Marvel Superheroes 2025 - Rumors & Discussion

[benderisgreat]

New F4 sets is a mixed bag for sure. Galactus build looks really good, but there’s too many stickers!!! The minifigs are cheap and lazy. I know it’s been debated if Thing should be a bigfig or normal one but I don’t like the idea of him as minifig. As for the rest of them no dual modded legs even though they all share same torso print and reuse existing faces(except for Reed)? Like that’s beyond lazy on legos part, they need to put quality back in Marvel line, cause it’s going downhill fast.

Edited April 26 by benderisgreat

[Borex]

Woohooo i like it! I kind of wanted a Harry Potter style huge buildable minifig, but it was already done by lots of people, and this looks great too. 
the figs are a bit plain, but look good enough for me. Now give us some heralds to accompany Galactus

[THELEGOBATMAN]

Okay so thankfully Galactus himself looks awesome. Really love the comic-accurate colour scheme. The only problem in my opinion are the hips, which are too wide when compared to the rest of the body.

Minifigures are, obviously, mediocre. Mr. Fantastic has a too prominent beard, the mustached should be the focus; his hair should also have side-printing, like Dr. Strange's. Sue looks exactly as expected.

Johnny looks nothing like Joseph Quinn does in the movie, whether it's the faceprint or tha hair. The fire elements look inconsistent and quite ugly, the regular flames don't mix well with power blasts. The dark orange piece doesn't help at all.

The Thing looks rather bad, I hate the hand pieces since they don't have a rocky surface like the headpiece does. No arm printing hurts them both, while no dual-moulding is a problem for all the minifigures—they are just way too blue.

Overall, it's still a fairly good set. Isn't worth 60€, but I'll still get it at a discount—unless I end up disliking the movie, which I hope isn't the case.

[strangely]

I like the set overall, but it's a shame that the Fantasticar didn't make it in.

My main criticism is Mr. Fantastic. Why not just use the Avatar legs, why go brickbuilt?

[Scarilian]

Galactus is good I guess. Shall wait to see the impact on Galactus and the Fantastic Four that the movie has and maybe get Galactus seperately. Hopefully they get darker suits in Avengers: Doomsday/Secret Wars so I can transplant them for 2005/2007 versions of these characters.

5 hours ago, Renny The Spaceman said:

Like I'd get if they were shoving constraction designs into original themes like Ninjago or whatever because people actually miss Bionicle and that theme at some point sold well, no-one misses the Superhero constraction sets but LEGO is ridiculously unwilling to just let them die

My hope is that they've been keeping constraction around while slowly introducing new pieces so that they can bring back Bionicle, possibly for the 25th anniversary in 2026 - and have been testing the waters with inserting constraction figures into varying styles of sets.

[Felkin]

I'm disappointed at the lack of the Helen Parr / Kamala Khan torso for Reed, and the Thing highlights the need for something between minifig and bigfig scale, but overall not too bad. I'm shocked that they didn't include the cute robot HERBIE!

[Thwip]

Galactus looks great. Reed not having the grey on the sides of his hair is weird when we get Dr Strange with it. The gorilla arms look weird on Ben. I feel like his entire arms needed to be thicker too somehow. I hope we get a flame on and transparent versions of Johnny and Sue in the future. Maybe another version with Reed having the long arms like the original Kamala figure

[JeanGreyForever]

Galactus is well done. The actual FF minifigs are very lackluster for the reasons everyone else has already mentioned. It's taken a decade and a half for the FF to finally be made into minifigures and this substandard treatment was not worth the wait. It doesn't seem like comic fans or MCU fans are satisfied here.

[thebricksbear]

It does make me sad that HP seems to get several new moulds per wave and Superheroes doesn't. The Thing head is cool but it's really time they figured out a midi-fig. Even something like Baymax would've worked.

 

Its ironic because Lego avoids bigfigs like the plague presumably because of cost, and if they did something in the middle, they could remake the million Thanos sets they love to sell, new Hulks, Thing, Kingpin, etc...

[Mandalorianknight]

On 4/25/2025 at 8:13 AM, squiz18 said:

Yeah I've heard lots of positive things too. Looking forward to seeing it in the cinema next week

Same here!

On 4/24/2025 at 10:50 PM, calebcold3 said:

Another set I could see for Doomsday is the new Tower that used to be Avengers Tower, but as a set similar to the 2020 Avengers Tower set and the set could potentially include some of the Thunderbolts* Team. 

I hope so- it'd be nice if they segmented the sets by teams, so say something like:

X-jet with the Fox X-men

The Tower Formerly Known as Avengers with the Thunderbolts*

IDK some car or big mech with the Lame Avengers^TM

But I think we'll probably end up getting a small number of sets with the teams mixed throughout so that you have to buy them all to complete any one team. In which case, I'll likely get whichever one includes John and Yelena and that's it.

11 hours ago, calebcold3 said:

$5 says that These will be the heads used for Sue and Johnny (It’s obvious Reed is gonna reuse the Mandalorian head print since it’s Pedro):

You can see the future.

7 hours ago, Renny The Spaceman said:

I think it's very funny that only one Constraction theme ever didn't crash and burn horribly and it was an unlicensed one but for whatever reason LEGO is unwilling to ever stop doing these horrible looking branded constraction figures that clog up clearance shelves forever to the point they now shove them in normal sets to desperately try get any of them to sell ever. 

Like I'd get if they were shoving constraction designs into original themes like Ninjago or whatever because people actually miss Bionicle and that theme at some point sold well, no-one misses the Superhero constraction sets but LEGO is ridiculously unwilling to just let them die

There is an easy solution here, lego, bring bionicle back properly next time.

 

Very torn on the set- I thought it'd be a crappy Galactus build with some good figs, but it's entirely the other way around. Galactus looks great, and I'll be trolling bricklink for "new, no figures" listings for the set to snag one cheap. But the figs... the figs are awful and the lowest effort I've ever seen:

Thing, Johnny, and Sue should not all be using the same torso print- that's absolutely ridiculous. Inexcusable that Sue didn't get her own torso print. The re-used faces for Sue and Johnny I can at least understand, but Sue needed her own torso.

More importantly, Thing and Johnny don't work AT ALL. Johnny should be flamed on- you had the budget to give Pedro a new face when he already had a perfectly good one, but you can't make Flamed-on Johnny? Thing is also ridiculous- the hands aren't bad because you can just take them off, except for some reason he's wearing gloves UNDER his hands? (Again, a bit of a nitpick, but a microcasm for how stupid these figures are.)

Just so we're clear, this entire set contains 4 new minifigure prints, and one new mold. Too low for the first family's first time in lego, but even then, used horribly. At the very least, Reed's head print should have been used for Sue's torso, but ideally a set like this shouldn't be restricted to 4 prints so we could get a flame-on Johnny. (And even more ideally, it's a comic set so they don't have weird vertical lines on their suits and we get an accurate Thing, but that's not on lego)

I like the F4, Thing in particular, but the only part of this set that interests me at all is Galactus. I hope we get a comic set down the line at some point.

[poisonbricks]

Genuinely amazed at how good Galactus looks, with how the constraction figures have been up until now I was sure he'd be terrible. Not using that weird faceplate piece really helps! I'm really happy that he passes for a really decent comic Galactus. 

Figures are horrible, but I'll just get comic based customs anyway.

[Renny The Spaceman]

25 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

There is an easy solution here, lego, bring bionicle back properly next time.

Right? Like I get the messy corporate reasons they can't do so as a full fledged theme again but like having a creator 3 in 1 "Fire Robot" set or something to test the waters with this system seems like such a shoe in. This is ase someone who never got into Bionicle too

 

2 hours ago, Scarilian said:

My hope is that they've been keeping constraction around while slowly introducing new pieces so that they can bring back Bionicle, possibly for the 25th anniversary in 2026 - and have been testing the waters with inserting constraction figures into varying styles of sets.

I'm sure there are designers pushing for it but I doubt there's any big plans in mind. I feel it's inevitable to eventually get some sorta actual Bionicle throwback utilising the new constraction stuff. People are super nostalgic for it now, a nice model of one of the recognisable ones would probably do decently

[Kaijumeister]

3 hours ago, thebricksbear said:

It does make me sad that HP seems to get several new moulds per wave and Superheroes doesn't. The Thing head is cool but it's really time they figured out a midi-fig. Even something like Baymax would've worked.

I have no idea what the sales figures are for this theme, but it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy when the budget being low results in mediocre sets which results in poor sales which results in the budget being low. HP’s budget is extravagant in comparison with the number of new moulds and prints it gets every year, even for minor / obscure characters and almost negligible updates to existing ones.

So the Galactus build looks awesome, but as expected countless shortcuts are taken with the minifigures because of course they would:

- Reed should have had stretchy arms and the Doctor Strange hairpiece (it exists already!). Great faceprint though.

- Johnny should have been in his flame-on mode rather than a generic blonde Peter Parker with flame pieces.

- A new faceprint for Sue was sorely needed.

I actually like Ben all things considered, however it would have been nice if the minifigure had more bulk to it.

Moral of the story - always temper expectations for Marvel sets when you first hear about them. I support reusing face prints where they make sense, but it sucks when new actors enter the fold but Lego doesn’t make new faces for them in minifigure form.

Edited April 26 by Kaijumeister

[SEmrys]

I have such mixed feelings about this. I really like Galactus, but those figures may be the first ones where I feel compelled to look to the inevitable custom (Firestar most likely) updates. 

I can probably live with Sue, and I have some spare old Strange hair pieces for Reed and also don't really like the Ms. marvel arms, but I really don't like the big hands for Ben and think some sort of new Baymax-esque arms should have been used to widen him out. Fingers crossed that flame on Johnny will come with the Doomsday sets. 

[Murdoch17]

5 hours ago, strangely said:

I like the set overall, but it's a shame that the Fantasticar didn't make it in.

I hope somebody MOC's the movie Fantasticar and makes instructions - it would certainly look fantastic next to my 8-wide Incredibile from The Incredibles films! (The Flying bathtub version not so much...)

[ToaDraco]

This is the most excited I've been for a LEGO Marvel set in a while. I'm quite happy with how it turned out. Galactus looks really good and the minifigs are decent, but could definitely have been better.

The Thing is the figure I'm most excited about despite its flaws. He really deserved to get the Nexo Knights Axl treatment but at the very least they should have given him an armor piece like the hockey armor in blue with the FF uniform printed on it to bulk him up.

Mr. Fantastic's face print could be a bit better and he needed the printing on the hair that Dr. Strange already has and I really would have liked to see him i clude a build to represent stretchy arms. The Kamala torso with long arms would be good but only if they would also include a norma torso as well, which I don't see them doing. 

Invisible Woman looks fine but I would have loved for her to have a transparent arm and leg or for the clear dish pieces to be iridescent since her powers in the trailer bend light in a really cool way.

Human Torch looks fine and I like the hair piece used but the face doesn't quite work for Joseph Quinn. It's not the worst by any means, it just isn't a very exciting figure. Personally I would have loved to see trans-orange limbs and a fully flamed on look but it's also important to be able to have him flamed off, so to speak and if we're only getting one FF set, this is the better compromise.

Considering my very low expectations for modern LEGO Marvel figures and sets, I'm quite pleased. A decade ago, my expectations and scrutiny would be much more critical. 

Edited April 27 by ToaDraco

[Mandalorianknight]

1 hour ago, Renny The Spaceman said:

Right? Like I get the messy corporate reasons they can't do so as a full fledged theme again but like having a creator 3 in 1 "Fire Robot" set or something to test the waters with this system seems like such a shoe in. This is as someone who never got into Bionicle too

Yup. We're reaching long enough since the reboot failed that it should be ok to start testing the waters again. A Fire Robot creator set would be nice, and I'm shocked they haven't been giving us CMF figures of the main Toa every now and again.

11 minutes ago, Murdoch17 said:

 (The Flying bathtub version not so much...)

Take that back.

30 minutes ago, Kaijumeister said:

I have no idea what the sales figures are for this theme, but it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy when the budget being low results in mediocre sets which results in poor sales which results in the budget being low. HP’s budget is extravagant in comparison with the number of new moulds and prints it gets every year, even for minor / obscure characters and almost negligible updates to existing ones.

So the Galactus build looks awesome, but as expected countless shortcuts are taken with the minifigures because of course they would:

- Reed should have had stretchy arms and the Doctor Strange hairpiece (it exists already!). Great faceprint though.

- Johnny should have been in his flame-on mode rather than a generic blonde Peter Parker with flame pieces.

- A new faceprint for Sue was sorely needed.

I actually like Ben all things considered, however it would have been nice if the minifigure had more bulk to it.

Moral of the story - always temper expectations for Marvel sets when you first hear about them. I support reusing face prints where they make sense, but it sucks when new actors enter the fold but Lego doesn’t make new faces for them in minifigure form.

Yup:

In order for me:

Reed is the only one that I think works for the movie version, but even then it's lazy to not give him the stretchy arms. None of him really works for the comic version- I suppose the torso's better than nothing, but it's got the weird vertical lines and a much lighter blue than the comic F4 usually are. Add in no temples for the hair... the head is fine for Pedro but seeing as we have the mando one a weird choice for a new print in a set that desperately needed every print in the budget. Movie 7/10, comic usability 3/10.

Thing isn't terrible for the movie version, but lego's so unbelievably lazy that they can't throw a different color hands on it, so he's wearing gloves under his weird rock hands (and the rock hands don't work at all, same with the head attachment. They do weird things for his proportions.) Because the hand issue can be solved in a purist manner I'll give him points for the movie version, but none of this is even remotely usable for comic thing. Wearing a shirt, he's not orange, and I still think he shouldn't be a normal minifigure. Movie 6/10, comic usability 1/10.

Sue is the one that should be simplest, but they somehow managed to skip just the tiny amount of effort she needs and make her re-use the "generic woman" head and the THING torso? Sue and Johnny's torsos don't look the same, much less Sue (or Johnny) and a guy made of rocks. The head is excusable given the current state of the theme and since it at least generally fits Vanessa Kirby. The torso was the bare minimum of effort and is a complete write-off of the figure's viability- it's literally entirely comprised of parts from other figs. Movie 6/10, comic usability 0/10.

Johnny is a tough one as re-used head aside, he fits the movie version pretty well. That said, it's the movie version's NON FLAMED FORM. It'd be like if the avengers sets in 2012 only came with Tony Stark and not Iron Man. We're not here for Johnny Firecracker, we're here for the Human Torch. Johnny also suffers from the genericized torso. A normal man does not look the same in a superhero suit as a rock man. Movie technical 8/10, realistically 0/10, comic 1/10 (Hair is perfect for a comic non flamed Johnny but again, come on, nobody was begging for specifically non-flamed Johnny)

5 hours ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

Okay so thankfully Galactus himself looks awesome. Really love the comic-accurate colour scheme. The only problem in my opinion are the hips, which are too wide when compared to the rest of the body.

Overall, it's still a fairly good set. Isn't worth 60€, but I'll still get it at a discount—unless I end up disliking the movie, which I hope isn't the case.

A bit, but I agree that overall he looks incredible. I look forward to getting my hands on the build.

I'm worried about this part- for this set to succeed, the movie needs to do really well, because the figures aren't faithful to the comics, and parents aren't going to look at this and think the 4 little guys make it worth double the price of the spider man and green goblin next to it. Now the movie could definitely do well- I think regardless of quality, it'll at least ride on some Thunderbolts hype because I have some confidence that Thunderbolts will have some insane legs and shock the box office- but if it doesn't, I think lego goes "oh, even fewer MCU tie ins, no lego fantastic four" and we never get comic versions.

[Murdoch17]

47 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Take that back.

No. Give me a movie Fantasticar lego model or give me death! 

...ok, maybe not death. Can we settle on me stubbing my toe, knocking into something with my funny bone, or something like that instead? 

 

In all seriousness, Galactus looks good. The F4 not so much...

Edited April 27 by Murdoch17

[hikouki]

I think the build for Galactus is good. Although if I were to nitpick, his figure looks a bit more skinny than in the comics.

[THELEGOBATMAN]

As a side note, LEGO continues being absolutely horrible with set names. Fantastic Four vs. Galactus Construction Figure? Please kill me.

Interestingly enough, the characters are also all called by their regular names, rather than the superhero pseudonyms.

[calebcold3]

20 hours ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

Spot on; but to be fair, that female faceprint does remind me of Vanessa Kirby, so it's not that bad. Johnny though...

 

12 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

💵💵💵💵💵

The only thing you got wrong was Mr Fantastic‘s faceprint, he interestingly gets a new one!

 

8 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

 

You can see the future.

 

Of over the 14 million futures I saw,  It was the only one where we get F4 in LEGO is based off a movie that could either be great or terrible and uses the most common LEGO Marvel heads for Sue and Johnny. I was off Mr Fantastic's faceprint surprisingly so here's a   💲back  @BrickBob Studpants 

As for the set itself, Galactus looks great! Regardless if the movie sucks or not (I have my hopes it will be good but not holding my breath until I pass out level of hopes),  I'll still get this set because Galactus looks like out of the comics. I love how the X-Wing Cockpit pieces are used for his skirt, very innovative. 

As for the figures... They're ok at best. The headprint for Reed/Pedro doesn't work IMO and they should've reused the Mando headprint. The torsos are fine. Sue is the least bad figure of the set IMO.

Honestly, I got this idea from @Mandalorianknight but I am going to switch out the head for Reed for a generic Male head so the set can pass as a comic set. Again, Regardless if the movie sucks or not, This set will defiantly be worth picking up so I can display it as a comic set. 

Edited April 27 by calebcold3

[Mandalorianknight]

5 hours ago, Murdoch17 said:

No. Give me a movie Fantasticar lego model or give me death! 

...ok, maybe not death. Can we settle on me stubbing my toe, knocking into something with my funny bone, or something like that instead? 

 

In all seriousness, Galactus looks good. The F4 not so much...

The movie fantasticar pales in comparison to the flying bathtub. 

 

That's a concise way of putting it if ever I've heard it. Probably the only time I've ever wanted a marvel set for the build but couldn't care less about the figs.

1 hour ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

As a side note, LEGO continues being absolutely horrible with set names. Fantastic Four vs. Galactus Construction Figure? Please kill me.

Interestingly enough, the characters are also all called by their regular names, rather than the superhero pseudonyms.

I hate this search engine/ai algorithm optimization naming convention. I know that, as with other situations where a set name is inaccurate or bad, people are gonna say it doesn't impact the set itself, but it's still dumb. I refuse to believe that naming this set something like "The Fantastic Four: Coming of Galactus" would impact sales on a statistically significant level.

I noticed that too! I wonder why.

1 hour ago, calebcold3 said:

As for the set itself, Galactus looks great! Regardless if the movie sucks or not (I have my hopes it will be good but not holding my breath until I pass out level of hopes),  I'll still get this set because Galactus looks like out of the comics. I love how the X-Wing Cockpit pieces are used for his skirt, very innovative. 

As for the figures... They're ok at best. The headprint for Reed/Pedro doesn't work IMO and they should've reused the Mando headprint. The torsos are fine. Sue is the least bad figure of the set IMO.

Honestly, I got this idea from @Mandalorianknight but I am going to switch out the head for Reed for a generic Male head so the set can pass as a comic set. Again, Regardless if the movie sucks or not, This set will defiantly be worth picking up so I can display it as a comic set. 

 Yup. I've been burned so many times. Even for the stuff that's just bringing back old beloved characters, like NWH and DP&W, I'm getting burned with Daredevil now. Which hurt the most because Netflix Daredevil is my favorite onscreen marvel content. I'm on the Thunderbolts hype train, but if that fails me, I don't even think I'll go watch F4, I think i'll just be done with the MCU as a whole.

Honestly I don't know who I'd consider the least bad as they're all bad in different ways. I might give points to sue for being the  most generally usable for both her movie and main comic version, but even then the figure required so little to be passable- just a new torso print- and yet they couldn't even do that and she's a The Thing/Human Torch (who again don't share body types with eachother OR sue) figure with a generic female head plopped on.

I get by generic male head you just mean a generic head lying around to use for the comic version, but when I hear "generic Male head" I think of that stupid brown eyebrow resistance trooper head they've been using on Hawkeye recently and something about that head on Mr. Fantastic just feels cursed to me.

Personally I'll be trying to get a new copy of the set with the figs removed for ~$20, which I think I have a good chance of. These guys just aren't the F4 to me, but that's a great Galactus.

Edited April 27 by Mandalorianknight

[poisonbricks]

Really surprised that Reed doesn't have the stretchy arms, actually - the One Piece sets are incoming, and we've seen that those sets feature that piece! Just use it! 

[Renny The Spaceman]

31 minutes ago, poisonbricks said:

Really surprised that Reed doesn't have the stretchy arms, actually - the One Piece sets are incoming, and we've seen that those sets feature that piece! Just use it! 

As a non fan the torsos all look so similar I don't get LEGO giving Mr Fantastic a different torso given they're cheapness here unless it was the stretchy one.

2 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

That's a concise way of putting it if ever I've heard it. Probably the only time I've ever wanted a marvel set for the build but couldn't care less about the figs.

I hate this search engine/ai algorithm optimization naming convention. I know that, as with other situations where a set name is inaccurate or bad, people are gonna say it doesn't impact the set itself, but it's still dumb. I refuse to believe that naming this set something like "The Fantastic Four: Coming of Galactus" would impact sales on a statistically significant level.

There's no way this title would sell any better than just calling it Fantastic 4 Vs Galactus. Like they already have all the buzz words, no-one is gonna be looking to buy a "construction figure" online and then come across this.

 

[brickbride]

How is the F4 set EUR 60? A construction fig using around 400 pieces plus four minifigs with plain legs using the same torso and mostly reusing faceprints should not be more than EUR 40 list price, tops. This has to go on sale with 33% off just so you get to pay what should have been the asking price in the first place, never even mind getting a bargain. (A common theme with LEGO these days.)

Reed's legs look hilaroiusly bad, couldn't they have found something better for his feet at least?

I also find it funny that they're doing One Piece this year, where the hero is another rubber person, but there's no consistency across themes as to how to portray this. (Luffy will use the Ms Marvel arms.) Do the designers just not talk to each other?

Edited April 27 by brickbride