http://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-SEB-86321At next month’s Toy Fair in New York, LEGO will unveil the SHIELD Helicarrier set.
Pieces: 2,996
Release Date: March 2015
Price: $349.99.
In the 2012 film “The Avengers,” the Helicarrier is a gigantic aircraft carrier capable of flight that serves as a base for the defense and intelligence agency S.H.I.E.L.D. (The new Lego set isn’t tied to the upcoming sequel, “The Avengers: Age of Ultron.”)
The set features two runways, microscale Quinjets, fighter jets and ground support vehicles. It includes five minifigures — Nick Fury, Black Widow, Captain America, Hawkeye and, new for Spring 2015, Maria Hill.
Minifigures Hawkeye, Maria Hill, Captain America, Nick Fury, Black Widow.
The Helicarrier also comes with 12 microfigures to scatter around the carrier’s enormous deck and interior. (It’s that big.) The microfigures are Nick Fury, Hawkeye, Captain America, Iron Man and eight SHIELD agents.
The LEGO Helicarrier stands over 11 inches high, 31 inches long and 17 inches wide.
Control center is hidden underneath the runway in the middle of the Helicarrier.




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The $350 price tag is a bit high, though, this should be a $300 set.
and no Shield logo printed on Hill anywhere, not arms or torso.
The minifigs are a bit disappointing for me too. I like the model but wanted the figs to wow me into justifying this as a must buy. They haven't.
Day 1.
Good thing IKEA is 5 minutes from the LEGO Store.
The brick built shield logo on the stand is cool, but nothing groundbreaking.
One of the few sets that's way out of my price range that I don't really mind being really out of my price range.
Huw sent me this early this morning and I have since spent quite a while looking over the images. My first reaction was disappointment as there are some pretty glaring design flaws in my opinion.
Firstly, I was immediately struck by the colour of the deck. The black panels on the runway are fine (as long as they are printed, which I think they are) but the sections around the turbines look wrong to me. I would probably have preferred dark and light bluish grey all over to be honest. The studs are also a bit unsightly in areas and would b improved by tiling.
Also, the bridge section is odd as the trans-black canopy looks awful. There is nothing like that on the vehicle in the films and to me it looks out of place.
The turbines are probably my favourite part of the model, but they don't look terribly accurate to either the design in The Avengers or Captain America: The Winter Soldier. It is more like a mixture of the two which is inaccurate but I still think they look great.
I am not keen on the microfigures being used like that. I still don't think they are in scale with the vehicle and I was hoping to see an accurate exterior with a minifigure scale interior. Ultimately this is neither.
Having said all that, I think this is a good place to start for modification. I like the general shape and size of the model, and the hull pieces used underneath are probably a necessary evil for stability. I like the minifigures although Agent Coulson and Bruce Banner would have been nice, and the mini models look superb to me.
I wonder whether the model is based on a redesign we have yet to see in Avengers: Age of Ultron. Clearly it is not based purely on either of the previous versions, so either LEGO have produced an interpretation of the Helicarrier, borrowing features from both, or they have recreated something we have not yet seen the source material for (as far as I know).
Overall, I like it, but was hoping for something more. There are many more images which will be live on the homepage at 2:00pm/9:00am EST, so I look forward to hearing some thoughts on those. I am surprised that the reaction so far has been as positive as it seems to be!
(Couldn't help myself)
$350 = £230
£230 + 20% VAT = £276, but RRP will be £270
can't really blame Lego for the VAT rate charged I guess.
I think I would want to make a micro version of Coulson's Bus Plane too (it's actually on my brick bucket list to do this at mini-scale but that's so much black I think I would go nuts)
The set is simply not up our alley and interest area.
Glad to see on closer inspection that Hill does have the logo on her right arm.
After seeing more pics and focusing on the model rather than the minifigs (I love the nanofigs!) I really really do think I have to build this.
Still upset about Coulson though. I hope he gets his own polybag or something.
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I'll probably pass on this one. I'm just not that impressed with it.
Once you see this, anything under 20K bricks looks like garbage.
Not sure about the micro-figures, but I guess we will see an Ant-Man in this scale later in the year as well.
The minifigures do disapoint, that isn't to say the ones there aren't nice, they are, but somehow they still seem light for a set like this, for three thousand pieces and £300 I expect more than five figures.
Still, I much happier with the model having seen he video, it does look well made and the hull section looks interesting. I imagine as a display set it will look very nice.
Just wish there was a Thor and Hulk minifig and microfig...