Yes, Elves was far better than Friends will ever be…
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Agreed. Elves had a lot of missed potential.
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Seriously, I think Elves is a very underrated LEGO theme…
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Less underrated, more underused.
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That’s an adaption of a Marvel Comics property of the same name. While the film is very, very different from the comic original, I wouldn’t call it Disney’s own superheros.
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Huh, didn’t know that… But we still have Pixar’s The Incredibles, which wasn’t adapted from anything as far as I am aware.
Nothing directly, so that would be correct. Just general inspiration from the super hero genre.
Though I will note that Elastic Girl was the name of a DC character, with a very similar power set. They had to pay a license to use the name in the film, but ended up only using it I think a total of two times in the original. Just some fun trivia.
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I would like to see Star Wars stop. Not because of any particular beef against the movies or anything, more just that I hate how overplayed it is in Lego; we’ve had new ships and setpieces with the newer media coming out, sure, but we’ve also had half a dozen different versions of every last minor piece of equipment to show up in the original trilogy, over a dozen different Millennium Falcons alone, and it’s just all really boring and samey stuff for a franchise I find to be pretty overrated to begin with. Not to mention how just by virtue of being Star Wars, it kinda inherently limits the chances for original properties to properly sell and grow. I know Lego’s track record has been pretty spotty, but I would honestly take a thousand failed but interesting experiments like Nexo Knights or Chima over one more obnoxiously overpriced Falcon hogging the store shelves.
I understand why this will probably never actually happen; from an economic standpoint Lego’s probably better off sticking with the safe and sure option. But from a creative standpoint, I really feel like Star Wars is a deeply limiting crutch that allows Lego to coast by on the overblown popularity of a grey disk with some prongs on the front, leaving little incentive to try to branch out and do their own thing as much or as effectively as they could. Now, to be fair despite that, they still do their own stuff, and Ninjago is proof that it can work, but I still feel like they could be going further if they took a step away from Lucasfilm stuff for a while.
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Super heroes. I don’t care much for super heroes so the sets mean nothing to me. I also don’t think many of the sets are that good.
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The truth has finally been said!
And I agree with this too.
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Agreed. I couldn’t have put it better.
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The great number of these sets is a little annoying if you’d like to see other Star Wars sets, but I actually rather enjoy seeing LEGO’s improvement on them. They’re learning from what they’ve done and applying it to what they’re making, so almost every Millennium Falcon just has a little something that makes it unique and better than its predecessor.
Unfortunately, I can’t go much deeper than that because I can’t talk about leaks
Not to mention the waves of new fans growing up and wanting the signature ship, one of the most iconic vehicles in the entire world, or the collectors who own every single one for a reason.
That’s okay, it’s shredding itself apart anyways
I mean, it wasn’t even in the top 3 themes last year, its spot taken by Ninjago, so I don’t really thing this argument works that well. Of course, it may just be a weather VS climate thing.
Cough, Hidden Side, cough
Okay, to be honest, I’ve kind of noticed a bit of a turn in LEGO’s themes. Ninjago and Hidden Side sets have gotten really good, but Star Wars has kind of died down, at least in my opinion. Instead of getting ten or fifteen sets a wave, the last one had, what, like six? And all of them are just improved versions of previous sets (Zam Wesell, come on, LEGO, Zam Wesell). LEGO is putting in a little money in hopes for a little profit, which they will get because it’s Star Wars and the sets are actually fairly good in my opinion, while putting lots more into Ninjago and original themes. Same thing with the Marvel sets, too, it feels like. Which is unfortunate considering how massive the MCU is right now.
Now, this is all theory. I don’t have any reason or evidence excluding my perspective, so don’t take this as fact. I think LEGO is trying to make their original themes as appealing as their third party. Is this good? It’s up to you. I’m neutral about it, as long as we get some really good sets out of Marvel Super Heroes and Star Wars (ZAM WESELL) every once in a while.
(Also, I am a Star Wars fan, and it means about as much for me as Bionicle does for lots of people on the Boards, but I still like to tease it every so often)
Ah. This one stings. While I can agree that a few of the Endgame sets were grave disappointments, there are still very many that stand out as incredible, like the Far From Home sets. I just don’t want to cut off what can become so much better, plus with how big superheroes are, LEGO really shouldn’t consider cutting them out of their products.
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To be fair, the past few Milleniuium Falcons haven’t really improved that much from the last one. Beside a few small differences, they are exactly the same. Not any better, not any worse than the last one. Just the same.
We are getting a new one this year, after roughly one year since the last one. Is this really “a new wave of fans growing up?” Not sure if that is really the case.
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You can’t blame LEGO for that. They’re not choosing to release a new Falcon often because they’re lazy, but because it’s been featured in the majority of new content up until this point. Once Episode IX is out of theaters, it will be several years before we see another release of a regular sized Falcon set that isn’t a microfighter or UCS because it won’t be featured in new and upcoming media. More likely we’ll get ships and setpieces from The Mandalorian and Clone Wars Season 7 (or maybe even stuff from Seasons 1-6 that we didn’t get the first go around) in the next year and a half. Not to mention Kenobi sets and Cassian Andor sets further on as well.
Ten or more by my count. The five LEGO Star Wars 20th Anniversary sets (5), two Resistance themed sets (2), two microfighters (2), the Death Star escape set (1) and Duel on Starkiller Base set (1). Then there’s the three or four Action Battles sets (4) which is a few more and the microfighter two-pack with the dewback and Tantive IV escape pod (1). And that’s not even counting the four or so Juniors sets, which would bump it up. It got the regular number of sets, it was just diversified more and wasn’t centered around a common theme, which makes sense considering it was an in-between movie wave.
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I…
Would cancel the MCU sets.
I’m really disappointed with how inaccurate they are becoming.
Beforr watching Endgame, I wanted the Hall of Armor set because Igor.
After endgame, i changed my mind because it wasn’t in the movie at all. It was really disappointing. They’re banking a little too much money and not enough effort on these licensed themes, assuming that because they’re licesnced, they’ll get money. Which isn’t totally true. Sure, there are some people who will get them for pieced and whatnot, but if the sets aren’t accurate, then fans of Lego and MCU will stop buying them.
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That’s an interesting set to be released when it was, but when you think about it, it makes total sense.
Spoilers for Endgame
Iron Man dies, man! You’ve got arguably your most popular superhero outside of Spider-Man (who will TOTALLY be sticking around in your universe for many years to come, RIP) kicking the bucket and no longer being a part of the franchise. That means outside of doing “Detroit Steele Strikes” type sets that are based more on the comics, Iron Man isn’t going to be in a LEGO set for a long time. How do the designers give a proper send off to this character? They combine some stuff. Something people wanted when Iron Man 3 was out was a Hall of Armor set, but we didn’t get one. People have also wanted an official Mark I, Mark V (suitcase armor), and Igor armor, and we didn’t get versions of that when it would’ve been timely. So we’re saying goodbye to this character anyway, let’s let his final big set be the Hall of Armor with a little bit of everything Iron Man mixed in. You’ve got the Mark I, Mark V, Mark 41, Igor, and the Mark 50 from Infinity War, plus some conflict-in-a-box outriders. It’s not accurate to the film, but it’s a great send off to the character by LEGO because it gives us several minifigs and a location we’d been wanting at the last moment.
Now, in terms of the inaccuracies of some of the other sets, it’s well known at this point that MARVEL essentially gives merch people concept art to work with and doesn’t really update them by the time the movie is supposed to be out, not to mention that the plots to MCU films are often kept very under wraps and you’d want to avoid spoiling the movie through your toys (and even then, that doesn’t always work, RIP Gi-ANT Man surprise in Civil War). Inaccurate designs and situations are nothing new to LEGO MARVEL (flamethrower buggy of doom from IM3 anyone? lol), and while I’m sick of it too, I’ll give the Endgame related sets a little bit of lee way just because of how stretched out that production was, because technically speaking, it shared a production cycle with Infinity War even though they were two different movies. Hopefully things can improve going forward.
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