Marvel Superheroes 2025 - Rumors & Discussion

[Lego Nostalgia]

On 3/29/2025 at 8:51 AM, CloneCommando99 said:

Speaking of Endgame time travel suits… we’re still yet to get one with the movie accurate helmet.

More likely to get that before Ronin sadly

[Scarilian]

2 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Right now, for both the lego sets and the movie itself, Doomsday is in a very unique spot. What Marvel and Lego both know is that most of the new phase 4 and 5 characters haven't been very popular.

27 characters revealed so far and chances are it's about half the full cast list... being realistic we won't get them all so it'll be them debating as to which ones they don't do based on concept art, prevelance and whether they've released a version of them recently.

Initial wave of Infinity War featured 7 sets, 6 featuring minifigures for a total of 17 unique figures with 2 of those being Big Figs.

I'd imagine 2026/2027 Lego, in terms of recent live-action MCU inspired stuff, would have to look something like this:

• Legacy Fox-Verse X-Men set
• 6 x Avengers Doomsday sets (17 Unique Characters)
• Legacy Thunderbolts set
• 3 x Spider-man 4 sets
• CMF line featuring Disney+ characters
• 6 x Avengers Secret Wars sets (17 Unique Characters)
• Avengers Secret Wars D2C (E.g. Castle Doom in the style of the Sanctum Sanctorum)

Then 20th anniversary in 2028 is an excuse to do another CMF, legacy sets, D2C, etc... hopefully Iron Man Malibu Mansion.

On 3/28/2025 at 2:13 AM, NXS7 said:

I just wanna know what type of build Galactus will be, hoping for upscaled mini figure (2016 Giant Man) style, praying it's not one of the big action figure types

I think the main options are: Up-scaled Surtur, 2016 Giant Man style, Construction Figure, Arishem style. The last of which I unfortunately feel is the most likely:

• 76316-  Galactus Vs The Fantastic Four: 427 pieces, $59.99, four figures - Galactus main build
• 76155 - In Arishem's Shadow: 493 pieces, $59.99, four figures - Arishem main build, Creature side-build.

[Lego Nostalgia]

More info on the Marvel sets would be nice for April Fools

Wish we got Ronin :(

 I need a new IW Thanos as well

I really hope that we get Secret Wars sets with Wolverine,Deadpool,Nic Cage Ghost Rider, Wesley Snipes Blade, some OG X-men, hell, even Ben Afflecks Daredevil if he returns, he was in concept art of D&W

Deadpool and Wolverine are a 100% given, I heard they'll be in Doomsday for a minor role so hopefully Lego makes them, Deadpool is not off the table anymore, but it'll probably be 2 years after the movie is released for Spoiler Characters

[brickbride]

12 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Right now, for both the lego sets and the movie itself, Doomsday is in a very unique spot. What Marvel and Lego both know is that most of the new phase 4 and 5 characters haven't been very popular. So they have three choices:

1. Barrel ahead with Samcap leading She-Hulk, White Vision, Shang-Chi, and the Young Avengers into battle (I actually liked Shang Chi a fair bit and love Kate's Hawkeye, but they fell victim to marvel setting up a billion threads and then forgetting about them) and just hope people show up for the avengers group anyway/ hope the doomsday branding sells sets with figs that have shelfwarmed before.

2. Cross their fingers that the course-correct around the time of daredevil (Which, by the way, is super jarring- you can totally tell what's pre and post rebrand, as well as the fact that Jon Bernthal rewrote all his lines, but on the bright side Disney seems to know this and is letting him write the Punisher special) is going to lead to Thunderbolts and F4 being hits, and focus on them/ hope Thunderbolts and F4 are set sellers.

3. Cameofest any characters the audience still has goodwill towards and take the short term cash grab over setting up any long-term characters/ put the now announced and nonspoiler X-men in the sets to drive sales.

Marvel seems to be doing a mix of the three (I put RDdoom in the third category), and it's too early to call for lego, but IMO two is the best long term bet. You need a new crop of characters people care about, so better to risk it on Thunderbolts and F4 than go with what you know doesn't work or get one-to-two more cameofests out at the expense of the franchise's future.

Interesting analysis, and I agree for the most part about Marvel's position. But LEGO is in a different position IMO. LEGO doesn't need a new crop of characters people care about in order to sell sets. They need either sets that are good on their own notwithstanding the figs (such as the Daily Bugle), or variants of popular figs, or just new figs that are either visually appealing or just appeal to collectors because of their uniqueness.

Sure there's a certain amount of people who want the Thunderbolts as minifigs, and LEGO might pick up on that now already and plan for them to appear in a Doomsday set (your option two). Less so the FF since they already get their own set, unless Doomsday provides us with notable variations.

But kids won't care whether a character's important for Doomsday, whether he's portrayed sympathetically, or anything like that. They want cool-looking figs with cool powers that can be translated into LEGO visuals (shooting multicoloured beams out of their hands, having a cool gagdet like Green Goblin's glider, and so on) and the X-Men should be able to deliver here, moreso than the Thunderbolts. Many adults will collect any new variant of a popular character so that's option three, again.

I'd think that LEGO might focus on both of those options and only sprinkle the new Avengers throughout the sets, and then focus on the ones that have cool looks and have never been made before (such as Wiccan).

[Mandalorianknight]

46 minutes ago, brickbride said:

Interesting analysis, and I agree for the most part about Marvel's position. But LEGO is in a different position IMO. LEGO doesn't need a new crop of characters people care about in order to sell sets. They need either sets that are good on their own notwithstanding the figs (such as the Daily Bugle), or variants of popular figs, or just new figs that are either visually appealing or just appeal to collectors because of their uniqueness.

Sure there's a certain amount of people who want the Thunderbolts as minifigs, and LEGO might pick up on that now already and plan for them to appear in a Doomsday set (your option two). Less so the FF since they already get their own set, unless Doomsday provides us with notable variations.

But kids won't care whether a character's important for Doomsday, whether he's portrayed sympathetically, or anything like that. They want cool-looking figs with cool powers that can be translated into LEGO visuals (shooting multicoloured beams out of their hands, having a cool gagdet like Green Goblin's glider, and so on) and the X-Men should be able to deliver here, moreso than the Thunderbolts. Many adults will collect any new variant of a popular character so that's option three, again.

I'd think that LEGO might focus on both of those options and only sprinkle the new Avengers throughout the sets, and then focus on the ones that have cool looks and have never been made before (such as Wiccan).

I don't know. You're probably right about collectors but when I was a kid I was much less likely to buy a lego set if I didn't know or care about the figures (Not that I'm not that way as an adult anyway, but you get the point.). My favorites were Iron Man and Captain America, and I didn't really like Hulk and Thor, so as a result I only wanted the captain america bike and iron man vs shield truck sets rather than the hulk and thor one. Maybe that wasn't widespread, but I feel like most of my friends were similar.

Edited April 2 by Mandalorianknight

[brickbride]

5 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

My favorites were Iron Man and Captain America, and I didn't really like Hulk and Thor, so as a result I only wanted the captain america bike and iron man vs shield truck sets rather than the hulk and thor one.

But everyone knows who Iron Man, Cap, Hulk, and Thor are. Now the MCU's down to mostly unknowns however you spin it. How many kids are even going to see Doomsday? If some popular characters have a sufficiently large role in it, great. If not, I bet kids would be happy with whatever visually cool figs LEGO can come up with as an alternative. (Not moviegoers which is why I worry that the planned Marvel mash-up might make for cool sets but not necessarily for a watchable movie.) How many kids care about Harrison Ford's president character and its complexities in BNW, and how many want the jet because it has a cool-looking red version of the Hulk?

Edited April 2 by brickbride

[Mandalorianknight]

On 4/2/2025 at 5:40 AM, brickbride said:

But everyone knows who Iron Man, Cap, Hulk, and Thor are. Now the MCU's down to mostly unknowns however you spin it. How many kids are even going to see Doomsday? If some popular characters have a sufficiently large role in it, great. If not, I bet kids would be happy with whatever visually cool figs LEGO can come up with as an alternative. (Not moviegoers which is why I worry that the planned Marvel mash-up might make for cool sets but not necessarily for a watchable movie.) How many kids care about Harrison Ford's president character and its complexities in BNW, and how many want the jet because it has a cool-looking red version of the Hulk?

But caring about Iron Man and Cap, but not Hulk and Thor, is why I only wanted the sets with those two heroes as a kid. My point is kids are more likely to buy a set if they care about the characters in the set. Sure, a cool design like red hulk that's visually similar to another one is still going to get some sales (Although that set doesn't seem to be doing all that well), but you've missed the point I'm trying to convey. Yes- no child is buying the red hulk figure because they liked him in Brave New World (because nobody saw Brave New World)- so the only ones buying it are ones who just want a red version of hulk. But my point is, if you put a set out with characters kids care about- Spider-Man, Captain America, Hulk, Thor, Iron Man, Black Panther, etc, it'll sell better than one with all the new phase 4-5 characters kids don't care about.

 

Rivals Season 2 looks fun. We're never, ever getting an Emma Frost figure without some heavy censorship or Diamond Form, but the more Ultron shows up, the better the odds we finally get a comic-accurate head.

[brickbride]

I do understand your point. I think you're missing mine. :-) Sure a set with Cap, Hulk, Iron Man, Black Panther and the likes would sell the best. But most of those characters are dead or retired by now.

So they have a choice of, like you've said a) going with their second-tier New Avengers, b) going with plot-relevant characters that seem to be well-received by adults like the Thunderbolts, or c) going with cameos of genuinely popular characters like the X-Men.

All I said was that for kids, the best option out of those three would be whichever characters have fun looks and powers regardless of their sympathetic portrayal or their importance to the plot. It's not like many kids would probably even see or understand Doomsday, and the popular classics like Cap and Iron Man are no longer an option for tie-in sets.

Edited April 4 by brickbride

[thebricksbear]

I'm assuming the ages in this thread are pretty young if you had Iron Man toys as a kid being the movie came out 17 years ago, but making Iron Man toys that coincided with the movie is how he got popular. He was a B-level character at best and Cap was even worse off. I know you guys are dead set on divorcing this theme from the MCU but even seeing a Red Hulk fig on the shelf generates excitement for BNW.

Yes, kids don't know White Widow or Sentry, and Marvel/Lego isn't going to put Thunderbolts sets on the shelves because it isn't going to drive kids to the movie. That's not the case with Doomsday. Kids don't need to care about the complexities of the plot- seeing new toys that feature the characters is going to generate interest. It's no different from happy meal toys of characters that they have no idea about.

 

Personally I'm hoping both Doomsday and Secret Wars get Infinity War style sets that tie together. It was such an awesome wave that had pretty minimal spoilers.

[BrickBob Studpants]

18 minutes ago, thebricksbear said:

Personally I'm hoping both Doomsday and Secret Wars get Infinity War style sets that tie together. It was such an awesome wave that had pretty minimal spoilers.

Agreed! The Infinity War wave is still my favourite one we ever got for Marvel  Collecting both the Infinity Stones and the members of the Black Order across the sets was a ton of fun and we had a nice balance of vehicles and location sets, plus exclusive minifigs in every set! Sure, we got better versions of Thanos, the Benatar, the Sanctum, and the Hulkbuster later on, but these sets still hold up well!

I doubt they’ll have another collectable MacGuffin in the Doomsday or Secret Wars sets, but something to tie them together would indeed be neat!

Edited April 4 by BrickBob Studpants

[psqidexslizer]

27 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Agreed! The Infinity War wave is still my favourite one we ever got for Marvel  Collecting both the Infinity Stones and the members of the Black Order across the sets was a ton of fun and we had a nice balance of vehicles and location sets, plus exclusive minifigs in every set! Sure, we got better versions of Thanos, the Benatar, the Sanctum, and the Hulkbuster later on, but these sets still hold up well!

I doubt they’ll have another collectable MacGuffin in the Doomsday or Secret Wars sets, but something to tie them together would indeed be neat!

This time around, the goal will be to assemble one complete team. Either the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, the Thunderbolts, or potentially even the Avengers assuming they make the cut. 😝

[thebricksbear]

25 minutes ago, psqidexslizer said:

This time around, the goal will be to assemble one complete team. Either the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, the Thunderbolts, or potentially even the Avengers assuming they make the cut. 😝

The coolest thing about the IW wave IMO was that they were able to do big sets AND small affordable ones and still make them all cohesive. I'd even call the Cap/Widow set an army builder set.

 

It'd be cool if they made sets for each of the teams- a New Avengers set, a legacy Xmen set, a Thunderbolts set, etc... That'd be a good way to get the Thunderbolts set we wanted if the rating is too high for kiddos. I'm assuming we're also going to want updated F4 costumes once the new set is revealed too XD

[Swordy]

15 minutes ago, thebricksbear said:

Thunderbolts set we wanted if the rating is too high for kiddos

Erm, actually, Thunderbolts* has been confirmed to be rated PG-13. Obviously, the Void has some crazy dark powers, so I understand if the rating was thought to be different initially. After all, the last time TLG trusted Marvel Studios on a rating, we got a TV-MA CMF.

[JeanGreyForever]

3 hours ago, psqidexslizer said:

This time around, the goal will be to assemble one complete team. Either the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, the Thunderbolts, or potentially even the Avengers assuming they make the cut. 😝

This is assuming even the final movie knows who's an official Avenger or not.

[Mandalorianknight]

15 hours ago, brickbride said:

I do understand your point. I think you're missing mine. :-) Sure a set with Cap, Hulk, Iron Man, Black Panther and the likes would sell the best. But most of those characters are dead or retired by now.

So they have a choice of, like you've said a) going with their second-tier New Avengers, b) going with plot-relevant characters that seem to be well-received by adults like the Thunderbolts, or c) going with cameos of genuinely popular characters like the X-Men.

All I said was that for kids, the best option out of those three would be whichever characters have fun looks and powers regardless of their sympathetic portrayal or their importance to the plot. It's not like many kids would probably even see or understand Doomsday, and the popular classics like Cap and Iron Man are no longer an option for tie-in sets.

We're talking past eachother- Sure- in the hole marvel's dug themselves into, lego can't put out characters like Cap or Iron man in the Doomsday sets. My point is that I think it is important to have characters people care about when selling sets. I think the amount of licensed sets and the success of the unlicensed themes with full stories such as Ninjago kind of proves that- if lego's profit wouldn't significantly change whether or not kids cared about the characters, they'd have no reason to pay all these licensing fees or make story media about their unlicensed themes. 

You're also saying stuff like "sympathetic portrayal" or character complexities and I want to make clear that's not what I'm talking about when I say characters kids care about. It wasn't like kid me was particularly invested in Tony's motivation to make up for his past or Steve... I actually do feel like kid me liked Steve's character, but you get the point. I just thought iron man was cool. But it's not like the only two options are "deep understanding of the portrayal of the character" and "literally doesn't care about the character at all and just wants cool designs or powers". Sam's Cap suit feels like it would reach out more to kids- it's the same costume, but with cool robotic wings- and yet the Steve merch seems to do best, because people care more about Steve. You could juice up Red Hulk with all the guns and spikes and Rob Liefeld pouches in the world and I think the average kid buying marvel stuff would still rather have the  normal Green Hulk.

5 hours ago, thebricksbear said:

I'm assuming the ages in this thread are pretty young if you had Iron Man toys as a kid being the movie came out 17 years ago, but making Iron Man toys that coincided with the movie is how he got popular. He was a B-level character at best and Cap was even worse off. I know you guys are dead set on divorcing this theme from the MCU but even seeing a Red Hulk fig on the shelf generates excitement for BNW.

Yes, kids don't know White Widow or Sentry, and Marvel/Lego isn't going to put Thunderbolts sets on the shelves because it isn't going to drive kids to the movie. That's not the case with Doomsday. Kids don't need to care about the complexities of the plot- seeing new toys that feature the characters is going to generate interest. It's no different from happy meal toys of characters that they have no idea about.

That's not what I'm trying to say. Of course there are characters kids became attached to that weren't popular before. The point is that with phases 4 and 5 that didn't happen. There aren't legions of fans for the replacement avengers in the way that there were for the infinity saga ones.

3 hours ago, thebricksbear said:

The coolest thing about the IW wave IMO was that they were able to do big sets AND small affordable ones and still make them all cohesive. I'd even call the Cap/Widow set an army builder set.

It'd be cool if they made sets for each of the teams- a New Avengers set, a legacy Xmen set, a Thunderbolts set, etc... That'd be a good way to get the Thunderbolts set we wanted if the rating is too high for kiddos. I'm assuming we're also going to want updated F4 costumes once the new set is revealed too XD

I really hope that $10 price point we got two sets from isn't gone. 

While I don't think we've got enough figure slots or prints to get the full team in each set, especially if we want to keep them affordable like you say, I definitely like your idea. It'd be nice to be able to pick up the Thunderbolts or X-men set without having to grab characters I don't care about.

With Thunderbolts the rating isn't really a thing either way. It's PG-13, so it can get sets, and if it was MA, it wouldn't be able to get sets at higher age ranges. We know it's not about maturity in a more subjective sense- after all, The Dark Knight has had bog-standard 8+ system sets as recently as this year, and I would argue 8 year olds should NOT be watching that movie.

43 minutes ago, JeanGreyForever said:

This is assuming even the final movie knows who's an official Avenger or not.

Having to do an "assembling the avengers" plot in a movie with this many characters is going to be an incredible cinematic feat if the Russos can find a way to pull it off. There's no team put together at least as of CA4, and I've seen stuff from "it's just characters who previously were in the avengers" to statements that would make Namor count as an avenger. I assume Doomsday will open with Samcap having established a team of the replacement heroes and phase 4-ers, but you never know. Maybe Namor will be an avenger.

[hvader]

I’m fine not getting Thunderbolts sets if it means we’ll just get the characters, especially Sentry, in Doomsday sets

[Buckethead]

13 hours ago, hvader said:

I’m fine not getting Thunderbolts sets if it means we’ll just get the characters, especially Sentry, in Doomsday sets

For me personally, the figures are all I’m really interested in, so the fact we’re getting the Thunderbolts & X-Men (and I don’t think they’re cameos) has me really excited.

 

During CinemaCon, Feige said the focus would be on the Avengers, Wakandans, Thunderbolts, F4, and “original” X-Men fighting Doom. This makes it sound like the X-Men will have roles similar to the Guardians in Infinity War, so I think we’ll get some representation in the sets. Also, with the Wakandans returning, I hope we get a Midnight Angels figure.

[BrickBob Studpants]

According to Brickmerge, there will be 12 Superheroes sets in 1HY 2026. 3 of them are 4+ (11206-08), likely more Spidey sets. 76344 is an 18+ set. As usual, some of them might be DC ^^

[wesker]

3 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

According to Brickmerge, there will be 12 Superheroes sets in 1HY 2026. 3 of them are 4+ (11206-08), likely more Spidey sets. 76344 is an 18+ set. As usual, some of them might be DC ^^

Is it too much to ask for just one X-Men 97 set for Season 2?

[JeanGreyForever]

Honestly, after the lackluster X-Men sets and even more lackluster minifigures in those sets, I'd rather get more X-Men representation in a future CMF series. I don't think characters like Nightcrawler or Jubilee would be done justice outside of a CMF line anyway. 

[calebcold3]

1 hour ago, wesker said:

Is it too much to ask for just one X-Men 97 set for Season 2?

Fingers Crossed even if it’s an identical Sentinel Build. But as long as it includes Jubilee and Nightcrawler, I’ll be happy.
 

4 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

According to Brickmerge, there will be 12 Superheroes sets in 1HY 2026. 3 of them are 4+ (11206-08), likely more Spidey sets. 76344 is an 18+ set. As usual, some of them might be DC ^^

Prepare to be mind blown cause my uncle’s girlfriend’s pet bug’s cousin’s roommate told me this but 3 of those sets are going to be mechs! Crazy isn’t it?!  

[Mandalorianknight]

2 hours ago, calebcold3 said:

Prepare to be mind blown cause my uncle’s girlfriend’s pet bug’s cousin’s roommate told me this but 3 of those sets are going to be mechs! Crazy isn’t it?!  

That's weird, my uncle's girlfriend's pet rock's cousin's acquaintance's ex-barber's criminal case witness's roommate's wife's boyfriend (who works at nintendo) told me it was only gonna be 2 like 2025.

3 hours ago, wesker said:

Is it too much to ask for just one X-Men 97 set for Season 2?

I still can't get behind '97- partially just because I struggle with Art from Artist sometimes- but if it gets us more classic comic X-men, I'm all for it. I never found a good deal on the X-jet and I still want my Cyclops, not to mention I'd love to see affordable versions of Jean and Gambit.

 

My hope for 2026 is, as always, that we get some nice comic based spidey or avengers sets with more classical comic designs and/or more street level heroes, or Rivals sets. C'mon lego. Daredevil, Scarlet Spider, Moon Knight, Luna Snow. (I'm gonna throw Punisher in there too- Jon Bernthal literally rewriting his lines in Born Again to make them better fit Punisher has me enjoying the character a lot. When an actor cares about the character that much, it shows in the final product, which in turn makes me like the character more.)

[G_Brickley]

So Hasbro’s put out a tease for their marvel legends based on first steps and it comes with an interesting tidbit, the Thing seems to be shirtless. I’m assuming it’s a case of them following concept art but assuming Lego’s had to do the same we could be about to get a Thing Minifigure that blends easily with comic stuff as well! 

If Johnny’s in his flame on state as well, I could see Lego (hopefully) taking the chance to reuse some parts with a couple new prints for a full comic F4 down the road. Maybe if Oscorp does well this year we could see them in a Baxter Building Playset in the same style.

In the same vein, if the FoX-men show up in Doomsday with comic accurate suits, I wonder if Lego will opt to reuse any prints from the 97 versions (e.g. cyclops’ head)

[psqidexslizer]

17 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

According to Brickmerge, there will be 12 Superheroes sets in 1HY 2026. 3 of them are 4+ (11206-08), likely more Spidey sets. 76344 is an 18+ set. As usual, some of them might be DC ^^

So, just to compare to this year, we’ve gotten 16 sets for DC and Marvel in the 1HY, so Lego appears to be cutting back quite a bit. I’m curious what they’ll cut back on. Maybe the mechs? 
 

I’m certainly not holding my breath for X-Men ‘97 s2 sets with these numbers. Nor am I expecting much for Doomsday. No way are we getting 6/9 sets based on that. Best case is probably 3.

[brickbride]

29 minutes ago, psqidexslizer said:

So, just to compare to this year, we’ve gotten 16 sets for DC and Marvel in the 1HY, so Lego appears to be cutting back quite a bit. I’m curious what they’ll cut back on. Maybe the mechs? 
 

I’m certainly not holding my breath for X-Men ‘97 s2 sets with these numbers. Nor am I expecting much for Doomsday. No way are we getting 6/9 sets based on that. Best case is probably 3.

Yes, 12 sets total for the Doomsday year sounds like not a lot. Not that I'm surprised.

That said, are these for sure all the set numbers? Over at HP we're currently learning about several 2025 sets that had not initially been announced (retail exclusives, D2C ...). So there might be more.