Is this worth $550? | LEGO Marvel Hulkbuster REVIEW
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No it ain’t
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They botched the hulk buster and Black panther
I have to agree, especially at the $550 price point…
I agree and I also I wish the red bricks were a deep candy red metallic. Might have been somewhat redeeming if they had also filled in all the negative space between joints with some pipes and gears and stuff to make it look more realistic and mechanical.
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I am pretty sure everyone would have been happier with just the Iron Man head without the body as a "hidden feature" but accurate proportion on the Hulkbuster. It would have achieved almost the same thing.
that's a pretty good idea, i mean all you see from it is the head so if you're able to get the proportions right by only including the head and not building around the other set, it's totally worth it.
Yeah, that's a good solution, plus another company that does more premium figures has you buy both but use only the torso of Iron Man to fit inside.
I guess they wanted a more 'toy' like huge figure to have another full figure inside it.
I dig it. Just wish for it'd be like $500 and you get two really nicely done exclusive figs.
Just an Iron man head? Then what's point of having an Iron man inside if its just a head of Iron man?!
@@lesterantenor1026 It's to shorten the torso so it's more movie accurate.
They do this on some of the premium figures out there. They either just show the head, with some of the arc reactor peaking or just the head and a hint of the shoulders, OR they do just the torso.
For this kit, it would've helped to go in that direction. If you've seen some of them, they work. They don't look awkward.
Well I'd rather have the ability to put that iron man action figure in hulkbuster than what diecast toy makers have done prior, which is to just have a head in there. The latter defeats the uniqueness of the hulkbuster armor vs any plain'o iron man suit.
For that price, LEGO should have done the following: Created a Hulkbuster with the correct proportions, even if smaller in size, but accurate; included a buildable Hulk character with pose-ability; a better Ironman/Tony minifig and added a Bruce Banner minifig. It would be great to pose both a Hulk and Hulkbuster to re-create scenes from the movie.
Yep, I agree
Nah, that’s too good of an idea
That’s why there’s Hottoys. Haha.
that would be completly amazing ! , but no...
Just crazy they made this at $550 when fans have been asking for large minifig based sets like the avenger tower. Marvel isn't like star wars with a huge fan base around just the ships, they can't make a massive set like this without a minifig focus. It just goes to show that despite what Lego says, they usually disregard fan feedback.
Hulkbusters will continue until moral improves
thought they were getting the idea with the great updated ucs sanctum set but this just proves that lego doesnt know what the customers want
I wish we got a ucs Milano instead of this
@@SilxntGFX they did the Bugle and the Sanctum… I thought for sure Avengers Tower was next
@@notcheddar4050 idk if we’ll ever get a Milano since they gave us the Benetar
it's a weird unit that is indeed giant but somehow makes the lighthouse feel like an utter bargain
I rather have the Lighthouse too.
@@OrionInception i would rather spend that money on lighthouse and fishing shop
The lighthouse is already a pretty good deal
I would choose the lighthouse instead of the Hulkbuster, too.
@@jtbamb6145 a friend bought it. it's very impressive too behold for real and the light feature is ingenius
I look forward to seeing how people who do purchase this, MOC it and actually get the proportions screen accurate
Problem is if you spend over 500 in the set and then moc it up why not just buy the pieces and build your own im sure people will do it just seems like an extra waste of money
@@seancompton5393 maybe, but at least you would have most if not all you need to work with…
@@seancompton5393 Its really just the torso thats off. the legs are good and the arms could easily be fixed
It will be greatly Moc'd.
Ransom Fern did it!!! 🤩
They should have included the 40$ Iron Man. The gaps on the sides under the arms are my biggest issue, the rest is ok, not great.
I just think the torso is to long
...3.6 roentgen, not great, not terrible
i agree, the gaps in the sides are not good and they should have included. in the promo material i originally saw i thought that it came WITH it and only now did i realize that it adapts from a set released earlier this year which was super disappointing.
I'm surprised no one's pointing out that this is a $500 set that is 5 times larger than the previous Hulkbuster armor, yet they couldn't even be bothered to make a buildable head. They put so much other detail around the body but still thought a single printed dome would suffice for the head.
All day everyday I'd get the Lego Optimus Prime over this, BTTF Delorean, and Lego Voltron (unless that now goes for even more due to being discotnued)
@@budgiecat9039 Just boy the knockoff versions. They're perfectly fine utilising the exact same designs as the official sets (sometiems even 10x better) and the plastic is of good solid quality. I'll never understand the obsession with buying overpriced "official" sets. They're overpriced for a reason, the branding, not for the quality of the product itself. I've got the Knockoff Lego Voltron and its amazing.
@@OwenNovakChildofGod Its a gamble getting those because unlike Lego, if its missing a part you're fucked. Like I bought a Lego Ferrari race car and it was missing one piece and I emailed Lego and they mailed me the missing part no questions asked I got it within 3 days. I dont see that happening with the knockoffs
@@budgiecat9039 oh no, one missing piece! It’s not like I have boxes upon boxes of spare pieces!
Give me a break
7 months and something ive been waiting for, Ransom Fern on TH-cam has created an alternative build to this set making a much more accurate version of the hulkbuster while maintaining some features.
You should consider turning your hulkbuster into that version. Makes it a tad bit more wirth to buy this set now.
I appreciate the honesty with this review.
Yeah, save this under LAN members are not forced to only say positive things in reviews when sent a review set.
David's reviews are always so professional and honest. Appreciate you for all the great work!
I remember when he almost cried when the disney tie fighter was like 80 dollars. He keeps it in now
Professional but not always honest. He gets free lego so he doesn’t always give a brutally honest opinion like he did here. Can’t blame him though. If I was getting free lego I’d pander too
@@EBLego Perhaps I haven't seen every single one of his reviews, but of all the ones I have seen, David tends to be rational in his thought process and does speak out when things are egregious. But yes, I'm sure there is some holding back. If you want purely unbiased, Jang does a great job.
@@anthonyspitery6332 I haven't seen that one, but people evolve and develop. To me that's the sign of someone improving at their craft.
Im impressed, this was a great, and very honest review!
I think in 10 years, this period of LEGO will be remembered as "The time when they made ridiculously huge and expensive sets". I dunno if LEGO thinks we are all rich and stupid or something. David, you have contacts inside LEGO, please, tell them nobody wants these kind of sets...
I would much MUCH rather see a hyper detailed MINIFIGURE scale hulk buster for $75-$100 than this $550 one…
That's what i build from the minifigure-sized Hulkbuster - my very own UCS Minifigure-sized Hilkbuster. Bulky, well-proportioned, big and the minifigure fits perfectly
@@rictusmetallicus Sweet!
Always like you honest reviews and recommendations. Thanks for showing us this set 🎃
wow it’s so nice to see you almost express your own genuine thoughts without lego pointing a gun at your head!
That action figure Iron Man should be a gwp with this set
Wait? For 550 they couldn't have thrown in the 381 pieces for the Iron man figure??
I like how honest you are.
Do a drop test
Scratch that just drop it
Not that many Technic pieces? Then even those won't save this set :) The rear vent hole for the diapers is pretty interesting though :D
That’s a pretty big let down tbh. And the price further reinforces my disappointment as it would be closer to $850 AUSD for where I live. Absolutely a miss for most Australians.
Thank you for the detailed honest review.
I’ve been following you David since I was 10 and I’m 23. Thank you for everything
The recent Lion Knight's Castle has 500 MORE pieces than this one, and is $150dollars LESS than this one. I at first thought the gimmick of having an IronMan be able to fit inside was cool, but now kinda wish it didn't and the proportions were much better for a $550dollar adult-targeted DISPLAY piece
I’m convinced that Lego made this set horrible and overpriced on purpose. They needed a way to make all the other expensive adult sets seem like crazy good deals! This set took one for the team. Hulkbuster, I salute you
Lego is going to get a rude awakening with this set
Great review. Nice and honest.
Good and fair review. I have to agree with all your points. It is big and cool looking, but it's hard to get past the wrong proportions, disappointing and questionable choice mini-figure, all the stickers, no pose-ability on the legs, the very high price point, the high price per piece ratio, the silly constraint of having to fit the iron man action figure into it, the list goes on. I may purchase it on a heavy discount sometime in the future, or if a MOCer gets their hands on it and corrects the proportions, I will go for it then. Thanks!
Maybe harsh but I’m shocked Lego even thought this was okay to sell. Horribly inaccurate, expensive and doesn’t have anything really redeeming about it unless you love how it looks
Glad to see you can adjust the pauldrons down to match the source material, but the ankles are tiny when they should be tree-trunk thick (same with the shoulder joints). And at that price... it's a skip. What a strange set.
For anyone interested, I just picked this set up for £330 pounds U.K or around $400 dollars US, from smyths toys in there sale ( it’s that price at every smyths store nationwide right now) , I feel this is a far far more reasonable price for this set as it was originally £475 pounds in the UK and I think $550 US, so if anyone in the UK has been waiting for this set to drop in price now’s your chance.
I kept my hopes pretty high even though it had negative reviews ever since the first leak, but seeing it in a home environment I'm just not a fan of how it looks. Maybe if it goes on sale I'll consider it, alongside seeing how the community can fix it up with their MOCs
honestly i wouldn't even get it for free other than for parts to use on random shit
it just looks awful, and due to it's size, it's a lot of awful
You know it looks alot better with the shoulder armor tilted down. Looks good.
But yeah, that minifig. Totally should've had two with both having the premium CMF detailing and even nicer accessories too for the price.
Yeah this is a had pass from me unfortunately, I appreciate the feature where you can integrate another set, and the design has clearly suffered from that decision but that's a necessary compromise I can accept. So it's worth the $400 in my opinion, oh wait? It's $550. 😐
-Great review as always David!
It was a completely unnecessary feature.
400$ for this shit? nahhhh
the proportions are completely off, why even call it the hulk buster at this point
large lego sets have always been great at accuracy, so seeing this one failing harder than it's 5 times smaller version is just unacceptable, and i dread that the lack of quality control might become more common alongside the rising prises
Lego was a main part of my life as a kid and teen but it got to the point where the prices were never worth what I was getting whether it be cheaper or expensive. So basically I am done with lego I will only get things if I truly feel it’s worth it, which has been only like 2 or 3 sets in the past few years
Im the same, out of curiosity what few sets did you get?
@@SpiritFilledGianpaul I got the medieval blacksmith. but I think besides that I got the marvel what if sets about a year ago. The medieval I wanted to feel special and not just something to build and have on a shelf. So I actually went blacksmithing and its one of my core moments in life captured with the set, that goes with other stuff though. Like I want to go sky diving for the zelda:tears of the kingdom game to know what it feels like while playing!
Honestly I would have been all over this set. I have passed on a lot of the sets recently due to cost. I even considered selling all my sets because its another hobby that its starting to get too costly. Them raising the prices sucked. And its left a taste in my mouth that sets have to be really worth it now.
The fact that this set is made just to show off the feature of being able to put iron man inside and they double down by not showing how to properly put it in really goes to show that there was back and forth conflict between adding this specific feature or not prior to its release.
I got to build this for work and I thoroughly enjoyed the build
I've been looking forward to this
Honestly, if you're willing to spend close to $600 on a lego set, you're probably better off getting the Razor Crest, which even then is still kinda overpriced
I'd rather go for Titanic at that price range.
The trap door will be so you can retrieve the bits which inevitably break-off the Iron Man figure when it's inserted
as an iron man fan, I would love to have this set but it is just super expensive
It’s a shame because I would normally be the exact target buyer for this set. I love Age of Ultron and I occasionally buy more expensive sets, but the high price and inaccuracies of this set are going to keep me from even considering buying it.
Too bad we didn't get a UCS hall of armor/workshop with like 20 suits. That would have probably enticed a lot more people.
Avengers tower, X-mansion, Tony’s Malibu mansion, Bexter building… literally so many cool options 😂 and yet…
The hulkbuster is one of my favorite mechs. The only reason I bought it was because it was 45% off on Prime Day and I'm going to be building Ransom Fern's version off the bat. I hope more people get the same opportunity!
Another excellent review for an unfortunately not-so-excellent Lego set. I had high hopes for this set before it was revealed since I built the Hulkbuster MOC by Ransom_Fern. Maybe the MOC community might be able to make it look better.
That is for sure. Waiting to see what will popup on Rebrickable and based on that I will either forget about this set or will buy it D:
Honestly true, this set looks soo bad and ugly icl. The ransom fern set is absolutely amazing I wish to buy it
Y’all want this?
i’d just spend 50$ more and get the UCS Razor Crest
ThreeZero makes a beautifully painted and fully possible Hulkbuster for 250 bucks and it looks amazing!
I'd be curious to see you take a look at some of the 3rd party Hulkbuster sets I've seen. I know Barweer has two of them, and they both look really damn good. I'd love to see how they'd compare.
Was there even any demand for this?
Great review, man! It just sucks that I have yet to come across a positive review on this set. When it was rumored a while back I was super excited, but once the leaks and official images came out I was disappointed. The proportions and massive gaps are what killed it for me before I ever knew of the price tag. I'm baffled how the set made it to production with so many pretty apparent issues. All I'm waiting for at this point is to see someone buy it to rework it into what it should have been all along at that scale.
How were you excited for a $550 hulkbuster
Read the part where he says he was excited for it before seeing the price tag.
@@Gumkey I was excited before knowing it would be $550. I knew it was like $350+ but not that expensive. I didn't know the price tag until after the photo leaks. And by the time the photos leaks it was already bad
@@brianstraight9308 sorry guys I’m very illiterate
I like that he describes what the problem is, rather than just screaming at it. Maturity points right there
Good no bullshit review
At this price point, it should be perfect proportion-wise. No stickers, too. I could have gone without the buildable figure-gimmick. I will stick with my smaller UCS Hulkbuster, which I spruced up with parts from other Lego Iron Man buildable figure sets.
The proportions are better than this one, and I prefer that minifigure. Also, the little environment of that older Hulkbuster is very nice IMO.
So...this Lego UCS set is a no for me.
Thanks for the honest review. This is a miss for me. Especially at the cost. The price rise in the last year alone is ridiculous. Inflation is brutal. Going to get to a point that the average Lego enthusiast wont be able to afford to keep collecting. Cool set but miss the mark
This ist NOT Inflation, its just lego begging for more and more money
As a collector I am getting more and more done.
They dont listen. And everytime we think they are they proof just how littlw they do.
Remember the starwars designers who admitted they didnt watch the movies. They only use concept art.
Yeah inflation got the production cost of this from 20$ to 30$, pretty brutal for Lego. At this point they are a charity at 550$.
it feels like like they've done so many hulk busters at this point, a ucs mk1 would've been cooler
This is an incredible model!
Appreciate the honest review...price is absolutely outrageous in my opinion, very cool looking for sure but it's gross at $550 USD. I would've considered at $350 but not even in my head at $550. Agree on the Bruce Banner mini-fig...HUGE miss by Lego there.
Definitely going to wait for the set to go on sale. The price is a joke compared to other sets that are currently or are coming to store shelves. I know Lego recently upped their prices on sets, but this set doesn’t appear to have any correlation it’s simply overpriced.
gold pieces, three light features, glow in the dark knees
there's certainly things that bump up the price, and if it was actually a good set then i might not even have been bothered by the price that much honestly
Oh my, didn't know the galaxy explorer was back. That whole galaxy line up from the 70's got me into lego.
At that price u can get the hot toys one or any other statue of hulkbuster . The total cost of the plastic cost probably $33
Thank you for the honest review! I know it can be frightening to truly criticize Lego, but they need proper feedback regarding their sets.
Yeah Lego is starting to get out of controll and all these Lego YTers who just keep sucking there D for free revieuw sets are ruining it.
Just like the black panther head bust set, I'm skipping out on this one. It's a shame too. Lego can produce great sets like the Sanctum early this year at about half the price. Not sure what's going on with Lego, but something needs to change before they go nearly bankrupt again.
As a brand new builder, I look to reviews like this to inform my purchasing decisions. I can take this off my wishlist, thank you.
if it was actually accurate looking to the exact hulkbuster from the movie, it would be tempting even at the 550 price point. the fact it doesn’t look like it very much makes it impossible for me to buy
Hey David, awesome review! I saw another early review where the builder experienced an issue with the back of the feet: he showed a pretty big problem where the big bottom red curved piece did not attach properly to the rest of the foot. Have you experienced this as well?
Bro just stop complaining, if you don't like it don't buy it smh
@@PietroMarcer Shut up you goose, shouldn't you be spraypainting your Bionicles by now? Which btw are not real Lego, as everybody here knows...
@@PietroMarcer he’s asking a question dummy
No he's just a hater, I'm sick of these so called Marvel and Lego ""Fans""
@@xxxtraheatxx7514 Thank you
The way I see it, if you're going to buy a quite expensive hulkbuster model, get the sideshow figure. Not the hugely inaccurate lego model
I think this set will be a great "market research opportunity" for lego
LEGO be saying that mechs can’t have knees because of stability, but clearly they don’t listen to Mishima. His knee designs are clever and look very sturdy. So as long as Mishima exists in a universe, LEGO has no excuse.
As someone who collects ALL the Marvel sets, and also is very fortunate enough to have a pretty good disposable income, I will eventually be purchasing this. BUT!!! I will definitely be getting it with the sole intention of improving it, whether I figure out how to do it myself or someone else does it first and releases instructions. I’m SURE people will improve this and I’ll gladly purchase instructions and the parts needed to fix it in the future.
I do agree that the price is crazy, and there’s definitely issues with the looks, but in my opinion it can definitely be improved to make it look much better. I hope it gets discounted in the future through other retailers like Target or Walmart, and if it wasn’t for the completionist in me that HAS to have all the Marvel sets lol, I’d skip this, but I know I’ll buy it one day and definitely figure out how to improve it.
Good review bro, love the no bias
I’m grabbing this Nov 5th, I’m disappointed with the minifigure and all those stickers however it is going to look epic in my display. It will be interesting to try and MOC it to make it look more accurate to the Hulk Buster in the movie. Just wish that the design team would be more ruthless with their own designs before they go into production.
Great review, always good to see constructive criticism 👍🏼
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I guess I'm in the vast minority, but I'm glad Lego went with a giant mech instead of just a bunch of minifigures, and I also don't care much at all that the proportions were altered. The fact that Lego has released an official mech this large, when even just the Voltron set posed a lot of design challenges for them, is insanely cool. I can see why Marvel fans might be upset, but as a fan of Lego mechs, I'm definitely getting this monster
Appreciate the honesty
Definitely not worth it at that price. The look isn't accurate, lack of minifigures and printing, abundance of stickers, the unique feature isn't user friendly.. big stinker from Lego
Thanks for being honest David!
This Hulkbuster literally has the same proportions as a Hinox from Breath of the Wild
You know if you bend the shoulders correctly, it actually looks pretty good from the front
The Exo-Toa did the "put an action figure inside a buildable armor" concept so much better T_T
What if Lego makes the same set, but it’s the hulk
built around an unnecessary brick built bruce banner.
Yeah that would be the best part🤦
Yeah no I’d wayyyyy rather get the razor crest for $50 more I’ve never really disliked a very high priced premium “ucs” set this much
I would love for them to explain how this is worth the price.
okay it’s a lot bigger than i thought it was. made the razor crest look small lol and i just built my razor crest and it’s huge. that’s wild
That’s what she said
The Light Bricks surely cannot be that expensive; the Technic Batmobile (yes I know it's Technic and isn't quite the same) has two differently coloured Light Bricks and 1360 pieces (most of which are very small but there's a good amount of large ones), at $100 and still is retailing at $100 even after other sets have had price increases. Probably would've been like $150, knowing Lego's insane pricing habits.
This mech, the only real plus point it has is that the set is focussed on the mech itself, and doesn't have some throwaway side build to justify the budget, which has been increasing a lot lately from other sets. But it's still needlessly big and just too expensive because of this; it's impressive no doubt, but there's plenty other impressive Lego sets already that don't cost almost or more than half a grand! Stickers, shape inaccuracies, the frankly ugly gaps under the armpit area and the high concerns over the dark red pieces' shading consistency just great cheapens the set and undermines its massive price further.
Seriously, it's much more blatant this year how severely over priced majority of the sets with the 18+ age rating are, and it's been abused and used as an excuse to set these high prices; some are fine like the Galaxy Explorer, but it's only a small handful though.
You can't compare with the AT AT, it's being stable on 4 legs not two.
The Hulkbuster is top heavy. They gotta' keep it stable.
I'm not a fan of the price for sure and want more accuracy, but it make sense to keep the legs solid.
Now I’ve purchased it after the moc and prime day sale
I think if you modify the whole torso to make it look less chunky and better in general it would be perfect as the limbs look quite good.
They made their premium Hulkbuster disproportioned and hideous, to fit their disproportioned and hideous Kids Iron-Man set. Cool.
I actually loved the idea of a UCS style Hulkbuster, this isn't it.
N O - Lego gone nuts
If they had included some of the satellite addons, I think we’d be there for price
My wallet has been enjoying these overpriced easy skip sets lately 😁
I have one word, overpriced
Definitely needed a Banner mini fig. He wore the armor in Infinity War.
I'll wait to see if someone mods this to look more accurate before I buy it. I think if you take the legs of the Iron man figure off, it would fit better. This should be able to cut the torso down a bit. But, I can't justify the price for this when it's not even close to accurate!
Lego taking us for millionaires who park they yacht in their bigger yacht....
Looks amazing, but overpriced
Should have been $400 or less
Bro that thing is dope.
Please show us this set in five years again. The condition of the dark red pieces would interest me. No, they don’t get brittle. No no no..
Thanks for the honest review, I was about to buy on day 1 but it will be a pass now till its discounted. Compared to the Sanctum which is discounted to €170 all the time now in Europe, it just doesn’t make sense to spend €550 on this.