Set Review ➟ 76780 LEGO® Wednesday Addams Figure
Nice. Very nice. Nice to review a set that doesn’t have 1600 or 1800 or 3500 pieces. And the Wednesday Addams Figure is a pleasant and charming set. I am aware that pleasant and charming are not adjectives that necessarily fit the character of Wednesday Addams, but there you have it.
The set is fairly rudimentary in terms of build and assembles quite quickly and easily. Compositionally it is effectively a figure standing on a box platform with drawers in the box to hold pieces for the alternate figure build.
The package displays a “Build and Rebuild” slogan which refers to the figure. Two figure builds are possible: Wednesday in her school uniform and Wednesday in a dress. The figure uses many of the same parts for each build, the legs are identical and the head is mostly identical save for the face brick and some parts of the hair. The torso assembly is mostly different in each version, and I’m considering the skirt as part of the torso.
The base is cleverly designed with interlocking drawers held in place with an axle as a securing pin. The box is fairly heavily ornamented with thematic mini-builds of elements from the television series adorning the top of the box with gothic embellishments elsewhere.
Stickers are relatively few and the two face bricks are mercifully printed. The faces are a new brick with a subtle but complex contour and no doubt attempting to put a full-size sticker on it would result in sticker wrinkles.
Play value here is restricted to the “Build and Rebuild” concept where play equates to building. The figure is minimally posable with neck and arm articulation possible. As a display piece it definitely has more going on with the box/stand and figure than the various brickheads figures which are of similar product category.
In a Wednesday Addams touch of irony, the final sticker applied is a QR code linking to LEGO’s app featuring instructions how to build the set…just what is needed after completing the build.
The Randolph T. Fielding Absolutely Administrivia Section
Quite a few new parts and existing parts in new colors in this set. The four printed parts are the two faces, the boat stud, and Thing.
New parts include:
- 5904 flower in black, heads in warm tan, arms
- Everybody’s favorite disembodied hand, Thing, 5786 in light nougat
- Arm pieces 109866 in warm tan and dual-molded in warm tan and black
- face pieces 5787 in warm tan
Existing parts in new colors are:
- 28626 1x1 round plate with open stud in medium tan
- 23443 bar holder with handle in medium tan
- 3484 clip with bar in medium tan
- 32607 leaves in pearl dark gray
- 28839 scorpion in medium stone gray
An existing part gets a new number, presumably because of the transparent plastic
- 5971 leaves in transparent black
Existing part with new print is the 2654 boat stud with a Nevermore shield decoration.
28626 stud, 49755 clip and, 3484 bar holder in warm tan
32607 in pearl dark gray and 5971 in transparent black
109866 arms in warm tan and dual-molded warm tan and black
5787 faces in warm tan
28839 scorpion in medium stone gray
2654 printed boat stud in dark stone gray
41835 bird in black
5904 flower in black
5786 Thing in light nougat
Summary
This is a charming display piece which captures well the Wednesday aesthetic. If left on display for an extended period such that it collects dust and cobwebs it could be considered…appropriate.
Disclaimer
Thanks to LEGO for kindly providing the set for review.
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