Marvel Superheroes 2023 - Rumors & Discussion

[Legocentrico]

Exabricks shared better images of Rogue! The minifigure is beautiful, but the white spot still doesn't convince me...

[Shiva]

The white spot in the hair?

Usually it is centered and bigger.

[psqidexslizer]

The hair is, IMO, the biggest thing holding the Rogue minifigure back. The color is wrong. The style is wrong. The white at the top is just executed horribly. IMO, they should have given her the Agatha hairpiece in dark red and painted the top white, similar to what they did with the 2020 Two-Face figure.

 

The torso and head are both fantastic. The legs are alright. Dual molding would have been preferable but I think they look good enough.

Edited November 6, 2023 by psqidexslizer

[hikouki]

50 minutes ago, psqidexslizer said:

The hair is, IMO, the biggest thing holding the Rogue minifigure back. The color is wrong. The style is wrong. The white at the top is just executed horribly. IMO, they should have given her the Agatha hairpiece in dark red and painted the top white, similar to what they did with the 2020 Two-Face figure.

 

The torso and head are both fantastic. The legs are alright. Dual molding would have been preferable but I think they look good enough.

I am wondering if certain hair molds make it difficult for lego to paint certain areas white?

At any rate, I feel it is not uncommon for Lego to mess up certain details of minifigs. There were complaints after complaints against the Disney minifigs over on the other thread. Some trivial, some were matter-of-life-and-death. LOL Though people bought the figures/ sets anyway for lack of an alternative.

I think Lego will get the hair right on a future Rogue minifig but they will botch the torso and/ or legs. LOL

[psqidexslizer]

17 minutes ago, hikouki said:

I am wondering if certain hair molds make it difficult for lego to paint certain areas white.

I’m not entirely sure, tbh. They seems to stick with mostly smooth areas, but they have printed on curvier surfaces, such as Narcissa Malfoy’s hairpeice.

But, even if they couldn’t do it well or consistently, in this case I don’t think it’d be a huge issue since Rogue already has messy hair. I can’t imagine it’d look worse than the bird-dropping effect we ended up getting.

Edited November 6, 2023 by psqidexslizer

[Mandalorianknight]

2 hours ago, psqidexslizer said:

The hair is, IMO, the biggest thing holding the Rogue minifigure back. The color is wrong. The style is wrong. The white at the top is just executed horribly. IMO, they should have given her the Agatha hairpiece in dark red and painted the top white, similar to what they did with the 2020 Two-Face figure.

I agree with all of this except for dark red. I know redheads have a history of getting shafted in adaptions (and I'm not just talking about the more well-known ones like MJ and Carnage. Daredevil might be the best marvel project, but I still refuse to forgive Charlie Cox for not being one of my people.), but Rogue has generally always had brown hair.

As for print difficulties... it's 2023. Lego should be able to apply some white print to the fig.

[Legocentrico]

(the marvels. pre-sales lower than flash and black adam)

[psqidexslizer]

7 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I agree with all of this except for dark red. I know redheads have a history of getting shafted in adaptions (and I'm not just talking about the more well-known ones like MJ and Carnage. Daredevil might be the best marvel project, but I still refuse to forgive Charlie Cox for not being one of my people.), but Rogue has generally always had brown hair.

As for print difficulties... it's 2023. Lego should be able to apply some white print to the fig.

I was going with dark red just because this is based on the cartoon where her hair is closer to dark red than brown. You are right that in general her hair is brown and I’d be more than happy with that too.

 

edit: kishalego on YouTube has a review of Rogue with some shots of her back and with different hairstyles.

Edited November 6, 2023 by psqidexslizer

[BusterNut31]

2 hours ago, Legocentrico said:

(the marvels. pre-sales lower than flash and black adam

2 hours ago, Legocentrico said:

(the marvels. pre-sales lower than flash and black adam)

Lets stick to the topic of Lego rumours and leaks. Not box office tracking.

Edited November 6, 2023 by BusterNut31
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[Legocentrico]

49 minuti fa, BusterNut31 ha detto:

Atteniamoci all'argomento delle voci e delle fughe di notizie di Lego. Non il monitoraggio del botteghino.

Are you an admin? O.o Maybe you don't read the forum much, but I'm definitely talking about lego. We debated the reasons for the ridiculous price of 76232, since the franchise isn't well-loved. And since someone claimed the opposite, I'll update the box office situation. To make you feel more at ease, every time there is an update, I will summarize starting from the price of Hoopty. Yo

[BusterNut31]

15 minutes ago, Legocentrico said:

Are you an admin? O.o Maybe you don't read the forum much, but I'm definitely talking about lego. We debated the reasons for the ridiculous price of 76232, since the franchise isn't well-loved. And since someone claimed the opposite, I'll update the box office situation. To make you feel more at ease, every time there is an update, I will summarize starting from the price of Hoopty. Yo

Do you the word “admin” under my name?

no.

dont see the connection with box office and whether or not someone buys the lego set. Morbius was a flop and so many people loved the lego set ironically.

also quote the person u are replying to so we can see the discussion history. That way your message cant be taken out of context. Not everyone scrolls back to previous pages.

also im not fighting. Not calling you out or anything. No need to get defensive.

[Legocentrico]

1 minuto fa, BusterNut31 ha detto:

bla bla bla

If you don't see the connection and don't want to read old threads, that's your problem, not mine. At most it could be an Admin problem, in which case the Admin will let me know. You can't tell me what I can or can't do (also because in this way you are unnecessarily lengthening the discussion)

[BusterNut31]

9 minutes ago, Legocentrico said:

If you don't see the connection and don't want to read old threads, that's your problem, not mine. At most it could be an Admin problem, in which case the Admin will let me know. You can't tell me what I can or can't do (also because in this way you are unnecessarily lengthening the discussion)

Ok the bla bla was a mistake because my typing didnt show up on the screen and i thought something was wrong so i type bla bla to see of it shows up. 
 

i didnt know it was showing. I have a screen shot showing your quote twice but no writing beneath it.

i understand how u can read that the wrong way. I apologize for that.

[Mandalorianknight]

4 hours ago, Legocentrico said:

(the marvels. pre-sales lower than flash and black adam)

Place your bets now: Does the Hoopty sell well when it goes 40% off, or do they still have trouble moving it like they did the BP bust?

1 hour ago, BusterNut31 said:

dont see the connection with box office and whether or not someone buys the lego set. Morbius was a flop and so many people loved the lego set ironically.

There definately is a connection. People loved the lego set ironically BECAUSE morbius was a flop, and it made it a huge meme. A $25 set with a figure based off one of the year's biggest memes is going to do just fine in the adult demo (and don't forget assumably a large chunk of the sales were kids who wanted Miles and... his car... not to get on that but I still have trouble believing even 6-8 year olds want their spider-men to drive around). A $90 set based on a movie people just don't seem to care about is not going to do well among any demos.

[SamVimes]

4 hours ago, Legocentrico said:

(the marvels. pre-sales lower than flash and black adam)

And? I mean it's not like theatres are busy right now my dude? Hell, even Scorsese's latest critical darling, Killers of the Flower Moon, struggled in its opening weekend.

Not to mention strike action (UNIONIZE) means no promotion for the film, no convention hype. I mean Five nights at Freddy's was the biggest movie since the summer? Tells you everything you need to know about the current state of cinema. 

Now is the Hoopty overpriced? Yes. Grossly overpriced. 

But you're derailing discussion in a thinly veiled attempt to bash Marvels. Why? For internet clout? Brie Larson personally victimized you? Maybe your masculinity is set to Cotton Candy mode? 

 

But back to the actual interesting discussion Mutants in the MCU!

So as noted by more than one person, the MCU has shown latent powers being activated by the Mind Stone, which easily leads into a little hand wavey but plausible idea that Thanos snapping half of the planet out of existence, activated a whole lot more mutant abilities than were in existence before the Snap, leading to Xavier and Magneto coming out of the woodwork. Kind of a reverse House of M storyline.

Now who we get out of that outside of the main X-Men cast? That remains to be seen. Magic solidly exists, so Juggernaut, Magik, Nightcrawler etc fair game, Forge is the Tony Stark of Mutants and would make sense, then you get into new gen list Polaris, Armor, Husk, X-23 etc, Which given the age of Pat and Ian might be something people are considering, Not bashing Mike and Jim's performance's but the OG thespians are a bit hard to follow. 

Honestly I'd just like to see a more modern take on the uniforms, Wakanda does seem to share a lot of the more basic tech, so robust fabrics seem like an easy win, without sacrificing colour. 

[Scarilian]

Still not entirely sold on the idea of the X-Men Mansion facade set that we may get in 2024 so the new museum modular set has me intrigued. Though it would'nt be entirely accurate I'm curious if anyone is tempted to get that set, remove the Museum elements and turn it into an X-Men Mansion.

I think if you removed the extras on the front, lowered the triangular overhang to the middle it'd look fairly neat. You'd get the Tribute to Galileo Galilei set if you buy at certain times, which you could easily alter into a vignete for Prof. X's meeting room.

None of its going to be accurate, obviously, but it's may be the closest to a modular mansion we appear to be getting and if the X-Men Mansion is indeed just a facade then it may be a good alternative. If you intend to get both anyway then you could probably combine the two, the facade of the X-Men building wrapped around the modular.

1 hour ago, SamVimes said:

thinly veiled attempt to bash Marvels.

You may dislike the conversation being mentioned here but nothing they stated is incorrect and throwing insults at them won't change that. Nothing in the original comment you replied to showed they had any animosity towards the film. Spoiler tagged the sources and box office tracking.

Spoiler

The box office tracking suggests The Marvels will be a box office bomb losing a lot of money for Disney, at this stage the estimated previews for The Marvels ($5.35m) are lower than Morbius ($5.7m) and the previously predicted opening weekend of $41-$55m is lower than The Flash and Black Adam. All of that is factual.

The box office tracking implies we may not have much chance of legacy sets for The Marvels so anyone waiting on Dar-Benn or other variations of the characters costumes we may never recieve them. I doubt the sales of the Hoopty, especially given its high price, will be high enough to warrant returning to do sets based on The Marvels. As such we could see discounts for The Hoopty to try and clear stock. It also suggests that a lot of the upcoming slate of films will be changed, including additional delays to those we expect to happen due to the strikes.

1 hour ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Place your bets now: Does the Hoopty sell well when it goes 40% off, or do they still have trouble moving it like they did the BP bust?

It'd need to be half price for people to give it a try, around £42.99 for 420 pieces and 3 figures with some cats.The lack of conflict in a box and the abysmal movie performance won't help sales.

[Toast]

Does anyone remember the rumored price of the X mansion in the survey? Just curious because if it was $300 I can see it becoming a modular but any less I would assume it'll stay as a facade/doll house

[Legocentrico]

5 minuti fa, Toast ha detto:

Qualcuno ricorda il prezzo vociferato della villa X nel sondaggio? Sono solo curioso perché se fosse di 300 dollari posso vederlo diventare un modulare, ma meno presumo che rimarrà come una facciata/casa delle bambole

I probably remember wrong, but the questionnaire asked how much you would be willing to pay for the set, there was no set price

[psqidexslizer]

23 minutes ago, Toast said:

Does anyone remember the rumored price of the X mansion in the survey? Just curious because if it was $300 I can see it becoming a modular but any less I would assume it'll stay as a facade/doll house

18 minutes ago, Legocentrico said:

I probably remember wrong, but the questionnaire asked how much you would be willing to pay for the set, there was no set price

You are correct. There was no set price.

Also, the price wouldn’t tell us much. We’ve seen “dollhouses” for more than $300, Rivendell being a prime example.

1 hour ago, Scarilian said:

Still not entirely sold on the idea of the X-Men Mansion facade set that we may get in 2024 so the new museum modular set has me intrigued. Though it would'nt be entirely accurate I'm curious if anyone is tempted to get that set, remove the Museum elements and turn it into an X-Men Mansion.

I built an X-Mansion awhile ago. If the new one is less than stellar, I’ll probably just use the parts to beef up the one I already made. 😁

[Legocentrico]

In any case I wouldn't expect a modular building, it will probably be more similar to the leaked image than we would like... but I trust the designers and still hope to get a great set

[hikouki]

58 minutes ago, Toast said:

Does anyone remember the rumored price of the X mansion in the survey? Just curious because if it was $300 I can see it becoming a modular but any less I would assume it'll stay as a facade/doll house

 

12 minutes ago, Legocentrico said:

In any case I wouldn't expect a modular building, it will probably be more similar to the leaked image than we would like... but I trust the designers and still hope to get a great set

Looking at the latest modular building, I think $300 for a modular X-Mansion might be a tight budget, given they still have licensing fees to think about, and the ambitious number of copyrighted characters they were proposing.

They're probably gonna include another Wolverine...but perhaps a lot of these characters will be repeats.

[psqidexslizer]

24 minutes ago, hikouki said:

 

Looking at the latest modular building, I think $300 for a modular X-Mansion might be a tight budget, given they still have licensing fees to think about, and the ambitious number of copyrighted characters they were proposing.

They're probably gonna include another Wolverine...but perhaps a lot of these characters will be repeats.

$300 isn’t a guarantee. It could be more, it could be less.

Wolverine, on the other hand, is a very safe bet.

[spiderfan2000]

Apparently the Blade movie is going to be rated R according to what the director briefly mentions here, so it's probably good that we already got a comic Blade minifigure at least.

[hikouki]

1 hour ago, psqidexslizer said:

$300 isn’t a guarantee. It could be more, it could be less.

Wolverine, on the other hand, is a very safe bet.

I already know I would pay more if it were a nice build with a good selection of minifigs. We'll have to see what they have in store for the X-Jet, hoping it is not another Hoopty.

[Mandalorianknight]

34 minutes ago, hikouki said:

I already know I would pay more if it were a nice build with a good selection of minifigs. We'll have to see what they have in store for the X-Jet, hoping it is not another Hoopty.

It's worse than a Hoopty. The Hoopty is going to sell terribly, whereas being the first standard system X-men set in a decade (and the first one in a decade period to feature characters besides wolverine and magneto), the X-jet will probably still do pretty well, and therefore reinforce to lego that they can do this type of thing.

4 hours ago, SamVimes said:

And? I mean it's not like theatres are busy right now my dude? Hell, even Scorsese's latest critical darling, Killers of the Flower Moon, struggled in its opening weekend.

Plenty of movies have done well this year, marvel movies included.

Edited November 6, 2023 by Mandalorianknight