Cue your oohs and aahs, because Lego is giving fans a first look at its upcoming San Diego Comic-Con displays. When visitors step into the Lego booth, they’ll find a brick-built model of the convention floor, along with sneak peeks at new Lego-fied products for Wicked, Stranger Things, DC’s Batman and the Nintendo Game Boy. The toy giant dropped the news on Wednesday, ahead of the four-day event.
Universal and Lego collaborated on six releases inspired by Wicked: For Good, with the new sets available for purchase on Sept. 1. Fans can get a look at Elphaba’s Retreat, Glinda’s Wedding Day, Glinda and Elphaba’s BrickHeadz figures, two Emerald City sets and Glinda and Elphaba in Munchkinland. Prices will range from $20 to $160. Here’s a taste of what’s coming ahead of the film hitting theaters in November:
Here are four of the six upcoming Lego sets with the Wicked movie theme.
Lego and Netflix are also taking us back to the Upside Down before Stranger Things returns for its final season later this year. Made of more than 540 pieces, the collectible BrickHeadz set features Mike, Lucas, Dustin and Will. You can preorder the $40 kit starting Wednesday, ahead of its Oct. 1 release, immortalizing the Hawkins crew no matter what heartache season 5 has in store for us.
If that’s not enough, fans and Comic-Con attendees can check out the details — including facial expressions — on Lego’s DC Batman Arkham Asylum bricks. With nearly 3,000 pieces, the completed set is over a foot high and has inmate cells, two floors and 16 figurines that put characters like Batman, Bane, the Joker, Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy and Catwoman in your hands. This set will be available globally on Sept. 12 and retail for $300 in the US.
Lego’s new Stranger Things BrickHeadz collectibles and Lego’s Arkham Asylum set with the Joker.
And for fans who appreciate classic video games, the Lego Nintendo Game Boy model will also be on display. The 421-piece set bears an uncanny resemblance to the handheld console and is equipped with a Game Pak slot and Lego versions of The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening and Super Mario Land paks. You can switch out the screens on the model to show either the Nintendo start-up screen or one of the game screens. This set will be priced at $60, and you can preorder it ahead of its official global launch on Oct. 1.
Check out this Game Boy made of Lego bricks.
Lego’s Comic-Con experience will also include a scavenger hunt, an exclusive San Diego Lego-Con guidebook and the opportunity to build your own brick booths at the event.
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