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I genuinely dont understand what you mean here, they followed the MCU concept art completely and I see no influence of the fanart? God I hope you're right

So good! Let's hope we'll get a Wind Waker set someday : )

So excited for the prospect of getting more and more Smash characters. It's now actually gotten interesting to build a Smash display since getting Isabelle, Sonic, Steve, BOTW Link, Young Link, Zelda and Ganondorf. Mario will definitely give us Mario, Luigi, Peach, Bowser, Yoshi and maybe Daisy, Rosalina + Luma and even Wario. Crossing fingers for a Wind Waker set at the end of the year which would give us Toon Link (my main). And as has been said yes Pokemon trainer and Pikachu are on the horizon. Sadly I find it hard to see a bit beyond this... Will Lego Kirby ever happen? Or Metroid? Xenoblade? Kid Icarus? Earthbound? The ones I could potentially see happen are Diddy and Donkey Kong and maaaaaybe King K Rool in an ideal scenario. Starfox perhaps if Illumination makes him a movie. But yes, having almost all the main cast together in the near future is a very exciting prospect!!

Exactly. Including them in these new Avengers movies is a hail mary from Disney purely because nostalgia is a powerful tool. Marvel movies are basically 'point at the screen because I recognised thing from before' now and Doomsday seems to heavily capitalise on that. That is to say of course these movies include good parts (Jackman's Wolverine being the stand-out of course) but I don't see kids currently watching these with fondness since they dont have nostalgia for them. Raimi's Spiderman on the other hand still holds up very well and are very accessible for kids today, making Lego sets of them to please and adult and kid audience was a good move. Aside from all of that yes these designs would make for incredibly boring minifigures. But if sets of these movies do release I'll eat my words and question if I even know what Lego's strategy is anymore. I see that, but wouldn't it then be way more exciting to create sets based on the X-men animated show since those designs are actually good / colourful?

I think Icons sets would be the way to go. Luffy vs Kaido, Thousand Sunny, Enies Lobby, Marineford all easily lend themselves to big Icons sets, while giving the anime fans what they want. Heck, do a Thousand Sunny with the whole crew, then do a Marineford to have a ton of warlords and marines (Koby, Garp, Kizaru, Kuzan, Akainu, Ace, Crocodile, Mihawk, Doflamingo), and you'll basically satisfy a lot of manga / anime fans already.

So bizarre to see people hyping the idea of X-men movie sets... I could've sworn people collectively wrote these movies off as bad adaptions just a couple years ago... I guess nostalgia runs strong.

Awesome! The Fortnite figures looked great so I hope they're something along the same lines!

Fully agreed. The amount of times I wanted to get Anime friends into Lego One Piece but they bailed out as soon as they heard its sets based on the live action. Heck, I haven't even bought any sets myself despite being a massive One Piece fan. Main gripe is the main character just doesnt look like Luffy. Don't get me wrong the actor is perfect, but if you want an anime lego luffy figure this just isn't the one. Same with Nami, Zoro, Garp etc. So yes Dragonball being a full theme gives me hope, please Lego even if its just a couple sets. Give the people who just dont care about the LA something as well.

Yes, but like nicknack pointed out, there's also the Mario sets coming. I've seen enough custom Mario minifigs to know that going to traditional minifig way is a waaaaay worse option than giving him his iconic stylized head. If you give Toon Link a regular minifig head you'd lose absolutely all the charm and expressiveness he has as a character. I'd say you're right, the closer a cartoon or stylized character is to realistic proportions, the more likely he is to have a regular minifigure head. But Toon Link (and most of the Wind Waker cast for that matter) is simply not realistically proportioned. In fact I would argue that most of his design lends itself very well to Lego already. As a proof of concept (if you will) here are Wind Waker gashapon toys that were released back in 2004, this almost looks like Lego anyway.

I agree thats the only way to go. The head shapes and eyes are so iconic that translating that into a regular minifig head would do a great disservice to the game. And Animal Crossing / Sonic etc have shown that the result is really cool and unique. Besides that, Toon Link is a different shade of green and has a totally different tunic than young Link so it'll absolutely be a new unique figure. Throw in a white wand piece from Harry Potter for the Wind Waker as well.

I see your point but I think its the exact opposite. Stuff like Spiderverse and Rivals is aimed at kids and young teens, while the MCU is for the dedicated fans and could be considered random movies to those same kids. The visual style of Rivals and Spiderverse is so stylized that I believe they do care about accuracy, while they wouldn't necessarily care which Hulk belongs to which movie in the set they're buying. I'm just saying don't underestimate the amount of Miles Morales backpacks im seeing on my commute to work or the age at which these kids start playing a game like Rivals, they want representation.

Incredibly bizarre if that would be it for a potential Doomsday wave?? The biggest movie they've ever done and the tie-in sets would be that limited?

Ooooops I mean on the other hand it'd be a new spidey suit and thats always a good thing!! If people'd be happy with it then who am I to judge!

Fully agreed. The next logical step is to go to Toon Link now for at least one set. The game has aged beautifully and lets be honest the character designs are iconic. I would absolutely hate if this turns out to be a scale model of some item like the master sword or majora's mask, why not just buy a real replica of that? Maybe a hot take but scale replica's of movie / game items make for the most boring builds and dumb looking final result.

Colour me a very very happy man if that happens. I feel like I already asked for the world getting that CMF, a golden blessing from Lego. Again, content with Scarlet Spider, if it's Ben Reilly and not that god awful Kaine costume then that adds another character to the Spiderverse line-up. I suppose they do? Is that still a thing? As a kid I couldn't care less for zombies tbh. Correct me if I'm wrong but I would've jumped for joy way higher if for example I'd gotten sets based on a game I'd play (Marvel Rivals) or a movie aimed at me (a child) that Im hyped for (Spiderverse). But perhaps I'm sounding like a broken record here. Glad to see Lego is branching out again, missed the creativity and abundance of early days Lego Marvel.