Twenty-five minifigs in one box — the Daily Bugle doesn't just set a Marvel record, it basically dares you to find a better roster at any price point. The building is a slow burn but the finished skyline slice is undeniably sharp.
Is the price fair?B$350 is a lot of money for a building you've seen a thousand times — the minifig haul softens the blow but doesn't erase it.
Will you love it?B-Big enough to impress, familiar enough that the build won't surprise you — a solid B- of a set.
Holds its value?CSecondary market has been underwhelming; don't treat this one as a savings account.
True ValueB
$400
Street price
$580
Parts value
145%
Ratio
The parts alone are worth about 145% of the street price — the basis for this B price read.
What you get
Plain bricks
$338
Printed & detailcalc
$15
Functional piecescalc
$14
Figures (×25)
$213
BargainThe parts alone are worth more than you pay — $580 of parts for $400.
The Full Take
The Daily Bugle showed up in 2021 and immediately rewrote what a Marvel LEGO® set could be. Twenty-five minifigs across the Spider-Man universe — heroes, villains, civilians — stacked inside a four-story building that holds its own on any shelf. The build itself is methodical rather than revelatory; you're assembling floors more than engineering moments. At $350, the price is steep enough that 'is it worth it' becomes a real question, not a rhetorical one, and the secondary market hasn't rewarded patient flippers the way some hoped. But as a love letter to the Spidey corner of Marvel — the breadth of characters, the iconic name on the facade, the sheer mass of the thing — it lands more often than it doesn't.
