J_Bro83

I think it'll be a long shot if we ever get anything but IF we get any news on a super hero CMF line, it'll be at SDCC. Even if we don't get any news on it, I'm hoping they'll have some kind of good reveal for us.

No, the biggest hurdle was that the licensing would push the cost of the CMF to $3.99 and up until the Simpsons, Lego hasn't wanted to cross that barrier. There is also some concern that the company who makes the action figures might have exclusive rights to make them. This happened with star wars/Hasbro in the early 2000's and Lego was slapped with a cease and desist order. I heard that CMF sales have slowed and, while they're still solid sales numbers, that's why Lego is willing to finally explore licenced figs for the CMF line. Believe me, I'm hoping we'll see a DC or Marvel line of CMF in the next year or two.

I don't want to be overly negative, but I'm outright disgusted at what figs were picked...but it was done by a vote...I guess the ~15% of Lego's business, that the AFOLs account for, voted way differently than the rest of the VIP's.

I heard the Dark Knight was a little too "dark" for Lego's taste. I wouldn't be surprised if we don't see any TDKR since the new Nolan movies are grittier. Don't get me wrong, I love these movies and I want some TDKR sets but even the 4 sets that came out when Dark Knight was out, were 3 "fluff sets" (though I'd buy another 7886 if I had the chance ) and The Tumbler.

I have my fingers crossed that we'll see batman sets before Christmas but the more I harrass my local Lego retail store they're steering me more toward a March release. I'm hoping, if that's the case, Lego won't sell them directly until later but TrU will still get them out in '11.

I would love to see a jet made entirely made out of trans-clear bricks. I don't see it happening since this is a 'boys theme' and I would imagine that since wonder woman just got tossed into a set, that's all they'll do with her until they think about doing a Hall of Justice (or some other big, all inclusive set). I hope I'm wrong but I am just happy they made wonder woman.

I know Lego plans out their sets 2-3 plus years in advance...is there a non-castle theme somewhere that you might know about? I'm as excited as the next guy about LotR sets but I like my castles without a "license tax."

We also need to remember that there is the chance for there to be some store exclusives too...Harley and Green Latern could be in a TrU, Target, or Walmart exclusive. With as big as Super Heroes has the potential to be, I could see the major chains wanting exclusives even though there weren't any for HP or PotC. Edit: looks like Geki Brick beat me to my thought

OMG, brick built sentinel? Yes, please! Been so long since I've read xmen that I forgot about them. I have my fingers crossed for Dr Stange, Iron Fist and Luke Cage; for Marvel. DC, I hope the get into some more secondary super man characters, like super girl (or power girl) or steel; and villians Doomsday (maybe with a hulk type mold).

I have to agree too. I'm not excited that most of these are just remodeled after the last wave of Batman, but I work at a brand store and we have kids looking for the sets they saw in the Lego Batman video game. So it makes sense that this first wave will be a big nod to the old sets.

I'm sad there's no sign of Green Latern...I heard from an inside source he was supposed to be included in one of these sets

My money is on Kingdoms being replaced by LOTR, though that's not confirmed yet, and Space Police has long been replaced by Alien Conquest (which is also absent) There is a chance we could see both themes released this summer, but Space Police is definitely done. Looks like this is it...(not that this list is anything to shake a stick at)

*ding ding* Now that I can get behind.

I take it these are Barns and Nobles prices again (since you mentioned that in City 2012). These look pretty good; I didn't know that B&N was competitive on their bricks. But with this pricing I might pick up the first 3 sets.

Doesn't Barns and Noble drive the price up like Boarders did? Its been forever since I've seen their brick prices so I could be wrong, but could these be a little inflated (like TrU inflated, if not higher)?

I do have a lot of sets that are still boxed. I didn't mean for it to be that way, but I ended up buying sets faster than I could build them and then space became an issue. Now that I've seen the value on some of them creep up, I've decided to keep them boxed (like my Grand Carousel) and am starting to buy some with the idea that they have a good chance of going up in value once they're discontinued (like the Medieval Market Village). There were a couple that I bought duplicates of just to have as a back up if the original wore out or faded (Dwarves' Mine and Cargo Plane), that I love to have displayed. The one exception to all of this are my collectible minis. I have a defective collector's gene (I can't just have one of a set, I need them all, multiple times over) so I have to have full, sealed sets...like boxes of them...and those are to be resold some day...maybe...I don't know...I just like having them...I might borderline on hoarding them...just having them stashed away brings me joy. But any selling is kind of a moot point for me. I work for Lego and I'd have to be done working for them if I wanted to sell anything...and even then I think I have to wait 5 years (or some relatively long period of time) before I can sell anything (if I wanted to go back and work for them again at some point). And the only way I'll stop working for them is if they fire me or I have to move somewhere far, far away.

I think part of the challenge for those of us looking for pics (aside from the complete lack of them) is that there are like 3 different topics that might have pics. It would be nice if a mod could combine them

Can I ask where you found these/what your source is? I thought there was a list already released...even though I can't seem to find it. Edit: never mind, found the source in another topic: Linkz Seems a little sketchy to me...has this blogger given any reliable feedback in the past? I mean...Godzilla...really? The Super Hero sets seem plausible but if he's saying there's going to be Godzilla when there's so many other themes being started next year, I don't know if I can believe it.

I know that this is really early to start speculation on the second wave, and I don't really doubt that it could be mining themed items, but I really hope they do it like they did this year. The primary release might be mining (like it was harbor this year) and then we could get a hospital sub-release (like the launch command that accompanied the harbor sets). If they do that, it does mean that there will be a TON of city sets released, which could cast doubt on the chances of this happening, but I wouldn't complain. I love City. Its always one of Lego's best selling themes and I think this could be the new format to keep things fresher (but unfortunately allow them to do fire/police more frequently)

Very nice, indeed. Now, not to jump back on the whining wagon, but does anyone have the other pics to share? What was it, 75-82?

Yeah, I went through them pretty carefully and only saw the pics for the action figures. I was really hoping that there would've been something in the second round of leaks but I guess not. Hopefully we'll still get something in the near future.

Uh oh, looks like the links might already be down...hope people have been saving these.

yuuup...was so hoping we'd finally get a peek at those play-sets and minis. I'm just hoping that there are more pics being uploaded.

I don't know how I got wrapped up in that...and I have no idea what was going on; I skipped the narcotics today.

I trust you're doubting that "everyone apprecites what was shared"? If so, you're right in that TLG proly didn't. EDIT: never mind, looks like you changed your post