There’s still time for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse LEGO sets

There aren’t any LEGO sets based on the new film Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, but that could change.

Sometimes it can be a little hard to understand the LEGO Group’s licensing strategy. Sets based on Star Wars and the MCU make plenty of sense, but there have been a few curveballs over the years that have been harder to explain. Sets like 10291 Queer Eye – The Fab 5 Loft and 40548 Spice Girls Tribute are recent examples of licensed sets that went on deep sale and still crowded the shelves at LEGO stores.

Perhaps stranger than some of the properties the LEGO Group decides to produce sets for, though, are the ones they choose not to. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is an animated Marvel movie with a target audience of kids and adults, which makes it a no-brainer property for toys. Despite regularly releasing Spider-Man sets, the LEGO Group has never produced any sort of official Spider-Verse product (for the first film or its recently-released sequel).

It’s important to note that Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is not a Marvel Studios movie, which may be where the conflict lies. The LEGO Group has previously worked with Sony, one of the production companies behind Spider-Verse, but there are other studios involved as well. The Spider-Man film rights being tied up between Sony and Marvel has been a notoriously complicated situation, and it’s not hard to see how the LEGO Group might find it safer to avoid it altogether.

None of this is to say that Across the Spider-Verse won’t get any love from the LEGO Group. Quite the opposite, actually. Let’s look back to the release of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse in 2018. Three notable Spider-Man LEGO sets were released around the same time: 76113 Spider-Man Bike Rescue, 76114 Spider-Man’s Spider-Crawler, and 76115 Spider Mech vs. Venom.

All of these sets were packaged under a generic “Spider-Man” branding, which the LEGO Group still uses to this day. They feature seemingly random Spider-Man themed builds that have no connection to Into the Spider-Verse. But they do each feature at least one alternate ‘multiverse’ variation of Spider-Man as a minifigure.

Miles Morales, Spider-Gwen, and Spider-Man 2099 may seem like innocuous minifigure inclusions in Spider-Man sets, but the Spider-Verse influence doesn’t stop there. In 2020, another wave of generic Spider-Man sets did a similar thing.

76150 Spiderjet vs. Venom Mech has a Spider-Man Noir minifigure, and 76151 Venomsaurus Ambush introduces the LEGO Spider-Ham minifigure. These Spidey variants would have been head-scratching inclusions if not for their appearance in Into the Spider-Verse, which significantly raised their popularity. It’s not a stretch to say that these minifigures were included as a direct reference to the movie, and wouldn’t have been otherwise.

What does this mean for Across the Spider-Verse? Well, the sets with Spider-Man Noir and Spider-Ham didn’t come out until two years after the release of Into the Spider-Verse. Plus, the final film in the trilogy, Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, is releasing in March of next year. That leaves plenty of time for more characters from the Spider-Verse films to appear in regular Spider-Man LEGO sets.

Some of the Spider-people most likely to appear in minifigure form are certainly Spider-Punk, Spider-Man India, the Prowler, Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew), the Spot, and Peni Parker (the only member of the group from the first movie who hasn’t appeared as a minifigure yet). Peni’s mech, SP//dr, would certainly make a cool set that seems plausible in the current LEGO mech renaissance.

Never count Spider-Man or his many variants out of a fight. If you’re hoping to see some of the characters from the Spider-Verse movies in LEGO minifigure form, there’s no need to give up hope yet.

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