Mandalorianknight

Um, no, we got a set each for the best team up movies, The Marvels in The Marvels and the Ant-Family in Quantumania, and in neither of those were they all wearing the same exact suits. I have now seen cinemabolts twice with tickets for a third time tonight. Each time I've the number of people I've gone with has increased according to the Triangular Number Sequence. Everyone I have seen it with so far has gotten tickets to watch it again. For my contributions to the box office of this film I would like to hang out with Bob and the thunderbolts in real life but I will settle for LEGO MAKING A SET FOR THIS MOVIE. I mean just in general they've been burned with the MCU sets- we know the Eternals wave shelfwarmed, the BPWF movie didn't translate into set sales around me, and while I don't have even anecdotal sales data for The Marvels (Actually I don't think my local walmart even STOCKED the hoopty set) or BNW given how those movies preformed I can't imagine the sets did/are doing particularly well. The only post-infinity saga movies that did really well and got sets that also seemed to do well were GOTG3 and NWH, both relying heavily on pre-endgame characters, so I can understand why lego was cautious about Thunderbolts- even if they chose the wrong movie to stop making sets for.

It's a symbiotic relationship between all four- Fantastic. No- it's sort of a ship of Theseus thing once we get to most or all components being swapped, but if it's just one he's pretty much fine. It depends on the type of virus. A computer virus might only zombify the mech, whereas an organic virus could zombify only the man, and obviously Soup can only be impacted by it's expiration date. Both. From experience, fairly bland. Psychic Link like Peni Parker. He just has to imagine a spoon really hard. Inceptionnibalism. Everywhere. Erman. Something about the S and hope. You can't tell me what to do!

Generally larger sets are more likely to be availible for pre-order, but other than that it seems almost entirely random. I'm sure lego has some logic behind it, but I don't know what that logic is. As far as I can tell, aside from being generally smaller sets, the June SW wave just lost the dice roll. I'll return the favor and branch an alliance between the two groups. Avenger in January 2026 as a "spoiler set" or lego sees the demand and makes one in 2027, Defender in August 2026. Outlander vs New Republic starfighter or Mando's N-1 in a 2-pack in March 2026. I am so many levels removed from judging you here- you're volunteering at a cancer research place after all-, and in very many levels of confusion. We have Goodwill in the US where you donate stuff to them and they sell it and it mainly goes to providing jobs to people who have trouble finding them, but I've never run into a cancer research place that sells stuff, much less one that sells retired lego for significantly below bricklink prices.

That's an abusive relationship and Fisk is a victim. I dunno, I feel like any of these would have done just as well as the standard MCU sets (some minor odd wording to avoid spoilers): Thunderbolts* Battle ($37.99): Vault with incinerators, pod, and sliding door. Comes with Taskmaster, Yelena, John Walker, and Ghost. (And Bob? is that too many minifigs) Winter Soldier's Pursuit ($54.99): Red Guardian's limo, a small Humvee, and a motorcycle. Comes with Bucky, Red Guardian, Yelena, and an agent. The Watchtower ($119.99): Watchtower build with Yelena, John, Ava, Alexi, Bucky, Valentina, Mel, Bob (different outfit than in the first set), and villain character This would unironically have improved the show- they need to retroactively edit it in so Matt pays whoever's running the music at the gala to play we built this city to try and make Fisk crash out.

Yup- at the end of the day there's just not enough room for even half the doomsday roster and it'll come down to whoever marvel tells lego has the more prominent roles (not necessarily who actually does have more prominent roles) Yeah no I know it's not really happening- at least for lego, I do think it's not impossible the film is reshot to include more Thunderbolt, we all know they do enough of those anyway- that's why I added the copium bit. The true dilemma- is it better for the cinemabolts to be snubbed from the slopsday sets so we can't get them at all, or placed in the sets so we have to buy RDDoom sets to get the Thunderbolt characters? And either way, we know we're not getting someone like bob- it'd just be the more marketable bolts. (Realistically I'm hoping we just get a number of the Bolts into cheaper sets so at the very least they won't be bad to bricklink, but I'm actively going through part catalogs trying to assemble a purist team again. There's still no good answers for John or a non-comic con Red Guardian, but Yelena and Ghost at least can have OK purist customs- there's a good ghost helmet from one of the avengers calendars. Bucky shouldn't be much of an issue either.)

Yup. We need a stinger mantis. B was the given reason by the designers, but as you say it's obviously not true- I think A is lego's actual reason. They didn't know if the first one would do well, made just the one 18+ set after because they weren't sure if the hype would stay up, and weren't prepared for the second game to also do well. I think the odds are good that we see a Mantis for the 3rd game now that they know the Jedi series is consistently successful. Alright I know I've been critical but I do really like that. I'm glad you can combine the builds into a big workshop. One and only? There's like 50 of him in mandalorian, is he a hive mind? (Jokes aside I'm very confident that the mold was created for an upcoming mando or TMAG set and they just moved it up for the calendar.) I agree- though even then I don't think it's the same. Order 66 is very much fantastical- clone troopers killing alien space wizards with laser guns (I know it's plasma bolts that's not the point) whereas that Andor scene is not. It's just the artstyle- look at the normal Rebels TIEs. I think a Defender set, even of the lego one, would contain standard imperial TIE proportions.

It feels bad to say about the victim in that scenario but if we did somehow end up getting a TIE avenger set I'm pretty confident they'd shy away from having figure outfits or boxart implying the wheat field and it'd instead be based on the initial escape with the rocket launcher range trooper. We got a Sentinel fairly recently- let's meet in the middle and get a new TIE defender out there.

Batman and Spirit Joker

Yup. Even in a nice scenario, where the wave is like the initial Infinity War one instead of the Endgame one, we had: 25 figures total, 21 of them unique. We're already down 6 cast members, assuming the same amount of doombots as Infinity War had outriders (and remember, this isn't endgame where it was 50% of the figures- there were only 4 outriders in the entire wave. And as a side note barely any of these guys had leg printing). Guess which team has exactly six people on it? Now I really hope that this isn't the case. Thunderbolts is currently getting some REALLY nice reviews from a lot of people, and box-office wise while it's too early to get a great sense, has had promising previews and seems to be tracking to at least "do better" than captain america 4 did. Maybe if it does well enough, marvel increases their role in doomsday a bit and/or lego sees the way the winds are blowing and either swaps them into the doomsday sets or- if the movie does... better than even my copium addled brain thinks it will... lego makes a set for em. John's my personal favorite but the point being the DC theme has so little left going for it that I'd kill it for any Thunderbolt (except maybe taskmaster). Like you say, no amount of blood spilled could save lego DC.

Thunderbolts* sets (No spoilers, all stuff shown in the trailers): Thunderbolts* Battle ($37.99): Vault with incinerators, pod, and sliding door. Comes with Taskmaster, Yelena, John Walker, and Bob. Winter Soldier's Pursuit ($69.99): Red Guardian's limo, a Humvee, and a motorcycle. Comes with Bucky, Red Guardian, Yelena, Ghost, and an agent. The Watchtower ($119.99): Watchtower build with Yelena, John, Ava, Alexi, Bucky, Valentina, Mel, Bob, and villain character

The Ninjago Legends trailer is really something- if it's good they might have me on that fire knight mech. The animation is pretty cool and it might just be that I'm too familiar with the black, white and blood red comics but this feels like it's aimed more at teens or young adults than the kids the main show is meant for?

It needs to. Everyone here is perfect. The one thing I hope is that they undo the costume change they made to one of the characters at the very end- their costume from earlier in the film is much better. Yes- the best marvel movie since endgame not using "look at this, it's cool pre-endgame characters". It's all in the subtext. Cherry does jack all investigative work in the show, despite being replacement Karen- Matt's clearly keeping him around anyway.... notice how Cherry and Heather are never onscreen at the same time? (What am I even writing. This was originally a legitimate point that Mcduffe and Cherry just replace Matt and Karen's roles in the show in a less interesting fashion- obviously with the romantic aspect of Karen moved to Heather.) There's more chemistry between Matt and that guy who stole the desserts. Or the irish stereotype and Detective Kim. No, wait, between Fisk and the commissioner- he even gives him that nice hug! Thunderbolts is peak cinema, I'll take my sets now lego. But seriously, just perfect. Finally a new team of characters that I actually care about. I'm going to need the entire franchise to shift to focusing on these guys instead of whatever the heck Doomsday currently is. I would also like to confirm my earlier statement that I would mercy kill the DC theme for a John Walker minifigure.

Fantastic. Yes and either no or the Arkham is forever based and it comes in that.

I mean I'd be fine with a new one too, but just as happy with the existing one. I don't want those figures- at least the ones that could fit more easily into sets, like Nien or (in the droid workshop AC at least) Cal- to be more availible. I don't want to have to pay $46 for the cheapest Cal in my country. To be fair, even if the unrevealed sets were all masterpieces of design, the year isn't gonna get better for me. The set choices are still bad in my opinion, as well as a lot of the meta choices around them. No matter how masterfully we use those 830 pieces (including brick-built wheels and all the figs), it's not going to create a turbo tank of $150-160 value for me.

Watto would have worked well. Honestly, even without characters like him that need new molds, there are plenty of mechanics we could throw in. Imagine if in addition to Babu and the Jawa we got Young Anakin, Sabine Wren, and Cal Kestis, plus a K2 alongside the B series droids. It's a clear issue on lego's end too- most of the increases were ~10%, which makes sense, but the B1 leaped up 30%... when beforehand at $100 it would have been suspiciously well-priced for an 18+ set like this... and like you say, regardless, the B1's head is pretty rough for a 2025 18+ set. It is very nice.

It didn't click for me that that part was a re-use. So we're at 5 new prints (Upper and Lower BB, jawa torso and head, Babu)- still more than normal, but only 2 are on standard minifig parts- not sure how that shakes out. Either way, it seems more of the set budget went into prints and the mold than it did the actual tangible value, if that makes sense. I think I can see how this set would still cost lego about as much as the other calendars, but at the same time it feels more overpriced because the value isn't put into actual material but the decaling and mold tooling. So while it might still have cost lego about the same to produce, it's not one I'll be picking up for anywhere near full price- especially when it's next to a calendar with EIGHT minifigs for the same price. About the same amount of new prints, too.... a new mold costs as much as 6 minifigures?

Very nice! Very smooth looking and sleek. It does appear that a bit of the beige/orange color is missing- I don't know the game so I might be wrong- I wonder if adding it could spice up the color blocking a bit.

This is true- lego's fallen into that trap now, if you do the analysis literally every year is at least one movie's _5th or _0th anniversary. Love this contest and the scoundrelly throughline this year! Head's already spinning with ideas.

Ok hold on we've gone too stupid and this is going to be the summer 2026 flagship set. It will include Spider-Man, Miles, Gwen, and Venom. Ummmm... "some civilians"? Not everyone's favorite characters, Mcduffe AKA Replacement Foggy and Cherry AKA Replacement Karen? But yes clearly a great set for children, especially if we have "matt breaks his one rule and drops bullseye off the roof" or "bullseye takes every possible second in which daredevil's fists are not actively connecting to his face to kill another civilian" play features. I haven't even gotten to see it yet and I'd sacrifice the year of sets for one. I'd mercy-kill the DC theme for a John Walker minifig. No- the subway train is civilian vehicle- if it were spider-man's, it would be- as it should be- bright blue and red with spider legs attached. Can city be vehicle focused every year, then?

No-one. It's not even Batman and Robin, which is so-bad-it's-funny, it's just... mediocre. As you say, the one memorable part of it is the villains, and they aren't even present. They spent the entire budget on the torso print and helmet recolor. Arkham will as a result only include stickers and re-used figures (It's just 5 copies each of batman and joker)

My thoughts exactly. I like the theme idea, it just needed more figures- replace a few of the buildable objects with some characters visiting the workshop or something.

Absolutely not. Over the moon excited for this movie. Yeah, $55 is a bit much for the big battle pack, but not as outrageous as I was expecting. That might be a pickup just off the standard 20% discount, even if they went with a mole thing instead of a gorilla thing like they should have. Yeah Peter's apartment isn't that bad- another one where I'll be waiting for 20%, but I feel like that's how my plans have been for most lego sets this year anyway. Only one I got without a discount was the Ultron mech. No problem, always happy to help. Lego, if you want me as your set-naming guy, I'm open. Better names than "Iron Man^tm in an Iron Man Car^tm vs Black Panther^tm in a Black Panther Jet^tm vs Red Hulk^tm, I guarantee you that. I can also stop referencing other IPs in the sets if that's necessary (except for Hunt for Raymond Reddington that one is non-negotiable) Those are awful ideas- what we really need are more vehicles for spider man. How else will he traverse the city?

I didn't mean it was the last set- just that it's how the theme's ended up.

It's in a book that's out at retailers already. I was going to just give you the walmart link but I think my account would get flagged for adding a purchase link. But rest assured, it's out there. I'm sure forum members already have him in their collections.

The piece is sticking around, which means it'll be used for it's rightful owner, the fist of vengeance, the protector of the midnight traveller. Landlord to vampires. Lover of catgirls. PTSD giver to Taskmaster. Foe of the cue ball. He is coming. The goblin simply heralds his arrival. Khonshu wills it... THE MOON HAUNTS YOU! Lego, I know you can see this, you gave Brickbob his Babu Frick set. Give me the lineup. Kaine, Daredevil, Moon Knight, Luna Snow. My thoughts- overall pretty positive. Iron Men vs those guys from Overwatch- this is two polybags stuck together with the price doubled, by far the worst set. I'll buy it if it ever hits $10 just for the suits, but those drones are weird. Gauntlet Starfighter vs the Space Force- This is a solid 4+ set, no complaints. Like that it's Cap's turn to solo Thanos instead of Iron Man. Character Actor Alfred Molina takes public transit: AI algo optimization strikes again, trying to pick up those sweet sweet google searches for "spider-man train scene". But the set is good, I like it. I personally won't get it- I have the NWH Raimi figs and don't particularly care about a subway car- but it's a great set and I'm glad they made it. Best Doc Ock arms we've ever had, too. Big Boy battle pack: This is heavily going to depend on how much this set is supposed to cost. For $40-50 it's not a bad set at all, and if I see it for $40 or less I might end up getting it, but we'll see. I could see lego charging something crazy like $70. Eviction Notice: ooo-whee, this is gonna be a tough one to hold out for a sale on. I will- it's not worth $50- but I won the Deli companion set and I'm a fan of MJ and Hobgoblin, so this is definitely on the list once it hits a sale. They both look good- I'd prefer if MJ had the iconic heart shirt, but this one's not bad either. Oh Lawd they Jumpin Him/Norman Osborn gets mugged: Technically speaking, since Venom's build implies this is taking inspiration from the SUMC, the only villain here is Norman. This is a fun set for kids but those buildings are shells- not something I'd want to display. The figure selection is generally weak- Kraven and Goblin being the only new ones of note- but Goblin himself is a standout being the heroic version of Harry from New Ultimate- I'm surprised lego's got their finger on the pulse like that, whoever was asking for that universe's Winter Soldierverine might have a shot now. The Hunt for Raymond Reddington: Oh man. I won't buy this- I can't start collecting the mini UCS marvel ships. But this is damn near perfect. This jet looks INCREDIBLE. Figure selection is whatever- good to get a new quicksilver even if the rest is fairly lackluster- but this is about the build, and oh what a build it is, that thing is amazing.