Marvel Superheroes 2025 - Rumors & Discussion

[CF Mitch]

Alright, guess I have to take back what I said about skipping the F4 set  
Galactus looks really great, and I guess the minifigures don't look thaaatt awful.
The torsos are definitely the highlight, though not as varying as they should be (I believe).

Regards,
Mitch

[Mandalorianknight]

10 hours ago, Renny The Spaceman said:

As a non fan the torsos all look so similar I don't get LEGO giving Mr Fantastic a different torso given they're cheapness here unless it was the stretchy one.

There's no way this title would sell any better than just calling it Fantastic 4 Vs Galactus. Like they already have all the buzz words, no-one is gonna be looking to buy a "construction figure" online and then come across this.

To be fair his is the most different in terms of uniform- there's no white on it at the top at all- but it's not even so much the uniforms as the pretending three quarters of the 4 look the same torso wise, which again loops back around to Thing just being a normal minifigure with a funny hat and hulk hands. It doesn't work.

Construction figure is the type of thing fake lego puts into their titles to show up on ebay or amazon when looking for real legos, I wonder if it's something to do with that, but at the same time like you say nobody's searching "construction figure" so I don't know how that even helps.

8 hours ago, brickbride said:

How is the F4 set EUR 60? A construction fig using around 400 pieces plus four minifigs with plain legs using the same torso and mostly reusing faceprints should not be more than EUR 40 list price, tops. This has to go on sale with 33% off just so you get to pay what should have been the asking price in the first place, never even mind getting a bargain. (A common theme with LEGO these days.)

I mean we don't even have to guess- a standard construction figure goes for $30. It's been pretty commonly stated that the value added of a lego minifigure seems to be about $3 average for a licensed theme in lego's eyes, and these are hardly average quality for licensed minifigures. We end up with $42, generously, and maybe lego charges $45 to round up, though I'd say even that is somewhat overpriced considering how little effort went into these figures.

If they went all out on the figs and gave us a bigfig thing, flamed on johnny, unique torso prints for every F4 member (how are we now at the point where it's not even leg printing, but TORSO PRINTING that lego's skimping on), dual-molded boots, and stretchy arms Reed, $50 works to me as that'd be $30 for the fig plus $5 per fig, which is how much CMF figs go for. But it's $10 more than that with what I'd consider actively below the bare minimum detailing needed for the F4.

Unless this movie does DP&W/NWH numbers, I don't think this set sells well at all. And honestly the figures are so lackluster I'm not even on "I'll wait for it to hit 40% off and buy it", I'll just pick up an ebay or bricklink listing for a new figless galactus for like $20. These just aren't the F4 to me- I'd say they put Doom in charge of production, but clown shoes aside, Reed turned out the best, and Ben, who doom often sees as just Reed's victim, turned out worst.

4 hours ago, CF Mitch said:

The torsos are definitely the highlight, though not as varying as they should be (I believe).

I mean yeah they're using the same torso for 3/4ths of the four. I've said this a few times now but there are different body types for human male, human female, and guy made of rocks, but even beyond that, their uniform designs aren't the same. Sue has the classic white cowl collar whereas Ben and Johnny have some sort of horizontal white stripe across the top of their torsos (that extends to the arms, but we were never getting that). Maybe you could re-use Johnny's torso for Thing if you put the Paz Vizla armor over it to bulk him up, but using one torso for 3/4ths of the four just doesn't work.

Edited April 27 by Mandalorianknight

[AmperZand]

14 hours ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

As a side note, LEGO continues being absolutely horrible with set names. Fantastic Four vs. Galactus Construction Figure? Please kill me.

I suspect the weird names are due to LEGO’s sales channels and timing. A significant percentage of LEGO’s sales is to resellers (Amazon, Walmart etc) and wholesalers, not direct to consumers. At the point in the sales cycle when the toy trade is making buying decisions, LEGO doesn’t have set images, just set names, piece counts and recommended pricing (which, incidentally, is why those details leak first). A trade buyer who isn’t necessarily very knowledgeable about LEGO or Marvel might not understand that ‘Fantastic Four vs Galactus’ isn’t a set of five minifigures costing $60 at retail. So LEGO explains in the set’s name that Galactus is a large, built figure. It seems stupid to us, but makes sense from a business perspective.

[RobbieHxC]

The new Fantastic Four: First Steps looks medium.

On one hand, the Galactus buildable figure looks incredible, however the minifigures look pretty bad - although this is due to adapting the MCU film version.

I really don’t like the wooly jumper designs nor the Thing as a minifigure.  The Mr Fantastic minifgure looks very little like the comic book character, missing his iconic white temples, and being uncharacteristically not clean-shaven.  I love Pedro Pascal as an actor but I think he is overexposed, featuring in too many major franchises without differentiating his appearances.  For one project could he at least shave?

Overall, I will definitely pick this up as I have waited half my lifetime since this theme was born to get this iconic team in LEGO version.  Hoping to get updated modern suits in Avengers: Doomsday, or some comic sets soon that expand the Fantastic Four mythos with the Fantasticar, Baxter Building, and some rogues such as Mole Man, Silver Surfer, Kang the Conqueror, Frightful Four, and Annihilus.

[CF Mitch]

12 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I mean yeah they're using the same torso for 3/4ths of the four. I've said this a few times now but there are different body types for human male, human female, and guy made of rocks, but even beyond that, their uniform designs aren't the same. Sue has the classic white cowl collar whereas Ben and Johnny have some sort of horizontal white stripe across the top of their torsos (that extends to the arms, but we were never getting that). Maybe you could re-use Johnny's torso for Thing if you put the Paz Vizla armor over it to bulk him up, but using one torso for 3/4ths of the four just doesn't work.

Yeah, I checked out official images of the movie and noticed the white on the sleeves as well. With SW LEGO this would be solved by just making the entire arm white ((based on what they did with certain clone trooper regiments) but I don't think that would look well, here.
Good idea about Paz Vizla's armor! 

Which reminds me, I've been wondering.. what shade of blue does everyone think the F4 minifigures are?
In these pictures, it seems kinda regular blue (which would be nice 'cause I once bought 4 pairs blue legs with white 'boots' in anticipation of F4 LEGO  ) but the source material is much lighter blue, right? And I believe LEGO does make that shade of blue as well...

Regards,
Mitch

[Coryo]

Just picked up the Age of Ultron opening scene set for 35% of the total retail price, I'd say it's definitely the most well-executed version of these new quasi-diorama sets.

Hoping the Battle of Titan is the next scene to get this treatment, I find it genuinely strange how little Infinity War has been revisited despite being one of the most well-received MCU movies.

A new IW Thanos and red suit Nebula are probably my most wanted MCU minifigs at the moment.

33 minutes ago, CF Mitch said:

Which reminds me, I've been wondering.. what shade of blue does everyone think the F4 minifigures are?
In these pictures, it seems kinda regular blue (which would be nice 'cause I once bought 4 pairs blue legs with white 'boots' in anticipation of F4 LEGO  ) but the source material is much lighter blue, right? And I believe LEGO does make that shade of blue as well...

I think it's Dark Azure, which doesn't have any versions with dual-molded white boots in production unfortunately.

6 hours ago, RobbieHxC said:

I love Pedro Pascal as an actor but I think he is overexposed, featuring in too many major franchises without differentiating his appearances.  For one project could he at least shave?

Agree about him feeling overexposed, but he did shave for Wonder Woman 1984, so maybe he sees his mustache as a good luck charm.

(Somehow this is technically a Pedro Pascal minifig)

[CF Mitch]

23 minutes ago, Coryo said:

I think it's Dark Azure, which doesn't have any versions with dual-molded white boots in production unfortunately,

Yeah, I was afraid of that  

Also, regarding Pedro Pascal's mustache... could it be can't shave it off due to some sort of contract for a certain role?
Kinda like Henry Cavill's mustache in the reshoot of Justice League... 
Just saying  

Regards,
Mitch

[BrickBob Studpants]

Just now, CF Mitch said:

Also, regarding Pedro Pascal's mustache... could it be can't shave it off due to some sort of contract for a certain role?

He definitely needed to keep it for season two of TLoU and any helmetless scenes in Mando & Grogu  I have no issue whatsoever with him keeping the moustache for Mr Fantastic. It‘s actually uncanny to see him clean-shaven like in WW 84

[Mandalorianknight]

7 hours ago, CF Mitch said:

Yeah, I checked out official images of the movie and noticed the white on the sleeves as well. With SW LEGO this would be solved by just making the entire arm white ((based on what they did with certain clone trooper regiments) but I don't think that would look well, here.
Good idea about Paz Vizla's armor! 

Which reminds me, I've been wondering.. what shade of blue does everyone think the F4 minifigures are?
In these pictures, it seems kinda regular blue (which would be nice 'cause I once bought 4 pairs blue legs with white 'boots' in anticipation of F4 LEGO  ) but the source material is much lighter blue, right? And I believe LEGO does make that shade of blue as well...

Honestly, I do think the white arms would help here, at least to disguise the fact that they all use the same torso print.

They're definitely some sort of Azure, I'm not sure which shade exactly.

6 hours ago, Coryo said:

Agree about him feeling overexposed, but he did shave for Wonder Woman 1984, so maybe he sees his mustache as a good luck charm.

(Somehow this is technically a Pedro Pascal minifig)

And a Paul Rudd minifig, and a Joseph Quinn minifig, and a Tom Holland minifig...

5 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

He definitely needed to keep it for season two of TLoU and any helmetless scenes in Mando & Grogu  I have no issue whatsoever with him keeping the moustache for Mr Fantastic. It‘s actually uncanny to see him clean-shaven like in WW 84

But I mean at that point, why continue to go with him? Why did they so desperately need Pedro Pascal for this role that they wouldn't even have him look the part? Mr. Fantastic's usually either clean-shaven or has a full beard. The prominent mustache with a stubbly beard isn't really a way Reed's ever looked- while inaccurate to the movie, arguably the lego head is more accurate to how he should look. 

[psqidexslizer]

24 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

And a Paul Rudd minifig, and a Joseph Quinn minifig, and a Tom Holland minifig...

Wait… you mean to tell me all these roles weren’t played by the same generic white guy? 🤯

24 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

But I mean at that point, why continue to go with him? Why did they so desperately need Pedro Pascal for this role that they wouldn't even have him look the part? Mr. Fantastic's usually either clean-shaven or has a full beard. The prominent mustache with a stubbly beard isn't really a way Reed's ever looked- while inaccurate to the movie, arguably the lego head is more accurate to how he should look. 

Mustache = smart guy with big ego. That’s just how MCU (and Sonic) works. Expect Dr Doom to show up wearing one of these bad boys: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Carl_Frederik_Holm_(1848)_c_1893.jpg

Edited April 28 by psqidexslizer

[CF Mitch]

On 4/28/2025 at 11:00 AM, BrickBob Studpants said:

 It‘s actually uncanny to see him clean-shaven like in WW 84

Right?  

23 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Honestly, I do think the white arms would help here, at least to disguise the fact that they all use the same torso print.

Hm, yeah.. Maybe I'll give that a try when I have the set  

Regards,
Mitch

[TheBatstan]

On 2/12/2025 at 12:46 AM, TheBatstan said:

There's no way Lego opts for making Johnny as a minifigure in his flamed off form while only holding a power blast piece for his flame. His fully flamed on form is always the primary version that's made first for any Human Torch action figure, and I don't expect anything different here.

Now that we've gotten actual pics of the first Fantastic Four set in 13 years...man what a letdown. Make no mistake, I'll still end up buying it because I NEED Lego to take the hint and make a comic F4 set to make up for this set, but I expected so much better with the minifigures especially since this is the only CBM that Lego decided to give a set to this year.

Getting the best part of the set out of the way, Galactus looks great. If this is any indication of how he appears in the movie, Matt Shakman and co. really went out of their way to put an end to the fart cloud jokes that have plagued the character for nearly 20 years. I just wish he wasn't another construction figure and was actually an upscaled minifigure. Lego literally released another one this year, you're telling me they couldn't have done it again here?

Now to the worst part of this whole thing which really should've been the standouts, our first ever Fantastic Four minifigures. It's bad enough that Lego didn't even try to make Sue's torso different from the others like they usually do with female superhero minifigures, but reusing the EXACT same torso for 3/4 of them is just a new level of cheap. It wouldn't be so bad if their movie suits were all uniform designs like the comics, but in this instance they're all visually distinct from each other in some way, most notably the white on the arms when it comes to Johnny and Ben. However, Sue's suit is basically the closest thing to the comic outfits, so I'd be lying if I say I didn't want her design to be what all their costumes were like in the first place (along with Ben not wearing a sweater). Hell, a part of me is tempted to buy a spare torso and give it to Reed's minifigure to fix that annoying issue of his suit not having the white collar at all.

If I had to rank them from best to worst (and bear with me because after 13 years of waiting, I have a LOT to say):

1. Sue: Easily the "best" of the bunch since it's the most accurate, even the severely overused face works here because it kind of looks like Vanessa Kirby. I don't mind that she doesn't have a transparent arm/leg, having some pieces to represent her force fields works well enough for now.

2. Reed: Even though he got a completely new face print and his own unique torso, I'm switching the head to a clean shaven one because I am sick of Pedro Pascal refusing to shave for any role that he takes now. Reed's grey temples are one of the most recognizable parts of his appearance since his inception and Lego is STILL reusing the exact same hair piece with the grey streaks on the side for Doctor Strange in a set that came out this very year, so why didn't they use it here exactly? I know a lot of people say he should've had the Ms. Marvel/Elastigirl stretchy arms torso, but those pieces are kind of limited since you can't remove the arms. Having brick built legs works here, though Lego had the nerve to stick on white "boots" at the end of them despite none of the other members having dual molded white legs which apparently don't exist in this extremely specific shade of azure either. I'm still hoping the Frozone legs will match well enough, but now I'm a little worried.

3. Ben: I've made peace with the Thing not being a big fig since he's only slightly taller than the rest of the team, which is the same in the comics too, but he REALLY needed a new torso piece to make him wider. Mega Bloks realized this since they were planning on releasing a Thing figure that looked absolutely beautiful in 2011 before Lego took the Marvel license. I know they're not even close to the same color but I'm going to use Ultimate Axl's torso for him instead as it's the closest thing in terms of body proportions and color for Ben than the other Axl figures. The head and rock hat attachment are easily the best parts about him, which is more than I can say for his "hands". I get that Lego needed to give the minifigure a unique accessory, but if you were just going to make him a standard minifigure, then he didn't need those gorilla fist hands. Every time that the Hulk was turned into a minifigure, Lego never used these pieces in green for his hands, and now with them on it makes it look like Lego was stuck in the middle between wanting to keep Ben as a minifigure or wanting him to appear bigger/or Ben was stung by a cosmic ray bee. I hope that with a comic F4 set, we finally get that big fig that was teased in the Mission Demolition special despite it being way out of scale too, but hey it's better than Ben looking like he went on Ozempic.

4. Johnny: As you can tell by my gif choice above, I'm at a loss for words. Good. God. What did they do to you. I didn't think Lego would be stupid enough to actually slap some power blast pieces on a FLAMED OFF Johnny and call it a day, but somehow they proved me wrong. His flame form has always been the version that came first whenever the Torch would get merchandise, because who would want a regular Johnny Storm instead? How did you get completely mogged by your bootleg competitor with a figure that came out 20 YEARS AGO. I've never been so livid over a minifigure than this one, it baffles me how Lego really couldn't have just recolored one of the torso's in red at the very least so that you could fix up the rest by adding this flame dome piece over the head and some red legs. And to make matters worse, apparently Joseph Quinn looks like Paul Rudd who looks like Tom Holland because that same damn head has showed up here AGAIN. I had already planned on using the Jonesy head from the Fortnite sets for a comic Johnny, and it looks like I'll have to order another one too now. Unless Lego ends up making a proper flamed on Johnny for the Doomsday sets, I'm going to end up making my own custom Torch to make up for their stupidity, which is fine by me.

Huge rant over, can't wait for the day we get comic minifigures instead along with the Baxter Building as a D2C.

Edited April 30 by TheBatstan

[Mandalorianknight]

11 minutes ago, TheBatstan said:

*Peak*

Excellent Analysis- let me know what you end up doing for the flamed-on torch as I'll use that.
Currently I'm thinking the Infearno fire "hair" with a normal pumpkin head to get those Kirby vertical face lines, but not sure about the torso and legs. Probably a Kai out there somewhere that works.

On 4/28/2025 at 11:19 AM, psqidexslizer said:

Wait… you mean to tell me all these roles weren’t played by the same generic white guy? 🤯

Mustache = smart guy with big ego. That’s just how MCU (and Sonic) works. Expect Dr Doom to show up wearing one of these bad boys: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Carl_Frederik_Holm_(1848)_c_1893.jpg

The multiverse is a concept about which we know frighteningly little.

If RDJ had the same facial hair rules as Pedro, they'd do it.

13 hours ago, CF Mitch said:

Hm, yeah.. Maybe I'll give that a try when I have the set  

I'd be interested to see how it looks- wouldn't save the figure for me since he should be flamed on, but it'd be something.

[psqidexslizer]

5 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

If RDJ had the same facial hair rules as Pedro, they'd do it.

It’d be a 100% in character for Doom to see Richards grow a mustache and decide to grow a bigger, better mustache.

[BoyLego]

It seems to me like they have had to go out of their way to make sure the characters can be played with in ‘powers-off mode’. This explains flame-off Johnny, detachable stilt legs instead of avatar arms and legs for reed and no see-through parts for Sue. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is a decision that has come from Marvel.

I don't mindthe idea of a Minifig thing but the big hands don’t work at all. Ideal would be a new Midifig piece like Axl but I can understand them not having the budget for a new mold like that. In my opinion the best cheap option would have been the Paz Vizsla armour with a new print but Lego seem determined not to use that piece for Marvel for some reason.

Reeds legs are beyond a joke but again this might be out of their hands a bit. His face is ok but I agree with someone I saw saying the beard is too prominent. Not giving him the dr strange hair is a bizarre choice.

I don’t mind Johnny being flame-off but the face does not look like Joseph Quinn at all. If they are going to cheap out and not give us power blast flames for him, they shouldn’t cheat the box art to make the feet flames look more impressive than they are.

Sue is probably the best of the 4. The re-used torsos don’t bother me at all but not including dual-molded or even printed legs is by far the biggest miss of the whole set for me. As others have pointed out, constraction figures usually go for around $30 which means we are paying $7.50 per figure. They should really all be of cmf standard but as usual Lego has failed to grasp that the big draw of superhero sets is the characters.

[Scarilian]

Apparently some sets are being revealed this week, so fingers crossed we get a glimpse at the missing Marvel sets. Would be nice to see the Spider-man 2 inspired train set. Was sure it was originally stated as a book-nook, but hopefully it'll look good regardless as the circular display.

On 4/26/2025 at 9:49 PM, Renny The Spaceman said:

I'm sure there are designers pushing for it but I doubt there's any big plans in mind. I feel it's inevitable to eventually get some sorta actual Bionicle throwback utilising the new constraction stuff. People are super nostalgic for it now, a nice model of one of the recognisable ones would probably do decently

I think a construction figure Tahu would definitely sell, not sure they'd be able to do a wave of six Toa in that scale and price and still appeal to a wider audience - but something like that for the 25th anniversary would be nice.

[Renny The Spaceman]

1 minute ago, Scarilian said:

I think a construction figure Tahu would definitely sell, not sure they'd be able to do a wave of six Toa in that scale and price and still appeal to a wider audience - but something like that for the 25th anniversary would be nice.

Yeah, right? I'm sure he would at least sell. That'll happen eventually I think. I think the white, gold and the blue one probably would too though wouldn't be the first options. 

[Mandalorianknight]

6 hours ago, psqidexslizer said:

It’d be a 100% in character for Doom to see Richards grow a mustache and decide to grow a bigger, better mustache.

I get the joke, but this is just another issue I have with the RDDoom casting. Doom's mask is supposed to be literally grafted to his face, but we all know RDDoom's gonna spend half the film with that thing off.

5 hours ago, BoyLego said:

It seems to me like they have had to go out of their way to make sure the characters can be played with in ‘powers-off mode’. This explains flame-off Johnny, detachable stilt legs instead of avatar arms and legs for reed and no see-through parts for Sue. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is a decision that has come from Marvel.

I don't mindthe idea of a Minifig thing but the big hands don’t work at all. Ideal would be a new Midifig piece like Axl but I can understand them not having the budget for a new mold like that. In my opinion the best cheap option would have been the Paz Vizsla armour with a new print but Lego seem determined not to use that piece for Marvel for some reason.

I can't imagine marvel would send down an edict like that- wouldn't they want the more visually interesting versions of the characters availible? Also from a lego perspective, what kid is more excited to play with a flame-off Johnny Storm than Human Torch?

2 hours ago, Scarilian said:

I think a construction figure Tahu would definitely sell, not sure they'd be able to do a wave of six Toa in that scale and price and still appeal to a wider audience - but something like that for the 25th anniversary would be nice.

If they just did a single 6-pack of them next year as an Icons set I think it'd do fairly well. The big issue is the masks, but I think at construction figure scale you could come up with reasonable brick-built/partially printed facsimiles 

[TheBatstan]

13 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Excellent Analysis- let me know what you end up doing for the flamed-on torch as I'll use that.
Currently I'm thinking the Infearno fire "hair" with a normal pumpkin head to get those Kirby vertical face lines, but not sure about the torso and legs. Probably a Kai out there somewhere that works.

Glad to see someone enjoyed my essay.

For my Torch, I'm planning on basically swiping this guy's custom design from Youtube but I'm not taking the arms off since I'm always scared of cracking the torso that way.

Head: Golden Dragon Kai with the dome from Infearno/Flama

Torso: Flama from Nexo Knights

Legs: Golden Dragon Kai (which are also transparent so bonus)

I was thinking about using the head from NRG Kai but the expression doesn't suit Johnny as much as the one from Golden Dragon Kai's. So until the day comes where Lego finds their brain and makes an official flame on Johnny, this'll do just nicely. Now If only some of these pieces weren't so expensive on Bricklink in New condition...

Edited April 30 by TheBatstan

[BoyLego]

How is it that a Star Wars GWP can get arm printing and dual-molded legs when the debut of Marvels first family can’t?! Make it make sense

[squiz18]

7 hours ago, Scarilian said:

Would be nice to see the Spider-man 2 inspired train set. Was sure it was originally stated as a book-nook, but hopefully it'll look good regardless as the circular 

 Ive been impressed with the book nooks so far. I'd be interested to see what they would do with a marvel one. 

[NXS7]

Word on the street is the upcoming AoU Quinjet set will include Iron Man MK43 (shocking I know), Hawkeye, Black Widow, Quicksilver and Ultimate Ultron (who won't use the original helmet mold created for the character)

While I was expecting him to be omitted anyway, very disappointed theres no new Vision with regular legs

[hvader]

Chances that we get Sentry & Thunderbolts for Doomsday sets so I don’t have to preorder the Marvel Legends two-packs?

[Buckethead]

23 minutes ago, hvader said:

Chances that we get Sentry & Thunderbolts for Doomsday sets so I don’t have to preorder the Marvel Legends two-packs?

There’s always a chance.

[Scarilian]

1 hour ago, NXS7 said:

Word on the street is the upcoming AoU Quinjet set will include Iron Man MK43 (shocking I know), Hawkeye, Black Widow, Quicksilver and Ultimate Ultron (who won't use the original helmet mold created for the character)

Glad we finally get an updated Quicksilver, the previous version was just a torso print so at least its unlikely this one will be a downgrade from that.

As for Ultimate Ultron, I have my concerns, the previous version got leg, torso and helmet mold printing. I can see why they'd ditch the helmet mold, but at the same time they had the lower piece of the helmet mold in a set this year. I like Ultron as a concept and while the MCU portrayal is not the best visually, I'd still like a good representation of him.

1 hour ago, hvader said:

Chances that we get Sentry & Thunderbolts for Doomsday sets so I don’t have to preorder the Marvel Legends two-packs?

-snip- site seems broken so won't let me do spoiler tags -_-

They may reissue.

Edited May 1 by Scarilian
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