LEGO The Marvel Skyline Set Announced

LEGO Marvel: The Marvel Skyline includes tiny builds of numerous buildings from the Marvel universe — more than are obvious at a glance. It has the Daily Bugle building from Spider-Man, the Avengers Tower, the Baxter Building from Fantastic 4, and Kingpin’s Fisk Tower, and a lot more besides.

In addition to the buildings, a number of creatures and vehicles are flying through the air. There’s the Avengers Quinjet, the Fantastic 4’s Excelsior ship, and the X-Men’s X-Jet. A microscale Human Torch is making a figure four in the air above the Baxter Building, and there’s even a Chitauri Leviathan swooping around. A microscale version of Spider-Man is also included.

I know some LEGO fans aren’t fond of microscale sets, but I like them. The super-small sale requires an extra level of creativity in the design, in order to make recognizable things with such a small number of tiny pieces.

Details

The scale here is such that the Galactus minifigure looks positively huge among the buildings, which is fitting for the character. Basically, the set packs a lot of detail into a small amount of space — and a relatively small number of bricks, for what it depicts.

If you’re more of a minifigure-scale fan, LEGO released the Avengers: Doomsday New Avengers Tower (see it at Amazon) just a few days ago as one of the October releases. For more, check out the three recently announced LEGO Batman sets (including a legitimately terrifying Joker wall art), and take a look at our picks for the best Marvel LEGO sets available to buy right now.