ReversibleSedgewick Posted November 23, 2019 Posted November 23, 2019 13 hours ago, Guyon2002 said: The garbage waves started after Infinity War imo. Untill then it was all pretty good, at the very least decent I also thought people were pretty happy with the Far From Home wave. I know Lego Jon Favreau was all wrong. But that was a solid aeroplane, particularly if you left the stickers off. Mysterios for everyone, regardless of which set you got. The Venice set didn’t do much for me, I think it reminded me too much of the death rattles of the Hobbit line, but everyone here seemed to love it. And this was all only a few months ago. And while the Endgame range was admittedly *weird*, you have to give them credit for doing a Hall of Armour. People here were asking for it and they got it! 13 hours ago, Guyon2002 said: I think he's referring to the amount of new character-specific molds introduced (Super off topic, but the form factor of the Troll figures did the same thing for me as the Powerpuff figures - i.e. made me curse the heavens that we can’t have Wind Waker sets that look like that)
benderisgreat Posted November 23, 2019 Posted November 23, 2019 13 hours ago, Guyon2002 said: The garbage waves started after Infinity War imo. Untill then it was all pretty good, at the very least decent and very rarely amazing Pretty sure that was speculation as well I think he's referring to the amount of new character-specific molds introduced for the theme. Meanwhile they reuse inaccurate pieces for the main heroes of a marvel movie 2017 is when LEGO clearly started putting less effort into the line. 2018 is when it was very clear, and 2019 with 2-3 exceptions was just garbage.
PRbrickbuilder Posted November 23, 2019 Posted November 23, 2019 Overall, the Thanos mech for me is the best of the bunch. Something new with a figure with leg printing. It has a gauntlet with all the stones (even if it has the 4 fingers/ 5 fingers issue pointed by @Guyon2002). The avengers truck is actually cool, has a unique feel, differently from previous ones. If the AIM soldiers had leg printing (like the ultron drones had), the wave would already be a lot better. My concern now is: are the chest piece of the mechs printed pieces or stickers?
SpiderJazz Posted November 23, 2019 Posted November 23, 2019 56 minutes ago, PRbrickbuilder said: My concern now is: are the chest piece of the mechs printed pieces or stickers? If it's replacing the MM line, I would say it should have exclusive printed parts.
legosamsonite Posted November 23, 2019 Posted November 23, 2019 Found the hulk rescue set yesterday in canada, yet to build it though
Mandalorianknight Posted November 23, 2019 Posted November 23, 2019 7 hours ago, THELEGOBATMAN said: All I'm saying is that the builds have details and are actually based on SOMETHING. I don't know what they are based on, but it's something. "Comic-based" Marvel sets aren't based on anything - they are random old scrapped designs that are oversized vehicles. That's true, but the garbage vehicles have details too. Lego definately put more cost into trolls this year than it did for marvel, but we can't expect them to completely redo the budget halfway through production when they learn that the sets sold well last year. 7 hours ago, RedHoodPug said: Cool is subjective. That's...exactly my point. 3 hours ago, ReversibleSedgewick said: I also thought people were pretty happy with the Far From Home wave. I know Lego Jon Favreau was all wrong. But that was a solid aeroplane, particularly if you left the stickers off. Mysterios for everyone, regardless of which set you got. The Venice set didn’t do much for me, I think it reminded me too much of the death rattles of the Hobbit line, but everyone here seemed to love it. And this was all only a few months ago. And while the Endgame range was admittedly *weird*, you have to give them credit for doing a Hall of Armour. People here were asking for it and they got it! Completely forgot about the hall of armor being an endgame set, your're right, that one was amazing. And I agree that FFH wasn't that bad.
benderisgreat Posted November 23, 2019 Posted November 23, 2019 (edited) New concept art from IW and Endgame is being released and what do you know? One of Thanos concept art looks exactly like 2019 Thanos bigfig. So I guess we can’t blame LEGO for this inaccuracy. Edited November 23, 2019 by benderisgreat
THELEGOBATMAN Posted November 23, 2019 Posted November 23, 2019 2 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said: That's true, but the garbage vehicles have details too. Lego definately put more cost into trolls this year than it did for marvel, but we can't expect them to completely redo the budget halfway through production when they learn that the sets sold well last year. That's...exactly my point. Completely forgot about the hall of armor being an endgame set, your're right, that one was amazing. And I agree that FFH wasn't that bad. FFH sets were amazing. Amazing Molten Man set (all of the figures had leg pritning!), Incredible Venice set (awesome minifigures and the build is one of the best in Super Heroes theme), and a decent but overpriced Jet set (that Nick Fury was dope). Endgame sets had terrible minifigures (Quantum suits), but we got 3 new Iron Man suits (including Mark 1 and 85), Hulk, Thanos and finally an accurate Ant-Man helmet. The builds were either horrible or great (motorcycle, hall of armor and Avengers HQ were terrible, but the War Machine mech and Quinjet were great). This new wave has nothing amazing in it. ALL the builds are trash (when you think about it there isn't a SINGLE good build), and the minifigures (excluding Big Three from the video game, Mysterio and Spidey Noir) are either trash or repeats.
RedHoodPug Posted November 23, 2019 Posted November 23, 2019 4 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said: That's...exactly my point. Yeah, I don’t know, saying ‘I really don’t think’ and then the word in quotes doesn’t really equate to each to their own. If anything it was a bit patronising. I just felt that it wasn’t necessary.
lego_guyon02 Posted November 23, 2019 Posted November 23, 2019 I went to the lego store today (first time, yay!) and was happy to see they still had the unprinted Newt Scamander legs in the BAM stations. Though it got me thinking: if a full pack consists of 15 pieces at the cost of 7 euro that comes down to 0,46 cents per piece. Is it really that hard to give Cap those dualmolded legs he so desperately needs?
SpiderJazz Posted November 23, 2019 Posted November 23, 2019 29 minutes ago, Guyon2002 said: I went to the lego store today (first time, yay!) and was happy to see they still had the unprinted Newt Scamander legs in the BAM stations. Though it got me thinking: if a full pack consists of 15 pieces at the cost of 7 euro that comes down to 0,46 cents per piece. Is it really that hard to give Cap those dualmolded legs he so desperately needs? Damn, that's a good buy! Ugh. They could easily throw that in the upcoming set.
Lionbear8 Posted November 23, 2019 Posted November 23, 2019 5 hours ago, THELEGOBATMAN said: FFH sets were amazing. Amazing Molten Man set (all of the figures had leg pritning!), Incredible Venice set (awesome minifigures and the build is one of the best in Super Heroes theme), and a decent but overpriced Jet set (that Nick Fury was dope). Endgame sets had terrible minifigures (Quantum suits), but we got 3 new Iron Man suits (including Mark 1 and 85), Hulk, Thanos and finally an accurate Ant-Man helmet. The builds were either horrible or great (motorcycle, hall of armor and Avengers HQ were terrible, but the War Machine mech and Quinjet were great). This new wave has nothing amazing in it. ALL the builds are trash (when you think about it there isn't a SINGLE good build), and the minifigures (excluding Big Three from the video game, Mysterio and Spidey Noir) are either trash or repeats. Most of the builds are reused ideas from previous sets, but the spider jet is cool, and I don't mind the AIM soldiers. But yes the rest is pretty ordinary! I have a feeling that DC will have 3 x Mech sets as well! as mentioned here before seems like a new wave to replace the mighty micros!
hvader Posted November 24, 2019 Posted November 24, 2019 6 hours ago, benderisgreat said: New concept art from IW and Endgame is being released and what do you know? One of Thanos concept art looks exactly like 2019 Thanos bigfig. So I guess we can’t blame LEGO for this inaccuracy. Which concept art did you see?
Maple Posted November 24, 2019 Posted November 24, 2019 These sets are so bad that it's time for LEGO to sit back and wait until a movie comes out and then make sets ONLY based on the movie. These are beyond horrible. I feel bad for the designers because they were forced to make these sets and now we are all saying how bad they are.
AManofNoConsequence Posted November 24, 2019 Posted November 24, 2019 6 hours ago, Maple said: These sets are so bad that it's time for LEGO to sit back and wait until a movie comes out and then make sets ONLY based on the movie. These are beyond horrible. I feel bad for the designers because they were forced to make these sets and now we are all saying how bad they are. It's not like Marvel doesn't have 80s years worth of material to source from. I wish Disney or the Marvel higher ups were as loose with LEGO as they are with Hasbro. Everything here feels so limited while they just finished releasing Alpha Flight of all things.
Evergreen Posted November 24, 2019 Posted November 24, 2019 Just a heads up to anyone who wants to buy the UCS Hulkbuster, on Sunday (11/31) it's listed as one of the "deals of the day" for Black Friday weekend. Don't know how much it'll be on sale though, but it has to be something good hopefully.
benderisgreat Posted November 24, 2019 Posted November 24, 2019 https://www.flickr.com/photos/185669011@N03/49114760548/in/dateposted-public/ 11 hours ago, HarryVader said: Which concept art did you see? That’s the one.
ReversibleSedgewick Posted November 24, 2019 Posted November 24, 2019 10 hours ago, Maple said: I feel bad for the designers because they were forced to make these sets and now we are all saying how bad they are. Yeah, my guilt has been kicking in for a while now! That's why I've been pivoting to reminiscing about how good the Infinity War sets were. In the hope that the cosmic positivity will loop back around and we'll get sets like that again. Speaking of which - 18 hours ago, benderisgreat said: New concept art from IW and Endgame is being released This is some old concept art, I think it was for IW and not Doctor Strange, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/58116388414fb5b9a0823523/1526920413944-3GZZZ9CUN1BN1WBY1Q8Y/WALTON+SANCTUM+2.jpg?format=2500w&content-type=image%2Fjpeg but it shows what an amazing job they did on the Sanctum set. Managing to shave out a middle floor and some of the building width but still having so many of the details match up? Very well done.
lego_guyon02 Posted November 24, 2019 Posted November 24, 2019 1 hour ago, ReversibleSedgewick said: but it shows what an amazing job they did on the Sanctum set. Managing to shave out a middle floor and some of the building width but still having so many of the details match up? Very well done. You do know the Sanctum in IW is exactly the same as in Doctor Strange right? They didn't have to base that set off concept art
icm Posted November 24, 2019 Posted November 24, 2019 Wasn't there some rumor about next year's Marvel sets being "game changing"? Surely that must not refer to anything in the January wave.
BrickBob Studpants Posted November 24, 2019 Posted November 24, 2019 (edited) Courtesy of brickset: So the only exclusive thing about the SDCC set is Rambeau‘s head print, right? Edited November 24, 2019 by Lego-Freak
ReversibleSedgewick Posted November 24, 2019 Posted November 24, 2019 28 minutes ago, Guyon2002 said: You do know the Sanctum in IW is exactly the same as in Doctor Strange right? They didn't have to base that set off concept art Whether they did it off concept art for either film, or from the final version (which I assume is CG) used in Doctor Strange or Thor, it's not really important. I was just saying that I think that particular piece of art was done for Infinity War, and that that particular angle is a good showcase for how good a job they did on the set.
tafkatb Posted November 24, 2019 Posted November 24, 2019 40 minutes ago, icm said: Wasn't there some rumor about next year's Marvel sets being "game changing"? I think that phrase was used for the "Zebra" theme, which will include Marvel, but not the Marvel theme as a whole.
lego_guyon02 Posted November 24, 2019 Posted November 24, 2019 18 minutes ago, Lego-Freak said: Courtesy of brickset: So the only exclusive thing about the SDCC set is Rambeau‘s head print, right? I HAVE to get that! Also a good way to get young Fury I wonder how this polybag will be distributed though, it wouldn't suprise me if this is lego's way of forcing us to buy the garbage sets from next wave. Which would confirm even lego is aware of the awfull quality
oodan Posted November 24, 2019 Posted November 24, 2019 I hope that set is widely available, £5 in Sainsbury's or something, because it would be great to get multiples of both torsos for a decent price.
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