Marvel Superheroes 2022 - Rumors & Discussion

[Mandalorianknight]

10 hours ago, Meadius said:

I know the leakers have been saying for a while that it's going to disappoint people, but this $500 set has to be one of the most bizarre releases Lego has ever done, assuming everything we've heard about it is correct.

Yeah, this is an astoundingly strange decision by lego. Did they do any market research? Is there actually interest in a black panther vehicle lego set this big?

4 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

I still think it could be a collection of multiple vehicles. The leakers said it „includes“ a BP vehicle, which is an interesting way to put it  Still a questionable idea, but I‘d rather have a collection of three UCS-sized $150 vehicles than a singular oversized one.

Also, one of the leakers said it‘d be more suitable as a DC set, and the Marvel equivalent to a collection of multiple Bat vehicles would fit that description to a tee

I suppose that's definately a possibility. Still a really bad move by lego IMO, like, who's going to buy this.

Actually, is anyone here planning on buying this (assuming it is either a giant BP vehicle or a collection of BP vehicles) for any reason other than completionism?

[Mattallica]

4 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

 

Also, one of the leakers said it‘d be more suitable as a DC set

Ooh i missed that,

does that mean it would be better suited to Aquaman (in the leakers opinion) therefor its an Atlantis based set maybe one of those transport whales seen in the trailer with namor and a bunch of Atlanteans(talocans)

Edited August 27, 2022 by Mattallica

[Mattallica]

this works with a bunch  of the theories

vehicle (the whale is shown in  the trailer as a transport for the atlanteans)

tied to BP2

large enough for the $500 price tag

most fans will be disappointed

 

[Falconfan1414]

1 hour ago, Mattallica said:

Ooh i missed that,

does that mean it would be better suited to Aquaman (in the leakers opinion) therefor its an Atlantis based set maybe one of those transport whales seen in the trailer with namor and a bunch of Atlanteans(talocans)

Or Batman 

 

like a large black vehicle 

[Mandalorianknight]

The only one missing here is "celebration of the theme". You can pretty reasonably talk up anything from an avengers or iron man movie (or even the Raimi films since they were the first marvel sets) as such, but BP? I mean, maybe the packaging is endgame or infinity war, but that's still a pretty tenuous connection.

 

There's got to be more to it than just being a black panther vehicle. Lego's made some wacky decisions before, but most of their giant sets are pretty iconic things and sell fairly well. If this really is just a black panther vehicle, I think that's unequivocally the most astoundingly bizarre choice lego's ever made. (I would say their handling of bionicle G2, but that was mainly marketing errors. The production of this set has to be the weirdest thing they've ever done)

[PsychoBuilder]

Just now, Mandalorianknight said:

There's got to be more to it than just being a black panther vehicle. Lego's made some wacky decisions before, but most of their giant sets are pretty iconic things and sell fairly well. If this really is just a black panther vehicle, I think that's unequivocally the most astoundingly bizarre choice lego's ever made. (I would say their handling of bionicle G2, but that was mainly marketing errors. The production of this set has to be the weirdest thing they've ever done)

Yeah, I’d be very inclined to agree—forget anything the people over in the SW threads say, this would be Lego’s biggest licensed blunder in recent years, possibly the last two decades.

 

I doubt we’ll have to wait too much longer, apparently the set has gone out to LAN people already.

[NovaBricks]

This almost certainly has to be a collection of vehicles, right? Vehicles is like the last thing I think of when I think MCU, but the use of the word "includes" means it's either a collection, or it's a scene that has a BP vehicle. A $500 UCS-type vehicle seems totally irrational.

I don't think LEGO quite realizes that vehicles aren't really synonymous with superheroes outside of Batman. Like, sure they have them. But they're iconic to Batman because he has no powers. A $500 Marvel vehicle is already a huge stretch, but a $500 BP vehicle is just nuts. 

[Shahennian]

I can't wait for someone to spill the beans.

Edited August 27, 2022 by Shahennian

[hachiroku]

56 minutes ago, Brickroll said:

Yeah, I’d be very inclined to agree—forget anything the people over in the SW threads say, this would be Lego’s biggest licensed blunder in recent years, possibly the last two decades.

 

I doubt we’ll have to wait too much longer, apparently the set has gone out to LAN people already.

Source? Way too soon for that I think, but not every set works the same way.

 

t. I'm LAN people

[cosmic]

9 hours ago, PGBQW said:

For 500€ it better be big enough to fit me inside and actually fly

Lol

1 hour ago, Falconfan1414 said:

Or Batman 

 

like a large black vehicle 

What a waste.

on the bright side, I definitely won’t buy this. I get to save $500. On the other hand, its kind of a punch to the gut. They have more faith in this than an X-Mansion? Call me crazy, I think an X-Mansion, Avengers Tower or Mansion (comic based) would have sold much better than this. It hasn’t released yet and these are hypothetical so we can’t really measure this but I reckon an Avengers or Xmen related set would do better.

and I know I say this every year but I really want a comic based Guardians of the Galaxy set. Namely for the original team, so I can have an OG Yondu and Starhawk. Also gonna ask for a comic based Scarlet and Vision (classic) and Wasp (modern and classic please, adore her new red and black suit). Tis all.

 

Edited August 27, 2022 by cosmic

[PsychoBuilder]

22 minutes ago, hachiroku said:

Source? Way too soon for that I think, but not every set works the same way.

 

t. I'm LAN people

MinisuperHeroes apparently got a set that hasn’t been revealed along with a Black Panther set—maybe it’s something else though.

[Buckethead]

Lego is reportedly making a Disney 100th Anniversary CMF Series next year.

What are the chances we get some Marvel figures in this series?

[Wonkyeye1]

15 minutes ago, Buckethead said:

Lego is reportedly making a Disney 100th Anniversary CMF Series next year.

What are the chances we get some Marvel figures in this series?

Doubt we get any Marvel figs in that series, but hopefully we get Marvel series 2 in September 2023. It'll be a full two years after the first series came out and by then there will be around 8 Disney+ shows that'll have come out that will need to be part of the series.

[Scarilian]

On the bright side this D2C talk has distracted us for most of August, so now we have less than a month before the Hulkbuster MKII is revealed. Hopefully that set got as much love as the Bowser set.

31 minutes ago, Buckethead said:

What are the chances we get some Marvel figures in this series?

Zero :p

If anything I probably would'nt expect another Marvel CMF series until late 2023 when it could adapt more elements from What If.

Edited August 27, 2022 by Scarilian

[upliftingbricks]

48 minutes ago, Brickroll said:

MinisuperHeroes apparently got a set that hasn’t been revealed along with a Black Panther set—maybe it’s something else though.

Its likely the biggest BP set that the figures have leaked from.

[Mandalorianknight]

2 hours ago, Brickroll said:

Yeah, I’d be very inclined to agree—forget anything the people over in the SW threads say, this would be Lego’s biggest licensed blunder in recent years, possibly the last two decades.

 

I doubt we’ll have to wait too much longer, apparently the set has gone out to LAN people already.

It's driving me nuts, I just need to see it, I need to know how they packaged it or what figures are included or whatever is in this set that makes lego think people will pay $500 for a black panther ship.

35 minutes ago, Buckethead said:

Lego is reportedly making a Disney 100th Anniversary CMF Series next year.

What are the chances we get some Marvel figures in this series?

Almost 0. My guess is, as a disney anniversary series, it'll focus on mainline disney characters and their older variants, not acquisitions made in the past 20 years.

4 minutes ago, upliftingbricks said:

Its likely the biggest BP set that the figures have leaked from.

"a set that hasn't been revealed along with a black panther set"

I think he's implying the one that hasn't been revealed is the $500 marvel set.

[THELEGOBATMAN]

I don't believe for a second that the set is a collection of multiple Black Panther vehicles. Why? Because that would essentially be multiple separate sets combined into one.

That would be like selling Tim Burton's Batmobile and Batwing as a single set, instead of two separate ones like they've done it.

[hachiroku]

15 minutes ago, Scarilian said:

On the bright side this D2C talk has distracted us for most of August, so now we have less than a month before the Hulkbuster MKII is revealed. Hopefully that set got as much love as the Bowser set.

 

This has been one of the LEGO related things I enjoyed the most this year.

[Frizzlefry25]

Would never happen, but I would take a few black panther vehicles, sling ring portals, and a massive collection of minifigs to re-create the Endgame battle. You put that together for $500 and it would be interesting at least!

[Falconfan1414]

33 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

"a set that hasn't been revealed along with a black panther set"

I think he's implying the one that hasn't been revealed is the $500 marvel set.

It should be the $80 set 

[upliftingbricks]

40 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

"a set that hasn't been revealed along with a black panther set"

I think he's implying the one that hasn't been revealed is the $500 marvel set.

When was the $80 set revealed? 

[PGBQW]

1 hour ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

I don't believe for a second that the set is a collection of multiple Black Panther vehicles. Why? Because that would essentially be multiple separate sets combined into one.

That would be like selling Tim Burton's Batmobile and Batwing as a single set, instead of two separate ones like they've done it.

Agreed, having 1 extremely oversized vehicle is a weird choice, but having several sets into one instead of making... Well, several sets is even weirder

[Mattallica]

1 minute ago, PGBQW said:

Agreed, having 1 extremely oversized vehicle is a weird choice, but having several sets into one instead of making... Well, several sets is even weirder

Agreed,  realistically  the $500 price is going to put a lot of people off, so if it were multiple vehicles even TLG would be smart enough to make them separate sets with smaller price tags, so it has to be one massive vehicle/set

[Mandalorianknight]

1 hour ago, upliftingbricks said:

When was the $80 set revealed? 

It wasn't. My point is the way he phrases this makes it sound like he's receiving multiple BP sets, and therefore, one of them could be the $500 one.

1 hour ago, PGBQW said:

Agreed, having 1 extremely oversized vehicle is a weird choice, but having several sets into one instead of making... Well, several sets is even weirder

Lego's done collections before, but generally at least some of the ships are iconic (or in the case of ultimate space battle, about to be heavily featured in what was at the time thought to be the end of star wars films. So a pretty safe bet). For example, people might not have flocked to a TIE-d drone, but packaging it with the Advanced and normal TIES made it's inclusion safer. In this case... neither scenario works. Black Panther two will be a big film, I'm sure, but I don't think it'll make as much as the first one, let alone Endgame or No Way Home. And as so many people have already said, superheroes aren't as tied to vehicles as star wars is. And none of these are remotely iconic. Like, it's not a dragon flyer packaged with the Quinjet and Milano. There's nothing there.

Honestly, I have no idea what lego's thinking. Whether it's a single vehicle or a collection, this just seems like such a mind-boggling bad idea. Not just a terrible choice for the biggest superhero set, but just from a profit perspective... who is going to buy this? The only way this thing stands ANY chance, IMO, is if it comes with an MBS number of minifigs, and includes some heavy hitters. I don't see people shelling out the big bucks for a new variant of Shuri or Klaue.

[spiderfan2000]

At this rate, it would take a really good minifigure selection to increase the appeal of this set.  If it can include characters like T'Chaka, Ramonda, Zuri, Ross, Ayo, and maybe some other characters/variants we haven't gotten, perhaps even extra printing for Black Panther, that might generate more hype.