Marvel Superheroes 2025 - Rumors & Discussion

[Swordy]

7 hours ago, hikouki said:

Just saw FF4: First Steps on Disney+. Loved it!

Same here! Just finished not twenty minutes ago.

I’m in love with the movie, and I don’t care what anyone says right now! (Although please do reply because I’d love to discuss regardless.) Sixties-era space age is my absolute jam, so seeing the FF in that setting was delightful. As for the characters, I will admit the movie didn’t make me love any particular member more than I already did—nor did it lessen my love for them already, to be fair. Human Torch remains my person favourite (our common love for space did help endear me to him), and Thing is always fun. I don’t have much to give on Sue. I felt Reed was fine; he’s written better than he’s acted, I say.
I’m pleasantly surprised how well Silver Surfer was handled too. I never was and still am not a fan of the gender swap, but that swap did give Johnny a motivation for his role, so I can see why it worked for this movie. Nonetheless, if you’re going to adapt the 60s comics, then why not adapt them as close as possible? Which leads me into my other issue with the movie: the lack of Alicia Summers is a sore loss. I do not care for this “Rachel whatever;” unfortunately. While I see the argument that person should be able to fall in love with Ben regardless of looks, Alicia’s display of compassion to both Thing and Silver Surfer could’ve been kept. The original comics have Surfer’s turn less out of well-timed guilt and more of empathy. The tie-in with Johnny’s arc made for a tighter story, perhaps, but then why have Ben conversing with Rachel at all, or visit that mosque(?) for Hanukah, other than world building? Mind you, the movie already does an excellent job at tying it’s world-building into the plot, so that dangling thread makes me wish for more. I like the obvious parallel between Sue and Shalla, and I wish that had been brought up.
Music is swelling. The sci-fi aspects were wonderful—placed alongside the fantastical elements made it even better. The edit was both truncated but somehow natural. The effects were great, aside from that baby. The movie had the exact same tone as the D23 teaser, for which I fell head over heels. What can I say? I think the movie was fantastic.

Oh, I know I shouldn’t have gotten giddy over the post-credit, but alas, I very much did.

 

As for sets, a Baxter Building, Fantasticar, and Herbie would sure be nice. That said,  I think I’m okay with the characters we have so far from the movie. The only movie-based figure I’d want would be baby Frank, and I have to guess that isn’t hard to do with already-available pieces. I rather have Silver Surfer and flamed-on Human Torch as seen in Silver Age comics, and I suspect/copium-induced hope for a partially-invisible MCU Invisible Woman and stretchy-armed Stretch in Doomsday sets.

[hikouki]

4 minutes ago, Swordy said:

Same here! Just finished not twenty minutes ago.

I’m in love with the movie, and I don’t care what anyone says right now! (Although please do reply because I’d love to discuss regardless.) Sixties-era space age is my absolute jam, so seeing the FF in that setting was delightful. As for the characters, I will admit the movie didn’t make me love any particular member more than I already did—nor did it lessen my love for them already, to be fair. Human Torch remains my person favourite (our common love for space did help endear me to him), and Thing is always fun. I don’t have much to give on Sue. I felt Reed was fine; he’s written better than he’s acted, I say.
I’m pleasantly surprised how well Silver Surfer was handled too. I never was and still am not a fan of the gender swap, but that swap did give Johnny a motivation for his role, so I can see why it worked for this movie. Nonetheless, if you’re going to adapt the 60s comics, then why not adapt them as close as possible? Which leads me into my other issue with the movie: the lack of Alicia Summers is a sore loss. I do not care for this “Rachel whatever;” unfortunately. While I see the argument that person should be able to fall in love with Ben regardless of looks, Alicia’s display of compassion to both Thing and Silver Surfer could’ve been kept. The original comics have Surfer’s turn less out of well-timed guilt and more of empathy. The tie-in with Johnny’s arc made for a tighter story, perhaps, but then why have Ben conversing with Rachel at all, or visit that mosque(?) for Hanukah, other than world building? Mind you, the movie already does an excellent job at tying it’s world-building into the plot, so that dangling thread makes me wish for more. I like the obvious parallel between Sue and Shalla, and I wish that had been brought up.
Music is swelling. The sci-fi aspects were wonderful—placed alongside the fantastical elements made it even better. The edit was both truncated but somehow natural. The effects were great, aside from that baby. The movie had the exact same tone as the D23 teaser, for which I fell head over heels. What can I say? I think the movie was fantastic.

Oh, I know I shouldn’t have gotten giddy over the post-credit, but alas, I very much did.

 

As for sets, a Baxter Building, Fantasticar, and Herbie would sure be nice. That said,  I think I’m okay with the characters we have so far from the movie. The only movie-based figure I’d want would be baby Frank, and I have to guess that isn’t hard to do with already-available pieces. I rather have Silver Surfer and flamed-on Human Torch as seen in Silver Age comics, and I suspect/copium-induced hope for a partially-invisible MCU Invisible Woman and stretchy-armed Stretch in Doomsday sets.

I grew up in the 80s watching those classic Marvel cartoons such as Thor, Namor, and of course FF4! Miss those days!

[BoyLego]

I also rewatched it last night and still love it. It wears its comic bookishness on its sleeve and doesn’t try to be too grounded like a lot of mcu films (not that I’m an mcu hater like some on this forum).

On the rewatch the Minifig Ben made a lot more sense to me, some kind of shoulder piece like for the new rhino fig would have been nice but he kinda works as is.

My biggest complaint is still the lack of dual molded legs for all of the figures. I was hoping we might get some in the right colours for that new animal costume cmf but no luck sadly.

[hikouki]

6 hours ago, BoyLego said:

I also rewatched it last night and still love it. It wears its comic bookishness on its sleeve and doesn’t try to be too grounded like a lot of mcu films (not that I’m an mcu hater like some on this forum).

On the rewatch the Minifig Ben made a lot more sense to me, some kind of shoulder piece like for the new rhino fig would have been nice but he kinda works as is.

My biggest complaint is still the lack of dual molded legs for all of the figures. I was hoping we might get some in the right colours for that new animal costume cmf but no luck sadly.

Not ashamed to admit that I hate the tackiness of MCU.

Knowing Lego, they probably are reserving the dual-molded legs for a future set so it will be a chase part. LOL

[Mandalorianknight]

13 hours ago, JeanGreyForever said:

And honestly speaking, the X-Men brand hasn't been all that strong since the 90s/2000s. Even in the comics, the Avengers started to eclipse the X-Men in popularity years before the MCU and the whole Fox movie rights issues. The only X-Men movie that ever made a billion was Deadpool & Wolverine, which shows that it's these two specific characters who are the moneymakers rather than the team as a whole. Lego assuming anything with an X-Men brand would instantly sell was a mistake. They've made a similar mistake with the FF set. They assumed that because fans have been asking for the FF and Galactus for years, that they could make an overpriced set with barebones figures and little to no accessories, let alone a Fantasticar, and it would be an instant seller. I'd love to see sales figures for that set because I have a strong inkling it's probably also failed to catch on.

I had to look that up and I guess that is a real thing now. No wonder Ultimate Spider-Man was selling better than Amazing Spider-Man lol.

Uncle Ben would probably be made up of completely reused parts anyway, so his lack of minifig doesn't bother me. Captain Stacy's also mostly known for his death but he did last longer in the comics, and appeared in at least two movies, only dying in one of them (ASM) so I can see why they didn't mind including him. Especially being a police officer, he's easy to integrate in a set. It's pretty telling that we could get Captain Stacy but not his daughter in her classic 616 incarnation to this day. I agree, I doubt we'll ever get Richard Parker. I think Mayday/Spider-Girl could one day get get a minifig and I'm a little surprised we haven't gotten her already. Technically we have her baby form in the Spider-Verse CMF but it's strange that they've never made a proper Spider-Girl minifig considering how popular she was in her prime and how for the longest period, she was the female Marvel character with the longest ongoing solo title.

Norman Osborn isn't a redhead though but the Insomniac version is, and the Lego minifig took a hairstyle heavily modeled off his depiction there. He's even got a black striped suit in the game so I think the implication was that they were using that version since he looks nothing like the Raimi version or the comic version. And we've seen how they've pictured the comic version of Norman in the Daily Bugle billboards so there's precedent for what a comic version of Norman could look like in minifigure form. With Spider-Man, Lego seems comfortable drawing from whatever popular sources of media there are, hence why we can get a set with an Ultimate Green Goblin, an Insomniac Norman, while using modern characters like Spider-Gwen and Miles and having a separate CMF series modeled on the Spider-Verse movies. 

Yup. They thought the characters would be enough to get people to buy subpar sets at crazy prices, and that's simply not the case sometimes. 

Honestly I don't mind the idea of a redeemed Norman funding spider-man as a way to atone for his sins (Though I'd really prefer Goblin be a mental condition or just Norman being uninhibited rather than a demonic spirit or whatever it ended up being), but that might in part be just because the ASM runs have been "how much can we kick peter while he's down" so giving him this one win feels better than it might actually be. Like when everyone got hyped about him telling MJ her and venom deserve eachother instead of trying to win her back and getting rejected again- it's not really a "win", but it was an opportunity for the writers to make his life more miserable that they didn't take, which at this point might as well be a win.

Oh, no, yeah, I don't necessarily want an uncle ben figure either. Mayday would be nice at some point, perhaps in a spider-man modular building where various experiments that could open portals to other timelines occur...

You had me thinking I'd gaslit myself into thinking he was for a second there, but I checked and he has been a redhead in plenty of stuff. Willem Dafoe has reddish hair, various points in the comics have depicted him as a redhead, and some of the cartoons like Spectacular and Ultimate. The black striped suit I would think was just a re-use, especially because his more iconic suit in that game is a dark green suit with a yellow vest.

12 hours ago, Swordy said:

Same here! Just finished not twenty minutes ago.

I’m in love with the movie, and I don’t care what anyone says right now! (Although please do reply because I’d love to discuss regardless.) Sixties-era space age is my absolute jam, so seeing the FF in that setting was delightful. As for the characters, I will admit the movie didn’t make me love any particular member more than I already did—nor did it lessen my love for them already, to be fair. Human Torch remains my person favourite (our common love for space did help endear me to him), and Thing is always fun. I don’t have much to give on Sue. I felt Reed was fine; he’s written better than he’s acted, I say.
I’m pleasantly surprised how well Silver Surfer was handled too. I never was and still am not a fan of the gender swap, but that swap did give Johnny a motivation for his role, so I can see why it worked for this movie. Nonetheless, if you’re going to adapt the 60s comics, then why not adapt them as close as possible? Which leads me into my other issue with the movie: the lack of Alicia Summers is a sore loss. I do not care for this “Rachel whatever;” unfortunately. While I see the argument that person should be able to fall in love with Ben regardless of looks, Alicia’s display of compassion to both Thing and Silver Surfer could’ve been kept. The original comics have Surfer’s turn less out of well-timed guilt and more of empathy. The tie-in with Johnny’s arc made for a tighter story, perhaps, but then why have Ben conversing with Rachel at all, or visit that mosque(?) for Hanukah, other than world building? Mind you, the movie already does an excellent job at tying it’s world-building into the plot, so that dangling thread makes me wish for more. I like the obvious parallel between Sue and Shalla, and I wish that had been brought up.
Music is swelling. The sci-fi aspects were wonderful—placed alongside the fantastical elements made it even better. The edit was both truncated but somehow natural. The effects were great, aside from that baby. The movie had the exact same tone as the D23 teaser, for which I fell head over heels. What can I say? I think the movie was fantastic.

Oh, I know I shouldn’t have gotten giddy over the post-credit, but alas, I very much did.

I liked it at first, but the more time that's gone by and especially as other forum members have pointed things out to me, I think it was just that it wasn't terrible like I expected it to be. It's still not a great adaption of the F4, though I'd probably put it as the best movie adaption.

Completely agree on all the characters. Thing and Johnny were pretty similar to how they should be- I will never get over the fact that they made press statements about "modernizing" Johnny and he's just the exact same Johnny in the movie. Sue was a good character who had a solid story, but she didn't feel like Sue's personality, and as much as I wanted to chalk that up to the gravity of the situation, it's not like the F4 aren't constantly saving the world. Reed was my least favorite, I agree that he's written well but Pedro Pascal just isn't a good Reed Richards. 

Surfer is one thing I do maintain the movie did well, and like you say, a rare example of the gender swap actually meaning something for what it adds to Johnny and Sue's arcs. I still want the main surfer to be Norrin, but I'm OK with this alternate universe one being a woman. (I will also need a joke in doomsday/secret wars where Johnny hears that surfer is coming, and then when Surfer lands and it's Norrin Johnny's bummed out. But rumor is he and Ben get benched with half the Thunderbolts so Reed and Sue can go join the Samvengers for the main story....)

This may have been pointed out to me before and then I forgot it in the interim, but when I watched the movie I totally thought that WAS Alicia and they'd just butchered the character. I remember thinking it was really odd that she could see. I assume this Rachel character was added because the writers were trying to show that they know Ben is Jewish in the comics without actually making him Jewish in the movie, for some reason. Like he shows up to the (synagogue, not mosque), but he's just kind of there to see Rachel, not to practice his faith. The only reason I can think for them cutting Alicia in the first place is that in this world nobody's freaked out by how Thing looks, but while you lose an aspect of how they first meet, it's not like they were only together because most people were freaked out by Thing's appearance.

8 hours ago, BoyLego said:

On the rewatch the Minifig Ben made a lot more sense to me, some kind of shoulder piece like for the new rhino fig would have been nice but he kinda works as is.

Rhino's shoulder/helmet is actually one piece, the same as from a few years back in that one 4+ set. But they still could have printed 78643 with the top of the F4 torso if the budget for those figures wasn't a total of one new mold and literally just 3 prints.

Edited November 9, 2025 by Mandalorianknight

[BrickBob Studpants]

There’s gonna be a new Avenger-centric DK book next year with an exclusive minifig! The blurb at the bottom about “unlocking the mysteries of the Marvel Studios multiverse” implies it could be based on the MCU, but who knows  The Ultron shown on the preliminary cover isn’t the AoU version, for instance.

Probably a new Iron Man or Cap

[psqidexslizer]

3 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

There’s gonna be a new Avenger-centric DK book next year with an exclusive minifig! The blurb at the bottom about “unlocking the mysteries of the Marvel Studios multiverse” implies it could be based on the MCU, but who knows  The Ultron shown on the preliminary cover isn’t the AoU version, for instance.

Probably a new Iron Man or Cap

Baron Zemon or US Agent, Venomized of course. 

[calebcold3]

Why does Ashnflash think we would get a New Goblin Minifigure in a book about THE AVENGERS? Is he stupid?

[psqidexslizer]

33 minutes ago, calebcold3 said:

Why does Ashnflash think we would get a New Goblin Minifigure in a book about THE AVENGERS? Is he stupid?

The Avengers? What is that? Is, is it a band? Is Little Goblin Junior in a band?

[BrickBob Studpants]

6 hours ago, psqidexslizer said:

Is Little Goblin Junior in a band?

Thank you, I almost choked on my breakfast

This is very unlikely to be a new character, let alone a non-Avenger.

[JeanGreyForever]

17 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Yup. They thought the characters would be enough to get people to buy subpar sets at crazy prices, and that's simply not the case sometimes. 

Honestly I don't mind the idea of a redeemed Norman funding spider-man as a way to atone for his sins (Though I'd really prefer Goblin be a mental condition or just Norman being uninhibited rather than a demonic spirit or whatever it ended up being), but that might in part be just because the ASM runs have been "how much can we kick peter while he's down" so giving him this one win feels better than it might actually be. Like when everyone got hyped about him telling MJ her and venom deserve eachother instead of trying to win her back and getting rejected again- it's not really a "win", but it was an opportunity for the writers to make his life more miserable that they didn't take, which at this point might as well be a win.

Oh, no, yeah, I don't necessarily want an uncle ben figure either. Mayday would be nice at some point, perhaps in a spider-man modular building where various experiments that could open portals to other timelines occur...

You had me thinking I'd gaslit myself into thinking he was for a second there, but I checked and he has been a redhead in plenty of stuff. Willem Dafoe has reddish hair, various points in the comics have depicted him as a redhead, and some of the cartoons like Spectacular and Ultimate. The black striped suit I would think was just a re-use, especially because his more iconic suit in that game is a dark green suit with a yellow vest.

 

Unfortunately this has been the norm rather than the exception for a while now.

Didn't realize they retconned the Green Goblin to be an actual demon instead of a mental condition. This reminds me of when Nightcrawler was given an actual demon as his father. I know the whole Peter/MJ stuff is a mess right now and Marvel seems as determined as possible to ruin that relationship and butcher her character. The funny thing is that even back in the 60s, Stan Lee preferred Gwen over MJ and tried his best to make readers follow suit. He wrote MJ out and then when he was forced to bring her back due to popular demand, chopped her hair off for an ugly perm in hopes people would dislike her now. Didn't work so she got her normal hairstyle back. At least Stan gave up on making readers hate MJ and ended up being crucial in getting the Peter/MJ wedding which Marvel torpedoed.

That's a good idea.

Are you sure? I think brown hair just has a tendency to come across as red in certain lighting but I've never seen Norman depicted as a redhead and I looked back at the Insomniac game, and you're right that it's just brown that comes across as auburn in certain lighting. In the 60s, he had the exact same hairstyle as Sandman who's always been seen as a brunette. In the Raimi films, which I rewatched in theaters a month ago so they're fresh, his hair is also brown, albeit somewhat light brown. There's a reason the NWH minifigure gave him brown hair although it's too dark and should have been reddish brown. In animated TV shows, brown hair often is portrayed as more reddish to look more appealing. Look at how Rogue's hair is basically scarlet in X-Men 97. Same with Cyclops whose hair comes across as orange. But the only actual redhead on the show is Jean. Same with Norman. Compare him to MJ in all those media and you can see the stark difference between her red hair and reddish brown hair. 

 

On 11/8/2025 at 11:17 PM, playgood said:

I love the X-Men, but even back then the X-Men brand wasn't as strong as we remember it to be. Universal Studios built an entire theme park land dedicated to Marvel in 1999. There were attractions based on the Hulk, Spider-Man, and Fantastic Four, but no X-Men (They later added a small spinner ride featuring Storm from the X-Men to address criticism that they weren't enough rides without height restrictions). 

Good point, it is telling they never had a full-fledged ride even in the late 90s.

On 11/8/2025 at 11:18 PM, hikouki said:

On the wikipedia page, I initially saw that The Beast (X-Men) will be in that movie. I got excited for which other X-Men will be appearing but it is just the same cast of characters that we have gotten from the X-Mansion. Sigh :(

Nightcrawler and Mystique are in the movie but don't have minifigs yet. So they're likely candidates. 

[Mandalorianknight]

16 hours ago, calebcold3 said:

Why does Ashnflash think we would get a New Goblin Minifigure in a book about THE AVENGERS? Is he stupid?

I assume it's generic youtube clickbait, right? Or does he actually say in the video he thinks New Goblin is a legitimate candidate?

No hate to ashnflash- it's how the youtube game is played and from what videos of his I have seen he's generally pretty solid.

16 hours ago, psqidexslizer said:

US Agent, Venomized of course. 

I would fly to Denmark on the spot and fistfight John L. Ego myself. (Wearing the John Walker suit, of course, just so he knows what an unvenomized one looks like)

6 hours ago, JeanGreyForever said:

Didn't realize they retconned the Green Goblin to be an actual demon instead of a mental condition. This reminds me of when Nightcrawler was given an actual demon as his father. I know the whole Peter/MJ stuff is a mess right now and Marvel seems as determined as possible to ruin that relationship and butcher her character. The funny thing is that even back in the 60s, Stan Lee preferred Gwen over MJ and tried his best to make readers follow suit. He wrote MJ out and then when he was forced to bring her back due to popular demand, chopped her hair off for an ugly perm in hopes people would dislike her now. Didn't work so she got her normal hairstyle back. At least Stan gave up on making readers hate MJ and ended up being crucial in getting the Peter/MJ wedding which Marvel torpedoed.

 

Are you sure? I think brown hair just has a tendency to come across as red in certain lighting but I've never seen Norman depicted as a redhead and I looked back at the Insomniac game, and you're right that it's just brown that comes across as auburn in certain lighting. In the 60s, he had the exact same hairstyle as Sandman who's always been seen as a brunette. In the Raimi films, which I rewatched in theaters a month ago so they're fresh, his hair is also brown, albeit somewhat light brown. There's a reason the NWH minifigure gave him brown hair although it's too dark and should have been reddish brown. In animated TV shows, brown hair often is portrayed as more reddish to look more appealing. Look at how Rogue's hair is basically scarlet in X-Men 97. Same with Cyclops whose hair comes across as orange. But the only actual redhead on the show is Jean. Same with Norman. Compare him to MJ in all those media and you can see the stark difference between her red hair and reddish brown hair. 

And now Gwen's back, if I heard right (not Spider-Gwen, actual 616 Gwen Stacy), so maybe we'll see Stan get his wish.

I mean it all depends on exactly where you want to draw the line between brown and red hair, but I'd definitely say Norman's been a redhead at points, just the more natural muted red color rather than MJ's fire truck red hair. At a certain point, if you're portraying the brown hair as reddish in a show, when does it just mean the character has red hair? Regardless, my point was moreso that I don't think the red hair is a flag that it's insomniac Norman as insomniac Norman's hair isn't different from it's normal color, and you seem to agree, even if we draw the line of what constitutes a redhead at different points. Lego did give Rogue red hair, so they clearly skew closer to that in general.

Edited November 10, 2025 by Mandalorianknight

[playgood]

It's mostly wishful thinking, but the logic behind the New Goblin guess is that its possible New Goblin was designed and considered for the Spider-man 3 set before the final budget was worked out and the figure moved over to the book release. 

[calebcold3]

1 hour ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I assume it's generic youtube clickbait, right? Or does he actually say in the video he thinks New Goblin is a legitimate candidate?

No hate to ashnflash- it's how the youtube game is played and from what videos of his I have seen he's generally pretty solid.

He says in the video how he thinks New Goblin is a legitimate candidate. 

[JeanGreyForever]

On 11/10/2025 at 12:56 PM, Mandalorianknight said:

And now Gwen's back, if I heard right (not Spider-Gwen, actual 616 Gwen Stacy), so maybe we'll see Stan get his wish.

I mean it all depends on exactly where you want to draw the line between brown and red hair, but I'd definitely say Norman's been a redhead at points, just the more natural muted red color rather than MJ's fire truck red hair. At a certain point, if you're portraying the brown hair as reddish in a show, when does it just mean the character has red hair? Regardless, my point was moreso that I don't think the red hair is a flag that it's insomniac Norman as insomniac Norman's hair isn't different from it's normal color, and you seem to agree, even if we draw the line of what constitutes a redhead at different points. Lego did give Rogue red hair, so they clearly skew closer to that in general.

Wow, didn't realize they just brought her back. Although there's been multiple attempts to bring her back in the past but none of them stuck so curious if this one will.

The thing about colors in animation and comics is that they're exaggerated or oversaturated in order to look better and more appealing. Like blonde hair is not really canary yellow but you'll see it portrayed as canary yellow in animation rather. Natural red hair is more orange but in comics, redhead characters like Jean Grey, MJ, Mystique, Black Widow will either have bright red hair or dark red hair with black highlights. Black hair is often portrayed as dark blue even if characters in-universe will acknowledge that character as having black hair instead of the blue it looks like to us (the Miraculous Ladybug kids show has a protagonist with blue hair but it's described as black in the show. Nobody in the show says she has blue hair, but blue hair is more kid friendly than black. Kids shows and toys use primary colors like bright red, yellow, and blue because they test better with kids).

With comics in particular, colors were often disputed. Spider-Man's costume was red and black originally. Blue highlights were used on the black portions of his costume and that gave the appearance that his costume was really blue, hence now why his colors are automatically seen as red and blue which don't even fit a spider like red and black do. The X-Men's costumes were yellow and black but the blue highlights made their uniforms look blue, which is why the X-Men's team colors are now gold and blue. Storm's 90s costume was actually a shiny black but the metallic highlights made it look silver or white and the 90s TV show mistook her costume as white and that's how they portrayed it and pop culture associates her costume as white now. MJ is referred to as a redhead in most media whereas the Osborns never are, even if their hair looks reddish in some lighting. Even dark blonde in the Raimi movies when Norman or Harry are seen under the sun, since light brown hair can look the most inconsistent in different lighting, whether blonde, red, or brunette.

Rogue's Lego minifig was a weird case because they went with show accuracy to give her more orangey hair but Cyclops they went the opposite direction with. His hair is also orange/red in the show, sometimes rivaling the red of Jean's hair color (but nobody will call him a redhead or Rogue a redhead in the show, like they call Jean one) but Lego used dark brown for his hair. Considering Rogue and Cyclops are in the same set, it's even more jarring that they got opposite treatments. Most people swapped out Cyclops' hair to give him reddish brown hair which is more comic accurate and I've seen most people who replaced Rogue's hair give her dark brown hair (like Agatha's hair). But Lego was pretty inconsistent with the X-Men minifigs in general. Like Jean and Bishop have dark blue minifigs instead of the medium shade of blue the rest of the team has. For Jean, it still somewhat makes sense because her outfit is dark blue with medium blue highlights which does make her costume look darker than the rest of the team's, but Bishop's costume has always been a very medium/bright shade of blue. No idea why they went so dark with his minifig. Then with Magneto, he wears a dark purple costume with black highlights but they went with an overly saturated and light shade of purple for his minifig in the X-Jet set. Presumably since those bright colors were more kid friendly and less villainous looking. And going back to Norman, Lego gave him dark brown for his NWH minifig even though his hair is never that dark in the Raimi movies.

[Mandalorianknight]

On 11/12/2025 at 1:09 AM, JeanGreyForever said:

Wow, didn't realize they just brought her back. Although there's been multiple attempts to bring her back in the past but none of them stuck so curious if this one will.

The thing about colors in animation and comics is that they're exaggerated or oversaturated in order to look better and more appealing.

They never do. They've been playing up the "she's back, for real this time" angle, but they do that every time, same with how anytime a superhero dies they do the "he's really gone forever and never coming back" and then they return within like 3-5 years. She's also a Gwenpool- though it's Gwen Stacy, not Gwen Poole, which annoys me because all the multiverse Gwens have already warped people's perception of the character and now even 616 Gwen is some sort of costumed mercenary?

That's true, but then if it's visually represented in that fashion, wouldn't you want to correlating figures to include that oversaturation so it's accurate to the animation or comics? And at what point does the character have hair in a certain color, if it's their canonical in-universe description, or the color the hair's drawn to be?

In either case, I guess how I should have made my original point was that wherever you want to draw the line on what constitutes red hair, Norman's hair in the insomniac games isn't any more reddish than various other versions of the character, so I don't think the figure in the Oscorp set is based specifically on that version.

[brickbride]

Finally watched "F4". It's not the worst movie Marvel Studios have put out lately, but then "Qantumania" and "Thor Love & Thunder" set that bar really, really low. I was disturbed that every single person in the world seems to be merely an extra in the F4‘s lives. None of them have characterisations or agendas of their own, they basically serve as a faceless adoring mass (that turns briefly hateful but then just as quickly returns to its regular adoring state). And then there’s the fact that the entire movie feels like a throwback to the 60s but not in a good way. So much cringy pregnancy humour! (I was extremely glad when the Silver Surfer showed up half an hour in just because she put a brief stop to that.) So much unrealistic birthing! TWO female characters in a main cast of seven who BOTH solely exist to be Mothers (and in one case, to be sexy and flirtatious at the same time) and who BOTH get to sacrifice themselves! Yikes, was that thing actually written in the Sixties and sat in a time capsule for the last couple of decades or something?

Other than that, wow does the LEGO Galactus look bad in comparison. The scale is way off and the colour scheme does him no favour at all. And Johnny really really needed to be in his torch form while fighting him. Also where's Franklin? They could have used the existing baby and recoloured it. I think the scene might have worked better as a diorama of Galactus and a slice of New York (Times Square with the Bridge, little skyscrapers for him to smash) with the Four to be displayed on the side. Or just one of those "rubble" sets (á la "Endgame") that LEGO likes so much, with maybe Sue in the crashed car, Johnny pursuing the Silver Surfer, and the remaining F4 in there, too. People would have bought it solely for the figs but then I guess that's the idea of the existing set anyway.

Edited November 14, 2025 by brickbride

[Mandalorianknight]

17 hours ago, brickbride said:

Finally watched "F4". It's not the worst movie Marvel Studios have put out lately, but then "Qantumania" and "Thor Love & Thunder" set that bar really, really low. I was disturbed that every single person in the world seems to be merely an extra in the F4‘s lives. None of them have characterisations or agendas of their own, they basically serve as a faceless adoring mass (that turns briefly hateful but then just as quickly returns to its regular adoring state). And then there’s the fact that the entire movie feels like a throwback to the 60s but not in a good way. So much cringy pregnancy humour! (I was extremely glad when the Silver Surfer showed up half an hour in just because she put a brief stop to that.) So much unrealistic birthing! TWO female characters in a main cast of seven who BOTH solely exist to be Mothers (and in one case, to be sexy and flirtatious at the same time) and who BOTH get to sacrifice themselves! Yikes, was that thing actually written in the Sixties and sat in a time capsule for the last couple of decades or something?

Other than that, wow does the LEGO Galactus look bad in comparison. The scale is way off and the colour scheme does him no favour at all. And Johnny really really needed to be in his torch form while fighting him. Also where's Franklin? They could have used the existing baby and recoloured it. I think the scene might have worked better as a diorama of Galactus and a slice of New York (Times Square with the Bridge, little skyscrapers for him to smash) with the Four to be displayed on the side. Or just one of those "rubble" sets (á la "Endgame") that LEGO likes so much, with maybe Sue in the crashed car, Johnny pursuing the Silver Surfer, and the remaining F4 in there, too. People would have bought it solely for the figs but then I guess that's the idea of the existing set anyway.

I guess I can see where you're coming from with some bits of it, and obviously I've not got the same experience here, but most of the women I know personally really loved Sue's arc and thought she was the best female MCU story. (Which I don't personally agree with, but part of that's that I didn't like how morose this sue and... pretty much all the F4 were in the movie. MAYBE Reed could be this downtrodden, but the other three? No.)

The set is awful, though- or at least the figures.

 

As I've talked about before here, I get a lot of stuff in from ebay bulk lots for my bricklink store and sometimes skim off characters I want, and in this case, not only was beast delivered into the fold, but by complete chance I got my hands on spider-man 2099 in the same lot. Beast is pretty solid, I still think he needs to be a bigfig but this figure will definitely work for now. The dual-molded hair is well done.

2099 is amazing. Just perfect detailing. I'm leaving the cape on for now, though I'll likely remove it at some point for a more classic 2099, but it is an excellent cape and the vinyl really works.

[JeanGreyForever]

On 11/13/2025 at 9:10 AM, Mandalorianknight said:

They never do. They've been playing up the "she's back, for real this time" angle, but they do that every time, same with how anytime a superhero dies they do the "he's really gone forever and never coming back" and then they return within like 3-5 years. She's also a Gwenpool- though it's Gwen Stacy, not Gwen Poole, which annoys me because all the multiverse Gwens have already warped people's perception of the character and now even 616 Gwen is some sort of costumed mercenary?

That's true, but then if it's visually represented in that fashion, wouldn't you want to correlating figures to include that oversaturation so it's accurate to the animation or comics? And at what point does the character have hair in a certain color, if it's their canonical in-universe description, or the color the hair's drawn to be?

In either case, I guess how I should have made my original point was that wherever you want to draw the line on what constitutes red hair, Norman's hair in the insomniac games isn't any more reddish than various other versions of the character, so I don't think the figure in the Oscorp set is based specifically on that version.

Superhero deaths are always marketed by Marvel (and I imagine DC) as well for being permanent but they're usually retconned within a few years like you said. Gwenpool confused me from the beginning because I couldn't understand if she was some Gwen variant or if she was just named after her. I heard it was the latter but that makes less sense now if this new/returned Gwen is also a Gwenpool. 

I think it depends on the style of animation and how prevalent the character design from the animation is compared to other versions of the character. Like with Rogue, most people view her as a brunette so a lot of people didn't like the orange hair they gave her, even though that's accurate to X-Men '97. With Cyclops, he has orange hair in the show and even in the first Lego Marvel Super Heroes game but most people don't seem to view that as anymore accurate than the dark brown hair he got in his Lego sets. Reddish brown hair is the norm for him in the comics and movies.

I think the face and the hairstyle look more like the Insomniac version. Even disregarding the hair color, the hairstyle he has in the Oscorp set doesn't reflect his hair from the comics or even the Raimi movies. Like the NWH set did a good job of portraying a hairstyle that looks like Raimi's Norman, even if the color was too dark.

[Mandalorianknight]

On 11/16/2025 at 9:38 PM, JeanGreyForever said:

Superhero deaths are always marketed by Marvel (and I imagine DC) as well for being permanent but they're usually retconned within a few years like you said. Gwenpool confused me from the beginning because I couldn't understand if she was some Gwen variant or if she was just named after her. I heard it was the latter but that makes less sense now if this new/returned Gwen is also a Gwenpool. 

I think it depends on the style of animation and how prevalent the character design from the animation is compared to other versions of the character. Like with Rogue, most people view her as a brunette so a lot of people didn't like the orange hair they gave her, even though that's accurate to X-Men '97. With Cyclops, he has orange hair in the show and even in the first Lego Marvel Super Heroes game but most people don't seem to view that as anymore accurate than the dark brown hair he got in his Lego sets. Reddish brown hair is the norm for him in the comics and movies.

I think the face and the hairstyle look more like the Insomniac version. Even disregarding the hair color, the hairstyle he has in the Oscorp set doesn't reflect his hair from the comics or even the Raimi movies. Like the NWH set did a good job of portraying a hairstyle that looks like Raimi's Norman, even if the color was too dark.

IIRC Gwenpool (the first one) is a woman named Gwen Poole who's from OUR world, like Superboy Prime in DC. No relation to Gwen Stacy beyond a passing resemblance. The new one who IS Gwen, I have no idea. I'm torn between wanting them to reveal it's not actually Gwen just so we can have 1 or 2 characters that actually stayed dead, or wanting it to BE Gwen and for her to work with Peter so Spider-Man can finally get a win in the 616 continuity.

Yup, it all depends. Ironically we're getting a very X-men '97 inspired Gambit and Rogue in the Marvel Rivals game and Rogue has brown hair with Gambit having bright red hair.

It's possible, but given his head is just a re-use I think it's fairly likely that they just kitbashed a generic figure without putting any real thought into it.

[Scarilian]

Obviously really glad that we are getting more Raimi Spiderman stuff. Venom looks cool even if I think he could have benefitted from a bit more printing.

In regards to the Epic Moments, here is my expectations on how they handle Spider-man:

● Tom Hollands Spider-man - 'NWH Bridge Battle' - Iron Spider, Doc Ock, Green Goblin with Glider. Scaffolding, taxi, portal. Probably the most logical way for us to get the classic Green Goblin design and allows for a reuse of figures.

● Tobey Maguire Spider-man - 'New Goblin Attack' - Peter Parker, New Goblin, Symbiote Spider-Man. Build is a brick wall with floating debris. The only costumed fight that New Goblin gets outside of the final battle and I think they'd throw in Symbiote Spider-man as his only other full fight appearance is facing off against Sandman next to a train.

● Andrew Garfield Spider-Man 'TASM2 Clock Tower' - Spider-man, Electro, Goblin. Bunch of overlapping gears with an electric pylon. Gwen could be skipped to keep the focus on the conflict as opposed to being viewed as being about her death.

I think with Rhino, Mysterio, Sandman and Venom getting some representation in the other sets in the wave, combined with the above that only really leaves out Vulture and Lizard for those wanting a version of each of the primary antagonists.

[calebcold3]

Since we're in a bit of a drought until the last 2 January Sets are revealed (the 27th Buildable Groot and the 23rd Miles Mech), and we're also waiting for the Reviews for all the January sets, and when Leaks for the April/June 2026 sets drop, so for fun, I thought I would predict what I could see the Doomsday Wave being Next Year (I think we'll get 4 sets)

• (4+ Set) Captain America Bike vs Doombot, Minifigures: Sam Cap and a Doombot, Price: $9.99
• Giant Man Construction Figure, Minifigures: Thor, Shang Chi, and a Doombot, Price: $39.99
• X-Jet, Minifigures: Cyclops, Nightcrawler, Mystique, Professor X, and Magneto, Price: $89.99
• (Connects to the Mini-Modulars) New Avengers Tower, Minifigures: Bucky, Yelena, Sentry, Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Doctor Doom, 2x Doombots, Price: $119.99

[CloneCommando99]

17 minutes ago, calebcold3 said:

Since we're in a bit of a drought until the last 2 January Sets are revealed (the 27th Buildable Groot and the 23rd Miles Mech), and we're also waiting for the Reviews for all the January sets, and when Leaks for the April/June 2026 sets drop, so for fun, I thought I would predict what I could see the Doomsday Wave being Next Year (I think we'll get 4 sets)

• (4+ Set) Captain America Bike vs Doombot, Minifigures: Sam Cap and a Doombot, Price: $9.99
• Giant Man Construction Figure, Minifigures: Thor, Shang Chi, and a Doombot, Price: $39.99
• X-Jet, Minifigures: Cyclops, Nightcrawler, Mystique, Professor X, and Magneto, Price: $89.99
• (Connects to the Mini-Modulars) New Avengers Tower, Minifigures: Bucky, Yelena, Sentry, Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Doctor Doom, 2x Doombots, Price: $119.99

Nice. I also think/ hope a Doctor Doom mech is on the cards.

Edited November 26, 2025 by CloneCommando99

[Mandalorianknight]

11 hours ago, calebcold3 said:

Since we're in a bit of a drought until the last 2 January Sets are revealed (the 27th Buildable Groot and the 23rd Miles Mech), and we're also waiting for the Reviews for all the January sets, and when Leaks for the April/June 2026 sets drop, so for fun, I thought I would predict what I could see the Doomsday Wave being Next Year (I think we'll get 4 sets)

(MINOR SPOILERS BASED ON PLOT LEAKS AND SET PHOTOS)

Spoiler

The first three seem fairly likely (though I think we're likely to get a Sentinal and almost guaranteed the F4's transdimensional spaceship), but I don't think we see the new avengers tower unfortunately. The plot leaks have been that it's the "B-team" (Unfortunately meaning half the thunderbolts, Thing, and Johnny all get left behind) stay behind on earth while the main story is about the "A-team" (Which somehow includes all the Samvengers, as if anyone's over the moon for those guys) going off on dimensional travel and meeting the X-men. If we did get a big location set, I think it would be a playset X-mansion, but honestly I think most likely we'll be either getting more random nothings like the Captain America bike or the flagship set will be the transdimensional spaceship. 

On 11/22/2025 at 8:12 AM, Scarilian said:

Obviously really glad that we are getting more Raimi Spiderman stuff. Venom looks cool even if I think he could have benefitted from a bit more printing.

In regards to the Epic Moments, here is my expectations on how they handle Spider-man:

Those are all excellent. I think we're all predicting that one way or another Raimi Goblin is coming.

10 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Nice. I also think/ hope a Doctor Doom mech is on the cards.

I hope so, but we'll have to see whether or not lego tries to hold him back in the most expensive set.

[CF Mitch]

On 11/26/2025 at 8:22 AM, calebcold3 said:

Since we're in a bit of a drought until the last 2 January Sets are revealed (the 27th Buildable Groot and the 23rd Miles Mech), and we're also waiting for the Reviews for all the January sets, and when Leaks for the April/June 2026 sets drop, so for fun, I thought I would predict what I could see the Doomsday Wave being Next Year (I think we'll get 4 sets)

• (4+ Set) Captain America Bike vs Doombot, Minifigures: Sam Cap and a Doombot, Price: $9.99
• Giant Man Construction Figure, Minifigures: Thor, Shang Chi, and a Doombot, Price: $39.99
• X-Jet, Minifigures: Cyclops, Nightcrawler, Mystique, Professor X, and Magneto, Price: $89.99
• (Connects to the Mini-Modulars) New Avengers Tower, Minifigures: Bucky, Yelena, Sentry, Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Doctor Doom, 2x Doombots, Price: $119.99

I'm on board with all of these, except the X-jet with those figures. Give me a Sentinel build instead of the jet  

Regards,
Mitch

Edited November 27, 2025 by CF Mitch