Marvel Superheroes 2025 - Rumors & Discussion

[Swordy]

1 hour ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

New details on the Spider-Man 2 set from Fateful:

Build sounds good and as expected—except the lack of word on elevation. Maybe it was just an oversight on Fateful’s end, but the lack of detail on that is slightly troubling.

Disappointing we’ll get another inaccurate Doc Ock. Even ignoring that he got a design uplift in NWH from his SM2 attire, I thought it was clear his outfit in NWH was a dark green and far from gray—although many others online have said otherwise. In any case, the Firestar Toys custom looks all the more appealing to me. Reusing Spidey makes since; I miss the detail on his arms, though, and would appreciate an upgrade in that regard. (Yes, I’ve seen Firestar’s custom arms for Tobey, and conversely I don’t find them fetching at all.) A new face print for Tobey sounds exciting, yet I remain doubtful.

2 or 3 civilians sound promising—especially knowing at least one is female. Perhaps semi-purist customs (reuse generic prints with one or two new prints for each) of Mary Jane and Aunt May are in order—with the obvious inclusion of the train driver as well. Probably a bit too hopeful, though; even hoping for lookalikes of the civilians actually in the movie is asking for too much of LEGO.

[BrickBob Studpants]

Random civilians in licensed sets are very rare, so this is a nice addition! They probably all reuse prints from other sets, but still  I’d have preferred JJJ like in the old set, but if they go for screen accuracy…

[THELEGOBATMAN]

Also mentioned on the Discord: the whole set is situated on a black base, like the one in the No Way Home sets.

[psqidexslizer]

Yeah, the reuse of the Doc Ock from the NWH set has killed any interest I had for this set. That minifigure does not work for the character from NWH, and it especially doesn’t work for the version from Spider-Man 2. 

[hikouki]

Usually Lego minifig books are available on Amazon in advance. How come the upcoming Explore the Spider-verse isn't? The only available option is the kindle version, obviously without the exclusive minifig.

[Kaijumeister]

Not surprised whatsoever that Spidey and Doc-Ock are reuses, Lego Marvel being Lego Marvel. Nice to hear that a possible new head for Tobey is on the cards though.

[NXS7]

Pictures have been released (or leaked, I can't actually tell with the new guidelines these days) of Bluey sets, there's a dalmatian minifigure (apologies to my niece and any present die hard fans, I don't know the characters names) featuring white arms with black dot printing, so this'll be good for anyone looking to improve their Spot minifigures (or make some funny moments since Miles called him a dalmatian)

[Lego Nostalgia]

That CMF has to be the worst ever, the spider-verse movie didn't have the best variants and the CMF has no villains, would have been better as a comic inspired Spider-Verse or Raimi one, a Raimi one could be, Spider-Man, Mary Jane, Green Goblin, Doc Ock, Sandman, Venom, Black suit Spidey, Harry Osborne and if it was a comic one it would be so cool to get a Marvel Zombies Spider-Man

We get Miles and Gwen so much now that it just feels pointless for the CMF, if the CMF was the first time we got Miles and Gwen then that would be good but it isn't, this is like the 50th time, at least it gets the CMF premium print and dual molding detail

Should have been a Disney+ CMF 3 with Daredevil,Punisher,Kingpin,Bullseye,Jubilee,Nightcrawler,Infinity Ultron, Zombie Scarlet Witch

or even just a Comic one, so many characters that we haven't gotten yet that we need (Elektra,Bullseye,Kingpin,Luke Cage, Mystique, Sabertooth, Comic F4

[Scarilian]

On 2/26/2025 at 5:53 AM, THELEGOBATMAN said:

Doc Ock is in a gray suit and has detailed tentacles on his back.

The entire point of a legacy set should be that it reflects the legacy material - especially so if it's also meant to double as a display set as per remarks about it including a base like the NWH sets. I can't see justification for a re-use of Doc Ock here when the colour of the suit is entirely different in Spider-man 2. From the description it's sounding kinda like the original set, just smaller, with less features and less accurate characters.

On 2/26/2025 at 7:22 AM, Swordy said:

2 or 3 civilians sound promising—especially knowing at least one is female.

  I imagine it'll be the train driver and the two individuals that Doc Ock throws for Spider-man to catch - one a guy in a business suit and the other a lady wearing red. You can see them at 2:44 in this scene. I guess it makes sense having Spider-man catching characters in a web if they wanted to include some gimmick, but it's not particularly a memorable part of the scene.

On 2/26/2025 at 7:22 AM, Swordy said:

Build sounds good and as expected—except the lack of word on elevation.

  Elevating the build would require additional pieces and create structural issues if it's designed for playability such as vrooming the train along the track piece into the bumper - as such it'll probably not be elevated.

3 hours ago, Lego Nostalgia said:

-snip-

I partially wonder if the adaptation of these characters in media sometimes prevents them from being adapted into Lego form, similar how to them being adapted in media sometimes encourages them to be adapted into Lego form. It feels like we've got a lot of really popular characters that the fanbase are interested in and for whatever reason Lego seem to not produce.

I feel like black-suited Spider-man they've definitely been told by someone that they cannot use - they have to know that'd sell really well and you'd expect them to do it given how much they went all in on Venom & Venomized versions. Perhaps when we get the black suit on-screen (Spider-man 4 or Secret Wars) it'll allow us to get a movie-verse and eventually comic-verse version of the symbiote suit.

Fantastic Four and other X-Men characters they were probably blocked from using until recently as there was an active attempt to encourage the rights to transfer back by stopping merchandising, now there are back the incentive would be to market the characters as they are in the newer media as opposed to advertising the old from when the rights did not belong to them.

Other characters you mentioned I think mostly are just too niche unfortunately or the time for when they would have sold well has passed, such as if we'd had a Zombie Scarlet Witch release around the release of the Sanctum Sanctorum set.

4 hours ago, NXS7 said:

Bluey sets, there's a dalmatian minifigure (apologies to my niece and any present die hard fans, I don't know the characters names) featuring white arms with black dot printing, so this'll be good for anyone looking to improve their Spot minifigures

Good shout

[kevkipo]

3 hours ago, Lego Nostalgia said:

That CMF has to be the worst ever, the spider-verse movie didn't have the best variants and the CMF has no villains, would have been better as a comic inspired Spider-Verse or Raimi one, a Raimi one could be, Spider-Man, Mary Jane, Green Goblin, Doc Ock, Sandman, Venom, Black suit Spidey, Harry Osborne and if it was a comic one it would be so cool to get a Marvel Zombies Spider-Man

We get Miles and Gwen so much now that it just feels pointless for the CMF, if the CMF was the first time we got Miles and Gwen then that would be good but it isn't, this is like the 50th time, at least it gets the CMF premium print and dual molding detail

Should have been a Disney+ CMF 3 with Daredevil,Punisher,Kingpin,Bullseye,Jubilee,Nightcrawler,Infinity Ultron, Zombie Scarlet Witch

or even just a Comic one, so many characters that we haven't gotten yet that we need (Elektra,Bullseye,Kingpin,Luke Cage, Mystique, Sabertooth, Comic F4

Of course all of this is a matter of personal preference. The Spiderverse movies are very beloved and characters like Punk, Pav, Miguel etc. have become recognisable to a lot of people. I'd agree that the line-up, relating to the movie, could be more interesting. But the vibrant and unique designs of these characters are probably very appealing to kids. In a perfect world we'd make everyone content, but saying this would have been better as a comic Spiderverse or Raimi Spiderman CMF is disservice to the amazing Spiderverse movies. Barring the whole discussion that imo these Spiderverse movies are very deserving of being properly represented next to the, for the past 5 years, very lackluster MCU movies (I agree X-men 97 deserves more love). I'd say more options than just the live-action movies is always a good thing.

Edited February 27 by kevkipo

[strangely]

I don't mind that they didn't give Doc Ock the green coat, I think all the greens in the Lego library are too vibrant to really capture how it looks in the film. I do think this was a missed opportunity to include a battle damaged version of Spider-Man. I hope they at least include a better face for Tobey Maguire's face.

I still might get the set depending on the build and civilian minifigures. It would be great if they could make 2 of the civilians Aunt May and Mary Jane. While neither of them appear in the train scene, they both do have up close encounters with Doc Ock that are memorable, so I think it would make sense to include them here. Also it would just be a waste to have all of the civilians being unnamed, unimportant characters. Granted, we probably won't get that lucky, but a guy can dream...

[poisonbricks]

On 2/23/2025 at 4:04 AM, hikouki said:

There is a blurry image of what some are describing may be Sunspot torso on reddit. I do hope we get more X-Men!

I haven't seen anyone in this thread yet explain exactly how Sunspot was debunked - in case anyone's curious, it's a UV print by 'fishcustoms' on Instagram. He has a 2D drawn post with that same torso print, and while it's not visible anymore, he did post a story saying something to the effect of "when your custom is so good it fools a whole subreddit" 

[BrickBob Studpants]

1 hour ago, poisonbricks said:

I haven't seen anyone in this thread yet explain exactly how Sunspot was debunked […]

For one thing, we have the entire set list of the year and there’s no X-Men set to be seen Then, a leaker confirmed it was fake (forgot who it was, I think fateful?)

[THELEGOBATMAN]

4 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

For one thing, we have the entire set list of the year and there’s no X-Men set to be seen Then, a leaker confirmed it was fake (forgot who it was, I think fateful?)

Yeah, it was Fateful.

But also, did anyone actually expect Sunspot to appear in the (presumably) only X-Men set for this year? That's LEGO we're talking about.

[BrickBob Studpants]

7 minutes ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

But also, did anyone actually expect Sunspot to appear in the (presumably) only X-Men set for this year? That's LEGO we're talking about.

Yeah, Sunspot isn’t exactly an A-lister  There are far more well-known X-Men they’d tackle first.

[psqidexslizer]

Endgame Final Battle pictures are out in the usual place. It looks pretty much how you’d expect.

[LemonFlavouredBleach]

I dont even know how it was possible to make a worse set than the civil war battle set

iron man somehow got a new torso print yet cap reuses the AoU torso btw

[Kaijumeister]

15 minutes ago, LemonFlavouredBleach said:

iron man somehow got a new torso print yet cap reuses the AoU torso btw

Yeeep, and Strange is the same Multiverse of Madness variant we’ve seen a few times now.

At this point, it genuinely is pathetic how low effort some of these minifigure reuses are. They can bother to produce an accurate Endgame Cap in 2021 but not 2025? Is the budget for Lego Marvel really that tight? Or is it just a poor attention to detail? This set sounded so cool when it was first rumoured.

On the plus side, a new Ant-Man is nice and it’s cool T’Challa’s head from the Marvel CMF is included here - the likeness of Chadwick Boseman is awesome. Printing Cap’s broken shield is also pretty cool.

Hopefully the summer wave has some heavy hitters because this just isn’t it. I guess sets like this and the Civil War one are intended to let people quickly amass hero characters in one go.

Edited March 1 by Kaijumeister

[LemonFlavouredBleach]

That Giant Man is also a complete downgrade from 2016 and somehow is downgraded from the civil war one.

ant man also lost his leg printing and hopefully lego isnt lazy enough to give him the peter parker head again 

[Kaijumeister]

8 minutes ago, LemonFlavouredBleach said:

ant man also lost his leg printing and hopefully lego isnt lazy enough to give him the peter parker head again 

I always thought the Poe Dameron head from the Star Wars theme resembled Paul Rudd way more than Oscar Isaac. Shame that head was never used for Ant-Man.

I was really excited for 76322 due to the prospect of finally getting an accurate Endgame Thor and a well done Iron Patriot Mk2, no way that’s happening anymore.

[JohnTPT17]

3 hours ago, LemonFlavouredBleach said:

hopefully lego isnt lazy enough

Do you see the rest of the set? What makes you think Lego isn't being lazy here?

I guess it can work fine as a minifig pack, but sheesh - I think it's time to give the theme a rest for a few years and let it reboot down the road - a la Harry Potter. Or, at least give MCU stuff a break and focus on older films/comics, if this is what Lego thinks is good enough.

[brickbride]

Wow, that looks bad, and the list price is ... something. They should have just foregone making a set and put all the figs in a battlepack or something. Sure, then it would have been hard to justify that kind of list price, but I honestly don't see 600+ parts here and even if I did, EUR 100 would be too much. (Well, actually, given the mech and the portals I can sort of see them. But mechs are EUR 15 at list price even with two minifigs now. The portal was EUR 4 in a polybag with Doctor Strange. So a bunch of portals, a mech, and some rubble for the base can in no way can account for the price.)

I guess they're going by the old rule of thumb "1 minifig per EUR 10 list price" and if you just go by that, the set is actually a good deal. But I cannot ignore the smallish number of parts and the lack of a build.

And apart from all the inaccurate figs, where is the infinity gauntlet? You know, the one that plays a huge part in this scene? If you call the entire thing "Endgame Final Battle" instead of "Marvel Heroes Mashup" or something, at the very least it should reflect its name.

Edited March 1 by brickbride

[THELEGOBATMAN]

I'm impressed. It's somehow even worse than the Civil War set.

The minifigures are pathetic. Out of ten of them, is Spider-Man literally the only new one? Multiverse of Madness Doctor Strange, Age of Ultron Captain America... and that awful faceprint-hairpiece combo for Spider-Man.

The base is an ugly mess. The portals don't look impressive at all. Don't even get me started on Ant-Man's... mech thing.

The worst part? How is that 100€? Genuinely an awful price for an awful set.

[Lego_ofme]

Sigh. It’s awful. Absolutely nothing there for me. Might have been acceptable if it came out nearer the film. I’m finally slowly accepting that Lego has given up on the MCU. My only hopes for this year now is that the F4 set is good and the CMF is great!

[benderisgreat]

Wow new Endgame set might be not just the word Endgame set(post 2021) but one of the worst Marvel sets ever... This set just screams lazy:

- reused and inaccurate minifigs✅

- almost no leg prints✅

- bad build✅

- overpriced set ✅

At this point Lego should just cancel Marvel theme, why even create these sets if they are so terrible and lazy 90% of the time