Avengers: End Game War Machine Buster Buy or Not?

Avengers: End Game is coming in 20 days. Lego has a new War Machine Buster 76124 on shelf right now. I'm not sure if the movie has this. The design is quite similar to the previous two Lego Hulkbusters. This time, the original instruction's arms and legs seem to be ok but not the upper body. Very blocky. I'm still considering to buy it or not. The price raised CA$10 from $40 to $50 now because of more minifigures (?). Lego is smart to use the photo to cover the shoulders and blocky body problem with angles... Tricky.

Here is what I have on my shelves at home up to now. Stay tuned!

Lego Marvel Super Heroes: The Hulkbuster Smash-Up (76104) - Modification 2

A lot of people messaged me about how I did the mod. I don't have time to do make the instruction but I can show you some close ups. Take your Hulkbuster 76104 out and compare with my model, then you will know how easy to DIY. Basically, I just rearranged the bricks in this mod.



1) I shortened the body by one stud. The golden part was taken out



2) The legs were in one piece at L-Shape before. You can just take them apart into two parts. I use two small joints in one leg but there is a better way to do it... I will come back to work on it when I have time.



3) The most important thing is the upper body width. I extended each side by one stud. I also replace the original black arm armor with deep red one.







If you have question, please let me know. I will try to check the comments more often now.

Lego Marvel Super Heroes: The Hulkbuster Smash-Up (76104) - Modification

The Hulkbuster Smash-Up (76104) is a cheap set at Canadian $40 for 375 pieces. It's an ok fair price in 2018. It has a gear triggered right arm. The huge turning knot is at the back of this Hulkbuster. Maybe it is the reason why the shoulders are way apart from the body. Quite horrible when you look from the front... Like the arms are going to fall off. Lego set's "play value" is always a problem to many Lego model's shape.

The set comes with instruction booklet, 4 bags and a sheet of sticker. I think it is about the same as the hulkbuster from Age Of Ultron.

*I didn't follow the instruction fully in the first build.

When I open the instruction booklet, I study the structure of the gears inside the body and the arms. Because of the simple structure, I can change the shoulders easily. At the same time, I move the shoulders one stud out to make it wider.

The original legs are quite weird but.. quite impressive for the Lego designer to use less pieces to build the legs. I modify the legs into 3 sections instead of 2. I really like the original design of the lower part of the legs. I haven't touched the back of Hulkbuster because I don't even know what it looks like at this stage. All film photos and toy photos from Marvel are front view only.

I don't think I will spend money and time on buying the UCS version. It's all gone in every where.

LEGO Ironman Armor MOC

Using the Ironman Hulkbuster set was the simplest way to get smooth and rounded deep red bricks and golden bricks. Although I still had the feet to finish, I wanted to see if it came out ok in photos. At the same time, I played a bit of the robotic arms shields which was the design of "Gundam: Thunderbolt". Basically, the shields with arms would block projectiles from any angles without occupying any arm. I thought it was a crazy design before I watched Gundam: Thunderbolt.

Now, I think it's an interesting idea.










I tried to put the Hulkbuster's head on it but it didn't look too good.