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

[psqidexslizer]

Please, guys, let’s not get distracted by going on-topic.

 

How did Brickheads Joker get to be so powerful? My theory: he has been using the Mars Mission crystals to increase his power. But what happened to the aliens? Why don’t we see them anymore? Did Brickheads Joker commit genocide against the martians? Is Martian Manhunter out there somewhere awaiting his chance to avenge his people? 🤔

[Mandalorianknight]

31 minutes ago, psqidexslizer said:

How did Brickheads Joker get to be so powerful? 

IIRC turtle gave us the Lore Reason very early on, which was simply that since his brain was a few 2x2 bricks instead of just the inside of a minifigure head, he was absurdly intelligent, well beyond that of a twelfth-level.

[Renny The Spaceman]

2 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

IIRC turtle gave us the Lore Reason very early on, which was simply that since his brain was a few 2x2 bricks instead of just the inside of a minifigure head, he was absurdly intelligent, well beyond that of a twelfth-level.

A very terrifying fact, however I believe this intelligence is what caused him to start his campaign by harvesting the Martian power Crystals, perhaps the colonising aliens from Mars Mission are henchmen he created from kryptonite  

3 hours ago, psqidexslizer said:

 Is Martian Manhunter out there somewhere awaiting his chance to avenge his people? 🤔

It all depends on if Superman's mech wins enough of the council of batmen's approval to get them to fund him reconstructing all the Leaguer's Brickheadz Joker destroyed. If not the only chance would be if he, upon hearing the Demolition Dummy's warning to the DC heroes, went into hiding somewhere no-one could ever find. 

Just like how legends say Wonder Woman, shortly after the purge began, managed to hide within something, with two of her former foes and whatever she is in was so undesirable to all who walk the earth that it still lays undisturbed in the backs of warehouses and the shelves of small toy stores. The only other DC hero who could have possible done this as well is Aquaman, believed to have managed to save two of his Atlantean guards in the process  

[legoturtle]

hey... I am only 1 here who owns all CITY/Police sets (2024) even that polybag.

So in LEGO fair... those police figures + villains will join with Gotham City police and bad guys with Purple 13.

[psqidexslizer]

Don’t mean to go on-topic, but there’s a new Penguin trailer and it looks great. Between this, Creature Commandos, and Joker Folie a Duex, it looks like DC is really gonna kill it later this year.

 

edit: Kill it, as in, make great content. Not kill this theme one and for all. Thought I’d specify for obvious reasons.

Edited July 28, 2024 by psqidexslizer

[legoturtle]

Guys! This looks very promising. AND we even have that Penguin minifigure. (It should be a MOLD, BUT LEGO hates DC so....).

Edited July 28, 2024 by legoturtle

[Maaboo the Witch]

36 minutes ago, legoturtle said:

LEGO hates DC

[Agent Kallus]

I've looked into this riddle at the heart of Lego city and I have solved it. 

Lego city isn't suffering as you might conclude,! It's a goddamn paradise! But a paradise for the living.

All these crooks are committing crimes for the thrill, not for survival. There is no poverty in Lego City. 

One might think of Lego City as a police state. One would be wrong. For in Lego city the only true currency is that of play. Corncob knows this. Their prisons are little more than fancy escape rooms to keep the city wilder inhabitants entertained... Entertained and distracted.....

Money is not (and had never been) a problem in Lego City. Look at the some of the facilities Lego city lacks; No food bank, no soup kitchen, no homeless shelter. You could incorrectly conclude from this that Lego City simply does not care for its poorest denizens. But I do not think that that is the case at all!!! They are far better taken care of than those in real life.

They have never made a Lego estate agent. Because buying a house is not really part of the equation in Lego City. If a citizen wants a new home they can simply build it!!! Remember that the citizens of Lego city are not humans! They are minifigs, and minifigs have different needs, simpler needs, needs that are easier to meet. Minifigs cannot starve, they do not die of exhaustion or thirst! 

So crimes are not commited out of necessity in Lego City, hopefully I have convinced you of that. However there is one crime that plays as an exception to this rule. One forgotten crime, one we rarely see on the front of boxes for Lego sets. One that is kept hidden and yet is probably one of the 5 most common types of crime in Lego City. A crime which the city does not encourage but cannot prevent. One which the city is always prepared for. A crime Corncob would have us forget.

I would have you think back to the services we know are not provided in Lego City. No I am not thinking of something relatively obscene like a spermbank or a brothel. I am thinking of a funeral home. Death is a simple fact of life. Death must happen in Lego city. No the crime I speak of is not murder, but it is still very connected to death, in ways that might not yet be obvious. No perhaps you wondering how I am so sure of death, when I have previously underlined the differences between humans and minifigs. But you can look at the people of Lego city and see death is real in their society. They age they are not all the same age and some sets even suggest timelines of family's and aging.

And what is aging? Well aging past the point of full development and maturity (25 years in humans thought minifig years seem different) is simply the body withering away, becoming weaker, cells dying. No I know that old age is not a true of death but it is the cause of the causes, of organ failure and susceptibility to disease. Now who can say how the organs and diseases of Lego city work? But we know they have hospitals. And why for the treatment of injuries and diseases surely? And we have pretty much have established that aging is after a certain point simply a path to death. A path minifigs can do naught but walk. Outside of Lego city we have seen graveyards, another point towards the existence of death.

We have seen thier corpses. But mainly as either undead or Skeletons. Undeath is an interesting process but not entirely relevant right now, especially you can go straight from alive to undead without being dead in-between so we shall ignore undeath here. Skeletons are the focus of my next point.

I have established that Lego city does not have funeral home or indeed crematoriums. And that death exists and most of dead we see are skeletons. So I am concluding that out mystery crime is Arson. The skeletons have no flesh! Perjyit was charred off, leaving only bone! Maybe this is the city's unofficial way of dealing with thier dead, we even know that skeleton parts exist in black! Perhaps from fires that burnt too long and ended up blackening the bone!!!

So in conclusion the only *real* crime committed in Lego City is arson, which is used as a way of dealing with the dead. Afterall the police state thoery only explains the bloated police forse not the enormous fire brigade! While illegal this crime is committed by normal minifigs in regular clothes not the cosplay criminals who always wear those prison jumpsuits! Perpetrators of arson for funeral purposes aren't prosecuted as it the city a d Corncob takes pity on them and the traditional minifig funeral practices ( afterall dead have been Skeletons since the days of castle at the very least!).

But that's just a theory. A Cremation theory 

 

9 hours ago, psqidexslizer said:

Don’t mean to go on-topic, but there’s a new Penguin trailer and it looks great. Between this, Creature Commandos, and Joker Folie a Duex

Also revealed at SDCC was a Batman forever Batmobile from MacFarlane toys. If other companies are starting to merchandise the Schumacher films more heavily perhaps TLG will join in?

[Mandalorianknight]

16 hours ago, psqidexslizer said:

edit: Kill it, as in, make great content. Not kill this theme one and for all. Thought I’d specify for obvious reasons.

I mean, we're not getting sets off any of the three, so....

 

A LOT is riding on Superman 2025. If this thing fails, I really do think lego DC has a real chance of being absorbed by Icons. In fact, part of me thinks that one of the only reasons they haven't already done so is that they put out 4+ sets and it'd be weird to have 4+ icons sets.

9 hours ago, legoturtle said:

It should be a MOLD

The poor man already feels self-conscious about his appearance, no need to say his head is too misshapen to be a normal minifigure one!

[CloneCommando99]

8 hours ago, Agent Kallus said:

 

But that's just a theory. A Cremation theory 

 

Interesting theory. Welcome to our enlightened debate. But that doesn’t explain why the Action theme characters have gone missing.

But a good theory none the less.

Edited July 28, 2024 by CloneCommando99

[Murdoch17]

I think I know what happened to the dead figures flesh @Agent Kallus.... you ever seen the film Soylent Green? 

Spoiler

SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!

 

Edited July 28, 2024 by Murdoch17

[legoturtle]

10 hours ago, Agent Kallus said:

Their prisons are little more than fancy escape rooms to keep the city wilder inhabitants entertained... Entertained and distracted.....

Please watch this and then wake up!

[Renny The Spaceman]

10 hours ago, Agent Kallus said:

I've looked into this riddle at the heart of Lego city and I have solved it. 

Lego city isn't suffering as you might conclude,! It's a goddamn paradise! But a paradise for the living.

All these crooks are committing crimes for the thrill, not for survival. There is no poverty in Lego City. 

One might think of Lego City as a police state. One would be wrong. For in Lego city the only true currency is that of play. Corncob knows this. Their prisons are little more than fancy escape rooms to keep the city wilder inhabitants entertained... Entertained and distracted.....

Money is not (and had never been) a problem in Lego City. Look at the some of the facilities Lego city lacks; No food bank, no soup kitchen, no homeless shelter. You could incorrectly conclude from this that Lego City simply does not care for its poorest denizens. But I do not think that that is the case at all!!! They are far better taken care of than those in real life.

They have never made a Lego estate agent. Because buying a house is not really part of the equation in Lego City. If a citizen wants a new home they can simply build it!!! Remember that the citizens of Lego city are not humans! They are minifigs, and minifigs have different needs, simpler needs, needs that are easier to meet. Minifigs cannot starve, they do not die of exhaustion or thirst! 

So crimes are not commited out of necessity in Lego City, hopefully I have convinced you of that. However there is one crime that plays as an exception to this rule. One forgotten crime, one we rarely see on the front of boxes for Lego sets. One that is kept hidden and yet is probably one of the 5 most common types of crime in Lego City. A crime which the city does not encourage but cannot prevent. One which the city is always prepared for. A crime Corncob would have us forget.

I would have you think back to the services we know are not provided in Lego City. No I am not thinking of something relatively obscene like a spermbank or a brothel. I am thinking of a funeral home. Death is a simple fact of life. Death must happen in Lego city. No the crime I speak of is not murder, but it is still very connected to death, in ways that might not yet be obvious. No perhaps you wondering how I am so sure of death, when I have previously underlined the differences between humans and minifigs. But you can look at the people of Lego city and see death is real in their society. They age they are not all the same age and some sets even suggest timelines of family's and aging.

And what is aging? Well aging past the point of full development and maturity (25 years in humans thought minifig years seem different) is simply the body withering away, becoming weaker, cells dying. No I know that old age is not a true of death but it is the cause of the causes, of organ failure and susceptibility to disease. Now who can say how the organs and diseases of Lego city work? But we know they have hospitals. And why for the treatment of injuries and diseases surely? And we have pretty much have established that aging is after a certain point simply a path to death. A path minifigs can do naught but walk. Outside of Lego city we have seen graveyards, another point towards the existence of death.

We have seen thier corpses. But mainly as either undead or Skeletons. Undeath is an interesting process but not entirely relevant right now, especially you can go straight from alive to undead without being dead in-between so we shall ignore undeath here. Skeletons are the focus of my next point.

I have established that Lego city does not have funeral home or indeed crematoriums. And that death exists and most of dead we see are skeletons. So I am concluding that out mystery crime is Arson. The skeletons have no flesh! Perjyit was charred off, leaving only bone! Maybe this is the city's unofficial way of dealing with thier dead, we even know that skeleton parts exist in black! Perhaps from fires that burnt too long and ended up blackening the bone!!!

So in conclusion the only *real* crime committed in Lego City is arson, which is used as a way of dealing with the dead. Afterall the police state thoery only explains the bloated police forse not the enormous fire brigade! While illegal this crime is committed by normal minifigs in regular clothes not the cosplay criminals who always wear those prison jumpsuits! Perpetrators of arson for funeral purposes aren't prosecuted as it the city a d Corncob takes pity on them and the traditional minifig funeral practices ( afterall dead have been Skeletons since the days of castle at the very least!).

But that's just a theory. A Cremation theory 

The Police state theory does explain the fire brigade, arson is one of the big crimes yet we've never once seen one in LEGO city linked to any casualties. 70% of them wouldn't fit or make sense to have figures there. We've never once seen evidence of plain clothes civilians causing fires as any seen with them are always terrified of the flames. It's also worth noting that I believe only the skellies with classic skeleton head are the remains of minifigures, the other ones are always alive if I'm correct. I believe they come from the land of the monsters. LEGO rarely if implies skeletons, zombies or ghosts are actually deceased figs.

I think you raise a good point in the poverty argument but we must also consider that there are wealthy in LEGO city, if a society is truly equal there cannot be an upper class who drives in Limos and such. 

I think the more positive view on the criminals is unlikely, if we look at various LEGO media the police always treat crime waves as serious threats, Chase MCcain is nearl killed multiple times and surely they wouldn't risk their lives to stop crimes which where so petty.

Apparently Jack Fury tries blow up civilian buildings too.

And just because something is not seen doesn't mean it doesn't exist, we know courthouses exist yet aside from one minifigure judge there is no other evidence 

If the criminals are all non issues it still casts a rather poor image on the LCPD. Chase McCain commits many crimes and steals so much from innocent people for nothing? It still would reflect poorly on the over spending too

While yes LEGO figures can build houses bricks seem to be another of currency in the LEGO world, otherwise why would Pepper need to work for his in LEGO Island 2. Not every minifigure has equal access to bricks and the police get an exorbitant amount compared to basic necessities 

[psqidexslizer]

55 minutes ago, Renny The Spaceman said:

And just because something is not seen doesn't mean it doesn't exist, we know courthouses exist yet aside from one minifigure judge there is no other evidence 

No courthouse, no attorneys, no mention of a jury, but yet there is one solitary judge passing down sentences on the many, many criminals. Apparently, there is no innocent until proven guilty, or even guilty until proven innocent. Civilians are simply arrested and sentenced with no chance to defend themselves. Lego City is beyond hope. Demolition Dummy is right. It’s time to tear the whole thing down, brick by brick.

Edited July 28, 2024 by psqidexslizer

[Classic_Spaceman]

On 7/25/2024 at 11:48 AM, psqidexslizer said:

Have we considered that MAYBE the reason Superman now needs a mech is because Brickhead “Big Boss” Joker has taken away his powers? 

On 7/25/2024 at 6:00 PM, Lego Nostalgia said:

I also hear that Dr Inferno was the one who forced Lego to make all the mechs and buildable figures, apparently Lego didn't want to make them but they had no choice or else they'd be killed by Dr Inferno.

Hmmmm. . . 🤔

 

Edited July 29, 2024 by Classic_Spaceman

[CloneCommando99]

Have we considered the possibility that the reason there are so few corpses in Lego City because Corn-cob melts down the flesh to make new bricks for his police vehicles?

Edited July 29, 2024 by CloneCommando99

[ARC2149Nova]

2 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Have we considered the possibility that the reason there are so few corpses in Lego City because Corn-cob melts down the flesh to make new bricks for his police vehicles?

Now that is a comics plot if there ever was one.

[Renny The Spaceman]

12 hours ago, psqidexslizer said:

No courthouse, no attorneys, no mention of a jury, but yet there is one solitary judge passing down sentences on the many, many criminals. Apparently, there is no innocent until proven guilty, or even guilty until proven innocent. Civilians are simply arrested and sentenced with no chance to defend themselves. Lego City is beyond hope. Demolition Dummy is right. It’s time to tear the whole thing down, brick by brick.

You make a good point, it is a city beyond saving. The Dummy is our last hope 

 

3 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Have we considered the possibility that the reason there are so few corpses in Lego City because Corn-cob melts down the flesh to make new bricks for his police vehicles?

A terrifying possibility, though I must sadly raise another.

We all know about the discrimination and ghettoisation of the monster community, with them unable to live in LEGO city. What if they weren't the only group crushed under heal by Corn-cob.

Consider, back in the day pupil-less minifigures lived as the indigenous population of LEGO Town, in time the city got bigger and was renamed LEGO City and became gentrified to accommodate all the minifigures with pupils who came from the LEGO world city. For a brief period in the early 2000s they lived in harmony with both the indigenous and new types of minifigures both being featured in City sets. But then Corn-Cob took power and the Pupil-less minifigures were pushed from the city itself, only the rich amongst them were able to find housing on the world renowned modular street with a great many of these figures couldn't find homes again, likely due to their income, Corn-cob would bring a few of them in for anniversaries, parade them around for a few months then quickly dispose of them quietly behind the scenes. To make matters even worse in 2018, after years of campaigning he managed to push all pupil-less minifigures out of any forms of employment making them unable to afford housing and shortly after they all either had no form of housing, needing to sleep in their miniature trains or giant mechs or move into the LEGO Space program as it's the one place that still accepts all minifigures equally as it is no longer funded by the state but instead a coalition of friendly aliens (lead by the series 22 space creature) who want to allow humans opportunities to escape Corn-cob's rule.

We can't allow this horrible system to continue though the LEGO people's must be free and equal, Corn-cob must be stopped!

 

[Lego Nostalgia]

5 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Have we considered the possibility that the reason there are so few corpses in Lego City because Corn-cob melts down the flesh to make new bricks for his police vehicles?

The old pizza round yellow tile from 1994-2016 makes me think that the base and crust of the pizza is made out of the flesh of the citizens of Lego City and the sauce is their blood, something very sinister is happening in Lego City and Mayor Corn Cob has something to do with it

However Mayor Corn Cob is just a pawn in this big scheme, there's something bigger, someone bigger controlling everything

[Renny The Spaceman]

3 hours ago, Lego Nostalgia said:

However Mayor Corn Cob is just a pawn in this big scheme, there's something bigger, someone bigger controlling everything

Ofc, Brickheadz Joker, the greatest villain of all

 

 

3 hours ago, Lego Nostalgia said:

The old pizza round yellow tile from 1994-2016 makes me think that the base and crust of the pizza is made out of the flesh of the citizens of Lego City and the sauce is their blood, something very sinister is happening in Lego City and Mayor Corn Cob has something to do with it

That's a good point, no-one here's considered that. We should assume that the discontinuation of that piece implies that's no-longer what Pizza's are made of. 

Also I've found something interesting in the character Bio for the CMF version of Alpha team's Dash it says he saved Solomon Blaze during his Galaxy Squad days before disappearing, do we think he's in hiding or did Corn-cob get him?

[Robert8]

Ok. Female Penguin is just 

All my hopes for Cape Crusader are jsut fading

[legoturtle]

Female Penguin?

[Murdoch17]

21 minutes ago, legoturtle said:

Female Penguin?

Oswalda Cobblepot, from the upcoming Caped Crusader show.

[Murdoch17]

15 minutes ago, legoturtle said:

WOKE

You, @legoturtle, keep using that word, but I don't think it means what you think it means. Here, let me help you. From Urban Dictionary:

"When this term became popularized, initially the meaning of this term was when an individual become more aware of the social injustice. Or basically, any current affairs related like biased, discrimination, or double-standards.

However, as time passed by, people started using this term recklessly, assigning this term to themselves or someone they know to boost their confidence and reassure them that they have the moral high grounds and are fighting for the better world. And sometimes even using it as a way to protect themselves from other people's opinion, by considering the 'outsider' as non-woke. While people that are in line with their belief as woke. Meaning that those 'outsiders' have been brainwash by the society and couldn't see the truth. Thus, filtering everything that the 'outsider' gives regardless whether it is rationale or not.

And as of now, the original meaning is slowly fading and instead, is used more often to term someone as hypocritical and think they are the 'enlightened' despite the fact that they are extremely close-minded and are unable to accept other people's criticism or different perspective. Especially considering the existence of echo chamber(media) that helped them to find other like-minded individuals, thus, further solidifying their 'progressive' opinion." You can read more here on the page for it.

(This thread is so far off topic, I think this is okay to post. If not, delete it if needed. I'm just sick of him saying that!)

Edited July 29, 2024 by Murdoch17
edited for punctuation on my part and closing statement

[RobbieHxC]

35 minutes ago, legoturtle said:

WOKE

This is terrible news :/ ... I am not going to watch that TV show. Why they have to spoil everything. Next time (season 2) Batman is probably black lesbian woman. AND what is the point of all that???

Wow, not sure a LEGO forum is the best place to be airing your discriminatory opinions.  Triple threat with the racism, sexism, and homophobia.