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All good! hard to keep the news straight with two shows with (presumably) similar characters being shopped around! Definitely! I'm convinced the BBC came to the same conclusion of it damaging the brand more and that's why they pulled the plug. Not to say that RTD2 was all bad (there are probably more episodes I enjoyed than didn't) but those finales were... something. Hopefully if the CBeebies show works out it can help to build a future audience for when the main show returns.

The CBeebies show and the show being shopped around are two separate things. The animated show was shopped around a few months ago and now has a production company with a 2027 release (I think), meanwhile the prior announced Christmas special has now been canned in favour of shopping out the show proper.

This may be the recency of me buying The Batman Batmobile 2 days ago talking, but I’ve gotta admit, I like the sound of both of these I literally thought after building it that I’d like a Burton Batmobile of the same quality (I skipped the prior versions) and this looks like it’ll probably include an affordable Returns Penguin too. Plus, if there was one Batmobile I’d have said were never getting it would be the Arkham Knight version, so the chance to get both that car and an Arkham Batman hopefully on the same level of detail as the Battinson fig sounds pretty cool. Is this the all encompassing DC theme I’d like? No, but I’ll take more stuff that’s the same quality as the recent Batmobiles. Am I part of the problem? Yes. End of the day, even if set choices annoy me, making the sets themselves speed champions but Batman at least means the sets are quality builds that I don’t regret buying afterwards. Excited to see what these look like.

Now that you mention it, I do think a mech would work for portraying Reed’s inflated form like in Rivals. Though I think Thing has always looked cool as a bigfig in the Lego specials and games, I’m never quite sure if the size feels right for him. Truth be told, the only characters I think fit as bigfigs are Hulks and Juggernaut, for everyone else it just feels a tad off. Ben’s lack of story in F4 was probably my biggest problem with that movie. Great design and casting, but given absolutely nothing to do. I’m sure it’s probably down to stuff getting cut for time, but it’s a shame all the same

Doom looks fantastic! Only complaint I could possibly have is that side leg printing to carry on the tunic/skirt would’ve been appreciated, but other than that no notes In terms of where else he could be popping up, I think a mech remains the most likely. Although Cap and Thor both make sense, I think the Thing would be a good choice. From my own experience of not caring for the fantastic four at one point, I’ve always liked the Thing and of the four he’s the one whose powers work for a mech. Plus, his movie minifigure is only a torso print away from being a comic version

Well from some of the merchandise that’s been leaked for Brand New Day, it seems the most prominently featured villains are… So I would assume those are the ones most likely to pop up in the upcoming sets

If it does turn out to be a comic Doom in the advent calendar, is it likely to be featured in any other sets? Have any of the advent calendars ever had exclusive (non-christmas) minifigs? Guesses for where else this Doom could appear: A Thing mech with Doom as the antagonist like the Ultron in the Iron Man mech A comic Fantasticar A mini modular Baxter Building

Complete tinfoil hat and unlikely theory, but maybe Tron? It had one previous set with the ideas set, has marginal modern relevance with a (admittedly pretty poor) film released last year, is receiving a bit of a merch push with a 1/12 Hasbro line at some point this year based on Legacy, could fit the price range with either an upscaled lightcycle or a minifig scaled recogniser, AND could explain the gaming confusion since the film takes place inside a game... Yeah that'll never happen, but it'd be nice if we finally got the rest of the Tron Legacy cast from Lego!

I hadn’t heard about these until now! Not 100% certain on if they’re real or not (with the sheer amount of AI generated “leaks” around one can never be sure) but they all seem to match the character portraits from a leaked crew bag I think, so if it’s slop, it’s slop with some basis in reality. With Lego’s new Epic Moments subline starting up, does anyone think there’s any likelihood we finally get a Hulk vs Abomination set out of it? The Hulkbuster set shows that it can work with two big characters and there’s not all that much interesting terrain to replicate outside of the fight itself. Chuck in some police car boxing gloves for Hulk and I think they’d be onto a winner. Also thought that this could be a way to give us a better sized Iron Monger. I know the set wasn’t all that long ago, but I skipped it due to how out of scale the monger was and I’d love to see a redone version similar in size to the new Hulkbuster.

Another possibility I could see for an Epic Moments set is the final Helicarrier fight from Winter Soldier. They already have 90% of the Winter Soldier figure and the relevant Captain America (well, technically it's not the right Cap since it's the WW2 suit and not the Smithsonian one, but considering Lego doesn't see the difference between the AoU and Civil War suits I doubt they'd be picky here). Chuck in a Falcon and we could have a solid first ever (I may be wrong here) Winter Soldier set! The format would be great for comic sets as well (though I'm aware how unlikely that is). I'm thinking cover recreations like Amazing Fantasy #15 or Avengers #4. Again, it'd never happen but this subline has promise and I hope Lego's able to keep up with that.

Ahhhh that does unfortunately make more sense ah well, it looks like an interesting build for modular fans at least. Sorry if I got any hopes up there

So it looks like lego_minecraft_goat on Instagram just teased a Daily Planet modular?!? They’ve posted an image of their Minecraft build of Arkham Asylum (which was used to tease the Arkham modular) next to a build of a white tower with a gold globe on top. Could be nothing, but it looks like there’s a chance!

Oh no that's perfectly valid, my grievance was more of a general one with overall fandom discourse, not anyone specific to this thread. I've just seen so many "my dad could beat up your dad" style arguments in YouTube comments and the like using box office results as evidence, it does my nut in Yeah these are basically my thoughts. The people who need to think it was a success think that it was, regardless of what we may think.

I really miss the days when fandoms didn't use box office metrics to argue over how good a project is. This may be my own naivety showing, but I don't remember any discussions over CBM box office before the charge for Endgame to become the highest-grossing film of all time. Ever since then, I feel like a metric that only studio execs cared about has become ammunition in ridiculous fandom wars. Like should it really matter to the fandom how much money Superman made if we already have a sequel greenlit, storyboarded, and written? It feels like the people who should care about that sort of thing have already decided "yes, it made enough" the same way that they did with Man of Steel when they greenlit BvS. I'm all for people having a preference between these two projects (my own leaning is towards Superman, but that's me), but using the box office to justify those opinions just seems silly to me. Films I have thought were awful have made loads (Avatar 2, Jurassic World 2) and some I thought were excellent have made nothing (Blade Runner 2049). Idk, all this is to say I feel like fandoms have become too executive-brained vs having actual fan discussions. And on a semi-unrelated note, I find it funny that the conversation above stemmed from a meme about Critical Drinker (a known liar and over reactionary grifter) saying the DCU's in trouble. Not a dismissal of any of the takes above btw, just a funny origin point.

Well I might pick up the Pattmobile, but man is this a disappointing wave. The builds and figures (with the exclusion of the logo) are all pretty decent and it’s a nice milestone to have every mainline live action Batman represented in Minifigure form, but seriously?! Not 1 other character?! Not even in the sets based on movies where the TITLE features another character!! The BvS one is the most egregious with the Batman figure being the suit he only uses to fight Superman and at no other point in the movie. You mean to tell me the budget would really be sooooo stretched by including one new Superman torso print with a reused head, hair, legs, and cape!? I have a similar bone to pick with the B&R one, in that if they had gone with Batman’s main and less detailed suit from the majority of the film they would once again probably have the print budget for a head and torso for the other title character. Aaaand then there’s the logo… the only “compliment” I could possibly give it is that comparing it to the other two logos gives a really good chart on where each theme is at. Star Wars is plagued with the 18+ brand, Marvel’s comes with under detailed and inaccurate Minifigures plus a poorly thought out play feature, and then this is flimsy and comes with nothing but two Batman figures. I don’t understand how Lego can go from showing they understand the fan demand with a set like Arkham and then turn around in a matter of months and give us this. It’s a good thing DC customs are becoming more prevalent, even if a lot of them are on the expensive side, at least it’s something other than Batman.