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I’d love a Raimi Green Goblin minifigure, so personally I’m hoping for a recreation of the bridge scene. I also feel like GotG are due for one of these. And Infinity War is well overdue for some legacy sets.

The problem with this is most of DC’s most iconic moments either wouldn’t make great sets, aren’t age appropriate, or are from movies that are decades old. Am I the only one with zero interest in this game?

I’m not sure if you belong in the Aslume or the Blue Lanterns.

X-Jet is retiring. An updated model would be nice. Especially since there’s a lot of characters to cover that they still haven’t touched. But I wouldn’t be surprised is the back half of the year is entirely devoted to Brand New Day, Doomsday, and more legacy sets unfortunately.

There’s nothing you can do. Turtles have beaten Pennywise, The Flash, and Bugs Bunny - three entities with god like abilities. They’re so high up on the power hierarchy, even The Rock couldn’t change their standing.

@Renny The Spaceman Don’t be rude. Answer the question.

I don’t think you understood what I was asking for. But you did understand how Lego would interpret my request.

Does anyone know why the mech sets weren’t revealed alongside the rest?

“SYMBIOTES IS ANYONE SAFE?” They’re in on the joke. ☠️

Welp, Rhino is once again a mech. Although we did also get a minfigure version of him, which is better than nothing. This mech also looks to be a massive improvement over the last one, so it’s got that going for it too. Bugle looks good, but I already have the larger one, so I don’t really care to have a smaller version. Curious to see how this new Mysterio compares to the old one.

$30: Batman disguised as both Wonder and Ares with a Batmobile disguised as the Invisible Jet $40: Batman disguised as Kyle, Guy, and Atrocitus with a Batmobile disguised as a Green Lantern mech $50: Batman disguised as Superman, Supergirl, and Brainiac with a Batmobile disguised as Brainiac’s spaceship $80: Batman disguised as Flash, Kid Flash, Captain Cold, Heatwave, Mirror Master, Golden Glider, and Weather Wizard with a Batmobile disguised as The Flash Musuem $120: Batman disguised as himself, Superman, Wonder Woman, himself, Martian Manhunter Hawkgirl, Darkseid, and a parademon with a Batmobile disguised as a Javelin $300: Batman disguised as Superman, Wonder Woman, himself, Flash, Hal, Aquaman, Martian Manhunter, Hawkgirl, Green Arrow, Black Canary, Zatanna, Robin, Lex Luthor, Soloman Grundy, Cheetah, Black Manta, Sinestro, and Gorilla Grodd with a Batmobile disguised as the Hall of Justice Lego, if you are listening, please make these Batman with Batmobile sets.

The upcoming CMF has a perfect jumping off point for a purist Leap Frog, if anyone wants to give Daredevil an actual villain to fight. There’s also another set of printed arms that would work for The Spot.

I’m also a stickler for canon, but I’m open to alternate takes like Superman: Red Son or The Dark Knight Returns. But they’re got to be interesting. I can’t speak for the rest, but Absolute Flash was just boring. It was mostly just “hey, look at this character you know. Now they’re a woman, or a government scientist, or they have a mustache. Woah, what kinda of a crazy effeed up world is this?”

Sherlock Holmes over here.

“Together we can do this!” Lego minifigures have seggs confirmed?

Yes, there are exceptions. But most sets, and specifically Marvel and DC sets, it’s typically one month (unless they’re D2C, in which cases is usually two weeks).

Haven’t read anything Absolute outside of Flash (gave up on that a while back) and the first issue of Superman. I can’t say this is a universe that interests me. But I also feel like, in terms of comics, there’s just overall less stuff I’m interested in at the moment. Lego should just use the Black Panther ears for Batman going forward.

But it’s usually one month before release, not two.

Paradoxically, Captain America isn’t as strongly associated with America as Superman is, despite America literally being in his name. The depiction of Captain America most people are familiar with is the MCU. He spent two and a half movies working with the US military before turning his back on them. He then spent a whole movie actively fighting against them and one being on the run. Those choices helped break him away from being an “American” hero and transformed him into a hero who just happens to be American. Compare that to Superman who spent decades preaching the “American way”, whose most iconic images all have him standing in front of an American flag, who has spent significant time in comics buddying up with Ronald Reagan and Bush, who in one of DC’s most iconic stories (The Dark Knight Returns) serves as a lapdog for the US government, and who in his last solo outing (MoS) worked side by side with the American military which basically loaned them the use of their equipment for chump change. And what has been done to change that depiction? Several years back he dropped the “American way” part of his tagline? That wasn’t enough to undo decades of making him a pro-American icon. Nothing has been, up to this point. As far as your point about superhero films doing about the same as they’ve been doing in China, back in 2023 GotG3 made $86M, Aquaman 2 made $49M, Antman 3 made $49M, and The Flash made $26M (Black Panther 2 flopped, sure, but the first one only made as much as Antman in China, and I don’t think I need to spell out why that happened). In 2024 Deadpool and Wolverine made $60M, Venom 3 made $90M, and even a dud like Joker 2 made $7.6M. Thunderbolts was the big hit of superhero films in China this year with $16M. Superman made only $1.3M more than Joker 2. In what way is this not a massive drop off? As for Fantastic Four being a bigger flop than Superman in China and internationally, the film was just not as well received as Superman in general. But, as a percentage of box office, FF had a higher percentage of its gross from international sales (and frankly, the international gross wasn’t that far behind Superman’s). I’m 90% certain if there is a third mech it’s going to Dr Doom. The other 10% is delusional and thinks it could go to Supergirl. Batcave? Sorry, I’m not familiar with that style of Batmobile.

Comic Electro? In the same year we’re getting another Rhino? You’re talking crazy.

“Superman did poorly internationally due to his heavy ties to America” and “Hollywood movies have done poorly in China due to boycotts” aren’t mutually exclusive statements. The internationally box office is more than just China. Look at the international and domestic box offices for films released this year. Superman stands out among them for its abysmally bad international box office, both in terms of the intentional total and as a percentage of the worldwide gross. You mean to tell me the character who has been heavily associated with America for decades did poorly internationally at a time when the we’re seeing heavy internationally backlash to the US, but those two things couldn’t possibly be related? As for the MCU’s box office in China, you are absolutely correct that they’ve been doing poorly there for the past several years. To your point, the amount of money Hollywood has made from China dropped off in 2020 and has been in decline ever since. But we’ve seen a very sharp decline this year, and that’s due to Chinese boycotting American products, including films, in response to the tariffs. In essence, both Superman’s relation to America and souring relations between the US and China are factors that have contributed to Superman’s poor international box office gross.

Welp. There goes our chances for a Venomized MJ.

A boycott of American films by China wouldn’t just be for Captain America. It would also apply to the films you just listed. You can look at box office numbers between last year and this year. Chinese audiences spent significantly less on American films despite the Chinese box office overall gross being higher. We can debate what is and isn’t a “regime” all day, but we have been seeing increasing anti-American sentiment across the globe and boycotts of American products and companies due to the tariffs and ongoing trade war. And that’s been especially true in China. Superman was definitely a victim of those things, although the significance they played it is unclear. Personally, I don’t think it makes a difference in terms of what we have been discussing, which is whether or not the DCU is in trouble. WB seems happy enough with the results of Superman. Professionals who analyze box office said it made a profit. There’s a sequel coming out and other projects on the way. I think it’s too early to tell, given that any one of these projects failing could set the DCU up in flames like BvS did with the DCEU, but we seem to be on the right track for now.

There’s still plenty of Batmobiles left to be made!

Supergirl has her fans, but she’s not even debatable on the same level as Batman and Spiderman, or even Wonder Woman, Superman, Deadpool, Wolverine, Hulk, and Iron Man. I also completely agree on Doomsday. I could be wrong, but I’d be surprised if it even touched the first Avengers in terms of box office.