Avengers: Doomsday sets go live, led by 76352 New Avengers Tower

Four Avengers: Doomsday sets are live, and 76352 is the one with a building in its name

The Avengers: Doomsday wave is now on sale in the online shop. Brickset reported it on 3 October, and The Brick Fan followed on 4 October. Both say the same thing at heart: the sets can be bought today, not just previewed.

The set that stands out on the list is 76352 Avengers: Doomsday New Avengers Tower. The name alone tells you what kind of product this is. It is a location set, a place to display heroes, not a single vehicle or a single fight. Collectors who like to put a Marvel base on the shelf will notice it first.

It sits next to 76348 Epic Battle: Avengers: Doomsday, which Brickset names as the second headline set. The name points to the action side of the wave, a scene rather than a landmark. Between the two, the line-up already covers the two things Marvel sets usually try to do: give you a place, and give you a fight.

That is about all the hard detail the two reports share. We prefer to say so now than to pad it out later.

Two fan sites agree on the launch and only differ in how they count

Brickset says there are four new Avengers: Doomsday sets. The Brick Fan says there are three regular sets based on scenes from the upcoming film, plus a BrickHeadz set featuring four of the characters. Those two descriptions fit together: three regular sets and one BrickHeadz set make a wave of four.

So this is not a contradiction. One site counts everything in the wave. The other splits the wave by type. If you saw a headline saying three and another saying four, that is the whole explanation.

What the sources do not give us is the full list. Brickset names two sets. The Brick Fan names one more in the part of the post we have: 40880 Avengers: Doomsday Heroes & Villain. The third regular set is not named in either excerpt, so we will not name it either. We would rather leave a gap than fill it with a guess.

One more caution. The Brick Fan lists 40880 first, but the excerpt does not say whether it is the BrickHeadz set. The name, with four characters implied by a heroes and villain line-up, makes that plausible. Plausible is not confirmed, so treat it as a likely reading and nothing more.

76348 Epic Battle and 76352 New Avengers Tower are the two names we can pin down

Here is the short list of what is solid. 76348 is called Epic Battle: Avengers: Doomsday. 76352 is called Avengers: Doomsday New Avengers Tower. Both are in the shop as of 3 October. Brickset says so directly, and The Brick Fan's report of a full wave on sale is consistent with it.

That is a thinner base than we like for an analysis piece. Normally we would set the new set against the rest of the theme: how its part count compares, how many minifigures it carries, where it sits in the Marvel catalogue. None of those figures are in front of us for these sets, and the sources do not carry them. So we do not state them.

You will see other sites quote part counts and figure lists within hours of a launch. Some will be right. We will add ours once we can check them against the box and our own records. Until then, the honest summary is: the name and number are confirmed, the specifications are not.

A BrickHeadz set with four characters says this wave is aimed beyond the display shelf

The BrickHeadz entry is the most interesting detail in the wave, and not because of what we know about it. It is interesting because of where it sits. A wave with three scene-based sets and one BrickHeadz set is trying to reach two different buyers.

The first buyer wants a build with story in it: a battle, a tower, a moment from the film. The second wants a compact, stylised shelf piece that shows several characters in one go. BrickHeadz does that well. It is a format built for lining up a team, and four characters in one set suits an ensemble film.

The Brick Fan says the set features four of the characters, not all of them. That wording matters. It tells us the film's cast is larger than what fits in one BrickHeadz box, and it hints that choices were made about who gets in. We do not know who, and we will not guess. Cast lists are exactly the kind of detail that gets leaked, argued over and then corrected.

If you collect Marvel in several formats, this is the set to watch for how it is received. It is the one that could sit on a desk rather than a display unit.

The film is still upcoming, so these sets are built on scenes nobody has watched

Both sources describe the sets as based on scenes from the upcoming movie. That is worth pausing on. You are being asked to buy a model of a moment you cannot yet see in context.

This is normal for film tie-ins, but it changes how we read a launch like this one. A set called Epic Battle is a promise of spectacle, not a record of it. The same goes for a tower: we do not yet know how central it is to the story, or whether it appears for five minutes or for the whole film.

We are not saying that is a reason to skip the wave. Plenty of collectors buy on theme and on the quality of the model, and the film adds context later. We are saying that the usual shortcut of judging a set by how well it recreates a famous scene is not available here. You are judging on name, on format and on faith.

That is a perfectly good way to buy. It just helps to know you are doing it.

Astro Bot 40899 is still on offer, which is the odd detail of the week

Both reports mention the same extra: 40899 Astro Bot is still available as a gift with purchase. It is worth a line because it is unrelated to Marvel, and because it affects how you might plan an order.

The two sources describe the spend threshold in different currencies and do not agree on a single figure. We do not discuss prices or promotions in amounts, so we leave the numbers to the shop page. What matters is the structure: the Doomsday sets count towards a qualifying basket, and the Astro Bot comes on top.

Our view is simple. A gift with purchase is a bonus, not a reason. If you were already planning to buy one of these sets, check the shop's current conditions before you check out. If you were not, a free extra does not make a set you do not want a good idea. Both sites are clear that the offer is still running as of their posts, but offers like this end without much warning.

We will not guess part counts, and you should be wary of anyone who does

There is a temptation, when a new wave lands, to fill the space with estimates. A tower in a Marvel theme must be big, a battle set must have plenty of figures, and so on. We have seen that kind of writing, and it ages badly.

Part counts decide almost everything we care about: how long the build takes, how much shelf you need, how the set compares with the older Marvel releases in our database. Without the number, any comparison is decoration. The same applies to the minifigure list, which is what tells you whether a set is worth it for the characters alone.

So here is our position. For 76352 and 76348 we have names, numbers and availability. We do not have parts, figures or dimensions from the sources, and we will not supply them from habit. When we do, this page will carry them, with the comparison to the rest of the theme that you would expect from us.

What we would check before ordering, and what we would wait for

If you are a Marvel collector, the practical advice is short. First, decide which format you want: scene-based sets or the BrickHeadz entry. They answer different needs and they do not replace each other.

Second, look at the full set list in the shop rather than relying on headlines. The reports we have name only some of the sets, and the shop is the one place that lists all of them at once.

Third, wait for the part counts and figure lists if you buy on value. They are on the box and the shop page, and they will be in our database soon enough. If you buy on theme, you already have what you need.

Finally, if the Astro Bot extra interests you, read the conditions on the shop page yourself. Do not rely on a fan site's summary, including ours. It is the one detail in this story that can change between a post being written and you reading it.

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