Scooby Doo 2015

DadsAFOL

via the Brick Fan...

Remember last year when we reported on a rumor that there will be some LEGO Scooby-Doo sets coming sometime this year? Well I received a tip from a very reliable source that the rumor is true and has provided a list of the set names and numbers. However, there’s no mentioning of whether the sets will be based on the old school Scooby-Doo show or from the upcoming Cartoon Network series Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!. From the info that was reported last year, the sets below will be released around May/June 2015.

Mummy Museum Mystery (75900)
Mystery Plane Adventures (75901)
The Mystery Machine (75902)
Haunted Lighthouse (75903)
Mystery Mansion (75904)

LostInTranslation

Zoinks! This is, like, groovy news!!

My nephew and niece will go nuts for this. They watch Scooby Doors all the time. My brother will love the Mystery Machine as well. Actually me too.

2015 is turning into an epic year for Lego sets I really really want!

Bosstone100

Done and done. I think Lego's game is to distract us from the rising prices and decrease in quality by coming out with some really cool new themes.

LostInTranslation

I want pirate ghosts with the Haunted Lighthouse.
Mystery Mansion will hopefully be a worthy successor to Haunted House.

CircleK

Can't wait to see these!!!

AdeelZubair

Hopefully they would be based on the original Scooby Doo show, I better get that definitive minfigure-scale Mystery Machine done before any pictures are released:D

drdavewatford

Oh, please let this be true!

vwong19

Mystery Machine! I am such a sucker for Lego licensed themes.

Shib

LostInTranslation said:

Mystery Mansion will hopefully be a worthy successor to Haunted House.

I imagine it would be closer to #9468 - Vampyre Castle than Haunted house, but would be happy to be proven wrong.

sklamb

@Shib--either way would certainly please me!

Never been a Scooby Doo fan myself but the theme certainly promises some great builds and intriguing minifigures...Lego licences tend to do what the IP-holders would like, and get me interested in their property, not the other way around!

bendybadger

Whatever they do, please, please no Scrappy Doo. Really looking forward to this theme. 2015 is going to be a very expensive year

SuperTramp

Is Scooby Doo still on, is it even popular anymore with children? i cant say ive seen it on TV for years and i have cartoon channels on almost everyday with having two wee ones.

Gooker1

Scooby what? :) As long as they don't do Scrappy.

prevere

^But I would like to see Phyllis Diller.

Legoboy

SuperTramp said:

Is Scooby Doo still on, is it even popular anymore with children? i cant say ive seen it on TV for years and i have cartoon channels on almost everyday with having two wee ones.

My two have grown up with Scoob on one channel or another over the past 8-9 years. On a daily basis I would say still today Scoob appears on our tv at some point.

Told my two (8 and 10) 20 minutes ago and are really stoked.

prevere

I see a lot of sand green and orange in our future. Yeah!

CircleK

At the end of each play session you will have to switch out the head of one of the monster bad guy figs with a normal minifig head for the grand unveiling.

Turns out the evil Swamp Monster is in fact the disgruntled farmhand, Mr. Wetherbee!!!

"And I would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for you AFOLS and your pesky kids!"

typocorrecto

Damn you LEGO...So many wants in 2015...

pixelpops

I hope it's based on old school Scooby Doo. Either way, I'll probably collect all of them

legomason

I've seen these at TRU recently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcCky5rBaJ0

CircleK

^ so did this just debunk the Scooby rumor?!

Character Building apparently has a set called Mystery Mansion as well. They also have a Mystery Machine and an Air Plane set.

tamamahm

I sure hope this is true! A line with main characters that are female, male and dog. ;-) An adventure line with traps, and secret passages. Cool creepy monsters?

Seriously, this is what I have been asking for for years. i just wonder how well done these will be implemented. The implementation makes a big difference.

legomason

SpongeBob is MB now. These things change.

Kevin_Hyatt

I can't imagine LEGO and Character Building both having Scooby Doo at the same time.

Pitfall69

Kevin_Hyatt said:

I can't imagine LEGO and Character Building both having Scooby Doo at the same time.

Doesn't Lego share the Marvel license with Mega Bloks? I was thinking they dod the same with Pirates of the Caribbean, but Lego took over POTC after MB's license ran out.

pharmjod

If they do this, Mystery Machine will be on my shelf in the office for sure.

kez

Jinkeys! I've been waiting for this theme to be made into Lego ever since I was a kid; I can't wait to see images and if they are that good, I can't wait to have them on my shelve (once I've made room off course) :smile:.

matticus_bricks

Exciting, but I'm cautiously optimistic. With a new TV series coming up, it seems likely that these sets will promote it, and likely not be based on the classic versions. That being said, there have been a great number of Scooby Doo spinoffs and reboots over the years, and the character designs really haven't changed much since the early days, so hopefully even if this is the case, the characters will still look like themselves.

I just thought of something, though. Today on The Brick Fan, rumors about CMF S14 were posted, saying that S14 will be different and will be monster-related. There were also previous rumors about a monster-related theme coming out this year. Could it be possible that series 14 CMF will end up being classic Scooby Doo villains? Not getting my hopes up, but that would be really groovy!

CircleK

^ Now I'm really excited! Perhaps it will be like the Simpsons with a mixture of baddies and alt versions of the gang that don't come in the sets.

I'm going to be glued to this thread for the next six months.

kooz

The Character Building sets have been out a while now--could be that the license is expiring.

chuckp

With all this talk of a new Scooby Doo cartoon, I had to see what the new Scooby Doo looks like. For those who are curious, I've attached a screen grab.

Personally, I'm not a fan. They all look like they have eating disorders. Didn't Scooby and Shaggy spend like 90% of their time eating or looking for something to eat in the original show? Hopefully their LEGO counterparts will be well fed. At the very least they will have access to all the carrots, bananas, berries, pizza and sausages they can eat.

epyon396

Oh, good. They all have tumors for knees.

That looks like a Family Guy parody of Scooby Doo.
(Yes. I know they did one a long time ago, but that was before an estblished art style).

pixelpops

they looking effing ridiculous.

mrseatle

Zoinks!

CCC

chuckp said:

Personally, I'm not a fan. They all look like they have eating disorders. Didn't Scooby and Shaggy spend like 90% of their time eating or looking for something to eat in the original show? Hopefully their LEGO counterparts will be well fed. At the very least they will have access to all the carrots, bananas, berries, pizza and sausages they can eat.

Regular minifigs also have eating disorders, just the other way. Unless they do them as mini-dolls, then they will be as fat as a regular minifig. The downside for me is that they will probably do cloth skirts like Marge and Lisa Simpson rather than printed, but it will give us some new fleshie legs which is good.

LeonC

epyon396 said:

That looks like a Family Guy parody of Scooby Doo.

Yep, looks horrible, and disappointingly similar to a lot of the other rubbish (IMHO) on cartoon network (Gumball, Regular Show, etc). Hopefully their Lego incarnations won't be able to render such detail to the level that they look drastically different from the 'classic' characters. We can only hope.

RomanticWarrior

Why does the kids' body shape matter when we're talking LEGO? The good news is that they're wearing their classic outfit colors. LEGO will probably just use existing hair molds. I think they'll look okay

matticus_bricks

Those new designs are fine by me. They're all wearing the same outfits and hairstyles, so if they do make minifigs based on these versions, they will be pretty much indistinguishable from classic versions.

cheshirecat

^ and ^^ exactly.

timinchicago

I wonder if there will be a Sandy Duncan minifig?

tamamahm

matticus_bricks said:

Those new designs are fine by me. They're all wearing the same outfits and hairstyles, so if they do make minifigs based on these versions, they will be pretty much indistinguishable from classic versions.

I agree with this. My concern is less the minifigures, but the sets themselves. Will it truly have the traps, secret passages, and that bit of monster zaniness, or are we going to have sets that have been skimped on bricks and features because of a license name.

sklamb

Traps and secret passages have always been a Lego strong point...including in the Lone Ranger sets, which were licenced. We'll just have to wait and see, though.

Bogdanst

matticus_bricks said:

Those new designs are fine by me. They're all wearing the same outfits and hairstyles, so if they do make minifigs based on these versions, they will be pretty much indistinguishable from classic versions.

And they will be minidolls, I guess (it just makes no sense, with the cartoon looking the way it does, to have minifigs instead the minidolls...). Fair replacement for Monster fighters, IMO.

Sethro3

I'd say they look enough like the classic versions, that in minifig form you wouldn't be able to tell the difference. If the color scheme were different, then it might cause problems.

I'll wait and see. I'd love the gang and a well done Mystery Machine.

black_towr

I would prefer traditional Lego mini figures but I guess the alternative will work.

matticus_bricks

I'm not so sure if they would use mini dolls for a unisex theme, based on past examples. Mini dolls have only been used in themes obviously targeted at a female audience, Friends and Princesses. I think Scooby Doo will appeal to both boys and girls, so I'm not sure if they would want to use mini dolls to isolate the male audience.

cheshirecat

And elves, which is also for girls and @Shib‌ . I would also be surprised if they used minidolls.

mrseatle

Mini dolls might work well with this theme, but I worry about the future of traditional minifigs.

CCC

I doubt they will use minidolls either. But if they did it would be a signal that minidolls can be targeted at both sexes where more realistic body shapes are needed. And yeah, it would be a worry for traditional minifigs if they did. Although until they get minidolls to sit properly and have articulated legs, there is probably no need to worry.

Especially for a a Scooby Door theme, where they need to run away from monsters.

legomason

CCC said:

Especially for a a Scooby Door theme, where they need to run away from monsters.

Especially for a a Scooby Door theme, where they need to run hop away from monsters.

Pitfall69

Bogdanst said:

matticus_bricks said:

Those new designs are fine by me. They're all wearing the same outfits and hairstyles, so if they do make minifigs based on these versions, they will be pretty much indistinguishable from classic versions.

And they will be minidolls, I guess (it just makes no sense, with the cartoon looking the way it does, to have minifigs instead the minidolls...). Fair replacement for Monster fighters, IMO.

CCC said:

I doubt they will use minidolls either. But if they did it would be a signal that minidolls can be targeted at both sexes where more realistic body shapes are needed. And yeah, it would be a worry for traditional minifigs if they did. Although until they get minidolls to sit properly and have articulated legs, there is probably no need to worry.

Especially for a a Scooby Door theme, where they need to run away from monsters.

Even though I haven't any inside information, I am positive that these new sets will contain Minidolls and not Minifigures. The Minifigures worked for the Simpsons, but I'm afraid it won't work with Scooby Doo.