Marvel Superheroes 2022 - Rumors & Discussion

[Shiva]

What is the design flaw? I have the set, but not built it yet.

[Ghostcat]

10 minutes ago, Shiva said:

What is the design flaw? I have the set, but not built it yet.

Balljoints above the eyes isnt a legal connection. They dont fully clutch! 
 

https://www.brickfanatics.com/another-lego-2022-set-strange-design-flaw/amp/

[THELEGOBATMAN]

https://brickset.com/article/68334/possible-design-flaw-found-in-2022-super-heroes-set

[Shiva]

Ahh, cheers :)

[thebricksbear]

10 years from now I'll be heartbroken when my Shuma Gorath's (i wont be humoring this Gargantos nonsense) ball joints break and fall apart, but for now this illegal connection was basically ignored by most people. It really is a great set.

[Legocity2713]

17 minutes ago, bricksandabear said:

10 years from now I'll be heartbroken when my Shuma Gorath's (i wont be humoring this Gargantos nonsense) ball joints break and fall apart, but for now this illegal connection was basically ignored by most people. It really is a great set.

Haha it doesn’t bother me much either right now (and any gaps it causes I cover using the front mouth tentacles). But it is a shame that it exists.

Haven’t seen any fixes online either except for one saying to put some round 1x1 circular/corner tiles on the studs of the 1x2 ball joint instead of studs. Not sure that would fully fix it though. The best fix would be using this piece instead of the current 1x2 female ball joint connector and combining it if Lego made a female connector version of this piece which I feel won’t likely happen.

[thebricksbear]

Honestly the variety of ball joint pieces is shockingly sparse for how common they are used in Lego's current "mech meta." These pieces still only exist in grey, SMH.

[hvader]

5 hours ago, bricksandabear said:

10 years from now I'll be heartbroken when my Shuma Gorath's (i wont be humoring this Gargantos nonsense) ball joints break and fall apart, but for now this illegal connection was basically ignored by most people. It really is a great set.

Lol it’s as if the set has an expiration date. 10 years later, the set just breaks and explodes into pieces by itself...
 

That would be tragic

[LegendaryArticuno]

This is a really good fix for the design flaw, and if I remember correctly the extra pieces in the set made up a good number of the needed spare parts. No reason to have a set that's breaking itself apart when there's a pretty easy fix available! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loK76reY3yE

[BrickBob Studpants]

6 hours ago, bricksandabear said:

Honestly the variety of ball joint pieces is shockingly sparse for how common they are used in Lego's current "mech meta." These pieces still only exist in grey, SMH.

You‘ll be happy to hear then that there‘s a new ball joint piece in the 2023 mechs. It‘s a 1x2 plate with mini ball joints on both sides  And it comes in black!

Edited December 19, 2022 by BrickBob Studpants

[Scarilian]

21 hours ago, Buckethead said:

No new Marvel sets in the catalog unfortunately

https://www.instagram.com/p/CmPDVSvo1c7

Seems likely the Captain Marvel 2 set definitely got pushed back then. Ant-Man 3 set could still wind up being early than June/July, but I think it'll probably remain.

5 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

You‘ll be happy to hear then that there‘s a new ball joint piece in the 2023 mechs. It‘s a 1x2 plate with mini ball joints on both sides  And it comes in black!

Surprised it took so long, but seems like the perfect solution. Shame they introduce this piece now but then remove knee and arm joints while increasing price.

[Mandalorianknight]

13 hours ago, bricksandabear said:

Honestly the variety of ball joint pieces is shockingly sparse for how common they are used in Lego's current "mech meta." These pieces still only exist in grey, SMH.

Lego claims the greys are the only plastics strong enough, but, like, c'mon. I'm not doubting that there's color/strength variation (Old dark red and reddish brown, BIONICLE LIME JOINTS), but I refuse to believe that the greys are the only colors they can possibly do it for, or that they couldn't solve the issue if they did some R and D. 

And c'mon, you can't even give us the other color of grey? There's been like, one set that uses the sockets in DBG, and other than that it's always sockets in LBG, balls in DBG. And it's not like the different colors for different axle lengths, where it definately could get confusing, a 6 year old should be able to tell a ball joint from a socket. They are the opposite shape.

11 hours ago, hvader said:

Lol it’s as if the set has an expiration date. 10 years later, the set just breaks and explodes into pieces by itself...

curse spell

8 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

You‘ll be happy to hear then that there‘s a new ball joint piece in the 2023 mechs. It‘s a 1x2 plate with mini ball joints on both sides  And it comes in black!

That is good news.

2 hours ago, Scarilian said:

Surprised it took so long, but seems like the perfect solution. Shame they introduce this piece now but then remove knee and arm joints while increasing price.

What they did to the mechs this year is a tragedy. It's like they went "Hey, we have a moderately successful gimmick line. Can't let that happen." Same way that we get, like, one microfighter a year now, but at least the one we do get is fine.

[BrickBob Studpants]

Interesting. They provide two copies of all the stickers, even the ones that aren‘t SHIELD- or Avengers-specific

Also, the printing on Cap‘s head is really good! They seem to have FINALLY fixed that issue

Edited December 19, 2022 by BrickBob Studpants

[PavillionDweller]

51 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

*image*

... After all the muddled faces and necklines on darker heads and torsos through the years, I can't stop staring at that Cap head; it's absolute witchcraft how clean that is.

[LegendaryArticuno]

4 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Interesting. They provide two copies of all the stickers, even the ones that aren‘t SHIELD- or Avengers-specific

Also, the printing on Cap‘s head is really good! They seem to have FINALLY fixed that issue

Wow that's a lot of stickers, if I get the set I might mix and match LOL, i.e. for sticker #4/16 have one Shield and one Avengers, and for sticker #8/22 use the Avengers logo instead of the plain sticker.

Glad they finally fixed the face printing... it took how many damn years? Maybe Spiderman can finally also get good arm printing that matches the torso colour.

[THELEGOBATMAN]

12 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Also, the printing on Cap‘s head is really good! They seem to have FINALLY fixed that issue

Oh wow, it's high time they've fixed this.

Looks fantastic. 

[PGBQW]

20 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

 

It's uncanny how good it looks. Like it doesn't look real! You could say it looks Just2Good, even.

[Mandalorianknight]

18 hours ago, LegendaryArticuno said:

Glad they finally fixed the face printing... it took how many damn years? Maybe Spiderman can finally also get good arm printing that matches the torso colour.

Lemme think... it depends when we start counting it. Before it was deathly pale, Batman and Cap had medium nougat skin, in which case we could start it in 2012, making it over a decade.

2 hours ago, PGBQW said:

It's uncanny how good it looks. Like it doesn't look real! You could say it looks Just2Good, even.

Stop or I'll revoke your automorbile license.... in an Ashnflash.

I can't think of any other puns, the only other ones I remember are Jangbricks and BrickBrosUK, and BrickBrosUK disappeared years ago. EDIT: And I refuse to make a MandR pun.

Edited December 20, 2022 by Mandalorianknight

[PGBQW]

6 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Before it was deathly pale, Batman and Cap had medium nougat skin

That was always extremely amusing to me, because thanks to that Lego accidentally figured out how to make new skin tones but never actually used it.

6 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I can't think of any other puns

I think a bunch of guys like us should team up and do some good puns.

[Mandalorianknight]

18 minutes ago, PGBQW said:

That was always extremely amusing to me, because thanks to that Lego accidentally figured out how to make new skin tones but never actually used it.

And now that we have a billion flesh tones, we finally have the correct tan application. We just need the skin tone Mercy has in that pic to represent people like me: Poles who need to touch grass.

21 minutes ago, PGBQW said:

I think a bunch of guys like us should team up and do some good puns.

Intriguing.

 

I think I'm gonna finally pull the trigger on the compound. The price (not the value, it's good value, I just haven't bought a more expensive marvel set in awhile) put me off for a bit, but it's close to retirement and the Endgame climax with Thanos and the Big Three is too good to pass up.

[PGBQW]

4 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I think I'm gonna finally pull the trigger on the compound. The price (not the value, it's good value, I just haven't bought a more expensive marvel set in awhile) put me off for a bit, but it's close to retirement and the Endgame climax with Thanos and the Big Three is too good to pass up

Not to mention it includes the last bigfig ever made before they were canceled until the end of times!

[Scarilian]

Has anyone done any revamps of the Hulkbuster (76210) yet? @Ransom Fern

If not I may wind up attempting it as seen it be released for around 25% off I'm sure the pricing will go lower, but it's easier to justify at a lower price and I've already stocked up on dark red pieces and two nano gauntlets for additional parts.

On 12/19/2022 at 6:54 PM, BrickBob Studpants said:

the printing on Cap‘s head is really good! They seem to have FINALLY fixed that issue

Glad the printing issue is fixed, shame they spent so long denying the issue though and misleading people with images that did not represent the actual quality of the figures.

21 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I think I'm gonna finally pull the trigger on the compound. The price (not the value, it's good value, I just haven't bought a more expensive marvel set in awhile) put me off for a bit, but it's close to retirement and the Endgame climax with Thanos and the Big Three is too good to pass up.

I'm hoping when bigfigs return that they'll revisit Thanos, they have to eventually right? He's the main villain of Phases 1-3 so I'd expect him to pop-up again somewhere. I'm good with my other versions of the big three for the moment.

1 minute ago, PGBQW said:

Not to mention it includes the last bigfig ever made before they were canceled until the end of times!

Personally I'm still going with the idea that the transition to the new bigfig mold used for Thanos and probably intended for other bigfigs was delayed or cancelled due to some mixture of sales/production issues/concerns over amount of plastic resulting in them avoiding bigfigs for a while. Hopefully we get a bigfig this year to end the curse, maybe Hulk, but if not I'm going with that as headcanon to explain the lack of bigfigs.

[hikouki]

I wonder if we will ever see a CMF series for classic Marvel characters? I would really like to see the comic versions of Thor and Iron Man! And perhaps some X-men that have not been made.

 

[Legocentrico]

8 ore fa, Scarilian ha detto:

Spero che quando i bigfig torneranno che rivisiteranno Thanos, alla fine devono, giusto? È il cattivo principale delle fasi 1-3, quindi mi aspetterei che faccia di nuovo qualche parte. Per il momento sto bene con le mie altre versioni dei tre grandi.

Personalmente sto ancora andando con l'idea che la transizione al nuovo stampo bigfig usato per Thanos e probabilmente destinato ad altri bigfig sia stata ritardata o annullata a causa di una miscela di problemi di vendita/produzione/preoccupazioni per la quantità di plastica che ha portato a evitare i bigfig per un po'. Speriamo di avere un bigfig quest'anno per porre fine alla maledizione, forse Hulk, ma se no ci vado come headcanon per spiegare la mancanza di bigfig.

The Infinity War version is the most iconic, and was a huge miss in 2018. now that the bald head is here I hope it's only a matter of time... Hulk MUST come this year.  I don't want to consider lego leaving us with half the 2012 team ☹️

[thebricksbear]

I didnt realize one of the Avatars is wearing dark tan pants... cmon tall Groot!

Groot 2 seems to correctly be about human size too :(