General Overwatch Discussion

SumoLego · November 2018

Hey - apparently they're on backorder in anticipation of their release in January.

Baby_Yoda · November 2018

I'd like to preorder some, but unfortunately I'm trying to save. Unfortunately for my wallet, I mean.

NicksBricks · November 2018

Amazon has them for sale as well. That's where I ordered.

SeanTheCollector · November 2018

SeanTheCollector said:

Just received my #75987 Omnic Bastion from Blizzard:

Let's see how a just submitted replacement request goes!

I finally got a replacement sent to me shipped in a box:

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5015319/uploads/editor/7x/izpdz3v3tt1e.jpg

Hallelujah! :-)

alldarker · November 2018

Same here; my replacement got here earlier in the week and looked fine!

Baby_Yoda · November 2018

A blessing in disguise, really, since you can build the mangled one and keep the fresh one mint!

SumoLego · December 2018

Because I missed the boat on preordering these sets, I was only able to get the Gibraltar set.

Makes me wonder how many of these sets were made available. Or if they're trying to create some buzz.

Pumpkin_3CK5 · January 2019

Minor modifications to get rid of Reinhardt's floating shoulder pads lolz

datsunrobbie · January 2019

@SumoLego Try checking local Target stores. I saw a few on the shelves on Monday, Brickseek shows still in stock. My local Target shows in stock for most of them, but not available for online ordering. The ones I saw in store were full price, should be able to price-match to the Target website for 20% off.

SumoLego · January 2019

Bah! Retail?

Pumpkin_3CK5 · January 2019

Some Reaper skins.

Baby_Yoda · January 2019

Nice! I need to order Bastion soon. I was waiting for it to come out in store, but unfortunately Australia isn't getting Overwatch sets beyond [email protected]

nychromastone · January 2019

We stopped by the Flatiron Lego store to find out there was an Overwatch Signing Event today from 3-5pm. The voice actors, Lucie Phol (Mercy) and Jen Cohn (Pharah), along with senior designer/writer Michael Chu did a meet and greet. It was pretty cool talking to them and having them sign our Overwatch set.

Almost forgot, we took home this
Ganymede mini build too

Baby_Yoda · January 2019

@nychromastone Nice! Did that mini-build come with instructions, a bag, or anything to denote it as official? It may be worth an addition to the database.

nychromastone · January 2019

@Baby_Yoda sorry nothing official. the pieces were sorted into thin Lego cardboard boxes and there was a laminated instruction sheet but we didn’t have time to take pictures. we just had enough time to build and needed to leave the table to allow other guests to participate. if I can, i will stop in tomorrow and ask for the instruction sheet.

Pumpkin_3CK5 · January 2019

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5015319/uploads/editor/m5/4xxrfoj4d3l6.jpg

@Baby_Yoda and anyone else interested, this was posted on tfw2005's lego thread.

SparkyHam · January 2019

I had no interest in Overwatch until I checked out the 10 animated shorts on Youtube. That got me interested in the characters, so I checked out their bio's on Wiki, which led me to reading up on the lore of OverWatch... and now I'm hooked, without even having played the game yet!

FowlerBricks · January 2019

@SparkyHam That's exactly what I did! Except I still have no interest in playing the game. I feel like it would kind of ruin the complex story they have going to boil the characters down to different weapon types.

SparkyHam · January 2019

FowlerBricks said:

@SparkyHam That's exactly what I did! Except I still have no interest in playing the game. I feel like it would kind of ruin the complex story they have going to boil the characters down to different weapon types.

Yeah, I'm not interested in playing the game either, but more because I'm terrible at first-person shoot-em-ups. Really hoping that Blizzard continue to make more animated shorts or web comics.

SparkyHam · January 2019

So word form the Nuremberg Toy Fair is that there will be two new Overwatch sets for 2019 - anyone have any idea what they may be of?

Lyichir · January 2019

SparkyHam said:

So word form the Nuremberg Toy Fair is that there will be two new Overwatch sets for 2019 - anyone have any idea what they may be of?

I think Zusammengebaut identified one of the two as a bike, which might be Roadhog and Junkrat's motorcycle and sidecar? Would make sense considering both of them were some of the original characters but have yet to appear in any sets.

The other they identified as "Droid", which might indicate a set with a minifig-scale Bastion, though no telling who or what else would be included.

Baby_Yoda · February 2019

It's interesting to see we're getting a second wave so soon. In similar lines like Minecraft, it was a while before sets started being released mid-year. Lego must have high hopes for this theme.

Aanchir · February 2019

Lyichir said:

SparkyHam said:

So word form the Nuremberg Toy Fair is that there will be two new Overwatch sets for 2019 - anyone have any idea what they may be of?

I think Zusammengebaut identified one of the two as a bike, which might be Roadhog and Junkrat's motorcycle and sidecar? Would make sense considering both of them were some of the original characters but have yet to appear in any sets.

The other they identified as "Droid", which might indicate a set with a minifig-scale Bastion, though no telling who or what else would be included.

"Droid" could also refer to other characters from the game's initial roster of heroes, like Zenyatta or Mei's little robot buddy Snowball, but in either of those cases it'd be a little unusual for Zusammengebaut to refer to smaller minifig or droid characters as the defining attribute of the set.

Baby_Yoda said:

It's interesting to see we're getting a second wave so soon. In similar lines like Minecraft, it was a while before sets started being released mid-year. Lego must have high hopes for this theme.

I don't think it's all that unusual in the grand scheme of things. Note that in Minecraft's case, the first wave of minifig-scale sets came out in November 2014 — close enough to the end of the year that a wave in the first half of 2015 would have been fairly redundant.

LEGO Overwatch's more typical January launch seems like it's early enough to follow up with a June or August wave, particularly since only two summer sets have been announced so far (much fewer than a typical LEGO Minecraft wave).

SparkyHam · February 2019

Lyichir said:

I think Zusammengebaut identified one of the two as a bike, which might be Roadhog and Junkrat's motorcycle and sidecar? Would make sense considering both of them were some of the original characters but have yet to appear in any sets.

The other they identified as "Droid", which might indicate a set with a minifig-scale Bastion, though no telling who or what else would be included.

If we're going by original characters, then yes, Roadhog and Junkrat make complete sense, particularly in terms of the motorcycle. An outside bet could be Ashe, whose motorcycle was stolen by McCree at the end of the 'Reunion' animated short, but I reckon that's unlikely.

In terms of original characters, who else is likely to be made then? Although, perhaps 'Droid' is referring to Zenyatta.

SparkyHam · February 2019

The poor facial painting on Mercy was really annoying me, so I ordered a custom one from Firestar toys (along with custom arms for Mercy and D.Va too). Must say, I'm pretty happy!

Up-close, the flesh seems a little 'bumpy' and the angry-expression is missing a tiny furrow in her brow. But for general display/play, it looks great IMO. What do you think?

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5015319/uploads/editor/q0/8zs0duox64ty.jpg

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5015319/uploads/editor/t5/ssjyk8tdmu4c.jpg

Brainslugged · February 2019

^That looks 1000x better. Lego really needs to sort out their light-on-dark printing.

Pumpkin_3CK5 · February 2019

D2C Busan set confirmed with $10k pricetag.

Jk but damn Blizzard's having fun with LEGO

SumoLego · July 2019

Perhaps we can merge these topics?

@Huw; @drdavewatford; @CapnRex101

https://forum.brickset.com/discussion/30404/overwatch-discussion#latest

https://forum.brickset.com/discussion/28613/general-overwatch-discussion#latest

Russell844 · July 2019

I have a stupid question because I don't play the game. Is set #75971 Hanzo vs Genji meant to be Japanese? I assume so but want to be sure.

NicksBricks · July 2019

Russell844 said:

I have a stupid question because I don't play the game. Is set #75971 Hanzo vs Genji meant to be Japanese? I assume so but want to be sure.

Yes, Genji and Hanzo are Japanese. They are also brothers.

MaffyD · July 2019

@Russell844 - this YT video may help :) Plenty more where that came from - enough for Blizzard to make a movie I reckon!

klinton · May 30

Random question: is the reactor(?) in #75972 supposed to combine with anything? I'd assumed it was a component for the rocket in #75975 but there doesn't seem a spot to affix it.

Sorry, I know dick all about the game. My assumption was that it's a bit of a scavenger hunt, with the goal being to get off planet? I've just been building these over the past couple of months largely because they were among the most interesting sets still in stock, hahaha. They're pretty fun builds to be honest, and the minifigs are all great. The little rodent dude and the biker guys are probably my favorite figures. I still need to grab Bastion, but he looks like he'll absolutely dwarf the other mechs.

MaffyD · June 4

Bastion is very big, and impressive. I really enjoyed building him with my son (it was his birthday halfway through May). Hammond's mech is my favourite though.
The only connecting sets I know of are #75975 Gibraltar and #75970 Tracer vs Widowmaker.
From what my son has told me, Overwatch is about saving Earth, not escaping it, and the Watchpoint Gibraltar 'scene' is based on sending a comms satellite into orbit so the members of Overwatch can be brought together.
And Dorado is where Overwatch need to set up a power station. But mainly it's the cheapest set with Reaper in it.

MaffyD · June 4

Also, much of the current sets are out of scale, which irks me - Omnic Bastion might be a better fit. But you still have an issue with Reinhardt I think...

klinton · June 5

MaffyD said:

Bastion is very big, and impressive. I really enjoyed building him with my son (it was his birthday halfway through May). Hammond's mech is my favourite though.
The only connecting sets I know of are #75975 Gibraltar and #75970 Tracer vs Widowmaker.
From what my son has told me, Overwatch is about saving Earth, not escaping it, and the Watchpoint Gibraltar 'scene' is based on sending a comms satellite into orbit so the members of Overwatch can be brought together.
And Dorado is where Overwatch need to set up a power station. But mainly it's the cheapest set with Reaper in it.

Yeah, I eventually watched some of the little animations on the 'Play Overwatch' Youtube channel. It's essentially 'The Incredibles', but with a more diverse cast (a talking ape!), and some heavy handed heartstring tugging. They're outlaws trying to regroup a disbanded hero organization.

I guess the little plane thing in #75970 that attaches to the rocket is the 'satellite'? I dunno. It all looks fun on a shelf. I'm not about to get too fussed over the 'lore' of it all. I was really just curious if there was another fidgity little feature I was missing with the little reactor build. :p

I actually really like the Dorado set, tbh. I love the truck build. It was actually that truck that drew my attention when the sets were first announced. It's a crap playset for kids, for sure. As a bit of shelf ornament though, it's perfect.

The only set I don't really like is #75971 tbh. It's fine for what it is, but ninjas and temple shrines do nothing for me. It ended up coming home with me simply because it was cheap.

I do need to pick up Bastion though! I was just out shopping today, and I fully forgot to go grab him.

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