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These all look pretty good! Hela's just as crazy as the comics, Banner's normal (though I like my purist version even more), Loki is fine. All in all, Lego didn't make too many mistakes on this wave's figures!

Wow, those "MexiVerse" characters look great! Are they based on anything in the comics? I love the use of the sugar-skull body for Punsher's torso, and I totally think Deadpool would dress up in the most stereotypical Mexican clothing. Also, I think the Red Hood head is a good alternative to the (incredibly expensive) actual Deadpool figure.

Well, assuming that Thor figure is real, it looks pretty good! I would've preferred something slightly closer to the helmet seen in the comics and the 2011 film (e.g. use a lighter color, have the protruding "wings" more upright rather than swept back), but overall it's better than I feared! I'll probably stick to the older Thors' bodies and heads, but that helmet has utility!

I don't know; I like that it's got volume and it's styled , but the Ddoctor's hair is clearly for balding characters. I don't know whether Goldblum's actual hairline is receding, but he's definitely playing a character with a full head of hair in Thor. I'm in favor of the J Jonah Jameson/Magneto hair, but in light gray. It fits at least as well as either the official part or the Doctor Who piece, and as an added bonus it has consistency with his brother, the Collector.

I don't know if those figures fit here, though. The movie Roland is played by Idris Elba, so it's clearly not him, and it's not purist. Plus, shouldn't book-version Roland only have one hand?

May is Galadriel, Ward is Kili, and I think Simmons is Elizabeth Swann. Don't know about Mack or Skye.

I like the vehicle! The combo of the two struts on the front and the 2x2 half cylinder in the middle give the impression of the Tim Burton Batmobile, especially with the curve of the struts meeting the perpendicular angle of the cheese slope on the front. It's a nice effect! The exhaust piece is a nice choice for this scale: it's large enough that it looks like a thing Batman would put on an overpowered car, not so big that it looks cartoony. The tiered fins on the back look cool The build for the bat emblem on the front is good However, the vehicle looks a little stubby, and I think it's because of the angle+location of the emblem. I think if you either kept the same angle but moved the emblem farther forward, or tilted it at a shallower angle (so that it's closer to parallel with the two struts flanking it), you could ameliorate that effect.

Alright, guys, I'm in the US, but I bought a Ms. Marvel figure on Bricklink before modifying it. Because it's a new part, I figured I'd tell people just in case they were curious. I commented about it in the Lego Licensed Marvel Superheroes topic, but figured it belonged here as well. Here's the modified figure; I know the color choice on the arms is very wrong, but I'm away from my full collection, so I just chose a pair from my selection with me at school. Here are my observations and thoughts about the part as it came from Lego: The torso comes in an unusually large plastic bag with perforations. If the bag is unfolded, it's about the area of the front face of a $13 set. The hands (not the bracelets, the actual minifigure hands) are removable from the arms and can be replaced as well, but they require more force than when removing or replacing hands from regular arms. Once removed, they appear to be standard hands. The arm piece feels less like rubber Friends hair and more like Lego's typical soft plastic tubes. There's no metal wire, it's just molded into the curved shape, so it can't be posed well, and the shape just snaps back to default as soon as pressure stops. However, the plastic does feel like if you left it in one position for a while, it might tend towards that position. The printing quality on the torso looks fantastic. The torso piece doesn't have the customary white/black square on the neck peg. I assume that's because the arms are back-front symmetric, so it didn't matter which way the torso was facing when they were inserted. I then used scissors to cut the arm tube. The tube is very soft, and is very easy to cut. The tube is solid; there's no hole through the center, nor is there a core made of a different material Standard minifigure arms definitively DO pop in, with no further modification needed. The balls are not compressed once inside the socket, so the figure shouldn't be damaged, nor should the arm pieces. The arms can be rotated without popping out or breaking. However, the interior socket is uneven; it's rectangular, so the ball joint on the arm experiences uneven friction as the arm is rotated; in some positions it has more friction than others. Because the sockets aren't designed to hold minifigure arms, there's a tiny bit of give: in some positions, the arm comes a millimeter out of joint. However, in most positions it looks completely normal. Arms come out easier than from normal torsos, but they should stay in fine, even during posing or play.

Alright, guys, I'm in the US, but I bought a Ms. Marvel figure on Bricklink. Here are my observations and thoughts: The torso comes in an unusually large plastic bag with perforations. If the bag is unfolded, it's about the area of the front face of a $13 set. The hands (not the bracelets, the actual minifigure hands) are removable from the arms and can be replaced as well, but they require more force than when removing or replacing hands from regular arms. Once removed, they appear to be standard hands. The arm piece feels less like rubber Friends hair and more like Lego's typical soft plastic tubes. There's no metal wire, it's just molded into the curved shape, so it can't be posed well, and the shape just snaps back to default as soon as pressure stops. However, the plastic does feel like if you left it in one position for a while, it might tend towards that position. The printing quality on the torso looks fantastic. I then used scissors to cut the arm tube. The tube is very soft, and is very easy to cut. The tube is solid; there's no hole through the center, nor is there a core made of a different material Standard minifigure arms definitively DO pop in, with no further modification needed. The balls are not compressed once inside the socket, so the figure shouldn't be damaged, nor should the arm pieces. The arms can be rotated without popping out or breaking. However, the interior socket is uneven; it's rectangular, so the ball joint on the arm experiences uneven friction as the arm is rotated; in some positions it has more friction than others. Because the sockets aren't designed to hold minifigure arms, there's a tiny bit of give: in some positions, the arm comes a millimeter out of joint. However, in most positions it looks completely normal. Arms come out easier than from normal torsos, but they should stay in fine, even during posing or play. Edit: Other things of note: The torso piece doesn't have the customary white/black square on the neck peg. I assume that's because the arms are back-front symmetric, so it didn't matter which way the torso was facing when they were inserted.

My very favorite Iron Man armors are all designs that would use the older helmet (comics Pre Extremis suit, comics Extremis suit, MCU Mark 3, MCU Mark 7), but I do have a soft spot for the classic armors of the comics. Virtually all the helmets from the 1960s to the 1990s had roughly the same design, with a yellow-gold face plate on a bright red helmet, and using black rectangles for the eyes and a black trapezoid for the mouth, and I think that style of design would fit far better on the new helmet than the old one. I think the new mold has potential, but I'm not in love with it yet; I strongly dislike the two Iron Man helmets we've gotten with it thus far. The Mighty Micros is too cartoony, and the ANAD helmet is too specific to a design that I don't like very much. The two villain helmets actually look better, which give me some hope that they'll do good things with it, maybe even outside the Marvel line. If they use the new helmet to make a true classic Iron Man to accompany the other classic characters they've made (Spider-Man, Thor, Captain America, Falcon, Hulk, etc.), then I'll accept it. If they don't, I'd just as soon keep the old one on future Tonys.

Having also searched for a couple hours, I can also confirm that there are basically no new licensed parts. However, there are still some holdover parts: Chell's complete figure, from the Portal Dimensions pack Finn's (Star Wars, not Adventure Time) torso The Dejarik table, from the Millennium Falcon Maria Hill's torso, from the Helicarrier is still available Several parts from the Kwik-E-Mart: Torsos of Marge, Snake, Apu, Bart, Chief Wiggum Chief Wiggum's legs Various printed parts (magazines, newspapers, cards, donuts, etc.) Several parts from the Ghostbusters Firehouse: Winston Zeddemore's torso Zombie driver's torso Dana/Zuul's torso Ecto 1 license plate Louis' head Multiple parts of the Ghost Librarian Also, while there are no new licensed parts from the sets, the Marvel sets show up in the US, despite not being sold in the region yet.

The dual molded legs do look useful, but I wouldn't get too excited about the green legs yet; they could be the same bright-green/yellow legs that Doc Ock got, and those ones don't match the (regular) green that Iron Fist uses.

Is that a Hero Factory helmet on STRIPE? That line came out mostly during a period I wasn't into Lego and I don't see the figure parts used here all that often, but it seems like the helmets have great potential for all kinds of robotic characters. That helmet you've used in particular seems like it would've worked pretty well for a purist version of Ultron (though the official figures also do a pretty good job of sating that specific need).

Eh, many of the weird figure parts are from China and are usually packaged in separate bags (Iron Man's helmet, etc.). The Japanese review showed Kamala's torso in one of those bags, so I think it's highly likely it's made in China, just like the CMF figures are (including the toy soldier).

Nah. There was one very early (Japanese?) review that implied that there were multiple torsos per set, but every reviewer and customer who's talked about it has indicated that there's only one torso. It must either have been specific to the East Asian market, or a decision for the early-release that Lego reversed their decision on for the wide release of the set. EDIT: You both found the video I was talking about, and came to the same conclusion I did all in the time between me starting my comment and posting it. Some minds just think alike, I guess!

Or Silver Sable.

Nah, the "bracelet" sections are hard plastic, roughly matching the diameter and length of standard minifig arms, while the "arm" tube is a slightly thinner, flexible rubber material. You can slide the rubber tube through the torso, but the arm and bracelet parts are glued (or otherwise connected) together so that the bracelets work as end stops while simultaneously resembling minifig arms. The idea is that if you pull on one hand, the arm thing will be pulled only until it looks like she has one normal arm and one long arm.

What modification did that take?! At this point, I'm just about prepared to try anything short of sawing off the shoulder-ball. Edit: was having weird internet problems, saw the Flickr comments now. I'm overjoyed at that, if it's true.

Typically the best way to identify a part is through Bricklink's catalog and its color guide feature. If you're talking about the head and not the cowl, then in this case, it looks like that head might not be an official Lego part either. It's made of black plastic, and no catalogued black heads have red visors in that manner, and nor do any of the uncatalogued Lego Batman figures. So to the best of my knowledge, it's either a non-Lego part, or a modified Lego part.

So, with figure details having leaked for the 2017 MCU sets a few weeks back, it looks like we're still going to be Odin-less going forward. Based mainly on his Thor: The Dark World appearance, I've attempted a purist version: For anyone wondering, it's made with the following parts: Hair: Count Dooku Face: Old (Rebels) Commander Wolffe Armor: Theoden Torso: Black Arms: Black Hands: one Dark Brown, one Light Flesh Legs: Reddish Brown

It's from Totoro, or My Neighbor Tototo, or maybe it was called something else in your region. It's a classic Japanese animated film from the late 80s/early 90s, geared toward younger kids, about two little girls who meet a huge bear creature.

I dunno man, his plain black torso perfectly matches some depictions of the character: http://www.writeups.org/wp-content/uploads/Prometheus-DC-Comics-JLA.jpg

I've never played them, but it reminds me of the suits in the Fallout video game series. I strongly suspect it won't be possible without further modification. The photos I've seen make it look like the internal diameter of her torso's... cylinder? tube? is smooth, in order to facilitate easier sliding of the noodle arm piece; if it's smooth, then there would be nowhere for the "arm joint" part of the standard minifigure arm piece to expand out to after it's been compressed. If that's the case, then trying to insert an arm would be like putting a technic pin inside a 1x1 cylinder brick; it would kind of work, but there'd be too much friction and the parts would be damaged. However, I'm hoping to high heaven I'm wrong on this.

Don't those seem unusually uniform if that's the complete list and accurate prices for all of the MCU sets this year? Nothing at all in the sub 30 range and nothing very high, either. From my perspective, at least, it seems unfortunate, given that the $/£/€ ~15 and ~20 price points are nearly always the best deal for figure collectors and the sets that are 70+ are usually the best for impressive builds.

Soo... on your Winter Soldier you don't want to be purist on the mask, and don't want any suggestions on the head, but posted in the purist thread asking for suggestions how to achieve the mask and head in a purist fashion? Anyway, on your purist Bucky, I think the head and hair combo is fantastic (If you were making comics Winter Soldier, that's probably the right hair for him, too). Thorin's torso definitely works, though personally, I like the Anakin snow torso, or the Lone Ranger cavalry torso for Bucky, just because they look a little more modern and a bit more militant. The pants work, too, though going off the images I can find, his pants and boots both were brown in The First Avenger during the time he was wearing that jacket, so if I were making him I'd probably just go for plain brown.