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I'd argue the exact opposite. D2C sets are typically aimed at an older audience. The Keaton Batman films, Back to the Future, Lord of the Rings, the original Jurassic Park films are all properties adults are more familiar with than kids, which is why we got, or are getting, D2C's instead of smaller playsets for those. The X-Men are the exact same case. Adults grew up with the 90's cartoon series, the Fox films, the other cartoon series, etc with while kids today are growing up with The Avengers. So, just from that standpoint, it'd make more sense to release a big X-Men display piece instead of Wolverine's sand buggy, Storm's mech, and Magneto's sailboat of doom. But, with that said, we're pretty poor predictors of what Lego will do. Most of us thought they would have capitalized on NWH by now. Most of us thought they'd release a modular Avengers Tower before a Black Panther bust. We all thought that new Thanos mold two years back would have seen some sort of reuse. Personally, I would have thought they'd try to capitalize on Teen Titans Go since it's been on for close to 10 years, is aimed at kids, and had a theatrical film release. But, nope. Lego will continue to surprise us for better or worse.

Hey now, us X-Men fans had to sit through everyone falling for those No Way Home set rumors twice now. We deserve a turn at being gullible and disappointed too, After that Black Panther bust last year, a $300 Batman diorama sounds like something Lego would do. As for the X-Mansion, people ask for one on this board at least once per year. It's the only Ideas/Cuusoo Superhero project to reach 10K and not get made in some form. And we have the X-Men 97 cartoon coming out this year they could tie it into. There's at least a remote possibility it could happen. It's got a better chance of selling than some of the other things Lego has released lately.

I'm gonna be really stupid here and hope that not only is this legit, but also that, seeing as how we're missing Gambit, Rogue, Jubilee, and Jean Gray (from the show's lineup, not X-Men in general), we'll be getting a Blackbird set to finish off the team and give us maybe one more villain (Sinister would be great since he seems to be in the revival).

Yeah, this sounds legitimate. Lego finally making BtAS sets, but just one. And it's $300 display piece nobody here really wants (*cough* *cough* Black Panther bust). And it includes exactly one highly desirable, exclusive new character that most of us will end up either Bricklinking or buying a $300 tub of spare parts for.