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Well it does make a difference that this isn't a particularly beloved character to begin with, and he's already widely available. Opinion about sets based on movies also can change dramatically once people see the film. In the trailers, Rocket is seen mostly in the yellow outfit, and I've read the Guardians don't even completely team up until halfway or two-thirds through the film. This outfit might see very little screen time, and then people won't even care about it. I hadn't even seen any talk about the yellow outfit being 'crappy' until the dark red variant surfaced. Did everybody saying that really think so from the beginning, or is it just crappy by comparison? (But again, if Rocket mostly wears the yellow outfit in the film, people are going to like that one.)

Yes, I am trying to defend them. I don't think this is even particularly 'terrible.'I get so sick and tired year after year with how the online community reacts. LEGO does not have a responsibility to give anybody anything. Nobody is entitled. I don't think all LEGO is glorious and wonderful - a lot of the SuperHeroes line has been pretty crappy, and LEGO hasn't made cool stuff like characters from Thor The Dark World that would've made fantastic minifigs (just as one example). Even when it was completely exclusive minifigs like in years past, I find people's reactions on here to be utterly outrageous. At the same time, I felt the pain - what the hell was LEGO thinking making popular and important characters like Shazam, Phoenix, Green Arrow, and most of all Green frickin Lantern as exclusive minifigs? Everybody wants those! BUT this GotG exclusive doesn't come close. Variant suit. I don't care that it matches better. Sure it would've been nicer of LEGO to go the other way round and put this in the set and the prison outfit in this exclusive, but oh well, they didn't. So sorry the whole team isn't wearing dark red.

My god, no matter what Lego does people will go crying bloody murder. This is nothing like Shazam or Phoenix, important long running characters. It's just a variant of a character that we can all easily attain. Plus a basic little model.

I'm sure SDCC will hold some information in store. It is a comic con after all.

I'm glad you revived this, WhiteFang, since I somehow missed it before. That said, I really find this product quite unappealing. The print quality of these is really not up to par, and the custom faces all look a bit off. The designs seem to be on equal footing with Chinese LEGO knock-off minifigs, mostly. That's terrible for 40 Euro. I know custom printed minifigs can run in high price ranges, but if you're going to pay that much the custom really has to be top notch. These are not.

No worries; I don't post extremely often, but I am… always watching

Er, Licensed has one Moderator and one Regulator. What more do we need? The higher up staff makes decisions about when and if more Regulators are needed. It's not something anybody can particularly work towards, but if there's a need and somebody might fit the bill, the staff will act accordingly.

Kids selling MOC instructions or people only plugging an Ideas project don't really compare with announcements every once in a while about third party products. If EB allowed the former group fully, we'd see an influx of new members all the time with about one topic to their name just trying to promote themselves. That would cause pretty major mayhem. Third party products are a large part of the LEGO world. Go to a convention, at least in the US, and you'll see multiple different vendors selling their own custom prints, moulds, etc. I understand how it could feel like an advertisement to some when those get posted on the front page, but it is a thing that a lot of AFOLs care about.

Indeed, I thought the new revolver would become the new standard, but seeing the old pistol now in use I hope it's a sign that the new one was a one and done deal. Perhaps Disney wanted LEGO to create a special signature gun, or something. In any case, I really hated the new one anyway. As people have already said, it had no connection points besides the handle, and the barrel wasn't a diameter that's 'in system' with any other hole or anything that LEGO makes. This made the gun really feel quite un-LEGO-y to me. It also didn't match with the old rifle, which they used along with it anyway. Certain things just don't need an update, and the gun is one. I'd like to see the classic pistol cast in metallic colors, but I hope if LEGO makes new sets that call for pistols they'll stick to the one they've got. Or if they must design a new one, make it a heck of a lot better than the Lone Ranger one.

It's Captain America on the left, and Spider-Man in the center of the picture.

Is this entire set made in China? The facts that it comes in a funky-looking bag, has no extra parts, and the minifig has no printing on the neck would lead me to believe so, and it would explain the color discrepancy issue with the legs/torso. If so, quite a shame that LEGO couldn't make a high (/normal) quality figure for this promo…

The Sandcrawler isn't minifig scalle, and we haven't even seen the Slave I. UCS to LEGO still just means big sets for collectors, I feel.Captain Nemo is absolutely right that a Tumbler that expensive couldn't be minifig scale (even the Ice Cream Surprise one was actually way too big). But I don't actually disbelieve these rumors. I could see LEGO making a big UCS Tumbler and plopping a couple desired figs in it to make it sell better. Minifigs are everything these days, and it wouldn't be out of line to have a couple with a model that they don't even fit into.

I actually have heard of incidents of people doing this, but to amass the quantity of figures that this guy had would be nearly impossible. It would be so time consuming that I don't think it would be worth it (although I guess some shady people will do anything to make a buck).

Actually the face in the set is the same as the one on 'Executive Ellen' in one of the LEGO movie sets, I believe. Indeed, just a slight variation on the Alien Conquest head.I'm personally a bit 'meh'd' out with this set. It really needs some more new prints for the figures. Two of the heads were only in Lego Movie sets, so I guess those are still rare, but reusing those two sweater-like torsos makes no sense for the setting, and the labcoat scientist could use some leg printing. The vignettes are fine, but more imaginative/new figures would make this an easy buy instead of a no-buy for me. I don't even have those sweater prints, but they don't interest me and don't belong in these settings (unless the figure in the dinosaur vig is supposed to be a visitor at a Natural History museum).

Yes?I know people knock Iron Man 2, but honestly it did a pretty decent job capitalizing on a character that people immediately liked. Iron Man is awesome, and while Iron Man 1 did a good job introducing him to audiences, Iron Man 2 probably solidified him. The success of the MCU was still far from a sure thing at that point. Iron Man 2 also introduced Nick Fury in a nice fashion and made Tony central to the creation of the Avengers. What we didn't really need was another craptastic Hulk movie, since Avengers itself gave Hulk all the introduction that was actually necessary for the character. Tony did need the development over two films, though, or at least the films themselves made his development feel necessary.

I guess even if we AFOLs complain about Spidey vehicles, LEGO is doing something right if kids want such things. Both of these have nice color blocking. That Ninja mech sure is a handy (and great) set. I feel like I've seen quite a lot of MOCs using it as a base.

How might one find other EBers at the mixer?

Well now there's Zoe Saldana in Guardians of the Galaxy, but of course she's painted green so it's not really useful in creating minifigures of African origin.Unless Lupita Nyong'o is actually playing Asajj Ventress or another weirdly colored character, we might get another dark-skinned female minifig in SW Episode 7 sets.

That was awesome! Except also unsettling how the general and the helicopter they get into at the beginning weren't real LEGO either. If that was intentional, I wonder what it was supposed to mean.

Mr Man, if you're talking about the old games, there were quite a few other OT locations. Death Star, Tatooine, Cloud City. But this is a new game anyway, not just an updated copy of the old one. I'm sure they will include plenty of nice locations. They can still use planets from the PT even if you play as Rebels/Imperials anyway. The old games did that.

No, it's the standard non-floaty LEGO rowboat.

You can see a review (not mine, just posting). The mech is surprisingly ok.

I'd also always take both the picture and information on knock-off boxes with a grain of salt. They usually contain a little blurb somewhere that says 'actual contents may not match box' in some iteration or another. These aren't reputable products like real clone brands. Love them or hate them, but the likes of Mega, Kreo, etc. follow laws and want to be real toys. Straight LEGO knock-offs are a different story.

I'm afraid you might be disappointed then, as the description on the YouTube video reads as follows:Star Wars™ Battlefront™ is the ultimate Star Wars battle experience, brought to life by the creators of Battlefield. Fight in epic Star Wars battles on iconic planets and rise through the ranks playing as the heroic Rebellion or the evil galactic Empire. It definitely seems to me like this game will be OT focused. Just maybe it will include PT stuff as well, but from that description and Disney's shifting focus toward the OT era, I would not be surprised if the game is just OT.

A Hulk sequel was talked about some time ago, with Feige saying it wouldn't happen until after Avengers 2 if I remember correctly. So that could be a possibility. Perhaps they've got some plans under wraps as well. With the new characters being introduced in Avengers, it will be interesting to see where they go in the future. They can't just introduce Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch without following up with them in one of the Phase 3 movies; or at least, I wouldn't think they'd do that. Granted, we haven't really seen Hulk or Hawkeye since the first Avengers, but Hawkeye doesn't really have much too him right now anyway so it's not too hard to bring him back in. As for Hulk, I know people love him but he's also kind of one note. I'm not sure I'd even want to see another stand-alone Hulk movie, even though I like Ruffalo in the role.