Every reference in LEGO Marvel 76294 X-Men: The X-Mansion

The new LEGO Marvel 76294 X-Men: The X-Mansion joins the ever-growing list of Marvel modular buildings, featuring dozens of deep cuts to X-Men history.

It’s safe to say that X-Men are back and better than ever in LEGO Marvel thanks to 76294 X-Men: The X-Mansion, expanding your modular street with the iconic home of the heroes. Marvel enthusiasts will be able to recognise quite a few deep-cut references in the latest modular building entry, carrying on a tradition that started with 76178 Daily Bugle and demonstrating the design team’s impressive X-Men knowledge.

Here’s every reference we managed to find in LEGO Marvel 76294 X-Men: The X-Mansion, from an iconic meme to homages to all kinds of heroes.

Ground Floor – Danger Room

The Danger Room stretches across two floors and we’ll treat each floor as its own room to spot the various references. The majority of the Easter eggs in the training room are stickered on rearrangeable modules for the X-Men to overcome during training. A series of letters and numbers on each of those modules all align with a different reference.

The rocket module features E92131, paying tribute to Earth-92131 or the classification for the universe where the X-Men and Spider-Man animated series take place within the wider Marvel multiverse. This is the same reality in which X-Men ’97 occurs too. The other rocket module with four rounded sections on each side has 141965, which is likely referring to X-Men issue 14 from 1965 – the first appearance of the Sentinels in Marvel comic history.

A module with saws has UX266, referring to Uncanny X-Men issue 266 which is the first appearance of Remy LeBeau. This is the real name of Gambit who similarly debuts as a minifigure in this set. Rounding out these Easter eggs is a module with lasers labelled E13122, which is the classification for the LEGO Marvel universe in the wider Marvel multiverse. Specifically, this is the universe in which the LEGO Marvel Super Heroes video games and other specials take place.

Outside the Danger Room is a small area leading to the training area. On the floor, a newspaper is highlighting the mutant registration vote, which is an Easter egg for the Mutant Registration Act that was featured as a major plot point in the X-Men movies. It appears that, in this universe, the vote is coming up.

A broadcast on a nearby television features a news host letting everyone know about the return of the Sentinels, one of which is included in 76294 X-Men: The X-Mansion. Look closely though and you’ll spot that the host has three arms and pointed ears and is a mutant, explaining why he looks so nervous about the Sentinel’s return. The door to the Danger room is a reference too, paying tribute to the iconic design of the Cerebro door in the X-Men movies.

Ground Floor – Lobby

Continuing with the ground floor, the lobby of 76294 X-Men: The X-Mansion has two seats and a carpet with the team’s logo proudly displayed on it. The lift at the back uses the same design as 76178 Daily Bugle and 76269 Avengers Tower and its inclusion is important for Professor Xavier too, for hopefully obvious reasons.

Within this lobby, you’ll find signage for the ground floor above the door so that students don’t accidentally wander into the Danger Room mid-training, and a bust of what might be a Classic Space astronaut at the back.

On the wall leading to the Danger Room, there’s an old portrait of Charles and Magnus (Professor Xavier and Magneto) from when they were still friends at the opening of Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters.

Ground Floor – Classroom

Finishing up the ground floor is a classroom with options for physical and digital learning and there are quite a few references to keep track of in here. Starting with the bookcase, you’ll find volumes about Creole and Medical Science for Gambit and Beast respectively. Passing this bookcase, a digital classroom area can be found connecting students from around the world. Beast is teaching a class while upside down in his iconic pose – specifically the ‘First Class’ which is a tribute to the 2011 movie of the same name.

Silhouettes of various minifigures are featured in the classroom listening to Beast but we can’t identify any specific characters. Below this screen is another interactive live board explaining the complicated history of the X-Men and their timelines as you can tell by the M-Day label, referencing the assault by Magneto’s Brotherhood against the makers of the mutant cure.

Behind this section is another screen which appears to be referring to the Sentinel figure included in the set with all kinds of warning labels, likely to let students know of incoming threats so they can get to safety.

A classic blackboard is featured in the corner with some important information that has been erased by Logan (Wolverine) in favour of a picture of him riding the X-Jet. As well as an Easter egg to the team’s vehicle, we believe this is a homage to 76281 X-Men X-Jet, which was released earlier this year.

Finishing up the classroom is a travel brochure that is likely a reference to Mount Fuji given Wolverine’s history with Japan, which is also referenced again directly upstairs.

First Floor – Danger Room

Moving upstairs, we’ll head back into the Danger Room for a brief stop on the second floor. A viewing area is included here and while two of the rearrangeable modules with Easter eggs are upstairs, we covered them all in the ground floor section so we’ll stick solely to the viewing area.

There’s only one reference that we can spot on the upper floor of the Danger Room as a chess set with odd pieces in a stickered design sits on the ground. This is likely a tribute to the scene in the 2000 X-Men movie where Charles and Magneto play chess together with glass pieces so that Magnus (or Erik) can’t use them to his advantage. That would explain the odd outline on the black chess pieces.

First Floor – Lab

The combined lab and medical room is another busy scene for 76294 X-Men: The X-Mansion and we’ll move from left to right as if we were walking from the Danger Room viewing area.

Cerebro is a major feature of this room and the unique equipment is labelled by a sticker on the left-hand wall. There’s a space for Professor Xavier to sit in the middle of the room – conveniently just outside the lift and in front of the balcony doors – where he can equip the helmet and reach out mentally using the device. A map of the earth on a screen above the balcony doors shows where mutants in the world are right now, likely in need of the X-Men’s aid.

Finishing up the Easter eggs in this busy room is another decorated tile underneath the medical bed. This shows an X-ray scan of Wolverine’s arm, displaying his adamantium skeleton that makes Wolverine the powerhouse that he is.

First Floor – Bedroom and lab

The lab isn’t quite done yet as next to the bedroom area is a computer for Beast to use and discover the cure for the Legacy virus from the X-Force comic series.

Moving completely to the bedroom, there are two beds for Wolverine and another character to rest in. We can tell that one is Wolverine’s bed by the Katana that hangs above the bed, again paying tribute to the character’s history in Japan. A portrait is also included to recreate a certain iconic meme from the X-Men animated series, with Wolverine pining over Cyclops’ and Jean’s relationship. It seems likely that enthusiasts will soon be swapping out this tile with other designs though.

Aside from a bottle likely filled with what’s definitely not alcohol (wink, nudge etc.), the other side of the bedroom has the printed Gubble Bubble tile that has been used before in non-Marvel sets. Still, we wonder whether this might be a homage to Bubble from the X-Treme X-Men comic series, as short-lived as the character was. There’s a small statuette above this too, though the lack of printing doesn’t clear up whether it’s an Easter egg.

On the floor, another meta-defying comic for the LEGO Marvel modular buildings can be found, paying tribute to the design of the first issue of Uncanny X-Men from 1963, which was the debut issue for the team. There are two more references in this room, located on a calendar in the corner of the room.

As well as referencing the Alkali Lake Industrial Complex where the Weapon X program – which experimented on mutants – is based, the shirtless Wolverine image on this page of the calendar is an Easter egg to a 1995 X-Men trading card, complete with the striped umbrella in the background which in turn pays tribute to the older LEGO umbrella elements.

Outside

Leaving the mansion’s packed interior, there’s a lot to appreciate outside too. In terms of references at the front, there’s the signage for Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters, the logo for the team and a tribute to the debut of the X-Men in 1963 at the front.

There’s also a broken part of the building outside the Danger Room, likely destroyed by the Sentinel’s attack but also possibly referencing a similar broken section of the build in both 76178 Daily Bugle and 76269 Avengers Tower. It seems that this is a tradition of the Marvel modular buildings and the top can break apart too.

At the back of the mansion, there’s a lot to look for as well, including three distinct posters. One advertises Nightcrawler and another a Dazzler concert, both of who are not included in this set as minifigures. There’s even a reference to Pyro and Pixie on graffiti around the back of the building, with Pyro’s being in an especially suitable spot on the fire exit.

Another poster closer to the ground near the fire exit recreates the poster on the cover of X-Men issue 141 from 1981, which was part of the Days of Future Past storyline. In this instance, no one is slain and minifigures are either marked as missing or collected. The specific characters marked as missing may be another tribute to the first season of X-Men ’97 too, which we won’t detail further to avoid spoilers.

On the bottom left of this poster, a bearded mutant is unlabelled and while we’re not certain who it is, it appears to resemble an older Wolverine from the 2008 Old Man Logan comic series as well as the character in the 2017 movie of a similar name. This is only a guess though.

Further graffiti includes another rendition of the X-Men logo as well as some claw marks from Wolverine that have been labelled appropriately. Rounding out the references in 76294 X-Men: The X-Mansion is a basketball and hoop that we believe is a homage to both the scene in the fourth issue of X-Men in 1991 as well as a similar scene in X-Men ’97. Either way, basketball is a favourite pastime for the team, although their basketball outfits are unfortunately not included as minifigures and just beneath this are two boxes labelled with the Trask Industries logo, the company behind the Sentinels.

LEGO Marvel 76294 X-Men: The X-Mansion is an exciting set for Marvel fans and is available from November 1 for LEGO Insiders (and November 4 for everyone else) for £289.99 / $329.99 / €329.99, complete with an exclusive GWP. You can check out our full review of the mansion here.

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