Category: LEGO Marvel Super Heroes

Super Heroes Unite! August Winners Announced

Congratulations to Thomas Hubbel for his first place prize winning video in the Super Heroes Unite! contest. For winning first place he will receive a DC Universe limited edition, hand painted, cold-cast porcelain maquette created as a 3D reference piece for the artists and not available for retail as well as the complete 2012 LEGO Super Heroes: DC Universe collection. Also taking first is Tony Norton with his picture “A new take on the Batman’s Beginnings, LEGO Style.”

The contest runs until December with winners picked each month. Second prize winners will receive the complete 2012 LEGO Super Heroes: DC Universe collection while third prize winners will receive the LEGO Super Heroes: DC Universe Batcave set, LEGO Batman: The Video Game, and a Batman t-shirt. Once December rolls around, one grand prize winner of a trip for four to the Warner Bros. Studios, WB Animation, and LEGOLANDÂ® California Resort along with the complete 2012 LEGO Super Heroes: DC Universe collection will be picked. To view the rest of August’s winners or to submit your own entry, visit the LEGO Superheros website.

October 7, 2011
Taking AIM At MODOK

SPARKART!, creator of the greatest LEGO R2-D2 I’ve ever seen, has taken it upon himself to supply some much needed mayhem to the Superhero theme with M.O.D.O.K (Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing). The addition of a group of expendable A.I.M scientists makes great use of the LEGO HAZMAT suit. Most importantly, minifig Captain America will now have someone to throw his mighty shield at!

September 15, 2011
Assembling The Avengers

After my ~~rant~~ even handed address about the need for LEGO maxifigures the other day comes along two examples of opportunities for TLG to step up. Firstly, Jared “Kaminoan” Burks AKA The Fine Clonier brings his creative flair to the infamous Hank Pym and creates Giant Man and Ant Man in three different scales. Utilizing official LEGO products he’s managed to prove a great point about the ease of simply increasing the size of the standard minifig shape to better create a sense of scale. The only thing missing is a large scale 20″ Giant Man which would put him in near perfect comic book proportions with a minifigure. He says it was the look of the new Hulk figure that got the ball rolling and I’d have to agree that the Giant Man he created would be a great scale for old jade jaws.

But could they do the Hulk justice with an upsizing and a print job?

It appears customizer CHRISTO‘s got that part covered. Excelsior.

September 13, 2011
War Machine For Your Viewing Pleasure

Following up his Iron Man custom, Kaminoan shows us his version of War Machine. Sweet stuff. They both need to be lit up to complete the effect. Though, I’m not sure if lighting up hand repulsors would be humanly possible.

August 23, 2011
THIS Is How You Do Iron Man

We don’t feature a lot of custom minifigs on the front page of FBTB because….. well to be honest, I don’t know why. But, given the LEGO Superheroes license announced last month and after seeing the above, I couldn’t help but share. Jared “Kaminoan” Burks of FineClonier fame was commissioned to do the above set of figures. And in case you were wondering, no, they are not for sale.

A tough act to follow, LEGO is going to have a hard time making anything look as good.

August 22, 2011
MOC Spotlight: Look Out! Here Comes The Spider-man.

The announcement of LEGO’s upcoming Superheroes line has already started some builders creative juices flowing and I for one am as excited for the oncoming storm of MOC’s as I am for the official sets, maybe more so!

This outstanding Spider-man vs. Sandman creation from Xenomurphy is a prime example of what I hope is to come. The build is top notch and the comic cover presentation is a real eye catcher. With any luck, TLC is paying attention and will come up with some equally inventive sets with cool play features. If not, it will be up to the builders to use this opportunity to keep making more dynamite creations as Xenomurphy has already committed to doing. I’m going to hold you to it XM!

August 22, 2011
Superheroes Community Window at Costa Mesa

Paul Lee, LEGO Ambassador for LUGOLA and all around good guy, set the theme for the Costa Mesa LEGO Brand Retail store for the next few weeks: Superheroes of Marvel and DC Comics. The display featured some large scale figs of famous superheroes from both brands, though DC Comics had a slightly larger presence. SandLUG member Matt Armstrong (monsterbrick), Mariann Asanuma (Model Gal) along with LUGOLA members Ezra (B. Ezra), Paul Lee (polywen), and myself helped fill out the display with miniland scale superheroes, miniature models, m-wings, and other items all to promote next year’s Superheroes license.

You can get a close up of Ezra’s contributions in his photostream.

August 17, 2011
With Great Licensing Comes Great Responsibility

With the Comic Con announcement of the licensing of Marvel and DC there was a collective nerdgasm with LEGO and comic fans alike. There is so much potential with this it boggles the mind. Not only is there a positively vast library of reference material in the form of comic books, comic book movies are hot these days. Itâ€™s really too bad this didnâ€™t happen a bit earlier because with this summerâ€™s offering of Thor, Green Lantern and Captain America a lot of people (including myself) feel it was a bit of a missed opportunity.
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August 8, 2011
Marvel and DC Comics Constraction Sets

As part of the Hero Factory line, LEGO will be releasing a series of Constraction sets based on a few key Marvel and DC Comics characters. On display at Comic Con were The Hulk and Iron Man from Marvel Comics, and Batman and Green Lantern from DC. No other info available at this time unless I missed something. Anyways, I’ll see what else I can dig up.

July 21, 2011
The Minifigs of DC Comics and Marvel Comics

I was under the impression that the LEGO booth would have some of the actual DC Comics and/or Marvel Comics sets on display. Unfortunately, that was not the case. They did have what appeared to be near-final prototypes of DC Comics minifigs of Batman, Catwoman, Joker, Wonder Woman, and Poison Ivy. Marvel Comics minifigs were represented by Thor, Iron Man, Wolverine, The Hulk, and Captain America, but those were in various early prototype stages. I didn’t realize until I finally got back to my room and downloaded the images how they actually looked, so I’m going to try and take some better pics tomorrow. Until then, enjoy.

July 21, 2011