Deadly Joke

Maddogjr tells a Deadly Joke, based on the end of the 1989 Keaton/Nicholson film.

Flash

Lego Ness430 built the Flash.

LEGO booth

LEGO had this great relief sculpture as part of their display at the New York Toy Fair.

Spidey

Xenomurphy turned two of his MOCs into great cover versions.

Toy Fair preview

We'll have more Toy Fair pics quite soon, but in the meantime, check out this statue from the LEGO booth.

Batgirl

Levork posted this great custom of Batgirl.

Batman

I just saw this great MOC on FBTB. rongYIREN made this great Batman.

Avengers vs Doombots

Mike Napolitan turns in another great scene: Avengers vs Doombots. Deep inside his castle, Dr. Doom watches the Avengers fighting his robot army.

Selena at home

Med PhotoBlog made this version of Catwoman's apartment.

Batmobile 2025

The Batmobile 2025 challenge is inspiring many interesting MOCs. Some of the most unique designs are from Lino, Shannon Ocean and Lsgc.

We need more heroes

Abeinspace isn't satisfied with just having Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman, so he expanded to make more of the Justice League.

Marvel set descriptions

Over on FBTB, correspondent Bigospedros was at Toy Fair London and has a report on the upcoming Marvel sets:

Now, this part of the Lego stand was shrouded (quite literally) in secret, with only one or two people being allowed in at a time. I was shown the DC sets that we’ve already seen (and some of us have already bought). The one feature of the 6863 Batwing set that they were showing off was the pretty accurate shadow the batwing creates.

We quickly moved onto the Marvel sets, which were in a section of the stand where they had a bigfig / maxifig build of Ironman which was super cool.

I kinda glossed over the Hero Factory / Super Heroes combos because they didn’t really appeal to me.

We then came to 5 new sets from the Marvel line :

6865 Captain America’s Avenging Cycle … this was the only set on display to feature Captain America, who was sat astride a motorbike. The rest of the set was missing, because Marvel had asked Lego not to show it, because it would spoil part of the movie?! Anyway, there’s another un-named minifigure and vehicle … one can only assume it’s an enemy of some sort. Priced at £11.99, so a bargain whatever!

6866 Wolverine’s Chopper Showdown … Comes with Wolverine, Magneto and Deadpool … the figs were all pretty amazing. Wolverine has normal hands holding the claw pieces, rather than anything moulded like the collectable minifig boxer, as we feared. I can’t actually remember the vehicles included in the set, sorry! Priced at £19.99.

6867 Loki’s Cosmic Cube Escape … Comes with Loki, Hawkeye and Ironman. Hawkeye is driving a jeep type vehicle with Loki in the flatbed at the back … he comes with a custom headpiece and staff and the “Cosmic Cube” (a 1 x1 clear brick!). I spent most of my time drooling over the Ironman figure, which was brilliant. My fears over the head being too large were instantly eased and I was amazed to see that the front of the helmet lifts up to reveal whichever of the double sided printed head you’ve got facing forward. Priced at £19.99, this set is a must buy purely for that fig!!

6868 Hulk’s Hellcarrier Breakout … I think this was Bruce Banner’s lab? Not sure … but anyway, the set comes with Hulk, Hawkeye, Loki and Thor. The Hulk figure was pretty damn cool, articulated and I liked the fact the head was in the shape of a normal Lego minifig head, albeit it bigger to be in scale. The Hawkeye figure seemed to have a new bow & arrow type weapon. Priced at £49.99

6869 Quinjet Aerial Battle … A pretty substantial set, with the Quinjet being pretty large, very sturdy and eminently swooshable. Quite a bit of play features (moveable wings, cockpit, pop out undercarriage thingy) and minfigures Black Widow, Ironman, Thor and Loki. Priced at £69.99, I think … although I don’t seem to have written the price down!

These sets are due to hit in April, so not long to wait.

And that was it … no sign of any Spiderman or Green Lantern sets, so maybe they’re coming later or perhaps they’re retailer exclusives.

I've already shown the wall art featuring the Hulk and Captain America, so here is the wall art featuring DC characters. BTW, if you're interested, Bigospedros took photos of other wall art featuring figs from other themes, including some odd Ninjago monsters that I hadn't seen before.



BTW, just to add one more thought about the threat to Brick Will of Brick Heroes that I noted before. It's particularly galling that this threat shows up just as we are hitting Toy Fair. Yes, LEGO is not yet letting people take photos of the sets, but that restriction generally lets up by the time that Toy Fair New York rolls around, and it's pretty inevitable that we'll see good photos of these quite soon. So why doesn't LEGO just sort of ignore the fact that there are some illegitimate leaked photos out there? It's moot anyway. I repeat - it is LEGO's job to control their own information, not ours. They need to go after those people who violate nondisclosure agreements, not those LEGO fans who are excited about their product.

Toy Fair report

Huw Millington of Brickset was at Toy Fair. While he was not allowed to take photos in the booth, he did share a report.

The Super Heroes sets were in the top-secret area of the stand under netting so they could not be photographed in the low light or from above.

All the minifigs on display appeared to be the final versions and looked excellent. Iron Man's mask does indeed hinge up to reveal his face.

Some of the sets were not on display in their entirety: LEGO was not allowed to because doing so would provide spoilers for forthcoming movies, so while Captain America was on his 'avenging cycle' in set 6865, the other character and vehicle in the set was not on display. There was only five sets on display: the Spider-Man one wasn't there so perhaps that will be a store exclusive.

Other than thinking they all looked great, I can't remember much about them! They are to be released in April.

Toy Fair London

It's Toy Fair time! Over the next few weeks different toy manufacturers, including LEGO, will display their products for the coming year at events in a few different cities. It seems that London is first up. Unfortunately, attendees are not allowed to take photos in the LEGO booth, so we can not yet see the actual sets, but the blogger at Blogomatic3000 took photos of the publicly available artwork on the outside of the booth.



I don't think there's any real news here, as we already saw prototypes of these two figs at last summer's San Diego ComicCon and we saw artwork depicting them in an advertisement blogged here recently. Oh, I suppose one relevant note is that the same claw piece that Wolverine holds is also being used for the wolfman in the upcoming monsters theme. In that photo you can see the underside of the claw piece.

Batmobile 2025

The most recent building challenge over on Lugnuts is Batmobile 2025. Nathan Proudlove steps up with this great version.

Posters

Ulises Alfonso Farinas is a artist and cartoonist who made these awesome DC and Marvel posters.

Batjet

Okay, so here's a little story. Back in 1989 I was in the theater on opening weekend for Batman. At one point, the Joker has brought balloons full of poison gas in a parade through Gotham, Batman swoops in with his Batplane, snatches the balloons, and whisks them away from populated areas. Then the Batplane bursts through the clouds and is briefly set against the full moon, with the bat-shaped silhouette in front of a yellow circle looking like the Bat Signal. So at this point, the guy in front of me exclaims "No way!" Now remember, this is a 121 minute film (thanks, Wikipedia), and I'm guessing this is about 100 minutes or more in. So this is the first point in the movie that this guy found something unbelievable???!? It's a freakin' comic book movie, for Pete's sake. Anyway, that's all just a lead in to AlIeNiGeNa's great Batjet based on the 1989 film version.

Captain A

Ultimate Marvin made this Captain America poster.



I hope he's planning on doing the rest of the series.

Battle above New York's streets

Chris Phipson made this fight between Spidey and Doc Ock.

Coming in April

Over on Brick Heroes Will has a scan of an ad that I assume is from the LEGO Club Magazine. In addition to seeing finalized versions of the figs we saw at ComicCon, we also have news of an April release date.