Marvel Superheroes 2025 - Rumors & Discussion

[icm]

4 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I don't want to blame things on specific designers, but part of me does want to look through and see if certain designers are making all the good sets. (Obviously stuff like the mech only designer kind of feels like that's not his fault and lego just assigns him only mechs, but if the same guy's responsible for the AoU diorama, semi-UCS ships, etc, I feel like they should just hand him the keys to the theme)

Adam Grabowski seems to do pretty much all the cars and trucks in Super Heroes (and occasionally other themes: he did the truck in the Twilight house, the little Land Rover Defender, and the City recycling truck). I think he does a pretty good job with that. He also did the 2024 X-men jet (which is really a fantastic build that looks great and is tremendously swooshable, it's just horribly overpriced), the 2019 Captain Marvel Quadjet, and the 2019 Batwing.

Mark Stafford and Chris Perron seem to split the spaceships and Quinjets between them, and I think they do a good job with those.

Mark Stafford did the 2023 Quinjet, which is one of my favorite Super Heroes sets and overall airplane sets ever. He also did the 2024 Hoopty, which is actually a pretty good spaceship and a pretty decent build, it's just horribly overpriced.

Chris Perron did the big Benatar, the Bowie, the big Milano, baby Rocket's ship, and Rocket's Warbird, and I think those are all really good. He's also done most of the Marvel character cars for the past three years, and I think those are good builds and fun sets, if overpriced. He did the 2019 Endgame Quinjet, which was my favorite Quinjet at the time but has since been completely surpassed by the 2023 Quinjet in every way. Chris Perron also did the Lightyear spaceship, the Monkie Kid Galactic Explorer, and the Monkie Kid White Horse Dragon Jet, but those are outside Super Heroes.

Edited March 12 by icm

[poisonbricks]

9 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I don't want to blame things on specific designers, but part of me does want to look through and see if certain designers are making all the good sets. (Obviously stuff like the mech only designer kind of feels like that's not his fault and lego just assigns him only mechs, but if the same guy's responsible for the AoU diorama, semi-UCS ships, etc, I feel like they should just hand him the keys to the theme)

The same dude is responsible for great hits like the ugly D2C Hulkbuster, Captain America's flamethrowing motorcycle, the Endgame Hulk helicopter, the flat head Hulkbuster, the first Marvel advent calendar, the weird Shang-Chi dragon... he has a FEW solid sets like Molten Man, but if you throw enough stuff at the wall, right 😂

[Scarilian]

3 minutes ago, poisonbricks said:

The same dude is responsible for great hits like the ugly D2C Hulkbuster

  To be fair, I've been throwing everything I have at that set since release to try and improve it and make it better than effectively just being a statue. Ransomfern's redesign is great but there's a lot of compromises to work within the piece count. Even with unlimited time and removal of the piece count limit, it's still a nightmare dealing with a build of that scale. My hope is that the Fortnite Mech will provide some stronger joint pieces that can manage the weight. I am still working towards one day having an accurate and posable D2C Hulkbuster though...

On 3/10/2025 at 10:15 AM, Mister_Loki said:

With all the Classic talk it would be very refreshing to see a full line of Classic Comic Book Marvel sets again.

  I imagine they'll have to at some stage as at the moment it's just Doomsday, Spider-man 4 and Secret Wars in 2026/2027. They may announce another film and I'm sure Lego have plans for the 20th anniversary in 2028 (as long as they did not forgot again...) so fingers crossed we get some experimentation and dives into comic inspired sets alongside legacy sets.

9 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

 I just hope there's good set material and minifigures of characters I care about, because right now, my Doomsday buy list would be this -snip-

Yeah, I'm pretty much only focused on Doctor Doom if his design is good I'll probably end up bricklinking him and then hopefully tracking down a version of the 2005 Fantastic Four or using custom figures as I find those the most appealing visually. Other than that at the moment there's not particularly any characters for Doomsday/Secret Wars that I feel desperate to get a figure of - unless ofcourse they start plucking characters from legacy media again.

9 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I don't want to blame things on specific designers, but part of me does want to look through and see if certain designers are making all the good sets.

I'm not thinking the blame lies in the designers but experimental attempts into what focus groups may identify people are after. The Endgame set for example, I can definitely see people looking at the resurgence in tabeltop games and thinking that people want to replicate the portal scene so why not support that? People do legitimately go out and build/buy display bases that generally comprise of rubble for Endgame. I can see the logic behind making such sets due to this. I am just not sure it really blends well with Lego whose focus is normally on creativity to release a set where the main focus is just a load of rubble intentionally made to look messy.

[psqidexslizer]

16 minutes ago, Scarilian said:

I imagine they'll have to at some stage as at the moment it's just Doomsday, Spider-man 4 and Secret Wars in 2026/2027. They may announce another film and I'm sure Lego have plans for the 20th anniversary in 2028 (as long as they did not forgot again...) so fingers crossed we get some experimentation and dives into comic inspired sets alongside legacy sets.

There’s also the rumored X-Men movie as well as the second season of X-Men ‘97 (assuming that gets sets), although in the later case they rip the designs right from the comics so you might as well just call them comic based.

[Mandalorianknight]

17 hours ago, icm said:

Adam Grabowski seems to do pretty much all the cars and trucks in Super Heroes (and occasionally other themes: he did the truck in the Twilight house, the little Land Rover Defender, and the City recycling truck). I think he does a pretty good job with that. He also did the 2024 X-men jet (which is really a fantastic build that looks great and is tremendously swooshable, it's just horribly overpriced), the 2019 Captain Marvel Quadjet, and the 2019 Batwing.

Mark Stafford and Chris Perron seem to split the spaceships and Quinjets between them, and I think they do a good job with those.

Mark Stafford did the 2023 Quinjet, which is one of my favorite Super Heroes sets and overall airplane sets ever. He also did the 2024 Hoopty, which is actually a pretty good spaceship and a pretty decent build, it's just horribly overpriced.

Chris Perron did the big Benatar, the Bowie, the big Milano, baby Rocket's ship, and Rocket's Warbird, and I think those are all really good. He's also done most of the Marvel character cars for the past three years, and I think those are good builds and fun sets, if overpriced. He did the 2019 Endgame Quinjet, which was my favorite Quinjet at the time but has since been completely surpassed by the 2023 Quinjet in every way. Chris Perron also did the Lightyear spaceship, the Monkie Kid Galactic Explorer, and the Monkie Kid White Horse Dragon Jet, but those are outside Super Heroes.

Thanks for doing the research-
Stafford's been with lego for decades and did the Bugle IIRC, he's a top tier designer, always has been.

Reading Grabowski's comments (He's very active on brickset, and very protective of his UCS batmobile design choices) gives the most insight. He kind of implies that he's been placed into the "car guy" spot by LEGO (I think he does like 90% of cars for licensed theme sets- even sets that have a car as a side build, he did the car), and while he seems to enjoy it he does confirm what we already could assume, which is that the push for sets like the Hulk Monster Truck come from higher ups and not the designers. 

A number of the less-liked sets like the Logo and Civil War V2 come from someone who also made the X-mansion, the original airport battle, etc. I think conclusively we're seeing that most of the things wrong with the theme aren't the designer's fault (Though I still do have to say the UCS Hulkbuster V2 designer got absolutely demolished by Ransom)

8 hours ago, poisonbricks said:

The same dude is responsible for great hits like the ugly D2C Hulkbuster, Captain America's flamethrowing motorcycle, the Endgame Hulk helicopter, the flat head Hulkbuster, the first Marvel advent calendar, the weird Shang-Chi dragon... he has a FEW solid sets like Molten Man, but if you throw enough stuff at the wall, right 😂

To be fair, that's the mech guy, right? It kinda seems like lego just tells him to make a lot of that stuff.

8 hours ago, Scarilian said:

I'm not thinking the blame lies in the designers but experimental attempts into what focus groups may identify people are after. The Endgame set for example, I can definitely see people looking at the resurgence in tabeltop games and thinking that people want to replicate the portal scene so why not support that? People do legitimately go out and build/buy display bases that generally comprise of rubble for Endgame. I can see the logic behind making such sets due to this. I am just not sure it really blends well with Lego whose focus is normally on creativity to release a set where the main focus is just a load of rubble intentionally made to look messy.

Yeah based on the research @icm did and then what I looked at, it's not like there's a guy out there responsible for every bad set. The clunker sets come from people who routinely put out top tier sets, and while the theme's got a mech guy and a car guy, the car guy stated in his Hulk Monster Truck notes that the push for all that comes from high ups, not the designers (and said they wanted a hulk truck "whyever", implying at least he agrees on it being kind of a dumb set idea)

[Buckethead]

With Doomsday scheduled to release in May next year, we may get info sometime this Summer/Fall. I feel optimistic we'll get some decent Avengers sets. Besides Spider-Man, most sets we've gotten from Marvel the past few years have been Avengers / Infinity Saga sets, so I anticipate Lego will put more emphasis on Doomsday than previous MCU films. I'm more so worried that the level of attention to detail, quantity of sets, and unique features will pale in comparison to the 2018 Infinity War sets.

[Lego Nostalgia]

On 3/11/2025 at 1:03 PM, poisonbricks said:

The LEGO 2024 financial report is out, and their revenue grew 13% - you guys think they can afford leg printing for us now? 😭

Somewhere in the multiverse, it happened 

There was a Daredevil head with an angry expression on Insta by our favourite reliable leaker Wakebricks, well it was someone else and had the @wakebricks on the photo, fake 100%

[brickbride]

On 3/12/2025 at 10:29 PM, Mandalorianknight said:

the car guy stated in his Hulk Monster Truck notes that the push for all that comes from high ups, not the designers

That's not really a surprise, is it? The only set I can remember that has ever been confirmed in interviews to be the designer's idea (Mark Stafford's) was the Daily Bugle. Some of the worse ones practically scream "marketing decision". Like the Black Panther bust. Sure, let's randomly feel the need to "honour" a random superhero whose popular actor has "coincidentally" just passed away.

In other themes it's also becoming more and more apparent that LEGO are looking towards the competetion these days and copying their ideas (not the set designs, mind you, but subjects that already sell). Off the top of my head there's recently been the working model of the solar system (which CADA had first), Notre Dame (done by several competitors while LEGO doesn't do churches, no sir!), the microscale Hogwarts and Grounds (yes LEGO had a microscale Hogwarts in 2018 but the later one including the grounds came after several competing unlicenced products), booknooks including a Hogwarts-themed one based on the Hogwarts Express (which Reobrix already has), Star Trek (for which they took over the licence from Bluebrixx), and Neuschwanstein Castle. Again I don't think that one day a designer just came in to work and went "I want to do Neuschwanstein Castle"; more likely the marketing department went "We're losing market shares in architecture because our customers buy competing products, how can we bolster our portfolio so our customers won't feel the need to buy from other brands? Let's see what the bestselling competing products are and make our own versions."

14 hours ago, Buckethead said:

I'm more so worried that the level of attention to detail, quantity of sets, and unique features will pale in comparison to the 2018 Infinity War sets.

Well could you blame LEGO if that were the case? I agree that Doomsday sounds like the current MCU's biggest hit-to-come, given RDJ's return and the fact that as an all-cast Avengers movie it should at least have SOME characters that any given moviegoer wants to see again. But "Fine, maybe I'll catch that one at the cinema instead of waiting till it goes to Disney+" is still a far cry from the hype we had for Endgame.

As for LEGO, on the one hand Doomsday sounds like an even better bet for sets than Endgame because it would feature lots of characters who we haven't had minifigs for, or at least not many. Whereas Endgame had the same bunch of characters we'd already known just in different suits, a plot no-one was allowed to reveal, and a setting based mostly on a) recycled previous locations and b) a bunch of rubble. But on the other hand, a) I think the less-than-stellar reception of the latest Marvel/Disney+ CMF series has shown them that if people don't care for a character they won't want to buy the fig and b) if you want to sell today's overpriced, increasingly crappily designed sets you need to at least include really popular minifigs.

I feel like they've been experimenting with this for some time. The only Falconcap set is pretty overpriced but presumably still sells because people want a Red Hulk bigfig. The Hoopty, on the other hand, was ridiculously overpriced and also the only set you could get Monica (apart from the CMF version) or MCU Kamala in. It didn't do well, I think, because not many people want Monica or Kamala to begin with. Eternals had its overblown cast spread out over several sets but most people didn't get into a "collect them all" frenzy because they didn't care about the Eternals in the first place.

So even though Doomsday offers, in theory, unlimited possibilites, I can see LEGO still sticking to minifigs of characters that have done well in the past, such as Star-Lord who's been in multiple sets or Doctor Doom whose only previous fig fetches high prices on BL, and rely on those in order to sell the sets. Sure some of us might want a Wiccan minifig and he might well be added to a set because of this, but do you think enough people want a Wiccan minifig that they'd buy an overpriced set just for him?

Edited March 14 by brickbride

[psqidexslizer]

16 hours ago, Lego Nostalgia said:

Somewhere in the multiverse, it happened 

There was a Daredevil head with an angry expression on Insta by our favourite reliable leaker Wakebricks, well it was someone else and had the @wakebricks on the photo, fake 100%

I love how Lego extended the amount of face printing just to make his mask look super empty. Looks great. I can’t wait to display this alongside my Superman Kaiju, Tower of Fate, and Sunspot.

[poisonbricks]

9 hours ago, brickbride said:

That's not really a surprise, is it? The only set I can remember that has ever been confirmed in interviews to be the designer's idea (Mark Stafford's) was the Daily Bugle. Some of the worse ones practically scream "marketing decision". Like the Black Panther bust. Sure, let's randomly feel the need to "honour" a random superhero whose popular actor has "coincidentally" just passed away.

I actually do remember a designer addressing the BP bust 

They were being asked about the possibility of further NWH sets past the initial wave (long time ago haha) and they said that the BP bust was a set going back to Black Panther because, at the time, it was the highest grossing solo movie in the MCU. Since NWH was closing in on that title, it made sense (he said it was a 'maybe' but obviously at this point they were planning the Liberty battle and Sandman sets) 

I feel like 'a random superhero' doesn't quite capture the significance BP had 

[Mandalorianknight]

15 hours ago, brickbride said:

That's not really a surprise, is it? The only set I can remember that has ever been confirmed in interviews to be the designer's idea (Mark Stafford's) was the Daily Bugle. 

There's been speculation in the marvel and DC threads before due to some designer stating something along the lines of preferring marvel to DC that it had some impact on the ratio of marvel to DC sets. This kind of confirms it isn't the case- if even the designer of the hulk truck thinks it's kind of stupid, that makes clear that they aren't the ones choosing what to make.

8 hours ago, psqidexslizer said:

I love how Lego extended the amount of face printing just to make his mask look super empty. Looks great. I can’t wait to display this alongside my Superman Kaiju, Tower of Fate, and Sunspot.

I made an alternate version of the daredevil head last week for something I'm working on, and with 10 minutes on Google Draw I had something that looked fairly similar (but without the weird empty area, no idea why he put that on).

5 hours ago, poisonbricks said:

I feel like 'a random superhero' doesn't quite capture the significance BP had 

The first movie was huge, but I think even by the point the bust came out we knew the hype had died down a fair bit. I know it came out around Wakanda forever, so it hadn't been concretely proven yet, but I think even beforehand it was clear the refusal to recast T'Challa was going to hurt the franchise pretty heavily. Before the movie he was part of the sort of second tier of avengers (most popular characters outside the big three avengers) in stuff like the EMH cartoon, and while he exploded after the first movie, he's largely gone back to that position. I think if they'd continued with T'Challa BP could have continued to be mega popular, but as-is they've hurt the character's brand pretty significantly. 

Edited March 14 by Mandalorianknight

[squiz18]

Saw the captain america red hulk set for 40% off today. £30 instead of £50 in sainsburys, UK.

[Agent Kallus]

Tiny bit of new info on the CMF,  according to falcon bricks Peter B Parker will supposedly come with Mayday, I'd hoped for as much anyway. 

13 hours ago, squiz18 said:

Saw the captain america red hulk set for 40% off today. £30 instead of £50 in sainsburys, UK.

That's decent.

[JohnTPT17]

5 hours ago, Agent Kallus said:

Tiny bit of new info on the CMF,  according to falcon bricks Peter B Parker will supposedly come with Mayday, I'd hoped for as much anyway. 

That also probably means he'll have the pink bathrobe - for better or worse. Hopefully she will have hair.

Did he confirm all of that previous list, then? Or just the tidbit about Mayday?

EDIT: Just looked it up - looks like the list is largely the same. Prowler is also Miles Prowler, though - that makes me less excited for that character, honestly.

Edited March 16 by JohnTPT17

[BrickBob Studpants]

43 minutes ago, JohnTPT17 said:

Prowler is also Miles Prowler, though - that makes me less excited for that character, honestly.

It was always rumoured to be Miles Prowler, you must’ve missed it before  It would be kinda weird to have eleven minifigs from ATSV and then one from ITSV (and a non-Spider-person for that matter)! 

[JohnTPT17]

8 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

It was always rumoured to be Miles Prowler, you must’ve missed it before  It would be kinda weird to have eleven minifigs from ATSV and then one from ITSV (and a non-Spider-person for that matter)! 

Ah - looks like you're right. The Day 1 speculations had us all thinking it was ITSV Prowler - it looks like that that clarification came later and I indeed missed it!

[CloneCommando99]

No Scarlet Spider, Spinneret, UK or Paul?

 

0/10 CMF

[Mandalorianknight]

2 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

It was always rumoured to be Miles Prowler, you must’ve missed it before  It would be kinda weird to have eleven minifigs from ATSV and then one from ITSV (and a non-Spider-person for that matter)! 

Isn't Miles Prowler essentially also a non spider person? He never got bit and has no spider powers. He was supposed to be one, but he isn't. It's like Peter Parker from Gwen's verse, or Gwen in the main verse- sure, it's a person who's a spider in other universes, but not in this one.

2 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

No Scarlet Spider, Spinneret, UK or Paul?

0/10 CMF

I know this is a joke but seriously, why are characters like Scarlet Spider and Jess missing when we have ones who barely appeared in the movie? I maintain that if they needed ones who were barely in the movie, they should have at least done ones that had greater significance outside of it, like Unlimited.

[Classic_Spaceman]

On 3/9/2025 at 4:00 PM, G_Brickley said:

We already saw Marvel NOW Cap in the mech set from a couple years back so who knows, maybe a Marvel NOW Thor isn't far off, would certainly be possible to do with the current helmet piece.

I think that Cap Minifig was based on the Avengers game’s “Ultimate Patriot” skin, rather than the Marvel NOW design (they are basically the same design, with the game taking the design from the comics, though), given the game inspiration for Marvel sets during that time period (character designs, AIM agents, etc); we also got a game-inspired Thor, with the Ragnarok helmet. Ironically, we never got Kamala, despite her being the main character of the game! 

On 3/9/2025 at 4:00 PM, G_Brickley said:

If Lego did do full on classic Avengers in minifig form, I'd be curious to see how they handle Cap's head wings, whether they'd be integrated into a similar helmet piece to what we have now or if they'd use a piece like the ears/horns used on Daredevil and Black Panther with a fully printed masked head

I suspect that a classic comics Cap would reuse the Flash’s cowl (if such a piece is in production when LEGO makes a classic Avengers lineup). 
 

On 3/12/2025 at 8:45 AM, psqidexslizer said:

as well as the second season of X-Men ‘97 (assuming that gets sets) 

Unless the Mansion absolutely flops, we are almost certainly getting a couple of sets for ‘97 S2 (given the show’s positive reception)! Maybe a Stratojet (from the latter part of S1), a Sentinel, a smaller motorcycle set for Wolverine, and something large with Apocalypse? New Minifigs should include Jubilee, Nightcrawler, Cable, Forge, Morph, and Sunspot. 
 

Edited March 17 by Classic_Spaceman

[poisonbricks]

5 hours ago, Classic_Spaceman said:

I suspect that a classic comics Cap would reuse the Flash’s cowl (if such a piece is in production when LEGO makes a classic Avengers lineup). 

Flash in the cancelled set for his movie just used the MCU Cap cowl with printed wings, so I think maybe they'll just keep with that piece 

[Classic_Spaceman]

17 hours ago, poisonbricks said:

Flash in the cancelled set for his movie just used the MCU Cap cowl with printed wings, so I think maybe they'll just keep with that piece 

True, but that set had six “changes” (Batman’s torso, Supergirl’s head and torso, and Flash’s cowl, head, and torso), so it was probably cheaper to recolour an existing mould than to recreate an old one (which would probably be solid plastic and dual-moulded by modern part standards). Additionally, cancelled Flash’s cowl in the movie had fairly flat sides, so the lightning bolts on the comic-based part would have stuck out too much - The Justice League cowl piece would have been the most accurate option, but again, that would have required reviving an old mould. 

By the time LEGO gets around to making classic comic-based Avengers, we will probably have gotten a Flash mech with a comics cowl that can be reused for Cap. 
 

[DaredevilFan]

There’s a pic of a Mark 4 leak on Reddit, seems to be pretty legit. Supposedly coming in the Iron Man bust. Hope it’s true as I really want a Mark 4 but there’s been quite a few fake minifig leaks lately 

[Agent Kallus]

Personally I'd much rather they use new prints on a variety of characters rather than variants of the same few.

I'd rather Odin, The Collector, Wiccan,  Nightcrawler, Zeus, Sabertooth, Grandmaster, The leader, Polaris, or almost anyone they don't do all the time over another iron man suit. 

[BrickBob Studpants]

Kinda funny.

Iron Man: Gets unique accurate prints for every armour variant.

Cap: What do you mean the AoU, CA:CW, and EG costumes aren‘t all the same?? 

[thebricksbear]

NGL the fact that Mk4 is getting new prints makes me laugh not only given how stingy the other characters' prints are, but also that it's basically mk3 anyway.

It's weird to me that 42 wasn't in next months armory with Iron Patriot and Killian. I really doubt they're going to make new Homecoming sets so I'm really hoping we don't have to buy two more armories over the next few years to get 42 and 47