SDCC 2015 LEGO Arsenal Minifigure Exclusive! Red Arrow!

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If LEGO is really looking to create a stir and earn the hatred of a lot of hardcore superhero fans with their lottery SDCC 2015 exclusives, they’re doing a good job. First they announced the raffle-only SDCC LEGO Captain America Falcon Minifigure, and now they’ve announced the DC entry: from the beloved TV show “Arrow”, it’s the exclusive LEGO Arsenal Minifigure!

SDCC 2015 LEGO Arsenal Minifigure Exclusive

Wow, I don’t know if the LEGO Group is just not aware of how much they frustrate superhero collectors by making super-popular characters ultra-limited exclusives or what, but intentionally or otherwise, they are certainly doing a good job of raising collectors’ blood pressure.

Roy Harper is a long-existing DC character who’s had many names, including Speedy, Red Arrow and now Arsenal. He’s starred in comics from Green Arrow to Teen Titans to Red Hood and the Outlaws, been featured in the live-action hit Arrow, and appeared in cartoons like Justice League Unlimited and Young Justice.

And now, Roy Harper is getting his own Minifigure! But wait–there’s a catch. Not only do you have to be attending San Diego Comic-Con 2015 to get a crack at the SDCC 2015 LEGO Arsenal Minifigure, but you’ll have to pull a totally random winning lottery ticket in order to get one. Sounds delightful, right…?

Considering how irate collectors were when LEGO made a Green Arrow Minifigure exclusive to the convention in 2013, I’m shocked they would repeat that mess by making a LEGO Roy Harper Minifigure an exclusive now as well.

LEGO SDCC 2015 Arensal Minifigure ExclusiveThankfully, we eventually got a mass-release Green Arrow minifig, but with the limited number of new DC Super Hero sets released each year, who knows if we’ll ever got an Arsenal LEGO Minifigure released in stores? I wouldn’t bet on it, that’s for sure.

The Roy Harper Arsenal Minifigure lottery tickets will be given out at 12:30 PM on Thursday, July 9th at the San Diego Comic-Con 2015 Pavilion Terrace. 1,500 Arsenal Minifigs will be produced for the event and given out (with likely 1,400 being sold online for hundreds of dollars immediately after the con closes).

How do you feel about the selection of Arsenal as the LEGO DC SDCC 2015 exclusive, Arrow fans? Are you happy to see Roy Harper getting some fanfare, or furious that he’s getting a limited release that only a fraction of his fans will ever be able to own (or afford)?

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SDCC 2015 LEGO Arsenal Minifigure Exclusive! Red Arrow! — 4 Comments

  1. Forget the EXCLUSIVE figure ripoff by LEGO and buy the ferris wheel, this is the greatest piece that LEGO has ever created and fun to build also.

  3. I agree and I also hate exclusives like these. Not because I never get to go to these conventions to get my own, but because it just allows lucky and/or greedy people to take advantage of true fans — be it Lego or anything else.

  4. So lame. Just like all the other exclusives. Just release them in retail. Exactly right that out of the 1500 1400 will be on ebay.