Venom rules!

Spider man and Venom interest me. Spiderman being this anniversary set supposedly, I going to say is them celebrating the 20th anniversary of Spiderman films.

I would have to agree with the other comments. Venom does look the best. The two Spider-Men look the same, just with a differing color pallet. The Ironman helmet piece does look a bit to angular in my opinion.

I like Venom's big clawy paws.

and it seems like all of them has printed pieces, no stickers. that's good.

I wonder how they got the parts count down so much? There weren't 80+ parts in that stand the Iron Man had.

Not my cup of tea. Those heads…

I think this new CCBS system is promising! The only part I would say is outright bad would be the helmet, but I wonder how much kids will really care about that.

The biggest issue with these is the price. $30 is a bit steep for an action figure like this. Especially when you could just go right down to the next toy aisle and find any of these characters for about 10 or less.

I'm not sure the piece counts are correct. I cannot see more than bout 50 pieces in each.

@Lego_War_Machine said:
"Venom is the best one"

I agree.

I think Venom turned out the best. These are fine I guess, but not really my thing. This will have to be a pass.

They look okay, but to me they're just another variation on the already existing gigazillion DC-themed mechs. Do they really sell that well so they had to bring out another sub-series?

These look great! They've improved the hips compared to the Iron Man one, and I love the distinct brick-built detail on each figure (one of the big advantages of a System-based build over CCBS is that the detailing can be more varied even on figures like Peter and Miles here with similar physiques). Venom's bulkier torso also helps make things varied.

I'd love to see more of these in the future. Spider-Man characters are particularly well suited to the current parts selection given their low-detail faces (I'd love to see Gwen Stacy as Spider-Woman/Ghost Spider added to the assortment), but if these prove successful it's possible that more new parts could be introduced for characters with more visible facial features.

@maffyd said:
"Still put off by the way the arms connect to what I am charitably calling 'shoulders', but in reality is too far down to be called that."
Very much agree. They don’t seem too bad in LEGO’s pictures, but that’s just clever posing/photography. In real life, I reckon the penguin arms look just as strange as they did on Iron Man.

@AcademyofDrX said:
" @PixelTheDragon said:
"I think this new CCBS system is promising! The only part I would say is outright bad would be the helmet, but I wonder how much kids will really care about that.

The biggest issue with these is the price. $30 is a bit steep for an action figure like this. Especially when you could just go right down to the next toy aisle and find any of these characters for about 10 or less."

Yes, you could get a 12" figure with limited articulation or a 4" figure for ten bucks, but $30 is comparable to 6" figure prices. Iron Man was about 9", and so this isn't in direct competition with those product lines.

I don't think these work as action figure substitutes; I think these are trying to fill a different niche. They're for super-fans of a given character, who has action figures and roleplay toys and Lego sets. It's one more thing for an obsessive kid, or for an adult's character shrine.

They're not my thing, and I have no idea if they'll be popular, but I'm sure they're good for a certain kind of collector. I have a couple of the Star Wars figures, but I'll be sitting this line out--unless they ever get to X-Men, which is extraordinarily unlikely."

Has there been an explanation of some sort as to why Lego won't do the X-Men? It seems like a treasure trove of material for them - and plenty of cool characters.

Reminds me when Mega Bloks made Marvel Super Tech Heroes sets back in 2005. Anybody remember those?

Constraction is back!

Venom looks pretty cool, but oof, Pete and Miles are a bit rough

I love the fact that the Spider-Men can make the "thwip" gesture.

@AcademyofDrX and @HOBBES: They've done X-Men in three sets, all three of which had Wolverine. (He's the best there is at what he does, and what he does is show up everywhere.)

I want some X-Men: Evolution figures.

My eyes are burning! Quick, somebody hand me the mind-bleach.

I badly want to give Spiderman the red 2L axles, and Venom the black 2L axles, in the knees and ankles. at least one of them has black ones though.

The heads...i won't buy any of them sorry...

The Iron Man head really doesn't look good on the Spidey's. Venom, with the jaw and tongue, looks the best.

They use the same spiderweb accessories as the minifigs. I now can’t decide if they’re undersized here over oversized with minifigs.

@ResIpsaLoquitur said:
"(Raises hand)

What's the appeal of these over Marvel Legends?"

What's the appeal of ANY Lego set over an equivalent toy? Why would you pay more for a Lego Ecto-1 or X-Wing or Quinjet than it would generally cost to get a non-buildable version?

Of course, the fact that they ARE buildable is the obvious answer. This Spider-Man may cost more than an equivalent non-buildable action figure, but this one can be rebuilt into something else or combined with parts from other Lego sets to build something new. That's like Lego 101.

I don't know why this seems so much harder for folks to understand with action figure sets than it is with any other kind of set.

These are not for me as AFOL, but as play-sets for kids these are nice! I can see kids "battling" two figures and having fun, and they are also large enough to be a "mech" that destroys a Lego City for more play options.

I do think it's $5 above what it should, but these will get price cuts on Amazon/Walmart for sure, so not a big deal.

LEGO Action Figures that actually look like action figures, and they're less goofy than Gallidor.

Plus, you can easily customize them with parts you already have. Having dabbled in less-expensive action figures, it can be a pricey hobby--whether 8 or 12 inches tall. I heavily utilize Barbie stuff with lower-cost 12" figures from the early '00s. I made some eight-inch paramedic figures using Breyer rider figures (modern MEGO would've been better, but I already had these on the shelf), Barbie Paramedic dolls for the uniforms and boots (which, being as the doll is a "petite" the shirts and boots fit the smaller Breyers very well--pants were a little long), and various medical accessories I'd picked up over the years--a Stryker-style stretcher that scaled well that was sold as a wrestling figure accessory, various loose bits from other brands' figures, and a defibrillator sold as a Japanese capsule toy.

I'm confused at the presence of Miles and Venom, if this is supposed to be an anniversary. They should have had more "classic" characters. It feels like they lazily recycled and recolored similar models with slight differences.

“I am Venom! Hear me roar!”
— An awful catchphrase I came up with
I’ll probably get the Venom one, it’s the best design imo and interests me the most, in general. There’s some way that you could justify him being this big relative to a Minifigure, I’m sure of it.

I thought LEGO doesn't do Action Figures...

Its terrifying.
But I am not the target group, because I dont like these giant and/or buildable figures, see Bionicle and SW characters :/

Why are they more expensive in the EU? >.>

@ResIpsaLoquitur said:
"(Raises hand)

What's the appeal of these over Marvel Legends?"

As someone that played with Bionicle and Marvel legends growing up, and primarily collects action figures; these are buildable. You can make your own characters and customize the builds however you like. Genuinely I think these are a step in the right direction compared to Bionicle, which was always so dependent on specialized pieces. Deviating from that felt really complicated and made for fragile figures, at least that's how I felt as a kid. I think these figures combine system parts and ball joints very well, which will make for easier play. Hoping they further refine these with more additions.

Personally, I don't care much for Marvel Legends as it currently exists. The base sculpt for molds are great and they've improved a lot with accessories, but they're always scalped to hell, with popular characters being very hard to find or selling for more than their MSRP at comic shops or online. All of that work feels pointless when the plastic quality is very poor and the paint apps are often terrible. I mostly stick to Japanese figures that are really incomparable price wise, but I'm pretty much always satisfied with them. It's hard to conceptualize how appealing ML figures are for kids when they seem very aimed at collectors in how they're released and sold. Usually whenever I see them in big retail stores, all that's left are shelf warmer characters no one wants.

They remind me of my janky memories of 90s cartoon robots.

These look cool but I'm worried they'll have the same problem as the reboot Bionicle sets of being too expensive per character. I don't think they look horribly overpriced for what they are but for a kid $25 is a lot for an action figure, even if it has the bonus of being Lego