Disappointed that you weren’t lucky enough to be drawn to win a SDCC 2013 Exclusive LEGO Spider-Woman or Spider-Man minifigure? Disappointed that you may never own one of these rare figures, as the LEGO Spiderwoman minifigure and LEGO Spider-Man minifigure from the con are selling for well over $350+ each on ebay now? Well, it turns out that the raffles LEGO held at San Diego Comic Con 2013 may not have been as “random” as we were led to believe…

As I run both a LEGO news website and this Marvel website, I’ve been hearing untold amounts of complaining and grumbling about the exclusive 2013 San Diego Comic Con LEGO Spider-Man and Spider-Woman figures ever since they were announced. The SDCC LEGO figures are always a total pain to get (as they have to be won in a raffle) and end up being cost-prohibitive on the aftermarket as a result, so I expected to hear some kvetching about the figures. What I didn’t expect to hear was that the raffle may have been rigged this year.

While the convention was still going on, I started getting Facebook messages and E-Mails from attendees describing strange patterns of the tickets being distributed at San Diego Comic Con–namely, the LEGO Ticket givers would refuse to give the tickets in their hands to adults as they approached the ticket, and instead only gave those tickets to children as they came up in line. I believed the stories but was more than a bit dubious about what they meant, right up until I saw some of the most credible LEGO News sites like Brickset and From Bricks to Bothans reporting in-depth on these skeevy incidents as well.

As I love LEGO, I really would like to resist sensationalistic journalist tendencies and give LEGO the benefit on a doubt. But based on all of the evidence I’ve heard reported from other LEGO sites and the sheer number of convention attendees who reported their observations to me first-hand regarding the same actions taking place by the LEGO Ticket Givers, I honestly do believe that the people LEGO had running their SDCC 2013 giveaways were knowingly and purposely favoring little kids over adult LEGO fans and collectors.

I abjectly loathe the ludicrously small print runs of 200-350 that LEGO produces for these San Diego Comic Con exclusive LEGO minifigures in the first place, but if LEGO is indeed using them as a means of generating interest and publicity in their SDCC Booth and then deliberately choosing a portion of the winners of these coveted minifigures, that strikes me as immensely slimy, low, and reprehensible.

Again, there’s no proof of any wrong-doing at this time, but the evidence that is out there has me convinced enough about the veracity of these events to report them here on Marvel Toy News. If you’re interested in reading the series of in-depth analytical articles regarding the potential intentional cheating taking place in the raffle ticket distribution for the LEGO Marvel and DC minifigures at SDCC 2013, I urge you to read the excellent articles on the subject currently being posted on the highly reputable FBTB blog.

If these allegations about LEGO cheating the system and purposely choosing a portion of who would be allowed to “randomly win” the LEGO SDCC 2013 minifigures exclusives are true, what are your thoughts on this, Marvel fans?

Did you waste hours of your convention experience waiting in line for a drawing that it was predetermined you would have no chance of winning? Does this affect your desire to collect LEGO Marvel sets and minifigures, or do you think that these supposed shenanigans are no big deal? Leave a reply and let us know!