The first wave of the LEGO: Fortnite theme brought us more display-focused sets. This time, LEGO is going back to the basics with sets intended for play. This set is on the small side, but it’s action-packed with five creatures or characters and three side builds.

Box

The grassland biome is the setting of this box’s background, which is where you start your journey in LEGO Fortnite. The scenes depicted are in the morning, so the skeleton should have really gone to bed by now—it is out past its curfew!

Surprisingly, this set has the old plastic bags—maybe it was developed for the earlier first wave of Fortnite sets, but later pushed back into this wave?

Game Content

If you’ve got your LEGO account linked with Epic Games, the process to get your in-game loot is easy. After scanning the barcode on the instructions, you can get the style code from the same screen as your extra 20 points. You do get both the LEGO Fortnite Odyssey and Battle Royale versions of the styles. Since Sparkplug’s style is part of the Boneyard set, I would love to see a Kitbash minifigure someday too!

During a previous round table interview with the LEGO Fortnite designers, I had asked if there were plans to connect store-bought sets with in-game items. I’m going to assume this wasn’t the plan all along and that they took my suggestion. You’re welcome!

Minifigures

Sparkplug is a common non-playable character that might appear at a player’s village or out in the wild. As we saw in the last wave, the torso printing is very true to the game, and the hair or hat moulds are also very accurate, many having used existing LEGO moulds. Unlike the 77073 Battle Bus figures, which notably omitted this level of detail, she includes her game-accurate arm printing—but just on one side and not the other!

Peely is a welcome inclusion as he’s an iconic character, now available in his base form. The cheerful yet blank expression and slightly-peeled sticker complete this friendly figure, using the moulded banana costume piece introduced with Adventure Peely.

The inferior modern skeleton figure with his wiggle-less clip arms completes the minifigure selection with a Skeleton Striker. He’s nothing special LEGO-wise, but is a common enemy in the game, so a logical inclusion without breaking the bank.

Creatures

The Supply Llama is an in-game creature that acts as a loot drop event, where the player can track down the llama and pet it to receive resources and power-ups.

This model is quite accurate to the in-game build, with the same eye prints, legs, head construction and quarter-round tiles on brackets for its sides. However, there are a few differences when comparing both the current and digital versions to the first make-and-take version. Of course, when I needed it for the review image, I couldn’t find a purple llama in the wild in-game, but the construction of this alternate-coloured version is the same.

The Supply Llama from this make-and-take model I picked up at Bricktastic this year (right) and the model in the Fortnite Influencer Kit are almost identical. The redesign in this set (left) appears to match the colouring that is more in line with 77071 Supply Llama. Also in the new design, we see 2024’s 2x2 hinge plate used at the base of the neck.

Our final character is the Wild Wolf enemy. This model looks good in its own right as a great little creature build, while also standing up well to comparison with the digital version. The new model is very similar in overall proportions to the Fenris Wolf from 7015 Viking Warrior challenges the Fenris Wolf. (He’s a little dusty, but he’s still a good boy!)

The biggest difference to the in-game model is our wolf’s lack of hinge in the middle of his torso, which would allow for active animation. Despite not including that mid-body joint, this model is highly poseable with a variety of ball and hinge joints.

A Dreamzzz/Ninjago blade element makes a nice, puffy but scraggly tail for our furry foe. This piece is seen here for the first time in black. Additionally, the decorated 2x2 rock pieces, along with the 1x1 pyramids, invoke an unkempt appearance.

The Wild Wolf’s overall scale is, much like the llama, very true to the game. The same pieces as the digital version are used for nearly all of its construction.

Construction

The two playsets in this wave have a great gimmick where the prefabricated build components from the game are represented and can be reconfigured. This is much more apparent in the other set, but can be observed here in the stone pillar, arch and slopes, which resemble in-game broken building elements that are found around the map. The vine, torch and spider are all common in-game resources or features that complete the scene.

The crafting bench and campfire are among the player’s first creations when starting a survival game in LEGO Fortnite Odyssey. The scaling of items to characters in the game is slightly distorted to appear properly in the virtual world, which doesn’t become truly apparent until you see them built at real minifigure scale like this. The in-game crafting bench is 6x10 studs, whereas this version is only 4x6. This smaller size does look better next to real figures, and the detail of the build is more than accurate enough for the purposes of a play set.

A second sword is supplied as an extra piece for one of your minifigs to duel-wield, or you could give it to a friend.

Conclusion

Three minifigures, two brick-built creatures, and some scene-setting items are not a bad haul for £17.99, letting fans put together their first few moments in the game in recognisable little scenes. Following the debut of the LEGO: Fortnite theme with display sets, this dive into play sets is very welcome, and I’m sure will be a hit with gamers of all ages.

This set captures the essential elements of the early game, with the only potential omissions being a chest or maybe a tree. It would have been nice to see more of the resources that the enemies drop, like Wolf Claws, meat, or bones.

The variations in scale iare a little odd, with the shrunk-down crafting bench looking a bit small next to the true scale creatures. However, as mentioned earlier this decision probably makes sense for a better standalone minifigure scale set, when not being actively compared to the game.

Not that I mind another Peely since he’s adorable, but after seeing what is possible with the range of minifigures we received in 77073 Battle Bus, it leaves me wondering what more rare or exciting characters could have been included.

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