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75457 Executor Super Star Destroyer, 6130 pieces, USD 800 Darth Vader, Dengar, IG-88, Boba Fett, Bosk, Zuckuss, 4-LOM Details about the build in the usual place (will include an Imperial Star destroyer and a bridge display).

As InfinityUniverse has found out, it's only "free" if you were going to buy more than the treshold's worth directly from LEGO anyway. Otherwise the price for the GWP is all the unnecessary stuff you need to add to your purchase, or all the discounts you forego by buying here and now. As an aside, ever notice how much LEGO and relevant blogs love the words "free"and "gift" but hate the word "pay"? You get the GWP for free, it's a gift! But not if you pay EUR 130. Nope, all you have to do is fill up your cart, add a little something, maybe pull the trigger on that set you've always wanted. No payment involved at all, or so the wording would make it seem.

What about Loki? Excellent show and great use of the format IMO. I agree, that third act sounds extremely stupid and unappealing. I don't even care whether they come from underperforming movies or not, all three characters flat-out suck (Reed less so because in between his waffling and having to be propped up and shilled by other characters he occasionally gets things done at least, but I don't care for him either.). I'm not paying admission in order to see them prance about together while characters I'm genuinely invested in like Strange, Star-Lord, Carol, or Walker get sidelined or not even mentioned at all.

If you're really just below the treshold, add a Hermione keychain (if that counts), polybag, or something else small (Sorting Ceremony would probably be the cheapest set available and make a good gift for a child's birthday) to push you over. Otherwise my advice is to forget about the GWP and be glad you're not playing LEGO's marketing mind games (that's what I'm planning to do) or budget for getting the GWP on the secondary market. Or look into bricklinking it (minus the exclusive pieces).

@JeanGreyForever Zendaya's MJ: I actually think her character is more fleshed out and more consistently written than Gwen, whose characterisation consisted of endless waffling about whether or not to be with Spider-Man. However she's plain unlikeable to me - very negative, hypocritical, and frankly disturbing (the bit that stands out to me from FFH is her favourite flower being the black dahlia "because of the murder"). I agree that she wouldn't much approve of Tony Stark, however I can't see anyone (even Peter) asking her opinion. While Peter is inexplicably in love with her, he's also a hero and someone who always sees the best in people. He would not cut ties with Tony Stark just because this mentorship offends MJ's woke sensibilities. Anthonie Mackie being sabotaged: He was given the shield in Endgame, what better endorsement could there be? All the backtracking in TFATWS would not make for a good movie, in fact a TFATWS movie would flop so hard. I think that they made BNW a straight action flick with next to no character stuff for Falcon partly because of Mackie's limited capabilities, but partly also because they may have realized how unlikeably he came across in the more character-driven TFATWS (constantly siding with terrorists over their victims, somehow being able to clear Sharon Carter's name but never having bothered to do so until he needed a huge favour from her, and so on). If Agatha was one of their highest watched shows why was there never talk of it getting a S2? Yeah, I didn't much care for Monica in either WandaVision or The Marvels. She came across as very antagonistic in the latter, constantly giving Carol the cold shoulder for not having checked up on her enough during the Blip (when Carol had had much bigger fish to fry). And there was a really awful cut scene where Monica was grieving her dead mother and the next second was spouting exposition about space phenomena as if nothing had happened. I felt like the "crossing the barrier" scene in WandaVision was solely designed in order to give Monica superpowers (since she didn't really end up doing anything worthwhile after she'd crossed it) and I felt like Monica getting stranded in the X-Verse in The Marvels was, again, solely designed so she'd end up where the writers wanted her to. There was no real emotional impact from either of those events. I wouldn't set much store by Wonder Man getting critical acclaim or award recognition given the subject matter. The show is basically a love letter to the entertainment industrie with lots of commentary about how True Artists have it so hard compared to everyone else, therefore many members of the entertainment industrie would like it. Moreso than your average viewer (personally I found all the self-congratulatory stuff rather off-putting). Also the hero, Simon, is neither a superhero (he does have superpowers but never does anything heroic) nor lives a public superhero life (most of the plot involves him trying to hide his powers). As per the end of S1 he's both very famous and on the run from the authorities, so you couldn't even have had a S2 where he tries to balance out an ordinary life with superhero-ing. Maybe they just figured the show had run its course.

Families with kids are hardly the target group for a EUR 430 set based on the Ministry of Magic, though.

Because they're heroes. Kate Bishop didn't care that the guy who saved her from the Chitauri was a SHIELD assassin, she cared that he saved her from the Chitauri. Even the far more controversial Thunderbolts have their share of fans as seen in the ending montage of their movie. The Avengers have been around for longer, and I do think that there was a concerted effort (not least from SHIELD which could only benefit from having two members on the team, as it would take the focus off their less savoury activities) to clean up their public image, as well as considerable effort from individual team members (such as playboy weapons manufacturer Tony Stark switching his firm's focus towards clean energy and getting married, and Banner learning to control the Hulk). But apart from Steve and maybe Thor, whose sordid family history the public would not be privy to, they never had a squeaky-clean image. Wait, what? I guess the Blade thing is annoying but War Machine as a character is even duller than Falconcap, why would they give him his own show after the fiasco that is Falconcap's reign as Cap? Speaking of, Anthony Mackie keeps being handed opportunity after opportunity (far more than any female in the MCU so far) despite not being a good actor or playing a compelling character. And how is Monica not being in Doomsday a problem, but Carol not being in it isn't? As for Wonder Man: So this completely unknown character that wasn't in any previous MCU materials is being gifted his own series (when, for example, Hawkeye's own series only came after numerous MCU appearances, and then it was barely about him at all). It was being promoted a lot, too, I came across it because it was being called "the best Marvel series you haven't seen" or something after it'd just come out. It just wasn't that great, the plot was kind of nonsensical and I didn't think Yahya Abdul-Mateen II was such a great actor either (especially for a show about showbiz where we're constantly told what a great actor he is). Most MCU Disney+ series don't get a second season. Hawkeye's was cancelled, too. And Agatha All Along (which was far better written and acted than Wonder Man, and more interesting both thematically and stylistically, but was aimed at, you know, the lesser target group of women) was never even in the running for one as far as I know. Plus my main problem with the Wonder Man series is that the hero is an entitled load who feels like he deserves to be handed everything he wants (including the lead role in a superhero action flick) and doesn't take responsibility for his actions. So the fact that his fans think he deserves a second season, period, and if he doesn't get one it cannot possibly be due to the show's lack of merits is both hilariously on brand and pretty sad. I can't imagine LEGO would police their content to the extent that Ronin doesn't get a fig because of his Punisher-like actions. We've certainly had minifigs for characters with a much higher body count (like Thanos) and worse morals (*coughWandacough*). Or Batman over at DC, even from adaptations where the "Batman doesn't kill" rule doesn't seem to have been in effect. More likely LEGO figure that Hawkeye is the least popular of the original Avengers (he was missing from the Marvel logo set, too, with some absurd explanation about how his bow and arrow would have taken up too much space) and that this particular aspect of him would be even less popular and desirable. Also Ronin never appears in a team setting, the closest is the scene where Nat recruits him and that's probably not iconic enough for a set. Having Ronin in a set (as a stand-in for Hawkeye) alongside other heroes would look weird.

@JeanGreyForever I disagree about the MCU Avengers having a clean public image. The six core members contain a weapons manufacturer, a pretty much uncontrollable (at that point in time) rage monster, and two SHIELD assassins. Personally I'm no fan of the Ronin storyline because it just doesn't seem to mesh with the character; there's no in-story reason given whatsoever why this Midwestern, All-American guy would speak fluent Japanese, know how to wield a katana, or identify with Japanese culture all of a sudden. I also agree with you that Clint's motivations weren't noble, but it still shows something about his character: Clint went off the rails in a vigilante way whereas Wanda went off the rails in a way that benefitted only her and hurt everyone else. I'd say if there's a double standard here it's more about how Clint (and Nat) being assassins under orders from SHIELD is acceptable whereas Clint being one on his own time is not. Especially given that SHIELD at the time consisted mostly of Hydra higher-ups so Clint picking the targets instead of them might have been preferrable! Also Natasha considers herself a monster a) because she can't have children (a very stupid plotline but Canon accoring to AoU) and b) she has "red in her ledger" due to her kills as a Widow, which presumably were innocent victims as opposed to the kind SHIELD (and Ronin) would have gone after. And while she also has a family, Clint has kids, which makes a difference (Nat's family are all adults who can function without her, even if they'd rather not). Besides Nat having a family of any kind clearly wasn't planned in Endgame; she was completely baffled when the Red Skull gave her father's name (and it was not Alexej either!). I wholly agree with you that the MCU writers have weird double standards about women (especially regarding motherhood/motherly feelings), and that they're too quick to kill off females over males (Gamora's another example). I just don't think the Ronin arc is a great example. I didn't know about Wonder Man's cancellation but good riddance. Like I've said, Ben Kingsley was excellent as Trevor, but the hero was so self-centered and unlikeable and focused on what he "deserved" at the expense of everyone else that we don't need to see more of him IMO.

Don't forget Spidey's buddy Ned who not only - somehow - has magic powers but also can - somehow - without any training create portals to other dimensions, including to the Mirror Dimension which he should not even know about. Wait, what? Comic Avengers don't kill? Do the writers think that being pummeled with a vibranium shield by a supersoldier is somehow good for your health? Or that Thor's huge warhammer is for doing home repairs? How does Hawkeye reconcile this mindset with his only ability which is shooting people full of arrows? Never mind, I don't think I want to know. Like I've posted before, I've recently watched Crime 101 with Chris Hemsworth in the lead. It's not a masterpiece but he plays a pretty interesting character, a guy who basically has trouble with normal human interaction due to his traumatic past, and he absolutely nails it. I'm not saying he's a great actor but he could do more than the MCU let him do. In general the lead acting of the MCU is all over the place. There are some excellent leads who can sell pretty much anything (RDJ, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Hiddleston, Chris Pratt; I'm also a huge fan of Brie Larson's Carol though I'm in the minority there). The two former even sold their characters' appearances in the rather more juvenile Spidey movies (which had to have taken some real effort especially on Cumberbatch's part since his character was constantly being bested at his own game by a bunch of untrained kids). And Chris Pratt's utter refusal to put any effort at all into his horrendously written, completely out-of-character cameo in Thor 4 might actually be my favourite part of that movie. The worst lead actors I've seen so far are Simu Liu and Anthony Mackie. Simu Liu was clearly cast for his martial arts skills and those are top-notch, so I won't pile on him. But Anthony Mackie's Falcon is just dull and unmemorable at best and unlikeable at worst. I wonder if they had such a big role in mind when they cast him. All the stupid crap he has to spout in TFATWS certainly doesn't help, but I saw BNW before I watched this and even in a straight-up action movie he didn't deliver; he looked so uncomfortable in his bantering scenes and he didn't seem to care at all when the new Falcon, supposedly his bestie, was shot down right in front of him. Compare that to Tony Stark's face when Spidey got Blipped on Titan! Recasting Mackie after Endgame might have been worth a shot but now here we are.

To be fair MCU Clint as Ronin was a vigilante who only went after criminals (and not petty criminals either but organised crime). That's not much different from, say, Batman. And very different from Wanda who does not care about justice or public safety in the slightest, only about herself, and whose murder and mind-control sprees were directed towards innocent civilians. Let's also not forget that MCU Clint was a SHIELD assassin to begin with, so he basically did what he'd been trained to do just without orders (but still picking the targets SHIELD likely would have picked, and did SHIELD even exist during the Blip?). It's not a double standard IMO. I did not know that about Jeremy Renner. Is this the reason why Hawkeye season 2 was cancelled? I'd have expected a second season to focus on Kate as opposed to Clint anyway.

They don't need to make fun of his name, they just have to not have him spout ridiculous lines like "Hell answers to me, for I am Doom". I don't care for Thor's "You will beg for Hell" line before it either because the Norse concept of Hel is entirely different from the Christian concept of Hell. Back when Thor was first introduced he had long hair, spoke in an archaic way, and very clearly thought and behaved like an alien from another culture. Now after just a few years (which to an Asgardian is the blink of an eye) he has changed so much that he's basically a superstrong human with no more ties to the origins that ought to have shaped him for centuries. I really don't care for this development at all. (Loki also seems to have become a lot more human but it's kind of understandable in his case: He's not Asgardian by birth, he's never felt wanted by his adopted people, and being able to adapt is basically his entire personality, and at least he still looks like he originally did! With Thor it really irks me.) As for some of the characters you've mentioned: Eternals: Only like half of them were abducted. The other half, including Angelina Jolie's Tena character, are on their spaceship (the Domo - it has its own LEGO set) and have just met a guy claiming to be Thanos' brother (played by Harry Styles). Also Sersi's human lover is back on Earth with a family heirloom sword that speaks with the voice of Blade which seems like another loose end. Captain Marvel: I know you haven't seen The Marvels but she's definitely on Earth, playing caretaker for her friend Maria's (now her daughter Monica's) house "just until Monica comes back". Which at this rate and given the box office performance of The Marvels might well be never. Still, having her suddenly be off-world again would establish her as disloyal and not keeping her commitments, so I'd rather have them avoid that. Star-Lord: This also goes for Captain Marvel: They're both known heroes and neither of them are hiding their presence. Carol's living at her deceased bestie's (probably the only person on Earth she's still associated with) house. Star-Lord is living with his grandfather who shares his last name. You'd think that whoever's in charge (such as, say, Val) would put an alert on their names and birth dates coupled with the locations of their known associates, so that if a guy with a name of Peter Quill and a matching birth date shows up in Missouri at the home of Star-Lord's known grandfather, they could keep track of him. Calling it "his" show is quite a stretch given that it was like one quarter (at best!) about Clint, one quarter (at least!) about Kate, one quarter shilling of Echo, and one quarter shilling of Yelena. I actually like MCU Clint a great deal and think that Jeremy Renner does very well with him. I think most of the backlash is simply due to comics fans having expected someone different. Still I agree that he should remain retired. He's one of the few MCU heroes who actually have some place to retire to, and he's just a regular guy with numerous health issues by now. He's done his part.

I feel like the MCU has toned it down so far, or even made fun of it. Such as with Strange's baffled look in Infinity War when Peter assumed that "Doctor Strange" was his "superhero name", or with Star-Lord himself being pretty much the only person to call him that. The "I am Doom" bit is a tonal shift I don't care for.

@Clone OPatraI get what you mean. I think the black surfaces are a symptom of the designers not committing, too - they're meant to echo a diorama but it's not a diorama so they just look unpolished and odd.

Yeah, the line makes it hard for me to take him seriously. And isn't Doom his legal surname? That makes it even more ridiculous IMO.

@Mandalorianknight Your treatment sounds fantastic! Though I'm not sure about John and Ava, I thought he and Yelena had more chemistry (if not as much as Yelena and Bob). Ava's pretty much a non-entity in Thunderbolts but maybe she'd grow on me. Good call on the Flag-Smashers being a loose end. We do 't even know for sure that Karli was killed (she's a supersoldier and ought to be durable), they all seemed to be very close, and I've always thought that Falconcap's sexist "She's just a misunderstood litle girl" shtick would never have flown if they'd been led by a togh-looking dude instead of youthful, curly-haired Karli. Or if most if their crimes hadn't occured outside the US for that matter. I also love how you have the core team deal with Blood Widow. Bucky's always seemed a bit like a deus ex machina character to me the way he captured all the Thunderbolts off-screen (he blew up their car but still you'd think that even concussed they'd put up a fight). I also like how you've reconciled that scene at the end of Shang-Chi. I'd love to see all of this play out on screen! --- VisionQuest: I love Paul Bettany but this sounds extremely underwhelming from the list of characters alone, I'd rather see Agatha and and Billy again than a bunch of AI characters.

I'm familiar with asphalt roads. ;-) They look black when new, which a street in central London won't be unlike after repairs. Black's just an odd choice. LEGO's own road plates are gray, too!

"Nailed it"? The street's not supposed to be black and like you've said the yellow looks very aggressive. It just clashes in tone (the street resembling a race track and then the old-fashioned buildings). And the set's such a stickerfest. The reviewer said DA was even worse but I don't know. I feel like in the DA set, most of the stickers were shop signs and the like which you wouldn't expect to be brick-built. On the other hand, the clutter in Arthur's office, the phone, and the hand dryers in the bathroom definitely could and should have been. The phone booth entrance being a sticker in the UCS set when the playset had a print is also bizarre.

The black street with yellow curb lines looks hideously out of place, did they take those prints from some upcoming F1 set? Is the red grid at the entrance of the phone booth a sticker or a print? It was a print in the playset.

@MandalorianknightHi there again! ;-) Ant-Man: You make some good points, but how many of these people and organsiations know about his background? I just think that if it's Avengers vs. Avengerz in the public's mind, someone on some forum will go "You know your Avengerz are all criminals, right?" and then someone will retort "But Ant-Man's a criminal, too, here's proof!" Hence why I wrote that his background might come under scrutiny again. Shang-Chi: Presumably someone will, at some point, ask about his combat jewellery and he'l refer to it by its name as the "ten rings", not "ten friendship bracelets" or whatever. Also I don't think he'd tell the public about himself. He seems like a private guy, plus he can't really admit to his warlord father without ratting out his warlord sister, plus claiming he fought his father for the rings would be lying since Wenwu willed them to him with his last breath. I just think he'd keep quiet and hope none of this ever comes up, which might backfire. If you haven't seen Wonder Man I might suggest you watch it just for Ben Kingsley's Trevor, he's really excellent and a lot of fun! Other than that, though, I can't recommend it. The plot seems very contrived. It's also quite apparent that the writers look down on people who work outside the entertainment industry, which I found off-putting. And the hero's an unlikeable load who "deserves" to have things handed to him because the plot says so, and never really takes responsibility for his actions (including at the end where he basically ruins some poor security guard's life in order to, again, get what he wants.) Carol: She'd absolutely not work for Falconcap. They're both Captains but she has seniority. ;-) One a more serious note, he's just some guy with a jetpack and she's a supernova. He's just the latest Captain America, a nationalist icon for one faction of one planet, while she's - among other things - both the entire Kree race's boogeyman and saviour (as per The Marvels, don't ask) and the Queen of at least one planet (again as per The Marvels, really don't ask). At best she could be talked into endorsing him, especially since she must be bored out of her mind by now. (I agree that having her move to Earth was a strange choice, I can only assume it's to set up something. Not being able to contact the Guardians in Doomsday would also be ridiculous since Star-Lord's living on Earth and surely would not have cut himself off from all his friends.) Sam's team vs. Thunderbolts: I said the former had more heavy hitters since Yelena's and Ava's value mainly lies in stealth and infiltration (Black Widow was always a lightweight among the Avengers and Ava's powers are easy to deal with once you know she's coming); this leaves the three supersoldiers as heavy hitters, not counting Bob. But yeah, I'd expect a fight to go roughly like that: - Bucky with rocket launcher vs new Falcon: One down, three to go. - Walker vs. Falconcap, the rematch: Walker would win - he'd have won the first time around if not for Bucky's interference and he'd been a supersoldier then for roughly half an hour. - Ant-Man's harder to predict. If he goes small he could be an interesting challenge for Yelena and Ava. If he goes big, I agree that containing him would involver supersoldiers. Either way the Thunderbolts should probably manage. And that leaves Shang-Chi vs three supersoldiers (at least some of them should be injured by now but again, they can take damage. More so than Shang-Chi who despite the rings and martial arts is a regular dude.) Of course in a movie it would go differently. We've had numerous instances of people's powers fluctuating depending on the plot: Yelena holding her own against Walker because she's the protagonist of Thunderbolts; Hawkeye outcrawling Thanos' forces in Endgame, and Carol suddenly needing help just so Marvel could cram their ridiculous "girl power" line-up down our throats. The Marvels also has very bad in-story continuity regarding how fast Carol can fly just so that Monica can end up where the plot needs her to. And Falconcap in particular has very strong plot armor. During BNW I kept wondering how this regular dude, wearing and carrying equipment that must weigh a ton, could keep slinging around the shield in an effortless way that would make supersoldier Steve jealous. But Marvel have decided he's the new and improved Cap and therefore can do everything Steve could plus some. So they might well have him and Torres curb-stomping the Thunderbolts no matter how improbable that would be, just so that hopefully someone would start taking his team seriously. Finally, now I really want to read your treatment! Can it be found anywhere on the 'net? --- In order to bring the discussion back to LEGO sets: Do we think the Doomsday sets depict actual film scenes? I.e. - will there be a scene where Doom shows up at the Watchtower and Bob fights him as Sentry? - Or is the set a mash-up of different scenes (the Sentry scene from Thunderbolts and maybe a later Doom visit to the tower)? - Or is it just marketing decisions ("We're due a new tower, peoole want Thunderbolt figs, and we need to cram Doom into every set") with no real relationship to the plot? The way they've split up the F4 over different sets/locations makes me think the latter.

I do think that Sam's team has more heavy hitters who can do more damage (not counting Bob since his powers are too erratic), not to mention the flying capabilities which the Thunderbolts (save for Bob, again) lack entirely. However the Thunderbolts also have two advantages: One, they formed organically - they know why they're on this team and it's not just because they're following orders or some guy recruited them. Two, they're more self-sufficient and resilient. As the Bucky and Falconcap vs. Walker fight in TFATWS has shown, supersoldiers like Bucky and Walker are far harder to keep down than Falconcap where you can hold onto his wings in order to immobilize him, or even rip them off. And that was in a huge warehouse where he at least had room to use his wings. The new Falcon was shot down in BNW, and Ant-Man has also run into trouble when his suit glitched or he ran out of Pym Particles. Falconcap, the new Falcon, and Ant-Man are all using someone else's tech which also means they can't repair it in a pinch. Meanwhile on the Thunderbolts, only Ava relies on a protective suit and Bucky has a prosthetic arm (but he's still a superstrong dude without it). The Sentry fight showed that while none of the Thunderbolts (save Bob) are really equipped to deal with such a superpowered threat, they can regroup very quickly; Sam's team probably would have ended up with broken tech and have had to withdraw from the field altogether. In a situation where they're far from their home base - such as, say, a multiversal adventure - I'd definitely give the edge to the Thunderbolts. I'm mainly basing this assessment on how each team would fare against a third-party threat. In a fight against each other the Thunderbolts would win hands down, because while Ant-Man and Shang-Chi could do a lot of damage, like I've said the Thunderbolts can take more damage than Sam's team of regular dudes in suits. And then Bob would go nuclear upon seeing his friend hurt.

Can't wait for that box office duel: Will a Captain America movie starring Falconcap lose more money than an Iron Man movie starring War Machine? Carol moved to Earth at the end of The Marvels. She's living in her deceased friend Maria's house. I don't know that we know about Ant-Man being all that respected. Sure he went on his book tour or whatever, but I can think of plenty of celebrities with dubious reputations that sell books, sometimes because rather than despite of it. And now that it's Avengers vs. Avengerz in the public's mind, I'd expect his background to come under scrutiny again. As for Shang-Chi: Have you seen Wonder Man? Near the end of it Trevor takes up the mantle of the Mandarin again. I'd expect a bunch of newspaper articles about "terrorist The Mandarin, leader of the Ten Rings" being published. Meanwhile there's this Chinese guy flaunting ten magical rings that give him superpowers, whose sister currently leads the Ten Rings, while Trevor's Not a great look for Shang-Chi IMO. Most people would probably think that he and his sister work for the Mandarin. (He and Trevor also do know each other, and I wouldn't put it past Trevor to say something like "That Shang-Chi guy? Yeah, we met while his warlord father was holding me hostage" when questioned. Again, not a great look for Shang-Chi.)

Well I think all the playset DA sets have been pretty poorly designed, B&B was actually one of the better ones. It's also in no way, shape or form connected to the GWP which didn't even remotely come out at the same time or in the same year, so I'm not sure what you're using that as an example for. That's pretty standard for LEGO sets, then.

Not the Ministry Munchies sticker?

Here's some interviews with the director of SI. https://collider.com/secret-invasion-finale-director-ali-selim-interview/ With the knowledge that we have now, that important characters have been replaced by Skrulls, did you have conversations with Marvel, with the actors, about that specific timeframe? Were there any clues given or passed on as to when they might have been replaced earlier? SELIM: Yeah, none of it is me running wild. [Laughs] There are a lot of conversations with Marvel, but it all ends up in the script that Rhodey has been a Skrull, and we can only assume he's been a Skrull since [Captain America] Civil War. And yet, I think the definitive answer is not as much fun as letting the audience go back to Rhodey scenes and unpack it and see what they think. I think that's what Marvel would say, too. "Yeah, it’s an idea, but definitive? Go explore, see what you come up with." Also: https://www.thewrap.com/secret-invasion-mcu-future-director-ali-selim-interview/ "I didn’t feel any constraints. All I was told is, Fury’s got to go up. That was it,” Selim explained to TheWrap. “So we just had to have Fury go up at the end, and it would be great if Rhodey — if his legs didn’t work. And that’s it.” So basically they just decided to throw in that "Rhodey might have been a Skrull since CW, or maybe not, who knows or cares". If nothing else to me this confirms that they don't care about the character or his relationships with other characters, and we shouldn't expect any follow-up on it.

Well that's a new low: putting the pathetic version of the fountain in the EUR 430 set and the rest of it in the GWP. Anyone here still sticking with "Oh but the set is complete, the Atrium hasn't bern left deliberately empty, it's not like you're meant to incorporate the GWP into the actual set"?