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[GoodCoffeeJoey]

Is there a chance for the BrickHead Spider-Man to get a retail release?

There could be a wide release Spider-Man brickhead but it would almost certainly be different from the SDCC one. The wide release version would probably be based on the MCU version to tie into Infinity War, while the comic con one appears to be based on the comic books.

 

[Ponn]

Is there a chance for the BrickHead Spider-Man to get a retail release?

I mean, were still waiting on a retail Superman, Wonder Woman, Black Panther and Dr Strange from last year SDCC. Two of them had movies last year, one of them just had a movie and the other coming up. I really don't think they have any idea how to handle this line when half of the whole line is just SDCC exclusives.

 

[Koren]

Just finished building the Saturn V, for the 48th anniversary of the Moon landing (hoax? )

Damn... Holy sh*... It's just amazing. The build, the result, everything. It's a great year for Lego (and I enjoyed Assembly Square a lot), but this is its own league. The SNOT work is nothing short of great, and I'm impressed by the instructions (good luck with Lepin).

I'm in love. For all the great sets still coming, I can't see anything coming close this year. Ideas deliver again...

I wish everyone still looking for it will find one soon.

Spoiler

No, I'm not serious at all for the hoax part

 

[Koren]

Well, honestly, there's still a huge letdown for the Saturn V...

The build is far too short T_T Less than 3h and it's done. I should have mixed the bags ^_^

 

[mrklaw]

Well, honestly, there's still a huge letdown for the Saturn V...

The build is far too short T_T Less than 3h and it's done. I should have mixed the bags ^_^

I wonder if Lego did it deliberately - expecting it to be quite popular with the mainstream? I mean, it's quite a complex build, but very linear in how it's set up one bag at a time

 

[DBT85]

I wonder if Lego did it deliberately - expecting it to be quite popular with the mainstream? I mean, it's quite a complex build, but very linear in how it's set up one bag at a time

I've just done Red Five and R2 and both were exactly the same. One bag open at a time only.

 

[Chezzymann]

Im super hyped for destinys bounty, might top saturn v for me. Shit looks awesome

 

[AMUSIX]

edit: ignore, see below

Has anyone built the Carousel (10257)?

Trying to see if the issues my wife is hitting are normal. Essentially, there are certain parts which seem WAY too flimsy.

Take the following structure. That big white step is held on by nothing more than two pips off of a red 2x2 plate, and they're positioned in the center of the edge of a 4x2 brick, so the weakest possible point.

Then there's this one. The entire circle is supposed to be reinforced by the outer white ring, but that just pulls everything out, making it fight against itself (and none of those wedges are very solid, just a 1pip thick wall with little over-lap reinforcement).

And now she's supposed to connect those two structures...the white post on the base of that big white step is supposed to be the big strong connecting force...but since the step falls off at a touch, it doesn't do anything. Then, more red squares are supposed to create connections in the middle, but, again, that big round circle has wedges that just fall apart once any strain is on them.


So, what the fuck? Is this just an extended "it feels flimsy as hell" section before more pieces work together to strengthen it? Or does the final build feel as chincy as this does, in the name of daintiness?

 

[Wanderer5]

Lego Marvel Superheroes 2 is currently being talked about now at the Marvel Games panel.

Chronopolis is said to be the largest open world of any lego game yet, and this game is definitely a direct sequel to the first game. Howard the Duck apparently has a huge role.

 

[papluh]

Has anyone built the Carousel (10257)?

Trying to see if the issues my wife is hitting are normal. Essentially, there are certain parts which seem WAY too flimsy.

Take the following structure. That big white step is held on by nothing more than two pips off of a red 2x2 plate, and they're positioned in the center of the edge of a 4x2 brick, so the weakest possible point.

Then there's this one. The entire circle is supposed to be reinforced by the outer white ring, but that just pulls everything out, making it fight against itself (and none of those wedges are very solid, just a 1pip thick wall with little over-lap reinforcement).

And now she's supposed to connect those two structures...the white post on the base of that big white step is supposed to be the big strong connecting force...but since the step falls off at a touch, it doesn't do anything. Then, more red squares are supposed to create connections in the middle, but, again, that big round circle has wedges that just fall apart once any strain is on them.


So, what the fuck? Is this just an extended "it feels flimsy as hell" section before more pieces work together to strengthen it? Or does the final build feel as chincy as this does, in the name of daintiness?

I don't have it yet, still waiting for some sale, but...

if you look about 16m50s into the interview with Mike Psiaki, the designer, he is not really handling it like some fragile piece of art https://youtu.be/FxsV9-qsW3I?t=16m50s

Still, the partial build might have such properties.

 

[ghostmind]

DC 2018

Brickheadz: Aquaman, Cyborg, Flash, Wonder Woman

And a second LEGO Batman Movie CMF series?

 

[Chiaroscuro]

DC 2018

Brickheadz: Aquaman, Cyborg, Flash, Wonder Woman

Interisting since they made Superman exclusive. What they are thinking!

And a second LEGO Batman Movie CMF series?

This is know for a while, together with series 18

Spoiler

Custume themed, some already know

and another licensed series

Spoiler

which strong rumors point to a Harry Potter/Fantastic Beasts series

 

[PhoncipleBone]

Interisting since they made Superman exclusive. What they are thinking!



This is know for a while, together with series 18

Spoiler

Custume themed, some already know

and another licensed series

Spoiler

which strong rumors point to a Harry Potter/Fantastic Beasts series

A Harry Potterverse CMF series would probably rival Disney series for sales.

 

[AMUSIX]

So...as a follow up to my above question...after struggling with this, and cursing it, and having the thing not work and blow apart three different times...we went back and triple checked her work. We had done this already, but this time through, we found this:

The little yellow-box insert in step 103...has you putting the white brick on the white 1x2 plate...she had put the plate on the brick. Made everything still line up, everything look right, and everything feel right...except when the element was incorporated into the whole...

so, yeah...now the whole thing is all structurally sound....fucking LEGO sorcery.

 

[PhoncipleBone]

Yeah, Psiaki wouldn't fuck around with it being fragile. It is dicey as you assemble it, but once it clicks together it is extremely stable.

 

[DBT85]

Ha. Seems normal.

If at first you don't succeed, make sure you actually built it right, because you didn't.

 

[DonShula]

Ha. Seems normal.

If at first you don't succeed, make sure you actually built it right, because you didn't.

I love those moments. Not when they happen, but afterward when I realized I never should have doubted I did it wrong in the first place.

 

[PhoncipleBone]

Ha. Seems normal.

If at first you don't succeed, make sure you actually built it right, because you didn't.

I love those moments. Not when they happen, but afterward when I realized I never should have doubted I did it wrong in the first place.

And then you build Wall-E's neck...

 

[DBT85]

Wall-Es neck is fine on mine, but it came with the ball joint.

 

[DonShula]

Well, honestly, there's still a huge letdown for the Saturn V...

The build is far too short T_T Less than 3h and it's done. I should have mixed the bags ^_^

Mixing the bags always sounds fun.

Spoiler

Until you buy a Death Star from another gaffer and the bags are "mixed" by default and your dining room table is besieged by an army of plastic for two weeks.

 

[DonShula]

And then you build Wall-E's neck...

Yeah I can see how that would plant some doubt.

 

[iosefe]

Wall-Es neck is fine on mine, but it came with the ball joint.

original run did not, but future versions did.

 

[DBT85]

Now that I'm back to having new sets for a while rather than used I'm definitely mixing some bags up.

Ecto-1, Slave 1 and Tie Fighter to do at the moment.

Keep putting them off as I want them to last.

original run did not, but future versions did.

Thought it was only the US run that didn't in the first place?

 

[Boogalogist]

Lego Marvel Superheroes 2 is currently being talked about now at the Marvel Games panel.

Chronopolis is said to be the largest open world of any lego game yet, and this game is definitely a direct sequel to the first game. Howard the Duck apparently has a huge role.

I sure hope Lego Marvel 2 is as good as the first one...cause Lego Avengers sucked.

 

[Chiaroscuro]

A Harry Potterverse CMF series would probably rival Disney series for sales.

The word is that it will launch together with a massive D2C version of a certain Castle/School. Any sales projection?

 

[ghostmind]

I love it when rumours emerge that I don't know about. Nice to be surprised once in a while - thanks Chiaroscuro!

 

[PhoncipleBone]

The word is that it will launch together with a massive D2C version of a certain Castle/School. Any sales projection?

If it is D2C, sales won't be as massive on the set as they should be. It will be a white whale I tell many customers about. Much like Disney Castle.

But if they do a Hogwarts at scale like Disney Castle, we got a stew going!

 

[Chiaroscuro]

I love it when rumours emerge that I don't know about. Nice to be surprised once in a while - thanks Chiaroscuro!

Do not thank me, I was just crawling in the deepest of eurobricks. It is just a rumour but seems a solid one. But you will only know for sure when...

 

[Chiaroscuro]

If it is D2C, sales won't be as massive on the set as they should be. It will be a white whale I tell many customers about. Much like Disney Castle.

But if they do a Hogwarts at scale like Disney Castle, we got a stew going!

Well, Disney Castle, Carousel, Ninjago City are all Lego exclusives. So those big sets seens to sell well enought to Lego to continue to plan them. I don't think many store chaims would carry those sets.

 

[Rootbeer]

Dropped into the LEGO store today. Employees are getting lots of questions about a UCS Falcon. The hype is dense.

A Harry Potterverse CMF series would probably rival Disney series for sales.

Absolutely, tremendous potential here. People would be head over heels

 

[iosefe]

"There is no UCS falcon, rumors are greatly exaggerated"

 

[PhoncipleBone]

"There is no UCS falcon, rumors are greatly exaggerated"

This is not the set you are looking for...

 

[Chiaroscuro]

From what I gathered (keep in mind that all of that was read on several internet sites, I have not contact with Lego or retail, but all seems solid).

- The Lego Batman Movie CMF series 2 in January, confirmed figures Hugo Strange, Black Canary and Clock King.

- CMF series 18 will feature a custome theme (much like Banana Man, Shark and the others in the past series, they are popular). Two "Brick" figures (possible a boy and a girl), a tree custome and an Elephant one seems very strong possibilities.

- There will be a licensed CMF series in 2018. Know facts: 1) It is a major franchise 2) Dimensions already drop a hint about it 3) A big D2C set will launch together. Speculation: it is a Harry Potter / Fantastic Beasts series (a hypothesis not denied neither confirmed by any source - but all other theories were denied). Hogwarts is on the second FB movies, confirmed, which will show Newt join forces with a young Dumbledore, a great possibility for the D2C set - again, just an hypothesis.

- There will NOT be a second Disney CMF in the near future.

 

[PhoncipleBone]

Clock King figure you say? Lemme catch the train to that CMF set then!

Spoiler

Yes, I have a huge soft spot for the original Clock King episodes of Batman TAS.

 

[parrotbeak]

Carousel discussion made me remember I have been stuck on this LOZ Block Fun Ewok forever.

Every time I try to restart I just get frustrated and give up. I've built a couple of these before and although there are moments when you have to lay it out on a flat surface and build up stability, the others I built came together easy. This Ewok just has too many layers in the build where nothing is holding it together. It is not like Lego where layers interlock--it's just straight up and down block on block in layers, so when there's overhangs, there's nothing holding it together until you've built it up.

It's possible I'm just doing it wrong cuz the instructions are difficult to follow.

 

[Ponn]

From what I gathered (keep in mind that all of that was read on several internet sites, I have not contact with Lego or retail, but all seems solid).

- The Lego Batman Movie CMF series 2 in January, confirmed figures Hugo Strange, Black Canary and Clock King.

- CMF series 18 will feature a custome theme (much like Banana Man, Shark and the others in the past series, they are popular). Two "Brick" figures (possible a boy and a girl), a tree custome and an Elephant one seems very strong possibilities.

- There will be a licensed CMF series in 2018. Know facts: 1) It is a major franchise 2) Dimensions already drop a hint about it 3) A big D2C set will launch together. Speculation: it is a Harry Potter / Fantastic Beasts series (a hypothesis not denied neither confirmed by any source - but all other theories were denied). Hogwarts is on the second FB movies, confirmed, which will show Newt join forces with a young Dumbledore, a great possibility for the D2C set - again, just an hypothesis.

- There will NOT be a second Disney CMF in the near future.

I would flip the F out if there was a large Hogwarts castle the size and piece count of Disney Castle. That has always been one of my biggest regrets was getting back into Lego after all the HP sets.

Clock King figure you say? Lemme catch the train to that CMF set then!

Spoiler

Yes, I have a huge soft spot for the original Clock King episodes of Batman TAS.

If you like Clock King there is a great mini series from about 8 years ago called Terror Titans. It was about Clock King recruiting his own evil version of Teen Titans and it involved Rose Wilson. I remember enjoying it quite a bit but i'm not sure its collected in a trade. You can probably get the individual issues on Comixology though.

edit: welp it looks like they did collect the 6 issues into a trade paperback and its still in print.

 

[Rodney McKay]

A Harry Potterverse CMF series would probably rival Disney series for sales.

Out of all CMF series, a Harry Potter themed one would be the first I would want every single one of them, at least all the ones from the main series (still haven't seen Fantastic Beasts).

I got into LEGO right when the Harry Potter sets were winding down, my first big set was the Diagon Alley one and it's still one of my favorites along with the triple decker Knight Bus set. But I missed a lot of other sets so I'm missing most of the major minifigs.
If I can get a Voldemort, Dumbledore, a bunch of the teachers, a Dementor, etc. I would LOVE it.

Harry Potter had such amazing potential for LEGO sets but when I looked back at some of the early ones they were so basic and honestly not ones I'd have bought even if I had been into LEGO at the time. They got better near the end of doing sets, but hey could have done a lot more great stuff with he license.

 

[Chiaroscuro]

Out of all CMF series, a Harry Potter themed one would be the first I would want every single one of them, at least all the ones from the main series (still haven't seen Fantastic Beasts).

I got into LEGO right when the Harry Potter sets were winding down, my first big set was the Diagon Alley one and it's still one of my favorites along with the triple decker Knight Bus set. But I missed a lot of other sets so I'm missing most of the major minifigs.
If I can get a Voldemort, Dumbledore, a bunch of the teachers, a Dementor, etc. I would LOVE it.

Harry Potter had such amazing potential for LEGO sets but when I looked back at some of the early ones they were so basic and honestly not ones I'd have bought even if I had been into LEGO at the time. They got better near the end of doing sets, but hey could have done a lot more great stuff with he license.

yes, Harry Potter was one of the first successful licenses from Lego, but as sets they look very bland, save for the very last batch of them. Also the minifigs on those sets are not all that great, just image new minifigs with Batman Movie quality. People will be all over them.

However keep in mind that it will probably more related to Fantastic Beasts than to older HP movies. So a young Dumbledore, for instance. And lots of 30s style clothes (which will be great).

 

[Maengun1]

Oh man, don't tease me you guys. I got back into Lego right after the Harry Potter line ended, and I'm a massive, massive HP fan. A UCS type Hogwarts castle is LITERALLY my dream set. I've posted as much several times over the last couple years.

whew if true

 

[ghostmind]

Just unboxed my latest S@H order.

The 3-in-1 piggy bank promo is pretty large for a free promo set, at 248 pieces.

 

[Winnie the Pimp]

Just unboxed my latest S@H order.

The 3-in-1 piggy bank promo is pretty large for a free promo set, at 248 pieces.

That is pretty great. Gingerbread house is STILL king though in that department...

 

[Tempy]

Pre-ordered the Boost Creative Toolbox set.

 

[ghostmind]

The SDCC live Ninjago City build and designer Q&A is now live:

https://youtu.be/2Zyp4c7_do0

They need mics...

Apparently they have mics but they aren't working. They are aware of it.

This is why you do a mic check LEGO.

 

[ghostmind]

Audio issues now fixed. Too bad we missed the first 5 minutes of audio.

LOL, now the stream just crashed.

 

[ghostmind]

Well the LEGO rep in the chat just confirmed that Ninjago City can be connected to the other modulars.

... and it's back.

And now the designers drop "so have you seen the giant Millennium Falcon?" casually into their discussion. Of course no follow up LOL.

 

[Experien]

Well the LEGO rep in the chat just confirmed that Ninjago City can be connected to the other modulars.

... and it's back.

I nearly fainted...I need that AND Palace cinema now.

 

[ghostmind]

Now they turned the audio off while the designers are building. Good way to avoid more "casual discussion".

 

[PalaceBrother]

And now the designers drop "so have you seen the giant Millennium Falcon?" casually into their discussion. Of course no follow up LOL.

Now they turned the audio off while the designers are building. Good way to avoid more "casual discussion".

This is amazing! Hilarious.

 

[fredrancour]

Oh man, don't tease me you guys. I got back into Lego right after the Harry Potter line ended, and I'm a massive, massive HP fan. A UCS type Hogwarts castle is LITERALLY my dream set. I've posted as much several times over the last couple years.

whew if true

This is pretty much where I'm at. I'd give up other hobbies to fund a stupid huge Hogwarts purchase

I hope there's a hogsmeade or new diagon alley one day

 

[iosefe]

Now they turned the audio off while the designers are building. Good way to avoid more "casual discussion".

"Please disperse, there is nothing to see here"