Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date. For a better shopping experience, please upgrade now.Limit 5 per customer. WARNING: Small Parts, Not For Children Under 3 Years Old. Most Helpful Customer Reviews See all customer reviewsLego is finally releasing a massive 'Avengers' helicarrier See all Editor's Picks The Daily Dot Bazaar Lego is about to release the ultimate Avengers toy: a 2996-piece, $350 replica of a S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier.The helicarriers appear in The Avengers and Captain America: The Winter Soldier, providing a gigantic, flying headquarters for Nick Fury and his teams of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. Just in time for Avengers: Age of Ultron (which we're guessing won't include any helicarriers, but whatever), this Lego kit will hit the shelves in March. This kind of toy is reminiscent of the ever-popular Tracy Island model from Thunderbirds, a sci-fi dollhouse for people who almost certainly would not want to use the word "dollhouse."
But hey, let's be real here. It's a flying, gun-toting dollhouse for your Lego Avengers mini-figures, and it's awesome. Also, it even includes that rarest of features: female characters. You'd be amazed at how often this doesn't happen, but Black Widow and Maria Hill are indeed among the other Avengers mini-figures. Up next after the break:LEGO Marvel Super Heroes The Shield Helicarrier 760421 product rating5140302010FunEnhances creativityGood qualityAbout this productBusiness seller: ToysRUs (69342)All listings for this productAbout this productProduct IdentifiersProduct Key Features5140302010FunEnhances creativityGood qualityWrite a reviewMost relevant reviewsby BrilliantMy 8 year old son made this with a little bit of help, and loves it. quite expensive, but worth it.Verified purchase: Yes | The Helicarrier, a fictional flying aircraft carrier appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. It is depicted as the signature capital ship of the fictional intelligence/defense agency S.H.I.E.L.D.
Originally designed by Jack Kirby for the Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. serial in Strange Tales #135 (August 1965), the Helicarrier concept has survived multiple redesigns while rarely straying from its originally depicted role as a mobile headquarters of S.H.I.E.L.D. until recent years. In the Marvel Universe context of the various Nick Fury/S.H.I.E.L.D. series, the original design is attributed to a co-operative effort by Tony Stark, the mutant inventor Forge, and Reed Richards. According to one account in Amazing Fantasy vol. 2, #10, the first Helicarrier was proposed by Stark Industries as a political compromise among the signatories of the treaty in response to fears that any nation hosting the Directorate's main headquarters would be subject to attack by organizations such as HYDRA, with domestic political fallout sure to follow immediately thereafter. Over twenty Helicarriers have been built over the decades, and at least two have been in simultaneous service in the last decade on several occasions.
The following have been identified by name thus far in various Marvel Universe publications: After Iron Man replaced Maria Hill as Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., he designed a new class of Helicarrier whose red and gold design resembles the Iron Man Armor. Hill called it Helicarrier Gold, but Stark considered it The Helicarrier. This helicarrier was severely damaged and crashed by the Red Hulk, and subsequently commandeered by the Intelligencia (the covert operation of evil super-geniuses that employed the Red Hulk), who renamed it the "Hellcarrier". The main S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier is subsequently disabled by a computer virus unleashed by a Skrull agent posing as Edwin Jarvis, as part of the Secret Invasion. It lands in the Bermuda Triangle. Most of the staff are revealed to be Skrulls. The craft is destroyed by Maria Hill. It is not yet known what criteria S.H.I.E.L.D. uses to name its Helicarriers. S.H.I.E.L.D.'s replacement agency, H.A.M.M.E.R., has decommissioned the surviving Helicarriers,[3] with three of them — including the Iliad and the Argonaut — being stolen by Nick Fury.
[4] H.A.M.M.E.R. subsequently commissioned at least one new carrier to Norman Osborn's specifications, which was destroyed over Broxton, Oklahoma, during the Siege of Asgard. According to intel gathered by Livewires, 5 Helicarriers are known to have been wrecked,[5] though this data is out of date as several more have been lost since. In the pages of Avengers Undercover, it is shown that the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier Circe has employed some necromancers as part of its personnel as seen when they jam Nico Minoru's spells. In the epilogue of issue #25 of New Avengers, circa the year 1968, Howard Stark (father of Tony Stark, aka Iron Man), is seen giving Colonel Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D. the hard sell of his newly designed Hellicarrier. The Ultimate Universe deals with Helicarriers differently. Whereas on Marvel's Earth-616, it is implied that S.H.I.E.L.D. (a United Nations Task Force) only has a handful of Helicarriers in operation, in the Ultimate Universe, S.H.I.E.L.D. is depicted as a United States-operated military organization and is shown to have dozens of carriers, some even replacing retired conventional aircraft carriers like the USS Constellation.
The engines that keep the carrier aloft were designed by Tony Stark and were modular enough to be used in a space shuttle by the Ultimate Fantastic Four. These "Ultimate Universe" Helicarriers generally seem to be smaller than the Earth-616 versions, and have a more conventional aircraft carrier shape, but are far more plentiful. In Ultimate Avengers Vs New Ultimates #4, Nick Fury reveals that Hank Pym was the one who conceived and designed the Helicarriers. The Helicarrier as depicted in Marvel's The Avengers. ^ Seth Peck (w), Roland Boschi (a). "Fear Itself: Wolverine Part 1" Fear Itself: Wolverine 1 (September 2011), Marvel Comics ^ Invincible Iron Man ^ Livewires #4 (July 2005) ^ Ultimate Avengers Vs New UltimatesSign in to follow this 76042 - SHIELD Helicarrier , November 22, 2014 Page 1 of 26 Create an account or sign in to comment You need to be a member in order to leave a comment Sign up for a new account in our community.