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Nostalgia sets that must earn the footprint, advent calendar gaps, and Mayhem shelves that quietly multiply by Christmas.
The LEGO desk is brick honesty: skipped advent calendars, Joker Mayhem impulse checks, grey-console builds, and sets that sell a face instead of a build. Expect scale warnings against the Batman shelf you already own. If it is only a photo, wait for a price dip. Advent skips are slot decisions, not forgotten franchises. Buy modular play you will open on your schedule before you invent a third-party calendar as equivalent. Listings below keep the latest brick briefs together so collectibles noise from statues and cards does not bury the build decisions you still have to fund. If you are new here, start with the newest listing, check the footprint, and treat every price as something you can verify before Christmas clears your budget.
LEGO 67006 The Marvel Skyline is a 1,261-piece microscale Marvel Manhattan for $99.99, revealed at NYCC and shipping January 1, 2027. A guide to who lives in which building, plus how it compares on price with LEGO's new 67xxx Batman sets.
LEGO's 2027 Batman sets, 67009 Arkham Batmobile, 67008 Batman Returns Batmobile & Duck, and 67012 Joker Wall Art, ship January 1. The $59.99 Duck set is the real get, and the Joker is the bold one.
LEGO Ideas 21371 Wallace & Gromit is available now: 1,038 pieces, $99.99, and the Close Shave motorbike duo as an adult display build.
The LEGO Group and Toei Animation unveil set 11390, Shenron & Goku, as the first official Dragon Ball LEGO Icons release. Insiders get November 1 early access; everyone else gets November 4.
Deluxe Mayhem lands today with Joker, Harley, an Arkham escape mission, and the Sinister Pack. Physical Switch 2 Deluxe still dangled the Retro Video Game Batman minifigure while supplies lasted.
Bikini Bottom and the Enterprise Bridge already ate the Icons photos. The bust still has to earn the same shelf without a playset alibi.
LEGO Ideas set 21373 recreates Highclere Castle with 13 Season 6 minifigures for $349.99, opening to Insiders on October 1 and to everyone on October 4.
LEGO Icons 11386 Bikini Bottom ($219.99) shares September oxygen with Star Trek's Enterprise Bridge and the Batman Returns Batmobile. Sunday shelf politics for grown-up brick.
LEGO Icons 11386 SpongeBob SquarePants: Bikini Bottom ($219.99) landed in the Sept 1 wave beside Star Trek's Enterprise Bridge and the Batman Returns Batmobile. Grown-up shelf space for a pineapple house.
LEGO PlayStation set 72306: 1,911 pieces, $179.99, Insiders October 1 / general October 4, functional buttons, plug-in controller, Gran Turismo and Ape Escape dioramas. Collectibles SKU filing.
LEGO 77094 Link & Epona lands from the Zelda 40th Direct: 1,750 pieces, rearing horse, Master Sword, adult display model, spring 2027. Price still unprinted. The remake aisle already has a cartridge clock.
LEGO 72306 PlayStation hits Insiders and PlayStation Direct October 1, public October 4: 1,911 pieces, $179.99 RRP, Ape Escape and Gran Turismo drawers. Twenty-four days of measuring the shelf.
LEGO Avengers: Doomsday playsets street October 4: Quinjet 76347 ($59.99), Epic Battle 76348 ($99.99), New Avengers Tower 76352 ($109.99). Doom Bust 76345 already hit September 1.
LEGO Icons 11386 SpongeBob SquarePants: Bikini Bottom is a 1,794-piece September street at $219.99: pineapple, Moai, rock, Jellyfish Fields, exclusive to LEGO channels.
Set 72306 is official after State of Play: 1,911 pieces, $179.99, Insiders October 1, public October 4. Ape Escape and Gran Turismo hide under the lid.
Set 76355 streets to the public September 4 at $229.99 and 2,269 pieces. LEGO Insiders opened September 1. The first Batman Returns Batmobile in bricks is no longer a membership perk.
71053 Shrek Collectible Minifigures streets today at $4.99 a blind bag, the first licensed CMF of 2026, on the same morning as three adult Icons sets. Shrek 5 is dated June 30, 2027. The swamp is a till SKU now.
Set 76355 is 2,269 pieces and $229.99. Insiders Sept 1, everyone Sept 4. The 1992 car finally arrives as bricks, and the product is the moment the sides fall off.
Back to Hogwarts starts Saturday: Mini Hogwarts 40975 is $39.99 and 700 pieces. The Ministry we already covered. September 1 brings five advents and none of them Potter.
Gamescom Aug 26 refresh: eight minifigure sets street Jan 1, 2027. Mario's Pipe Jump is $9.99 and 61 pieces. Kids wanted to be Mario, not to scan him.
Executor Super Star Destroyer 75457: 6,130 pieces, $799.99, 53.5 inches long. Insiders October 1. All six Empire bounty hunters in one box for the first time. The ship is the excuse.
3,491 pieces, 14 minifigures, Insiders on August 29. Twenty-five years after the first movie, they finally built the building where the story actually happens.
E.T., The X-Files, Pokémon minifigs, and a September 4 Batman Returns car. The brick company is printing the 90s back into the living room.