It’s fair to say that I’m excited for Guardians of The Galaxy, it’s also fair to say that we love LEGO here on The Website of Doom. You see where I’m going with this? Course you do, you read the title! LEGO have been kind enough to send us a press release for three of the brand new sets themed around the upcoming movie! Let’s take a gander at these out of this world sets!

Starblaster Showdown (76019), RRP £19.99

Launch into battle against the Sakaaran’s Necrocraft in the awesome Starblaster and help Star-Lord to escape with the orb! Place the Nova officer in the cockpit and launch into the sky. Fold back the wings for high-speed pursuit mode and then flip them up to activate arrest mode. Use the space blasters and boot thrusters of Star-Lord to outwit the enemy and protect the priceless orb! Includes 3 minifigures with assorted weapons and accessories: Star-Lord, the Sakaaran and a Nova officer.

Knowhere Escape Mission (76019), RRP £44.99

They’ve discovered the rare orb in the mining fields, only to be ambushed by the bad guys. Evade shots from the huge bazooka assembled by the Sakaaran and the evil Nebula and return fire with Rocket Raccoon’s custom space blaster. Leap into action with the gigantic posable Groot to confront the sword-wielding Nebula. Launch a fierce counter-attack so Rocket Raccoon can get away in the mining pod with the precious orb in its grabbing claw! Includes 3 minifigures with assorted weapons: Rocket Raccoon, Nebula and the Sakaaran, plus Groot figure.

The Milano Spaceship Rescue (76019), RRP £69.99

Prepare for an epic clash between the Guardians of the Galaxy and the ultimate villain, Ronan! Ronan zooms into this epic deep-space battle in his personal Necrocraft, backed up by the Sakaaran, and holding his all-powerful Cosmi-Rod ready to strike. Luckily, Star-Lord is prepared to launch a counter-attack with the equally potent Hadron Enforcer and 2 iconic space blasters. Steer the mighty Milano Spaceship into battle with Gamora and Drax, firing the stud shooters and flick missiles to repel this evil threat to the Galaxy. Includes 5 minifigures with assorted weapons and accessories: Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax, Ronan and the Sakaaran.

Man, these sets are ASTOUNDING! It’s mind-blowing enough to be getting a movie of my favourite Marvel super-team but to also have them in LEGO form? Is it Secret Sharp-O Christmas, because it feels like it!

I can’t speak to how mainstream these will be, given that the mainstreamers I know respond to Guardians with a collective “Wot?” but for the Marvel fans, the LEGO fans and just fans both young and old, I think these will do well. I mean, who doesn’t want another Chris Pratt Minifigure?

All of these sets are available RIGHT NOW from all good retailers and from LEGO.com!

Welcome Back to *TOTALLY SPOILED* with Harvey Locust where we are going to spoil the Ferengi out of the new Star Trek Countdown series. This is the second issue, so if you missed the first one, CLICK HERE to read it first. Now enough with the yappin’ lets get on with the story….

On the surface of Phadaeus IV, at the edge of explored space, is where we find Kirk and Spock confronting Captain April and his rogue army of the indigenous population.  Kirk berates April, calling him a phony but April’s only concern is asking about his ship, which Jim smugly tells him was decommissioned two years prior and that Jim has the new one that he can’t get back to because April shot it down.

April claims that it was an opposing faction that did it but he is interrupted when explosions start going off.  April and his “men” lead Kirk and Spock deep into some caverns in the mountainside as the attackers pursue. Once inside, April takes Kirk’s phaser and seals off the entrance then gives the phaser back to Kirk.

On the ship, Chekov still can’t get through the interference and Uhura wants to go back down to the planet to look for them. Bones tells her they are probably perfectly fine and Kirk needed some shore leave anyway.

Back in the cave, Kirk asks April who attacked them and why does Star Fleet believe him dead.  April says he will tell them once they are safe and then reveals what seems to be a dead end is actually a hologram covering the entrance to his home.  Spock notes that the hologram is more sophisticated than those currently in use at Star Fleet.

Inside, April begins the story of what happened.  How his Enterprise was the first to check out Phadaeus IV.  How everything looked normal for an iron aged society “and then we met The Shadows”.  April tells and shows them a video of a mass genocide taking place on the planet where one race slaughters and enslaves another based on their color.  Children being eaten or used as pets.  He tells them that after seeing that he snuck off the ship with as much technology and phasers as he could carry.  Spock inquires as to why his first officer had not arrested him for breaking the Prime Directive. April said that his first officer, Alex Marcus, was his best friend.  Marcus told him he would tell everyone that April was dead, and the fact that Spock and Kirk believed him to be dead was proof that Marcus proved up to his word. Spock calls April out, saying there is way more weapons and technology on the planet than what April first described. April admits to having outside help.

Back on the ship, Uhura is still debating going after them when the ship is approached by a small  vessel with a Bajoran woman on board claiming to make a delivery to April.  When asked who she is…

On the planet surface, April has Kirk look through some binoculars at a Shadow army sitting off in the distance and tells him Sulu and Hendroff are captured there.  That starts an argument between the two which gives Spock the opportunity to run off and attempt a rescue on his own.

TO BE CONTINUED…

(click here for part 3!)

If you liked this and want to know more about what Kirk and the crew have been up to since the last movie (including adventures that happened in Star Trek The Original Series but with the twist of the new timeline) head on over to the Message Board of Doom where we will be taking a look at the ongoing comic series one issue at a time, and you can tell us about your thoughts, hopes, and half baked ideas on the new timeline and what it means to the Star Trek Universe in general.