Marvel Superheroes 2024 - Rumors & Discussion

[Agent Kallus]

45 minutes ago, mrcngrck said:

I noticed technic pin holes on the sides of the building form Spiderverse set for expansions that we will never get. Why do they do that :D

Never say never. 

29 minutes ago, mrcngrck said:

Talking about location sets and original IPs I would love to see something like the grocery store from spider-verse but with proper treatment like buildings in the monkey kid (sets 80011 & 80012). For me NY is like a character in Marvel and I'd love to get small but substantial buildings alongside heroes. 

That would be cool if they include little combinable building sections with other sets like early MK sets or like the TLBM powerplant.

47 minutes ago, mrcngrck said:

It's cool that another themes received proper treatment. The worst thing about marvel is that it cost the heck of money but we have been getting nothing but cutting corners. 

I suppose to TLDR my whole point from my last couple of posts (taking exclusively about minifig system sets here): Ninjago and it's ilk can focus on being good toys first leading to better sets, Star wars can focus on being Lego replicas first leading to better sets. Superheroes can is stuck in a medium place leading to more mediocre sets.

This is why TLBM is best the superheroes them has ever been, those sets were ostensively TLG's own version so they could focus on being good sets first rather than being Batman sets first but because it was the Lego BATMAN movie they also were able to make them perfect batman sets.

I suppose one thing is the superheroes is more about the larger the life characters even morso than other themes so In many consumers minds the builds are more of an after thought than they would be in themes like Ninjago and Star wars.

This isn't to say Ninjago and Star wars don't have thier own problems. As a jack of many trades Afol I follow all 3 themes and they very much do have their own problems: Ninjago has stopped doing as many sets for villains despite them being the main thing that changes each season! And Star Wars loves to fish ideas from a small pond when they have an ocean of content and star wars prices are straight up painful.

3 hours ago, Swordy said:

True, but if I wanted toy cars themed around superheroes (or just neat-looking cars in general), I would go to Hot Wheels. If I wanted action figures, which I equate to mechs, I would go to Hasbro. I go to LEGO for the builds and minifigures; when neither are as interesting or outstanding, respectively, as they could be, I question the set’s value.

Where will Iron Man put his car once he’s done chasing down the heroic Red Hulk? Where do the mechs go when the heroes are finished in them? A simple question becomes an exciting playset. (Sounds like something you’d see when you translate the German Stone Wars to English, lol.) I’m exaggerating, yes, but fans of the brick like it when things connect. It’s the fact that all of these car sets in the past few years are released with no relation to one another that creates the feeling of repetition.

If this was LEGO City, there would be some sort of headquarters (playset Avengers Mansion, perhaps?) or separate vehicle to interact or coincide with these cars as well. The interaction between otherwise completely random elements is what LEGO is founded upon; the lack thereof shows that next to no fore- or afterthought is being given. 

See that's one thing about having sets based off various different things movies and such: it means you don't get as many sets designed to work together and interact. Like that or like @mrcngrck was saying about the Spider-verse bodega.

3 hours ago, Swordy said:

 

Again, I find what you say to be true. LEGO sets aren’t made for me directly, and so I try and respect that fact. More effort, more thought, more creativity, could be made, whether provided by executives overseeing finances or perhaps given by the design team themselves (I hate to insinuate blame onto them, though, because they seem entirely enthusiastic about LEGO superheroes).

Yes! Again, I'm not trying to pin this soley on the designers, they are limited in what they can do and what sets they're told to make, the direction they're given (and some truly superb sets have come by in recent years, like the bugle or even the new Asgard house). And I do know I'm not telling sole audience but I do think it could be so much better for everyone!

[poisonbricks]

I do like the idea of smaller NYC locations in that sorta Creator building format - a lot of buildings that I see people want (Nelson and Murdock, Peter's apartment) I don't really think would work as a modular unless you crammed a BUNCH of them together, but this way they might really work

[psqidexslizer]

3 hours ago, poisonbricks said:

I do like the idea of smaller NYC locations in that sorta Creator building format - a lot of buildings that I see people want (Nelson and Murdock, Peter's apartment) I don't really think would work as a modular unless you crammed a BUNCH of them together, but this way they might really work

I’d be down, but I don’t know that the market would support that. For most people who buy superhero sets, it’d just be a bunch of random buildings. For most people who collect modular buildings, it’d be an undersigned, overpriced modular. Maybe if the figure selection was top-notch it would work.

Also, I really don’t know what you’d include beyond Murdock and Nelson and Spiderman’s apartment. Maybe Wanda’s Emporium (not technically in NYC, but Peter Parker also doesn’t live right outside of Nelson and Murdock).

Edited December 6, 2024 by psqidexslizer

[poisonbricks]

3 hours ago, psqidexslizer said:

I’d be down, but I don’t know that the market would support that. For most people who buy superhero sets, it’d just be a bunch of random buildings. For most people who collect modular buildings, it’d be an undersigned, overpriced modular. Maybe if the figure selection was top-notch it would work.

Also, I really don’t know what you’d include beyond Murdock and Nelson and Spiderman’s apartment. Maybe Wanda’s Emporium (not technically in NYC, but Peter Parker also doesn’t live right outside of Nelson and Murdock).

I think that they could feasibly do apartments for Miles, Peter and Gwen kinda like how they do the Friends bedroom sets? Simple brick exteriors with fire escapes and you can stack them up as an apartment building, something like that.

[psqidexslizer]

Just now, poisonbricks said:

I think that they could feasibly do apartments for Miles, Peter and Gwen kinda like how they do the Friends bedroom sets? Simple brick exteriors with fire escapes and you can stack them up as an apartment building, something like that.

IMO, apartments for three different superheroes would be repetitive, much less apartments for three Spider-people.

I think I’ve got an idea for something like an Marvel Assembly Square

lower left: Wanda’s Emporium

mid left: Nelson and Murdock

top left: Henry Pym’s lab

lower right: Shwarma place

middle right: Boxing gym

top right: Peter Parker’s apartment

figures: Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, Vision, Agatha Harkness, Darcy, Daredevil, Karen Page, Matt Murdock, Foggy Nelson, Elektra, Bullseye, Antman, Wasp, Ultron, Captain America, Iron Man, Black Widow, Hawkeye, Thor, Bruce Banner, Spider-Man, Peter Parker, Mary Jane, Green Goblin, Kingpin

[upliftingbricks]

1 hour ago, psqidexslizer said:

lower left: Wanda’s Emporium

mid left: Nelson and Murdock

top left: Henry Pym’s lab

lower right: Shwarma place

middle right: Boxing gym

top right: Peter Parker’s apartment

Other potential locations could be Josies bar or The Bar with No Name, Alias Investigations and Pizza place (Joes Pizza).

Your boxing gym could be Fogwells

[Mandalorianknight]

16 hours ago, Swordy said:

(I am? Blimey, I guess I am.)

The Mara Jade minifigures had to be stolen and taken to the Blacktron vault; she’s too dangerous to have in mass production. There is only one Mara Jade.

(Seriously, though, I do fancy myself a serious writer, albeit a hobbyist at that. Words matter to me, and yours I highly appreciate; thank you.)

You should go, I don’t know, steal all those Bucky minifigs and hold them ransom until TLG gives him arm printing.

I think the konshu thing might actually have started before you joined the forum, in the dc thread (of course). IIRC there was some joke made that the lack of an official Mara is because I've been stealing all the Maras from the factory, and I did a whole moon knight bit off it (given the username and all) where I pretending I was blacking out and waking up in denmark or something.

Thanks- I like to write as well, but rarely have the energy to put the effort into my posts here that you do.

They'd call my bluff and just release the set without bucky.

21 hours ago, Agent Kallus said:

Eh, @Lyichir had a point.

The thing is we get themes like star wars here the sets are usually pretty decent (though often pricy or weirdly scaled or both) replicas of things from the universe. We then get themes like Ninjago, Dreamzzz and Monies Kid where Lego cam take more imaginative design first approach.

I don't think anyone was arguing with the "licensed themes have licenses taking out a chunk of the budget" point but moreso that Lyichir came in extremely aggressively and just started insulting the thread out of nowhere.

3 hours ago, psqidexslizer said:

IMO, apartments for three different superheroes would be repetitive, much less apartments for three Spider-people.

I made kind of a daredevil version of your Assembly Square style idea a few years back- it was Fogwell's on the bottom, Nelson and Murdock in the middle, and Matt's apartment up top. Looked like this:

Spoiler

I kind of want to revisit it- I've gotten better in the past few years, and the exterior walls, while accurate to Hell's Kitchen, are pretty plain- there are ways to make the building still be realistically NY without being a grimy tan block.

[Legocentrico]

Summer lists are spreading. I wonder if the leaker already has the marvel list and is just making us wait to increase the hype

[CloneCommando99]

7 minutes ago, Legocentrico said:

Summer lists are spreading. I wonder if the leaker already has the marvel list and is just making us wait to increase the hype

Venomised Quinjet.

[mrcngrck]

41 minutes ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Venomised Quinjet.

venomised hulkbuster

[Swordy]

1 minute ago, mrcngrck said:

venomised hulkbuster

Anti-Venomized Groot

[upliftingbricks]

1 hour ago, Legocentrico said:

Summer lists are spreading. I wonder if the leaker already has the marvel list and is just making us wait to increase the hype

You not disappointed enough by the Winter wave that you already want to be disappointed by Summer wave 

[Scarilian]

Hope we get some neat legacy sets, that's pretty much my main interest in the line.

 

[Mandalorianknight]

2 hours ago, Swordy said:

Anti-Venomized Groot

Lego needs to make a full on power rangers style collection of different symbiote groots. I'm talking Carnage Groot, Toxin Groot (both normal colors and blue snake thing from Last Dance), Christmas Groot, Venom (comic accurate blue) groot, etc.

2 hours ago, mrcngrck said:

venomised hulkbuster

Hulked-out Venombuster.

1 hour ago, Scarilian said:

Hope we get some neat legacy sets, that's pretty much my main interest in the line.

See I'd say it's the same thing, but the only Marvel sets I've bought since endgame were the NWH final battle ones, the Bugle, and some Iron Man Mechs, so maybe I just like SEEING the legacy sets. Oh, and the venomized spider ham set from VIP points awhile back.

 

You know, if we have to keep having mechs and cars and stuff, here are a few I wouldn't mind:

Wolvmobile ($29.99): Wolverine car with Wolverine, Sabertooth, and hypothetically Deadpool but since we can't have him, Cyclops.

X-Jet: Versus Sauron ($49.99): Buildable Sauron and a small, one-seater X-jet with Gambit, Storm, and Rogue.

"Venom Mech" ($69.99): Just a giant venom. Comes with some venomized heroes (let's say Cap and Wolverine), Venom, and Anti-Venom suit Spider-Man. And I'm talking fully venomized heroes, not this partially-venomizing stuff. Cap and Wolvie can have alt faces with partial venomization or something but the torsos and helmets should be fully venomized and the legs should be black.

Spider-Mech ($129.99): Titan Mech sized Leopardan with Suipadaman, Miles Morales, Spider-Man (symbiote suit), Julia Carpenter Spider-Woman, Jessica Drew Spider-Woman, Kaine, Scarlet Spider, and Morlun.

Hydrabuster ($39.99): Captain America colored Hulkbuster with Red Skull, a Hydra Soldier, Iron Patriot, and the Civil Warrior.

Miles Morales accidentally saves himself and his family from being erased from existence by giving a guy a three week old hamburger diorama ($59.99): Miles Morales, Peter Parker, Owen Reese, and about 5-600 white bricks and tiles, as well as a base with the marvel logo and a 2x6 tile with the quote: "How could you forget you have a hamburger?" "We've been busy." "It's a hamburger"

 

Edited December 7, 2024 by Mandalorianknight

[CloneCommando99]

With the massive popularity of Marvel Rivals, do ya’ll think Lego could potentially capitalise on it and make a Battlepack type set with in game designs?

Spiderman, Doctor Strange, Iron Man, Magick, Punisher, Starlord, Jeff the Land Shark and Magneto all have really cool in game designs that Lego could capitalise on.

[Legocentrico]

5 ore fa, upliftingbricks ha detto:

Non sei abbastanza deluso dall'onda d'inverno da voler già essere deluso dall'onda estiva

I'm actually very happy with the winter wave

[THELEGOBATMAN]

1 hour ago, CloneCommando99 said:

With the massive popularity of Marvel Rivals, do ya’ll think Lego could potentially capitalise on it and make a Battlepack type set with in game designs?

No.

LEGO barely captilaises on video games based on existing themes, and they surely will not start with an MMO.

[HadesKing28]

2 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

With the massive popularity of Marvel Rivals, do ya’ll think Lego could potentially capitalise on it and make a Battlepack type set with in game designs?

Spiderman, Doctor Strange, Iron Man, Magick, Punisher, Starlord, Jeff the Land Shark and Magneto all have really cool in game designs that Lego could capitalise on.

I was coming here to say the same thing! While I completely agree with @THELEGOBATMAN, the game seems to be trying to heavily cross-promote, having collaborated with Marvel Snap and Fortnite already so I don’t see it completely off the cards. All the characters have such vibrant and unique designs, the ones you mentioned as well as characters we have never seen in physical Lego form like cloak and dagger, squirrel girl and peni parker. The maps are also very unique and I could see for some making great sets with play features reflecting their interactivity.

[poisonbricks]

I feel like if there was a Rivals collab set, or line of sets, we'd have probably known about it already.

I also doubt that LEGO would prioritise another game tie in after the sales of Marvel's Avengers - obviously I don't have numbers on this, but it doesn't seem to me that people were particularly scrambling to get the game designs of the figures in those sets.

If Rivals continues to be consistently anywhere near its launch popularity, I can maybe see LEGO going for a collab, but it's an unproven IP that there doesn't seem to be much point bothering with from a corporate perspective.

Hell, the Insomniac games haven't even received tie-in sets despite their very proven popularity. 

[calebcold3]

LEGO Miles Morales Mask (76329) is coming next year according to a.clay.brick

I remember having this on my wishlist for upcoming sets, so I'm glad to see it coming. I really like most of the LEGO Marvel Masks, Helmets, Heads, Hands, etc that we've gotten so far. 

[Mandalorianknight]

On 12/6/2024 at 6:10 AM, Agent Kallus said:

Never say never. 

You said it twice though

7 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

With the massive popularity of Marvel Rivals, do ya’ll think Lego could potentially capitalise on it and make a Battlepack type set with in game designs?

Spiderman, Doctor Strange, Iron Man, Magick, Punisher, Starlord, Jeff the Land Shark and Magneto all have really cool in game designs that Lego could capitalise on.

I doubt it, unless it does REALLY well, unfortunately. I could see some game designs showing up in otherwise non game-based sets, though.

As a side note, have you played it, is it fun, and is Daredevil playable? EDIT: THEY HAVE MOON KNIGHT. I WILL BE PLAYING AS SOON AS I REMEMBER WHERE I PUT MY XBOX

5 hours ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

No.

LEGO barely captilaises on video games based on existing themes, and they surely will not start with an MMO.

It's not an MMO,  it's a hero shooter like Overwatch. Doesn't necessarily change a ton, but I don't think it'd be impossible for a few game designs to slot into sets. They did give us multiple waves of 2020 avengers game designs after all, and unlike that game, this one features Spidey and Venom from launch, and more importantly, doesn't seem to be actively terrible.

3 hours ago, calebcold3 said:

LEGO Miles Morales Mask (76329) is coming next year according to a.clay.brick

I remember having this on my wishlist for upcoming sets, so I'm glad to see it coming. I really like most of the LEGO Marvel Masks, Helmets, Heads, Hands, etc that we've gotten so far. 

I'm glad somebody is getting enjoyment out of those. (Not trying to be snarky- I legitimately am happy that somebody likes them)

Edited December 8, 2024 by Mandalorianknight

[THELEGOBATMAN]

2 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

It's not an MMO,  it's a hero shooter like Overwatch. Doesn't necessarily change a ton, but I don't think it'd be impossible for a few game designs to slot into sets. They did give us multiple waves of 2020 avengers game designs after all, and unlike that game, this one features Spidey and Venom from launch, and more importantly, doesn't seem to be actively terrible.

Yeah, wrong term. I meant a multiplayer game in general. I don't think there's any chance of LEGO capitalising on it.

Because honestly, why would they? There's nothing to gain here.

[Lego Nostalgia]

2 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

You said it twice though

I doubt it, unless it does REALLY well, unfortunately. I could see some game designs showing up in otherwise non game-based sets, though.

As a side note, have you played it, is it fun, and is Daredevil playable? EDIT: THEY HAVE MOON KNIGHT. I WILL BE PLAYING AS SOON AS I REMEMBER WHERE I PUT MY XBOX

It's not an MMO,  it's a hero shooter like Overwatch. Doesn't necessarily change a ton, but I don't think it'd be impossible for a few game designs to slot into sets. They did give us multiple waves of 2020 avengers game designs after all, and unlike that game, this one features Spidey and Venom from launch, and more importantly, doesn't seem to be actively terrible.

I'm glad somebody is getting enjoyment out of those. (Not trying to be snarky- I legitimately am happy that somebody likes them)

Only ones I like is the, Infinity Gauntlet,Nano Gauntlet and Venom head, that Iron Man helmet we had looked terrible, I hope the new MK 6 one looks better

I guess some character's helmets/heads look better than others

[HadesKing28]

51 minutes ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

Yeah, wrong term. I meant a multiplayer game in general. I don't think there's any chance of LEGO capitalising on it.

Because honestly, why would they? There's nothing to gain here.

I mean, this is basically a marvel version of Overwatch, a game which Lego produced sets for years based on, but this game instead has recognisable marvel characters and locations with vibrant new looks

 

Edited December 8, 2024 by HadesKing28

[THELEGOBATMAN]

1 hour ago, HadesKing28 said:

I mean, this is basically a marvel version of Overwatch, a game which Lego produced sets for years based on, but this game instead has recognisable marvel characters and locations with vibrant new looks

But Overwatch is Overwatch, a property of its own. That's not even remotely the same situation. 

This is just a video game based on Marvel, which is already a theme with tens of sets per year. I don't see why LEGO would make sets for it—it's not a series with new ideas and versions of characters, like Star Wars Jedi or Marvel's Spider-Man.

It's just a shooter with Marvel characters who are already in the sets. What would LEGO gain by choosing specifically those variants? Because it's not like they will make a new subtheme with sets based on this game.