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New Maul leaked, and the eyes with no pupils look cursed! Why did Lego stopped giving Sith pupils when they clearly have them in-universe? Last version of Maul looked awesome with normal eyes, but this one's face is wrong. The torso prints are good, but eyes ruin this otherwise great figure.

Wow, new Ronan is huge downgrade from 2014 version. How's it possible that we have worse minifigure 10 years later? Why not bring back his hood/armour combo mold? Lego is so cheap these days with minifig quality...

Wow new Avengers tower is amazing build wise! Almost 1 meter high, looks like it’s nicely detailed, but I expected more floor tbh. As for the minifigures I have to agree Vison is such a standout here! Amazing cape print ( and I thought 2016/2018 version was great) and Trans clear legs to give shifting effect? This Vision alone might be a good reason to but the Tower. Hulk is great, and apparently has new mold since it looks like his head can move. As for the rest of minifigures, they are mixed bag. I expected them to reuse Avengers 1 cast from Quinjet and it’s fine. Although it still bugs me they use fat Thors face for younger Thor since it doesn’t fit this version of him! But new Hawkeye get such a generic face print here, he looks nothing like Jeremy Renner, I mean even 2015 Hawkeye had more accurate face than this new one! New battle damaged Mk6 is a welcome addition, reuses of Fury and Pepper are expected. New dr Selvig and Pierce are good. Helen Cho and Kevin Feige are great additional figures. Scarlet Witch is not AoU based for some reason? Why would they cheap out and put inaccurate figure of her in this set? Also Tony Stark could have used new face print as 2018 one is getting old and tired( it also feels expressionless). Also why no Quicksilver? He was important part of AoU, and only ever appeared in 1 set! For some reason Wong and Wasp who never were in Avengers tower in the movies are here for some reason! And finally why we don’t get AoU version of Avengers in addition to part 1 versions here since the set is mostly based on that movie? We already have that versions of Cap and BW on the market, why not add Thor, Iron Man and Hawkeye as well? Overall minifigs are a mixed bag, not great but decent. But it’s 500$+ set why can’t Lego be bothered to put more effort in Ucs set?

While the new sequel diorama set looks nice, it’s very random. Lego haven’t made sequel sets since 2021(which is fine, since majority of SW fans hate ST) but decided to make random and non canon diorama?

Why is Lego all of a sudden so obsessed with venomized characters? Like it doesn't make sense for Green Goblin to be venomized, but if Lego wanted to do something like this Norman Osborn became Red Goblin after merging with Carnage symbiote. Why not make something like this?

New Gunship is a mixed bag for me, it's cool to get a Gunship, but it's way too small and out of proportion. Minifigs are mixed as well, cool Chancellor Palpatine, and inaccurate Fox. Shock troopers would be great if not for the stupid helmet holes. Packed is strange inclusion here, face isn't Natalie Portman face , but rather generic one. Why could Lego designer be bother to reprint 2013 gunships accurate Padme face print here?

Now that official pictures are out I can confidently say Series 2 is way worse than series 1! Many poor decisions were made like Clint’s hair color, Echo(worst mcu character since Phase 4 started, and that’s saying something) and werewolf by night. But the worst change is boxes instead of blind bags! How can we find out what character is inside now? If there’s no barcode trick like in 2010 Cmfs are basically done…

New pics of Clint and Kate show them much better details. Honestly other than new bow piece Clint is pretty inaccurate. First of all why does he have tan hair instead of accurate dark brown? How did Lego get his hair color wrong? Jeremy Renner Hawkeye always had dark brown hair in Mcu and Lego portrayed that accurately in the past, but screw it up somehow after 10 years!!! Also he has no leg prints. Why does Cmf figure come with no leg prints? Sure he has plain black pants, but print at least some details! Kate looks good, although face isn’t spot on Hailee Steinfelds likeness, still looks good. Also it seems both of them have old quiver piece. Was kinda hoping Lego would finally make modern style quiver instead of medieval one they’ve been using forever.

That's why it's unpopular opinion I guess🤷‍♂️ As far as Stormtroopers go, I disagree. 2014-2017 was peak Stormtrooper design imho. Leg prints make them look great. New "family guy" helmet is the problem with current 2019-2023 design though, not leg prints. Captain America is just a simple example here. Just compare say Marvel Cmf Captain Carter(I'll use her as stand-in as they are similar characters) figure to Hydra stomper Captain Carter figure. Or zombie Captain America Vs Endgame Cap from 2021 set. Lack of leg prints makes latter way worse than former. Ok how do we decide what qualifies detailed costume though? Using Mcu as example here all character have detailed suits. Yet only Iron Man and Spiderman seem to consistently get leg prints. Even though Caps or Thors suits are very detailed too.

Ok, I misspoke let me rephrase it. It's ok for say City minifigs to have no leg prints as they are meant to be just random citizens. But every licensed set should have leg printing as those usually have iconic character who have highly detailed costumes like Marvel, SW or Jurrasic themes. Look no further onthis than Captain America who looks very bland without leg print.

Lego has gone insane with the recent price increases while also not adding more value to the sets. Recent The Marvels set shows they are either insane or just don't care at all about reasonable price for the value of the product. It's really a big "F you" from Lego to not give every minifig a leg printing in 2023. It costs them almost nothing to print legs , but they are penny pinching when it comes to this, especially in Marvel theme. If someone asked me say 10 years ago if something like leg print on all minifigs will become the norm, I would have said yes, but Lego managed to screw us still. Lego does way too much overpriced 18+ "adult" sets(like Black Panther bust) that have limited appeal. All licensed Cmf should have 16 characters at least, original Cmf are fine with current 12 figs. 12 is just not enough for licensed themes Also the decision to make Cmf in boxes now is utterly ridiculous and money hungry move by Lego. All this corporate talk about 'eco friendly" packaging for Cmf is just poor man's excuse to remove last opportunity for us to find minifigs we actually want and make us spend more on cmf! They should really reconsider this stupid decision cause the reaction from everyone is very negative on boxed Cmf...

Yep, comparing Marvels set to Ashoka shuttle is just not fair. Shuttle has 4 highly detailed minifigs, great build and costs less with more pieces! Lego is definitely treating Marvel line recently as the least favorite child.

Ashoka show sets are just amazing! Shuttle looks great and has great mini figures too. Never thought we’d get Huyang as minifig after his CW appearance, but here we are. Ashoka herself looks brilliant with printed arms and new lekku, transclear blades work well for her lightsabers. Sabine looks a bit boring though, but still good. Inquisitor is amazing definitely looks like he’s been through some stuff with rusted armor. E-wing set is great as well, but for minifigs only. While ships here look good, I never cared for E-wing itself or Shins fighter. Shin and Baylon are big draw of the set, and look like worthy pickup. Buildable Chewie is a stuff of nightmares though and someone should call exorcist on it!

Yep, this price is just baffling. With all the hate towards Captain Marvel character you’d think they price the set reasonably, so people would be more inclined to buy the set. But Legos logic is nonexistent these days. Like for 420 pcs set ideal price would be 40-45$, good price would be 50$, 60-70$ would be overpriced(but tolerable). But at 90$ it’s just ridiculous to think someone at Lego thought “that’s reasonable price for fan favorite character, that we didn’t even bother to design leg or arm print for”.

Marvels set is just ok. While ship is nice, I don’t see 90$ here, should be 50$ at most. Minifigs are nice, but only Kamala gets leg print for some reason. Also no main villain again? Why didn’t Lego include Dar-Ben here? So far this year we haven’t gotten main villain for either Quantumania or Guardians Vol.3. Why is there “no villains” policy all of the sudden?

No, with Cmf level quality any Iron man suit would look amazing. Cap and Widow versions would have been amazing inclusion since Lego doesn’t seem to want to make those versions of them. Plus they all are Mcu A-listers so they would have sold great. But instead we have Echo( I’ve never heard somebody say she is their favorite character) and boring Werewolf.

So can anyone explain was Kang never happening in the first place and leakers just confused him with Goliath due to similar appearances in preliminary pictures? Or was Kang originally supposed to be there, but due to Jonathan Majors allegations they decided to replace already designed Kang with Goliath? In any case this Cmf is just a wasted opportunity. They could have made highly detailed Iron Man suit with dual molded legs and printed arms, stealth suit Cap or Black Widow from Endgame. Instead we get Echo(why are Lego so bad with their choices?!)…

This is the first Cmf series in a long time where I only love 1 minifigure. Moon Knight is the only standout here, the rest range from terrible to meh. Why did Lego stick to D+ only characters? The could have made characters from older movies which we wanted for a long time like Odin or stealth suit Cap and people would have loved it! Even if they wanted to stick to D+ they could have made Infinity Ultron or Strange Supreme which we all were asking for when Cmf 1 came out. Such a wasted opportunity here...

Wow, this Cmf looks so bad! Other than Moon knight the whole roster looks very weak. And Lego really screwed us over by replacing Kang with Goliath. While this is still grainy picture, this series is a massive disappointment and downgrade from Series 1. They should have just done Infinity Saga Cmf instead!

No way Lego scraps entire Cmf line if Marvel boxes flop. Since it takes time for big corporations to see sales number I’d guess they will notice potential drop in sales when next Cmf series(whatever it will be) will drop in January 24. And if they are smart(which I doubt) they will put new Cmf in bags again. And yes, ‘eco-friendly’ boxes is typical corporate lingo, which really means cutting costs. If they really cared about Cmf packaging being eco-friendly they could easily make paper bags for Cmf.

These new descriptions unfortunately confirm boxes for Cmf which is terrible and anti-consumer! I don’t believe Legos line about being eco-friendly, its just a poor excuse for anti-consumer practices. Vydio already showed that boxes are bad, and I think Marvel Cmf will fail because of boxes.

Ghost looks amazing! Bigger interior and just overall looks better than 2014 one. Phantom is meh, but I'm surprised they even included it here, instead of making it separate set again. Minifigs are meh here, Hera is the only great minifig here, shame Lego didn't include Zeb here( hopefully he is in the show). Funny how we have 2 170$ sets at the same time with Ghost and Yavin 4 that someone things right and some wrong(bad build and great minifigs in Yavin and great build with meh minifigures in Ghost).

Jim’s face matches Andrew expression but not accurate as he has slight stubble, hairpiece for Andrew works though.Tobey is way worse though as that Han Solo face just doesn’t work for him and they included inaccurate hairpiece too. As far as quality goes Marvel theme is in legos doghouse. Both Star Wars and Harry Potter get way better minifigs than Marvel. It’s like Lego doesn’t even care about quality in Marvel sets…

Well, to no one’s surprise Lego reused faces for all 3 Spider-Men in Statue of Liberty set. And they all don’t fit at all, and Tobey even got inaccurate hairpiece, when combed over piece was better. Lego just raised prices and still can’t be bothered to add some attention to details Marvel sets. Like Tom Holland just had his unique face in Cmf, why didn’t they reuse it here? It’s already created, just reprint it and use! The set is already overpriced, and accurate faces would help people see more value in the set. Lego is so greedy lately it’s ridiculous at this point.

New Caps shield was already kinda meh set to me, but that minifig killed it. This is the most lazy inclusion I be seen Lego do in years! If they chose not to include exclusive WW2 Cap or Stealth suit, they shouldn’t have included any minifigs in the set. At least that way it’s just a weird display piece and nothing more. Now it’s weird display piece with lazy minifig!