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Recently quite a few lego blogs have been talking about a rumor that Lego will be producing the winter soldier minifigure in 2015.   I kind of thought if we were going to get one of these, that it would have been when the film was released this summer.

For those of you that do now know, here is a brief history of this character.

“James Buchannan “Bucky” Barnes was an ally to Captain America and assisted him in various missions as a member of the Howling Commandos. During one mission he was seemingly killed in action by falling off a train on the side of a mountain.  However, he survived and was frozen like Rogers. He was revived and received a metal arm, but lost his memory. He was trained to be an assassin and given the code name Winter Soldier, and sent on many missions.

He fought with Captain America, who managed to restore Bucky’s memories. Bucky then re-teamed up with Rogers, and inherited the mantle after Rogers’ death.”

This is per the comic books and more specifically  per Lego lego.wikia.com

Based on all of the rumors that I am hearing, they are going to kill off Rogers in this summers movie and replace him with the Winter Soldier.

This disappoints me a little since you cannot ask for a better Captain America than Chris Evans in my opinion.

Bucky Barnes was also seen in the the Lego Marvel Super Heroes video game and was also released as an exclusive at the 2012 New York Toy Fair in February 2012.  He is currently 7th on the top 100 most expensive Lego Minifigure list.  You can see him on the list below.  I also posted a picture of him next to a standard Captain America from my collection below.

See here Top 100

However, we have not seen any official images of this figure until earlier this week when flickr user “tormentalous” posted these…  See Here

These images were also posted on Imgur and Eurobricks.  See Here , Here and Here.

Based on our first look, it appears to be the comic book version and not the movie version?  I am not sure why.  However, after reading abunch of the posts on Eurobricks, it may be a combination of the figures from both the movie and the comics.  I am not enough of an expert to make a call on this.

A few additional images were posted on Eurobricks yesterday as well that show the back of the figure, the side of the figure and the figure without hair.

I am not sure when this polybag will be released, but the figure looks great from what I can see now.  I have heard rumors that it will be released at the same time as the Lego helicarrier in March and others have said with the Movie next summer.

However, thebrickfan just made this post on eurobricks pointing to here on their site listing out all of the promos for the year.  In this article, it states that the Winter Soldier will be a promo in June.

“The Winter Soldier polybag will be available as a gift with purchase in June while the 76042 Avengers Helicarrier will be available for VIPs in February and public release in March.”

Some other notable sets in the above post include the 71016 Simpson Kwik-E-Mart, the 10248 Ferrari F40, 10247 Ferris Wheel and the 75059 Star Wars UCS Tie FIghter.

It also appears to be packaged in the same way that they package most of the promotional figures, so the above is most likely correct based on this.

This will be a nice addition to the Lego Super Heroes line in my opinion.  I love these characters!

But only time will tell for sure.