Dargo complements SY’s Avengers offering [Dargo Avengers Age of Ultron minifig set]

If you’re a bootleg minifig maker and you’re dead-set on making production runs of sets of 8 minifigs per set, max, you’ll eventually run into problems with the Avengers movie franchise. With the second movie, you now have 10 main heroes to account for (including Fury), and that’s not even counting Falcon and War Machine into the mix.

And that’s also not including the Big Bad Boss, as well as other henchmen and enemy footsoldiers. SY made their cuts when they made their Avengers 2 set, and they stuck with the core heroes from the first movie, plus Ultron.

Interestingly enough, Dargo, instead of making their own set similar to SY to compete with them, decided to make minifigs that complement SY’s set. So the minifigs that weren’t picked by SY to be included in their set, Dargo did.

Submit to these minifigs or perish [Sheng Yuan Age of Ultron minifig set]

The new Avengers movie is only about to start screening in American theaters and Sheng Yuan has already shipped their bootleg minifigs. That’s a pretty fast turnaround, considering that we’re talking about bootlegs here.

As an aside, watch the movie. It’s great!

Anyway, I know that I have a tremendous backlog of minifig sets to lay out on this blog. But I figure I’d shake things up a bit and try to post new acquisitions ASAP, so as not to further add to said backlog. For the readers who check back here every once in a while, thanks for keeping tabs on this small spot on the internet!

Another superhero set from Decool? Why not? [Decool Super Heroes Set 2]

Perhaps buoyed by the retail success their first super hero set brought (I actually don’t have sales figures, but I’m willing to bet that it did), Decool figured to keep a good thing going, and we’re all better-off for it.

In this set, Decool opted to stick to a mix of Marvel and DC characters, lumping them all together under the Super Heroes branding.

A bird? A plane? No, it’s SY’s Superman minifig set! [SY Superman Set]

Let’s be honest, Marvel has been lording over pop culture in recent times compared to DC. That said, DC still has some iconic characters in its library, one of which is Superman. There’s legitimate buzz and curiosity, if not total excitement, over the upcoming Batman v. Superman movie, and Sheng Yuan thought it might be able to cater to cash-strapped fans by releasing a Superman-themed set.

Minifig Display Case Impressions [Lele, Sheng Yuan, Elim]

Not content with just making bootleg minifigs, a number of manufacturers are now making display cases for the numerous minifigs they're making. It makes sense, really, and it's always good to have options.

The video covers offerings from Lele, Sheng Yuan, and Elim, a manufacturer not yet featured in this blog space.

Two More Makers Enter The Star Wars Minifig Fray [CB Toys and Bom Bom Star Wars]

The Star Wars franchise, man, it won’t ever run out of steam. At least in my lifetime, it won’t. It’s practically a cash cow for merchandise makers, whether it’s officially-licensed or otherwise.

So it really comes as no surprise that two more makers hope to cash in on the Star Wars minifig gravy train. Both of these, I haven’t covered yet in this space, so this also serves as an initial look-see if these two are as good as, better, or worse than the ones we’ve seen so far.

Lele Tries Its Hand At Star Wars [Lele Star Wars Set]

Around the same time that Sheng Yuan's Star Wars minifig set started appearing here, Lele's own Star Wars set also popped up alongside SY's offering. Knowing what we know of Lele's minifig quality, would this Star Wars set fare any different? I took a flier and dove in to find out.