Mandalorianknight

The X-mansion having 10 figs sounds about right. I think so long as Jean Grey, Professor X, Gambit, and Jubilee are included, it'll be a solid representation of the 90s cartoon (Haven't gotten around to '97 yet).

Oh no the 60s joker was a wonderful representation of the silver age joker. I'm just saying the fact that he's being viewed here as "scary" is an interesting take. Glad to see that you've joined us all in the Asylum with "not liking superpowered characters is discriminatory". Look, our hero in a half shell here is an interesting character, but the idea that people like batman because he doesn't have any superpowers isn't an insane take, or a particularly rare one.

I too remember the '66 joker as the most terrifying incarnation of the character. Heath Ledger's joker was just a homicidal anarchist committing terrorist attacks. '66 joker wanted to be the surf king of gotham and had a mustache, absolutely spine-chilling. And ironically, we've spent the past few decades on deconstructing him, to the point that more shows have "evil" supermen analogues than heroic ones at this point. One of the most well-known superman related stories of the last 20 years is one where he's evil, and they even removed "The American Way" from his motto a few years ago, which is a real slap in the face. I really hope Gunn manages to make superman legacy work. He seems to really care about superman, but at the same time, his movies are very crude and cynical. They can have heartfelt bits in them, like guardians, but superman shouldn't have a similar tone to guardians/peacemaker/suicide squad, and that's just about the only tone I've seen him do disregarding scooby doo, which is also probably not the best tone for a superman film. Well no, that'd be Darkwing Duck, not Man.

Assumably at that piece count it's just a larger skiff and larger sarlacc pit. If they're going to be alongside an MBS barge, the sarlacc at least needs to be much bigger. As cool as that would be, it's almost certainly not. For one thing, Cal is an anniversary figure, which is like the one thing this set seems to have agreed on. There's no way that they'd put an anniversary figure in a set based on the game that the anniversary figure is the main character of. And there's been absolutely no rumors of inquisitors, purge troopers, or other characters who've been to the fortress like Cere.

""average kid eats 3 magnets a year" factoid actually just statistical error. average kid eats 0 magnets per year. Magnets Georg, who lives in cave and eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier and should not have been counted" The honest answer is yes, it's star wars. lego won't fully bring the sci-fi classic space back because star wars fulfills that niche for them (and let's not kid ourselves by saying classic space was science-based...). While us fans would love to see more classic space, I don't think it would appeal to kids much. Hence why the classic space we do get is primarily stuff adults mainly pick up- the icons set, or more expensive GWPs.

One thing that might help people make sense of certain things here- and this isn't something I thought of until very recently- is that despite the forum ostensibly being only for adults, there are a fair number of users who are kids. When I started posting years ago, I may or may not have been 14, and it definitely showed in my posts. Some comments here may be from batman fans significantly younger than that who don't really have a grasp on how movies or lego sets are produced. So keeping that in mind.... This would not work. Eurobricks is a very small amount of people, and it's dedicated adult lego fans. Even if everyone who's ever posted in this thread bought whatever the set was, it'd be a drop in the bucket compared to what most companies like to get for survey numbers. More importantly, the sample itself would tell lego nothing. People on the lego batman eurobricks forum are (generally) adult lego fans who like batman- they're much more likely than the average person to buy a lego batman set. That's not who lego's worried about. Lego wants to make sure wider batman fans would want the set for adult-focused sets, and kids would want the set for standard system sets. "The people who spend their time posting online about lego batman want a lego batman set" tells lego nothing about the demand for lego batman sets among the general target audience.

I mean, by making him human at all, they kind of had to choose a race. Making him near-human could have been something, but I also liked that jedi bob was just some random human. When I was a kid me and my friends gave him a very "florida man" type personality and imagined him as some random old human who may or may not have even been able to use the force. 2003 Lando is one guy- Looking at figures from themes that still use yellow for skin, it's pretty clear that the figures can be any race, I really don't think anyone rational is going to decide that because Jedi bob has a light skin tone, lego is racist or something. Oh it's definitely not, I'm just saying the fig would technically need a new print or mold to be done accurately. Totally agree, they're a very cool design and were marketed pretty heavily around Battlefront 2015's launch.

I'm going to tentatively assume it's Fleshie jedi bob, since that is a figure we know is upcoming. (Also, jedi bob has a "canon" race now, which is just a weird thing to say.) Any other fleshified figures I'm going to assume are just artistic license Mostly, but they do have that hose that loops around to under their helmet in front. Could be done with printing like the clone pilots, or a new mold. I read that this morning after I found out spacetroopers were in the OT! The other suit was stolen, right? I just don't know what she'd show up in- we're out of anniversary figs, and she doesn't really fit anywhere.

My personal most-wanted here- after nien numb makes his debut- is the imperial advisor guy. Such a creepy and cool design and one of the most intriguing things in the OT before all the expanded material came out.

I'm expecting the Mysterio fishbowl over the Wrecker armor and will be pleasantly surprised if it's a new mold. There can only be one Jonkler in the aslume! (Also, didn't the comic that actually had the three of them, as opposed to just the hints and references, end up being non-canon?)

It'd be a good way to sell the set to collectors, but I doubt it'll have trouble selling with kids, "boring" or not. It's two of the three most iconic vehicles in the franchise. I dunno. We just got the midi-scale falcon, and the Evil Falcon is this summer. As much as I wish we'd get a standard system OT millenium falcon, I think the wait's going to be a little longer. I'm trying not to get my hopes up for the Young Leia set being anything other than a buildable LOLA. (Which feels like it would be crazy, seeing how badly that thing sells. I cackle every time I walk into walmart and see it clogging the clearance shelf, or run into them shelfwarming at discount retailers like Ollie's. It's been almost two years and they still can't get rid of them.) I can't believe I never knew about the ANH spacetroopers before. I even have a reference book about the evolution of the stormtrooper and it's variants, how they made the suits at ILM, all that, and I don't think it ever mentioned them.

That's what I meant- the last juniors set had a slightly different jonkler so that's the caliber of stuff I expect to get. They might update the printing slightly, but I'd be shocked if this batgirl had a cowl or was a significantly different design. I feel like they chose the design they did for the most recent batgirl because it meant they didn't need a new mold.

The guy you're responding to knows- read the paragraph. It starts "sane" but devolves pretty fast into Luigi's pizza and Man. I would be shocked if it wasn't this. It's possible, but given how little effort this theme gets I just can't see them throwing a new batgirl into a juniors set like that. The most we tend to get is a slightly different Joker or whatever.

Huge news, I think he's the biggest missing figure from the OT. It has to be the X-wing and TIE fighter set, right? Leakers didn't have the figures confirmed yet, it fits the era, and I can't see where else they'd place him.

There's not much to discuss with this theme, and at least respond to that guy's jokes (They have to be jokes/trolling, right? There's no way luigi's pizza or the cinema being crime alley are real takes) man went online without asking his parents' permission I'm 99.9% sure that guy is trolling/joking If you work in <insert that tiresome argument> I think you'd have every single eurobricks jokes in the comment. Man, the constant "but what if we got a set based on R-rated properties", the comment type you're emulating, Luigi's pizza, eating a minifigure as a bet, etc

And don't get me wrong, there are totally things to complain about with lego. There are a number of heavily overpriced sets, and there are of course a number of nitpicks. But a lot of people seem to be unironically extremely upset about really minor, odd, or straight-up good things. Why would anyone want a worse GWP? I agree- the guard gunship messed up our chances at a standard system one.

It wasn't in the movie, that's the best part! I can't believe I forgot that! Ok, here's what the other four sets would obviously have been (all selling wonderfully, by the way. too bad lego was too lazy to produce them) Pizza Cycle and Alleyway ($23.99): Pizza motorcycle and gotham alleyway with Batman, a pizza delivery driver, and a random thug. Pizza Van Robbery ($37.99): Pizza Van with Batman, a pizza delivery driver, and another thug. Sister location ($79.99): small building, one of those pizza places where there's no indoor seating, with Batman, 2x thug, and 3x Luigi's pizzeria employees. Luigi's Pizzara ($229.99): Luigi's pizza D2C building (also includes Penguin's 100% family-friendly club and Falcone's office) with 8x Luigi's pizza employees and every main cast member of "The Batman (2022)" plus director Matt Reeves.

To be fair, two of the three are, and we used to only get one extra. That said, I agree that the cool minifigures would be nice. The budget seems very low for GWPs nowadays- even when a fig does get an exclusive print, it's normally one or two- but there are certainly figs you can pull off well with only a new face and torso. Officers, characters like Mara Jade or Starkiller, etc don't need arm printing or unique leg printing to stand out, and would make good GWPs. But then again, if people are this angry about a 1999 battle droid carrier remake, I'd shudder to see the reaction to literally any clone trooper being a GWP. There isn't for me- I'm gonna be passing on this one, which'll be the first time in a few years I've done so. GWPs aren't terrible- interceptor is fine for what it is, coin is on the worse side for a non-lego GWP but better than something like the venator patches, and the droid carrier is a wonderful little anniversary reference- but I don't have lego I want to buy. As for it making a great set- I'm sure it would- albiet altered a bit to represent the in-universe vehicle more than the 1999 set- but I think the anger is really overblown. Would people have preferred we had a low-quality or undesirable GWP?

I feel like there are not very many people at all who don't have enough battle droids or a way of obtaining more. That book has a LOT of interesting stuff in the preview. The cancelled constraction sets are there- the B2 and clone with AT-RT. There are some specialty molded holograms dated 2009, two of which we got in later years and two of which we never got. Also a couple of helmet prototypes conclusively proving the studded helmet look is better.

I dunno if you noticed, but those are all brickheadz sets- sets that have lots of basic bricks, and are a subline that's always been print-only, like the 4+ sets. I still don't see people liking a GWP makes it a bad GWP. If it's liked and something not strictly a standard set, why is that bad? This feels to me like people have to find something to complain about no matter what. Also- and this is a complete side note- we've had non-in-universe vehicles for forever- it didn't start with the mechs. Jek-14's jedi scout fighter comes to mind.

The mouse droid in the UCS set is one of the funniest things lego's ever done and I fully support it. An officer would have been nice, but this is one of the best 'guys, it's a UCS set, it's not about the figures" things I've ever seen. I won't be buying the interceptor, as good as it looks- I don't have the space- but I will 100% be bricklinking the parts for a couple of these mouse droids. It's a GWP because it appears to be based on the original droid carrier set from 1999 rather than strictly the in-universe vehicle.

Clearly they were secretly planning on the sets selling poorly, hence the lack of a new cowl mold. It's the clones all over again- lego giving us sets based on the subject matter proves they're secretly hating the subject matter! To be totally honest, I've kind of tried to stop responding, but this is a kind of absurd take and I feel like I have to say SOMETHING. 1: No, not four sets, "one of them a small polybag". A polybag, three standard system sets, and two large technic models. That's about as many sets as they've EVER done for a superhero movie within the first few years of release, with the possible exclusion of Infinity war/Endgame.... the culmination of a franchise raking in much more cash than DC. I can't think of a single superhero movie-besides the two above- that got more than 4-5 sets at release, except for the first avengers, which had a lot of polybags pumping the number up. 8-10 sets for The Batman is INSANE. What would they be? We already got multiple batmobiles and batcycles with the sets we did have. What would they make? Penguin's adult club? Random gotham streets and buildings? A ton of water tiles?

Also, we've recently learned print "zones" add to the cost- I.e. a torso has two zones (front and back) whereas legs have up to six (I don't think they said, but I assume it's the round part, straight part, and toe of each leg... also the hips? Not sure.) Which explains why leg printing is so rare- it's not necessarily the same print cost as a torso, but up to 3x the cost. That's not to say that lego can't afford to throw some leg printing on with how much they charge for these sets, but it does explain why when the designers are given a print budget, legs often are cut.

Droid carrier looks fine- I agree with @ForgedInLego that it seems like a 7126 remake, which might help put away the "it doesn't make sense as an anniversary set" complaints. (Which I really never got. Would you have preferred the death star GWP?) TIE interceptor also looks fine for what it is, and I like this pattern of the may polybag being a small version of the UCS. Hoping this continues in future years.

If it is a creature, I'm 90% sure it'll be Wicket. I hope cal comes with the bracca poncho, especially given how good Malak, Fives, and Saw look, but it's definitely possible they skip out. No way we get the Sumi poncho, though- I can't see lego throwing in an extra cloth part when they don't have to. (Though it is canon that A: Cal does collect the ponchos in-universe and B: The rest of the mantis crew hate it)