On 1 November 2024, LEGO® Marvel are releasing a huge X-Mansion set with 10 minifigures and over 3,000 pieces! Five of the 10 characters are new in LEGO form, although not all necessarily made from new elements. We've spotted a few new recoloured pieces in the set as well.
Also available to LEGO Insiders from 1 to 7 November (while stocks last) is a Gift with Purchase (GwP) of the movie version of Professor Charles Xavier inside the Cerebro machine. Read on to see both models, or check out our more detailed review of the X-Mansion's LEGO construction and new pieces!
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Gift with Purchase set 5009015 Cerebro
- Price: Free gift with purchase of set 76294 X-Men: The X-Mansion by LEGO Insiders only, membership required, all stores and online.
- Pieces: 153
- Age mark: 10+
- Release date: 1 to 7 November 2024, while supplies last
So far we only have two box pictures and this rather poor render image:
The round-cornered base is very stylish, as is the limited palette of grey with blues. The CEREBRO title brick is printed which looks awesome.
Professor Xavier has the same face as in the LEGO X-Mansion set, but wears a vest without a jacket, and rides in a LEGO wheelchair instead of the classic yellow brick-built version in the X-Mansion set. Regrettably, he has no helmet.
He is looking at a transparent-blue console showing a fan-favourite character called Jubilee. We're not sure if this is printed or a sticker.
Hopefully the reverse of the model also looks cool, but we don't know that yet!
Set 76294 X-Men: The X-Mansion
- Price: US$329.99/ £289.99/ 329.99€/ AU$499.99 – for all other countries, see below
- Pieces: 3,093
- Dimensions: W: 40cm, L: 25cm, H: 27cm
- Age mark: 18+
- Release date: 1 November 2024 for LEGO Insiders, 4 November for all
Read our detailed review of this set's construction and new pieces
Now to the main event: the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning. The walls are dark orange, which really helps to ramp up the comic book look of this model.
The rear of the model is fully enclosed. So how do you get inside? No, not through the dome.
The building divides into 6 rooms and 3 roof sections!
Not only is the dome removable...
... it is also explodable, thanks to a hidden function!
There's also a giant pink and purple Sentinel to attack.
Minifigures
Aside from the Sentinel, 10 familiar characters are included as minifigures – five of which are appearing for the first time ever in a LEGO set.
The new LEGO minifigures are Gambit, Iceman, Bishop, Professor Xavier and a new variation of Jean Grey. (She is a photo rather than a render because strangely that image was not provided in the press pack.)
It looks like Xavier is made wholly from existing elements, but the others all include some new colours or prints. Jean Grey's hair is new in reddish orange.
The existing characters are Storm, Magneto, Cyclops, Wolverine and Rogue... but there are some new and rare elements among them. Storm's fares well: her skin tone is the new umber brown, her hair is new in white and her cape from the collectible minifigure version now comes printed. Magneto wears the new cape mould (part 5725) from August sets, recoloured in dark purple.
Recolours
We haven't been able to spot any new moulds in this set, and just a few recoloured existing elements... let us know if you can see any more! [EDIT: we found another when writing our set review]
- Ghost Effect with Bar (part 5500) in Trans-Dark Pink
- Slope 33° 3 x 3 Double Concave (99301) in Dark Blue
- Panel 1 x 6 x 5 (59349) in Dark Orange
Worldwide prices
Read our detailed review of this set's construction and new pieces
- Australia 499.99 AUD
- Austria 329.99 EUR
- Belgium 329.99 EUR
- Brazil 3299.99 BRL
- Canada 429.99 CAD
- China 2799 CNY
- Croatia 329.99 EUR
- Czech Republic 8499 CZK
- Denmark 2599.95 DKK
- Estonia 339.99 EUR
- Finland 329.95 EUR
- France 329.99 EUR
- Germany 329.99 EUR
- Greece 349.99 EUR
- Hong Kong 2479 HKD
- Hungary 134990 HUF
- Ireland 329.99 EUR
- Israel 365 EUR
- Italy 329.99 EUR
- Japan 45980 JPY
- Latvia 339.99 EUR
- Lithuania 339.99 EUR
- Malaysia 1499.9 MYR
- Mexico 7999 MXN
- New Zealand 549.99 NZD
- Norway 3699.9 NOK
- Poland 1449.99 PLN
- Portugal 329.99 EUR
- Romania 1699.99 RON
- Singapore 479.9 SGD
- Slovakia 329.99 EUR
- Slovenia 329.99 EUR
- South Africa 5999 ZAR
- South Korea 429900 KRW
- Spain 329.99 EUR
- Sweden 3849.9 SEK
- Switzerland 349 CHF
- Taiwan 10399 TWD
- The Netherlands 329.99 EUR
- Turkey 13499 TRY
- Ukraine 13999 UAH
- United Kingdom 289.99 GBP
- USA 329.99 USD
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Nifty set! Not too much of an X-Men fan myself but it looks like this has a lot of characters and locations that fans of both the comics and cartoons will enjoy. I like that the mansion has multiple ways to open up so the interiors are highly visible from various angles.
ReplyDeleteInterestingly, some of the figures seem more cartoon-inspired and others more comic-inspired — from some quick Googling and wiki-browsing, Storm's design seems to be based primarily on her appearance in X-Men: The Animated Series (very similar to the X-Men '97 redesign, but with longer hair), Jean and Gambit's designs seem to be based on their appearances in X-Men '97, and Iceman and Bishop's designs seem comics-based.
I can't tell if the Professor X minifig's torso print is based on any pre-existing design — his necktie's stylish X motifs are a whole lot more elaborate than the solid or striped neckties he wears in most cartoon and comic images I've seen (and even many of his live-action appearances). But if anybody does recognize it from an earlier appearance, I'd love to know where it's from!
It's Michael Scott's torso from the Ideas set based on the American incarnation of The Office. If it already had an X-based motif (based on interpretation), it might have been a reason the team picked it.
DeleteGood spotting! I didn't recognize it as an existing print.
DeleteApparently, the yellow hoverchair originated in the comics in 1982, but I think it might have been more common in the animated series, and in later comics, Charles might generally have used a less conspicuous common wheelchair.
ReplyDelete"[Storm's] powers are represented by a new fabric element."
ReplyDeleteIsn't that her stylish cape, which connects to her wrists?
Sorry, I see someone's already pointed that out on the IG post.
DeleteAh yes but i forgot to fix it here so thank you! Done
DeleteThey couldn't have given Cyclops a custom visor/hair piece with a little stud slot for his beam? Or at least recolored the bar-stud piece to trans red?
ReplyDeleteIt looks a little awkward up close, yes. I wonder whether the transparent action pose part from the Superhero CMF series could work, here.
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