LEGO Avengers: Doomsday Quinjet 76347 Review
Quinjets are a staple of a LEGO Avengers wave at this point, whether they appear in the movie or not, with Infinity War being the only exception because it swapped it out for the Benetar, the Guardians’ ship from the movie. It’s not just Avengers movies too, Captain Marvel and Captain America: Civil War have both had sets with them, with the LEGO Avengers: Doomsday Quinjet marking the 9th minifigure scale. They’re basically impossible to compare, some being 14 years old, some being prestige display sets, and some being afterthoughts in larger sets but they do often fall into a few similar pitfalls that this new set thankfully ignores.
With smaller vehicles, LEGO often makes them even smaller by including side builds, but thankfully this set is entirely the Quinjet. The lack of an extra little bike or something that dominates the back half of the vehicle is a nice change, and allows quite a lot of room in the vehicle. All 3 Avengers, including Captain America with his wings folded up, fit in the vehicle and you could even take the wings off and fit at least one more. Accessing the cockpit and interior is super simple, just single clip joints that open up the cockpit and the entire top of the roof, and access is nice and roomy.
The build itself is pretty fun, obviously with a symmetrical build like this it’s going to get a little boring in the backhalf, but there’s enough interesting techniques to keep it interesting. The slight tilt of the cockpit is a great touch to add a little personality. One thing I’ve noticed on LEGO sets recently, especially those based on movie vehicles, is the placement of the stud shooter. They tend to be eyesores to those that aren’t kids who are actually playing with them, but recent sets have treated them as something added on to the set that you can easily remove. There’s probably a whole thing there about how even cheaper sets are being increasingly designed for adults instead of kids, but as one of those adults I can’t complain. Aside from the opening cockpits and stud shooter, the backdoor of the quinjet opens up too, but overall the set is a little light of playfeatures. There’s not a good spot to grab the ship on the main body to swoosh it about, which is ultimately the most important playfeature a ship like this can have.
The star of a set like this is always going to be the figures, with this set including 4 – a great selection that really covers the cast of the film nicely with an X-Man, an Avenger, a member of the Fantastic Four, and Doom himself. Doom is in 4 of the Avengers: Doomsday sets, the only exception being the Brickheadz, with the Doom Bust set having a slightly more detailed version. While marketing has been a little shy of showing too much of Doom, the figure matches what we’ve seen nicely. The new shoulder armor debuted on Batfleck, and while I’m not a fan of the studs on the back the smaller profile is great. The hood piece is new, and while it feels a little too bulky compared to other hood pieces, it’s nice to have one designed to fit on top of armour. The torso and legs are super detailed, and I really like the newer blast pieces that you can actually connect a stud or bar to. Nice to see a cloth cape again too!
The Thing is pretty similar to the Fantastic Four: First Steps figure, although this time going for the shorts design with an all new dual molded leg combo that looks great. I still think their take on the Thing is lacking something, I’m firmly against the big-fig approach, but I think he needs some sort of armour, even the piece Doom has recoloured would do something although I’d lean towards the armour piece used for characters like Paz Viszla and Wrecker in the Star Wars line. He just needs a little bulk. Cyclops is a great figure, I’ve been dying for a “hoodless” visor head for Cyclops for a while, and the torso and legs do a great job of capturing the classic Cyclops design with that MCU…flair. No eyeblast accessory for him is an odd miss though. Captain America is essentially the same costume as the Brave New World figure, but they’ve made some real improvements. The wings are much better, LEGO has had a constant battle for Sam Wilson capturing both movement and accuracy in his wings and I think this is by far their best attempt. Printing those wing flaps would’ve gone a long way instead of the stickers, although you can reuse the older CMF piece instead easily enough. It’d be nice to see them at an angle eventually instead of the straight line but that’s a minor complaint. We’ve got a Redwing included too, another piece that really should’ve been printed. The legs are both printed and dual molded this time, which really does a lot for the look, although some way to capture the shorter sleeves would’ve been nice. I still don’t understand why LEGO has been printing Captain America shields on a grey piece, it doesn’t work.
The real issue with this set is the price. With 433 pieces and the set costing £54.99/$59.99, it’s a good £10-15 too high. The set in hand just doesn’t feel big enough to justify its price, even with a great figure selection. What’s there in the set is great but the price is just too high to justify buying it without any sort of discount.
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