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Iron Man's Laboratory: Hall of Armor

A tidy little armory that admits it isn't trying to be the whole tower.

Brick Rated Score

3.4 out of 53.4/5

Set 76315 · 2025

Pieces384
Minifigs5
Year2025
Set number76315

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The verdict

I went in expecting a proper museum wing and got something closer to a display shelf, and once I made peace with that, I actually had fun with it.

The three armor pods look sharp lined up in a row, the Igor mech with its poseable joints and opening cockpit is a genuinely clever bit of engineering, and the minifig lineup is stacked. But I can't pretend the piece count doesn't sting at this price, especially with the 2019 version sitting in everyone's memory as the bigger, fuller build. This is a set for the Iron Man completionist who wants Killian and Iron Patriot on the shelf, not for someone hoping for a sprawling lab centerpiece.

Best for: Iron Man minifigure collectors who want Killian and Iron Patriot without hunting secondhand

The full review

What it is

Here's what got me the moment I clicked the last pod into place: the little armory actually reads as an armory, three suits standing at attention with the arc reactor stickers catching the light just right. It's not the sprawling tower I remembered from the older version, but as a compact display piece it does its job. Dum-E trundles around with a lit-up head and a fire extinguisher, which made me laugh every time, and the maintenance platform with its posable robotic arms gives you something to actually play with instead of just look at.

The catch

I'll be straight with you about the elephant in the room, though. At 384 pieces for 54.99 dollars, this set gives you noticeably less plastic than the 2019 Hall of Armor did at a similar price, and you feel it in your hands. It's built from several small, disconnected sections rather than one satisfying structure, and the pods don't hit their full visual impact unless you're stacking this alongside another set. Community reception has been lukewarm, with some longtime Marvel builders calling this the thinnest Hall of Armor yet even as they praised the redesigned Igor mech.

Who it's for

If you collect Iron Man minifigures and don't already have an Iron Patriot or an Aldrich Killian on your shelf, this is worth grabbing for the lineup alone. If you're chasing the big, immersive lab experience the earlier sets promised, I'd temper your expectations or look at picking up the older version instead.

The parts story

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

Building this one feels like assembling a handful of small vignettes rather than one continuous project. You knock out Dum-E first, then the scanning device, then the maintenance platform, then the three armor pods, and finally the Igor mech, and each section only takes you a few minutes. It's a snack-sized build, pleasant but never demanding, and the Igor mech is genuinely the highlight since its ball joints let you pose it in a proper battle stance with the cockpit popping open for a minifigure pilot.

The minifigures are where the real value sits. The MK6 Iron Man carries the transparent blue arc reactor head from earlier releases, the MK43 has a double sided HUD head, and Pepper Potts gets a double sided expression too. Iron Patriot's return marks its first reissue since 2013 with cleaner color blocking, and Aldrich Killian comes back bare chested in his Extremis form, also last seen over a decade ago. Printed slope pieces stand in for the display armor's helmets, and the arc reactor glow effects lean on stickers rather than prints, which is the one spot where the budget clearly shows.

Fun facts

  • 01This is LEGO's newest take on the Hall of Armor concept, following an earlier Iron Man armory set from 2019 that packed in roughly 140 more pieces at a similar price.
  • 02Iron Patriot makes his first LEGO reissue since 2013, arriving with a noticeably cleaner paint scheme than his original minifigure.
  • 03Aldrich Killian returns as a minifigure for the first time since the original Iron Man 3 sets over a decade ago, still in his bare-chested Extremis form.
  • 04The Igor MK38 mech was redesigned for this release with an opening cockpit built to actually seat an Iron Man minifigure inside.

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