Super Heroes Marvel

Avengers Ultimate Quinjet

The best minifigure-scale Quinjet LEGO has ever made, generic figures and all.

Brick Rated Score

4.1/5

Set 76126 · 2019

Pieces838

Minifigs6

Year2019

Set number76126

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The verdict

This is the Quinjet I always wanted as a kid, and finished on a shelf it has real presence: fifteen inches of swooping grey hull with wings that actually look like they belong on a fast plane.

The figure lineup is where it falls short, because Thor, Black Widow, Hawkeye and Rocket all turn up in the same identical team suit and it gets a bit samey. If you want a proper display centerpiece jet, this is the one to chase. If you are mainly buying for the heroes, four matching outfits will leave you a little cold.

Best for: Marvel fans who want a big, swooshable display jet more than a fresh set of heroes

The full review

What it is

The Avengers Ultimate Quinjet is the fifth minifigure-scale Quinjet LEGO has released, and it is the one that finally gets the shape right. The hull is what got me. Once the outer body and the wings go on, all that dull grey plastic suddenly reads as a sleek, weighty flying machine, and at fifteen inches long with an eleven inch wingspan it takes up proper space on a shelf. Reviewers across the board landed in the same place: the figures are a letdown, but the jet more than makes up for it. I agree completely. This is a display model first, and a good one.

The catch

I will be straight with you about the caveats, because they are real. The build starts slow. The whole underside goes together like a much younger set, big plates and simple angles, and for the first half hour you might wonder what you paid eighty dollars for. Push through it, because the cockpit and wings are where the technique finally shows up. The bigger sticking point is the minifigures. You get six, but four of them (Thor, Black Widow, Hawkeye and Rocket) all wear the exact same white and red quantum realm team suit, so the printing blurs together and you lose the sense that these are four different heroes. Two Chitauri round out the pack as generic bad guys. It is a strange choice for a set built around Endgame, and it is the single most common complaint you will read.

Who it's for

So who should chase this one down? If you love the aircraft, if you want a centerpiece jet with working rotors, folding wings, opening compartments and a rear ramp that a swooshing kid or a display shelf will both enjoy, this is easily the Quinjet to get. It retired at the end of 2020 and now trades a little above its original price, so it holds value nicely. Skip it only if you are buying purely for the roster, because four matching quantum suits will not scratch that itch. For everyone else who wants the definitive minifigure-scale Quinjet, I think it is worth the hunt.

The parts story

What the build is actually like, and the pieces worth knowing about.

Building this is a tale of two halves. The base is honestly a slog, wide plates and blocky structure that feel beneath the price, and it is easy to lose momentum there. Then the cockpit, the outer shell and the wings arrive and the whole thing wakes up. The wing frame in particular uses a more complex internal structure that lets the front contour smoothly and frames a large rotor at the back of each side. That is the stretch of the build where you start to see the designers actually flexing, and the finished plane feels satisfyingly solid and heavy in the hand.

For a set this size the standout part is small: the exclusive Rocket head, which swaps the usual brown collar for a darker greyish black tone. The rest of the value sits in bulk rather than rarity, with a lot of large grey plates, slopes and curved panels doing the heavy lifting to build that hull, plus the stud shooters and the fold-out six-stud rapid shooter tucked in the rear. At 838 pieces for the original eighty dollar price it works out to sensible per-part value, especially now that it has retired and climbed a bit above RRP. Just do not come to this one hunting for a treasure chest of new molds, because its real gift is size and shape.

Fun facts

01The Ultimate Quinjet was released in April 2019 and retired in December 2020, and sealed copies now trade a little above the original 79.99 dollar retail price.
02It is the fifth minifigure-scale Quinjet LEGO has made and is widely considered the best of the bunch, measuring over 15 inches long and 11 inches across the wings.
03Four of the six figures (Thor, Black Widow, Hawkeye and Rocket) wear the identical white and red quantum realm team suit from Avengers: Endgame, which became the set's most talked-about quirk.
04The set hides a stud-shooting trike inside its rear compartment, sized specifically so it can be stored in and rolled out of the Quinjet's hold.