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

[legoturtle]

Random things?

Like about movies... movies TLG follows carefully. AND then we get sets. Haven't you watch at all The Batman sets (2022) or BTAM sets from 2017?

[Lego Nostalgia]

8 minutes ago, legoturtle said:

Random things?

Like about movies... movies TLG follows carefully. AND then we get sets. Haven't you watch at all The Batman sets (2022) or BTAM sets from 2017?

Oh yessss there were a lot of sets, but WAIT, WHAT IF WE GET SETS BASED OFF SUPERMAN LEGACY WITH BATMAN INCLUDED GUYS IT COULD HAPPEN.

[CloneCommando99]

5 hours ago, legoturtle said:

 

DC for me is Batman. He is superhero without supernatural ability. I hate super natural abilities. Anyway, let's collect all Batman related sets LEGO has ever made. Including minifigures. How many are there. I would say maybe 250 at least. AND cost... mmmm.... maybe 25,000 euros / dollars

Ok I get not being a fan of supernatural abilities, despite many Batman villains having them, cough cough Poison Ivy, Mr Freeze, Bane and Manbat.

But you really going to trash on all the other non-powered DC heroes like that. Green Arrow, Huntress, Nightwing, Steel and Katana (just to name a few) are all awesome and are all non-powered heroes. Their use of their skill to help people and for the greater good are what make them admirable heroes.

I’m not one of those people who want to get multiples of the same character (unless it’s a type of trooper in Star Wars). I only have 2 versions of Lego Batman (New 52 and TLBM) and I love them as both suits are great in their own ways. I don’t need anymore. What I do want are more heroes and Villains for my Justice League as some of Batman’s most interesting stories in the comics are when he teams up with other heroes. 
 

1 hour ago, Lego Nostalgia said:

Instead of this forum being named Batman-DC-Superheroes, it should be renamed to Schizo Posting, because at this rate we're too far gone talking about random things and having our own conspiracy theories, @legoturtle I'm very worried about you and I think you should give it a rest and put the phone down, I don't want you to become the Jonkler or I'll have to call Man to stop you and bring you to Ham Aslume.

Yeah, even I have to admit that we’re going full Aslume too fast. However I feel @legoturtle has acted as a sort of catalyst for this as it appears that he’s cooked up his own brand of insanity. He’s not just the Jonkler he’s the whole Aslume. 

Edited April 18, 2024 by CloneCommando99

[Lego Nostalgia]

20 minutes ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Ok I get not being a fan of supernatural abilities, despite many Batman villains having them, cough cough Poison Ivy, Mr Freeze, Bane and Manbat.

But you really going to trash on all the other non-powered DC heroes like that. Green Arrow, Huntress, Nightwing, Steel and Katana (just to name a few) are all awesome and are all non-powered heroes. Their use of their skill to help people and for the greater good are what make them admirable heroes.

I’m not one of those people who want to get multiples of the same character (unless it’s a type of trooper in Star Wars). I only have 2 versions of Lego Batman (New 52 and TLBM) and I love them as both suits are great in their own ways. I don’t need anymore. What I do want are more heroes and Villains for my Justice League as some of Batman’s most interesting stories in the comics are when he teams up with other heroes. 
 

Yeah, even I have to admit that we’re going full Aslume too fast. However I feel @legoturtle has acted as a sort of catalyst for this as it appears that he’s cooked up his own brand of insanity. He’s not just the Jonkler he’s the whole Aslume. 

To be fair I'd go insane too if my favourite theme stopped getting much sets (Star Wars,Marvel)

[legoturtle]

24 minutes ago, Lego Nostalgia said:

To be fair I'd go insane too if my favourite theme stopped getting much sets (Star Wars,Marvel)

Yes, BUT think about these thousands lego fans who collect: Castle, Pirates, Space. Many of them are happy if lego makes even 1 set in a year. With DC we got Shadow Box 2023 and Gotham City Skyline 2024. In 2022 whole small theme The Batman 1+3+2 sets, if I remember correct. What happened 2017-18 is something special. 

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BUT if we look to the FUTURE. What about if this Eurobricks forum would make a POLL and send it to TLG. For example... Would you like to see a massive LEGO set from:

- Justice League

- Jokerland

- Wayne Manor

- Arkham Asylum

OR ... well not Luigi's Pizzeria BUT lets say Gotham City Police Department... with a CELL like in the Dark Knight... with these sets we would got 3-6 ordinary minifigures... for example police officers, secretary, guard, and so on...

Edited April 18, 2024 by legoturtle

[PGBQW]

Please @legoturtle I'm begging you on my knees, just break character once so I can rest, this is consuming my sanity. Just a hint would suffice, because I'm genuinely starting to believe you're for real.

[legoturtle]

 just break character once so I can rest

Can someone explain what this means? English is not my native language.

[RedHoodPug]

14 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Geoff Johns really peaked at Blackest Night didn’t he?

I loved his whole GL saga, and I loved The Lost Children, but the bit in the middle was a bit meh.

44 minutes ago, legoturtle said:

 just break character once so I can rest

Can someone explain what this means? English is not my native language.

Everyone finds it hard to believe that you are being the real you or a very dedicated troll. For what it’s worth I’m not going to add to that. However I will say that by refusing to like anything DC that isn’t Batman, you are missing out on a wonderful treasury of great characters and stories.

[Mandalorianknight]

One thing that might help people make sense of certain things here- and this isn't something I thought of until very recently- is that despite the forum ostensibly being only for adults, there are a fair number of users who are kids. When I started posting years ago, I may or may not have been 14, and it definitely showed in my posts. Some comments here may be from batman fans significantly younger than that who don't really have a grasp on how movies or lego sets are produced.

So keeping that in mind....

3 hours ago, legoturtle said:

BUT if we look to the FUTURE. What about if this Eurobricks forum would make a POLL and send it to TLG. For example... Would you like to see a massive LEGO set from:

This would not work.

Eurobricks is a very small amount of people, and it's dedicated adult lego fans. Even if everyone who's ever posted in this thread bought whatever the set was, it'd be a drop in the bucket compared to what most companies like to get for survey numbers. More importantly, the sample itself would tell lego nothing. People on the lego batman eurobricks forum are (generally) adult lego fans who like batman- they're much more likely than the average person to buy a lego batman set. That's not who lego's worried about. Lego wants to make sure wider batman fans would want the set for adult-focused sets, and kids would want the set for standard system sets. "The people who spend their time posting online about lego batman want a lego batman set" tells lego nothing about the demand for lego batman sets among the general target audience.

Edited April 18, 2024 by Mandalorianknight

[legoturtle]

8 hours ago, RedHoodPug said:

Everyone finds it hard to believe that you are being the real you or a very dedicated troll.

... refusing to like anything DC that isn’t Batman, you are missing out on a wonderful treasury of great characters and stories.

1.) I am not trolling. Why there couldn't be a POLL? For us at least.

2.) I like Batman because he does not have superpowers. If he had... I would NOT be Batman super fan. 

 

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Actually my only good memory from my childhood is TV show. Yes from 66' and movie about that TV show. It was very exciting. Joker was scary. Penguin exciting... he had sub for example. Batman and Robin were fighting a lot. Also I remember Riddler. Colours were important. It feels amazing that we get also 66' show sets! (2024).

Spoiler

5/5

Edited April 19, 2024 by legoturtle

[RedHoodPug]

41 minutes ago, legoturtle said:

1.) I am not trolling. Why there couldn't be a POLL? For us at least.

2.) I like Batman because he does not have superpowers. If he had... I would NOT be Batman super fan. 

Actually my only good memory from my childhood is TV show.

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It's not just the idea of a poll, which would not work anyway, it's your naivety. A lot of your previous questions have been answered many times by several people, and it's proving frustrating. Your expectations differ greatly from reality, and we all enjoy wishlisting but you are expressing ideas that are wildly unachievable. 

With regards to Batman being great because he doesn't have powers, you have the Seven Soldiers of Victory, half if not more of the Justice Society of America, and countless others. Batman may not have powers as such but he's performing at such a level that he doesn't need them, and there are people who don't like him because they feel he's too good at what he does. As a person Superman is more relatable and human than Batman, and that is the greatest juxtaposition in DC lore.

If the only happy memory you have from your childhood is a TV show then that's quite sad, and I feel for you.

If you want to get a better idea of how and why Lego does what it does, I recommend finding the book Brick by Brick, by David Robertson. It might seem like a strange choice when you see what it is about, but it will give you some background as to how and why they make certain decisions. 

Don't be put off from having ideas for sets, but look into the background of what has been before, and look into what has sold well or was popular when brainstorming. 

[PGBQW]

5 hours ago, legoturtle said:

Actually my only good memory from my childhood is TV show. Yes from 66' and movie about that TV show. It was very exciting. Joker was scary. Penguin exciting... he had sub for example. Batman and Robin were fighting a lot. Also I remember Riddler. Colours were important. It feels amazing that we get also 66' show sets! (2024).

Hold on, I think he's onto something here

[legoturtle]

5 hours ago, RedHoodPug said:

Superman is more relatable and human than Batman...

That guy with laser eyes who flies from earth to space in seconds... really?

 

Spoiler

 

Edited April 19, 2024 by legoturtle

[CloneCommando99]

1 hour ago, legoturtle said:

That guy with laser eyes who flies from earth to space in seconds... really?

 

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I’m sorry. But if you really see Snyder-verse Superman, the one that is famously despised by the fandom for being so out of character for Superman, as the definitive version of Superman, I want to ask what are you smoking?!

Superman was created as the embodiment of, and I’m saying this as a Brit: Truth, Justice and The American Way. As James Gunn said: “he’s Kindness in a world that thinks of Kindness as old-fashioned.”

We don’t just look up to Superman and other heroes because of their laser eyes and fancy powers. We look up to them because of their characters and the morals they represent. One of my favourite DC characters is Kyle Rayner because he’s a nerd, like me, who does the right thing and uses his artistic creativity to help people as a Green Lantern.
 

That’s why we need heroes like Superman, they represent the ideal values that we as humans must have.

Sorry if that was a bit 🤓 and sounded like a rant.

Edited April 19, 2024 by CloneCommando99

[NovaBricks]

3 hours ago, PGBQW said:

Hold on, I think he's onto something here

Something about a broken clock and all that jazz

17 hours ago, legoturtle said:

 just break character once so I can rest

Can someone explain what this means? English is not my native language.

He's saying you're f****** looney tunes, mate

[Mandalorianknight]

4 hours ago, PGBQW said:

Hold on, I think he's onto something here

I too remember the '66 joker as the most terrifying incarnation of the character. Heath Ledger's joker was just a homicidal anarchist committing terrorist attacks. '66 joker wanted to be the surf king of gotham and had a mustache, absolutely spine-chilling.

1 hour ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Truth, Justice and The American Way

And ironically, we've spent the past few decades on deconstructing him, to the point that more shows have "evil" supermen analogues than heroic ones at this point. One of the most well-known superman related stories of the last 20 years is one where he's evil, and they even removed "The American Way" from his motto a few years ago, which is a real slap in the face.

I really hope Gunn manages to make superman legacy work. He seems to really care about superman, but at the same time, his movies are very crude and cynical. They can have heartfelt bits in them, like guardians, but superman shouldn't have a similar tone to guardians/peacemaker/suicide squad, and that's just about the only tone I've seen him do disregarding scooby doo, which is also probably not the best tone for a superman film.

52 minutes ago, NovaBricks said:

He's saying you're f****** looney tunes, mate

Well no, that'd be Darkwing Duck, not Man.

[RedHoodPug]

4 hours ago, legoturtle said:

That guy with laser eyes who flies from earth to space in seconds... really?

 

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The guy who helps fix your car, let's the recently bereaved know that they aren't alone or those with wayward kids that they aren't bad parents, the guy who plays basketball without using his powers, and talks people down from suicide attempts in the most humble way possible. Yes, that guy. The best of us, the big blue boy scout. Your response has just shown everyone that you need to read a Superman comic before voicing your opinion on him.

[legoturtle]

How many LEGO-sets TLG has made which are based that laser eye?

[NXS7]

5 hours ago, PGBQW said:

Hold on, I think he's onto something here

LET HIM COOK!

7 minutes ago, legoturtle said:

How many LEGO-sets TLG has made which are based that laser eye?

...never mind...

But the answer to how many sets include Superman's laser eyes are 8 sets, one dimensions pack, one CMF figure and one foil bag

Edited April 19, 2024 by NXS7

[legoturtle]

So total about 10 sets in how many years?

[PGBQW]

On 4/18/2024 at 3:39 PM, legoturtle said:

Anyway, let's collect all Batman related sets LEGO has ever made. Including minifigures. How many are there. I would say maybe 250 at least. AND cost... mmmm.... maybe 25,000 euros / dollars.

But can we know for sure? Because we would have to get every minifigure together in one huge space, and obviously that's not possible, not even with computers. And not only that, we'd have to get every minifig ever produced, not the ones from now. So we got no prof. We got nothing. Anyway, $4 a pound.

2 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

and had a mustache, absolutely spine-chilling.

To be fair, painting over your moustache is definetly a sign of lunacy, and perfectly in character for him

3 hours ago, NovaBricks said:

He's saying you're f****** looney tunes, mate

I mentally filled that with the wrong f word and my jaw dropped to the floor in disbelief

[RedHoodPug]

2 hours ago, legoturtle said:

So total about 10 sets in how many years?

Are you trying to prove that Batman is more human than Superman using the number of Lego sets produced for each character?

You're picking on an ability that Superman has as a result of his birth, which is about a sentence away from saying that the reason you don't like him is because he's born different. I can see why you aren't excited about the incoming X-Men mansion set.

[legoturtle]

I am just saying that Batman universe is interesting because characters don't have superpowers. Marvels for me is for kids. DC Batman for everyone also adults.

[Mandalorianknight]

1 hour ago, PGBQW said:

To be fair, painting over your moustache is definetly a sign of lunacy, and perfectly in character for him

Oh no the 60s joker was a wonderful representation of the silver age joker. I'm just saying the fact that he's being viewed here as "scary" is an interesting take.

35 minutes ago, RedHoodPug said:

You're picking on an ability that Superman has as a result of his birth, which is about a sentence away from saying that the reason you don't like him is because he's born different. 

Glad to see that you've joined us all in the Asylum with "not liking superpowered characters is discriminatory".

Look, our hero in a half shell here is an interesting character, but the idea that people like batman because he doesn't have any superpowers isn't an insane take, or a particularly rare one. 

[NXS7]

37 minutes ago, legoturtle said:

I am just saying that Batman universe is interesting because characters don't have superpowers

So do characters like Bane, Poison Ivy, Clayface, Killer Croc, Man Bat, Ra's Al Ghul and Solomon Grundy not count? 

They're all part of the Batman universe, and all either have powers, or access to unnatural abilities