ASLUME (formerly Batman (DC Superheroes) 2024 - Rumors & Discussion)

[Murdoch17]

2 hours ago, Renny The Spaceman said:

Well it turns out memory did not serve, I looked into it, trust me. Certain series 1 and 2 CMFs were there, the Robot and Spartan I know definitely were, but not anywhere near the entire lot.

The only place online claiming the game to have ever had any representation of him is Brickapedia stating his face was in the customizer but online footage of it shows ,while many series 1 faces were, the Dummy was not amongst them. The Dummy was never in the game, every other vendor is documented 

Forgive me, O great Dummy in the Brick-pile, for I have sinned! Please accept this humble offering of my LEGO Universe fan card. (I could have sworn he was in the game, but alas, i was wrong!)

[Renny The Spaceman]

16 minutes ago, Murdoch17 said:

Forgive me, O great Dummy in the Brick-pile, for I have sinned! Please accept this humble offering of my LEGO Universe fan card. (I could have sworn he was in the game, but alas, i was wrong!)

Yeah, I thought he was too years back when I decided to look into it, he ain't. There was a private server that added him as a playable skin with other  characters a few years back but that was never in the game proper.

He's there for Emmet, (He's one of the only Masterbuilders who doesn't pelt him with objects or get mad with him in the meeting) Emmet saves the universe. He's playable pretty much from the start of City Undercover, Chase defeats Rex Fury and his boss. They don't invite him to save imagination? They fail horribly.

More than a coincidence is all I'll say, Dummy secretly carries all these heroic quests

 

 

[Swordy]

On 4/10/2025 at 5:11 AM, BrickBob Studpants said:

No offense to good ol’ Johnny (especially since Adventurers was my favourite theme as a kid), but who needs an expy if you can have the original?

Don’t see how this is offensive to Johnny; clearly the copycat you speak of is Indy, who, when we was a lad, watched the heroic expeditions of Johnny Thunder throughout the 1920s, found a similar hat and went on to experience a taste of the adventures his hero lived. Unfortunately Indy could never quite grow that beauty of a mustache and sideburns…

11 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

FANTASTIC!

…say that again.

19 hours ago, Renny The Spaceman said:

I mean that's canon. I swear I heard when the game shut down the creators said it was because the Maelstrom won

HAhaHAhaHAhaHAhaHAhaHAhaHAhaHAhaHA. 

6 hours ago, Renny The Spaceman said:

while many series 1 faces were, the Dummy was not amongst them. The Dummy was never in the game, every other vendor is documented 

That’s oddly specific of a choice to excluder the lovable ol’ Dummy, so that leans further credence to your theory.

However, one could argue that Dummy is the Maelstrom’s chaos and destruction personified, so maybe that’s why he isn’t seen anywhere players interact. Maybe the developers just didn’t want to villaify any of the Series 1 minifigures?
Of course, (wait—shift+enter drops your next line closer to the above? The more you know, anyway,) as someone who only knows LEGO Universe secondhand, I have no clue if what I said is plausible.

 

 

(Okay, why does Eurobricks only have pirate emojis? Why not Adventurers or Classic Space emojis as well? I’d be spamming this thread with Blacktron M:Tron emoticons if I could.)

[Renny The Spaceman]

2 hours ago, Swordy said:

However, one could argue that Dummy is the Maelstrom’s chaos and destruction personified, so maybe that’s why he isn’t seen anywhere players interact. Maybe the developers just didn’t want to villaify any of the Series 1 minifigures?
Of course, (wait—shift+enter drops your next line closer to the above? The more you know, anyway,) as someone who only knows LEGO Universe secondhand, I have no clue if what I said is plausible.

Dummy likes taking things apart but it's explicitly not out of malice like the Maelstrom which does it to try destroy creativity, that itself runs counter to the dummy who is creative enough to be a Masterbuilder. And while he likes taking things apart it's not at the expense of others as he's also frequently shown as willing to help his friends like The Monster Scientist and The Robot build things.

Only like six characters from series 1 and 2 collectively are in the game, I imagine he's not in it just because most of them didn't make it in and he was never really pushed as a mascot figure like the ones that did.

2 hours ago, Swordy said:

(Okay, why does Eurobricks only have pirate emojis? Why not Adventurers or Classic Space emojis as well? I’d be spamming this thread with Blacktron M:Tron emoticons if I could.)

I wonder that too. I imagine back in the day there was some big Pirates event like a building contest and they were made for that. It is a shame they didn't at least do some Castle and Space ones to fill out the core three themes

[Murdoch17]

@Swordy @Renny The Spaceman IRC, The Pirates area was a separate website once upon a time, until it merged with Eurobricks. That might explain the special treatment - that, and it gets tons more traffic for various reasons than the space area does from what I can see... (but I could be wrong there)

Edited April 11 by Murdoch17

[Mandalorianknight]

15 hours ago, Renny The Spaceman said:

It's very funny, definitely made some kids cry. All I'm gonna says is if the Dummy was there it wouldn't have gone down like that, there'd have been purple blood on the screen

The Maelstrom- since it appears to have the designer's favor- made sure they didn't code the Dummy into the game because they knew he couldn't lose.

15 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Well. It’s a good thing that I’m ARMED AND DANGEROUS!

FANTASTIC!

You fool! You think the high ground is your ally? I was born in it (on the elevated cities of Kamino), moulded by it. I did not touch the surface until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but pathetic.

Oh, and I have a little spacefaring piece of jewellery which practically makes me high ground incarnate.

LUX IMPERIUM!!!

You may be armed and dangerous but I'm JUDGE, JURY, EXEUCTIONER! (side note: I feel like this is a weirdly out of character line for both the colder comic punisher and the more heroic Bernthal punisher- the "I'm doing this my way" line friendlies hear fits him a lot better, like he's gotten sick of watching his friends die while he uses rubber bullets and is switching to "reduce the enemies to dust")

Oh you may be able to fly (though so many of your brothers are not) but it's simply a tool, a piece of optional equipment for your army, an ability your jewelery grants you. It's a fundamental part of my creed.

15 hours ago, Renny The Spaceman said:

Listen, I don't wanna come off like I'm biased here but there's no way Mandalorian wins this right? Like half of his declaration of war he's talking about impenetrable armour he has but he's only wearing a helmet. 

Your mistake is believing that my suit isn't Beskar weave. Also, I think I'm moon knight or something in the lore from when Khonshu had me stealing Mara Jade minifigures from the factory or whatever that was. I also mentioned being the Mand'alor during my turtle monologue which I don't really want to add to my lore but in this hypothetical, depending on your interpretation of Mand'alor, could either mean nothing or totally change the odds.

[imposter]

233 pages of comments?

Can someone please change HEADER of this thread. I try to read and don't understand anything? Not even with GOOGLE TRANSLATE!

Edited April 12 by imposter

[BrickBob Studpants]

The culprit is back at the scene of the crime!!! THE TURTLY ONE HAS RETURNED!!

[CloneCommando99]

30 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

The culprit is back at the scene of the crime!!! THE TURTLY ONE HAS RETURNED!!

The prophecy is fulfilled.

The third coming of Turtle.

There truly is a imposter among us

Forget Batman, Wonder Woman and Superman.

The true Trinity is @legoturtle, @RiddlerDC and @imposter

[THELEGOBATMAN]

And so, the Turtle Trilogy is now complete.

I knew he couldn't stay away from the Aslume even if he wanted to. No idea why he kept to the Jurassic one for so long instead. 

[Renny The Spaceman]

1 hour ago, CloneCommando99 said:

The prophecy is fulfilled.

The third coming of Turtle.

There truly is a imposter among us

Forget Batman, Wonder Woman and Superman.

The true Trinity is @legoturtle, @RiddlerDC and @imposter

Imposter is a different guy clearly but ,nevertheless, he posted in here like only a week ago! 

2 hours ago, imposter said:

233 pages of comments?

Can someone please change HEADER of this thread. I try to read and don't understand anything? Not even with GOOGLE TRANSLATE!

It is the word Asylum spelt wrong as a joke Mr Imposter, it's a play on the insane things we say here.

11 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

The Maelstrom- since it appears to have the designer's favor- made sure they didn't code the Dummy into the game because they knew he couldn't lose.

Exactly my thoughts. LEGO Universe's shutdown was an inside job. 

11 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Your mistake is believing that my suit isn't Beskar weave. Also, I think I'm moon knight or something in the lore from when Khonshu had me stealing Mara Jade minifigures from the factory or whatever that was. I also mentioned being the Mand'alor during my turtle monologue which I don't really want to add to my lore but in this hypothetical, depending on your interpretation of Mand'alor, could either mean nothing or totally change the odds.

Okay, sure. I guess you two can fairly try kill eachother. Have fun

11 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

You may be armed and dangerous but I'm JUDGE, JURY, EXEUCTIONER! (side note: I feel like this is a weirdly out of character line for both the colder comic punisher and the more heroic Bernthal punisher- the "I'm doing this my way" line friendlies hear fits him a lot better, like he's gotten sick of watching his friends die while he uses rubber bullets and is switching to "reduce the enemies to dust")

Tangentially related but there's always an issue when Superhero shit tries to do the "is killing the bad guys better" moral debate, the unwillingness to ever actually kill popular villains makes both sides super ineffective in any sort of prolonged continuity.

Like for all the Punisher or Red Hood or whoever talks about needing to put these people down before they can hurt more innocent people they literally can't ever kill anyone remotely marketable. Like I haven't watched it and never will but I'm aware in Born Again there's a bit where the Punisher and Daredevil argue about how if Matt killed people it'd be better but like the Punisher has been around in that universe like a decade and can't kill Kingpin who's been bumbling around like an idiot in public for years in the other streaming shows? For all the bluster about how them killing makes more people safe they can never kill megablocking anyone of note.

The , of course, this makes the heroes who don't kill also look shit at their job because they can literally never actually change anything and are just completely useless.

Superhero connected universes make this weird catch 22 scenario where the murdery heroes are right because no-one ever reforms or ever meaningfully defeated but are also all of said murdery people are completely incompetent morons who can't do the one thing they define themselves by doing to any villain who they say they're less murdery compatriots should just deal with.

2 minutes ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

And so, the Turtle Trilogy is now complete.

I knew he couldn't stay away from the Aslume even if he wanted to. No idea why he kept to the Jurassic one for so long instead. 

Once again, he posted here like a week ago, this isn't a big return anymore, we're back to our usual grind

[Max_Lego]

1 hour ago, Renny The Spaceman said:

For all the bluster about how them killing makes more people safe they can never kill megablocking anyone of note.

The , of course, this makes the heroes who don't kill also look shit at their job because they can literally never actually change anything and are just completely useless.

That's the entire point. Superheroes don't make their worlds a better place - their sole purpose is to entertain comic book readers with their disgusting, depraved adventures.

What if they were gone? Would the supervillains go berserk or quit their villainy instead? That's the question very few people ask themselves 

[Renny The Spaceman]

3 hours ago, Max_Lego said:

That's the entire point. Superheroes don't make their worlds a better place - their sole purpose is to entertain comic book 

While entertainment is of course why they exist I wouldn't say it's the entire point in this scenario as that implies it's intentional. These same beats keep being played but it's not commentary on this situation as even the edgy capeshit stuff buys into the same cycle. A story where the status quo can't meaningfully change by definition is always gonna make any type of hero redundant at best and actively making everything worse far more often.

3 hours ago, Max_Lego said:

What if they were gone? Would the supervillains go berserk or quit their villainy instead? That's the question very few people ask themselves 

Loads of superhero stuff tries deal with this but never does it notably, you can't if you're goal is to make this shit keep going forever. 

 

[Max_Lego]

23 minutes ago, Renny The Spaceman said:

Loads of superhero stuff tries deal with this but never does it notably, you can't if you're goal is to make this shit keep going forever. 

That's why reboots aren't evil - they are necessary. But, of course, they need to be done properly 

24 minutes ago, Renny The Spaceman said:

While entertainment is of course why they exist I wouldn't say it's the entire point in this scenario as that implies it's intentional.

Yeah, you're right there. I agree 

[BrickBob Studpants]

5 hours ago, Max_Lego said:

What if they were gone? Would the supervillains go berserk or quit their villainy instead? 

Two words: Infinity War

[Max_Lego]

6 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Two words: Infinity War

Like this one?

[CloneCommando99]

5 hours ago, Max_Lego said:

What if they were gone? Would the supervillains go berserk or quit their villainy instead? That's the question very few people ask themselves 

The sinister six continued their dastardly plan despite Peter Parker’s death in ITSV.

The aftermath of Death of Superman saw two new evil Superman variants come into existence.

When the JL, JLA, JLD were thought to be dead (as well as the Teen Titans getting flung into the timestream) during Forever Evil, the chaos got so bad that: Bane became Batman to restore some order to Gotham and Lex Luthor, Black Adam, Bizarro, Sinestro and Captain Cold had to save the day.

In the MCU Hydra infiltrated and corrupted Shield during the time Cap was frozen. 

In The Incredibles the Underminer and Syndrome are very much operational even though all the heroes are in hiding.

In Invincible, Conquest only makes the worms stand ready for his arrival after Rex-splode and Business Baby die and Immortal retires. Coincidence? I think not.
 

It’s actually a question that’s asked and answered pretty frequently in the genre. I think the general idea is that once the first superheroes and villains establish themselves, there’s no going back.

[Mandalorianknight]

10 hours ago, imposter said:

233 pages of comments?

Can someone please change HEADER of this thread. I try to read and don't understand anything? Not even with GOOGLE TRANSLATE!

Unfortunately there is no google translate for the aslume. It's just a lot of jokes, man-who-is-not-turtle.

7 hours ago, Renny The Spaceman said:

Tangentially related but there's always an issue when Superhero shit tries to do the "is killing the bad guys better" moral debate, the unwillingness to ever actually kill popular villains makes both sides super ineffective in any sort of prolonged continuity.

Like for all the Punisher or Red Hood or whoever talks about needing to put these people down before they can hurt more innocent people they literally can't ever kill anyone remotely marketable. Like I haven't watched it and never will but I'm aware in Born Again there's a bit where the Punisher and Daredevil argue about how if Matt killed people it'd be better but like the Punisher has been around in that universe like a decade and can't kill Kingpin who's been bumbling around like an idiot in public for years in the other streaming shows? For all the bluster about how them killing makes more people safe they can never kill megablocking anyone of note.

The , of course, this makes the heroes who don't kill also look shit at their job because they can literally never actually change anything and are just completely useless.

Sort of? Watch the scene by the way, it's the best one in the show by far as I think I say whenever I bring it or punisher up. 

Matt comes to punisher about whatever so-so plotline Matt's currently involved in and Punisher basically immediately goes "nah I don't care about that and neither do you, you're really here because of *traumatic event from the start of the season that feels like it should be more prominent in the show*". Basically, to talk about it without spoiling what specifically makes that event so traumatic, Punisher then says that the real reason Matt came to talk to him was because Punisher in the past has told Matt he should kill, and Frank thinks he's here because subconsciously he wants Punisher to convince him to kill the villain from the traumatic event. Punisher does end up giving Matt what he wants, moreso to let him vent and force him to face what he's been ignoring.

Punisher hasn't really shown all that much interest in fighting Kingpin, or Bullseye, in the MCU/Netflix. It's not like he comes after them and then lets them go. I assume he kind of views it as Matt's war to fight and doesn't want to step on his toes because Matt's against killing and he knows that if Daredevil really wanted to, he could put Punisher behind bars for life. There's certainly issues with the timeline regarding kingpin and whatever the hell he's been up to between Daredevil season 3 and Born Again, but at the same time we have no idea what Punisher was up to in that time, and he doesn't seem to be in the best place or active as punisher as of their meeting in Born Again.

It's a lot more true in the comics, but in the netflix series it hasn't really been an issue.

19 minutes ago, CloneCommando99 said:

In Invincible, Conquest only makes the worms stand ready for his arrival after Rex-splode and Business Baby die and Immortal retires. Coincidence? I think not

Business Baby's survival was confirmed by Robert Kirkman, thankfully, but assumably Conquest knew Business Baby had to file his taxes right after the war and would be unable to help. Putting Rex-Goat and Midmortal in the same sentence is diabolical.

I do like the idea that Conquest showed up during the war and was just like "why are there 20-something versions of this guy running around? I'll just wait and assume whichever one lives is the strongest and therefore most interesting fight."

Edited April 12 by Mandalorianknight

[Renny The Spaceman]

6 hours ago, Max_Lego said:

That's why reboots aren't evil - they are necessary. But, of course, they need to be done properly  

Yeah, definitely. This stuff can't go on forever, unless you're something like Soap Operas or Doctor Who where everything but base iconography gets ship of Thesus-ed away over time you're just gonna be endlessly telling the same stories anyways. May as well do a fresh slate and let some new take emerge.

4 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

When the JL, JLA, JLD were thought to be dead (as well as the Teen Titans getting flung into the timestream) during Forever Evil, the chaos got so bad that: Bane became Batman to restore some order to Gotham and Lex Luthor, Black Adam, Bizarro, Sinestro and Captain Cold had to save the day.

Forever Evil is so good, mad it's an early New 52 story and it's that much of an all timer.

5 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Two words: Infinity War

Like the movie? You're if saying there was no heroes that film wouldn't exist, in which case they have an obligation to exist, the less Russo Brothers films in the world the better

4 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

It's a lot more true in the comics, but in the netflix series it hasn't really been an issue.

Fair enough, I just used that as a topical example. If it's not valid in that specific continuity fair enough.

[CloneCommando99]

10 hours ago, Renny The Spaceman said:

Forever Evil is so good, mad it's an early New 52 story and it's that much of an all timer.

Agreed. It’s arguably my favourite Lex Luthor story.
 

I honestly think that the early New 52 is overhated.

Granted, GL was still top notch primarily because it was just continuing Geoff Johns’ run at the beginning. But Batman, Wonder Woman, JLA, Batgirl and Grant Morrison’s Action Comics runs were all excellent imo. I am even quite fond of the New 52 Superman H’El on Earth and the JL/ Aquaman Throne of Atlantis events. I will cheekily admit that I thoroughly enjoyed the Teen Titans and Superboy runs (though I know those weren’t that well recieved). And let’s not forget Red Daughter of Krypton.

In fact, I think it’s just: Red Hood and the Outlaws, the overall Batman-isation of most heroes, erasure of a large chunk of the bat family (my girls Steph and Cass), erasure of the original Titans team (Donna and Wally weren’t brought back until later), Lobo’s redesign, the randomness of Super-Wonder (though I did end up enjoying it in the end), the stupid 5 year time-line, erasure of the JSA (though the Earth 2 run was quite good), and the Green Arrow run which were pretty bad.

 

14 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Putting Rex-Goat and Midmortal in the same sentence is diabolical.

Rex sploded

Edited April 13 by CloneCommando99

[Agent Kallus]

23 hours ago, imposter said:

233 pages of comments?

Can someone please change HEADER of this thread. I try to read and don't understand anything? Not even with GOOGLE TRANSLATE!

I do not believe the objective of this thread is to be understood. Sometimes true beauty is beyond definition. Is not some art beyond comprehension?

Or as the Japanese would say

Watashi mo tokidoki keeki o tabemasu.

8 hours ago, Renny The Spaceman said:

Yeah, definitely. This stuff can't go on forever, unless you're something like Soap Operas or Doctor Who where everything but base iconography gets ship of Thesus-ed away over time you're just gonna be endlessly telling the same stories anyways. May as well do a fresh slate and let some new take emerge.

DOCTOR WHO mentioned!!!!!

D2C TARDIS console room when?

Edited April 13 by Agent Kallus

[Renny The Spaceman]

On 4/13/2025 at 8:23 AM, Agent Kallus said:

DOCTOR WHO mentioned!!!!!

D2C TARDIS console room when?

You'll get a 100 quid bust of Big Ron and you'll like it 

On 4/13/2025 at 7:49 AM, CloneCommando99 said:

Agreed. It’s arguably my favourite Lex Luthor story.
 

I honestly think that the early New 52 is overhated.

Granted, GL was still top notch primarily because it was just continuing Geoff Johns’ run at the beginning. But Batman, Wonder Woman, JLA, Batgirl and Grant Morrison’s Action Comics runs were all excellent imo. I am even quite fond of the New 52 Superman H’El on Earth and the JL/ Aquaman Throne of Atlantis events. I will cheekily admit that I thoroughly enjoyed the Teen Titans and Superboy runs (though I know those weren’t that well recieved). And let’s not forget Red Daughter of Krypton.

In fact, I think it’s just: Red Hood and the Outlaws, the overall Batman-isation of most heroes, erasure of a large chunk of the bat family (my girls Steph and Cass), erasure of the original Titans team (Donna and Wally weren’t brought back until later), Lobo’s redesign, the randomness of Super-Wonder (though I did end up enjoying it in the end), the stupid 5 year time-line, erasure of the JSA (though the Earth 2 run was quite good), and the Green Arrow run which were pretty bad.

I think regardless of if you like individual stories it's still a mess of an era. Legacy and female characters were being removed or character assassinated beyond belief. It can never be overrated for me.

Forever Evil is such a good Lex story though, and great for all the villains. The professional courtesy bit with Captain Cold is on of the hardest lines in DC.

 

[Murdoch17]

RE: Doctor Who

We're more likely to get a 200 dollar buildable figure of the Abzorbaloff. After all, he's the most beloved of the Dr Who monsters, right? 

Edited April 14 by Murdoch17

[BrickBob Studpants]

4 minutes ago, Murdoch17 said:

more like a 200 dollar buildable figure of the Abzorbaloff. After all, he's the most beloved of the Dr Who monsters, right? 

We can’t be too mad at the monster, considering it was created by a kid. There are still a couple of good reasons why this episode is so hated tho 

[Murdoch17]

3 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

We can’t be too mad at the monster, considering it was created by a kid. There are still a couple of good reasons why this episode is so hated tho 

Even the kid didn't quite like what the BBC did to their creation - it was supposed to be as big as a double decker bus!

Edited April 14 by Murdoch17