The LEGO Group has announced Marvel 76344 Iron Man Mark 3 Collectors’ Edition, the next 18+ set from the epic comic book inspired theme.
76344 Iron Man Mark 3 Collectors’ Edition will kick off the new year with a detailed new display model depicting Tony Stark in his original MCU red and gold suit. The set is made up of 1,297 pieces, will retail for £119.99 / $129.99 / €129.99 and will launch on January 1, 2026 along with other new sets from Marvel Super Heroes. It includes a new Iron Man Mark 3 minifigure.
The model celebrates one of the most iconic suits in super hero cinema and the flick that launched the Marvel Cinematic Universe. When Iron Man premiered in 2008, it introduced audiences to Tony Stark — genius inventor, billionaire and reluctant hero — whose homemade armour would become the foundation of a global pop culture phenomenon.
The Mark 3 suit was the first fully realised version of Iron Man’s armour, combining gold and red plating, advanced weapons systems and flight capabilities. It set the template for every iteration that followed, and its appearance remains one of the most recognisable designs in modern film history. This new LEGO set recreates that legacy in brick form, offering a detailed and display-worthy model aimed at adult collectors.
Comprising 1,297 pieces, the figure stands over 38 cm tall and captures the sleek engineering of Tony Stark’s armour through intricate shaping and gold-lacquered detailing. Articulated joints at the neck, shoulders, waist, wrists and hands allow for a range of poses — from the iconic repulsor blast stance to a hands down power stance. A sturdy display base and nameplate complete the presentation.
For minifigure enthusiasts, the set includes an Iron Man minifigure wearing the same Mark 3 suit.
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The set was actually not a brief from managers, but the passion product of LEGO Senior Model Designer Aaron Newman. “Periodically throughout the development cycle of LEGO design, the whole organisation can pitch product ideas that are outside their usual scope of work,” he tells Blocks.
“For any of you who maybe know me from before or know some of the sets I’ve worked on, my home is on the Creator 3 in 1 team. This is a sort of a step into the Super Heroes team. I’m so lucky that they chose to let me work on this.
“But it was something where I was really passionate about this character, about this specific suit, about making the ultimate buildable Iron Man. So during one of those periodic ideation open forum things, I basically signed up for a team that was not my normal team, created the first draft of what would become this set. And then worked my way to seeing it through its whole life cycle.”
That means that Aaron created the first version of the set, the concept model, then took it all the way through the process of refining it as a polished, final product that fans can buy and build.
“When making a character like this, one of the most important things to get right is the face and the facial expression, because when you look at a character or an animal, the first place you look usually is the face. How does the eye contact? How are the proportions?
“So we started off with the head and that actually went through a lot of different iterations as well within this sort of scale, many different build ups to get to one that we felt was the best possible version. From there, I usually tend to work from the outside in when I’m doing a creature or a character like this, because the head is important, the arms and the legs. You have to make sure that part is really polished, then it’s about marrying it all together in the torso.
“In the case of this one, it was also a lot of looping, relooping around stability. I went through three different leg designs before finding one that works just right, but the original version of the figure also had more posability. But again, because of stability considerations and wanting to align with other display figures in the portfolio, we opted for less posability in favour of a better overall expression, more detail, more sculpting, because as soon as you add moving knee joints into something this big, it gets much bulkier. In this case, we wanted to make the perfect playable display piece, but that really has that film accuracy and that sculpting all around.”
Balancing the display presence and play value was something that Aaron had to work on throughout his time crafting the model, as he challenged himself to provide something that adults can enjoy as a decoration, but will also be compelled to move around.
“Many of our models are made to look like really cool display pieces, but with a character like this, you want to have some degree of posability in there. That does pose certain challenges around how to include joints, where to include joints, what kind of joints you do.
“Something like this, the waist pivot is really easy to mask and has a really solid payoff. For the posability options, the shoulders were really important to us to include because you want to have him be able to do that Iron Man stance, but also have a bit more of a neutral power stance.
“Meanwhile, the legs, while very specifically positioned to have the ‘A’ stance, but also turn out in a natural looking way, are not movable because then there’s some stability difficulties with having the figure latched into the stand. That’s really important so that when you’re moving it you don’t worry about the model falling over.”
Often, when the LEGO design team creates characters, they have to reduce the digits to make it work. Not so with 76344 Iron Man Mark 3 Collectors’ Edition though.
“The fingers are using an element that I believe was originally developed for Super Heroes for the children’s buildable figure collection. It’s used here with a fun new connection. We’re using the collectible series F1 Halo piece inside of the fingers to be able to get not just this articulation, but a more natural look. It was really important to us that Iron Man has all five fingers and that poses some challenges in a LEGO System building sense, but were really happy with how that turned out.”
His enthusiasm for the minifigure that comes in the box is very apparent. “Not only do you get the incredible brick built figure, but we also have an exclusive Mark 3 minifigure featuring arm printing. We’re really excited to bring this character back in an even cooler way than ever before.”
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