LEGO The Marvel Skyline Set Announced

With New York Comic-Con in full swing between now and October 11, LEGO has taken the opportunity to announce a new Marvel LEGO set. It’s a 1,261-piece set called The Marvel Skyline, and it's an ambitious microscale recreation of the most famous buildings in the Marvel universe, complete with a Galactus minifigure. Available to preorder now (see it at LEGO), it will be released January 1 for $99.99.

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. …