Superhero Bits: Guardians of the Galaxy 2 LEGO Sets, Harley Quinn on Gotham, New Supergirl Aliens & MorePosted on Thursday, January 19th, 2017 by Ethan AndertonWill we ever see Johnny Blaze appear on Agents of SHIELD? Do Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 LEGO sets key us into some action sequences in the movie? When will we get to see Harley Quinn on Gotham? Want to see a life-size version of The LEGO Batman Movie Batmobile? Who should play the John Stewart version of Green Lantern in the DCEU? All that and more in this edition of Superhero Bits.Kevin Smith revealed a photo from the set of his upcoming Supergirl episode with a new alien species.Agents of SHIELD‘s midseason return, “The Patriot,” resulted in the lowest ratings ever for the Marvel series.Sooo this happened today. A video posted by ?? (@tomholland2013) on Jan 16, 2017 at 9:01am PSTSpider-Man: Homecoming star Tom Holland shows that he might have inherited some of the powers of Squirrel Girl.Hans Zimmer is still retired from composing superhero scores, but would come back if an idea was good enough.
Chevrolet has a life-size version of The LEGO Batman Movie Batmobile built, and you can see how it came together.Jessica Jones and Luke Cage are both available in the HDR format on Netflix now, if that’s something you like.Boss Logic created this mash-up of La La Land and Suicide Squad with The Joker and Harley Quinn sharing a kiss.Lynda Carter showed Melissa Benoist how to do the famous Wonder Woman twirl for an episode of Supergirl.Due to the amount of graphics and images included in Superhero Bits, we have to split this post over THREE pages. Click the link above to continue to the next page of Superhero Bits.Pages: 1 2 3Next pageIt’s taken me a few days to get to around to talking about it, but my first stop at New York Toy Fair 2017 over the weekend was at a booth that never disappoints me: LEGO! I was worried we wouldn’t see anything new at the show since the first Marvel 2017 sets literally were released one day before Toy Fair began, but there were two new LEGO Marvel Summer 2017 sets on display, including the LEGO Spider-Man Homecoming ATM Heist Battle 76082!
I’ve seen the trailer for the Spider-Man Homecoming movie about a half-dozen times now, but the only things my brain has retained from those viewings are 1) Peter and the-guy-who-should-be-Ganke drooling over some girl in the cafeteria and 2) the scene with Spider-Man foiling a bank robbery being carried out by superhero-masked crooks. Only one of those scenes seems like it would make a marketable LEGO set, and luckily that’s the one of the two that TLG decided to make in brick-built form! This is the cheaper of the two LEGO Spider-Man Homecoming sets, priced at just $19.99 and likely to be the target of parents of kids who just want a movie Spider-Man minifigure. The Spider-Man minifigure comes with a “Power Blast” action feature for the first time ever. I sort of prefer last year’s web effects pieces to the “Power Blast!”, but at least LEGO is trying new things to keep Spidey minfigs fresh. The Power Blast” feature looks to just be some “web fists” that you can flick at the bad guys.
And speaking of the bad guys, that’s far and away my favorite part of this set: two “Masked Robber” Minifigures are included with this set–the Captain America Mask Robber and the Hulk Mask Robber. I won’t hold my breath for TLG to ever release Thor and Iron Man Robber Minifigures to complete this scene, but I’m glad we’re getting these very fun scene-specific enemies for Spidey to fight anyway. (I’m curious to see if these thugs will actually have a giant missile launcher in the movie, though…) The 76082 ATM Bank Heist LEGO set bank playset itself is really simplistic, consisting of mainly just plain blue and grey bricks, a neon green motorcycle and some stickers. Ordinarily that would be a bit of a bummer, but the environment in this scene is really simple in the trailer, so it’s tough to fault TLG here–especially considering the reasonable $19.99 price-tag for a licensed set containing three Minifigures. Both of the movie LEGO Spider-Man Homecoming sets have an official release date of June 1st 2017, and may actually be held off shelves until that date if the boxes are labeled with that as an official release date.
I’ll send out links to order the Homecoming sets via the Marvel Toy News Twitter and Facebook Pages once they actually go up for sale. What do you think of the smaller of the two Spider-Man Homecoming LEGO sets, Marvel collectors? Would you have liked this set to have been more detailed and to have included the other two masked robbers at a higher price, or are you satisfied with this set just the way it is? UPDATE with release date change: The release date for Sony’s animated movie being directed by The Lego Movie‘s and has been shifted from July 20, 2018 to December 21, 2018. The push comes after the studio earlier this year unveiled its Spider-Man reboot plan with Kevin Feige and Amy Pascal steering the ship of its $4 billion live-action franchise. Under that deal, Spider-Man will appear in his Disney/Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War that is part of Marvel’s Cinematic Universe, and then will release the next stand-alone installment on July 28, 2017, with Jon Watts directing and Tom Holland as the young Peter Parker.
PREVIOUS, APRIL 22 PM: Tom Rothman came out swinging at CinemaCon. He announced in Vegas that Lego Movie helmers Phil Lord & Christopher Miller will make an animated feature of Spider-Man. They’ll conceive with an eye to direct it. We knew that the animated film was in the works, and that Denzel Washington and Antoine Fuqua planned to do a sequel to their 2014 film The Equalizer. Rothman formalized that, too. It doesn’t impede the progress of a new line of Spidey live-action films in the works, these with Marvel chief Kevin Feige in a producing capacity. The animated film will be released July 20, 2018. The live-action sequel will be released July 28, 2017. Subscribe to Deadline Breaking News Alerts and keep your inbox happy Packaged: H19.1 x W20.5 x D6.1cm Model name / number Not suitable for children under 2 years. Standard delivery within 5 working days Collect+ from a local shop from International delivery not available How we may still help you