Marvel Superheroes 2025 - Rumors & Discussion

[hikouki]

I really feel that the X-Men deserve their own CMF. There are many people here saying they are not popular enough or there are not enough well-known characters... but people said the same about all the Spideys and we got a CMF. I think there are also enough minifig MOC-ers out there who will buy those CMFs for the interesting parts that could be reused.

[JeanGreyForever]

22 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Yup. Lego's 100% still holding the exclusivity of those minifigures. Which is funny to me because at this point the design langauge has changed so much since that era that Spider-Woman, symbiote suit, and Phoenix minifigures would all be pretty different nowadays anyway. (Except maybe symbiote spider-man, but even when it came out it was just a different head on Venom's body.)

I think this only worked because the X-mansion as a concept has been requested for so long, it was branded as an X-men '97 set but really people just wanted it as an X-men set. Now the same could be true of a CMF, but with the previous CMF, the modular, and sets like the jet, I think it wouldn't do as well as most of the desirable characters have been made availible recently and we know that as you say half the list would be re-does of those characters.

Symbiote Spider-Man would be the easiest since it only requires a new head. Which makes it even more obvious that there's some sort of mandate forbidding the creation of this minifig. Spider-Woman would get dual molded legs. Same with Phoenix plus probably pearl gold instead of yellow. I'd switch the green to lime green as well to be more accurate to the 70s comics. Insomniac Spider-Man would be a godsend to have which is probably also why we'll never get it lol.

The X-Mansion set actually had very little to do with X-Men '97 and seemed more inspired by the comics, movies and original 90s show. Jean, Storm, and Bishop's hairstyles are based on the 90s show rather than X-Men '97. Iceman didn't even appear in '97 but he was included. Most of the easter eggs from the set were based off of the comics or the movies (young Magneto/Xavier portrait, Dazzler poster, Wolverine beach calendar, Wolverine photograph of Scott/Jean meme, etc.) So I agree with you that it was probably in development for a while and just rebranded for X-Men '97 to tie into the show.

3 hours ago, AndrewCole14 said:

The recent reports of an 85% drop in players may kill any chance of anything Rivals based.

I've heard this too. Most video games only have mainstream success during their early release and quickly fizzle out over time. The only video games I can see Marvel adapting as Lego sets would be the Insomniac games, since we've gotten some Spider-Man material. Maybe Wolverine when that video game comes out but probably only if it's an overwhelming success and still relevant years after release.

[Mandalorianknight]

3 hours ago, AndrewCole14 said:

The recent reports of an 85% drop in players may kill any chance of anything Rivals based.

85% from the absolute all-time max back in january? Sure. That's how video games work- "games journalists" may have put out a report on it a week ago, but it's been around that mark for some time now. It still has ~100,000 players active at any given time on steam alone, to say nothing of consoles. 

To put it into perspective, Rivals' minimum on steam is almost four times as high as the 2020 Avengers game's maximum-ever player count. Obviously that game underperformed, but not THAT drastically. Rivals still has plenty of players and interest in the popular culture.

11 minutes ago, JeanGreyForever said:

Symbiote Spider-Man would be the easiest since it only requires a new head. Which makes it even more obvious that there's some sort of mandate forbidding the creation of this minifig. Spider-Woman would get dual molded legs. Same with Phoenix plus probably pearl gold instead of yellow. I'd switch the green to lime green as well to be more accurate to the 70s comics. Insomniac Spider-Man would be a godsend to have which is probably also why we'll never get it lol.

The X-Mansion set actually had very little to do with X-Men '97 and seemed more inspired by the comics, movies and original 90s show. Jean, Storm, and Bishop's hairstyles are based on the 90s show rather than X-Men '97. Iceman didn't even appear in '97 but he was included. Most of the easter eggs from the set were based off of the comics or the movies (young Magneto/Xavier portrait, Dazzler poster, Wolverine beach calendar, Wolverine photograph of Scott/Jean meme, etc.) So I agree with you that it was probably in development for a while and just rebranded for X-Men '97 to tie into the show.

Yup. It is odd- I doubt anyone would be all that upset over it nowadays. Maybe back when they came out, but it's been some time since they stopped, and we know it's not an ironclad rule- if a character shows up in the movies, such as TASM2 Spider-Man or Shazam, we get their figure regardless of whether or not they were a comic-con exclusive. Hell, "All-new" Falcon Cap got a book fig a year or two ago that's clearly based on the same design as the old comic-con figure.

Yup- it may have been branded as '97 but that was essentially a comic X-men modular.

Edited October 14 by Mandalorianknight

[JeanGreyForever]

On 10/12/2025 at 7:46 PM, psqidexslizer said:

Yeah, I’m not holding out much hope for the idea. I’m just saying it would be my personal pick for the next Marvel CMF (an idea that honestly isn’t likely to happen given no other theme has gotten more than 3 CMF series)

But, in defense of an X-Men ‘97 CMF, I don’t think anyone would have expected the show to get a modular building either if it hadn’t been leaked over a year in advance. It’s also one of the few MCU shows to get renewed for a third season. The X-Men being featured in Doomsday and Secret Wars will also probably help boost viewership numbers for the show. And we already know the next MCU saga will revolve around the X-Men, meaning Marvel will be looking to push the characters. I wouldn’t rule it out completely.

I also wouldn’t expect any less than half of the CMF to be taken up by the more popular characters we’ve already gotten like Wolverine, Storm, Cyclops, and Magneto. So even if we got a CMF, there’d be plenty of characters still missing.

It would be my personal choice as well, for the reasons you listed that we are still missing major characters. And a lot of the core characters could use new minifigs to showcase their alternate looks (brown suit Wolverine, Marvel Girl Jean, 70s/80s Cyclops, black poncho Storm, green and white hooded Rogue).

As an animated show, I don't think the same standards apply to it that apply to the live-action MCU shows which is why What If? has 3 seasons as well. I also don't think that the X-Men appearing in the movies will boost the TV show. If people are looking for old X-Men content, they'll look for the Fox movies since those are relevant to the MCU now but not a random cartoon that really has nothing to do with it and is technically a sequel series to an older cartoon with multiple seasons. For example, Spider-Man appearing in the MCU didn't mean that all the Spider-Man cartoons that ever existed suddenly got more viewership. It's like how Marvel used to think the success of the MCU meant their comics would get boosted with new readers but that either never happens or it's only temporary before returning to normal. And the Disney+ MCU shows are all more relevant to the MCU (FatWS, Hawkeye, Ms. Marvel, Daredevil: BA) but they don't get boosted from the characters appearing in the MCU. If anything the presence of characters like that has an adverse affect on hurting the MCU because audiences do not want to have to do homework to understand the movies.

Not to mention a lot of pivotal characters that didn't appear in the show like Mystique, Sabretooth, Angel, Colossus, Psylocke, X-23, Havok, etc. Even Iceman fits that bill although they included him in the X-Mansion set anyway. 

Just now, Mandalorianknight said:

Yup. It is odd- I doubt anyone would be all that upset over it nowadays. Maybe back when they came out, but it's been some time since they stopped, and we know it's not an ironclad rule- if a character shows up in the movies, such as TASM2 Spider-Man or Shazam, we get their figure regardless of whether or not they were a comic-con exclusive. Hell, "All-new" Falcon Cap got a book fig a year or two ago that's clearly based on the same design as the old comic-con figure.

Exactly, it's been so long now and so few people got those minifigs that there would be more people outraged at not getting their hands on them than people outraged that they got exclusive minifigs that aren't exclusive anymore. Honestly, it seems like we need black suit Spider-Man to come into the movies (again) in order to get a minifig. Still holding out hope we'll get Raimi Spider-Man in the black suit but I fear that's wishful thinking. I feel like that would be too generous of Lego. It doesn't help that the Sandman fight against black suit Spider-Man takes place in the sewers so it's not really conducive for a Lego set environment. The earlier fight they have on the streets, when Spidey is still in his regular suit, would seem more likely.

[Mandalorianknight]

5 minutes ago, JeanGreyForever said:

Exactly, it's been so long now and so few people got those minifigs that there would be more people outraged at not getting their hands on them than people outraged that they got exclusive minifigs that aren't exclusive anymore. Honestly, it seems like we need black suit Spider-Man to come into the movies (again) in order to get a minifig. Still holding out hope we'll get Raimi Spider-Man in the black suit but I fear that's wishful thinking. I feel like that would be too generous of Lego.

It doesn't help that the Sandman fight against black suit Spider-Man takes place in the sewers so it's not really conducive for a Lego set environment. The earlier fight they have on the streets, when Spidey is still in his regular suit, would seem more likely.

By orders of magnitude, too. The number of people who would be upset about their SDCC figs from a decade or two ago no longer being exclusive could easily be a single-digit number of people. It's not even like the Rex situation where thousands of people had him and their precious value was affected- I guarantee you that they could release near-identical versions of the SDCC spiders and the prices for the comic-con variants would stay the same.

I still think that's a comic-based set anyway. I think it's more likely a big sand monster than something like the armored truck fight or a buildable sewer.

[JeanGreyForever]

1 hour ago, Mandalorianknight said:

By orders of magnitude, too. The number of people who would be upset about their SDCC figs from a decade or two ago no longer being exclusive could easily be a single-digit number of people. It's not even like the Rex situation where thousands of people had him and their precious value was affected- I guarantee you that they could release near-identical versions of the SDCC spiders and the prices for the comic-con variants would stay the same.

I still think that's a comic-based set anyway. I think it's more likely a big sand monster than something like the armored truck fight or a buildable sewer.

Exactly, there's no reason not to remake those figures now. 

Unfortunately I think you're right. I do think we'll get more Raimi sets in the future but I think the train set was a test to see if there's a market. And multiple posts in this thread indicate the set was a big hit and its date to be retired has been pushed back due to how well it's selling, so based on this I expect that Lego will start working on more Raimi sets. But they probably won't come till 2027 at the earliest. Unless we're really lucky with a late 2026 release for something. Lego must know there's a market especially for Raimi Green Goblin.

[DaredevilFan]

I think an X-Men 97 and YFNSM would be the perfect combo for a CMF. For X-Men they could do new characters like Nightcrawler, jubilee and also the main x-men in new outfits so Wolverine in brown suit, Storm in black etc.. YFNSM had a lot of amazing designs for characters, Scorpion and Doc Ock would be great. I think season 2 will have venom and Daredevil in the red suit. But then again the next series will be 2027 so depends if they have a new season by then to tie into 

[Yoggington]

As good a place as any to ask. 

Anyone have any idea of the potential for X-Mansion to become a Black Friday bargain? Any inkling of whether its selling well?

The price just seems so wildly OTT, I figure it just might be selling poorly and have been holding out for a discount.

[Mandalorianknight]

4 hours ago, Yoggington said:

As good a place as any to ask. 

Anyone have any idea of the potential for X-Mansion to become a Black Friday bargain? Any inkling of whether its selling well?

The price just seems so wildly OTT, I figure it just might be selling poorly and have been holding out for a discount.

I'm not sure- personally I haven't seen much of it in the wild or on social media, or heard anybody hyped about it or buying it in-person, but that's all anecdotal. 

That said, no harm in just waiting and seeing- Black Friday's not much more than a month away.

[Yoggington]

Yea, that's the plan I suppose. 

If no Black Friday sale I'll probably wait until at least Christmas.. if not next Black Friday..

[Mandalorianknight]

On 10/13/2025 at 11:09 PM, JeanGreyForever said:

Unfortunately I think you're right. I do think we'll get more Raimi sets in the future but I think the train set was a test to see if there's a market. And multiple posts in this thread indicate the set was a big hit and its date to be retired has been pushed back due to how well it's selling, so based on this I expect that Lego will start working on more Raimi sets. But they probably won't come till 2027 at the earliest. Unless we're really lucky with a late 2026 release for something. Lego must know there's a market especially for Raimi Green Goblin.

I agree, it's just that summer 2025-January 2026 is too small of a turnaround. A SM3 final battle and likely some sort of Green Goblin set seem likely for 2027, though.

 

An unreleased SDCC exclusive Sandman attack set just leaked. It's a fun giveaway, solid build for Sandman's hand, uses the 2021 standard spider-man, and didn't include any exclusive parts. I wish they'd done something at least slightly interesting with the packaging, but I'd prefer these SDCC exclusives to be re-used parts with no exclusive packaging rather than nice packaging and a figure 99% of us would never be able to get.

[Renny The Spaceman]

2 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I agree, it's just that summer 2025-January 2026 is too small of a turnaround. A SM3 final battle and likely some sort of Green Goblin set seem likely for 2027, though.

I feel like they'd probably do Sandman battle set with the black suit over the SM3 final battle. I doubt they're keen on making James Franco so it's just a question of if they'd rather have Venom or Black Suit Spidey. I know they love Venom but I feel they'll be way more cautious with whatever set they do for SM3 because it's unproven with a (unfairly) dodgy reception.

[JeanGreyForever]

24 minutes ago, Renny The Spaceman said:

I feel like they'd probably do Sandman battle set with the black suit over the SM3 final battle. I doubt they're keen on making James Franco so it's just a question of if they'd rather have Venom or Black Suit Spidey. I know they love Venom but I feel they'll be way more cautious with whatever set they do for SM3 because it's unproven with a (unfairly) dodgy reception.

I don't think it's that unproven. Last year when they re-released all the Spider-Man films, SM3 was the second highest grossing of the re-releases. Right after SM2 and even ahead of the first Spider-Man.

2 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I agree, it's just that summer 2025-January 2026 is too small of a turnaround. A SM3 final battle and likely some sort of Green Goblin set seem likely for 2027, though.

 

An unreleased SDCC exclusive Sandman attack set just leaked. It's a fun giveaway, solid build for Sandman's hand, uses the 2021 standard spider-man, and didn't include any exclusive parts. I wish they'd done something at least slightly interesting with the packaging, but I'd prefer these SDCC exclusives to be re-used parts with no exclusive packaging rather than nice packaging and a figure 99% of us would never be able to get.

Let's hope.

Just saw it and agree with you. Better they don't include new minifigs and parts since the majority of Lego consumers won't ever get these.

[Renny The Spaceman]

1 minute ago, JeanGreyForever said:

I don't think it's that unproven. Last year when they re-released all the Spider-Man films, SM3 was the second highest grossing of the re-releases. Right after SM2 and even ahead of the first Spider-Man.

True, though to play devil's advocate the Hobbit films (why am I mentioning these movies so much today) all made a billion and they ain't touching those. We don't have any metric to judge it's general merch sales as that's what really matters and LEGO has no past experience with this one so nothing directly transferable 

[Mandalorianknight]

2 hours ago, Renny The Spaceman said:

I feel like they'd probably do Sandman battle set with the black suit over the SM3 final battle. I doubt they're keen on making James Franco so it's just a question of if they'd rather have Venom or Black Suit Spidey. I know they love Venom but I feel they'll be way more cautious with whatever set they do for SM3 because it's unproven with a (unfairly) dodgy reception.

There are a few reasons I think it's unlikely. One is that we're getting a small spider-man vs sandman set this january, so two anytime soon seems unlikely. Another is that lego is weirdly against symbiote spider-man despite for sure knowing how popular it would be. A third is, as I go into later in this comment, the construction site making a better overall set for kids.

As for Franco, I don't know. He certainly has had some controversy about him, but given the New Goblin has a covered face I think lego could do it. We don't have a ton of precedent- we know Ezra Miller was cut from the Flash set (although rather than allegations and gross-but-technically-legal texts, he was actively out there committing a number of crimes on video, and we also don't know that his actions were why the set dropped Flash instead of lego's overall move away from anyone not named batman), but on that same token Horatio Sanz's Mythrol appeared in a set long after allegations were made against him. Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow and Grindelwald also have, and I believe Grindelwald and the 2017 sparrow were after the allegations were out but before they were proven false. At the end of the day, given the covered face, precedent, etc, I think whatever you personally think, it seems that lego could make a New Goblin figure for a construction site set. It's not like they'd be paying Franco for using the suit and mask design.

1 hour ago, JeanGreyForever said:

Just saw it and agree with you. Better they don't include new minifigs and parts since the majority of Lego consumers won't ever get these.

Yup. I mean, I guess nobody's technically getting this one, but by that same hand (pun intended) given there's no exclusive parts, we all COULD get it- which, as you say, is the point.

1 hour ago, Renny The Spaceman said:

True, though to play devil's advocate the Hobbit films (why am I mentioning these movies so much today) all made a billion and they ain't touching those. We don't have any metric to judge it's general merch sales as that's what really matters and LEGO has no past experience with this one so nothing directly transferable 

The LOTR theme is also solely based on massive Icons sets at the moment, and putting aside that LOTR itself lends itself better to modulars (at least until we get Minas Tirith, Helm's deep, and maybe Moria), it's entirely focused on adult collectors who primarily dislike the hobbit. The system marvel sets are at least partially aimed at kids, and 4 heroes/villains in a set with plenty of viable play features is better than two in a set with, what, a play feature to flush sandman down a sewer in attempted murder?

[calebcold3]

So the Smart Brick Minifig example leaked (it's of Luke Skywalker in his farm outfit) 

Are we expecting any of the Marvel Sets next year to have Smart bricks?

I feel like the 2 9+ sets releasing in April 2026 (76347 + 76348 according to JediJACPenguin) are going to be smart brick sets but IDK what the builds could be. 

[Scarilian]

27 minutes ago, calebcold3 said:

So the Smart Brick Minifig example leaked (it's of Luke Skywalker in his farm outfit) 

  I really hope not as it's the worst idea Lego have ever had.

• Batteries expand over time and can be known to explode and leak and these ones are seemingly permanently in-place with no method to remove.
• Requires wireless recharging which degrades battery life and cause overheating issues.
• It's unclear what technology is actually inside the figure and there's no 'off switch' to any of it.
• It devalues the visuals of the figure as the warnings are printed on the figures sides.
• The torso is attached to the legs so the figures are not as customisable.
• Lego may create versions of characters using this that have never had a normal figure, meaning we miss out on the normal figures - imagine MCU Doctor Doom comes with this junk, or perhaps Symbiote Spider-man?
• Lego will use it as an excuse to raise prices further and keep prices raised even in sets without the AI Bricks.
• Lego raised prices and switched to paper bags for renewability and is now creating figures with a bunch of electronics nobody wanted that cannot be recycled and will need to be disposed of much more regularly as opposed to normal figures.

I really hope that whatever sets have these don't sell, I know I won't be buying any set with those figures or 'smart' bricks. I feel this is another misguided or malicious attempt to shove technology into Lego.

On 10/15/2025 at 9:18 PM, Renny The Spaceman said:

I know they love Venom but I feel they'll be way more cautious with whatever set they do for SM3 because it's unproven with a (unfairly) dodgy reception.

They know symbiote Spider-man would sell and I imagine we'll be getting a version of him by 2027 regardless thanks to Spider-man 4 and Doomsday/Secret Wars. No chance they miss out on having a symbiote suited Spider-man to help entice people to see one of those.

On 10/15/2025 at 9:18 PM, Renny The Spaceman said:

I feel like they'd probably do Sandman battle set with the black suit over the SM3 final battle. I doubt they're keen on making James Franco so it's just a question of if they'd rather have Venom or Black Suit Spidey. I know they love Venom but I feel they'll be way more cautious with whatever set they do for SM3 because it's unproven with a (unfairly) dodgy reception.

If we get Spider-man 3 I'd imagine it'd be two sets, one focusing on Spider-man Vs Sandman during the bank van chase featuring an exclusive normal Spider-man and Sandman minifigure with partially converted sandy sections along with a bank vehicle build.

The other would probably be an 'inspired by' Final Battle that rolls in all the elements featuring:

1. Battle Damaged Spider-man - Damage to upper chest, right arm and mask. Spare head included for non-battle damaged mask and for Peter Parker head.
2. Symbiote Spider-man - Printed arms and boots, tying with the Battle Damaged Spider-man for the figures with the most detail
3. Venom - Printed torso, open mouth grin/snarl expression (The one he does repeatedly during the final battle)
4. Sandman - Unsandy version, just his striped shirt and plain trousers
5. New Goblin - Headprint is just visor and mask, printed torso and right arm, dark green/black legs, could include alternative battle damaged Harry Osborn face if desired.
6. Mary Jane Watson - White t-shirt with tie and black legs pieces, she wears this during the final battle
7. Gwen Stacy - Pink shirt with the jacket and black leg pieces, she wears this when awarding Spider-man. Though not featured in the final battle it'd help with balancing out the figures citizen to hero/villain roster and would be the first live-action movie-verse Gwen we've gotten.
8. Eddie Brock - Grey shirt with black leg pieces, from when he's pulled from Venom during the final battle
9. J.J.Jameson - Outfit from this scene.

Set would be the upper segment of the construction yard with a brick-built Sandman hand, some pipes and a taxi made to look suspended in a web as the main focus of the build along with a play feature where you can put a minifigure in a construction barrel and spin them around to transform them from normal to alter-ego such as Eddie Brock Jr. into Venom.

[Mandalorianknight]

2 hours ago, calebcold3 said:

So the Smart Brick Minifig example leaked (it's of Luke Skywalker in his farm outfit) 

Are we expecting any of the Marvel Sets next year to have Smart bricks?

I feel like the 2 9+ sets releasing in April 2026 (76347 + 76348 according to JediJACPenguin) are going to be smart brick sets but IDK what the builds could be. 

I hope not, for the excellent reasons @Scarilian lists below.

1 hour ago, Scarilian said:

  I really hope not as it's the worst idea Lego have ever had.

• Batteries expand over time and can be known to explode and leak and these ones are seemingly permanently in-place with no method to remove.
• Requires wireless recharging which degrades battery life and cause overheating issues.
• It's unclear what technology is actually inside the figure and there's no 'off switch' to any of it.
• It devalues the visuals of the figure as the warnings are printed on the figures sides.
• The torso is attached to the legs so the figures are not as customisable.
• Lego may create versions of characters using this that have never had a normal figure, meaning we miss out on the normal figures - imagine MCU Doctor Doom comes with this junk, or perhaps Symbiote Spider-man?
• Lego will use it as an excuse to raise prices further and keep prices raised even in sets without the AI Bricks.
• Lego raised prices and switched to paper bags for renewability and is now creating figures with a bunch of electronics nobody wanted that cannot be recycled and will need to be disposed of much more regularly as opposed to normal figures.

I really hope that whatever sets have these don't sell, I know I won't be buying any set with those figures or 'smart' bricks. I feel this is another misguided or malicious attempt to shove technology into Lego.

They know symbiote Spider-man would sell and I imagine we'll be getting a version of him by 2027 regardless thanks to Spider-man 4 and Doomsday/Secret Wars. No chance they miss out on having a symbiote suited Spider-man to help entice people to see one of those.

Same. I've wanted a TIE advanced for years, and even though the rumored PPP sounds nice, I will avoid it if it includes smart figures.

 

Lego has a weird thing against remaking comic-con figures, but the major exception is when those characters/variants show up in movies. I think we've got a good shot at a symbiote figure since, as you say, we'll probably see the suit sometime soon. There was leaked concept art YEARS ago.

[JeanGreyForever]

6 hours ago, Scarilian said:

If we get Spider-man 3 I'd imagine it'd be two sets, one focusing on Spider-man Vs Sandman during the bank van chase featuring an exclusive normal Spider-man and Sandman minifigure with partially converted sandy sections along with a bank vehicle build.

The other would probably be an 'inspired by' Final Battle that rolls in all the elements featuring:

1. Battle Damaged Spider-man - Damage to upper chest, right arm and mask. Spare head included for non-battle damaged mask and for Peter Parker head.
2. Symbiote Spider-man - Printed arms and boots, tying with the Battle Damaged Spider-man for the figures with the most detail
3. Venom - Printed torso, open mouth grin/snarl expression (The one he does repeatedly during the final battle)
4. Sandman - Unsandy version, just his striped shirt and plain trousers
5. New Goblin - Headprint is just visor and mask, printed torso and right arm, dark green/black legs, could include alternative battle damaged Harry Osborn face if desired.
6. Mary Jane Watson - White t-shirt with tie and black legs pieces, she wears this during the final battle
7. Gwen Stacy - Pink shirt with the jacket and black leg pieces, she wears this when awarding Spider-man. Though not featured in the final battle it'd help with balancing out the figures citizen to hero/villain roster and would be the first live-action movie-verse Gwen we've gotten.
8. Eddie Brock - Grey shirt with black leg pieces, from when he's pulled from Venom during the final battle
9. J.J.Jameson - Outfit from this scene.

Set would be the upper segment of the construction yard with a brick-built Sandman hand, some pipes and a taxi made to look suspended in a web as the main focus of the build along with a play feature where you can put a minifigure in a construction barrel and spin them around to transform them from normal to alter-ego such as Eddie Brock Jr. into Venom.

Honestly, you probably put more thought in what the civilian characters would wear in a potential Lego set than Lego themselves. Like how the Spider-Man 2 set randomly included J. Jonah Jameson and Aunt May with Aunt May not even wearing an outfit that comes from the movie. Lego will just reuse random torsos for characters like Peter, MJ, Harry, Eddie, Gwen, etc. MJ's supposed to be in her waitress outfit in the final battle but they'll probably recycle any female torso that they're currently using in another set.

[calebcold3]

14 hours ago, Scarilian said:

  I really hope not as it's the worst idea Lego have ever had.

• Batteries expand over time and can be known to explode and leak and these ones are seemingly permanently in-place with no method to remove.
• Requires wireless recharging which degrades battery life and cause overheating issues.
• It's unclear what technology is actually inside the figure and there's no 'off switch' to any of it.
• It devalues the visuals of the figure as the warnings are printed on the figures sides.
• The torso is attached to the legs so the figures are not as customisable.
• Lego may create versions of characters using this that have never had a normal figure, meaning we miss out on the normal figures - imagine MCU Doctor Doom comes with this junk, or perhaps Symbiote Spider-man?
• Lego will use it as an excuse to raise prices further and keep prices raised even in sets without the AI Bricks.
• Lego raised prices and switched to paper bags for renewability and is now creating figures with a bunch of electronics nobody wanted that cannot be recycled and will need to be disposed of much more regularly as opposed to normal figures.

I really hope that whatever sets have these don't sell, I know I won't be buying any set with those figures or 'smart' bricks. I feel this is another misguided or malicious attempt to shove technology into Lego.

 

13 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I hope not, for the excellent reasons @Scarilian lists below.

Good reasonings, I hope not either, as I have no interest in the Smart Brick gimmick. But IF, LEGO had to curse us with a Smart Brick Marvel set next year, I would rather have it be only ONE SET rather than a whole wave like what Star Wars is getting.

[BrickBob Studpants]

15 hours ago, calebcold3 said:

Are we expecting any of the Marvel Sets next year to have Smart bricks?

Marvel isn’t mentioned among the themes that do get smart bricks (i.e., Star Wars, Pokémon, Animal Crossing, Bluey, Friends, and Technic), but it can’t be ruled out

15 hours ago, calebcold3 said:

IDK what the builds could be. 

A Hulkbuster and a buildable Groot

[NXS7]

On 10/21/2025 at 8:57 AM, calebcold3 said:

 

Good reasonings, I hope not either, as I have no interest in the Smart Brick gimmick. But IF, LEGO had to curse us with a Smart Brick Marvel set next year, I would rather have it be only ONE SET rather than a whole wave like what Star Wars is getting.

And it'd better be commonly used minifigures rather than something exclusive. Easy to picture an Iron Man with a smart brick, but it'd better be Mark 6 or 43 rather than say 42, which hasn't been updated yet

 

[Mandalorianknight]

2 hours ago, NXS7 said:

And it'd better be commonly used minifigures rather than something exclusive. Easy to picture an Iron Man with a smart brick, but it'd better be Mark 6 or 43 rather than say 42, which hasn't been updated yet

I shudder to consider getting Smart Brick marvel stuff, but as far as the mk 42 goes we did get an update to it in the second iron man mech set- the printing on the torso and legs matches up better with the mk42 suit than the 2013 figure.

It has the 2nd helmet style rather than the most recent, but it'd just be using the MK3/6/7 faceplate anyway.

On 10/20/2025 at 7:44 PM, JeanGreyForever said:

Honestly, you probably put more thought in what the civilian characters would wear in a potential Lego set than Lego themselves. Like how the Spider-Man 2 set randomly included J. Jonah Jameson and Aunt May with Aunt May not even wearing an outfit that comes from the movie. Lego will just reuse random torsos for characters like Peter, MJ, Harry, Eddie, Gwen, etc. MJ's supposed to be in her waitress outfit in the final battle but they'll probably recycle any female torso that they're currently using in another set.

Yeah, if the battle even comes with more than one civilian (I could easily see it just being Spidey/Venom/Sandman/New Goblin/MJ), it'd be generic kitbashes unfortunately.

On 10/21/2025 at 4:03 AM, BrickBob Studpants said:

A Hulkbuster and a buildable Groot

Honestly a buildable groot would probably be the best incorporation of a smart/sound brick for one of these. Fitting that "robot pet" niche.

 

Excited to get more january wave details. I still think it could be the strongest January in YEARS for this theme.

[calebcold3]

8 hours ago, NXS7 said:

And it'd better be commonly used minifigures rather than something exclusive. Easy to picture an Iron Man with a smart brick, but it'd better be Mark 6 or 43 rather than say 42, which hasn't been updated yet

 

Agreed. If I were LEGO, I would make an Iron-Man Smart Brick Minifigure be this:

Rather than a suit we need an update on/a suit we've never gotten. I could definitely see a Smart Brick Quinjet set (that is Comic Based) with that Iron Man minifigure. Too Bad I wouldn't buy that potential set

6 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Excited to get more january wave details. I still think it could be the strongest January in YEARS for this theme.

Agreed. I'm most excited to see what the Ghost Rider bike looks like, even though it's the cheapest set. 

Hopefully we also hear more details on the April 2026 sets that are on JediJAC's Website.

Edited 2 minutes ago by calebcold3