LEGO Marvel Has a Minifigure Problem & So Does LEGO DC! 

It's crazy how Lego still hasn't made the Fantastic Four (despite the fact that they can reuse the torso for three of the team members), Silver Surfer, Professor X and the majority of the X-Men, Mystique, Slealth Suit Captain America, Ronin, Smart Hulk, Kang, Stan Lee, and wide release versions of the Symbiote Suit and Jean Grey, keeping mind the fact that these are all prominent MAIN CHARACTERS. But hey, at least we got Venomized Green Goblin right?

“Can we get leg printing on our Lego marvel minifigures?” “Best we can do is re-used face prints”

Man, I'm still frustrated with that Green Goblin figure. The lack of leg printing at the bare minimum was so insulting, but he also desperately needed a cloth piece and arm printing as well.

it’s so strange to me that lego won’t make more comic sets, when the superhero theme started the sets were based on the videos games lego were making and the comic look and style really suits the lego style the bright colors and unique characters really suit lego now i feel everything must tie into a new movie release or a show on Disney+ and to me personally something about the modern mcu designs aren’t fun to look at as a mini-figure maybe i’m just nostalgic but i feel this is a major reason we haven’t got the fantastic four or other beloved characters that don’t get a lot of love in the movies

Fans: Can we get some new characters in your superhero themes? Lego: Avenger, Spider-Man, and Batman.

Why is Robin not in that Adam West Batman set? One of the most iconic parts of that show was Adam and Burt’s dynamic as Batman and Robin.

i got 99 problems and lego dc is 99 of them

I'll never understand why Lego didn't capitalize on the renewed interest of Teen Titans (through Teen Titans Go) with sets outside of Dimensions. In a perfect world, they could've released sets with figure designs that could work as both their Original Animated Series and their Go counterparts. That way they can release 4+ sets referencing Go and appeal to kids, and also have playscale/D2C sets about the comics/original animated series and appease the hardcore fans while also saving budget for more unique figs (some figs like Starfire might need alternate accesories between versions but you get the point)

A moon girl an brick built devil dinosaur would be sick

Hope Lego takes notes because they can't justify todays prices in terms of what we're getting. Adding more minifigures throughout all themes would appease the fans.

I’d love to a see a Christopher Reeve Superman set. With Gunn’s Superman coming next year and the rumor of the Superman mech, I’m hoping we can get more Superman sets in the next couple of years.

One other thing that bothers me about LEGO Marvel's minifigures are the GLARING lack of comic book characters, which I also think would help your point about reusing characters as often as possible. Think about Iron Man for example. The MCU has SO many different versions of Iron Man that while there's sure to be some overlap, there are just way too many versions to keep up with and you have to worry about putting the right one into the right sets. Can't have the Bleeding Edge suit in an Avengers 1 set. Meanwhile, if they were to make a few of the suits from the comics and make more comic focused sets, they'd be able to tell more stories with the same minifigure. Same goes even more so for characters with fewer or no major costume changes. Perfect the design once, you can reuse it for a long time. I'm honestly just SICK of seeing MCU characters, only getting a few others like Spider-Man villains or the occasional set like the overpriced X-Men jet. I'd honestly take a Marvel Comics CMF at this point

Deadpool. You're telling me the people that made him kid friendly in Lego marvel superheroes, gave him a set around that time, and made multiple years worth of comicon exclusive figures for him can't do anything, even with the 18+ lineup, during his current peak? Lego is avoiding money like the plague right now, and overall the lack of merchandise is insulting. He's outsold spiderman and the avengers, nuff said, give this man everything.

Lego DC has too many problems.

I want a DC Hall of Justice set. Fill it with mini figs, whether they're from the Super Friends show or the current version of the the comics. 10 heroes and 10 villains.

My major problem is the lack of villains and new characters in sets; it’s ridiculous that we had “action figures” before some important characters from the Marvel universe, I really want a comic Baron Zemo and many MCU heroes in their comic appearances (classic or modern look)

Both Marvel and DC needing to bring new version of previous exclusive Minifigures like The Hobgoblin, Kraven, Doctor Doom, Deadpool, Ra's Al Ghul, Bizarro, etc, but also strange that the Lego Batman keep using Joker, Harley, Batgirl, and yet Robin and some cases Nightwing is missing despite being part of the iconic pairing of all comic history, that is something wrong where the Boy Wonder isn't there with the Dark Knight in sets.

the Guardians vol 3 sets they lazily didn't include Kraglin, High Evolutionary, Cosmo and not even Gamora who already had a minifigure but repeated every other Guardians character in the same Torso. Only Adam Warlock received a figure for the first time.

With Zemo being a prominent MCU antagonist across multiple projects, I'm so confused as to why he's never had a figure.

How the hell has LEGO never made a fortress of solitude set? It’s the perfect set to use a ton of transparent pieces, and you can include Mongal, the phantom zone projector, bizarro, starro, and like 30 other classic scenes from various Superman comics, films, and shows. They should focus less on topical movie related sets and more on evergreen ideas of characters. Make Superman look like the cultural idea of Superman, not the latest movie version

The superheroes themes feel like they have amongst the weakest minfigures in the LEGO catalogue, despite having arguably the biggest character focus of any licence.

Bro was COOKING with this video. It's insane that there are still planned sets for subthemes like the Buildable Figures, which we're supposedly getting a Sam Wilson Captain America next year, when it seems llike no one is buying them at all. Only 605 Brickset users own the Wolverine Buildable Figure, while nearly 7000 own the Wolverine Mech. Buildable Figures are not selling!

DC has a Lego problem

No problem at all. As long as people pay for anything, they can do anything!

Imo, Lego puts out far too many sets based on recreating things, instead of making fun toys. Why would I buy a Lego radio or camera, when I could buy the real life version for a fraction of the price. Imo, Lego makes less fun sets and especially play sets, and instead essentially makes model kits.

My biggest issue with LEGO Marvel as a whole is the recent obsession with only doing MCU and Disney +/Marvel Studios stuff, as well as their obsession with overusing the "Venomized" theme that went pretty much nowhere. I haven't seen a single set or minifig based off the comics themselves in forever and it's just really annoying at this point.

Tldr lego marvel needs to be quality not quantity

0:42 The main minifigures I thought of here when PenPlays mentioned print opacity were Wolverine from the same set & Mercy from the Lego Overwatch theme.

I know this is kinda niche but I would die for a Lego Hammerhead that used that old Frankenstein head old. And a Spiderman with web printed on the legs to accompany him

Sry, but saying the Budget wasnt high enough for more or more detailed figs is not a valid reason with todays prices, I dont believe the designers. CMF figs, aka the peak of detail on a fig are 4 bucks each, even with licenses. In the case of the X Jet, the build is not more than 40$, so even if it had cmf quality figs we would still be only at 56$ and yet, the actual price with bad quality figs is 85!!! And keep in mind that they cheaped out on many things over the years like moving productions to cheap countries, downgrading instructions and using stickers over prints, etc. This company is greedy and fell off.

Im not gonna lie the mech sets with the single figures look like unoffical bootleg pics id laugh at as a kid discovering cursed images

After the Blue Beetle movie came out I thought "Lego could have EASILY made at least one set based on this movie. The Bug Ship would have been a great set to bring in some variety to Lego DC." Include a Blue Beetle and OMAC minifig and you're good.

I’m new to LEGO marvel but I was genuinely shocked when I saw the amount of figures that lacked leg printing. I mean almost all LEGO Star Wars figures have leg printing on some level nowadays. It honestly makes LEGO Star Wars look like they’re doing an amazing job when they really aren’t most times

I would love a Deadpool, but there are certain characters they won't make, so there are glaring holes in the lineup

I'd love Lego to make some Smallville characters in Lego form. Either in a new DC CMF series, or in Smallville themed sets. A big D2C Kent family farmhouse or Daily Planet would be awesome (But a Daily Planet that isn't Smallville related would be cool too.)

Its still crazy to me that lego still hasn't give leg printing i honestly love the marvel minifigures my favorite minifigure is doctor strange

Not all lego factories have the printing setups required for all figures to have full printing, and they don't want to replace the machines untill they fail because of how expensive they are

“All because they have so many basis they feel they have to touch. There are simply too many sets under this theme. It has so much that it has too cover and so much ambition it’s trying to act on that it’s reached a point where it barely covers what people are expecting.” So phase 4 of the mcu?

Great video, thank you so much for bringing attention to these things… Dc has more problems then just minifigs LOL

I would love to see a UCS style Galactus. Include Silver Surfer minifig and sell for $350, so much easy $$ on the table

12:08 The Mandela effect of his leg always gets me

In light of the villain argument, I think they try to sell every set as a scene and therefore wont include a character that wouldn’t belong to the scene. For example, it wouldn’t make sense for the marvels villain to be in the ship

Personally, I’m still baffled by the fact that the two Super Heroes sub themes share a budget in the first place. I mean, they’re two rival brands owned by two competing companies. It’s quite literally two completely separate themes. I can understand using the broader “Super Heroes” theme to unify them from a branding standpoint, but budgeting it as a single theme has never made any sense to me.

I think they should drop most Marvel and DC themes and start doing a comic book line and a movies line

Symbiote Spider-Man symbiote Spider-Man symbiote Spider-Man symbiote Spider-Man 🤞🤞🤞

Superheroes and supervillains I want to see? Ooo let's see. - The Fantastic Four is at number one, but we do have the movie next year and Lego will be forced to finally make them. (And hopefully Silver Surfer as well) - Gambit, Professor X, Juggernaut, Mystique, and a new version of Jean Grey. - A Ryan Reynolds suit for Deadpool, would make for a good exlcusive in the rumoured X-Mansion set like how Daredevil, Blade, and Punisher were exclusive to the Daily Bugle - Kingpin, Mr. Negative, and The Prowler For DC I've got a few as well - Hush, Mad Hatter, Mr. Zsasz, Peacemaker (Hush, Zsasz, ans Peacemaker could be Punisher-style exclusives in a D2C Arkham Asylum set) - Doctor Fate and Black Adam (the movie sucked but the characters are still cool looking) - King Shark

Someone should send this directly to Lego

I wish we got Star Lord’s helmet with him again :( the new Milano should have came with it

I don’t think lego understands how well some larger superhero sets like the daily bugle with many high quality figures would sell, I have 2 examples 1: The Fortress Of Solitude-This would be the perfect set to be in that daily bugle price range and include every Superman character under the sun, Lois, doomsday, Zod, supergirl, Conner Kent, Jon Kent, you name it 2: The X-Mansion-With the success of X-Men 97, this one is a no brainer, include the professor, jean, gambit, night crawler, some brotherhood members like saber tooth and pyro, people like Psylocke and maybe a big fig apocalypse

It's kinda wild how many times Lego has made a new Batman minifigure based on the 89 costume, they make Lego Batman outdated within years like it's an iphone

I'm still mad about the Batgirl minifigure in the 4+ Batcave. I figured it wouldn't be Cassandra Cain which was already disappointing enough (it's her 25th anniversary LEGO, come on), but it being an altered version of the suit Babs isn't even wearing in the comics anymore is so frustrating.

Characters that i would like lego tomake: Dc: Mirror master; Ice maiden; Fire; Red Tornado; Vixen; Toyman; The Shade. Marvel: the Leader; Rick Jones; Squirrel girl; Banshee; Nightcrawler; Dazzler; Howard the duck; The Gladiator; Asbestos lady.

I just wish LEGO superheroes would stop with all the movie tie-ins and go back to making comic-based sets. Those were always the best sets in my opinion, and the only ones I will actually buy. A movie-based set is forever linked to the movie and that specific iteration, while a comic-based set provides far more freedom and incites creativity to create your own stories.

I'd love to see Shocker be made as a minifigure already. I don't count MCU Shocker as neither Shocker from Homecoming did look or act like Shocker from cartoons and comics, current minifigure also looks nothing like Shocker.

Im sad that we never got Arrowverse sets outside the exclusive SDCC figures😢

we absolutely need comic versions and more comic characters in both Marvel and DC. And absolutely agree, IT'S ENOUGH OF BATMAN VS JOKER! I mean, I love Batman... but there is a huge amount of other villains that they could explore!

Listen, I don’t know if this is unpopular, but they should make sets based on the video games, mainly Lego marvel 1 and Lego marvel 2. Even minifigure packs would be so cool because we could get new characters like carnom and sliver surfer. Or we can get versions like Big fig Venom and electro classic/2099. We also should have more what if sets for characters like infinity ultron.

Honestly I'm not sure how badly the buildable figures are actually selling. Yeah, occasionally they're spotted on significant discounts, but they're continuing to release new ones and they've been ongoing for a few years...

Can’t wait for Zatanna and Dr. Fate! We need another DC collectible minifigure line.

6:42 I wouldn't call Ned's yellow jacket a "finer detail" (the minifigure's torso is plain wrong)

I'll never understand why we never got a Batman or any other character in the animated series set. Unless lego probably will do a separate release.

Lego is neglecting hard core comic book fans by refusing to make sets around important moments in the comics. Die hard comic fans would be interested in a Busiek’s avengers run avengers mansion. They’d be interested in a Claremont era X mansion, or a micro scale Krakoa done like that one hog warts Castle that was micro scale. There are so many iconic moments that Lego doesn’t try to get license for despite there being a market for it

My friends and I have all agreed to buy the upcoming Superman set whether we like it or not just in the hope that sales numbers will be high enough to sop making the DC theme 100% batman.

Two things: 1. Do we know for certain that the budget is split between Marvel and DC? Superheroes as a moniker has been dropped for years at least as far as branding goes. 2. “Honestly, the standard has been set. If it works, they might as well go for it, right?” Kinda. Spider-Man is the number one minifigure, and specifically that version, is the one I have the most and it “works” to a degree. It’s definitely arm printing, but as far as LEGO standards I feel it’s in the same plane as Commander Fox. It’s a print that NEEDS a second coat of the print. Especially when box art renders falsely show the printing as being identical color matches. While I totally understand you can’t replicate that type of color accuracy perfectly as you can on a screen, they could at least try with a second coat!

I think the bigger problem is that most of the sets are to be bought for the minifigures and less for the set, especially with marvel and I would say dc but dc doesn’t exactly exist anymore

i want a clayface minifigure we have never gotten one

They should make superhero sets based off the most iconic and well remembered comic storylines. Do a set on superior Spider-Man, do a set on Crisis on infinite earths. There’s literally a million comic stories you can loot for ideas

me in 2013: wow Lego now has the license of marvel, oh I can't wait to see lego sets based on fantastic four, daredevil, x men, inhumans, agents of shield Lego in 2024: Do you want another set of hulkbuster or another set of the quinjet?

Any superhero I would want made? Quantum and Woody or Hellboy Any Marvel? Colossus and Juggernaut Any DC? Thats the real challenge, but probably Atrocitus/Dex-star, Static Shock, or Constantine

Would love to see some new X-men...Hoping the X-mansion delivers.

I'd like Lego to make a *_GOOD_* Venom figure. If taking from Sony, then the size of Venom isn't an exaggeration of size, and Venom is actually that big, and as such, should use a Big-Fig. If taking from Marvel, then Venom should still be able to tower over Spider-Man, but maybe make any host-showing bit conform to the size of the Big-Fig. Also, show the body and face of the host occasionally through maybe a removable face bit if you aren't going to use the LEGO Marvel Superheroes 2 Venom Big-Fig anyway. And also atleast have hand printing on the Big-Figs of Venom. The hand squares are iconic, and I don't want them to be lost for no good reason.

I want lego to make a lego avengers set where Thor is wearing his winged helmet. I want that set to be an avengers set from the comics.

I think the super hero sets have the same problem lego lord of the rings did, you'll get 50 spider mans, thors, and iron mans and one ant man

Really appreciate you making this video. I would be such a massive lego marvel collector if they used more leg printing and stopped reusing inaccurate faces and torsos. Lego marvel is outrageously overpriced these days but I honestly wouldn’t care if they gave the minifigures the same quality as star wars.

yeah i can't believe lego went out- MADE MODELS OF THE FANTASTIC 4, AND THE X MEN, for their first marvel game, and then didn't think to make sets? Like, HUH? IT'S ALL RIGHT HERE! The fact that FANS have to hand make semi-accurate recreations is CRIMINAL. Also LEGO needs to bring back comic book themed sets, y'all know that one captain america set where his costume is super saturated and clearly based off the comics, same with the red hulk vs hulk set? AAAAAnd that one iron man set? And I'm pretty sure i remember one with Thor too? Let's like-keep doing that? Please? I want OG comic book antman with a chrome helmet, thanks. I want to see a comic accurate Hawkeye (WHICH IS ANOTHER MODEL USED IN LEGO GAMES, BY THE WAYYY.) Hell lego marvel superhero's 2 made so many characters have comic accurate models that not reopening just the basic Marvel series to focus less on saturated versions of movie outfits and more on real comic ones and using all the models and textures from Lego marvel superheros 2 is just throwing away money. Like, I also don't get why LEGO seems to be afraid of copyright that they can't receive? Sure we can't have the x-men in an MCU based set because they're owned by fox and yaddi yadda, but Marvel still owns the rights to those characters, LEGO can throw out an X-Men set series based off comics or movies and no copyright can be held against them for it, give me comic book quicksilver, give me iceman, give me collosus god dangit!

put some respect on batman the animated series, those sets are amazing. It is a highly beloved show

Lego needs to make stilt-man. He's a goofy concept that matches the lego vibe perfectly in the same way that calendar man and the eraser did with the lego batman movie. Also, Ice-man. I just need to complete spiderman and his amazing friends now that we got firestar

It's a dangerous to ask what minifigs I want cause both Marvel and DC have a chunk of my favs absent. I'm a huge comic fan, and so many have been in the games and I could probably think of sets for all of them. I'm just so starving. Like off the top of my head: DC: KId Flash/Impulse, Kyle Rayner, Wonder Girl, Donna Troy, a green Poison Ivy, Midnighter and Apollo, Jimmy Olsen, more Legion of Superheroes (they've made two), Oracle, Aqualad, Batgirl (Cass), Captain Marvel Jr, Doctor Fate, Booster Gold and Ted Kord, Animal Man, Static, Jon Kent, Mr Terrific, Hawk and Dove, Big Barda, Hourman, Creeper, Zatanna, Arsenal, Vertigo, Steel, the Ray, the Atom etc. Marvel: literally any X-Men besides the ones already (and everyone besides CMF Wolverine and Deadpool can use improvements), The F4, Kaine Parker, improved Nova, big fig Venom, black-suit Spidey, Wonder Man, Quasar, Quicksilver (actually, a lot of non-MCU versions of characters), Hercules, New Warriors, Wiccan and Hulkling, Agent Anti-Venom, Amadeus Cho, Runaways, Viv Vision, Black Knight, Nighthawk, Darkhawk, Captain Britain, The Power Pack, Hellcat.

I would love to see TLG do something again with the Justice League. 2015 was a great year of Super Heroes sets.

Lego MCU Avengers + Female/Gender Reversed Counterparts, Iron-man & Rescue (Pepper Potts), Hulk & She-Hulk, Captain America & Captain Carter (Peggy Carter), Client Bartin & Kate Bishop (Hawkeye/s), Thor & Mighty Thor (Jain Foster), Black Widow & ???? ???? (Male Equivalent of Black Widow),

I really wish DC gave more love and made a bigger effort to push Blue Beetle (the movie) last year because at the very least, even if we got him in a set ONCE apparently it isn't someone we see as frequently. But the movie even has a big robot beetle they ride into battle called the Bug, and that just feels incredibly marketable and it's insane they didn't even try to even put out toys, let alone lego sets. If they wanna keep milking Batman, throw in Kite Man (hell yeah!).

I prefer my LEGO bricks/builds to my Lego Figures. I buy sets for the build, i tend to hate buying sets for Minifigures so these 25th anniversary Star Wars sets are somewhat annoying but they at least have a balance i can work with lol

You in a year from now when you hear that LEGO from finally doing Superman again because they remember DC isn’t just Batman

Honestly, I don’t care too much about LEGO Marvel/DC. I’d love to buy the minifigures, but the sets do nothing for me. I’d gladly just buy minifigure packs of everything they’ve done. I completely understand that the minifigures aren’t the point of LEGO, but that’s how I feel about the superhero properties. Other licenses are a bit different, as they have more relevant builds to the franchise. As cool as some of the Batmobiles or Quinjets have been, I think the minifigures are more important than the actual builds, hence why i’d buy just the figures. But LEGO won’t do that for fairly obvious reasons - they want you to buy sets.

Lego DC has SO MUCH POTENTIAL

0:25 Still has room to grow? Well I would say that a bit less friendly when you get 4 different color tones on bricks that are supposed to be one color in a 500 dollar set.

I personally don't like arm printing on spider man. It just doesn't look right to me.

8:28, I see what your getting at, but they were all wearing the same thing in the movie, so there's no need to give them all different prints

I am still waiting for an Emma Frost figure. Though I don’t know if we’ll ever get one

So the point I took from this video is, the problem with marvel is that there's too much. Too many sets, too much variety, like butter being spread over too much bread. Yet another good informative video.

im extremely poor so seeing someone claim 55 dollars being affordable for a non essential entertainment product blows my mind. lego has long stopped being affordable since the mid 2010s im blown away you rich guys can keep up

Aw man, where do I begin? I would love for LEGO to make the Mad Hatter, Livewire, Toyman, and Metallo for DC. And for Marvel, Iceman, Professor X, the Chameleon, and last but not least, the Fantastic Four! Those are my Top 8 (Top 11?) that I want to see from LEGO! I wish Superman would get more sets! There’s so many of his villains that we haven’t gotten! And of course just new characters would be nice instead of the same characters over and over and OVER again!

Frankly it’s nuts that with all the superhero movies still releasing they so often decide to skip a movie entirely. It got real bad with the later DCEU movies as they made nothing post-WW84 even though movies like Black Adam and The Flash had so much potential for sets (regardless of movie quality). Not to mention all the spider-man sets that just keep reusing the same figures with no variation when there’s a whole spider-verse of characters they could tap into more like they were a few years ago before they decided to just have Peter, Miles, or Gwen in every set and hardly change their designs (like we can’t get a Gwenom figure in a wave of Venomized villains?).

Well the issue is that Lego has a margins problem. Which is that LEGO is not selling more units but just getting more money from the existing customers.

You know DC doesn't have that verity with their figures is when a lot of my figures I've made are DC

Lego dc needs some love I have 2 ideas to revitalize the theme. One come out with a minifigure line once a year if their not going to give us worthwhile sets at least give us some new minifigures for our own creations. It's a small start but it would at least allow us to show lego we're still interested. Two please lego come out with a dc modular marvel has three with a rumored forth later this year just give us a chance with one. I suggest Arkham asylum set it at around $450 to $500 and give us exclusive minifigures based on the Arkham video games and have it be as wide as one and a half baseplates. Dc is full of great stories lego needs to stop limiting itself to just the movies. As for the marvel sets stop making the buildable action figures it's just not a fit for marvel or most themes. People don't want action figures from lego they want lego from lego.

All i want is stealth suit cap and rody in the endgame suit (blue one)…

Lego should listen to this guy. Also I’d like that on make another fucking Deadpool figure.

What a great video! I’d love to see some Defenders minifigures

Man, as a minifig fan first and foremost, LEGO DC was *fantastic* in 2014-2016. It had so much variety, and they actually dared to have sets that (gasp) didn't have Batman! Even up until 2019-ish, we still got a pretty good selection of more obscure characters... but these last few years have REALLY been bleak. I like the new Batman cowl piece, I really do, but I'd much rather have literally anything else. DC has so much to pull from that they just aren't, like that one Tower of Fate set that was rumored recently but never happened. Meanwhile, LEGO Marvel is getting quantity over quality, and I feel like that's yanking so much of the Super Heroes budget that DC gets the breadcrumbs. Marvel's taking the entire blanket and DC's shivering on the other side of the bed... not to say Marvel's doing great, it's not, but it just feels like DC's getting *nothing* right now.