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Behold, the LEGO X-Mansion
Finally, at long last, the LEGO X-Mansion set has been officially revealed. It has been rumored for the past year, and I’ve already seen all these pictures because they were leaked over the past week. But it’s official now. It’s up on the LEGO website. We can check this baby out in all its glory!
If I’m being totally honest, I don’t think it’s great. I don’t usually like building sets from LEGO. I’m more of a vehicles guy. But this X-Mansion appears to be based directly on the one from the Animated Series, so I’m a little more open to it. I guess I just thought it would be grander somehow…but I do like that Sentinel. Nice addition.
The mini-figures are OK. I like the inclusion of Iceman, despite him not being a part of the cartoon (yet). I haven’t bought any other X-Men sets, so none of these will be repeats for me…though they are missing the Beast that was included in those blind packs last year. I’ll have to pick him up separately.
Honestly, I dig it and I bet it will grow on me. And hopefully it’s the start of many more X-Men sets to come.
The LEGO X-Mansion will release on Nov. 4. I have a LEGO store near me, so I might go camp out and try to get it on Day One…except now I’m seeing that it’s a Monday. Dang. May have to wait until the weekend. We’ll see. At the very least, it’s finally revealed, we can all look at that beautiful thing. And we can all hope and imagine we get many more X-Men figures and sets in the future!
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Hench-Sized Comic Book Reviews – 9/21/24
It’s apparently X-Men week in my comic reviews! The only comics I ended up reading and reviewing this week are parts of From the Ashes. And they’re all good comics! So I’m thrilled to read the likes of X-Factor and X-Men.
Comic Book of the Week goes to Dazzler #1 because it’s a near perfect debut for a comic I feel like I manifested out of pure hopes and dreams.
Meanwhile, I’m still enjoying Star Wars: Outlaws. I’m stretching it out nicely so that I don’t need to worry about getting a new game anytime soon, though the endgame is drawing closer. Fun stuff. I loved the first two episodes of Agatha All Along, and the first episode of The Penguin. So things are really darn good these days, pop culture consumption wise.
Comic Reviews: Dazzler #1, X-Factor #2 and X-Men #4.
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Hench-Sized Comic Book Reviews – 8/17/24
This is quite the week for comics! Some new weirdness, some ongoing X-Men awesomeness, and the end of Rainbow Rowell’s She-Hulk. There were even more comics, but I settled on these couple.
Comic Book of the Week goes to X-Factor #1 for an excellent, if repetitive, start.
Meanwhile, it’s the last week to pledge for the new issue of The Cloak Room on Kickstarter, so it would be awesome if you readers would support that series. I had a short story featured in the first issue! Beyond that, I got caught up on The Boys, and it was a fun season. Beyond that, I’m kind of just waiting for Star Wars: Outlaws to drop before I have anything really exciting going on in my pop culture life.
Comic Reviews: Biker Mice From Mars #1, Sensational She-Hulk #10, X-Factor #1 and X-Men #2.
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Tell It Animated is back with Wolverine! Deadpool & Wolverine is still making box office money, so this still fits! And it’s a fun little video, tracing all the live action Wolverine costumes through the movies. Shame he couldn’t include the animated Wolverines as well.
Wolverine’s black leather outfits weren’t so bad. I like the gold lining they had, and the stripes here and there. And the new yellow outfit totally works. Has anyone photoshopped what the new movie outfit would look like if he kept the shoulder pads while going sleeveless? I’m sure they thought about it while making the movie and it looked dumb, but I’d still enjoy.
Anyway, as always, should he ever read these posts, my suggestion for a new one is Robin! Not that there’s any Robin content coming out anytime soon…
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Hench-Sized Comic Book Reviews – 7/13/24
Another busy week at work had me just posting a bunch of trailers this week. Work can be a real bitch sometimes, ya know? But I didn’t want to miss out on the good comics this week, like Transformers and The Ultimates.
Comic Book of the Week goes to X-Men #1 for a solid, enjoyable start to the new From the Ashes relaunch. I hope it all goes well!
Meanwhile, I did read the Absolute Power stuff from DC last week, I just didn’t get around to reviewing it because of the week I had. I enjoyed it well enough, though the first issue and tie-ins haven’t pulled me out of my general malaise towards Big Events. I’ll probably stick with it for the time being.
Comic Reviews: Transformers #10, The Ultimates #2 and X-Men #1.
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