Review: LEGO Marvel 76314 Captain America: Civil War Action Battle
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Following the generally positive reception to last year’s 76291 Avengers Assemble: Age of Ultron, LEGO is continuing to release more dioramas based on iconic MCU battle scenes. ‘
2025 brings 76314 Captain America: Civil War Action Battle, based on the climactic airport battle from the third Captain America film. The contrasts with 2016’s 76051 Super Hero Airport Battle are also immediately apparent, but can this set stand on its own merits? Let’s take a closer look and find out!
76314 Captain America: Civil War Action Battle Set Details
76314
Captain America: Civil War Action Battle
8 (Captain America, Winter Soldier, Iron Man, Black Panther, Black Widow, Falcon, Spider-Man, Scarlet Witch)
736
US$99.99 / AU$149.99 / €99.99 / £89.99 / CAD$129.99
1 January 2025
Unboxing
The box is fairly standard, with an action-packed image showing off the airport battle on the front. The back of the box has a couple cut-out graphics for the two play features.
Inside are three instruction manuals, six numbered bags, a sticker sheet, and two loose plates plus one web rubber piece.
The three instruction manuals allow for group building which is a nice touch, and are divided between the three models in the set.
The sticker sheet has 22 stickers, although thankfully most were relatively easy to apply.
Build Process
Bag 1 includes Black Widow and the Winter Soldier minifigures, and builds the Quinjet in its entirety.
Bag 2 adds Captain America and Iron Man, along with the torso of the Giant-Man figure.
Bag 3 adds the legs of Giant-Man…
…and bag 4 completes the model by adding the head and arms. Pretty standard build process for the modern-day brick-built Construction Figures, although it’s a little weird to see it in a regular playset.
Bag 5 adds Black Panther and Scarlet Witch, along with the flat base of the airport model.
Finally, bag 6 adds Spider-Man and Falcon, and completes the airport build. It was a fairly unremarkable build process – nothing proved particularly difficult or memorable. Fans who have bought one of the brick-built construction figures before will undoubtedly find the Giant-Man build familiar, which is a bit of a shame as it makes up around 50% of the build.
Minifigures
The minifigure selection is quite expansive, starting with Iron Man and Captain America. The Iron Man MK46 minifigure is an exclusive updated variant, sporting the modernised helmet mold. It looks good and is definitely more accurate, although I think the torso print is slightly less detailed than its 2016 predecessor.
Captain America is the same Age of Ultron/Civil War variant that has appeared in a few sets now, but still looks pretty decent with a nice helmet element. Some dual-molded boots would have gone a long way to upgrade this figure.
Up next are Black Widow and Bucky Barnes. The Bucky minifigure has been widely criticised in the LEGO community, most notably for the lack of a printed silver arm which is a crucial element of the character design – every prior Winter Soldier minifigure has sported a printed left arm, so its omission here is disappointing. The smiley face and choice of black for the hairpiece is also questionable. It’s not without its redeeming qualities, though – the torso print looks great and the angry alternate face suits him better.
Meanwhile, Black Widow reuses her existing head, torso, and leg prints, but paired with her older-style hairpiece from 2012. She comes with a pair of black nozzle pieces which are meant to represent her batons, but could work as small pistols too.
Scarlet Witch is another figure with an inexplicable downgrade – her figure previously appeared in 76266 Endgame Final Battle and 76269 Avengers Tower, but this version is missing her cloth waist skirt element which is a strange omission. The use of trans-pink flame pieces to represent her magic is a creative reuse, but I am not entirely convinced by its accuracy either.
This Black Panther figure is a new variant for 2025, also appearing in one other set. It looks alright, although I still prefer the 2016 version which had printing on the head/ear piece.
Our final two minifigures are Spider-Man and Falcon. Spider-Man has the MCU head and torso piece that looks great – including printed arms – and the dual-molded legs look fine too. However, this minifigure features another strange downgrade: previous versions of MCU Spider-Man featured leg printing on top of the dual-molded boots, and given that this figure would otherwise be a reuse, the choice to swap them out for a non-printed alternative is bizarre. Spider-Man comes with a rubbery white piece meant to represent his webbing.,
The Falcon minifigure’s base design is repeated from 76269 Avengers Tower, but sports a new brick-built wing design that necessitates five stickers. It looks quite good and is fairly poseable, but I would have preferred the mold introduced in the Marvel CMF Series 1.
The minifigure selection is strong on paper, with eight named minifigures, several of which feature new prints. However, the execution and inconsistent levels of detail leaves much to be desired.
Completed Model
The first build in the set is the Quinjet. While the Quinjet model included in the 2016 Super Hero Airport Battle was criticised for being undersized, this model takes it to the next level!
To accommodate a minifigure, the proportions of the Quinjet have been greatly stretched, resulting in a signficantly oversized cockpit section! The shaping is surprisingly good around the rest of the body, though, with an abundance of curved slopes and tiles used towards the rear.
The model looks decent from the back too, apart from the oversized cockpit section that still peeks over the bodywork. Some trans-blue elements are used to represent the engine thruster glow.
The cockpit itself can barely fit a minifigure lying down; no controls are included. The cockpit glass itself is a Speed Champions element in trans-blue, with a pair of stickers for additional details.
The second build in the set is Giant-Man himself. This model uses the brick-built construction figure template, standing about 24cm (9.5″) tall. The dark red and black colour scheme looks good, with three stickers used on the torso.
Unfortunately, we have already gotten a brick-built Ant-Man construction figure at this scale just two years ago – 76256 Ant-Man Construction Figure, which retailed for just US$30. Despite some minor differences in design, the models are still pretty similar and it’s disappointing to see a $30 set from a couple years ago reappearing as one of the main builds in a $100 set. Personally, I much preferred the brick-built giant minifigure design from 2016, which makes more sense in-universe as Giant-Man is meant to be Ant-Man but scaled up.
The model has decent poseability, with a rotating waist and elbows along with ball joints at the neck, hips, knees, and ankles. However, the range of motion for the legs is limited forward-to-back, due to the angle of the ankle joints. This was a bit of a negative surprise, as usually LEGO action figures at this scale are very poseable.
The model looks quite good from the back, without any obtrusive colours. A Technic connector is present at the back which allows you to attach minifigures using the clear bar piece included.
A stud connection on each of the hands also allows Giant-Man to grip a minifigure, although the shape of the hand makes the grip look a bit unrealistic.
The head is probably my least favourite part of the model. It uses the modern construction figure head mold which I do not like, despite a nice print for the eyes and visor. Some brick-built detail is used around the edges in an attempt to replicate the Ant-Man helmet design, but the overall shaping is still lacking especially from a front-facing angle.
Giant-Man has anti-studs on the underside of his feet which allows him to attach to the main model.
The final build is the airport itself, sporting a flat design that has plenty of open space to pose the figures in battle. It measures about 21cm (8″) wide so is pretty reasonably sized, but the base and walls are both very very thin which makes it feel a bit insubstantial.
Some stickers are used to good effect, which helps to denote this set as an airport. The hangar in the movie that stores the Quinjet is represented here with a horizontally-mounted plate with a sticker denoting it as “Hangar 5”.
There is almost nothing to see around the back of the model, rendering it basically a facade. The control tower has so little depth too, with just a narrow row of studs and a coffee mug which might allow you to squeeze in one or two figures at most.
One play feature is included – a conspicuous black Technic lever sticking out the back allows you to launch the two stickered Roxxon oil barrels in the air. It works fine but the barrels themselves are not connected with any studs, so tend to wobble around when transporting the model.
The base of the airport itself uses angled tiles to represent cracked and destroyed concrete, with some flames and mini traffic cones added for a bit more detail.
The model does come to life when all the builds and minifigures are combined, creating a vibrant fight scene. However, I do not feel this works as well as 76291 Avengers Assemble: Age of Ultron for several reasons: unlike the Age of Ultron scene, Civil War did not have one particular iconic freeze-frame/slow-mo shot for the design team to recreate. Furthermore, the airport and Quinjet have been far too downsized in comparison to the minifigures, making the contrast look fairly comical.
Here’s how the model looks from the back, in case you were curious – it definitely is meant to be displayed only from the front, but that is fair enough.
Final Thoughts
I am a big fan of the airport battle scene from Captain America: Civil War, but unfortunately have been left relatively disappointed by 76314 Captain America: Civil War Action Battle.
The minifigure selection includes a vast lineup of desirable characters, but some disappointing design choices inexplicably lower the level of detail, which could have been easily fixed by adding a couple of existing pieces.
The builds are also not particularly appealing – the undersized airport and Quinjet look too clearly downscaled next to the minifigures, while the Giant-Man construction figure design will come down to personal preference. I’m not convinced of the set’s US$100 price tag either – around half of the build process is devoted to the Giant-Man figure, when a similar one retailed for US$30 just two years ago. I anticipate this set will still sell well for fans of Civil War and new Marvel minifigure collectors looking to get plenty of major MCU minifigures, but I would probably hold off for a decent discount unless the minifigure lineup is something you particularly desire.
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