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About the two rumoured Spiderverse sets, are the rumoured 40-60$ set and Peni / SPDR the same set? If it's 60$ then surely it wont only include Peni, Miles and Spot? Also expecting this to be severaly out of scale.... nonetheless very happy with at least one confirmed Spiderverse set (excluding Spider-Punk figure) Lets hope for more in the summer!

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.

'What if' is a weird inclusion? Does anyone even care about that anymore? Hope Scarlet Spider is Ben Reilley just to be able to add more to the Spiderverse line-up. Also dissapointed not to see any new Spiderverse sets but probably in the summer due to the last movie releasing?

How does it make any sense that none of the other doomsday sets include Doom?? Huh???

Please god not a buildable object that would be such a waste..... I never even get the appeal of these you can just order the parts and make them yourself??? And it's just a big plastic sword??

I agree. Lego Marvel fans have become content with expecting the bare minimum and it's really hard to see. Surely we all deserve way better than what we're presented with here. It has been a really long time since Lego Marvel has genuinely treated us with a wave full of unexpected surprises and great effort put into the sets, in my memory it's been since Infinity War and later on with the minifigure series who were all genuinely really good. Aside from that of course there's outliers like the modulars. But most movie-based waves have just been very lackluster imo. I wish that Lego would put more energy into these sets, like the treatment One Piece is getting for example. I'm crossing my fingers for a line of Spider-verse sets next year for the new movie, but god im bracing for the worst if they end up making them...

Spiderman Bland New Day.......

Agreed! It would be really nice to finally have Rocket in a proper scale

Basically this. I don't know why Lego is still so aggressively allergic to adapting anything anime / manga but clearly those outsell most cartoons / modern comics today. Even Marvel and DC comics can't compete anymore with for example One Piece. I am legitemately convinced that anime based sets would sell so much better than the live action stuff, despite it's current trendyness on Netflix, One Piece never had to rely on trends to stay relevant. People will forget about the LA again in a month or so and will go back to watching the anime. Making a Sunny with the current Straw Hats would do so well. It would be the first time I actually wouldnt care about a price tag! And as others have pointed out, some of the LA sets would go together with anime based sets, as a lot of characters are very faithfully adapted anyway.

If its based on Spider-verse then it might be the first one of these im picking up! They hit it out of the park with that design! That being said, more Spideverse sets Lego!! Whats the deal here!

Every time these sets get revealed it makes me more miserable that this could've been my favourite theme of all time had it been based off the anime They really botched Dorry and Broggy, how did they make them look more like mechas than giants? I was actually excited for that set :( Dr Kureha not in her iconic outfit? Zoro still with that very ill suiting hairpiece and face? And why was a new mold wasted on Mr.13 of all characters! But luckily there's a lot of positives. Hiriluk, Tashigi, Mr. 3, and especially Chopper and Robin are expertly done. I'm so happy Chopper has a new body mould instead of being a small legged minifigure, which would've scaled so weirdly. Luffy's new face, the big teeth smile, is also very welcome. But the LA branding is still enough to hold me back from buying any of these sets... Lego, make an anime inspired Going Merry or Sunny and I will buy several of these sets to accomodate those minifigures. Some are genuinely passable as anime versions of these characters as well. But the biggest eyesores are still Zoro, Usopp and especially Luffy, who bares little resemblance to his anime self (not to the fault of the actor of course, who did a great job as him)