In the evening, with just a single desk lamp illuminating the room to side of them, they take on a completely different look when their profiles can be more clearly seen and appreciated, the Joker in particular. This year's virtual Fan Media days are over so we now have some great content to share with you over the coming weeks. In the end there was no single version I can point to as my inspiration, but it's certainly influenced by his depiction in 1970s Batman comics, with a bit of grittiness from more modern interpretations. Once I settled on that general direction for him things went quite smoothly, but I had a lot of fun experimentations: bigger hair, bare teeth, other things that were interesting to experiment with but which didn't feel right for the character or the product. So, I had the most fun developing The Joker, and he was definitely the most challenging. Over the course of two days I built some up, I don’t have anything here with me, I came over here from Canada without any of my LEGO at all, so I built some up and presented them… it wasn’t long after that that I found out that we were going to proceed with them. That was a really exciting thing to happen to me, I was blown away by it because when you are fresh you kind of get this impression that things like this are not something that happen every day, things like this are long shots, so I feel incredibly fortunate that we decided to move forward with these products. The final Iron Man is instantly recognizable and effective. At this point, his dark red and yellow helmet has become as iconic as any superhero’s mask or cowl. Little details like the way his eyes are sandwiched between blue plates convey a sense of energy and life. Miles is also effective, although a touch less accurate. The eyes of Miles’ mask are usually outlined in red, as an inverse of Peter’s mask colors. That outline isn’t present here, and there would be a danger of him looking a touch too much like the spider-foe Venom if not for the hoodie that frames his head. Dark red is used on the inside to create a sense of shadow within the hood, and two rounded 1×2 plates hang down like the ends of drawstrings to really sell the look.

So, that is the reason why Batman was up-sized compared to my original. The fun thing about upsizing Batman is that got to use new and different parts for it and do things that I couldn't do outside the company. So that was fun for me.

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It’s also worth noting that you may be thrown off in your Iron Man build thanks to a mistake in LEGO’s instructions. Between steps 48 and 49, Iron Man suddenly gains a mysterious wedge plate on his chin, which is gone again on step 50. But don’t worry, the final steps of the manual show the correct way to complete the chin as intended. It’s difficult to say.It all depends on the complexity of the character. And of course, it depended upon whether or not I was starting fresh, like I did with The Joker, or if I was upscaling an existing design. I can't give you a specific time frame for those just because I wasn’t sitting at my desk doing nothing but working on them. But I can tell you that outside the company when I was doing the sketches some of them I could do in two days, and some I would revisit and perfect over a month or more. It really depends! Faces are always a challenge. The Joker was one that went through the most revisions. There are so many takes on The Joker, so many different versions of him. The portraits are the same size as before, 12x16 studs, but more layers of pieces have been used to create the fine details and shape of the heads

Released on 1 June 2020, The Joker (set number: 40428) is based on the fictional DC Comics supervillain, The Joker. It consists of 170 pieces and can be displayed standing up on desks or hung by its built-in hook on a wall. [10] [11] [14] [15] [17] In August 2021, The Lego Group announced The Joker (set number: 40428) was retired on 31 December 2021. [16] BB-8 [ edit ]

I'm told by our resident Marvel expert that the design is generic, and not based on any particular version of the helmet, and that the yellow colour is inspired by the superhero's comics appearances rather than the films. Deciding exactly where I was going to take my inspiration from was very difficult. Do I go movie joker? Do I go classic comic joker? Do I do modern comic joker? Do I go Batman animated series classic Mark Hamill style joker? They came about as a result of something we have internally called Creative Boost. It’s an opportunity where we as designers can propose our own product ideas, themes and whatnot, to see if they get any traction. One of the themes throughout these conversations, was what can we do promote our brand? What can we do to help give content? At the time the internet, and marketing on the internet, was just blooming. A lot of the other artists in this group who were much better than me at hand drawn stuff started doing what they call ‘marker sketches’. Three key people who I knew quite well, Crystal Fontan, Karen Hallion and Megan Lara, would start doing these hand drawn little card sized things with different characters from pop culture. The pens were used as a framing device in my original photos, but I never considered them to be part of the sketch itself. We had a very brief discussion about the pens early on but agreed to move forward without them.