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My explanation is Lex got Superman with his Kryptonite blaster already so Superman needs the mech because he's depowered 😂

I honestly think the polybag is brilliant for kids - a main hero and villain and an environment for them to fight in for $5?

Built the majority of the January wave (mechs, Venom car, Spider-Verse) The mechs and car are generic and uninteresting as I expected, but I adore the new figures and had £70 in Insiders points so it's fine. Ultron is awesome, Julia is awesome, Anti-Venom is awesome - this wave is kinda huge for comic fans. I knew I really liked the Spider-Verse set, but I'm surprised with just how much I like it. It's a lot of stickers, but they give the bodega so much life and it looks incredible. The NYPD car is really good too (and I cut the stickers to actually make it say NYPD, I get that it says PDNY in the films but I have no attachment to those and it bothered me) I'm definitely gonna stock up on squad cars for my city and convert the bodega itself to a modular building. This has been discussed to death, but the connection points really did strike me as strange - especially the roof, plating it off would've probably taken the same number of parts as the way it's tiled modular-style. I get that the technic pin holes are in sets all the time and never go anywhere, but the roof thing really sticks with me, and I really hope they expand on this mini New York. Again, I'm not a fan of the movies, so I'm not really sure what would make sense to do next, but off the top of my head, Prowler's apartment was relatively prominent? Getting a good figure of him and another floor for this building would be awesome.

Built the Superman mech! It's... a mech. I like the figures, so it's whatever. Just hope that supporting this set actually leads to real DC sets

I mean, that's a fine claim, but unless you've surveyed like 10k+ people, the Fandango poll just is more accurate

Honestly, I wouldn't be so sure. It's not a huge sample size or anything, but Fandango surveyed more than 9000 people on their most anticipated 2025 movies, and BNW was #1 - with F4 at #5 and Superman at #9 - the franchise power of 'Captain America' really is enough to carry it in the eyes of the general audience, it seems. Plus, having a Hulk probably helps.

I feel you on both counts haha - I finally realised a few days ago that I'm just kinda collecting MCU minfigures because I used to like the movies and collect MCU minifigures, so I decided to sell them off - SUCH a good feeling, now I just have the comic stuff that I actually love populating my city :) And yeah, as cool as Shalla is, I think most people would like to see Norrin first. She's a character you should only really do the Surfer thing with WAYYYY down the line. I get the F4 are in an alt universe and that the MCU 616's Surfer is probably Norrin, but I'd rather spend one more film with the definitive version (especially after that awful version in the old F4 2) than have a one-and-done alternate. Not at all misogynist, don't worry 😂

Not even that it was necessarily destroyed, but it definitely wasn't in production since 2019, they'd have to bring it back in *some* capacity that would be more expensive than just... not including it

I think a strong point suggesting that this will be the case, besides the wealth of AoU figures in production, is them bringing back the Ultron neck piece - why would they do that JUST for a $15 mech?

For what it's worth, and I know this is just another individual perspective, my young siblings absolutely love LEGO, it's basically all they ever want for birthdays and Christmas. If they have friends around, even with videogames as an option, LEGO is what they'll be playing with for the majority of the time.

How much are you guys betting that despite LEGO Marvel being obsessed with mechs, there being a mech What If episode coming out, and the new Sony partnership for Spider-Verse, we get literally none of them represented in sets? SP//dr especially feels like such an obvious slam dunk, but I just know it's not gonna happen haha Generic Iron Man / Spider-Man mechs for life!!

This is what I've been feeling about the Marvel calendars - the ones for the other themes are pretty cool because they're often including characters that are either cool to have multiples of, or ones who only appeared in one or a couple sets. The Marvel ones are just including the same characters who you will have TONS of if you buy basically any sets outside of the calendar itself. Same on the legacy sets - I think they're kinda perpetuating the issue that the theme has with minifigures, we're getting like three or four versions of each major character on the shelves at any point (AoU Cap, A1 Cap, TFA Cap, etc.) instead of having one main look at a time and using the rest of the graphic designers' talents on new characters.

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I feel like if there was a Rivals collab set, or line of sets, we'd have probably known about it already. I also doubt that LEGO would prioritise another game tie in after the sales of Marvel's Avengers - obviously I don't have numbers on this, but it doesn't seem to me that people were particularly scrambling to get the game designs of the figures in those sets. If Rivals continues to be consistently anywhere near its launch popularity, I can maybe see LEGO going for a collab, but it's an unproven IP that there doesn't seem to be much point bothering with from a corporate perspective. Hell, the Insomniac games haven't even received tie-in sets despite their very proven popularity.

I think that they could feasibly do apartments for Miles, Peter and Gwen kinda like how they do the Friends bedroom sets? Simple brick exteriors with fire escapes and you can stack them up as an apartment building, something like that.