Shang-Chi sets revealed!
Posted by Huw,
Two sets for the forthcoming Marvel film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings have been revealed overnight: 76176 Escape from The Ten Rings at Marvel.com and 76177 Battle at the Ancient Village at Walmart.com.
Despite the film's premiere being delayed until September, the sets will be released in May.
News via Promobricks.
76176 Escape from The Ten Rings
76177 Battle at the Ancient Village
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Ooh, yes! One can never have too many dragons.
Or too many of whatever Morris is...
Now THIS is a seriously cool dragon! Added to the Wanted list in position 357.
I'll get all of them, someday...
They look alright, but the combination of the rings with the clear stands introduced by the DC CMF range produces hilarious results. Clever though, will give them that.
Don't really care for the subject matter, but what a beautiful dragon!
Can't wait! Not the most inspiring sets but it's good to finally have a Shang-Chi (even if the skin tone is wrong), he's one of my favourite Marvel heroes. The dragon design is awesome too.
That car set looks so boring, and not worth 30 dollars. Why didn't they make a building set like you see on the background.
That first one could be suitable for the City.
Call me picky, but for a set with "village" in the name, I'd expect to see at least one building.
Ok, I guess I need to google Shang-Chi. Marvel seems to have more superheroes than there are stars in the universe...
These sets are kind of a mixed bag for me. On one hand, we've got awesome things like that dragon build and actual detailed torso and leg prints for Marvel minifigures, but on the other hand every (unmasked) character is reusing some random face that doesn't look anything like the actor. I mean, seriously - Razor Fist has a full beard and LEGO is reusing Poe Dameron's face? Not to mention that Shang-Chi, the main character, can't even get a new face print?? The Eternals sets have this problem too but at least a couple of those figures have new faces. I think that even if LEGO was always going to reuse prints, there were much better options.
@TheOriginalSimonB said:
"Call me picky, but for a set with "village" in the name, I'd expect to see at least one building."
Yeah right, the name really doesn't line up with the subject material at all. Sure, it probably is a battle in an ancient village in the film, but it still seems like a poor choice of words.
You've got to wonder at what point Lego was given the source material to make these sets, as having seen the trailer, these characters don't look very much like the finished product at all. Especially 'Razor Fist' (the sword hand guy), whose hair is completely wrong. Especially when there is a mohawk hair piece they could have used instead that would have been slightly more accurate.... ?
That said the dragons kinda cool, but not really interested in this theme... or the movie from what I've seen so far.
'Battle at the Ancient Village at Walmart.com' is an odd set - product placement gone mad!
I've seen the Trailer Too guys and the Movie looks absolutely wicked.. but there could of been more sets based on this such as:
a chopper set with maybe 3 minifigs and a building!
The Tram scene as a set would be Brilliant too! Also a dojo set with Shang-Chi and the death dealer training.
The other good thing is there's a polybag toy from this aswell!
I like it, but I'm a little afraid this will be a license that absorbs the Lego original Ninjago theme as has happened with other themes in the past.
@Golem25 said:
"They look alright, but the combination of the rings with the clear stands introduced by the DC CMF range produces hilarious results. Clever though, will give them that.
"
I hadn't even noticed that at first. Before I zoomed in, I thought that was a new-mold weapon. It is hilarious, but looks pretty cool at the same time.
Don't know the source material but really love this dragon. Cool colour scheme.
How many X-Men sets did we get in the past 20 years?
My first reaction to this is suitably: who the hell is Shang-Chi?
Tempting the Chinese market again? Seems like LEGO completely fell for Asia.
Nice dragon though.
ball joints in grey mar another set again.
For a sec I thought Ninjago's Harumi joined as a guest star
@lORDoFtHEbOARD said:
"My first reaction to this is suitably: who the hell is Shang-Chi?
Tempting the Chinese market again? Seems like LEGO completely fell for Asia."
Lego has done sets for every Marvel Entertainment movie that has come out in the last few years. Shang Chi is the next one, so I would assume that is the reason for these sets, not 'tempting the Chinese market'.
@Judgeguy said:
" @lORDoFtHEbOARD said:
"My first reaction to this is suitably: who the hell is Shang-Chi?
Tempting the Chinese market again? Seems like LEGO completely fell for Asia."
Lego has done sets for every Marvel Entertainment movie that has come out in the last few years. Shang Chi is the next one, so I would assume that is the reason for these sets, not 'tempting the Chinese market'."
If anything it's Marvel/Disney tempting the Chinese market, and it's LEGO following suit. (Not like LEGO hasn't already explicitly done that with Monkie Kid.)
Sets look a little disappointing but at least they won't be expensive. What's up with Razor-Fist? Was hoping for something a little better than that...
@bananaworld said:
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Ooh, yes! One can never have too many dragons.
Or too many of whatever Morris is..."
Agreed!
Not inordinately excited for the movie, but I do like these.
Simu Liu will never not be Jung to me!
Can we get Appa from The Mandalorian next?
Can someone explain what “The Ten Rings” is? I love the look of Wenwu’s weapon/ring thing in the dragon set. Also it kind of hurts me to see the One Ring piece not be Chrome Gold.
Also WHAT IN THE WORLD IS MORRIS!?!?
@Cooliocdawg said:
"Also it kind of hurts me to see the One Ring piece not be Chrome Gold."
On the actual photos at Promobricks (not the renders seen here) it's still chrome gold. Great to see that the one and only current chrome piece still is around. :)
@bananaworld said:
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Ooh, yes! One can never have too many dragons.
Or too many of whatever Morris is..."
Morris is based on a Dijiang, a six legged winged creature with no face
It looks strange initially with no face print but it's correct
@lORDoFtHEbOARD said:
"How many X-Men sets did we get in the past 20 years?
My first reaction to this is suitably: who the hell is Shang-Chi?
Tempting the Chinese market again? Seems like LEGO completely fell for Asia.
Nice dragon though."
How ridiculously short sighted.
How many X-Men movies did we get in the past 20 years?
Marvel Studios are bringing more stories to the screen, from all different backgrounds and cultures, as evidenced with Black Panther and soon Ms. Marvel, and as a result, there are toy tie ins..
It has been an amazing year for Lego dragons.
Between the Overlord dragon, the sublime Jungle dragon, and now this beautiful Asian-themed dragon.
I mean, it's going to be hideously overpriced, but eh, that's the risk you take.
@lORDoFtHEbOARD said:
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My first reaction to this is suitably: who the hell is Shang-Chi?
Tempting the Chinese market again? Seems like LEGO completely fell for Asia.
"
I'm tired of seeing this kind of comment every time something vaguely Asian shows up. How would this sound if you replaced "Chinese" or "Asian" with another group?
@Cooliocdawg said:
"Can someone explain what “The Ten Rings” is? I love the look of Wenwu’s weapon/ring thing in the dragon set. Also it kind of hurts me to see the One Ring piece not be Chrome Gold.
Also WHAT IN THE WORLD IS MORRIS!?!?"
Marvel lore:
"Discovered by the Mandarin in China’s “Valley of Spirits,” the Ten Rings of Power are actually the product of the dragon-like race Axonn-Karr (or Makluans) from the planet Maklu-IV. The Axonn-Karr utilized them mainly as the power source for their interstellar craft’s engines. The rings’ functions currently cannot be explained by modern Earth science.
The Mandarin learned how to utilize the rings for own personal use and make them respond to his personal commands. Over the years, the Mandarin’s mind has actually come to inhabit the rings so that now no one else can make use of them. The Mandarin can also now control the rings over large distances."
https://www.marvel.com/items/mandarin-s-rings
Looking at images of the "real" Morris, I think LEGO missed the mark on that one. Instead of single-colored plastic that looks very unfinished, they should've at least had some fur texture or dual-molded wings in a darker color.
Right now it just looks like a pre-production piece mistakenly included in the sets.
@chrisaw said:
" @lORDoFtHEbOARD said:
"How many X-Men sets did we get in the past 20 years?
My first reaction to this is suitably: who the hell is Shang-Chi?
Tempting the Chinese market again? Seems like LEGO completely fell for Asia.
Nice dragon though."
How ridiculously short sighted.
How many X-Men movies did we get in the past 20 years?
Marvel Studios are bringing more stories to the screen, from all different backgrounds and cultures, as evidenced with Black Panther and soon Ms. Marvel, and as a result, there are toy tie ins..
"
Euhm, ... X-Men (2000), X2 (2003), X-Men/Phoenix (2006?), The Wolverine, Logan, X-Men First Class I, II & III (Dark Phoenix), ... sorry I lost count. I did no investigation. But I do know that we didn't get a decent amount of sets, not even a wave of sets. Some marvel themes are disregarded.
About the Asian 'issue'. I love Asian sets. I'm a big Ninjago fan. Been to Thailand, Vietnam/Cambodja & Japan are highly on my bucket list. So don't even consider me disliking the far east.
But how bout this list: Ninjago, Monkey Kid, Chinese new year, now this new Marvel-hero guy.
Shouldn't there be more themes with some African, Latin, Australian culture?
The Dragon is not as good looking as I hoped but its an easy fix.
Must buy for sure!
@Cooliocdawg said:
"Can someone explain what “The Ten Rings” is? I love the look of Wenwu’s weapon/ring thing in the dragon set. Also it kind of hurts me to see the One Ring piece not be Chrome Gold.
Also WHAT IN THE WORLD IS MORRIS!?!?"
To add to Rimefang's explanation above, beyond the artefacts themselves, the Ten Rings is also the name of the terrorist organisation led by the Mandarin. They are the ones that kidnapped Tony Stark in Iron Man 1, and the name was co-opted by Aldrich Killian in Iron Man 3, with a fake Mandarin as a frontman.
In the comics, Shang-Chi's father is a dated/offensively stereotypical character called Fu Manchu / Zheng Zu. Marvel have created Wenwu for the film, who is a combination of both Zheng Zu and the Mandarin from the comics, as Shang-Chi's father.
@lORDoFtHEbOARD said:
"Euhm, ... X-Men (2000), X2 (2003), X-Men/Phoenix (2006?), The Wolverine, Logan, X-Men First Class I, II & III (Dark Phoenix), ... sorry I lost count. I did no investigation. But I do know that we didn't get a decent amount of sets, not even a wave of sets. Some marvel themes are disregarded."
The two X-Men sets we got were not linked to any of the films. All those films were released by Fox, who leased the film/TV rights to X-Men, Fantastic Four, and a few other characters in the 90s from Marvel when they were in a poor financial position.
Those rights have reverted to Marvel now, who have confirmed they will bring mutants to the MCU, so we should get more X-Men sets in the future - I certainly hope so.
I find both sets quite underwhelming.
Minifigures: The torso prints are excellent, general lack of leg printing seems to be common for Marvel sets these days but the figures are let down by the faces. I don't necessarily object to reusing face prints where it works well, but these ones have already been used so many times and don't fit the characters. This also forces them to use light nougat, when they've already used nougat for Asian characters in other licensed themes - not inherently an issue, but just a bit inconsistent. There's actually a large image of the Shang-Chi minifigure on the side of the box for these sets, which they've made to look slightly darker skinned than it is to match the image of the actor on the front.
The builds: the car could easily be found in a City set, I don't understand why they chose that when the film is clearly going to visit far more interesting and fantastical locations. The artwork in the background of the Ancient Village set box would have been far more interesting and unique, to make a battle/play set.
The dragon is too big IMO - it needs a side build to give it some context as to where it is and how the figures should interact with it.
@lORDoFtHEbOARD said:
"How many X-Men sets did we get in the past 20 years?
My first reaction to this is suitably: who the hell is Shang-Chi?
Tempting the Chinese market again? Seems like LEGO completely fell for Asia.
Nice dragon though."
How many X-Men movies was Lego able to get the license for? Like it or not, the nitty gritty of legal ownership affects who can merchandise which characters, so there's no reasonable room to accuse Lego of not covering them.
As others have said, that doesn't seem like a suitable reaction. You not knowing who this character is does not make them an unknown character. I'm no SJW but after 22 MCU movies based mostly around Caucasians, it isn't "completely falling for Asia" to have *one* movie based around Asian characters.
How many people went “huh?” when Guardians of the Galaxy was coming out? Most Marvel fans know exactly who Shang-Chi is, but everyone else needs to give it a chance. This movie has been a long time coming and I for one am happy with a more diverse lineup of superheroes.
I don’t think X-Men will be neglected much longer from the MCU, either. The Fantastic Four movie is coming out in a few more years; I’m sure the other former Fox-owned properties will follow suit. For now, let’s just sit back and enjoy these refreshingly new movies.
Thanks to everyone who explained the lore for me! It’s interesting that they have been hinting at some of these characters for years now!
@lORDoFtHEbOARD said:
"About the Asian 'issue'. I love Asian sets. I'm a big Ninjago fan. Been to Thailand, Vietnam/Cambodja & Japan are highly on my bucket list. So don't even consider me disliking the far east.
But how bout this list: Ninjago, Monkey Kid, Chinese new year, now this new Marvel-hero guy.
Shouldn't there be more themes with some African, Latin, Australian culture? "
I agree with you 100%. Nothing wrong with the current themes, but I would love some of those other cultures. Maybe those sets are in the near future? I sure hope so.
I would also add that this is all LEGO’s matter, not Marvel’s. It just so happened that Shang-Chi comes out when LEGO has several Asian-inspired themes.
@lORDoFtHEbOARD said:
"Euhm, ... X-Men (2000), X2 (2003), X-Men/Phoenix (2006?), The Wolverine, Logan, X-Men First Class I, II & III (Dark Phoenix), ... sorry I lost count. I did no investigation. But I do know that we didn't get a decent amount of sets, not even a wave of sets. Some marvel themes are disregarded."
The current Marvel license Lego has is with Disney, which covers all of the MCU movies as well as pretty much all the comics characters. Fox had the movie license to Fantastic Four and X-Men until their purchase by Disney recently, hence they were no X-Men movie Lego for ages since Fox was a competitor. Also I've heard rumors that the two comic-based X-Men sets didn't sell well as Lego expected so the subtheme was retired.
Movie Spiderman was in the same boat until Disney worked out a deal with Sony to bring them to the MCU. There were two Amazing Spiderman minifigures produced but I think they were exceptions as they were not full sets.
@lORDoFtHEbOARD said:
"About the Asian 'issue'. I love Asian sets. I'm a big Ninjago fan. Been to Thailand, Vietnam/Cambodja & Japan are highly on my bucket list. So don't even consider me disliking the far east.
But how bout this list: Ninjago, Monkey Kid, Chinese new year, now this new Marvel-hero guy.
Shouldn't there be more themes with some African, Latin, Australian culture? "
TBH only two of these themes, Monkie Kid and Chinese New Year, are specifically aimed at the Chinese market. Ninjago started as a fusion of Chinese and Japanese cultures with a modern twist, and as it progressed began introducing numerous non-Asian fantasy and sci elements to become its own thing. Shang Chi is more of a contractual obligation with MCU, and the movie itself is as much aimed at Asian Americans as the Chinese market, since the character is a Chinese American living in San Francisco, and one of the few Asian superheroes.
This dragon looks simply spectacular.
Really unsure about the lack of new face prints here. That Shang Chi head was used for Draco Malfoy last year, and Tom Felton looks nothing like Simu Liu. Lego really needs to work out what they want to do for characters from East Asia because it's all over the place at the moment. Just compare the skin tones on figures like Cho Chang with this. Not sure what they're going for, really.
@SimonSez91 said:
"How many people went “huh?” when Guardians of the Galaxy was coming out? Most Marvel fans know exactly who Shang-Chi is, but everyone else needs to give it a chance."
Actually I was quite the opposite. I'd heard of and knew who the Guardians were and thought 'oh, that'll make a quirky team up movie'. Shang-Chi I'd never heard of until this movie was announced, and even then I'm "Huh.. so he's just a kung-fu guy?"
This just makes me want an officially licensed Lego Gyarados
We have Mario, make it happen
@lORDoFtHEbOARD said:
" @chrisaw said:
" @lORDoFtHEbOARD said:
"How many X-Men sets did we get in the past 20 years?
My first reaction to this is suitably: who the hell is Shang-Chi?
Tempting the Chinese market again? Seems like LEGO completely fell for Asia.
Nice dragon though."
How ridiculously short sighted.
How many X-Men movies did we get in the past 20 years?
Marvel Studios are bringing more stories to the screen, from all different backgrounds and cultures, as evidenced with Black Panther and soon Ms. Marvel, and as a result, there are toy tie ins..
"
Euhm, ... X-Men (2000), X2 (2003), X-Men/Phoenix (2006?), The Wolverine, Logan, X-Men First Class I, II & III (Dark Phoenix), ... sorry I lost count. I did no investigation. But I do know that we didn't get a decent amount of sets, not even a wave of sets. Some marvel themes are disregarded."
LEGO didn't have the license and the two X-Men sets they did release sold poorly.
@SimonSez91 said:
" @lORDoFtHEbOARD said:
"About the Asian 'issue'. I love Asian sets. I'm a big Ninjago fan. Been to Thailand, Vietnam/Cambodja & Japan are highly on my bucket list. So don't even consider me disliking the far east.
But how bout this list: Ninjago, Monkey Kid, Chinese new year, now this new Marvel-hero guy.
Shouldn't there be more themes with some African, Latin, Australian culture? "
I agree with you 100%. Nothing wrong with the current themes, but I would love some of those other cultures. Maybe those sets are in the near future? I sure hope so.
I would also add that this is all LEGO’s matter, not Marvel’s. It just so happened that Shang-Chi comes out when LEGO has several Asian-inspired themes.
"
... don't forget the Raya and The Last Dragon sets are SE-Asian-influenced, (and also really rather lovely).
Again, just Lego representing the latest big Disney films.
there's only seven rings, i'm calling the cops
"Battle at the Ancient Village", it's a good thing they wrote that as nothing about this set has anything to do with "Ancient Village". It's just a dragon and 4 figures. They could've called it "Battle at the new Walmart" and it would make the same sense.
@TheOriginalSimonB said:
"Call me picky, but for a set with "village" in the name, I'd expect to see at least one building."
Agree, but that dragon.....
@monty_bricks said:
"This also forces them to use light nougat, when they've already used nougat for Asian characters in other licensed themes - not inherently an issue, but just a bit inconsistent."
Interestingly enough, Lego has used both light nougat and nougat for Asian characters. Rose Tico in Star Wars has a light nougat face, for example, as do the Shanghai gangsters in Indiana Jones. In addition, look at Rogue One. Baze Malbus and Chirrut Îmwe are both played by Chinese actors; Baze has nougat skin and Chirrut has light nougat.
Honestly, I do wish that they would make or use another shade for skin to better represent East Asians. I use flesh-tone minifigures in my city, and deciding which skin tone to use for the minifigures of Asian descent is at times frustrating.
Wrong skin tone? Yes. A reasonable approximation based on the currently available color palette? Also yes.
That said, i’m not saying Lego can’t (or shouldn’t) do better. Only that Lego is not likely to throw boxes full of money at a line consisting entirely of two sets, possibly three.
What is Morris?
@GoldenNinja3000 :
I had actually managed to purge my memory of the fact that they're doing Eternals sets...
@lORDoFtHEbOARD :
Counting SDCC minifigs, six (6866, 76022, 76073, COMCON021-1, COMCON053-1, COMCON055-1*). Half that, without them. And we got zero sets tying into the Fox movies because as soon as the MCU became profitable, Disney stuck it to them by invoking their right to approval on any merchandising deal to shut that down cold. The Wolverine was the last Fox X-Men movie to have any sort of merchandising that I can recall seeing. Disney didn't need the royalties they would have gotten more than they wanted to keep Fox from making money so they could try to force them to give back the movie rights.
Anyways, there are 13 films in the X-Men series, of which 12 of them qualify for "last 20 years" (the original X-Men was 21 years ago). That leaves X2, X-Men: The Last Stand, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, X-Men: First Class, The Wolverine, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Deadpool, X-Men: Apocalypse, Logan, Deadpool 2, Dark Phoenix, and The New Mutants.
* I give up. For some reason, the number symbol won't convert the SDCC set numbers into links. They are Jean Grey, Deadpool Duck, and Sheriff Deadpool, if you're interested.
I want the car
@bananaworld said:
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Ooh, yes! One can never have too many dragons.
Or too many of whatever Morris is..."
Morris is actually based on an actual creature from Chinese mythology called a Dijiang, which is some sort of egg-shaped "bird" with four wings and no face. I'm not surprised that Marvel recognized the mascot potential of such a design, it's pretty cute!
Shang-Chi is a character born out of the explosion of Kung-Fu movies on the American consciousness back in the 1970s. I still have a few of the issues I had bought back then.
For what I understood, the ten rings weren’t actually rings but components of the stardrive of an alien ship - the ship on which Fin Fang Foom was the navigator. It’ll be interesting to see if Fin Fang Foom is in the movie...
I would preferred Mortal Kombat sets >_>.
That dragon looks exceptionally surprised to be there.
I’m amused we’re going to have this movie at all...and whoa those dragon legs look weird, bad weird.
Alright, I notice Razor-Fist has a familiar face, Poe Dameron, right?
Also Where is Falcon and the Winter Soldier?? I want some sets to come out, (But it probably wouldn't be safe for wallet...)
I don't watch the show, but still.
AHHH YES DRAGONS IN THE MCU
that set is a need
@monty_bricks said:
" @bananaworld said:
"
Ooh, yes! One can never have too many dragons.
Or too many of whatever Morris is..."
Morris is based on a Dijiang, a six legged winged creature with no face
It looks strange initially with no face print but it's correct"
Or Hundun
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HundunOther_texts
Shang chi sets out now!! Just ordered mine from lego shop.com!! WHOO WHOO!!
Why is NO ONE ELSE talking about the fact that these sets have been released??? I ordered mine last night and have been soooo excited to hear what others are saying today, too... And alas... I can't find ANYTHING!! Am I lost somewhere or somehow??