Marvel Superheroes 2023 - Rumors & Discussion

[Scarilian]

According to instagram, unsure how reliable, Avengers Tower is going to get a reveal on November 14th for a release on November 24th. With figures leaking would not be surprised if we end up seeing the set leak in October...

14 hours ago, PGBQW said:

Maybe we're getting this ultron and also the final version of him

I hope that is the case, in which case it'd mean we'd have more figures than listed and/or that we'd have a different selection of figures than anticipated. Unfortunately it might have just been a blurry image that someone saw and/or information got relayed incorrectly.

17 hours ago, cosmic said:

My exact sentiments. I don’t care about the practical reasons behind it I am just simply disappointed that for such a large set they are not choosing to give these characters the appropriate detailing.

I would'nt mind it much, but Wasp is meant to be one of the new exclusive figures, and she's just a slight variant from last time. Ultron, who has now leaked, has some improvements in accuracy but sacrifices the head transparency for a leg transparency.

The choice to do Kevin Feige as opposed to a character actually featured such as an updated Phil Coulson, Happy Hogan is also weird as he's a continuity break. I'm sure he has appeal, but he's also a controversial figure at the moment and the popularity of Avengers and AoU can be primarily attributed to Josh Whedon, not Kevin Feige.

11 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

It appears to have a transparent leg, but other than that, you're right. The head in particular is such a downgrade

Cannot post the new version, but breaking it all down:

• The new head is more accurate to the finalized version, however the lack of transparency in my view makes it inferior to the old head based on concept art
• The old version was primarily based on concept art so the placement of the arc reactor was incorrect, the new version fixes this by moving it over to the right where it belongs and emphasising it as 'powered on'
• The old version makes up for the lack of red/blue on the arms by including segments of it on the torso while the new version only incorporates this on the legs briefly
• The new version has a more intact Avengers logo, like the finalized version
• The legs are an overall improvement as the transparent nature helps with his broken appearance, though notably these legs appear to lack the prominant red/blue, the transparency also does not really fit with only one leg as both legs are damaged

Would probably be best mixing and matching. The transparent head from the original with the body, legs and arms from the new version. For general accuracy purposes I'd suggest removing the left hand.

[AndrewCole14]

59 minutes ago, Scarilian said:

According to instagram, unsure how reliable, Avengers Tower is going to get a reveal on November 14th for a release on November 24th. 

Brick Clicker gave the same information in his last video. 

[cosmic]

18 hours ago, NXS7 said:

Jheez it's bad enough everyone expects every minifigure to have printing over every area, but now even the microfigures need arm printing?!? When does this madness end???

 

Only joking around, guessing you probably meant Valkyrie

My bad I forgot Wasp was not in that set! Well, as a figure that is I get she had a micro figure but yeah you’re right she was not a mini figure. I also don’t actually care about Valkyrie enough to demand leg print for her lol I think I just had Wasp in my mind because of the recent figure leak. Lol

[Mandalorianknight]

11 hours ago, PGBQW said:

Actually I don't even know what compelled me to say that, I'm pretty sure I knew I was wrong while typing but that didn't seem to stop me??

Moreover, I just checked and I HAVE minifigures with transparent pieces??? 

Yeah Kallus touched on this but the force ghost issue is that they don't do transparent torsos/hips/hands for stress reasons, so it'd be weird. A single limb generally looks fine.

11 hours ago, PGBQW said:

The start of my dementia arc, I'm afraid

The doctors told me I had dementia, but I don't remember asking

7 hours ago, Scarilian said:

The choice to do Kevin Feige as opposed to a character actually featured such as an updated Phil Coulson, Happy Hogan is also weird as he's a continuity break. I'm sure he has appeal, but he's also a controversial figure at the moment and the popularity of Avengers and AoU can be primarily attributed to Josh Whedon, not Kevin Feige.

I'm taking this out of context but it's hilarious to me to see "Kevin Feige is controversial, Joss Whedon deserves the credit" given... Joss Whedon.

7 hours ago, Scarilian said:

Would probably be best mixing and matching. The transparent head from the original with the body, legs and arms from the new version. For general accuracy purposes I'd suggest removing the left hand.

I agree.

What this figure really needed was printed arms. Not everyone does, but the color distributions just doesn't work without them.

[psqidexslizer]

2 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I'm taking this out of context but it's hilarious to me to see "Kevin Feige is controversial, Joss Whedon deserves the credit" given... Joss Whedon.

Besides, they’re obviously saving Joss Whedon for the 10th Anniversary Justice League set. :p

[Agent Kallus]

Considering we've already seen that we are getting a few not from the list I'm going to say I'm quite confident Loki with show up, I mean it makes too much sense. He's a pre-existing figure, and he features heavily in the tower in Avengers 1 and then shows up again in endgame in the tower which is seen yet again in his own show.

It'd be better to skip Ironman than Loki ( okay maybe not but it'd be so funny if they didn't include ironman or tony at all, I mean don't get me wrong I want them to include him, but I'd still be in hysterics if they skipped Tony Stark) 

Also for the second time of asking, I really want a Tony Stank parcel easter egg ( yes I know it's not at the tower, no I don't think that means we shouldn't or wouldn't get it)

6 minutes ago, psqidexslizer said:

Besides, they’re obviously saving Joss Whedon for the 10th Anniversary Justice League set. :p

Please can they accidentally base this set of the BtAS universe Justice league cartoon instead, pretty please. 

13 hours ago, PGBQW said:

This is unironically the funniest thing I've seen all week, I thank you for it.

Glad to be of service 

[GoldenNinja3000]

Got my Hoopty pre-order a day early! It's a good build with tons of interior space for its size. I really love the design of the ship overall. Minifigures are okay, but I think Kamala could've used a darker skin tone (medium brown) and I wish Carol and Monica had leg printing if not arm printing too. Comparing the Monica and Kamala figures to the originals, I think I prefer the previous versions because of the arm printing and skin tone, respectively. 

[LegendaryArticuno]

On 9/30/2023 at 6:22 AM, Scarilian said:

 

Cannot post the new version, but breaking it all down:

• The new head is more accurate to the finalized version, however the lack of transparency in my view makes it inferior to the old head based on concept art
• The old version was primarily based on concept art so the placement of the arc reactor was incorrect, the new version fixes this by moving it over to the right where it belongs and emphasising it as 'powered on'
• The old version makes up for the lack of red/blue on the arms by including segments of it on the torso while the new version only incorporates this on the legs briefly
• The new version has a more intact Avengers logo, like the finalized version
• The legs are an overall improvement as the transparent nature helps with his broken appearance, though notably these legs appear to lack the prominant red/blue, the transparency also does not really fit with only one leg as both legs are damaged

Would probably be best mixing and matching. The transparent head from the original with the body, legs and arms from the new version. For general accuracy purposes I'd suggest removing the left hand.

The old Ultron Mark 1 is better in almost every way except the new leg mould. The new head lacks distinctive smile/mouth features, not having a red shoulder/pauldron is a huge miss, also not sure why they decided not to have alternating arm colours... adds so much more detail and colour breakup without adding to its costs. Overall disappointed in the downgrade and it means we're likely not getting a normal Ultron which desperately needs a reprint.

[JeanGreyForever]

The usual place is reporting that the X-Jet will feature Wolverine, Storm, Magneto, and Cyclops. Storm seems slightly less confirmed than the rest though.

Very disappointing to see two minifigures outright recycled especially since they're likely going to pop up in the X-Mansion as well. For the price and lack of Sentinel, this better mean that Magneto has leg printing and maybe even dual molded arms. I'm not counting on Storm having her long hair or Wolverine appearing in his jacket to make then different.

[Chris10]

Given the rumoured price to parts ratio on the jet, this would be an easy miss if the same figures are all included in the x-mansion set

Edited October 1, 2023 by Chris10

[THELEGOBATMAN]

LMAO, called it. 

This is about to become one of the most disappointing Marvel sets ever. 

[squiz18]

Does make you wonder why they put wolverine and storm in the cmf when they show up in sets a few months later. Same with Monica rambeau last time around. Just a waste of a spot. 

Edited October 1, 2023 by squiz18

[BrickBob Studpants]

So the exact same roster as the 2014 set, as a lot of us were (semi-jokingly?) expecting  Meh. At least we‘re likely getting new versions of these characters

[Scarilian]

So the X-Men jet is an over-priced worser version of the set that we got before... what's the point of teasing the Sentinels if you don't bother including one in a remake of a set that previously had one xD

[Classic_Spaceman]

1 hour ago, JeanGreyForever said:

The usual place is reporting that the X-Jet will feature Wolverine, Storm, Magneto, and Cyclops. Storm seems slightly less confirmed than the rest though.

Very frustrating - They should have included Jean! I am fine with Cyclops and Magneto (provided that the latter has his red-purple suit), but the CMF repeats are disappointing. I hope that we at least get variants of Logan and Storm (leather jacket or yellow-brown Wolverine, black suit or long hair Storm). Fingers crossed for Gambit, Rogue, Jubilee, and Prof. X in the mansion! 
 

Where did we get confirmation that a Sentinel would not be included? It seems strange that the X-Jet of all things is the set without a mech! Maybe we could get a Sentinel mech set piloted by a Minifig Sentinel? That would actually be cool, and I would probably buy at least two of them. 
 

[psqidexslizer]

2 hours ago, JeanGreyForever said:

The usual place is reporting that the X-Jet will feature Wolverine, Storm, Magneto, and Cyclops. Storm seems slightly less confirmed than the rest though.

That’s disappointing. I’m not surprised at Cyclops, Magneto, and Wolverine, but I was hoping for either Jean or Rogue to fill that final slot.

Hopefully the build will be an improvement on the first iteration. And another variant of Cyclops sounds good, hope they do the design justice.

26 minutes ago, Classic_Spaceman said:

Fingers crossed for Gambit, Rogue, Jubilee, and Prof. X in the mansion! 

I have a feeling we aren’t going to see the full ‘97 X-Men lineup for a couple of years.

[PGBQW]

2 hours ago, JeanGreyForever said:

For the price and lack of Sentinel, this better mean that Magneto has leg printing and maybe even dual molded arms.

The set coming with a bag full of actual gold would be more likely

[JeanGreyForever]

1 hour ago, psqidexslizer said:

That’s disappointing. I’m not surprised at Cyclops, Magneto, and Wolverine, but I was hoping for either Jean or Rogue to fill that final slot.

Hopefully the build will be an improvement on the first iteration. And another variant of Cyclops sounds good, hope they do the design justice.

 

1 hour ago, Classic_Spaceman said:

Very frustrating - They should have included Jean! I am fine with Cyclops and Magneto (provided that the latter has his red-purple suit), but the CMF repeats are disappointing. I hope that we at least get variants of Logan and Storm (leather jacket or yellow-brown Wolverine, black suit or long hair Storm). Fingers crossed for Gambit, Rogue, Jubilee, and Prof. X in the mansion! 
 

Where did we get confirmation that a Sentinel would not be included? It seems strange that the X-Jet of all things is the set without a mech! Maybe we could get a Sentinel mech set piloted by a Minifig Sentinel? That would actually be cool, and I would probably buy at least two of them. 
 

I've only seen one report saying Storm is confirmed. The others are still saying the fourth minifigure is unknown so it could still be Jean or Rogue which would make me feel better about the set. But at this point, I'd be more surprised if it wasn't Storm. And as much as I'd like variants of Logan and Storm, I'm not holding my breath either. The only thing worse than repeats of the CMF figures would be barebones versions of the figures without leg and arm printing.

I haven't seen Xavier in any of the X-Men '97 merchandise so far which makes me wonder if Lego will include him or not in the X-Mansion set. There's some merchandise of Magneto now in his X-Men costume (the purple one with the big M on front) so I'm also thinking we could get a different version of Magneto in both the X-Jet and X-Mansion sets. Maybe his classic red/purple costume in the X-Jet set.

On Instagram, there's been no mention of any Sentinel included. And I think people predicted that based on the piece count, a Sentinel wouldn't be a feasible inclusion unless the X-Jet is absolutely tiny. That's an interesting idea though that the fourth minifigure is a Sentinel minifigure.

36 minutes ago, PGBQW said:

The set coming with a bag full of actual gold would be more likely

And I wrote that post taking it for granted that Cyclops would get leg printing for his boots and the bands around his legs but even that isn't set in stone. Here's hoping.

[psqidexslizer]

17 minutes ago, JeanGreyForever said:

I haven't seen Xavier in any of the X-Men '97 merchandise so far which makes me wonder if Lego will include him or not in the X-Mansion set.

I think Prof X will be included in the Mansion for two reasons.

1. It’s his house. Not including him would be like making The Batcave without Batman or Avenger’s Tower without Iron Man.

2. Lego can easily slap together a generic black suit and that 2012 Bruce Wayne head and call it Prof X. That increases the figure count with an exclusive figure and they don’t need to waste the budget on any new prints.

 

Edited October 1, 2023 by psqidexslizer

[Classic_Spaceman]

19 minutes ago, JeanGreyForever said:

I haven't seen Xavier in any of the X-Men '97 merchandise so far which makes me wonder if Lego will include him or not in the X-Mansion set. There's some merchandise of Magneto now in his X-Men costume (the purple one with the big M on front) so I'm also thinking we could get a different version of Magneto in both the X-Jet and X-Mansion sets. Maybe his classic red/purple costume in the X-Jet set.

I can see the classic costume in the X-Jet, with Xavier and ‘M’-suit Magneto in the mansion. 
 

2 minutes ago, psqidexslizer said:

2. Lego can easily slap together a generic black suit and that 2012 Bruce Wayne head and call it Prof X. That increases the figure count with an exclusive figure and they don’t need to waste the budget on any new prints.

Yep. 👍
 

I wonder if Magneto will reuse Gandalf’s head (it is actually not exclusive to him, having been released in 2018). 
 

[JeanGreyForever]

6 minutes ago, psqidexslizer said:

I think Prof X will be included in the Mansion for two reasons.

1. It’s his house. Not including him would be like making The Batcave without Batman or Avenger’s Tower without Iron Man.

2. Lego can easily slap together a generic black suit and that 2012 Bruce Wayne head and call it Prof X. That increases the figure count with an exclusive figure and they don’t need to waste the budget on any new prints.

 

That makes sense.

The only thing about the minifigure is that the black suit is what he wears in the movies. For the 90s show and comics, he wore a green suit, like how he was pictured in Multiverse of Madness. I remember some pages back there was a discussion on how the Illuminati from MoM deserved minifigs so giving us a 90s style Xavier could also fill in for that.

4 minutes ago, Classic_Spaceman said:

I can see the classic costume in the X-Jet, with Xavier and ‘M’-suit Magneto in the mansion. 
 

That's what I'm expecting or hoping for anyway. I hope the X-Mansion doesn't reuse the same Wolverine, Storm, and Beast from the CMF series and then the same Cyclops and Magneto from the X-Jet as well.

[Classic_Spaceman]

7 minutes ago, JeanGreyForever said:

I hope the X-Mansion doesn't reuse the same Wolverine, Storm, and Beast from the CMF series and then the same Cyclops and Magneto from the X-Jet as well.

I would be OK with a Storm repeat in the mansion, but no Wolverine (since we get him in the X-Jet), and Beast should have a lab coat. The modular Sanctum had 9 Minifigs (two reuses) and the Bugle had 15 super heroes/villains (only five of whom were new), so I expect roughly the same thing for the X-Mansion. 
I can see 9-10 Minifigs: Storm (CMF reuse), Beast (lab coat), Professor X (reused parts), Magneto (whichever suit does not appear in the jet), Jean (if not in the jet), Rogue, Gambit, Jubilee, Mystique, Sabretooth. Maybe swap the two villains for repeats of Wolverine and Cyclops if LEGO wants to be cheap. 
 

[psqidexslizer]

2 hours ago, JeanGreyForever said:

The only thing about the minifigure is that the black suit is what he wears in the movies. For the 90s show and comics, he wore a green suit, like how he was pictured in Multiverse of Madness.

That’s not quite true. Yes, he only wore the green suit in the 90’s show. In the comics, he’s worn black, white, gray, brown, and green suits. He doesn’t really have a definitive look outside of a suit coat and a wheelchair or hover chair (unless we count the Krakoa era).

2 hours ago, Classic_Spaceman said:

I would be OK with a Storm repeat in the mansion, but no Wolverine (since we get him in the X-Jet), and Beast should have a lab coat. The modular Sanctum had 9 Minifigs (two reuses) and the Bugle had 15 super heroes/villains (only five of whom were new), so I expect roughly the same thing for the X-Mansion. 
I can see 9-10 Minifigs: Storm (CMF reuse), Beast (lab coat), Professor X (reused parts), Magneto (whichever suit does not appear in the jet), Jean (if not in the jet), Rogue, Gambit, Jubilee, Mystique, Sabretooth. Maybe swap the two villains for repeats of Wolverine and Cyclops if LEGO wants to be cheap. 
 

I’m keeping my expectations low here and assuming we’re not gonna have a complete X-Men ‘97 lineup between the X-Jet and the Mansion. 

I’m also gonna go out on a limb here and say they’re not gonna try to market the biggest X-Men set ever without the most iconic X-Men character. I think it’s safe to assume Wolverine is in the mansion unless we have solid evidence to the country.

For the mansion, here’s how I’d rank the likelihood of each character appearing.

Definites

1. Wolverine

2. Prof X

3. Magneto

4. Beast

Probables

5. Cyclops

6. Jean Gray

7. Rogue

8. Storm

Maybes

9. Gambit

10. Jubilee

11. Mister Sinister

12. Nightcrawler

13. Mystique

And then everyone else just falls in the probably not category with more recognizable characters like Deadpool, Colossus, Kitty Pryde, Emma Frost obviously more likely than nobodies like Eye-Scream and X-Plode.

Edited October 2, 2023 by psqidexslizer

[JeanGreyForever]

1 hour ago, psqidexslizer said:

That’s not quite true. Yes, he only wore the green suit in the 90’s show. In the comics, he’s worn black, white, gray, brown, and green suits. He doesn’t really have a definitive look outside of a suit coat and a wheelchair or hover chair (unless we count the Krakoa era).

By 90s shows and comics I meant the 90s era of comics where he wore the green suit primarily. He also had his cargo combat outfit and the occasional special outfit like the Shi'ar exo-skeleton which he could walk in. The black suit is a modern invention for the 21st century. If you look at his looks from the 60s-90s, he never wore a black suit. He wore blue, green, brown, tan, etc. but not the modern black suit we associate with him today. It would look out of place in an X-Men '97 set especially since these sets are based off of the show, not the comics or the movies or any other form of media.

The black suit is also associated with the wheelchair and since he never rode in a regular wheelchair in the original show (and doubtfully will in this new one since he's not even in it), I'm only expecting the hoverchair look.

Your minifigure list is also missing all the new additions to the team who have already been popping up in merchandise like Bishop, Morph, Sunspot, and Cable. Nightcrawler hasn't shown up yet in merchandise but he's been confirmed and we've seen art of him. Archangel is rumored to join the team as well. We also know the Goblin Queen will have a major role and there's merchandise for her too.

Edited October 2, 2023 by JeanGreyForever

[kevkipo]

6 hours ago, psqidexslizer said:

Definites

1. Wolverine

2. Prof X

3. Magneto

4. Beast

Probables

5. Cyclops

6. Jean Gray

7. Rogue

8. Storm

Maybes

9. Gambit

10. Jubilee

11. Mister Sinister

12. Nightcrawler

13. Mystique

And then everyone else just falls in the probably not category with more recognizable characters like Deadpool, Colossus, Kitty Pryde, Emma Frost obviously more likely than nobodies like Eye-Scream and X-Plode.

Isn't Jubilee one of the main characters though? Didn't the old show revolve around her?