We Build LEGO The Goonies, Featuring Every Major Character and Functional Booby Traps

The set's 12 minifigures relationship for the film's full main cast: Mike “Mikey” Walsh, Clark “Mouth” Devereaux, Richard “Data” Wang, Lawrence “Chunk” Cohen, Andrea “Andy” Carmichael, Stephanie "Stef" Steinbrenner, Brandon "Brand" Walsh, Sloth, Mama Fratelli, Francis Fratelli, Jake Fratelli, and One-Eyed Willy. On its outside, the acceptable is simply a wreck of The Inferno, One-Eyed Willy's ship. On the inside, it is simply a tribute to each large acceptable portion successful the film. This is simply a thorough physique that doesn't miss a communicative beat.

The LEGO Goonies acceptable comes successful a stylized container with a massive, detachable Copper Bones Skeleton Key connected its front. Opening the container reveals a smaller, modular container inside, which contains 21 integrative bags – apparently, LEGO is inactive transitioning from integrative to paper. The instructions are dispersed crossed 2 acquisition booklets. There is simply a azygous sticker sheet, but thankfully, astir of the graphic elements are printed onto the bricks themselves, which volition prevention you the anxiousness of mounting them connected straight.

You physique the acceptable successful 4 main chunks, which are fastened unneurotic astatine pin transportation points to signifier the ship. The physique felt similar it took longer than it usually does, acknowledgment to a full batch of small, angular pieces. The process tin occasionally consciousness fussy, due to the fact that you're counting studs to guarantee that each item is successful its close place. There's thing truthful satisfying arsenic bringing the 2 halves of the vessel together, and having them conscionable successful the middle. And there's thing truthful demoralizing arsenic being a azygous enactment disconnected and having to redouble your efforts.

The physique is fragile portion you're putting it together. The designers incorporated holes to make the content of rotting wood, which occasionally compromises structural integrity. But erstwhile the full physique is complete, the bricks reenforce against each different to make a stasis, and the acceptable is sturdy capable to determination astir and spot connected the support of your choice.

There are truthful galore little, neat details scattered passim the build. Mikey, for example, has his inhaler, and Sloth has his Superman garment with suspenders. Mama Fratelli (who ever terrified maine arsenic a kid) has her signature achromatic beret.

There's capable acceptable locations successful this physique that if you wanted to, you could marque a Goonies stop-motion movie retired of it, and it would marque cleanable sense. There's the apical floor, wherever Mama Fratelli gives the Goonies soiled glasses of water. There's the fireplace, which shifts to the broadside to uncover a hidden passage. There's the TV country wherever Chunk and Sloth conscionable for the archetypal time, which has shackles hanging from the ceiling. There's an above-ground wishing well, which leads to a level country covered with coins. The pirate vessel country includes the Treasure room, which is covered with golden bars, doubloons, a pirate skeleton, and One-Eyed Willy himself. Elsewhere successful the build, you tin find the skeleton of Chester Copperpot.

Below crushed is each large booby trap from the film, and astir of them person mechanical functionality. Hit the organ keys, and the level gives way. Turn the dial, and the trap doorway opens, starring to a furniture of spikes. Crank the monolithic rocks up to the ceiling and past trigger them to fall, crushing the minifigures below.

LEGO The Goonies is expensive, retailing for $329.99. High prices request a precocious standard, but excessively galore companies instrumentality their assemblage for granted. To usage a idiosyncratic example: I took my household to Disneyland successful California 3 years ago, contempt progressively prohibitive pricing. We had a large time, overall. But the astir galling happening was erstwhile I went connected The Haunted Mansion – my favourite thrust since I was a kid. I realized that the Hitchhiking Ghosts effect – the climax of the full acquisition – was broken. And erstwhile I got disconnected the thrust and asked an worker astir it, she acknowledged that yes, they knew it was broken, and no, they didn't cognize erstwhile it would beryllium repaired. For the prices Disney charges (at the time, $180 for a single-day pass), that's inexcusable.

"Cheap, efficient, good. Pick two," the saying goes – not one.

The simultaneous summation successful terms and alteration successful prime – getting little portion paying much – erodes marque trust, and it is an all-too-common pitfall for companies – similar Disney – that marque "quality" their reputation. For years, I've wondered if LEGO, successful the midst of its planetary expansion, would autumn into a akin complacency, and occasionally, I thought I saw signs of it. Because astatine the prices that LEGO charges, "good" is ne'er enough. The sets person to beryllium "great," each time.

But I'm blessed to study that the LEGO Goonies acceptable easy meets the company's highest standard. There's usually thing missing – a insignificant character, a silly speech – adjacent successful sets that outwardly assertion to beryllium "complete." But this 1 follows done connected its promise. I americium hard pressed to deliberation of thing noteworthy that the designers could person added but did not. It adjacent includes the octopus, a "final boss" that was yet chopped from the last film. That's the next-level benignant of dedication that each sets similar these should have.

LEGO The Goonies, acceptable #21363, retails for $329.99, and it is composed of 2,912 pieces. It is disposable now, exclusively astatine the LEGO Store. It's presently connected backorder (place an bid and it volition vessel successful 60 days), and for bully reason.

Kevin Wong is simply a contributing freelancer for IGN, specializing successful LEGO. He's besides been published successful Complex, Engadget, Gamespot, Kotaku, and more. Follow him connected Twitter astatine @kevinjameswong.

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Dec 12, 2025 8:55 pm