The long-rumoured Lego sets based on Fortnite have finally been unveiled and they are not what you’d expect, including in terms of the price.
Even before the dedicated Lego mode was added to Fortnite, there were rumours of a tie-in toy line, featuring the Battle Bus and a range of the game’s original characters.
Lego has been making a lot of video game-related sets in recent years, including everything from Overwatch to Horizon Zero Dawn and the upcoming Legend Of Zelda model.
That’s made a Fortnite line seem inevitable and now that the first four sets have been officially announced they do look very good and, for Lego, are not actually that expensive.
For a licensed set with 954 pieces, and nine minifigures, the Battle Bus is an impressively good deal at £89.99 and certain to end up in a lot of Christmas stockings this year.
It features a removable roof and is filled with Fortnite related equipment, including Slurp Juice, a grappler, pickaxes, and Slap Juice.
You also get nine separate minifigures, in the form of Adventure Peely, Battalion Brawler, Cuddle Team Leader, Brite Bomber, Cube Assassin, Trespasser Elite, Drift, Meowscles, and Raven.
The Battle Bus is an obvious no-brainer and so is the Supply Llama, which has been recreated in Lego as a 691-piece model filled with accessories including Slap Juice, dynamite, a grappler, Slurp Juice, Rough Ruby, a backpack, and good luck charm.
The Supply Llama is £34.99, while the smallest set is a Durrr Burger – which is only £12.99 and recreates the restaurant mascot that was prominent in the game’s early years.
The biggest set is aimed more at the game’s older fans, with the 1,414 piece Peely Bone statue recreating one of the game’s most popular character variants. He has moveable arms and brick-built accessories such as a Peely Pick Pickaxe, Paint Launcher, and Banana Bag Back Bling.
Because he doesn’t come with any minifigures he’s the same price as the Battle Bus, at £89.99, despite being made up of a lot more Lego pieces.
All four sets are available to pre-order from the Lego website today but they won’t be released until October 1.
Not only are there Lego sets based on video games, but there are also games based on Lego sets. The next one to be released will be Lego Horizon Adventures this autumn, which rather than being themed around a movie is inspired by the PlayStation exclusive Horizon Zero Dawn – even though it’s being released on Switch as well (but not Xbox).
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