The breakout success of 2008's Iron Man gave rise to a series of movies starring the other Avengers, culminating in 2012's The Avengers film. Marvel opted to collaborate with LEGO to release Avengers sets, and it was for these sets that the first ever LEGO bigfig, the Hulk, was developed. Over the
years, bigfigs became a staple of both Marvel and DC LEGO Superheroes sets, becoming as much a part of LEGO's visual identity as the minifigure itself. In 2015, Legends of Chima's character Mungus made history, becoming the first bigfig in a LEGO original theme, soon to be followed by Ninjago's
Dogshank in 2016. While LEGO would release a second Ninjago bigfig, Killow, in 2018, the show itself features several additional screen-exclusive bigfig characters: a Vermillion warrior in 2017, a yeti named Krag in 2019, and the latest and greatest: Gorge, the Geckle Elemental Master of Size, in
The Fantasy Era trolls and the 2010 Wampa are definitely direct ancestors of the modern-day bigfigs, but they don't have the universal 6x3/6x4 footprint or the standard arms and hands that practically every post-Hulk bigfig has used.
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