New LEGO 'Avatar' Sets Feature Banshees, Floating Mountains and Brickhead Jake Sully



With anticipation continuing to build for James Cameron's upcoming film, Avatar: The Way of Water, several new LEGO sets have been revealed ahead of San Diego Comic Con via The Brick Fan which offers stunning recreations of scenes from the first film while also providing some unique and colorful sets.

The first set, titled the Avatar Neytiri & Thanator vs. AMP Suit Quaritch, features a recreation of the final confrontation seen in the first film. The set comes with Neytiri, played in the film by Zoe Saldaña, and Colonel Miles Quaritch, played by Stephen Lang. Alongside the figures of the two characters, the set comes with a buildable AMP suit, which Quaritch pilots, and a Thanator, which Neytiri bonded with in the film. The set also comes with some flora builds that glow in the dark, replicating the bioluminescence that audiences fell in love with in the original film. The set comes with 560 pieces and will be available for collectors to purchase at a retail price of $39.99.

The second LEGO set, Avatar Jake & Neytiri’s First Banshee Flight, also recreates an iconic scene in the first Avatar film. The LEGO set comes with a figure of Neytiri and Jake Sully, played in the film by Sam Worthington, in his avatar form. The set comes with two buildable Banshees that can soar past the floating mountains that come with the set. Priced at $59.99, the LEGO set comes with 572 pieces and will be available for builders 9 and up.


The third and largest set features some human tech from the film with the LEGO Avatar Floating Mountains: Site 26 & RDA Samson set. The set comes with five figures of characters from the film such as Jake in both his human and avatar form, Norm Spellman in his avatar form, played in the film by Joel David Moore, Dr. Grace Augustine, played by Sigourney Weaver, and Trudy, played by Michelle Rodriguez, with a build of her Samson helicopter which she flew in the original film. Alongside the Samson helicopter, the set also comes with a Site 26 piece that the characters reside in while studying Pandora with some additional builds of the planet's flora. The set also comes with a Direhorse that the characters can ride on. At a retail price of $89.99, the set comes with 887 pieces for collectors to build.

Lastly is the LEGO BrickHeadz Avatar Jake Sully & his Avatar set which features a build of Jake as both a human and in his Avatar. The set comes with 246 pieces and will be available to purchase at $19.99. The new LEGO builds come with the LEGO Avatar Toruk Makto and Tree of Souls set which was revealed earlier this summer and will be available for fans to purchase on October 1. It remains unknown if LEGO will reveal any sets that will tie into the newest film, but with new builds from the first Avatar, builders both young and old have a new reason to return to the world of Pandora.

All LEGO sets will be available this fall on October 1. Check out more images below and watch the trailer for Avatar: The Way of Water, which hits theaters this December:












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Does James Cameron's Avatar has Its Own Cinematic Universe?


James Cameron's Avatar was groundbreaking when it debuted and brought a new shade of science-fiction to the masses. Now, 13 years later, the record-breaking movie is getting its sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water. Since the trailer dropped in May this year, the internet has been on fire with speculations and reviews, with fans wondering what more the franchise has in store.

Indeed, there will be sequels, and there has already been a video game, but will Avatar spawn its own extended universe? Fans are eager to see the magical world grow, whether it be in the form of spin-off shows or otherwise. The likes of Harry Potter and Star Wars certainly went that way, and Avatar would indeed benefit from an extended lore, making it one of the most expansive original universes since Tolkien's Middle-earth.

Avatar's Current Universe Includes Planned Sequels and a Video Game


It has been revealed that Avatar: The Way of Water is the first of four sequels planned, meaning that when the franchise eventually finishes, it will have five total movies. When speaking about the process of shooting the sequels to come, director James Cameron told Variety, "We mixed the schedules for '2' and '3' together, based on the types of scenes and the environments [...] Anything that had to be done with a specific actor, we did all the scenes for '2' and '3' together – and a little bit of '4.'" The fact that work has already started on the other movies demonstrates that the franchise will continue after the sequel. While there are some questions about the titles of the other movies, it's been suggested that Avatar 3 will release on December 20, 2024, Avatar 4 on December 18, 2026, and Avatar 5 on December 22, 2028. In 2018, BBC News speculated that the other three projects will be called Avatar: The Seed Bearer, Avatar: The Tulkun Rider, and Avatar: The Quest for Eywa.

Many fans will also remember the first Avatar game, James Cameron's Avatar: The Game, which came out in 2009, shortly after the release of the first movie. The game, developed by Ubisoft Montreal for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows, Wii and Nintendo DS, was loosely based on the events of the first movie. Players take the role of Lance Corporal Able Ryder, a SecOps signal specialist who arrives on Pandora, hand-picked to take part in the Avatar Program, and, like Jake Sully, has to pick a side in the war to come. The good news is that there is another Avatar game in the works: Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. Frontiers will be an open-world action adventure, and, like the first game was based on the first movie, it would be no surprise if Frontiers followed the events of The Way of Water. Frontiers is being developed by Massive Entertainment and will be published by Ubisoft for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Amazon Luna and Stadia later this year.

Not many audiences will also realize that there are comics expanding the story of Avatar. Avatar: Tsu'tey's Path is a comic miniseries by Dark Horse Comics and follows the Omaticaya clan's finest warrior and later clan leader, Tsu'tey. The comic takes place concurrently with the first Avatar film and sheds light on certain events that took place offscreen. One of the newest comics is Avatar: Adapt or Die, another miniseries published by Dark Horse that serves as a prequel to the franchise.

What Could Come Next for the Avatar Universe?


So what is next for the Avatar franchise? There is still so much left to explore within the universe. With so many sequels in the works and a new video game, Cameron's beloved movie will certainly grow to rival classics like The Lord of the Rings, particularly as the sequels bring in new audiences. Considering the release of the previous and upcoming video games coincides with the release of the movies, fans may get to see more video games in the future following events inspired by the movies. Knowing Ubisoft and how it consistently produces new games every year, it certainly isn't much of a stretch to suggest that Avatar will be one of its new IPs.

There also seems to be plenty of interest and content for more comic series, exploring individual characters' points of view and adventures. Considering Neytiri and Jake have five children in the upcoming movie (two adopted and three biological), it seems as if Cameron and his partners are gearing up for more stories involving them as they grow up. Moreover, since The Way of Water will feature another Na'vi tribe, movies and comics to come may explore other areas of the planet Pandora and the tribes that live there.

To see what the franchise's future holds, Avatar: The Way of Water sails into theaters on December 16.
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'Avatar: The Way of Water': James Cameron Compares Sequels to 'Lord of the Rings'

In a wave of new information for the highly anticipated sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water, franchise director James Cameron has revealed details about the production process behind all the Avatar sequels, comparing them to The Lord of the Rings, according to an exclusive for Empire Magazine.


“What I said to the Fox regime at the time was, ‘I’ll do it, but we’ve got to play a larger game here. I don’t want to just do a movie and do a movie and do a movie. I want to tell a bigger story’,” Cameron told Empire Magazine. “I said, ‘Imagine a series of novels like The Lord of the Rings existed, and we’re adapting them.’ Now, that was great in theory, but then I had to go create the frickin’ novels from which to adapt it.”


Similar to Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy, Cameron filmed the Avatar sequels back-to-back in a lengthy shoot that began in 2017. After the release of The Way of Water, the third Avatar film is expected to debut in December 2024 with the fourth and fifth film following every two years. The first Avatar was praised for its detailed world building, which Lord of the Rings is also similarly known for. With over a decade in the making, Cameron will expand the world of Avatar even more by showing the different cultures and ecosystems of Pandora in the upcoming sequels.



Alongside the production information given by Cameron, Empire Magazine also revealed a new image from the film which shows a young Na'vi, likely one of Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) and Neytiri's (Zoe Saldaña) children, sitting in the water with a giant whale-like creature. The image depicts the two sharing a connection with each other offering a glimpse of the life-like CGI that audiences will get to experience.


The image reveals a closer look of what was teased in the first trailer for the film which depicted the two swimming together underwater. While it remains unknown how large of a role their connection will have to the plot, it does echo an event in the first film when Jake bonded with the Great Leonopteryx, known to the Na'vi as Toruk. As speculation and anticipation continue to build, audiences will finally be able to explore the oceans of Pandora when the film releases in theaters later this year.


Directed by Cameron, Avatar: The Way of Water will be released exclusively in theaters on December 16. The original Avatar will also be re-released in theaters on September 23.

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