LEGO Superheroes 2012 Rumours & Discussion

[surrideo]

I'd be surprised if there were no movie related sets. If for no other market than the specialist comic store markets who carry a lot more lego than they used too.

[achris]

Any pics or press releases? I know there's a press release out about Mattel doing toys for TDKR and the new Superman movie, but I couldn't find anything similar for Lego.

Here you go:Lego Batman The Dark Knight Returns the image shows the Lego,Mattel and RUBIES logo for you. Also a bit on MEGA Bloks The amazing Spiderman range!

I don't know why people are saying that it's not happening, it's 100% offical, infact next month offical Lego orders are being taken for the range, I think are rep is coming on the 12th.

Edited November 7, 2011 by achris

[surrideo]

Just had to look up what Rubies was. Thanks for the link

[1980-Something-Space-Guy]

Here you go:Lego Batman The Dark Knight Returns the image shows the Lego,Mattel and RUBIES logo for you. Also a bit on MEGA Bloks The amazing Spiderman range!

I'm glad about Mega Bloks getting the Amazing Spider-Man license instead of Lego. I would hate to get a Spider-Man minifig with that hideous costume instead of the classic comic book one.

One question, and I don't know if this has been answered before. Are these licenses exclusive? Can Mega Bloks also have a Marvel or DC license? (The one for the Spider-Man film is from Columbia).

[SoupOrFishOil]

Here you go:Lego Batman The Dark Knight Returns the image shows the Lego,Mattel and RUBIES logo for you. Also a bit on MEGA Bloks The amazing Spiderman range!

I don't know why people are saying that it's not happening, it's 100% offical, infact next month offical Lego orders are being taken for the range, I think are rep is coming on the 12th.

Ooh, I was right about MB going after the rights to the new Spider-man movie.

Glad that there will be TDKR sets out in the Summer, even though it's supposedly too dark for LEGO's tastes. Even if it is darker than any movie that they've licensed to before, it's still only a PG-13 movie (rated so for violence and some mild language, not sexual content), I'd think it would be a surprise if they go higher than that.

Edited November 7, 2011 by Superficial Username

[lightningtiger]

What a way to out 'Spiderman' eh ?

Actaully, I can't believe it though......Spiderman is Marvel and yet it's MB now ? (perhaps the deal was signed years and years ago...you know long term....similar to Lego Star Wars).

So we now know the three movie themes we are getting.....note The Hobbit gets a slight hint drop (sorry, off topic there).

Ah, 2012 I'll be broke by the end of the year !

[SoupOrFishOil]

What a way to out 'Spiderman' eh ?

Actaully, I can't believe it though......Spiderman is Marvel and yet it's MB now ? (perhaps the deal was signed years and years ago...you know long term....similar to Lego Star Wars).

So we now know the three movie themes we are getting.....note The Hobbit gets a slight hint drop (sorry, off topic there).

Ah, 2012 I'll be broke by the end of the year !

LEGO has the rights to the comic books, not the movies as they are not created by Disney or a company they own.

And again, LEGO is not mentioned as to making a theme based on The Hobbit

[lightningtiger]

LEGO has the rights to the comic books, not the movies as they are not created by Disney or a company they own.

And again, LEGO is not mentioned as to making a theme based on The Hobbit

True, on the Disney aspect.....Lego have the rights for the comic book ones.....but it's silly to have a construction theme for a super hero by two different brands....though we know which brand would do better.

Now, for The Hobbit....it pays to check the LORT 2012 topic about that !

[Nightshroud99]

Hmm no Spider-man LEGO sets eh? I'm kind of disappointed, although what we get instead is better.

However I want pictures!! I didn't know LEGO was this good at keeping secrets like this!

[deskp]

Just as a reminder to everybody, there was one set from 'The Dark Knight' in the first run of batman sets.

[willybob]

LEGO has the rights to the comic books, not the movies as they are not created by Disney or a company they own.

And again, LEGO is not mentioned as to making a theme based on The Hobbit

From the LEGO press statement about Disney/Marvel License :

»…three Marvel franchises – Marvel’s The Avengers movie, and X-Men and Spider-Man classic characters... »

So as you say, no Spiderman movie license

only for Avengers

Edited November 7, 2011 by willybob

[deskp]

I don't know why people are saying that it's not happening, it's 100% offical, infact next month offical Lego orders are being taken for the range, I think are rep is coming on the 12th.

Does the rep come on the 12th this month or next? (I dunno if the rep comes to advertise it a month ahead so the stores make up their mind, or if they come to take the orders)

Also are these the instances pictures usualy leak from?

[Clone OPatra]

There weren't really TDK sets. I'm assuming you mean The Tumbler, but since it came with the cartoon-style Joker and an Ice Cream truck it wasn't really a TDK tie-in. The Batpod set could also be argued as a semi-tie-in, but like the Tumbler the set as a whole was not.

I still do not think that there is necessarily confirmation for full TDKR sets. Like some people have suggested, there may just be Batman comic sets released at the same time, and not sets based directly on the movie. I would be surprised if we get second versions of Bane and Catwoman for the movie, but you never know. It does happen in Star Wars with Clone Wars and non Clone Wars.

[achris]

I still do not think that there is necessarily confirmation for full TDKR sets. Like some people have suggested, there may just be Batman comic sets released at the same time, and not sets based directly on the movie.

What do you mean! It's already 110% confirmed by Lego! Why are so many people having problems with this? I do find this all very funny!

Edited November 8, 2011 by achris

[Clone OPatra]

What do you mean! It's already 110% confirmed by Lego! Why are so many people having problems with this? I do find this all very funny!

I don't have a problem with it being true, but where is the confirmation? Besides for there being a LEGO logo on a poster, there has been no announcement of it that I have seen.

[Blondie-Wan]

There weren't really TDK sets. I'm assuming you mean The Tumbler, but since it came with the cartoon-style Joker and an Ice Cream truck it wasn't really a TDK tie-in. The Batpod set could also be argued as a semi-tie-in, but like the Tumbler the set as a whole was not.

It doesn't have to have absolute, 100% slavish fidelity to the movie to be a tie-in. Any big summer tentpole movie is accompanied by scads of merchandise these days, some of which may have only fairly tenuous connections to the narrative specifics of the movie, but that doesn't mean it's not a tie-in.

TLG's approach to Batman (and now, we may assume, the DC Universe in general) was/is a holistic one, encompassing aspects of the overall Batman mythos drawn from a variety of media and incarnations, not limited to but certainly including the then- and now-current movie series (as well as previous movies, animated television, the original comics, etc.). Note that beyond specific aspects of sets such as the Tumbler in the last Joker set (and the armored Batsuit on Batman in every set of that wave, designed principally after the Nolan & Bale Batman even if it deviated from it), that entire final wave also used box art / logos clearly drawn from that of The Dark Knight.

It doesn't have to be solely a tie-in with a movie for it to be a tie-in at all.

[ScaryScarecrow]

On an unrelated note:

If they made it to the way it is in my dreams, it would be:

The blimp Scarecrow used in Batman: The Animated Series (I wanna have another zeppelin)

A Wayne Manor, with Hush and Alfred as exclusive minifigs.

A new Arkham Asylum , possibly with the villains in a Arkham City style (How cool would it be to have Hugo Strange, Mad Hatter, and THAT Scarecrow?). Possibly could be released around the time of the next Arkham game, as the adults are the only ones who buy giant sets like this anyway.

An absurdly spacious sewer with Killer Croc

A Sinestro Corps line

[Lyichir]

A new Arkham Asylum , possibly with the villains in a Arkham City style (How cool would it be to have Hugo Strange, Mad Hatter, and THAT Scarecrow?). Possibly could be released around the time of the next Arkham game, as the adults are the only ones who buy giant sets like this anyway.

I was still a TFOL when I got the first Arkham Asylum set, and in fact the ONLY Batman sets I got were the two biggest (Arkham and the Batcave). And I doubt there'll be sets modeled specifically after the Arkham games or TDKR. That doesn't rule out sets which evoke aspects of these: I would not be surprised to see a TDKR-style Batwing, or an asylum that'd include significant characters like Hugo Strange. But I doubt we'll see movie-styled Catwoman or any Arkham-style characters. I expect half-measures, like the Tumbler or Batpod sets that blended aspects of recent media with timeless aspects of the Bat-mythos.

[deskp]

There weren't really TDK sets. I'm assuming you mean The Tumbler, but since it came with the cartoon-style Joker and an Ice Cream truck it wasn't really a TDK tie-in. The Batpod set could also be argued as a semi-tie-in, but like the Tumbler the set as a whole was not.

I still do not think that there is necessarily confirmation for full TDKR sets. Like some people have suggested, there may just be Batman comic sets released at the same time, and not sets based directly on the movie. I would be surprised if we get second versions of Bane and Catwoman for the movie, but you never know. It does happen in Star Wars with Clone Wars and non Clone Wars.

It might be that the TDKR licence will be used in a similar way to the way the handled TDK.

It would still be a licenced set of the movie, even if its not based of it super directly.

[willybob]

It might be that the TDKR licence will be used in a similar way to the way the handled TDK.

It would still be a licenced set of the movie, even if its not based of it super directly.

Which I think is more probably right. We might see some Tumbler set or some catwoman bike though.

LEGO did not confirm officially anything about TDKR yet, this is for sure.

No press release even mentions the movie.

Nobody saw anything about news TDKR sets.

Until I meet the rep with clear prelims or pics of TDKR sets, I will not believe anything about this.....

[phanstasm]

Here you go:Lego Batman The Dark Knight Returns the image shows the Lego,Mattel and RUBIES logo for you. Also a bit on MEGA Bloks The amazing Spiderman range!

I don't know why people are saying that it's not happening, it's 100% offical, infact next month offical Lego orders are being taken for the range, I think are rep is coming on the 12th.

Thanks for the quick response, Achris. And a double scoop to boot (MB Spidey movie sets)!

I was sure Lego would give us a new Tumbler in time for the movie, but it's great to see we'll probably get even more Bat-film goodness.

At first, I was disappointed to see MB had the Spidey movie rights, but it really doesn't bother me too much. With the great Lizard Man minifigure, plus Lego Spidey comic sets, anything MB and dish out we can probably improve upon with Lego.

If they made it to the way it is in my dreams, it would be:

The blimp Scarecrow used in Batman: The Animated Series (I wanna have another zeppelin)

A Wayne Manor, with Hush and Alfred as exclusive minifigs.

A new Arkham Asylum , possibly with the villains in a Arkham City style (How cool would it be to have Hugo Strange, Mad Hatter, and THAT Scarecrow?)

An absurdly spacious sewer with Killer Croc

I'll take one of everything, please - just don't forget the ship from the new GL cartoon (with Hal, Kilowog, and Atrocitus minifigures).

Edited November 8, 2011 by phanstasm

[Vindice]

Now, for The Hobbit....it pays to check the LORT 2012 topic about that !

Sorry Lightning but that article doesn't mention the Hobbit in connection with LEGO. It only says it's one of their most anticipated films of the year.

Can't wait to get my hands on some TDKR sets. i would love to see some sets representing Arkham City too, not sure I can see Harley Quinn being appreciated by toy buying parent though..............

[SoupOrFishOil]

It might be that the TDKR licence will be used in a similar way to the way the handled TDK.

It would still be a licenced set of the movie, even if its not based of it super directly.

Which I think is more probably right. We might see some Tumbler set or some catwoman bike though.

LEGO did not confirm officially anything about TDKR yet, this is for sure.

No press release even mentions the movie.

Nobody saw anything about news TDKR sets.

Until I meet the rep with clear prelims or pics of TDKR sets, I will not believe anything about this.....

I also think that's the way they'd go, I mean even though I wouldn't expect a full wave (only three sets or so) I'd actually prefer that while the Batman part of the set would be based on TDKR (minifigure and vehicle), the villain wouldn't, that way we could get remakes of some villains (and other characters) who are currently not confirmed to appear (such as Scarecrow, Penguin, Nightwing, etc.).

[lightningtiger]

Sorry Lightning but that article doesn't mention the Hobbit in connection with LEGO. It only says it's one of their most anticipated films of the year.

It also depends on who one can talk to.

I wonder if that source knows about the comic book Spiderman sets....I'll ask at the end of the week.

[Vindice]

It also depends on who one can talk to.

I wonder if that source knows about the comic book Spiderman sets....I'll ask at the end of the week.

very true mate! Be great to see it happen although my wallet won't thank me and my wife may leave me!