The investigation - dubbed Operation: MandalOrganized Retail Theft - began in late July, when a downtown retailer contacted police regarding a repeat shoplifter. The sets will be available first at the chains of LEGO Stores in mid-February 2017, and should hit other retailers at the end of February and start of March.Police arrested a downtown store owner and recovered thousands of dollars worth of stolen goods after a prolific thief, and a determined security guard, led investigators to disassemble a LEGO trafficking operation brick by brick. The LEGO Marvel 2017 Brick Headz figures will be available for order online and in stores in February 2017. I think it’s a little weird mixing Marvel and DC characters into the same numbering scheme, but TLG must plan on expanding this theme and having all licenses included in one sequence of numbers. Incidentally, if anyone is wondering about the numbering sequence on the boxes, these are labeled as #5-#8 in the LEGO Brick Headz series, with #1-#4 being characters from The Batman Movie. There’s no official MSRP on these sets announced yet, but given the size and the fact that they’re all around 100 pieces, I’d anticipate these sets being in the $10-$12 range so that they can compete head-on price-wise with Funko POP Vinyls. Perhaps I’ll feel differently when I see these in person at the New York Toy Fair 2017 next month, however. My heart easily melts for cutesy renditions of Marvel characters, but these are missing the mark with me. Personally, I don’t know how I feel about these sets.
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Meanwhile, the LEGO Hulk 42592 set is the only one of the four sets sporting an “Avengers: Age of Ultron” logo (which makes sense, given that he wasn’t in that “Civil War” movie and all). LEGO 41591 Black Widow is in her Captain America: Civil War costume, so sadly, no cool neon blue Tron stripes on her costume.
Whereas the SDCC 2016 Brick Headz Iron Man and Captain America sets were in bright, comic-inspired colors, the versions coming to stores next month are darker, more movie-inspired iterations.Īlong with Cap and Iron Man, two new characters will get the super-deformed brick-built treatment in this set: Black Widow and Hulk. Not only are the Brick Headz Doctor Strange and Black Panther figures absent from this wave, but the BrickHeadz Captain America and Iron Man getting released to mass retail stores are different from the ones TLG sold at Comic-Con last year. While we had initially heard that the BrickHeadz sets released for San Diego Comic-Con 2016 were going to be a pre-release, with these official photos it appears that all four figures from SDCC 2016 are exclusive to that show. The Jada Metals line is getting steadily more popular, and now Funko is ready to face a new foe on an entirely different level: LEGO!Ĭoming to stores in February, it’s a new line of brick-built superhero figures whose style has clearly been influenced by Funko POP Vinyls: the big-headed Brick Headz!
Funko is holding tight to its crown as the undisputed king of super-deformed, stylized Marvel figures, but they face more challengers every year.
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