Sheng Yuan 1169: Iron Man Armory Builds and Minifigs for Hall of Armor Review

Really just sucks because there are no new marks..


It's more or less just a combination of SY213 and  SY 1103. The figs here are practically identical to 1103's minifigs, with even the same accessories and blast pieces, but 1169 does offer additional armor.

Box[es] was relatively bigger than minifig boxes and it's understandable why. Still, like for most brick sets, the box could've been smaller to save room and cardboard.


Pretty detailed look except they didn't show the extra armor accessories.


Still no sign of the armor.


False advertising? The real mask isn't colored orange and goes lower than what's on the box art.


The blast pieces. The usual blue (usual Iron Man blast color), red, and orange. Wish we got more colors, but these are what we're getting. Box art shows which marks get which colored blast pieces.


For the review I won't be building the extra wings anymore because 1) personal preference not to build them anymore



If you don't need it to be modular or easily removable from one another, you can just choose not to use the bottom plate of the armory builds above; you can directly build on the roof of the bottom armory. This will remove that weird gap in between the two plates.


Thanks to the hinge pieces the armory builds can close as far as what you can see in the picture.


Thanks to the hinges again, you can tilt the hall of armor in certain angles to make room or to just make it look better.

The instructions for those who might want to recreate this thing without buying.

Each armory comes with two optional hinge pieces. Thanks, SY being generous with parts. Then, you can coose to replace the 2x1 brick plate under the grey slope (like I did) or under the roof plate. Additionally, if you don't want to replace, do it similar to what mybrickstore.blogspot.com and just place it under the roof without replacing anything. Additionally, all the parts above the roof have to be removed to stack up with other armories.

Now for the minifigs. In terms of quality, both print and plastic, these are great. The designs aren't too exciting though considering they're remakes of recently released figs too.

It's great to have extra Iron Man figs but again, newer designs could've been more appreciated. Or even just old designs that have become rare..

(In the picture: KF549)
The armors included look great, but they're not really from Stark, and instead from Halo's UNSC Spartans. Which is why the armor isn't a huge deal for me as a Marvel collector, but as a minifig enthusiast I absolutely love them. I honestly thought though that Kopf would reuse SY's MJOLNIR (Halo Spartans' suits) for their Halo figs, but surprisingly and thankfully they instead made new ones.

I highly recommend checking out this old review of SY213 from mybrickstore.blogspot.com. It's really the same thing which is great if you're planning to expand from these old ones but not so ideal if you want something truly new.

For those who think that the figs are irrelevant because of their redundancy, well I understand. An option, if you're just interested in the armory, is to bricklink. I've provided the instructions above to help you out. For those in the Philippines, AngeloMarcus Greenhills will reportedly be selling just the armories (no minifigs) which could be a great option for those who don't need the same marks over and over.

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