Dynamic duo

I think this Batman scene was from promotional material for the video game.

Silver Surfer

This Silver Surfer wallhanging was made by Brucewaynelego, an appropriate name for someone making comic-themed MOCs.

Kickin A'

Not technically from a comic, but Iain Heath, aka Ochre Jelly, of The Living Brick made Kick Ass and Hit Girl.
-Oops- As pointed out in the comments, I guess the movie was based on an actual comic.
-One more edit- I've also corrected the builder, above.

Batmobile

Sebulba56 made this Batmobile.

Reed Richards

One last from Mike Napolitan for now: Mr. Fantastic. Check out his photostream for more.

Fantastic Four

More Mike Napolitan: Fantastic Four

Cyclops

More Mike Napolitan: Cyclops

Timing of the new licenses

There's been some question about the timing of the new releases. Polywen was at the San Diego ComicCon (and got one of the Green Lantern figs, lucky dude) and he got some indication from the people in the LEGO booth. He doesn't remember exactly who said it, but he said it comes down to existing licenses. DC has a current license with Fisher Price (as part of their TRIO Building System), and Marvel currently has a license for building block toys with Mega Bloks. The word is that the LEGO licenses will kick in when these existing licenses expire in January and May 2012, respectively.

Wall of Fame

Here's the Wall of Fame from Legoland Windsor. Among the many characters there you can see your friendly neighborhood web-slinger.

Coming soon ...

From ArzLan.

Backs of the figs

It looks like Mariann Asanuma helped take down the LEGO booth at ComicCon, and she got a chance to photograph the back sides of the figs. As you can see, they're all printed on both sides (well, we can't see Batman and Thor's backs due to capes, but someone noted on Flickr that the exclusive ComicCon Batman fig is printed on both sides). BTW, I have no idea what happened to the Superman fig, and whether or not his cape is printed with an S. Also BTW, I didn't note it before, but Wonder Woman's legs are red with flesh-colored printing on them, and the printing wraps around to the sides (has that ever been done before?).

Figs galore

David Oaks has a huge gallery of minifigs from DC and Marvel, including some characters like the Endless and DareDevil and pals. BTW, it's definitely worth reading through his site for some fun little jokes.

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Here I am with a little niche blog, and suddenly we're sitting on the most exciting new theme (IMO, of course) since the first X-wing came out in 1999. Stay tuned here for all LEGO Super Heroes news, and be sure to tell your friends.

Flash drives

Stefan Reiling has made a number of LEGO-based USB flash drives, including these. I think he sells these and other items - you can contact him via his Flickr account if you're interested.

ComicCon (an older one in Phoenix, not the current one)

These mosaics were on display at the recent Phoenix ComicCon. Again, I think this photo is by a con attendee, so I don't know the builder.

The two faces of Hal

It's been noted that the Green Lantern fig given away at ComicCon has a double sided head. You can actually see both faces at the official site.

Upcoming set hint from contest rules

One other piece of news I missed. Classic-Castle forum member Azaghal pointed out that one of the prizes mentioned in the contest at legosuperheroes.com is the "LEGO Super Heroes: DC Universe Batcave set". So we know at least one of the sets. Let the speculation begin on what other sets will be released.

BTW, the contest rules note that "entries will be judged every month through December 2011" and prizes including "the complete 2012 LEGO Super Heroes: DC Universe collection" will be "awarded each month", leading up to the grand prize (which includes a trip to Legoland and Warner Brothers) in December 2011. The press release said that the initial sets will "launch in January 2012", and the Variety article says they "will launch a new set of playthings around next summer's "The Dark Knight Rises" through the Lego Batman collection" (next summer). But I interpret the contest rules as saying that at least a few people will have sets in their hands within the next couple of months (and surely there will be photos posted online). Or perhaps the contest winners will be given IOU's from LEGO promising that they'll get a big package of LEGO on January 1? Time will tell, but if anyone who reads this blog does win one of the contests, please please please send me any information and photos.



BTW, they are already starting to post fan submissions at legosuperheroes.com, including my up, up and away vignette.

Man of Steel

Kev Levell made this Superman for that legosuperheroes.com contest.

Another news site

Thanks to 'Minifigure' in a comment on an earlier post for a link to The Brick Life, which is also gathering news on the new theme. So far they seem to have the same news I've found, but I'll watch that space for anything new.



One thing that is unclear to me - The Brick Life site says that the Marvel line is "restricted" to Spider-Man, the X-Men and the Avengers, which implies that they cannot do anything else. But the official press release says that the line will "spotlight three Marvel franchises", which implies to me that they will start with those, but could focus on other characters as well. Of course, I'm not sure how much of a restriction it would be, since pretty much every character in the Marvel universe has shown up in one of those comic lines over the years. Heck, it seems like almost every Marvel hero has been a member of the Avengers at one point or another. I do hope they eventually include fan favorites like the Fantastic Four and Dr. Doom (okay, Doomie has fought everyone over time, but he's usually associated with the FF in my head), also the Silver Surfer is an obvious fig (esp since about every other run of Collectible Minifigures seems to have some sort of surfer).

More pics from ComicCon

Hinckley from Eurobricks is also at ComicCon and has a series of high quality photos. There is also a discussion thread on Eurobricks.