Marvel Superheroes 2023 - Rumors & Discussion

[Mandalorianknight]

12 hours ago, psqidexslizer said:

Just wanted to add, we haven’t yet seen what the summer wave holds. It’s possible we get a couple more X-Men sets featuring some new characters. 

But I agree that the Magneto we got here is probably going to be the one in the Mansion. I doubt they’re going to waste a slot for a new minifigure giving us a new Magneto when they already have a Magneto they can throw in the Mansion. 

That's a good point- say the summer wave has 4-6 more figs, then we get a more standard amount of "setup" figs. They put in a more generic x-man and x-woman torso, re-use some heads, and we get up to the bugle's fig count with only a few fully new printed figures.

12 hours ago, hikouki said:

I'm hoping that the characters will have good printing. I wonder how many minifigs it will have and how many repeats.

While I'm hoping it's more of a bugle or tower, given that they have 4-6 minifigures to use as repeats instead of the normal 12+, I think's more likely the set ends up having a fig count closer to the sanctorum. 

12 hours ago, psqidexslizer said:

It will have Wolverine.

source: name one X-Men set that doesn’t

...I knew he was in most of them, but man. You're not wrong.

6 hours ago, Legocentrico said:

I'm waiting: "now that I see the official images these venomized figures don't look so bad" ^___^

Do you think they look better or are you just saying you think people will say so? Because the new image of venom ock doesn't look any better IMO.

5 hours ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

Cool, but we as consumers shouldn't be okay with everything just because we know the budget is tighter.

I don't care about any of that. I want a good set. If I don't like a part of a set, I will complain about it. Simple as that.

Of course, but you have to realize there's stuff like this set not having as many new prints as people want, and then there's stuff like the X-jet being as overpriced as it is. I'm just sayin I don't get why we complain so much about the smaller issues when there are much bigger ones at play.

3 hours ago, CF Mitch said:

About the recently appeared Venom Mech; it doesn't look too bad, and it's nice to have an additional minifig with it

Yeah that one's also pretty solid- while I'd rather pick up the war machine mech (like I said, being a hypocrite here), the venom mech is objectively better value, and doesn't look half bad either. Honestly the mechs are really good this wave, which is shocking to me.

 

Why is the venom ock set good? For $10, this is actually really nice. TWO MINFIGURES (This is excellent for a $10 set. Kids need to be able to have that hero vs villain stuff), a bike that, I mean it's a spider-man vehicle, but it's not terribly oversized at least, and we even get that bit of city terrain, which is something I love to see in superhero sets. The biggest issue with it for me is still that Venom Ock looks dumb, but it's excellent value, and I might pick it up as I'm a big fan of these small sets with multiple figs. (Star Wars, PLEASE start doing this. Nobody wants star wars mechs)

[upliftingbricks]

Doc Ock Venomised set leaked. Def one for the AFOLs 

[psqidexslizer]

1 hour ago, Classic_Spaceman said:

I certainly hope so! Aside from a Sentinel buildable figure or mech, what else do you think that we could get? 
 

I think it’ll depend on what features prominently in the show.

As far as generic ideas for X-Men sets, Wolverine motorbike with Wolverine and a villain (Sabertooth would make the most sense) seems like a no brainer. They could also do some villain hideouts such as Sinister’s Lab and Asteroid M. We could also see some locations from the X-Mansion such as Cerebro and the Danger Room. Would they be included in the mansion? Probably. But this would give us a chance to get larger, more detailed versions of these rooms.

Getting a bit more obscure, we could see a set based on the Marauder or The Quiet Council. And, we could always see sets based on the movies but with comic figures instead of movie figures. Statue of Liberty Torch battle, train station fight, Magneto prison escape, The Brotherhood vs the X-Men at the Golden Gate Bridge are all potential ideas if they went that route.

And then there’s the old standby of generic vehicles recolored for a hero who would never use them like we’ve seen for Spider-Man multiple times. Wolverine’s Monster Truck, Wolverine’s Speedboat, Wolverine’s Snow Mobile (he is Canadian), Cyclops borrowing Wolverine’s Dune Buggy, and (my personal favorite) The Wolverine Chopper.

[THELEGOBATMAN]

I love generic Spider-Man sets with Venomized versions of classic villains. 

Seriosuly tho, couldn't care less. They're fine for kids, but they should've made the villains fully Venomized. This halfway-through thing does not look good.

[psqidexslizer]

10 minutes ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

I love generic Spider-Man sets with Venomized versions of classic villains. 

Seriosuly tho, couldn't care less. They're fine for kids, but they should've made the villains fully Venomized. This halfway-through thing does not look good.

We’ve seen Venomized Iron Man, Green Goblin, Doc Ock, a Tyrannosaurus Rex, probably some other characters I don’t remember. And still no Venomized Spider-Man, the one character who would actually make sense.

Edited December 11, 2023 by psqidexslizer

[TobyAis]

39 minutes ago, psqidexslizer said:

We’ve seen Venomized Iron Man, Green Goblin, Doc Ock, a Tyrannosaurus Rex, probably some other characters I don’t remember. And still no Venomized Spider-Man, the one character who would actually make sense.

AND EVEN MORE.. We just need a head.. just one tiny little head! Put that on the Venom fig and we all good, forever.. HOW. HARD. IS. IT????

[Mandalorianknight]

1 hour ago, psqidexslizer said:

I think it’ll depend on what features prominently in the show.

As far as generic ideas for X-Men sets, Wolverine motorbike with Wolverine and a villain (Sabertooth would make the most sense) seems like a no brainer. They could also do some villain hideouts such as Sinister’s Lab and Asteroid M. We could also see some locations from the X-Mansion such as Cerebro and the Danger Room. Would they be included in the mansion? Probably. But this would give us a chance to get larger, more detailed versions of these rooms.

100%. Some sort of wolveriene motorcycle with villain for a $10-15 set, a buildible sentinal with a couple characters at literally any price point they want (since you can have sentinals anywhere from a little larger than a human to kaiju sized), any sort of villain that would require a large build (sauron with some savage land terrain, maybe?), you could even do a stratojet if it was at a much larger or smaller price than the blackbird.

It'd be easy for them to do 3 sets even without the trope you point out they'll totally use of just making wolveriene vehicles. Assuming we get 3 more x-men sets (which in itself is a pretty big if), here's what I think would be nice:

Wolveriene vs Sabertooth ($9.99): Wolveriene on a small motorcyle and a snowy ramp with figs of wolveriene and sabertooth. (adds sabertooth)

Sauron's Stratojet Ambush ($39.99): Buildible Sauron and a small jet with Storm, Jean Gray, and Professor X (Adds Jean Grey and professor x)

Sentinal Takedown ($59.99): Large buildible sentinal with Cyclops, Gambit, Rogue, and Jubilee. (adds gambit and jubilee)

 

What might be more likely:

Wolveriene vs Sabertooth ($14.99): Wolveriene on a large, bright yellow and blue motorcycle with wolveriene and sabertooth figures. (adds sabertooth)

Wolveriene's jeep attack ($34.99): Wolveriene's jeep with wolveriene, jean grey, and Venom. (adds jean grey)

Wolveriene Mech vs Sentinal ($59.99): Wolveriene mech and sentinal mech with wolverine, Jubilee, Storm, and a sentinal figure (adds a sentinal figure and Jubilee)

[TheJackBricks]

2 hours ago, upliftingbricks said:

Doc Ock Venomised set leaked. Def one for the AFOLs 

Where did it leak? Reddit? I don't see it on Instagram

[hvader]

Ngl the Goblin with glider is kind of sick, but that car… ouch

[icm]

Sure the car isn't Speed Champions, but it looks like a pretty good companion to the Morb-mobile to me.

[psqidexslizer]

17 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

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It'd be easy for them to do 3 sets even without the trope you point out they'll totally use of just making wolveriene vehicles. Assuming we get 3 more x-men sets (which in itself is a pretty big if), here's what I think would be nice:

Wolveriene vs Sabertooth ($9.99): Wolveriene on a small motorcyle and a snowy ramp with figs of wolveriene and sabertooth. (adds sabertooth)

Sauron's Stratojet Ambush ($39.99): Buildible Sauron and a small jet with Storm, Jean Gray, and Professor X (Adds Jean Grey and professor x)

Sentinal Takedown ($59.99): Large buildible sentinal with Cyclops, Gambit, Rogue, and Jubilee. (adds gambit and jubilee)

…

Just a hunch, but if we do see more X-Men sets this summer, I think they’ll keep one of the 8 ‘97 X-Men exclusive to the Mansion just to incentivize people to buy that to complete the team. My guess is Jean Grey since she’s arguably the most desirable X-Men character that we haven’t gotten yet and they can release other variants of her in other sets down the line while keeping her arguably most iconic and desirable costume exclusive to the mansion. Gambit would also be a solid choice since he’s got a lot of fan appeal.

[upliftingbricks]

28 minutes ago, TheJackBricks said:

Where did it leak? Reddit? I don't see it on Instagram

I saw it on Instagram first but it is on Reddit now. All the images are watermarked fateful but have only seen reposts of the image

[TobyAis]

31 minutes ago, hvader said:

Ngl the Goblin with glider is kind of sick, but that car… ouch

Mehhh not really vibing with those stud shooters, they're massive on such a small build

[Legocentrico]

3 ore fa, Classic_Spaceman ha detto:

Lo spero sicuramente! A parte una figura o un mech costruibile Sentinel, cos'altro pensi che potremmo ottenere?

Until we see the series it is impossible to imagine the sets, but I would be happy to see an entire wave with prices from 10 to 100€ for the same theme, which is the thing that is most missing in the current Lego-Marvel! As has been said, Wolverine vs Sabretooth and the Sentinel's attack, in an optimal one, should not be missed. Personally I would like at least one bigfig, so Apocalypse or Juggernaut. And a HQ for the main villain (Sinister?)… unfortunately I'm afraid that Lego will choose a much quicker option, I wouldn't be surprised if X-jet turns out to be the only set :-/

3 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Do you think they look better or are you just saying you think people will say so? Because the new image of venom ock doesn't look any better IMO.

50/50! I am absolutely convinced that the official images will be better than these ugly blurry photos (do I really have to say that?), and I joke about the habit we have of reevaluating sets when Lego reveals them

2 ore fa, psqidexslizer ha detto:

Abbiamo visto Venomized Iron Man, Green Goblin, Doc Ock, un Tyrannosaurus Rex, probabilmente alcuni altri personaggi che non ricordo. E ancora nessun Venomized Spider-Man, l'unico personaggio che avrebbe davvero senso.

You got Venomized Spider Ham, you can't complain! :-D

[TobyAis]

39 minutes ago, Legocentrico said:

Until we see the series it is impossible to imagine the sets, but I would be happy to see an entire wave with prices from 10 to 100€ for the same theme, which is the thing that is most missing in the current Lego-Marvel! As has been said, Wolverine vs Sabretooth and the Sentinel's attack, in an optimal one, should not be missed. Personally I would like at least one bigfig, so Apocalypse or Juggernaut. And a HQ for the main villain (Sinister?)… unfortunately I'm afraid that Lego will choose a much quicker option, I wouldn't be surprised if X-jet turns out to be the only set :-/

Juggernaut is really a no brainer for an X-Men bigfig!

[Mandalorianknight]

1 hour ago, TobyAis said:

Mehhh not really vibing with those stud shooters, they're massive on such a small build

Yeah. Easy enough to remove, but still a rough choice. Why not make them shoot pumpkin bomb tiles? Why these weird lasers? 

The car set is a great example of lego just feeling low effort. So many things where they could have changed it to make it a little better at that same budget, but they didn't. The biggest example being that they created two new prints for each villain, but it's just venom's torso and head photoshopped onto the villains. Again, even if you wanted to do venomized varients instead of updated designs (superior octopus? Literally any non-ps4 inspired octopus? Red goblin?), you could have at least fully venomized them. When a symbiote bonds to someone, it covers them fully, it doesn't just splotch onto a third of them. Are they worried kids wouldn't be able to figure out who the characters were?

1 hour ago, Legocentrico said:

50/50! I am absolutely convinced that the official images will be better than these ugly blurry photos (do I really have to say that?), and I joke about the habit we have of reevaluating sets when Lego reveals them

Of course the images will look better than the blurry photos, but I still can't see either of these guys looking good. 
 

As others have said, this would have been a great way to get Red Goblin (I mean, I would have bought the set. Red goblin is THE spider-man villain and their fight is one of the greatest parts of all of spider-man), but even if they don't want to do that for obscurity or maturity reasons (Red goblin showed up once and it was a pretty dark arc where a major character died), why is he not fully venomized? these weird 1/3 venomized versions are really bad looking IMO. At least iron man was mostly venomized.

27 minutes ago, TobyAis said:

Juggernaut is really a no brainer for an X-Men bigfig!

Yup! I wonder if they'll give him a molded head or a molded helmet on top of the standard bigfig head. 

[Legocentrico]

34 minuti fa, Mandalorianknight ha detto:

Sono preoccupati che i bambini non sarebbero in grado di capire chi fossero i personaggi?

Indeed, fully venomized characters might be “less recognizable” and, from a certain point of view, even less interesting… a black minifigure… (although I'm sure there would be many ways to make them very cool). Personally I'm not bothered by this choice, it's more annoying to find out that Spiderman, Gwen and Miles are the old ones :-/ By the way, could War Machine still have a second minifigure like Venom?

36 minuti fa, Mandalorianknight ha detto:

Sì! Mi chiedo se gli daranno una testa modellata o un casco modellato sopra la testa bigfig standard.

I think the Hulkbuster treatment would be the most likely option. then helmet with print

[Clone OPatra]

We still don't know what's on the other side of the heads. They could be either full Venom or no Venom.

[Mandalorianknight]

2 hours ago, Clone OPatra said:

We still don't know what's on the other side of the heads. They could be either full Venom or no Venom.

I don't think full venom would look good at all, given the heads aren't black. Non-venomized heads would at best just be slightly new expressions for the existing designs.  

[The_Fiery_Rooster]

Now that we've seen the whole wave, I think I like more than I dislike. The Warbird, both mechs, and the sandman sets are great. The Blackbird is good other than the price and the less desirable Magneto design. The 2 spiderman sets I'm very torn on, I like the bike build better but like the venom goblin better. I want to try something for the venom Ock fig though. If you just put the generic venom head and this hairpiece (https://brickset.com/parts/6344417) it would look better than it currently does. Well, now we just wait for the official reveal to get more details.

[poisonbricks]

17 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

 

Wolverine vs Sabertooth ($9.99): Wolverine on a small motorcycle and a snowy ramp with figs of Wolverine and Sabertooth. (adds sabertooth)

Sauron's Stratojet Ambush ($39.99): Buildable Sauron and a small jet with Storm, Jean Gray, and Professor X (Adds Jean Grey and professor x)

Sentinel Takedown ($59.99): Large buildable sentinel with Cyclops, Gambit, Rogue, and Jubilee. (adds gambit and jubilee)

These set ideas are really cool - I make custom sets, would you mind if I tried building them and rendering them up?

[Legocentrico]

ALL OFFICIAL IMAGES!!!!!!

(Whoever hypothesized that they had the face completely venomized on the back is a genius :-)

[psqidexslizer]

Turns out the X-Jet isn’t actually $80.

It’s $85. 😠

Edited December 12, 2023 by psqidexslizer

[BrickBob Studpants]

Ronan may not have his unique hood part back, but at least he‘s got a fancy new cape!

Not the best Marvel wave overall, but still a decent one  

[psqidexslizer]

1 minute ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Ronan may not have his unique hood part back, but at least he‘s got a fancy new cape!

Mister Sinister is gonna be pissed when he sees this. 😝