LEGO® Wednesday sets leaked last... um, Wednesday, but today we have a review of LEGO® BrickHeadz™ 40750 Wednesday & Enid, as well as official pictures for you of sets 76780 Wednesday Addams Figure and 76781 Wednesday & Enid’s Dorm Room, with analysis of the new parts we spotted.
Read on to see the upcoming tie-in LEGO products for the Wednesday Netflix TV series, a spin-off of The Addams Family, plus links to pre-order from LEGO.com.
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- 40750 Wednesday & Enid from LEGO® BrickHeadz™
- 76780 Wednesday Addams Figure
- 76781 Wednesday & Enid’s Dorm Room
LEGO® Wednesday sets on LEGO.com
LEGO® BrickHeadz™ 40750 Wednesday & Enid
- Price: US$19.99/ £17.99/ €19.99
- Pieces: 239
- Age mark: 10+
- Measures: 8cm high
- Release date: 1 October 2024
LEGO® Brickheadz set 40750 Wednesday & Enid depicts the characters from the TV show in the traditional blocky form of this theme.
The set comprises Enid Sinclair with her blonde hair and colourful sweater, and Wednesday Addams in her iconic black dress.
Set review
The set brings us some new elements in exciting colours, but interest mainly goes skin deep.
The LEGO Group has a couple of flesh-toned colors in production that are exclusively for use in figures only, so they are mostly used in minifigure and mini-doll parts. Light Nougat used to be one of the restricted colours before being released for general use. The newer, slightly darker Medium Tan (LEGO Warm Tan) is still under this restriction, and currently the only way to get regular building elements in this colour is via the sets using them in brick-built figures, like LEGO Brickheadz or paintings by LEGO Da Vinci. 40750 Wednesday & Enid brings us such elements!
New in Medium Tan are:
- Slope 2 x 1 x 2/3 (6503475),
- Tile 2 x 2 Corner (6503477),
- Tile 1 x 2 (6480660) which is also coming in 31213 Mona Lisa, and
- Plate Special 1 x 2 with Clip (6503478).
New in Light Nougat is:
- Tile 2 x 2 in Light Nougat (6480361), also coming in 31213 Mona Lisa.
It is surprising to note that Enid is the first LEGO BrickHeadz character to use Light Nougat as skin tone.
The Harry Potter LEGO BrickHeadz set 40616 from 2023 used the same method to give us regular Medium Tan elements, some of which make an appearance here as well.
The only new print comes on a black Brick 1 x 4 x 3, depicting Wednesday's dress. The pattern looks OK to me... literally!
The build is your typical LEGO BrickHeadz build with a decent end result and the range of rare and new elements is wonderful to see, but I had hoped to find an in-joke on the inside of the build, like maybe a darker core for Wednesday compared to Enid? But they are identical. Maybe it teaches us not to judge by appearance?
76780 Wednesday Addams Figure
- Price: US$49.99/ £44.99/ €49.99
- Pieces: 702
- Age mark: 10+
- Measures: 21 x 33 x 14cm
- Release date: 1 October 2024, pre-order available now
Wednesday Addams Figure features two faces and outfits, allowing fans to recreate Wednesday with her deadpan gaze in her Nevermore Academy uniform or her kooky side-eye look and black dress from the Rave’N Dance scene:
The set includes hidden compartments, the eerie Nevermore Academy gate, her typewriter, pet scorpion Nero’s grave, black dahlia flowers and crystal ball.
Also included in the set is a brand new, adapted LEGO element for a hand, printed with all the iconic scars, to impersonate Thing. Note that it isn't the usual C-shaped curve of a minifigure or mini-doll hand (and isn't the same shape as the big doll hands in this set either), but more U-shaped like a Hulk bigfig hand. Its bar connection, set at a diagonal angle, looks thicker than the hand could grasp, suggesting this hand is not a clip. Rather, it can grasp the stud below it, so has an antistud connection.
There are more new moulds, and a lot of recolours:
Watch out for our full review soon!
76781 Wednesday & Enid’s Dorm Room
- Price: US$89.99/ £74.99/ €89.99
- Pieces: 750
- Age mark: 10+
- Measures: 25 x 23 x 13 cm
- Release date: 1 October 2024, pre-order available now
Wednesday & Enid’s Dorm Room includes a buildable dorm room with the iconic spiderweb window, a balcony with gargoyles, and a base with buttons to open hidden drawers.
It features 4 mini-doll figures (two versions each of Wednesday and Enid), Thing, a cello, typewriter, mystery board, and more.
The hidden drawers can store mini-doll figures and accessories like a cat-ear headpiece and Enid’s phone.
Enid's half of the room is packed with colourful detail, including many welcome recolours of existing elements.
Wednesday, of course, prefers the more neutral tones, shall we say. Consequently there are fewer recolours on this side, but all very welcome.
The exterior balcony is also a feast with useful grey pieces including an exciting gargoyle, which is a new mould I'm sure everyone will want to get their claws into.
Watch out for our full review soon!
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It looks to me that the hand is both an anti stud AND a bar holder!
ReplyDeleteSome cool parts here. You know you’re old when you’ve never once heard of the IP…
You've never heard of The Addams family? They've been around since the late thirties in The New Yorker, on TV in the '60s with several shows, and movies since 1992 or so. (none of that continually, of course)
DeleteOh interesting! So weird it doesn’t say Adam’s family anywhere on the box or as part of the title. Yes I have heard of that show of course, but the branding doesn’t make it obvious. Reboots and spinoffs aren’t really my thing, to put it mildly!
DeleteInteresting that the Enid BrickHeadz figure seems to be the first figure of that type to opt for Light Nougat as the skin tone. Earlier BrickHeadz figures opted for Tan/Brick Yellow, probably mostly out of convenience (since basic bricks, plates, and tiles were common in that color)—but now that Light Nougat has started to get more basic building elements of its own it's a simple enough change that brings fair-skinned licensed characters slightly more in line with their minifig/minidoll counterparts.
ReplyDeleteI also noticed this. I'm hoping that Light Nougat was chosen to represent Enid's pale complexion rather than becoming the new norm as I think it would look odd amongst the 200+ BrickHeadz that use Brick Yellow for the 'caucasian' skin tone...
DeleteI got some cupcakes in light grey in a previous PAB order, so it must be months old already (it's in 2 sets I see).
ReplyDeleteI love the "big figure" set, but the Brickheadz one is really barebones. Well it fits the rules I guess.