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Worth noting that the R rating for Echo was a complete surprise - I don't believe ANY film leaker called it before it was properly announced, feels like a last-minute thing. The show didn't particularly take advantage of it, so my assumption is it was done in reshoots.

Yeah, I'd be wary as taking the 'about' as meaning we get that many more. "About 10" feels like it means, say... "10 or 11" not "maybe 15"

I'm of the opinion that the CMF Sentinel head is very simply an accessory - if it was a tease for a full build, I'd have thought it'd be here by now, it wouldn't have been many pieces to add into the Blackbird set, and the X-Mansion is way too far out for that to have been the plan imo.

I have a feeling they they'd adapt the $35 buildable figure format for a sentinel set now - wether you think that's a good thing or not, though... 😂

I don't think looking at what LEGO did for other stuff is a very good indicator of what they *will* do for this. I'd say it depends entirely on the sets that are out already, and the success of the show itself. We have the X-Jet, which seems to actually be doing very well considering the horrifically unattractive price, the X-Mansion, which I'm pretty sure will be a slam dunk, and the Wolverine Claws, which seem to be selling fine enough for the niche product they are. The CMF was a great success, and it seemed to me that the X-Men were up there with Moon Knight as the most sought after figures... and I guess we also have the construction figure Wolverine. They clearly have a fair bit of confidence in the show to have done all that, which is a good sign already. Looking at What If..?, we only got 5 figs in the first CMF, two sets for the first season, and then one fig for the second in the second CMF, with no sets. To me, that feels like LEGO adjusting their efforts away from What If..? After its reception was just sort of mediocre. The sets didn't seem to sell all that well either, over by me they're STILL warming shelves in some stores. There's also the thing of Marvel themselves wanting to push the X-Men more now. Merchandising is a big part of that! Right now, if I was a betting person, I'd put quite a lot of money on season 2 sets happening at least. But I guess we just gotta wait and see!

I'd hope we get some more normal X-Men '97 sets too, that show's greenlight as far as Season 3, and we at least need a solid Sentinel model imo.

This irritates me - as long as Spider-Man is in the set, it's fine. I don't get the obsession with making the vehicles and mechs FOR Spider-Man most of the time - the Ghost Rider team up sets are a great example imo of what the theme could be! There's Spidey, there's a cool vehicle to play with, there's a villain, and there's another hero that older fans (and kids, to be honest) can get excited for. To me it feels like (and I know this isn't precisely how it works) fig slots, so to speak, are being taken up by the need to establish Peter, Miles and Gwen all as equally valid Spider-People... but if you want them to stand on their own in merchandising, let them! Give us just a wave of Miles stuff, then focus the rest of the figures on new heroes and villains instead of the same handful of Spider-People over and over. But still, I think the cartoons are mostly to thank for the comic(ish) rep we did get. White Tiger was a great inclusion in the big Doc Ock mech set, but she's only there because of Ultimate Spider-Man. And sadly, Amazing Friends is the current Spidey cartoon, so any new characters there are gonna be confined to that show's style. Rhino, Zola, Electro - all great figures to get, but I would've liked them more under different circumstances 😂 My main hope is that we see X-Men '97 continue to succeed, we get a Spider-Man TAS continuation, and LEGO starts to go all in on animation.

This is what's super confusing to me - I get it's the Avengers, big name, but do kids now really care about Avengers 2012? Or Age of Ultron's forest scene? The 'I'm always angry' scene with Hulk and the Leviathan would've been a great set idea... at the time... Kids now I doubt know it or particularly care about it. And a bunch of the adult collectors probably have the Avengers tower with Hulk and a Leviathan anyways? All kids really care about is the characters, so I'd think that the older film the set is based on shouldn't matter much to them as long as the characters they recognise are in them and the build is fun. Kids like Iron Man, so Iron Man 3 sets with some cool variant armour make sense! Kids like Captain America, so TFA or TWS stuff makes sense too! If they'll ask for the random Cap Vs Hydra bike set (my brother did, at least 😂) they'll ask for anything with the characters.

To me it feels like LEGO realised that adults with disposable income are a great audience, but realised literally nothing else about that audience. Adult fans of superheroes love minfigures and love the comics. The Daily Bugle was probably helped a LOT by the inclusion of Daredevil, Punisher, Blade, who people have wanted for ages. But it feels like instead of learning that people like comic themed sets with loads of minfigures, they decided that set's success means that people like modular buildings and big 18+ sets. And like, I do REALLY like the modular buildings, but I'd like them a lot more if they were comic focused. But, I guess there's an argument to be made that there have basically never been comic sets. Avengers Assemble and Ultimate Spider-Man are to thank for most of the comic-adjacent sets that exist. I really wish they'd explore that world a bit more, though. X-Mansion will probably be the closest thing we get to that for a while, which is a shame. The superhero modular building slot is likely to be filled by a movie based Baxter Building, or I guess a Daily Planet if they're feeling confident about DCU Superman. There's always 2026 for an Oscorp or something I guess 😂

Yeah, there was a bigger push for Eternals than I think was warranted for the movie. And LEGO does seem a little more hesitant with what they make than they were a few years back. Like take Ghostbusters, the 2016 film and Afterlife both got a set, but this year, with both Frozen Empire releasing and the original film's 40th anniversary... nothing. Poor sales for the Eternals, Black Panther and The Marvels sets, plus assumably the Quantumania one probably don't help either.

LEGO's audience being kids is exactly why I personally don't see Thunderbolts getting that much representation - the team is near exclusively side characters from projects I doubt most kids have seen. (and doubt they remember, if they have seen) When I was a kid, I had some toys I didn't really know the characters from, sure, but my favourites were always my favourite characters - I don't imagine many people were that different. Even if kids might not know Sam Wilson's iteration that well, they surely know Captain America, and even if they don't know red Hulk, they know Hulk. And bigfigs are fun! If THE Captain America gets (more or less) just a single set, I really can't see The Thunderbolts, who are generally speaking unpopular even among adult fans, getting that much more. Two? MAYBE. Three? No chance. Leaks say that many of the characters don't particularly have an important role in the film (it's very much Yelena's movie) so that's another reason I'd be skeptical. Plus, with like, John Walker, would LEGO wanna do a character whose most iconic scene is killing a surrendering man? Would love to be proven wrong and just to hear arguments to the contrary, though! But as it stands I can see one $60-ish set with Yelena, Sentry and two or so other members

All speculation - I feel like we wouldn't get another large location besides the Mansion this year, but next year I could totally see the Daily Planet being a thing if LEGO has any confidence in the DCU Superman

Yeah, 2025 could really be packed, thinking about it. When the figures for the summer AoU stuff were clarified, the omissions of Wanda, Pietro, Ultron made me think that they'd be wanting to do more for that film next year, but is there space? It'd be a little bit of a waste (and a shame for the fans who can't drop hundreds of dollars on a set at a time) if the X-Mansion figs didn't bleed out into next year, too. If Cap 4 only gets one set (and the buildable figure, I guess) then I wouldn't imagine Thunderbolts would get more than that either. Spidey would probably get 3 sets, most of his movies do, and then there's F4 - I could see anywhere from 1-3, depending on how much confidence Marvel and LEGO have in its merchandising. Maybe it gets the big superhero D2C location for the Baxter building, but what if they wanna give it a go for Superman and his film that year? Of course there's plenty of room if they're just tackling Marvel Studios stuff, but there's normally a generic Spidey wave and some Amazing Friends stuff as well, plus the buildable figures, infinity saga stuff, mechs, object display sets... All I really want is more X-Men, some good stuff for F4 and hopefully a return of the CMF, but there's a lot to pull from and I don't think I could even begin predicting the lineup one way or another.

Yeah, this. As much as LEGO can be greedy and out of touch at times, there's no chance they're missing that the criticisms of the Blackbird are basically ALL about the price. They're not gonna look at that and think 'guess people don't like the X-Men'. The mansion will probably be a better indicator of sales, and I think that one will do very well.

Could very well also be the case, but then there's that it's crazy unlikely that leakers have an absolutely finalised lineup either. The 'about 10' already speaks to some uncertainty before we even get to individual figure picks

We haven't seen many massive changes, but we also haven't seen all of the preliminary sets release. And there absolutely HAVE been changes, even if not as far reaching as the X-Mansion ones are likely to be. The medieval village cut the majority of its animals, the final Deku Tree is likely to be a fair bit bigger considering the $200 price point, the Gotham skyline got SIGNIFICANTLY wider, with more space between buildings and more buildings in general, the brick built text changed from 'GOTHAM' to 'BATMAN' and moved from the base to the top of the model, and the figure selection was changed a fair bit and shifted around into other sets. Gotham obviously having the most changes and setting a precedent, if you needed one. There's also the matter of the preliminary X-Mansion being clearly mostly film inspired, while the final set is likely to be strictly X-Men '97 based. On the figues, I'm not sure if you've heard this, but a couple designers for LEGO have talked about it - when a figure is produced, that figure can then 'bleed' into other sets without adding to the theme's budget for new prints. The Avengers Tower had so many figures because so many of them could be created from existing parts (Alexander Pierce), only needed one new print (SHIELD agents) or existed already (Captain America, the Chitauri, etc.) - it very efficiently used its budget to amass the most figures it could, and probably has less new prints overall than a lot of cheaper sets. The Bugle is kind of an opposite situation, but Mark Stafford said that the Bugle could only have so many figures because they were distributed into the rest of the Spider-Man sets in that year (they ended up releasing BEFORE the Bugle, but still) - there are only really a handful of exclusive figures for the Bugle, with the rest being covered in the general Spidey wave, or again, easily made out of existing parts. With that being how LEGO works, why would LEGO waste budget on brand new looks for characters they already have in production? The designers are fans, and do try their best to appeal to other fans, and they absolutely know that wasting prints on ANOTHER Wolverine, Magneto, Storm, etc. when they can just throw in the existing ones is pointless. I would bet money that most, if not all, of the figures from the CMF and X-Jet will appear in some capacity in the Mansion. I wouldn't be surprised if they used some prints on UPGRADING those figures, like leg printing for Cyclops, but to replace them outright would be absurd and really bite into the number of new characters they can make. Let's also not forget that MTD reported this as 'about 10 figures' before others started reposting it as just '10 figures'. This early (the set comes out in November, guys) I doubt even LEGO has an absolutely final lineup. Could always expand!

I'd assume that the shift to X-Men '97 happened after that sketch model was designed, and they just hadn't yet completed (or gotten close to doing so) a version resembling the final set. The Deku Tree, for example, is also probably not very much like the final model, which iirc is going to be $200? The prelim image was pretty clearly undersized if that were the case imo.

With the new Ghostbusters movie out, and no sets currently on shelves, I gotta say I'm crazy disappointed. With the new film being back in NYC, a redo of the Firehouse would've been incredible (it's so many people's white whale, from what I've seen) and even just a redo of the Ecto-1 in figure scale would be great, the old one is a very dated build. Maybe they could figure out how to get the gunner seat in there, too? You wouldn't even have to particularly brand it for Frozen Empire - alternate heads for the OG Ghostbusters as old and young would work wonders. But I guess I should stop holding out for more official stuff. Time to bite the bullet on the old Firehouse... ouch.

This build is absolutely genius. Bought the instructions and did it in studio first so I could get a feeling for it before the pieces arrive, and some of the techniques in this thing blow my mind! Been trying and failing for years now to get my own up to the standard I want and this blows all my attempts out of the water! I've been really wanting LEGO to take another crack at the Ecto-1 in minifigure scale but I don't really need that anymore, I don't think they could do better than this :)

Thanks so much! And yeah, including as many bosses as I realistically could was definitely a priority - you can even detatch the ones built into the model in one or two steps to play with outside of the big display! I would've liked to get Skeletron in there, but then I would've felt like I had to do the dungeon too and that would've gone WAY over the Ideas part limit - maybe one day just as a MOC! Really glad you like the build, it means the world :)

Hey all, Not sure how many fans of the game we have in here, if any, but I wanted to show off my Terraria project :) It's got just under 3000 pieces, is only 7 studs wide, and measures about 23 inches at its tallest point - that's quite a bit taller than most of the modulars, which really surprised me! It's a display piece, but it's also decently playable, I tried my best to get as much out of the depth as I could. Also included four builds for some of the bosses! It'd mean the world to me if you'd check it out. Thanks guys!

For those who don't know, or need a refresher, the mansion looks like this in TAS. No chance they just slap on the 97' branding to the survey model and call it a day. I do 100% expect a different character selection to the survey, but I also wouldn't get hopes up too far. Xavier is gonna be in there regardless of his absence from '97 (it's his school, after all) and if I was a betting woman I'd put money on them throwing Iceman in to finish up the Amazing Friends. That'd only really leave 3-4 more new characters, because they're likely bleeding in figs from the Blackbird (and maybe the CMF?). Considering the prominent members in the show that we don't have yet are Bishop, Jean, Gambit, Morph, Jubilee and Sunspot... there's gonna be a couple unfortunate snubs regardless of the selection. And I guess there's the villains and whole extended cast. Sinister, Emma Frost, Cable, Madelyne Pryor, Nightcrawler, Forge... you could kinda go all day.

I personally got the Tower for the build. The figs are nice and all but it could've included none of them and I wouldn't mind. If the figs are your main draw, and you're not super fussed about the building, you're probably ok to skip it. Even if they're a bit pricey, getting Ultron MK1 and Vision on Bricklink is gonna be cheaper than the full thing. To be fair to the skyline, there's very little that *can* be changed about it while keeping the concept the same. It was spread out a fair bit in the final model compared to the survey leak. Lots of little tweaks. The X-Mansion on the other hand is a completely different can of worms because it hardly has two designs that look the same. The survey leak was clearly very Fox-inspired, in the fig selection but also in the design of the building itself, and the X-Men 97' mansion looks completely different. Assuming they've shifted to base it on that show (which would only make sense, allowing the 97' specific figures to bleed into that set) it'd have an entirely different shape and main colour.

As a big fan of Gerard Way's stuff, I would do some bad, bad things for a set of his original SP//dr design. And like you said, it's a Spidey mech! They love those!

I've chatted with a few leak accounts on Instagram and the feeling about the torso seems to be very uncertain. Leaning more towards it being a fake, though. I don't really get how there can be so much uncertainty but I do have to say it's a little suspicious we got such a clear image of the torso and literally nothing else. Not sure what the motivation would be to fake it, and not sure what the motivation would be to only leak such a small part of a set when they're very clearly able to take a high quality image. Could always be that sets relating to the climax of the movie are in development also, as these Summer sets were initially rumoured very confidently as containing Ultron and Ultron sentries, but we don't really have anything solid to prove that.