Marvel Superheroes 2025 - Rumors & Discussion

[squiz18]

13 minutes ago, Swordy said:

Where are you seeing arm printing on Iron Spider? All the images I can find have don’t have that detail on Spidey. 

The first spiderman pic here has arm printing. Seems some pics do and some don't. Rumour is it does come with arm printing but it was a last minute change. 

https://brickset.com/article/120441/marvel-mini-bust-sets-announced!

Apparently the same thing has happened recently with a star wars figure 

[Kaijumeister]

18 minutes ago, Swordy said:

Where are you seeing arm printing on Iron Spider? All the images I can find have don’t have that detail on Spidey.

Check out the back of box picture on Brickset, you can see it there  Yet another example of lifetstyle photos and product renders not lining up.

Edit: @squiz18 beat me to it, thanks bud.

I agree about the new Mark IV print being close to pointless. It’ll make a handful of Hall of Armour completionists happy but I find it frustrating that they’re willing to allocate new prints for Iron Man variants that all look the same from a distance but can’t do it for some of the more distinctive suits like the Mark 42.

Edited April 9 by Kaijumeister

[NXS7]

5 hours ago, hikouki said:

Is that Iron Man minifig included in this new bust an exclusive never been released before suit?

Yes it's the Mark 4, so cheers to the people who wanted it to complete the original 7 suits. Would be nice to see a proper Mark 2 and an updated helmet version of the Mark 5 though

[psqidexslizer]

3 hours ago, Legocentrico said:

Leaked photos of debris from Doomsday set. Lego Marvel has set for another 10 years lol

The big question is, will Lego alternate between the Doomsday wasteland and the Endgame Final Battle, or will we get two desolate wasteland sets per year? 🤔

[Legocity2713]

I wonder if the Galactus set will look like these busts… 

[moonknight main 06]

is going to be more similar ro arishem (I heard that but like 80% confirmed)

[brickbride]

On 4/8/2025 at 7:24 PM, Felkin said:

I guess Lego has learned its lesson after the giant Black Panther bust warmed shelves for so long, and has done them at a better scale. I'd love to see BP and Wolverine busts in future!

Well this is clearly a collectible series, so they had to do it at a price point similar to the helmets. The Black Panther bust was EUR 350! If they made that a regular thing, hardly anyone would buy every single one for completeness' sake, instead people would pick and chose which characters they liked best. Which isn't what LEGO want. They want predictable sales and to know that once you start your collection you won't stop till you've caught them all.

I've said it before but the Black Panther bust to me always seemed to be a badly disguised attempt to cash in on the actor's death (let's "honour" a random superhero with a completely new type of product after his popular actor has just passed away). Sure Black Panther isn't a nobody but if they'd been serious about establishing busts at this price point as a thing (and like I've said that's not really a price point lending itself to a series of collectibles), they would not have started with him. They would have started with the obvious contenders like Spidey and Iron Man, as they've just proven here.

[Mandalorianknight]

2 hours ago, Legocity2713 said:

I wonder if the Galactus set will look like these busts… 

Absolutely not. Aside from all the leaks saying it was more like Arisham, the F4 set is the same cost as the busts but with three more figures. Even if you think lego would put out a galactus bust as a playset, they aren't gonna throw in 3 extra figs for the same price.

2 hours ago, moonknight main 06 said:

is going to be more similar ro arishem (I heard that but like 80% confirmed)

Welcome to eurobricks fellow Moon Knight main! I believe that is what was being said about Galactus.

21 minutes ago, brickbride said:

I've said it before but the Black Panther bust to me always seemed to be a badly disguised attempt to cash in on the actor's death

Either that or incorrectly believing his successful movie would make BP as popular as the MCU made Iron Man. It... did not. He's certainly in one of the higher tiers of avengers, right after that cap/iron man/thor trio in the BW/Hawkeye/Ant-Man/Wasp tier, but he's not the next spider-man. And the combination of the actor's passing and the studio's "recasting is bad but only sometimes" refusal to keep T'Challa in the movies led to the wave of popularity he was gaining fading fast.

Edited April 10 by Mandalorianknight

[Swordy]

8 hours ago, squiz18 said:

The first spiderman pic here has arm printing. Seems some pics do and some don't. Rumour is it does come with arm printing but it was a last minute change. 

https://brickset.com/article/120441/marvel-mini-bust-sets-announced!

Apparently the same thing has happened recently with a star wars figure 

8 hours ago, Kaijumeister said:

Check out the back of box picture on Brickset, you can see it there  Yet another example of lifetstyle photos and product renders not lining up.

Edit: @squiz18 beat me to it, thanks bud.

No way! Alright, I’m much more inclined to bite the bullet now… well, on a steep discount.

(Yeah, I’m partial to short-haired Cassian, and fact we nearly went back to shaggy-haired Kassa is frightening to say the least.)

8 hours ago, Kaijumeister said:

I agree about the new Mark IV print being close to pointless. It’ll make a handful of Hall of Armour completionists happy but I find it frustrating that they’re willing to allocate new prints for Iron Man variants that all look the same from a distance but can’t do it for some of the more distinctive suits like the Mark 42.

Not to mention, if they already budgeted for this new print, why throw not it into the Iron Man Armory, as all new suits should be? If the issue was that it looks to similar to the Mark VI… well, therein lies the problem.

8 hours ago, NXS7 said:

Would be nice to see a proper Mark 2 and an updated helmet version of the Mark 5 though

Hey, Mark V is perfect—it’s everyone else that’s imperfect. I kid, I kid, but on a serious note, any of the first seven Iron Man suits—apart from Mark I obviously—look a lot better with the pre-2022 helmet, so I myself don’t need to see a “downgrade” any time soon.

Agreed on Mark II, though. Funny how certain people are so willing to overlook the inaccurate helmet of Mark II, yet they cannot begin to comprehend that the ‘22 Iron Man mech IS Mark XLII.

 

1 hour ago, brickbride said:

I've said it before but the Black Panther bust to me always seemed to be a badly disguised attempt to cash in on the actor's death (let's "honour" a random superhero with a completely new type of product after his popular actor has just passed away).

It’s a pretty cynical way of looking at things, but I might have to agree, much to my disappointment in TLG. I understand the desire to acknowledge the legacy of a beloved actor, beyond any penny-pincher’s mandate. If that’s so, then make it not about the money at all. They’re already making billions of dollars every year; surely TLG can afford to offer a set’s proceeds to charity. Smaller businesses do it all the time, so TLG have no excuse. In the end, regardless of any original intent by a designer passionate about BP, the money leads back to the Danish family’s pockets. Then again, I’m not in the plastic products business, and I’m certainly not managing a company growing at TLG’s rate, so what do I truly know?

[Legocentrico]

I think the Iron Man bust is really cool! And finally they add minifigures to this kind of set. I'm very excited. And I think a bust like this but for 500€ would be very interesting

[squiz18]

Lego Marvel Designers talking about Deadpool here: 

https://www.brickfanatics.com/lego-deadpool-difficult-ryan-reynolds/

[CloneCommando99]

6 hours ago, squiz18 said:

Lego Marvel Designers talking about Deadpool here: 

https://www.brickfanatics.com/lego-deadpool-difficult-ryan-reynolds/

This interview gives me conflicting feelings as a DC fan. On one hand, they say they want to do more DC characters, good. On the other, they say that DC needs more media relevant to general audiences as if the freaking Superman movie releasing this year which they acknowledged a few moments later doesn’t exist.

Also the relevancy stuff is utter crap at this point. Where were the Ant Man minifigs in sets for Quantumania? Where are the Thunderbolts sets? Where are the YFNSM sets, when X-men’97 got them? Where were the Spider-verse sets on release? Where are the Marvel Rivals sets?!
 

Speaking of Marvel Rivals. If Lego really wanted to profit off Buildable figures… they could make morbillions off a certain demographic.

Edited April 10 by CloneCommando99

[Scarilian]

In the video they explain the embargo date is June 1st 2025 on that video... so either it's changed or the video might disappear.

7 hours ago, squiz18 said:

Lego Marvel Designers talking about Deadpool here: 

https://www.brickfanatics.com/lego-deadpool-difficult-ryan-reynolds/

'Deadpool figure was fine when it was inspired by the comics despite these generally not being kid friendly... as such we won't get a Deadpool figure while the most iconic version of the character is the 18+ movie version... but we could get him if he shows up in Avengers in a non r-rated way... despite being the same character coming fresh from his r-rated trilogy.'

Either they have no clue and are speculating or Lego is extremely hypocritical and confused in how it determines if characters are acceptable - reminds me of the wave of Lego removing hyped sets people wanted such as Temple of Doom.

1 hour ago, CloneCommando99 said:

This interview gives me conflicting feelings as a DC fan.

They seem to have no faith in the sets selling based on their own appeal without an associated popularity generated from the movies.

1 hour ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Also the relevancy stuff is utter crap at this point.

Yeah, it's complete nonsense. I wonder what the real reason behind these decisions is. I can think of some justification via the financial route of them looking at previous installments in the brand, but that doesn't extend to all those options.

Edited April 10 by Scarilian

[Mandalorianknight]

1 hour ago, CloneCommando99 said:

This interview gives me conflicting feelings as a DC fan. On one hand, they say they want to do more DC characters, good. On the other, they say that DC needs more media relevant to general audiences as if the freaking Superman movie releasing this year which they acknowledged a few moments later doesn’t exist.

Also the relevancy stuff is utter crap at this point. Where were the Ant Man minifigs in sets for Quantumania? Where are the Thunderbolts sets? Where are the YFNSM sets, when X-men’97 got them? Where were the Spider-verse sets on release? Where are the Marvel Rivals sets?!

Speaking of Marvel Rivals. If Lego really wanted to profit off Buildable figures… they could make morbillions off a certain demographic.

The first two complaints are answered by the same statement- superhero content is pretty hit and miss so lego now does a lot more wait-and-see than frontloading stuff. I'm hoping we'll start seeing Rivals sets next year, and Superman depends on how well the movie does. Spider-verse was allegedly licensing issues, if you take the designer's statement about why the set we got was so overpriced at face value. As for the rest, they weren't that popular, lego doesn't have much of a profit motive to make sets for them. X-men 97's sets were virtually indistinguishable from what comic book X-men sets would be, and people had been asking for X-men sets for a decade, so they knew they'd do well. (Hence the disgusting X-jet price.)

7 hours ago, squiz18 said:

Lego Marvel Designers talking about Deadpool here: 

https://www.brickfanatics.com/lego-deadpool-difficult-ryan-reynolds/

@Lego Nostalgia, they lay out the win conditions for a deadpool fig so I can now concretely tell you that the earliest he could possibly appear is a post-secret wars spoiler set.

[squiz18]

Christmas hulkbuster with santa ironman coming later this year apparently 

[CloneCommando99]

19 minutes ago, squiz18 said:

Christmas hulkbuster with santa ironman coming later this year apparently 

“Jarvis, drop my needle”
Best case scenario is that this is how we get MK42. After all the Jingle Bells suit up from Iron Man 3 is iconic. (To me at least)

Next year will be Snow-Spider vs Santa Goblin and Festive Venom. Mark my words.

Edited April 10 by CloneCommando99

[BrickBob Studpants]

15 minutes ago, squiz18 said:

Christmas hulkbuster with santa ironman coming later this year apparently 

So stupid. Love it  Good replacement for the AC in my book!

[Mandalorianknight]

4 hours ago, squiz18 said:

Christmas hulkbuster with santa ironman coming later this year apparently 

You know what, that's actually a lot of fun, I like that.

[brickbride]

9 hours ago, squiz18 said:

Christmas hulkbuster with santa ironman coming later this year apparently 

Isn't there also a rumoured 40806 Christmas AT-AT over at Star Wars? LEGO must be desperate for content by now.

[BrickBob Studpants]

36 minutes ago, brickbride said:

Isn't there also a rumoured 40806 Christmas AT-AT over at Star Wars? LEGO must be desperate for content by now.

Both of them have 40xxx set numbers, meaning they‘re very limited LEGO exclusives. Not sure how that‘s supposed to be an indication of desperation, they‘re just fun holiday sets

[brickbride]

1 hour ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Not sure how that‘s supposed to be an indication of desperation, they‘re just fun holiday sets

I wouldn't call a tinsel-decorated weapon (and that's what an AT-AT is) a fun holiday set. That's pretty much akin to a tank with a red ribbon and a sprig of holly tucked into it.

And it's made so much worse IMO by LEGO being adamant that religion - including, you know, Christmas - is against their policies unless they can use it to make more money. Such as by perverting weaponry into fun holiday decorations. They'd never make a nativity scene (like Playmobil and COBI have) because that might be controversial. Instead, they give us non-denominational holiday murder vehicles for everyone!

Edited April 11 by brickbride

[CloneCommando99]

3 minutes ago, brickbride said:

I wouldn't call a tinsel-decorated weapon (and that's what an AT-AT is) a fun holiday set. That's pretty much akin to a tank with a red ribbon and a sprig of holly tucked into it.

And it's made so much worse IMO by LEGO being adamant that religion - including, you know, Christmas - is against their policies unless they can use it to make more money. By perverting weaponry into fun holiday decorations.

You’re overthinking this.

They’re iconic vehicles in fun festive colour-schemes

 

Also, I’d argue that Christmas is a reasonable exception since it’s evolved from just a Christian holiday. Atheists like myself celebrate it, people I know from Buddhism and Hinduism celebrate it. It’s become so commercialised for better or for worse that the holiday, not the purpose mind you, has transcended its exclusivity to Christianity.

Besides, are there any religious connotations to Gingerbread colours?

 

Also by that line of thinking… children shouldn’t be allowed to get toy: tanks, soldiers, fighter jets etc… or video games like CoD for Christmas because they’d be “perverting weaponry into fun holiday” traditions.

[Lego Nostalgia]

On 4/10/2025 at 6:39 PM, Mandalorianknight said:

The first two complaints are answered by the same statement- superhero content is pretty hit and miss so lego now does a lot more wait-and-see than frontloading stuff. I'm hoping we'll start seeing Rivals sets next year, and Superman depends on how well the movie does. Spider-verse was allegedly licensing issues, if you take the designer's statement about why the set we got was so overpriced at face value. As for the rest, they weren't that popular, lego doesn't have much of a profit motive to make sets for them. X-men 97's sets were virtually indistinguishable from what comic book X-men sets would be, and people had been asking for X-men sets for a decade, so they knew they'd do well. (Hence the disgusting X-jet price.)

@Lego Nostalgia, they lay out the win conditions for a deadpool fig so I can now concretely tell you that the earliest he could possibly appear is a post-secret wars spoiler set.

Could we get him in a Doomsday set ? him and Wolverine are supposed to be in it as a small role and the whole cast hasn't been revealed yet

Well this is good news, Can't wait to get him if they do make post secret wars sets, only thing I want now is an MCU version of Daredevil,Punisher,Kingpin

[Mandalorianknight]

15 hours ago, brickbride said:

I wouldn't call a tinsel-decorated weapon (and that's what an AT-AT is) a fun holiday set. That's pretty much akin to a tank with a red ribbon and a sprig of holly tucked into it.

And it's made so much worse IMO by LEGO being adamant that religion - including, you know, Christmas - is against their policies unless they can use it to make more money. Such as by perverting weaponry into fun holiday decorations. They'd never make a nativity scene (like Playmobil and COBI have) because that might be controversial. Instead, they give us non-denominational holiday murder vehicles for everyone!

I hope this is a joke, because otherwise you're really overthinking this-

1. While I'm not a fan of the happy holidaysization of christmas- companies trying to have their christmas cookies and eat them too- lego still does santa and stuff. They wouldn't do any explicitly religious sets, but they make sets based off Judeo-Christian culture and holidays, because, let's be real here, western culture is fundamentally based on Judeo-Christian values so there's not really a point to trying to avoid any mention of it. It'd be like if lego didn't make any police, fire, or ambulance sets because they wanted to avoid politics and emergency responders generally work for their country's governments.

2. The AT-AT is a fictional vehicle from the star wars franchise, not a real tank. I know you know this, but you've gotta understand the distinction, because lego is A-ok with fictional war vehicles because, you know, they aren't real. Nobody's been killed by AT-ATs in real life. There aren't even any real world vehicles remotely close to AT-ATs. (Also, if there's some sort of moral objection to a christmas AT-AT, would you not also object to nutcrackers? They're arguably significantly worse, fun christmas decorations that wear uniforms similar to actual real soldiers of the past who participated in actual real wars where real people died, not family-friendly fictional space ones. Obviously it's ridiculous to claim Nutcrakers are are some sort of dark murder thing, right? And unlike them, AT-ATs are toys based on family friendly space movies!)

TLDR: I want a menorah Y-wing that drops dreidels and will also be needing a christmas tree ewok village.

4 hours ago, Lego Nostalgia said:

Could we get him in a Doomsday set ? him and Wolverine are supposed to be in it as a small role and the whole cast hasn't been revealed yet

Well this is good news, Can't wait to get him if they do make post secret wars sets, only thing I want now is an MCU version of Daredevil,Punisher,Kingpin

Yeah sure hypothetically speaking- clearly this designer hasn't been given any information about it, but if Doomsday does really well and deadpool is featured in the movie in, as they say, a scene that isn't "R lite" or whatever.

I suppose the same is now true for those three. There were rumors Bernthal is in Spider-Man 4, so I'd be very happy to get a figure of the man who in Born Again literally told his writers "nah that's out of character, let me write it" and then dropped a scene an order of magnitude better than anything else in the show. (Though also, Kingpin's lower on the priority list for me as I feel confident lego would just make him re-used parts, and it's not hard to Purist one. Still tough for Daredevil, though I've got a pretty solid unmasked one, and impossible for punisher unless you want him to have a spandex torso or legoized skull.)

[Lego Nostalgia]

1 hour ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I hope this is a joke, because otherwise you're really overthinking this-

1. While I'm not a fan of the happy holidaysization of christmas- companies trying to have their christmas cookies and eat them too- lego still does santa and stuff. They wouldn't do any explicitly religious sets, but they make sets based off Judeo-Christian culture and holidays, because, let's be real here, western culture is fundamentally based on Judeo-Christian values so there's not really a point to trying to avoid any mention of it. It'd be like if lego didn't make any police, fire, or ambulance sets because they wanted to avoid politics and emergency responders generally work for their country's governments.

2. The AT-AT is a fictional vehicle from the star wars franchise, not a real tank. I know you know this, but you've gotta understand the distinction, because lego is A-ok with fictional war vehicles because, you know, they aren't real. Nobody's been killed by AT-ATs in real life. There aren't even any real world vehicles remotely close to AT-ATs. (Also, if there's some sort of moral objection to a christmas AT-AT, would you not also object to nutcrackers? They're arguably significantly worse, fun christmas decorations that wear uniforms similar to actual real soldiers of the past who participated in actual real wars where real people died, not family-friendly fictional space ones. Obviously it's ridiculous to claim Nutcrakers are are some sort of dark murder thing, right? And unlike them, AT-ATs are toys based on family friendly space movies!)

TLDR: I want a menorah Y-wing that drops dreidels and will also be needing a christmas tree ewok village.

Yeah sure hypothetically speaking- clearly this designer hasn't been given any information about it, but if Doomsday does really well and deadpool is featured in the movie in, as they say, a scene that isn't "R lite" or whatever.

I suppose the same is now true for those three. There were rumors Bernthal is in Spider-Man 4, so I'd be very happy to get a figure of the man who in Born Again literally told his writers "nah that's out of character, let me write it" and then dropped a scene an order of magnitude better than anything else in the show. (Though also, Kingpin's lower on the priority list for me as I feel confident lego would just make him re-used parts, and it's not hard to Purist one. Still tough for Daredevil, though I've got a pretty solid unmasked one, and impossible for punisher unless you want him to have a spandex torso or legoized skull.)

I have 2 of Daredevil and 2 of Punisher from the bugle, I love those designs a lot and I'm happy that we actually have an official version of both characters, I just want the MCU/Netflix ones since I love those portrayals and their shows