Mandalorianknight

I agree, these two are definitely the two larger sets. It'll have been 6 years since their last ones, they've been heavily featured in marketing for the movie, and they're respectably known outside the movie as obviously the AT-AT, and then mando's main ship for most of the portion of the show people actually liked. I'm hoping this is the $75 set. The Dejarik monsters being seen in physical form is awesome and they would all make great enemy builds alongside some of the other large creatures he fights. (Mando might fight almost as many animals as Cal Kestis, now that I think about it) June set I would guess is Mando, I feel like Babu would be a much smaller part count. Still holding out how the July set is something unique given the strange release date.

Oh, nice. I just can't see it happening while the Avengers Tower D2C is on shelves. Plus, the compound won't be any less relevant for Secret Wars.

OSCORP, MY BELOVED. We're in the endgame now. Kaine, Daredevil, Moon Knight, Luna Snow. Kaine, Daredevil, Moon Knight, Luna Snow. If she's included at all- Sony's being so secretive about her inclusion that I don't know if lego would be given access to that information. It would be nice, but lego skips set numbers very frequently

Yup. The Batmobiles must flow. That's true, the armored mask would be a lot better. The 2027 lego DC book is going to include Batman wearing a dark blue suit with a red bat-symbol. (But no superman logo) I would be hyped for this, but I just can't see him being adapted properly. The marvel mechs doing poorly surprised me, the addition of desirable villains alongside the mechs/heroes was great. Bought the Iron Man/Ultron mech day one and Anti-Venom tempted me as well (Though I'm glad I didn't end up getting it since he seems to be lore-accurately trying to fight venom here in terms of release density with 3 in a year.)

It is amazing. Yeah, at the end of the day it will only happen if the sets don't sell well, and so far the clone stuff seems to be doing just fine in lego's eyes. It is nice to get Captain Antilles, especially since even if you already have one of him, he works just fine as any rebel fleet captain, just swap the head. It definitely would have been nice to get a 5th figure in the infiltrator, though 4 was already on the upper end of these $60-70 starships/starfighters. That said, the set we were just talking about was $55 for 7, so there was definitely a way to slide Panaka or Padme in (I would say it should be Shmi or Watto since they can't show up in much else.... but pretty much anyone TPM besides Maul/Qui-gon/Anakin haven't shown up in forever anyway) 3 in May, two in June. May has a $75, a $130 with 1200 pieces, and a $150-160 (I forget) with 930 pieces.

Ah, yeah, that's not great.... and that second part is definitely why they stock these in the supermarket... and why I have to be careful whenever I go to walmart lest a CMF box or small set happens to fall into my shopping cart. The old "I'm spending X on groceries already, it's not a huge deal to add Y" rationalization. I doubt it's the license. We know lego can't sell individual figures and nothing else because Hasbro got mad when they tried it in 2000, but I think the magazine likely counts as "something else". We don't get any of the foil-pack magazines, but we get the activity books that come with just a minifigure for about the same price. It's been discussed before and I think the conclusion that was reached is kids' magazines aren't as popular in the US, but I still think the draw of a minifigure-especially an army buildable one, for $5.99-6.99 would do well. Right, it's already pretty impressive, I'm just not sure how much longer it can last. I think retiring at the end of 2026 is it, in which case I could definitely see a 212th pack in 2027. I think a big part of it is P2 cody- another reason why I don't think there needs to be too much of a gap between it and a 212th battle pack. He doesn't have a ton of screen time in the movies but people really do like him and he was a pretty big missing figure for a good 17 years. I think it's just the general "kids who grew up with the prequels bought one in college" thing with this set- it was certainly one of the more popular ones I'd see back when I lived in a dorm. (Others being the Galaxy Explorer and Optimus Prime) That is something he would do- it's not quite the same but it reminds me of the scene in some random, unrelated-to-star-wars documentary where he just walks past the camera at one point Hopefully they're seeing enough diminishing returns to dial it back, but I don't think I've seen a single discount on that godawful turbo tank (though I am enjoying the downfall of the 327th pack and hoping it hits $25 so I can grab one or two) Oh, man. Not only did I not, I remember when someone guessed that we'd get an RFT for some reason I found unlikely (I think it was that some other set had been made in 2008 and 2017, the same years the previous RFTs had been released, and since the other set was being remade in 2022 clearly the RFT was also coming) and I, with less tact than I should, told him that, only to be proven wrong like a week later. (I maintain I was correct that it wasn't a logical assumption and the two sets aren't tied together, but still.) No problem. Always happy to hear praise of that set, it's my favorite of the last two years.

The character himself is obscure, but the "red leader standing by" "Red two, standing by" scene is pretty well known and referenced, and since lego just made a fig of him a few years back I thought I'd mention it. I agree it's got to have fire in there somewhere, I like Fire Guardian seeing as the toa are essentially the religious protectors of their people and/or Mata Nui's police force/medicine capsules depending on which interpretation of the story you're focusing on. True, but the legacy ZX suit has the armor, crown, and a gold pattern. A show based one would have no armor, a different wrap, and different colors on the torso and legs (and since it's a cmf fig, the implied pattern could continue actually over the full legs and maybe the arms, if they want to add more.) Also true, but as you say, it's a CMF, enough CMF figures include new molds that I don't think it'd be tough to pull the possible maybe resurrection on the standard ninja hood.

Aw, man. I'd forgotten that timeline-wise, those pretty much have to be Pik and Waffle. That's unfortunate, they didn't deserve that fate. Don't let @THELEGOBATMAN hear that you'll be hanging out with Dedra. 9489 remake would be awesome

If santa's not real, then how come he's at my local mall RIGHT NOW? Don't you see? This is checkmate. It's gotta be one of the two. I'd hope we could finally rest after they release, but given lego's already dived into legions as obscure as the geonosis camo P2s or the purple 187th, between those and our annual 501st legion battle pack I'm sure the cycle will continue. Not to mention the retirement dates of sets meaning they can cycle new ones in- that AT-TE's got to be on it's last legs, and the 212th never did get a battle pack in the modern era... I've always had a soft spot for the legion too so I'm sure I'd pick one or two up depending on the price. If you live, work, or interact with children (or childish adults) in any capacity it's nigh-inescapable. I have no clue what it actually means either, beyond a cursory google search confirming it's not referencing anything kids shouldn't be talking about, but it's invaded nearly every corner of the internet. Oh yeah, I love it, definitely my favorite set of the past two years. Reasonable price, excellent fig selection, 18+ quality build with play features, I was a day 1 purchase and as I've said am hoping to pick up a few more if it does get discounted enough. I currently have an expanded copy of the Luke vs dark troopers set sitting on top of it, and want to make a Maul Venator Hallway MOC to put below it to represent the three big hallway scenes. I don't remember the exact conversion, but I believe that's about the same cost/trooper as just buying the battle pack, right? They've got to bring these magazines to america, the money they'd make off the army builders... Do we normally get the GWPs rumored this early? I can't remember the last time that happened. A bit disappointed it's not a figure-scale build with minifigures, but I suppose that'll quiet down the "Lego is greedy for giving out an exclusive figure as a freebie" crowd. I assume it will just be the hilt- that's how the previous ones have gone, and the darksaber has a pretty unique hilt.

I wonder how long that lasts. You're crazy, that suit rocks and the facial hair looks cool. I just don't think it's enough. Lois and Clark (I keep typing Loid by accident) or Jimmy just aren't a sell for a set, especially if they're purist (and if they aren't purist, we start losing costumed characters, which it desperately needs). And Perry/Cat/that guy who bullies clark/etc are Robbie Robertson/Ben Urich level. The Planet having the globe on top is slightly more dynamic and interesting than the bugle, but the daily planet also just isn't as iconic of a location as some of the other modulars because regardless of the current state of the DC theme, over the past few decades superman's popularity has faded. At the end of the day both the building and figure selection would be on the weaker side of the modulars, and you just can't have both- especially when we don't yet have a batcave, hall of justice, (Watchtower? While not a modular I feel like it would probably take that slot) or any of the many marvel modulars we could still get. It's gotta be oscorp, because nothing else really has the figure setup. I bet the Tower retires a few months after doomsday and then we get the Compound around the time of secret wars... which probably means some more endgame final battles to keep figures in production/provide new ones for a basis. Though if I could dream, summer 2026 starts bringing us rivals sets, and 2027 brings us a Web of Life and Destiny temple modular (overdosing on copium, but hey they could throw in a non-M-rated deadpool here with a unique design, so that's something). Another one I wouldn't mind is Krakoa, again provided there's a good figure basis.

"Red Leader" might imply a different character who's received a lego minfigure (Star Wars's Garvan Dries, who goes by the call sign red leader). You're probably right that it'll be something generic like "Fire Hero" or "Fire Robot" It's gotta be "Green Ninja" I mean, that would work as well- that scroll/early promo art design is what I'd suggested for Kai before we knew Lloyd was coming-, but the original suit is something we've seen in physical form in the show, albiet not worn by grown-up Lloyd. We see the suit a few times, I think most famously in the scene where Kai's wearing it and the other ninja make fun of him. It's not exceedingly likely, but lego did bring it back when ninjago started. And there's a chance it's still around- I don't know exactly when Gamer Market ended production, but given it came out in 2021, there's a good chance the mold still exists given the hold time we normally hear is 5 years without being in production. Yes, I believe after Tahu and Lloyd leaked the leakers said the rest of the series was normal.

Which is part of my point: we only got Arkham with as many figs as it had because it was A: Batman and B: the jumpsuits meant you could put out a ton of characters with identical torso and legs (or just the torso in penguin's case), with 7 new prints in total across the six villains in jumpsuits. And even then, they were only able to get 17 figs total in the set. The daily planet lacks the ability to do that, unless we're doing the F4 "everyone has the same body type even the guy made of rocks and also let's ignore slight differences in costume" and we re-use the same print for Clark, Kara, and Jon, then throw in superlois and the eradicator. It's also a newspaper building, not exactly Avengers Tower or the X-mansion. Like the bugle- arguably more than the bugle- it would need a kick-megablocks minifigure selection to stand a chance, and unless they really upped the budget it'd arguably have the worst figure selection of any modular. Even in a hypothetical scenario where Superman's mech WAS a smash-hit, you'd need to lay the groundwork with more superman or at least justice league sets before you could really have the figure groundwork for a solid daily planet modular.

I would be surprised if it was a gold one given they call him the green one in the leak. Somehow lego's never released the original Green Ninja suit from the show, the prophesized one that looks similar to the ninja's 2011 robe style (in which there was no green ninja figure because the character didn't exist yet). You can purist it if you want to shell out literally $50 for the green hood from the 2000 castle accessory pack, but it'd be great to get that, you know, for not $50. If I remember right the torso and legs are pretty similar in the show to the official ZX suit, but the printing on those parts definitely implies the silver diamond pattern continues in places lego wasn't printing on standard minifigures in 2012. A new suit with updated CMF level printing on the other leg and torso zones, as well as the original hood, would be pretty cool in my view. At the very least it'd save you 90% of the cost of buying the hood secondhand. Essentially, though I think it's also that it's two characters from lego IPs, and that it's not a reference but a full figure. In the past it's always been just slight references or factions from town/castle/space. Ok, C'mon, is a ninjago character taking up 1/12th a CMF slot really comparable to a full costume series, or a full series of not even minifigures but car builds? I hope it's not all we get, but a minifigure Tahu is a really cool concept that I'm very eager to pick up. I'm pretty confident it'll be "Green Ninja". Both a generic descriptor and his actual title in the lore. Tahu is the more interesting one to me. Will they do something super generic like "Fire Robot"? Something like "Biomechanical Crusader?" Just straight up acknowledge him with the name "Toa Tahu"?

That's a bit pessimistic. I doubt BND will have the same level of spoiler secrecy as NWH, and even that got a direct tie-in before release. There's no doubt in my mind BND will get 1-3 direct tie-ins, especially with how half of the filming we've seen is about some sort of vehicle chase. We might not get the one character that's driving all the leakers crazy because no one can tell who the actress is playing (How funny would it be if it's some generic civilian or government official?), but I'm sure at the very least we'll see something like: And of course even when lego had basically only the quantum suit design and nothing else, they still made a full wave of sets. The MCU may have declined since then, but this is still an Avengers movie. I'm confident it'll still get a wave.

The issue being (this applies to @Toast too) that despite having about the same total number of figures as the x-mansion and about the same proportion of generic civilians as the bugle, the daily planet by combining the two ends up with a really lackluster figure selection for a modular. The X-mansion has just 10 figures, but they're 9 costumed superheroes and Professor X, who while not costumed is still a pretty major superhero and the leader of the X-men. It's ten hydrogen bombs. The Bugle has 10 civilians, sure, but it also has FIFTEEN costumed superheroes and villains (and one of those civilians is JJJ, who personally I'd consider well above any other civilian figure). The proposed figure selection for the Planet has 12 minifigures, almost half of them generic purists (and let's be clear- Perry White is no JJJ). When we look at the modulars, when they have that few figures, they're all superhero/villain figures. When they have twice as many figures total is when you start getting more civilians. Even the hypothetical Daily Planet figure selection would be by far the weakest of the modulars, and when your building is the daily planet as opposed to something like Avengers Tower or the X-mansion, I don't think you can also have the weakest figure selection. I'm guessing either a UCS BTASmobile or a UCS Pattmobile. Movie's coming the year after, I know, but you'd think the same issue would apply to the system scale one.

This might be one of my favorite days just for how naturally it flowed out of the conversation. It's finally dipped to $17-18 in the states, so once Santa visits and I know whether or not I got any (It was on my list, but with explicit instructions to only get it if it dropped below $20- I'm not gonna request that someone else pay a price I wouldn't), I'll be grabbing 1-3 of them. It's a shame there's two death troopers in each, but I'll find something to do with the spares, and I do love the build (and of course the night troopers being the primary goal) First of all that numbering combination is just off limits now, I don't care if it was intentional or not, you're sentenced to the spice mines of kessel. But more unfortunately, I'm pretty confident that $45 set is a clone battle pack. I'd guess wolfpack or kashyyyk, with the other appearing in a larger set this summer. (Which I want to say would be a venator, but I just don't see a Venator including 3x of a clone legion plus their commander, so maybe it's an AT-OT, UT-AT- wouldn't that be funny- or a 2008 sized RFT). I requested a copy or two of the night trooper pack (only if it could be found below $20 because $23 is too much), and then one of the Moff Gideon Battle set just because it was down to $20 and it's a good terrain/mandalorian part pack. In terms of stuff I myself will purchase, it's pretty much nothing. That Night Trooper pack on discount is the only 2025 SW set I'll have bought. Though that Boarding the Tantive IV from 2024 is hitting bigger and bigger discounts, so even though that was a day 1 buy for me, once it hits $20 I'll probably get 2-3 more, sell the fiveses and vaders, and basically treat it as a battle pack with a big build.

Educated guess primarily based on the Bugle retiring (hence they can slot in a new spider-man modular), the spider-man sets this year providing more minifigures to put in, and process of elimination. Another DC one is out of the question, and the figures availible to use in a modular would rule out a comic-based avengers mansion (they'd only have like 2-3 figures to put in), an avengers compound (we'd have seen endgame sets in the january 2026 wave), etc. Oscorp makes the most sense. Not to be blunt but the daily planet was never going to happen this year and I'm not entirely sure where you're getting that they have a prototype made from. There are literally two minifigures they could use, and unlike Arkham they can't re-use the same torso and legs for 60% of the figures. One film wouldn't be enough to bring superman from "can barely get a mech as his only set in five years" to modular territory even if it had been an Endgame level hit, and it certainly wasn't that. The mech itself is retiring early, implying poor sales.

Last I saw, there are 3-5 TMAG sets planned for may (leaks I can find show 5 total but don't seem sure on the dates for two of them) A decent imperial remnant set (I'm overdosing on copium that we'll get a rebel Y-wing at some point and as such not thinking about an NR one) would be nice, but assuming only the three with known price points are actually may, here's my guess: $75 TBA Piece set: The Mandalorian's Arena Battle: Arena build- a number of the pieces go towards buildable gladiator monsters including the demogorgan-looking one and Jeremey-Allen-TheHutt. Non-buildible figures include The Mandalorian, Grogu, a humanoid gladiator, and a humanoid criminal/villain character. $130 1200 piece set: I'm calling their bluff on that 10+ label, this is too suspiciously well-price-per-pieced to be anything other than a buildable mandalorian (with mandalorian minifigure) $150 930 piece set: The Mandalorian's Razor Crest: About the same size as the 2020 version. Comes with The Mandalorian, Grogu, Zeb, Sigourney Weaver, Carson Teva, and Trapper Wolf. The other two without prices or piece counts I'll guess are an AT-AT and a new Mando's N-1, maybe coming with "spoiler" characters.

Clearly they're referring to the 12 piece snowspeeder, the AT-AT is just a side build. If you're doing it to the UCS one, gravity will stop you unless you keep it mostly upright.

Ah, a discernable reason, just a stupid one. That's definitely possible- three whole batmobiles is just too generous for lego DC, we probably only got that much this year because of the game. I guess it's also possible they throw in the 1989 batwing- I know it says legendary BATMOBILE collection, but at this point I would not at all be surprised if the designers/marketing team forgot how to read. There's a wide time variance, but rest assured, whatever news we do get won't be relevant to batman. (I'm pretty sure it's Oscorp, but it's 100% a marvel modular)

To this point, there was a whole subline of ninjago enemies who used those mismashed cultural elements (Though the leader's headdress looked more Aztec than Polynesian to me), and that was only a few years ago. So whatever people personally think about what's offensive or not, clearly lego's OK with it. Not that it's relevant anymore with the confirmation that Tahu and Lloyd are the only legacy figures. 1: absolutely not the point but I can't get over the idea of a businessman suit as cultural dress. I guess it's technically correct, but it's just really funny to think about. 2: While not explicitly religious, the scottish dress and kilt on the bagpiper are of very significant cultural importance and different patterns signify different clans/families. Of course, I've never met anyone with scottish ancestry who's upset about lego making a figure, even though it's a stereotype or whatever- I think it's cool. I've got family who went out of their way to get that figure back in the day and own no other legos. Same. For the 25th of the theme that saved lego, you'd hope they'd do more than a single minifigure. Even if it's just a full set of toa in that buildable GWP style, we need a set. It's got to be Tahu Mata. The last two bionicle "sets" we got (GWP and the Thu side build in the classics set) were both Mata, I doubt they'd change it now. As for the mask, I'm hoping it's done as a helmet- there's definitely enough room on top of the mask to fit a stud connection to a head.

I'm partially inclined to agree but at the same time there's just not much else to do. Assumably 2027 will bring us the 1989 or 1992 mobile (but not both in the same wave), the '66 batmobile and then.... what? The Tumbler retires on the very last day of 2026, so unless they want to swap it out right away, there's pretty much nothing else they can do without diving into the cartoons. No way. Lego didn't make a direct tie-in for Superman, just the mech. Superman itself, while whether or not or to what extent it made profit is cloudy, objectively wasn't any sort of runaway hit on the scale of NWH or other movies lego's hurried to rush out sets for. Supergirl comes out only a year after superman, so lego would have had to sprint to get a set out even faster than the NWH set. Given superman wasn't anywhere near a NWH level of success and there's no way supergirl makes more money than superman (being essentially a spinoff), I doubt lego is going to make that sprint. And Supergirl likely making less also implies that if all they did for superman was a mech, it's again unlikely they do anything for supergirl. And then we add on that the mech's retiring early, strongly implying it had poor sales...

I don't know. If it is what the marketing leaks suggest it's going to be marketed as... it'll at least be better than the earlier rounds of leaks and fix how endgame makes no sense if you think about it. Still won't be anything all that good, but at least the characters it's about are ones people care about. (Their best option was still a movie where the Samvengers go to fight doom and all lose/die and then the Thunderbolts have to defend earth, but obviously my fondness for the Thunderbolts is not shared by the general audience.)

Wow- you aren't wrong, that's straight up a sword. 18034 would fit pretty well, if he has it in the sets I bet they'll use that. The rifle I doubt we get anything unique for, lego hasn't given us a new star wars blaster since 2011 and this one looks pretty close to some real hunting rifles, which lego likes to shy away from. (Which is a shame for two mandalorian armor bearers now- both Mando and Boba have stocks/combs on the rear of their weapon that no official lego parts represent well.) For a custom I'd suggest 99809 in dark brown with a gunmetal hilt, which isn't the right shape, but at least has a stock of some kind and the right colors. Poor Boba can't even get that. We should be close to at least general set name/descriptions, if not details. We usually get the general May info the year before, even if there's some confusion such as Jango vs Bo this year, or the Jabba's throne room in 2023.