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Potential cease and desist from LEGO? Not sure what specific legal grounds, but there is definitely an argument about leaking "confidential" information about upcoming products

Most, if not all, of the sets look much better in HD, but the prices are atrocious. Mechs are a dollar cheaper, but $38 for the warbird + NWH set just ain't it

Where did it leak? Reddit? I don't see it on Instagram

That's fair. I think whatever LEGO would do there would be issues with. It would be very difficult to not have repeat figs and not have complaints

100% agree. You're left over with 2 repeat figs if you only get 2 sets. They could've improved this by excluding Integrated suit spidey, Ned and MJ from the Statue of Liberty set. Use their budget to improve prints, and then include all 3 and Lizard in the Sandman set. Spidey + MJ figs would be previously available in the Sanctum Workshop. This allows you to get a pretty good fig selection in the Sandman set, without repeats. I don't like the price increases, and will be waiting for a discount, but is LEGO even aware that sets aren't selling well because of prices? It feels like they chalk it up to problems with the theme/subtheme

More leaks this morning, and I wasn't expecting to like the War Machine Mech as much as I do. With that said, the X-Jet is very disappointing for me. I actually like Cyclops and Rogue, but the supposed Wolverine repeat from the mech and the Magneto push me away. The jet itself isn't bad, I just wish it wasn't based on the '97 series. I much would've preferred a sleek black variant with a stand in line with last years Quinjet. It's actually extremely disappointing that Magneto is based on his '97 appearance, like I get it's a different property, but I just want a classic Magneto that isn't 12 years old and $100

A majority of this is just due to those skins being in battle passes. AFAIK they haven't LEGO-ized many battle pass skins (if at all). Their is caveats though, Thanos isn't BP, but a lot of the superheroes aren't all MCU-inspired tbf.

Yes. LEGO has street dates for when retail stores can officially sell the product. Some stores, however, don't follow these street dates 100% and all you to purchase them early, or at least in this case, accidentally put them on shelves too early

Welp, easiest Cyclops moc ever. Just add the blue yellow dual-bolded legs and yellow hips. I personally dig the hair piece

What Ronan minifigure?

I believe mid-October is typically leaked images with a reveal late October (Based on SW UCS Sets). Can anyone confirm if this is still the case?

I would be shocked and I believe the backlash would force LEGO to fix the set. Can you imagine one of the 6 originals Avengers and one of the most popular Marvel heroes ever not being in the biggest Marvel set? Or let alone any Avengers set this year?

As squiz18 said, Selvig figure with portal generator, the hammer couches scene, maybe the Cap v Cap showdown (if any Endgame figs), also being able to recreate the Iron Man suitup from the Avengers final battle would be dope (Jumping off bridge and having the suit form around minifig)

Good point about the Wolverine re-use. I believe the closest we've gotten to a re-used CMF print is the Scarlet Witch character, however they changed the dual-molded arms and leg printing. Not sure about outside licensed themes tho

Not sure if this has already been said / theorized, but is it possible that the inclusion of Wolverine, Storm, and Beast in the CMF was to have different figs in the set? I was expecting Wolverine/Storm to be in the X-Jet, but it makes sense. They wouldn't have to have less quality printing (for obvious reasons) and could spread some love to other X-Men. I think Professor X, Cyclops and Jean are pretty safe bets if this is the case, maybe Rogue too?

LMAO you don't have to be so harsh lol. Although I'm not sure how they would create Lizard, as he is bigger / would look wonky as a minifig. Any ideas on that middle ground between minifig and small buildable creature?

Is it possible that the NWH set will be a buildable Lizard with a minifig sandman? In the movie Sandman was pretty similar in height to other characters (Notably in Happy's Apt), and I can't see LEGO doing 2 buildable figs/mechs in 1 set but I hope they include Lizard. Ideally: Buildable Lizard, maybe a scaffolding piece, Sandman minifig (all sand features) with sand effects (similar to Bugle) and Spider-Man (any of them, Tom's will be the easiest)

I actually liked the Wolverine claw, and then I realized it's a blue hand with silver claws, literally no detail. I guess I should've looked at source material, but not even some yellow / black highlights makes it look pretty plain

To be fair, it could've played a small part. While i see the point about Nazi's and Thanos killing half the population and etc, the High Evolutionary was probably seen by LEGO as someone who wouldn't drive set sales (over the other GOTG members) and isn't worth the inevitable "brand rick" of a character abusive to animals. You can kind of get around it without Nazi/German symbolism on soldiers and Thanos is seen more as a villain than a genocidal maniac. IDK tho, just my 2 cents

I forgot about the collector's room. I meant the vats of yellow liquid Drax goes in

Lowkey it could be cool as a slightly larger helmet ~$100, but I personally would rather LEGO focus on other UCS projects. Not only would we get a very small interior compared to the size of the head, but what all would go inside? You could only do so much. Without having seen Vol 3, you have the bar and vats from GOTG 1 with the Ronans ships, and then Guardians HQ from Holiday Special / Vol3, but none of those are really memorable in the grand scheme of things

At this point it's not be pessimistic, it's being realistic. With the Ant-Man, War for Wakanda and Armory sets, it's hard to think there could be a villain or anything more than the Marvels themselves Personally, I think 4 minifigs and goose (if he shows up again in the movie) and some sort of ship build. (Marvels + Villain)

Without having financial reports or anything to look on, I think it's purely monetary reasons. If a movie is going to go and make a billion dollars, there is going to be a huge chance that that movies toys are going to be purchased more than comic-based things. Personally, I really liked the comic-based things, but there isn't really anything for kids to really compare that to and make them want it outside of the named characters. They're more likely to say "I want this ship / fight scene from Avengers" vs "Anything Spider-Man that may have characters I've never seen before" But outside of kids, I think the minifigs is truly the only draw for comic-based sets for adult / TFOLs (from my perspective/what I've seen posters say)

That's fair, it'd probably be only Moon Knight by himself or with Layla for diversity. Although I could see the Hawkeyes similar to how we saw both Loki's. But all speculation at this point

TBH I can't see LEGO making minifigs for Werewolf by Night. Last CMF missed out on major D+ shows and I can't imagine they choose 1-2 minifigs from a Special Presentation that was in B&W to be in the CMF. My predictions would be - Clint & Kate - Moon Knight & Mr Knight - Ms Marvel - She-Hulk - Loki S2 minifig (could be Loki, could be someone else) - 5 minifigs from What If I'm hoping for Infinity Ultron or Daredevil, but I can't see less than 4-5 What If figs