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Comic-Con's Last Day Delivers: Doomsday Assembles, Batman Broods, DREAMZzz Refuses to Die

San Diego Comic-Con closes with LEGO saving its biggest cards for last. Five Avengers: Doomsday sets debut new-to-brick villains ahead of December's movie, a shrouded teaser points to a Batman Returns Batmobile, and DREAMZzz proves very much alive with an oddball Dragon and Fast & Furious mashup nobody predicted.

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LEGO Unveils Five Avengers: Doomsday Sets, Led by Doctor Doom Bust

Marvel's LEGO line keeps building toward December's Doomsday movie: five new sets debut new-to-brick characters like Mystique, Nightcrawler, and Sentry, headlined by a 379-piece Doctor Doom Bust ($49.99, September 1). The rest, including a New Avengers Tower and Quinjet, follows October 4.

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Minty Take

Five sets in one wave says LEGO is leaning hard into December's movie. The sharper signal is the mini-modulars line finally moving past Spider-Man: a sign of built-out infrastructure for the whole Marvel theme. Add the Doctor Doom Bust's included minifigure, and this reads like a line LEGO wants around long after Doomsday leaves theaters.

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LEGO DREAMZzz Returns With Dragon, Fast & Furious Crossover Teaser

Just when DREAMZzz looked finished, LEGO teases an unlikely three-way mashup: How to Train Your Dragon and The Fast and the Furious collide in the Dream World, with dream-crafted street cars racing Berk's dragons before a Nightmare King turns things savage. No sets or air date confirmed yet, per the teaser.

Minty Take

DREAMZzz going quiet this summer read like the end. Instead, LEGO is using the Dream World as connective tissue for two totally unrelated franchises, more a licensing hub than a story with its own momentum. That's a real second life for the theme. Whether it satisfies fans who liked DREAMZzz for its own mythology is the open question.

Batmobile

LEGO Teases New Batman Returns Batmobile Set

LEGO's Adults Welcome page teased a shrouded Batmobile under the Batman Returns banner, with a caption nodding to the film's Batmissile chase scene. Promobricks reports the set, numbered 76355, could top 2,000 pieces. No official reveal yet, but the teaser reads like more than a simple recolor.

Minty Take

Batman Returns is 34 years old, no anniversary, no reissue driving it. That LEGO's teasing a transforming Batmissile anyway says the Batman catalog has enough gravity now to pull straight from film history rather than wait for a marketing tie-in. If it lands, this is exactly the kind of adult-set curiosity the line has chased since the '89 Batmobile.

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Trend Watch

San Diego Comic-Con Is LEGO's Summer Reveal Stage

This week alone, SDCC hosted Avengers: Doomsday, the X-Files Ideas set details, Shrek's new CMF line, and a Batman teaser, on top of Star Trek and Donkey Kong looks earlier in the show. What started as a fan convention with exclusive variants has become LEGO's de facto July showcase, running parallel to the traditional January and August product waves rather than competing with them.

The Marvel Bust Collection Is Becoming a Real Sub-Line

Doctor Doom is bust number four since the format launched last year with Spider-Man, Iron Man, and Venom. A new entry roughly every few months, each timed to movie release windows, points to an ongoing product line rather than a one-off experiment. If the cadence holds, expect the next bust to land alongside Marvel's next big theatrical push.

DREAMZzz Leans on Crossovers to Stay Relevant

DREAMZzz skipped a new summer wave entirely this year, the clearest sign yet the theme was winding down. Reviving it through licensed characters instead of original sets mirrors how LEGO extended Ninjago's shelf life with outside collaborations years into its run. Whether physical sets follow this teaser, or the crossover stays a content-only play, should become clear once retail listings appear.

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