It’s been six years since Lego first went to the Upside Down for a Stranger Things set (aside from a brief detour to the brick maker’s line of chibi “BrickHeadz” figures), and it feels like we’ve been waiting just as long for the final season to arrive (it was, thankfully, not quite that bad a wait). But now, the two are crossing over again at a moment of serendipity.
Today Lego officially unveiled its next Stranger Things set, the Creel House, timed to celebrate the launch of the show’s fifth and final season on Netflix. The new 2,593-piece set lets fans build a 20-inch-wide, nearly 12-inch-tall facade replicating the gothic manor owned by the Creel family… which, with a flip of a lever, can instantly splinter and expand into the fractured version of the house that forms Vecna’s mind lair, complete with the haunting grandfather clock at its center.
As well as the transforming feature, the Creel House set includes a series of other rooms on the back side of the facade filled with Stranger Things Easter eggs, including Alice and Henry’s bedrooms, and even a small hideaway feature that lets you “transform” the included Henry minifigure (in his season five guise as the mysterious “Mr. Whatsit”) into Vecna’s new and improved form. Aside from the house itself, the set also lets you build two small vehicles alongside it: a WSQK radio van and Steve’s beloved red beamer.
Lego Stranger Things Creel House Gallery
All that diorama goodness needs minifigures to play in it, and the Creel House will come with a bunch. Thirteen characters are included, including the aforementioned Mr. Whatsit/Henry and Vecna, Mike, Lucas, Dustin, Will, Eleven, Max, and Holly, as well as Steve, Nancy, Jonathan, and Robin. You can get two more if you buy the set in its first week of release through the bonus gift with purchase set recreating WSQK’s recording booth at the radio station, which comes with minifigures of Joyce Byers and an appropriately very beardy Hopper… and of course a printed Lego tile replicating the Squawk’s rubber chicken mascot.
The Creel House set will be available from January 1—right in time for the release of the final episode of Stranger Things in theaters and on Netflix itself—and retails for $300. At least you’ll have plenty to watch while you’re building!
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