It’s been rumored for a few months, but LEGO has officially announced a Scooby-Doo line of toys, coming this August. That will get them on shelves well in time for Halloween, and replace the Monster Fighters theme they had in 2013-2014. They based the designs on the classic “Scooby-Doo” series that goes all the way back to 1969, instead of the misbegotten, ill-designed “Be Cool, Scooby-Doo” assaulting Cartoon Network viewers this year. I mean really. If you click on that link, be warned. Ugliness happens.
The first five sets include:
- Mummy Museum Mystery
- Mystery Plane Adventures
- The Mystery Machine
- Haunted Lighthouse
- Mystery Mansion
The sets range in price from $12.99 to $89.99, and if you want all five members of the Mystery, Inc. gang, you’d need to buy the Mystery Machine (which everyone on the planet should want anyway) and the Mystery Mansion, which is the only set that includes Velma. And is of course the most expensive set. Addicts like me will be buying them all anyway, but if you’re a more casual fan, every set has Shaggy and Scooby, and every set has some kind of ghost/monster/park ranger-dressed-as-a-villain.
With the toys of course, there will be a LEGO “movie” broadcast on Cartoon Network and then released on DVD/Blu-Ray with an exclusive minifigure…so we’ll watch for those later. Will this turn into another video game, like Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Batman and Marvel Superheroes? I’m guessing a lot of us are hoping for that. For now, I’ll start saving up for the toys. Because these look damn sweet.