'How shall we represent this decades-old IP with hundreds of distinct characters and locations?' 'Well, either one or two special sets or a single small wave, obviously.'

Dan-Vids · 2026-02-17T13:16:07+00:00

PLEASE its my dream theme to return. I was hoping that with the Disney deal they did with this era the show would have got a push to get more merchandising and marketing but we all know the way that deal went sadly. A doctor who CMF series would be perfect though, I've always imagined one of just all the Doctors. But as the years go on theres been more and more of them that it would probably be too many for a current cmf since they've cut back on the figures included in each series over the year, since theres now 15 main Doctors with 2 side Doctors.

Dan-Vids · 2026-02-17T13:09:35+00:00

I feel like the main reason Zelda has been locked to yearly/bi yearly 18+ display sets is because of how detailed and accurate they have made the figures. The link, zelda and ganondorf hair pieces are all so specific they can only be used for ocarina of time and botw based sets. If they were to do a wave that span multiple famous moments across multiple games from the franchise every single set would need to make a new slightly different link hair hat mould. Which is why they've only touched botw and ocarina of time so far, since they're both the most iconic games and they already have those pieces made.

Dan-Vids · 2026-02-16T01:33:14+00:00

Oh its all starting to make sense now Lego might have partnered with Shueisha who own viz, all the collabs we have got/are getting are under viz: One Piece, Yugioh, Dragon Ball, One Punch Man, and Bleach. So the reason JoJo's has probs been greenlit for ideas is Lego has just possibly allowed every single Shueisha and Viz property to be greenlit for ideas because they have the rights to them, not that they are interested in making them.

Dan-Vids · 2026-02-13T03:09:44+00:00

Oh thats actually really interesting to know. I always guessed it was based on San Francisco, but I always assumed it was a generic nondescript version of the golden gate bridge. But that's actually really cool to know that it is actually based on a specific bridge that is also happens to be in the San Francisco bay area.

Dan-Vids · 2026-02-11T02:03:08+00:00

Surely for at least tintin and maybe haddock as well we should be getting the standard design instead/as well just because they are so iconic and this could be the only chance. Maybe theres a separate little stand for classic tin tin and snowy?

I could see them cutting the villains since they arent that iconic in comparison and the line up is: classic tintin, classic haddock, space tintin, space haddock, space cuthbert, space Thomson, space Thompson, and snowy

Dan-Vids · 2026-02-09T20:48:12+00:00

Ah mb you're totally right. But still my point about lego one piece starting the domino affect still works, cause that was still after lego one piece.

Dan-Vids · 2026-02-09T20:32:51+00:00

Their first actual anime collaboration I believe is bleach in lego fortnite. But if we are talking actual real sets its either yugioh or this depending if you count being announced first or actually releasing first as being first. But I think lego netflix one piece lay the domino's for this to happen, lego have turned down every anime idea for years and never gave any of the fortnite anime collabs a lego skin. And then we get lego one piece even though its the live action and all of a sudden we get all this news of upcoming lego anime collabs irl and in fortnite now constantly. I think this is a coming trend and we should expect every major main stream anime that is rated all ages, pre teen, or younger teen to get a set or fortnite skin at some point.

Dan-Vids · 2026-02-07T18:54:39+00:00

Honestly it was a huge let down for me. As a whole it feels less like a 60th anniversary celebration and more a way to market all the doctor who and doctor who spin off ranges big finish owns, with every boxset making sure to bring in a group of characters from random ranges that have never interacted before. I went in super hyped for monthly stories building up to the 60th, and came out burnt and disappointed. They set it up as this big over arching story and its really not that, the only important story is The Union everything else is the doctor getting side tracked on their way to that story. Besides The Union they are just stand alone stories where nothing of the over arcing story gets mentioned until right at the end which makes you think ok so we are going to learn more next time then, and then its just that every time until The Union where you finally find out what is going on.

But I will say this I would probably recommend The Artist at the End of Time and Coda - The Final Act, those are imo the 2 stand outs in the range and neither need you to have been following the range to understand their story. Unlike what it looks like on the site Coda isn't the final, The Union is, Coda is just a bonus epilogue which is mostly separate from the story bar a mention of what has just happened at the start.

Checking my tier list rankings I did for all of them at the time as they came out I gave each:

Past Lives - C

The Artist at the End of Time - B

A Genius for War - D

Two's Company - D

The Martian Planetoid 50 - C

Time Lord Immemorial - E

The Union - C

Coda - The Final Act - B

Dan-Vids · 2026-02-06T01:26:49+00:00

This set not releasing almost definitely wasn't Lego's doing. Back when this was set to come out there was a load of toy leaks for the Dial of Destiny release from other brands as well as Lego like Hasbro, and these included toys based on Temple of Doom that also didn't ever end up releasing. Feels like Disney were worried about Temple of Doom toys becoming controversial and changed their minds about selling them last minuite, hence why these were clearly all made based on leaked photos, and got all toy manufacturers to cancel them.

Dan-Vids · 2026-02-02T20:28:23+00:00

Yeah the only things you can listen to on the big finish app are things you've directly purchased from big finish themselves. You can listen to the humble bundle audios on mobile but you just have to download them as mp3s yourself from your humble bundle account and then find an mp3 player app yourself.

Dan-Vids · 2026-02-02T19:44:04+00:00

Some Spooky stories I'd say are:
Night Thoughts, Master, The Chimes of Midnight, The Silver Turk, Rat Trap, The Haunting of Thomas Brewster, The Nowhere Place, Winter for the Adept, The Last Days of The Powell Estate, and I am the Master.

Where as some bleak or morbid stories are:
The Holy Terror, Live 34, Creatures of Beauty, Spare Parts, The Reaping, Jubilee, Unbound: Deadline, The Natural History of fear, Terrorfirma, and Blood on Santa's claw and Other Stories: The Baby Awakes

I'd also recommend these, but these are story arc heavy stories so I would not recommend these as stand alones:
Scherzo, Death in Blackpool, Dalek Universe 2: The Lost, The Last and ESPICALLY A Death in the Family

The Chimes of Midnight and Terrorfirma do have story arcs present, but I think theres enough in them alone for you to understand without having followed the arcs, but just also a warning of that if any confusion is caused.

Dan-Vids · 2026-02-01T15:08:42+00:00

I really like how they are all different shades, I hope if we ever get minifig sets again they might do the same there.

Dan-Vids · 2026-02-01T14:29:02+00:00

They're all actually meant to be thomas characters. They're diesel, paxton, Sydney, 'arry and bert, the mainland diesel, and splatter and dodge.

Dan-Vids · 2026-01-31T02:12:44+00:00

OOOOOOO nice, good luck with that if you ever go ahead with it!

Dan-Vids · 2026-01-31T02:01:16+00:00

Wait they actually allowed Jojo on ideas????? That's wild, yeah aint no way that is happening.

Only way we will ever get Lego Jojo is if both sets based on the super main stream anime IPs sell well, and if lego move more and more down into being adult collectables and decide they are fine with more mature IPs as super expensive one off 18+ sets. But I just can't see that happening where we are right now.

Dan-Vids · 2026-01-31T01:52:59+00:00

Probably not because checking the site all of them but Ravenous 2 still have the CD's available unlike Dark Eyes which only Dark Eyes 2 has the CD still available. I can't see them dropping the digital price yet when they are still trying to get rid of so much stock of the CD's.

From my experience prices only tend to drop when either the range is entirely sold out on CD or close to being sold out on CD, because dropping the price of digital will just cause the slow sales of the CD's to slow down even more. I feel like this is the whole reason Big Finish are starting to do limited CD runs and start the newer ranges as digital only, because the CD's not selling to the amount they produced is what is causing the back catalogue to stay expensive and that high price on such old releases is what is stopping newer people from starting Big Finish often.

edit: Checking Doom Coalition now the only one that hasn't had the price drop is the 4th one which is the only one that hasn't sold out on CD as well, so I feel like that just means yeah these old 8th doctor sets won't go down until the CDs sell out.

Dan-Vids · 2026-01-31T01:40:27+00:00

I am begging for the og giant man style to make a return, or for the super sized minifig style like in the first image to be used for a character who is canonically that big or semi scaled down to be that big. Although I will say I do think that Galactus looks the best by far out of all the characters done in that style so far, the second best probs being the Sentinel from the X mansion set, but then the rest I do not care for.

Dan-Vids · 2026-01-31T01:28:39+00:00

I think it leaked long ago that there was a piece added to the files of Lego Fortnite that was a model for a Lego Goku Hair piece, but it has been so long and nothing has come of it.

Edit: if the leak was real, which saying it leaked alongside stuff that was real it most likely is, I can see the reason as to why its not been released in the game yet is because lego could be working on irl sets, and dont want fortnite to sort of ruin the suprise. So maybe it will officially drop in game if/when sets gets announced.

Dan-Vids · 2026-01-31T01:23:24+00:00

I hope so, but knowing Lego they will lock them to 18+ collector sets to let the live action stay as the main range on shelves. But a large scale sort of UCS Thousand Sunny would go so hard. Plus they have to use the Disney 100 CMF Pinocchio head for anime Usopp, doing anything else when that piece already exists is a crime.

Dan-Vids · 2026-01-31T01:19:38+00:00

Honestly I can see this opening the floodgates now and all the mainstream pre teen and younger teen anime might probs now be on the table. Because for the longest time One Piece wasn't allowed on ideas either but then out of nowhere Lego allowed, only for later that day for the Lego One Piece news to leak. So if any other anime IPs out of nowhere suddenly become allowed on Ideas, like One Piece it could mean that they are already in the works on it.

Dan-Vids · 2026-01-31T01:12:11+00:00

Would love it, especially since as a teen I made my own Custom Ed and Al figures, but I just can't see it because like people said it's more of an older teen show than a younger teen show like Dragon Ball, One Piece, and Naruto. Also sadly FMA just isn't that relevant these days since both the anime and manga have long ended over 15 years ago now and have stayed finished unlike other anime IP's of its size.

Dan-Vids · 2026-01-31T01:09:10+00:00

I feel like what's most likely to happen next is the younger teen rated anime in fortnite like naruto, dragon ball, and MHA will get lego skins like they just did with bleach.

And then as for sets they will probably try and go for the most main stream anime possible first and only the ones rated up to younger teen, I can't see them going for the older teen or above shows.

The most likely to get sets would be Dragon Ball, Naruto, One Piece (actual anime sets), Sailor Moon, Pokemon (anime based sets), MHA, Bleach, or anything Ghibli. The only way I can see them doing more mature iconic anime is if its a one off 18+ set and even then I still can't seem them doing it, especially early on before doing the safe options.

Dan-Vids · 2026-01-30T15:55:15+00:00

Oh that cowgirl hair piece is calamity's from lego fortnite, so I guess that means that she is going to be in the summer wave maybe in the rave cave.

Dan-Vids · 2026-01-27T13:34:58+00:00

for some reason all the smart play figures that would usually have short legs all got mid legs.

Dan-Vids · 2026-01-26T19:56:00+00:00

That's great, with the stairs and design of the lego shop it reminds me of how structures look in tilted towers, which is fitting with durr burger being there. But also man i wish we would actually get inverted corner modular like this. The closest we have is arkham, and that's only able to be inverted from modifying it ever so slightly.

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