1. Since you can choose which items and the number of them that appear in soft blocks, maybe you could do the same for choosing which items that Bombermen start with. I think there could be some really cool matches made from this. Like starting with 5 full power bombs, but having all soft block items turned off. I'm sure players could come up with awesome combinations.

2. Could you add a 'random item' icon in the soft block item select? This would select random items to place in soft blocks. Here's my logic- there are a lot of cool but obscure items that are usually left off in matches. You usually don't want a bunch of weird stuff filling your matches, after all. But say you set the 'random item' to 1. That means that 1 strong or 1 weird or just 1 more regular item could show up. A wild card like this could spice up matches and keep things unpredictable without shaking up the core Bomberman competition too much. Of course you'd also be able to set random items high and let chaos ensue.