This is too small and doesn't match the size and scale of the newer marvel items at this price point over the previous years. You may have picked that up from pervious reviews. Disappointing and strange. From my son's perspective and me as a parent this was one of the most anticipated legos ever. It combined lego fans, with marvel fans, with X-men fans for an over priced flop. Hence the title "taken advantage of." Comic book legos fans are absolutely suffering with horrible rehashed avengers lego sets, or just horrible sets that mirror the state of MCU that no one wants. Lego is offeringy absolutely nothing in terms of DC sets minus run of the mirror contractual batman fodder. People have to spend money on this garbage X-Mansion because they are desperate and it's the best of the recent garbage. In the meantime one sees the most magnificent Harry Potter sets at what seems like a fraction of the price vs Super Hero sets. What teenage kid (...or who really?) wants Harry Potter? They have to throw away or hide the Potter figures and not use the stickers. If this X-mansion set was any good with all the hype it had and everything it had going for it, then it would be sold out for Christmas! I expect one could be patient and get it when the discount prices start popping up to help clear the shelves of space. It would be a deserving discount apology. An apology that does no one any good who bought it full price already.

As a big fan of Lego modular buildings and X-Men, I was extremely excited for this set when it was announced, so it was a day one purchase. Like many, I was disappointed by the size when the images were released, however I hoped the build experience would exceed those expectations.

Unfortunately the build experience on this one is dull, repetitive, and has many rather flimsy sections compared to the typical modular building experience. Lots of small pieces that feel unnecessarily added and eat up some of the already minimal (for the cost) piece count. To say the building is tiny is an understatement. It would have taken a minimal increase in piece count to increase the height or depth to something that felt like a set of this cost and piece count, and fit next to other modular sets as intended.

It is packed full of detail. That is, quite literally packed, leaving almost no room for anything else. It feels like a big shell for easter eggs, which usually come in the form of a sticker placed somewhere. The references felt more like cheap call outs than actual references.

There were some interesting building techniques throughout the set but overall it was brought down by the fact that each room feels too small and the use of space outside is not great. furthermore, the constant use of stickers takes away from a set that already has issues and makes it feel like you have to stop every few minutes during the build to carefully apply the stickers. The mini figures were somewhat interesting in that Gambit, Iceman, and Bishop are all original and unique to this set but the remaining Minifigures are not unique and are the exact same or downgrades from other previous cheaper sets or CMF. Overall while the build has interesting sections, the mansion itself is pretty plain and uses some very common pieces in normal colors. The use of common and already readily available pieces makes you question the price and what it is exactly you are paying this high price for.

The price is extremely high for a set that is surprisingly small, it only has 3 truly unique minifigures out of 10, and the overall build of the mansion is ok, slowed by constant stickers, and with various small often unusable rooms.

I was excited about the set when I bought it but the above mentioned problems combined with a few missing pieces brought the overall grade down for me and made me question the value for the price.

Lego is almost always getting some degree of hate, but never from me. Until now.
This set made me sad and angry. There are 3093 pieces in this set, many, MANY of which are actually just filler. One would expect quality bricks in this set of a building, but one would be wrong. Instead, there are 50+ pieces of 1x1 pieces that you have to mush together to get anything. To build the corners of the mansion's building sections, you don't get the regular corner pieces or many solid pieces - you have to painstakingly piece together the 1x1 & 1x2 plate pieces to 'layer' the build. Who has the time to align each of those? You think that's fun?

SO many dinky building pieces. For the cost, you would think there would be a few pieces of the mansion gardens to set the scene. You'd be wrong.

Best part of the set are the minifigures and the gear to pose them - the mansion is just the backdrop. What a waste of a fantastic opportunity.

For the first time, as a lifelong Lego enjoyer, I am disappointed.