Marvel Superheroes 2022 - Rumors & Discussion

[thebricksbear]

Rocket missing from promo material that shows Starlord, Nebula, and Drax in classic Guardians red/blue outfits makes me nervous ☠

I know the endgame outfit was meant to emulate the uniform, but its be cool if the new mech uses it or something closer to the comic version. Itll surely use the new raccoon head.

[Legocentrico]

Lego has, in the past, taken advantage of mechs to repurpose some minifigures designed for larger sets, and with the Guardian sets arriving in April I assumed they would recycle that Rocket.  Actually, however, all the mechs of this year have obtained unreleased minifigures, so I can see an unreleased Rocket, and I believe that the classic version of the comics would be the most logical choice

[Surge]

2 hours ago, bricksandabear said:

Rocket missing from promo material that shows Starlord, Nebula, and Drax in classic Guardians red/blue outfits makes me nervous ☠

I know the endgame outfit was meant to emulate the uniform, but its be cool if the new mech uses it or something closer to the comic version. Itll surely use the new raccoon head.

what promo material?

[thebricksbear]

On 10/26/2022 at 4:47 PM, Surge said:

what promo material?

Mostly set photos, but also the comic con trailer. I dont think Im allowed to or even should share that spoilery stuff.

In retrospect hes completely CGI, but youd expect to see Sean Gunn in his place.

[TheJeff]

I really hope Groot is Rocket’s Mech.

[thebricksbear]

I finally got a pretty huge Target discount on War on the Water, and it's not as bad as I initially thought!

The bad:

• The figs are actually not that great, though they may be the only reason to get this set for a lot of people: IronHeart is great (despite the closed version of the helmet), Okoye and Mbaku are pretty bland figs (I wish Mbaku wore brown or dark bluish gray). Namor is cool, and Black Panther is w/e (I feel that all Black Panther figs are a little meh).
• The boat uses a LOT of empty space inside. Other than the outer hull, there's an enclosed space for the 'prison,' and beyond that the rest of the interior is closed off and wasted.
• There are many times throughout the build that 1x1, 2x2, or 4x4 plates are stacked to form 2/3's height 'bricks'. I really dislike this and it's not a fun build technique, though I know the 2/3's plates are expensive and rare to find in sets.
• The drones are boring and dumb. I would've much rather seen a mounted gun or really any other play feature.
• The stud shooters and generic pack of mechanic tools I could really do without. Throw a couple of atlantean figs in here instead of the drones and junk and this would be a great set.

The good:

• Once completed, the boat is really solid and actually pretty cool
• I love using plates to decorate the sides of builds using brackets/SNOT bricks, and the entire boat has a black plate armor. Fun and satisfying to build
• Triangular builds using hinge plates are also a favorite of mine (loved the Domo), and the boat executes this well
• The engines on the boat are also fun to build.
• There are a number of 'rarish' parts, and some outright rare pieces that I have never owned before. I'm almost excited to tear it apart and steal them, haha.
• I think Lego's commitment to the Marvel fire extinguisher is hilarious and I'm here for it. This set has 2!

 

I'll probably eventually MOC this so that the boat can open up some more, and get rid of the jail cell.

If you can find this set on discount, it'd be worth the price. Especially for either big fans of the movie, or people who know nothing about the movie at all.

[Scarilian]

38 minutes ago, bricksandabear said:

I'll probably eventually MOC this so that the boat can open up some more, and get rid of the jail cell.

Its difficult to describe, I think it'd be neat if you could fold all the hinged pieces to flex out to form a line. I think you'd probably just need to change the front of the boat and any areas where the sides connect to the main middle section.

This'd expose the entire interior which would effectively be a box with the engines attached and give you a long wall made from the ships exterior panels that you could use for depicting a battle scene or just an exterior defensive wall for Wakanda.

[Falconfan1414]

So Avatar introduced a new bow piece where you can shoot arrows out and all I can think of is that Hawkeye (probably Kate too) using this. Maybe you can print on the arrow prices to represent trick arrows 

[Toa Palpo]

I got the war whale I wanted!... just not in the theme that I wanted... still, that Avatar space whale is pretty dang cool. Really, really makes me wish we had gotten something similar for the WF sets.

[mrcngrck]

Just saw avatar sets and I feel bad for marvel. It looks like they don't care about quality of marvel theme...

[BusterNut31]

That avatar whale set looks like a great build for a leviathan build for avengers 1!!!!

[Scarilian]

Avatar Whale is what we should have gotten for the Black Panther 2 wave showing a level of creativity and would have provided Atlanteans with more allies to balance out the numbers, perhaps they did not bother doing a whale for the Black Panther WF wave due to overlap. Whale & Mech are probably the only sets from Avatar I may end up getting and both have concepts for sets we should really have seen replicated or used in the Marvel theme.

Only a few days now till the VIP release of 76210 Hulkbuster, then that's it for the year seemingly - then probably around two weeks after we'll wind up seeing January set images around the 15th-20th November most likely.

Edited November 1, 2022 by Scarilian

[thebricksbear]

But if you MOC the war whale, where are you gonna get your Talocans?

[Mandalorianknight]

2 hours ago, bricksandabear said:

But if you MOC the war whale, where are you gonna get your Talocans?

just buy a ton of Attuma heads and put them on the avatar figures. Not sure if the skin tones are the same, but other than that it's pretty perfect.

It's hilarious to me that the two biggest movies of the fall/winter are water-based sequels to highly successful films, featuring a tribe of aquatic blue people, and both risk failing to reach the heights of the first (With BP, many people are still wondering how the movie's going to do without T'challa, and for Avatar...do people care about Avatar anymore? My guess is BP2 does well, not NWH well but still pretty well, but that Avatar doesn't even get half of what the first one got if you account for inflation)

[GoldenNinja3000]

9 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

just buy a ton of Attuma heads and put them on the avatar figures. Not sure if the skin tones are the same, but other than that it's pretty perfect.

The elongated limbs would ruin that plan, though. The Talocans aren't 9 feet tall like the Na'vi. I think the only thing to do is buy a bunch of Attuma figures and leave the helmet off, but that's kinda boring. I wish LEGO had just made a Talocan soldier figure, or even Namora so you could have more of a fight. Namor and Attuma against Shuri's Sunbird and the Royal Sea Leopard isn't much of a fight.

[upliftingbricks]

9 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

just buy a ton of Attuma heads and put them on the avatar figures. Not sure if the skin tones are the same, but other than that it's pretty perfect.

Attuma is Medium Azur and First Wave Avatar figures are Medium Blue according to Brickset. Second Wave Avatar figures has slightly different blue so that could be a closer match.

Anyone got and Attuma head and an Avatar figure they could try matching? I like the idea if it works.

[Mandalorianknight]

5 hours ago, GoldenNinja3000 said:

The elongated limbs would ruin that plan, though. The Talocans aren't 9 feet tall like the Na'vi. I think the only thing to do is buy a bunch of Attuma figures and leave the helmet off, but that's kinda boring. I wish LEGO had just made a Talocan soldier figure, or even Namora so you could have more of a fight. Namor and Attuma against Shuri's Sunbird and the Royal Sea Leopard isn't much of a fight.

Many of the newer ones with the closer skin tone use normal arms and legs. Specifically, they appear in 3 sets with those limbs, including the cheapest set, in both male and female variants. (still not sure if it's the exact same skin tone though)

Edited November 1, 2022 by Mandalorianknight

[mrcngrck]

I wonder how hulkbuster is selling 

[BusterNut31]

A gold mjolnir i think has leaked!?! Perhaps a HP style 10 year anniversary is still on the cards. 

[BusterNut31]

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[NXS7]

1 hour ago, BusterNut31 said:

A gold mjolnir i think has leaked!?! Perhaps a HP style 10 year anniversary is still on the cards. 

10 year anniversary Dark World sets???

[Mandalorianknight]

1 hour ago, BusterNut31 said:

A gold mjolnir i think has leaked!?! Perhaps a HP style 10 year anniversary is still on the cards. 

Well that's certainly possible, it's important to remember that the part isn't exclusive to marvel sets. It could be as simple as an architectural element in the next modular.

[hvader]

Prediction: the Avengers sets next year will be the anniversary sets like Harry Potter

[BrickBob Studpants]

…why would they celebrate the theme‘s 11th aniversary

[Toa Palpo]

It's also important to note that Thor had a golden Mjolnir in the comics for a little while(and had a golden arm) so it could just be for a new comic Thor figure which would be pretty cool.