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Understandable. Now confirmed that it is indeed that scene, which is awesome. I mean to be honest, the imagery of this scene lends itself really well to a book nook, and as long as they work in Doc Ock I'm not sure how much you actually lose out on compared to a normal set. Like sure, you wouldn't get an actual full train car, but I don't think that's the part of Raimi sets that people specifically want. A diorama style set makes it a lot easier to convey that iconic image of him holding the train back with the webs. (Though come to think of it, minifig arms don't really move like that...) Yeah there's no way we don't get star wars ones at some point. (Also, if you think about it as "to bookend sets of books based on the IP", superheroes - and star wars - make a lot of sense.) I don't know that you can make the argument that remotely modern 007 or most disney movies are based on books any more than the marvel movies are based on the comics. As for Twilight, I thought it was an ideas set and we're only getting one set of the main character's house?

Not to beat a dead horse, but I'm SHOCKED these weren't the first two figures for the theme.

Can't wait for the set to include a match, an empty plastic bag, a rubber band, and a rock alongside a galactus construction figure.

Lego seems to use the US rating systems when deciding this stuff. Something rated PG-13 or T in the US could get sets even if it's 16 or something in the UK, and vice versa if it's rated R. Similarly, T-rated games seem to be OK, but not M rated ones. The only exception to this I can think of is that Arkham Knight Batman got a minifigure in the past, but we'll see. No re-uses is the trick. If 2-4 of the minifigures are guards or doctors made of re-used parts from other themes, and another 4-5 are inmates all using the same head and torso, they could probably get out of it with the same amount of new prints as the average marvel modular.

First of all, is this our first Renown clue not related to star wars? Did they transfer him? Second, Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssssssssssssssssss! I feel like this has to be a bookend based on the iconic scene, which would be an instant buy from me. I can understand why- Iron Man's not normally all that bulky, and the shaping isn't perfect for someone like War Machine. That said, it's not like we've got an accurate bulked-up version, and I certainly wouldn't mind the option to have one for war machine. You aren't wrong. Assumably our Johnny will be on fire, obviously thing doesn't wear the suit, etc. Ironically if they do a turning invisible Sue and stretchy Reed we could end up with zero normal FF torsos. I agree that- especially if this is comic based- I'd prefer normal torsos for Reed and Sue so we have normal male and female FF torsos we can use for other characters.

I did, here they are: Unfortunately the main wing of the B-wing isn't strong enough and it flops a bit in real life, but I can send you the part file if you want to try and stretch the skeleton through the wing. It's really cool to see everyone's armies, the dioramas for the clone legions are very cool.

Honestly I think an ITT and AT-ST should be different enough in size/price that at this point they probably wouldn't take each other's spots, so to speak. The AT-ST's we've been getting since 2016 have been drastically oversized.

As you say, you can say more or less the exact same thing about the Burton sets- first few installments were generally well-liked, but it changes hands and a later installment (featuring new actors despite being supposed to be in the same continuity) was so comically bad most people count it as a separate continuity. Now movies are generally more popular than games, but honestly I think Arkham sets would do just as well as Burton ones, if not better, at this point in time.

Unfortunately, the last normal batman set (so not the 4+ stuff or the mech) to be based on the comics was an accessory pack in 2021, or the wave in 2020, depending on whether or not you count the accessory pack as a system set.

I said from a sane perspective, do I look sane? If I was sane, I would argue that zombie was an archtype people were likely dying of a lego version of for decades, so the lack of accessories or hair didn't affect it as much (whereas I doubt many people were particularly chomping at the bit for a minifigure crash test dummy). As for the Blacktron and CS figures- people like them because of nostalgia. Even for those of us born after those lines ended, they harken back to early lego and have that feeling. If I was sane, I'd say Demo Dummy... doesn't resemble a classic minifigure. He's got significant leg printing and clearly emulates the late 2000s/early 2010s design archtype (Of which I'd say the best ambassadors are that era's police officer, maybe a space police guy, and of course Kai Ninjago) I was wondering what Soup was holding, good to see it's Jim from The Office. Very nice profile pic, I don't think you've ever had one that missed. I assuming Luigi will be removing Lex's purple parts to use them in purple-13.

I guess it's possible, but I just couldn't see why. By all accounts the guy loved being in star wars and showed up to conventions all the time, so I'm not sure why his family would want to stop lego minifigures of him- plus to my knowledge there's no likeness money or anything for a lot of those characters, so I kind of doubt that they even inform the actor when they make a minifigure of them in most cases- which is to say I don't think there's any legalese tied to it the family could have had issue with. As for Stan Lee, according to brickfanatics, his likeness currently is allowed to be used in merch via a deal, at least as of 2022. Lego designers said they couldn't "make it work" for a stan minifig in the avengers tower, though it's unknown why that was. (I will also say that it's a bit of a different situation with stan, where there's a whole company- not marvel, a whole other company- regarding his likeness, whereas while Gold Leader by all accounts loved his role in the film and being with the fans, he wasn't exactly on the same level.) TLDR I guess it's possible his family reached out to lucasfilm and said "no more gold leader merch", but I can't imagine why, and I feel like we would have heard something about it besides a vague hint that could possibly mean it from a lego leaker. Oh I agree the Muunilist one is much cooler and would even be tempted to buy it if they brick-built the "face" on the gunship and it came with a good number of 2003 ARCs, but like you say, we need to wait awhile before it makes sense to tie up another $100+ slot with one. In @BrickBob Studpants's defense, I think Renwon himself did say he was on a bit too much blue milk when he made the 1984 hint. Though I agree "he's drunk" is probably not the correct one here- it clearly and directly relates to star wars, as do most of his other hints, with the inebriated one being just a 1984 quote that we really had to reach to find anything on. (IIRC we found that Peter Cushing was in a 1984 adaption or something?)

Thanks! Yeah, and even then I've left off some of mine (I have the main "hero" casts by their respective ships, Thrawn/Tarkin/Officers between an ISD and Lambda, and my GAR Jedi (duplicate Anakin but no Ahsoka) in front of a delta. This is the way. (Honestly I would prefer non-maulized red mandos for the lore reason of they're a pretty small part of the mando timeline whereas generic ones can be used anywhere from TOR to the sequel era, and the very logical and fact-based reason of "red is my favorite color and I want red mandos who can be good guys") Yeah I agree. I think new A and Y wings are long overdue- it's about time even if we count the resistance entries. I may be biased towards the Y-wing as the one in my collection looks kind of terrible (modded 2006), whereas I did full MOCs for my A and B wings instead of trying to mod old models and I think they turned out a lot better.

The first page of reviews all say he's terrible. Not gonna lie from a sane perspective they bring up some good points (very boring accessories, no hair/headgear- which for a CMF figure removes like 15% of the value of the set, somewhat basic printing even for the time). I would say that this earns him his popularity in the aslume- a figure that the general CMF audience seems to dislike would obviously be an icon in a thread formed from the ashes of a dying theme.

That's a great starter army for a few different factions there. I wish I'd seen this yesterday, I've just started living in another location so I won't be able to take photos of my collection for a few months, but I have 5 factions with an "army" built up. I've had legos pretty much since I was 4, but started collecting more seriously in 2015 after the force awakens, so this is a decade's worth of army building in some cases: Imperials: My stormtroopers are lined up on the right side of the classic 48x48 grey baseplate (I think at this point I'm close to 40!), with snow/sand/shore/shock/death/scout (units I have 3-8 of) etc in the middle and specialized units I only have 1-2 of (purist custom Purge, ISB, Mortar, etc). At the back of the baseplate and behind it are an AT-ST, Dewback, and some imperial crates, speeder bikes, etc, with a TX-225 and Trexlar Marauder to the right of the troopers. It's not in the same area, but I have a small diorama elsewhere in my collection with Palpatine, Vader, a few inquisitors, and some royal guards. Rebels: I have a 16x32 baseplate set up with all my Fleet Troopers, led by a Captain Antilles figure. I then have 5-8 smaller baseplates with dioramas for the environment for Endor commandos, uniformless rebels, and two purist custom groups (Mountaineers, made from unprinted dark tan endor helmets and the grey rogue one torsos, and Desert Troops, with the same helmets and resistance trooper torsos). Intersperced with those are some rebel ground vehicle sets (really just the rebel scout speeders), as well as some mocs (T2-B, MLC-3, a LBG snowspeeder, etc). There's also a small plate with rebel command (Leia, Dodanna, Ackbar, and purist customs of Madine and some other rebel generals) Republic: My largest faction, somehow. White baseplate with Anakin, Ahsoka, Rex, Fives, R2, and a couple of commanders made with the Vaughn body with 501st helmets, alongside a large number of 501st troopers and shinies. I have some smaller plates around it with factions I have 2-6 members of (41st, 212th, coruscant guard, etc), as well as a modded 2013 gunship, 2022 AT-TE, 3 2020 BARCs, and 3 2023 artillery cannons, as well as 3 AT-RT mocs that are sized a little closer to minifigure scale. Separatists: I have a ton of B1s but it's a small display overall. B1s on a DBG plate, B2s on another, and a 2x12 plate with a purist custom Dooku, the white Grievous figure, and a b1 commander. The 2007 vulture droid, which I assumably got off an ebay lot but have no memory of obtaining, sits behind them alongside 2 2020 AATs. Mandalorians: I have a 16x32 baseplate with a ton of mandalorian "tribes' (of similarly colored armors), mostly purist custom. At the front of it are my named mandalorians like Din, The Armorer, Paz, a Boba, and purist customs of Sabine, Bo, Jango, etc. Behind them I've got the 2021 gauntlet fighter, another Ebay purchase (I think I ended up essentially gaining money from that one- it was part of a lot that I sold off the figures from on bricklink). I have a few first order stormtroopers, praetorians, tuskens, etc, but they're just loose in a tray somewhere. This is a tough one- I'm at a point where most of my armies are pretty "complete" so to speak. If you asked me in 2019 it would be two clone legions and a rebel fleet trooper pack, but nowadays it'd be: Mandalorian battle pack #1 ($20): four mandalorians in some rarer colors. Male Red (Black jetpack), Male Purple (Reddish Brown slim cape), Female White (slim white cape), Female Yellow (Flat Silver Jetpack). Build is a Balutar speeder and a turret, as is the norm. Mandalorian battle pack #2 ($20): four more mandalorians. Male Yellow (Light Bluish Grey jetpack), Male Black (Black ragged cape), Female Pink (slim dark red cape), Female Red (dark red jetpack). Build is a small base with a weapon rack and basic forge. The Final Clone Battle Pack For At Least Two Years ($20): 212th trooper, wolfpack trooper, 41st trooper, and 91st trooper. Comes with a size-accurate AT-RT and a small barricade.

That's my thought- TIE Advanced and Y-wing 2-pack Actually, Muunilist isn't a bad guess, Renown does like to use exact quotes. I still think it's most likely the former, but Muunilist is a real possibility. (I'd be ticked if it was the muunilist gunship specifically though- it's a cool design but it'd be two system republic gunships in 3 years, neither of them the base color scheme, and it would cement the clone domination of the wave.) I think in more ways than one is referencing the unfortunate death of the actor who plays him recently. Yeah, that's why I'm saying I think that interpretation's unlikely- they didn't cancel figs of anyone else. I think the only time we know they cancelled a figure from a set without cancelling the set outright is when the Flash Batmobile was retooled into a Batman 1989 one, removing the Ezra Miller flash figure, which... yeah in that particular case it's understandable, iirc he was actively on the run from police around that time. Yeah I can't imagine it refers to enoch either, I guess it's possible as enoch is a leader and features gold in his design, but I don't think it fits with the way Renown normally leaks stuff.

Interesting. Obviously the actor has unfortunately died, but I wonder if this hints at a new TIE Advanced (Or even a TIE Advanced vs Y-wing)? The only other way to interpret it is that lego decided to cancel a Y-wing set or Dutch Vander minifigure, which aside from being an odd choice- a Y-wing is an obvious solid seller and it'd be extremely strange to remove a figure from a set because the actor died- would be a first for Renown, who I don't think has ever hinted at sets or figs we didn't get.

I keep forgetting to talk about the starship collection, but I got the Starship Falcon for christmas and... wow. The building techniques that go into it are really cool to see. Ultimately, without the concerns about complexity or fitting minifigs, this ends up looking significantly better and more accurate than the system version that's over double the price! This set has really turned me around on the starship collection in all but one aspects- the price is still an issue. Since I got it as a gift, I didn't think as much about whether or not it was worth it, but looking at it now, as cool as it is, I don't think it's $85. And sets like the Home One and Invisible Hand have similarly inflated prices. I really think lego could turn this line into a top seller with just one change- add a fig or two in. I know it's been said to death, but now that I've built one, I really do think it would turn these into S-tier sets. Han and Chewie with the Falcon, Antilles with the Tantive IV, Grievous with the Invisible Hand, and then you could do Ackbar with the Home One and a Clone Captain with the Acclamator. (I would say the P1 commander, but I think we've all decided we're OK if they skip those for a minute)

I would not put this past them. We get a few very soggy sets and then never hear about it again. The ultimate evolution of the "lego houses and vehicles are made out of minifigure flesh" memes. Either a boat or an aircraft if they've got any semblance of sanity left, but I do think it would be really funny if half the piece count of the batcave went to a batmobile, and I'm almost CERTAIN Arkham will have a midi-scale one. I mean I wouldn't doubt it, the plants-from-plants thing seems to have failed somewhat significantly. Big buzz in 2018 and then, like, two sets with it. I'll give you that. It's a worse movie and that's what makes it more enjoyable to watch. (I was going to end with "like Morbius", but that transcends everything. It's so bad that it's not just "so bad it's good", it's not just "so bad it goes all the way back around "so bad it's good" to being bad again", it's so absurd and yet simultaneously uninteresting that it goes beyond the concept of film quality and becomes a truly unique experience. I haven't seen Kraven, but from what I gather it's just bad and boring, whereas Madam web has some moments that are comically bad, such as the villain jumping into the path of the ambulance at the end.)

Unfortunately I don't know that either of them are coming for the switch. Luigi solos, easy, unless the mech is some sort of sanity-inducing mech. I mean, our Luigi, of Luigi's Pizza, would probably blackmail Luthor and gain little pop-up pizzereas in all Lexcorp towers, like the starbucks they have inside targets in the US.

Don't we have a picture of the armor room already? IIRC It's Iron Patriot, Pepper, Aldritch Killian, and iron man (don't remember which mark #)

Tanalorr is (mine) a planet that's heavily isolated from the rest of the galaxy. The plot of the game it's from largely revolves around finding an ancient device that can get them to the planet. Oh, that's incredible. Like Gotham Knights

Sure, but the only difference between this and something like the NWH spider-drone set is the fact that it doesn't have a little print on the box saying "inspired by Soup (2025)". (And that both the characters in the set will appear in the movie). And while I can't think of any films that had tie-ins not directly stated on the packaging (aside from DC movies where the maturity level played a role), so you are right that that specific situation hasn't happen before, marvel's had plenty of sets based on games and tv shows that don't directly spell out that correlation on the box. The specific setup of a movie with an tie in set that isn't given movie labels is something I don't think we've seen before, sure, but I don't think it's something completely out of lego's wheelhouse for what is in many ways a dying theme. (I also don't think DC did anything bad here with that press release. There's no doubt in my mind that without the movie and/or pressure from DC, lego wouldn't have made any soup related sets this year.) For some of the licensed themes, we've got a huge shift from that main 6-12 demo to 18+ sets (with no loss in 4+ sets). Marvel is currently still getting plenty of sets for that main demo, but look what happened to DC. Look what's happed to star wars's first half of each year especially. The number of system sets is starting to decrease, with 18+ sets filling the gap. I could go fully into what I think's going on here, with lego starting to cede ground to phones and social media after about a decade of trying to integrate the physical sets into them, but for now I'll focus more on the existence of the trend rather than what I think's driving it. (As a side note of a side note, I'm leaving video games out of that above part for a reason- they've been around for about as long as minifigures. I don't think console games have ever been a threat to lego.) So now look at Soup under that lens. They've got a mech out, so if a kid really wants lego soup they've got something. But they have no guarantee soup will be a success, and no adult's going to be nostalgic for soup 2025 in 2025, which is inarguably the driving factor for almost all DC sets nowadays. Every non-4+ set since The Batman's sets has been based on a film at least a decade or so old. If anything, I'm surprised we didn't get a Christopher Reeve diorama set or something. All the themes you mentioned at the end there were primarily aimed at younger children, which isn't Soup's primary demographic- it's a PG-13 movie after all, and while plenty of people under that age will see it, I can totally see why lego would view it as more of a risk for the demo you listed. They've had definite sales issues with superhero movie tie in sets in the past few years and have drastically reduced the output for those sets, and when you remove the brand of the once-monolithic MCU from the equation, I can see why lego's gone from "single direct tie in set" for most of the 2023 and 2024 marvel movies to "single loose tie-in set" for Soup. Obviously none of this is good. But it's what lego seems to be doing. I think you're right that in a lot of ways soup sets shouldn't be seen as that big of a risk, but I can get why lego would see them as such, and they've been leaning in this general direction for awhile.

Didn't he cure cancer to prove he could, and then give his sister cancer again? Like the time Iron Man gave daredevil his vision back for, like, a day. Biggest missed opportunity in What If was not making an entire episode based off "What if the Mandrin had a flame-spewing golf cart". (Actually though "What if the Mandrin was actually the Mandrin" where Iron Man actually has to deal with the ten rings would be a lot more interesting than half the episodes we did get.) I mean with respect, some of us had been warning you for awhile that it was probably just a suit not looking too heavily into the specifics of superman's suit in the set. Tie-in merch isn't always even remotely related to what was in the movie (IIRC spider-man FFH had a spider-UK action figure and jet for him in it's tie-in merch, and just look at the sets), so realistically, even if it was a "trick", the most we really lost out on was, like, movie packaging for the set. As you said, we've gotten flaming golf carts of doom in the past, as well as times in DC where we didn't get sets packaged as tie ins, but containing the same characters.

It doesn't at all, but Luke never being able to see someone he loves again adds a little to hurting his mental state, and him having a vastly deteriorated or unstable mental state is the only way I can see Luke igniting his lightsaber against a sleeping minor. You can't have shared custody of Tanalorr! It was my discovery! My home! And they just expected me to throw (half of) it away? That could work, or even just the idea that you can't leave Tanalorr (or the New Beyond region of space, which I think is where Tanalorr is and something I think Skeleton Crew may tie into- the New Beyond/Peridea, not Tanalorr specifically). I do like that idea for preventing those jedi/nightsister from taking part in the events of the sequels. I've thought for awhile the extragalactic stuff Filoni's setting up has a few neat bows it ties up- it allows him and other creatives to have their characters be alive in the sequels without it being weird that they didn't take part in the events of those films, it's a big part of Thrawn's character, and it can help with the Grysk threat Zahn set up as a canon version of the Vagaari, which also gives those characters a reason to be in the new beyond during the sequels. Whoah dude, accusing someone of being one of those writers is some pretty heavy stuff. At the very least it would mean he stood by as someone else wrote themselves in in the creepiest possible way.

You would need an orange lantern to claim ownership of Tanalorr? All I need is my saberstaff, because TANALORR IS MINE!!!!!!!!!! And if Mara ever is made canon, Tanalorr is like the most likely place for a post- imperial Mara to live (since it's a lore reason for her to not be in the sequels) Actually I can totally see a situation where Mara and Luke are attached to eachother, Tanalorr comes to their attention, and Mara, burnt out from the Emperor's hand since she was a kid plus 5+ years of smuggler life after everything she knew died, decides to live there. Keeps their relationship canon while fitting both characters and adding some tragedy+ slightly more reason for Luke to go from "There's still good in my genocidal dad" to instinctively trying to kill his nephew for having a bad dream.