Random set of the day: Thor and the Cosmic Cube
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 30163 Thor and the Cosmic Cube, released during 2012. It's one of 16 Marvel Super Heroes sets produced that year. It contains 25 pieces and 1 minifig, and its retail price was US$4.99.
It's owned by 4,722 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you might find it for sale at BrickLink or eBay.
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If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
- Bernard M. Baruch
Seriously, what is he supposed to be doing here, besides cribbing "*insert name* SMASH!" from Hulk? And why does his costume still have the goofy three layers of Mickey Mouse buttons?
Remember when the Tesseract was refered to as the Cosmic Cube? I think it was still always called the Tesseract, but it never granted wishes like an actual Cosmic Cube can, and then it was retconned to hold an Infinity Stone. And people say the MCU was all planned out. Yeah right! It wasn't until Phase 3, and even then, it was really only Phase 3 where things were truly planned out.
Oh no, Korg!
@MCLegoboy said:
"Remember when the Tesseract was refered to as the Cosmic Cube? I think it was still always called the Tesseract, but it never granted wishes like an actual Cosmic Cube can, and then it was retconned to hold an Infinity Stone. And people say the MCU was all planned out. Yeah right! It wasn't until Phase 3, and even then, it was really only Phase 3 where things were truly planned out."
Movies can be really weird with ret-cons. Comics can be certifiably insane with logic. Put them together, and you get the Marvel movies. These films are an undeniably insane mess of illogical ideas shoe-horned into two-or-so hours... until the next movie comes out which renders the preceding film's events moot (or even non-existent). DC isn't much better, but then again, DC doesn't have a cinematic universe. ;-P
I loved that scene in Avengers where Thor fights the rock with the glass bit. The rock effects were so good.
80s hair.
Superman leans in, "Um, pardon me...have you seen a Mother Box around here somewhere?"
Super Heroes already in RSotD? I'm feeling old...
I got the hammer from build-a-figure stand, and Captain America from 76101. It's not movie accurate but close enough for me.
Two RSoTD in a row that I both own. Ha. Lol. What’s funnier is I don’t even collect the LEGO Marvel line, but the DC/Batman instead.
@Atuin:
And forgetful, it seems. DC Superheroes actually became eligible last year, as the first sets released in 2011…except they consisted entirely of SDCC or
NYCC minifigs, which were excluded for having piece counts that were too low. The first qualifying DC sets, as well as the Marvel Superheroes theme, reached eligibility nearly a year ago. Since then:
https://brickset.com/article/74246
https://brickset.com/article/74632
The first DCS RSotD was 6858 on April 14, followed by 4527 on May 1st.
https://brickset.com/article/84340
And the first Marvel Superheroes RSotD was 6868 on October 31st. This is the second for Marvel, and the fourth from either Superheroes theme.
@oukexergon said:
"Oh no, Korg!"
Perishable rocks, very perishable
I have fond memories of this set. As a *set*, I don't think it's that great. But it came out at a time when my then-four-year-old son was beginning to get heavily invested in LEGO and I came out of my Dark Age, so, as I say, there are some fond memories here.
@Murdoch17 said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
"Remember when the Tesseract was refered to as the Cosmic Cube? I think it was still always called the Tesseract, but it never granted wishes like an actual Cosmic Cube can, and then it was retconned to hold an Infinity Stone. And people say the MCU was all planned out. Yeah right! It wasn't until Phase 3, and even then, it was really only Phase 3 where things were truly planned out."
Movies can be really weird with ret-cons. Comics can be certifiably insane with logic. Put them together, and you get the Marvel movies. These films are an undeniably insane mess of illogical ideas shoe-horned into two-or-so hours... until the next movie comes out which renders the preceding film's events moot (or even non-existent). DC isn't much better, but then again, DC doesn't have a cinematic universe. ;-P"
"certifiably insane with logic."
Sorry, no such thing. Sincerely, Logic
P.S. Comic books are definitely insane, as they follow the same melodramatic script as soap operas. Sorry, Logic
30280 did it better.
At least this has 2012 Thor in a cheap set. Although I remember this polybag being hard to find here and therefore relatively expensive.
Ah, the good old days when polybags were given free in newspapers...the limit per purchase being 5, but you stood in line behind one bloke struggling under the weight of 75 copies and the cashier ringing them up without even a raised eyebrow.
@sir_vasco said:
"I loved that scene in Avengers where Thor fights the rock with the glass bit. The rock effects were so good."
Those weren't even effects, Dwayne Johnson performed all his own stunts in that scene.
@StyleCounselor said:
" @Murdoch17 said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
"Remember when the Tesseract was refered to as the Cosmic Cube? I think it was still always called the Tesseract, but it never granted wishes like an actual Cosmic Cube can, and then it was retconned to hold an Infinity Stone. And people say the MCU was all planned out. Yeah right! It wasn't until Phase 3, and even then, it was really only Phase 3 where things were truly planned out."
Movies can be really weird with ret-cons. Comics can be certifiably insane with logic. Put them together, and you get the Marvel movies. These films are an undeniably insane mess of illogical ideas shoe-horned into two-or-so hours... until the next movie comes out which renders the preceding film's events moot (or even non-existent). DC isn't much better, but then again, DC doesn't have a cinematic universe. ;-P"
"certifiably insane with logic."
Sorry, no such thing. Sincerely, Logic
P.S. Comic books are definitely insane, as they follow the same melodramatic script as soap operas. Sorry, Logic"
Sorry, I meant to type "with regards to logic". Lesson learned: Don't type when tired!
@MCLegoboy said:
"Remember when the Tesseract was refered to as the Cosmic Cube? I think it was still always called the Tesseract, but it never granted wishes like an actual Cosmic Cube can, and then it was retconned to hold an Infinity Stone. And people say the MCU was all planned out. Yeah right! It wasn't until Phase 3, and even then, it was really only Phase 3 where things were truly planned out."
I truly respect the first 3 phases even more because of that. The "it was all planned" narrative is so overblown, people forget to truly appreciate how so many different parts could cooperate to weave a grand narrative, even if some (a lot) of them contradicted each other. Phase 4 has sorta shown us how badly that formula can go if done by the wrong people.
If there's something I'd change, I would probably have given a lot more time in-between Avengers 2 and Civil War. I feel the MCU only suffered by not giving the characters time to breathe (plus acquiring a more robust cast for the big airport scuffle :P). In the other hand, that could have thrown Infinity War off-balance instead with more characters involved, and that is the one movie I wouldn't ever trade away.
@Thedian:
Civil War was never part of the original plan. It was only done in response to DC doing BvS. And then they sent Whedon over to sabotage Justice League.
@PurpleDave said:
" @Thedian:
Civil War was never part of the original plan. It was only done in response to DC doing BvS. And then they sent Whedon over to sabotage Justice League."
That's a pretty big brained theory...
@PurpleDave said:
" @Thedian :
Civil War was never part of the original plan. It was only done in response to DC doing BvS. And then they sent Whedon over to sabotage Justice League."
CA:CW was a response to BvS? Talk about building a howitzer to take out a fly.
@MCLegoboy:
https://www.businessinsider.com/batman-v-superman-captain-america-civil-war-influence-2016-4
It's an article, not a theory. And as for Whedon and Justice League, remember that he was basically cut off from the MCU by the time WB picked him up to mangle Justice League, and it wasn't too much longer before he was persona non grata in Hollywood. I'm left wondering if he wasn't pushed out before his problematic past was publicly exposed, since he was originally supposed to be shaping the story through the end of Thanos' story, and was gone after it got halfway there.
@StarWarzFan7777 said:
" @sir_vasco said:
"I loved that scene in Avengers where Thor fights the rock with the glass bit. The rock effects were so good."
Those weren't even effects, Dwayne Johnson performed all his own stunts in that scene."
Truly one of the movie scenes of 1979!
Seriously though, I got this with the big mine set Christmas morning 2012, good times.
@gorf43:
So, you got the really big mine set, and the little, tiny, diminutive, barely there, one-stud mine set at the same time?
@PurpleDave said:
" @MCLegoboy :
https://www.businessinsider.com/batman-v-superman-captain-america-civil-war-influence-2016-4
It's an article, not a theory. And as for Whedon and Justice League, remember that he was basically cut off from the MCU by the time WB picked him up to mangle Justice League, and it wasn't too much longer before he was persona non grata in Hollywood. I'm left wondering if he wasn't pushed out before his problematic past was publicly exposed, since he was originally supposed to be shaping the story through the end of Thanos' story, and was gone after it got halfway there."
I distinctly remember hearing the MCU Phase 3 lineup being released before the DC lineup. I won't dispute that it influenced their decision though after reading that article because it does make sense, but I doubt DC was ever going to win because they were trying to play catch up too fast. While they shouldn't have tried to copy Marvel's formula directly, you need to at least build up the characters first before having them all crossover and fighting one another. It was the first time DC ever did that with their live action characters, it flopped, and it can never happen for the first time again.
The thing with Joss Whedon though was a number of different factors coming together. He didn't like how rigid things were getting at Marvel when he was doing Age of Ultron so he left/they didn't want him back. Zack Snyder's movies were failing (even just after two of them), but also WB was forcing them into runtimes that removed a lot of the context and character work, making them unhappy with each other. Then Zack Snyder's daughter committed suicide, giving WB an excuse to let him go with as little bad blood as possible by letting him leave to take care of family, but also subsequently never asking him back, and then they thought getting Joss was the way to save Justice League because of the success of the first Avengers movie. When it comes to the Snydercut, it's a better version than what we got in 2017, but it still would have never been the movie we got had all of this not happened. That movie was mangled from the start because Zack Snyder's vision was not doing more traditional versions of the characters everyone could get on board with and then also trying to fast track everything just to get to big epic visual moments to bring in the big bucks to appease WB.
Everything was a mess.