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LEGO Marvel Super Heroes (Iron Patriot Minifigure Edition)

PLAYSTATION 4
LEGO Marvel Super Heroes (Iron Patriot Minifigure Edition)
Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment11/29/2013Europe

Assembling the ultimate LEGO Marvel collection means tracking down the minifigures that never hit the open market. The LEGO Marvel Super Heroes Iron Patriot Minifigure Edition for PlayStation 4 comes in a sturdy cardboard box and includes an exclusive Iron Patriot LEGO mini toy that you simply cannot get anywhere else.

The Iron Patriot, Norman Osborn's twisted appropriation of the Iron Man armor draped in Captain America's colors, is one of the more visually striking figures in Marvel's roster. Getting an exclusive LEGO version bundled with a PS4 game creates the same cross-collector appeal that makes these editions so volatile in the long run. LEGO collectors want the figure. Marvel collectors want the figure. PS4 collectors want the complete variant. Three communities, one box.

The sturdy cardboard packaging gives this a bigger footprint than a standard PS4 case, making it visually distinct on a shelf and harder to store casually. That's a feature, not a bug. It forces you to display it properly. LEGO Marvel Super Heroes was TT Games at their most accessible, a massive roster of playable characters wrapped in that signature LEGO charm. The minifigure editions were a retail strategy that turned game purchases into something tangible beyond the disc. They don't make them like this anymore, and the exclusive LEGO figures from this era have only trended one direction. If you spot one sealed, you already know what to do.