Mandalorianknight

I don't have time right now to rant fully about the name, but lego is either using AI for their set names now or choosing the most ai-friendly names possible. It's not a name any more it's just a description of the set- this is almost as bad as the new batmobile's name.

No, she just needs to be in a set. Like any non-batman character in the DC thread. Exactly- assumably, if they were planning on making a set the anniversary fig would easily fit in, they just wouldn't make that fig an anniversary fig.

Actually, the figures rarely have a real connection to the set- Fives in the Tantive, Malak in the R2 unit, Saw in the sith infiltrator, etc. Nien's from the same movie but a different time and location. Cal on the other hand mostly fits. Point being, they're not primarily in sets that make sense for them to be in, so I think it's perfectly reasonable to have expected a different choice such as Mara Jade, or potentially this legends character called Mara Jade. I'm worried an R2-KT fig might have been a misunderstanding, seeing as she's buildable in this set. I hope not, but we've had bigger leaker misunderstandings before. I'm a bricklink seller and I totally agree.

Are we going off username or pfp? I'd like to support going off username unless the it's not something easy to put into this scenario (so PGBQW stays Morb Adam). In which case, you can probably take out the phantasm and I guess a pug with guns. DraCain gang. My fighter is pretty vague, but Beskar should provide me some protection (seeing as we're going off name, NOT pfp I guess). I think if my mandoknight can close the distance he's got a shot. I also kind of want to design one now, like the Jake Bartok art but worse because I'm not an artist. ARC's joking, much like PGBQW and the turtle. What are you talking about, turtle bringing up a topic we've already explained to him is a semi-monthly occurrence. I've also cemented my final guess on the turtle irony scale, which is that around 50% of his posts are jokes or exaggerating for humor, but stuff like preferring Batman over other heroes or working on the shadow box are real.

I don't think I made myself super clear- I'm not saying that's where LOTR is, just that the attitude of "bad content better than no content" is the attitude that would lead to LOTR being so. The animated film I actually really think will be good, but I didn't like ROP, and have no faith in Hunt for Gollum just off concept alone.

"I know what I have to do, but I don't know if I have the strength to do it." As to the wider topic, I'll simply say that "low quality content is better than no content" is how we got the current states of SW and marvel. Though as @BrickBob Studpants says, LOTR seems to already be having as much trouble with their canon as star wars currently is.

The real Batman (DC Superheroes) 2024 - Rumors & Discussion were the friends we made along the way. Though Turtle wearing clone gear in his honor implies Commando dies in some important thread-related event. But on a "do pugs eat turtles" standpoint, I think a clone commando could take out most of the usernames/pfps in the thread... except for Morb Adam. You planning something, @PGBQW? Are you why @CloneCommando99's now sporting a different trooper as his profile picture? Yeah. I think if the superman movie fails (and more importantly, system The Batman 2 sets don't do well) there's an actual possibility they move Lego Batman from it's own theme into an Icons subtheme. It's halfway there already.

Thanks! Torn on the new pfp but ultimately think it's a solid upgrade- the older one looked a little more like a profile picture, but this one makes a lot more sense for a lego forum. Edit: Qouted the wrong one of your posts and now I look like I'm just offering unsolicited thoughts on the PFP. It would, but Young Leia's a weird inclusion in general. That certainly has multiple eyes. Weird selection- Artoo and chopper make sense. R2-KT is a little more obscure but a sweet choice (though now I worry we aren't getting a minifig compatible version- I was going to say minifig scale but that is absolutely not the case for the molded astromechs), and then R4-K5 is WILD. I guess to have an imperial one, but still a weird move in my opinion. BB-8's likely just missing because he's not the same general design as the other four, even if he's technically still an astromech.

If I'm right, I'm going to put something stupid about predicting the future in my signature. I maintain my theory that this leaked via the parts list like the september sets did, hence why the build isn't known. I'm still not confident on "more than two eyes" being legit, but the interrogation droid's bristling with photoreceptor-looking bits, so it does fit. Thank you, we'll see if it pans out! I dunno why other people don't like it- I have 20 something fleet troopers as well as 2-3 custom units (the grey rogue one outfits with unprinted dark tan endor helmets, resistance torsos with those same helmets, etc). The rebels are a rebellion, yes, but there is an organized unit. There are full companies like the 61st mobile infantry. I certainly wouldn't say no to any rebel battle packs (aside from hoth, as that was our last one), ESPECIALLY some commandos.

I think we may see soundwave first just because of that ejectable minion functionality (I could see him coming with Laserbeak or Ravage and Frenzy or Rumble, then a casseticon set with the ones not in the soundwave set plus Ratbat and maybe an obscure one, and then a GWP with Buzzsaw and Enemy or something), but I maintain we're totally seeing megatron. Lego has no issue with sci-fi tanks, even if they're not bright colors. It is, unfortunately. The front windshield has to be removed.

I don't know exactly how it translates, but doesn't disney have the merch rights to spider-man?

The grey hands and the weird belt that looks so rubbery to me. I don't like it, I don't think it particularly looks like the BTB suit either (though I also don't like that) He would, but that doesn't make him a good batman figure in my eyes. Yeah sorry man there are better ones, I don't think it's particularly well-done. There are funnier ones. Eurobricks isn't a huge team, and it's free to use so they don't rake in a ton of cash- to my knowledge the mods do this for free. I don't know that they'd want to hire a web developer out of their own pockets for something as small as throwing in some emojis. Putting the tactical suit in F tier is a war crime, by the way. (Though I like that the two '66 suits are S and F tier. The duality of Man) Spider-Man or Dogwelder. Realistically, a new red hood or a question. Though I unironically would love a Man figure using the captain marvel helmet mold. I think it'd be a fun little joke figure,

That's technically not correct- in canon, thrawn worked with the republic, but the bigger issue is that the rebels didn't steal it- they made a deal with the separatist holdout. They teamed up to fight the empire and parted ways as friends. But either way, "lego'd never put a grand admiral in a small set containing an enemy vehicle" is such a specific take that you have to admit even if you DIDN'T count thrawn in the phantom there's no evidence they'd care about something like that. (And why would they?) IT'S THE KRIFFING INTERROGATION DROID- 1984- interrogation, truth serum is kinda like mind altering multiple eyes buildable "creature" has to be buildable droid, but I'd stretch it. I dunno. I don't really think this should be a frontrunner just off how weird of a choice it would be (I also don't know for sure multiple eyes is a real hint) but it just kind of struck me. I wish, but no way we get an ISB battlepack. Oh yeah. Lego pushed every other faction to the side in favor of clones. It'll take awhile to shift back to balance.

This is rapidly approaching TLBM in terms of the Batman/Joker relationship. Damian Wayne in any and all circumstances. He means me. Yeah, I'm man. It can't be ruled out. My personal vote is the realest batman we've ever had, 1966 batman. I'm guessing he didn't quite understand what it meant and had just googled "funny turtle clipart pictures" or something. I was going to be like "cmon man it's funny", but you've convinced me. For a joke suit, it's kind of lazy. Thanks man. here's mine: (Serious suits are ranked first, Joke suits are ranked to the right. Serious suits are ranked off how good they are, joke suits are rated based on comedy and parts that can be used for non-joke batmen)

That's great, I didn't realize he had multiple plates! I'm gonna be working on seeing if I can get Bee to not need partsforming. I agree with pretty much all of these statements, especially that Bumblebee should do very well due to the price being lower than Optimus. I agree that a Decepticon is up next- I've been doing a lot of work on a lego Megatron and he's not too hard to make into a transforming tank shape, it's just whether or not Hasbro and lego want to do cybertronian tank megatron. I think it's a 50/50 between him and soundwave. Starscream'll likely be the second or third, I just figure he combines not being the leader with being military tech, so I feel like we likely wouldn't see him until after megatron. I don't think so- where do you see that? Partsforming is a transformers fandom term, I'd be a bit surprised if lego used it.

Yeah, this is what I thought you were saying. I actually wholeheartedly agree, I think it'd be an interesting thing. Eurobricks doesn't quite have the infrastructure, but a community ranking of all the sets would be something to behold. I don't know if tierlistmaker has an aggregate feature where it compiles what everyone's put, but it'd be something to check out.

This is the type of thing Tony Zuko says to circus performers. Not that I don't agree- I actually think I'm starting to see what Turtle's trying to say, and I respect the idea of a sort of community consensus on set quality. 2005 is probably a 1 in terms of year-by-year as we always complain about sets only having batman and joker and 2005 consisted quite literally of only batman and joker. But I'd say the best years for the theme were 2006, 2012, 2015, and 2018. (The lego DC theme- I count the lego batman movie as it's own thing, but if you must, chuck in 2017) Any JL centric year or year where it's starting off. I think what we need is a hard reset on the theme. A big relaunch that'd serve as a jumping-on point for kids. Preferably accompanied by a child-friendly Batman cartoon, but at this point I think lego should just take the risk. Just look in the toy aisle- it's two near-identical batmobiles (aside from the color) and a batwing in terms of system sets. No variety, nothing flashy, the only cheap set for kids to start out on is a mech gimmick. I've got an idea. It's on the backburner (I mean, like, waaaaay on the backburner given how many projects I've got with lego. I've got two big ones up first, and they don't even continue until July because I'm doing the lego star wars contest), but I'll try to MOC it out in the fall.

You were right. After all the stuff Optimus got, I was hoping they'd give Bee Spike or a G1 style multicolored energon cube, but this does look like good value for parts regardless. To my knowledge G1 megatron almost always turns into either a gun or a tank. I think the Cybertronian tank megatron I posted above should be fine- lego's no stranger to sci-fi tanks, after all. But if they're really afraid of that, he often turns into a jet or heli in non-G1 appearances. A jet would be pretty tough, but Transformers Animated (2007) has a relatively G1 megs that turns into a helicopter, so I suppose that's possible. Yeah, these are pretty much my thoughts. I don't like the partsforming, don't like the arms (especially that arm joint- the T-rex arms are just going to be how he looks), but overall it's still a lego bumblebee transformer and it doesn't look overpriced so still a day 1 buy. Agreed overall. And like you say, the little easter eggs are very nice. Though with the hood, I think you have to swap the parts. All of the little easter eggs are nice- the goldbug shoutout is not something I ever thought a lego set would contain. Either the designer's huge into transformers or someone at hasbro made the sticker.

Feels straight out of a level of the old lego video game. Love it!

After I posted I thought "wait, are there other august sets coming out? No, I think that's all of them." Can't believe I missed Peridea. I'd prefer all of them at this point as well. I generally like the spacing out, as it draws out discussion, but they're really playing chicken with the leakers here, and that tends not to go well for them. I've been saying this for months- totally agree. The reason DC gets away with it is there's not much ON-topic to talk about. Turtle shows up in LOTR or space every once in awhile, but his greatest success pre-DC was the indiana Jones thread, because that theme is more dead than DC. MKAJosh might be lenient with us, but he definitely keeps the ship on course. If it's not an astromech droid, I'll be very surprised.

I'm totally guilty of discussing non-set related stuff but I think this is a good way of putting the issue and setting boundaries for more contentious stuff. He doesn't seem to be a star wars guy for whatever reason. I think we'll still get leaks first, and that they'll be any day now. Keep your fingers crossed! I feel like official reveal wise, it'll be either the RTG sets or the rest of the anniversary ones.

Turtle, have you used Brickset? It's a very helpful resource for how many different DC sets and figures have been made.

Optimistically, because this has happened infrequently enough that they just don't realize that's what they're seeing. Cynically, because the larger figure lists get more clicks. Lucky- I gave up. Haven't even seen a 20% sale on it near me. The store closest to me quite literally had a sale on all star wars and marvel sets... except for the X-jet. I generally agree with you on this, but I remember the Sail Barge model being borderline unpresentable/not even the full barge or something. Could also have been part of an old model, or I could be misremembering, just bears mentioning.

I agree. Optimus was the obvious first choice, and after him it was a toss-up between Bee or a prominent decepticon. We got Bee, so (if he does well) I think next up is Soundwave and/or Cybertronian Tank Megatron. Yeah, I get where it's coming from as I also love Prime, but I think you are in the minority there. At this point for consistency if nothing else (though the G1 designs are my favorite anyway, especially with Skybound's current run using those designs) A Fowler minifig would be great though. Best human side character in the entire franchise. On that topic, what accessories are we thinking we'll get with Bee? Just the blaster is certainly possible, but Optimus came with a lot, most of which weren't on that front-of-the-box image, so I'm hoping we get a couple for Bee as well. Besides his gun, I'd love to see a Spike minifigure, but that might be wishful thinking.

At this point I don't really trust figure leaks unless the list sounds confident. The track record of them saying "and x number additional figures" or "possibly more" is not great, it often ends up that we not only don't get any additional figures, we don't get some of the ones they said would for sure be there. My guess is that lego, as we know, starts out with larger figure counts and whittles it down, and for some reason some leakers have been getting prelims of some sort with that larger number. (Side note- can you imagine if someone got ahold of Stafford's list early on and told us all there'd be 70 figures in the bugle?)