Marvel Superheroes 2021 - Rumors & Discussion

[lego_guyon02]

6 hours ago, cosmic said:

I complain about it going to the MCU but also what would it be if it were comic based? 

Whatever it ends up being, I wouldn't expect to get something non-Spidey related if it's a comic D2C. LEGO loves Spidey and they haven't done anything else since 2017 (excluding mechs and Mighty Micros). 

[Moon_Knight]

I’ve got the X-Jet set. It’s a fine build but it’s nothing amazing. It really shines with its selection of unique minifigures but that’s really the only thing that’s great about it. The jet should’ve been a lot bigger but I get they didn’t want to sell it for so much and they probably made a good decision there because it didn’t sell great, anyways.
 

I think the D2C is gonna be MCU based. I’m really hoping we get some X-Men members (Nightcrawler, Gambit, Archangel), Fantastic 4 members, Daredevil and Moon Knight in the CMF.

Edited February 8, 2021 by Moon_Knight

[Bricknee]

Totally agree on the D2C being MCU based. Beyond that, I have no idea.

[BigGuy4U]

12 hours ago, gedren_y said:

Agreed on the X-Men front. Lego could easily source sets from the Marvel Adventures graphic novels, which are written for an age group consistent with Lego's core demographic.

A while back I posited the idea of a large Uatu build, but understand how unlikely that would be. Stan Lee in any form would make a lot of Marvel fans happy, but I think there may be some likeness licensing issues with his estate, otherwise we should have had him as a fig by now.

Real news will probably take some time. I don't expect it until after much until such time as the Disney+ shows won't be spoiled.

There's a lot of figures we "should have had by now" but don't. As iconic as Stan Lee is, I don't think he's that high of a priority for a Marvel minifig.

[BrickBob Studpants]

Just now, BigGuy4U said:

As iconic as Stan Lee is, I don't think he's that high of a priority for a Marvel minifig.

I think he should be included in the CMF series, would make the most sense to me  Or at least more sense than a random set or a D2C

[admiral_typhoon]

Thinking about the D2C and the 6 avengers sets, it's possible that lego may do anniversary sets based on each movie, perhaps especially the pre-2012 ones they missed, those being Cap TFA and Thor 1 which both are making their 10th anniversaries this year, and could fit more with the theory of the 6 sets being "MCU legacy"

Only large models I could see from those are Asgard and the Hydra Flying Wing. I could also see D2C Asgard being a "all-in-one" set having figs and builds/moments from the 3 movies (assuming Korg is in the D2C and not the normal sets).

Edited February 8, 2021 by admiral_typhoon

[THELEGOBATMAN]

31 minutes ago, admiral_typhoon said:

Thinking about the D2C and the 6 avengers sets, it's possible that lego may do anniversary sets based on each movie, perhaps especially the pre-2012 ones they missed, those being Cap TFA and Thor 1 which both are making their 10th anniversaries this year, and could fit more with the theory of the 6 sets being "MCU legacy"

Only large models I could see from those are Asgard and the Hydra Flying Wing. I could also see D2C Asgard being a "all-in-one" set having figs and builds/moments from the 3 movies (assuming Korg is in the D2C and not the normal sets).

Not likely.

One of those set not only is 18+, but also releases in November. 

One or two of those sets are 4+.

Another one has nearly 2000 pieces, and it doesn't seem like good Legacy material.

[Falconfan1414]

I’m not 100% convinced the 18+ set is coming in November yet. I know promobricks listed it as November but it might still come in June 

[NXS7]

1 hour ago, Moon_Knight said:

I think the D2C is gonna be MCU based. I’m really hoping we get some X-Men members (Nightcrawler, Gambit, Archangel), Fantastic 4 members, Daredevil and Moon Knight in the CMF.

Not sure what the numerical state of the CMF will be (12 was initially rumoured, but then who knows), but it's undeniable that we'd be getting the main Avengers in some format (don't want to start on MCU or comics, tho I would lean to the latter), so X-Men and Fantastic Four would be incredibly unlikely. Fingers crossed on DD and Moon Knight though, they'd be easy additions to a comic CMF

[Moon_Knight]

23 minutes ago, Quicksilver838 said:

Not sure what the numerical state of the CMF will be (12 was initially rumoured, but then who knows), but it's undeniable that we'd be getting the main Avengers in some format (don't want to start on MCU or comics, tho I would lean to the latter), so X-Men and Fantastic Four would be incredibly unlikely. Fingers crossed on DD and Moon Knight though, they'd be easy additions to a comic CMF

I hope you're wrong but you're probably right lol

[THELEGOBATMAN]

Well, with a leaked HP minifgure for the sets that are coming in June, I might have been actually wrong with assuming that Korg come in the D2C.

So yeah, it's a big question mark yet again.

[Scarilian]

With no Superbowl trailer for Shang Chi, it is likely Disney is waiting on the potential success of Raya: and the Last Dragon which would determine if Black Widow gets released in cinema and on Disney+ OR delayed again potentially to Shang Chi's release date. The only alternative I can see would be if they are saving the Shang Chi trailer for Chinese New Years on February 12th OR after WandaVision has finished airing (March 5th)

1 hour ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

Well, with a leaked HP minifgure for the sets that are coming in June, I might have been actually wrong with assuming that Korg come in the D2C.

So yeah, it's a big question mark yet again.

I'm still not dismissing the potential for Korg to have just been in production for Thor 4 and be a very early leak from that, which at one stage was going to release this year (November 5th 2021) with presumably associated sets in October. That said, at the moment Korg is still the only physical leak we have - so maybe the Avengers wave of sets is a potential anniversary wave that was at one stage planned for 2022 just releasing a bit earlier to fill the gap left by Doctor Strange 2 and Thor 2 migrating to 2022.

I'm still doubting the D2C as being Thor Ragnarok related, though Korg did not really appear in Infinity War and while he featured in Endgame that's likely out of the range of adapting for a D2C set (Turnaround time for the MCU D2C's appears to be three years). The only potentially iconic scenes with Korg would be related to the Colosseum fight OR the Statesman/Bridge battle. If we do wind up with a D2C I'd prefer Asgard with brick built Surtur to the Statesman.

I have hope that February 17th would be a potential reveal date for the D2C, similar to the Hulkbuster: Ultron Edition. I feel Lego will still advertise some new sets around the time NYTF was meant to have occured, after all, they still would like to show off new products and reveals. Hopefully we will have answer by then.

Edited February 8, 2021 by Scarilian

[THELEGOBATMAN]

I mean there's just no way they were already producing sets for Thor: Love and Thunder - there are still 4 MCU movies before it that don't have released sets.

[nintendude64]

11 hours ago, Guyon2002 said:

Whatever it ends up being, I wouldn't expect to get something non-Spidey related if it's a comic D2C. LEGO loves Spidey and they haven't done anything else since 2017 (excluding mechs and Mighty Micros). 

What would a Spidey D2C be? A UCS monster truck? 

[BrickBob Studpants]

29 minutes ago, Scarilian said:

I'm still not dismissing the potential for Korg to have just been in production for Thor 4 and be a very early leak from that [...]

That makes absolutely no sense, Thor 4 has been pushed back last April, so roughly half a year before the design process of the sets would have started (keep in mind that the whole process takes a year in most cases)  So you're suggesting they're already producing sets that won't be designed for another 4 months or so? 

[TOTDForever]

I just got a great deal on a 2012 avengers set, the quinjet one. BRAND NEW for only $50 on offerup!! I would've had to pay $70+ on ebay or bricklink lol

11 minutes ago, nintendude64 said:

What would a Spidey D2C be? A UCS monster truck? 

please, it would obviously be a UCS Spider-Copter 😂

[gedren_y]

6 minutes ago, Lego-Freak said:

That makes absolutely no sense, Thor 4 has been pushed back last April, so roughly half a year before the design process of the sets would have started (keep in mind that the whole process takes a year in most cases)  So you're suggesting they're already producing sets that won't be designed for another 4 months or so? 

Actually it does. Lego could have had notice of returning characters well before then, and would have needed that much lead time to develop the mold we've seen before the original release schedule. Even if there were costume changes for the Korg character, the make-up appliance is unlikely to have changed enough for scaling down to Lego proportions, so for the shape alone information from the previous movies appearance would have been enough.

[BrickBob Studpants]

6 minutes ago, gedren_y said:

Actually it does. Lego could have had notice of returning characters well before then, and would have needed that much lead time to develop the mold we've seen before the original release schedule. Even if there were costume changes for the Korg character, the make-up appliance is unlikely to have changed enough for scaling down to Lego proportions, so for the shape alone information from the previous movies appearance would have been enough.

Even if they decided to prepare the mould that far in advance (which there is no known reason for), why would they already be using said mould in the factories?  This wouldn't even make sense if the movie WASN'T pushed back. Let's imagine an alternate timeline where COVID never happened. In that case, they would've started to design the sets roughly in October of 2020, based on the original plans for The Eternals, which was initially also a November release, just like Thor 4. Even in that scenario, there's no way they'd already be producing the sets. That'd be as if we had leaks from the Star Wars sequel trilogy sets in February (these always started to leak in summer btw). We've had early leaks before, but 8 months is just laughable, and since we sadly don't live in that alternate timeline, it's actually 13 months 

[Falconfan1414]

it’s not from thor 4 

[Scarilian]

1 hour ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

I mean there's just no way they were already producing sets for Thor: Love and Thunder - there are still 4 MCU movies before it that don't have released sets.

While sets are out of the question, specific characters were confirmed for the film incredibly early. I can see them holding off on the main characters or aspects that could change, but I don't see why they would'nt have started work on the moulds. Especially if the character were to be included in more than just the Thor 4 sets.

1 minute ago, Falconfan1414 said:

it’s not from thor 4 

Can you confirm if this is from the D2C or not? It seems you have a lot more information than us and the drip feeding, while originally appreciated, is leaving us with nothing and discussions ending when a new bit of information is dropped ><

[PGBQW]

Just to exaust every possiblity: Are we 100% sure that headpiece is from Korg's and not from any other theme?

[THELEGOBATMAN]

35 minutes ago, Scarilian said:

While sets are out of the question, specific characters were confirmed for the film incredibly early. I can see them holding off on the main characters or aspects that could change, but I don't see why they would'nt have started work on the moulds. Especially if the character were to be included in more than just the Thor 4 sets.

It's not like they'd produce a piece in a factory just to make use of it more than 1 year from now, it's pretty obvious that it's not for Love and Thunder. 

[Scarilian]

2 minutes ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

It's not like they'd produce a piece in a factory just to make use of it more than 1 year from now, it's pretty obvious that it's not for Love and Thunder. 

Factory leaks can come from any stage of the factory production of the piece. The first Hulkbuster D2C leaks came in the form of the dome piece which leaked such a long time prior to release that many dismissed it as being fake.

Remember the original release dates for these films and possible set release dates as such:

• Eternals (November 2020) - Sets October?
• Shang Chi (February 2021) - Sets January/February?
• Doctor Strange 2 (May 2021) - Sets May/June?
• Spider-man 3 (July 2021) - Sets June/July?
• Thor 4 (November 2021) - Sets October?

I don't see how Lego would have adapted Eternals, Shang Chi and Spider-man 3 into sets with intent to release on those dates without adapting Doctor Strange 2 also and starting work on Thor 4.

As a sidenote, realising now that Doctor Strange 2 was meant to be the 'middle' of the loosely connected multiverse trilogy... wonder how that will be tackled if Spider-man 3 is now the 'middle' instead.

27 minutes ago, PGBQW said:

Just to exaust every possiblity: Are we 100% sure that headpiece is from Korg's and not from any other theme?

Accuracy to the top of Korg's head in Ragnarok seems to confirm it is him. Unless it's something akin to the stone monsters from Nexo Knights again, but we have no indication of any other theme which would use such a helmet/upper head piece.

[Falconfan1414]

This was not a test mold leak

[Scarilian]

2 minutes ago, Falconfan1414 said:

This was not a test mold leak

So is it the D2C or the Avengers Wave or something else?