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I don't think it's been explicitly stated, but the contest categories mesh in such a way that the crew figures created can be in the other categories (crewing the ship, visiting a cantina, fighting in rebellion), so here's my first throughline crew: The Margrave Ve'tal's personal staff. (Center) Margrave Keresh Ve'tal: Eloquent and intelligent, Margrave Keresh Ve'tal spent years working alongside the republic in his role as the Kaleesh's leader, gathering a myriad network of connections and contacts along the way. Due to those connections, he was forgiven for his... inflexibility as the empire's gaze turned to Huk in the years following the war, and simply "encouraged" to retire rather than killed outright. While never part of the formal rebellion, in his new role as an archeologist and collector Ve'tal did a good deal of trading with the alliance and there are plenty of imperial incident reports matching the description of his ship and crew. Shortly following the end of the war, Ve'tal expanded his operation and crew size, leading to the five characters shown here. From left-right: Rajun Torc: A trained member of the Kage Warriors, Rajun fought back when the empire occupied Quarzite, using his skills to assassinate several officers. Torc's campaign shortly led to his capture and scheduled execution, though due to the fortuitous arrival of margrave Ve'tal and Lephan Hof in search of the planet's crystals, his escape from prison was arranged. Rajun is fiercely loyal to the margrave for saving his life and works as his assistant, chef, and- when required- assassin and warrior. The mute Kage's hatred of the empire has led to several skirmishes, but traveling with the margrave has allowed him to let out a more comedic side of himself, using his stealth skills to play jokes on the crew. Zephan Hof: His Chevin bulk and intellect lending itself well to a role as a cartel lieutenant, through unfortunate choices in his youth, Zephan Hof found himself employed by the Hutts, where he met margrave Ve'tal in the latter's network of connections. Ve'tal sought out Zephan after being forced into retirement, convincing him to leave the cartel and hiring him as a bodyguard and historical analyst. Zephan is a through-and-through scholar and is close friends with the margrave, having worked with him for decades. Margrave Keresh Ve'tal Charkol Page: One of the margrave's more recent hires, Charkol grew up on Dantooine during the galactic civil war. Impressed with Page's mechanical skills, the margrave took him on in his crew, offering the mandalorian helmet he'd just obtained as a down payment on wages. Charkol is fascinated by mandalorian culture and in his employment by the margrave has worked to construct a full set of fascimile armor out of durasteel, as well as gadgets to aid in the crew's exploration efforts, such as a wrist-mounded shield or rocket boots. Leki Vrash: Vrash is the margrave's other recent hire. Growing up the daughter of a Corsec officer, Leki spent her adolescence racing the streets of Corellia, much to her father's chagrin. Encouraged to find a more productive outlet for her speed-seeking nature, the margrave (a friend of her father's commissioner) hired her as a pathfinder and scout to aid him in his exploration for artifacts a few years after the destruction of the second death star. Always the adrenaline junkie, Leki spends a lot of time riding her speeder and trying to convince the margrave's pilot droid to let her take the ship's controls. Galactic Civil War era staff: Mando era hires: Most of these characters came from a few parts and started out entirely different both in design and lore. Some ninjago parts and Moon Knight's arms turned my first attempt at the margrave's pilot into a kage warrior, a droid became a Chevin with a bionicle head, a hero factory helmet created- at first- a grizzled corsec officer who became a more agile scout, and the torso-legs-fur combination was the inspiration for an aristocratic margrave- originally a Duros, before I found how well the Grievous head worked with the fur. There was no such part usage for the mandalorian, aside from the scarf/cape combo I enjoy- but I just wanted a mandalorian in the crew.

In their defense that was last year's budget due to the set delay.

Even though the asterisk meaning is in the marketing now I'd assume we need to wait until next Thursday to specifically say what it is. I don't think it would change much- if Thunderbolts does well enough to earn some spoiler sets (which I unfortunately doubt- it didn't smash any records last week and as much as I love it, even with the good legs it should have, I don't think it reaches spoiler set numbers), I assume they'd still be under the official and listed name of the movie, not the asterisk meaning. In terms of doomsday sets, I also don't think it changes anything- maybe a set name or something but if it would have any material change on builds or figures I'd assume lego had already been provided with the necessary concept art. Speaking of the cinemabolts, here's the closest I've gotten using just parts from my own collection: Obviously better parts exist for Red Guardian and there's a print for Bucky's arm, but I don't have those parts. As for the rest, I'm pretty happy with Bob and Yelena. (Ideally Yelena's torso and legs would be gunmetal colored as they seem to be darker than DBG but lighter than black, but I'm fine with how close they currently are). I'd like a better John but I just can't find better parts for the character, and for Ghost I think this is the best you can get for her while hooded- though I do want to grab the Invincible Iron Man helmet in unprinted white from that one advent calendar to use as she doesn't wear the hood much in the movie.

Given that 100 men vs 1 gorilla is an unequivocable win for the men- I think the real debate is between 10 and 20 men- 100 jonklers, who in most universes are shown to be significantly stronger than the average men, are no question. You're immediately replacing the 100 average men with 100 men who have- -significant combat experience -extremely high pain tolerance -no squeamishness with things like the bone tools win condition -no fear of the gorilla They also win in a lego sense, given we've probably had around 100 sets/polybags/etc containing joker figures, but only one Grodd.

In this specific case- there are only two nightdeath troopers in-universe, where there's a whole star destroyer full of night troopers. Therefore for anyone who buys more than one battle pack, they have more DTs than actually exist in the lore. In general- usually factions contain one generic trooper and various specializations. Therefore, no matter how many copies you buy, if the ratio is 2/1/1 or 3/1, you have the most of the generic trooper, whereas if it's 2/2, you have equal amounts of the base unit and specialization, which a lot of people don't like since they want to have the most of the base unit. This isn't applicable in all situations, but I do think as a general rule it makes sense that people want the most populous unit to be included in the largest quantity in the set. I.e. a battle pack coming with two snowtroopers, an officer, and a snow scout is more desirable than one with two snowtroopers and two snow scouts to many people as no matter how many copies you buy, you have more of the generic trooper (in this case snowtrooper) than any one specialization (officer or scout) This is true, though remember it is only a regional solution.

Sorry- to clarify, is a scene depicting fighting an imperial remnant OK or no? (Either carrying out Palpatine's orders via Operation Cinder, or in the way that as of Mando S3 the remnants, including Pelleaon's and therefore Thrawn's, seem to have a council leading them that's involved with Exogol and therefore the cloned emperor.) I know this is a weird thing to be focusing on but I have a sort of throughline story created for my entries and want to make sure the timeline I've created works.

I just want to make sure I have the timeline right here- the emperor's clone Dathan (rey's father) was born about 15 years before the emperor died, and died when more conventional palpatine clone(s) were already alive, so does this mean MOCs can be set anywhere from pre-TPM to the end of TROS, or are you not wanting them to be set between the end of ROTJ and start of the sequel era? All this to say if I wanted to make a MOC set during the Mandalorian/remnant era, would this be acceptable?

Where ironically most of the GA hasn't seen any of the three projects involving them. This works because he needs to use stretching powers to achieve a face like this. Alright, you won. The Spider-Man 2 train set, I guess. I think that one works for a Joeseph Quinn Johnny. They didn't forget, it was just the first "tactical existence erasure" they employed. Next up it'll be- I wish we still had spoiler tags because it would help me explain more clearly how a certain group should now be written into the background to allow the Thunderbolts to be center-stage. I have now seen thunderbolts three times.

Oh, ok- yeah, goodwill is like that, just with the charity part being that it hires people who either through their past, mental reasons, or other circumstances are having a difficult time joining the workforce. While they work at goodwill they also receive training for whatever industry they want to join. We do have the salvation army in the US though it's generally just donating money, I don't think I've seen a salvation army store here. Reaper can be in that august 2026 wave as a large carrier set, which can be filled using the June Shore Trooper/Death Trooper battle pack.

Very nicely made! I can't tell you how happy I am to see people like you, @Wurger49, and @zsoltom revitalizing the alt-build game. It's so cool to see builds like this.

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.

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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.