Renny The Spaceman

You get a Goodie Rickels buildable figure and a Lex Luthor v Superman mech, take it or leave it

See, you get it! Guess you were wicked then

I think if your life would be ruined by a LEGO Morbius set it's natural selection at that point ngl

Matt Smith shirtless dance set would save lives

I remember reading an article Where Joel Schumacher's wife said that shortly before the WBD merger that management had greenlit a Schumacher cut as it only needed a million to polish it up. The merger stopped that happening Timelines don't sync up so it's not but it'd be funny if this set, like the shadow box before it, was a loose tie in to a planned project that this time was pulled after they'd developed it

Maybe but you also gotta consider this isn't really comparable to Iron Man where the later two films don't really have much cultural legacy. The Raimi Spider-Man films are much closer to the DC legacy sets than the Marvel ones given how they're from much further back properties that still have relevancy to this day as classics of the genre rather than being relevant as it's film series is still continuing. I could see multiple Raimi sets in one wave, though, they could also both be based on Spider-Man 2. That said given that we're getting a Spider-verse CMF and a Spider-Man 2 set in the same wave I don't doubt that the third would be from something else to diversify the lineup. If so it could only be TASM or Venom, don't know how likely either are though

Nice, this was always gonna happen, glad it's an affordable set though, hope it's cool

Honestly splitting the forum seems madder and madder by the day, we should keep doing it though. Make Batman and DC rumours and discussion different forums. Split Asylum, Batcave and Mech discussion from that now and forever. By 2029 half the site shall be aslumes

Yeah, but we're not talking about what it needs to be a successful movie, we're talking about how big it'd have to be to rush sets into production. NWH is a good benchmark as well know pretty much for a fact that companies all scrambled the moment they could to capitalise on it and even then, which not only is a much bigger hit than Superman can ever be but also much easier to make designs for as half the characters had minimal redesigns, it took two years.

I'd megablocking love Superman 3 sets, that'd be hysterical. No dice they ever do a Lex from Superman returns though. Even if Superman became so popular DC perma-killed Batman to prop him up and DC's trinity became Superman, Supergirl and Superboy. See I think there's a decent chance of they have a mech in development. It'd probably be for a Superman villain with Kara as the second figure to diversify it from the Clark mech. Idk if there'd be time to rush out a set though since it took them two years to do the no-way home one and that would have been a much higher priority.

Yeah, exactly this! Figures that get this just look perfect you can convey a lot with a little with stuff like the Blacktron figure I just think they miss the original appeal and it makes the figure forgettable. Series 6 is where LCU stops, I apologise for what I've done here. Yeah, I think the early CMFs do just have a strong aesthetic I really love. The soul of the theme died when they stopped giving them funny bios :P They don't? I just looked it up the new colour scheme is so much worse, ey did they change it? Yeah, it's too much so none of it is conveyed clearly, just a bit of a mess

Damn, again? The last version of this book was only 4 years ago. I'm glad the figure's not too interesting, don't need the same book with like 6 new pages again.

I'll forget that name in a month. But yeah, you're right, with the exception of the X-wing being Halloween coloured for Poe all the others are way too similar to the OT ones to justify production. People who'd buy the sequel ones would probably be more likely to buy the OT ones than OT fans buying the sequel ones. Probably why they haven't done Captain Rex's Y-wing either. Oh, of course! Let's not forget the Scompers scavenger hunt and chudwumpas bubble craft, the Nick Clegg battle pack, the star strider's splat lizard and the washed machine of Cal-Gon

As someone who was never gonna be torn up about how a year from this theme went I think it's very funny what it ultimately appears to come down to is people arguing about either of the two factions that have over the years gotten the most sets (Clones and Empire) being underrepresented. Honestly I feel bad for fans of the new Rebels from the sequels, their troops never do anything so there's next to nothing to base sets on so they're never gonna get a set again. Eventually they'll do another Poe's X-wing but that'll be it, unlikely it'd even come with any unnamed new Rebels.

What we really need is a City one! Just think, we could have a new Police Officer, Firefighter, Crook. It'd be what we all need. In all seriousness I think LEGO's leaving money on the table if they don't do a castle one, Lego castle army builders are insane and the closest a LEGO original IP will get to the insane dedication and, on the other hand, scalping of the clone bros. If it does happen it'd be the most annoying series to complete though for obvious reasons. Pirates would be cool too but Idk, I don't think LEGO's as confident in it

R-rated sets would make it too easy for Lego to have minifigures of characters that commit horrific actions, more fun when it's characters who do so by, often accidental, implication like Peter Venkman

Honestly if we lived in the parallel world where Gunn's stuff all got LEGO sets Polka-Dot Man would have double the amount of figures that characters like Ra's, Talia, Jason Red Hood, Reverse Flash, Darksied and more do and I think that'd be a better world The Clonker? Distant cousin of the clangers?

Nah, not worth it. It's just the worst possible blend of Batgod and the constant writing of Joker to try one up the killing joke that makes him representative of DC's worst traits, I'll take seven years of Schumacher sets over him. But also, something I realised about the new DC movies, with all the delays this universe is gonna have a fully formed Justice League and three Green Lanterns before we see Batman. Does this mean this video will be DCU canon?

Maybe it's a good thing LEGO DC is in the state it is, if it wasn't we probably would have gotten a Batman who laughs figure

Right? If that happens then the five new figures would probably just be Batman, Joker, Harley, Mr Freeze and Penguin or Catwoman again This sounds more and more plausible come to think of it Honestly the costume designs were great in that film, if they had minifigures you could just put hair on Black Adam and swap out Atom Smasher's arms and have figures pretty close to the comics Right, remember how it was a massive beacon of hope we were even getting a Superman figure last year? Now if we get Chris O'Donnell Robin it'll be a welcome surprise. We're devolving year upon year

Hey, lay off Atom Smasher! He was in the smash hit film Black Adam, everyone wants Atom Smasher now

I get that, don't think that actually affects the quality though, I understand how zombies dominated pop culture at the time but I think that shouldn't come into a fair evaluation of the figures. I think you misinterpreted my point, I didn't say he looked like CS or Blacktron figures, I later specifically pointed out how the 2010 CMFs had very unique graphic design to what came before and after, just like Swordy didn't say he looked like the road runner. The point with all of those is sometimes simplicity lends to a better design. The Dummy doesn't literally look like a classic figure like the modern Galaxy Explorer doesn't literally look like a classic set, both take the clean simplicity of LEGO's older design language and applies it to a modern context. A lot of the examples I'm going for here are LEGO space because that's what I know best. Definitely don't think a Space police figure would be in the archetypes for the 2010, most of the line was in 2009! 2010s are an odd duck of a decade as the aesthetic for the early 2010s is completely different from the rest. I mean look at the city police officer in 2010 and 2019

We had photos of the Space series in like November when they came out in May, genuinely could be any day now

Really creative how you did Mr Fantastic here, probably the best looking purist custom funnily enough Yeah, it's definitely how I think LEGO looks best, like figures who go all in on the detail can look great, like all the old Middle earth figures but often they can lean into overdesigned and just inversely look bland and loose the LEGO charm. The LEGO original figures who look the best and make the most impact I find are always the ones that do a lot with a little. memorable designs are usually clean, it's why so many 90s designs Superhero designs (not all of them, there are a lot of good ones) don't hold up, more detail can often add unnecessary visual bloat. Like look at the LEGO crash Dummy in LEGO fortnite, there's arm printing and side leg printing but it just looks worse. Some designs call for more detail, King Théoden or the modern Basil the Batlord look great as they are but I think something like a version of a crash test dummy lends itself to simplicity, that is the best way to design one. ALSO something I love about the first couple series of CMFs is that the prints are more stylised and closer to the art-style of Micheal Patton's concept art, I think it's what makes the expressions so cartoony and memorable for me. The Dummy's vacant stare is so funny and effortlessly charming and I think if he was designed today he wouldn't look nearly as good in that regard

That would make so much sense financially, so many people who grew up with those games are now nostalgic for them and just coming into disposable income. it's honestly a slam dunk of a set idea. That is the exact reason it will not happen