Mandalorianknight

Honestly I think the venom movies, while incredibly stupid, are a safer bet than a current MCU venom. I'll take Venom over Quantumania or Eternals any day of the week. I legitimately thought that they were all different universes. Is Morbius in the venomverse? Or I guess more accurately, is Venom in the Morbiverse? Don't tell the Jonkler this thread is Manless. Who knows what he'd do.

I'd only be OK with this if it was her SWGOH outfit. I'm generally against lego changing the outfits for that sort of thing- Black Cat, for instance, didn't need that weird bodysuit thing under her main outfit, they could have just avoided printing certain lines- but Talon's costume crosses the line and is just not appropriate for children. Plus I would not trust the fandom with a Darth Talon minifig. I wouldn't trust George Lucas with one, either. It was such an incredibly stupid choice to not make the main ship of the series. It's even worse than if they'd avoided the ghost (if rebels was 2 seasons), imo, because the Fireball WAS resistence. The show was all about racing and starfighters. The fireball's even in the logo! Those would be fun, and I also love the salvaged AT-RT set just for being a cheap set. We need more of those. I made a T2-B waaaaaaaaay back in the day (I think it was one of my first interactions with @ARC2149Nova, back when he used a 332nd profile picture). I've been thinking about doing an update but I'm just so far behind on my list of sets to do.

Is that even much enticement? I doubt any significant number of people are going to buy the set with young leia but wouldn't if it didn't have her. Some of the figures have had inaccurate parts before, but you might be right about DJJ lacking a leg print in the end. They need that printing budget for the much more crucial aspect E-3PO's arm. The only thing I can think of is they were worried a plain black arm wouldn't look robotic/metallic. Like the prop arm part fell off and Anthony Daniels's body glove is showing, or something. But then why not just use gunmetal... or make the entire C-3PO black or gunmetal so it works in other contexts? (Though my first thought whenever a figure in a different color has a black arm is "venom") There are two good ways they can make the mechs good, IMO. Absolutely nutty designs like the luke mech, or designs that make sense/are canonically accurate if poorly scaled, like an IG-12 like you say. I was at a few walmarts today (I was scouting for work), and I saw the box. Totally agree. It's tiny. The larger a fig list is for this theme, the more likely it's not accurate. That said, I somehow feel like Tessek's unlikely anyway. No particular reason for it, I just don't really see it.

Sure, but that doesn't mean it doesn't look out of place. I actually am pretty disappointed in the figure. I think a black C-3PO that could be used for trip would have been much better. And it looks like the black arm is printed, which is an odd allocation of resources when the darth jar jar fig feels somewhat lackluster.

I dunno, I feel like "the jedi at some point hear legends about the rule of two" was kind of implied, where the bigger plot hole would be if they find and kill who they believe to be the master and apprentice a few decades before TPM, because then why are they going "the sith have been extinct for a millennia", when they think they killed them a half-century ago.

You can go further- 12+ the three years the original theme ran. I get why we don't have some of the more obscure leaguers (I think we got an SDCC Vixen and Atom but I'd agree those shouldn't count), but given we have had lego batman sets produced for 16 years as of 2024 (3 years in the original run and 13 in the run that started as DC superheroes and sort of returned to batman), it is insane to me that we don't have minifig clayface. Black mask too- I know he's just a crime boss, but he's got a unique enough mask and would only require the one new print. That might be my biggest gripe for WW84, completely wasting Lord. Actually no, my biggest gripe is what Diana does to that poor random man, or that she wins with the power of friendship hard enough for every single person on the planet to undo their wish, or really steve being involved much at all, or the fact that it continues to create lore discontinuities in the DCEU, or... where was I? Oh, right. They wasted Lord.

Didn't realize there was a trailer out. "Venom Horse, Venom horse, moves substantially faster than a normal horse can. Can he swing, from a web? No he can't, he's sony. There's no, there's no spider-man."

Or just sort of the wider lore thing about the sith having stayed in the shadows until Maul. Ki Adi Mundi's line isn't even the only TPM one about that. The show itself doesn't break canon in premise, but the options are: A: The entire main cast is killed or otherwise coerced into not reporting the sith to the council B: It's not a sith, just a red lightsaber force wielder (Which technically stays in canon but... I really hate this approach because it's eeking out on a technicality.) C: it breaks canon It's the same issue people had with obi-wan in premise- while yes, it doesn't break canon just by the premise existing, it's not something that makes a lot of sense in-story, whether it's sith fighting jedi pre-TPM or Obi-Wan going off to other planets for a while when he was supposed to guard Luke. There are ways to get around it, like "oh it's to protect leia", but it's putting your show in a tough position to start out- and I wouldn't say Obi-wan was exactly a shining example of excellent star wars TV. Regardless if you even agree with that, lego's had some poorly preforming sets for poorly preforming or just not child-engaging SW shows before, and with their already established caution around shows it makes total sense for them to wait on the Acolyte until they can see if it's popular with their target demos.

Is Venom horse just our version of the aslume or did I miss some Venom 3 news?

Your villain arc should be systematically destroying the marvel thread by turning it into the marvel version of the aslume (Gate?) Honestly even if they're limited to batman and his villains, I feel like there's a lot more that could be done with this theme. Right now it's pretty much just batcave, batmobile, batwing, batman, joker, HQ. When characters like Freeze and Catwoman are notable year standouts, something's gone terribly wrong.

Aside from what @BrickBob Studpants said, those movies skirt the edge of R (actually, the second one is R, isn't it?). They've done other movies skirting the boundary, like Dune, but I assume it's not worth it for what would amount to a venom figure where the only real difference is the torso print is missing the spider-logo. If you need a lego Hardy Venom, I'd suggest a normal venom fig, then either add a black Imperium chestplate and TLBM batman torso, or a plain black torso. Or the Necromancer torso but that might be expensive. I finally understand why we didn't get spider-verse sets.

It can't be, there's no batmobile and there's a figure besides Man and Jonkler- Girl? (I don't know the Aslume name for Batgirl. I feel like logically it should be Girl, but I know the aslume's got some unique names. Hopefully it's not a gross one. My personal favorites are Soup and The at this point. Least favorite is Reverse, going off The he should clearly be ehT) Don't do the poor man like this. Actually, I vaguely remember seeing some old lego animation as a kid where joker made a prank call about this and the guy said it wasn't running and joker helped him find a repairman.

I HATE the staggered release schedule. I'd even be OK with the staggered reveals if we went back to 2-3 waves a year. This January-March-May-June-August-September thing is really aggravating for me because all the 1HY waves feel tiny. I loved the grand January waves we used to get, and that feeling's not there when it's broken into a couple waves of just a few sets each. Sorry, I thought you saying that sets released some time after the show wouldn't suffer from that. Which that said even then the justifier is just an anomaly. I think the only possible explanations are either lego was led to believe it'd be prominent in season 2/3, or they were really, REALLY banking on Cad's BL prices translating into set sales.

The Titan's weakness- padlocks. Though getting shut out of the tower because someone put a padlock on the door sounds exactly like what they'd do in an episode of Go. Given the show's been going for over a decade, I'm sure they probably HAVE by now. We'd have like two POSTS every two weeks. "I bought *insert batmobile or art set*. It's *good/bad*" "Yeah, I don't own *set* but I also heard it was *good/bad*" I believe the thread had off-topic nonsense from page one. I don't think anyone's disputing that the marvel thread's got more on-topic stuff to talk about.

While I wouldn't phrase it exactly like that, I think you're generally correct in that first sentence, though perhaps moreso because of the discounts some of those sets were seeing- Obi-Wan especially. Lego's already very cautious about sets for shows, and having even a couple show-based sets underpreform could cause them to wait on Acolyte sets until they can judge reception to the show- and maybe more importantly, age reception. I don't think it's a secret that Andor, despite being one of the best projects to grace the star wars label, wasn't exactly the #1 show with the 6-12 demo, and so it didn't get much followup after it's first set. While it's assumably going to feature less epic monologues (I mean that unironically- by far the best parts of Andor) and more lightsaber fights, Acolyte's been marketed as a pretty mature show, so especially after Andor, I could see lego dragging their feet until it releases and they can see just how mature it is. I totally think you're wrong on skeleton crew though. I think the set was assumably delayed because the show was delayed. I have full confidence we'll see it at some point.

Ironically, Voltron does transform from the mech into it's component lions. Though that may have been what you meant- that they'd have alt-modes and a combined mode but no individual bot modes. Either way, I dunno- I feel like they'd want to make it significantly bigger than Prime if it was meant to match with the other bots in any way, meaning it'd have to be pretty expensive even if you made the component bots smaller than Bee. Yeah, a number of the constructicons leaked for SS86 2025. I don't think there's any correlation between SS86 and lego though- if anything they'd want to avoid competing products. I think Bee is coming in both lines just because Bee's a popular character- Hasbro puts out G1 Bees pretty consistently, I own one that they released just last year.

To be fair, that wasn't due to it releasing too close to the release of the project.

Cliff's a favorite of mine, partially just because I like red and little guys, but I also like that they made being overshadowed (by bumblebee in real life) part of his character. He's always aching to prove himself. There's a great panel back in an older run where Bumblebee and Wheeljack are stranded and one says something like "Who'd be staring mindlessly at a tiny distress relay on the OFF CHANCE that someone's under attack" and then it immediately cuts to cliffjumper strapping himself with guns and going "it's showtime". He pulls a rocket launcher out of literally nowhere and takes a potshot at megatron within about two seconds of the transformers waking up back in the original cartoon. Agh, I was close. Bomb Burst actually just got a figure last year too, it's a sort of strange mix between his outer shell and inner robot. That's fair. Megatron will be tough, but I'm sure they're coming up with something as we speak. The Seekers will likely come after Soundwave and Megs, but their colors schemes should allow them to squeeze through eventually, even if Skywarp ends up being a touch more purple than normally. Soundwave is like you say the easiest con to adapt. Devastator would also be fun, but I can't imagine they'd be able to effectively pull off a combiner without either making the individual bots significantly smaller than bumblebee will be and/or having devastator's components not have bot modes.

It's on the list, though admittedly a list that gains entries a lot faster than I watch stuff. I don't remember all the details, but an artist made a bulk order directly from lego before pick a brick was really a thing (and in larger quantities than pick a brick is really built for). Lego ended up DONATING him the bricks for his "artistic endeavor". He proceeded to use the bricks to build an exhibit of fake sets from.... certain camps, even going so far as to put on the boxes in the exhibit that it was "SPONSERED BY LEGO". (While this sounds EXTREMELY nefarious, if memory serves it was more about trying to raise awareness and using lego bricks as some sort of functionalism contrast with the dark subject matter. Still not something I think is particularly wise, but it wasn't just him being edgy). Lego was obviously not happy about that, at all, leading to some changes in their regulations for brick donation/sales to artists. I have earned the patronage of the turtle. Fear me.

Well now I've gotta do this! 2006: The Batmobile: two face's escape: starts the theme off strong with an excellent batmobile, as well as something largely gone from the theme now- villain and civilian builds. Here, a small guard post/gate and a nice armored car Two-face has hijacked. 2007: The Bat-Tank: Riddler and Bane's Hideout: Not a ton of competition this year, but I'll give it props for having side builds. Also a fun build for over the top batman. 2008: The Tumbler: Joker's Ice Cream Surprise: *hums TDK theme* 2012: Superman Vs Power Armor Lex: While there are a number of good sets here (I particularly like the Batcave), this set is our first step into a larger world. 2013: Arkham Asylum: The first UCS style set of the rebooted line, and an excellent one. I honestly think it's the best Arkham's ever looked architecturally in lego. 2014: The Tumbler: I'm tempted to give it to the riddler chase just for introducing Flash, but the Tumbler is just leaps and bounds ahead of anything else release from the theme so far (aside maybe Arkham) 2015: Jokerland: While some sections are a little basic nowadays, the main builds hold up, including a great joker-face build and one of the best batmobiles we've ever had. Figures are also excellent, with great new versions of Harley and Robin, as well as our first Starfire and beast boy, our first real hero expansion outside of the bat-family and justice league. 2016: Batman: Killer Croc Sewer Smash: A lot of good sets this year, but I've got to give it to this one for a great bat-tank, as well as finally introducing both Croc and Red Hood. 2017: Flying Fox: Batmobile Airlift Attack: I'm retroactively counting this as a Snyder Cut set, but regardless, the fact that it's a flying vehicle that can airlift in a batmobile is AWESOME 2018: Speed Force Freeze Pursuit: This was kind of a weak year- I'm tempted to give it to the talon set, but they had the opportunity to bring in the mech and did a weird trike instead. Freeze Pursuit at least gives us a new Flash and finally Reverse Flash, as well as an actually pretty solid build for Cyborg's helicopter... if we ignore why he even needs a helicopter. 2019: Batwing and the Riddler Heist: Contrasting 2018, this was a really strong year. I was tempted to give it to the excellent Bat-mech and batcave, but we're going with this one for three reasons. An incredible Batwing, a great GCPD car (with our first comic-based Jim Gordon!) and Shazam. Even if the riddler's face print is awful and I hate it. 2020: Mobile Bat-base: Not the strongest year, but I do like the capes this wave had- I bought the wind-waving one on bricklink and it's currently sitting on my TDK batman as he stands atop his tumbler. This set's not anything super special, but it's really great for a toyetic batman style, and I'm a sucker for sets that transform or split apart. Figures are a last hurrah too- don't get used to seeing much of the bat-family or villains outside batman's A-tier. 2021: Batmobile Tumbler: Scarecrow Showdown: This was the first batman set I bought... I think ever, as while I had a few as a kid I think they were gifts from others. It's also the only one on this list I own. 2022: Batmobile: The penguin chase: Lot of batmobiles on here, but Pattinson's Batmobile is incredible and deserves the win. 2023: Batwing: Batman vs the joker: Our last non-batmobile system set with no gimmick, and the best Batwing. 2024: Batman: The Animated Series: Gotham City: It's unique at least. Knowing lego they'd exclusively focus on the third movie. Is twelve angry men any good? I read the play and liked it, but do the performances in the movie add much? There was an artist who tricked them into supplying him the bricks for something similar awhile back. If lego's military rule wasn't so strict they totally would have made sets for Maverick. Such a good movie, too. There are maybe 20 people who regularly post in this forum, and half of them will buy whatever lego batman puts out anyway. Unfortunately, lego could not care less about what we think here. The main demos they're looking at seem to be children (who they seem to have decided only like batmobiles) and adults who aren't big lego fans.

"And they will join you in the Sun" My entry here is from the DC theme. In it, Batman tries brooding on the beach by his Bat-sand castle (made out of black sand he brought to the beach himself of course), with Superman trying to get him to come out of the shade of his umbrella into the sun to hang out with him and the rest of the league.

About what I'd expect- though I'm a little surprised Seinfield has a 15 rating, unless other legoized sitcoms like The Office and Big Bang Theory also do. I haven't seen all of it, but it never seemed any more crass than your average sitcom of that type to me. If I was mentioning Chima, it would be "Big firestorm in the pits of hell that are Chima" Yeah no honestly I don't actually hate him, I was just referencing the trope of hating Damian/him being the worst robin (which out of the main 4.... yeah, probably. But nothing wrong with 4th place when the four competitors are all pretty solid). And yeah, I'm excluding Stephanie. She's a good spoiler, but she was robin for such a short amount of time it just feels unfair. Dick Grayson. Maybe Jason too, at least in terms of his death. But like I said, I don't legitimately hate damian. I could go through other parts, but the main thing that sticks out to me- which I know I've talked about here before- is Bloodsport and Peacemaker murdering a village of rebels who turned out to be good guys, and then it's just kind of.... dropped? Peacemaker's given a more villanous role and overall is portraying a stereotype of the american military, so it's fine for him, but we're supposed to root for bloodsport, and it's not played for much more than laughs. If you've got the disposable income that $53 on a lego set is "almost free", that's genuinely great for you, but it's not the case for a lot of us. In which case, if you already have some batmobiles, you may not be inclined to get a more expensive one that looks pretty similar and is about the same size. Also.... what? I don't think I've EVER heard about specific lego colors being more expensive than others. I'm sure there's some fluctuation between the plastic colors used, but to the extent it significantly alters the price of a set? Maybe drumlaquer or something, but not the color itself? Where did you hear that?

I really hope that's not the case and it's just that everyone wants a cheap Rex. If I see lifebricks post a grey baseplate filled with Rex's I'm going to become the joker. There is one July set from another theme that hasn't been revealed yet, but aside from that, yeah, it's weird we haven't seen the SW sets yet. I just dug around a bit- the august SW sets had image leaks May 20th of last year, looks like. Meaning we really should see all the august SW sets this year any day now.

Yeah, that makes sense. I'm pretty sure if Batman wasn't the star, we wouldn't get sets for that. The thumb drive, the rat torture (though I don't think we actually see it), the particular business the iceberg lounge girls are involved with (which I think included Selina? I don't remember), etc. Little China?

I was combing the rules to try and see if I could sneak star wars in, but it's there. Curse you, I could have done the Beach Troopers in their hot tub from the 2006 game!