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I hope the Ghost Rider is Johnny's blue leathers, I'm a little tired of the black leather jacket looks The rest sound truly awful haha

That's fair, but there could be a difference in logic between a fun little detail element and like, THE main character of each? But yeah, who knows

Total speculation on my part, but maybe if the mold was redesigned / resurrected specifically for One Piece, they wouldn't want that to be 'cheapened' by it appearing in a set for a different theme before the reveal?

It was probably actually a top-down decision from Marvel/Sony, Cyborg Spider-Woman was in a frankly insane amount of merchandising around the time of the film's launch - presumably she at one time had a MUCH bigger role than the background appearance she had in the final film. I'd speculate that this CMF was planned for quite a long time before finally being released this year, and they just didn't bother to remove her.

Is the font consistent across both movies? They could've just dropped the subtitle from the logo and it'd work fine, I think

CMF looks great, but not really a fan of the movies so there's nothing for me in it. Oh well, glad other people are excited! I want the cat

I think this wave is a HUGE step forward compared to recent previous waves, but it still just feels like a step to me I've been thinking for ages that there should be more playsets, and more comic based playsets - in my experience as a previous child and seeing what my young siblings and their friends play with, locations are almost always preferred for play with superhero characters, and to me it seems that kids don't really have an attachment to the MCU unless their older family are already invested. More bright, fun versions of these characters, without ties to some movie they haven't watched, is great. More locations for superheroes and villains to fight in is great. The figures and the prices are just insane, though. It's not enough to have lackluster selections, we apparently have to remove elements of figures that were previously better? (Peter and Julia both lost their dual molding, despite those pieces being on-shelves and in production RIGHT NOW) Hobgoblin is great. Wish he had dual molded boots too, but it's whatever. He has really fantastic recolours and the printing on him is exceptionally well designed. Kraven looks good. Ultimate Goblin looks great too! That's kinda it. If we're gonna be paying, what, 130 bucks for the Oscorp set, they REALLY gotta do better on the minfigures. Not to mention that the high prices are just an obvious barrier to kids, who are seemingly the absolute primary target for these small buildings. Dumb move. I do think this micro marvel modular street concept is great though, I hope it's expanded on and keeps improving.

Really surprised that Reed doesn't have the stretchy arms, actually - the One Piece sets are incoming, and we've seen that those sets feature that piece! Just use it!

Genuinely amazed at how good Galactus looks, with how the constraction figures have been up until now I was sure he'd be terrible. Not using that weird faceplate piece really helps! I'm really happy that he passes for a really decent comic Galactus. Figures are horrible, but I'll just get comic based customs anyway.

Honestly, at this rate, a cool Galactus minifigure piloting a mech would be more fun than one of those abysmal constraction figures

I'm genuinely amazed that we didn't get a Sentinel set this summer, it feels like such an obvious slam dunk. If my memory isn't totally deceiving me, in one of the X-Mansion designer interviews, they said that they know that people will want multiple, and basically just implied that we should buy multiples of the actual mansion 😭 wild It's not that they wouldn't sell well, so I'm not sure why the aversion. Even a set filled with an almost identical Sentinel and a couple of X-Mansion reuse figs would probably do fantastically. Making any of those exclusives more accessible seems to me like a selling point in and of itself

I know this isn't super relevant, but I recently got that 4+ Hulk and Iron Man set because it was like £7 in an order of things I needed anyway It's REALLY cool, and as silly as it feels to say about something like it (that's so small and for four year olds) I think represents some design philosophy that the rest of the theme could think about adopting The Iron Man stuff is whatever, it's a pretty standard 4+ large pieces bike, but it does the job in so few parts and I think there's some value in that The Hulk part of the set is just great, though - it's so simple, but the 'smash' feature is so satisfying and well-executed that I think honestly anyone would have a lot of fun with it - but this is what I've been saying for so long! Sets should showcase their characters' powers! A Hulk set where Hulk smashes a building and it crumbles into a bunch of pieces is so obvious to me, but it's really great to actually see take shape I think if we got more basic concepts like this (a way for Spidey to actually swing, a way for flying characters to actually fly, that sorta thing) instead of static representations of those powers, these sets would instantly be more fun, which is better for everyone, I think Also, the Hulk figure is top-tier, I love him

Flash in the cancelled set for his movie just used the MCU Cap cowl with printed wings, so I think maybe they'll just keep with that piece

I actually do remember a designer addressing the BP bust They were being asked about the possibility of further NWH sets past the initial wave (long time ago haha) and they said that the BP bust was a set going back to Black Panther because, at the time, it was the highest grossing solo movie in the MCU. Since NWH was closing in on that title, it made sense (he said it was a 'maybe' but obviously at this point they were planning the Liberty battle and Sandman sets) I feel like 'a random superhero' doesn't quite capture the significance BP had

The same dude is responsible for great hits like the ugly D2C Hulkbuster, Captain America's flamethrowing motorcycle, the Endgame Hulk helicopter, the flat head Hulkbuster, the first Marvel advent calendar, the weird Shang-Chi dragon... he has a FEW solid sets like Molten Man, but if you throw enough stuff at the wall, right 😂

The LEGO 2024 financial report is out, and their revenue grew 13% - you guys think they can afford leg printing for us now? 😭

To be fair, the lack of 'comic' stuff seems to mostly stem from the lack of mainstream Marvel cartoons - as cool as Your Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-Man and X-Men '97 are, they have a more limited reach of older shows, which is why I'd bet there's little to no representation in LEGO for them. If we think about the old 'comic' sets, they're mostly Avengers Assemble and Ultimate Spider-Man sets that just kinda happen to have a lot of comic elements because of how those shows are. I'd expect it to be basically the same as the MCU cowl, Flash really needs molded bolts on the side of his cowl, but in the (albeit cancelled) set for his movie, they were just printed onto the MCU Cap piece.

Brick Tap reported back in January that 76306 is a cancelled Marvel set that would have included Thor and two Outriders. Given that Wakebricks is claiming that 76306 and 76305 are Superman movie sets, which we know are not happening (AND he has a history of faking Superman movie 'leaks' in particular) I don't believe for a second that he knows anything at all about 76305. I'm not sure I'd even go far as saying he's 50/50 on reliability - the things he's posted that have been true are all images that had been circulating anyway, and the rest of his posts are all this fake Superman stuff

I agree that they're not THAT similar, but I'm not sure that the average consumer would see the difference - and I'm not sure (although I obviously don't have sales data on this) that hardcore fans can entirely carry the sales of even a big D2C. Doesn't help that Avengers Mansion hasn't really been prominent in much media in the recent past (not that Avengers Mountain has been outside the comics, but it's more different, and I think there's a chance that the MCU celestial island takes that role?) I would agree on the compound if LEGO weren't absolutely obsessed with the Endgame final battle haha

I also think an Avengers Mansion would be unlikely just because it's ANOTHER superhero mansion. It's more recent and obscure, but if they were doing a big Avengers comic themed D2C, I'd sooner expect Avengers Mountain or something, it's just more interesting compared to the other options and doesn't overlap directly with another set concept. I don't really think new molds would be an obstacle though - Hawkeye, sure, but a lot of these characters don't need specialised elements at all, and the ones who do have existing ones that'd be fine with a new print/ recolour (Cap cowl, Invincible Iron Man helmet, Wanda's crown) Realistically though, I'd expect a large MCU compound 😭

Ordinarily, I'd spring to the defence of designers, because of course they just get told what to make! In this case, I'd say look at Junya Suzuki's Brickset 😭

I haven't seen anyone in this thread yet explain exactly how Sunspot was debunked - in case anyone's curious, it's a UV print by 'fishcustoms' on Instagram. He has a 2D drawn post with that same torso print, and while it's not visible anymore, he did post a story saying something to the effect of "when your custom is so good it fools a whole subreddit"

I mean, that's only true if you like the MCU version of the suit or the character. The CMF figure is very detailed, yes, but I don't like that interpretation in any regard, so even a very simple comic version would be the superior figure to me, and I'm sure to others too.

I think they probably mean a comic version of Moon Knight, and a version of Daredevil in a set less than 200 dollars haha For me personally, I only collect comic inspired minifigures - so Moon Knight would be a new character for me!

If MTD is posting it, it generally means it's pretty accurate