30% discount bait

That's the worst remake of 76078 that could exist.

I like the new Umbaran minifig

I'm glad the Hall of Armour has proper openy-uppy helmets and not the cheap one piece elements of other cheaper sets. Good stuff!

Finally!!!! A DUM-E, Thanos, AND Hall of Armor?!!

Can't believe this set isn't $350. Lego is so awesome and creative and innovative.

I'm so disappointed with these sets.

Don't care much for Marvel stuff, but I actually quite like that truck!

Endlessly cackling at the idea of Hulk finishing off Thanos before half the events of Infinity War/Endgame by simply taking the opportunity to hit him with the largest truck possible; not even throwing it at him just slamming down the accelerator and going full pelt, set worth existing just for that train of thought alone.

So they design a $30 set, charge $55 for it, specifically theme it to Iron Man 3, but don't include the suit from Iron Man 3? Only the best is good enough i suppose. I love this company but man is it hard to defend their laziness sometimes, especially with those absurd prices.

OK, I know Marvel fans want more movie-accurate stuff in the Marvel LEGO line up, but that Hulk monster truck is HILARIOUS and very fun. Overpriced, but what else is new.

LEGO is so out of touch and constantly dropping the ball.

Treating the Hall of Armor like a series of four connected sets, a remake of Igor and a new triangular Mark VI Iron Man and Iron Patriot really feels like filling in the gaps the last three lacked. Should the golden Mark 42 armor be there? To be fair, yes. But other than that it actually feels like a perfect complement to the last few sets.

Now just wondering if that $55 price will get hit by a 25% tariff and make me really hate LEGO collecting the rest of this year. O_o I am not going to argue the politics behind it, but that is a real threat to LEGO's high prices to go even higher in the US now.

@WolfpackBricksStudios said:
"I like the new Umbaran minifig"

I understood that reference!

The leaked image renders I saw of this set had Iron Patriot without any leg printing, so I'm glad to see that this isn't the case.

Now that the Mark 6 is in another set besides 76313, all that's left now is to wait for https://brickset.com/minifigs/sh1011/captain-america-dark-blue-suit-with-strap to show up in a TFA set (please, LEGO).

HULK COMMIT VEHICULAR ASSAULT!!

That Hulk set has the first plain yellow motorcycle helmet since a 2009 minifigure pack that wasn't a normal release. In regular sets, it was last in one Racers sets from 2003 that was only around for 5 months, and before that you have to go back to the Hypno Cruiser from 1996 for one!

Despite being a very nice set, the price and timing both seem way off here. I don't know how Lego decides its Marvel sets if it's off the MCU, the comics, the tv series, or just random for random's sake.

Case in point of the recent 'venomised' theme like 76249, 76275, or even 40454 ..is this due to the recent Sony movies, the comics, or just fan service indulgence? Venom is one of my all-time fav Marvel characters but i feel that Lego's cheaply using the 'venomised' concept on other characters without any context or background whatsoever. Picking out characters like Groot or Iron Man just seems like a cheap shot. Aside from Carnage 242216 has there ever been any symbiote characters??

Thanos helicopter when?!

Love that the Hulk has a safety helmet. Lol

Other than being priced about 50% too high (math check!), that truck is pretty great honestly. Very silly but also genuinely a quite nice build.

I think extending the silly Spider-Man vehicles to other characters makes sense, although if Hulk can't be a big-fig he could have at least gotten dual-molded legs.

I really feel like the Hulk set needs a vehicle for the other guy. Some kind of copter, I think. Perhaps a copter of helis, which we can call a heli-copter. Or just give him a double-ended sword, and make one of the blades face backwards in a way that makes no sense.

Sooooo, the Hulk is going to fight an Infinity Gauntlet wielding Thanos over the Tesseract with a monster truck?

....Thanos has no chance now!

@ShinyBidoof said:
" @nymnyr8694 said:
"LEGO is so out of touch and constantly dropping the ball."

Yet, remarkably, they seem to be doing okay despite this."

There's a lot of things LEGO does that frustrates me... but I have to always remember the adult LEGO fandom is an echo-chamber of thoughts. Review opinions, nostalgic "remember how good it was when we were kids" and a lot of mansplaining on things, particularly related to pop-culture giants like Star Wars, Lord of the Rings or Marvel.

Now always remember, we are still LEGO's secondary audience. Yes, the 18+ range clearly shows there is demand for a permanent LEGO adult fan market. BUT these are still kids toys. To you and I this is our fourth Hall of Armor, but for many kids this will be their first. LEGO knows exactly what they're doing and if they can get us to buy a set we already bought three versions of previously for one new figure (that Iron Patriot looking back at me right now) they know they can get the adult market in, but realistically speaking this is for the kids who don't care what LEGO was like in 2012 when Marvel first launched, or 2004 when Spider-Man II was getting sets or the 1980's with Classic Space or whatever.

AFOL's who don't remind themselves we are still the secondary audience and that LEGO isn't catering 100% of their offerings to us, lack self awareness. We always need to remember that we're still playing second fiddle in the line up, and what seems lazy to us is often a calculated concession to LEGO's real audience. There is going to be some kiddo on his birthday this year really excited to get Hulk's monster truck, even if his parents winced at the price tag the whole way through; they don't care if it's "comic accurate" or "lazy" they want a monster truck and they love the Hulk.

@xboxtravis7992 said:
" @ShinyBidoof said:
" @nymnyr8694 said:
"LEGO is so out of touch and constantly dropping the ball."

Yet, remarkably, they seem to be doing okay despite this."

There's a lot of things LEGO does that frustrates me... but I have to always remember the adult LEGO fandom is an echo-chamber of thoughts. Review opinions, nostalgic "remember how good it was when we were kids" and a lot of mansplaining on things, particularly related to pop-culture giants like Star Wars, Lord of the Rings or Marvel.

Now always remember, we are still LEGO's secondary audience. Yes, the 18+ range clearly shows there is demand for a permanent LEGO adult fan market. BUT these are still kids toys. To you and I this is our fourth Hall of Armor, but for many kids this will be their first. LEGO knows exactly what they're doing and if they can get us to buy a set we already bought three versions of previously for one new figure (that Iron Patriot looking back at me right now) they know they can get the adult market in, but realistically speaking this is for the kids who don't care what LEGO was like in 2012 when Marvel first launched, or 2004 when Spider-Man II was getting sets or the 1980's with Classic Space or whatever.

AFOL's who don't remind themselves we are still the secondary audience and that LEGO isn't catering 100% of their offerings to us, lack self awareness. We always need to remember that we're still playing second fiddle in the line up, and what seems lazy to us is often a calculated concession to LEGO's real audience. There is going to be some kiddo on his birthday this year really excited to get Hulk's monster truck, even if his parents winced at the price tag the whole way through; they don't care if it's "comic accurate" or "lazy" they want a monster truck and they love the Hulk. "

This, 100%. I’m too annoying to be this eloquent with it, but this is what I’m always trying to say.

Acting like we are TLG’s audience is setting yourself up for failure. Like parasocial relationships, you need to define your expectations better or you’re going to have a really bad time.

@xboxtravis7992 said:
" @ShinyBidoof said:
" @nymnyr8694 said:
"LEGO is so out of touch and constantly dropping the ball."

Yet, remarkably, they seem to be doing okay despite this."

There's a lot of things LEGO does that frustrates me... but I have to always remember the adult LEGO fandom is an echo-chamber of thoughts. Review opinions, nostalgic "remember how good it was when we were kids" and a lot of mansplaining on things, particularly related to pop-culture giants like Star Wars, Lord of the Rings or Marvel.

Now always remember, we are still LEGO's secondary audience. Yes, the 18+ range clearly shows there is demand for a permanent LEGO adult fan market. BUT these are still kids toys. To you and I this is our fourth Hall of Armor, but for many kids this will be their first. LEGO knows exactly what they're doing and if they can get us to buy a set we already bought three versions of previously for one new figure (that Iron Patriot looking back at me right now) they know they can get the adult market in, but realistically speaking this is for the kids who don't care what LEGO was like in 2012 when Marvel first launched, or 2004 when Spider-Man II was getting sets or the 1980's with Classic Space or whatever.

AFOL's who don't remind themselves we are still the secondary audience and that LEGO isn't catering 100% of their offerings to us, lack self awareness. We always need to remember that we're still playing second fiddle in the line up, and what seems lazy to us is often a calculated concession to LEGO's real audience. There is going to be some kiddo on his birthday this year really excited to get Hulk's monster truck, even if his parents winced at the price tag the whole way through; they don't care if it's "comic accurate" or "lazy" they want a monster truck and they love the Hulk. "

Agreed. Not to mention that, as an AFOL myself, any new Hall of Armor that they release (so long as it is compatible with past sets) is really useful to me to add onto the old ones, and make a super large, cool display for all of my Iron Man minifigs.

Additionally, this set comes with 3 suits of armor that haven't been available in previous iterations, so it was nice of the designers to take that into account.

@fakespacesquid said:
" @xboxtravis7992 said:
" @ShinyBidoof said:
" @nymnyr8694 said:
"LEGO is so out of touch and constantly dropping the ball."

Yet, remarkably, they seem to be doing okay despite this."

There's a lot of things LEGO does that frustrates me... but I have to always remember the adult LEGO fandom is an echo-chamber of thoughts. Review opinions, nostalgic "remember how good it was when we were kids" and a lot of mansplaining on things, particularly related to pop-culture giants like Star Wars, Lord of the Rings or Marvel.

Now always remember, we are still LEGO's secondary audience. Yes, the 18+ range clearly shows there is demand for a permanent LEGO adult fan market. BUT these are still kids toys. To you and I this is our fourth Hall of Armor, but for many kids this will be their first. LEGO knows exactly what they're doing and if they can get us to buy a set we already bought three versions of previously for one new figure (that Iron Patriot looking back at me right now) they know they can get the adult market in, but realistically speaking this is for the kids who don't care what LEGO was like in 2012 when Marvel first launched, or 2004 when Spider-Man II was getting sets or the 1980's with Classic Space or whatever.

AFOL's who don't remind themselves we are still the secondary audience and that LEGO isn't catering 100% of their offerings to us, lack self awareness. We always need to remember that we're still playing second fiddle in the line up, and what seems lazy to us is often a calculated concession to LEGO's real audience. There is going to be some kiddo on his birthday this year really excited to get Hulk's monster truck, even if his parents winced at the price tag the whole way through; they don't care if it's "comic accurate" or "lazy" they want a monster truck and they love the Hulk. "

This, 100%. I’m too annoying to be this eloquent with it, but this is what I’m always trying to say.

Acting like we are TLG’s audience is setting yourself up for failure. Like parasocial relationships, you need to define your expectations better or you’re going to have a really bad time."

I feel like I should clarify, I don't say this because I think LEGO is perfect or beyond criticism. If anything LEGO as a product should always be subject to critique.

It's just, LEGO fans often use bad-faith and poorly thought out criticism. I'll always call out criticism that is one dimensional since frankly it gets tiring. But the internet rewards vocal criticism and extreme "this is the greatest thing ever" vs. "this is the worst thing ever" all the time. In reality most things are simply alright, and fail to meet the high or low praise thrown at it, but people seem to struggle with that idea that "just meh" is a valid criticism and doesn't need to be escalated to "this literally ruined my childhood" or defended with "it's actually a misunderstood classic!"