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This is a serious reach and not really supported by the evidence. First of all, in that in between period, at almost the exact same time lego space police 3 was coming out, there was a HUGE push for the clone wars TV show including massive waves of lego Clone Wars sets. Why would Lucasfilm be fine with a theme releasing during their big new show- one that also got a theatrically released movie? Why were the 2008-10 and 2013 star wars set counts significantly higher, not lower as you would expect from this theory, than when the prequel movies were coming out? Just to be clear, you think the contract states the following: Lego is not allowed to produce in-house space sets outside the solar system for 7 years* after the release of specifically a live action** star wars film. There is a shorter cooldown, only 3 years, for space themes that, while featuring unrealistic sci-fi designs, technically take place in the solar system.*** They are, however, allowed to produce sets for competing space-themed franchises.**** *This number could be slightly lower, but if we're going off your idea that lego really wants in house space themes but George Lucas had a gun to their head, it should be as close as possible, giving us a weirdly arbitrary number of years **must be live action due to theatrical TCW movie, which would be an odd contract stipulation when we wouldn't get an animated movie for almost a decade after the contract was made ***Space Police lll. Also, the whole "Solar System" thing is kind of absurd to me, implying lucasfilm is more concerned about the lore of what at the time were very lore-light themes than, you know, the designs of the physical sets. ****We could play semantics with spaceships in other licensed themes, but the one that really blows this open is Star Trek. Dude, Lego Harry Potter ran alongside castle sets for a decade. Lego Castle was already in the grave when the theme came back. Lego LOTR ran alongside a castle theme. And- c'mon- you're really saying that a set in 2017 and a set in 2025 are why we haven't gotten an in-house pirates theme in that 8-year interim? Despite the fact that it was a full theme in the early 2010s but we had a pirates theme between then and 2017?

Unfortunately, it's not. The most recent movie is the most critically well received and probably the best on a more objective level (even if the 1986 one will always be pure 80s and probably remains my favorite), but it didn't make enough money, and just as importantly, a lot of the tie-in toys both for that and the last live-action film ended up at bargain bins. As I said, it sounds like the most recent show, a pretty controversial one, was canceled. There was some investor meeting or something where Hasbro stated the future of the brand was in video games, but they cancelled their only big AAA release on the horizon after years of delays.

I fiddled with my 2016 U-wing back when we first got images of the Andor one and I honestly think the Andor one will be able to fit MORE figures. That wave really was just 5 hydrogen bombs in terms of set quality. Every set was near-perfect. It was the first and only wave I ever bought every set from, and I'm still annoyed with myself for selling the TIE striker for space and parting out Krennic's shuttle. ...they can't stand in the 2016 one either....

You're conveniently leaving out Space Police 3, which had aliens and more star-wars like sets and was immediately after that second Mars theme, as well as Galaxy Squad, which was possibly the most star-wars like in-house space IP lego's ever done. That's what's disingenuous. I could see there being an original deal for lego to sideline it's space sets (Though I wouldn't take Faber's word as gospel, this guy's been very, very fast and loose with bionicle and sort of pretending he could/would bring it back), but it's clearly no longer the case. We're getting a Star Trek set this year, and I refuse to believe Lucasfilm would be A-OK with that (and something like Galaxy Squad) if they had this spooky noncompete on lego. Is Lord of the Rings what's kept Lego Castle in the playset grave for a decade? Were/are the 2017 and 2025 POTC sets the reason our last Pirates theme was in 2015? Did the Thor Love and Thunder sets come at the expense of lego vikings? What happened is over time, the way kids play has shifted, or at least lego's understanding of it has. Most of the minifig-based sets today are either licensed sets with existing storylines or lore-heavy in-house IPs like Ninjago that come with tie in shows, with City as the only real remaining storyless theme. (And one lego's done it's best to cram stories into for years now.) It's not unlikely Star Wars had something to do with Space shifting to a more inside-the-solar-system place with Life on Mars, but it's clear that right now, and I'd argue for well over a decade, star wars hasn't been the thing holding back classic space, anymore than, like I said, Lord of the Rings prevents Castle sets. Lego just doesn't think kids would be into a generic classic space or castle style theme. It's not about some lawyer holding a gun to lego and forcing them away from the classic themes, it's that lego doesn't think kids would be into those themes anymore.

No movie in 2026... no movies for a long time, unfortunately, as the studio pulled out of financing them. Show wise there's Earthspark, which I saw bits of and really didn't like, and I think got cancelled, and the new show Cyberworld, which I haven't heard anything about but doesn't seem like a heavy enough hitter to get tie-in sets. The best chances for lego transformers in 2026 are going to be anniversary tie-ins for the 1986 movie and evergreen G1-inspired material. I'm always rooting for lego to make some sets for the Energon Universe, but you never know. For a 2022 set to still be availible, he must be doing incredibly well. From what I've seen it's less so with Bumblebee but as someone who owns him he's honestly just not that good of a figure. Soundwave should turn things back around. I don't know that he'd actually get a $100+ icons level transformer- it'd be a big reach for a character that spent most of the time since his creation in a pretty controversial spot- but I think a Brickheadz 2-pack of him and Galvatron is all but guaranteed. Hopefully next year we start seeing a few transformers playsets, I really do think you could make a fairly good Optimus that transforms at a $50-60ish price point and then corresponding figures around those prices.

If only there was some other way to get that across. Maybe all the figures could have one singular skin tone, one nobody in real life has, maybe a primary color like red or blue. Not in licensed themes, since you'd want the characters to look like the ones in the movies/shows, but in sets based on original IP or generic situations like City. (Jokes aside, I actually am a fan of when lego uses the same face print on different skin tones, but I also like my figures to look like the people present onscreen in the movies. Either way I don't really have a dog in the fight with your wider point, I don't collect many minifigures of kids, but I saw the opportunity for the joke about Classic Yellow and had to take it.) We should get higher budgets for some of these UCS sets but it always will end up coming down to allocation, that's just how it works. They can't have an unlimited budget. Of course the sail barge should have had more figures with dual molding (and more figures in general), but it'll always come down to one figure being more detailed than another. It was speculated pretty heavily but all we actually saw was a stock model in the background that didn't really look the same as the other helmet designs. There weren't any leaks about it actually having a set listing IIRC.

Oh man not the light printing on a dark color, it'd just look like her skirt had white triangles painted on them. Yeah exactly nobody's actually hurt by a more accurate slave leia. How in San Hill do I know the name of that vehicle.... I looked it up and it's only ever been in the 5 seconds of the movie, a panel or two in the disney theme park comic, and had it's ruins mentioned in Tarkin. (Presumably I know it from that last one, I guess, since it wasn't named in the film and I never read the comic. For the sake of completion, in Legends it could be seen in a Battlefront 2 (2005) cutscene and it's wreckage was present in TFU). Which really puts into perspective how obscure this thing is- usually the "twelve seconds in the background of a movie" vehicles or characters show up more frequently or get fleshed out in comics, games, tv shows, etc, but the UT-AT's only managed to get two flashback cameos by virtue of being present in the scene where Ki-Adi Mundi dies, and two cameos as smoldering wreckage. I'd honestly put this as a justifier-level set in terms of cost/obscurity, though I think the justifier still edges it out in terms of how baffling a decision it is because as obscure as the UT-AT is, we at least know WHY it was chosen. I can't imagine lego thought Cad would carry a $170 set alone. I agree with your wider point but if I was the guy who designed that helmet and it got cancelled I'd be walking in to the exec's office every day to plead it's case, that's the best helmet by a mile and I can't imagine how annoyed the designer must have been to see some of the ones they put out in between it's cancellation and eventual release knowing lego was setting on a top-tier helmet.

Same here. I've already written off the august wave as "maybe i get the 327th pack if it hits $25 or less". Firestar's probably going to come out of this year with more of my money than lego, and I bought, like, one minfigure and some heads. Edit: I forgot about lego soundwave. Lego star wars comes out of this year with less of my money than Firestar, which still isn't something I ever thought would happen. 15 years minimum (Assuming the set was meant to release the same year as the dictionary), which bolsters your point even more. Yeah I'm pretty sure the "fighter tank" rumor is gonna end up being something like lego naming the set fighter tank because the only 10 people who know what the UT-AT is called read it in the visual dictionary back in 2009 or so. Nothing will ever top last year's "We're getting Jedi Bob's Starfighter and an eeeeevil millenium falcon" leak, but can you imagine if the first we heard of the august wave was on april fools' day? Somebody asking Minecraft Goat or somebody what the summer wave is and they respond "Yeah it's all clones lmao" and dump the list. I 100% would not have believed it even with last year's leak being true. What's weird to me is dark red hips would have been enough there, and lego makes swimsuit figures without dual molded legs fairly frequently. It is really odd dual-molding priority, feels like they were trying to avoid any possible backlash

Not directly but you can use the website Bricklink to buy any specific parts you're looking for. They appear to be, yes Probably the standard year and a half- two years Not by lego to my knowledge but it's been reliably enough leaked that it's more or less a certainty We can only hope we'll see Rodimus Prime in 2026 to Light our Darkest Hour- I think it will continue, especially with the 40th anniversary of the movie coming up.

Yeah, I know this because my uncle works at google and doxxed him. We've all missed the obvious point- slight costume variations, with and without capes? The Superman War is upon us. Assumably our Clark will sit half this one out to protect his one true love Guy Gardner.

I want to know how long prints "last" because they could literally have chucked the standard helmet on the '22 mech figure. (My personal collection does this, just with the first- best - helmet mold) I'm guessing the fig designer for Lego Marvel is just a huge Iron Man fanboy. He gets an incoordinate amount of new prints compared to literally every other character. Yes, he's a major character, and yes, his suits require leg printing more than a number of other heroes, but the extent of the print budget he must take up is ridiculous. Cap gets one suit for anything he appears in after 2015, but Iron Man's near-identical suit gets a variant with new printing?

KFC and Subway are, so I was just assuming most chain stores were and our heroes just happen to favor the in-universe exclusive ones. I didn't read the hyperlink and got jumpscared. If you're believing that (Torsos are different by the way, but even if they weren't I think the same guy finding both with no leakers corroborating is more of a point in the fake column) I have a bridge tower of fate in Brooklyn to sell you But I mean seriously c'mon guys can we write him off now? He's not even trying to be realistic it's like he's seeing how far he can go while people still believe in him. What's the justification for 3 different torso prints (IIRC one of which he later admitted was fake)? Three superman sets with wasted prints? The first two were fake but he pinky promised this one was real because his uncle works at lego?

Yeah you've turned me around on the lavender, it's too bright. I guess ultimately it's just one of those situations where there is no good lego color for it at the moment. I don't appreciate the new rangefinder mold and this is one of the many reasons why- a more accurate jetpack would have been a better new mold. Or maybe a pair of molds- one of a base mando jetpack with a stud connection on the back, and the other attaching to the neck with the rocket extending out of it. You can achieve a similar look using the baby carrier neck bracket backwards, using a 1x1 with studs on sides for the base, studs with 1x1-with-bars with 1x1 cones attached to the bars for the nozzles, and a goblet with 1x1 cone on top for the rocket, but it's laughably oversized. You underestimate his power, and the more domestic gadgets in that armor. He has a laundry detergent ankle blaster and a wrist-mounted duster. 1. Absolutely that is what they would do, because it's how they're treating the year as a whole. 2. That said, even in a world where we had an even spread of playsets this year, I still don't think it'd come off as "we want more AOTC stuff"- the Fetts, Mandalorains, and Clones are all very popular. And realistically, with AOTC, 90% of the set material is Obi-Wan's Delta, Jango's Slave One, or Battle of Geonosis content, most of which are vehicles lego's been including (evidently more popular) TCW or Phase 2 characters with. All that's really left beyond that is stuff like the Speeder Chase, which lego apparently decided wasn't a good set to release, or sets that clearly wouldn't work well as playsets in the modern era like Padme's ship.

I understand. Yeah, to clarify, I do believe you on that just being a mixup- I certainly wouldn't call either of those Endor MBS sets but I could see a lot of ways you could have gotten info that could imply an Endor MBS. I could see them holding on to the license and/or preparing some Icons sets behind the scenes but I doubt lego was looking at the great circle as a potential restarting point for the license. If a movie, however bad, couldn't do it, I don't think they'd pin their hopes on a video game.

It will be done. Potentially. I feel like Colonel Sanders would make Conquest Not Lonely, but I don't know if that's an Amp or a debuff. I figure he'll be coming out of a portal to the Dummy Realm. Not sure if his parts are in Stud.io and I don't want to go make a ton of custom prints for one meme set, but luckily a bow tie is a separate piece now so we can put it on a stock dummy, maybe give him a top hat. Incredible. My own Morbstory is that when I went to see Sonic The Headgehog 2 in theatres, me and my friends were each forcibly given 5 Morbius posters as no one attended the premiere of the movie at that location. I put it in my window at my dorm and was known to the general student population as "morbius poster guy" that year. The GLs are all about creating, Dummy is all about taking apart. Sounds good.

It's a heck of a stretch to claim that that's the AT-ST or Death Star, but since 4 of the other 5 were correct I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and believe it was just a mixup with the AT-ST being a ROTJ D2C. And therein lied the issue, since it didn't feel like a good story or particularly in-line with the first three. This sort of "modernized" legacy film would have benefitted more from gaining new, child fans than banking on old support, but they did almost nothing to get kids to go watch it. Are you able to elaborate at all, or no?

Wrong one, no real-world Luigi's evil deeds can compare to what the mastermind of italian cuisine has in store for the DC universe. That is indeed the exact dialogue, "whatever" included. In Bruce's defense Barry just told him about his crime spree in Hawaii. I don't like that technically only one of these is non-canon to DC, and it's the one I'd most want as a set. Though honestly I think it's more likely lego breaks their one rule and gives us that set than that we get any of the other sets. Maybe the Belfry if it's figure count was Batman, Joker, Bruce Wayne, and Oracle (casual clothes)

Done. The Aslume's Soup-Simmered-On-A-Medium-Heat Gala is now in production. (Alongside the other 8 stud.io projects I'm working on.... :/) Anybody got a request for their formalwear sigfig, let me know. C'mon, not even a question. Dummy feels like the type of guy that frequently uses headbutts as part of his attack strategy. Viltrum is toast. Dummy can disassemble the two pieces comprising the actual Green Lantern- the Corps are toast. Nice Only if Matt Smith also shows up, otherwise the world gets Morbed. I had to google when Twilight came out to make the joke.

Only half of it is directly inflation (which is still a lot) but corporate greed =/= licensed themes increase the price of other themes. That's not how that works. That's correlation, not causation. The increase in licensed themes is happening at the same general time period as other price increases (though lego was never particularly cheap). Lego making One Piece and Pokemon sets doesn't make Star Wars sets more expensive. That's just not how business works. It feels like it's designed as an update to the previous young boba figure rather than a more accurate representation of what he actually looks like.

How did I forget about Tarkin, Krennic is nothing in importance compared to that. One of the main villains of the first movie and the only set in a DECADE he's availible in will be $1000. We're reaching Dooku levels of inaccessibility. Come to think of it, it's even been a good few years since the last Grievous. Not insane by itself, but without any other separatist leaders. This is the most egregious part of the clone dominance- we can't even get enemy hero units since they'd kill too many clones (joking about that last bit of course, but it is mind-boggling how despite all the clone wars era sets, the separatist army is leaderless.) Ventress will help a bit but she really isn't the same as the other two- she was more of an assassin and dips out halfway through the war. Adding a license does not increase prices across the board- they wouldn't add a license if they couldn't make a profit off the theme.

Dummy Photography Jumpscare But seriously, well done photos. Is that a room for your sigfig? I mean it would cause world war three, putting Morbius himself in a position of government power would cause a vampiric infestation on a level not seen since April 2008. We've got a few suited members here, I feel like the Aslume needs a Hellfire Gala (Soupfire Gala?) expansion set.

Yeah, if there was no room for Exogol in the next few years, this is a fine consolation prize. I'd like to get to the point where the books are used for Legends figures, but so long as prominent characters and costumes are missing I think it's more important we get people like TROS Palps than legends, even fan favorite ones like Mara or Fordo. We've needed an endor miniwave for YEARS, and while miniwaves have fallen off since the new movies ended, no reason we can't do one for what many would still call the climax of the entire franchise. Not to wishlist too hard, but a $35ish Final Duel, some endor battle packs, the bunker, sorely needed A or B wing updates, etc... I mean, the 2019 Falcon finally retired and I can't imagine the DF sticks around long, let's get the ROTJ Falcon out so we can have a pure OT falcon playset back on shelves for the first time in 15 years. We're dangerously off topic but claiming bringing up Hans island- which while now known for the whiskey war, in 2004 and 2005 was an actual topic of contention that was cited in parliament as a reason to increase Canadian military spending- is disingenuous is rich when paired with the notion that the US is placing Greenland under "threat of invasion". If you legitimately think the US is planning on invading a NATO country, it's not the world that's not being realistic. The may 3-figure GWP is really making me think. I think we can reasonably assume there won't be more than a couple new prints, but that really limits what it could be. Maybe a Mustafar Duel where they re-use Anakin from the interceptor, slap together an Obi-Wan from past sets, and have a new Padme, but I really can't see them putting Mustafar Padme and Anakin in the same set. I know we've had Vader and Antilles but it just doesn't feel the same tonally. Part of me thinks it could be an "evolution of the Clone Trooper" or something with a P1, P2, and Stormtrooper, which would be a cool concept but a bit disappointing as it'd be no new prints and the build assumably would just be a display stand.

I hope so. I'd like to finally see some sets aimed at kids. 2-in-1s or even just transforming figures with basic articulation. I think I've seen a bit of Retro Reissue's stuff, it's generally pretty solid. When I got back into it I watched a fair bit of Comodan Cam and Transformers The Basics to get me caught up on all the different continuities the characters have been in.

Seriously. I can take the clone frenzy this year if it's followed up with a Galactic Civil War dominated 2026, but even then the larger issue of "we just don't get enough normal sets" will assuredly still happen. I will give lego slack on the shadow troopers since they haven't been seen in canon story material, just games without campaigns/story modes, and a Battlefront 2 employee implied that they were being phased out of stories for Death Troopers, who have a similar aesthetic and role. A shame, but I wouldn't fault lego for it, especially since they gave us one in 2019 anyway. I'll also give it to them on the scouts, it's only been two years, and we've had large gaps before. The fact that there are potentially ZERO OT troopers this year is a huge oversight (if it was an oversight) but I'm ok with it not being the scout specifically. But as for the rest, yeah, it's a real issue. I'm a big fleet trooper guy and glad we've been getting them availible, especially since when I was growing up the only way to reliably get them was to find old copies of 2008's scout speeder at garage sales, but it's not like we can't have multiple rebel troopers on shelves at the same time. We have had hoth troopers fairly frequently around the start of the modern design era, but they're the most situational of all the trooper variants. I'm not asking for lego to put BF2015 sullust rebels or RO commandos in every other set, but could we at least have Endor troopers availible once every few years? It's been a full decade since we last saw them! That's crazy! Wish he came in an Exogol set, but a win is a win. I'm glad that variant is out there for those who want him.

Always great to see how far you can take these alt-builds. There was a channel back in the day that did a similar thing- BrickbrosUK, they even ended up with an ideas set- but they usually only did one or two alt builds per set. It's a whole different level to make alt after alt for the same set, I'm sure there's some kid out there with the shuttle or ARC who feels like he's getting a brand new set every week because of it!