Super Heroes 2014 Rumors & Discussion

[just2good]

Agreed.It seems like there are a lot of super heroe fans overall on this thread who are not real AFOLs.In other words,collecters.

Wait, so people who collect LEGO aren't really AFOLs? Really?

Eh, on the issue though, I'm not too excited to hear that we may get a UCS Tumbler. I'd rather have a Marvel D2C. But, I'm aware that such a product would probably sell really well even with non-LEGO fans- from my understanding, that's how the UCS Batmobile went. LEGO selling well is always a good thing!

[legomtron]

Wait, so people who collect LEGO aren't really AFOLs? Really?

Eh, on the issue though, I'm not too excited to hear that we may get a UCS Tumbler. I'd rather have a Marvel D2C. But, I'm aware that such a product would probably sell really well even with non-LEGO fans- from my understanding, that's how the UCS Batmobile went. LEGO selling well is always a good thing!

No i'm not saying that ,but to prove my point i'll just say that most of them don't build that much .

[Suspsy]

Wow, this thread became quite heated.

I think Lego is wise to keep its Marvel line within reason. It does not follow that what appeals to AFOLs and AFOMs appeals to children as well. A lot of the Marvel sets listed awhile frankly wouldn't much appeal to me for that matter, and I visit my local comic book store every week without fail.

I'm fine with more Spider-Man and Avenger themed sets as long as we continue to get new characters tossed into the mix. I'm sure we'll see some really exciting stuff in 2015 due to the Avengers sequel. Almost certainly the first Ultron, Scarlet Witch, and Quicksilver minifigures. And as always, I continue to hope for a macrofigure of Abomination, Juggernaut, or Rhino in order to finally have a proper opponent for the Hulk.

[Drock]

Wait, so people who collect LEGO aren't really AFOLs? Really?

Eh, on the issue though, I'm not too excited to hear that we may get a UCS Tumbler. I'd rather have a Marvel D2C. But, I'm aware that such a product would probably sell really well even with non-LEGO fans- from my understanding, that's how the UCS Batmobile went. LEGO selling well is always a good thing!

I don't think the UCS Batmobile sold that well. IIRC, it was heavily discounted at LEGO.com (50% or more maybe), and it could be found on clearance for aound $20-30 at other retailers. It also hasn't gone up in value the way that the other Batman sets from 06-08 have. Maybe LEGO is trying the Nolanverse Batmobile now since that seems to be the quintessential Batman universe among the younger crowd.

[CorneliusMurdock]

No i'm not saying that ,but to prove my point i'll just say that most of them don't build that much .

Let's stop making broad generalizations that may offend others as well.

[legomtron]

OK your right.

[Faefrost]

I'm fine with more Spider-Man and Avenger themed sets as long as we continue to get new characters tossed into the mix. I'm sure we'll see some really exciting stuff in 2015 due to the Avengers sequel. Almost certainly the first Ultron, Scarlet Witch, and Quicksilver minifigures. And as always, I continue to hope for a macrofigure of Abomination, Juggernaut, or Rhino in order to finally have a proper opponent for the Hulk.

we already have a screen perfect Abomination... they just call him the Green Goblin for some bizarre reason.

[Suspsy]

we already have a screen perfect Abomination... they just call him the Green Goblin for some bizarre reason.

The upcoming Green Goblin doesn't work as the Abomination at all as far as I'm concerned. For that matter, he doesn't work as the Green Goblin either.

[Moon_Knight]

I'm sure we all can agree that getting an Asteroid M, or an X-mansion, or a Hall of Justice D2C set would be amazing. Lots of us (including me) would be willing to throw down a significant amount of dough right now for a legit X-Mansion like the one on Cuusoo. I'm afraid It's just not going to happen right now though.

Batman is the appeal right now and we're going to have to live with that until Flash or Wonder Woman or even the X-Men take the lead. Wolverine and the X-Men had one season and lost appeal. I loved it but my nephews didn't. They preferred reruns of The Batman and fell in love with the Brave and the Bold when it came out.

I know the new Bat chopper is just plain ridiculous but let's just be happy that we're getting a new 52 Nightwing and the Flash.

Edited February 10, 2014 by Moon_Knight

[eldiano]

If the penguin and steamroller sets are out, how come they are no reviews?

[Lego Spy]

If the penguin and steamroller sets are out, how come they are no reviews?

I'm pretty sure I saw one at one point, I can't remember where though...

I'm getting plenty of video and written reviews through a simple Google search. Here's one.

(And one here on EB for The Penguin Face Off)

Edited February 10, 2014 by Lego Spy

[KingPixels]

OK your right.

You're*

The upcoming Green Goblin doesn't work as the Abomination at all as far as I'm concerned. For that matter, he doesn't work as the Green Goblin either.

Agreed. It's an interesting figure but it isn't really GG.

[TheSilentShane]

I don't mind the abundance of Batman sets, even though, as a DC fan, I would definitely like some non-Batman sets. My main issue with the Batman sets, however, is the fact that they keep rehashing the same villains again and again and again. I mean, we got four Batman sets in this wave and only one new villain (a villain which was quite easy to make with existing Lego pieces from the Monster sets). Where's a new Killer Croc? Hush? Killer Moth? Black Mask? Clayface? Deadshot? Deathstroke? Victor Zsasz? Mad Hatter? Firefly? KGBeast? Ra's Al Ghul? Anarky? Talia Al Ghul? Red Hood? Hugo Strange? Talon (since they seem to be going with the New 52)?

I'll take Batman sets, even though I want other DC characters, but by all that is holy stop giving me new versions of the same villains in place of ones you haven't made yet!

Edited February 10, 2014 by TheSilentShane

[Brickus]

Sorry guys, since when are we getting a UCS Tumbler, I seem to have missed the original post.

[korpen4444]

I don't mind the abundance of Batman sets, even though, as a DC fan, I would definitely like some non-Batman sets. My main issue with the Batman sets, however, is the fact that they keep rehashing the same villains again and again and again. I mean, we got four Batman sets in this wave and only one new villain (a villain which was quite easy to make with existing Lego pieces from the Monster sets). Where's a new Killer Croc? Hush? Killer Moth? Black Mask? Clayface? Deadshot? Deathstroke? Victor Zsasz? Mad Hatter? Firefly? KGBeast? Ra's Al Ghul? Anarky? Talia Al Ghul? Red Hood? Hugo Strange? Talon (since they seem to be going with the New 52)?

I'll take Batman sets, even though I want other DC characters, but by all that is holy stop giving me new versions of the same villains in place of ones you haven't made yet!

I agree. And guys, I want to apologize for yesterday. Just got too worked up.

[mulletwing]

I don't mind the abundance of Batman sets, even though, as a DC fan, I would definitely like some non-Batman sets. My main issue with the Batman sets, however, is the fact that they keep rehashing the same villains again and again and again. I mean, we got four Batman sets in this wave and only one new villain (a villain which was quite easy to make with existing Lego pieces from the Monster sets). Where's a new Killer Croc? Hush? Killer Moth? Black Mask? Clayface? Deadshot? Deathstroke? Victor Zsasz? Mad Hatter? Firefly? KGBeast? Ra's Al Ghul? Anarky? Talia Al Ghul? Red Hood? Hugo Strange? Talon (since they seem to be going with the New 52)?

I'll take Batman sets, even though I want other DC characters, but by all that is holy stop giving me new versions of the same villains in place of ones you haven't made yet!

Brilliant call. It was great to get more members of Bat-Family besides another Tim Drake this wave, not to mention Flash and MM, but diversity in villains would've been nice. Hopefully with Superheroes becoming evergreen we see more sets for both universes, leading to greater diversity.

However why is Killer Moth so high in your most wanted Batman rogues?

[eldiano]

I'm pretty sure I saw one at one point, I can't remember where though...

I'm getting plenty of video and written reviews through a simple Google search. Here's one.

(And one here on EB for The Penguin Face Off)

I wanted a review of the steam roller here on EB... I mean it's been out since January and all...

[Hrafnblod]

Sorry guys, since when are we getting a UCS Tumbler, I seem to have missed the original post.

Brickshow mentioned it, that's about all we know.

Brilliant call. It was great to get more members of Bat-Family besides another Tim Drake this wave, not to mention Flash and MM, but diversity in villains would've been nice. Hopefully with Superheroes becoming evergreen we see more sets for both universes, leading to greater diversity.

However why is Killer Moth so high in your most wanted Batman rogues?

What's wrong with Killer Moth?

I wanted a review of the steam roller here on EB... I mean it's been out since January and all...

Only in certain markets, so a fair percentage of EB (since there -are- a pretty decent number of us in the states) haven't had a chance. Be glad SuperHeroes is as review-laden as it is, a lot of the other sections have sets years old that haven't been reviewed. Town is missing a lot of stuff. Also, January wasn't that long ago, it's only February 10th. Patience!

[Samiens]

If the penguin and steamroller sets are out, how come they are no reviews?

Could be the territory they are out in- they've been released in the UK for sure (and indeed are sitting on my shelves!)

[Colossus]

Man, Killer Moth is one of my kids' favourite villains in the Lego Batman videogame. I think it has a spunky color scheme and is a nice contrast to Batman's "black...and sometimes very, very dark grey" color palate.

[mulletwing]

Man, Killer Moth is one of my kids' favourite villains in the Lego Batman videogame. I think it has a spunky color scheme and is a nice contrast to Batman's "black...and sometimes very, very dark grey" color palate.

He's not a villain I grew up with and I started reading comics around Knightfall and watched the Timmverse A LOT growing up. The first time I played the Lego Batman game I was like who the heck is that? Why is he in the 15 selected villains ahead of Ra's? Hush? Black Mask? etc.

[strangely]

The upcoming Green Goblin doesn't work as the Abomination at all as far as I'm concerned. For that matter, he doesn't work as the Green Goblin either.

Sadly true. It is a good looking bigfig, but unfortunately it doesn't look like the version of Green Goblin I prefer. I'm at least glad that the USM TV series is more Goblin like than the USM comics (Where he's essentially Hulk with horns, purple pants included).

After seeing the awesome classic version of Green Goblin in the Lego Marvel game I'm doubly disappointed we aren't getting a classic version. On the plus side though I'm betting his next variation will be the classic one. I mean Doc Ock was USM based in his first appearance and comic based in his second, I'm hopeful the same will be true for Goblin. Granted that means another year or two before we'd potentially get that variation... Who knows, maybe Lego will do something sooner than I expect.

[Hrafnblod]

He's not a villain I grew up with and I started reading comics around Knightfall and watched the Timmverse A LOT growing up. The first time I played the Lego Batman game I was like who the heck is that? Why is he in the 15 selected villains ahead of Ra's? Hush? Black Mask? etc.

Nothing wrong with sidelining some of the old classics now and then, imo.

Sadly true. It is a good looking bigfig, but unfortunately it doesn't look like the version of Green Goblin I prefer. I'm at least glad that the USM TV series is more Goblin like than the USM comics (Where he's essentially Hulk with horns, purple pants included).

After seeing the awesome classic version of Green Goblin in the Lego Marvel game I'm doubly disappointed we aren't getting a classic version. On the plus side though I'm betting his next variation will be the classic one. I mean Doc Ock was USM based in his first appearance and comic based in his second, I'm hopeful the same will be true for Goblin. Granted that means another year or two before we'd potentially get that variation... Who knows, maybe Lego will do something sooner than I expect.

I think you summed up what was most disappointing with the goblin set this time around. When we first heard we'd get Goblin I immediately thought of the awesome classic one from the video game with his neat little Glider. Then we got that big hulking monstrosity instead. Looking forward to when classic Goblin does show up though, since we'll probably be getting a loooot of Spider-man before it's all said and done.

[Navy Trooper Fenson]

These sets are not crap! We all, except for you, enjoy these sets. Lego IS making great sets. If you don't think so, just stay out of the discussion and let people enjoy what Lego has to offer!

Don't speak for the masses, sir. You will fail.

He started talking about not buying Batman sets and then saying he would start not buying it after buying all of it. Just wanted to explain to him that nothing he said makes sense.

And this is a really weird attitude people on this site have, constantly praising everything lego does. Don´t tell me you are 100% satisfied with this wave. You don´t even have to tell me actually, the last few pages have posts where you want more non-Batman heroes and buildings. We don´t have to call everything lego releases 100%, ten out of ten, 5 stars, goat. This wave isn´t completely bad but there is a stupid choice or part in every kit. I would like to see a wave where every set is like Lex Power Armor and does not include excuse-vehicles or crap character designs.

Look, if we stop buying the Lego sets when they're all Batman, they'll just think that it's the DC brand that won't sell. That'll only send the message to LEGO. We want to go farther. We have to stop buying t-shirts, hats, keychains, action figures, ANYTHING Batman related. That'll send a message to DC and Warner Brothers. We replace our buying of Batman with the rest of DC Comics, and they'll notice that the other guys are popular, too. Skipping over just the Legos makes all of DC less profitable for LEGO and ruins our chances. I will suggest, though, not buying any sets with JUST Batman.

The thing about the traditional costumes, though, is that it doesn't matter to the kids the design. Superman still looks just as recognizable in his red undies as he does in Man of Steel which is just as recognizable as New 52 Superman. Comic book Hulk looks just as much like Hulk as Avengers Hulk does. These little details won't hurt Lego's child demographic, they'll just increase the appeal to older fans. I point to these guys a lot, but Imaginext's using comic book designs for the whole Justice League, even using classic Supes in their Man of Steel playset, and they aren't struggling at all. When it comes down to it, anything with a child demographic only understands success in terms of toy sales, so when you buy classic Cyclops over X2 Cyclops, you're sending a little message to Marvel saying "Hey, I prefer the blue and yellow spandex." Most kids'll buy whatever, just as long as they recognize the character, but if we want more people and kids to embrace the comics we need to make sure the comic book presence is equal too or greater than the movie/TV show/video game presence.

Well, I am not buying anything comic related beside the lego kits so there is that. Maybe I get myself the Flash set when it´s 50% off.

And yeah, I am not that much caring about design differences like Flashs logo not being the same on the lego fig than in the DCAU cartoon I want to make a display of but when you get stuff like Martian Manhunter with a different skin color, this loincloth thing and no collar it´s just too much of a difference. I mean, what kid even knows about the red Nightwing design? As I said only 2% read comics (which probably aren´t the main line universe intended for 40-year olds and when you´ve got such figures there is no point in trying to bind children to comics, cartoons and movies are just easier for them to get than weekly (or even more often) 4$ purchases) and children will only know Nightwing from BTAS 1998 reruns, if at all.

And if kids don´t care about those designs, then why not just make only DCAU figs? It´s not like they wouldn´t buy them then like you said and people in this thread here would like those designs more (at least it sounds like I´m not the only person with this opinion)

Agreed.It seems like there are a lot of super heroe fans overall on this thread who are not real AFOLs.In other words,collecters.

No i'm not saying that ,but to prove my point i'll just say that most of them don't build that much .

Super Heroes are all about the characters. Some may have a vehicle or a building but all in all it´s only about the characters. Dioramas for super heroes are too much overlapping with City and related lines so that it´s much easier for the SH line to cross the line to unnecessary builds like Batman scuba thingie and Riddlers dragster when in a regular story Batman would just take his diving-suit without the vehicle so he can move more easily and Riddler would just steal someones car and maybe paint it a bit green and purple if at all. I personally am at a point where I own enough pieces to build every kind of vehicle that Batman could have in a black color scheme and don´t need to buy sets anymore except for maybe the occasional new mould if it´s really useful. With this superhero line it´s just a method to get new headgear and weapon molds or fig parts in new colors or with new prints. If I had a printer for regular and metallic colors and a 3D printer with better quality plastic I would never buy a lego set again.

[korpen4444]

And this is a really weird attitude people on this site have, constantly praising everything lego does. Don´t tell me you are 100% satisfied with this wave. You don´t even have to tell me actually, the last few pages have posts where you want more non-Batman heroes and buildings. We don´t have to call everything lego releases 100%, ten out of ten, 5 stars, goat. This wave isn´t completely bad but there is a stupid choice or part in every kit. I would like to see a wave where every set is like Lex Power Armor and does not include excuse-vehicles or crap character designs.

Super Heroes are all about the characters. Some may have a vehicle or a building but all in all it´s only about the characters. Dioramas for super heroes are too much overlapping with City and related lines so that it´s much easier for the SH line to cross the line to unnecessary builds like Batman scuba thingie and Riddlers dragster when in a regular story Batman would just take his diving-suit without the vehicle so he can move more easily and Riddler would just steal someones car and maybe paint it a bit green and purple if at all. I personally am at a point where I own enough pieces to build every kind of vehicle that Batman could have in a black color scheme and don´t need to buy sets anymore except for maybe the occasional new mould if it´s really useful. With this superhero line it´s just a method to get new headgear and weapon molds or fig parts in new colors or with new prints. If I had a printer for regular and metallic colors and a 3D printer with better quality plastic I would never buy a lego set again.

I am 90% satisfied with this wave, seeing as I want to collect all of it. There's awesome Batman variants, and cool heroes in each set. Not to mention the penguin goons. I would have liked a Green Lantern set, or one with Cyborg, Black Canary, or Red Tornado. Heck, Lego could've given us a rare League member(e.g. Black Canary) as an exclusive, and leave MM for a set.

And, duh dude. Of course we only care about the figures. Some of us anyway. I don't get why people think that having a 3D printer would solve their complaints about Lego. Like I said earlier, official figs just feel right-er to me.

Besides, some things are just for parts(Bats' scuba thing, Nightwing's glider, Batplane.) But I really like Riddler's dragster. It's cool!