it's likely at all, I was just saying that if it was, it'd be great. As I've said before I don't even think it's a raimi set. Though... there might be something there. In 2026, we'll have releasing on the same day a $5 set, $10 set, $20 set, $25 set, and $30 set all including ostensibly the same spider-man. Now we've had some rough waves in that regard before, but- especially if you discount juniors sets, as we've got the Amazing Friends stuff going on there now- this would be a new record in terms of just the sheer concentration of this figure. I don't think it's out of the question that we either get a new "standard" spider-man suit (the polybag uses the 2021 version, but there's precedent- when we got our first new comic spidey in 2019, the polybag still used the 2012 version), or that one or two of the spider-men in this wave are a variant. Now that's not a sure thing, and even if we do it's much more likely it'll be some other variant than the symbiote suit they're allergic too- but I think it's our best chance in awhile. Not to mention, this'd be year 6 of that 2021 suit, which would mean it breaks the 2012 suit's streak for most consecutive years used. (The 2012 suit did pop up in the one 2019 polybag, but didn't appear at all in 2017/2018.) And just for fun, while looking into this I found the following numbers: 2012-2016 / 2019 (USM Cartoon) suit: 17 sets (14 standard, 2 with red hips, 1 with boots) 2019-2020 (Worldwide) suit: 13 sets (6 standard, 7 with boots) 2021-2026 (Evergreen/Classic) suit: 20 sets (18 standard, 2 with boots) So depending on how you want to count magazines and polybags, the 2021 suit's already beaten the 2012 one in terms of total figures. Shoutout to the worldwide suit for having the most readily availible boots in the most and on average cheapest sets.

This always gets me too- they act like it's some big brave show of character that he doesn't take the serum, but by the end of TFATWS his suit is basically magic. He doesn't NEED the serum. Lego putting symbiote spider-man-comic or raimi in a $25 set would immediately make 2026 one of the best years of the theme for me. $10 ghost rider bike, expanding the building/city builder style rather than being full of spider-vehicles, AND they put quite possibly the most requested minifigure in a $25 set?

Good point- if things ever got bad I could always liquidate them. (I guess I have UCS boba too, I just didn't consider him a rare figure because I don't have him on display like my Thrawn, he's just chilling in the Slave One cockpit.) I assume you'd display it, but there's just nothing special about him. I still don't get why lego made him in the first place, did the actor call and complain? His only appearances are two lines in the movie- "Copy that, Blue Leader. You get us there, we'll give it to them." and "Look out!" (dies)- and a YA novel that released as a tie-in. He's actually so superfluous that he only exists because Finn was supposed to be the ship's pilot, but the director thought him being the pilot of Rose's ship and knowing his sister died would make him "an a**hole". (Which I don't really understand, Finn already doesn't come across great in the first half of the movie and having him at least participate in the first fight would if anything make him seem more brave, but to be fair I don't understand very much else about that movie anyway.) That along isn't the weird part for me- star wars is known for it's glup shittos- it's that Finch's design is entirely unremarkable. He's not a wacky alien or a cool clone armor set or an intimidating sith, he's just... a resistance pilot. This would be like if Garven Dries or Fake Wedge was in this situation and went for hundreds upon hundreds of dollars. It's not a remotely interesting design, he's got literally no character (At least Garven has that deleted scene where he knew Anakin and Fake Wedge has a fun short story about hating that he looks like Wedge), the literally only reason he's desirable to people is because he's rare and expensive. It's the million-dollar-crappy-art scheme of the lego world. I guess another way of putting it- and why it's so weird to me that people spend so much on this figure- is that if lego hadn't made him, I guarantee you there would be no customs of him, nobody begging for a figure on these forums. 99% of people who know of Finch Dallow only know the name because of the lego minifigure.

I have two answers to this: Technically, I've spent $35 on a single minifigure, but it wasn't an official product (though aside from the custom hair the pieces were real lego)- it was a custom printed Invincible figure from Firestar. I've actually done this twice, for both his season 1 and 2 suits, but I only purchased them because I know we'll never see an official minifigure. For official minifigures, it's difficult to calculate exactly. I don't think I've ever spent more than $8-10 for a minifigure on bricklink, but there are other ways you could argue I've spent more money for a minifigure. While I don't like to buy sets just for the figures, I have done it. Primarily with battle packs (which wouldn't be more than $3-5 a figure), but with some other sets as well. It's not exactly comparable because I absorb the parts into my collection and use them for Mocs, but it's not nothing. The only two times I can remember doing it for a single specific figure were $12 for a discounted marvel set with Morbius, $13 for Phase 2 Rex and $15 for the mech that included a comic Ultron, but there are certainly characters (Mara Jade, Netflix Daredevil, any Punisher, comic or Rivals Moon Knight) that I'd probably buy a medium-sized set for even if I didn't want the set. And then there's figures I got in official sets that have since gone up in value- I bought the 2017 phantom 2 on release, but that Thrawn is I believe around $150 now, so even though I didn't spend $150 on it, by keeping it, am I essentially saying I value that figure more than getting $150? There are some people who just like having rare things regardless of whether or not it would be desirable to them were it readily availible.

Completely ambivalent on the batman part ll. It had the perfect setup for surfing Joker- that being that at the end of part 1 gotham floods and we see Joker's in this universe- but I heard he never once surfs. The joker's not the worst we've ever had, but he's essentially just one that looks like Jared Leto and does an impression of Ledger's Joker. Not the worst, but at best an imitation of a superior version. Hush was good, but there was so little of him in the movie that I don't even think he counts as the main antagonist. The Batboat design was pretty cool, though, if nothing else we continue to see that this Batman has the best vehicles of any onscreen version. Still not sold on Pattinson himself- I think he does good enough with the material he's given, but he should really be coming into his own as batman and it feels like he's still just starting out. Catwoman was annoying- I can't believe they tried to adapt that burgler school arc from the comics. Penguin's role was small but another standout, his alliance with Bruce Wayne was an interesting plot point. I might get the Batmobile set, since I don't have one from part 1, but I probably won't pickup the Batboat or catwoman's burgler training sets. Or that godawful joker construction figure.

Not necessarily. Lego's got RTG going and has some marketing thing going on to specifically advertise to kids that they should mix their comic and MCU marvel sets. Lego does like to start these gimmicks off with the OT, but they usually also start off with only 1-3 sets. This is 8- I wouldn't be shocked if there was a Smart Gunship alongside that $40 set being a clone battle pack.

The latest leaked list says it does, but again, it's such a suspiciously reasonable price per part that I'd be surprised. Does this mean the TIE advanced may not have a smart brick? This might be the hopium talking but you say they could, not that they do. The leaked list explicitly puts 27 in question, but seemed to say the Advanced WAS a smart brick set. But again, the price seems too reasonable compared to the other two- if you're able to clarify this, I'd greatly appreciate it. Of course, we can be reasonably confident the X-wing has a smart brick, even without the atrocious PPP the leaked sketch pretty clearly shows the design is compromised to incorporate the gimmick.

I mean, let's be clear, batman being included in a Lex Luthor mech set where no other batman characters are included, or a Green Lantern jet set where he's with Hal and Sinestro, those aren't batman sets any more than the sanctum sanctorum or civil war tanker truck fight are spider-man sets. The only one you could make the argument for is the aquaman set that includes a bat-sub and a scuba robin, but even then, the majority of the parts still go to the manta sub and atlantis ruins. I'm not going to run the numbers, but I'm sure multiple years of marvel have received similar ratios of sets with spider-man. Would those years then mean the theme was spider-man and not marvel?

I'm sure this is just hopium, but this can't be right. It has a smart brick, but is 473 pieces for $60? That's a downright reasonable price for lego these days. Whereas the X-wing is 584 for $90?, and the other potential smart brick one is 962 for $160? It doesn't add up. (Side note: glad lego's reduced those prices back down from the original US leaks. Assumably they either realized they were covered by the USMCA or that buyers were catching on.) #20 is certainly a clone battle pack, presumably wolfpack or kashyyyk, maybe 212th. I've got some hope for 25 and 26, those are good PPP ratios and they aren't 18+. 24 is rough but no rougher than LSW tends to be. 22's pretty suspicious. 33 fewer pieces than the advanced for $10 more. I almost wonder if this one's got a smart brick. Best case scenario, this is the smart brick one and the advanced is normal. Worst case scenario, this IS the advanced.

I would say from 2015 to 2018 it was really a DC theme. Batman still got lots of sets, like spider-man in marvel, but there were a solid number of sets without any of the bat-family at all. (For the comics- Lobo bike, speed force pursuit, 4 sets of mighty micros, Darkseid Invasion, Braniac Attack, Battle of Atlantis, Wonder Woman 2017, and Black Manta Strike 2018) or sets where he was present, but the focus and largest builds were for non-bat related characters (For the comics- 2018 Lex mech, GL vs sinestro, Manta Strike 2015). For the 3 years before that, all we had was a single Lex mech and a couple MoS sets, and for the 8 afterwards we had a single WW84 set, some CMF figs, and the soup mech.) 2012-2014: 4 non-batman based sets out of 14, 1.33 non-batman sets per year out of 5.67, 29% of sets were non-batman, arguable, but given 3/4ths of the non batman sets were just the wave for one of 2 DC movies released in this period, I'm gonna say it was essentially a batman theme. 2015-2018: 14 non-batman based sets out of 36, 3.5 non-batman sets per year out of 9, 39% of sets were non-batman, DC theme 2019-2025: 3 non-batman based sets out of 41, ratio of 0.38 sets per year out of 5.13, 7% of sets were non-batman, unequivocable batman theme.

That's cool. I haven't been a fan of this piece but I might pick up a few to see how it looks in-hand. The only characters I can think of are Wilco and enlisted Sandtroopers. Wilco's definitely not happening and this piece is in no way accurate to enlisted sandtroopers, so I'm not sure.

Yup, like I said, That said, I feel reasonably confident that we'll get a Man figure in each of them. As to whether or not they'll be a second figure, I think it's unlikely we get anyone.

Which was completely justified. There's a video by an army veteran going over it, but the basics are as such. John is a member of the military, not law enforcement. As a terrorist- henchman or not- military action is justified. John is pursuing a terrorist who just helped kill a US service member, who fights him until the last second, throwing chunks of concrete- which could easily be lethal to bystanders and potentially lethal force to even a super-soldier when chucked point-blank at your head by another super-soldier. He never actually gives a sign of surrender, either- he's shouting "I didn't do it (directly kill Lemar)", but aside from the fact that he's still a terrorist complicit in the deaths of a US service member and many innocents, that's not "I surrender" or even "stop, please!" or anything. He's also- again- a super-soldier and terrorist, not, like, a shoplifter or something. John has no availible methods to restrain him, and as he's a terrorist helping Karli murder innocents, letting him get away directly means letting more innocents die. It's also important to note that the avengers- including captain america- kill and even summarily execute their enemies a number of times in the MCU, even when they weren't actively attacking them a second beforehand. John's having a crashout, yes, and it looks bad, but Iron Man blew up bands of terrorists. Cap used an automatic rifle on mind-controlled shield agents. Wanda took an entire town hostage, and while most fans seem to recognize how awful that is, the show tells us we'll "never know what (she) sacrificed" and that the real bad guy was the shield commander. Yup. Even if he HAD surrendered, I wouldn't really feel too bad for the guy holding you down so his buddy can murder you- and successfully murders your friend- then yells time-out at the last second. In @brickbride's defense, she certainly doesn't find falcon interesting, and I can understand how Captain America falls into the superman issue of being too perfect. I am absolutely NOT glad Steve is returning, nor am I happy about RDJ and (if true) Scarlet Johannsson. The MCU did fall off hard, as you say, but digging up the corpses of the characters people liked isn't going to fix it. The writing's not going to magically improve because RDJ's the one delivering the lines, and it's only going to make the convoluted mess of plotlines worse. Either continue with the few things people liked, like Thunderbolts, and the few infinity saga characters you haven't destroyed the reputation of (spider-man, doctor strange is probably OK...that might actually be it for major characters. Thor, Hulk, and the Ant-Family are all done. Sam's lost all goodwill. Marvel doesn't seem to want to pay Hawkeye anymore. If they'd recast T'challa, we could have had the Spidey/BP/Strange "big three" that was rumored way back when, but they didn't, and Shuri doesn't come close to cutting it.), or just give up, stop for a bit, and start again with the X-men in a new universe.

A picture of part of the instruction manual with the set number and 1-2 generic bricks that we can now confirm are in the set.

I think the show's still planned to release, but I'd be surprised if we ended up getting the love triangle. That is what happened- in the original, even worse version of the story, they both died offscreen. The thing about Punisher is he ends Born Again right where he ended Season 2 of his own show- active as the Punisher- so like bringing up Matt's mom but not explaining why he seemingly hasn't seen her in years, it's weird to me that the show ends him in the same spot but starts him out in hiding with absolutely zero explanation as to why he did so. Matt gives up the cowl because he tried to kill a guy we can reasonably assume punisher didn't quit out of sympathy for his pain. A lot of the 90s stuff definitely looks odd, but even in the more recent comics there's been some very popular designs. I'm surprised we haven't gotten Rune King Thor or Thor, Herald of Galactus (Fortnite Thor) yet. While the classic ones would be nice, we get plenty of comic sets- even the iron man/BP one this year- that use more recent comic designs, or just loosely comic-inspired ones. I think that's spot on in all three cases. That's likely as well. Punisher is definitely a tough one (Electra probably used to be difficult as an assassin with a somewhat immodest costume, but now that she's got her own devil suit and is essentially just another daredevil, she's pretty easy to do.), though I do think that he could easily be done brandishing cartoony rocket launchers and jetpacks and what have you like the 90s spider-man one. The squeamishness about the symbol could also have been a factor, although Marvel seems to have largely stopped trying to kill the symbol by now. Frank's FINALLY back in the comics as himself, with the symbol, guns blazing, rather than some weird ninja villain with a samurai skull. Lego themselves used the classic symbol in the Daily Bugle set. I think all things considered blade may have a tougher time showing up in more sets as the majority of stuff he shows up in is R or M rated, and marvel's been completely unable to get anything else off the ground for him. I think so too- there's many more figures to draw from, the bugle's retiring, etc. Jango's Slave One even twice within like 3 months. I think there's a lot of good potential, especially given the first one got us our first and only Daredevil, Punisher, Blade, Black Cat, and Firestar. Now it might not be my personal Kaine, Daredevil, Moon Knight, Luna Snow hope, but I'd actually be fairly confident that Deadpool shows up this time alongside a re-used Wolverine or Venomarine. Yup- it's really weird that there was just no setup for the avengers financially, and while I get that they were trying to do some sort of socioeconomic thing, it just doesn't work in universe. The man is a decorated veteran and WAS AN AVENGER. It'd be like if the bank looked at Micheal Jordan and denied his loan if in addition to a star basketball player every time he dunked the ball he saved an orphan. Worse than that, Steve WANTED the shield to be used. He clearly intended for Sam to carry on his legacy, and sam turns around and gives it back to the US government, than gets upset when they give it to a new guy. And of course, as you say, the weird distance between Bucky and Sam hating John and Sam being extremely defensive of Karli- someone who actively tries to murder innocent people and is by definition a terrorist- really makes things difficult for the show. I didn't get the siberia flashback- partly because it was self-defense for bucky- but while Sam gets plenty of flak, Bucky's definitely not blameless here either. I think he gets away with it more since the show doesn't end with him becoming Cap and he's not constantly defending terrorists, but while Sam's rude to John, Bucky's actively threatening him before he even does anything "wrong", and the second he makes a bad PR move, bucky's there to beat him up and steal the shield.

It would have worked, but luckily 2027's another good opportunity and is a cycle year for the tie. If anything I think the print fade is further evidence that it's real. I think in general grey fits the sort of mass-produced vibe, but I do also always like the blue tone on imperial stuff, such as the dropships. Which is a similar situation to the TIEs, too- realistically the perfect color for the red squadron X-wing, snowspeeder, and lambda would have to be an in-between of white and LBG. (We did briefly have a good color for it with the Mindstorms VLBG, but we never got the ships in that color or even the necessary parts.) Cobb's arm looks good, I guess? Same with what we can see of the mandalorian helmet- I really hope we get some mata red generic mandalorians at some point, it's a weird color gap in my collection that I have plenty of shades of blue, some greens, some oranges, silvers, and- while it's too expensive for me to have more than the one I got with the book back in the day- a white. But for red it's just a bit of dark red on largely black figures. If we could get an army-builder at some point with a mata red mando, a yellow mando (one of Sabine's clan?), a pink or purple one, and a fuly black mando, it would really open up customization for what should be the most colorful faction.

That may be true for the system sets that are still primarily kids, and parents for kids. For the Icons D2Cs I think it's less of a case of "most people don't care about the price" and more of many of the people complaining just not being able to walk the talk. Either the FOMO gets to them or they're just unable to delay the gratification. As I've said before the $1000 DS just isn't an appealing set to me- even if I had the money and space, I'd rather it have been something like the full sphere. Something that much of a flagship for the display feels weird as just a glorified wall art diorama. Yeah- it's really only the original trilogy models. They are essentially canonically grey at this point. Anniversary ties in sand blue would be a nice recollection of both the franchise and theme's past, but the standard triennial tie should usually be LBG.

He was- technically- in the movie, in that awful tacked on scene at the end, just in the shadows. This is the company that refused to make anyone but batman for 5 years, until they suddenly made a set based on the second most popular DC hero and his mech-piloting archenemy... with the DC hero in the mech.

Unfortunately you absolutely do not know that. It could be Jared Letoker. It could be nobody. they could somehow omit batman himself and it doesn't even have an opening windscreen. I never knew that, man, that set was already poor value when I thought it was just the 2021 tumbler with another figure and a little bat-signal (Inflation was bad enough between 21 and 25 to justify that being $50 or even $55 if we want to say the figure+signal is worth more than a polybag, but not $60, and the $40 tumbler wasn't exactly a bargain to begin with.) But it can't even fit two figures inside? Let's be absolutely clear on this there is a non-zero chance they throw a new Joker face on the existing Ham jumpsuit and make Reeves Joker. Yeah, anything other than this is dreaming. The batmobiles were running $50-60 with 2-3 minifigures, there's no way they're halving the price without reducing it to a single figure.

While I wouldn't want it for every version, I think putting it on them every once in awhile, for stuff like anniversary sets, would be nice. If the FOMO on the GWP is all that's stopping you, it doesn't appear to have any exclusive prints. You could probably bricklink the entire thing for ~$15. TIE Avenger calls to me, across time, and space. Nothing will prevent it's journey.

Just by typing this you've summoned them. There are- DCEU and Reevesverse Jokers, and somehow, someway, lego will now put them in the sets. (Oh, man, the Reevesverse Jonkler could even reuse the arkham jumpsuit...)

Hopefully they give him the helmet, but I guess it's more likely he's just skipped altogether unfortunately. Yeah, I know a lot about Wanda's comic history, like her own weird love triangle with wonder man, the constant parental and power source retcons... even the ultimate universe stuff... though to be fair, as that last point goes, they've done the same with dudes as well. (Though as I type that, Hal Jordan's the first one that comes to mind and he was DC) Yeah, I vaguely remember Gorr using Eternity to revive her (also, can't wait for Eternity to be forgotten about in doomsday). At least Electra was dead- not that that tends to stop her long, but at least there's an actual in-universe reason for her absence, as opposed to Foggy being- I mean essentially being fridged- Karen running away as if she'd had no character development, Matt's mom not even being given the dignity of a throwaway line about her absence, Ellison and Mahoney just apparently forgetting what Kingpin did and not stopping him, and Punisher... giving up offscreen for unrelated reasons? I think you're spot-on with marvel becoming overconfident after the guardians did well and assuming they could pump out whatever they wanted and it would do well. That is true- though I think you could do a passable scarlet witch with her MoM/Wandavision mold. I guess they also don't necessarily need to be the classic 60s avengers- we already got a few somewhat clone Matt Fraction Hawkeyes from the avengers game and mcu show figures, but I wouldn't mind more figures of more recent (even comparatively, like an 80s or 90s costume) comic figures. Ironically, Thor's daughter's the only one that's actually a child at this point, so the age gap is a bit of an issue. Not that it wasn't already a little unbelievable for "young" avengers with how long it took to set up, but I believe all the actors are in their 20s at the absolute earliest- and even in-universe I think by doomsday they'll likely all be out of high school. Hailee Steinfeld will be 30 by the time the movie comes out. Thor's daughter was like 5 at the end of L&T. This is exactly true. Marvel had a big slew of projects in 2020/2021 developed under this "we're unstoppable and can let the writers do whatever they want with z-list spinoffs", and by the time they realized how bad that strategy really was going to work out for them, there were plenty of projects either far enough in development that finishing them would turn a bit more money than just scrapping them (Ironheart for example) or projects where the basic premise was piggybacking off of a good story enough to get some viewers no matter what (marvel zombies, which is "based" on the comics by Robert Kirkman of Invincible/TWD/Energon Universe fame). I think there's a good chance. Deadpool's whole schtick is, essentially, being inappropriate for children, so we probably won't see comic deadpool in 6+ sets anytime soon, but punisher has been in plenty of kid-appropriate stuff in the past as a more jetpack-lasers-and-rockets style warrior, so I wouldn't be surprised if his appearance in BND means that we can have a Spider-copter and Battle Van set in 2027 or something.

You know what? I might actually pick up the BvSmobile, which would be my first set since.. 2021's tumbler? I know people love to dunk on the snyderverse, and BvS is certainly a rough watch, but in general I think it's a good story if you consider it elseworlds. And there's no arguing that it's batmobile design was sick.

I agree that in general, and especially for anything not based explicitly on the OT films themselves, LBG is the way to go. However, for sets based on the films themselves... maybe with some sort of special event like an anniversary... sand blue every once in awhile certainly wouldn't be unwelcome. They're definitely expensive, but given how OP this was shown to be in the scenes it was in, I can't imagine Sinear wouldn't have kept pushing it- or at least incorporated all those crazy weapons into future models. Which is another important thing. With the Defender, aside from suffering the triple blow of the factories all being destroyed, their star pilot being killed, and the presumed death of the main guy pushing for it, it also appeared to be a direct government pet project of a guy directly serving the emperor. Now, while I'm sure the empire had some pretty aggressive command economy attributes, they certainly seemed to have some favored corporations, and Sinear was one of them. Even if Palpatine was aware of the avenger in the first place, which I kind of doubt, I don't think the theft of a prototype would be enough for him to personally step in and prevent Sinear from continuing with the project. Wookiepedia does list manufacturing cost rather than the theft of the prototype as the reason it was never put into production, although it seems like whoever wrote that was just speculating. (And again, if it was just manufacturing cost and no other drawbacks, why does the X1 not have all these weapons on it? Hence the headcanon that it had some other drawback like being unable to incorporate shields) As for risking so much... it was just one rebel spy. Aside from all the scale of the enemy stuff, as valuable as Cassian was to Luthen, he's just one asset to a man used to trading them. It didn't seem much riskier than most of his missions, so I think sending a guy to delay the production of a new OP starfighter and ideally use the prototype to reverse-engineer it into their own stuff would have been worth it from his perspective. (And this would, one more, tie into the idea that the avenger had some other drawback, as it ends up in rebel hands and yet no rebel starfighters end up using those weapon designs. Maybe whatever techs Luthen passed it off to realized they couldn't fit shields and all those weapons into a starfighter, and we know the rebels shield even their smallest fighters, so it was a wash.) *insert Mr. Incredible "me too, kid, me too" meme*