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    Might be part of his giant head piece?
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    Maybe TRU are finally gonna stop their ridiculous markup that I've never understood how they can charge in an era of mass online shopping? Maybe? No, I know that's crazy talk.
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    I figure if we don't hear about a summer DC wave during the next toy fair or so, I'll probably just break down and buy a custom Green Lantern. Looking like a disappointing year for DC, except for toddlers with the Duplo.
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    I just have a really hard time imagining an X-mansion set when Lego is putting so little effort into the X-men side of things. Helicarrier seems more likely (and a lot harder to pull off well, so probably less great). To me, though, no Marvel D2C at all seems most likely. You noticed that too? Something really odd about new sets popping up there and not having the usual markup. Might have to do with them not being available online yet, anyway, but can't you still price-match the site in store?
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    I haven't seen them. I'm willing to bet this is like a number of other themes (some of the new Superheroes sets, the new Star Wars sets, etc.), and they've held them back in the US for, as far as anyone can tell, a chance to push the Lego Movie sets. I haven't seen an official explanation but that's what people in the other subforums have assumed, since the shelves are getting hammered by Lego Movie sets and most of the other winter 2014 stuff is MIA in the States even if it's out elsewhere.
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    It's only 0% for a pretty small amount. Only the poor, and only in states that don't add their own income tax on top of it. I know our taxes are lower than a lot of european countries but it's pretty much a blatant falsehood to act like we don't pay one. Overall purchasing power is pretty comparable among western nations, generally.
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    Going by the accents in the videos, all the reviews of the steamroller/penguin sets I found were from brits. No reports of anyone in the US finding either of those sets, yet.
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    I'm not trying to get into the economics involved, I know it's worse for you guys, but from what the brits I know tell me almost everything is like that for a huge number of reasons beyond the scope of this thread. It's not a lot of set for £30, or for $30.
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    Ouch. Big pieces and printed pieces, maybe, but still not a lot of Batcave for $30 (assuming the price translates that way in the US, which it most likely will). Scratch that one off my list too since I don't exactly need another Batman or Joker, mostly just wanted the Robin. I don't suppose you live in the US do you? It's pretty maddening they're holding back the Penguin set, Stateside, it's probably the one I wanted most out of the DC line.
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    I won't claim to be a diehard Wonder Woman fanatic but uh, her character design has always had an element of "hot babe" to it. I mean yeah she's also pillar of feminism and whatnot but she does that while (and perhaps despite) being pretty babe-ish. It's just foolishness to think the Avengers won't be promoted to hell and back after the previous film grossed a billion dollars in the box office and who knows how much more in merchandise. Plus the first Avengers sets more or less helped really launch the Marvel line with Lego. Ant-Man is more of a wildcard on all fronts, but I think we're at least likely to see a minifigure of him pop up even if it's not in a movie-themed set. Not unlike how we're getting Thor and Captain America again in the wave after The Dark World and right around The Winter Soldier, even if the sets aren't based on those films. And the increasingly disappointing X-jet to coincide with DoFP.
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    We'll obviously see some Avengers 2 sets, since Avengers is obviously marketable. I do hope we get Ant-Man, too. I wouldn't mind if they only give him one set, as long as they don't skip him like they did with TWS and TDW. I think we have a good chance of seeing him though, with him being new. On the other hand, we may just get 3-4 more sets with the same spider-man we've gotten for two years, instead. I feel you. If we really do only get two new figures for that set, it'll almost definitely take it off my 'to buy' list.
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    Oh jeez, I'd forgotten that episode of Arrow. Also, I can't really say I'm shocked about Batman-Superman being pushed back. The more I hear about it, the more it seems like DC is trying to make it a JL movie since DC just wants their own "Avengers" without actually putting forth the effort to get audiences attached to the ancillary Justice League characters by giving them their own films.
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    Yeah, generally speaking the entire industrial revolution has a bone to pick with that line of reasoning, since it was characterized by high (increasingly consistent) quality of production, lower costs and faster rate of production.
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    I love the subjectivity that comes with these things. It's funny to me that I thought 76012 looked kinda bleh in the pictures but really liked it once I built it, and it's evidently the opposite for you.
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    I'm being cautious about the guy, too. Until he provides pictures I won't take it as complete truth, but the X-men side of things has gotten continually disappointing as more news has come out, generally speaking. Also man, for some reason I was thinking the Dr. Doom set was a 2012 one, already impossible to find around here. Though, it seems like a lot of my stores have been reducing their Lego sections in general since the holidays, for some reason or another (not just removing holiday excess, either, my walmart went from a both-sides-of-aisle to 3/4 of one side of the aisle for theirs). Is it just me or do 2013 sets in general seem to have a short shelf life, though? Castle 2013, most of the most recent Superheroes sets, Lone Ranger, and even Ninja Turtles and 2013 Chima are all getting really scarce, whereas for most of last year I could find 2013 and 2012 sets almost everywhere. Wolverine we got might not be the greatest, but is he really that bad? I don't mind him too much. All he's really missing is a cowl, and that's not too surprising since he doesn't wear one in any of the movies. I'm not all that optimistic about a D2C X-mansion, myself. Sure, DC got Arkham Asylum, but that's probably only because it's Batman who evidently sells unbelievably well. X-men, on the other hand, can't even get a subtheme to themselves unlike Avengers and Spider-man. And the Marvel side of things in general seems to be heavily character-slanted with considerably worse builds than DC (subjective, maybe, but I feel like Spider-trike/copter/bike say enough). So all things considered, Marvel side, I'm not hopeful about a big, build-centric set, especially not an X-men themed one.
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    Extremely disappointing there's only 4 figures, and a pretty awful piece count for the price. Even more disappointing that only two of those characters are new, on top of there just being 4. Might just bricklink Cyclops and Storm if that's the best they can do, unless the Blackbird looks a lot better than I'm expecting it to.
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    I think 6864 does the best job of capturing the overall image the UCS and 7781 Batmobiles were going for. It might be scaled a bit too small, making the windshield seem oversized, but it gets the overall sleekness much better. I'd say it's probably my favorite of the lot, but the newest one looks and feels a lot better in hand than it seemed in pictures, so 76012 is actually a close second for me. Despite a lot of people's feelings that the new Batman sets are just knockoff remakes of the first Batman line (and in concept, they kind of are, I'll admit), I think the builds are generally a lot better looking overall. I don't have a very strong opinion on the tumblers. They're really cool vehicles but they aren't really my favorite incarnation of the Batmobile by any stretch.
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    I can't really imagine only focusing on one theme! Granted, I was never big into Technic. I had some sets back before my dark ages, but I probably only ever got 6-7 Technic sets as a kid. Otherwise when I was a kid, though, I had some of everything. Space, Castle, Pirates, Town, Adventurers, Aquazone, Wild West... If it was a theme I probably had some of it. Since coming back from my dark ages I started off focusing mostly on Castle/LotR/The Hobbit sets, but now I've been bit by the Superheroes bug and have picked up a fair number of those. That said, I wouldn't advise ditching anything (as in getting rid of all your parts from some theme or another)-- but, I'm a packrat. Either way, you can never have too many parts, even if they're from 'incompatible' themes.
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    This seems to be a pretty consistent wish from AFOLs, but Lego seem to have ditched this kind of practice entirely over the years. Space worked the same way, back in the day, as did Pirates when it was still a regular theme. Nowadays though, all they seem interested in doing are one or two year themes and then moving on with a 'reboot,' which in Castle basically amounts to getting the same exact sets only with simpler builds/worse minifig design. I don't really hold out any hope that they'll go back to the "continuing saga" style of growing the Castleverse with lots of factions over the course of years. Due to the way kids play these days (for better or worse, they seem to move on to their iPads and Xboxes instead of traditional toys toward the traditional upper-end of Lego's target group), you just aren't going to have kids building their collection over 5-6 years. More efficient in a business sense to just push out essential remakes every two years to sell them to a new batch of 5-9 year olds.
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    I'm fairly sure they were around before that, even. Fantasy Castle had them, if I recall correctly. Edit: My mistake, they were introduced with Kingdoms/Atlantis. The Fantasy-era castle sets had similar horse helms but with clips instead of a hollow stud that a horn goes in.
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    One thing I would like to add, I think the one thing last year's castle wave did well was its small set. It was great for army building, with two soldiers (and standard ones, too! Not elite knights) for each side, plus a dog, and a few little scenery pieces. Would love to see more army building sets like they did with that. New heraldry besides dragons/lions would be very welcome. More than one actual castle would be cool, too. Older lines (late '80s and '90s) tended to have several sized castles, albeit they were helped by large molds to still be large. It would be nice to have a ~$50 fort like Dark Dragon's Lair or something, in addition to that faction's larger fortress. Mostly though I'd just like to have actual variable sized forts that are actual keeps and such, not just one tower and a catapult.
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    I like to think we could get Flash sets when he gets a TV show, but evidently Lego doesn't have any kind of agreement that pertains to Arrow (or it's not kid friendly enough? It really doesn't strike me as any more adult than Avengers though, maybe a little more violent but not a lot).
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    Any chance you could snap a pic of that? I've never had or handled those power miner figs, curious to see what proportions the arms have on a figure. Also, Daniel's idea for Woody arms/legs for groot actually sounds pretty cool. Would be nice to see those arms/legs used for more than just Toy Story, seems like there's a lot of potential in those parts.
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    Slender or no, I imagine we'll get him the same way he appeared in the video game. I wouldn't mind him being brick-built or something, but I still think the bigfig route is most likely-- possibly a more unique mold than the Hulk/Goblin one? I wouldn't mind more Dogpound-style figures though, more unique parts compatible with base minifig parts would really expand the possibilities for characters. For thing, someone mentioned something like the arms from the Power Miners' smaller rock monsters (do they connect the same was as minifig arms or not? Never had any of those sets). That could work for Gorilla Grodd too, IMO. Not that we'll ever get an official Gorilla Grodd, I don't think we'll get any more Flash love than the Riddler set we got this year.
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    That's fair, I must not have unlocked him yet. I'm not that far into it, the game took a back seat to some of my other vidyagames this past fall/winter. Yeah but I don't think it's necessarily just the video game showing they like bigfigs, since this year has given us another Hulk and a Green Goblin already (well not out, but confirmed). Groot seems almost certain with the GotG sets. I do agree that Thing doesn't necessarily need to be a bigfig but I think it's a valid interpretation of the character to make him one. I thought the Juggernaut bigfig in the game was awesome, though. So I'm totally on board for that becoming a real thing, if we could be that lucky. Either way, I like bigfigs in general for this theme, I'd like to see more of them. Abomination and/or Red Hulk would be very welcome, though I don't see that happening for a while (since any Hulk-related sets next year will be Avengers 2-based, I'm sure).
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