At a guess, I'd say they didn't want sets that won't be released for a month or so appearing on Shop@Home when people are doing their Christmas shopping, or something like that- if you saw you only had to wait a couple of months for these sets, you wouldn't spend on the 2016 wave of Super Heroes sets (which I imagine LEGO would want to sell at this time of year)- after all, who'd pay more for a set with Killer Croc when a far better version is appearing in just a month in a slightly cheaper set? I think the reason people in the United States are still seeing them is because the four sets on their Lego Batman Movie page are already out there in time for the Christmas season, while the others were just sitting around convincing people to save their money and come in a month's time, which I imagine isn't good for business.

They could also be tweaking the prices, but probably (hopefully?) not by much- I can't see them making the sets too much more expensive, as they'd want people to see the sets as good value for money otherwise no-one would buy any.

Getting back to Clayface- it's odd, but I actually kind of like the frog-like face and stubby little legs, they give the model a lot of character, and I think that the decision to go brick-built makes far more sense for the style that the film's made in (as a bigfig or minifigure wouldn't be able to shape-shift otherwise). The Clayface figure worked in the LEGO Batman games because minifigures in the game weren't as solid and so the animation was possible, but that wouldn't have worked in the world established by The LEGO Movie. I'd say my biggest problem with him is actually the arms- I wish they'd given him ordinary hands, or thrown in a second weapon hand (a spiky mace-like one?) rather than just the stud-shooters. Don't get me wrong, this is a great set if you want more stud shooters, as you get twelve, but they aren't that good for much other than a play feature here. 

19 hours ago, amazingbricks said:

Might be able to get the clayface set earlier than I thought! According to my target, they should have it out next week. I'm super pumped about this set. 

How did you hear that?

Just got the Lowrider. I can't wait to build this. 

3 hours ago, Invincible_LEGOMAN said:

How did you hear that?

My target has them and are putting them on shelves next week! I asked an employee.

Just now, amazingbricks said:

My target has them and are putting them on shelves next week! I asked an employee.

That's amazing! You are in the US correct? If that's not too much to ask.

1 minute ago, Invincible_LEGOMAN said:

That's amazing! You are in the US correct? If that's not too much to ask.

Yeah! Although, I'm not sure if all targets will be doing this. Normally, they don't do this but I'm not complaining haha.

14 minutes ago, amazingbricks said:

Yeah! Although, I'm not sure if all targets will be doing this. Normally, they don't do this but I'm not complaining haha.

Lucky! Hopefully mine will do the same!

A smallish avian creature told me that LEGO stores may or may not be releasing the rest of the new sets on December 26th, rather than January 1st. Dunno if it's true, but that's what the bird said.

Did this bird specify if this was in the US only, or in the UK as well?

5 minutes ago, rob-ot5000 said:

A smallish avian creature told me that LEGO stores may or may not be releasing the rest of the new sets on December 26th, rather than January 1st. Dunno if it's true, but that's what the bird said.

Do you know if the avian creature was talking about the CMFs as well?

1 hour ago, rob-ot5000 said:

A smallish avian creature told me that LEGO stores may or may not be releasing the rest of the new sets on December 26th, rather than January 1st. Dunno if it's true, but that's what the bird said.

Was it ... a penguin?!

4 hours ago, robertgorman2505 said:

Did this bird specify if this was in the US only, or in the UK as well?

The bird did not specify, but he and I are both American, so that's all I can speak for.

4 hours ago, BrickHat said:

Do you know if the avian creature was talking about the CMFs as well?

The bird said everything intended to release on the first, which should include CMFs.

3 hours ago, GentlemanJoker said:

Was it ... a penguin?!

It was not.

 

 

Again, this isn't certain yet. And really, I suppose it applies to more than TLBM, but hey, here we are. (Incidentally, if you're interested in the upcoming free Gingerbread Man offer, there's some new info about that in the seasonal thread.)

Bought the new Mr. Freeze set today, like the mech/robot build much more in person than I expected to, wasn't a big fan based off the reviews/pics, but seeing and holding it in person has changed my mind completely.  I also combined my Mr. Freeze from the old Aquaman set with this new Mr. Freeze, and used my leftover old Mr. Freeze head to do a quick and easy (and IMO pretty decent job) custom of one of the few Batman characters left out of the movie lol, Great White Shark;

9 hours ago, rob-ot5000 said:

A smallish avian creature told me that LEGO stores may or may not be releasing the rest of the new sets on December 26th, rather than January 1st. Dunno if it's true, but that's what the bird said.

That would be awesome!

The Lego Batman Mocie theme was removed from Lego S@H too 

15 minutes ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

The Lego Batman Mocie theme was removed from Lego S@H too 

Yeah, that's already been pointed out. It appears to have disappeared everywhere except the US site.

45 minutes ago, GoldenNinja3000 said:

Yeah, that's already been pointed out. It appears to have disappeared everywhere except the US site.

Pointed out was that that sets were removed. Now whole theme is removed.

 

Clearly the sets and all traces have been removed from Lego.com. Let's not continue to bring that up again and again. 

 

Talk about the physical sets here--not their (lack of) availability on Lego.com. Thanks! 

I think I just found out why sets disappeared from shop@home. Penguins Arctic Roller price just got bumped to 35€ from 30 it was before. Should have known there's a bad reason for sets disappearing.

How did you find out that price increase?

I hope Scuttler and Killer Croc Tail Bator sets won't increase 

51 minutes ago, robertgorman2505 said:

How did you find out that price increase?

My browser window was open on Penguin set and when Ichecked it today, I saw price of 35€ when a few days ago it was 30€.

Huh, weird.

3 minutes ago, robertgorman2505 said:

Huh, weird.

I'm not saying every sets price will rise, I just noticed that one sets price got increased that's all.

I really hope that is the only price increase and that there are no price increases in the UK as our prices are quite high anyway at the moment.