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14 September 2024

LEGO® Wednesday: October sets available to pre-order

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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.

Lego sets 76780 Wednesday Addams Figure, 76781 Wednesday & Enid’s Dorm Room

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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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. 

Although this is the only one of the three products not available for pre-order, LEGO kindly sent us an advance copy for review. 

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:
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

Lego set 76780 Wednesday Addams Figure on display

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 alternate build of 76780 Wednesday Addams Figure with wednesday in a dress


76780 Wednesday Addams Figure with the secret compartments opened

The set includes hidden compartments, the eerie Nevermore Academy gate, her typewriter, pet scorpion Nero’s grave, black dahlia flowers and crystal ball. 


lego typewriter with Lego Thing hand from 76780 Wednesday Addams Figure

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:

Lego pieces including: New dual-moulded hand with forearm piece, New curved brick 3 x 4, 1.5 x 1.5 x 1 corner arch pieces  new in light bluish gray, 3-pointed  leaves new in trans-black, Scorpion new in  light bluish gray, New hand piece with bar, with Thing scars printing, Hockey stick new in black, and 4x4x3 cone in black  unprinted with sticker

Accessories in set 76780 with new elements highlighted: 3-pointed leaves  in trans-black and dark bluish gray, New mould: rose flower, New mould: hand piece with bar and Thing scars decoration, and Songbird in black unprinted


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 dorm. New pieces are highlighted: 1x1 round plate with bar  in white, 2x2 dome  in trans-yellow, Hamster in orange, 5x5 macaroni plate in lavender, and Baby bunny  in dark turquoise

Enid's half of the room is packed with colourful detail, including many welcome recolours of existing elements. 


Wednesday's half of the dorm room, with new pieces highlighted: Tassel  in white, Cupcake in light bluish gray, Cello/double bass in black, and New mould: hand with antistud and 45º bar  connection and 'Thing' printing of scars.

Wednesday, of course, prefers the more neutral tones, shall we say. Consequently there are fewer recolours on this side, but all very welcome.


Exterior of 76781 Wednesday & Enid’s Dorm Room with new pieces highlighted: New mould:  8x8 dish canopy with click hinges, 2x2 half-box with  corner supports in light bluish gray, 1.5 x 1.5 x 1  corner arch  in light  bluish gray , 2x4 rounded tile in dark bluish gray unprinted with sticker, and New mould: gargoyle.

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. 

stained glass siperweb round window from Wednesday Lego set

Watch out for our full review soon!




 

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6 comments:

  1. It looks to me that the hand is both an anti stud AND a bar holder!

    Some cool parts here. You know you’re old when you’ve never once heard of the IP…

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    1. 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)

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    2. Oh 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!

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  2. Interesting 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.

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    1. I 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...

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  3. I 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).

    I love the "big figure" set, but the Brickheadz one is really barebones. Well it fits the rules I guess.

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