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

[THELEGOBATMAN]

1 hour ago, ARC2149Nova said:

Do the details match the film? As in, does the music fit the scene to which it's attached? That's an objectively right or wrong decision. Something about the song chosen has to be relatable to what's on screen. Movies are paced differently to achieve different affects, that is true. What works for one will not work for another. If a movie is poorly paced for the content of the story, then it is an objectively bad decision. I mean, how do you think film criticism works? If nothing matters and everything is subjective, tell me why people pay money to take film making and screenwriting classes, why critics are paid to analyze and review movies, why bad films exist? Liking it may be subjective, good or bad can be objective.

People want to make good movies, but not everyone can make a good movie. By your own admission, there are good movies and bad movies, meaning that yes, quality can be quantified.

But how do you objectively judge whether the music fits the scene? You can't. One person will say it's perfect, another will say it's over-the-top. Both of them are right—because art is subjective. What if Scorsese said the score in a certain movie is weak, but Spielberg said that it's amazing.

Is one of them wrong? Will you tell Martin Scorsese "Sir, the music in this movie is objectively good and perfectly fits the atmosphere." For what? He still won't like it.

"How do you think film criticism works?" Subjectively, obviously. Why do you think there's such a big discrepancy between the reviews for every single movie to ever exist? Is one critic wrong while the other one is correct? Obviously not. We judge movies according to our personal feelings. We can't detach from them anymore than we can get out of our bodies.

"Tell me why people pay money to take film making and screenwriting classes?" Same reason people take art classes—you'll be presented with different ways of approaching making movies so that you can help internalise your own process while having a vast knowledge of past works. I don't think you know how film classes work—it's not a mathematical school where they tell you a certain universal formula and you learn how to use it. They teach you knowledge which you can use, but they don't give you a recipe for making a movie.

"Why bad films exist?" Exactly my point—because there's no recipe for a good movie. If there was, in your "objective" reality, all movies would be good. They aren't because filmmakers use their own knowledge, techniques, experiences to make every single story they're a part of. Just because Francis Ford Coppola made some of the most well-received movies ever made doesn't mean he can't also make ones like Megalopolis. There are no good and bad screenwriters—everyone is capable of making something good and bad.

"By your own admission, there are good movies and bad movies, meaning that yes, quality can be quantified." No idea how you're came to that ridiculous conclusion. Never did I mention that there are good and bad movies—there are just movies. Let's indulge you—I think Aftersun is better than The Godfather. Prove me wrong. How would you even approach that? Why would I be wrong in saying that?

Quality can't be objectively quantified, because the so-called "objective quantifiers" are also man-made. Art isn't a naturally-occuring law of physics—someone had to create the generally-accepted standards in the first place.

1 hour ago, ARC2149Nova said:

Stop defending Gunn where he needs no defense. Two can play this game. I'm not saying you have to agree with me, I'm saying people need to slow down on the Gunn praise until the film actually drops.

Why would people do that? All his Guardians movies, The Suicide Squad and Peacemaker were extremely well-received, loved by both fans and casual cinema-goers.

Everything presented so far for Superman looks amazing, and makes people feel excitement for a comicbook movies that they haven't felt in years. Stop telling people how they're supposed to feel.

Are you going to tell people to "slow down on the Nolan praise" when talking about his 2026 Matt Damon movie? Why? He's just made an Oscar-winning movie (just as Gunn is on an almost-flawless comicbook movie/series streak). Let people be hyped, even though you might not be.

Gunn is not the creator of this universe—he's an overseer. He's making a single movie to open the new phase, but that's the only one he'll direct. He's not writing more scripts, he's not telling other directors exactly what they have to do. He's actually working with Peter Safran and various comicbook creators to make something special.

Ironic that he's directing a movie about the DC icon of hope, and you're basically saying "Stop being hopeful!"

[Lego Nostalgia]

I've started this mess about movies and now I will finish it, let's move on and get back to Lego, Is Arkham happening or is it a fake rumor ?

[BrickBob Studpants]

15 minutes ago, Lego Nostalgia said:

I've started this mess about movies and now I will finish it, let's move on and get back to Lego, Is Arkham happening or is it a fake rumor ?

Did you forget what thread this is?  THERE ARE NO OFF-TOPIC DISCUSSIONS WE‘RE ALL LOCKED IN THE ASLUME

We don‘t know yet if there‘s something to that rumour. One source is new, (in other words, untrustworthy), and the other only hinted at it.

[THELEGOBATMAN]

38 minutes ago, Lego Nostalgia said:

I've started this mess about movies and now I will finish it, let's move on and get back to Lego, Is Arkham happening or is it a fake rumor ?

Right now we have no reason to assume anything other than that it's fake.

It sounds way too good and comes from a random person on Instagram without a track-record. Two huge red flags.

[psqidexslizer]

6 minutes ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

Right now we have no reason to assume anything other than that it's fake.

It sounds way too good and comes from a random person on Instagram without a track-record. Two huge red flags.

Counter point: palnetttt replied with “👀” to multiple people saying the D2C should be a modular Arkham Asylum. It certainly seems like he was teasing that, and he is the one who leaked all the January sets for this coming year.

[BatDeanj]

Is he a reliable leaker or just has track record of jan?

When do we normal know all the set numbers/pricing for the year is it December? 

[Agent Kallus]

It is simply a waiting game, all of it. Always has been. We do know now but we will in time, we will. 

[psqidexslizer]

6 minutes ago, Agent Kallus said:

It is simply a waiting game, all of it. Always has been. We do know now but we will in time, we will. 

It’s surprising we’re getting teased this early. Sure, we knew about the Xavier Institute a year and a half in advance, but that hasn’t been the norm. We didn’t know about The Daily Bugle, the Sanctum Sanctorum, and Avengers Tower until 3-4 months in advance.

[BatDeanj]

Really hope it is true that's its Arkham, its the set I've wanted for so long I hope they do it right. My 2013 feels too shallow and it only fits 4 prisoners.
I don't think we need lots of sets to have figures to "bleed" into the set. The guards and doctors and prisons could each have 1 torso print for each type. 

Edited October 18, 2024 by BatDeanj

[RichardGoring]

23 minutes ago, BatDeanj said:

Really hope it is true that's its Arkham, its the set I've wanted for so long I hope they do it right. My 2013 feels too shallow and it only fits 4 prisoners.
I don't think we need lots of sets to have figures to "bleed" into the set. The guards and doctors and prisons could each have 1 torso print for each type. 

Have you seen the Malfoy Mansion upcoming set? It looks like it's only four studs deep, let alone struggling to fit four figures. The Despicable Me 4 set is also very shallow. Let's se...

[CloneCommando99]

Anyone read Absolute Batman yet?

It unironically slaps.

[Swordy]

On 10/8/2024 at 8:43 PM, ARC2149Nova said:

With your Lego Lantern Ring, what would you envision?

Blacktron III, 2025, Wave 1

Colour scheme: black, few yellow accents, trans-yellow, trans-red

Minutemen (aka Grunts) Uniform: Classic Blacktron I minifig with some minor details of wear and tear, some smaller aspects on classic torso represented in DBG to give suit better visual clarity, as if it needed it anyway.

Admiral Uniform: retains all-black look, has black epaulets and silver pins on his uniform to signify rank

Fleet Admiral Uniform: admiral uniform as template, but recolours helmet (not visor), epaulets, and pins in gold

Lore: Set 30 years after Blacktron II, paralleling the passage of time in the real world, Wave 1 consists of Blacktron’s forces beginning to establish a presence on an unknown planet in the outer rim of the galaxy, far from the reaches of the Space Police. Nonetheless, Blacktron must remain diligent against alien natives and pesky spies…

 

Blacktron Rover Polybag

Price: $4.50

Build: small open-air speeder, around 30ish pieces

Minifig: Blacktron Minuteman

 

Blacktron Scout Mech

Price: $12

Build: Blacktron version of the 2024 mining mech, although with some obvious key differences

Minifig: Blacktron Minuteman

 

Blacktron Minuteman Battlepack

Price: $18

Build: 2x single-transport artillery platforms (with backrests, rest assured!) and one low-hovering 2-four seater speeder with ports for each STAP to rest

Minifigs: 4x Blacktron Minutemen

 

Blacktron Advanced Reconnaissance Craft

Price: $21

Build: small dagger-like ship with narrow wings which can swivel, similar to the U-Wing, with a deployable radar dish, similar to the E-3 Sentry, that can pop out of the seamless smooth surface of the ship; also includes side builds fit for any mechanical work

Minifigs: 2x Blacktron Minutemen

 

Blacktron: Attack of the Beetlezoids

Price: $30

Build: small Blacktron open-roof crawler, including ambush feature to topple out supplies and equipment; then two Beetlezoids hover-chariots with the large rubber-tipped canons; small bit of purple terrain

Minifigs: Blacktron Minuteman, 2x Beetlezoid Defenders (for as we all know, there can’t be any commanding officers in a $30 vehicle set belonging to his/her opponents)

 

Blacktron Renegade: Spyrius Surprise

Price: $60

Build: upscaled and updated Renegade, clearly repurposed tech shown with greebling and worn Blacktron logo; side-build features small Spyrius ship

Minifigs: Blacktron, Blacktron Admiral, Spyrius Operative

 

Blacktron Command Outpost

Price: $81

Build: a large base comprised of four 8x8 towers anchored in sub-sections of purple earth, each connected by transparent tunnels; one of the towers is two stories, topped with a large circular radar dish; the four rooms are as follows: a lunch room, a bedroom with crib, a research room/laboratory, a surveillance room, on top of which is a office for the commanding officer; side builds include a Blacktron Robo-dog, and two Beetlezoid hover-chariots

Minifigs: Blacktron Admiral, 3x Blacktron, Blacktron Baby, 2x Beetlezoids

 

Blacktron Command Ship

Price: $180

Build: large helicarrier-type ship: removable panels conceal Star-Destroyer-like observation deck with room for multiple people to stand in center aisle and work beneath as well, also features prison cell for wayward pesks (or renegade Blacktron—pfft, as if!) and recreation room for playing pool; features collapsible handle for play

Minifigs: Blacktron Fleet Admiral, 5x Blacktron, jailed Spyrius Robot

 

 

 

Oh wait, you meant specifically DC sets. In that case then, I just want anything with an updated BTAS-inspired Two-Face, and maybe a new Gorilla Grodd. 

[psqidexslizer]

25 minutes ago, Swordy said:

…

Oh wait, you meant specifically DC sets. In that case then, I just want anything with an updated BTAS-inspired Two-Face, and maybe a new Gorilla Grodd. 

Sir, this is the DC thread. Please take these discussion about DC sets over to the Marvel thread where they belong.

[RiddlerDC]

https://brickset.com/article/38133/review-853744-knightmare-batman-accessory-set

I just bought this from Bricklink. In 2018 TLG made DC battlebags if I understand correctly. Similar what we have in SW theme. There is even a mini turret. All 3 figures have guns.  

[Lego Nostalgia]

16 minutes ago, RiddlerDC said:

https://brickset.com/article/38133/review-853744-knightmare-batman-accessory-set

I just bought this from Bricklink. In 2018 TLG made DC battlebags if I understand correctly. Similar what we have in SW theme. There is even a mini turret. All 3 figures have guns.  

''battlebags'' now I really think you are Turtle, you're from the EU too xD, TURTLE IS FROM FINLAND, AND WHERE IS THAT YOU MAY ASK ? EU!

Riddle me this, what's green,insane and funny, legoturtle

[CloneCommando99]

4 minutes ago, Lego Nostalgia said:

''battlebags'' now I really think you are Turtle, you're from the EU too xD, TURTLE IS FROM FINLAND, AND WHERE IS THAT YOU MAY ASK ? EU!

Riddle me this, what's green,insane and funny, legoturtle

EU isn’t even a territory. It’s a international trade and dispute solving parliament.

(We shouldn’t have left 😭😭)

 

@RiddlerDC, sorry if you feel that we’re harassing you. But you wouldn’t happen to have gotten any Batcave shadowboxes perchance?

[Agent Kallus]

3 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Anyone read Absolute Batman yet?

It unironically slaps.

The Zoo? I decided to get DC universe infinite today and I started the Absolute batman preview as my first read. ( It's only the first 5 pages! The rest will won't be on the app till later)

21 minutes ago, CloneCommando99 said:

EU isn’t even a territory. It’s a international trade and dispute solving parliament.

(We shouldn’t have left 😭😭)

Lego Nostalgia is from Ireland he didn't leave ( at least I'm assuming it's RoI not NI)

But yeah we shouldn't have. The Brexit degrades every system it touches. Judge by any metric. ( Not to get political )

Edited October 18, 2024 by Agent Kallus

[Renny The Spaceman]

8 minutes ago, Agent Kallus said:

But yeah we shouldn't have. The Brexit degrades every system it touches. Judge by any metric. ( Not to get political )

It really shouldn't be, the whole advertisement was Brexit was about funding the NHS and now our main two parties want to privatise it! Like on an objective level that's a failure.

 

55 minutes ago, RiddlerDC said:

https://brickset.com/article/38133/review-853744-knightmare-batman-accessory-set

I just bought this from Bricklink. In 2018 TLG made DC battlebags if I understand correctly. Similar what we have in SW theme. There is even a mini turret. All 3 figures have guns.  

I love the phrase battlebags, it's very fun to say. Reminds me how instead of "pop the kettle on" some people say "boil the jug"

 

3 hours ago, Swordy said:

Blacktron III, 2025, Wave 1

Colour scheme: black, few yellow accents, trans-yellow, trans-red

Minutemen (aka Grunts) Uniform: Classic Blacktron I minifig with some minor details of wear and tear, some smaller aspects on classic torso represented in DBG to give suit better visual clarity, as if it needed it anyway.

Admiral Uniform: retains all-black look, has black epaulets and silver pins on his uniform to signify rank

Fleet Admiral Uniform: admiral uniform as template, but recolours helmet (not visor), epaulets, and pins in gold

Lore: Set 30 years after Blacktron II, paralleling the passage of time in the real world, Wave 1 consists of Blacktron’s forces beginning to establish a presence on an unknown planet in the outer rim of the galaxy, far from the reaches of the Space Police. Nonetheless, Blacktron must remain diligent against alien natives and pesky spies…

 

Blacktron Rover Polybag

Price: $4.50

Build: small open-air speeder, around 30ish pieces

Minifig: Blacktron Minuteman

 

Blacktron Scout Mech

Price: $12

Build: Blacktron version of the 2024 mining mech, although with some obvious key differences

Minifig: Blacktron Minuteman

 

Blacktron Minuteman Battlepack

Price: $18

Build: 2x single-transport artillery platforms (with backrests, rest assured!) and one low-hovering 2-four seater speeder with ports for each STAP to rest

Minifigs: 4x Blacktron Minutemen

 

Blacktron Advanced Reconnaissance Craft

Price: $21

Build: small dagger-like ship with narrow wings which can swivel, similar to the U-Wing, with a deployable radar dish, similar to the E-3 Sentry, that can pop out of the seamless smooth surface of the ship; also includes side builds fit for any mechanical work

Minifigs: 2x Blacktron Minutemen

 

Blacktron: Attack of the Beetlezoids

Price: $30

Build: small Blacktron open-roof crawler, including ambush feature to topple out supplies and equipment; then two Beetlezoids hover-chariots with the large rubber-tipped canons; small bit of purple terrain

Minifigs: Blacktron Minuteman, 2x Beetlezoid Defenders (for as we all know, there can’t be any commanding officers in a $30 vehicle set belonging to his/her opponents)

 

Blacktron Renegade: Spyrius Surprise

Price: $60

Build: upscaled and updated Renegade, clearly repurposed tech shown with greebling and worn Blacktron logo; side-build features small Spyrius ship

Minifigs: Blacktron, Blacktron Admiral, Spyrius Operative

 

Blacktron Command Outpost

Price: $81

Build: a large base comprised of four 8x8 towers anchored in sub-sections of purple earth, each connected by transparent tunnels; one of the towers is two stories, topped with a large circular radar dish; the four rooms are as follows: a lunch room, a bedroom with crib, a research room/laboratory, a surveillance room, on top of which is a office for the commanding officer; side builds include a Blacktron Robo-dog, and two Beetlezoid hover-chariots

Minifigs: Blacktron Admiral, 3x Blacktron, Blacktron Baby, 2x Beetlezoids

 

Blacktron Command Ship

Price: $180

Build: large helicarrier-type ship: removable panels conceal Star-Destroyer-like observation deck with room for multiple people to stand in center aisle and work beneath as well, also features prison cell for wayward pesks (or renegade Blacktron—pfft, as if!) and recreation room for playing pool; features collapsible handle for play

Minifigs: Blacktron Fleet Admiral, 5x Blacktron, jailed Spyrius Robot

Pretty sick wave, all LEGO lines need collectable items spread across the wave though, the native aliens should have to collect all the parts to make a big phone so they can call a certain Dummy to send Blacktron packing 

[Lego Nostalgia]

53 minutes ago, Agent Kallus said:

The Zoo? I decided to get DC universe infinite today and I started the Absolute batman preview as my first read. ( It's only the first 5 pages! The rest will won't be on the app till later)

Lego Nostalgia is from Ireland he didn't leave ( at least I'm assuming it's RoI not NI)

But yeah we shouldn't have. The Brexit degrades every system it touches. Judge by any metric. ( Not to get political )

I am from the Republic, I will die for the Republic, along with my Clone Trooper Brothers (It doesn't matter because we'll be phased out by Stormtroopers)

1 hour ago, CloneCommando99 said:

EU isn’t even a territory. It’s a international trade and dispute solving parliament.

(We shouldn’t have left 😭😭)

 

@RiddlerDC, sorry if you feel that we’re harassing you. But you wouldn’t happen to have gotten any Batcave shadowboxes perchance?

It was Mayor Corn Cob all along that done Brexit

[BrickBob Studpants]

28 minutes ago, Lego Nostalgia said:

It was Mayor Corn Cob all along that done Brexit

I unironically think that a guy in corn cob costume is a more respectable politician than a lot of what the UK had to offer in recent years. Mrs Couldn't-Outlive-Lettuce, anyone?  

[Lego Nostalgia]

17 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

I unironically think that a guy in corn cob costume is a more respectable politician than a lot of what the UK had to offer in recent years. Mrs Couldn't-Outlive-Lettuce, anyone?  

I swear there was some politician in the UK dressed up as a Trash Can and another dressed as Elmo, weird times indeed

And who could forget the Beans mask guy

Ah I remember now, Count Binface, UK is more of an Aslume than this thread

[psqidexslizer]

2 hours ago, Lego Nostalgia said:

I swear there was some politician in the UK dressed up as a Trash Can and another dressed as Elmo, weird times indeed

And who could forget the Beans mask guy

Ah I remember now, Count Binface, UK is more of an Aslume than this thread

UK (pronounced you ‘kay???)

[Lego Nostalgia]

24 minutes ago, psqidexslizer said:

UK (pronounced you ‘kay???)

UK is in fact, not o kay

[Coryo]

I'd like to see more "battlebags" honestly, ideally with classic comic designs, in 2021 they casually dropped one of the best Batman minifigs of all time and just never used it again.

That torso/leg combo + the older cowl piece is peak Lego Batman imo

@RiddlerDC can I get an "ouhhh boy"?

 

[CloneCommando99]

2 hours ago, Coryo said:

I'd like to see more "battlebags" honestly, ideally with classic comic designs, in 2021 they casually dropped one of the best Batman minifigs of all time and just never used it again.

That torso/leg combo + the older cowl piece is peak Lego Batman imo

@RiddlerDC can I get an "ouhhh boy"?

 

Green Lantern battlebag.

 

 

6 hours ago, Lego Nostalgia said:

I swear there was some politician in the UK dressed up as a Trash Can and another dressed as Elmo, weird times indeed

And who could forget the Beans mask guy

Ah I remember now, Count Binface, UK is more of an Aslume than this thread

We, in the UK, should all vote for the Monster Raving Looney Party at this point. Yes, this is a political party that exists. I’m pretty sure even they would do a better job than Liz Truss.

They’ve got some decent policies, like solving identity theft by naming everyone Kieth.

8 hours ago, Agent Kallus said:

Lego Nostalgia is from Ireland he didn't leave ( at least I'm assuming it's RoI not NI)

I knew that, I used the term “we” as a generalisation of me and everyone else in the UK.

Edited October 19, 2024 by CloneCommando99