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Spider-Man vs. Mysterio: The Daily Bugle

A pocket-sized Daily Bugle stuffed with the best Spidey minifig lineup in years.

Brick Rated Score

3.8/5

Set 76342 · 2026

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Year2026

Set number76342

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The verdict

This is the fun, playable version of the Daily Bugle rather than the giant display piece, and honestly it charmed me faster than I expected.

Seven minifigures is a genuinely loaded roster for a hundred-dollar Marvel set, and that Mysterio print is the reason to open the box. The building itself is a little thin once you know it, so I would wait for a discount before pulling the trigger. But if you want a New York street corner your kid can actually smash Spider-Man through, this delivers.

Best for: Spider-Man fans who want a playable New York corner and a stacked minifig lineup

The full review

What it is

The thing that sold me on this set was not the building at all, it was the minifigures spilling out of the box. Mysterio arrives with a beautiful original print and that fishbowl dome, and around him you get Spider-Man, a new-torso Miles Morales, Ghost-Spider, J. Jonah Jameson barking from his office, plus Venomized Captain America and Rhino as the muscle. That is seven figures for a hundred-dollar set, and four of them do not appear anywhere else. As a lineup it punches well above its price, and it captures the Daily Bugle corner of Spider-Man's world in a way that feels alive rather than static.

The catch

I want to be straight with you about the caveats, because they matter here. This is a four-level playset roughly the size of a small townhouse corner, not the towering modular Daily Bugle some fans still dream about. The facade is honest but a touch plain, and once the initial build is done there is not a huge amount of engineering to chew on. At the full recommended price it feels a little light, and the secondary market already tells that story, with the value slipping more than twenty percent below sticker within months of release. This is a set that rewards patience and a good sale.

Who it's for

So who is going to love it. If you have a Spider-Man fan in the house who wants to actually play, this is close to ideal, because everything opens, flips, swings and comes apart for a fight. Collectors chasing that Mysterio and Venom-Cap will be happy too, and the corner slots neatly beside other Marvel city sets to build out a bigger scene. If you came hoping for a grand architectural centerpiece to display on a shelf, though, this is not that set, and you will feel the compromise. Buy it for the play and the figures, wait for a discount, and it is easy to recommend.

The parts story

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

Building this is a quick, breezy afternoon rather than a marathon, and it is aimed squarely at the ten-and-up crowd it is marked for. You work up through four open levels, dropping in the reception desk, the newsroom tech, a little cash safe and Jameson's office, then dressing the outside with a fire escape, a movable newspaper stand and a street corner complete with traffic lights. The standout play function is the lever that flips the rooftop billboard, and the transparent sticks and bricks that let you freeze Spidey in a mid-air pose are a smart, simple touch.

On the parts front the value lives in the printing and the figures rather than exotic new molds. Mysterio's dome and cape print is the crown jewel and genuinely lovely up close, Venomized Captain America comes with a nicely done shield, and the Rhino torso and helmet are a treat even if his plain legs let the side down. Miles Morales gets a fresh torso print, and the jointed Rhino mech with its opening cockpit gives you a chunky little build within the build. Just under eight hundred pieces at this price is fair rather than generous, so you are really paying for that minifig roster.

Fun facts

01Four of the seven minifigures in this set, including the excellent original-print Mysterio, are exclusive to it and appear in no other LEGO set.
02A hidden lever inside the building physically flips the rooftop billboard, one of the few genuine play functions built into the facade.
03This playable version shares its Daily Bugle name with LEGO's colossal 2020 modular 76178, which stood far taller and ran to nearly four thousand pieces.
04The box includes three transparent sticks and two transparent bricks purely so you can pose Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider frozen in mid-swing.