WHAT IF? LEGO Set Reveals Insane New Take On Iron Man's Hulkbuster Armor As Tony Stark Heads To Sakaar

WHAT IF? LEGO Set Reveals Insane New Take On Iron Man's Hulkbuster Armor As Tony Stark Heads To Sakaar

"What If Tony Stark Went To Sakaar Instead Of The Hulk?" It seems that will be the premise of an upcoming episode of What If? based on a crazy new LEGO set that reveals a vastly different take on Iron Man.

By JoshWilding - Jun 03, 2021 12:06 AM EST
Filed Under: What If

We were hoping some merchandise for What If? might be revealed soon, and that's now come our way courtesy of a very cool LEGO set. "Tony Stark's Sakaarian Iron Man" is a new take on the Hulkbuster that seemingly explores what would have happened had the Armored Avenger decided to blast himself into outer space instead of Bruce Banner at the end of Avengers: Age of Ultron.

Finding himself in The Grandmaster's arena, it seems Iron Man would have built himself a Hulkbuster armour from the colourful technology on the planet (finding an ally in Valkyrie just as The Hulk did). 

We don't know how close this LEGO set will be to what we see on screen, though we are intrigued to find out whether Tony is able to transform that armour into a hot rod he races around Sakaar.

A synopsis for the show was shared during last year's Disney Investor Day, revealing: "'What If…?' flips the script on the MCU, reimagining famous events from the films in unexpected ways."

"Coming to Disney+ in summer 2021, Marvel Studios’ first animated series focuses on different heroes from the MCU," it continues, "featuring a voice cast that includes a host of stars who reprise their roles. The series is directed by Bryan Andrews; Ashley Bradley is head writer."

Yesterday, it was confirmed that What If? will premiere in August, though an August 6 debut reported by other sites was quickly debunked by Disney (which is why we didn't run with it here). 

Check out a closer look at this LEGO set below:
 

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dracula
dracula - 6/3/2021, 12:28 AM
Car turning into robot suit on an alien planet..........we have the hook for the next Fast and Furiou smovie
GreedoSarducci
GreedoSarducci - 6/4/2021, 6:38 AM
@dracula - Í thought that was already the plot for the next one.
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 6/3/2021, 12:32 AM
"that seemingly explores what would have happened had the Armored Avenger decided to blast himself into outer space instead of Bruce Banner"

Wait, so this doesn't pick up after Stark flew the nuke through the portal in Avengers? That would've been beeter, because right now it really feels like "what if character x was character y instead?"

Anyway, wonder what Civil War looks like without Stark.
Origame
Origame - 6/3/2021, 3:22 AM
@bkmeijer - yeah. That would've been a great way to handle it. This really isn't the what if from the comics but is more along the lines of elseworlds from DC. Which is fine, but not really what's advertised.

As for civil war without stark, I think that could be interesting since banner would be there instead. Imagine what the accords would do to address the hulk. It'd probably be less heroes vs heroes and more heroes vs the government.
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 6/3/2021, 3:53 AM
@Origame - now that I think about, Zemo's whole plot might not even work with Stark present. So yeah, it probably would've been just heroes vs. the government
Razorface1
Razorface1 - 6/3/2021, 10:02 AM
@bkmeijer - Did Bruce even decide to blast himself into outer space? Wasn't it an accident? And Stark wasn't even there, it wasn't a big decision, why the hell would he do it?
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 6/3/2021, 11:00 AM
@Razorface1 - I'm willing to bet the What If episode is gonna offer some answer to how the Quinjet ended up on Sakaar
JFerguson
JFerguson - 6/3/2021, 12:38 AM
This premise sounds so lame.
But RDJ interacting with Jeff Goldblum could be fun

dracula
dracula - 6/3/2021, 12:53 AM
So wait did they ever explain how Hulk got there. How did he get that jet into space
MarDCel
MarDCel - 6/3/2021, 1:09 AM
@dracula - his quinjet from the end of Age of Ultron ended up flying to space and going thru some devil's anus. I think.
dracula
dracula - 6/3/2021, 1:14 AM
@MarDCel - since when could the quinjet go into space though?
MarDCel
MarDCel - 6/3/2021, 3:12 AM
@dracula - since the writers decided so lol 🤷‍♂️
SnideCut
SnideCut - 6/3/2021, 12:57 AM
I actually really dig this premise. Sakaar is like heaven for an inventor like Stark. He made an Iron Man suit out of metal scrap. Imagine the shit he could build in Sakaar. Here's hoping we get some more Stark engineering scenes.
Repian
Repian - 6/3/2021, 1:01 AM

So is the armor a transformer?


dragon316
dragon316 - 6/3/2021, 3:30 AM
@Repian - most of his armor was always transformer look in comics hulk buster nano armor
OmegaDaGrodd
OmegaDaGrodd - 6/3/2021, 3:55 AM
Now THIS is an actual cool concept
QuiGonsGhost
QuiGonsGhost - 6/3/2021, 5:54 AM
Like the LEGO rendition of Tony's Black Sabbath shirt, and how Valkyrie has a glass bottle in the one image
KnifeWasTooSlow
KnifeWasTooSlow - 6/3/2021, 7:31 AM
@QuiGonsGhost - IKR the classic scuba lego helmet is a nice touch.
mattallica
mattallica - 6/3/2021, 8:06 AM
I see all these "news sites" just regurgitate the same info without any thought as they all speculate that this set would be based on the premise of "what would have happened had the Armored Avenger decided to blast himself into outer space instead of Bruce Banner"
well if Stark had gone INSTEAD of Banner there wouldnt be any need for a "hulkbuster" armor on Sakaar as there wouldnt be a Hulk on Sakaar.
it should be something like what if stark ended up on sakaar instead of Thor
CAPTAINPINKEYE
CAPTAINPINKEYE - 6/3/2021, 5:44 PM
What if Disney didn’t buy Marvel.
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