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

[CloneCommando99]

7 hours ago, ARC2149Nova said:

It...WHAT!? 

I think I need a debriefing, 

First of all, welcome to the Commando Corps.

You now have an Officer’s Commission in the space police. And Level 3 Clearence.

 

As for your debriefing: our Corps has liberated Lego city and overthrown the corrupt Corn-cob administration. We immediately “cleansed” the city of crime. Since there’s no longer any criminals, we have diverted all prison funds to building affordable housing. Same

The LCPD has been disbanded, and replaced by the newly restored Space Police. All Space Exploration personnel and 3/4 of its funding have been allocated to Space Police.

 

All Scientists that were on the Arctic Explorers, Space Exploration and other projects have been reallocated between finding the cure to Lego Cancer and Project Orpheus.

 

We now must prepare for the Brickest Night

Edited September 29, 2024 by CloneCommando99

[BrickBob Studpants]

…sometimes I wonder what the poor people must be thinking that unknowingly stumble upon this thread, expecting actual DC set discussion to take place  

I still don‘t know whether this is the best or the worst thread I‘ve ever seen on EB.

[Agent Kallus]

56 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

…sometimes I wonder what the poor people must be thinking that unknowingly stumble upon this thread, expecting actual DC set discussion to take place  

I still don‘t know whether this is the best or the worst thread I‘ve ever seen on EB.

Both

[Mandalorianknight]

13 hours ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

They're glad they're getting a set they've wanted for a long time.

We're glad we're getting a set.

We are not the same.

Two rings for a doubled amount of satisfaction with my relationship. 😌

"Wow, this set features a set of characters lego hasn't done yet, this is awesome!"

"Wow, this set features the second most popular DC character, who we haven't had in 6 years, this is awesome!"

Imagine a world where we're all excited for the new Teen Titans set based on their upcoming film, and the multiverse of madness in the marvel thread is losing their minds over the fact that after 5 years they're getting a set that isn't about spider-man.

7 hours ago, Renny The Spaceman said:

I think I may have stumbled across evidence that a second printing of Demolition Dummy's happened at some point 

I'm way more interested in this than I should be, I need to know. Are there any differences in the prints?

2 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

…sometimes I wonder what the poor people must be thinking that unknowingly stumble upon this thread, expecting actual DC set discussion to take place  

That's their mistake for believing lego DC sets exist.

Edited September 29, 2024 by Mandalorianknight

[psqidexslizer]

47 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

"Wow, this set features a set of characters lego hasn't done yet, this is awesome!"

"Wow, this set features the second most popular DC character, who we haven't had in 6 years, this is awesome!"

Imagine a world where we're all excited for the new Teen Titans set based on their upcoming film, and the multiverse of madness in the marvel thread is losing their minds over the fact that after 5 years they're getting a set that isn't about spider-man.

Somewhere in the Lego Multiverse, there is a universe where collectors are ecstatic that Venom has appeared again after being absent for 10 years.

[Lego Nostalgia]

What if instead of Joker he was called Freaker and touched you ?

I'll check myself back in Arkham now

Throw away the key

[Renny The Spaceman]

34 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I'm way more interested in this than I should be, I need to know. Are there any differences in the prints?

No, the difference is in the head mold.

Brace yourself, I am about to type perhaps the most autistic thing I ever have. 

Which as someone who's always been as bad at masking as I am is very much saying something

The first few series of CMFs contained exclusively the blocked open head stud, as seen below 

 

This was designed to reduce choking but around the time of the first CMFs regular sets switched over to the Hollow studs that stayed as the main form of LEGO head until about a year ago

CMF's were initially produced in different factories than regular minifigures so at no point in the very short production run of series 1 was there any sort of running change to the head mold used

So imagine my shock when I find a Bricklink listing for this

A hollow stud Dummy head, this shouldn't exist and Bricklink knows it. This piece's origin is listed as N/A on there, which makes sense, very few CMF series 1 heads have this sort of variant. Those that do, such as the Skater or Zombie, are figures who in one way or another were rereleased after the series was discontinued. I have not seen a single figure from this series who wasn't re-released have a hollow stud variant

So what's the catch here? How could this piece exist? The answer is simple, the LEGO House.

The greatest feature of the LEGO House in Billund is the Demolition Dummy themed room where you are supposed to build cars and crash them, in the parts bins in these sections from the House's launch to this day are a bunch of Demolition Dummies to be put in the cars. I assumed these were old stock for the longest time, and they may well be, but my current suspicion is that these figures were, in fact, produced in some small quantity to serve as fixtures to the LEGO House. Not only would it explain this piece's existence but also why there are still a good quantity of Dummies in the LEGO House in vlogs and such from the past few years. Let's be real, if these were old stock (of a single figure in a series with a very limited production run) Kid's probably would have stolen most of them in the 7 years since it opened.

One small piece of anecdotal evidence for this theory is that I have in my collection and online never seen any Dummy with this newer head piece and of the 5 of these that I have seen for sale on bricklink 3 have come from Denmark, where the LEGO House is based.

None of this is concrete of course but I would argue it's hard not to see this as a possibility.


 

[Mandalorianknight]

14 minutes ago, Renny The Spaceman said:

Brace yourself, I am about to type perhaps the most autistic thing I ever have.

This is a Grand Admiral Thrawn level investigation, I applaud you. I think your conclusion is the only one that makes sense- it has to be true. The obvious next steps are to infiltrate the lego house and find the supply line of the dummy figures to locate their origin point.

1 hour ago, psqidexslizer said:

Somewhere in the Lego Multiverse, there is a universe where collectors are ecstatic that Venom has appeared again after being absent for 10 years.

And there's another universe where lego marvel's summer 2023 wave consisted of three spider-man vs venom sets based on the 2007 movie.

[Renny The Spaceman]

41 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

This is a Grand Admiral Thrawn level investigation, I applaud you. I think your conclusion is the only one that makes sense- it has to be true. The obvious next steps are to infiltrate the lego house and find the supply line of the dummy figures to locate their origin point.

Thank you, I believe you are right about my next steps, it's the only logical next step.

Something else we must consider, not all heads have yet swapped over to the modern vented stud mold. For example the classic smiley head still uses the blocked open stud I believe as does the smile on the white astronaut in this year's space diner, this does mean it is technically a possibility that to this day Demolition Dummy parts are in production in small numbers to replenish LEGO House stocks. I don't believe this is likely but it is possible. Even if it isn't though, in time, Dummies may be produced again with the modern vented stud once the existing stock depletes. However the likelihood of that entirely depend on how many were made in the second batch and the rate that kids steal them

[CloneCommando99]

8 hours ago, Renny The Spaceman said:

No, the difference is in the head mold.

Brace yourself, I am about to type perhaps the most autistic thing I ever have. 

Which as someone who's always been as bad at masking as I am is very much saying something

The first few series of CMFs contained exclusively the blocked open head stud, as seen below 

 

This was designed to reduce choking but around the time of the first CMFs regular sets switched over to the Hollow studs that stayed as the main form of LEGO head until about a year ago

CMF's were initially produced in different factories than regular minifigures so at no point in the very short production run of series 1 was there any sort of running change to the head mold used

So imagine my shock when I find a Bricklink listing for this

A hollow stud Dummy head, this shouldn't exist and Bricklink knows it. This piece's origin is listed as N/A on there, which makes sense, very few CMF series 1 heads have this sort of variant. Those that do, such as the Skater or Zombie, are figures who in one way or another were rereleased after the series was discontinued. I have not seen a single figure from this series who wasn't re-released have a hollow stud variant

So what's the catch here? How could this piece exist? The answer is simple, the LEGO House.

The greatest feature of the LEGO House in Billund is the Demolition Dummy themed room where you are supposed to build cars and crash them, in the parts bins in these sections from the House's launch to this day are a bunch of Demolition Dummies to be put in the cars. I assumed these were old stock for the longest time, and they may well be, but my current suspicion is that these figures were, in fact, produced in some small quantity to serve as fixtures to the LEGO House. Not only would it explain this piece's existence but also why there are still a good quantity of Dummies in the LEGO House in vlogs and such from the past few years. Let's be real, if these were old stock (of a single figure in a series with a very limited production run) Kid's probably would have stolen most of them in the 7 years since it opened.

One small piece of anecdotal evidence for this theory is that I have in my collection and online never seen any Dummy with this newer head piece and of the 5 of these that I have seen for sale on bricklink 3 have come from Denmark, where the LEGO House is based.

None of this is concrete of course but I would argue it's hard not to see this as a possibility.


 

Bravo. Batman and Sherlock and Chimp would be proud of your Detective work.

[Renny The Spaceman]

Why aren't we talking about this great DC set still available from LEGO.com?

[RedHoodPug]

3 hours ago, Renny The Spaceman said:

Why aren't we talking about this great DC set still available from LEGO.com?

Absolute Penpal Batman uses his oversized pen to draw villains into existence and then beats them into submission with the pen. No wonder he looks so happy. How is this not permanently on the the best seller list?

[Renny The Spaceman]

17 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Bravo. Batman and Sherlock and Chimp would be proud of your Detective work.

Thank you, but I do it not for the appreciation of them but for the honour of the Demolition Dummy. My dream is one day to see him be made readily available to the masses again so more can see his light

 

21 minutes ago, RedHoodPug said:

Absolute Penpal Batman uses his oversized pen to draw villains into existence and then beats them into submission with the pen. No wonder he looks so happy. How is this not permanently on the the best seller list?

EXACTLY! We've had access to making any DC character at our fingertips this entire time and we've been foolish with it, we should have just drawn Superman, or Kyle, or Polka dot man and we'd have had them readily available 

[psqidexslizer]

19 hours ago, Renny The Spaceman said:

Why aren't we talking about this great DC set still available from LEGO.com?

Reduced to a pen pal, because Lego won’t give him back his super friends. 😔

[RedHoodPug]

17 hours ago, Renny The Spaceman said:

EXACTLY! We've had access to making any DC character at our fingertips this entire time and we've been foolish with it, we should have just drawn Superman, or Kyle, or Polka dot man and we'd have had them readily available 

I can't believe we've been complaining about a lack of new figures all this time when we could have just been drawing them. I feel like a fool!

[CloneCommando99]

We’ve got 3 months. 3 months until hope arrives.

 

Can we last that long? Or will we lose every last trace of our sanity before then?

It’s always darkest before the dawn (of DC)

2 hours ago, psqidexslizer said:

Reduced to a pen pal, because Lego won’t give him back his super friends. 😔

He’s technically got Val Zod. But the postage to earth 2 costs too much.

Edited October 1, 2024 by CloneCommando99

[LemonFlavouredBleach]

 Superman movie sets just got confirmed 🥳 

https://x.com/homeofdcu/status/1841208219898954224

Edited October 1, 2024 by LemonFlavouredBleach

[CloneCommando99]

10 minutes ago, LemonFlavouredBleach said:

 Superman movie sets just got confirmed 🥳 

https://x.com/homeofdcu/status/1841208219898954224

Hope

[Renny The Spaceman]

4 hours ago, RedHoodPug said:

I can't believe we've been complaining about a lack of new figures all this time when we could have just been drawing them. I feel like a fool!

Yeah, or alternatively just buying a dozen Demolition Dummies and appreciating how they're the only figures we'll ever need

14 minutes ago, LemonFlavouredBleach said:

 Superman movie sets just got confirmed 🥳 

https://x.com/homeofdcu/status/1841208219898954224

Hopefully it's just a BRICKHEADZ and a 300 quid build of Superman's cape 🤞 🤞 🤞 🤞 

[psqidexslizer]

Alright guys, now that the secret is out, I can spill the beans on upcoming Superman sets. Now, keep in mind, my source is completely legit so anyone who says otherwise is wrong, stupid, and most likely a serial killer.

73012: Superman Brickheadz ($50)

This set will be a Superman Brickheadz with a fun twist. Superman will be dressed as Batman.

 

73016: The Batmobile featuring Superman vs the Joker ($120)

The set should include a Batmobile, Joker, and Superman dressed as Batman

 

73018: The Batcave with Superman and Lex Luthor 4+ ($100)

This set will be 4+. Included are a Batcave, Batmobile, Superman dressed as The Joker and Lex Luthor dressed as Batman

 

73028: The Batmobile with Superman ($800)

This will include a UCS scaled Batmobile with a Superman dressed as Batman minifigure.

[Falconfan1414]

Imagine it’s just the one mech set 

[Mandalorianknight]

6 hours ago, psqidexslizer said:

Reduced to a pen pal, because Lego won’t give him back his super friends. 😔

This line evokes raw energy of pure loss only matched by teenagers captioning instagram posts with quotes from Joker.

(It seriously is very funny there's just something about the cadence of the sentence that reminds me of it, I don't know what.)

48 minutes ago, LemonFlavouredBleach said:

 Superman movie sets just got confirmed 🥳 

https://x.com/homeofdcu/status/1841208219898954224

I would not rule out whatever suit/marketing person writing this not realizing that the mech set is comic based, if it is. They're certainly more likely, but I wouldn't say confirmed just yet.

[psqidexslizer]

1 hour ago, Falconfan1414 said:

Imagine it’s just the one mech set 

 

[NXS7]

On 9/29/2024 at 4:56 PM, BrickBob Studpants said:

…sometimes I wonder what the poor people must be thinking that unknowingly stumble upon this thread, expecting actual DC set discussion to take place  

I still don‘t know whether this is the best or the worst thread I‘ve ever seen on EB.

I hope a moderator decides enough is enough one day, and organises a mass intervention with everyone's loved ones

Every time I return to this thread loony bin I'm usually 3 pages behind so skip some vital lore, then whatever insanity is on the most recent page makes my brain play Sum 41's 'In Too Deep'

On 9/29/2024 at 9:12 PM, Lego Nostalgia said:

What if instead of Joker he was called Freaker and touched you ?

I'll check myself back in Arkham now

Throw away the key

I... Urm... Wha...

I rest my case your honour

 

But what if he was called Jingles and was a single dad of 3 (Abner, 37M, Matthew, 8F and CAT GP25N Forklift, 3F)  just trying to make ends meet by selling balloon animals on the corner of East Street?

2 hours ago, psqidexslizer said:

73016: The Batmobile featuring Superman vs the Joker ($120)

The set should include a Batmobile, Joker, and Superman dressed as Batman

Piece count: 96

Edited October 1, 2024 by NXS7

[calebcold3]

3 hours ago, Falconfan1414 said:

Imagine it’s just the one mech set