Super Heroes Marvel

Sanctum Sanctorum Showdown

The Infinity War brownstone with five figures that punch way above the box.

Brick Rated Score

4.2/5

Set 76108 · 2018

Pieces1,011

Minifigs5

Year2018

Set number76108

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The verdict

The thing that got me here is the two-faced building: Doctor Strange's mystic brownstone on one side, a grimy New York apartment block on the other, both packed with little rooms you can actually play in.

Five figures, four of them exclusive, and the Black Order pairing of Ebony Maw and a big-fig Cull Obsidian is the real draw. It's a bit compressed and there's sticker fussiness, but pound for pound it's one of the friendlier Marvel builds. If you love the Infinity War rooftop showdown or you just want a playable superhero house, this one delivers.

Best for: Marvel fans who want a playable, room-by-room brownstone and a stacked figure lineup

The full review

There's a clever trick sitting at the heart of this LEGO® set, and it takes a second to notice. You're building two facades at once. Spin it around and the mystic brownstone home of Doctor Strange becomes a scuffed New York apartment block, fire escape and all. That two-in-one idea is what makes 1,011 pieces feel like more building than the box suggests, because you're really assembling a small slice of a street rather than a single flat wall. It captures the Infinity War moment when the fight spills out of the Sanctum and onto the block, and the whole thing opens up so you can actually get your hands inside.

The interior is where it won me over. Across the floors you get furniture, bookshelves, framed art, weapons hung on the walls, and little tucked-away rooms that reward opening the building up. The exterior detailing is genuinely thoughtful too, with brickwork textures and that signature round Sanctum window, which was a fresh print for March 2018. For a set aimed squarely at younger builders, there's a surprising amount to look at once it's on the shelf.

Now for the honest bits. The whole structure sits on a compact 16x16 stud footprint, and that compression shows. Rooms are snug, ceilings are low, and taller figures feel a bit cramped inside. The front door uses a sticker for its pattern, which stung, because a printed part would have made the centerpiece of the facade so much cleaner. And it ships in 8 numbered bags, which is a generous count for a build this modest. None of it is a dealbreaker, but they're real, and builders raised every one.

So who should chase this down on the secondary market. If you're a Marvel fan who wants a playable house rather than a display statue, or you specifically want that Black Order pairing, it's an easy yes. If you're after big minifig-scale accuracy and roomy interiors, the compressed scale might frustrate you. It retired in December 2019 at a $99.99 launch price and now trades well above that, so it's no longer the value pick it once was. But as a lively, characterful superhero brownstone with a knockout figure lineup, it still holds up beautifully.

The parts story

What the build is actually like, and the pieces worth knowing about.

The build runs across 8 numbered bags and alternates between the two connected buildings, so you're never grinding on one wall for too long. Each bag lands at roughly the 20 minute mark, which keeps the pacing gentle and stops any one section from dragging. You start with foundations and floor plates, work up through the furnished interiors, then cap it with the Sanctum facade and its round window on one face and the apartment block with its fire escape on the other. The techniques are approachable, mostly clean stacking and some nice texture work on the brickwork, so it's a set a younger builder can genuinely tackle solo while still giving an adult something pleasant to potter through.

For parts hunters there are some quiet treats. The rounded 35480 plate shows up in a Dark Red that was unique here, the classic 1988-style bricks appear in Medium Dark Flesh for the first time, and there's a string element newly available in white, plus a curved 35044 plate in a fresh colorway. You also get a handful of Power Burst effect pieces in trans-light-blue, trans-orange and trans-yellow for the mystic energy blasts. The figure value is the headline though: at launch the five minifigs alone sold for around $40 on the secondary market, roughly half the set's retail, which tells you exactly where the value sits.

Fun facts

01The building is a two-in-one design: the ornate Sanctum Sanctorum facade sits on one side and a gritty realistic New York apartment block, fire escape included, on the reverse.
02The round Sanctum window was a brand new printed piece when the set launched in March 2018.
03At release the five minifigures were selling for around $40 combined on BrickLink, close to half the set's $99.99 retail price.
04It retired in December 2019 and new sealed copies now trade around $224, up roughly 124% from the original price.