Mandalorianknight

They'd need different helmets, but some of the Mandalorian TV show mandalorians have a chestplate design that appears to be the same between both genders of mando.

Yeah this is what's most weird to me. Absolute batman having a tank is somewhat in character for DC. But he's murdered at least two police officers in this panel. Were our Absolute Batman jokes real and the actual Absolute Batman has a "kill everyone" rule?

I have bad news for you. Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your curfew... Half of the accounts following me are the same guy. Choju/kong. He wasn't even a member he posted one fake leak on one account and just came back 50 times within a single day. I do think it's him, it's honestly kind of nice to have him back especially now that the average member is just as insane and the average post is significantly more off-topic than what he says. This is the best joke on the forum I will not hear otherwise. The three jonklers (one of which is in a CMF style crowbar suit), Bueno Excellente, a refrigerator, dogwelder, the defenestrator, the regurgitator, Dr. Doofinshmirtz, the equalizer, blade, blade (from community), red tool, red stool, and Mr. T (he pities the fool).

I agree on the former, probably as the $20ish set as a cheap way to get Mando and Grogu. I think you're right about the Chimera too, especially if it has that gold kintsugi still. Anakin was taken from his mom when he was 9 and never had a father. Luke's mom died when he was an infant and he didn't meet his father until he was 19. (Also, Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru are not Luke's parents? What?)

I feel ashamed that I wasn't the one to use this when turtle returned. It's one of my favorite moments in comics and I've wanted to use it as a reaction panel for forever but never had the right situation. When I was a kid I thought Adult Swim meant they weren't showing anything at that time, because when they did "Adult Swim" at my local pool it was really just a 15 minute break for the lifeguards to swap out and adults rarely took advantage of, you know, 15 minutes with all the kids lining the walls of the pool so they could be the first in. Never post again.

Yeah, Thrawn Trilogy is a great interpretation for a lot of characters. The would be great, I feel like while the last one was good there's a lot of room for improvment. I don't think they "disneyfied" star wars, at least not with any of these- Luke was an orphan. Anakin is pretty much an orphan. Many other major SW characters either lose their parents as kids (starkiller, boba, etc), never knew them (99% of the jedi), or are otherwise orphans (Han). There is a TON of violence in the sequels (and disney star wars as a whole TBH- on that topic George didn't want players being able to shoot anyone with a face in the games). I don't know where this one comes from- lots of people die, Kylo digs his saber into Finn's back and knocks him into a coma, etc. There aren't many questionable morals and that is a flaw, but this was a thing in star wars beforehand. This literally happens to both Anakin and Luke.

Hey i said slightly realistic! (But yeah no this isn't happening unless the theme relaunches) Henchmen have always seemed like such a layup for this theme it's weird that they don't do it. You can use generic hat/hair/legs, re-use a head from a different theme, and use a generic-ish printed torso that just has the logo on it. Very low cost to add the figure, and it adds an element to these sets that's really been missing- the villains aren't really DOING much in these besides being chased by or fighting batman. When he's not with the league batman's generally not fighting people who's only goal is "destroy world/kill batman". I know, this is slightly more than the cost of ONE of the sets. It's crazy. I'm really tempted to get it, but I know there are some places where this and the star wars gift set are down to $25, so I'm crossing my fingers that hits my walmarts. Turtle was sent by the joker himself to keep the Aslume insane.

Yeah, those are excellent- I really wasn't going episode-by-episode, I just put MandoS2E7 where I did because I think Bill Burr somehow delivered the single most well-acted scene in the star wars universe in that episode. That's actually my issue- the throne room scene is so good because it's Luke coming to that realization- it's the moment where he truly becomes a jedi. I don't like that having some split-second visions decades down the line would cause him to turn on his unconscious nephew to the extent he activated his lightsaber and had it ready to kill him. If you're gonna bring Luke back down that path, I think it needs to be more than "he had a vision". I think it should take much more than that to get Luke to even momentarily regress to that point. I think the Thawn trilogy did an excellent job with post-ROTJ Luke- he doesn't have a no-kill rule, like he kills plenty of enemy soldiers, but he's very focused on helping people. He helps Mara at pretty much every turn even though she's a force-sensitive agent who repeatedly tells him from the moment they meet that loyalty to her boss is the only thing preventing her from snapping his neck then and there. That's a much better post-ROTJ Luke to me than "tries to kill his nephew after having a bad vision", especially when Luke learns his lesson about instinctively acting on bad visions in the original trilogy. I don't judge people for liking TLJ though- unlike some of the other more recent projects, I do think there was heart and a legitimate attempt behind a lot of TLJ, even if I'm still not happy with Rian over the stated "subverting expectations" thing. (This comment makes it come off like I do judge people for liking the "Content must flow" stuff, which... not really, but also I don't think I've met anyone who legitimately thinks Mando S3 was a great place to take the story) I hadn't even THOUGHT about the fact that TMAG will probably get it's own wave, but that's very exciting, thank you for bringing that up. George wanted to pull Talon out of her place in the timeline because he has a barely disguised... "interest" in twi'leks. Passion? Sure. Is it good for the story or franchise? no. Same with the ant-man stuff. I don't care if he's passionate about that, his sequel ideas are just as bad as the worst disney's done, if not worse.

Ladies and Gentlemen, we got 'em. We've found Absolute Kallus Was Casterfo the senator Leia is friends with in the book where the senate finds out she's Vader's daughter? Yeah, honestly it's been about the same distribution of good/bad, it's just all more prevalent so the bad stuff is a lot more noticeable. I'd say I'd rank it more or less like this, excluding the books because there are just too many: Incredible: Andor, Rogue One, the Jedi games, S2E7 of Mando. Great Star Wars: Mando S1/S2, Ahsoka, Solo, TCWS7, late-game Rebels. Good: TBB, early Rebels, TFA. THE CONTENT MUST FLOW: TROS, Obi-Wan, TBOBF, Outlaws (special shoutout to if you get your hutt rep high enough Jabba is like "nooo Kay you're too cool I'm gonna come save you"), Mando S3. Acolyte: Acolyte Not meant for me and therefore unranked: YJA, Resistance. TLJ gets shouted out here because while overall it would probably go in "the content must flow", they were grasping at a kind of cool and deep concept with Luke and just dropped the ball on the execution to "The guy who throws his lightsaber aside because he won't kill his genocidal dad tries to kill his nephew because he MIGHT become evil" Thanks! It is, after all, a Mandalorian Knight. I need a time machine. He's spoken about what his trilogy would be, and while he's changed his mind from "they go ant-man to fight the midichlorians" to "slightly more coherent but George demolishes continuity so he can cast a particular twi'lek ", I think the one constant is it probably would have been worse than the sequels we got. I realize now none of this is very on-topic so I'll end by saying I think with the leak of stuff like the U-wing and Plo's fighter, 2024's 1HY is looking a lot better than previous years. I mantain lego should move to the following release system: Jan 1: 8-10 system sets May 4: all the 18+: a few each of dioramas, helmets, statues, and the may UCS. Aug 1: 8-10 system sets Oct 1: Fall UCS/MBS and 1-2 sets varying between a holiday set, "special" set like the anniversary one this year, and/or an expansion/fig filler for the UCS.

Yeah unfortunately I don't think Gambit-Based leaker is real. I think Arkham's still not altogether unlikely, but more off of it just being an obvious set to make rather than any hard evidence it's in development. Welcome back, @legoturtle. I wouldn't be opposed to a new DC battle pack: Some options, trying to be at least slightly realistic: Joker Gang battle pack ($16.99 - this is going off the star wars pricing of $20 and the difference between their mechs and the DC mechs' pricing): The Joker/Joker Decoy (looks like a Joker minifigure, but the face is slightly off), 2x Joker Henchmen (have normal faces, lime jackets, purple pants), 1x Joker Gas Henchman (Wearing a neon green hazmat suit with an acid flower printed on the torso, wearing a gas mask with a clown design on it). Build is a forklift with canisters of Joker Gas on the prongs as well as an ATM. Batman and Green Lantern: War of Light ($16.99): Lantern Batman (The torso and legs could work for a normal green lantern, a chestplate with the bat-logo on the front and wings on the back is placed over them), Green Lantern (Hal Jordan), Sinestro, Atrocitious (normal minifigure). All torsos/legs show none of the character's skin so they can be used to make other lanterns. I would do Batman Vs talons but they've already done that. Technically they did the GCPD one too, but I really think a small set with a GCPD car and an officer alongside batman and some sort of massable villain like a talon or henchman could work well.

Please tell me he just wasn't in costume and it wasn't that godawful samurai symbol. Yeah, unfortunately the Gambit-Based leaker seems to be a fake. Loki S2's final two episodes are the best thing disney+ marvel has ever done, by orders of magnitude.

I feel like it's the closest to the OT feel star wars has gotten since the OT set design wise. Thank you! I am trying not to start attempting to design this as a set since the figure for me to reference doesn't even release until February, but it would be pretty cool... They stopped it forever ago (Don't know exactly, I was a kid and wasn't into transformers at the time), like well over a decade. This upcoming figure is part of their "Transformers X (Brand)" series, which has recently had stuff like Naruto, Ninja Turtles, Knight Rider, Top Gun, etc) - Ok, I'll get back on topic now It's not a mech, it's a cybertronian! No one's piloting him! (But honestly, I don't mind the new X-wing mech, and if future star wars mechs act as more actual mechs based on the ships rather than "Larger version of character", I wouldn't be as annoyed by them.) this isn't something new to disney's ownership of the franchise.

Honestly as 1HYs go this isn't as bad as the january leak suggested. Still waaaaay too heavy on the 18+ (Or just too scattered? If all the system ones were in January, it wouldn't be too dissimilar from what we used to get). Honestly, as dumb as it sounds, I do think all the 18+ sets would be easier to swallow if the 1HY system sets were all January, and the 18+ ones were all May. It creates a clearer expectation of what we're gonna get. But think back to the past few years, is three good system sets all that low for a 1HY? (Totally off topic but if you guys notice my new profile picture, they literally made a MandalorianKnight figure. It's a mandalorian. It's got a sword and shield. And it's a Cybertronian too!)

They tried "Peace Machine", but it was just the same character with a pastel color scheme. Amazing title, but something feels familiar about it. The hierarchy of power in the Yellow Dumpster Cinematic Universe is about to change. It's a good looking building, and the figs are better than they appear in the leak (I don't think Iceman's figure is a good one, though. I've seen some really cool designs for the character where he looks like he's made of ice, this looks like a bald dude made out of milk.)

Honestly this image looks weird to me. The lighting/framing makes it feel almost like Zooboomafo or something of that caliber rather than a movie. I don't think it'll actually impact the film- honestly I don't think this frame will even look this way in the film- the image just looks odd to me. I'll take more relatable superman for this one, but I didn't mind the imagery in the snyder stuff. I like the idea that superman ISN'T just a guy, If the Sentinal rumor is true, I will put "Gambit-based user" in my signature.

They could, but I feel like removing the robot modes takes away a pretty damn big part of Devastator. That would be fun. A Rodimus and Galvatron two pack could be cool down the line. Or a Grimlock in dino mode. Fern finds a way.

Isn't the 2006 one meant to loosely resemble it? I mean this doesn't really have a bearing on whether or not we'd get one in 2025, that's almost two decades and that batmobile looked rough for a UCS set even in that time, but still. Don't do that. Don't get me hope.

Incredible build- that speeder bike looks amazing for such a small part of the display.

I agree. I think we'll see some 18+ stuff too, we did for ROTJ and TPM I thought he started to sort of fade into the background after people's response to the way he drew out leaking Young Leia (which IIRC some of the clues still don't work for that, like she can't beat jango. I don't think ADULT Leia could beat jango in canon, she never really got far in her training and Jango went toe-to-toe with Obi-Wan.) I always assumed that standoff lasted until they reached Peridea. I don't think Ezra would have been able to go get a TIE Defender without the whales potentially letting go of the destroyer, and I assume Thrawn was just being held by the tentacles the duration of the voyage.

I don't normally say this, but with the superhero themes- if it has minifigures... yeah, it'd be better.

That's a good point- plus we have Catwoman too!

IIRC Pellaeon wasn't directly in that attack group. Thrawn was contacting him for reinforcements or something. I think the other couple ships they took just straight up didn't make it to peridea and got lost in hyperspace or exploded. I guess, but I don't know what else you can really do at that scale without introducing new elements.

Apologies- he hasn't told me specifically anything. I'm paraphrasing Revenge of the Sith.

Putting aside that I think it's super unlikely a single movie- before knowing how well it'll do- is all it'd take to get lego to go from batman-only to a D2C Superman Modular, I honestly just don't think the Daily Planet's the best idea for a location-based D2C when we could get Arkham, the Hall of Justice, the Watchtower, or a comic Batcave. I dunno if it'll be BTAS specifically, but I feel like Arkham is such a clear slam dunk for lego, and since we've finally moved away from that year or two of only getting movie sets and 4+, I think it's possible. You're going to summon the Turtle back to the forum to exact divine vengeance upon you. (But no yeah it was a lame set I agree)

His championing of the mutant cause is somewhat hamstrung by the fact that he constantly tries to malign superman. If what he's told me is true, he will have gained my trust.