Marvel Recreated the Entire Avengers: Doomsday Trailer Brick by Brick, and the LEGO Version Somehow Feels Bigger

Marvel just released an official LEGO version of the first full Avengers: Doomsday trailer, and the whole thing runs shot for shot against the live-action cut that dropped in July. Disney Consumer Products, Marvel Studios, and the LEGO Group built it together as part of their “All Moments Lead to Doomsday” campaign. Real cast voices stay in place, including Robert Downey Jr. delivering Doctor Doom’s lines. The result lasts almost exactly as long as the original, missing only the final countdown clock, and it pulls off a level of precision most fan stop-motion attempts never reach.

It starts the usual way: a tattered sign for Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters sits in the dirt. Then Doctor Doom’s voice booms in over the debris, “Something’s coming. Something we may not be able to deter. Before this day is done, we shall be faced with an unthinkable decision.” The sign, being LEGO, is aged but still legible, while the surrounding clutter is built of LEGO bricks that catch the light and appear slightly cleaner than the real thing. Professor X has just come and is shielding his eyes from a beam of light in the sky. In LEGO form, the blast of light is significantly sharper and brighter, resembling a spotlight, as opposed to the soft glow in live-action.

Doctor Doom appears shortly after, his hood, mask, and green robes simply placed into a minifigure that appears to have been designed to be knocked into a shelf the moment you take it out of the box. The LEGO lighting keeps everything in place, and the molded features on his armor are as clear as crystal. The trailer then shifts to the New Avengers Tower. Thor leads the Fantastic Four into a meeting with Sam Wilson, Bucky, Scott Lang, and the rest of the team. In this LEGO rendition, the set designers used the new 76352 New Avengers Tower model as a backdrop, meaning the real skyscraper is made of LEGO bricks rather than being generated digitally. Characters are loosely clustered together – the Fantastic Four on one side and the New Avengers on the other – and they all behave similarly to the live-action version, listening as Thor begins to speak.


Just before the finale, Thor fights Doctor Doom on a battlefield of toppled statues, swinging Stormbreaker down at Doom but freezing the axe’s descent with one extending finger. In LEGO, that’s a rather clean moment, as the plastic ax comes to a halt in mid-air against the molded gauntlet, and the relative scale of the two figures makes the power disparity between them feel quite immediate. “But mark my words, we’re going to need a miracle,” Thor says. He turns. Steve Rogers walks into frame in a casual outfit, calls for Mjolnir, and catches it. “Hey, pal.” Thor’s reply is the same quiet disbelief: “It’s not possible.”


The entire thing is made up of pieces from the new Doomsday LEGO wave, so we get to see the Quinjet and the New Avengers Tower in the mix. Essentially, the surroundings serve as product previews. And in the center of important scenes are new minifigure designs for characters who have yet to appear in official LEGO sets, giving the impression that there would be a plethora of new builds. The live-action trailer aimed for subdued browns, yellows & greys, but the Lego version pushes those colours open wide so you can actually see what’s going on, especially in the brighter Wakanda things. Strangely, it makes a few of the fight moments appear faint. That’s basically the only noticeable difference in tone.