Four Avatar sets revealed ahead of SDCC

PG-13 rated movie with 9+ age range sets. I suppose it’s no different from all those dinosaur or fantasy movies and such…but somehow, this feels worse to me.

Overall I don't know what to make of this theme. I wasn't a huge fan of the original movie when it came out and now, 15 years later, they're finally make the sequels. Won't be surprised when both the movies and this theme flop hard.

Not planning on getting any of these, but they look pretty cool, especially 75573. If anything, I'll buy that Trudy minifigure off of Bricklink so I can have a "Letty" to go with my Dominic Toretto once his set comes out in a couple weeks.

@Goujon said:
" @LEGOldHead80s said:
"Pass. The LEGO nobody ever asked for from the movie nobody actually likes and the sequels no one wanted. "

really sad to see so much hate for these sets. the prices and the size are pretty much the only bad things about them. yes the navi look weird but thats the restriction of The LEGO mini figure.
personally these sets are a dream come true, ive always wanted to see LEGO Avatar as I love the movie. I just wish some people would hold the same sentiment. I guess if no one buys them I can get multiples on sale. "

Nah,dude,they did modified heads for a lot of themes,so this could have been the same deal...that might have helped this theme... but really look at it: the mech is far worse than any done before 2021 (looks like those new Ninjago mechs from EVO...)...and the Samson... looks silly... movie preferences aside, these sets look rushed

@PurpleDave said:
"“The new sets enable fans to recreate their favourite moments from the film…”

They’re doing a letter tile pack so we can recreate the end credits?!?!?!?"
ROFL

Well put, sir.

The set with the helicopter might be worth buying (although it will no doubt be very overpriced...)
Pass on the rest of this line I think.

Not interested in watching the new movie, but I liked these sets. Could consider getting at least one.

@xboxtravis7992 said:
""Look, a Direhorse!""

"I didn't expect the Direhorse Inquisition!"

Never understood the draw of Avatar (movie), and these sets don't help.

It looks like the various pieces of forest connect to each other? They all have clips on one side, and something to clip to on the other side. I wonder what they look like together, and if they connect to the tree or not.

These sets look like B grade "Elves" designs combined with "Jurassic World" sets.
They will sell well, as lots of kids will probably ask for these, so there's that.

Ah so there’s a Mech in the film. That explains why Lego wanted a theme that no would really miss.

I 'like' how the cheapest set in the theme (as far as we know) is apparently 40 dollar. Will they really do the Monkie Kid 2020 route of straight up forgoing pocket money sets again? AGAIN?
I genuinely like that they did the mech! I like mechs!
I 'like' that the mech is built with the the Ninjago EVO joint system. That is, it doesn't have mid-limb joints and is pretty small. And it also has a 'wonderful' amount of small 1x1 parts again. That sure won't get tiresome to rebuild after a few times!

The price of those two Banshees surprised me. I have to give credit that they keep surprising me with the height of those prices. Then again the generous terrain build might be half of the pieces...

So yeah... these are once again not for me.

@ShinyBidoof said:
"Ah so there’s a Mech in the film. That explains why Lego wanted a theme that no would really miss. "

That mech needs to be in diesel-punk / ALT-WW2 display, or have "electric" coils added to it for Telsa-Punk.... STAT

Really don't see these moving. I know Disney is trying to turn this into a franchise but the original movie was little more than a novelty that doesn't really seem to have an enduring fandom.

Useful pieces for space jungle MOCs, I guess? Otherwise I'm getting PRINCE OF PERSIA and THE LONE RANGER vibes from these - except those sets were *way* more interesting.

The blue Brickhead is so funny... Hilarious! Other than that... who called for this IP to be made into sets? Sorry Lego, you are way too late to the party. And I am not sure anyone wanted sequel movies either...

I've wanted the AMP suit and the helicopter thing for years. I remember making mocs of them back in the day

I quite like how each of the scenery sections allow you to display other parts of the set. Doesn't make those pieces feel quite so wasted for us folk that like to build and display.

Seems like good, colorful toys.

The mech set seems cheap compared to the Site 23 set. Hmm

The Brickheadz eyes terrify me

Strange that they didn't include the gun with the AMP unit. It looks a bit like an upscaled modern military gun but it is still fictional.

The cockpit print on the Samson does not nearly cover enough of the piece so is disapointing.

These sets look pretty good! Only the cheapest set interests me, but they look nice. I love the minifig(not Navi) designs! The mask prints could be incredibly useful. I'm looking forward to more useful tall leg colors. Now we just need arms... I wonder if the amount of recolors has affected the price? I know all of the molds have. Hopefully these sets will go the way of Eternals and be half off/heavily discounted since I also need to make room in the budget for the Indy Egyptian tomb set.

The Brickheadz don't look great, but everything else is what I was hoping for from Avatar sets.

The plants look nice. Maybe a botanicals set of them would be nicer?

I love the film that I watch often and willingly and I can't wait to see the sequel, I have always loved legos, but what a disappointment. with all due respect but you could do much better with the sets produced !! even with only the minifigures !!!

I’ve been wanting a LEGO Samson for sooooo long. Definitely getting that one.

I liked the movie (it entertained me for a few hours and this is what I ask of movies - never been a hard core fan of any movies/series/bands/objects/etc). I would normally be interested in getting a few of these sets (we have yet to see the biggest set of this theme - which is a military vehicle (Scorpion or Valkyrie I can't remember - but it's 'fantasy' so that does not count!) but Lego has overpriced me out of buying them. I can now only focus on a few preferred themes (which are already quite expensive). Before I was somehow able to buy a set here and there in other themes just for 'exploration' and discovering other stuff - this won't be possible with the price hikes announced and this might very well be a blessing in disguise.

75571 is 44.99 USD and 75573 is 99.99 USD on the US LEGO site.

Unrelated, the beta for Minifigure Factory is live there too.

Not only doesn't the theme interest me, the sets as such are dull apart from some interesting colours.

I’m just bummed they didn’t use the longer Toy Story legs for last year’s Toy Story 4 sets but then decide to dust off the molds for this franchise. Maybe more will come in future sets.

These are alright.

Never saw the movie, but the scenery and animals (both molded and brickbuilt) really entice me. They may be bad value for money but they certainly are beautiful. At the very least these will be great parts packs for Botanical MOCs--which pushes my buttons, if not anyone else's!

@kalexicon said:
"Is that a new wheelchair mold? The back looks shorter. "

Yep, that's a new mould. Cool to have a new mould in a new colour but it's a shame and quite strange that given they had a chance to do a whole new mould they still put handles on the back! Especially given the source material doesn't have handles.

yes, pretty sure they are, there are also glow in the dark crowns in a couple of the other sets.

@starflyer59 said:
" @TheIronBadger said:
"First ever Sigourney Weaver minifig!
"

Dana Barrett was in 75827."

Damn it! Totally forgot.

Ah well. Holding out for the first ever Ripley minifig.

While this will be at least mildly successful, Lego would make a lot more money with Avatar: The Last Airbender given how popular that franchise is with the kiddos right now.

Ah, the mech and copter look weak. Juniorized.
The lab looks good though.

love the banshees and landscape stuff. ick to the na'vi minifigs (i'm in the "should've been minidolls" camp). if i find them on sale, then maybe. prices are starting to inhibit my purchasing.

Lmao, I'm getting them for fantasy mocs for sure! LOVE New animal heads!

@Lordmoral said:"Edit: man I hope LEGO makes sets based upon Mass Effect."

I would love that, but sadly it won't happen because the games are rated M. I've seen some nice MOCs with instructions out there, though.

@TomKazutara said:
"Wow set 75573 give us a proper cleavage minifig, after slave Leia.
That is something ."

Nope, it's creepy and weird and I don't like personally

Is that a new canopy piece on the Samson. I'm not sure it is but I can't place where I've seen it before.

The printing on these figures looks fantastic! I hope the actual figures retain that. Really loving the Colonel figure, reminds me of the guy from Small Soldiers! Also, the mech and alien lion thing really giving me Titanfall2 vibes!

The banshee wings are beautiful. I'm going to make so many pterosaurs with those!

@lost_scotsman said:
"Is that a new canopy piece on the Samson. I'm not sure it is but I can't place where I've seen it before."

This is part 11289. It appeared in 45 sets. the most recent ones were in 10751 (2018, in trans-light blue) and 76097 (2018, in trans-brown). It also appeared in pretty much every single (non-Technic) helicopter since its creation in 2013.

Note: 75573 has a sand-blue train door! That should be a good colour for a passenger wagon.

where is tree?

@HOBBES said:
" @lost_scotsman said:
"Is that a new canopy piece on the Samson. I'm not sure it is but I can't place where I've seen it before."

This is part 11289. It appeared in 45 sets. the most recent ones were in 10751 (2018, in trans-light blue) and 76097 (2018, in trans-brown). It also appeared in pretty much every single (non-Technic) helicopter since its creation in 2013.

Note: 75573 has a sand-blue train door! That should be a good colour for a passenger wagon."

Actually, the windscreen on the Samson is the new part that first appeared on the Speed Champions Aston Martin Valkyrie in trans-black, then in the Mandalorian N-1 Starfighter in light gray.

Finally! New color for Zane hair.

@ecleme11 said:
"Would have preferred ore sets based Avatar the air bender.... "

I would also love that, at the very least, I would love the Ideas set of Appa with all the main characters to be made, but I wouldn't complain if there was a line of sets, even if the theme was short lived

However, with that being said though, and this is coming from someone who has never seen the first movie, though with the second movie coming out, I very well might have to in order to understand the lore and why the first movie was so successful (I hear that a part of it has to do with the CGI used). Anyways, back to my main point, even as someone who has never seen the movie, the sets look very interesting. I'm not the biggest fan of the mech set, which is ironic, since I typically love mechs, but maybe I'll come around on it over time and after seeing reviews. The set with the birds is one I feel that my partner would love, and I'm quite interested in the base set with the helicopter and the horse. Additionally, the set that was revealed a few weeks to a month ago seems very interesting as well. Some of the pieces they use are quite aesthetic and beautiful. I'm willing to dive in and see what this theme offers and who knows, maybe these sets might help me become more excited to see both the first movie and its sequel

I love Avatar - and there are some great vehicles/mechs in the movie that could make awesome Lego sets - but these sets are uniformly awful.

I think these sets look good. Look at the monsters. They look cool. Sure, the blue people look a bit off, but was this a original lego ip people would have loved it i think.
Not necessarily planning on buying these (i didn’t like the movie at all) but i just may because i want to build them and play with it

i really wish lego would cut back on all the licensed themes and focus on their original themes.

That wheelchair has me wanting a Professor X Brickheadz.

@iwybs said:
" @HOBBES said:
" @lost_scotsman said:
"Is that a new canopy piece on the Samson. I'm not sure it is but I can't place where I've seen it before."

This is part 11289. It appeared in 45 sets. the most recent ones were in 10751 (2018, in trans-light blue) and 76097 (2018, in trans-brown). It also appeared in pretty much every single (non-Technic) helicopter since its creation in 2013.

Note: 75573 has a sand-blue train door! That should be a good colour for a passenger wagon."

Actually, the windscreen on the Samson is the new part that first appeared on the Speed Champions Aston Martin Valkyrie in trans-black, then in the Mandalorian N-1 Starfighter in light gray."

You are correct. My mistake: the part I was referring to is the cockpit part of the AMP suit. My bad.

@HuskyDynamics:
The Osprey is a literal military vehicle. It’s flown by the US Marine Corps, the US Navy, the US Air Force, and the Japanese Self-Defense Force. All militaries. It _can_ be flown unarmed for Search-and-Rescue operations, but you can also mount a heavy machine gun in the rear to lay down suppressive fire when coming in for troop evac.

The color scheme is based on real livery, but I believe it was only used by the preceding model from before one of the partner companies dropped out. If a substantial number were being flown by a civilian organization, or at least some Coast Guard service (falls somewhere between military and police, but they’ve done tons of CG subthemes over the years, so it’s probably fine), they might have let it go forward. As it is, it was based on a vehicle that’s only used by militaries and has at least one hard point for mounting a weapon, and it carried official licensed branding.

@mr_Fikou:
The Thanator definitely needs a helicopter with its name on the side, and like a double-ended sledgehammer thing.

@lost_scotsman:
Looks like a Speed Champions car roof.

@Renaissance_Ravensly:
It was a massive CGI spectacle at a time when that sort of thing was still the new hotness. It’s kinda like how Wing Commander was a theatrical hit based, in large part, on the fact that they co-opted the “bullet-time” process from the original Matrix film at a time when most people hadn’t had an opportunity to see that effect on the big screen. But how many people even consciously remember that there was a Wing Commander film, much less know the story beats in order because they’ve watched it so often?

I like the base and helicopter set. I remember the helicopter featured in the original Avatar vehicle/ small action figure line.

Good to see that all the terrain side builds connect to each other! Would make a nice diorama with all four sets next to each other. (a very expensive diorama)

@gatorbug6 said:
"Huh.

Well anyways, can't wait for LEGO Indiana Jones to return in 2023!"

It seems less and less likely by the second, unfortunately. :( I'm not enough of an Avatar fan to get any of these but they're accurate sets from a film that has been around for long enough that there's certainly some interest left. My brother and this one guy at my school are giant fans of the film and while the latter doesn't buy LEGO someone is gonna want these. The mech is easily my favorite of the Minifig-scale ones (not sure how to rank the Brickheadz alongside them) and it goes well with Site 26, bam you have the whole climactic showdown, not counting the prior war scene. I don't have much to add to the "is this a military line?" argument but this is a fictional film either way, although if the Samson helicopter was a real model that'd pique my interest even more, like the Chinook in the Taskmaster Helicopter set.
@RaiderOfTheLostBrick Critic score or audience score? Ghostbusters 2016 has a critic score around that but audiences either hate or have forgotten about it.

The one with the Mech looks good, the rest is meh... I liked the horse though, nice color and form.

I have no special connection to the movie. I have seen it and even bought the BluRay when it was dirt cheap. I neither hate nor love the film, but I can appreciate it at least from a visual standpoint.

As for the sets, the only one I might buy is the one with the sand green mech, but only on a discount. Thankfully, as the theme is not exclusive to LEGO stores, I predict we will see sizable discounts from the likes of Amazon etc.

@MercuryOrbit said:

As for the sets: they’re good, but not great. Some fun designs but a little clunky. Wish the Samson was bigger. ]]

I agree. The piece count to price of 75571 is great. But, the mech and cat need a lot better sculpting. Looks stiff, blocky, and anorexic. Looks like a contestant from the Lego challenge show that you know is going to lose.

I like the colors and the scenery builds. I appreciate the new molds and am starting to get used to the long legs. But, most the animal sculpts don't impress too much. Maybe I need to see them IRL. Why no landing gear (feet, hands) for the banshees?! ><

But, usually poor pictures are used to hide poor design. They should've put the Ninjago design dudes on this IP.

I love Avatar. I only have two problems with these sets:
- No gun for the mech. Maybe it was too violent? I don't think so, it has a chainsaw and a knife...
- The rotors on the Samson look bad. Why those yellow accents if that part is available in grey... and probably would have looked better with a single rotor on each wing

Apart from that, pretty excited for more sets

Another chance for TLG to create the Small Ball and Socket joints, first revealed in Mixels, in new colours, in addition to ~ Grey...
Second chance in Chima Legend Beasts.
Third chance in Marvel Mechs. etc etc.
all missed....

No, they missed the chance again.... come on TLG sort out your colours.

I will probably wait for a good discount on these Avatar sets before buying?

Does anyone know why all sets are 9+? It seems like a wasted opportunity, to be honest.

The sets don’t seem too interesting or that fun for kids, but i love the scenery of pandora but that’s about it I guess

75571 AMP Suit Quaritch: Its legs uses the bent-joint POOPs introduced for the juniorized Ninjago mechs. The fingers are silly, like a fat-gloved Mickey Mouse. New color for the barista plate (sand green).

75571 and 75572: The purpose-molded heads of the ikran and thanator should be no surprise, after Ninjago and Elves. Interesting that they minimized use of Mixels joints and their intrusive grey, but the Technic frame for Jake's blue ikran uses axle-joiners in white instead of blue or black. New color for the 1x1 brick with bar (earth blue).

75573 Site 26: That's a nicely compact rendition of the transportable lab, and the "more images" show they did manage to squeeze in a link-chamber -- albeit with a flat lid instead of curved, and a faux scanner torus.

40554: The BrickHeadz version of Avatar!Jake: new yellow eye-print! Squeezing a tall-skinny character into the BrickHeadz form factor is odd (what next: Alberto Giacometti sculptures?) but it's hardly the first ill-fitting case. The *names* on the box are a bit odd (set name: "Jake Sully & his Avatar," as "Jake 180" and "Jake Sully 181").

Better than anticipated, I actually wouldn't mind getting 75573 , but I'd need Eternals-level discount to even consider it.

@Venunder said:
"Another chance for TLG to create the Small Ball and Socket joints, first revealed in Mixels, in new colours, in addition to ~ Grey...
Second chance in Chima Legend Beasts.
Third chance in Marvel Mechs. etc etc.
all missed....

No, they missed the chance again.... come on TLG sort out your colours.

I will probably wait for a good discount on these Avatar sets before buying?
"

We'd all like them to make the joints in more colors, but they're simply not going to, supposedly due to the color and plastic formula dictating that one color is best for consistent quality. We need to just accept that they have a rule and aren't changing it.

Frankly, the brick-built creatures all look terrible. The AMP suit is good, but the Thanator mixes flat round blocks with obvious clips and hinges and a sculpted head that (a) doesn't look much like the original and (b) doesn't remotely match the style of the body. The body is all built out of cookie-cutter 2D pieces spliced together rather than the designer creating a 3D shape.

The base and the Samson look good, and I like how it's got the warpaint colouring marks on it, but it just looks too small to me. It's all very well LEGO selectively miniaturising vehicles, but where they've made the brick-built creatures bigger and also put it next to the base (which it's supposed to be able to carry) it looks totally out of proportion. Give us a mid-range Technic version, please.

@Venunder:
@8BrickMario:
The Mixel joints are some of the most color-locked elements they have ever produced. The ball dates back several decades, but the socket was a new design. The design is such that the plate functions as a normal plate, and the socket fills a space that’s one brick wide and two plates tall (but vertically offset by half a plate thickness). There’s very little room to reinforce the socket within the allotted space. Clutch is a major issue with a socket joint that small, and if you cheat the tolerance too much, you risk cracking open the socket.

Changing the color of a part can affect how much it shrinks when it cools, and how stress-resistant the material is (reddish-brown and dark-red are infamous for being prone to shattering, and the middle run of Bionicle had a few colors that were notorious for cracking). In order to ensure the parts had adequate clutch without risk of breaking the sockets, they tested the crap out of two colors and restricted use of the socket-inclusive molds to those colors. Oddly, there are socket parts in both shades of bley, but they locked each part to one shade only, based on whether it had a ball attached. One exception was made when Disney objected to the used of a single light-bley Mixel joint in the Giant Man design, so they temporarily produced that part in dark-bley. As soon as that set was retired, the color lock was back in force, but a few set designers took advantage of the lapse while they could.

The animals look really good, especially the space horse (I don't know its name, please feel free to enlighten me), but I cant see past the goofy extended minifigure pieces. To me they look a bit like fake or knockoff brands. The builds for the animals, on the other hand, look amazing!

I’m really surprised these are kids sets and not part of the 18+ range. Not only is this movie older than the kids these sets are designed for, but as I recall this movie is completely inappropriate for children. Of course it’s been years since I’ve seen it, and my only real interest in it now is to see how well the cgi has held up. I remember it being amazing when it came out, but I’m guessing it’ll probably look like the Star Wars prequels now.

The good news of course is that if they can create a theme for a movie this old because there’s a sequel coming out, then maybe they will revisit Lord of the Rings prior to the new tv show coming out.

@alfred_the_buttler:
The LotR/Hobbit movies were produced by WB-owned New Line Cinema, and reportedly Christopher Tolkien was not happy with the latter trilogy and refused to expand their licensing to include anything outside those four books. Amazon secured the license for The Silmarillion, which is the basis for the streaming series. TLG licensed their themes from WB, so they’d need to cut a deal with Amazon to be able to make sets based on the show. That doesn’t affect their current license, so it is true that they could simply choose to piggyback on the show by producing more sets under their WB license (assuming it’s still active). I wouldn’t expect to see them do this until they’ve had a chance to gauge the success of the show, and decide if it’s something they want to be even tangentially associated with. If it’s ultra-violent, they may be even less inclined to revive the theme than they would have been when there was nothing going on with the IP.

@GBP_Chris said:
"4. What kind of blood sacrifice do I have to make to get the Jake Brickheadz to stop staring directly into the depths of my blackened soul.

5. No seriously, I'll do anything."

But... is it worse than .... 30565 ?!

@StyleCounselor:
That probably depends on if you’re coulrophobic or not. Most people love spotting my Pennywise minifig on MichLUG layouts (regardless of whether it’s the happy or evil face version), but when I sent a pic to various people I know, one of them responded with an 18-letter F-bomb, and made clear in no uncertain terms that he was not interested when I offered to send him one to put on his bedside table. A member of my LUG has a daughter who is definitely coulrophobic, and I don’t think she’d react well to it either.

@StyleCounselor said:
" @GBP_Chris said:
"4. What kind of blood sacrifice do I have to make to get the Jake Brickheadz to stop staring directly into the depths of my blackened soul.

5. No seriously, I'll do anything."

But... is it worse than .... 30565 ?!"

You know what, I didn't feel like sleeping tonight anyways ...

@TheIronBadger said:
"UCS USCSS Prometheus?"

UCS USCSS USSCSUSCUS SCUCUUSSCSCUSCSUCSSCUSCU oh there goes my sanity.

I'm interested in 75573 but I don't know if I'm as much interested as it costs.

Honestly, I can't believe anyone cares about Avatar anymore. These sets are cheap looking and strike me as nothing but a Cameron cash grab. The long legs, in particular, just irritate me.

The only bit I can ever remember from this film was the mech fight (oh yeah and the uhm... hair scene. Not Brickset appropriate.) The set with the mech seems decently cheap so I might actually go after it.

I think it speaks volumes that this collection is only four sets and has already covered basically everything from the film.

@GSR_MataNui:
There was a fifth set that leaked, got posted, and then deleted. I suspect it’s based on the new movie, or they probably would have announced it with these four. Most likely Disney signed an exclusive press contract, and some major news outlet/publication gets first crack at revealing all movie merchandise. This has happened quite a bit with licensed themes based on upcoming movies, and regular draws cries of, “Why is a non-LEGO media company getting to make all the LEGO announcements when AFOL sites get nothing?”

i'd say, from the following standpoints, this series is looking quite promising in my opinion:

the playability: each set comes with it's own deco reflecting the ambience, and with the main action set this is fun to play with and to combine with other sets

the design: the colors, objects, animals, minifutures, structures, are quite true to the movie itself which is already a work of art at that time, here the sets shown are very vibrant in colors, simple yet configurable designs, as how lego should be

the price: nothing to comment about, this is always subjective, as long as the product itself is worthy

the brickheadz: i would put the jake's avatar on my office desk, and when someone comes with silly questions or demands, i will show them the jake's avatar

@GSR_MataNui said:
"The only bit I can ever remember from this film was the mech fight (oh yeah and the uhm... hair scene. Not Brickset appropriate.) The set with the mech seems decently cheap so I might actually go after it.

I think it speaks volumes that this collection is only four sets and has already covered basically everything from the film. "

The Tree of Souls is a set that lets you recreate the hair scene with the included Minifigures and build.

I might buy 75571 just for the Quaritch minifig alone. Wish his torso printing was a uniform instead of vest+singlet, but it's not every day we get an official Lego military minifig.

@Nikolaevna:
Wait, is Smurf-Cat’s hair plugged into that creature’s neck? Brickset needs a “That’s Not Right” tag…

@Trigger_ said:
" @gatorbug6 said:
"Huh.

Well anyways, can't wait for LEGO Indiana Jones to return in 2023!"

It seems less and less likely by the second, unfortunately. :( I'm not enough of an Avatar fan to get any of these but they're accurate sets from a film that has been around for long enough that there's certainly some interest left. My brother and this one guy at my school are giant fans of the film and while the latter doesn't buy LEGO someone is gonna want these. The mech is easily my favorite of the Minifig-scale ones (not sure how to rank the Brickheadz alongside them) and it goes well with Site 26, bam you have the whole climactic showdown, not counting the prior war scene. I don't have much to add to the "is this a military line?" argument but this is a fictional film either way, although if the Samson helicopter was a real model that'd pique my interest even more, like the Chinook in the Taskmaster Helicopter set.
@RaiderOfTheLostBrick Critic score or audience score? Ghostbusters 2016 has a critic score around that but audiences either hate or have forgotten about it."

Believe it or not: both! https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/avatar

@RaiderOfTheLostBrick:
Is there any way of knowing if those ratings have been updated since the days of “ZOMG the CGI awesomeness,” or if they factor in cooling opinions since it’s been observed that it’s basically just Smurf-Cat Pocahontas?

I don't know anything about avatar (unless it's the last airbender), but I do know that thanator creature thing looks a lot like Boga. I hope that head is used for just that.

Those brickbuild Banshees look horrible. I'd rather would have seen a one piece Banshee mould like Pterodactyl from Jurassic World.