Cool armour and helmet for ZOD. The rest of the set is Meh though.

All these years later, and I still have no idea what this set is. I remember the scene from the film, but, yeah.

The best Man of Steel set, especially for Zod's armour and the first Lois Lane figure. The build is nothing to be excited about, but I kind of like the platform.

But this cost $40 AUD!! Even $30 was a bit too much.

@Miyakan said:
"Cool armour and helmet for ZOD. The rest of the set is Meh though."

Hey, back off the Amy Adams minifig!

that escape pod looks like a deformed slave 1

@PurpleDave said:
" @Miyakan said:
"Cool armour and helmet for ZOD. The rest of the set is Meh though."

Hey, back off the Amy Adams minifig!"

I forgot that was Amy Adams. Ok, she gets a pass. I would love a minifigure of her from Enchanted.

My first DC set... I remember it well!

I always thought this was as overpriced and bland and minifigures-are-the-only-draw as they come.

At least 76002 , the smaller, oddly small-boxed set of the line had a car two super-people can throw at each other. And the car is black-yellow!

This one has the world's most minimalistic hanger, a doorway and a platform that looks like the ship goes on it, but instead it just stands at the end of a tiny ladder walkway. And its grayer than your average Star Wars set!

It kind of looks like an alternate model of a more cohesive set...

@NotProfessorWhymzi said:
"much like the movie, it's a pile of grey sadness and disaster p*** with only one redeeming quality."
All it’s missing is the sudden influx of fans who seem to appear out of nowhere whenever people criticize it! (Seriously, where the heck were Man of Steel fans pre-2022 and why did they never start showing up until then?)

I didn’t love Man of Steel (if we count Ultimate Edition for BVS and Snyder Cut for Justice League, it’s for sure my least favorite of the Snyder Trilogy) but that aside I don’t hate the prospect of LEGO doing gray superhero sets if they’re also gonna do gray Star Wars sets. Granted, there’s a ton of Star Wars fans who’ll come after you if you make a Tie Fighter cyan instead of gray, but as a (reasonably sad and edgy) adult I don’t personally mind sets like this. Idk how well these sold with children, though.

Always felt sorry for Superman as he could do everything himself and had no home there was never a long list of vehicles or buildings that made cool Batman sets.

Man I wish lego would actually make dc sets nowadays.

Also,I love this movie.There,I said it.

@Ridgeheart said:
" @ElephantKnight said:
"Black Zero? Seems rather anti-Blacktron, don't you think? It's got Scum Police written all over it!

(Continuing from yesterday)

@Murdoch17
With no official Blacktron 3, I can't say much about it. I love all the CMF figs, and of course Rench and all the SP3 villains, but no one's Blacktron 3 colour scheme has really taken my interest."

"Blacktron 3" seemed to be mostly cobbled-together, or maybe some random space-biker-pirates picked up some old uniforms and decided they liked the look. The whole suave, sleek spy-look (space-ninjas?) seemed to be thrown out the, uh, airlock. If the SP3-baddies counted as BT3 at all, they smacked more of the Ravagers from GotG to me.

I sure did like the occasional CMF-callback, but none of them really did it for me.

8803-6 seemed like sort of a return to a uniform look (and honestly, not a bad torso), but I guess they're cyborgs now? Or is this Blacktron-Ogel? Or - oh, no. That heavy eyebrow. Cole, is that you?!

71002-4 Mechtron doesn't really work for me. Again, it's a good uniform look, but the idea of heavy shocktroopers kind of contradicts what I thought BT1 and BT2 were all about ("I'm in your base, stealing your stuff").

71025-11 kind of works. It's definitely sleek, it looks dangerous, and it's got the traditional BT1-colours (plus: black visor!). That weird blue head is off-putting, but it can be replaced. This dude looks surprisingly good in 40580.

But - and this might be very controversial - I think the newest addition to the Blacktron-ranks looks best. I know it's a huge departure, but dashing newcomer https://brickset.com/minifigs/sp134 just has that certain je ne sais quoi (and again, dude looks good in 40580).

Yeah, I know it doesn't have anything to do with the Superman-set. I'm not sure what to say. Zod's sorta-maybe-Blacktron-armour might be useful."

I see those guys as specialists and notable elite members more than rank and file. Like with Cobra and Darkseid (to relate a bit to the set), you have troopers and Vipers, and individuals like Firefly, Scrap Iron and Mindbender; Parademons and shocktroopers, and elites like Mantis, Kanto and Granny Goodness.

@Trigger_ said:
" @NotProfessorWhymzi said:
"much like the movie, it's a pile of grey sadness and disaster p*** with only one redeeming quality."
All it’s missing is the sudden influx of fans who seem to appear out of nowhere whenever people criticize it! (Seriously, where the heck were Man of Steel fans pre-2022 and why did they never start showing up until then?)

I didn’t love Man of Steel (if we count Ultimate Edition for BVS and Snyder Cut for Justice League, it’s for sure my least favorite of the Snyder Trilogy) but that aside I don’t hate the prospect of LEGO doing gray superhero sets if they’re also gonna do gray Star Wars sets. Granted, there’s a ton of Star Wars fans who’ll come after you if you make a Tie Fighter cyan instead of gray, but as a (reasonably sad and edgy) adult I don’t personally mind sets like this. Idk how well these sold with children, though."

The surge of Snyderverse fans in the last few years is either people with rose tinted goggles complaining about the present, or some weird astroturf campaign funded by people with strong opinions on movies (there actually is SOME evidence some of the vocal Snyder fans might actually be bot accounts, wild).

I would bet though that the Venn Diagram between (real) people who LOVE Man of Steel vocally online and the people who somehow think Star Wars would get instantly better if Kathleen Kennedy was fired has a lot of crossover though.

@RaiderOfTheLostBrick said:
"The best Man of Steel set, especially for Zod's armour and the first Lois Lane figure. The build is nothing to be excited about, but I kind of like the platform.

But this cost $40 AUD!! Even $30 was a bit too much."

No, the best one is 76003, which doubles the body armor and has a lot of fairly useful parts. I still need to pick up Lois Lane from this one, though, to have the full cast. Not that I like the movie to begin with, but I did like the sets and minifigs.

@Miyakan:
I’d take Enchanted minifigs, but they’ll never happen…at least not officially. They can’t even add Enchanted to the Disney Princess lineup because they’d have to pay Adams and Idina Menzel royalties on their likenesses, since the animated characters were based directly on their actual appearances. You know, for obvious reasons.

@Ridgeheart:
Zod’s armor sucks. It works with the Kryptonian helmet, and a handful of hairstyles that don’t hang very low in the back. It does not work with the hairstyles given to Zod, Faora, or Tor-An.

Regarding the various Blacktron throwbacks, I really liked the bounty hunter, and the android is a close second (though the lime head is a bit weird). I figure the bounty hunter is either an alien, or that’s supposed to represent some sort of internal HUD. Also, it’s difficult keeping track of them all. None of the descriptions reference Blacktron, and Brickset doesn’t have any of them tagged unless they came directly from one of the official themes.

@Trigger_
Metal Gear Steel.

@xboxtravis7992 said:
" @Trigger_ said:
" @NotProfessorWhymzi said:
"much like the movie, it's a pile of grey sadness and disaster p*** with only one redeeming quality."
All it’s missing is the sudden influx of fans who seem to appear out of nowhere whenever people criticize it! (Seriously, where the heck were Man of Steel fans pre-2022 and why did they never start showing up until then?)

I didn’t love Man of Steel (if we count Ultimate Edition for BVS and Snyder Cut for Justice League, it’s for sure my least favorite of the Snyder Trilogy) but that aside I don’t hate the prospect of LEGO doing gray superhero sets if they’re also gonna do gray Star Wars sets. Granted, there’s a ton of Star Wars fans who’ll come after you if you make a Tie Fighter cyan instead of gray, but as a (reasonably sad and edgy) adult I don’t personally mind sets like this. Idk how well these sold with children, though."

The surge of Snyderverse fans in the last few years is either people with rose tinted goggles complaining about the present, or some weird astroturf campaign funded by people with strong opinions on movies (there actually is SOME evidence some of the vocal Snyder fans might actually be bot accounts, wild).

I would bet though that the Venn Diagram between (real) people who LOVE Man of Steel vocally online and the people who somehow think Star Wars would get instantly better if Kathleen Kennedy was fired has a lot of crossover though. "

The dceu in it's entirely was a hot mess,I just think man of Steel is the best of this bunch.

@xboxtravis7992:
Well, for a while there you couldn’t say, “They just announced the movie yesterday, and it won’t be in theaters for over a year,” without an army of Marvel fankids drowning you out about how terrible the movie is. I think most of them finally shut up after seeing Phase 4. Or they actually watched the Snyder Cut and realized that not only is Whedon a misogynistic lech, but he garbaged the heck out of that film when he put a Marvel spin on it.

Is MoS a perfect film? No, you need to watch S:TAS to see the best version of Superman, but MoS is the best Superman film to hit the big screen. BvS, you really need to skip the theatrical cut and go straight to the director’s cut, and that’s even more crucial for Justice League vs the Snyder Cut.

I’ve read a bit about where the series was headed with nervous WB execs stuck their hands in the blender. Marvel fankids threw a fit about the fact that they didn’t do a slow buildup like Marvel did (Marvel only did it because the characters weren’t bankable, like _at_all_, in 2009), they threw a fit when everything wasn’t wrapped up neatly with a bow after MoS, and they threw a fit when Snyder started to deal with the repercussions in the next two films.

I’ve seen everything of significance from the MCU, through Endgame (excluding any Spiderman flicks), and including GotG3. I’ve seen GotG 2 & 3 in theaters, and bought physical copies of the first two, with plans to buy the third when it hits shelves. I feel like I paid about what the entire experience was worth. If you want to see a truly great Marvel film, Fox released a couple called Deadpool and Logan.

I know nothing about this film or the name of this set. But, out of context, I think Black Zero sounds dumb.

@ElephantKnight:
(from yesterday)

I want to clear something up. I grew up on _all_ of the Space themes. I believe I got at least one set from every Space theme except Space Police I. I did like OG Blacktron the best, but I really liked the bubble ships from Super-B Blacktron. I just didn’t like the minifigs, and felt the color scheme (which isn’t bad taken on its own) didn’t fit well with the repurposed name. It doesn’t really work for stealthy spies, either. It just felt more like the kids rebelled and dropped some acid.

I wonder if this set's press release had a line about how kids could replay their favorite iconic scenes from the movie, including Superman snapping Zod's neck, and Superman kissing Lois Lane and flying away after his battle destroyed every building in Metropolis.

Too bad we never got an Ultimate Armor X to go with Black Zero.