Marvel Superheroes 2025 - Rumors & Discussion

[BrickBob Studpants]

1 hour ago, upliftingbricks said:

[…] and when the Asterisk finally get announced there wont be enough time to do/redo the package […]

That makes no sense. If the asterisk can be shown in trailers and put on posters, they could also feature it on toy packaging. What‘s the logic? „Oh no, the toy only has the branding used in ALL of the promotional material and not the actual title revealed at the end of the movie, nobody will buy it now, CANCEL IT“

[Swordy]

I share in the disappointment for no Thunderbolts* sets. However, I understand the arguments for why they wouldn’t—the least of which being that the designs are kinda boring. Taskmaster is the only one whose TB* design is an upgrade, and she may not make it halfway through the movie. Meanwhile, half the designs of the team are monotonous grays and blacks—not as bad as the 2000s FoX-Men, though not much of an improvement.

To counterpoint myself, this movie speaks to the energy of The Avengers (2012), and thus I believe the desirability of these designs will be moreso the ability to own a piece of this movie over the designs themselves. Cap and Hawkeye’s 2012 designs have never been regarded as the greatest, but people enjoy having a minifig of that design simply to recreate their favourite MCU moments. That may be true of this film, but only if it’s truly spectacular. I think it will be, but I only started thinking so a couple months ago with that second trailer. I don’t know if anyone a year or so ago would’ve predicted the hype for this movie, nor do I believe anyone will truly understand how great or successful this film is until it releases.

 

3 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I can't think of a time lego dropped the ball on minifig selection that bad- it'd be like if we got an iron man tie in that only came with Tony and no suits.

…or like an Iron Man Hall of Armor that came with no new Iron Man suits.

5 hours ago, Coryo said:

The hands could plausibly be orange though, and all the other members are wearing white gloves, which does lead me to think it's Ben.

Excellent point. Given how we now have an image of the Thing’s head, all three images so far may have been a leak of just Ben’s minifig as opposed to a cross between multiple FF members. Then again, it’s just as possible that the hands are white instead.

[THELEGOBATMAN]

3 hours ago, upliftingbricks said:

Theory: They cant do Thunderbolts sets as they have no way to brand the packaging correctly. If Marvel have been so tightlipped about the title they might not have told toy companies what it is and when the Asterisk finally get announced there wont be enough time to do/redo the package so sets might have been delayed/cancelled and hence not leaked because they arent on schedule by time leakers got information on upcoming sets.

This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. I love it.

Edited February 12 by THELEGOBATMAN

[Mandalorianknight]

3 hours ago, upliftingbricks said:

Theory: They cant do Thunderbolts sets as they have no way to brand the packaging correctly. If Marvel have been so tightlipped about the title they might not have told toy companies what it is and when the Asterisk finally get announced there wont be enough time to do/redo the package so sets might have been delayed/cancelled and hence not leaked because they arent on schedule by time leakers got information on upcoming sets.

This is a certified Aslume classic, but if on the off chance this is a legitimate theory:

No. Absolutely not. The title of the movie is Thunderbolts*. The asterisk is a marketing gimmick. They aren't going to prevent all merch for the movie because of a marketing gimmick. Falcon and the Winter Soldier still got action figures and funkos even though the title was "Captain America and the Winter Soldier" at the end.

55 minutes ago, Swordy said:

I share in the disappointment for no Thunderbolts* sets. However, I understand the arguments for why they wouldn’t—the least of which being that the designs are kinda boring. Taskmaster is the only one whose TB* design is an upgrade, and she may not make it halfway through the movie. Meanwhile, half the designs of the team are monotonous grays and blacks—not as bad as the 2000s FoX-Men, though not much of an improvement.

To counterpoint myself, this movie speaks to the energy of The Avengers (2012), and thus I believe the desirability of these designs will be moreso the ability to own a piece of this movie over the designs themselves. Cap and Hawkeye’s 2012 designs have never been regarded as the greatest, but people enjoy having a minifig of that design simply to recreate their favourite MCU moments. That may be true of this film, but only if it’s truly spectacular. I think it will be, but I only started thinking so a couple months ago with that second trailer. I don’t know if anyone a year or so ago would’ve predicted the hype for this movie, nor do I believe anyone will truly understand how great or successful this film is until it releases.

 

…or like an Iron Man Hall of Armor that came with no new Iron Man suits.

Excellent point. Given how we now have an image of the Thing’s head, all three images so far may have been a leak of just Ben’s minifig as opposed to a cross between multiple FF members. Then again, it’s just as possible that the hands are white instead.

I get why they aren't doing it- lack of faith in the MCU, especially characters who weren't real players in the Infinity Saga, a more mature tone, "we all just punch and shoot", etc. But I don't think the designs are at fault (and completely subjective but I totally disagree on the thunderbolts designs being worse. I would consider Ghost's outfit an upgrade as well as Taskmaster's like you said, Yelana's a sidegrade, and then RG and John are basically the same outfit. The only one who I'd say is 100% a downgrade is Bucky and that's just because he doesn't have a super suit in this, assumably for lore reasons which yeah doesn't entirely excuse it but that's still 1/6.) While the lighting is dark in the trailers, if you look at stuff like the wheaties poster you'll see that RG and Taskmaster are red and navy blue respectively and while wearing a black suit John's still got fairly vibrant red stripes along the torso. The only ones who really lack any color are Bucky, Yelena, and ghost (although I think having an all-white mask still makes her stand out at least a bit), and Bucky and Black Widow having all black costumes isn't new.

Agreed on your second point- I think this film has potential to ACTUALLY save the MCU. The nostalgia well of NWH and Deadpool and Wolverine can't keep the overall franchise alive, and Guardians was a sendoff to an infinity saga team. If Thunderbolts is good and well liked, it gives people a team they care about, one almost entirely comprised of newer characters.

[NXS7]

A very random thought that's popped into my head, it's great that Thing is a minifigure over a big fig as that means we can make his iconic trenchcoat look

[hikouki]

Will it possibly look good if Thing had the Avatar long arms and legs? …maybe not! Lol

[JohnTPT17]

1 hour ago, hikouki said:

Will it possibly look good if Thing had the Avatar long arms and legs? …maybe not! Lol

In my opinion - no. The Avatar/Toy Story limbs work best for characters with thin limbs (like Woody or Jake) - they don't work for a character who's supposed to have some bulk, like Thing.

Also, it's worth noting that most of those characters have custom head molds (I think Jack is the only exception) - just Jack has thin limbs and a small head, so it works.

[BrickBob Studpants]

1 hour ago, hikouki said:

Will it possibly look good if Thing had the Avatar long arms and legs? …maybe not! Lol

That would look hilariously awful. Just try it out with Korg  Also, he‘s the same as height as his fellow team members in the movie, so a regular minifig was the correct choice

[Mandalorianknight]

1 hour ago, hikouki said:

Will it possibly look good if Thing had the Avatar long arms and legs? …maybe not! Lol

I don't think so, he's not lanky, and not taller than the other F4 in the movie, he's just bulkier.

 

I get why- it has a captain america and a hulk, whereas the other is mainly lesser-known characters, but after seeing those reviews, I'm pressed that we live in a society where CA4 got a set but Thunderbolts won't.

[Rwbricks]

I got the Cap 4 set as a gift, and I actually like it more than I thought I would. The mini figures/big-fig are all really good, and the jet reminds me of the classic $20-$30 super hero sets (which is not great for $55). The strangest thing, though, is that for the stickers that go on dark bluish grey pieces, the background pretty much perfectly matches the old dark grey. Definitely not great in terms of quality, but an odd coincidence. 

[SEmrys]

12 hours ago, hikouki said:

Will it possibly look good if Thing had the Avatar long arms and legs? …maybe not! Lol

I was reminded of the Baymax arms the other day. I think if they were inverted (so the thicker parts on the top) that could give him the necessary bulk. But not expecting it obviously. 

I share the disappointment about the lack of Thunderbolts sets though. I love the CA series (haven't seen the new one though) but when it comes to figures I'd much rather have the Thunderbolts than a weirdly designed Sam. 

[G_Brickley]

I think a new, beefier arm piece (like the part used for Eggman but with a standard torso attachment) would do wonders for the Thing. It'd allow him to be broader than the rest whilst still being the right size. Lego could even recolour the part for characters like Venom to make them wider without hiking up the price to make a big fig (which imo aren't the best and stray too far from minifigure proportions)

Admittedly, my main interest in the fantastic four set is if we're going to get unprinted medium blue and white dual moulded legs so I can finally upgrade Captain Cold  but still, a wider variety of minifigure silhouettes would be appreciated!

[cosmic]

I think the new Thing figure (or what we've been able to piece together of him) looks quite dapper. Two things can be true at once. First, that The Thing in a comic book setting would best be depicted as a big figure and many fans would appreciate getting a big figure of him, and secondly, that a mini fig version of the character can still have lots of charm and appeal, as well as being fitting for its context. Namely, the MCU. It's always nice to get variants of our favorite figures, so in due time I'm sure we'll get a bigger version of him. This works nicely for what its supposed to be.

It's Galactus I'm most interested to see. I've recently got back into collecting MCU sets a bit, and with this being the first ever Lego Fantastic Four set, I likely see myself picking this up. It's just a matter of what Galactus looks like. I really hope I enjoy his build. But I'm kind of prepping myself for another Ant-Man situation, lol.

Also new Mary Jane Watson figure lets gooo. Not sure if this will be comic based or based off of the Sony Spiderverse movies but Peters Apartment sounds like its going to be epic. just really hope they stop using generic torsos and faces for the civilian figures of this theme. 2014 MJ got it right, despite being an amalgamation of 2 different depictions of MJ, she still had a torso that clearly read as Mary Jane Watson. I personally hate how they did Gwen Stacy in the Daily Bugle and hope that is not what's in store for MJW. Also kind of wish they'd try something different with Aunt May. She's had some middle aged depictions with longer hair as opposed to her elderly depictions with short white hair, so maybe it'd be nice to start pulling different references for her as well. 

Oscorp figure lineup is not as exciting as it could have been, wish it had at least two more figures (Cloak and Dagger would have been amazing). Hoping Gwen gets the hair piece Supergirl had in Lego DC Superhero Girls. Of course with the headband being black. A black shirt with her green jacket and purple skirt is what I'm envisioning. Make her distinctly Gwen Stacy. Don't need random city pieces reused give me a new torso and leg print please. And for gods sake avoid the Black Widow parted hair piece, and the ponytail pieces.

[JeanGreyForever]

Based on how badly the new Captain America is opening, it's easy to see why Lego is playing it safe for future MCU films and not making a surplus of sets like they used to.

[Rwbricks]

3 hours ago, G_Brickley said:

Admittedly, my main interest in the fantastic four set is if we're going to get unprinted medium blue and white dual moulded legs so I can finally upgrade Captain Cold  but still, a wider variety of minifigure silhouettes would be appreciated!

Ooh, I hadn’t thought of that! Hopefully we do get those boots. 
 

2 hours ago, cosmic said:

It's Galactus I'm most interested to see. I've recently got back into collecting MCU sets a bit, and with this being the first ever Lego Fantastic Four set, I likely see myself picking this up. It's just a matter of what Galactus looks like. I really hope I enjoy his build. But I'm kind of prepping myself for another Ant-Man situation, lol.

Also new Mary Jane Watson figure lets gooo. Not sure if this will be comic based or based off of the Sony Spiderverse movies but Peters Apartment sounds like its going to be epic. just really hope they stop using generic torsos and faces for the civilian figures of this theme. 2014 MJ got it right, despite being an amalgamation of 2 different depictions of MJ, she still had a torso that clearly read as Mary Jane Watson. I personally hate how they did Gwen Stacy in the Daily Bugle and hope that is not what's in store for MJW. Also kind of wish they'd try something different with Aunt May. She's had some middle aged depictions with longer hair as opposed to her elderly depictions with short white hair, so maybe it'd be nice to start pulling different references for her as well. 

Oscorp figure lineup is not as exciting as it could have been, wish it had at least two more figures (Cloak and Dagger would have been amazing). Hoping Gwen gets the hair piece Supergirl had in Lego DC Superhero Girls. Of course with the headband being black. A black shirt with her green jacket and purple skirt is what I'm envisioning. Make her distinctly Gwen Stacy. Don't need random city pieces reused give me a new torso and leg print please. And for gods sake avoid the Black Widow parted hair piece, and the ponytail pieces.

Agreed about Galactus. I really hope they do him justice. Ideally, at least for me, he’d be done in the same method as the brick-built minifigure, but something like Arishem is probably more likely. As long as it’s just him and there’s no Fantasticar or side build taking up the parts (as cool as that car is). 
 

I am hopeful that we’ll get a new torso for Mary Jane, but I fear that a reused head is likely. 
 

Has it been said whether Gwen in Oscorp is her in civilian attire or her spider suit? I had assumed it was her spider suit, as that’s what we’ve usually gotten and is pretty typically shorthanded to just “Gwen,” like how Miles usually refers to him in his suit. A regular Gwen in her comic outfit would be great, though. Now I’m hoping for that. 

[psqidexslizer]

1 hour ago, JeanGreyForever said:

Based on how badly the new Captain America is opening, it's easy to see why Lego is playing it safe for future MCU films and not making a surplus of sets like they used to.

The irony being that they keep making sets for the projects that flop (Cap 4, Thor 4, and Antman 3) but do nothing for ones that do well like Deadpool 3 or seem to actually have a lot of interest like Daredevil and Thunderbolts.

[Mandalorianknight]

3 hours ago, JeanGreyForever said:

Based on how badly the new Captain America is opening, it's easy to see why Lego is playing it safe for future MCU films and not making a surplus of sets like they used to.

I am going to Red Hulk out on the lego group for making a brave new world set but not a thunderbolts set. Whoever made that choice is getting a free reenactment of the Invincible/Omni-Man fight.

1 hour ago, psqidexslizer said:

The irony being that they keep making sets for the projects that flop (Cap 4, Thor 4, and Antman 3) but do nothing for ones that do well like Deadpool 3 or seem to actually have a lot of interest like Daredevil and Thunderbolts.

To be fair, 2 out of the 3 of those weren't getting sets. The only film they've skipped so far post-endgame that isn't against their brand rules to actually make sets for is Thunderbolts.

It's still an absolute crime that CA4 got a set but thunderbolts isn't. Only silver lining is we might end up having some pretty cheap BL prices for the characters, while not super likely it'll get this low there definitely is a timeline where the set's sitting at discount retailers and I can pick up a Rulk bigfig for like $8.

[psqidexslizer]

4 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

To be fair, 2 out of the 3 of those weren't getting sets. The only film they've skipped so far post-endgame that isn't against their brand rules to actually make sets for is Thunderbolts.

I wasn’t going to include them, but we got unofficial tie-in sets for Suicide Squad (where the name was obviously an issue) back in 2016 that included the main characters in comic sets. Lego could have done something similar to that, ie, a Sabertooth vs Wolverine set for Deadpool and Wolverine (I wouldn’t expect them to touch Deadpool) and a set with Spider-Man, Daredevil, and Kingpin this year for Born Again. But they didn’t even do that much. 

[Mandalorianknight]

40 minutes ago, psqidexslizer said:

I wasn’t going to include them, but we got unofficial tie-in sets for Suicide Squad (where the name was obviously an issue) back in 2016 that included the main characters in comic sets. Lego could have done something similar to that, ie, a Sabertooth vs Wolverine set for Deadpool and Wolverine (I wouldn’t expect them to touch Deadpool) and a set with Spider-Man, Daredevil, and Kingpin this year for Born Again. But they didn’t even do that much. 

At the end of the day Suicide Squad 2016 was still PG-13 and the other two are R-rated. (Plus I mean we did get wolverines in 2024). And as much as I love Daredevil I think they did say in a bugle interview that his R/TVMA association is strong enough lego'll only let them put him in 18+ sets. (And even then it's a classic comic variant.)

With the Brave New World reviews I'm just putting more and more hope on Thunderbolts to give the MCU a new team people care about. I've been on a John Walker kick since the super bowl trailer and I think one of the reasons he's so interesting of a character to me where Sam falls a bit flat is because John explicitly doesn't live up to Steve. If you put a normal guy in Steve's shoes yeah he's gonna have a breakdown and crash out. Even down to his correspondingly imperfect shield- I love the idea of a Cap facsimile who's homemade, normal-steel shield gets folded and crunched during fights.

And what's most annoying is he's probably the hardest character to make with official parts at the moment. Bucky and Yelena can be more or less Kitbashed, the official taskmaster only needs a more skull-like head, and while hard to get there IS an official red guardian figure. Ghost isn't super easy either, but ironically, the often over used invincible iron man helmet would work fairly well, and exists in unprinted white from a snowman iron man. But John has no good options for his torso, and nothing great for his cowl, although the Ultron helmet in dark bluish grey wouldn't be the worst thing for it.

TLDR lego should've made a thunderbolts set and I'm going to continue complaining about this until the movie releases. And if anyone has any suggestions for a purist custom John Walker please let me know, he's the only one I can't figure out. (A cheaper torso for Red Guardian wouldn't be unwelcome either.)

[Rwbricks]

2 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

And what's most annoying is he's probably the hardest character to make with official parts at the moment. Bucky and Yelena can be more or less Kitbashed, the official taskmaster only needs a more skull-like head, and while hard to get there IS an official red guardian figure. Ghost isn't super easy either, but ironically, the often over used invincible iron man helmet would work fairly well, and exists in unprinted white from a snowman iron man. But John has no good options for his torso, and nothing great for his cowl, although the Ultron helmet in dark bluish grey wouldn't be the worst thing for it.

TLDR lego should've made a thunderbolts set and I'm going to continue complaining about this until the movie releases. And if anyone has any suggestions for a purist custom John Walker please let me know, he's the only one I can't figure out. (A cheaper torso for Red Guardian wouldn't be unwelcome either.)

Totally agree about the Thunderbolts. Not being able to make the team, especially not if you’re a newer fan who missed the Black Widow and earlier sets, is a shame. Hopefully we’ll get the missing characters in the Avengers sets. 
 

I especially agree about missing John, as he is the trickiest figure to make. This is the closest I’ve come up with this Hank Pym’s torso from the 2015 Ant-Man set: 

I’m not a huge fan of the lip on the helmet, but it’s the best piece available. Also, I think the boots may be darker in the film, but I liked how these looked. 
 

For Red Guardian, I think the torso from Falcon from the blister pack works the best. 

[CloneCommando99]

Ya’ll are mad that Lego’s not making tie-in sets for Thunderbolts. I’m mad that Lego’s completely doing the wrong wacky things to tie in with current comics.

We are not the same.

Why does Lego drop the ball and make 50,000 spider cars when they could be adapting peak?

Edited February 15 by CloneCommando99

[BrickBob Studpants]

43 minutes ago, CloneCommando99 said:

[insanity.png]

…Is that Dr Doom as Sorcerer Supreme riding a Doom cyborg T-Rex?  Comics are weird, man.

43 minutes ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Why does Lego drop the ball and make 50,000 spider cars when they could be adapting peak?

Still waiting for that Thanoscopter set.

[JeanGreyForever]

13 hours ago, psqidexslizer said:

The irony being that they keep making sets for the projects that flop (Cap 4, Thor 4, and Antman 3) but do nothing for ones that do well like Deadpool 3 or seem to actually have a lot of interest like Daredevil and Thunderbolts.

I can definitely see the interest in Deadpool and Daredevil, if it wasn't for their ratings, but I'm pretty sure Lego skipped Thunderbolts knowing that it'll be DOA. For general audiences, the only character they recognize and care about is Bucky. There's maybe slight audience recognition for Yelena and that's it. And once you start filling a team up with Disney+ characters, we have another Marvels situation. Lego skipping out on Thunderbolts was a very safe choice for them because it's an untested property and one that's likely to go the way of the Eternals.

5 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

With the Brave New World reviews I'm just putting more and more hope on Thunderbolts to give the MCU a new team people care about. I've been on a John Walker kick since the super bowl trailer and I think one of the reasons he's so interesting of a character to me where Sam falls a bit flat is because John explicitly doesn't live up to Steve. If you put a normal guy in Steve's shoes yeah he's gonna have a breakdown and crash out. Even down to his correspondingly imperfect shield- I love the idea of a Cap facsimile who's homemade, normal-steel shield gets folded and crunched during fights.

That being said, I did like John Walker and he was one of the only good things about the Falcon and Winter Soldier TV show. So it is a shame there's no incoming minifig for him.

[Agent Kallus]

Well I've seen the new movie and to no great surprise

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I couldn't get spoiler tags to work so hopefully this is a decent compromise.

 

[psqidexslizer]

1 hour ago, Agent Kallus said:

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