LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2014 Set Images

Now that I am back from being on holiday last week, we can get stuck back into the latest LEGO news and, in particular, 2014 set images. Brickset has reported that images of next year’s first wave of LEGO Marvel Super Heroes sets have been revealed in a catalogue.

I received that early 2014 consumer catalogue with December’s Australian/New Zealand LEGO Club Magazine and it does show five Marvel sets (76014 Spider-Trike vs. Electro, 76015 Doc Ock Truck Heist, 76016 Spider-Helicopter Rescue, 76017 Captain America vs. HYDRA, 76018 Hulk Lab Smash). All these sets will be released in March and April 2014.

It seems as though LEGO is starting to take a different approach with the latest Super Heroes sets (the Spider-Man ones in particular ) and focusing the sets and minifigures on the comic books rather than the current films that are being produced.

This probably is result of MEGA brands (who are the parent company of Mega Bloks) has the license for the Spider-Man movies and LEGO has the one for Ultimate Spider-Man (a comic book series running from 2000 – 2009 from which a cartoon TV series was based off).

Personally, I’m not that much of a LEGO Super Heroes fan as much as some people are, but for this wave my favourites are the Captain America and Spider-Man helicopter sets.

What is your opinion on the first wave of LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2014 sets? Do you prefer the cartoonish look over minifigures and sets being based on current super hero movies? Share your thoughts on these five sets in the comments below.

SDCC 2013: LEGO Mixels Revealed

Instagram member, leanalynn, has posted a photo of a new theme revealed at the 2013 San Diego Comic Con (SDCC 2013). LEGO Mixels is a small theme which will start to release sets in March 2014. From the image, Mixels appears to be some sort of LEGO incarnation of named Cartoon Network cartoon characters. Not much is known about LEGO Mixels, as the name “Mixels” doesn’t seem to be already created and linked with the Cartoon Network television channel.

LEGO has already set a teaser page on LEGO.com for the upcoming Mixels theme and some fans are suggesting that it might be just a theme based off a new Cartoon Network TV series called “Mixels” or something like that. The three supposedly main characters that have been unveiled are 41500 Flain (Yellow), 41504 Seismo (Black & Gray) and Volecto (Red).

What is interesting to note as well is the fact that down the bottom of the LEGO.com teaser page it says that Mixels is a trademark of the LEGO Group which could mean that Mixels is LEGO’s original idea and not based off something else by someone else.

The mixels.com domain name is registered with Time Warner who are an American film and television company with subsidiaries including Warner Bros, CNN, DC Comics and, funnily enough, Cartoon Network. The Mixels sets have been described on Twitter as being “mix and match sets”, whatever that means.

What do you think about this new LEGO Mixels theme so far after seeing all the information and images that we have for Mixels at the moment? Share your thoughts on the latest LEGO theme in the comments below.

Source: Brickset