Gary Collinson reviews LEGO Marvel Super Heroes – Crossbones’ Hazard Heist…
With Captain America: Civil War launching Phase Three of the Marvel Cinematic Universe when it opens in UK cinemas this coming Friday, LEGO has unleashed three tie-in sets as part of its Marvel Super Heroes theme: Super Hero Airport Battle (76051), Black Panther Pursuit (76047) and Crossbones’ Hazard Heist (76050), the latter of which we’ll be exploring in this review.
Crossbones’ Hazard Heist is the cheapest of the three Civil War sets with an RRP of £19.99/$19.99, and comes with three minifigues – Crossbones, Black Widow and Falcon – along two builds in Crossbones’ escape truck and Black Widow’s Avengers motorcycle (I guess you can throw in Falcon’s Redwing as a minibuild, but we’ll come to that in a moment).
In total you’re looking at 179 pieces with Crossbones’ Hazard Heist, which isn’t the best for sets in this price range, but it does offer fans the cheapest way of getting your hands on the Black Widow minifigure. And with LEGO skipping over Captain America: The Winter Soldier in 2014, it’s also the first and so far only set to feature Crossbones and the Marvel Cinematic Universe incarnation of Falcon. As always with the LEGO Super Heroes lines, the minifigures are the real appeal of this set, and Crossbones’ Hazard Heist delivers here.
The Black Widow minifigure is the same version that we saw in last year’s Avengers Quinjet City Chase (76032), although this time Natasha leaves the dual-wielding to Falcon and instead comes with her two batons, along with an updated version of the Avengers cycle from that set. Falcon and Crossbones are both new, and LEGO has done a decent job of faithfully recreating the MCU look of these two characters. Falcon comes with his wings and a couple of pistols, while Crossbones has a flame thrower and a removable gas mask. Falcon also includes Redwing clipped to his back, but the build is almost as big as the minifigure itself, and besides being way out of scale it really doesn’t look anything like its movie counterpart.
The main build of the set, Crossbones’ truck, looks like it’s been cobbled together with mismatched, spare parts lying around in the bottom of your LEGO box, but that’s kind of the point and it does work pretty well. The truck comes with a removable roof which houses a rocket launcher/cannon, as well as an ‘explosion’ action feature at the rear of the vehicle; this blows apart a container holding a hazardous material briefcase, for when you want Redwing to swoop down and steal the villain’s cargo.
Crossbones’ Hazard Heist may not be the best Marvel Super Heroes set that LEGO has put out, and may not have too much appeal to anyone who’s already got the Black Widow minifigure and motorcycle from the previous release. Falcon and Crossbones aren’t really Marvel A-listers, but if you’re looking to complete your New Avengers line-up, or desperate to add Brock Rumlow to your roster of villains, then you’re going to want to add this to your collection. But, if you don’t have the Black Widow minifig, then there’s some definite value here.
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Captain America: Civil War is set for release on April 29th 2016 in the UK and May 6th 2016 in the States, with Anthony and Joe Russo (Captain America: The Winter Soldier) directing a cast that includes Marvel Cinematic Universe veterans Chris Evans (Steve Rogers/Captain America), Robert Downey Jr. (Tony Stark/Iron Man), Anthony Mackie (Sam Wilson/Falcon), Jeremy Renner (Clint Barton/Hawkeye), Scarlett Johansson (Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow), Sebastian Stan (Bucky Barnes/The Winter Soldier), Elizabeth Olsen (Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch), Paul Bettany (The Vision), Don Cheadle (James Rhondes/War Machine), Paul Rudd (Scott Lang/Ant-Man), Emily VanCamp (Sharon Carter), Frank Grillo (Brock Rumlow/Crossbones) and William Hurt (General Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross) alongside new additions Chadwick Boseman (Get on Up) as T’Challa/Black Panther, Daniel Bruhl (Rush) as Baron Zemo, Tom Holland (The Impossible) as Peter Parker/Spider-Man and Martin Freeman (Sherlock) as Everett Ross.
Gary Collinson is a writer and lecturer from the North East of England. He is the editor-in-chief of FlickeringMyth.com and the author of Holy Franchise, Batman! Bringing the Caped Crusader to the Screen.
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