UCS Hulkbuster?

Lately I have seen something which I find to be really exciting. Two photos have been released of a Lego Hulkbuster set box which hasn't been announced and it looks like it will be the biggest Hulkbuster set to date. For those of you who don't know anything about Marvel or the Hulkbuster Iron Man suit, it is the suit Tony Stark, A.K.A Iron Man, uses to fight the Hulk, a big strong green person to be overly simple about it, and it is one of the most iconic Iron Man suits.

Currently there has only been one Lego Hulkbuster suit, as pictured above, and it cost around £30. The set included Iron Man, Hulk, Scarlet Witch, Ultron, the Hulkbuster suit, plus a small cage build.

Due to the Hulkbuster suit being featured in the upcoming Marvel film 'Avengers: Infinity War', Lego are going to be releasing another Hulkbuster suit. As you can see in the image above, the set will feature Bruce Banner, Falcon, Proxima Midnight, an Outrider, the Hulkbuster suit, and a turret. This suit looks slightly bigger than the old one and more head heavy than chest heavy like the old one.

The two pictures above are those of the rumoured new Hulkbuster set. I am going to presume that they are real as the box design is perfectly matching to what would be expected. It's odd that the picture seems to have been taken in a Lego store (the yellow colouring implies this) but Lego haven't announced the set... However the one thing going against this being real is the fact a Hulkbuster set is scheduled for release around Infinity War. Having two of the same thing out at once would potentially decrease sales so I think, if this is genuine, it will be released around July to give the smaller Hulkbuster chance to sell. From the box you can see that the set comes with an Iron Man figure and it looks like you will be able to place him inside the Hulkbuster suit. The box also indicates that a light brick will be featured in the chest of the suit and that you can swap one of the arms like in 'Avengers: Age of Ultron'. There could potentially be a second version of this type of set some time after Infinity War. This set is labelled 'Ultron edition' which could mean that they might make an Infinity War edition. The Ultron edition set could cost around £160 as that is what the Lego Batman Tumbler Batmobile cost when that was released and I think this could be a similar set to that.

Lego news and rumours 2018

Hello! In this post I will not be going through every single rumour and every bit of Lego news, just the good stuff. To start off with, on January 28th it was the official birthday of the Lego brick and this year it has turned 60 years old. To celebrate this Lego have created a set which features four classic sets in micro scale. The good news is that this set is free, however the not so good news (depending on how you are with money and Lego) is that you have to spend over £100 at the Lego shop online.

As you can see, the above image shows the series 18 Lego minifigures! They were either announced or leaked, it doesn't matter which as either way we now know what figures will be included. In other minifigure news, there are rumours of a new Disney minifigures line, however I couldn't find any detail to the rumour, plus there are rumours of a Harry Potter minifigure line which sounds interesting as rumoured characters include a few of the Hogwarts ghosts. One rumour which has been confirmed is a Unikitty minifigure line which will consist of characters from the Cartoon Network Unikitty programme. There is speculation that this line will be similar to the Mixels series.

In addition to the potential minifigure series, it has been announced that there are going to be three Harry Potter sets and three Fantastic Beasts sets. There has been rumour of a UCS Hogwarts, however, as there is going to be a Great Hall set, I think its safe to presume there won't be. Besides from the Great Hall set, there will also be an Aragog set and a Ford Anglia set. 

Unfortunately, there shall be no summer wave for Nexo Knights. This most likely means that the Nexo Knights theme has been cancelled.

The infinity war sets have all been leaked/announced! I will do a post on what I think of them, however I will say that I am excited to see the set in the image above in more detail. The set above will be the largest in the wave and there will be six sets in total, one for each infinity stone. There will be another Hulkbuster mech and another very orange looking Milano style spaceship.

In the technology world of Lego, it is rumoured that there will be two Lego videogames this year. These are rumoured to be a Lego Batman Villains game and a Lego Incredibles II game. If these rumours are true, it can also be presumed that there will be a line of Incredibles sets at some point in the future. Also, there is rumour of an app controlled Batmobile.

Apparently, there is going to be another Lego Star Wars Sandcrawler, however it isn't going to be a UCS one which is good because it will be more affordable, however it will be smaller and possibly loose the detail of the old one. Another rumour is that there will be a UCS cloud city set. I have no idea how they will do this and I have been told that it would only work as a normal set. I have seen some interesting MOCs but think it will definitely be tricky to turn into a UCS set, escpecially without losing some key rooms. The rumour is that it will replace the current Death Star and be designed in a similar dollhouse structure.


That is all for now. I will do a couple of posts saying about particular things in detail, for example the infinity war sets, the chances of a Harry Potter minifigure line, and the Incredibles sets. My next post will either be on Saturday the 10th of February or Sunday the 11th of February, I will aim for the tenth.