hey everyone it's time to take a look at
the lego marvel avengers iron man
armory set and i can tell you right out
the gate
right off the bat i really like really
really like the idea of a
cheaper add-on or expansion to the
previous
hall of armor set that they did which
itself was very nice
the question is did they get the
execution right here
and did they get the price right also in
this video i'm going to give you a
little bonus review of the latest marvel
minifigure pack
and here's another thing i'm going to
try something a little different in how
i film this review
so this is everything that comes with
the set you get
tony stark there you get a couple of his
suits you get his
hot rod four bays for the hall of armor
back here
and some little side builds as well as
two more of those generic aim agents
which are based on
the upcoming game version these
individual armor vaults or
cells or capsules what do you call those
bays i guess
are built exactly the same as the ones
in the hall of
armor set so it's completely compatible
and you can change the shape of this you
can
bend things in if you want you can bend
things out look at that it gives you a
completely different look
which is actually very very cool starts
to make it
roughly round almost half circle
on the inside and when you look at it
from the side that is cool as well
now each of those bays has a window on
the back
which is adorned with a sticker a clear
backed sticker and it's a little bit
difficult
to fully see the details there but this
one is a
prime armor one which goes with one of
the armors included
in the set here this one's for the mark
ii prototype that's this one right here
again it's a little bit difficult to see
but there we go
war machine that's the proto-war machine
that they did also in this
series and finally over here this is
blazer so they did blazer
in a different set that was in the
avengers tower set the most recent one
that they came up with and these are
backwards because they're intended to be
seen from this side but you can't really
see all the good stuff
when you look at the stuff from this
side when you look through here
you can see you know just the outline
then you don't see all the writing or
anything
so the way that works out is uh not
ideal but you can just switch these
windows around if you want
and again those are clear back stickers
it is difficult
to get those right and with the newer
material i have to tell you
the newer type of material that they're
using for clear
or transparent plastics these days uh
it's more important than ever that you
get it right the first time if you have
to lift off one of those stickers
you're gonna cause a little little bit
of damage to it unfortunately
it's very very difficult to avoid that i
like
this over here the little 3d printing
station
which does include that let's see how
close we can get this
we can get it to focus yes there we go
include the little iron man
figurine you can call it an action
figure
it's just so cool they actually have two
of those in the set in total one of them
is a spare since it's such a
small piece and that's a separate
machine that you can pull off and you
also get the
cell phone there and then just a extra
little bay of
accessories here so these things can be
stacked vertically
they can be swapped one side to side
and then right in here this is again
gonna be a little bit difficult to see
but if i pull this
up uh how can i
i'm gonna get that to be properly
viewable it's it's
it's rough right a little bit a little
bit tough to see but
you see that tony stark likes his
cheeseburgers with extra cheese
it's indicated up at the top there and
then
also some schematic information about
his hot rod and
possibly some upcoming upgrades there's
also
this side build for tony's
toys there again sticker sticker
and clear back sticker means again
if it's not just right then it's gonna
be pretty wrong i'm
not liking what lego's doing with the
clear back stickers these days
they really need to increase the quality
of the die cuts they're just not cutting
them deep enough
and you can see some of the results of
that some of the adhesive gets left
behind on the sticker sheet i was trying
to be pretty careful with it
this is a cool sticker right here
represents a head gasket
for one bank of cylinders for the hot
rod
and this is of course just a
cheeseburger pretty straightforward
build
comes with no no suggestion of tomato
usually lego lights to include some
suggestion of tomato they didn't do that
this time and that makes this special
an exclusive i'm kidding of course oh by
the way
nothing inside the hot rod looks pretty
good to me
looks a little bit classic as far as
lego styling goes you know it's not too
fancy
it does use some newer parts up towards
the the front of it
but i like this i like it a lot uh
i i can take or leave the stud shooters
used for
exhaust collectors and header outlets
there on the sides
the idea is that you'd be able to shoot
fire from the exhaust
yeah again kind of take it or leave it
got the flat heads here unfortunately
they didn't include
the parts in this set to give you a
supercharger
to add on to it but yeah i just think
the whole thing looks pretty good this
is
a sticker applied on the side a sticker
applied on the back
it's kind of rare for lego to do
something that doesn't have
a a a connection or reference to the set
number
and or the set designer for a
license plate like that but yeah it just
holds a single person in there and only
uses two studs
so you don't have to worry about legs
accidentally getting
left behind and just overall i think the
thing looks pretty good just
if i did anything to it to customize it
it would be with a focus
down in this area right here along the
side of the engine
and probably changing out those exhaust
pieces just uh
it's just a little a little much before
we start looking at the figures up close
i just wanted to point out that you do
get this
base this stand you know just a little
three stud wide
dish piece to hold up the prime armor
with all of its
what are these called lightning focuser
segments with the thrusters on the back
and all that
so i'm not going to show that base when
we get up closer but
this is how it looks all together allows
you to have this standing up without
worrying about
leaning it forward to make sure that
it's you know doesn't fall over on its
own so that's a nice inclusion
so here we are up close with the
workshop version of tony stark on the
left his
little bit of skin tone shown through on
that torso print is not as
skin-ish as it ought to be it's just not
quite as opaque as it needs to be
so it's looking a little bit a little
bit pale a little bit thin there but the
rest of the printing looks very nice i
like all the
the folds and creases in the shirt there
prime armor in the center
is mostly inspired by the
mcu version and they've gone back to
or they have gone to i should say the
single piece
helmet looks like they've really
committed to that i personally
would have liked to see a comic
version of prime armor instead
probably could have been done a little
bit better with this style of helmet
but lego has committed for the avengers
line
you know in the past at least to
supporting the mcu
because so many products were made
specifically for the mcu
it's so fresh in people's minds and
everything even though this set here
is part of a series that is starting to
move into
the video game based stuff um
but i i'm i'm personally happy with this
as a person who's not a super marvel
fan you know it's it's fine to me i
don't feel offended by this but
i can understand if anybody out there
you know
really would like to see something else
would like to see
like a comic focus instead on the right
is
the mark ii prototype armor
i believe it's the first time we've
gotten that one officially from
from lego i think that looks much better
with the newer style of helmet and i
really appreciate
the use of bright silver metallic print
on top of
the silver plastic pieces and it does
get the prints down
into the hip and leg pieces of course
nothing on the sides unfortunately
that's too bad really nice print on the
back of that torso
need to take some pieces off here and
that's a pretty nice
print on the back of the torso for the
middle one as well
again mcu for tony stark for the head
they're using the exact same one
that they have up to this point um with
the the alternate print representing
what it looks like with the overlay or
rather
uh well yeah it's it's basically the
overlay like looking through his heads
up display inside the helmet
kind of an interesting look but uh yeah
i've i've warmed to that doesn't really
work though
with the new helmets though right kind
of kind of lost its purpose but at least
we still have that same common face
which i think is
perfectly fine and if the other one's
not useful anymore
so be it you know eventually they'll
come up with something new but for now
this works
and here are the two generic aim agents
that
just looked the same as all of them they
didn't even give them any
fancy accessories in this set any fancy
weapons pretty straightforward stuff the
old agent's gun was just a
single hollow stud placed over it in the
latest uh
gameplay footage or something i saw that
that's official footage
it made it look like these aim agents
are actually supposed to be like
robots or something right at least i
think that's what i saw
makes more sense for them to all look
the same then
but i know a lot of people are are
getting tired or have
actually for a while been tired of these
same aim agents being included
in set after set in lego's marvel series
lately and i can completely understand
that however
imagine if this was star wars and these
were stormtroopers
or for the modern fans clone troopers
nobody would be complaining that
that's what these are intended to be
they're just generic
same looking at least externally at
least
just cannon fodder you know just general
foot soldiers general
bad guys that are super super massive so
really it makes sense for them to
include plenty of these
and i think for people that eventually
get into the game
it'll make a little bit more sense still
and
it'll start to be appreciated a bit more
if it's not though
oh well they're still just generic bad
guys you know shoot them or something
there are the leftover pieces including
some extra minifig
accessory parts and extra studs for the
stud
shooters as well as the nanofig iron man
which is cool
so good to get an extra one of those i
think
a lot of people will appreciate having
the extra
having that print made at all and then
the sticker sheet for this set
is really really big i mean for the size
of the set
that's that's a lot again it's all clear
backed and
do be careful if you hate stickers
something like this is really gonna
raise anxiety and
might trigger some ptsd if you've had
bad experiences in the past
real quick here's how the set looks with
the two included suits and they have a
little kind of hanger sort of kind of
sort of
off to the side to hold on to this extra
stuff the other option is to turn the
figures around so that you can see them
through the outlines and they line up
pretty well
right that works you just do need to
swap
these these window pieces at least
around
if not the door frames with them so that
the
text is not backwards the way that it is
right now lastly here's the existing
hall of armor set i've got one that's
just built up fresh here with none of
the stickers applied to it but
you know it's the original build and
if you want to integrate the new set
with it it's as simple
as choosing i mean do you want to put
all these things together or do you want
to just add
to the sides i think it's easiest or
looks best at least
to just add to the sides so we'll just
do that and i'm not even lining things
up properly
like you can actually put them into
their numerical order and everything
just pull these off for the time being
and it starts to surround
something like that um yeah i mean this
part
hangs off a little bit just turn that
out like so
that works works actually pretty nicely
let's go ahead and
try the different options so if i go
around this way
this is actually interesting because
it's going to connect all the way
there's there's the one little bar
that we was used to hang this so i'll
just pull that off
temporarily i'll go ahead and connect
these together then i will take out that
little
little workshop little workspace table
right there to bring things together
even further
i just want you to see how this looks i
mean this is nice this is
this is really nice it's different you
know
then pull that out connect these
together
directly like so it becomes a continuous
walkway all the way around
and of course you can add more to this
you know you're not limited to
just putting these two sets together you
can buy more of the
hall of armor set the original one you
buy more of the new set
do what you want all those spaces can be
used some just have the
little temporary stand-ins for different
armor pieces
but this is this is pretty good stuff
and then all uh
let's see where did that end is this the
right one i think this is the right one
here
should be up you stay
take four pieces off i believe will get
me
let me just check this real quick prime
war machine
prototype yep that's it so another
option would be
to just add these in line
like so stick this at the end i think
there was one other
build also that came with the hall of
armor so just you know all that stuff
can just be lined up
real quick a couple hairs in there sorry
about that but
like so just another way to do it and of
course these can also be
stacked vertically so for example
one last thing if i take this off
here again i think i'll just scooch this
over to the end for now
it's gonna knock the railings off
from some of these to make it a lot
easier to stack them
directly vertical otherwise you're only
able to do them
straight so it might not make sense to
put this one up top
but you get the general idea so these
things can be stacked
infinitely vertically and then you still
get to do
this which is a cool look
you still get to look at it like this
which is also a cool look
and you can still do like this
potentially which inside of there
is a pretty cool look i'll just open
that up one of these
extra parts stand-ins but
right in there that's pretty cool
looking would look even better if i had
the stickers on these down below
and finally here's the promised bonus
little mini review i guess
to throw into this video it's the falcon
and black widow team up set just one of
those
minifig formerly accessory packs just
comes with the four figures here
sells for fifteen dollars u.s and we'll
take a closer look at the minifigures
obviously two of them
are just those same agents and aim
agents again
like the exact same ones so there's
really nothing else to see there we've
we've already seen them
i'm not going to show those up close
again but before we show the proper
minifigs the good ones up close
just wanted to point this out the mini
build
on the side it's just a stick a six-stud
shooter
which for the first time is exclusively
shooting
one by one cylinders i don't think
they've used just
that type of ammunition for this before
i prefer those
to the studs because these are a little
bit more difficult
to lose but this is a pretty
straightforward thing but it's useful
you know and you can angle it up so you
can actually fire at
oh i don't know a winged good guy
because obviously this is
an aim agent thing so here is said
winged
good guy it's falcon with the full wings
that are actually
built up not a single piece not a
pre-formed piece
and this allows you to change the angles
of them if you like so you can bring
them down
you can rotate them you can bring them
straight back like that if you want
and i could do it like this instead you
know just the usual stuff that you would
expect from
what you see there moved his neck up
just a little bit
i believe this is a 100 exclusive figure
as well
the print to me actually looks pretty
good
i'm not mad at it dual molded legs as
well
uh gold color for the hands whereas
gloves
yeah i think it's cool i think it's
interesting and i appreciate the
actual use of building techniques
instead of
a pre-formed piece for the wings and the
fact that you know those can articulate
is nice as well
let me take a couple pieces off all
right so now we can see the print on the
back of the torso
as well as his alternate face hmm
good printing work there on the torso
and on the faces i think
the goggles are done pretty nicely i
like the amount of
depth that's suggested there and while
the white printing or the the outline
for the goggles is not
as opaque as i'd like it to be at least
the red part
is looking pretty good and just the
relative opacities and values
of the prints there i think are pretty
good this could have used some printing
on the
hips instead of putting the belt into
the torso but
i think i'm okay with this then here's
natasha romanov
with the printing on the arms
very good to see there a very very matte
print for the
the gray for the shoulders a very shiny
print
for the gold for the bracers or
i mean is that even actually a separate
part is that
just part of the uniform itself part of
the sleeves
apologies for not knowing the answer to
that but look at this one this one is
printed
all the way through into the hips and
down to the legs
that makes this a little bit nicer and
then with the printing on the
arms as well that's a little extra
deluxe
underneath there alternate face right on
the back of the torso
definitely matches the level of detail
of what's on the front and because of
the way that this figure gets set up
you're able to appreciate that detail
more frequently because it's not
by default covered up by other stuff
this set also comes with extra cylinders
for the stud shooter or rather cylinder
shooter i guess
as well as four other small spare pieces
getting back to our main topic to
summarize though
this set here goes for 30 dollars u.s
for 258 pieces
with five minifigures
plus a printed nano fig i think that
price is
perfectly fair i'm looking at it
for what i see here in front of me i'm
looking at it i'm thinking what about 25
and honestly no i think
if i were to value this myself
i would probably get right around 30
bucks i think they're i think 25 would
probably be a little bit
lower than expected 25 would be great
hey 20 would be great free would be the
best of all
it's not going to happen realistically i
think the value here
is pretty good would have been better if
they had something nicer than aim agents
to include here but you know they want
to have
conflict they want to give us more of
the
marvel avengers video you know 2020 or
21 whatever it's gonna
end up being video game equivalents of
storm troopers
thinking of it that way makes sense
car is nice these work just fine
little accessories on the sides are nice
these figures
are perfectly fine as they are pretty
happy with this set
overall although again of course any
modern either mcu or close to mcu
mcu-related mcu derived anything close
to that
iron man would be better
the two-piece helmet especially since
they included a tony stark head
in the set that works with the the
two-piece helmet if you
if you flip it up but i still think that
these things
look pretty good as they are but then
what do i know i'm not a super marvel
fan
if you want to see how this set went
together i didn't do a build for the
little
accessory pack but if you want to see
the build for this one i've got it in
real time
and speed build versions check out one
of those if you'd like to and i'll talk
to you again soon
