Marvel Superheroes 2023 - Rumors & Discussion

[Classic_Spaceman]

1 hour ago, hikouki said:

Hopefully they make a Marvel CMF which is comic-accurate. Some would argue the DC one didn't do well? Then again the upcoming X-men 97 have costumes that are more cartoon accurate than any of the MCU.

The Marvel CMF is confirmed to be for the MCU (with three X-Men '97 figs) - Are you referring to a hypothetical future series? 
 

[hikouki]

2 hours ago, Classic_Spaceman said:

The Marvel CMF is confirmed to be for the MCU (with three X-Men '97 figs) - Are you referring to a hypothetical future series? 
 

Yup, just like they did for DC.

[Nylock]

Oh dang Majors got dropped by his management and PR. When your own Public relations team who is tasked with making sure your name doesn’t get dragged through the mud, drops you… I think it’s safe to say he’ll get recast. 

[Grabdatgem]

Have we got any news on what that other $100 set is going to be? Is that now the last set we don’t know anything about. 

[Scarilian]

4 hours ago, Grabdatgem said:

Have we got any news on what that other $100 set is going to be? Is that now the last set we don’t know anything about. 

The rumour was that it was an extension to the Endgame Final Battle set focused around the female heroes with a new version of Thanos, but I'm skeptical on that.

Honestly, news has been lacking lately.

5 hours ago, Nylock said:

Oh dang Majors got dropped by his management and PR. When your own Public relations team who is tasked with making sure your name doesn’t get dragged through the mud, drops you… I think it’s safe to say he’ll get recast.  

Probably a recast, but I could also see them side stepping the Kang plotline and just never mentioning him again given Ant-Man 3 failed to resonate financially, critically or with audiences in general. They can probably rework Loki S2 to have Loki stop Kang somehow to tie up that plotline. I think if GotG3 underperforms we could see massive changes to the slate.

[thebricksbear]

1 hour ago, Scarilian said:

Probably a recast, but I could also see them side stepping the Kang plotline and just never mentioning him again given Ant-Man 3 failed to resonate financially, critically or with audiences in general. They can probably rework Loki S2 to have Loki stop Kang somehow to tie up that plotline. I think if GotG3 underperforms we could see massive changes to the slate.

Interesting idea, but there's no way. Allegedly there's already contracts for tons of legacy actors to come back- Toby, the Xmen, etc... Not to mention the multiverse is Deadpool's path to the MCU. Kang may get recast but there's no way they scrap Kang Dynasty or more importantly Secret Wars.

[SuperSquidman]

On 4/17/2023 at 10:49 AM, Classic_Spaceman said:

I hope that Beast's hair has moulded ears, since they are quite prominent in his animated design. 
 

That would be neat 👍

I hope the ability to utilize a CMF budget is evident

[CowInADenBuilds]

So have you guys seen the posts about the DC Flash Tracking Batmobile set being cancelled? Or at the least postponed and not to release this year? Evidently because of Ezra Miller would be the obvious assumption. If that is correct, however, do you think Kang will be nixed in the CMFs?

[CodFather1]

1 hour ago, CowInADenBuilds said:

So have you guys seen the posts about the DC Flash Tracking Batmobile set being cancelled? Or at the least postponed and not to release this year? Evidently because of Ezra Miller would be the obvious assumption. If that is correct, however, do you think Kang will be nixed in the CMFs?

One Minifigure from a series would be difficult to change this late in the game, and there is a difference in that this version of Kang has already appeared, while the Flash is yet to come out. Meanwhile the Flash is the main focus of the set, being branded for him. Let's not forget also that unlike Miller, Major's case has not concluded, and that would factor heavily in lego's decision making. 

[Scarilian]

Sonic sets have been revealed/leaked, seems we have a new type of figure for Dr Robotnik. Wonder what this will mean if we end up getting a Thanos or Hulk anytime soon.

9 hours ago, CowInADenBuilds said:

Do you think Kang will be nixed in the CMFs?

CMF's generally are a more limited released, so chances are that they'll let it happen. It depends how accurate to the MCU version this Kang is, if it's his blue mask version then he may not look close enough to Jonathan Majors for them to remove him.

16 hours ago, bricksandabear said:

Interesting idea, but there's no way. Allegedly there's already contracts for tons of legacy actors to come back- Toby, the Xmen, etc... Not to mention the multiverse is Deadpool's path to the MCU. Kang may get recast but there's no way they scrap Kang Dynasty or more importantly Secret Wars.

I'd just have incursions as the main threat of Avengers 5, some of the OG cast start to get disappeared due to Incursions so a new team of Avengers form to try and discover what's happening and how to stop it, eventually failing with a few surviving via methods such as the room that stored the book of Vishanti . Avengers 6 can still be Secret Wars/Battleworld, you'd just have the focus shift to the currently established villains such as the Masters Of Evil trying to reshape the multiverse in their image and then have the primary threat of Avengers 7 be the Beyonder, Galactus, etc... so you can have a fan service style team-up between everyone for the fate of everything.

 

[Classic_Spaceman]

23 hours ago, CowInADenBuilds said:

If that is correct, however, do you think Kang will be nixed in the CMFs?

Not likely; I suspect that by the time that the CMF series releases (IIRC September?), Kang will already be recast. 
 

[hvader]

5 hours ago, Classic_Spaceman said:

Not likely; I suspect that by the time that the CMF series releases (IIRC September?), Kang will already be recast. 
 

This. The Lego figure doesnt exactly represent the actor (as it’s cartoonish) so they can definitely still release it

[squiz18]

2 hours ago, hvader said:

This. The Lego figure doesnt exactly represent the actor (as it’s cartoonish) so they can definitely still release it

Imagine having to pick the kang figures out of the cmf boxes 

[Agent Kallus]

Either way I doubt Kang will be on the box ( it doesn't normally have the whole lot on it anyway, and even if he hadn't done anything Kang is the most obscure Character in this Cmf)

Edit: actually the wolfman who I forgot was in the series might be the most obscure.

Edited April 20, 2023 by Agent Kallus

[Buckethead]

I can't think of a single instance where Lego canceled a set or removed a character because the actor did something wrong. Even the Flash set getting delayed indefinitely isn't explicitly, or implicitly, because of the actor. 

I feel like it'd be even weirder for Lego to do this. Kang is a fictional character and doesn't reflect what an actor does.

[Goofster]

4 hours ago, Agent Kallus said:

Either way I doubt Kang will be on the box ( it doesn't normally have the whole lot on it anyway, and even if he hadn't done anything Kang is the most obscure Character in this Cmf)

Edit: actually the wolfman who I forgot was in the series might be the most obscure.

Werewolf by night, also kang has been the main villain for two projects, loki and quantumania, although those projects are not huge and well known, theres still a lot of people who know about them, and, he is going to be the villain of 1 or 2 avengers movies and hes gonna be in so much other stuff, also, hes a cool dude in cool clothes with cool armor. Kids are most likely gonna go "OH YEAH I WANT THIS COOL DUDE" only IF they dont know about kang, but a lot of kids like the mcu, and watch the movies, so maybe around 70% cases of kids will know him. And tbh, he kinda is one the bigger selling points for marvel fans, i doubt a lot of people care about agatha.

Edited April 20, 2023 by Goofster

[Darth Shadowthrone]

10 hours ago, squiz18 said:

Imagine having to pick the kang figures out of the cmf boxes 

Speaking of which: I really hope that this series has the same distributions and placements of figures in each box! That way it will make it slightly easier in Lego shops if the employees want to help 

[Agent Kallus]

11 hours ago, Goofster said:

Werewolf by night, also kang has been the main villain for two projects, loki and quantumania, although those projects are not huge and well known, theres still a lot of people who know about them, and, he is going to be the villain of 1 or 2 avengers movies and hes gonna be in so much other stuff, also, hes a cool dude in cool clothes with cool armor. Kids are most likely gonna go "OH YEAH I WANT THIS COOL DUDE" only IF they dont know about kang, but a lot of kids like the mcu, and watch the movies, so maybe around 70% cases of kids will know him. And tbh, he kinda is one the bigger selling points for marvel fans, i doubt a lot of people care about agatha.

I mean Agatha was a big part of a popular show and is getting her own show, Kang is a version of the guy from the end of Loki S1 sure but he doesn't look like he who remains really so I'm counting them separately, so he just the guy from 'superhero fatigue: the movie' (I really liked the first Ant-Man movie but I didn't care enough to watch quantumania in the cinema, it'll be on D+ I can watch it then eventually). What he's gonna be in in the future doesn't really matter till it's out TBH, thanos wasn't big in the MCU before guardians even if he was gonna be in infinity war. Wolf by night was quite niche and not kid oriented.

Edited April 21, 2023 by Agent Kallus

[Kaijumeister]

I wonder how likely it is that the three Spidey minifigures from the NWH set have:

- Arm printing

- Dual moulded legs 

- Alternate heads to recreate the pre-battle banter

It’s a tall (scratch that, colossal) order especially for Marvel minifigures, but as the only summer set that actually sounds interesting I sincerely hope Lego doesn’t cheap out on this set. 

Edited April 20, 2023 by Kaijumeister

[Scarilian]

10 minutes ago, Kaijumeister said:

I wonder how likely it is that the three Spidey minifigures from the NWH set have:

- Arm printing

- Dual moulded legs 

- Alternate heads to recreate the pre-battle banter

It’s a tall (scratch that, colossal) order especially for Marvel minifigures, but as the only summer set that actually sounds interesting I sincerely hope Lego doesn’t cheap out on this set. 

Given the pricing, and the drop from 9 figures to 6 figures, they'd better deliver on Tobey & Andrew. I don't see them doing alternate heads though. Also they really need to find a way to include Lizard somehow.

[steveholt]

That Robotnik torso seems like it would be used for Kingpin one day 

[wesker]

7 minutes ago, steveholt said:

That Robotnik torso seems like it would be used for Kingpin one day 

I was actually just thinking about that. People have been speculating about big figs being discontinued for a while now. I actually wouldn't mind if this was the direction they took for all large characters going forward. A muscular version of that torso could work quite well for characters like Hulk, Thanos, Juggernaut and Colossus.

Big figs got the job done in the past but a major problem is they often feel too large and out of scale with regular minifigures, lack articulation and have no ability for customizing. This could potentially be a good alternative for solving those issues.

[TurnOffTheDark]

is anyone else worried that the NWH set will be cancelled?

2 hours ago, Scarilian said:

Given the pricing, and the drop from 9 figures to 6 figures, they'd better deliver on Tobey & Andrew. I don't see them doing alternate heads though. Also they really need to find a way to include Lizard somehow.

wait there are only 6 figures now??

[Legocentrico]

3 hours ago, wesker said:

Big figs got the job done in the past but a major problem is they often feel too large and out of scale with regular minifigures, lack articulation and have no ability for customizing. This could potentially be a good alternative for solving those issues.

In my opinion this big figure is the greatest innovation that superheroes have brought about.  The size is perfect, the articulation are sufficient, especially after the 2021 upgrade. this Sonic thing is good for the Sonic character, but if I imagine applying it to the Hulk it seems like a disaster.  reminds me of some TMNT characters from a few years ago, doesn't even look like lego :-/

[brickbride]

According to StoneWars, yes: https://www.stonewars.de/geruechte/lego-marvel-2023-neue-infos/#lego-76261-spider-man-no-way-home

Google translation of the relevant part of the article:

LEGO 76261 Spider-Man No Way Home

The Spider-Man film No Way Home may have been out of cinemas for a long time, but a 900-piece set is still coming out in August this year, which could make fans' hearts beat faster. Because the final fight between the three Spider-Mans against the large number of opponents could of course not be spoiled before the film, so that a LEGO set can now be released with enough distance. The fight takes place at the Statue of Liberty, which is why this New York attraction is partially rebuilt with the scaffolding around it for 104.99 euros. After there were initially rumors of 9 No Way Home minifigures, we currently expect only 6 minifigures to be included with the model. In addition to all three Spider-Mans (played by Tom, Toby and Andrew), the opponents Green Goblin, Doc Ock and Electro are likely to be included. Sandman is also supposed to be there, but due to his size he will be implemented as a brick-built character.

Summary of the information so far:

    Set number: 76261
    Name: Spider-Man No Way Home
    Parts: 900
    Minifigures: 6
    Age recommendation:
    Price (RRP): 104.99 euros
    Release: August 1, 2023

Edited April 21, 2023 by brickbride